Zhang Tingyu returned to the capital, and the court situation was even more turbulent and unpredictable. Before I went to the study to enter the duty, I came to my father-in-law's mansion with my wife that day to visit my father-in-law, Wang Shizhen. The son-in-law was drinking tea in the study, and Zhang Tingyu gave a general account of the grand occasion of his father's funeral, and then heard his father-in-law say that the university scholar Ma Qi was arrested and put in the prison of the Criminal Department, and was detained to death. Zhang Tingyu was so shocked that he didn't say anything for a while. Ma Qi was the most cautious of the four ministers of the Manchu and Han scholars, and he was afraid of smashing his head when the leaves fell. Because he is knowledgeable, timid and afraid of things, he never dares to abuse power and mess with the government, he is known as the "tumbler" prime minister, and he has always stayed by the emperor's side, and he can't do big things, but it will definitely not be bad.

"What did Marzi do?"

"I heard that it is related to the request for the establishment of reserves." Wang Shizhen casually flipped through a copy of Jiannan poems on the tea vulture, and said slowly.

"Ma Qi went to ask for a decree to build a reserve?" Zhang Tingyu shook his head again and again, "No, no, I won't kill him." Who did he recommend? ”

"Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi!"

"Oh? It's more and more impossible," Zhang Tingyu stood up, pacing and thinking in the study, his face gloomy, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched, "This is a conspiracy, frame-...... Everyone knows that Yinxi is Tong Guowei's nephew, and if he wants to recommend the eighth elder brother as the prince, it can only be Tong Guowei's idea, and he manipulated behind the scenes, how did he involve Ma Qi? ”

"I heard that the emperor convened the courtiers to discuss and proposed to appoint two princes as the crown princes, and the best ones will be selected in the future to pass on the unification." Wang Shizhen told his son-in-law the gossip he heard in 1510, "At that time, there were ministers such as Aling'a, Oro Dai, Yu Xu, and Wang Hongxu who recommended Babeile Yinxi, and the emperor immediately became angry and made it clear that it was absolutely impossible. Since then, there have been many court discussions, some people have secretly moved, and then dozens of ministers jointly recommended Yinxi...... After the first month of this year, the Holy Lord convened the ministers to strictly investigate who was the initiator. The ministers were frightened and bowed their heads silently. Later, the emperor called Zhang Yushu to the Yangxin Palace, and asked again, Zhang Yushu said: "Ma Qi who heard it first." The next day, the Holy One issued a decree listing the charges against Mazi and taking him to the prison of the Criminal Department. ”

"Ahh The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond. Zhang Tingyu sighed and sat down on the chair opposite his father-in-law, "The princes are fighting, and the minister of the upper study has been affected. Looks like I shouldn't have come back sooner. ”

"Have you seen the emperor?"

"Not yet."

"Don't see you yet. Your period of worry is not over, stay at home for the time being, don't go anywhere, and see the wind. ”

"Oh-" Zhang Tingyu also knew that the current capital was already a tiger's den and dragon pool, and he accidentally fell into it, got involved in the dispute between the princes, and followed a certain "young master" wrongly, so he fell into a thousand years of hatred and fell into the abyss of no return. However, when the emperor is employing people, he stands by and watches, watching the fire from the other side, once the court situation is out of control, the princes collude inside and outside, openly fight, ignite the flames of war, and the people are miserable, as the prime minister, how can he face the emperor's favor from father and son, and how can he face the common people?

After returning from his father-in-law's house, Zhang Tingyu spent several days without thinking about tea and dinner, and did not sleep at night. Mrs. thought that he was sad to lose his father, so she only asked Zitong to serve well, and persuaded him softly. Zitong couldn't do anything, and in the middle of the night, I saw the old man alone in the study, or meditating with his eyes closed, or standing by the window, looking at the dark night sky and muttering to himself:

Qingqing Zijin,

Relax my heart.

But for the sake of the king,

Silent to this day.

Yo Yo Lu Ming,

Wild apples.

I have a guest,

Drumming and blowing sheng.

Bright as the moon,

When can I do it?

Worries come from it,

It cannot be severed.

The more unfamiliar the degree,

Exist in vain.

Talking about it,

Remembering the old kindness.

moon star sparse,

The black magpie flies south.

Three turns around the tree,

What can you rely on?

The mountains are not tired of being high,

The sea is not tired of being deep.

Zhou Gong Tufu,

The world is in the heart.

This night, the old man almost didn't sleep all night. In the early morning of the next day, I saw him get up and look new. He asked Zitong to personally dress up the crown for him, put on a robe, and shouted anxiously after breakfast:

"Prepare the car!"

"Sir, where are you going?" Zitong asked cautiously.

"Go to court!"

