The swansong of the swansong

Chapter 180 The Second Deposed Crown Prince (6)

To be honest, Yinyou and Zhang Tingyu worked together for quite a long time.

However, this was the first time that they sat together side by side to discuss issuing an imperial edict and a manifesto to suppress rebellion.

Zhang Tingyu did not dare to have a private relationship with Yinyou, fearing that he would be envied by Kangxi.

Yinyou also looked down on Zhang Tingyu, an old and scheming bureaucrat!
So, the two of them used to sit in the same duty room every day but hardly spoke to each other.

After a while, with their shrewdness, they both realized that the other person was full of the same kind of aura!
In the circle of top-level Celestial Dragons, people of the same kind often repel each other!

For example, it was impossible for a disciple like Gao Gong to appear in Zhang Juzheng's small circle.

In essence, both Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong liked to seize power and have the final say.

As the saying goes, there is no two masters in the cabinet, which means that Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong are incompatible.

However, Yinyou saw through Zhang Tingyu very clearly, and every detail of him was revealed.

However, Zhang Tingyu, a professional old bureaucrat, could not understand Yinyu's ambitions!

Among these, apart from the fact that Yinyu did not seize power or form a clique, Yinyu and Cao Jia not only had an affair, but also had a little wild child. It was so confusing!

Be it Kangxi or Zhang Tingyu, they looked left and right, up and down, but could not see any similarities between Yinyou and Aman and Jujun.

It is an indisputable fact that Zhang Tingyu is definitely better at writing than Yinyou.

However, since Kangxi had given the order, asking Yinyou and Zhang Tingyu to discuss important matters together, Yinyou had to pretend to do it in front of him!
In the era of imperial power, formalism that is perfunctory to the emperor will always exist.

After the first draft was completed and carefully considered, Zhang Tingyu and Yinyou went to see Kangxi again.

Kangxi was naturally not idle either. He summoned the commanders and lieutenants of the three major imperial camps into the palace and comforted them one by one.

After extensive conversations and exchanges, Kangxi finally figured out how the prince could actually extend his influence into the three major imperial camps?
The core person who helped the prince do bad things was none other than the prince's wet nurse, Ling Pu, the general manager of the Imperial Household Department.

Ling Pu used his power as the general manager to make a lot of money, and then secretly distributed it to the generals of the three major camps in front of the emperor.

To be honest, if Yinyu secretly won over senior generals, even if there was some effect, it would not be very good.

However, Ling Pu represents the prince, which is completely different.

Kangxi's health had always been poor and he had suffered a stroke, so his right arm was not very flexible.

The old master's health is not good, and the clever old servant, in order to keep his wealth, has to inevitably collude with the new master!
The He Zhongtang in history had the fantasy of always being rich and powerful!
However, He Zhongtang helped the retired emperor to suppress Jiaqing desperately. Once the mausoleum collapsed, how could they survive?

"Minister Heng, draft an imperial decree to peel off Ling Pu's skin and send all his family members to the Xinzheku as slaves!"

The winner must take all!

Since Kangxi won, just skin Ling Pu as he pleases.

If the prince won, Kangxi would not escape the fate of Emperor Jianwen.

Zhu Laosi deliberately sent people to look for Emperor Jianwen everywhere. Haha, he just didn't want to bear the infamy of regicide.

Zhang Tingyu was indeed a leader among the clerks. The imperial edicts and manifestos drafted by him were issued by Emperor Kangxi without changing a single word.

In the imperial brick system era, no matter how foul the situation was behind the scenes, on the surface, one always had to have a legitimate reason.

After the second imperial edict to depose the crown prince and the anti-rebellion manifesto were issued to the whole country, it meant that Yinreng was completely finished!

In fact, the imperial edict issued to the world was mainly aimed at the princes and nobles on the Mongolian grasslands.

Kangxi saw clearly that Yinreng's external aid must be on the grassland.

As expected, half a day later, the scouts sent out in stages reported that a group of Mongolian cavalry of about 10,000 people were spotted fleeing to the north 50 miles away from the palace.

Until this moment, the truth finally came to light.

Kangxi sighed and said, "This is simply insane!"

Yinyou had actually thought of it, but he deliberately kept his mouth shut and pretended to be stupid.

If Yinreng wanted to cause chaos, in addition to colluding with the three major camps in front of the emperor, he must seek help from Mongolian foreign aid.

Yinreng’s third son-in-law was Tumed Darhan Beile Arabtan.

Now, what else doesn’t Kangxi understand?

Yinreng first sent Liang Jiugong to deliberately set fire to the palace to force Kangxi to leave. Then he used the secret agents in the Vanguard Battalion and the Cavalry Battalion to deliberately create internal chaos.

When the three major camps in front of the emperor were in chaos, Yinreng's good son-in-law Arabtan led his army to deal a fatal blow to Kangxi.

To be honest, Yinreng’s arrangement is really good and there is a high chance of success!
However, Kangxi was one step ahead and issued an order to Yinyu in advance, ordering him to control the Zhili army. It is interesting to say that Yinyu played a great role in the last restoration of the crown prince. This time, it was Yinyu who crushed Yinreng's plot to kill his father and emperor.

Since it involved military issues, Kangxi asked Yinyu: "What do you think?"

The fighting effectiveness of the Mongols during the Kangxi period and that of the Mongols during the Ming Dynasty were completely incomparable.

