The Princess of Fortune in Qing Dynasty

Looking at the kneeling people below, Kangxi pondered for a long time and decided to interrogate Sun Wencheng first.Sun Wencheng has only been in Hangzhou Weaving for more than a year. Although there are also frauds in Hangzhou, they have little to do with him. He is here because of the Sun family.

Compared with Cao Yin and Li Xu, Sun Wencheng is not important in Kangxi's heart, and Sun Wencheng is not very capable, flattering, and timid.Not to mention letting him make friends with the rebellious party, if the person next to him was a rebellious party, he would be able to scare himself to death.

Originally, he didn't want to see Sun Wencheng.The prince also asked people to investigate the affairs of the Sun family.Compared with the Cao and Li families, Sun Wencheng is still relatively clean, and of course it's just 'not bad'. In fact, the Sun family has a lot of things to do.

Now he is particularly curious about Sun Wencheng's thoughts.

Being pressed on the chin, Sun Wencheng took the initiative to explain the mistakes he made without waiting for Kangxi to speak.A little better than Li's is that Sun Wencheng's wife is as courageous as him. Although she also put loan sharks, it's not as good as Li's madness.Sun Wencheng's own mistakes should be punished according to the law, and he was lucky enough to collide with the Cao and Li families. Compared with those two families, he seems insignificant.

"The guilty minister owes the emperor's grace, please punish him." At the end of the speech, Sun Wencheng wept bitterly, as if he really regretted it.

Kangxi listened quietly, and only then did he face Sun Wencheng squarely.What flattery and timidity are but Sun Wencheng's disguise. Compared with Cao Yin and the other two, he is undoubtedly much smarter and knows how to control his mind.

If such a person is used well, it is indeed comfortable, but it is also more difficult to control.Just like him, if the Cao family incident hadn't involved the Sun family, I'm afraid he would still see Sun Wencheng's inside.

For a while, Kangxi was a little disheartened. The people he thought he knew best actually didn't know anyone.

"Sun Wencheng, you really deserve to die." After saying this sentence coldly, Kangxi ignored him who was paralyzed on the ground, and was taken down.

To calm down, he asked someone to bring Cao Yin up.

Cao Yin was different from Sun Wencheng, he knelt quietly on the ground without saying anything.

The Hall of Mental Cultivation was peaceful, you could hear the drop of a needle, and after an unknown amount of time, Kangxi said, "Cao Yin, you have nothing to say."

He just raised his head and kowtowed to Kangxi, "The guilty minister really doesn't know what to say." The loving mother and loving wife he thought were not loving mothers and loving wives, but executioners who murdered without blinking an eye.The two did many wrong things behind his back, but what can he say?

It is a great honor for the emperor to live in the Cao family on a southern tour, but the Cao family also lost more than 30 taels of silver because of this.Where did the money come from and how to make up for it?

That's all his salary, so he can't use the emperor's reward, right?Not to mention that some things have imprints on them, even if there are no imprints, the next time the emperor comes back and finds that the things are missing, what should I say?

The mother is a face-saving, he can understand the mother's thoughts.

But what can he tell the emperor?Could it be possible for him to say that the reason why his family has done so many wrong things is because your emperor made a southern tour and the family owed money?

At this time, he was still making excuses for what his mother and wife did, and he didn't even think about it. The Cao family lived a luxurious life, not to mention how many dishes Mrs. Cao would serve for a meal.To put it simply, to eat roasted eggplant, you have to use the soup stewed by several old hens to simmer. Even the emperor did not have such a luxury.

And the prince also found out that the Cao family hadn't paid back the money they owed because of the pick-up, and the IOU was still in the household department.

do not know what to say?Kangxi sneered: "You are the head of the Cao family. I knew you were a smart man since I was a child. Smart man, you really don't know what Sun and Li are doing?" Before Cao Yin could speak, Kangxi answered directly for him , "No, you know, even if you don't know it very well, you should know it in your heart."

"The Cao family owes 30 taels of silver to the household department, but the family style is extravagant. Have you ever wondered where the money came from? You are just pretending to be confused. Even at this moment, you may still be thinking in your heart, if It wasn't that I went south to your Cao family to build a palace and ran out of money, your mother and wife wouldn't have committed such a foolish thing."

