Secrets of Yuqing Palace

This time, not only did he need to do something to show his loyalty to the emperor, but he also had to persuade his father and the elders of the clan in advance to cooperate with the emperor when the incident happened.

After the search, he took the initiative to confess some things and tried his best to protect the family!

So even though he was criticized by the emperor, Tohaqi can now face it calmly.

He knelt on his knees and kowtowed respectfully to the emperor.

Then, with a determined look on his face, he expressed his loyalty and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured. I will do my best to complete the tasks assigned by Your Majesty."

"I will definitely not let down His Majesty's trust."

Kangxi nodded with satisfaction.

"Then I'll see how you perform this time."

"Go do your work."

Toheqi: “Yes!”

Following the emperor's order, people inside and outside the palace began to move.

For a time, the capital was in a state of panic and everyone was in danger.

The infantry guards surrounded the house of the bannerman family like an iron barrel. The soldiers all held weapons and had solemn expressions.

At the leader's wave, they rushed into the Baoyi family's home like a tide, amid the frightened gazes of the people in the courtyard.

The people in the house panicked and tried to flee, but they were quickly restrained by the guards and escorted aside.

Then, without any mercy, he searched every corner of the house carefully, not missing any suspicious clues.

Even the ground was turned over again and again.

Soon, a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, tributes, secret account books and other physical evidence were confiscated, piling up like a staggering mountain.

These physical evidences undoubtedly directly exposed the crimes and ambitions of these bondage families.

There were countless Baoyi families involved, and the search lasted from day to night.

Even though the search lasted a whole day, and the guards were exhausted from fear and excitement, no one dared to relax.

In order to search thoroughly, no corner was left out.

At night, a large number of soldiers held torches, making the houses of the bondservants as bright as day, and carefully searched every place where evidence of crimes and gold and silver might be hidden.

What they found was so shocking that they dared not relax.

From what they found, they knew that the emperor would be furious. At this moment, they had to do their job seriously and did not dare to have any other thoughts, for fear of being implicated by the emperor who was in a bad mood.

Those bondservants who wanted to bribe the guards with money could only watch in horror as the guards were registered.

Then he carried box after box of sealed boxes and ordered special guards to load them onto carriages and send them into the palace.

Large amounts of gold, silver, jewelry and tribute.

Even gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin are the most insignificant things among them.

There were boxes of oriental pearls and fist-sized luminous pearls, huge red corals and ivory carvings, ancient books and paintings such as Song Huizong's "Hibiscus and Peacock", as well as multi-tailed phoenix hairpins that could only be worn by high-ranking concubines, and the emperor's favorite blue and white porcelain, such as blue and white fish-tail vases with flower and bird patterns, blue and white appreciation vases with coiled lotus patterns, and so on.

The collection opened the eyes of the guards and made them realize for the first time the audacity of the bannermen.

Some guards with wealthy families wondered if the emperor's servants were so bold, and whether their own servants were also embezzling their money in their own homes?

In the inner city of the entire capital, whether they are princes and nobles or ordinary bannermen with wealthy families.

After seeing the money that the infantry guards had seized from the homes of the bondservants today, they all began to think about searching their own servants as well!

The next day, Kangxi looked at the boxes of things that had been confiscated from the bondsers' homes in the square in front of the Qianqing Palace, and listened to the people from the Ministry of Revenue counting the confiscated property. He was so angry that his face turned blue.

Also looking unhappy were Crown Prince Yinreng, Prince Dun Yin'e, and Zhangsun Hongxi, who were summoned into the Qianqing Palace by him.

The huge Qianqing Palace Square was almost filled with boxes and cages of various sizes.

For the first time, Kangxi felt that his Qianqing Palace was not that big!

The three of them were shocked when they saw the wealth all over the square.

The one who showed the most obvious expression was Hongxi, whose eyes were wide open and the shock on his face was obvious.

He didn't expect that Khanmafa would suddenly search the Imperial Household Department's bondsers and find so many things.

There were even many things that were so good that he had never seen them before.

For the first time, he truly and clearly understood the group of people who were packaging!

Although Yinreng and Yin'e had made preparations in advance, looking at the crowded square, they felt that even the national treasury might not have so much silver.

However, they knew very well that corruption was just a minor crime among the many crimes committed by the bannermen.

The most serious crime of the Baoyi was to harm the empress, concubines, and imperial heirs, control the royal descendants, understand the emperor's likes and dislikes, calculate the imperial power and throne, and attempt to let the prince of Baoyi bloodline succeed to the throne.

It is also the crime that the emperor hates the most!

Kangxi was indeed very angry.

Although he had long since uncovered the corruption behind the Baoyi scheme, no matter how much he heard, it was not as shocking as seeing real gold and silver right in front of his eyes.

Especially the tributes he copied from the homes of those servants, which were good things that even his private treasury didn't have!

Although he had ordered the confiscation of all the gold, silver, jewelry, and tributes and was able to put them into his pocket, he did not feel any joy in his heart.

These are just the tip of the iceberg of the Baoyi family's crimes. The conspiracies and calculations behind them are far more terrifying than these properties.

Even now the search and confiscation of bondsers outside the palace has not ended yet!

He summoned Yinreng and his son, as well as Yin'e, into the palace because among his many sons, he only trusted these two.

Especially after he saw the secret account books and lists and other physical evidence found in the bondservants' homes, he felt that the bondservants' sons all had ulterior motives, even though they were his own sons!

Because the blow and threat brought to him by the bannermen was too great, he saw in his other sons ambitions that were even stronger than that of the crown prince, as well as the forces behind them and their strong desire for power.

He felt like he was being targeted by a pack of wolves!

He could not tolerate that he, as an emperor with great power, was actually being plotted against and targeted by the ants below him.

So the prince, his son and the tenth prince were called into the Qianqing Palace.

He wanted to elevate the status of these three sons and suppress the rest of his sons.

Not only did he give more than a dozen boxes of confiscated treasures to his two sons and grandson, he also directly ordered that Prince Dun Yin'e be conferred the title of Prince Dun.

Changsun Hongxi, bypassing many of his uncles, was promoted from Beile to Duke of Duololi.

The prince's eldest daughter, Folgochun, was also conferred the title of Princess Heshuo Changfu, and his second daughter, Fuling'a, was conferred the title of Princess Heshuo Zhaoning.

The rank is high and the title is good.

Yinreng raised his eyebrows slightly, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

I wonder what those brothers, nephews, and nieces outside the palace must be feeling when they hear the Emperor's decrees. Will they die of jealousy?

When Yin'e and Hongxi heard the two imperial edicts, they immediately knelt down to express their gratitude.

Yinreng also expressed his gratitude to Khanmafa on behalf of his two daughters.

Yin'e and Hongxi only saw the emperor's favor, but did not see the emperor's deeper intentions.

But he didn't mean to remind you.

Especially Hongxi.

If I want to withdraw from this lineage in the future, Hongxi will have to shoulder the heavy burden.

Especially when he is not around in the future, when facing the calculations of other uncles and aunts, he cannot always rely on his father to remind him what to do and what to do.

The eagle has grown up and has to learn to fly on its own.