Crossing Prince Yinren

Concubine Yi opened the box, and there was a box of radiant gemstones of various colors, each of which was big and pretty, the red jewels were as bright as pigeon blood, the emeralds were as bright as new leaves, the diamonds were brilliant, and the alexandrites were vivid in color. There is a golden-green cat's eye, even if she has been in the palace for more than 20 years, she can't help being moved when she is used to seeing treasures.Another box was opened, and there was a box full of pearls, and the other box was full of gorgeous hairpin and bracelet jewelry.

Pick up a thumb-sized emerald on your fingertips, and the emerald green light that is about to drip is rippling, just like a flowing clear water.She couldn't take her eyes off and asked, "Mingrui, where did your brother find such good stuff? I haven't seen many of them in the palace."

Guo Luoluo?Mingrui stood on the side with his hands down, and replied with a smile: "Auntie, this is just a joke. There are countless rare treasures in the palace. Why hasn't Auntie seen them before? These folk gadgets are not worth showing, but my brother traveled thousands of miles. Sending it back from the south of the Yangtze River, we brothers just talked about showing filial piety. Auntie can see that we are filial piety."

Concubine Yi smiled at him and said: "Forget it, don't play tricks in front of me. Although I am in the palace, I don't know anything about the outside world. But you are asking the wrong person. A concubine in the harem is not allowed to do politics. Your brother What happened is a major matter for the court, how can I, a woman in the harem, say anything?"

Mingrui already had a charter, stepped forward and smiled slightly: "Aunt Mingjian, that incident was nothing more than a crazy Yushi who wanted to be famous and crazy, and bit my brother indiscriminately. How could that happen? Auntie, please think about it. He has been involved in the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River. Those of us in the Eight Banners have some connections, which one has something to do with it not being in the south of the Yangtze River? If it is true, it is a major event that shakes the foundation of the country. How can the emperor, the sage, believe those villains? Words! I don’t need my aunt to worry about such trivial matters, but everyone wants to go to this good place in the south of the Yangtze River. My brother and I are worried that someone will take the opportunity to steal the errand, so I want to ask my aunt to say something in front of King Heng, so that the king can stay. God."

Ninth elder brother Yinzhen leaned to one side without sitting, grabbed a handful of Dongzhu and played with it, with a half-smile on his face.

Concubine Yi put down the jewel, and pulled out a beautiful and ingenious long hairpin from the hairpin box. She also looked at him with a half-smile, and said, "Oh? That's the case, why don't you go and talk to the county king yourself?" The expressions on the mother and son's faces were indescribably similar.

Mingrui hurriedly laughed and said: "Nephew will tell the prince in person, but the prince is the most trusted by the emperor, nephews may not be the only ones who want to be taken care of by the prince. The prince is pure filial piety, nephews If the little thing can make Auntie smile, Auntie's words will be more helpful than nephews begging the prince of the county!"

With his words, he flattered Concubine Yi and praised King Hengjun. Concubine Yi was overjoyed, she covered her mouth and laughed: "You child, you are getting better at talking." But she didn't say yes, nor did she Say no.

Mingrui glanced at Yinzhen anxiously, and Yinzhen said, "It's rare that their brothers are so filial, why don't mother and concubine just say it for him?"

Concubine Yi gave him a white look, and said: "You boy, I knew that I only came when you opened the mansion a few days ago, and it must be something to invite me here today. How much filial piety have you received from your cousins?" ?”

Ever since the Empress Dowager took the Zen throne, he found it inconvenient to live in the Forbidden City, so he built another Jingming Garden in a place with good water and soil in the Western Mountains, and moved there with the concubines.It's just that he travels around the world in modest clothes, and has never been in the capital. He is sympathetic to the loneliness of the concubines in the garden, so he allows the princes who have already opened the mansion to take their mothers and concubines to the mansion to disperse from time to time.Concubine Yi did not accompany the Supreme Emperor out of Beijing this time, Yinzhen only picked her up to stay for a few days when she opened the mansion a few days ago, and she picked her up again today, so she knew something was up.

Yinzhen stepped forward and hugged her arm, smiled coquettishly and said, "Ming An gave my son some good things, and my son is reluctant to give them back. Er Niang, please tell them, it's just like what Ming Rui said anyway. , this fat difference is cheap and others are also cheap."

Concubine Yi poked his forehead with her slender fingers carefully dyed with Dan Kou, and said angrily: "Little bastard, Er Niang knows that you are worthless!"

That is to say, after all, I am not willing to violate the meaning of my precious son. Of course, it may be that the head of the hairpin in my hand is shaped like a phoenix bird. It is inlaid with more than a dozen normal-sized, round and flawless pearls, trembling and shining brightly, as if fluttering its wings and ready to fly. The ingenious golden hairpin and several boxes of bright jewels and gemstones are combined. It worked, and she was coddled by her son's arms, Taifei Yi still said: "Your fifth elder brother is about to go down at this time, I will send someone to call him, and you can talk to him yourself."

Yinzhen's mansion is very close to the mansion of the same mother's elder brother Hengjun Wang Yinqi.Yinqi just came back from the palace, heard that the concubine mother was summoned, and soon followed the eunuch who had gone to spread the message, saluted Concubine Yi, saw Mingrui standing aside, and saw the concubine mother standing next to him. It was a beautiful box with brilliant jewels, and I immediately understood half a dozen points in my heart.Frowning slightly, he said: "I don't know what orders the concubine mother has for calling her son?"

