Getting Rich from Legend of Zhen Huan

This matter involved a dispute over the throne, and Li Guangdi was unwilling to hastily give his advice. After thinking for a few days, he decided to wait until he returned to Beijing at the end of the year to discuss it with Jiang Chen. This would also be a good opportunity to calm Jiang Chen down and prevent him from making an irreversible decision in the heat of the moment.

The messenger who stayed in Fujian set off again. He stayed here for half a month and now it was time to return.

When he returned to the capital, it was already the end of August, and the mountains and fields of the capital were all withered and yellow. Li Guangdi's reply letter passed through the hands of the Fourth Prince and then reached Concubine De.

As expected by the Fourth Prince, Li Guangdi only said that the matter would be discussed after he returned to Beijing. This made Concubine De so angry that she gritted her teeth but could do nothing.

The letter to Jiang Chen ended with only one sentence, "Wangxuan, do you still remember what I taught you when you first became a student? Now I want to ask you one more question, do you still remember your original ambition?"

This sentence was like a wake-up call, making Jiang Chen's ears ring and his eyes dizzy. Jiang Chen asked himself, what was my original ambition? It was to be able to read! But now that I have entered the Hanlin Academy, I read books every day, but my heart is not satisfied. Is this the fault of the books? I have unknowingly gone astray!

Jiang Chen sat in the study room all night, reflecting on himself. He became famous at a young age and claimed to be steady, but in fact he was still proud and complacent.

In the following days, Jiang Chen became quiet and focused on his work. He was no longer so enthusiastic about the Fourth Prince. He decided to wait until his teacher returned to Beijing. He made the biggest mistake that officials hate the most - impatience. He made mistakes in a hurry. As expected.

The Fourth Prince knew that he could not move any further, and he did not force a relationship with Jiang Chen.

Concubine De wanted to do something else, but she was overwhelmed by the affairs in the palace and had no intention of causing trouble for Jiang Chen.

Just after the autumn heat, the temperature in the capital dropped sharply. After a sudden cold, Concubine Niuhulu was so sick that she couldn't get up. In fact, the concubine's health has not been very good in the winters over the years, but she has never fallen down as soon as it got cold like this year, which gave people a bad premonition.

Kangxi also attached great importance to this matter. He really didn't want to be labeled as a wife-killer.

Empress Hesheli died of complications during childbirth, and the later Empress Nianhulu (Empress Xiaozhaoren) died after only six months in office. This was enough to make people wonder.

Later, it was Tong Jia Imperial Noble Consort. On the one hand, in order to check and balance the Tong Jia clan, on the other hand, he also had concerns in this regard. Kangxi only gave her the rank of Imperial Noble Consort, but it did not stop the Imperial Noble Consort from dying at the age of 36. This time, it made people feel even more evil. Even if he did not establish a queen, it could not stop Kangxi's wife-killing attribute.

In order not to disrupt the power-sharing situation among the four concubines, Kangxi only nominated Empress Xiaozhaoren's sister as Noble Consort Niuhulu to be the apparent person in charge. But now Noble Consort Niuhulu is in trouble too. This is really a case of picking up one to suppress another!

Kangxi did not believe this nonsense, but he did not want to be branded with such a reputation, so he ordered the Imperial Medical Bureau to do its best to treat the imperial concubine.

The imperial doctors took Concubine Nianhulu's pulse back and forth, and as they talked, they made faces at each other, and finally pushed the director of the Imperial Hospital out to answer.

The director of the Imperial Medical Bureau was unwilling to do this job which was bound to offend Kangxi, but there was nothing he could do since he was the leader.

The eunuch knelt down tremblingly, which made Kangxi annoyed: "Why are you so slow? Just say it!"

The court envoy was so frightened that his knees went weak and he knelt firmly on the ground. He ignored the pain in his knees and reported: "Your Majesty, the pulse of the imperial concubine is weak, like, like a lamp running out of oil."

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty, starting from Kangxi, learned from the lessons of the Ming Dynasty and taught themselves to read pulse records. Although they could not prescribe medicine for treatment, they could understand the various professional terms written by the imperial physicians. Kangxi carefully read the pulse records of the imperial concubine in the past few years and naturally found that the imperial concubine was gradually getting weaker and the amount of medicine was gradually increasing.

