Liquidation

Kangxi stayed out of the palace for most of the year, went back once and came out again, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shengjia marched to Zhili[①], Kangxi abolished the post of governor of Zhili in the eighth year, and a group of people temporarily lived in Baoding A house on the outskirts of the government.This night was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it was a great honor for Kangxi to present a banquet and many local officials to accompany the last seat.

The princes sat on the left hand side of Kangxi, followed by Yinxuan, Yinzhi, Yinzhen, Yinqi, Yinyou, Yinhu, Yinyu, Yinyuwo, Yinxuan, Yinxiang, and Yinzhen. Only the prince stayed in the capital , the other older brothers who have grown up actually brought all of them with them.

This was the first time that the princes gathered outside the palace like this, and no prince was present yet.Kangxi also diverted his paternal love from the prince, seeing his own sons on the left, all handsome and extraordinary, he was quite proud.When the ministers on the right saw him, they had to praise him and flatter Kangxi indirectly.

In fact, these princes are indeed outstanding.Even Xiao Shi Yinrong, who looks the most messed up, sat down in style tonight, courteous and thoughtful, and a good-looking talent.At the banquet, the father is kind and the son is filial, and the monarch and his ministers are in harmony.

Unexpectedly, when the moon was in the middle of the sky, when the atmosphere was the most lively, Liang Jiugong who was beside Kangxi suddenly sent an urgent memorial. Kangxi opened it, and his face changed.

Yinhu watched from below, and met Yinzhen's eyes, both at a loss as to what was going on.

The ministers began to discuss and make noise in a low voice.Kangxi was sitting in a high position in the middle, who couldn't see what was going on, and immediately signaled to stop singing and dancing, and said sullenly and angrily: "The embankment of the Yongding River has collapsed! Yu Chenglong, tell me!"

Yu Chenglong, who was over sixty years old, had a shocked expression on his face, trembling and knelt down in the middle: "Minister... Please investigate this matter thoroughly..."

Yinhu was suspicious in his heart, Yu Chenglong was a minister capable of water control, he had been conscientious and worked very hard.The Yongding River embankment he presided over has been very stable, how could it suddenly collapse?

It seems that Yu Chenglong only knew about this matter, and he thought it had nothing to do with him.But Kangxi was very furious. In recent years, he has been preparing to inspect the Yongding River Works almost every year, taking this matter as the top priority. He would have arrived around October this year, but he did not expect such a thing to happen now.

What else could have caused the dam to fail?Naturally, the quality of the project is not good, or someone deliberately sabotaged it.Judging from the importance of the Yongding River embankment, who could have caused such great damage?If this reason can be ruled out, then it must be that someone enriched their own pockets and shoddy the construction, resulting in the poor quality of the embankment, which collapsed after it was built for more than a year!

The ministers here are a little flexible, and they have already filtered the names of the people involved in this matter in their minds, thinking or picking them all so that Kangxi will not be angry.However, Yinhu thought that Kangxi valued the river project, and all forces were involved. Yu Chenglong devoted himself to water control, but he couldn't prevent his subordinates from fighting for power.It's just that I don't know which person made a mistake this time and exposed the disaster to the sky.

Kangxi was furious and couldn't contain himself: "So, you don't know anything about it!" He shook his hands and threw the memorial in his hand to the ground, right in front of Jackie Chan.

Yu Chenglong suddenly got this innocent injustice, and almost burst into tears. He worked so hard for water control all his life, and even his fame was about to lose his reputation when he was old.When he fell down and bowed down: "The minister is guilty!"

"You are in charge of the river control affairs, and you are the governor of the river... You actually repaired the river dam until it collapsed!" Kangxi's face was extremely ugly, and he suddenly got up: "Suppress him! Put him in a prison! Get up tomorrow, go Yongding River!"

