Rectifying the Criminal Department and cleaning up the deficit of the household department, the two elder brothers of the Qin Cha have worked vigorously for two years, only Zhang Tingyu knows that all of them have failed, and with Kangxi folding a Zhu Batch in the Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi-the helpless Zhu Batch, he had to stop and go through the motions.

In the matter of the Criminal Department, the opponents that Yinxi encountered happened to be several brothers under his wing, and Ren Bo'an was in cahoots, and almost a dozen "white ducks" were found out by the surname Ren who accepted bribes, and then honored those elder brothers. The ninth master Yinyu made the changing account "Hundred Officials' Statement", which was secretly sealed by the surname Ren, and the eighth master knew this, so he had to admit that he was unlucky. originally wanted to make some achievements in the criminal department for his father to appreciate, but in the end he had to end hastily and wipe his butts for a few difficult brothers.

In the matter of the household department, Zhang Tingyu thought that Yinzhen and Yinxiang had done their best. They want to share their worries for the country and the emperor. But the opponent they encountered was the status quo of the imperial court's accumulated bureaucracy. There are too few poor officials like You Mingtang who borrow for nothing, and there are too few poor officials who are reluctant to spend after borrowing, and honest officials like Yu Jackie Chan and Shi Shilun are even rarer. up to the prince, down to the Qipin county order; From the left to the former courtiers to the right to the officials of the current court, they all developed a luxurious style, and the money from bribery was not enough to spend all the time, so they stretched out their hands to borrow from the treasury. In the end, those debtors and nobles, white-haired old men cried and cried to the Jinluan Palace, before the imperial ranks, what else could Kangxi do, he had to let Alinga take over the household department, and asked Yinzhen and Yinxiang to quietly collect the troops.

When Alinga took office, he told the provinces to stop collecting debts. Half a month later, he ordered the opening of a treasury to "help the poor" Beijing officials and issue 100,000 yuan in silver, which was called "honest and honest" silver. As soon as the limelight changed, the provincial treasury was opened, and the Beijing officials and Xinjiang officials who had regained the benefits praised Alinga for how he served the imperial court, made the people happy, and thanked the emperor for his kindness. Yinren knew that he was at a loss, so he simply stopped meddling in the affairs of the household, and Yinzhen and Yinxiang were secretly angry in their hearts.

Of course, Kangxi knows the beginning and end of pulling lotus leaves, and the fish jumping in a pond of water. He remained quiet, he wanted to first ensure the results of the household department's settlement of debts, and then use the Ding Qiaosheng incident to open a killing sentence in the administration of officials, punish a group of corrupt officials, and make a good start for refreshing the maladministration. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, he sent Li Dequan to the household department to check the accounts, and the treasury had lost 14 million taels again. was angry, Zhang Tingyu sent Yinyu and Yinyu this joint report.

I want to lose the east corner and harvest the mulberry elm, the results of the criminal department will always be a little bigger than the household department! The dozen or so "slaughtering white ducks" are all on the record, and it is still difficult to find out a group of corrupt and perverted the law? The weather was cold in autumn, Kangxi leaned on the warm kang of the Yangxin Palace, looked at the folds of the two princes with great interest, and let Zhang Tingyu sit on the wooden pestle. Looking at it, Kangxi's face changed in vain, but it turned out that what was written on the fold was: After investigation, it was confirmed that the previous Shangshu and Shilang of the Criminal Department were all Qing officials who attracted the attention of the government and the opposition, and the Yamen of Zhili, Shuntianfu and the provinces of Zhensi, "only a few people worshipped", "so that the Yamen of the National Law Department was unclean". The two princes also said eloquently, "As for the case of 'slaughtering the white duck', it has been verified that there is only one person named Ding Qiaosheng", and "the original offender Ding Qiaosheng is a single descendant of the fifth generation, and his concubine's pregnancy is unknown, and he does not know whether it is a man or a woman. "As for the woman who died, she was not a martyr, but a servant of the tenants. According to the law, Ding Qiaosheng was sentenced to a spine cane......

Kangxi watched the recital, so angry that his hands and feet were cold, he threw it aside, punched it on the case, and smashed the teacup to the ground.

"! Fart! Fart......" Kangxi was so angry that he rolled off the kang and rushed to the entrance of the Heart Nourishing Palace, still stomping his feet and scolding.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty's ......" Zhang Tingyu followed.

"It's just bullying me......" Kangxi was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"The emperor is angry."

