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Chapter 179 Yinzhen's Trick

Although the eighth elder brother Yinhu was the most powerful after the crown prince was abolished, even the ministers of the court thought that the throne had been decided, and poured into the eighth prince's mansion one after another to curry favour, so as to add officials to him.

It was also at this time that Emperor Kangxi suddenly woke up. It turned out that he, the Eighth Prince, had accumulated so much power without him knowing it. Looking at it, most of the officials from the imperial court had visited the Eighth Prince's Mansion. Is this okay?That's why Emperor Kangxi removed Yinsu's Baylor title in anger, but why is he reinstating it now?
This matter has to start with the anger of Lord Kangxi.

This person who is the emperor, he has a problem, that is, he doesn't like his authority to be challenged and threatened.A series of actions by the eighth elder brother Yinhu are challenging Lord Kangxi's authority without a bottom line, threatening the throne of Lord Kangxi in a tangible and intangible way.

So, Mr. Kangxi became angry.He arrested all the officials of Yinhu's party who supported the party struggle, executed them all, and even used extremely cruel criminal laws.Such as Ling Chi and Che Crack.Ling Chi, it's a technical job. It's not like beheading. You sharpen the big knife quickly. When the execution is executed, you cut the knife, raise the knife and drop it, and the head falls to the ground and the person dies.This is the happiest way to die for a death row inmate.

Ling Chi is much more cruel.First of all, the executioners in charge of Ling Chi are different from ordinary executioners who cut heads across the board. They belong to "skilled jobs" and don't have much work on weekdays. Their monthly salary is several times higher than that of ordinary executioners.There are also those who are not convinced, but as long as they have seen a Ling Chi execution, no one dares to bark their teeth.

At the beginning of Ling Chi, he wanted to hit the prisoner's head. Legend has it that the prisoner's blood will coagulate in the abdomen and calves, so that the blood will not flow horizontally when cutting the flesh, which is both fishy and hinders observation. If the number of knives for cutting flesh is not enough to kill the prisoner, the executioner is not easy to deal with.

Generally, the order of Ling Chi is from the chest to the limbs. The number of knives is eight knives, 24 knives, 36 knives, 72 knives and 120 knives.Of course, there were tens of thousands of knives in ancient times. That kind of technology has been lost. Lord Kangxi did not force others to do anything. He just pushed several party leaders to Xingtai and rewarded each of them with 120 knives.

The execution process was too bloody to describe in detail. What needs to be explained is that when it was cut to 119 knives, the prisoner’s headshots were already piled up in a basket, and the prisoner was still alive.The last knife is the owl's head.At this time, the executioner's task was considered to be well completed, and the Yamen will be rewarded with silver taels after returning.

And the cracked car is easier to understand.It is to fix the person's head and limbs with thick hemp ropes and tie them to five horses. At the beginning of the execution, the five horses run in five different directions, which is the legendary five-horse dismemberment.

The typical person who was sentenced to the punishment of car splitting was the pre-Qin politician Shang Yang, and since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there were very few people who were sentenced to such capital punishment.

This is the criminal law imposed on the living people of the Baye Party, and those who have died have not escaped the wrath of Lord Kangxi.Their graves were dug, their bodies dug up, chopped up, and then burned.Lord Kangxi, who has always been praised by people, has been deformed by anger, and he looks like a tyrant.

So everyone thought that the eighth elder brother Yinhu was finished, and under the wrath of Lord Kangxi, how could he have a chance to stand up?
But no one thought that it was because Lord Kangxi was too angry that the ministers of the court and the central government were dissatisfied with Lord Kangxi.Does the minister dare to be dissatisfied with the emperor?Does the emperor care about the minister's mood?

The answer is yes.Because although Lord Kangxi was furious and did many cruel things, he was not a real tyrant.He is an emperor who is willing to listen to the voices of his courtiers, and he is also an emperor who is afraid of the writing of historians, so he has to be cautious about the voice of the court.

Some people who were impressed by Yinhu's political ability spoke good things about him, so even though Lord Kangxi had made such a big fuss, there were still voices in the court to recommend Yinhu to be the prince.This made Lord Kangxi both frightened and helpless.Who made the eighth elder brother Yinhu to be a natural conspirator and very good at winning people's hearts?

And Lord Kangxi not only restored Yinhu to the position of Dorobeile, but also released the deposed prince who was under confinement, and warmed up to the deposed prince.This made those people in the court who thought that the eighth elder brother Yinhu was the only one to be the emperor start to waver again.

It's the winter month, and this extraordinary year is coming to an end, the wind outside the window is majestic and biting, piercing Yinzhen's heart.

He watched the courtiers in the room frowning endlessly because of the current situation, but he already had plans in his heart.

Xue Yi stepped forward and asked: "Si elder brother, you can tell me anything now, as long as we can do it, we will definitely not be vague."

Yinzhen took a serious look at Xue Yi, how could he see that he had made a fortune, and was not as anxious as others?
After looking at it for a while, Yinzhen laughed, thinking that this is also an old fox, otherwise how could a little fox like Xue Hong be born?

Seeing that a group of people had discussed for a long time without coming to a settled idea, he stopped playing tricks and said with a smile: "The current situation is not a bad thing for me anyway. Right now, three or four out of ten of the old eight's people have been removed. Its foundation has already been disturbed, but it has already caused Huang Ama's resentment, which is a good thing for us. The prince... I think Huang Ama let him out just to contain Lao Ba's side, fearing that he would have too many people in the court. As for me... for now, I just need to continue to care about Huang Ama, do things for Huang Ama with all my heart, and resolve any conflicts and misunderstandings between brothers, or when Huang Ama is upset Just a few words from him."

Zhang Tingyu said with a smile: "Fourth Master, you mean to continue to be the emperor's most sincere and filial son?"

Yinzhen smiled and nodded: "The one who knows me is Tingyu."

When the prince was deposed, Emperor Kangxi ordered that Yinsi be imprisoned. The fourteenth elder brother Yinsi, who had always been close to Yinsi, proposed marriage for him, which angered Emperor Kangxi. Emperor Kangxi even wanted to kill him with a sword, but Wu A Brother Yinqi risked his life to stop him.

At that time Yinzhen was not there to inspect the military camp for the emperor, and when Yinzhen came back and heard about it, he knelt outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation for more than six hours, begging Huang Ama not to despise his only brother.

The whole imperial city knew that although the fourteenth elder brother and the fourth elder brother were born by the same mother, the fourteenth elder brother didn't like the fourth elder brother at all. No one thought that Yinzhen could do this for his own younger brother, the fourth elder brother of "Benevolence", that's why he got the respect of Lord Kangxi.

(End of this chapter)