The annual New Year’s Eve banquet is naturally lively, but compared with previous years, there seems to be a more eerie atmosphere.

The smiles on the faces of many dignitaries seemed forced.

Chen Xian's timing of impeaching the prince was perfect. After that day, the emperor never bestowed the character "Fu" again.

The officials who first received the character "Fu" were all very popular people in Kangxi's eyes, and there were only seven of them in total.

Because of this incident, the court naturally had no good attitude towards Alinga and others who provoked this dispute.

The distant relatives who used to be very close to each other have become cold towards them this year.

From this perspective, it would be better for the emperor to make the final judgment as soon as possible. It would be much more convenient to settle the matter as soon as possible. Now everyone is worried and feels aggrieved everywhere.

After the Spring Festival, the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince officially entered the court.

Yinsi still remembered what he had promised Yinreng on the Wanshou Festival last year. When Kangxi asked him as usual which department he wanted to go to for training, he said the Lifanyuan without hesitation.

Kangxi was a little surprised.

Because he asked the same question to his other sons when they entered the court.

The answers from others were all the same, basically "Let the Emperor decide."

Although the Lifanyuan was busy with affairs, they were all minor matters such as quarrels between foreign envoys. Kangxi did not expect that a prince would take the initiative to ask to go to the Lifanyuan.

He hesitated for a moment and confirmed again.

"Are you sure you want to go to the Lifanyuan?"

He was not very willing to do so. Putting a prince in a place like the Lifanyuan was really a waste of his talent.

Moreover, he had seen in his dream that Lao Ba would be stationed at the port in the future, handling countless amounts of silver and money every day. He should first go to the Ministry of Revenue, or the Imperial Household Department to gain experience for a few months, and he would soon be able to be sent out to investigate cases and provide disaster relief. His future was not as bright as staying in the Lifanyuan.

"Sure."

Yinsi answered with such decisiveness that Kangxi had no choice but to nod.

"Okay."

"Thank you, Emperor Father."

"Yunyou, what about you?"

Yinyou thought of what his second brother, the crown prince, had said to him at the family dinner, and touched the leg that had some defects. After hesitating for a moment, he said,

"My son wants to go to the Ministry of Industry."

He originally wanted to go to the Ministry of War.

Because of his congenital leg disease, he has been subjected to strange looks from others since the day he can remember.

He worked hard and diligently, practicing horseback archery and Buku, just so that one day he could use his abilities to gain military merit on the battlefield and completely get rid of that kind of look.

But now, he has chosen a path that goes against his ideals. He thought he would regret it and be sad, but inexplicably, these two emotions did not arise in his heart.

Yes, there is the ease and clarity that comes after making a decision.

Yinyou was a little surprised.

"Can."

Kangxi agreed directly.

Compared with Yinsi's Lifanyuan, the place Yinyou wanted to go was quite conventional.

Naturally, he had nothing to object to.

When he left the Qianqing Palace that day, Yinyou went to pay his respects to his mother, Dai Jia, and told her the good news.

After learning that Yinyou was assigned to the Ministry of Works, Dai Jia was very happy, but besides being happy, she also felt deeply worried.

She was afraid that Yinyou would be hindered by his congenitally diseased leg and would not be able to do his job well.

This emotion was fully revealed in the words used to warn Yinyou.

The joy in Yinyou's heart was quickly shattered by her "comfort".

He suddenly understood why he did not feel regret or sadness when he said "Ministry of Industry" more than an hour and a half ago.

Because my second brother may be the only person in the world who does not regard his leg disease as a disability.

When he was six years old in Jianting, he was playing snowball fights with his second brother. His second brother would maliciously press his face into the snow, but his other brothers did not dare to do so.

Yinyou knew exactly what they were worried about.

I feel pain because I know it in my heart.

Those worried words were essentially a denial, a shackle that shattered his pride as a member of a noble family.

Even his own mother subconsciously felt that he was a disabled person and could not do the job properly, and that everyone had to give in to him, tolerate him, and forgive him just because he was a disabled person.

Only the second brother, when he told him that he was optimistic about him going to the Ministry of Industry, had no worry in his eyes, but only tried hard to hide his "evil intentions" of wanting to trick him into joining the pirate ship.

On New Year's Eve, the second brother tried every possible means to trick him into going to the Ministry of Industry to help him, making him feel that he was a normal person with value, rather than a disabled person who needed "privileges" everywhere.

Yinyou patiently coaxed Dai Jia for a few words, then said goodbye and left.

Walking on the long palace road, Yinyou's heart gradually calmed down.

If his second brother could always treat him like this, he would follow his second brother around and do his bidding for the rest of his life.

Even if he has not made any contribution, he will not be granted a title until the day he dies.

He thought.

On the fifth day of the new year, at the morning court, Kangxi asked Liang Jiugong to read out the verdict on Alinga and others in public.

Due to the influence of the Niohuru family, Kangxi did not strip Alinga of his title, but he stripped him of his positions as Minister of the Imperial Guard and Minister of Ceremonies, leaving him only with the position of Manchu Commander-in-Chief of the Bordered Yellow Banner.

The influence of the Niohuru family in the Bordered Yellow Banner is too great. If his position as commander-in-chief is taken away, he will have to replace him with someone from the Niohuru family.

Too troublesome.

Yisan'a and Maska were demoted three levels but retained their positions, while Prince Ping and Prince An were fined for half a year's salary and were required to reflect on their mistakes in seclusion in the palace for another half a year.

As for the rest, their cases were not serious, and Kangxi only symbolically fined them one year's salary.

Kangxi spared no one of the powerful people involved in the case of framing the coal transport team and taking human lives.

However, he never mentioned again the matter of land annexation by powerful relatives disclosed by Yinreng.

All the civil and military officials in the court tacitly forgot about this matter.

After Yinsi entered the Lifanyuan, he got acquainted with the minister of the Lifanyuan for a while, and then began to contact those white-skinned, hook-nosed Western fat sheep.

His foreign language skills are average, but fortunately he has a younger brother who is extremely talented in languages.

That was the ninth prince Yinzhen.

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