A figure rushed in from outside the door like a cannonball, grabbed the collar of the steward and punched him hard several times. Before he could make the next move, he was stopped by the guards on both sides.

Kangxi was startled by this sudden change. He looked carefully to see who it was. He was so angry that he leaned back and shouted loudly: "Aisin-Gioro Yin?, what are you doing!"

The Tenth Prince was held up by the guards, his hands and feet still waving, trying to hit someone. The frightened courtier took several steps back. He was really unlucky today. First his knee was injured, and now he was hit by several heavy punches. What kind of god did he offend?

The Tenth Prince said angrily: "This dog slave cursed my mother, I will beat him to death!"

Seeing that Yinzhen was stubborn and unyielding, Kangxi snatched the whisk from Liang Jiugong's hand and started to beat the tenth prince. As the emperor's personal eunuch, the whisk in Liang Jiugong's hand was also made of the finest whisk, which generally had one advantage, that is, it was sturdy.

Kangxi took it in his hand and hit the Tenth Prince more than ten times without stopping. The Tenth Prince lost his usual cleverness when he got into trouble. He gritted his teeth and said nothing, enduring.

Kangxi became even angrier after seeing this, and he became more aggressive. The Tenth Prince just stared at Kangxi with his big eyes, unyielding.

How could Concubine Nianhulu not hear what was happening in the side hall of Yongshou Palace? She dragged her heavy sick body and came to the side hall gasping for breath. She saw Kangxi beating the Tenth Prince and originally needed someone to support her, but suddenly she burst out with strength and rushed over to protect the Tenth Prince.

Kangxi had seen the imperial concubine coming, so he stopped and did not hit her.

Just like every time the Tenth Prince got into trouble, the Imperial Concubine would hug him tightly and say to Kangxi in a tearful voice: "Whatever Yin? did, it's all because I, as your mother, didn't teach you well. If Your Majesty wants to hit you, hit me."

But this time, because of the illness, the imperial concubine's speech was intermittent and her chest was heaving violently. If it weren't for the support of the Tenth Prince, she would have collapsed to the ground.

The two men, one big and one small, who occupied the concubine's entire life, thought of the past at the same time, but Kangxi could no longer walk away, saying that the loving mother had ruined her son.

The Tenth Prince, who was being held in his arms, burst into tears and said, "Mother, please don't abandon Yin?, don't abandon Yin?!"

Concubine Niuhulu was also reluctant to part with the Tenth Prince. Her Yin? was only ten years old! In this cannibalistic place, without the protection of his mother, how could he survive?

The mother and son hugged each other and cried bitterly, and Kangxi turned his back and couldn't bear to listen anymore.

He had no love for Concubine Niuhulu, and only brought her into the palace to maintain his relationship with the Niuhulu family. But Concubine Niuhulu did not make trouble over the years, but instead raised the children dutifully. After having the tenth prince, she did not plan anything illegal with the Niuhulu family. How could Kangxi not feel pity for her?

Concubine Nianhulu wiped the tears of the Tenth Prince and asked the nanny to take him out. She wanted to talk to Kangxi alone.

The imperial concubine coughed up a mouthful of blood, but she covered it with a handkerchief so no one noticed.

"Your Majesty, I am afraid that I don't have much time left."

Seeing that Kangxi wanted to say something, the imperial concubine interrupted him and continued, "I know my own health. I have endured year after year, but now I am afraid I can't bear it anymore. But Yinyou is still young. If I die, how will Yinyou live?"

The only thing that the imperial concubine couldn't let go of now was her son. She was afraid that her son would become a bargaining chip for Niu Hulu to commit crimes, and she was even more afraid that the Tenth Prince's background would become a thorn in the eyes of the other princes.

After all, in terms of origin, apart from the prince who was born in Hesheli, even the fourth prince who had half the status of a legitimate son was not as good as the tenth prince. The Tonggiya family was just a nouveau riche who was supported by Kangxi. If the Niuhulu family had not followed Oboi back then, where would the Hesheli family be now? Even if they were suppressed, they were enough to suppress others.