"Ahh He caressed his heart.

A gust of autumn wind blew, and Zhang Tingyu was silent. He knew that the disappointment in the emperor's heart at this moment was indescribable. It was hoped that the two most capable princes and the two Qin messengers would go out and handle the affairs of the two departments of punishment and household well, first, to uphold law and discipline, punish corrupt officials, keep the treasury money, and rectify the rule of officials; Second, to sharpen the talents of the two princes and improve their popularity, so as to select a more suitable person to be the crown prince, but I don't know that the result is like this......

As soon as the cold wind blew, Kangxi calmed down, and was a little out of shape in front of the minister, he was a little embarrassed to reach out and stroke his shaved and glowing head, and looked at the empty courtyard and rushed to Zhang Tingyu behind him and said:

"Hengchen, have you seen this excerpt?"

"Yes."

"What did the prince say? and Ma Qi, Tong Guowei, and Chen Tingjing, have you seen them all? What do you guys think? Kangxi was preoccupied, distracted, and his speech seemed verbose.

"The crown prince didn't say anything when he saw it," Zhang Tingyu replied worriedly, "It's just called to be transferred to the imperial review." Because the appointment of Yinxi to run an errand is a dictatorship of the Holy Bow, perhaps the prince thinks it is not good to intervene. ”

"What's a bad interjection! He was obviously watching the fire from the other side," Kangxi sneered, "How can there be such a strange thing, I found out an unjust case of 'slaughtering a white duck', and sure enough, I found out one." Where are the other dozen or so 'white ducks'? I'm not afraid of making things bigger, but I'm afraid that even my own son won't tell the truth! Yinren, as the prince of the East Palace, is simply a wreck, Yinzhen and Yinxiang stood aside deaf and dumb and watched coldly, and let Yinren and several elder brothers of the Criminal Department hug together, deceive the king and deceive the father, deceive the court, and deceive the world, do you think I don't understand in my heart! This is what makes people's hearts tremble! ”

Zhang Tingyu wanted to comfort the emperor, but the words retracted when they came to his mouth. This is a matter between the father and son of the emperor's family, how can the courtiers interject?

"I'm thinking," Kangxi sighed to himself when he saw that Zhang Tingyu didn't answer, "These princes were born in the palace, and they have read the books of sages since they were children, and they are not stupid, so they can only be said to have ulterior motives!" ”

"How so? The emperor must not be overly ......"

"You know these things better than I do." Kangxi gritted his teeth and smiled, "Cats are always played with rats, and people are always suspicious." I'm old, I've become an old cat, they're a rat bullying old cat! Thinking that I am useless, I hope that I will return to heaven as soon as possible, so that they can inherit the unification, and there will be a life-and-death battle between brothers! ”

Zhang Tingyu was chilled when he heard this, as if he had pulled out his bone marrow. In history, there have been many court tragedies of killing kings and usurping the throne, brothers fighting walls, mothers killing their sons, and sons killing their mothers. He can comprehend the sadness of Kangxi's state of mind at this time, what can he say? Comfort, admonish, in order to save the royal family from the shock, and the common people from fire and water, simply come to another "offer advice and Anbang...... He was meditating on it when an autumn wind struck, and he shivered and hugged his robe tightly.

"Long live the lord-" The deputy chief eunuch Xing Nian came out of the east chamber, and saw Kangxi and Zhang Tingyu standing on the tuyere of the palace gate, the wind blew the robe high, and hurriedly took out a Xuanhu trimmed cloak, draped it on the emperor and said, "It's windy outside, long live the lord beware of catching a cold." ”

"My heart is on fire!" Kangxi took off the cloak and handed it to Zhang Tingyu and said, "I give you this cloak - it's good to put it on when you are on duty in the Heart Cultivation Palace." Although I am old, my body seems to be slightly better than you, Zhang Tingyu. He turned to the eunuch again, "Xing Nian, go to Yuqing Palace to call Wang Luo and Zhu Tianbao, take the prince's teaching book, I want to check Yinren's studies!" ”

"Piercing!"