Zhang Tingyu had already figured it out, in the eventful autumn of the imperial court, he couldn't let it go, and he couldn't bear to look at the old emperor who was old and frail for a year, and he was alone in the face of the provocation of the princes who wished he would die early and seize the throne. Of course, the throne still has to be passed on, but Kangxi cannot be forced to pass the throne to a conspirator, careerist and tyrant among the princes.

Zhang Tingyu weighed his own weight: the son of a generation of famous minister Zhang Wenduan Gongying, the prime minister and the first assistant who have been elected for two generations, and he has stood firm in the government and the opposition with his own behavior. Whether it is Tong Guowei or Zhang Yushu, it is not so easy to unite with a certain prince and pull himself down and put him to death like he did against Ma Qi. For the king, the country and the society, I am not afraid of death, but what are you afraid of? It should stand up, turn the tide, assist Kangxi to stabilize the situation, stabilize the prosperous era, make the Qing Dynasty smoothly handed over, and avoid the suffering of the people. Of course, in order to achieve this, we must take retreat as advance, be decent, combine rigidity and softness, and protect ourselves, so as to get twice the result with half the effort. If he becomes the second Ma Qi, how can he assist the emperor?

With such determination and strategy, Zhang Tingyu walked into Xihuamen with a calm heart and handed a sign to meet him. As soon as I handed over the sign, I saw a general in his sixties coming out of it, with his official robe on the top, and his steps were windy, and the snow creaked and rattled. When Zhang Tingyu saw it, he was slightly surprised and said:

"It's not a wretch...... General Wolf? “

The wolf also recognized Zhang Tingyu at a glance, took a step forward, and arched his hand: "Zhang Zhongtang, I heard that Lord Ling Zun Wenduan passed away, and he was in the military affairs, so he didn't go to the mansion to pay his respects, and I ask Lord Zhongtang to forgive me!" ”

"What are you talking about," Zhang Tingyu looked the wolf up and down, "General Wolf is not stationed in Chengde?" Also to the Jingshi? ”

Knowing that Zhang Tingyu was Kangxi's most important left and right arm, he replied truthfully without seeing the field: "The last general is still in charge of the defense of Chengde, but the last general of the saint will deploy 10,000 troops around Gyeonggi." ”

"Ah, that's good. Have you seen the saint? ”

"Just met. Shengshang probably didn't know that Zhongtang had returned to Beijing, and he was still reading it just now, and he was waiting for Wu Dan, the governor of Liangguang, to see him. Speaking of this, he saw a crane-haired and childish-looking, tall and tough Xinjiang minister coming over from a distance. Zhang Tingyu laughed when he saw it:

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao. Hehe, Wu Lao Zhitai, you just arrived? ”

"Zhang Zhongtang, General Wolf!" Wu Dan patted his chest boldly, "Hearing the emperor's summons, I am a waterway and a dry road, and the boat is constantly oars, and I am rushing here non-stop!" "Wu Dan is an old first-class guard in the Ouchi, and he was released as the governor of Liangguang by the Holy Lord two years ago, and he has a deep friendship with Zhang Tingyu's father and former prime minister Zhang Ying. This time he was recalled to Beijing, Wen Di reported that Duan Gong was gone, he specially took the waterway to detour Jiangning and Chaohu, and did not want to rush to Tongcheng, the funeral had already been done. He said:

"I specially went around to Tongcheng, but I couldn't catch up with the old prime minister. Even Zhang Zhongtang, you have also returned to Beijing, accompanied by your two younger brothers, I went to serve three sticks of incense to the good old man. Alas, some of the old guys left one by one. ”

Looking back on the past, Wu Dan sighed with emotion.

Wolf Eye is also considered an "old man", pulling Wu Dan into the court room, it seems that there is a lot to say, Zhang Tingyu Jin saw that there was no urgency, so he followed these two "old guys" into the court room, he wanted to hear more about the situation from the mouths of these old ministers and close ministers before meeting Kangxi.

Sit down in the facing room, drink tea and chat.

"Master Wu, did you see Huchen in Jiangning?" The wolf asked about another old guard, Wei Dongting.

"See." Wu Dan didn't have a smile on his face, "His body is getting worse and worse, looking at him so thin that he is pitiful, where is he still like the first-class guards of Ouchi, who were the best in the past?" ”

Zhang Tingyu said with a smile on the side:

"It's the old general Wu, and you're still as powerful as you were back then, look at how tough your body is!"

The wolf said meaningfully:

"It's good that General Wu is in good health, but I'm afraid that if I come this time, I won't be able to go back to Guangdong!"

