Secrets of Yuqing Palace

Although he couldn't let his outstanding son become a useless person and end up as a discarded and idle member of the royal family, he still had to be fully prepared, right?!

This is also the reason why he insisted that the Crown Princess choose a princess from a prominent Manchu family for Hongxi.

These days are the most relaxed and clear-headed days for Yinreng.

If it weren't for his young wife and several children, the position of crown prince would not be that important to him.

The position of crown prince was no longer a halo on his head or a symbol of status and power, but a shackle that bound him for life.

Only after experiencing the easy and safe days now, he can feel more deeply how tiring his life was in the past!

Not only does he have to deal with a large amount of affairs every day, but he also feels physically exhausted.

He also had to deal with various people with ulterior motives who wanted to set traps for him and shake his position. The most important thing was to avoid Khan Ama without leaving any trace and reduce his suspicion of himself. All these made him physically and mentally exhausted.

There was a faint sigh in my heart.

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The struggle for the crown prince of the previous dynasty has become even more intense.

The next day, Kangxi, who had learned some clues from the Ministry of Justice, summoned all the princes to the Qianqing Palace.

He pointed at Yinsi and cursed him for being treacherous by nature, harboring great ambitions, and that his followers had colluded with each other to murder Yinreng, and wanted to arrest and punish him.

Fourteenth Prince Yinzhen, who had always had a close relationship with Yinsi, stepped forward directly.

He knelt before his father, the Emperor, and said, "Eighth Prince has no such intention. We, the ministers, are willing to protect him!"

Moreover, his words implied that he was complaining about his own myna, which offended Kangxi and made him very angry.

In a rage, he immediately drew the sword of the imperial guard and wanted to kill Yinzhen, the unfilial son.

Fortunately, the fifth prince Yinqi acted quickly and knelt down to hug his father to stop him. Yinzhen was also worried about his brother, so he stretched out his bare hand to catch the falling blade of his father, and his hand was directly cut and bleeding.

The scene of blood flowing not only frightened Yinzhen, who was standing by with his neck stretched out to speak for the myna, but also shocked Kangxi.

Kangxi frowned at his son, immediately retracted the knife, and threw the knife in his hand to the ground.

At this time, the princes had completely come to their senses and kowtowed to beg Khan Ama to calm down.

Seeing that the blood on the fourth prince's hand was still flowing, Kangxi quickly ordered Liang Jiugong to summon the left court judge to the Qianqing Palace to examine the wound of Prince Yong and apply medicine.

However, although Kangxi had no intention of killing Yinzhen again, he was extremely angry with his son.

Especially if it weren’t for him, the fourth brother wouldn’t have been injured.

He directly ordered the palace servants to take the fourteenth prince Yinzhen out, beat him with twenty boards outside the Qianqing Palace, and then expelled him from the palace.

After Li Yuanpan examined Prince Yong, he found that the condition was not too bad. The bleeding was stopped by applying medicine in time. As long as he took good care of his injury for a period of time and did not engage in further physical exercise, he would be able to recover.

No serious consequences were caused, and this was the only way to resolve a bloody conflict between father and son.

Not long after this incident, the Ministry of Justice had already found out the result regarding the matter of fortune teller Zhang Mingde.

The conclusion is that Zhang Mingde was deceiving both Yinzhen and Yinsi!

The purpose is to curry favor with the nobles in order to defraud money and make a lot of money!

After learning that Zhang Mingde had read Yinsi's fortune and that his words were meaningful, Yinzhi felt that this man was a man of real ability.

So he personally recruited this person and asked him to read his fortune.

Unexpectedly, after meeting him, Zhang Mingde told Yinzhi that the prince was cruel and vicious, and if he met him, he would assassinate the prince without hesitation.

Then he made up a lot of lies, saying that he had sixteen brothers with special abilities, and he planned to ask two of them to come and see the prince, and then they were willing to serve under the Prince of Zhi!

Yinzhen was completely confused.

I just felt that this person was indeed a master. Even without me saying anything, he could know what I was thinking and even touched the heart of my heart.

Moreover, Zhang Mingde has more than a dozen talented people with real abilities under his command.

If they could all be recruited under his command, it would definitely be a great help!

In fact, the purpose of Zhang Mingde saying this was to instigate Prince Zhi to obey them, and then he could use Prince Zhi to get more gold, silver and jewelry.

Moreover, when Zhang Mingde read the face of the Eighth Prince Yinsi, he did say that the Eighth Prince had a plump face and a clear spirit, and was kind, righteous, loyal, and had a long and blessed life. It was indeed a noble face.

Based on the details found by the Ministry of Justice and the comparison of testimonies from multiple parties, it can be concluded that Zhang Mingde intended to curry favor with Prince Shangzhi Yinzhi and the Eighth Prince Yinsi by assassinating the prince and fortune-telling.

Then they defrauded money to make money.

Although the results of the investigation by the Ministry of Justice ultimately confirmed that it was indeed a scam by a swindler.

But from his words to Prince Zhi and the Eighth Prince, it can be seen that Prince Zhi wants to kill the Crown Prince, and the Eighth Prince also wants to compete for the throne.

It was precisely because Zhang Mingde sensed what they were thinking and took advantage of it that such a lowly swindler was able to so easily lure the two of them into the trap and play with the two princes!

However, although this was the result found by the Ministry of Justice, Kangxi did not think so.

He felt that he knew his son best.

Although Yinzhen was tough and arrogant, with a fiery temper and ignorant and rough, he was not a fool who could be easily manipulated by others.

Yinsi was even smarter since he was young. In order to attract his attention, he pretended to be not good at calligraphy. His handwriting was among the lower-middle-class among the other princes.

Moreover, Yinsi was introverted and very good at guessing people's minds. He was much more cunning than Yinzhi.

Therefore, Kangxi did not fully believe the results found by the Ministry of Justice.

On the contrary, because of the ambition that Yinsi has revealed now, he thinks more and more deeply!

The first person Zhang Mingde found was Yinsi, and he even predicted that Yinsi would be very noble.

Later, Zhang Mingde was discovered by Yinzhen, and after a few words, Yinzhen became interested in recruiting him.

So at this time Kangxi was highly suspicious, wondering if Yinsi was interfering?

Did Yinsi use Zhang Mingde and then borrow Yinzhi's hand to depose the prince?

So that's why Zhang Mingde proposed to kill the prince in front of Yinzhi, and then instigated Yinzhi to ask him to kill the prince in front of him?

Even if Yinzhen fails, he will be despised by himself.

In this way, Yinsi could easily depose Yinzhi!

As a former supporter of Yinzhi, if Yinzhi were to lose all hope, would Yinzhi's subordinates directly turn to Yinsi? Or would Yinzhi even push Yinsi to take the throne?

Don’t these scenes today just prove this point?

The more Kangxi thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was the truth, so he was very angry about it.

It’s not just because the two sons were so easily deceived, but also because of their wolfish ambitions!

(Another chapter added. There are two more chapters after midnight.)