Crossing Prince Yinren

"Yinqi, listen to your brother, your brother is right about this." Concubine Yi came back at some point, she stood at the door holding the hand of her confidant eunuch and said.

Yin Qi turned around in surprise and said, "Emiang?"

Grand Concubine Yi stepped on the bottom of the flowerpot and walked in, waved her hand to signal the eunuch to guard outside the door, walked to Yinqi's side, pushed him back on the chair when he had stood up, and said, "Don't mess with it, I will I know that both you and the emperor have the ambition to do great things, but you are young after all..." She flattened her lips, "Your second brother is the emperor, and the emperor is protecting him, so naturally nothing will happen, you can't get along... ..."

Yinqi just tried to persuade his younger brother, but now it was Concubine Yi who persuaded him, not even the words were bad, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "Er Niang..."

Concubine Yi pressed his shoulders and said: "Listen to Er Niang, you also know that this matter is not that simple. Ming An is the most promising of your family's descendants, Er Niang has also paid attention to it these years, except for their brothers The two of our big Guo Luoluo families don’t have a decent person. Even if the two of their brothers didn’t beg to come to the door, Er Niang couldn’t stand by. Neither you nor your brother can live without a mother clan. Support—how can we survive in the Forbidden City without foreign aid? I know the emperor values ​​you, but this time, you should answer Er Niang, Er Niang is not asking you to do anything for their brothers at this time , you just need to remember that they will all be your help in the future.”

There was a touch of helplessness between Yinqi's brows: "Er Niang..."

Concubine Yi looked at him earnestly: "You answer Er Niang?" Yinzhen also looked at him together.

Yinqi looked at his mother's beautiful face, which was at least seven points similar to his younger brother's, but had quietly left traces of time, and his slender phoenix eyes looking forward to, and sighed long, "If there is really a chance to turn around, I will I will try my best to protect him, you..."

Concubine Yi clapped her hands happily: "That's enough, Er Niang didn't want you to do anything else!"

Yinqi said: "Emiang, you also promise me, don't let Yinzhen meddle in this matter anymore, you also said that this is not caused by our meddling!"

Concubine Yi cast a doting look at her youngest son, and said: "Don't worry, his little one's family, Er Niang doesn't worry about letting him get involved in these things."

Yinqi knew this younger brother's temperament, so he was worried and told him again: "You heard it, Yinzhen, you are not allowed to participate in this matter anymore!"

Yinzhen said impatiently: "I see, even if I want to join in, how can I join in? I'm not like you who can talk to my second brother!"

The slight sourness in his words made Yinqi frowned again: "You don't even think about what you do usually? You are still like a child, the second brother really loves you for nothing!"

The voices criticizing Xie Zizhou in the court intensified as Ming An went to the capital, and reached a peak before Ming An arrived in the capital.

The emperor issued a decree, and his attitude was very clear: he will not convict people because of an unnecessary stain on a person's morality, as long as he does not violate the law, everyone's private life has nothing to do with others. .Only the Overwatch Council can convict people. From now on, there is no need to hand over papers that attack people's character in vain.

With this decree, the court immediately became much quieter.Xie Zizhou is young, his resume is simple, his past is extremely clean, and it is fine to splash some unwarranted dirty water, but there is no reason to catch him.Moreover, people who know it carefully checked, except for the fact that he has not yet married a wife, there is nothing to criticize about this young man's conduct. He is also not afraid of doing things, which makes many people secretly admire him.After all, not everyone has the courage to visit half of the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River in one go.

Ming An finally arrived at the capital under the watchful eyes of various forces, and the atmosphere in the capital suddenly became tense. Not to mention the court officials who were involved, even the common people had a lot of discussions, even foreign businessmen, missionaries and Students and scholars who traveled across the ocean to study abroad have heard about it.

Chongwenmen Cathedral is approaching, and outside a newly built large library mainly composed of foreign books, a red-haired missionary in a black cassock is holding a book, standing at the door and giving lectures to the students, and several galloping horses gallop away Pass.This missionary often travels to and from powerful families. He recognized the first knight wearing the uniform of a second-rank military officer, but he couldn't recognize who he was. He was a little surprised and asked in French: "Who was the one who passed by just now?" Which lord?"

A Chinese student in a mandarin jacket smiled and replied in French: "Father, you don't recognize him? That is Guo Luoluo, the Jiangnan general who everyone is talking about these days? Ming'an."

A few old gentlemen dressed as scribes just passed by them, and one of them snorted coldly: "What kind of bird language are you talking about? Good Chinese don't speak Chinese, but they learn to speak bird language from red-haired and green-haired people. There is a bird smell everywhere in the Beijing city, what does it sound like!"

The Chinese student blushed immediately.

