Bakhtu immediately ran over, knelt on the ground without hesitation, bowed his head to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "I, Bakhtu, deserve to die. I have failed the emperor's cultivation. Please punish me. I am willing to die to atone for my sins!"

After saying this, he kowtowed continuously, making a thumping sound on his forehead.

Seeing this, Kangxi suppressed his anger and said to Bakhtu calmly: "Stand up first. You are not to blame for this."

Bakhtu did not stand up, but straightened his body and said in a firm tone: "I have never lost a battle in my life. Although I did not lose any soldiers this time, the humiliation brought shame to the Eight Banners Cavalry. I feel at ease kneeling!"

After saying this, he continued to kneel with his body on the ground, but he stopped kowtowing and crushing garlic.

Soon after, other commanders and generals came one after another. When they saw Bakhtu kneeling beside them, they hurriedly knelt down, one by one, lying on the ground, not daring to even breathe.

Before long, the entrance to the camp was filled with people kneeling.

The last one to come over was naturally Yao Qisheng.

Yao Qisheng walked closer and saluted respectfully to Emperor Kangxi, saying, "Your Majesty, I, Yao Qisheng, the Governor of Fujian, pay my respects to Him. Long live the Emperor!"

Kangxi did not say anything, but just stared at Yao Qisheng who was kneeling on the ground.

Wei Xiaobao, who was standing nearby, could feel a burning anger in Kangxi's eyes, a fire filled with murderous intent.

Yao Qisheng knelt on the ground, saying nothing, as if he had turned into a sculpture.

Time passed minute by minute. After about ten breaths, Kangxi finally broke the silence and asked calmly, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Kangxi did not order Yao Qisheng to stand up, so Yao Qisheng could only raise his head and still kneel down and answer: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Go ahead!" Kangxi's voice sounded a little cold.

Yao Qisheng took a deep breath and began to narrate: "Last year, when the emperor appointed me as the governor of Fujian, he told me earnestly that Dongzhou Island is a concern for the emperor and even more so for the Qing Dynasty. The emperor ordered me to recover Dongzhou Island and wipe out the Zheng family who are rampant on the sea, no matter what method I use."

As Yao Qisheng was talking, he secretly observed the people around Kangxi, but found that they were almost all strangers, and he couldn't help but feel puzzled. What surprised him even more was that the people responsible for the vigilance were actually rebel soldiers wearing the green uniforms of the Tiandi Army.

Although he was full of doubts, Yao Qisheng still mustered up the courage to continue: "After taking on this important task, I have exhausted all my energy and thought of every possible way to build a powerful Jinxia navy...

However, Wei Xiaobao, a rebel of the Tiandihui, relied on his ingenuity to build an ironclad warship and acted recklessly on the sea, even more outrageous than Zheng Zhilong, the maritime overlord of that time.

They destroyed all the warships of our Jinxia Navy, killed our Eight Banners soldiers, captured our Han camp officers and soldiers, and threatened us with life and death.

Many Han camp soldiers were forced to rebel because they were afraid of his tyranny. Now, the guards in the rebel army are in Cao's camp, but their hearts are with Han. They are united and earnestly ask our army to save them from the dire straits.

However, the bandit leader Wei Xiaobao did not follow the right path, did not dare to fight head-on, and instead resorted to conspiracies and tricks, putting our army in a difficult situation.

However, the law of justice is vast and nothing can escape it. The mighty power of the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty eliminated the leader of the rebels, and the rebels returned to the right path, relieving us of our predicament. The grace of our Emperor is great, and his achievements will be recorded in history forever. Long live our Emperor! "

After listening to Yao Qisheng's story, the soldiers kneeling on the ground shouted excitedly: "The emperor's grace is great, long live the emperor..."

After listening to the performance, Wei Xiaobao's face was full of smiles. He clapped his hands non-stop and kept shouting, "Wonderful, wonderful..."

"Enough!" Kangxi shouted angrily.

The excited commanders who were kneeling on the ground seemed to have been poured with a bucket of cold water. Their excitement instantly turned into fear and confusion. They looked at each other, not knowing what had happened.

"Yao Qisheng, Yao Qisheng, your ability to write stories is first-rate, even better than being an official. It's a pity that you don't go to the opera house to write scripts." Kangxi said sarcastically.

"The late emperor has long said that you will never be employed. Today I finally get to know you. You are confusing right and wrong and calling a horse a zebra. Is there anything else you dare not do?" Kangxi accused angrily.

Then, Kangxi pointed at Wei Xiaobao, who was grinning beside him, and announced loudly: "He is the traitor you mentioned, the commander-in-chief of the Tiandi Alliance, the first-class Lu Ding Duke of the Qing Dynasty, and my brother-in-law - Wei Xiaobao. Let me tell you again, your Fujian Governor's Mansion is now his."

After that, Kangxi pointed to the soldiers of the garrison who were on duty and said, "These people are the brothers from the Fujian Han Camp who are in dire straits!"

"It is obvious that you acted on your own initiative and were eager for quick success, and you even found so many excuses. The late emperor was right when he said that you were misleading the country and the people. You are a hypocritical hypocrite."

Yao Qisheng knelt on the ground, ignoring Kangxi's reprimand and pretending to be sincere, but he disagreed in his heart.

He muttered in his heart, who is the hypocrite, who is very nice to people when he wants them, but when he doesn't want them, he is not happy with them. He is also blind, he was demoted three times, and he was a bootlicker four times...

Just as Yao Qisheng was about to leave under Kangxi's angry complaint, Kangxi suddenly changed the subject and shouted, "Yao Qisheng, I'm asking you a question, answer it now!"

Yao Qisheng looked up in bewilderment and said, "Your Majesty, what are you asking me?"

When Kangxi heard this, he thought, I have been talking to a cow for a long time!

He was so angry that he ran forward in two or three steps, kicked Yao Qisheng, and then said again: "I want to ask you where you hid the stolen silver that the Hai Gang gave you?"

After hearing this, Yao Qisheng sat up from the ground calmly, as if a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water. Without saying a word, he took off his official boots, took out the insoles, reached into his boots, grabbed a handful of papers and handed them to Kangxi.

Kangxi covered his nose when he took off his shoes. The smell was like that of a person with athlete's foot who hadn't washed his feet for three years. It was so stinky that he didn't dare to reach out to take them.

Wei Zhuer, who was sharp-eyed, also covered her nose as she took it and saw that it was silver bills, and they were all silver bills from the four most powerful Heng Money Houses in China.

There are Hengxinghao, Henghehao, Henglihao and Hengyuanhao, with face values ​​ranging from 50,000 to 100,000.

The silver bills were stuffed in her shoes and smelled terrible. Wei Zhuer covered her nose and counted the silver bills in pain.

Wei Xiaobao was upset. He had seen his father hide money under his insoles countless times before. This was almost always the first choice for men to hide their private money. How could he be so forgetful? Kangxi got the upper hand for nothing.

"Your Majesty, the total amount of silver notes is 5.8 million taels." Wei Zhuer said.

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