. Kangxi was taken aback!

In the past history, Yinzhen was a resolute prince's party, and he pretended to be high, and he would never be in the same league as the Eight Masters. Even when the prince was in the most danger, he didn't show the slightest sign of showing favor to the eighth elder brother.

The fourth hates the eighth child very much, it is the resistance in that nature, and the kind of annoyance that wants to kick secretly even if he passes by. Yinzhen doesn't trust the prince much and respects the prince, and the reason why he became the prince's party is entirely because he doesn't like the eighth child too much. Kangxi has been determined for many years. He is also very happy to see such a situation: there is a prince and important minister in the court, who is not surrounded by the powerful Eight Masters Party, and stands on the opposite side of the Eighth Master wholeheartedly.

But I didn't expect that now, even Yinzhen has changed direction!

This made Kangxi disappointed for a while!

He originally thought that even if he gave up the prince, the fourth brother would recommend the third elder brother or other people who had nothing to do with the eighth elder brother, after all, he had publicly reprimanded the eighth brother and those who sponsored him, it stands to reason that the fourth brother should know the severity.

It seems that the recent rumors about the fourth elder brother moving closer to the Eight Masters Party are not all rumors.

Because he was too disappointed, Kangxi's voice became very cold, and he said lightly: "Really? The eighth brother has become the emperor, what good can he do with your fourth elder brother? You are not the core figure in the Eight Masters Party, and you have never lived and died with him. ”

Yin Zhen thought to himself, when I lived and died with him, you didn't know Dad!

But he still said respectfully: "Erchen doesn't plan to reap any benefits, no matter who ascends the throne in the future." Erchen honestly assists. ”

Kangxi sneered: "Honest assistant? So what if the future new monarch doesn't like you? What do you want to do? ”

Unexpectedly, Yin Zhen said indifferently: "If the new monarch sees that the son is not pleasing to the eye and expells the son from the capital, the son will stay outside honestly, if the new king dislikes the son and confines the son at home, then the son will stay at home in peace, and live with the children, it is not a good thing." ”

Kangxi became more and more surprised: "Fourth, are you cultivating the Dao Bone Immortal Style?" ”

Yin Zhen laughed: "Back to Emperor Ama, there is no Dao Bone Immortal Wind." It's just that once people don't want anything. There will be no more pretense. and there will be no more fear. ”

Kangxi snorted: "Do you really have nothing to ask for?" ”

Yin Zhen was stunned for a long time before he said again: "Erchen is not really asking for nothing. It's just what the son asked. It has nothing to do with the position of the prince. ”

That's where he spoke. Suddenly smiled: "If you want to be in front of Huang Ama." To put it irreverently, then, the red and bright grass peonies on the outskirts of the city in late spring. In the eyes of the sons, they are more pleasing to the eye than the position of a prince. ”

Kangxi stared at Yinzhen in amazement, these words were too unexpected for him!

The fourth child is the kind of person who has always been very serious in business, and he is almost not interesting at all, and his personality is very stereotypical. In the past, he tried his best to assist the prince, and Kangxi also understood his intention, hoping that after the prince ascended the throne, he would be able to find a position as an important minister and do things without interference.

But today's words actually exposed another side that he had never shown to others.

He was so calm that he was not afraid of angering himself.

Kangxi stared at him in confusion: "Fourth, why did you become like this?" This year, you've been very different, why is that? ”

Why? Yin Zhen thought to herself, how can I tell you? After three years of upheaval and twists and turns, how can it be explained in a few words?

If you can't feel it, you can't understand it, and you can't agree with it.

Having said that, it's just ridiculous.

In the end, he sighed: "Huang Ama, Erchen has been reading Buddhist scriptures recently, and his heart has gained something, and he has suddenly become enlightened. That's why I figured it out. ”

Kangxi frowned and looked at him, as if he still didn't believe it: "Reading Buddhist scriptures has anything to do with your recommendation of the eighth child?" ”

Yin Zhen smiled faintly: "Huang Ama, a few years ago, Erchen met a dervishes monk, and Erchen listened to a few verses in him, and he felt something, so he also let go of his previous suspicions. ”

"Oh?"

"Weiyun: The friendship of gentlemen, it is as light as water. Insist on the image and seek, thousands of miles away. Asked Yu Heshi, Gur died. The branches are full of spring, and the moon is full. ”

Kangxi recited those verses repeatedly, and he suddenly felt sad: "These verses are like the feelings of a dying person - this is not good, fourth, you are still young after all." ”

Yin Zhen was shocked in his heart!

Kangxi was able to intuitively grasp the truth of this verse, which shows how far the old man's ability to perceive people's hearts and world affairs has reached!

may have aroused Kangxi's sad feelings, but he didn't ask any more questions after all, and only let Yinzhen retreat.

When Yinzhen withdrew, he could still hear Kangxi muttering softly: "Huazhi is full of spring, and the moon is full in the heart of the sky......"

On the way back to the palace, Yinzhen thought, this can be regarded as an experiment, right?

In front of Kangxi, he promoted the eighth elder brother to be the prince, which was completely challenging history, because according to his previous temperament, this was the most unlikely move he would make. Yin Zhen had a chaotic impulse in his heart: he wanted to knock all the established rules to the ground!