Wu Dan's heart sank: he only wanted the emperor to summon him in a hurry, and he only said that there was something urgent in the capital, and when he saw Wei Dongting in Jiangning, Huchen said that "now the Jingshi has become a tiger's den in Longtan, a place of right and wrong", Fang held the purpose of going and returning quickly. Listening to the wolf's words, it seemed that the emperor had other arrangements for him, and he couldn't help but feel a chill. wanted to ask, and knowing that the wolf had always been cautious, Zhang Tingyu couldn't pry his mouth open, so he had to laugh at himself and said:

"I am where I have come, and I am safe...... Hey, Brother Wolf, where do you live, I'll go back and see you. ”

"The last general is in charge," said mysteriously, "If you don't live in the city, you will naturally have to share hardships with the generals." I'll come back to see you. Zhang Zhongtang, the last general said goodbye and took the first step. ”

As he was talking, Xing Nian walked out, and when he saw Zhang Tingyu and Wu Dan coming, he was overjoyed and said, "Lord Zhang, how long have you been back in Beijing?" The master is always talking about you! There is also a martial arts table, hurry up and go in together! ”

Xing Nian came over to see the ceremony, so he took Zhang Tingyu and the old guard Wu Dan, passed through the Danqi, and entered the Hanging Flower Gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace. Xing Nian lifted the curtain and said with a smile:

"Long live the purpose, you don't have to sign up for the martial arts station; Master Zhang often comes and goes, and the servants don't go in to report. Please ...... you two."

Zhang Tingyu was young and very formal, and raised his hand to Wu Dan and said:

"Master Wu, please!"

"Hey, Lord Zhang, please!" Although Wu Dan was a military general, he had great respect for the Zhang family and his son, and he stepped aside and said, "You are the prime minister of the dynasty, and Wu Dan is just a servant of the saint." ”

Zhang Tingyu grabbed Wu Dan's arm and stepped in at the same time. At first sight of Kangxi, Wu Dan almost couldn't believe his eyes. I haven't seen him for two years, and Kangxi seems to have suddenly aged ten years. When Zhang Tingyu saw it, he also felt a chill in his heart, he had not seen each other for more than two months, how could it be like every other autumn? From Kangxi's face, you can also see how he has spent the past two months in fear and worry!

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Kangxi, who was wearing a crimson silk fox fur robe, had a slightly puffy face that was already covered with deep wrinkles like a knife and axe. He leaned over on the big pillow and stared at the caisson on the top of the hall. Looking at Kangxi's old and tired appearance, Wu Dan's nose was sour, and he choked on the ground first:

"Old minion Wu Dan...... Respectfully...... Long live St. Ann's ...... It's just been a little over two years, how can the master's body and bones ......"

Zhang Tingyu was afraid that Wu Dan would say something that would make Kangxi even sadder, so he hurriedly shook his robe and shook his horseshoe sleeves, intercepted the conversation and said:

"The ministers pay a visit to the emperor and respectfully invite St. Ann!"

"It's Hengchen!" Kangxi turned his head, suddenly his eyes lit up, he sat up, his eyes moved to Wu Dan, and he smiled dismally, "And Wu Dan, you old guy is also back, the two of you are quickly flattened!" ”

Kangxi seemed to have added strength to his body, rubbed off the warm kang, paced a few steps forward, stared at Wu Dan strangely and said:

"It's so enviable to look at you old fellow! Remember you're six years older than me...... Heng Chen, don't you think I'm ten years older than him? ”

Zhang Tingyu smiled sourly:

"The master dragon body has always been Kangtai, and when he came back from Chengde, he was not well recuperated for a while, so he just looked at the reduction. After a few days of resting, you will naturally get better. ”

"What Zhang Zhongtang said is very true," Wu Dan also realized that he had aroused Kangxi's sadness, so he turned his face and smiled, "The old slave still has to accompany the master to the Mulan paddock to see how many tigers the master shoots!" ”

"You old fellow!" Kangxi scolded with a smile, "Are you here to comfort me, or are you here to poke my scars?" After that, he asked Xing Nian to serve tea and sit down.

Sitting down, the monarch continued to chat while drinking tea. Kangxi looked at Zhang Tingyu and asked with a worried face: "Hengchen, is Ling Zun's funeral still going smoothly?" ”

"Thank you for your favor, it's done very well." Zhang Tingyu replied, "It's just that the King of Chengjun has worked hard to go back and forth, and the family is ashamed." ”

"Ahem, don't mention the third child!" Kangxi's face changed in vain, and he sighed, "I have always thought that the three princes are duty, like me to study and study some knowledge, and not like other princes to cause trouble everywhere." Unexpectedly, there was a report recently, saying that Meng Guangzu, a bird in his house, went to Jiangning, Sichuan and Yunnan, and also went to Liangguang, made friends everywhere, and sent this and that on behalf of the king of Chengjun...... Is this worth it? What does the prince want to do when he befriends the feudal officials? You're all close to me—" he said bitterly, beating his thighs, "are all these sons I have raised, all lawless, wolf-hearted and dog-hearted gangsters?" I just abolished the crown prince, cut the eighth prince viscount, and sceptered the thirteen elder brothers, do you have to confine all the princes to the Zongren Mansion! ”

Zhang Tingyu and Wu Dan glanced at each other, so shocked that they didn't dare to squeak. After staying for a while, Zhang Tingyu had to comfort and say:

"The saint is relieved, maybe the report is not true, that Meng Guangzu is playing the brand of the third master and making friends outside, but he has other plans."