To the point, Cao Yin raised his head when Kangxi poked his inner thoughts.

"It's said that Li Xu is smart, but I don't think the three of you are giving way too much. Sun Wencheng uses flattery and ignorance as a disguise. What about you? On the surface, you appear to be ignorant of inner affairs, but in fact you are very careful. You may still think, Anyway, I didn't touch those things, so even if the emperor blames it, he can't blame me?"

"What grief and self-mutilation, but you did it for the prince to see, because you know in your heart that the prince will not let you die on the road. The prince is sincere and will report the situation on the road truthfully. You just need to let me know your attitude in advance .According to my temper, if I don’t say pardon the Cao family, at least your life will be saved. What’s more, there is a younger brother who is in a worse situation than you.”

"Am I right?"

Cao Yin's pupils shrank, and his fingers subconsciously curled up in his sleeves.He didn't expect Kangxi to see through his thoughts and poke into his heart.

As the prince said, as the head of the Cao family, how could he not know the situation at home.In fact, when he was very young and his father was still alive, he vaguely knew that his mother had a secret.He is a careful person, and he knows what his mother has done with a little observation.

At first, he was shocked. Although he couldn't understand his mother's behavior, and he couldn't do anything to report his mother, he just kept at a stalemate, and things got bigger and bigger, more and more outrageous.Only at that time did he realize that it was too late. If the matter was exposed at this time, the Cao family would cease to exist.

As for the life and death of the Cao family and outsiders, he would naturally choose his own family first.

"I'm more curious, why did you help those students three years ago." According to the note given by the crown prince, the Cao family has already been in collusion with the chief examiner at this time. Wouldn't it be self-destructive for him to help?If he hadn't helped those people come to the capital, what happened at this time would not have happened.

Kangxi saw all his thoughts, and Cao Yin also knew that it was useless to hide it. He smiled wryly: "It's not that the guilty minister wanted to help them, the original plan of the criminal minister was to deal with them on the road. The criminal minister knew the emperor's treatment of the students. Look, if they are allowed to meet the emperor, the Jiangnan matter will never be resolved."

What he was thinking at the time was to deal with them on the road, but who knew that those people were more alert, and they actually let them hide and even saw the emperor.

Now that the matter has come to this point, he simply played up the image of "dedicated to his duty" and "selfless", in an attempt to confuse the public.

Because it was he who 'helped' those people to enter the capital, the emperor would never think of him if he was investigating Jiangnan.After all, who would report themselves? It's not enough, right?

In fact, he did succeed. Kangxi really did not doubt him and the Cao family.The reason why the former imperial envoy didn't find anything was largely because he was misled by Cao Yin.If it wasn't for Kangxi who always felt that something was wrong and sent the prince and others there, Cao Yin's strategy would have really succeeded.

Just like now, even though he sent the prince to Jiangnan, he also said a lot of good things about him to the prince, saying that he is absolutely trustworthy.

But who made the prince have an unusual princess?When the crown prince travels, the crown princess will definitely know about it. When talking about the Cao family, she thinks of the Li family she met many years ago, so she tells the crown prince her opinion.The prince also trusts the princess, and he himself is cautious, so he kept a low profile along the way, and even gave himself the name of a student. Fortunately, he met the victim's younger brother by coincidence.

Later, they happened to get acquainted with people from the Cao family and the Li family's offshoots. The two mistakenly thought that they could make a fortune. Everything was too coincidental.

What can Cao Yin say?This is probably God's will, right?

Kangxi laughed at himself: "You three families, I thought I was the best for you, the Cao family. I didn't expect that the Cao family ignored human lives, and the Li family colluded with the rebellious party. On the contrary, the Sun family, which I pay the least attention to, made the least mistakes."

Ever since he received the urgent letter from the prince Babaili, he has been thinking about it.He thought he was good to the Cao and Li families, but he didn't want to have such great ambitions.

"Where is Mrs. Zheng? Do you know her details?"

Cao Yin shook his head, "The daughter-in-law of the criminal minister's third brother? She is just an ordinary woman, oh, if there is anything special about it, she was originally an abandoned baby, but was adopted by the former Jiangning prefect as her own daughter. The criminal minister's mother thought she If you match well with the third brother, you will be hired as your first wife."

