Qing Chuan's cousin is reborn

"My son has met Khan Ama,"

After the early court Yinzhen, Kangxi called out to Qianqing Palace, Kangxi said: "Fourth, what do you think of the Cao family?" This son is smart, and he can see many things thoroughly. Straight to the point.

Yinzhen frowned frivolously and pondered for a long time, as if he was thinking about what to say?

Kangxi said: "It's okay, just say what's on your mind."

Only then did Yinzhen say: "I feel that the Cao family is very problematic. I heard from Fujin that the servants of the Cao family who stayed in the capital were domineering and rude, showing off their power, and even did things like buying and selling in the street. It is said that Cao's family stayed behind. This person is in the capital for the convenience of Concubine Li, and the little eunuch next to Concubine Li will go out of the palace every month to get money for Concubine Li."

The little eunuch he was talking about was Xiao Xiazi, and now Xiao Xiazi was the most proud person around Concubine Li, with no second in the limelight.

He said a few words and then carefully looked at Kangxi's face, and found that the emperor was not as displeased as he imagined, and his expression was quite calm, and secretly sighed, "You are worthy of being the emperor".

After that, he continued: "It is said that in order to conceive an imperial heir, Empress Li spent more than 20 taels of silver on the secret recipe. Regardless of whether the secret recipe is true or not, with Cao Yin's position, how long does it take to save 20 taels of silver?"

"Yes, I think the Cao family is tricky."

Kangxi nodded, and he said approvingly: "That's right, among so many of my sons, you are the only one who dares to tell the truth. Now I give you a task. I want you to take someone to Jiangning, and secretly check what Cao Yin has been doing in Jiangning these years. what."

Yinzhen was solemn, he cupped his hands and said, "Your minister leads the decree."

Kangxi was dumbfounded by Yinzhen's straightforwardness, and he said: "You don't even ask me why I want to investigate the Cao family?"

Did the fourth child really not care, or did he have some guesses?

I just heard Yinzhen say: "You are the emperor, Mr. Yu, and your ministers are your ministers. If the emperor asks your ministers to do, the ministers will naturally do what you want. In private, you are Ama, and Ama ordered his son to do things. Isn't it natural for the son to follow suit?"

This is his sincerity and not perfunctory.He really thinks so, no matter what Kangxi tells him to do, he will do it to anyone who checks.

Kangxi nodded in satisfaction.Since Yinzhen became an adult, he has positioned him as a "loyal minister".

What is a loyal minister is an order to the emperor. If orders and prohibitions are to be followed, what the emperor says is what he does.

The king wants his ministers to die and his ministers have to die. This is loyalty.

Instead of asking the emperor why.

Undoubtedly, he was satisfied with Yinzhen's answer, so he was also willing to give Yinzhen a little hint, "You can go to Doctor Gu before you go, he may be able to give you some ideas."

Doctor Gu?

Yinzhen's heart tightened.

There is only one imperial physician surnamed Gu in the Imperial Hospital, and that is the person who provided Concubine Li with the secret recipe for childbirth.He had heard from Fujin that because Imperial Physician Li Concubine Gu was very popular now, many people went to him for a prescription to have a baby, including the old eighth Fujin who lived next door to him.

Listening to what Khan Ama said today, could it be that this Imperial Physician Gu belongs to Khan Ama?

So it makes sense.

Thinking that what the old eight Fujin did was all seen by Han Ama, the fourth prince gloated a little.

Kangxi said again: "If it's cold today, don't rush it for a while. Let's go when the snow melts in spring next year."

"Will that affect Khan Ama's plan?" Although it will be difficult to walk on the way out now, it is not impossible.

Kangxi waved his hand, "It's okay, it's almost the Chinese New Year, and your family has to make arrangements. When you leave Beijing secretly, I will arrange someone to cover you." Since it is a secret investigation, of course, the less people know, the better. good.

The two discussed some more details before Kangxi let him go.

When the fourth elder brother went out, he saw many elder brothers looking up. Seeing him coming out, the thirteenth elder brother ran over first.He said cautiously: "Fourth brother, but because of the prince, Khan Ama reprimanded you?"

No wonder Elder Brother Thirteen thinks this way, everyone knows that Khan Ama loves the prince the most, and today the fourth brother exposed the prince's secret in front of so many people, it's no wonder Khan Ama is not angry.