"Yes, I also relieved my heart, and I hope that the person surnamed Meng is greedy for small profits outside, so that he can make friends with local officials." Kangxi Chao thought for a while and said, "Hengchen, you're back, okay, you check the affairs of the Chengjun Palace!" ”

Zhang Tingyu was stunned and didn't answer. What he is most worried about is getting involved in the right and wrong of the prince's struggle. That would not only consume energy, but once he was involved in the whirlpool of right and wrong like a cocoon, he would no longer be able to assist Kangxi in handling important affairs of the court and the country. He was thinking hard about how to investigate the Chengjun Palace, so as not to "resist the decree" and cause Kangxi to be unhappy. Fortunately, Kangxi immediately changed his mind and said to Wu Dan:

"Check the matter of Meng Guangzu in the Three Princes' Mansion, or leave it to you. We're all old guys, so we're not even afraid, but don't get Hengchen involved. I still want to keep a clean man and assist the new emperor to ascend the throne in the future. ”

Wu Dan's heart was cold, and he said in a snort:

"Master, the slave is far away in Guangdong......"

"I summoned you to Beijing this time, and I won't let you go back!" Kangxi owes a debt, and turns to Zhang Tingyu and says, "Hengchen, you come to draw up the will!" ”

Zhang Tingyu agreed, came to the case, and laid out the paper and picked up the pen. Kangxi slowly dictated the imperial decree:

"He was dismissed from the post of governor of Wudan and Liangguang, transferred to the governor of Zhili, and concurrently led the minister of the guard. The post of governor of Liangguang is temporarily led by the governor, and the vacancy will be discussed later. Wu Dan went to the Governor's Mansion of Zhili to undertake the handover on the same day, and he was here! After giving the message, seeing Wu Dan looking at him with wide eyes, Kangxi smiled and said:

"Old fellow, you are the governor of Zhili, and the arch guard of Gyeonggi has been handed over to you. The wolf is stationed in Chengde, and the military camp that is close to it is only a dozen miles away from the Beijing division, and the camp tent of the wolf is set up on the outskirts of Beijing, and it is easy to meet. When people are old, they miss their old feelings and are most afraid of loneliness. You are here, I can rest assured......"

Wu Dan knew that Kangxi was not at ease with the political situation, so he transferred himself from Guangdong, which was naturally a great trust. But thinking of what Wei Dongting said and the ups and downs of the brothers in the recent Di Bao, I knew that it was a beard that was not easy to shave, and a rotten straw hat that was not easy to wear. was thinking about how to reply, Kangxi said again:

"In Chengde, the guards were handed over to the eldest Yinchu and the third Yinzhi, who were princes and did not comply with the system. Besides, the third child, you also listened to it just now, and it turned out to be a flowery intestine. I wanted Wei Dongting to come, but his body was not good. If you think about it, you have to let this old guy come, you are familiar with the way, you can't refuse! ”

"It's just that the minions are also old......" Seeing Kangxi say this, it is not good for Wu Dan to push, and it is not good not to push.

"You can do it without worry!" Kangxi Zhengse said, "Gyeonggi Defense just borrows your name, and there are wolves on the periphery." Most of the military attaches in Jingshi are your old subordinates, and you can control it. I'm old, but I'm not confused. You must have seen Wei Dongting in Jiangning, and I was afraid that I would get into trouble with my brothers, so I had already severely reprimanded them, and I would not allow anyone to come to you to stir up peace. You are the one who has the purpose to avoid death twice, what else is there to fear! ”

Speaking of this, Kangxi's heartfelt words made all kinds of Wudan taste come to his heart. The soldier who is a confidant dies, let alone the heroic warrior Wu Dan who was carried up by the emperor from a horse thief? Wu Dan choked in his throat, knelt on the ground with a thud, and said with tears in his eyes:

"The master trusts the slave so much, the slave is going to the soup and the fire, and he can't repay the saint for decades! As long as the minions stay in Beijing, don't live the Forbidden City. ”

"Okay, okay, hurry up!" and told a lot of words to take care, Kangxi ordered Wu Dan to kneel down.

After Wu Dan left, Kangxi glanced at Zhang Tingyu's proposed purpose, nodded and said:

"You send someone to the ministry, Mingfa!"

