In the first month of the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, God gave three heavy snowfalls in a row, and wrapped the capital inside and outside in a plain dress. The joy of New Year's Day has not yet dissipated, and the snowflakes that are wrapped in flocculent fall on the couplets at the door of each house, and within half a day, they will turn into cold and translucent ice cubes. The soldiers who patrolled back and forth in the inner city, in addition to the infantry patrolling the five battalions, there were also tiger ben who came out of the guard barracks, and the teams were strict and rigid, and the weather was different.

Even Min Dunhou, the envoy of the Korean State who came to pay tribute, couldn't help but admire the magnificence of this heavenly kingdom: "The bearing of the suzerainty is extraordinary, and the minister is fortunate to see the capital of the Son of Heaven ascending to peace, Li Shu is rich, and he knows that there is no half-point of false rhetoric and boasting about China in the ancient records, and after the minister returns to the court, he naturally reports to Changdeokgong (when Joseon Sujong Li Yong reigned) that when he wants to Hyeonjong (the father of Sujong), such a prosperous scene is not in the records of Sungkyunkwan. Hehe, the scenery in the snow in this capital is different from that of Hanyang...... "The sky is surprisingly cold, Min Dunhou is dressed in a blue Luo shirt with a square heart and a curved collar, standing at the door of the Huitong Hall with white socks and soapy feet, his hands in his sleeves, he took a deep breath, looked at the faintly visible wall of the Daqing Gate Tower in the distance, and said this to the Libu Langzhong who accompanied him. During his visit to the DPRK this time, Min Dunhou also learned from many officials that the crown prince Yinren was about to be reinstated, and he had never seen the crown prince, but he had heard rumors in the DPRK about the tyrannical and immoral dereliction of the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty. Could it be that like North Korea, it is also a scourge of partisanship?

The 'heavenly temperament' in Min Dunhou's mouth, but the Ministry of Rites knows it. At the end of last year, the ministers were ordered to elect the crown prince, and it was the eighth elder brother Yinxi, but the emperor was asked to refute it, but it was over, and the ministers took the lead of Prince Darhan to sponsor the abolition of the crown prince to reinstate, and the inscription was called Liuzhong, but there was no follow-up. After that, the guard of the Jingshi Pass was more than doubled, otherwise he pointed to the old men who commanded the yamen of the infantry army, and patrolled the streets so diligently? Thinking of this, it was inconvenient to say more, only slightly perfunctory, turned sideways and raised his hand, and said with a smile: "Hehe, yes, Lord Min, please ......."

The snow was still falling, and when the Qianqing Palace was listening to the government, the wind and rain were so overwhelming that no one could come through the air. It is said that it is a good year for Ruixue Zhaofeng, but how can there be a good sign of a half-star? All the ministers of civil and military affairs are in line with the outside Qianqingmen, and those who are called into the face today are all those who recommended the eighth elder brother Yinxi as the crown prince on the same day, from the university scholars to the subordinate officials, all of them are dripping with cold sweat on their backs, and everyone knows in their hearts that it is two months late, and it is really a day of reckoning. Especially the ministers of the guards standing in front of them were the most panicked, and they felt that their bodies trembled, not because of the silence that could be heard by a single needle in the hall, but because Kangxi's sharp gaze was unobstructed, and he swept directly at them coldly.

Kangxi didn't ask politics out loud, so they were all extra cautious, and they didn't dare to take the lead, but Ma Qi took the lead in breaking the dullness of being afraid of people, holding a stack of folded books, and kneeling out of class and playing: "Back to the master, the minions here are a few people who have newly supplemented the cabinet bachelors, please ......" Kangxi seemed to be waiting for this sentence, and interrupted one after another: "You don't have to play." Ma Qi was stunned for a moment, so he had to kowtow in silence, and a chill oozed from his heart at that moment. In the past two months, whenever he sees a driver, Kangxi is just a cold color, and there is no word of closeness and compassion in the past. Ma Qi later understood what Kangxi meant when he said that his body was 'weak', but he couldn't understand it for a while, and he also received the title of the entire cabinet on the matter of the eighth elder brother, but the matter has come to this, and now it is too late to regret it.