After long-term domestication and suppression by three generations of monarchs from Huang Taiji to Kangxi, the Mongols today, except for the Dzungars who have a large number of matchlock guns, are no match for the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty.

Kangxi's question was a great test of Yinyou's political wisdom.

Yinyou knew in his heart that Yinreng was finished, and his son-in-law Arabtan could not have been unaware of this.

From a high-level perspective, once Arabtan was exposed, he had only two options: one was to hand Yinreng over to Kangxi, and the other was to take Yinreng and flee to the Rakshasa Kingdom.

"Khan Ama, I think that an order should be issued to all the tribes on the grasslands, that anyone who captures and kills Arabtan will be promoted to a prince and rewarded with five times the salary."

In fact, there are many kinds of titles in the Qing Dynasty, including royal titles, civilian titles, and Mongolian titles.

Among them, the treatment of Mongolian nobles cannot be compared with that of royal clan nobles at all.

According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the annual salary of a Mongolian prince was only 2000 taels of silver, plus 20 pieces of satin, that's all, nothing else!
Now, Yinyou proposed to reward the prince with five times the salary, that is, the annual salary became 10,000 taels of silver, which was almost as good as the treatment of the Heshuo Prince of the royal family.

You know, the Mongols have no shortage of bows, horses, cattle and sheep, but they are extremely short of silver.

With silver, it is convenient to buy various daily necessities and luxury goods brought to the grassland by Shanxi merchants.

It is no exaggeration to say that the annual salary of a Mongolian prince of 12,000 taels of silver really has the magical power of money to move people's hearts!

As the saying goes, even if you have a fortune, the hairy stuff doesn’t count!
The hairy animals here refer to livestock such as cattle, sheep and horses.

On the prairie, even if you have a huge fortune of ten thousand cows and horses, they can all be frozen to death if a severe cold wave hits.

Silver is the hard currency that can be spent all over the world!

"Where is Yinreng?" As soon as Kangxi asked, Zhang Tingyu quickly lowered his head. This was a fatal question.

"Pfft."

What Kangxi never expected was that Yinyou knelt on the spot, prostrated himself on the ground, and said with tears streaming down his face, "Khan Father, even if you dislike me from now on, I still want to tell you what's in my heart. Killing one's son is particularly ominous, and the pen of history is as hard as iron, which will inevitably damage the wisdom of the holy monarch. I respectfully ask Khan Father to spare my second brother's life, please... please..."

Hehe, the eldest brother suggested killing the son for the father, but the result was that he was imprisoned until death, and the father and son never saw each other again!

Yinyou is so smart, how could he repeat the mistakes of his boss, that stupid pig?

No matter how bad Kangxi was, he would never kill his own son!
No matter how cruel and ruthless the fourth brother was, he failed to kill the deposed prince!
"How dare you speak for the traitor?" Kangxi was furious and shouted, "Don't think that I won't kill you just because you have done a little bit of merit!"

"Khan Father, you are a rare sage monarch in history. You must not leave behind the infamy of killing your son, my Khan Father..." Yinyu fell to the ground and cried until he could no longer speak.

When Kangxi saw that Yinyou dared to talk back, he stood up in anger and kicked Yinyou on the butt.

Alas, Yinyou was caught off guard and was kicked down.

The hat on Yinyou's head fell to the ground, rolled around, and finally rolled to Zhang Tingyu's feet.

When the king is angry, blood will flow for thousands of miles!

Zhang Tingyu knelt immediately, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, I have never dared to talk too much, but I really can't kill the Second Prince!"

Lying on the ground, choking with sobs, Yinyou cursed Zhang Tingyu inwardly, "You old sinister and cunning man!"
If Zhang Tingyu, who is present today, does not speak up for the deposed prince, the entire Zhang family of Tongcheng will be implicated and liquidated in the future.

The emperor can kill the royal family members secretly or openly.

However, if the ministers present dared not to persuade, the consequences would be disastrous.

Afterwards, when Kangxi came to his senses, Zhang Tingyu could not escape the serious crime of clan extermination: watching the royal family kill each other!
Thousands of years of history have proved the hard truth that distant relatives cannot separate their close relatives!
Zhang Tingyu saw that Yinyou was kicked, and his heart, which was originally hanging in the air, fell back steadily into his stomach.

What a powerful Fifteenth Master, he has figured out the emperor’s thoughts!
At this moment, Zhang Tingyu was so impressed with Yinyou that he could not express it any more!

If the emperor wanted to kill the deposed prince and Yinreng did not plead for him, in the future, when the emperor regretted it, he would definitely think in a crooked way: Are you thinking about the position of crown prince, so you hope that Yinreng will die?

To be honest, the deposed prince who raised an army to cause rebellion really deserves to die!

However, they met Kangxi, an emperor who would not kill his own sons. No matter whether it was Zhang Tingyu or Yinyu, who dared not plead for Yinreng?
If Hongshi had dared to raise an army to rebel after the fourth prince became emperor, he would have been hacked to death long ago!
People are really different!

In his later years, Kangxi gradually embarked on a path of building large-scale projects and living a life of extravagance and debauchery. However, not killing his own son was indeed a shining point in his humanity!

Yinyu gathered his emotions for a while, and suddenly he shouted: "Khan Ama, beat me to death, if you do, I will not persuade you anymore!"

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