After Zhang Ying left Yuqing Palace to go to the study to be the prime minister, he was Wang Liang and then became the master of the crown prince Yinren. Wang Ying is only seven or eight years younger than Zhang Ying, so he is also a dying old minister in the year of the sixtieth year. He is rich in learning, but he is short-sighted and stubborn and unreasonable. He was called to come, kowtowed again and again in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and shouted "Long live", in fact, Kangxi was not in the palace at this time, but in the East Warm Pavilion. Kangxi laughed and called him into the warm pavilion, and asked Li Dequan to go to the glasses library to pick out a pair of glasses to reward him, and his eyes looked at Zhang Tingyu and said: "This old king, like your Lingzun, should also take a break, the prince said that there were few people, so he stayed, and missed his life." "That's what the prince meant, you can't blame me." ”

"That's not the case!" Wang Luo took the glasses handed to him by Eunuch Li, put them on, and said solemnly, "The emperor is the holy monarch of the world, and the crown prince is the prince of the world. The emperor and the prince are kind to the old slave, and the slaves can't take care of their old age. ”

Kangxi asked Wang Luo to come, and wanted to ask the prince about the recent banquet and drinking with the guards in the palace, but when he saw Wang Luo open his mouth and shut his mouth, "The emperor and the prince have a joint limb", it was not easy to talk deeply, but Wang Luo proposed that all the guards in the East Palace had changed recently, which was an unconventional question. Kangxi pretended to be confused and said:

"Did you change it? Tong Guowei is also the Minister of the Guard, if it is really changed, he has this right. ”

Wang Luo was dumbfounded for a moment. Kangxi continued:

"I left Beijing on August 19 to go to Chengde Summer Resort, you are not in good health, so you don't have to go with the prince. Now Wang Shizhen of the Criminal Department is vacant, and Manshang Shusanterre is also vacant. I thought, if your prince and master don't move, plus a criminal department is really lacking, it can be regarded as compensation! There is no urgency to take office, and it will be decided according to the situation after I return to Luan from Chengde. ”

The king knelt down and thanked Long En, but he was worried in his heart: What happened to the saint today? If he wants to separate me from the prince, but does not send me into the cold palace, what is the future fate of the prince, this is what he cares about.

"Hengchen," Kangxi no longer ignored Wang Xuan, and turned to Zhang Tingyu and said, "You bring the fold handed by the eighth elder brother, and I want Zhu to approve it." ”

"Yes," Zhang Tingyu responded, and hurriedly went to the main hall to get the fold. Kangxi contemplated for a moment, picked up the cinnabar, and wrote:

It is comforting to watch the performance. I hope that what is played is true. But the punishment seems to be gentle, and the nature is like this, I

Don't think it's weird. The prison officer Ma Jinwu had to sell his life with stolen goods, and he was originally going to be hanged, but he should be beheaded instead. Commander Zhou De

Ming, Liu Fang and other 17 people should be dismissed from their posts and never be used. Santerre and Tang Chengcheng's crimes of negligence are only intended to be reformed

It was also improper to stay in office, and the two were dismissed and sent to serve in the Xining Army. The Ministry of Punishment is still the first book

Poor, by the prince and the prince, the university scholar Wang Zhu to make up, full of other drafts.

Chin this!

Kangxi glanced at Wang Luo, handed over the edict, and said:

"I'm going to borrow your old bones - you go and preside over the Punishment Department! Torture and killing are improper, the heavens are angry and resentful, and there can be no more tragedy of 'slaughtering the white duck', you have done a good thing, what are the difficulties to tell me. ”

The king took the edict, thanked Longen, and staggered out, not feeling any taste in his heart. It seems that the emperor doesn't want him to take care of the affairs of the East Palace anymore, but he can't help but be the prince and the princess. He suddenly remembered the cloud of "Spring and Autumn":

"The prison of the small and the big, although it cannot be detected, must be loved."

As soon as Wang Luo withdrew, Zhu Tianbao, who was in his early twenties, walked in. Zhang Tingyu is the first time to see this "red man" in front of the prince, he is so young but has been in front of the prince for three years. Seeing that he is slender, heroic, and very appropriate in his speech and actions.

"Minister, Zhu Tianbao knocks on the holy car!" After speaking, he knelt on the ground and waited for questioning.

"I've heard something, and you answer honestly!" Kangxi asked coldly with a straight face, "On the Duanjie Festival in May and the Menglan Festival in July, the prince invited the guards to a banquet in Yuqing Palace, is there such a thing?" ”

"Yes."

"Who are you invited?"

"There are Shangshu Geng Er, guards Eshan, Qi Shiwu, Tuoheqi and others, and there are no foreign ministers. is Geng E, who is also the guard of the East Palace designated by the emperor. ”

"Then why didn't Wang Luo and you have a feast?"

