Dachun thought about it carefully and replied,

"No, the prince is very happy every day in Sanjin. He occasionally goes hunting in the mountains and provides meals for the local villagers, so the people there like him very much."

Kangxi's hands on the table unconsciously clenched into fists.

Given Soetu's personality, when he saw that he frequently summoned other princes to the imperial court, he would definitely send a letter to Yinreng without stopping.

He didn't have to bother revealing the situation in the capital to Yinreng.

Yinreng knew that he favored other princes, but he remained calm. This only meant that he really didn't care about the matter.

Even... I'd be happy to see it happen.

He was just happy about his birthday and wanted to show some grace to let the people of the Qing Dynasty see his kindness. The person he was showing grace to was not very happy about it. It was not like he had done anything unforgivable. Why couldn't Yinreng be submissive to him first?

The day after the birthday banquet, he lowered his attitude. As long as Yinreng said a few words to coax him, they could return to the previous situation of loving father and filial son.

But Yinreng was unwilling to say even a word to coax him.

The bitterness in Kangxi's mouth gradually became stronger.

Hearing no movement from above, Dachun became increasingly uneasy.

But after thinking about it carefully for a long time, he couldn't think of anything wrong with the prince's behavior.

When the emperor appointed him as the commander of the guards for the crown prince, he also assigned him a task.

That is to report the prince's movements to the emperor.

He has been doing so for the past six months without any slacking off.

But now he saw that there was nothing unusual about the prince's behavior, and the emperor did not seem very happy.

Dachun knelt on the ground, not even daring to look up.

Afraid that he would catch Kangxi's sight.

"You go down first."

Kangxi pondered for a while and sent Dachun away.

"I'll take my leave!"

Dachun felt as if he had been pardoned. He quickly got up from the ground and quickly left the hall.

After he left, Kangxi sat there for another half an hour.

"well……"

After a long time, a long sigh was heard from the empty room.

The only solution now is probably to muddy up this stagnant water.

He had previously planned to ask Yinreng to work together with him to improve the conflicts between the Manchus and the Han people without violating the ancestral laws and rituals, so that he could have an easier time when Yinreng ascended the throne in the future.

Now it seems that Yinreng has completely alienated himself from him.

In that case...

Then let him have a taste of how difficult his life would be without the protection of his royal father.

Whenever he fell and felt pain, he knew that his royal father was the only one in the world who truly cared about him.

Kangxi's eyes turned cold and stern.

…

After Yinreng returned to the capital, apart from attending court every day, he spent the rest of his time in the Ministry of Works.

In this day and age, iron production capacity is actually not low.

A well-known scholar in later generations directly pointed out that the iron smelting furnaces scrapped in the Ming Dynasty were more advanced than the Western steel smelting furnaces more than two hundred years later.

This is enough to prove that China's scientific and technological level has been at the top of the world for a long time.

Kangxi was worried that selling coal stoves made of iron sheets to neighboring countries would cause unnecessary trouble, which was somewhat reasonable.

But not much.

Most of the farm tools and kitchen utensils circulated among the people are made of pure iron. If you want to smuggle them, wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to buy those pure iron products than to buy coal stoves?

By the way, the Qing Dynasty did not allow trade in these iron products with Mongolia, but allowed Western countries across the ocean to purchase iron products from the Qing Dynasty.

This was also one of the means used by the Qing Dynasty to guard against neighboring countries.

Yinreng expressed his understanding and respect.

Diplomacy between countries has always been about fighting nearby and making friends with distant countries.

No matter how arrogant Yinreng was, he could never forget the attitude of the surrounding small countries when China was weak in later generations.

Only a blind person would think of aiding the enemy.

For the time being, he only planned to sell the coal stoves he made to the people within the Qing Dynasty.

He didn't plan to set the price too high. The cost of a coal stove was three qian of silver, and he planned to set the price at five qian.

Coal briquettes are a truly long-term business.

The reason why he stayed in the Ministry of Industry was very simple. He wanted to develop more specifications of stoves for the people to choose from.

During the period when he was in seclusion, the favor of Yinzhi and the other two did not decrease because he returned to Beijing. Instead, Kangxi showed his preference for these sons even more.

Today he rewarded Yinzhi with an ornament, tomorrow he asked Yinzhi to go to the Qianqing Palace to play chess with him, and the day after tomorrow he summoned Yinzhen to teach him calligraphy step by step.

This time, it wasn't just the 30% of important officials who had this idea.

All the aristocratic families in the capital are beginning to get restless.

After only a few days of recovery, Soetu became ill again and could not even eat.

Before he even got off duty, he ran to the Ministry of Works and caught Yinreng red-handed.

Yinreng knew that there were many gossipy people in the Ministry of Works, so he simply drove everyone away in the yard so that he could argue with Soetu.

"My Lord Crown Prince, you can't let the situation continue to develop. I must make plans to suppress the eldest prince and his men today, otherwise..."

Soetu's face was full of viciousness.

Yinreng had warned Soetu a long time ago that he must be informed before any action, otherwise if he found out anything, he would take the initiative to confess to the emperor.

If not for this, Soetu really wanted to make the decision himself and plot to trick Yinzhi and others so that the court officials could see that neither the prince nor he was made of clay.

Yinreng held his forehead helplessly.

"Uncle, what I told you that day was all true."

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