Viewers who have watched "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview" will have such a question, how the Kangxi Emperor always likes micro service private visits, feeling that he has 365 days a year, 366 days are not in the Forbidden City.
Of course, if I were the emperor, I would also like to serve private visits, after all, there is a kind of happiness that hides merit and fame. In fact, the historical Kangxi Emperor did like to go on tours, especially with an inexplicable bondage to the Jiangnan region.
Historical records record that between 1684 and 1707, the Kangxi Emperor made six cruises to Jiangnan. He took a boat down from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and as far as Shaoxing. Kangxi who went south generally inspected the Yellow River project and canal transportation, and every time he went south, he could drive the economic development of Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.
So, where did Kangxi live every time he made his southern tour? There will be no five-star hotel, and the place to stay in the inn is too small to put so many people. Therefore, every time Kangxi made his southern tour, he stayed at the home of Cao Yin, the weaver of Jiangning. So the question is, what kind of official is Jiangning Weaving? The emperor wanted to live in his house.
In fact, Jiangning Weaving is only a small official of zhengwupin, because it is in charge of the textile industry, and the textile industry in Jiangning is the first in the Qing Dynasty that year, and the output value alone can account for one-eighth of the total national income of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, although this position is small, it is very important, and the oil and water are also quite high.
Cao Yin's father Cao Xi was a second-class bodyguard in the inner court, and Cao Xi's wife Sun Shi also served as Kangxi's nanny, and after Kangxi came to power, he directly gave the fat shortage of Jiangnan weaving to Cao Xi, and after Cao Xi's death, Cao Yin took over his father's official position. With such a relationship, the Cao family can be said to be the closest person of the Kangxi Emperor in the Jiangnan officialdom, so it is not surprising that Kangxi lives in the Cao family.
In fact, in addition to Jiangning weaving, Cao Xi also served as the imperial history of the two Huai patrol salts. This is also a fat and oily errand, directly in charge of the lifeblood of the national official salt. Although Cao Yin was a minor official, he was even richer than the governor of Liangjiang in Jiangnan at that time.
However, even if you are rich, you can't stand Kangxi coming to his home, Kangxi went down to Jiangnan 6 times, 4 times lived in Cao Yin's house, although the internal affairs office can reimburse part of the cost, but most of it still has To Cao Yin out of his own pocket, it is really dumb to eat Huang Lian. Cao Yin, who was financially stressed, had to embezzle public funds, resulting in a deficit of 3 million taels of two Huai salt lessons.
Coincidentally, this matter was discovered by the governor of Liangjiang, Gari, so the shang dynasty impeached Cao Yin, but the Kangxi Emperor also knew that the money was used on himself, so he kept a blind eye. But he secretly warned Cao Yin that he must make up the 3 million taels of silver.
However, cao yin made up such a big hole, and this matter dragged on until Cao Yin's death and could not be solved. After that, Cao Yin's son Cao Fu succeeded to the throne, but Cao Fu's ass was not yet hot, Kangxi died, and the ascendant Yongzheng would still remember the old feelings of the former emperor, and after he saw the big hole of the two Huai Salt Lesson Silver, he immediately checked the money and grain in various places to make up for the deficit. All the officials involved in this matter were dismissed, and Cao Fu was even dismissed from his post and raided his home.
The Cao family, which was once rich, fell, and a literati witnessed all this, and wrote a novel based on the Cao family, "It is like eating all the birds and throwing themselves into the forest, and the land that has fallen into the white expanse is really clean." "This book is Dream of the Red Chamber."