Zhang Tingyu responded and prepared to retreat.

"Slow," Kangxi stopped him again, "It seems that your period of Ding Worry has not yet expired." ”

"It's pretty much it."

"Ahh He waved his hand.

Zhang Tingyu walked to the door of the weeping flower and was called again:

"Hengchen, tomorrow your name is Tong Guowei, Chen Tingjing, and Zhang Yushu, and your four ministers will come to the Qianqing Palace to discuss matters."

"Yes!"

Kangxi finally waved his hand.

Zhang Tingyu walked out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, he really had mixed feelings, and he couldn't figure out a clue. He knew that behind the battle between the princes and the prince, there was also a relative and the first assistant of the Manchu ministers, Tong Guowei, who was supporting him, otherwise, Ma Qi would not have been planted in the prison of the Criminal Department in vain. Ma Qi left, and Zhang Yushu came. Zhang Yushu is older than Ma Qi's qualifications, he was a jinshi in the last years of Shunzhi, a bachelor in the cabinet in the 20th year of Kangxi, and a waiter in the Ministry of Rites. Later, he successively served as the secretary of the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Households. Thirty-five years later, he accompanied Kangxi to Geerdan, participated in the secret, and was quite a close confidant. This time, he increased his bachelor's title and entered the study, although he was sixty-seven or eight, he should not be underestimated. I don't know if he confessed to Ma Qi, whether it was unintentional by hearsay, or whether he was deliberately framed by Tong Guowei, if the latter, among the four ministers in the upper study, there are two of them who support the eighth elder brother Yinxi's sworn friends, and Chen Tingjing, who is also the secretary of the ministry, has complicated ministry affairs, and his main energy is not here. Then he, Zhang Tingyu, became a lonely man in the upper study. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for himself.

The next day, Zhang Tingyu informed Tong Guowei, Chen Tingjing, and Zhang Yushu to come to the Yangxin Hall together and handed over the sign to Jin to see. Xing Nian waited there and said:

"There's no need to hand over the sign, the emperor is waiting there, go quickly!"

Kangxi made the criticism late at night last night, and now he is sitting there with a tired face, his eye bubbles are swollen, and his spirit is depressed. The crown prince was abolished, and the minister of the upper study had to write down the abridged pieces of the various pieces and submit them to the imperial review according to the practice of thirty-five years ago. In the past, most of the recitals transferred from the study were handled by the prince, and only extremely important matters were sent to the emperor for approval. Because Kangxi took care of government affairs again, his mental and physical strength was exhausted, and after a few months, he couldn't accept his old age. He sighed in his heart: "It can't be done without the prince!" ”

The four ministers asked for peace, Kangxi raised his hand weakly, and ordered Xing Nian to sit and give tea. After they all sat down, Kangxi flicked an excerpt in his hand and said:

"I have ordered Lang Heshou to be stationed in Tibet to assist in Tibetan affairs. This is Heshou's excerpt, have you all seen it? ”

Zhang Tingyu and Chen Tingjing immediately replied that they had seen it, but Tong Guowei and Zhang Yushu did not squeak. Tong was originally careless and floating, and he generally didn't read the excerpts that were not about the major policies of the imperial court and the ups and downs of officials, but Zhang Yushu was a newcomer and didn't have time to read it. Kangxi glanced at the two of them and continued:

"Now that Lazang Khan and Qinghai are fighting for the establishment of ** lama, if this matter is not handled well, Tibet will be chaotic, which is the same reason as the affairs of the imperial court. I have ordered the minister to send a minister to Tibet to supervise, who do you think should be sent? ”

Zhang Tingyu rarely speaks when recommending people, first, the emperor has his own opinions, and second, there is Chen Tingjing, who is also the secretary of the ministry, he overstepped his authority to recommend people, for fear of attracting friends. Tong Guowei must be the first to speak if he recommends people, he said:

"I think it's good for Chen Tingjing to go."

"Chen Tingjing?" Kangxi was still hesitating.

"Lord Chen is also in charge of the ministry," Tong Guowei said, "The ** lama has always been the Tibetan king of Tibet, and it is better for the officials to come forward naturally." ”

Zhang Tingyu saw Tong Guowei's scheming at a glance: I went to Tibet, went back and forth for at least half a year, and took away the minister of the upper study who was also the secretary of the ministry, and the upper study was bound to be the world of him and Zhang Yushu. Thinking of this, Zhang Tingyu couldn't help but say it.

"Long live, sending the Qincha is a dictatorship of the Holy Lord." Zhang Tingyu said carefully, "However, Ma Qi left in the study, and there have been many twists and turns in various places recently, and if Lord Chen leaves again, I'm afraid he won't be busy." ”

"Who do you want to send?" Kangxi asked.

