Kangxi and Honghui talked all night long, and no one knew what they talked about.

The next day, Kangxi looked at Honghui at the end of the morning court session and said, "Honghui, come up."

Under the gaze of all the civil and military officials in the court, Honghui walked close to Kangxi. Just when everyone thought he should stop, he did not stop. He continued to walk up and came to the side of Kangxi.

Kangxi had no objection and there was a loving smile in his eyes.

All the court officials took a deep breath, thinking that something big might happen soon.

As expected, they saw Kangxi pat Honghui on the shoulder, then turned to the people in the audience and said, "Today, I have an important announcement to make. From today on, I will pass the throne to Prince Jing Honghui, and Honghui will be the fifth emperor of our Qing Dynasty."

Lao Ba’s eyes almost popped out of his head.

Although he had already made plans for failure, he still didn't know how to feel when he failed so suddenly.

Other ministers also advised.

"Your Majesty, no!"

"Your Majesty, in the prime of life—"

"Your Majesty, Prince Jing is young and energetic."

"Your Majesty, you——"

There were many opinions from the people below. Kangxi said with a serious face: "Although Honghui is young, you all know his ability. No one is more suitable for the position of emperor than him. I believe that under Honghui's leadership, the Qing Dynasty will be even better. Whether you are sincere or not, there is no need to persuade me anymore. I have made up my mind. From now on, there will be only Honghui as the emperor. I will retire from the position of supreme emperor and live out my days in peace."

It can be said that Honghui's ascension to the throne was almost what everyone expected. They were all pretending to give him advice, but in fact, they had no right to interfere in the change of imperial power.

In response to Kangxi's request, Honghui held a grand coronation ceremony.

At the same time, Kangxi also personally granted the reign title, and the next year would be the first year of Yongjing.

And Honghui was later referred to as Emperor Yongjing in historical books.

The first thing Honghui did after taking office was to announce that he would work and live in the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the future, and that the Palace of Heavenly Purity would still be reserved for his imperial majesty.

Afterwards, Honghui announced that his mother, Ulanara Yixiu, would be named Empress Dowager, and his father, Aisin-Gioro Yinzhen, would be named Emperor Emeritus.

That’s right, she arbitrarily put Yixiu before Yinzhen.

When Yinzhen received the imperial edict, his back teeth were almost broken.

As for his imperial mother, Uya, Kangxi expressed his intention to confer the title of imperial concubine on her and let her live out her days in Shoukang Palace with other old imperial concubines.

After that, Honghui began to confer titles on his wife, concubine and princess.

The title of Gege was bestowed upon him by Emperor Kangxi a few years ago. Coincidentally, this woman was also his father's, the former Concubine Xin, Lv Yingfeng.

The only shortcoming of Lu Yingfeng is that he is too venomous and can talk too much. But it is precisely such people who have few thoughts.

For this reason, Jiaying and Nian Shilan had no bad thoughts about her, and the three of them got along quite well.

Jiaying was naturally named queen, and Honghui personally selected the Yiku Palace as her bedroom.

Nian Shilan's title is still Hua. It should be said that these two father and mother have some tacit understanding between them.

However, Honghui was more generous than Yinzhen. He conferred the title of noble concubine on Nian Shilan and let her live in Chengqian Palace.

Lu Yingfeng's family background was not very good, but she gave Honghui a daughter, and now she was pregnant, so Honghui named her Yingpin and lived in Chuxiu Palace. When she gave birth to a child safely in the future, she would definitely be promoted.

Honghui has a pretty good number of offspring.

The queen gave birth to the eldest princess, the eldest prince, and the third prince.

Nian Shilan gave birth to the second princess, the third princess, and the second prince.

In addition to the fourth princess born to Lu Yingfeng, the one in her belly was also diagnosed to be a prince.

Four daughters and four sons, that’s actually a lot.

But the court officials felt that he had few children. Not only did they think he had few children, but they also thought he had few concubines. They wanted him to hold a beauty contest so that they could send their daughters and granddaughters to enter the palace.

But Honghui was really satisfied with the current situation of his harem, and was afraid that someone would cause trouble, so he didn't want to participate in the talent show at all.

But Yixiu reminded him, "Even if you don't want to choose, you still have to consider the royal family. Some of your seventeenth uncle and your cousins ​​haven't married yet."

Honghui thought about it and agreed, so let’s do it.

So, the draft was decided.

Once the imperial decree for the selection is passed down, there will be people to help carry out the work.

Honghui first returned his attention to the previous dynasty, released all his uncles who were imprisoned, and then assigned tasks to these uncles one by one.

The eldest son, Yinzhi, was conferred the title of Prince Zhi and assigned to the Ministry of War.

The second son Yinreng was conferred the title of Prince Li and served as the Minister of General Affairs together with the thirteenth son Yinxiang, who was also conferred the title of Prince Yi. At the same time, Yinreng also served as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

The third prince Yinzhi was restored to the title of Prince Cheng and was sent to the Hanlin Academy to do the work of editing books, which he was best at.

Lao Si, Oh, how can the emperor work? The emperor should just take a good rest with Lady Rou and not worry about these mundane things.

Yinzhen, who wanted to stand at the top of the court and wanted power: ...

The fifth and seventh sons had long been conferred the title of prince by Kangxi and had been assigned tasks, so Honghui did not change their positions.

Lao Ba, Hong Hui's opponent, did not suppress him, nor did he want to get rid of him.

He, the ninth, tenth, and fourteenth brothers were all given the title of prince, and they were all assigned jobs. The eighth brother was in charge of the Lifanyuan, the ninth brother was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, and the tenth and fourteenth brothers were directly assigned to fight in the war. If the eldest brother had not recovered yet, he would have gone with them.

The twelfth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth were all conferred the title of princes, and all those after that were conferred the title of beile.

Twelve went to the Ministry of Rites to do what he was best at and loved most, handling funeral affairs.

Fifteenth brother didn't like to do anything. After Honghui ascended the throne, he took his wife and children to travel to Jiangnan and lived a more carefree life than his other brothers.

Sixteen loved music, so Honghui sent him to the Ministry of Rites to reform rites and music.

Originally, Honghui planned to arrange work for Seventeen, but he said that he was a leisurely person who liked poetry and books, and wanted to follow in Fifteen's footsteps and travel around, so he refused to work.

Honghui didn't care whether what he said was true or false, but since he had refused, Honghui would not waste any more words with him.

Don’t you like to be idle?

Then just take it easy for the rest of your life.

The remaining uncles are too young and are still studying in the study. They will be assigned jobs when they finish their studies.

Although Honghui wanted others to share government affairs with him, he was not deliberately doing favors for anyone.

But for these uncles, Honghui was magnanimous and forgiving, and did not bear grudges. Moreover, just looking at the places that Honghui arranged for them, they knew that Honghui was a man who knew how to use people.

The princes who received the tasks started to work, each of them was busy and full of energy.

With so many uncles and aunts to help him, Honghui felt a lot less stressed.

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