Kangxi lived in Changchun Garden, He Meng did not return home that night, so he arrived overnight and waited until dawn before handing over the sign to him. He is just a six-grade offering, the official is low, and it is difficult to see the emperor if he does not obey the order, but the "first" Yinren can't let people know, so it is easy to say, and the eunuch on the door has only gone in. After a while, I saw Fifth Brother Zhang come out and asked, "What's the matter with you, you are in a hurry to see the emperor?" ”

"Back to Zhang Junmen," He Mengfu said with a smile, "The matter is really important, I will return to my lord when I go in!" Adults think, I am a little six-rank official, unless I am tired of life, how dare I disturb the emperor casually? Fifth Brother Zhang thought that this was reasonable, so he said, "You come in with me." Wei Dongting, the customs governor of Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan and Zhejiang provinces, fell ill, and the emperor was summoning Lord Cao of Jiangning, who was in Beijing, to inquire about his condition. I'll tell you later. He Meng looked left and right at no one, hurriedly leaned into Fifth Brother Zhang's ear, and returned to last night's incident like this, and said: "Junmen, look, how dare I slack off on such a big matter?" ”

Fifth Brother Zhang suddenly stood on his feet, "Really? But he immediately concluded from He Meng's eyes that this matter was definitely not false, "You just stand at the foot of the steps of the Ning Residence and wait, and when Lord Cao comes out, the emperor will see you." Then he came into the temple.

"Fifth brother, look at what this is?" Kangxi was talking at length, and when he saw the fifth brother coming in, he pointed to a dozen yellow cloth pockets behind the palace door and said. Fifth Brother Zhang was stunned for a moment, promised to lift a bag, reached in, and touched a handful, but it was japonica rice, the long grain resembled spinning, slightly red like jade, and then smiled: "Your Majesty, this is japonica rice." "You're right, it's japonica rice." Kangxi seemed to be a little excited, "But you don't know, this rice is a rice seed cultivated by me." Kangxi tried planting in Beijing for eight years, and it was not until the seventeenth year that it was successful. Now in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, even the two Huai have been planted, two crops a year - this is the first season of new rice, do you understand? ”

Fifth Brother Zhang put the rice next to his nose and sniffed, a fragrance came to his nose, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "How can there be such a thing?" Huaibei I am the most familiar, and japonica rice has always been tightly cropped. Oh my God! Isn't that one acre topping two acres? ”

"I want it to be one acre and two acres!" Kangxi's face was flushed, and he said proudly, "I used 'Yisui Chuan' to breed and grow this rice in Beijing, and I even made a poem!" 'Purple mangs are half green and shining, and they love the deep rice first. If the inflammation is widely spread, it is possible to see the seedling needles twice? Why do you want to see the seedling needle twice? I just want to eat this Jiahe with the world! Only the emperor can enjoy it alone, after all, it is meaningless! Now that it's done, how can I not be happy? "Laugh heartily. Fifth Brother Zhang has been following Kangxi for eight years, and it is rare to see him so happy, I really can't bear to tell him about He Meng, and I am thinking about how to speak, but I heard Cao Yin say: "This rice is promoted in several provinces, and Wei Dongting has contributed the most. He must know that these few stones of rice make the master so pleased, he must be so happy that he can't sleep! ”

When Kangxi heard him talk about Wei Dongting, there was no smile on his face, and after a while, he sighed: "Little Wei Zi is loyal and filial, but he is too careful, worried, fearful, and depressed, half of which is sick, and half of which is heart disease-you bring cinchona frost back, and tell him not to use ginseng lightly-tell him these words of mine, isn't it that he owes more than 700,000 silver to the national treasury?" The idea is to make up for it. His eldest son is seventeen or eighteen years old, right? Set up another weaving division in Nanjing, and ask his son to make up for it, and there will always be a way to pay it back. And you, isn't that the same? Anyway, now that there are more and more debts, and the law does not govern the people, it is not good for me to catch them and force them to pay debts, right? Alas, cats should avoid rats when they are old. I can't do that much! You must understand in your own hearts that if you fill in the debt hole while I am alive, and if you change masters in the future and be mean, how will some people get it? ”

"The master spoke happily, and said these things again, and made the slave sad." Cao Yin smiled and said, "Since the master has this heart, he will never choose a mean master for the minions." ”

