Chapter 374
The fourteenth elder brother no longer sneered, he just stared at Yin Zhen and said softly: "You framed my starling brother?!" ā
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Of course it's him, Kangxi thought, he knew that he hated the eighth child, and he also knew that he still had a little bit of father-son love in his heart, but for a future emperor, even this little bit of spider-like father-son love was dangerous, and he had to try his best to erase it!
However, who is this person who kneels in front of him and confesses everything? Kangxi was puzzled, if the person who did not hesitate to frame his brother with dirty means was his fourth son, then this one took the initiative to come to him to confess...... No, he didn't do it, so who should he take him for?
Kangxi suddenly felt unbearable heartache, this is the good child he raised!
One by one...... That's how it was!
"Why are you talking to me about this?" He finally asked, "You don't have to say that." You can hide it and no one will know. ā
"The history books know, and the sons themselves know." Yin Zhen paused, "Erchen doesn't want to be an enemy of the Eighth Elder Brother anymore, and the Eighth Elder Brother has long ceased to be an enemy of the Erchen." ā
Kangxi thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "You just said that when you were over there, the eighth elder brother once turned against you?" ā
"Yes."
"Why do you want to turn the other way?"
"Because...... Because his death in the history books is related to his sons. ā
With this sentence, Kangxi and the fourteenth elder brother were all stunned!
"How did the eighth die?!"
Yin Zhen paused: "In the fourth year of Yongzheng, he was poisoned by his sons. ā
The fourteenth elder brother couldn't scold anymore, and he couldn't sneer anymore, he collapsed to the ground, tears flowed from his eyes.
Kangxi gasped sharply, his hand grasping the armrest of the chair, as if he was barely grasping the reason that was still alive in that breath: "Yongzheng? What's your era name? ā
"Yes."
"Why did you kill the eighth child?"
Yinzhen only knelt on the ground and didn't make a sound.
Kangxi understood: "Come to think of it, the rest of the elder brothers will not have a good time in the Yongzheng year." Talk about them, fourth, you start from the beginning, don't miss a little. ā
Yin Zhen lay on the ground, buried his head low, and said in a dumb voice: "Huang Ama, do you really want to know?" ā
"It's all here, and you still want to hide it?"
After a while, Yin Zhen said slowly: "The eldest elder brother died in seclusion in the twelfth year of Yongzheng, and the second elder brother died in the second year of Yongzheng. The third elder brother was robbed of the title, imprisoned in Jingshan, died in Yongzheng ten years, the fifth elder brother died in the same year, the seventh elder brother died in the eighth year of Yongzheng, the eighth elder brother died in the fourth year of Yongzheng, was cut by the son, changed his name to Achina, and was finally poisoned, the ninth elder brother died in the fourth year of Yongzheng, and was also cut by the son, changed his name to Seth Hei, and was poisoned during his captivity in Baoding, the tenth elder brother was imprisoned for life, and the fourteenth elder brother was imprisoned for life. ā
The fourteenth elder brother collapsed on the ground, he could hear the knocking sound of his teeth, if at the beginning, he still felt hurt because the eighth elder brother was killed, but now, he was more afraid in his heart: the death and imprisonment of so many brothers, a series of lists!
And he himself was imprisoned for life!
Yin Zhen glanced at him with an indifferent expression: "You and Lao Shi did not die in the Yongzheng Dynasty, and you were exonerated after I died." Although there isn't much time left. ā
The fourteenth elder brother wanted to pounce and beat him, but all his strength finally turned into a whimper of pain.
Instead of him was Kangxi, I saw the old emperor stand up from the chair, staggered to Yinzhen, raised his hand and slapped Yinzhen twice!
Blood suddenly flowed down the corners of Yinzhen's mouth. But at the same time as the severe pain, he had a feeling of exhilaration, which was the feeling of "the second boot finally fell off".
"Something with a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs!" Kangxi rubbed his hands, his sleeves were trembling, "Kill your own brother!" It's either captivity or poisoning! Fourth, you ...... You ......"
Yin Zhen knelt there quietly, not refuting or panicking.