The Salesian Church in the south of the Yangtze River is a special place to adopt abandoned babies. Compared with boy babies, girl babies can get better care.Not every baby girl is adopted.Just like this Mrs. Zheng, she has lived in the Ciyoutang for 13 years, and she is outstanding in various abilities, which is why she was adopted by the prefect of Jiangning.

It is said to be adoption, but it is actually a means to win over officials.

"Third brother should also know Zheng's origin in his heart, but he is willing to be born with Zheng's beauty. As for other identities, the guilty minister really doesn't know."

After all, Mrs. Zheng is a female family member, she is beautiful, and Mrs. Li is jealous. Cao Yin only met her when she was eating, and avoided going away at other times.Originally, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the Zheng family, but now hearing what the emperor said, he would inevitably think too much.

What identity can the Zheng family have? It can't be a remnant of the previous dynasty, right?

As soon as this idea came up, he laughed at himself.There are a lot of rebellious parties in Jiangnan, so he is fairly knowledgeable. There may be room for retaliation for corruption and murder. If he colludes with a rebellious party, no one in the Cao family will be spared.

On the way, the prince deliberately separated them without communicating with each other.Until now, he didn't know that the Li family had been infiltrated by the rebel party.

"Coincidentally, you are really right. The Zheng family is really a remnant of the previous dynasty. She is a child of the Zheng family in Taiwan who lived abroad. She is a direct descendant of the Zheng family. The former prefect of Jiangning adopted her, which is why she saw this. In addition, the former The prefect of Jiangning is also a member of the former court."

When the former prefect of Jiangning was in office, Cao Yin was Jiangning's weaver, and the two had worked together for several years.Kangxi didn't know whether Cao Yin was so smart, whether he didn't realize it or just pretended.

And Cao Yin was completely stupid when he heard the news, how could it be?But looking at the emperor's face, it didn't look like he was lying to him.Because there is no need.

If the emperor wants his ministers to die, the ministers must die. The emperor wants their family's life to be just a matter of one sentence, so there is no need to lie to him.

The Cao family is finished.

I met Cao Yin and Li Xu again, compared to Cao Yin and Sun Wencheng's happiness, Li Xu was expressionless, no matter what Kangxi said, he would not open his mouth.

Kangxi was in a hurry, "Do you think that if you don't tell me, I can't do anything about you? Fornicating and rebelling against thieves, the crime should be punished by the nine clans. I will not punish you for the nine clans. It's unlucky for those people to know you. There is no need for innocent people to be punished by you." Injury. But no matter men, women, old or young in your Li family, I will not keep any of them. Don't talk about childishness and innocence, since you have enjoyed your black-hearted money, you should pay the price for it."

In many cases, Kangxi was still kind. For example, although the crimes committed by the two were serious, he really didn't intend to care about the children.But Li Xu made it clear that he didn't cooperate, and Kangxi felt that he didn't need to be polite to such a person.

Li Xu opened his eyes wide, and then he laughed loudly, "As expected of the benevolent Emperor Kangxi, he is really kind." The word benevolence was bitten by him very hard, full of irony. "I think Li Xu is ashamed of how good I am to my Li family. If it wasn't because of you going south, how could the Li family have a shortfall of 50 taels?"

"50 taels, can't you see? Did I spend the 50 taels? It's all for you. You're lucky, the treasury is out of money, so you ask me for it. How much is my annual salary? The Li family It’s fine, after all, my Li family has enjoyed it too. But what’s the reason for the Cao family’s?”

Because of the pick-up, the Li family borrowed 50 taels of silver from the state treasury.After Kangxi ascended the throne, there were constant battles, big and small, and the treasury ran out of money. Thinking of this, he suggested that the Li family and other people who owed money should pay back the money.Cao Yin just cried poorly a few times, and Kangxi asked himself to find a way to help Cao's family pay back the money.

Hehe, more than 80 taels?Where does the Li family have the ability to get more than 80 taels?

"It's not that I, Li Xu, don't know good and bad, it's that you, Kangxi, forced me." Anyway, he was going to die, and Li Xu simply vented all his grievances over the years.