Khan Ama may reprimand the prince when he is angry, but he will definitely blame the fourth brother. ,

Stopping, Yinzhen looked at Elder Thirteen seriously, "Thirteen, your idea is wrong, Khan Ama is not a person who does not distinguish between good and evil, why do you think Khan Ama wants to reprimand me?"

Brother Thirteen said in his heart that it was not when you came out that you looked solemn. ,

Others may not be able to see the change of the fourth elder brother. As a person who often hangs out with the fourth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother can easily see that his expression is wrong.

It was fine just now, but when he went in, his face changed. If it wasn't because of the prince, he couldn't think of who else it could be because of.

Yinzhen just patted him on the shoulder, telling him not to think too much, and not to say anything more.

This further strengthened Brother Thirteen's thoughts, and felt that Brother Four had been reprimanded.He whispered: "Ama Khan is too partial."

Khan Ama dotes on the prince, he can tell himself that because the prince is his son, but now Khan Ama favors the prince a little bit regardless of right and wrong, Yinxiang can't convince himself no matter what.

He trotted a few steps to catch up with the fourth elder brother, and when he saw no one around, he whispered: "Fourth elder brother, the prince has no virtue, we have to support him in whatever we do, so let's do it alone. If you are willing, I will absolutely support the thirteenth brother."

Elder Brother Thirteen doesn't like the prince at all, he sees everyone as superior, as if others owe him money.He wished that the prince would be pulled down one day.

Among the remaining brothers, the fifth brother once wooed him, and he was tempted. Er Niang said that Concubine Guo was not a good person, and she even had a grudge against Concubine Shu.Concubine Shu had helped them, if not for Concubine Shu, Er Niang would have been gone long ago, they cannot be ungrateful.

He doesn't like the starling very much, and there is already a ninth brother beside the starling, so it won't be of much benefit for them to come over.After much deliberation, it is better to do it alone.

Now the fourth brother's life experience is known to the world, he is the adopted son of Empress Xiaoyi, although Nala nobleman's Ama has passed away, her brother is a member of the guard army.In fact, the family background of nobleman Nala is much higher than that of Wuya.

Maybe it was really a blood relationship, the fourth brother got along well with the Nala family, if the fourth brother nodded, he believed that the Nala family would support him.

Yinzhen stopped in his tracks, looked over with cold eyes, and said, "Yinxiang, I never had such an idea. If you have, I advise you to get rid of it quickly." He turned his head and looked forward, his face was full of tears Unprecedented seriousness, "I treat you as my own younger brother, and I will only say this once, Khan Ama, you are as simple as you think. Don't hurt yourself because of temporary greed."

Yinxiang opened his mouth to say something, but then he was a little discouraged. The two of them walked a long way like this. Seeing that they were about to leave the palace, Yinxiang still said: "Are you willing? Like the prince, you are willing to be him for the rest of your life." knife?"

Yinxiang liked to follow the fourth brother's ass since he was a child. At first, he was curious and didn't understand why De'eniang treated the fourth brother so badly. Later, he gradually became sympathetic. Later, he learned that the fourth brother was not the biological concubine De. Instead, it was dropped.All the doubts had been answered, and he felt even more sympathetic to this fourth brother.But behind the sympathy, there is an inexplicable sense of intimacy as the same enemy.

He thinks that the fourth brother, like himself, hates Wu Ya's family. With this enemy, they should be born in the same country and people from the same road.

Therefore, he has been following the fourth brother.And the fourth brother also took good care of him. When he left the palace to build a mansion, only the fourth brother gave him 5 taels of silver.

He regarded the fourth brother as his own.That's why I said those heartfelt words.

But at this time, the fourth brother's thinking was obviously different from his own, and he couldn't accept it.

It doesn't matter if the prince is a Mingjun, but obviously he is not.

Yinxiang didn't understand why the fourth brother still followed the prince and wiped his ass behind him.

The fourth elder brother took a deep look at him, and said after a long time: "Yinxiang, your heart is disturbed." The sentence pointed to the vital point.

Now that the court is full of turmoil, it is inevitable that Yinxiang will be misled by the scene in front of him to do irrational things when he is young.

"If you have time, visit Concubine Zhang Jiashu more often. She is your mother-in-law and will not harm you. If you have any troubles or confusion, you can tell her."

From the time when Concubine Zhang Jiashu asked Concubine Shugui to save herself, he could tell that she was a smart woman.All these years, Khan Ama has been indifferent to Concubine Zhang Jiashu, which shows that he still has a grudge against what happened back then.

What about Concubine Zhang Jiashu?She doesn't complain about others, she closes the door to live her own life.

