The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

After getting into the carriage, Yin Zuo rubbed his cheeks sore from laughing, and sighed slightly.

Back in Lin's mansion, Yin Zuo took out the old Western gadgets and disassembled and reinstalled them again.

Wangcai complained: "Master, what's so interesting about these things? It's so boring to disassemble and assemble all day long. Why don't we go to the theater!"

Yinzuo looked up at him, and asked, "Wangcai, if you have two cats, one is good at catching mice, and the other is pretty and cute, who can be coquettish and cute, which cat would you like better?"

"Probably... the more beautiful one!"

"If you had to sell one, which one would you sell?"

Wangcai said without even thinking about it: "If you must sell it, then you can only sell the beautiful one. After all, cats are raised to catch mice!"

As soon as the words were finished, Yin Zuo saw a self-deprecating look on his face, and suddenly felt something was wrong, and changed his words: "Master, the servant thinks your question is wrong."

"Why not?"

Wangcai said: "I don't really have cats. If I did, and I had feelings for them, I would be reluctant to sell one of them. Even if I had to sell one, if I like the beautiful one, I would rather Go catch the mouse yourself, and keep it.”

"Look," Yinzuo said, "this is the difference between having a pet and being useful. The sorrow of a pet lies in its own future, and it all depends on the depth of the master's affection for it."

Wangcai said anxiously, "Master..."

Yinzuo smiled, patted him on the shoulder, stretched his waist and said: "So, I want to make a pet that is both pampered and useful... brother."

Wangcai rubbed his head blankly, shouldn't he also learn some skills to be a pampered and useful eunuch?

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Before Yinzuo left Beijing, the Kaiyinbu family was dealt with. Three or four were chopped off, twenty or thirty were exiled, and twenty or thirty were demoted to official slaves. It disappeared in the blink of an eye.

It was the first time for Kangxi to deal with the veterans so ruthlessly.

For a time, the government and the public heard about "six" and changed their colors.

The third-rank censor, because he said a bad word about that one in the court, Kangxi didn't say anything, and directly exiled him on an unfounded charge, and the fourth elder brother even drove his family out of the house empty-handed.

The admiral of the second grade and nine sects, a powerful imperial court official, and Kangxi's favorite minister, because the youngest son fought with the actor, the whole family disappeared, and even relatives and friends suffered together.

Nine out of ten of the civil and military dynasties summoned their children and grandchildren to teach them when they went down to the court: in the future, when they saw Lord Lin, Master Liu, etc., they would be careful to fawn on them. If they offended him, Kaiyinbu's family would be punished!

The remaining one secretly rejoiced that the demon king at home was not in the capital... wrote a letter telling him not to go to Beijing for the rest of his life!

Two days later, Kangxi moved to Changchun Garden, and Yinzuo also moved to Jingming Garden with Wangcai, the cook and the imperial physician.

When he arrived at the place, Yin Zuo discovered that the mess of people and things he had left in Baylor Mansion came earlier than him. According to the housekeeper's words: "The master has been promoted to the king of the county, and the original specifications of Baylor Mansion are the same. It's too low. Long Live God asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to repair and expand. The servants had no place to go, so they moved here first. By the way, the fourth elder brother moved to live in Huaiyuan not far away yesterday. Would you like to visit? "

"Fourth brother moved here?" Yin Zuo said in surprise: "Then fourth sister-in-law and the others..."

It is impossible for Yinzhen to move Tong Jiashi to the place where he lives, but Tong Jiashi is still pregnant, so why don't he spend more time with her?

The butler replied: "Si elder brother is alone, and even the servants only brought Mr. Su Peisheng Su, or the slaves sent a few eunuchs to serve."

The servants assigned by themselves in the garden can only do menial tasks such as sweeping and sweeping, but they are not allowed to wait for changing clothes and meals.

Now that Yinzhen is here, Yinzuo naturally wants to go and have a look. Before he left, Yinzhen came first, and the two sat down to drink tea. Yinzhen explained: "Huang Ama moved to Changchun Garden, we are on business You can only run at both ends. If you can’t go back, you can only spend the night in the guard house. I was late with the driver yesterday. I think Jingmingyuan is now your residence, so I don’t bother to go to the guard house to make do , come here for one night.”

Yin Zuo said dissatisfiedly: "I just heard the report from the subordinates, and I thought that the fourth brother really moved to live with me. I don't want to be happy for nothing."

Yinzhen smiled and said: "If you don't dislike it, I'm afraid you will be disturbed often in the future. After all, Shengjia is here!"