Kangxi ignored Cao Yin's words, slowly moved off the kang, slowly paced two steps, and said, "Cao Yin, kneel down." ”

"Your Majesty," Fifth Brother Zhang saw Cao Yin resigning, thinking that He Meng was still waiting outside, and said in a heart, "He Meng from the Tai Hospital wants to see his master." Kangxi flashed a glance at Fifth Brother Zhang and said, "He Meng? What's the matter with him? I'm tired, so I'll tell him to go to Mazie. Fifth Brother Zhang had no choice but to agree, walked two steps, and finally felt that something was wrong, so he turned around and said: "Long live, he wants to go back to the second master, so he saw Ma Qi, and he still wants to come to Long live." He told He Meng about exposing the alum book case for a long time and a short time.

Kangxi suddenly blushed, first walked around the hall irritably, stopped suddenly, and calmed down, but his face was pale, gloomy and very ugly, and he sneered and said: "You call the surnamed He to come in, and then go to Yun Songxuan, and call Fang Bao, Ma Qi and Zhang Tingyu to come over." Message: Take Yinren to Changchun Garden, and the emperor's brother in Beijing will also come! Kangxi said a word, Fifth Brother Zhang agreed, kowtowed out, and said to He Meng, who was pale: "Come in, the emperor called you!" ”

"Wow!" He Meng hurriedly agreed, and Li Dequan had already raised the curtain for him. Although He Meng is often Kangxi, it is the first time that he has been formally received, and he stumbled in, reporting that his knees were weak and he had fallen to the ground. Hand the alum book to the guard.

Kangxi didn't ask, just sat on the edge of the kang and ate tea one bite after another. For a while, it was very quiet in the Ning Curie, only to hear the huge and friendless self-striking bell in the corner of the hall "clicking" unhurriedly, and the uneven wheezing sound of He Meng. I don't know how long it took, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, the curtain sounded, Ma Qi was the leader, followed by Zhang Tingyu, Fang Bao, and Prince Yong Yinzhen Yu, in addition to Fang Bao, everyone reported their names, and knelt down in front of the royal couch. Kangxi still didn't say a word, looked at the window pane with a serious expression and was silent, everyone felt that the atmosphere in the room was so tense that it was so tense that people couldn't breathe.

After a bag of cigarettes, Li Dequan came in lightly, bowed to Kangxi, and said: "Xing Nian replied in the study, Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi asked for sick leave today, and the rest of the elder brothers came over, and they didn't dare to trespass, so they knelt outside the door. ”

"Don't dare to trespass?" Kangxi sneered, "Do I still have such a filial son?" Invite all the 'masters' in! Although the words were sneering, after all, when they opened their mouths, everyone felt that the murderous dullness was a little better, and they all breathed a sigh of silence. Then, I saw that Yinqi was the leader, followed by Yinyou, Yinyu, Yin, Yinyi, Yinyu, Yinlu, Yinli, Yinyi, Yinxi, Yinhu, Yinqi, a total of thirteen elder brothers, all with white faces and depressed expressions, came in with a dejected expression, asked Kangxi for peace, and knelt on the ground. Only Yin and Yin were bolder, glancing at Kangxi from time to time, Kangxi asked Yinqi: "I remember that today is the Huiwen in Zongxue, and now that Xiong Ci is dead, Tang Bin is old, I'm afraid no one can control your group of 'masters'!" I wonder what you've learned? ”

Yinqi didn't know what Kangxi was asking for, but when he heard that he was asking for homework, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Ama, since the last decree, the emperor's elder brother has no errands, and he will all enter the sect to study, and the brothers are very peaceful." Today, we will talk about it, and we have invited Li Guangdi, a scholar of the Retirement University. The Four Books ......"