He wants to see what kind of consequences will be caused by repeatedly disobeying the laws of heaven and taking the initiative to "cause trouble".

In the next period of time, perhaps because of Yinzhen's conversation, Kangxi's attitude towards him has also changed a little, and that kind of gaze seems to be to change a new perspective and look at this fourth child again.

Later, in October, the case of Chen Siliumin continued to make trouble, and Kangxi found that the Criminal Department had deceived and deceived his superiors and subordinates in the process of operation, and there were many untruths, so he was furious and demanded that the case be dealt with severely.

Regarding the Chen Siliumin case, Yin Zhen has a different opinion in his heart, and he doesn't know much about the truth, but he understands very well that the reason why the old man is angry is because this case has smeared his Kangxi prosperity. I'm afraid that sending someone to find out the final truth is unbearable for Kangxi.

This case, even if Edogawa Conan comes, it will not be able to handle it.

In those days, Kangxi's mood was not very good. The old emperor was holding back the fire in his belly, and he always wanted to find someone to send out, so everyone hid as far as they could.

Yinzhen also wanted to hide, but he couldn't dodge, Kangxi has been grabbing him recently.

"Are you using me as a psychological hotline?" Yin Zhen thought in his heart that the old man had been the emperor for too long, and he was so addicted to the honey of the prosperous world that he brewed that he couldn't extricate himself, so that he suddenly saw the crack of his dream, even if it was just a little crack. He couldn't afford it either.

Nine Elder Brothers, they snickered. Say, who told the fourth brother to be as stable as Mount Tai like a Buddha? If the old man doesn't catch him, who will catch him?

"How can I be like a Buddha?" Yin Zhen roared, "I don't have anything I'm anxious about!" ”

The tenth elder brother said: "The fourth brother seems to be calmer. Huang Ama looked down on me and Brother Jiu. I think we're like ruffians and scoundrels. Starling, he didn't want to see him. As for the prince, it is a humanoid repeater. The fifth brother is a stuffy gourd, and the third brother is a nerd. Fourteen young and inexperienced...... After all the calculations, can't you only catch the fourth brother in the end? ”

"The old man has been lazy for more than ten years." Brother Jiu pondered, "Warm water frog, who will he cook if you don't boil?" ”

The tenth elder brother also nodded: "Since entering the customs, the days of the banner people have never stopped like now, and it is naturally comfortable not to fight all year round, but the peaceful and prosperous times and covering the ears and stealing the bell, are still two different things, right?" After all, it's not good to stop for too long. ”

"It's been too long. The Iron Throne, full of thorns, was sat on a soft sofa chair by the Emperor. Blocking reality and living in the illusion of self-righteousness is something that everyone loves to do, but if it is shielded too badly, a little bit of reality can make him collapse. ”

"Collapse hell! That's it, what's it! Yin Zhen didn't have a good air, "Besides, who hasn't collapsed?" We've collapsed 10,000 times in the past few years, and when the collapse is over, aren't we tying ourselves up and erecting ourselves to continue living? ”

Brother Nine laughed, and Yinzhen said it like a Transformer.

Brother Ten sighed softly: "Actually, I don't understand, how did the old man become a father?" Everyone raises children and daughters, just him, raising a row of thorns, who he looks at is not pleasing to the eye, his own children, mentioned like enemies. After 300 years, our whole family can go on TV to do mediation reality shows. ”

Yin Zhen snorted: "Believe it or not, when the time comes, those experts will still accuse us and favor the old man - obviously he didn't do a good job as a father!" ”

Brother Jiu said casually: "Huang Ama didn't do a good job as a father, this has to be blamed on our grandfather, who told our grandfather to die so early?" ”

Brother Ten interjected: "To some extent, there can also be a psychological substitute for the father......"

"Are you stupid? Didn't those 'substitute fathers' end up being cut down by Huang Amma? ”

"But Brother Jiu, did our grandfather go to Wutai Mountain?"

"Wutai Mountain, last fart!" Brother Nine glared at him, "You! Don't be brainwashed by Jin Yong! ”

On that day, Kangxi talked about the case again, he said, now there is such a thing happening in the local area, such a peaceful and prosperous world, and there are still people to make trouble, why is this?

What's the problem?

At that time, Yinzhen was waiting on the side, he listened and listened, only to feel that the old man's thinking was repeatedly circling in a dead end, and his heart was a little sad.

When the ghost sent the gods, he had one more mouth: "Huang Ama, according to the foolish opinion of the ministers, the problem is mainly in people on the surface." ”

Kangxi was stunned: "People? What do you mean? ”

"Erchen is saying that the population is too large." Yin Zhen continued, "Before our banner people entered the customs, the population of the world was hovering below 100 million, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the population lost a lot. But wait until it is dry...... In a few decades, it is likely to break through 100 million and reach 100 million and a half. There is so much land, it is impossible to increase suddenly, but people have to open their mouths to eat, and if this continues, something will naturally happen. This kind of problem can't go back to the ancestors' books to find a solution, because this is only encountered in our Qing Dynasty, and it was not there before. ”

Kangxi was surprised to hear this, and very few people considered the problem from this perspective, because it is generally believed that more people are a good thing, and the more children you have, the happier you are.