He kowtowed again, and then said calmly: "So Erchen reminded Huang Ama again, and when the time comes, please ask Huang Ama to change the name on the edict." ā
He was so calm and composed, Kangxi suddenly came back to his senses, and confusion immediately replaced the anger just now.
"Wait, you really did those things?" The old emperor asked softly, "Fourth, aren't you deceiving me?" ā
"Huang Ama, those things were indeed done by the sons, and they were what the sons did nine years later in the history books, but the sons have not done it now, and they don't plan to do it in the future. Therefore, I implore Huang Ama to change his name and not let his sons succeed to the throne. ā
Kangxi became more and more confused: "Even if you succeed to the throne, you can not do it in the future!" Why do you have to resign from this throne? ā
Yin Zhen smiled bitterly: "Erchen has tried, not according to the arrangement of history to move forward, but all kinds of sudden accidents have pushed Erchen back, Erchen has thought about it, and can only change this from the root: the so-called fundamental, is not to let Erchen succeed to the throne, you can change anyone!" As long as it's not a son! ā
Kangxi was surprised: "What's wrong with being the Son of Heaven?" ā
Yin Zhen raised his head and looked at his father with a faint look in his eyes: "There is nothing bad about being the son of heaven, the bad thing is that you know everything in advance." Huang Ama, if you are around 30 years old, and you suddenly know the future, including what time of day you go to court, who you meet, what disasters occur in the place, and even which concubine you go to at night...... Before the chapter is opened, you already know every word, the minister has not yet spoken, you can memorize everything he has to say, everything is well known. Today's idea saved this, and tomorrow there was a sudden accident, which should have been killed by a knife, you changed your mind and kept people under the knife, but the next moment the outside of the city suddenly fell, and unrelated people disappeared inexplicably, so scared that you didn't dare to move...... It's endless, it's hard to change the slightest, it's all in vain, so you have to live like this until you last breathe ā you know when you breathe and why you breathe. Huang Ama, life has become like this, can you stand it? ā
Kangxi imagined it in his mind, and he actually felt that his hair stood on end!
"But if you don't succeed to the throne and change to someone else, don't you worry about others treating you like this?" Kangxi was still unwilling, he pointed to the fourteenth elder brother next to him, "For example, I let the old fourteen succeed to the throne, all this I heard today will only make him hate you even more." In the next 100 years, fourth, how will you live? ā
The fourteenth elder brother was on the side, as if he had been knocked on the head by a hammer, he wiped his tears and said loudly: "Emperor Ama rest assured, even if Erchen succeeds to the throne, Erchen will never do such a thing of slaughtering siblings!" ā
Yin Zhen looked at him and smiled indifferently: "Huang Ama, Erchen's wish only wants to change history, as for what history will become, Erchen doesn't care." ā
Kangxi looked at him, and he suddenly nodded: "You want to go." ā
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"You want to leave the Qing Dynasty, go back to that three hundred years later, you and Lao Ba want to leave!"
Yin Zhen sighed lightly: "Erchen...... I can't go anymore. ā
"What?"
"Erchen, the eighth and the thirteenth, they can't leave anymore." In Yinzhen's voice, there was a hint of sadness, "Only Lao Jiu and Lao Shi escaped." The group that broke in blocked the passage, and Erchen could no longer leave. Julia, who was sent away this morning, was the last to flee. ā
Then, he explained the identity of Yu Jin's gang in a language that Kangxi could understand.
"So, they're here to rob Hongli?" Kangxi was puzzled, "What's so special about this kid Hongli?" ā
Yin Zhen didn't plan to tell Kangxi Hongli's true identity, he only said that Hongli was transformed by them in the maternal stage, I'm afraid this child is very special, and they want to profit from him.
Kangxi listened hard, but he still didn't understand.
In the end, he gave up exploring all this, and only sighed: "Fourth, you really ...... He is no longer a member of the Qing Dynasty. ā
is no longer a person of the Qing Dynasty, but he is still his own child, such a contradiction, no wonder these sons have been so strange and abnormal in front of him in the past two years.
Looking down at the photo, Kangxi suddenly thought, has he ever seen these children smiling so happily?
