Kangxi was carried to the Heart Nourishing Palace, the imperial doctor took the pulse, took the imperial medicine, and his condition seemed to be stable at this time. He wrapped his head in a yellow handkerchief, lying sideways on the warm kang, his face was as usual, only the left half of his body was paralyzed, the corners of his mouth were a little crooked, and his mind was still clear. Just now, he passed on the Zhejiang governor Zhu Shi, who was proficient in the art of Qihuang, to give him a pulse, Zhu Shi is a very practical person, he can trust it, after taking the pulse, he said as if talking about a family routine that has nothing to do with him:

"Mr. Zhu Shi, life and death are fateful, and the wise man is not shy about it, let alone you? I would like to ask you a true believer, how many days do I have left to live? ”

"Holy Lord," Zhu Shi was sincerely frightened, and paused again and again, "How can you say this?" The minions' hearts are broken. ”

"I still have a lot of things to deal with," Kangxi said with a reverent face, "It's a matter of national society, you have to give a quasi-letter, and I will arrange the future." You tell the truth! ”

Zhu Shi lowered his head deeply, and only raised it after a long time, but he was already in tears, and slowly stretched out a finger.

"A month?" Kangxi was taken aback.

Zhu Shi shook his head.

"A year?"

Zhu Shi still shook his head.

Kangxi Wu laughed to himself and said, "Don't deceive me, I can't have ten years of life." He shook his head again and again, "There won't be another ten years, no, I know it in my own heart." ”

"The saint is at ease to recuperate," Zhu Shi said slowly, "The world is blessed, and there is a year of risk, and there are ten years of holy life." The minister is according to the vein, and the change of the vein is not only in the sky, but also in the nourishment. ”

"Oh," Kangxi was naturally happy when he heard this, staring at Zhu Shi and said, "You are a Jinshi in Kangxi's early years, the youngest of the old ministers, you have been guarding the herdsmen in other provinces, and you have nothing to do with the court." How old are you? ”

"Seven out of fifty."

"Hmm, I'm only six or seven years older than Zhang Tingyu, I intend to use you to work in the study, what do you think?"

Zhu Shi panicked. In fact, according to the vein, Kangxi will not be able to pass a year, and when the new and old emperors are handed over and the situation is unpredictable, it is absolutely impossible to wade into this pool of troubled waters. He pretended to smile and said:

"The saint is wrong to love the minions. Chende Bo Nengxian, that is, shepherd Zhejiang, Haitang has not yet been completed, how dare to eat a vegetarian meal in the corpse, steal the cardinal, and miss the holy event! Please ask the emperor to investigate the dragon heart saint ......"

"Okay, okay, then you better repair the sea pond!"

After Zhu Shi left, Kangxi summoned Li Dequan, Xing Nian and Yang Dazhuang, brought Huang Aya and Zhu pen bordered by gold threads, and used his trembling right hand to write the most important imperial pen in his life, "Inheritance Edict". Then he carefully folded the edict and handed it to Li Dequan, and watched Li Dequan put it into the prepared small gold cube. There are two keyholes on the front of this small golden kui, and two small golden keys must be inserted into the keyhole at the same time to open the golden kui. The gold is locked, Kangxi holds the two golden keys tightly in his hands, as if he is holding the Qing Dynasty and the power to seize the life and death of hundreds of millions of subjects, and he stretches his face and says:

"In this little golden vault, there is my edict of succession. The three of you put it in the red sandalwood box, and then put the wooden box behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque in the Qianqing Palace, and fixed it with an iron hoop. The key to the wooden box is held by Li Dequan and Yang Dazhuang, and from now on the 'Zhengda Guangming' hall will be closed, and dozens of guards from the Qianqing Palace will be guarded by Yang Dazhuang day and night. Until the day I died, the three of you and the two ministers I had chosen to hold the golden key took down the rosewood box. The minister opened the small golden treasure and read out the edict of the throne in front of the princes and princes. Got it? ”

After Kangxi finished saying these words in one breath, his face was already blue and purple. Li Dequan, Xing Nian and Yang Dazhuang trembled when they heard this, and burst into tears. knelt down in front of Kangxi together, kowtowed, and echoed like garlic:

"The minion understands! Rest assured, the holy life is still long! ”