Yin Zuo said happily, "That's good to dare."

Yinzhen said again: "You'd better be prepared. I'll start it. I'm afraid that if the brothers who are on business can't go back, they will all come to borrow. There are many inconveniences in Huang Ama's palace."

Yin Zuo smiled and said: "That's good, this Jingming Garden is too big, if someone is willing to come, it will be more popular."

Wangcai was called by clapping hands, and said: "Order to go down, tidy up a few more yards, and prepare them for the eldest brother, the third brother, the fifth brother, and the eighth brother. By the way, there is still fourteen, and he will come to stay for a few days. "

Turning to Yinzhen, he said: "When they come to ask for it, it's better to offer a favor. Anyway, it doesn't cost me a penny. The expenses of Jingming Garden are still recorded in Huang Ama's inner treasury."

He said again: "I'm going to ask for an order after I'm settled down, let Huang Ama take a two-day vacation in the study, and I will invite all the brothers to play for two days, those little brothers must be very bored, fourth brother how do you feel?"

Yinzhen smiled and said: "It's good, but I'm afraid Yinzhen will be dissatisfied again. It's obviously the kindness he begged with great difficulty, but in the end it made all the brothers cheaper."

Yinzuo shook his head and laughed and said, "Xiao Shisi is good at everything, but he is a little narrow-minded, which just grinds his temper."

While chatting and drinking a cup of tea, Yin Zuo lowered his voice slightly and said, "Fourth brother, is the money in the household department still sufficient?"

Yinzhen asked, "Do you want it to be sufficient or insufficient?"

Yinzuo asked in surprise, "How do you say that?"

Yinzhen said: "If you say enough, in the past few days, probably because of Kaiyinbu's incident, many people have come to the household department to pay back the money on their own initiative, and none of them borrowed the money. It's more than enough."

Take the initiative to repay the money... Yinzuo can understand them very well. After all, Yinzhen is notorious now. If he accidentally commits a crime when he owes Ku Yin, 100 taels of silver will be taken as ten taels to pay off the debt. There is no place to cry go.

Only Yinzhen said again: "If it's not enough... As long as I turn a blind eye and close my eyes and don't pursue it when someone is dealt with again, it won't be long before they start borrowing money again. Ama Huang I have to tour outside the Great Wall for two months, and I will go on a tour to the south in the spring of next year, and I will have a sea of ​​money, if I loosen my hand when approving money, the household department will be tight."

Yinzuo nodded, poured tea for Yinzhen, and said with a smile: "Fourth brother, I think you can scare them from borrowing money by collecting debts like this, but it also ruined your reputation. It's better to forget about the lawsuit!"

Yinzhen glanced at him with a half-smile, hummed, and lowered his head to drink tea.

Yinzuo felt guilty when he saw him, and asked, "Why didn't fourth brother ask me?"

Yinzhen said lightly: "If you have anything to ask, I just need to know what you want."

Yinzuo smiled and said, "Thank you, fourth brother."

He smiled wryly again and said, "I didn't intend to drag Huang Ama's hind legs, but, it's enough to taste what it's like to be an outcast."

Yinzhen looked down at the teacup for a while, then looked up at Yinzuo, and said, "If you want that seat, I'll help you."

Yinzuo shook his head again and again, and said, "I don't want to do such a hard job."

Yinzhen was silent for a moment, then said: "...Then help me."

"……it is good."

If Yinzhen came to ask a few months later, even if Yinzuo agreed, he would not be so forthright.But this time the accident made him clearly realize that if the next emperor is not Yinzhen or Yinzhen, his future is bleak.

It would be best if Yinzhen was willing to fight for it.

Staying out of things is not something a favored prince can do, let alone a prince named "Zuo".

The important matters related to wealth and life were finished by the two of them, so they began to chat about family affairs. Yin Zuo thought of Tong Jia and asked, "How is Sisao? I heard from Fourteen the other day that Sisao's fetal image is a bit unstable. Can it be recuperated? Er Niang is looking forward to holding her grandson!"

Yinzhen said it was okay, but Yinzuo saw that he didn't want to talk about it, so he changed the topic.

Just as he was talking about the preparations for the supermarket in the capital, which will open in a few days, and the opening of branches in other cities, Liang Jiugong ran in in a panic, forgetting to even announce: "Si Ye, Si Ye! You Go back and have a look, something big has happened!"