Kangxi had a gloomy face, glanced at Ma Qi, who had retreated into the class, and followed the voice of Jin Shi that he heard from the ministers: "I don't discuss government affairs today, but only clarify one matter." Kangxi was already served by Li Dequan, stood up on the throne, and said behind his hands: "Last winter, I bowed and violated the peace, and my life was equal to the person who could be the second prince in the elder brothers, why did you protect Yinxi alone? Yinxi was convicted by me, and his body was shackled, and his mother's family was very low, how could he be made the crown prince! A cold reprimand was thrown, and the ministers all knelt on the spot, and the bright gold bricks on the ground reflected everyone, all of them were bloodless with a cold face. "Whoever is the first to raise the Yinxi on the other day, you will each show it according to the facts. Kangxi said Huo Ran's last sentence, which shocked everyone's heartstrings.

"You are the Minister of the Guard, what is the scene when the court is discussed, you say and I listen. "The question is the Minister of the Guard, Ba Hund, who is kneeling at the front, Alinga is now ordered to pray in the Temple of Heaven, and he is naturally the first to bear the brunt.

"Return, return to the master's words...... On that day, the minions said that the matter of establishing the crown prince was very important, and the minions dared to protect. Later Liang Jiugong and Li Yu entered the palace to pass the decree, and the servants and others were instructed by the master to 'you and others can die in the middle of the line, and today is the day of my death. Only then did they sit in two shifts, and the ministers wanted to protect the eighth elder brother, and the servants joined together, and there was no one to speak first. Ba Hund answered Alinga that day, and he was really a positive person, and when he saw Kangxi asking himself, his heart was weak, and he hurriedly kowtowed and cleared himself.

"Return, return to the master's words...... On that day, the minions said that the matter of establishing the crown prince was very important, and the minions dared to protect. Later Liang Jiugong and Li Yu entered the palace to pass the decree, and the servants and others were instructed by the master to 'you and others can die in the middle of the line, and today is the day of my death. Only then did they sit in two shifts, and the ministers wanted to protect the eighth elder brother, and the servants joined together, and there was no one to speak first. Ba Hund answered Alinga that day, and he was really a positive person, and when he saw Kangxi asking himself, his heart was weak, and he hurriedly kowtowed and cleared himself.

As soon as Ba Hund's words came out, Kangxi sneered when he heard this, "No one has come out to take the lead, and everything you and others have done is the same, which is a big suspicion! Inside and outside the room, there must be people who advocate it, and you will make a quick and detailed investigation." "This is to be investigated, I don't know how to pass this pass today?" Bahund was already sweating and heavily clothed, and immediately kowtowed, and led the military attache out with several ministers of the guard. Ma Qi knelt at the head of the cabinet officials, reluctantly raised his head and glanced at Kangxi, with a little gloom on his face, and kowtowed and went out.

After about half an hour of searching, the ministers stepped into the hall again and knelt down in unison. Bahund was closest to Danqi, knelt forward, and played hard: "The master, the appropriate servants and others sit in one place, and inquire in detail one by one. ”

"Poerpen!" Kangxi completely ignored his words, and couldn't believe it, without a trace of expression on his face, he pointed straight to the head of the first-class just Yellow Banner Mongolian capital commander and the minister of the guard.

"Servants and others can be inquired, and they ...... together"

"That's how you bully the king?!" suddenly said, I don't know who Kangxi was talking to, everyone in the hall was stunned. Po Erpen was also full of fear, estimating that most of him came from himself, he was the father-in-law of Brother Xu's character, and he naturally had an unclear relationship with the Nalan family, and he had to make a little effort in sponsoring the eighth elder brother, but now although he refused to offend his colleagues in the party, he couldn't stand up to Kangxi's thunderous might, so he hurriedly changed his words: "Among the ministers of the unified communist servants, it was Ba Hund who spoke first. ”

"Shang Zhilong!" As soon as Poerpen's voice fell, Kangxi's cold voice smashed into the hall again, and he actually ordered another minister of the guard, looking at this posture, no one could escape. Shang Zhilong is the seventh son of Pingnan King Shang Kexi, as early as the early years of Shunzhi, he was still a princess of Heshuo and Shun, but he was dragged down by the three feudal families, although he was promised by Kangxi's kindness, he had to walk on thin ice in Beijing, and he did not dare to make mistakes, and he also regretted the things of the day. ”

"Master, the slave is ...... death" Bahunde knelt on the ground and spit out these four words tremblingly, and at this time he almost had beads of sweat on the tip of his nose. This crime fell on him in one sentence, but he couldn't tell the truth, and pushed Tong Guowei and Alinga in his head, and apologetic was not a defense, not to mention that Kangxi asked twice first, and he was even more convinced of a 'bullying of the king', no matter what, it really has a sense of self-inflicted death.