"Four books are good books." Kangxi snorted, "Li Guangdi is a learned person, and he can't make a mistake." I'd like to see what your roots are. Yinyu, tell me, what are the four books about? "Yinyu didn't prevent Kangxi from pointing to himself first, but the question is so general, how to answer? After pondering for a moment, Yinyu replied: "The four books are about the wonderful way of virtue and self-cultivation, looking up to it, bowing down to it, looking at it in front, and ignoring it behind, but it can explore its origin, and only talk about a fundamental place, which is the way of forgiveness." Kangxi smiled: "You are well-behaved, I ask a pan, you are more general!" What is benevolence? Self-denial is benevolence, and compassion comes from nature. But if you want to really be able to keep your nature from being confused, you have to be polite, you have to remember. ”

Yin Yu hurriedly paused the leader to teach, and said: "Ama turned iron into gold, and the sons and daughters understood it and received it." Kangxi asked again: "Yin, what do you think the four books are about?" Yin was stunned when asked, how could he ask the question he had just talked about? He pondered for a long time, and then said: "The holy hadith of the father and emperor is extremely clear, and the four books talk about self-denial and revenge. ”

"Self-denial is good. But many people have always been unable to 'restrict' this 'self', what is the reason for this? Kangxi turned his face and asked Zhang Tingyu, "Tingyu, tell him about it!" Zhang Tingyu hurriedly waved forward and said, "Yes." The reason why people cannot deny themselves is because they are infected by material desires and do not know 'self'. If you don't know yourself, you will naturally not know the other, so that your nature will be confused. Therefore, if you want to deny yourself, you must work the knowledge of things! Kangxi sipped tea and said: "Yinke heard, the root of your illness is here, don't think that your thick throat and big voice are called bold, I see that it is vulgar!" Then he asked Yin, "What do you tell me about in the four books?" ”

Yin has understood so far, and according to Kangxi's original words, he still has to be touched, so he kowtowed and said: "What my father and Zhang Tingyu said, my son and his son completely remember it!" According to the humble opinion of the sons, whether it is "The University", "The Mean", "The Analects" and "Mencius", they all talk about the knowledge of the wise people, and the sons and ministers learn the four books, in order to assist the Holy Lord, make meritorious contributions in the world, and devote their careers to future generations. Therefore, Erchen thinks that the four books are about the principle of governing the country and leveling the world! ”

"Great words!" Kangxi smiled, "In the end, you still have a little ambition." Yinzhen, you are the brother of his mother, is he right? Yinzhen was a brother who came in first, and he was long, and he didn't kneel with Yinqi and them, and he had been a little cramped and uneasy, and when he saw Kangxi clicking on him, he knelt on the ground and said: "My father knows his sons best, and his sons not only worship Confucianism, but also value Buddha." The brothers expressed their own opinions and had their own uniqueness. However, if the six ancestors can talk about the essence, they say, 'If it is good, it will be good, and if it is gone, it will not be over'. Erchen thinks that no matter what kind of learning, it is always based on the heart. In Buddhism, the heart is the spiritual mountain, and in Confucianism, governing the country and leveling the world is like a fruit, if you don't fertilize and water, this fruit will not bear fruit. Therefore, whether it is self-cultivation, Qi family or governing the country and leveling the world, you must first be sincere, if you are not sincere, you can't be right-minded, you can't be upright, you can't know things, you can't know things, you can't cultivate yourself, you can't work together without self-cultivation, let alone govern the country and level the world! This is the foolishness of the son's ministers, and it may not be true, ask for the guidance of the father! ”

Kangxi looked at Yinzhen with a modest and solemn face in admiration, and after a while, he said: "What you said is not necessarily how clever it is. Mr. Fang, this is exactly what you should talk about, why don't you say anything? Fang Bao stood aside and listened for a long time, knowing everything in his heart. Kangxi treats people, and his son has always been strict with his relatives, his relatives are stricter than the guards, the guards are stricter than the ministers, and the ministers are stricter than the ministers, and he has long felt this. Sometimes he felt that Kangxi's coldness towards his son was beyond the norm and difficult to understand. Today, Kangxi used his knowledge to give acupuncture to his sons, and Fang Bao realized that this "holy monarch" who was over the age of sixteen really loved his son. Love and know its evil, anger and wish to fight, it seems to be deeper than ordinary people! Fang Bao knew that what Kangxi appreciated most was Yinzhen's answer. But Yinzhen's words conformed to Kangxi's desire to become a son and filial piety, although it was not without the meaning of flattery, it was indeed impeccable. Seeing Kangxi ask about himself, Fang Bao's eyes flashed, and he said, "What the fourth elder brother said is indeed reasonable. In fact, what you have seen is also unique. According to the minister's view, whether it is a person, whether it is a person, a heart, a good heart, a good one, a good one. Banzai asked, and the minister thought to himself, in fact, everyone was tired of talking, and the minister had to dig out this little bit of meaning from the empty space. ”