Yinzhen frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

Liang Jiugong glanced at Yinzuo, leaned close to Yinzhen's ear and whispered a few words, Yinzhen's complexion suddenly became ugly, he got up and walked out, walked two steps and then turned back, said to Yinzuo: "It's nothing serious , don't worry, go to bed earlier."

Without waiting for Yinzuo to reply, he left quickly.

With Yinzhen's last statement, Yinzuo became even more worried, but he didn't dare to inquire about it, for fear of spoiling his affairs.

After two days of being so worried, it was not until the third day that Wangcai came back with the news, and he looked like he was about to cry: "Master, a fire broke out in a village outside the capital, and more than a dozen people died..."

Looking at his appearance, Yin Zuo knew that it might not be as simple as a dead person, so he asked in a deep voice, "Who is dead?"

Wangcai said: "It's Sifujin..."

Yin Zuo was dizzy for a while: "Then..."

Wangcai nodded: "One dead body, two lives."

Yin Zuo rubbed his forehead, and it took a while to recover his ability to think, and asked, "Did you say how you lost your temper?"

Wangcai hesitated for a moment, and said: "It is rumored outside that it is the fourth brother... who killed his wife and son."

Yinzuo slapped the table with his palm, and Wangcai flinched: "Master..."

Yin Zuo took a deep breath: "You continue!"

Wangcai said: "I don't know what's going on. What happened on May [-]th is spread all over the street. It is said that the fourth sister-in-law is pitiful. She married into the enemy's house. She took every precaution but failed to save her life. Brother is cruel and tyrannical, he caused many families to be ruined, but who knows that he would not spare his own flesh and blood, the poison of a tiger does not eat its offspring, he is worse than a tiger..."

"Enough!" Yin Zuo interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and said, "Don't talk about the rumors outside, how did Huang Ama deal with it?"

Wangcai said: "The fourth elder brother was confined at home, and Lord Long Live sent the Criminal Department to conduct a thorough investigation."

Yin Zuo frowned and said: "You didn't even check it out, so you banned the fourth brother's feet first?"

Wangcai said: "Long live God said, if the fourth elder brother hadn't been ruthless and unjust, and sent Fujin who was still pregnant to Zhuangzi, he wouldn't have..."

Yinzuo got up and walked out, Wangcai hurriedly followed: "Master, master, where are you going? You can't enter the city gate even if you return to Beijing!"

Yin Zuo said: "I'm going to see Huang Ama."

"Master, please don't be impulsive!" Wangcai said urgently, "Long Live Lord is in a fit of anger, so don't bring this matter up to cause him bad luck."

Yin Zuo said: "I know Huang Ama's temperament better than you!"

When we arrived at Tanningju, where Kangxi handled political affairs, besides Kangxi and the crown prince, there was the eighth elder brother Yinhu. It looked like Kangxi was listening to Yinhu's reply.

Seeing Yinzuo coming in, Kangxi said: "The heat hasn't dissipated yet, why did you come out?"

Yin Zuo said: "My son is not as weak as Huang Ama thought."

He was dissatisfied and said: "But Huang Ama asked them to deliberately hide the news? The whole capital knows about the fourth sister-in-law, but I am the last brother to know about it."

Kangxi said: "Don't you want to worry you? Didn't your fourth brother leave from you that day? I'm afraid he meant the same thing. But since you've come, let's sit down and listen to what old eight has to say."

Yinzuo sat down honestly, Yinhu received a signal from Kangxi, and continued: "From the scene, the fire started from the outside, and the thieves used straw and other flammable objects to pile up the fire outside the house. Wu Zuo examined several corpses, and there was smoke and dust in the mouth and nose. It can be seen that when the fire was on fire, people were still alive, but there was no sign of struggle. The identities of the seventeen people who died have been confirmed. There are maids and maids serving the fourth sister-in-law, guards and a stable woman... There is also a doctor whose whereabouts are unknown."

He hesitated for a moment, then said: "Judging from the scene alone, it should be that the doctor cooperated with the outside, stunned the people in the yard, and then welcomed the outside thieves and set fire to them."

Kangxi said angrily, "You only found so few things after searching for a few days?"

Yinhu bowed his head and said, "It's my son's incompetence. The scene was so thoroughly destroyed that no clues were left behind. The doctor pursued him for several days, but there was no news..."

Kangxi shouted: "If you can't find it, keep looking! I've limited you to ten days or something, you must find out the real culprit!"

Yinhu's face showed a look of embarrassment, but he respectfully agreed.