"Then you say, how to solve it?"

At that time, the population problem was not only plaguing a country in the Qing Dynasty, if Kangxi could jump out and look at the world, he would find that the whole world was facing the same trouble: population surge.

Since the New World was discovered, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts...... New species continue to pour into the Old World, and there has been a huge surge in what can be eaten. Advances in science and technology and medicine have led to a desperate increase in population, and in the eighteenth century alone, the global growth rate reached 43 percent.

Regarding this, Yinzhen has long seen it in the books of later generations.

However, population brings not only pressure, but also new opportunities. It is precisely through the vigorous development of industry and commerce that European countries absorb the surplus population, and solve the population problem with industrialization and urbanization, so that they have embarked on the road of modernization with great difficulty - this road, the later it goes. The more blood and tears are paid. The lessons of modern history over the past 100 or 200 years have all proved this point.

Yin Zhen pondered for a long time, he mustered up his courage, and finally said: "According to the foolish opinion of the son." It's better to make it easier for business to travel. And. Let those spare laborers enter the handicraft workshop......"

Kangxi suddenly frowned.

What an opinion! Since ancient times, the hierarchical order has been that of Shinong and industry, the first is to be an official and a master, and the most important thing is to consolidate the agricultural capital. Businessmen are the most despised, how can they turn their heads and propose such a thing as doing business!

"Fourth, you're confused!" Kangxi suddenly said in a deep voice, "Give up farming, go to a small business, go to manual work, in the long run, the local will be unstable!" There are more idlers, there is a lot of flow, there will only be more people picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and people's hearts will be chaotic! What's wrong with you today?! How can you not even understand such a basic truth! ”

Yin Zhen sighed in his heart: Sure enough.

Seeing that he was silent, Kangxi thought for a while, and said: "You just said that the population is the surface of the disease, so what is inside the disease?" ”

Yin Zhen smiled bitterly, did he still have to say something?

But he still bowed down and said: "Back to the emperor Amma, Erchen feels that the heart of the people is the inside of the problem. ”

"People's hearts?"

"Erchen thinks that the imperial court should be more lenient with the locality......

Kangxi nodded: "I do have a plan, and I will never add to it in the future." ”

"Well, I'm afraid it's not enough......"

Yinzhen wants to say that the relaxation I am talking about is not economical but ideological, which is to loosen the minds of the people and open up their creativity in order to have an adventurous spirit.

If you don't take risks and don't change, you're dead.

But thinking about it, when he said this, he was afraid that it would cause Kangxi to be angry.

Moreover, when creativity opens up and the spirit of adventure emerges, people will pay more attention to their own abilities and self, and they will be more suspicious of the authority imposed on their heads, and even challenge authority. Then, the imperial power suddenly became precarious, and they are not as good as those in Europe, people always have the broken umbrella of "divine power of the monarch" on their heads, they love Xinjueluo's family has a hair? The land of China is a secular society, and there is not even that layer of religious protection, and if the foundation of power is challenged in the slightest, they will die—for Kangxi, this is undoubtedly a way to commit suicide.

I talked a lot again, Yinzhen couldn't help but think, obviously I told Julia that I didn't plan to play with my head.

At this moment, suddenly Li Dequan hurriedly came in, and his voice trembled: "Long live Lord, Seventeenth Elder Brother seems to have something to report to Long Live Lord, so he was waiting outside the Heart Cultivation Hall just now, but who knew that he suddenly said that his abdomen was in severe pain, and he couldn't even sit still, and rolled directly on the ground......"

Kangxi's face changed greatly: "How can this be!" ”

Li Dequan shuddered and said, "Slave...... The slave only listened to the report, what was going on, the slave didn't know, only heard that the seventeenth elder brother was in pain and almost fainted, and he didn't know what the disease was. ”

Kangxi hurriedly said: "Hurry up and bring it in!" Go to the Imperial Doctor! ”

"Huh!"

Yin Zhen almost fainted on the side!

How could this happen! There is no such thing in the historical records! Old Seventeen is fine, how could he suddenly get sick?!

But he didn't have time to think about it, so he had to follow Kangxi to find out the seventeenth elder brother who had seen the incident.

Yinli was carried on a stretcher and placed in a nearby room. The Imperial Doctor has been found, but nothing can be done.

When Yinzhen entered, he saw Yinli rolling on the bunk, his face was blue and purple in pain, and he was still trying his best to suppress his moaning, but it was obvious that the intensity of the pain was far beyond what his perseverance could overcome.

His little servant cried on the side: "The seventeenth master was originally sitting and talking to the minions, and there were also people who laughed, but who knew that he suddenly said that he had abdominal pain and was planted on the ground!" ”

Yin Zhen stared at the seventeenth elder brother on the bed, and he suddenly shuddered!

Could it be that this is the result of what demographic issues he and Kangxi raised and what development of industry and commerce?

This news of the world is coming too quickly!.

(To be continued.) )