The swansong of the swansong

Chapter 192 Unparalleled Power
"Shiliu'er, please step back!"

Before Yinyou could slap the Sixteenth Prince again, Kangxi spoke first.

"Khan Ama..." The originally timid Old Sixteen, now that he had given it all, was not afraid of anything and was about to risk his life to make a suggestion.

Kangxi suddenly said gently, "Sixteenth son, go ahead."

"Sixteenth brother, you should leave first. Khan Ama is a sage monarch rarely seen in history!" Yinyu raised his hand and pushed Sixteenth Brother, urging him to leave quickly.

"Khan Ama, it was all because of my momentary impulse. It has nothing to do with my fifteenth brother." The sixteenth brother kowtowed heavily, stood up and left.

Under the years of accumulated power from Kangxi, the Sixteenth Prince finally did not dare to continue to be stubborn.

After the Sixteenth Prince left, Kangxi walked to Yinyu's side, unexpectedly stretched out his right hand, and said lovingly: "My Fifteenth Prince, come and talk to Father."

Ama, not Khan Ama, Yinyou naturally understood the profound meaning of it!

"Father, I feel wronged and want to cry!" Yinyu did not stand up, but said in a tearful voice, "I have wronged you, Father!"

As soon as these words came out, Wei Zhu, who was standing not far away, got his vest soaked.

Good man, he actually dared to admit it in person and resented his king and father in private, how can this be tolerated?

Unexpectedly, Kangxi actually squatted down, held Yinyu's head in his arms, and said softly: "Fool, cry, cry, cry as much as you can."

"Wow, wow, wow..." Yinwei fell on Kangxi's knees and cried loudly.

Kangxi gently stroked the Liuhe hat on Yinyu's head and said lovingly, "Father, I'm sorry. I made you suffer. Cry, cry."

Yinyou cried for a while, then gradually stopped crying.

Until this moment, Wei Zhu's heartstrings trembled violently, and he instantly understood the ultimate interaction between this royal father and son.

Yinyou burst into tears, which was a true display of his utmost loyalty and filial piety!
If Yinyou pretended not to be afraid of being wronged, alas, the emperor would become suspicious instead!
The current emperor has been on the throne for fifty-one years. What kind of evil people has he not seen?

Could it be that Mingzhu, who is so treacherous but appears loyal, escape the eyes of the emperor today?
She cried, which shows her true nature and that she truly regards Kangxi as her father.

He didn't cry and pretended nothing happened. It was either Wang Mang or Huo Guang!
Wei Zhu remembered very clearly that when Kangxi was alone, he commented on the Eighth Brother: You are harboring lofty ambitions!
The most important thing about true character is authenticity!

Kangxi raised his hand, and Wei Zhu quickly took out a white handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to the Emperor with both hands.

"Father will wipe it for you." Kangxi took the white towel and gently wiped Yinyou's face clean, which was already covered with tears.

When Yinyou was a child, he actually had smallpox.

However, due to the experience in the palace, the only white pockmark on Yinyou's face was hidden at the back of his chin.

To be honest, unless you look at it from a certain angle, you can't see the white pockmark at all.

Kangxi took Yinwei's hand, walked to the chair, pushed him into the chair, and sat next to him.

"If you want to vent your anger, it's actually quite simple. As long as you manage the Ministry of Personnel, you can send them all away!" Kangxi still held Yinyou's hand and said earnestly, "The reason why our Qing Dynasty was able to enter the pass smoothly and establish its rule in the Central Plains is that we had the great wisdom to avoid civil war. Back then, if Daishan had not given in, the Eight Banners would have fought each other. Hauge and Dorgon almost drew their swords, but in the end they compromised, and your royal grandfather benefited from it."

"Before he passed away, your great-grandfather held my hand and repeatedly said that we Manchus are too few and have no capital to fight." Kangxi sighed heavily, "The kings and princes of the banners can only take their time and not rush into anything."

"Alas, if we really push them into a corner, after they kill each other, they will become a laughing stock just like the Southern Ming Dynasty handed over the country to the Qing Dynasty!" Kangxi looked at Yinyu lovingly, "With your knowledge, you should understand what Father is thinking, right?"

Of course Yinyou knew what Kangxi was thinking. Didn’t the old emperor just want to tell him that he needed to be patient for the time being?

Moreover, Yinyou also knew that the old emperor was trying to take this opportunity to warn him.
However, what was originally a strategy to kill two birds with one stone was caused by the unintentional action of the Ninth Brother, which caused the Imperial Party to split!
It is true that Yinyou never formed a clique, but the people of the imperial party were surprised to find that even such a loyal Yinyou had been abandoned, so what were they?
"Khan Father, I am a little tired. I would like to take a few months off to rest for a while!" Yinyou was not dazzled by the carrot thrown by Kangxi, but took the initiative to apply to leave the stage and simply stopped playing.

Kangxi stared at Yinwei's eyes carefully for a while and found that Yinwei was indeed tired!
The Eighth Brother's gang were sharpening their knives and trying to trick Kangxi into thinking he was a fool. Yinyou suddenly withdrew. Who in the imperial party could still hold the fort?

"I'll give you half a month's leave. Take a good rest. When you've rested enough, help me manage the Ministry of Personnel." Kangxi took Yinyu's hand, patted it gently on the back of his hand, and said softly, "Without you, they can't control the situation!"

As the supreme ruler, Kangxi's words to this extent were already considered a confession of guilt.

"Khan Father, I, your son..." Yinyu wanted to refuse, but Kangxi frowned and said sternly, "It's settled!"