Yinfeng stood up and said, "Huang Ama, my son has something to say."

Kangxi nodded: "You say."

Yinfeng said: "In Erchen's opinion, there is no rush to investigate the case. As long as the investigation is carried out carefully, the truth will always come to light. The most important thing now is to stop the rumors first."

He paused, and said: "Nowadays, the rumors outside are getting more and more intense. Originally, they only focused on the fourth child, but now, they have already involved many people. There are all kinds of things outside. If this continues, we will only I'm afraid that the entire royal family will become like a monster in the eyes of the common people. What I mean by this son is to close the case as soon as possible, which can not only eliminate the rumors, but also make the real culprit feel slack, and then it will not be too late to investigate secretly."

Yinhu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and gave Yinrong a grateful look, who smiled back.

Kangxi's expression was slightly relaxed, and he said: "According to your opinion, what reason should be used to close the case?"

Yinfeng said: "It may be an accidental fire, or it may be the robbers who did the damage, no matter what the reason is, let's close the case first."

Kangxi pondered for a while, and was about to speak when Yin Zuo got up and said, "Huang Ama, my son thinks something is wrong."

Before Kangxi could speak, Yinfeng sighed, and said earnestly: "Sixth brother, second brother knows that you have misunderstood second brother, another day, second brother can beat and scold you as you please? Today we are talking about important national affairs, six Brother, don't be arrogant."

Yinzuo said: "I don't understand the important affairs of the country, but I know a little about the world. The method of His Highness, is to let the rumors die down, or to let the rumors be confirmed? It is now May, the weather is extremely hot, and the lights are bright at night. How could there be a fire accidentally? Even if there is a real fire, there will be seventeen or eight people in a courtyard, and none of them will be able to escape?"

"As for the bandits doing harm, it's even more ridiculous. There haven't been any bandits in the vicinity of the capital for decades. Now, when they do, the big households who hide gold and silver don't go to harm them, but they go to a barren small village and kill a man protected by a dozen guards. Fourth sister-in-law, people are not fools, will they believe it?"

"I'm afraid that if these two reasons are really used to close the case, the people will only think that they are trying to cover it up. At that time, it will not be said that the fourth sister-in-law will commit suicide, or that the fourth brother will kill his wife and son!"

Whether it was forcing his wife and children to death, or killing his wife and children, if Yinzhen really had this stain on his head, according to Kangxi's temperament, he might be excluded from the succession forever.

If Yinzhen is hopeless, he has a heart disease, and Yinzhen is too young, it will be difficult for their brothers to succeed.

Yinfeng snorted coldly: "Since the sixth brother said that my method is not good, there must be a better way?"

Yinzuo ignored him and said to Kangxi: "Didn't Huang Ama give the eighth brother ten days? My son is willing to investigate the case with the eighth brother. If the case cannot be solved within ten days, the son will not intervene in this matter."

Yinfeng said lightly: "I feel that you should avoid this matter, Sixth Brother..."

Yinzuo glanced at him and said, "Your Highness asked me to avoid him because he thought I would favor the fourth brother?"

He sneered, and said: "In the past, my younger brother always envied His Highness the Crown Prince's intelligence and profound knowledge, but now it seems that he is getting more and more confused? Anyone with a long brain knows that this matter has nothing to do with the fourth brother, how can they listen to the Crown Prince?" What does His Highness mean, that you actually think that Fourth Brother can't do it?"

"you!"

Yinzuo snorted coldly, and said: "Sisister-in-law doesn't have a good pregnancy image. If brother-in-law really wants to harm her, he will lock her up in the inner house and don't say what he did during childbirth. Please take a few steps slower for Mrs. Wen. It's justifiably gone——is fourth brother crazy or stupid, and send people to Zhuangzi to set fire?"

Turning to Kangxi again, he said: "Huang Ama, this matter is clearly someone who intentionally tried to trap the fourth brother into injustice. Huang Ama, you are the emperor, but you are also a father. How can you abandon the fourth brother because of scruples? Fame and disregard?"

Huang Ama, you are the emperor, but you are also the father...

Kangxi sighed, and said: "Forget it, I will give you one month. Within one month, no matter whether you can find anything or not, the case must be closed."

Yinzuo was busy thanking him, Kangxi saw his happy appearance, and said in a slow voice: "I asked Lao Ba, the Ministry of punishment, and Shuntian Mansion to cooperate fully, but you have to do what you can, and you can't force it. If you really can't, just let it go. "