From this point of view, he admired each other.

The thirteenth brother has been close to him since he was a child, and it is not that simple to win the heir. He does not want the thirteenth brother to go on the road of no return.

After saying this, Yinzhen strode forward, leaving Yinxiang behind with a gloomy expression.

A few days after the fourth elder brother broke the news about officials borrowing money from the household department to eat and drink, it was time to seal the pen in the twelfth lunar month.From the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month to the sixteenth of the first lunar month of the next year, it is a holiday for officials.Qing officials only had this one holiday.

In the past, this was a time of relaxation for everyone. Relatives and friends would not necessarily gather together for a few drinks and talk about the past in a year.

This year is different, because the fourth elder brother, the emperor specially ordered them to prepare the owed money on this New Year's Day. On the first morning of the next year, he will see everyone's repayment records.

This news makes many people sleepless, not because they have no money, but because they are reluctant to give it.

Those arrears have long been their own silver in their eyes, and they deserve it.Let them take out their silver now, who is willing?

I don't know who mentioned the prince and the Cao family.The crown prince is the heir apparent, and the Cao family is the natal family of Concubine Li, whom the emperor trusted most. One of these two people will definitely not pay back the money, and the other is far away in the south of the Yangtze River.Then is there any reason for them not to pay back the money?

They can't see how the Cao family is, but the prince can.

So many people set their sights on the prince of Yuqing Palace.

It stands to reason that as a brother, the fourth elder brother is loyal to the prince, and the prince should give the fourth elder brother this step, meaning to pay back some money.

The results of it?

Not only did the prince not help the fourth elder brother, he also hated the fourth elder brother for making him embarrass himself in front of everyone, and asked He Yuzhu to secretly spread the word and not let them pay back the money.

The prince thought that if everyone didn't pay back the money, it would be the fourth elder brother who would look ugly.He also avenged that day.

Kangxi saw everything the prince did, and Kangxi was so angry that he revealed the dragon case, "Prince, what a prince."

The crown prince lost his mother when he was young, and Kangxi took pity on him, so he loved and tolerated him a lot. He thought it was compensation, that the crown prince had no mother since he was a child.Therefore, even in the most difficult years, Kangxi never treated him badly.

He would rather suffer himself than suffer the prince.

If the prince has no money, he can tell himself that he will give it to him, and there is no need to move the money from the account department.What's more, how little he gave the prince these years?

There is someone to take care of the prince's board and lodging, and there is no money at all. Where did all the money go?

Kangxi didn't dare to think about it, or he already had the answer in his heart but he didn't want to believe it.

Seeing that the time was getting closer and there was still no one to repay the loan, Kangxi's face became more and more gloomy.

On the 44th of the first month of the 25th year of Kangxi, it has been a long time since the repayment date proposed the previous year.Yinzhen brought up the old story again. He not only recorded all the ministers who owed money, but also bluntly said, "The Cao family has money to build a family-friendly villa but does not return the money owed to the household department. There is no kingly law in his heart."Such contempt for the emperor's kindness should be severely punished, and the minister suggested that the family should be ransacked directly.

Shouting out the words copying the house made all the ministers tremble.

Someone muttered: "The fourth elder brother is really holding a chicken feather as an arrow, how could the matter be so serious."

He thought he was very quiet, and he was covered by so many noisy voices that the fourth elder brother couldn't hear him.But he didn't want to see the cold eyes of the fourth elder brother when he looked up.

The man shivered in fright, and then thought that he was the prince's man, no matter how powerful the fourth elder brother was, he could surpass the prince.

What he didn't know was that the fourth elder brother brought up the old story again in order to find an excuse for not being in Beijing, and this person happened to bump into him.So this person was unlucky, and the fourth elder brother cracked him up.

The fourth elder brother was a famous talker when he was a child, but later because of some things, he became as cold and quiet as he is now.If he speaks up, he can imagine how sharp he is.

The man was so angry that he almost foamed at the mouth.

It happened that his wife had a good relationship with Concubine Li, or his wife unilaterally flattered Concubine Li.The man went home and told his wife about it.

His wife turned around and learned from Concubine Li.

Knowing that the fourth elder brother wanted to copy Cao's house, Concubine Li was so frightened that she almost had a miscarriage, and Kangxi was furious.He first dismissed the minister who spread the lie and his wife to investigate, and confiscated his family property.