"Do you hear? That's the real thing! Kangxi saw Xing Nian taking Yinren to the front of the steps of the Ning Residence through the curtain, smiled when he landed, glanced at his sons, and said: "Today I called Yinren and asked him to show up for you." With a wave of his hand, he coldly commanded outward: "Since you are here, come in." ”

Yinren wore a gray poplin robe and followed Xing Nian into the hall. He was still having a fever on his body, shivering as if he was overwhelmed by the cold, and when he saw Kangxi, he snorted in pain, fell to the ground in a dejected manner, and said in a trembling voice: "Sinner...... Er Yinren knocked on the emperor Ama Jinan...... "His appearance immediately attracted everyone's attention, and people looked at the crown prince who had been deposed for seven years with a look of surprise. He used to stand above all the courtiers, but now he has fallen into this embarrassing situation, and he has indescribable melancholy and emotion.

"Yinren." Kangxi didn't expect him to be really sick, a soft and compassionate light flashed in his eyes, but he quickly disappeared without a trace, and asked coldly, "Do you know why I sent you here?" ”

Yinren was stunned for a moment, kowtowed, and said, "Erchen doesn't know." Kangxi paused for a moment and said, "You have been imprisoned for a few years, so naturally you don't know what is going on outside." Now Alabutan's troops have captured Qinghai, and the general of the Dzungar Department has led his troops to occupy Lhasa. It turns out that during your reign, you placed Chuanerdan, Qidri to guard Altai, and Erut to guard Xi'an. More than 60,000 people died in the Gobi Desert, which is terrifying! Yinren listened to Kangxi's tone was not harsh, it seemed to be a matter of accountability and a consulting strategy, could it be that someone sponsored him so soon? Thinking about it, he hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Erchen originally transferred these generals to garrison the western frontier, because they had all accompanied Feiyang Gu to fight against Junggar, and the situation in the west was slightly familiar. In fact, Erdan is arrogant and impetuous, and Erut is careless and foolish, and he is not a general. Only for a while, people could not be selected, and they were reluctantly appointed. Today's mourning and humiliation of the monarch are all due to the son's lack of dispatch at the beginning, and the beggar father and emperor have been condemned heavily. Since today's turmoil was caused by the fault of his sons, he asked his father for the grace of opening a line, and allowed his sons to make meritorious contributions to the army to make up for it. ”

"It's good that you recommended yourself and had the courage to take responsibility." Kangxi sighed, "It's a pity that you can't go." Just because the recommender is not his person, and there are too few people who are promoted, it is a little above board! Yinren felt a moment in his heart, and couldn't figure out the meaning of Kangxi's words for a while, so he said tentatively: "Erchen has been studying behind closed doors for seven years with a guilty body, and he knows the wrongs of the past. I only want to think about it all my life, and spend my days in peace under the protection of my father. But now that there is something in the country, the lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, and the half-decayed wood will not give up, and I beg the emperor not to make his son hate for life with the past wrongs......" At this point, I don't know which sentence touched my heart, and Yinren was already in tears.

Kangxi sneered and said, "You are too smart." pretending to be a ghost and Zhong Kui, one person wants to act in a play! The loss of your life lies in being dishonest and incompetent! He jumped up, grabbed the blank paper and threw it in front of Yinren, and said sharply: "The minister of the upper study and your younger brothers are here, you say loudly, what is this?" When Yinren saw this paper, he was so frightened that he almost fainted, he fell to the ground trembling, beads of sweat the size of beans dripped down, but he couldn't say a word!

"Writing with alum water, sending letters with stratagem, this thought, this ability, which of you will? Who could have imagined? Kangxi glanced at the emperor's brothers fiercely, "Do you want to get away with this kind of villain?" What do you say that you only want to think about it with your face on the wall, why does the letter say 'looking at the sky in prison, crying blood and tears'? If you want to be a good minister and a filial son, I can't wait for it, why do you use such a trick? ”

"Father!" Yinren was shocked and sad in his heart, "Erchen really has no reason to explain himself, so he has to make this decision......"