Hearing the words that he was persecuting him again, Kangxi didn't feel any fluctuation in his heart.He was even in the mood to think, as expected of his in-laws, even the sayings were so consistent.

"So you join the rebellion."

"Yes, what they said is right, you are a fool, you should die. This world belongs to us Han people, and you are the invaders." Strictly speaking, the ancestors of the Li family were all Han Chinese, and they were forced to enter the Baotou later. Clothes flag.To put it mildly, Bao Yi is a Manchu, but in fact his status is very low. He is a servant of the royal family.

Li Xu is arrogant, how could he be willing to be a slave to others.

Fan thought that her brother broke with her because she followed her wholeheartedly, and he was not looking for her.But she didn't know that she had already connected with the Fan family, and the two even planned to assassinate Kangxi next time he went south.

It's just that they didn't expect a sixth elder brother to interrupt all their plans.

When Kangxi got the system, it was the time when he was fresh. He was busy strengthening the country and driving out the Japanese pirates, so he didn't have the heart to go on a southern tour.

Originally, Kangxi planned to wait two years until things were on the right track before going south.After all, Jiangnan is rich and prosperous, if it is handled well, it will be good for the Qing Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, there happened to be a fraud case in the middle.

Li Xu has been brainwashed, and Kangxi knew it would be useless to talk too much, so he gave Liang Jiugong a wink, and Liang Jiugong made people take Li Xu away.

"Does the emperor still want to see Mrs. Cao?" Liang Jiugong was not sure about Kangxi's attitude towards Sun, so after thinking about it, he still called Mrs. Cao.

"See you." Probably stimulated by Cao and Li, he suddenly felt that no matter what Mrs. Sun said later, he would not be surprised.

Unlike Cao Yin's pretending to be stupid and Li Xu's hysteria, Sun's played the emotional card. "My servant has met the emperor, and I haven't seen the emperor for many years, but I didn't expect to meet under such circumstances. This servant is ashamed of trusting the emperor, this servant deserves to die." As she spoke, she burst into tears and cried bitterly more than.

She thought that Kangxi must be touched when he heard this, but Kangxi just said coldly: "You really deserve to die."

Sun didn't know how to cry after saying a word.

"Do you know what Li Xu said just now? He was blaming me for favoring you, the Cao family. The Cao family had no money and owed the shortfall to him. His rebellion gave me a reason, how about you? Is it because of the 30 taels that you took the risk?" He glanced at the box on the table, the southern tour was only a matter of recent years, and Sun's wicked things were done very early, when Cao Xi was still there .At that time, he was busy arguing with Wu Sangui and Mongolia.

What Sun did was relying on Kangxi's affection for her. Now that the affection is gone, it's useless for her to say anything.

"Your majesty, I beg the emperor to see the grandsons and granddaughters who let go of the slaves because of their early love. They don't know how old they are. The slaves are willing to die to apologize." Cao Yin now has only one son and one daughter. The eldest son Cao Yong12 Age, the daughter is younger and is just eight years old this year.

At the age of 12, if Kangxi was cruel, he could be executed as an adult.Her granddaughter was born on a good day, maybe the Cao family still has a chance to turn things around.

"As long as you explain everything that needs to be explained, especially about the Zheng family, I will consider it." He didn't say it to death, but only said that he would consider it.But this has already made Sun happy.

Just like Kangxi guessed, even if she didn't know Zheng's identity at first, she also noticed something was wrong in the later relationship, and secretly collected evidence.

Now she knows exactly how many people in Jiangnan have had contact with the Zheng family, and she even knows who in the Cao mansion was sent to protect the Zheng family.

Kangxi listened quietly, Sun looked at him expectantly after finishing speaking, his face was expressionless, "Don't worry, I will do what I say, and I will do what you want."

Only at this time did the sensational fraud case draw a sentence in Kangxi's heart.

Kangxi did indeed save the lives of Cao Yong and Cao Yin's eldest daughter as he said, but one of the two was sent to the island of Wa Kingdom across the sea by Kangxi, and the other was dispatched to Xinzheku.From a young lady who was well-clothed and well-fed, she became a servant of Xinzheku who has no status and does rough work all day long. I don't know if this young lady of the Cao family will regret it?

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