Concubine Yi saw her son coming in in a hurry, with a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, she put down the jewelry hairpin in her hand with some distress, pulled him to sit beside her and wiped off his sweat, saying: "Why do you have to go in such a hurry, my mother is fine , it is your cousin Mingrui who has something to ask you."

Mingrui hurriedly saluted and said, "My servant Mingrui has met Prince Heng."

Yinqi looked at the posture of his mother and concubine, and then at his younger brother. He was completely sure, and stepped forward to support him: "Please, just like what Er Niang said, counting from Er Niang's side, I still have to give you a compliment." Brother, there is no need to perform such a great gift."

Mingrui hurriedly kowtowed and said: "How can this slave deserve to be called the prince of the county, the prince of the county is Tianhuang, this is a slave to death."

Yinqi persisted in helping him up, and said, "I don't know what my cousin is asking for?"

I don't know why, although his words and demeanor are gentle and gentle, not overbearing, Mingrui is a little nervous and dare not go around and say what he wants.

After listening to it calmly, Yin Qi said: "If it's true as you said, Cousin Ming An was wronged, this king will naturally not let him lose his job in a daze, don't worry."

Mingrui wanted to present the "filial piety" he had prepared in his sleeves in advance, and wanted to say something more. Facing his faint eyebrows, he didn't know why he didn't dare, and finally he had to say: "The slave first thanked the county on behalf of my brother. The prince is gone." He wanted to kneel down and kowtow again, but was stopped by Yin Qi, so he had to say a few more words of thanks, and decided to send "filial piety" to Hengjun Wangfu after going back.

After Mingrui left, Yinqi talked with his mother, concubine and younger brother for a while, and after dinner, Concubine Yi got tired and went to rest, leaving only him and Yinzhen.Only then did he say angrily: "Ninth Brother, I told you that Ming An's case is untouchable, why didn't you listen, and just reached out to stir up trouble!?" He even dragged Concubine Yi into it!

He has always been gentle and indifferent, even when he is angry, his expression is only indifferent. Yinzhen was spoiled by Concubine Yi since she was a child, but she is not afraid like outsiders, so she said nonchalantly: "Fifth Brother, you are too cautious, Isn't it just a bribery case, what's the big deal? Ming'an has honored Er Niang and me with a lot of good things, you can't see how much Er Niang likes it, she can't put it down, so what if you just say something nice for him!"

Yin Qi said angrily: "This is not a simple bribery case!"

Yinzhen raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? No? What is that?"

Of course, this is not a simple bribery case, and it is not even just because it may lead to the overthrow of most of the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River... After the emperor ascended the throne, he insisted on promoting the distribution of the land into the mother, which is to gouge the flesh of the Eight Banners themselves and the gentry.Although the emperor's method has been as gentle and cautious as possible, and it has been used for several years only as a trial, but no matter how gentle and cautious it is, it will still be gouging out the flesh, or the more cautious it is, the more it will hurt the people who occupy the land.When Shandong tried to implement the "Tan Ding into Mu" before, the territory was small after all, and the people who were offended by the gougers were limited. This time, the emperor clearly wanted to promote the "Tan Ding into Mu" to the world, and he had been enduring the world before. Of course, the wealthy and nobles who occupy the land do not want to be gouged out of their flesh. This is the moment when they will meet each other with swords!In the case of Ming An, one side is a capable official promoted by the emperor to carry out the New Deal, and the other side is the nobles of the Eight Banners. On the surface it is a bribery case, but in fact it is a game between the two parties!

Yinqi knew this, and Yinzhen knew it too. Seeing Yinzhen's reaction, he knew his younger brother's position, but he also knew how determined his second brother Yinreng's will was to carry out reforms. Be careful is to be smashed to pieces!He said angrily and urgently: "Ninth brother, you...you..."

Seeing that his elder brother was rarely seen, Yinzhen was really anxious, put down the teacup and said, "Fifth brother, I know what you mean. Everyone knows what happened this time, but I don't think second brother is right—let's enter the customs with the Eight Banners." What is it for, not to use your own money to pay taxes for those poor people! The foundation of our Qing Dynasty is the Eight Banners. What is the use of the second brother being so nice to those Han people? You follow the second brother every day, so be careful Advise him!"

Yin Qi looked at the disapproval on his face, and forced himself to say: "What do you know! Second brother has his own considerations."

"What are you considering!" Yinfeng was even more disapproving, "How many people in the banner agree with the idea of ​​'singling a man into the mu'? Brother's new policy, even those Han people who have a bit of family and money will not agree with it. go down!"

Yin Qi was a little helpless, he wanted to persuade his younger brother, but he didn't want to be persuaded by his younger brother instead.He softened his tone and said: "Yinzhen, maybe what you said is not unreasonable. This matter is indeed very difficult, but I believe that the second brother is right, and he will definitely be able to do it."

Yinzhen looked at him incomprehensibly: "What's wrong with you and the fourth brother, you are blind to the second brother's belief! He said that the sun is square, you two will think the sun is square, right?"

Yinqi couldn't laugh or cry and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could the second brother say that the sun is square?"

Yinzhen Xuan raised her eyebrows: "I'm not as confident as you are. Second brother is also a human being. If you are a human, you can't always be right. This is what the second brother said!"