Never.
They looked so happy, happy from the bottom of their hearts, like birds out of a cage. For these children, is the capital just a huge birdcage?
Kangxi put down the photo and felt that his brain was very chaotic, but in the end, the old emperor still asked the question he longed for the most.
"Fourth, how do the people of later generations evaluate me?"
Yin Zhen bowed his head and said: "History is known as the prosperous era of Kangqian." ā
"Kang Qian?"
"Qianlong is the name of the Hongli era."
"That kid?" Kangxi nodded and relieved, "I see." ā
That night, Kangxi asked both sons to step down, saying that he had to think about it.
Under the lamp, Kangxi took the photo alone and looked at it repeatedly, I don't know if it was a psychological effect or what, he felt that the people in the photo looked very young, much younger than the children in his memory, maybe because the beards were shaved clean, maybe because everyone was dressed up short and looked energetic.
Yes, spiritual, alive, not cumbersome, no sense of dragging mud and water.
Kangxi couldn't help but put down the photo, and thought for a while: What kind of world is that?
The way of the world that typed with his fingers......
By the way, the people there don't read the Four Books and Five Classics anymore, Kangxi can't help but be confused, what can he read if he doesn't read the Four Books and Five Classics? Without a full stomach, how can the imperial court promote officials?
Is the competition reciting foreign language? Whoever reads foreign literature well will be an official?
Why? And, on what grounds?
Kangxi only felt curious and confused, and he couldn't figure it out.
What will the world look like in 300 years? People there......
That's right! He once had a man here who was 300 years away! Julia is 300 years later!
In other words, people in 300 years will be like that woman? He looks stupid, but he is actually very smart, but if you really think he is smart, he will do all the stupid things for you to see...... Is that so? A person who is rich and rich (Kangxi thinks of this word and his teeth are sour) is like this, I'm afraid, the same is true of the people there.
Kangxi couldn't figure it out, he thought slowly, in this way, people in three hundred years have become very bold and not afraid of anything, because Julia has never been afraid of him.
However, if it were himself and went to the Ming Dynasty three hundred years ago, would he not be afraid?
No, he would still be afraid, if he ran to the Ming Dynasty alone, and stayed in front of those emperors of the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely be so scared that he would die and be terrified. Kangxi secretly thought, this is not because he knew history in advance, it seems that those who are in later generations are naturally bold.
Why aren't they afraid?
is bold and big, dares to do anything, and his brain is not smart, even the people who are rich and rich are just such a bad level, uneducated by poetry and etiquette, disrespecting heaven and earth and not afraid of ghosts and gods, he can do whatever he wants, and the court doesn't care...... In this way, won't the world be in chaos?!
But listening to Prince Yong's tone, it seems to be a very peaceful world over there, not as chaotic as he thought.
Strange, so weird! It's just out of the ordinary!
Kangxi still remembers that Prince Yong once said a very tongue-twisting sentence, he said: "It is a world where everything is very fast." But it's also too fast; In contrast, the Qing Dynasty is a world where everything is slow, but it is also too slow, so slow that people are anxious. ā
Slow? Kangxi didn't think so, and he didn't know how to be faster.
And for him, what is more important at the moment is: whether to let the fourth prince Yinzhen succeed to the throne.
Yin Zhen himself was unwilling to succeed to the throne, and besides, after learning about his mutilation of his siblings, Kangxi couldn't deal with it calmly, not to mention that all this had already been heard by the fourteenth elder brother.
But if the fourth child is not allowed to succeed to the throne, who can succeed him?
Do others do better than the fourth? If it weren't for the fourth child to succeed to the throne, would the Kangqian prosperous era still exist? Will the Qing Dynasty end early because of this? If you choose a mediocre person just to avoid cannibalism, then Kangxi himself will be ashamed of his ancestors under Jiuquan!
Even Kangxi suddenly thought, if you change someone, can the tragedy of fratricide be avoided?
This question made the old emperor's heart become heavy, he just couldn't stand the prince's domineering and practice of other brothers, so he abolished him, but he didn't expect that the old went to the new, and it was still like this...... It's even more terrifying.