"I know I can't die right now." Kangxi smiled reluctantly, and continued to say with a sigh of relief, "But the national fortune is a major event, and you can't help but have an explanation first!" Go on an errand. ”

Kangxi watched the three of them put the little golden cube into the rosewood box, held by Yang Dazhuang, and Li Dequan and Xing Nian escorted them out one after the other, as if a stone in their hearts had fallen to the ground, and they took a long breath, and their faces returned to calm. Looking at the backs of the three of them out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Kangxi pondered secretly, and suddenly remembered Zhu Shi's words: There really is still ten years of holy life, everything is another matter. But Zhu Shi's words "one-year risk" lingered like a dream demon, chasing him closely. As far as the eye can see, this Heart Nourishing Palace, this Qianqing Palace, and this Forbidden City have suddenly become a gloomy and terrifying tomb and a bloody slaughterhouse.

Kangxi couldn't figure out if many of his princes were so disobedient and fighting, did he have a taboo with his ancestors? He asked himself, although he killed a lot of people in his early years, it was not an exaggeration to consolidate the court and guard the territory; The only flaw is on the women's side. If you want to marry your aunt Princess Gulun as a concubine, in fact, Emperor Nurhachi Taiji married two aunts and nephews at the same time, the aunt is Empress Xiaoduanwen, and the niece is Empress Xiaozhuang Wen. After Huang Taiji died, Empress Xiaozhuang married Uncle Manshu Dolgon, which ensured the smooth accession of Lord Shunzhi. At that time, there was a palace poem that said:

Shangshou is called a joint bottle,

Cining Palace is full of rotten doors.

Spring Palace entered the new ceremony yesterday Note,

The big gift coincides with the marriage of the Queen Mother.

It is said that Dorgon also proclaimed himself regent of his royal father, and often went to the inner courtyard of the palace. In the archives of the Ministry of Rites during the Shunzhi period, there is still a record of the etiquette of the first marriage! In fact, it is not a big deal for the Queen Mother to get married. If you allow your aunt and nephew to serve with you, why don't you allow your uncle and sister-in-law to get married? This is probably the lust that runs in the blood of the Nurhachi family! Shunzhi Ye is a monk for a woman, and he would rather be beautiful than beautiful. How many women he Xuan Ye has slept with in his life, now thinking about it, is countless. Is this going to be retribution?

The sky was overcast, as if another heavy snow was brewing. Kangxi looked at the gloomy palace, and the hazy sky was out of his mind for a while, and he commanded in a daze:

"Back to ...... Changchun Garden! ”

Liu Tiecheng, Delentai and other guards ran over together with Zhang Tingyu and Ma Qi when they heard the news, Kangxi raised his right hand and repeated:

"Back to Changchun Garden!"

Eight healthy mules pulled the dragon chariot and had to leave the Forbidden City. Kangxi was half lying on the soft couch in the camel cart, and his heart was at a loss. Zhang Tingyu and Ma Qi, who were accompanying on the side, pretended to be calm, but they were panicked in their hearts. In the past few days, the doctor just shook his head after checking the pulse, and no one said anything. They knew in their hearts that the time limit had come, Kangxi would not be gone for long, the national prince was undecided, and if the story of Duke Qi Huan came out, the monarchs and ministers would be ruined. Thinking of this, I can't help but shudder!

"Where have you been?" Kangxi moved half of his body and asked.

"Out of the West Gate." Zhang Tingyu leaned over and replied, and wiped the saliva from the corner of Kangxi's mouth with a silk handkerchief, "The saint is relieved." Back to Changchun Garden, the spring flowers are blooming, and I will recover in a few days. ”

"Oh, oh...... I can't recover......"

As soon as Long Yuan entered Changchun Garden, the car shook and stopped. The guards, eunuchs, and palace maids in the garden all knelt in the cold wind to take over. Fang Bao, who had already received the Holy Stain, pounced on him and opened the curtain, crying: "Master, the minister Fang Bud takes over!" Hooray, you...... Why are you so sick that you are not allowed to serve in the past......"