"The Prime Minister of the Northwest Nationalities Affairs," Zhang Tingyu said, "according to the opinion of the ministers, it is appropriate for the Li Fan Yuan to send personnel." ”

"yes, okay." Kangxi nodded, "Chen Tingjing, you go to the Lifan Academy to choose a strong squire or a scholar, you can't go to Tibet if you are sick and crooked." He picked up another copy of the secret music and checked it, "Now we will talk about Ma Qi." Zhang Yushu, you said that you recommended the eighth prince Yinxi as the crown prince, and the initiator was Ma Qi, did you see it with your own eyes, or was it hearsay? ”

Zhang Yushu was stunned and glanced at Tong Guowei, Tong Guowei's neck twisted, deliberately pretending to be a bear. Zhang Yushu knew that Tong crossed the river and demolished the bridge, but he was the uncle of the country, so he didn't dare to expose it to his face, Kangxi asked with a straight face, knowing that there was no good fruit to eat, he immediately knelt down and replied:

"It's the minions who hear what people say."

"Listen to whom?"

"On that day, dozens of ministers ...... gathered in the court room to discuss, "Zhang Yushu squeaked," someone said. ”

"Who is it?" Kangxi stared at it.

"Minister, Your Majesty doesn't care."

"Mazzie is not there?"

"Not there."

"Since dozens of ministers gathered together to discuss Yinxi, and even Ma Qi himself was not there, why did you detain the basin on Ma Qi's head?"

"The slave knows the crime, the slave ......" Zhang Yushu was already frightened, and secretly looked at Tong Guowei, but Tong was nothing.

"I remember that you followed me to conquer Geldan and supported Jin Fu to govern the river, but I will not cure you for the crime of false accusation!" Kangxi waved his hand, "You are also sixty-seven or eighteen, go home to retire, don't come to the study again." ”

Zhang Yushu, a short-lived prime minister who had only been a scholar for a few months, kowtowed again and again to thank him, and slipped away.

Kangxi was already very tired, took a bowl of ginseng soup sent by Li Dequan, took a sip, and said to Zhang Tingyu: "Hengchen, you draw up a decree, go to the Criminal Department to take Ma Qi out, and ask him to go back to the study on an errand." ”

"Yes!" Zhang Tingyu agreed quietly. Kangxi raised his hand, put it down again, and said:

"Kneel, all of you, I'm tired!"

When the four ministers of the study were discussing at Kangxi's office, the eldest brother Yinzhen and the fourteenth elder brother Yinyu came to the Yangxin Palace with ghosts in their hearts, picked up the curtain and entered the weeping flower door, and saw that the third brother Yinzhi and the old nine Yinyu also came early as promised. Yinyu and Yinzhi only glanced at each other coldly, and didn't say anything, Yinyu hurriedly came over to greet the boss, and Yinyu also hurriedly came over to greet the two eldest brothers. The ordinary stone mill couldn't suppress a loud fart Yinyu, straightened up stiffly, and said without yin or yang:

"Huang Ama won't let him in this formation, just wait!"

After waiting for a while, Zhang Yushu first walked out with a disgraced face, greeted the four elder brothers in embarrassment, and walked out with a leaning side. Then, the three chatty ministers also withdrew. Yinchu saw Zhang Tingyu and Chen Tingjing and nodded with a smile, but when he saw Tong Guowei's uncle, he glanced at him, and said to the brothers:

"I'll go in first and ask the emperor if he sees it, and the brothers will wait first." With that, the fart went in with his back and his ass. Li Dequan's report came out:

"Big brother, please see you!"

Kangxi is fortunate to be really tired, and Zhang Yushu's false accusation of Ma Qi caused him to be angry and confused, it is said that Zhang Yushu is not such a person. He has done many Shangshu in the sixth department, he is an official in the same dynasty as Ma Qi, he is an official in the upper study, and he usually has a good relationship with Ma Qi, why should he deliberately falsely accuse Ma Qi? It is impossible for hearsay to be ill-conceived, and he will not be unaware that his testimony will send Mazi to prison. Who instructed him to bear false witness? Only Tong Guowei, he is not only a relative of the emperor, but also a full assistant. Ma Qi is a fair and honest person, and Tong Guowei harmed him, only out of exclusion of dissidents and the installation of cronies. Thinking of this, his head went numb for a while. Hearing that the eldest brother was invited to see him, he was displeased, and he dragged on for a while before he said in a long voice:

"Come-come!"