"Wang Luo is unwell, and the slave is running an errand in the household department......"

"Why did the prince do this? What was said at the banquet? ”

Kangxi asked questions like a cannonball, which made Zhang Tingyu, who was standing on the side, also frightened. At this point, he fully realized that the crown prince Yinren's status as the national prince in Kangxi's mind had been completely lost, and it caused Kangxi's suspicion and confusion.

"Your Majesty," Zhu Tianbao raised his face and said without hesitation, "You treat the prince with deep kindness and righteousness, and the prince treats you with affection." In recent years, rumors have flown out of nowhere, saying that the prince had complained and became a 'forty-year-old prince', but in fact, the prince's original words were: 'For the prince for nearly 40 years, he has made no achievements in the military affairs of the world, and he is ashamed to teach his father day and night' - the former is taken out of context, and these two words are far apart. The emperor is wise, don't you know that the father and son are suspicious, his family is ominous, the monarch and the minister are suspicious, and the country is difficult. Such rumors, the minister suspects that some villains are deliberately provoking ......"

"Zhu Tianbao!" Out of love and concern for the terrible future generations, Zhang Tingyu reminded, "You are talking to the present day, be careful of losing your manners!" ”

"Maybe it's a lie." Kangxi also looked at this Leng Touqing, who was loyal to the "little master", and encouraged, "You just have to keep talking." ”

"The crown prince is deeply favored, more than in previous dynasties. However, the elder brother interferes in politics, often looks at things with the Qin mission, is in a high position, and the prince is in the position of counselor, without the power of moderation. Once the villain in the ministers messes up the government, clings to the door wall, and confronts the prince, the elder brothers have been in power for a long time, and they covet it, and they have party henchmen inside, and bandits outside. ”

Zhang Tingyu was shocked by Zhu Tianbao's words and sweated profusely, this is something he wanted to say for a long time but didn't dare to say. Watching from the sidelines, he was actually worried about the future of the Kangxi Dynasty for a long time. Lian is quite old, after all, Kangxi is in his sixties, and his body is not as good as a year, the prince is abolished, and the elder brothers will have a life-and-death fight for the "national reserve"! Don't abolish the prince, but can the current prince be able to stand up? The talented Kangxi must also know this, and it has become an ulterior motive for him.

But who would dare to pierce this layer of tissue paper?

Zhu Tianbao was stabbed, Kangxi didn't move the anger of the thunder, but said very blandly: "The former Ming prince divided the fiefdom and became a waste, and as a result, Li Zicheng broke Beijing, and no one could help." According to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, let the brothers do errands and increase their talents, or there are more advantages and fewer disadvantages - the former is a way to fall into the water and get out of the rock, and the latter is a rising tide, which method is better? ”

Kangxi looked thoughtful, and his words not only made Zhu Tianbao, but also Zhang Tingyu stunned, like a clay wood carving. Kangxi asked himself and said to himself:

"Are there any drawbacks to my approach? Some! I am most afraid that my brother will form a party and go his own way. Therefore, I want the prince to learn the method of controlling the ancient sage, and I want the elder brothers to practice loyalty to the monarch - with these two items, I will not worry about the things after my death. If the prince is incompetent, he is not afraid, anyway, it is the Aixinjue Luo people who inherit the unification. Yongle is stronger than Jianwen, isn't Yongle succeeding to the throne Zhu Yuanzhang in the world? ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Tingyu and Zhu Tianbao were terrified when they heard it, but Kangxi smiled and said:

"Zhu Tianbao, you are in the East Palace, serving the prince wholeheartedly, and I hope that the prince will be a good emperor who comes from behind. But you can't do what you say! The brothers are all going to be pampered, leaving only one prince, once the country has something, there will be a Li Zicheng, Wang Zicheng or something, and there is not even a helper, so don't you sing the tragedy of the overlord Farewell My Concubine? He waved his hand at Zhu Tianbao, "You are tired!" ”

After Zhu Tianbao left, the huge Heart Cultivation Hall was as quiet as an ancient temple, and for a long time, Kangxi and Zhang Tingyu did not speak. In the end, Kangxi yawned, as if talking to himself, and as if saying to Zhang Tingyu:

"I say these words today, you will feel that there is no flesh and bones, in fact, flesh and blood are the affairs of the common people, the heavenly family, since ancient times, there is no flesh and blood at all!"