"I'm better, you don't want this." Kangxi saw Fang Bao crying loudly, and said sadly in his heart, "When I moved to a poor house, I used it as a dormitory." There are some things that I have to discuss with you while I understand them in my heart. ”

After the Yuemen Cave of the Lanning Palace, Kangxi changed to sit in a sedan chair carried by four people, and came in wearing flowers and willows. Garrisoned in front of it was the "Poor Lu" dormitory where the Shanpu Battalion and the Imperial Forest Army under the command of Wu Dan and the dumb eunuchs waited. Before arriving at the bamboo fence, Kangxi signaled to stop the sedan chair, turned back to Zhang Tingyu and Ma Qi and said:

"Stay and take care of the things outside—it's all business as usual."

The two had no choice but to bow down and retreat according to their orders, watching Kangxi's bright sedan disappear in the green shade, with an unwarranted sense of mystery about the poor house they had never set foot in.

The next day, Kangxi, who had slept all night, seemed to be in better spirits. Xing Nian waited for breakfast, Kangxi closed his eyes and recuperated, and suddenly opened his eyes and shouted:

"Someone's coming!"

Li Dequan, Xing Nian, and Fang Bao rushed in from the outer room together.

"What do you command?"

"From now on," Kangxi said coldly, "the rules here are stricter!" You know that although Wu Dan is old, he is a murderer. No matter what I say, if I miss a child, the love of waiting for decades will be ticked. Did you know? ”

"Piercing!" The two old eunuchs knelt down together, "The slave doesn't dare!" ”

"Go out and preach the message!" Kangxi raised his voice and said, "With a rush of six hundred miles, I ordered the general Wang and the fourteenth son Yinyu to rush back to Beijing to face the saint in the starry night!" ”

"Piercing!"

"Ma Qi, the minister of the upper study, handled the case of Quanzhou and Dehua thieves gathering crowds to make trouble, dealt with perverseness, approved the document without authorization, lost Zhao'an, made the thief escape, and mistakenly killed the people of the association, and went to Ma Qi to lead the Minister of the Guard, the prince Taibao, and the title of Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar, and handed it over to the Ministry of Deliberation!"

"Piercing!"

"Message: Zhang Tingyu, the minister of the upper study, has served for many years, and has not made any achievements, and last year I issued an edict to ask for advice, the minister was perfunctory, and the subject was not sincere! Demote two levels of punishment and stay in the study for the time being! ”

"Zha! Stab! ……”

Fang Bao, Li Dequan, and Xing Nianzao were dumbfounded when they heard this, their faces were scorched, and there was no blood. They didn't understand why Kangxi suddenly became so angry and deposed the two closest ministers. The two great eunuchs who received the decree only had the share of "Zaza", because seeing that Kangxi no longer commanded, Li Dequan repeated the three decrees, kowtowed with Xing Nian and went out to pass the decree. Xing Nian walked evilly, stumbling, and crooked his feet and neck for no reason. A limp followed behind.

"Hooray...... This? ”

Kangxi was suspicious when he saw Fang Bao. Waving his hand and smiling, he asked:

"For example, if you don't want people to know, where is it placed?"

"Fish eyes are mixed, of course, in the eyes of the fish."

"Where's a good piece of wood?"

"Put it in the woods!" Fang Bao had already suddenly realized, and he couldn't help laughing.

"I have given you a thousand gold, and you will go back to your 'woods'!"

Fang Bao has a clear heart, Kangxi is vague about whether the throne of the Queen of Heaven can be smoothly transferred, he wants to protect several pillars of the imperial court in the future, Fang adopted such a dethroned dethronement, descent, and expulsion of the last resort. He said goodbye, and turned over the five-flavor bottle in his heart, and couldn't tell what it tasted like.

One after another edicts, locking up Namaqi, deposing Zhang Tingyu, and sending the cloth prime minister Fang Bud back to the mountain, the government and the opposition were already shocked, and they couldn't stop worrying. Immediately afterwards, after the May Festival, You Mingtang, Shi Shilun, and Zhu Shi were also dismissed and questioned, and taken to the Ropesmith Hutong Prison Temple to be imprisoned pending investigation. The decree was issued again: Tian Wenjing, the political envoy of Shandong, and Li Wei, the secretary of Jiangsu, were imprisoned one after another. There was a lot of discussion among the government and the opposition, and it was rumored that Kangxi Ye was suffering from madness and was already delirious. Some people even secretly said that a group of rebellious ministers and thieves were by the emperor's side, trapping Zhongliang and trying to usurp the throne and seize power.