Secrets of Yuqing Palace

The seizure of the packaging did not end immediately.

It lasted until early May before a final result was reached.

Almost half of the bondservants from the three upper banners of the Imperial Household Department were involved.

Those who were beheaded were beheaded, those who were exiled were exiled, and those who were demoted were demoted.

Among them, the Nara clan bondservants of Concubine Nara and the Uya clan bondservants of Concubine Uya committed the most serious crimes!

In order to win the support of the Nara clan of the previous dynasty, Concubine Nara and the bannerman family behind her were ruthless to the concubines of the Nara clan in the harem.

The deaths of Nalan Mingzhu's daughter, concubine Yehenara, concubine Ulanara, and the princes and princesses born to two noble daughters of the Nalan clan were almost all caused by the actions of the bannermen families behind Concubine Nalan.

In addition, when Empress Renxiao's eldest son, Prince Chenghu, died young, Concubine Nara was also involved.

The Uya clan is no less impressive.

After Empress Xiaoyi's little princess died young, and she died of illness, and after the Fourteenth Prince, there were almost no Manchu concubines in the harem who were born safely. Uya made great efforts in staffing the imperial kitchen.

There are more than just these two families.

Among them were Rong Fei's Ma Jia clan, Liang Fei's Jue Chan clan, as well as Dai Jia clan, Wan Liuha clan, Dong clan, Cao clan and other bannermen, all of whom committed many crimes to varying degrees.

Although Kangxi was angry about some of the charges, he did not expose them.

The apparent corruption of the bannermen alone made Kangxi very angry.

All the people in the Ministry of Revenue were so busy that sparks were about to fly from the abacus beads. They worked in shifts for several nights and finally calculated the confiscated property.

More than 20 million taels of silver, nearly 10 million taels of gold, plus various precious jewelry, ornaments, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, etc., are comparable to the national treasury!

Kangxi thought about the empty treasury in the previous two years, when he couldn't even take out money for disaster relief, and the anger and embarrassment he felt when he forced those relatives and ministers who had borrowed money from him to pay back the money.

Kangxi wanted to kill all those parasites along with their entire clans immediately!

But he couldn't do that.

Especially those who gave birth to princes and princesses for him, they were the maternal relatives of his children.

If he ordered the extermination of the entire clan, what would happen to his children's reputation? What would happen to the reputation of the royal family?

However, he was unwilling to let those people go willingly.

His imperial power cannot be challenged!

Thinking of those people eyeing the throne under his butt, Kangxi directly ordered the beheading of the adult men in the family who had committed serious crimes, and the women, children and infants were exiled to Ningguta to become slaves with the armored men.

Among them, the Nara clan and the Uya clan were the leaders.

As for the bannerman families such as the Majia, Juechan, and Daijia clans, after their properties were confiscated, they were demoted from the upper three banners to the lower five banners, and were exiled to Shengjing.

Moreover, those who have not made great contributions are not allowed to raise the flag, and are not even allowed to enter the capital without an imperial edict!

During the interrogation of the bondservant family, Wan Liuha, who had behaved well, had her property confiscated and all her people demoted, and was demoted from a bondservant of the upper three banners to a bondservant of the lower five banners, but at least she remained in the capital.

Moreover, Tohazi's outstanding performance in the confiscation of bondsers made Kangxi very satisfied. If he wanted to help his family in the future, he would still be able to find a way.

As long as the family members are hardworking and capable, it is not a difficult task.

Not long after the emperor's edict was issued, the concubines who were under house arrest in the palace, such as Concubine Nara, Concubine Majia and Concubine Uya, rushed out of their palaces, risking the charge of disobeying the emperor's will.

He ran to the Qianqing Palace without caring about his image and knelt down to beg the emperor to revoke his order and spare the lives of his parents and family.

However, Kangxi did not meet them. He even thought of their past vicious deeds that had been discovered, and he did not have a good face towards the concubines who were kneeling outside and begging.

Concubine Nara and Concubine Majia were demoted to concubines, and Concubine Uya was demoted to noble lady.

Even the other palace concubines involved in the incident, who did not go to the Qianqing Palace to beg the emperor, were still angered by Kangxi and had their titles stripped away.

Because of the Uya family incident, Kangxi now even has a grudge against his fourteenth son.

However, for the sake of his own face, Kangxi did not directly disclose the other plots of the Baoyi family.

Everyone thought it was just the corruption of the bondservants, which made the emperor completely disgusted with these concubines.

The majority of the people whose property was confiscated and dealt with were palace maids.

There are not enough palace maids to serve the master.

Kangxi directly ordered the transfer of the baoyi from the Shengjing Palace to the capital.

Although Kangxi did not expose the Baoyi's ambitions and plots against him, he was now extremely wary of the Baoyi.

In order to avoid the ambitions of the Baoyi in the future, he ordered the people below to make new adjustments to the rules of the Baoyi in the Imperial Household Department.

For example, a palace concubine who was a bondservant could not exceed the rank of a noble lady in the future.

Moreover, the royal heirs born to the palace concubines, regardless of gender, could not be raised by themselves.

Even if a bondservant woman became a palace concubine, her family would no longer be able to serve in the palace.

and many more.

As new rules came out one after another, most of them were broken, and the Baoyi climbed up the ladder quickly.

After this incident, the ambitions and schemes of the bannermen brought Kangxi and Crown Prince Yinreng back to their "honeymoon period" again.

The father and son seemed to have returned to the scene of fatherly love and filial piety many years ago.

Kangxi no longer blindly opposed Yinreng's opinions, and even suspected that he had other intentions.

In the harem, almost all the affairs of the palace, big or small, were handled by the Crown Princess, with Concubine Yi and Concubine Xun assisting her.

Kangxi even ordered that when the Crown Princess handled palace affairs, she should bring her eldest granddaughter, Princess Changfu, to learn from her.

Everyone is jealous of the favor shown to the Yuqing Palace lineage.

Although Wanyu didn't know how long this situation would last, she took advantage of the emperor's good attitude towards the Yuqing Palace lineage and often asked her second sister to send Hongli into the palace to stay in Yuqing Palace for a while.

It just so happened that there had been some turmoil outside the palace recently, so Wanlin felt more at ease after bringing Hongli into the palace.

Two months ago, the emperor launched a high-profile crackdown on the bondservants, and then confiscated a large amount of their masters' property from their homes.

The homes of princes and ministers outside the palace also had their slaves confiscated.

If you don’t check it, you don’t know.

Their own slaves have almost emptied their family's money, but they still think they are superior masters. They are very angry when they are slapped in the face by their own slaves.

Wave after wave of guilty slaves were sent to the Ministry of Clan Affairs and the Ministry of Justice.

As the excitement in the inner city gradually spread to the outer city, the outer city also began to start a trend of confiscating domestic slaves.

The capital is the weather vane of the entire Qing Dynasty!

After merchants and tourists from other places learned about what happened in the capital, the situation gradually expanded to the surrounding areas and even the entire territory of the Qing Dynasty.

The emperor's investigation into the corruption of the bannermen in the Imperial Household Department unexpectedly triggered a full-scale corruption investigation throughout the Qing Dynasty.

Some local officials even felt that the emperor was hinting at a crackdown on corruption.

In order to achieve political achievements, get promoted and make money, those local officials actually discovered many problems.

In the first half of the 51st year of the Kangxi reign, the emperor's confiscation of household slaves unexpectedly led to the confiscation of corruption, which quickly swept across the country and even achieved good results.

Many major corruption cases occurred across the country, and memorials of victory were sent to the emperor's desk.

Even Kangxi did not expect that such an outcome would occur in the end.