The life of a man on the road of film and television

Chapter 133 Zhen Huan 9

Ever since Yinqi moved to Kangxi's side, the old man kept Yinqi with him every day in order to relieve his pain.

Although his body was still slowly aging, there was almost no pain, which was enough for him.

Perhaps it was because what Laojun said in his previous dream left a deep impression on him.

So after confirming that Yinqi was really as he said in the dream, Kangxi changed his past and began to concentrate on dealing with the former dynasty and the harem, solving those problems that he had not had the energy to deal with before.

(The author is a half-baked person, so please just read it blindly and don't take it seriously. Of course, I will try my best to find out some things. You are welcome to point out any mistakes. Please be gentle. Thank you very much)

The first things to be dealt with were the court officials. No matter if they were showing off their power under the name of the Eight Great Nobles, or if they had borrowed money from him before and were now crying poor, Kangxi would deal with them with thundering means.

What was owed was paid back and what was owed was collected, of course this was only on the surface. Secretly, Kangxi had already been secretly sending people to investigate the corruption, so from this day on, the scene of property confiscation and family extermination would occur almost every few months in the next few years.

Of course, when he encountered some important ministers who could not be moved, Kangxi would still deal with it in a roundabout way and start directly with their staff.

In order to make an example of him, the court officials understood the old man's intention and handed over the embezzled money with various reasons and submitted memorials to express that they would reform themselves.

But if you are disloyal once, you will be useless for life. Although Kangxi spared their lives, he gradually replaced them with new people and no longer used them.

In just three years, Kangxi had more than 3.5 million taels of gold in the national treasury just by collecting debts. This did not include the results of his confiscation of property and corruption, or even the results of the secret investigation of the bondservants that he had not yet dealt with.

But it was also because of this that the result made the old man so angry that his hands couldn't control and shook even more violently. If Yin Qi hadn't input some wood-related abilities into him in time, he would have fainted hundreds of times out of anger.

The issue of the bannermen was still under investigation, and Kangxi was openly trying to resolve the issues of land and taxation. Unfortunately, he didn't have much time left.

The new policies and laws need time to be tested. Although Kangxi has already started to address the issue, they have now been trialed and implemented in nearby Beijing.

But Kangxi already knew that he would not live long. Even though he didn't want to, in order to avoid being rejected by God, in order to prevent the Qing Dynasty from becoming what it was in his dreams, and in order for the next emperor to be able to better succeed him, he had no choice but to begin formally training an heir.

Even though he already knew in his dreams that his fourth son would inherit his throne in the future, Kangxi still couldn't help but look around at his remaining sons.

The third son was conservative, and the fifth son automatically lost his inheritance rights because he grew up with the Empress Dowager.

The seventh brother has difficulty walking, not to mention the eighth brother. Kangxi now looks down on him at all.

The ninth brother is smart, but he cares too much about gold and silver. The tenth brother is a fool, and giving him the throne is equivalent to giving it to the ninth brother.

Thirteenth Prince is usable, but he is too loyal and righteous, and he has a very good relationship with Fourth Prince. Handing the throne to him will have the same result as handing it to Tenth Prince. The Qing Dynasty will definitely have a second regent.

The Fourteenth Prince is brave but not wise, and the Seventeenth Prince is of foreign blood. The sober Kangxi would never choose him to inherit the throne.

The remaining ones were either too young or had mediocre talents. Even though he could see that his youngest son Yinqi was very intelligent, it was a pity that he was still a child and could not be given important positions.

After thinking it over, it turned out that he could only trust Yinzhen, but the fourth son was too narrow-minded. If he took the throne, he didn't know what would happen to his sons a hundred years later. But he had no other choice now.

Kangxi, who had been playing political games for many years and ruined his best heir, now finally regretted his actions. But everything had already happened and it was too late for him to regret.

Kangxi could only make up for it as much as possible now, so he began to let Yinzhen move into the palace, brought him by his side every day to teach him the mindset of an emperor, taught him to be kind to others and be kind to his brothers and subjects, took him to clean up the previous dynasty step by step, and began to deal with his sons in front of him.

The eldest and second sons, one the eldest son and the other the legitimate son, would be a big worry for the fourth son no matter which one was left behind, so Kangxi first sent imperial doctors to cure them, and then conferred them the titles of Prince Zhi and Prince Li.

After they got better, they were sent directly to Tianjin to build ships.

However, before sending the two princes out, Kangxi privately called the two princes and the fourth prince to the Qianqing Palace and talked for a long time. Outsiders did not know what they talked about, but when they came out, the palace people saw that the three princes had red eyes, and after that, the barriers between them obviously disappeared a lot.

When the two men arrived in Tianjin, because they had never gotten along well with each other, they began to compete with each other. They tried their best to defeat each other every day, which actually led to a rapid progress in shipbuilding.

Under Yinqi's secret care, his body gradually became stronger. Of course, Kangxi thought that this was the result after they were released from prison and felt relieved, and he felt even more guilty towards his sons.

The remaining sons, the third, fifth and seventh, remained princes, but he threw them into sinecure positions in the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites.

Although the Eighth Brother was ruthless, he was very popular among the court officials. The Ninth Brother was good at finance, so they let the two of them help the Qing Dynasty make money in the Ministry of Revenue.

Although the Tenth Prince was a reckless man, he had one advantage: he listened to the Ninth Prince very much, so Kangxi put him in the military camp and asked the Ninth Prince to often persuade him to be obedient and lead the troops well, and promised that as long as he made military achievements in the future, he would share the rewards with the Ninth Prince.

This immediately grasped the lifeline of the tenth prince Yinzhen. From then on, whenever there was a war, he would ask for permission to lead the troops. This helped Emperor Yongzheng a lot later, and also made Yongzheng hold on to the ninth prince Yinzhen even more tightly.

Although Yinzhen felt bitter, he was also deeply moved. Even though he was unwilling, he had to endure it passively.

After Thirteenth Prince was released from prison, Yinzhen personally brought him back from Yangfeng Road. After he recovered, Kangxi directly threw him to Yinzhen. The two had a good relationship, and I believe that the Fourth Prince will make good arrangements for Thirteenth Prince in the future.

As for the Fourteenth Prince, Kangxi, who had already investigated all the evil spirits in the harem, was now very aware of Defei's duplicity, so he did not make the Fourteenth Prince a king.

He was only given the title of general and was sent to be stationed in the northwest. He was not allowed to return to the capital without being summoned. If he did, he would be treated as a rebel.

This was the only time he had been ruthless to his son, but it was something he had to do. Only in this way could he put a stop to the wild ideas of those baoyi.

Kangxi cannot take action against the Baoyi for the time being, as a single move could affect the entire body. The Baoyi alone does not pose much of a constraint to him, but the Baoyi are too deeply involved with some of the big Manchu families.

Therefore, in order not to shake the foundation of the Manchus, and in order to hand over the baoyi to Yinzhen for use as the first step in establishing his authority in the future, Kangxi temporarily put aside the matter of dealing with the baoyi. However, he secretly asked the fifth and tenth brothers to lead people to take turns to monitor them every day to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.