"The Cabinet has received the imperial decree that the fifteenth son of the Emperor, Prince Yinyu, is to be in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and the Infantry Command Office... I decree this."

After the decree was announced to the world, it immediately caused a huge sensation inside and outside the capital!

The Ministry of Personnel is the number one ministry in the world, in charge of hats!
In the Qing Dynasty, where officialdom was the most important thing, the Ministry of Personnel was the authoritative government agency in charge of officials. No matter how much we emphasize its importance, it is not an exaggeration.

For a time, everyone in the Eighth Prince's party was in a panic, fearing that they would be targeted by Yinyu.

Nowadays, if your superiors want to employ you, even if you are incompetent, there will be an excuse to reuse you.

If I don't want to promote you, even if you are a rare capable official in the world, you should go home and grow sweet potatoes.

In other words, if you are told that you can do it, then you can do it, even if you can’t. If you are told that you can’t do it, then you can’t do it, even if you can do it!
At this moment, Yinyu had taken the two princesses to the imperial farm in the suburbs for vacation. Over the years, Kangxi had awarded as many as 30,000 acres of imperial farms.

When the Qing army first entered the Pass, the Qing royal family did not have any imperial farms.

After Dorgon started the land grabbing policy, there were many more imperial farms.

When Shunzhi settled accounts with Dorgon, the imperial farms confiscated from the Regent's Palace alone amounted to as much as 500,000 acres.

Dorgon was so arrogant that he actually built his palace on the land of Nangong.

Nangong is where the former Mingbao Zong was imprisoned.

The imperial farm of 30,000 acres stretched as far as the eye could see, and every bit of it was Yinwei’s land.

Under the huge awning, a little princess was sitting on each of Yinyou's legs, and opposite him was Old Eighteen who was eating a watermelon.

Not long after Yinyou arrived at the imperial farm, Kangxi sent Wei Zhu to bring the eighteenth son over.

Kangxi meant that Yinyou must know everything, and he was afraid that Yinyou would hide away and not go back to work like a slave, so he specially arranged for the Eighteenth Prince to come and keep an eye on him.

This was only the early autumn of the fifty-first year of Kangxi's reign. It was still a long time before the mausoleum collapsed. It was impossible for Yinyu to offend Kangxi to death!
To be honest, Yinyou really wanted to take a break for a while. He was really tired!
However, Kangxi could never find another cane as useful as Yinyou's.

He is loyal, capable, true to his nature, and does not form a clique.

According to these four criteria, Kangxi looked around and saw that only Yinyou was the most suitable!
So, after Yinyou had a tantrum, Kangxi valued him even more.

Only children who cry get more milk. Yinyou had already understood the truth of this.

In the animal world, some strong young eagles will even deliberately push their weaker brothers down from their high nests in order to compete for food.

As father and son, Kangxi now needs help from Yinyou, so if Yinyou cries and makes a fuss appropriately, his situation will be better.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Xu You abandoned Yuan Benchu and took the initiative to surrender to Cao A'man, A'man was washing his feet.

A'man, who came out barefoot to greet him, gave Xu You enough face.

Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang three times at his cottage before he invited him out. This was not just a pretense, the hidden meaning was: obey his advice.

He doesn't listen to words and doesn't follow advice. He may be sacrificed at any time. If there is a next time, Yinyou will really dare to give up and learn from the Thirteenth Brother from now on.

"Brother, Khan Ama said that unless you go back, I am not allowed to go back." After finishing his watermelon, Lao Shiba wiped his hands while conveying Kangxi's intention.

Yinyu nodded and said, "Don't worry, just play here slowly."

After wiping his mouth, Old Eighteen said with a smile, "Brother, you really understand me. This place is more than a hundred times better than the Shangshufang. As you said, sleeping until you wake up naturally and counting silver until your hands cramp are really the two greatest pleasures in life!"

Old Eighteen, who is thirteen years old in lunar age, can draw an eleven-force bow and has very impressive riding and archery skills. He can hit the bull's eye with three out of ten arrows, which makes him much better than Yinyou.

Yinyou looked at the handsome Old Eighteen and thought to himself, fortunately God had blessed him and turned the Old Eighteen, who was about to grow crooked, back then.

Otherwise, sooner or later, Old Eighteen will become like the deposed crown prince, a little bully that even dogs despise.

In a society where human relationships are important, how to behave and deal with people is indeed a science.

If the deposed prince had not been spoiled too much, he would not have been deposed for the second time.

Yinyu kissed the second princess on the face and teased her, "Call me Ama!"

The second princess was babbling, but I didn’t know what she was saying.
Old Eighteen was a little envious, so he came over and wanted to hug the Second Princess.

Unexpectedly, "Ah...Mom..." The second princess actually opened her mouth and called dad.

Yinyu was so happy that he quickly taught his daughter to call him dad.

Seeing that Yinyou was in a very good mood, the second princess's wet nurse pursed her lips and smiled. She taught the young master to call him "Ama" every day, and it turned out to be not in vain.

"Mom, Mom..."

Under Yinyu's guidance, although the second princess' pronunciation was not standard, Yinyu was already satisfied.

"Come on, reward the servants around the Second Princess with five taels of silver each." Yinyu had plenty of silver now, so he just gave some to his servants while he was happy.

As the old saying goes, money disperses people gather, money gathers people scatter. The saying is rough but the truth is there!
Just when everyone was enjoying themselves, Wu Lin came to report, "Sir, Zhang Tingyu is here, saying that the emperor has issued an order."

PS: The third update is here, and the fourth update will be around noon.

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