Kangxi was not a good man. He couldn't bear to see his fourth son leave happily, so he stopped him immediately.

When he was almost at the door, he was stopped by Khan Ama. Yinzhen regretted very much that he took too small a step back. If he had taken two steps at a time, he would have been out of the door by now.

"Hurry up and sit over here." Seeing Yinzhen standing blankly at the door, motionless, Kangxi spoke again hurriedly, pointing to a seat not far away from him, motioning Yinzhen to come over and sit down.

Yinzhen had no choice but to do as he was told.

He sat down facing his three brothers with sympathetic eyes, and then rolled his eyes at them.

I still feel sorry for him. After all, he is sitting instead of kneeling.

His satisfied eyes passed over his fourth son, and when they fell on the other three sons, they turned into disgust in an instant. Kangxi glanced at them coldly and snorted, "Tell me, who is the mastermind?"

What he was asking was who was behind the arrest of all the officials in Hangzhou.

Yinreng and Yinzhi had a perfect tacit understanding. Before Kangxi finished speaking, they had already pointed at the tall and strong Yinzhi at a very fast speed, and even shouted: "Him!"

Yinzhi, who was a little slow in his movements, had just raised his hand to point at Yinreng when he was forced to take the blame.

He slowly looked at his two naughty brothers beside him, and subconsciously looked at his fourth brother Yinzhen who was sitting upright, but saw Yinzhen motioning him to look at their Khan Ama.

Suddenly, Yinzhi raised his finger and pointed at Kangxi, saying, "Khan Ama, it was you who ordered it!"

Kangxi: “???”

Yinreng and Yinzhi: "?!!!"

The three of them looked at Yinzhi in unison, shocked and confused. What was going on?

Only Yinzhen nodded with satisfaction, then continued to drink his tea with his head down.

Yinzhi had completely understood. He calmly explained, "Khan Ama, it was you who asked us to rectify the officials in Hangzhou. We arrested them all. It's ok for you not to praise us, but you even act like you want to bring an army to punish us. Why is that?"

If there is any blame, he can just throw it all on Khan Ama. It is none of his business anyway. He is just following orders.

Yinzhi raised his head and looked at Kangxi without any guilt, which made Kangxi very angry.

He took a quick deep breath, then gritted his teeth and said, "Yinzhen, shut his mouth for me!"

He was wrong. He shouldn't have given Yinzhi a chance to speak.

This bastard, every word he says is infuriating!

After receiving the order, Yinzhen immediately took action. He rummaged through his things, found a longer handkerchief, walked up to Yinzhi, and tied his mouth.

Yinzhi cooperated with his actions very well. After he was tied up, he closed his mouth and made two "mmm" sounds towards Kangxi to show that he really could not speak at the moment.

Unfortunately, Kangxi didn't want to pay attention to him. Without even looking at him, he waved his hand and asked Yinzhen and Yinzhi to stand aside.

Standing happily with his fourth brother, Yinzhi truly felt the beauty of talking nonsense.

He supported Yinzhen's shoulder with one hand and stared at Yinreng and Yinzhi, his pride evident in his expression.

You didn't expect that, you wanted him to take the blame, but ended up asking him to stand aside.

Yinreng and Yinzhi saw Yinzhi's boasting and they rolled their eyes in disgust and didn't want to look at him at all.

Kangxi is very tired now. The disrespectful behavior of his eldest son and fourth son has made him no longer want to listen to what his second and third sons say.

These bastards are all the same, all extremely outrageous, and their skills in talking nonsense are more advanced than each other. He is afraid that he will get angry and have a stroke soon.

So he immediately decided not to listen to his second and third sons and only talk about his own things.

"Listen to me, all of you. Release the people immediately and stop making trouble. Otherwise, you will suffer the consequences when you return to the palace."

Kangxi threatened, but Yinreng and Yinzhi were not afraid at all. They thought about it carefully before saying, "Khan Ama, should we just release them?"

Yinreng said seriously: "Khan Ama, the Hangzhou government is extremely corrupt, and there are many people who are just sitting there doing nothing. I think we should investigate it thoroughly."

It's so hard to arrest all the people and put them in jail. If we don't execute a bunch of officials who don't do their jobs, wouldn't it seem like a joke?

"Yes, Ama Khan, we have investigated to this extent. Can you give us a few more days to deal with it properly?"

Yinzhi also put in a lot of effort. He spent several days investigating those officials and did not want to waste his time and energy in vain.

Yinzhi and Yinzhen, who were also busy, looked at Kangxi with expectation and request in their eyes, which made Kangxi helpless: "Alright, alright, but don't go too far. If the water is too clear, there will be no fish. If some people's mistakes are not serious, please forgive them once."

As an emperor, Kangxi was not as intolerant as Yinzhen. He allowed the existence of mediocre and corrupt officials.

Just like Soetu and Nalan Mingzhu, neither of them were good officials, but they were able to do their jobs and were capable. In Kangxi's eyes, as long as they did not make too big mistakes, they could generally be forgiven.

However, temporary tolerance is only temporary. If one day, they are blinded by this little tolerance, desire more, and thus make big mistakes, then it is not impossible to settle the new and old accounts together.

This was Kangxi's way of being a monarch, and he hoped to teach it to his sons, especially his fourth son Yinzhen.

After being looked at, Yinzhen did not move. He knew that Khan Ama was giving him a warning, but corruption was the thing he could not tolerate the most.

He had his own persistence, otherwise future generations would not be able to say that "During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, all officials were clean."

Thinking of this, Yinzhen couldn't help but complain. If we talk about it from this aspect, he is really an outlier among their three generations of grandfather and grandson.

Khan Ama allowed corrupt officials to exist, and Hongli was even more extreme. He directly nurtured corrupt officials and helped Heshen become the most corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty. He was the only one who confiscated the property of corrupt officials in various ways ... ...

Tsk, annoying.

Yinzhen had a blank expression on his face, with a barrage of thoughts running through his mind. If there was anyone present who had the ability to read minds, they would be shocked at how much he was thinking.

Fortunately, there is no such incredible ability.

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