Yinchu entered the main hall, and when he saw Kangxi closing his eyes and recuperating his mind, he mistakenly thought that Huang Ama was in a good mood, so he asked for peace, stood aside and patted himself and said:

"The emperor hunted in the north the last time, and the cadres were arbitrary, turned the tide, and abolished the unkind and unfilial prince in one fell swoop, and all the subjects in the world applauded. But after all, the prince has been on the throne for more than 30 years, forming gangs, and there is a so-called '***'. Recently, those friends in the hundred officials have been plotting to restore the East Palace......" At this point, he took a breath but stopped.

"You're playing well." Kangxi opened his eyes and glanced at Yinchu, "I know this matter in my heart, and Wang Luo is taking the lead in making trouble." Who else is talking? ”

"There are a lot of rumors outside," encouraged, Yinren simply let go of his courage and said, "Some people say that Yinren is still living in Xian'an Palace, and the fourth head is not injured, even the old thirteen are only sentenced to forty rods." The white people only said that the emperor was merciful, and the villain mistakenly thought that the sacred heart was still hesitating, and the government and the opposition were uncertain, even the elder brother was afraid of the prince's reinstatement, so the sons thought it was ......"

"It's time for a new prince?" Kangxi's eyes were like torches staring at Yinchu.

"Emperor Ama Shengming!"

"Whom, in your opinion, shall be appointed?"

"It's-"

"According to the example of our ancestors, it's your turn......"

Yinfu trembled with excitement, knelt down with a loudspeak, and pricked up his ears to listen to his father's words:

"But what about Yinren? After all, he is also my flesh and blood, and if the prince is abolished, what else can he do? His great-grandmother cherished him the most, and his mother, Hesheri, was frightened to death in the palace rebellion, and I told her to take good care of her orphans, what else can I do with him? ”

"Father!" Yin Fu nodded and was impassioned, "Don't be sad and merciful, and tolerate adultery." Meng Ziyun, 'the community is the most important', Shu Erchen dared to die and said: Yinren will be in chaos one day. Qing's father is not dead, and Lu is not in trouble. For the sake of the country, I ask my father to make a decision......"

Kangxi seemed to hear something famous, and still stared at Yinchu quietly and asked:

"You say?"

"Death! Give him an ayako to kill himself, with the delusion of ***! Speaking in a swagger, Kangxi looked at this guy who wanted to be a prince and wanted to go crazy, and he couldn't wait to kick him to death. But he said with a smirk:

"Okay! Ten years from now, I will have a reputation, you know? ”

"Erchen knows, so I came here today to ask for a secret decree." Yinchu is still dreaming of yellow sorghum, "As long as the father speaks, everything will be done by the son." Erchen is not afraid of taking notoriety, as long as he can get rid of this hidden worry. ”

Kangxi's teeth were gritted loudly, and a burst of vicious anger attacked his heart, his head exploded, and he almost fell. Yinchu stretched out his hand to help, but was pushed away by his palm, and finally couldn't support it anymore and fell on the dragon chair. There was a porphyry sound inside, and Yang Dazhuang, who was guarding the door, and the princes hugged in together. When Kangxi saw the other elder brothers, his heart tightened, his head raised, he stood up with the back of the chair, and shouted angrily with a fierce light in his eyes: "You, you animals, are all here to kill Yinren!" Okay, okay, get down on your knees! ”

The few princes who had just come in were inexplicable, and they all knelt down with fluttering. The guards, eunuchs, and palace maids outside the warm pavilion also knelt outside the curtain because of the blame of the brothers. Since the abolition of the prince, Kangxi has been in a bad mood, and the hundred officials are divided into several factions, one master reinstates Yinren, and the other master newly establishes Yinren, and now Yinren is shirtless again, to kill Yinren and set up himself, Kangxi's fire will not hit one place, he laughed cruelly, and said:

"Look at these two sons," he pointed to Yinfu and Yinzhi, "Qin lost his deer and chased the whole world, that was only after the death of Zulong." Now I'm still alive, but I've abolished a prince, and I'm all red-eyed! Even this Yinzhi, who usually pretends to ignore the window and only reads the books of the sages, turns out that the books are all read into the dog's eggs. He even sent people out of Beijing to contact foreign officials everywhere. That Yinchu is even more shameless, he actually fanned me to kill his own brother, regardless of the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, the love of father and son, and the friendship of brothers, do you still have a little humanity? You are not worthy to be my son, you are not as good as a beast! Get out! Roll ......"