If you change to a third one, will it work?
The fourth elder brother is no longer able to succeed to the throne, even if he insists on passing the throne to him, according to the resistance that Yinzhen shows today, he may give up the throne and die himself.
The fourteenth elder brother can't succeed to the throne, Kangxi secretly thought, this kid has heard too many things that shouldn't be heard today, in the face of the brother who knows the future and is suspected of imprisoning him, can the fourteenth elder brother really deal with it peacefully? Don't look at him saying today that he won't hurt his brother, if he really sits on the throne in ten years, he won't be able to help himself.
So what is left......
Kangxi unconsciously rubbed the photo, and a candidate he was never willing to mention suddenly broke into his mind.
He looked down at the photo again, and at the same time, Kangxi also remembered the photo he saw in the hands of the abolished prince last year, the eighth elder brother sitting next to the middle-aged couple.
Kangxi's memory is very clear, the eighth brother's hair in the photo is also so short, but he dresses very well, although he doesn't know the clothes of later generations, with intuition, Kangxi can also distinguish: these people sitting under the flower tree are wearing homely clothes, and the kind of blue cloth pants that everyone wears, it looks rough in texture, it must be very cheap, probably worn by the poor, so it is so tight on the legs, and the fabric is used so sparingly...... Prince Yong said that they had been poor for a while.
In the photo brought by the waste prince, the eighth elder brother should be wearing very formal clothes, in that photo, the women are all wearing skirts, the men are wearing black clothes, and no one is wearing the blue coarse cloth pants.
It seems that the people of the Hereafter are still dark.
Kangxi also remembered that in the photo, the eighth elder brother's hair was combed so neatly and his expression was so solemn. Although his clothes looked strange, for some reason, they looked better than the brocade robe he usually wore, well, the kind of strange clothes with a flower cloth hanging under his neck...... Maybe there is something special about that flower cloth, the old man in the picture also hangs one, and the clothes on the men's bodies look similar, only the color and stripes of the flower cloth are very different.
Could that thing be a symbol? Kangxi suddenly thought, maybe it is like a supplement to the court clothes, a symbol of status? Only those who enter the court as officials can be departmental? Therefore, as the fourth elder brother of the common people, no one wears that kind of flower cloth. Well, it seems that this is the case, and it can be inferred that as an emperor, if he also hangs a piece of that kind of cloth, what kind of pattern should it be? Yellow embroidered with dragons?
Is it just a little bit of cloth, can you embroider it? Barely embroidered with such a shrunken little dragon, doesn't it look awkward?
I don't know what it looks like when I put on that shirt......
Alas, I should have asked the fourth child just now, the old man secretly thought, he was too curious, and there were too many unknowns to explore about that world.
He even wanted to ask the eighth elder brother for questioning.
In fact, Kangxi knows that Eighth Brother has always been a beautiful child, and that painting ...... That photo, I don't know what magic was used, made the eighth brother look more handsome and radiant than before.
Like a flawless piece of jade.
Kangxi still remembered that Yinzhen told him that a powerful couple adopted the eighth elder brother, and they were very good to the eighth elder brother, so in those three years, unlike these elder brothers who lived a grassroots life, the eighth elder brother was still clothed and fed. When Yinzhen was working as a coachman and making hard-earned money, the eighth elder brother was "traveling around the world".
"The cars are all McLaren's." Yin Zhen said casually.
"Mai...... McLaren? What is that? ā
"Anyway, it's a very expensive car." For some reason, Yinzhen was a little angry, with a little unwillingness between his eyebrows and eyes.
Kangxi still doesn't understand, no matter how good the car is, it has to rely on a horse, why is this so expensive, is it because there are a lot of wheels?
Although he was nostalgic about that Lun, Yinzhen still said to Kangxi: "Eighth brother has read a lot of books and gone to many places. If his vision is far beyond Erchen, Erchen will not be surprised. If he hadn't returned to the Qing Dynasty, Eighth Brother might have been able to make a big difference there. ā
Kangxi put down the photo, and he suddenly had an idea. (To be continued.) )