A banquet was interrupted and broke up unhappy.The princes dispersed in all directions, Yinhu consciously came together with Yinzhen, and the two entered Yinhu's room, Yinhu then asked: "Fourth brother, about this...do you have any news?"

Yinzhen sat down at the table, frowned and said: "I also just found out that Huang Ama watched the urgent memorial. I think the dam collapsed within a day or two."

Yinhu thought about it for a while, but couldn't see the clues, and then remembered the water control regulations he thought about, and immediately asked: "Fourth brother, do you think this is an opportunity for me to go to the Yongding River to have a look?"

Yinzhen raised his eyes and glanced at him, and vetoed him again: "This matter is not allowed. Now it is not just a matter of water control. The Yongding River construction has been the main task of Huang Ama in recent years. This time the dam collapses, I am afraid that it will involve far-reaching consequences. , Many people are involved." He tapped his index finger on the table and thought, "According to Huang Ama's usual behavior, he will probably send an imperial envoy to investigate the matter thoroughly, and then arrest a group of people for questioning before it disappears. got angry."

"And the autumn rain season is not over yet, the dams have already collapsed, and there is no time to repair them, and floods will occur at any time. After that, people with weight are needed for disaster relief. The water control strategy you are thinking of may have to wait until next year. Everything is ready to be presented.”

Yinhu finally tried his best to try his best to do something practical, but this kind of thing happened unexpectedly.His enthusiasm was hindered, and he calmed down for a while.The two pondered for a while, because they drank a few glasses of wine at the banquet, they were a little sleepy at the moment, and they had to leave early tomorrow, so Yinhu stayed behind and slept with Yinzhen for the night.

In the early morning of the second day, Kangxi really got up and drove to Yongding River. The road along the way became more and more wet and muddy, obviously it had been raining heavily.But along the river, nine out of ten rooms are empty, and there is no smoke from cooking.Occasionally, I saw one or two households, all of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled, with disheveled faces.

The flood had already broken out, and Kangxi was so furious that he couldn't bear to visit the scene in person to check the local disaster relief.The ministers stopped them on the grounds of danger ahead, and Kangxi sent Yinxuan and Yinhu to check.

When Yinhu reached the river, he could only see the long water and choppy waves, but there was no shadow of any dam left.Either the quality was too poor and it was washed away early, or the flood was too large and it was already submerged—according to the degree of bean curd that the dam collapsed in a year, the reason may be the former.

Yin Yin walked in front, also shocked.After going back and reporting the truth, Kangxi was so angry that he could hardly speak.

"You bastard! You bastard!" He threw all the good official kiln teacups on the table to the ground and broke them into several pieces. "Call everyone in!"

Brothers and ministers filed in. Seeing that the atmosphere was stagnant and Kangxi was still angry, presumably the result of the inspection was not good, and the emperor was on fire, so when they entered, they all knelt on the ground and saluted quietly.

Kangxi didn't even have the mood to ask them to get up, and said in a very aggressive tone, "The flood has started and the dams have been destroyed. Which one of you can tell me what to do now?!"

Yinfei immediately got up and asked Ying to say: "Huang Ama, my son is willing to lead the soldiers of the Eight Banners to help rush to repair the Yongding River embankment!"

Kangxi's expression softened slightly, and he sat down on the chair: "Where are the others?"

Yinzhen also bowed and said, "My son, please go and help rescue the victims."

With the beginning, the people below asked to do this and that one after another. Kangxi looked at it coldly, and finally ordered: "Yinzhen, Yinzhi, and Yinyou go to mobilize troops to repair the embankment, and Yinzhen, Yinqi, and Yinhu go to rescue disasters! "Nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen were ordered by Kangxi to accompany them for observation, and they had a lot of experience in doing things.

Thanks to Kangxi's many sons, such a bunch of things were allocated, but the ministers below were not used much.Because the collapse of the dam must have been caused by the influence of the officials below, Kangxi's other order was to scoop up all the relevant people and send them to prison to accompany Yu Chenglong.