All the people were so frightened that they trembled, and the prince who was kneeling on the ground was even more frightened and didn't dare to come out, and listened to Kangxi roaring:

"Since I ascended the throne, I have experienced a lot of bloody storms, and they are all traitors and rebels, but now it is good, it is my sons who are in trouble! Have you ever thought about it, the ancestral dragon is so easy to slaughter? Why did I bring Wu Dan to my side? Why does Yinzhen want to protect Yinren? You have a non-part in the internal value of the guards from Chengde, and you don't pee to take care of yourself, just rely on your cheap bones, vainly trying to kill your brother and usurp the throne, can you be the emperor? Will I hand over the country to such an evil animal? "I vented and scolded for half a meal. In the end, Kangxi was hoarse, sat down dejectedly, pounded the chair hand, and sighed: "That's it!" Heaven is evil, but it is still alive; There is no cure for a man who commits iniquity; Children and grandchildren do iniquity...... It's over, it's over, you all get out! ”

The four brothers glanced at each other, wanting to "get out" but they didn't dare. Yin Fu was like a pug that had broken his backbone, slumped on the ground. Yinyu and Yinyu were scolded for no reason, and they could only swallow their teeth in their stomachs. Only Yinzhi wanted to come to wash a few words, he kowtowed, and said aggrievedly:

"Erchen has always studied behind closed doors and didn't ask about foreign affairs, all of them are subordinates who are greedy for small profits to befriend foreign officials, and bring trouble to Erchen, and it is right for the father to be angry with his son." He slapped himself in the mouth, cried and mourned, and shifted the target, "Erchen has known books and etiquette since he was a child, and he is by no means a vicious person like the eldest brother. He plotted against the East Palace, and he already had this intention, not because Chengde led the guards. He has gone to me many times to check the star books such as "***" and "Song of Baked Cakes", and also followed Zhang Banxian to learn the art of magic - I thought he was just curious, but later I heard that he checked Yinren's jade and asked the Taoist priest to draw a picture and hide it in Yuqing Palace......"

Yinchu's face turned pale in vain, and he shouted as if possessed by a ghost:

"You're spewing blood!"

Kangxi suddenly seemed to be magical, and looked up to the sky with a cruel smile: "...... Okay, wonderful...... Magic...... Father and son...... Brothers...... ......He left the prince who was kneeling on the ground and staggered outside. Li Dequan, Xing Nian, Yang Dazhuang and others chased after him, but no one dared to stop him or ask him where he was going. I had to follow from a distance. It's time to hold the lamp, Kangxi walks aimlessly like a sleepwalking god, walking......

Kangxi finally came to the study on the door of Qianqing, where Zhang Tingyu had just taken Ma Qi out of the prison of the Criminal Department, and Tong Guowei was comforting Ma Qi. It happened that Wu Dan came in to deliver the list of military quartermasters of Zhili, sat on the side and gossiped with Zhang Tingyu, and reviewed the customs defense. Seeing Kangxi swaying in, followed by Yang Dazhuang and the eunuchs, the ministers stepped forward to help Kangxi sit down. Tong Guowei said to Yang Dazhuang unhappily:

"Yang Dazhuang, ah, and Gonggong Li and Gonggong Xing, why are they so careless, the emperor is dressed so thinly - there is something to call the minions over!"

After about a cold wind blowing, Kangxi was much more sober, he stood up with the back of the chair, pounded the back of the chair with one hand with a fist, and solemnly declared:

"There is a purpose!"

The ministers, including Wu Dan, immediately fell on their knees and listened to the decree:

"One," Kangxi said, "I moved tomorrow morning and spent the winter in Changchun Garden, Wudan immediately transferred the third battalion of green battalions to protect it, and the original Yulin army moved to Xifengkou to station. ”

"Piercing!"

"Second," Kangxi's lips trembled, "immediately cut off the title of the eldest brother Yinchu Zhijun and imprison the Zongren Mansion." Lingshan pounced on the camp to pick up the Yinchu Mansion - there is no need to alarm the family, all illegal items will be submitted to the imperial review. ”

"Piercing!"

"Three," Kangxi's "three" came out, his lips trembled so much that he couldn't speak, and suddenly his two arms went up, and one staggered and fell to the ground. The arm tripped over the tea set on the table, rolled to the ground, and shattered it with a thud......

At this time, a little eunuch from Xin Zheku ran in in a panic, and he didn't pay attention to the emperor who was helping him up, but said with a sad face:

"Father-in-law Li, Father-in-law Xing, on a crooked-necked willow tree in Xinzheku, a female ghost was hanged!"

Kangxi had been helped to sit down again on the soft couch, and Li Dequan turned around and asked the little eunuch:

"Phew! Where are there any female ghosts on the palace willows? ”

"Yes, it's a female corpse!"

Kangxi woke up and asked casually:

"What female corpse?"

"Yes, yes-" When the little eunuch saw the emperor's question, he trembled in fright and stammered, "Yes, it's Liu Guiren...... Liu Guiren's ...... The tongue dragged out so long, so long......"

"Xing Nian, go and see what's going on!" After Kangxi finished speaking, Xing Nian left with a "prick", he looked at Xing Nian's background and sneered, "This is all retribution, and Gong Liu also knows how to kill...... Retribution! ”

He fell headlong on the couch again.