Another scribe interjected: "Brother Wen Yan is right. If you want me to say, the emperor is good in everything, except for the fact that these red-haired and yellow-haired people... Hmph, look at the city of Beijing today, everywhere They're all fools! They're all here to earn money from us Chinese, and we Chinese still have many poor people..."

A few people walked away while talking, but this place is the bustling place of Chongwenmen, many people heard these words, and many people immediately looked at them with strange eyes.There is still humanity in the crowd: "There are also these missionaries who talk about gods and gods. They preach everywhere and teach good people to be stupid, which is even more abominable!..."

The Chinese student's face turned even redder, which was extremely embarrassing.The red-haired missionary is very good at Chinese, and he can understand it naturally. He retorted: "Sir, the Confucianism you enshrine has a lot in common with our Catholicism. We don't teach people to be stupid. Your Confucius The teachings in the classics left by Mencius and the almighty bishop and his lamb in the "Bible" are actually many of the same. Confucius and Mencius have guided your soul for thousands of years, just as the "Bible" has guided for thousands of years We are the same, how can such a saint guide us lambs to teach people to be stupid? Your words are not correct. What you say is an insult to God." He said and made a cross on his chest.

In the 32nd year of Kangxi, the quinine presented by the missionaries Bai Jin and Zhang Cheng cured the malaria of the Supreme Emperor Kangxi. In order to reward their contributions, the Supreme Emperor ordered to build a house in the imperial city of Xi'an Gate. Residential.At the same time, Bai Jin was appointed as a special envoy to France, carrying 49 precious books presented to the King of France to recruit more French Jesuits to China. In 1699 (the sixth year of Changping), Bai Jin returned to China with a gift from the King of France and brought back fifteen Jesuits. point, hoping to enable the Chinese to accept and convert to Catholicism.

I have to say that their hard work in the past few years has been fruitful. After he finished speaking, several people in the crowd also made the sign of the cross on their chest devoutly, muttering: "Amen." Nonsense, if you don't respect God, you will go to hell after death."

This side is close to the cathedral, and there are many missionaries passing by, and they all crossed their chests, saying in unison: "Amen." They all persuaded that person.The onlookers who were attracted by this small disturbance all quietly walked away when they saw such momentum.

Those who were surrounded by so many people were bold, and said angrily: "Bah, I know the Jade Emperor, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Supreme Emperor, and the current emperor. I don't know where this 'God' came out! I respect the heavens and the earth. Ancestor, you are worthy of the world, why are you going to hell? I don’t respect this ‘God’, let’s see what he can do to me?” After speaking, he turned and left, ignoring all the gods and gods surrounding him to preach and preach. scholar.

The red-haired missionary sighed, made the sign of the cross on his chest, and murmured a prayer: "The original God forgives this lost lamb and guides him in the right direction." Seeing that there were still many people around, he stood on the spot and spread the word. teach.

Ming An arrived in Beijing at dusk yesterday, rested overnight at the post station outside the city, today he hurried into the city without stopping, and handed a sign to the palace to see him.Ordinarily, because Xie Zizhou's participation in his case attracted much attention, he should have been summoned soon. Unexpectedly, the sign was handed over, and after waiting for a long time at the gate of the palace, a guard came out. The emperor did not approve his request to see him. Let him defend himself in court in the court three days later.

Ming An was a little apprehensive. He had met him a few times before he ascended the throne, and knew that although he was young, he could not be fooled.Guo Luoluo's family doesn't have a mansion in the capital, although Prince Heng and Jiubeile have both opened mansions, but he is guilty of a crime, so he doesn't dare to move around casually, so he lives back in the post.

Yinqi and Yinzhen knew that he had returned to Beijing, but there was no movement for the same reason.Although he was already considered the most outstanding person among the descendants of Guo Luoluo's family, and he had the intention of taking over as the patriarch, but even Yinzhen didn't want to be taboo about it.In the Forbidden City, even the wind can deliver news, and the news that the sign he handed over was rejected was at most one cup of tea later, before the two of them knew it.

Concubine Yi was still living in Yinzhen's mansion, and Yinzhen asked her incomprehensibly: "Emiang, what do you mean by Second Brother? This matter is so big now, Second Brother doesn't want to figure it out sooner? "

Concubine Yi teased a white-feathered thrush with a pointy gold fingertip studded with rubies, and said: "What do you care about so much, the matter in Jiangnan is not related to one or two families, the emperor can't do anything about it." All the Manchus are offended. What difference does it make if you figure it out sooner or later?"

At the same time, Yinzhen of Hengjun Prince's Mansion said to his confidants: "It seems that the emperor has already made a plan for this matter, and the result will be seen in three days."

He is the one who admires Yinreng the most among the brothers. He knows Yinreng better than his younger brothers and mothers, and he understands that the matter has almost been settled. The conclusion is presented.