Maybe it's because the prince is not around, so he can express himself to his heart's content.The princes do everything very hard.Everyone left early and returned late, and spent the whole day on the embankment.Yinxuan took the lead and was like a clay figurine with the soldiers. Yinzhen and Yinhu were also exhausted. Even the old nine and the tenth had no airs of princes. They were all stationed at the front line during disaster relief, and the victims received medicine Bowls of porridge, no one knew that those few people who were dressed in ordinary clothes and distributed the supplies with their own hands were the emperor's elder brothers.

The news of Kangxi's visit to Yongding River spread, and the Zhili army was mobilized to protect it.The people who got the treatment kowtowed to God and were very grateful.Yinhu mingled with the victims, but could hear some discordant emotions.

Half a month later, all the disaster relief work was basically completed. Kangxi left Zhili and returned to the capital because the local government had to send a large number of troops to protect him. Assist in disaster relief.And dictated the decree, ordering the three to find out the truth about the collapse of the dam.

As soon as the Kangxi brigade left, Yinzhen couldn't stop showing excitement, Yinhu was secretly surprised, but Yinzhen said: "It's the prince."

"what?"

When the two returned to the local government office, it was already night, Yinzhen's eyes were tired and tired, Yinhu reached out to rub his temples, Yinzhen squinted his eyes, and explained: "At that time, it was Suo who was responsible for repairing the embankment and purchasing supplies. The people of the forehead."

Yinhu thought for a while: "You mean, elder brother thinks he has a chance to deal with the prince?"

Yinzhen silently acquiesced, and the thoughts in Yinhu's head quickly turned: "No, big brother will definitely use his strength when he gets this opportunity, but now that the time is not up, Huang Ama will just abandon the car to protect the handsome, and bring the prince out. Pick it up."

He frowned a little helplessly: "Brother is always so reckless, even if the crown prince is involved in this matter, Huang Ama still favors the crown prince, at most he will be discouraged and disappointed again..."

Yinzhen relaxed his body, leaned against his arms, the heat of the two bodies melted together, and played with a section of his braid: "People's hearts are always biased, how can the prince who has been standing up for so many years be like this?" fall down as easily."

"I heard that the prince has a big appetite recently, and he has been asking the people below to respect him. I don't know if he was involved in the construction of the embankment last year, or it was just shaking the mountain and disturbing Suo'etu."

Yinhu knew very well that the prince could say that he didn't know anything about it, and that it was his subordinates or Suo'etu who acted on his own. Judging from Suo'etu's attitude that he would definitely protect the prince, he either blamed the subordinates for the crime or insisted on himself. It will definitely not affect the prince.I'm afraid that big brother will also fetch water from a bamboo basket this time, and it will be empty and happy.

As a bystander, he watched the eldest brother work hard with Mingzhu for so many years, trying to bring down the prince and take the position himself, but it turned out to be nothing, and he would be imprisoned for decades in history. The eldest brother is also very A talented person, but born in the emperor's family, was involved in a conspiracy to fight for the throne, and ended up like this for a lifetime.If he was in that position, I don't know how much resentment he would have.

The prince was very good at the beginning, but the others were not bad, but the prince gradually became bad. How can others who are equally qualified be willing?In history, Yongzheng was recognized by Kangxi, but it also attracted opposition from other people. Later, brothers fought against each other, and brothers and sisters fought against each other, resulting in the tragedy of Tianjia.

In this life, he hoped that he would not bear such a heavy crime and be misunderstood by the people of the world.What's more, he didn't want him to watch Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi, who had grown up, be tortured to death, and the other spend the rest of their lives depressed.

Yinhu was in a daze, but Yinzhen deliberately pulled his braid hard with his hands, causing him to "hiss" in pain: "Fourth brother, what are you doing?!"

Yinzhen smiled deeply: "Xiaoba, you won't forget that you promised me a request?"