"Fart!" Kangxi took a sip of "phew", "You say every word, every action, drink and eat, there is nothing I don't know!" Can't you ask the Internal Affairs Office to transfer on your behalf? With your knowledge, I will give you the power of the army, can you call it difficult to build a soldier and take away my inheritance? Yinren was so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he paused again and again, and said silently: "Erchen doesn't have this thought, how dare Erchen ......"

"Of course you dare, you already dare! If you don't dare, how can you be today? Kangxi roared angrily, "Although you are a mediocre husband, you are not small!" ”

Everyone was stunned at this time, and the hall was buzzing, and it was all Kangxi's angry roar: "Do you think I came up with a topic, called 'Taijia is placed in Tonggong', and it is your turn to come out and spread your wings?" Tell you, no matter who you are, as long as you have the heart of a deer, you will have no life in my hands! Although I don't have enough energy, my heart is clear! Speaking of this, Kangxi took a heavy breath and took a sip of tea. Zhang Tingyu and Ma Qi were so frightened that they knelt on the ground. Although Fang Bao was able to hold on a little, his heart was also beating suddenly, and it was easy to see that it was a crack, so he hurriedly bowed forward and said: "Lord, Yinren is just a bird in a cage, why bother to move such a big liver fire?" Teach him a few lessons, and let him go back. Ma Qi also hurriedly said: "Please take care of the dragon's body." For a while, Yinzhen and other imperial brothers were also busy kowtowing to beg for Yinren. Yin kowtowed, and said nonsense in his mouth: "I can't complain that the emperor is angry, in fact, the root cause is all Erdan's, not ......."

At the moment, the crowd is full of chaos, and Yin is just talking nonsense and mixing in to play Taiping boxing and join in the fun. However, the seventeenth elder brother Yinli deliberately made him ugly, and asked after being quiet: "Brother Fang said that the father was angry and complained about Erdan, why can't the brother understand?" ”

"Chuan Erdan......" Yin was stunned by him, stared and thought for a long time, and said, "I heard that he killed the Mongols indiscriminately in Altai, provoked a border provocation and couldn't deal with it, so he asked people to make dumpling filling, and the court had to give him a nickname." If he hadn't annoyed Arabutan, how could he have done it today? When the people saw that he was full of nonsense, they wanted to laugh but did not dare. Yinli pretended not to understand, and asked: "Why don't you ask the Mongols to kill a few more children of the Eight Banners, occupy the Qinghai-Tibet Zai** Plain, and my dynasty will be killed all over the field, and my father will not be angry?" ”

At this time, the voices of the people gradually thinned, and everyone could hear the two brothers arguing clearly, and they wanted to laugh but did not dare. Kangxi was so angry that his face turned pale, and he yelled: "Someone! ”

Delentai, Fifth Brother Zhang, and Liu Tiecheng hurriedly stepped forward and promised: "Here!" ”

"Take these two brutes out, twenty rattans each, and beat them hard!"

"Chirp ......"

The three guards glanced at each other, and because they saw that no one came forward to plead, they had to put Yin and Yinli out. For a moment, I heard the crackling of rattan outside.

"Fang Bao is right, you are just a caged bird." Kangxi saw that everyone was pale, and he peeked at himself in horror, and said with a cold smile: "About this cage is made of gold wire, so you still have some thoughts." I wanted to kill you today, but I was afraid that people would say that tigers don't eat their children. You will be forgiven of your capital sin, but your living sin will be forgiven. You can't live in Xian'an Palace, because you can't settle your heart here. So, what about moving you to the Upper Courtyard - Xing Nian? ”

"The minions are here!"

"Take him with you!"

And the people dispersed. Kangxi kept Fang Bao and asked, "How did I deal with this matter today?" "The emperor beats mules and surprises horses, and his intentions are extremely kind." Fang Bao sighed, "As for whether the horse is shocked or not, the minister doesn't dare to assert it." Kangxi was thought about by his words, his eyes jumped, and he pondered for a long time before saying: "Don't talk about it." Tomorrow you come in, call Zhang Tingyu, I have a secret message for you. ”

"Yinren is sick." Fang Bao said, "The emperor should not punish too severely. ”

Kangxi smiled a little sadly: "It doesn't matter. It's actually not bad. Xian'an Palace is the palace in the end, and this name is easy for him to think about. Even if it's someone else, I don't want them to be shocked, as long as I know that I'm not easy to mess with. Left and right are left and right, who told me to raise such a group of evil obstacles? ”