Looking at Concubine Li's pale face, his anger did not dissipate in the slightest. He thought Yinzhen did it on purpose, and bluntly said that the other party was widowed and had no brotherhood.The fourth elder brother is his own son, he cannot be put to death or ransacked the house, there is no such precedent in the Qing Dynasty.So he asked people to confine Si Age's family to Si Baylor Mansion.

The thirteenth brother pleaded unsuccessfully, and was reprimanded by Kangxi when he went to visit.

Some people gloated and said that the fourth elder brother had completely fallen out of favor.

Along with the news that the fourth elder brother fell out of favor, there was also the favored and generous Concubine Li.People subconsciously compare Concubine Li with Concubine Shu again.

It turned out that there was no comparison between Concubine Shu and Concubine Li.When Concubine Shu was favored, the emperor never did anything out of the ordinary.

Concubine Li's popularity once again excited the Cao family.The Sun family held a big banquet the next day to celebrate.

Kangxi's smoke bomb successfully misunderstood the Cao family. They thought that the emperor trusted and favored the Cao family, but they didn't know that on the night when they had a big banquet, several fast horses took advantage of the night to go to Jiangnan.

It was the end of January when Yinzhen left, and he came back before May, bringing with him a piece of incriminating evidence from the Cao family.

I don't know if I don't check, but I found out that the Cao family in Jiangning is like a local emperor.

People in Jiangning may not know who the emperor is or know the emperor, but no one does not know Cao Yin.No matter what you do, just call out the word "Cao Jia" and you will be able to succeed.

Going up to the magistrate of Jiangning and going down to the slaves of Cao's family, they are colluding and making Jiangning a mess.

What Yinzhen couldn't accept the most was Cao Li's release of usury.The laws of the Qing Dynasty clearly stipulated that the interest on private loans should not be higher than three cents, especially not compound interest.

Cao Li committed the crime knowingly, and she used Cao Yin's position to lend money. The interest reached five cents.

Some people only borrowed ten taels of silver, and in the past year they could turn over hundreds or even thousands of taels.

Ten taels of silver still needs to be borrowed, so how can I pay back the thousand taels?

The unscrupulous Mrs. Cao Li used other people's real estate and fields as collateral.For a top-notch field that is obviously worth five taels of silver, she can give him at most two taels of silver. If she thinks this person is easy to bully, she can even give it as low as five hundred taels of silver.

If the property is not enough, then sell the sons and daughters.

He was able to find more than a dozen trafficking incidents with definite evidence.Yinzhen didn't dare to think about how many things were left unchecked.

Kangxi looked at the thick pile of evidence in front of him, his face was as cold as ice, "Have you found out everything?"

It not only records the crimes of Cao Yin and his wife, but also the old lady.The Sun family who he thought was old and homeless.

Sun clearly knew that Cao Li's viciousness not only did not stop it, but also used it as a threat to make her prepare money for Concubine Li in the palace.

Every month Sun received as much as 3000 taels of dividends from Cao Li. He couldn't imagine how many people Cao Li had persecuted and how much money he had obtained every month.

Yinzhen nodded with difficulty, "All that can be traced is here, because it is a secret investigation, some old ministers are afraid to scare the snake away, and some have earned enough money to cancel their IOUs, and there is no way to investigate them. "

He not only checked the Cao family, but also the Li family and the Sun family.

The Cao and Li families are in the same spirit, and he doesn't believe that the Li family didn't do what the Cao family did.The Li family was far away in Suzhou, and it took some time on the road from Jiangning to Suzhou, and the matter of the Li family has just been checked.

In fact, if the emperor hadn't sent a secret letter, he would have continued to investigate.

He didn't expect the thirteenth brother to be so persistent, and the sixteenth brother, the two of them often spoke well of Khan Ama in front of him.The thirteenth brother actually coaxed the sixteenth brother to go to his house.

The sixteenth brother was so stubborn that Su Peisheng almost couldn't stop someone from breaking in.

Therefore, after receiving the emperor's secret letter, he rushed back quickly.

Kangxi nodded, these evidences are enough to kill the Cao family a hundred times.He pondered for a moment and said, "Take a good rest when you come back, I will let you take a few days off."

The son couldn't catch one and used it vigorously, and the fourth child lost weight during this time, "Liang Jiugong, go to my private storehouse to pick up some high-quality nourishing herbs and bring them back to the fourth elder brother. Then let the king of Zhijun and the king of Chengjun come over."

It is true that Sun's milked him, but this does not justify the Cao family's crime.The prince committed the same crime as the common people, and the Cao family must be severely punished this time.