Yinreng looked at Yinzhi's ugly face and kicked him.

"Why don't you state your request? With the current strength of the Qing army, do we still need to send our daughters to marry into the Mongolian tribe? If not, let them send their sons here to marry into the family!"

The reason why Kangxi sent his daughter to Mongolia to marry was essentially to consolidate the relationship with the Mongolian tribes.

But now, with the military strength of the Qing Dynasty, it is not afraid of the Mongolian tribes rebelling. However, when the Qing army entered the pass, several Mongolian tribes made great efforts, and Kangxi did not want to bear the stigma of being ungrateful.

But Kangxi did not want his son to marry a woman from the Mongolian tribe, so as to prevent the royal family from being infiltrated by Mongolian forces.

He was an extremely contradictory person. He admired the wisdom and intelligence of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, but at the same time he did not want another woman like her to appear among the descendants of Mongolia.

After all, the Qing army has already entered the pass. If another Empress Xiaozhuang appears, the head of the Qing Dynasty will probably have to be replaced.

The tenth brother Yin? Different.

Yinzhen's marriage was the result of his calculations.

When the word "marrying into the wife's family" came out, the other three people thought it was ridiculous. However, after thinking about it carefully, they felt that this was a good way to break the deadlock.

The sadness on Yinzhi's face immediately dissipated.

"You're right. When I return next month, I'll go discuss this with the Emperor."

Yinreng also felt relieved after hearing this.

He also watched Ni Chuhe grow up, and he didn't want her to marry and suffer on the grassland.

It's windy and sunny there, and it's not easy to take a shower.

"I don't know how my elder sister and the others are doing..."

He has not been in the capital in recent years. Kangxi went to Mulan Hunting Ground last year, but this year he did not even mention the autumn hunt.

Because he had to stay in the capital and wait for the Japanese pirates to send silver.

"I went to see my elder sisters last year. I saw that they were all in good condition. The prince consort shouldn't dare to bully them."

Thirteen hurriedly said after hearing this.

He also has a younger sister, and of course he doesn't want her to marry into the grassland.

Now that he saw how much his second brother cared about his sisters, he felt a little hopeful.

"That's good..."

That day, the brothers ate a beef hotpot in the windy and snowy weather. Yinzhi ended up being drunk and lying in Yinreng's courtyard, refusing to leave. Yinreng had to send someone to carry him out.

On the seventh day of November, the second batch of rubber arrived in Weihaiwei.

Yinreng learned from the letter sent to him by Yinzhen that he had seized five boxes of the rubber to use for making bicycles.

It seems that Yinzhen can't wait to make a fortune with the bicycle.

This time, Yinzhen sent out two treasure ships, specifying that they only wanted rubber, so the amount of rubber brought back was more than forty boxes.

But even so, Yinreng still felt that Yin'er had withheld too much.

At the end of November, Yinreng and his three companions returned to Beijing.

When they returned to Tianjin Port, Yinzhen had already returned to Beijing before them. They rested in Tianjin Port for one night and left by carriage the next day.

We arrived at Sijiu City in the evening.

The weather was very cold, but there were many people on the street. Yinreng pulled aside the curtain and looked for a while. Seeing that the skin color on the people's faces was normal, he put the curtain back.

It seems that the people living in the suburbs of Beijing are living a pretty good life now, unlike ten years ago when most people had sorrow on their faces.

After the car had gone inside for a while, Yinreng clearly felt that the car had passed a bump. Fourteen was surprised and said,

"Is the capital also building cement roads?"

When Yinreng heard this, he was moved and quickly lifted the curtain to take a look outside.

I found that the road outside had been replaced with a cement road. The snow on the cement road had been cleared, and there were officers and soldiers from the Five Cities Inspection Office guarding it.

Yinreng had an idea in his mind.

It seems that the old man is doing an experiment.

After returning to the palace, the four went to report to Kangxi first.

Kangxi's temples were already gray, but he was in very good spirits and even talked to a few people about the current situation in Weihaiwei.

There was no need for Yinreng to say anything about this matter. Fourteenth immediately told him everything he had seen and heard.

Kangxi was extremely surprised and even thought of going to Weihaiwei to take a look.

It soon became completely dark, and Kangxi had no choice but to let his sons go back to rest.

The residences of Thirteen and Fourteen were still under construction, so they had to return to their prince's residence.

And Yinzhi was allowed to leave the palace.

After the four of them left the Palace of Heavenly Purity, they went their separate ways.

The next day.

When Yinreng sat up from the bed, he glanced at the Western clock next to the wardrobe, which clearly showed that it was only half past four.

He let out a long sigh.

A short separation is better than a new marriage. He and Guaerjia had a long quarrel last night, and it was a torture for him to get up and go to court now.

Although Guaerjia was confused, she keenly heard Yinreng's sigh. She opened her eyelids and asked,

"What's wrong?"

"I'm fine. After the morning court session ends today, the Emperor will probably keep me for breakfast. You should get some more sleep."

Yinreng lowered his head and kissed Guwalgiya's forehead again before he gently stood up and left the warm bed.

"Um……"

Guaerjia responded and fell into a deep sleep again.

During the twelfth lunar month, before Kangxi put down his pen, he spent every morning court reviewing the year-end summaries of various ministries.

Yinreng only had an ear and spent most of his time daydreaming.

What he didn't know was that many people were staring at him and his dozen or so brothers at this moment.

After the New Year, the emperor will be fifty-three years old.

Among these ten or so princes, except for the fifth prince Yinqi, the seventh prince Yinyou, the tenth prince Yin?, and the twelfth prince Yinlu, the others all have the opportunity to compete for the throne.

Among them, the prince was the legitimate heir, but he had no offspring.

Although the third prince Yinzhi was a little weak, he at least had Hongsheng.

Hongsheng is considered the emperor's eldest grandson.

He is the most favored by the emperor among all the imperial grandchildren.

So the Third Prince also has some chance.

As for the others who had a chance to be crowned prince, only the Thirteenth Prince had no family background and no mother to whisper in the Emperor's ear, so the Thirteenth Prince's chance of success was undoubtedly the lowest.

Compared with him, the Fourteenth Prince's chances are much higher.

The Fourteenth Prince had been staying in the capital for the past six months. It was obvious to all that he was favored by the Emperor. Apart from the Crown Prince, they had never seen the Emperor treat any other prince so differently.

So even though the Fourteenth Prince's foundation is still shallow, many people still decide to work hard on him.

Others may not know what these court officials are thinking, but Kangxi knows it very clearly.

Kangxi was also very conflicted.

When he was in his forties, he was certain that he would pass the throne to Yinreng.

But after he turned fifty, he was no longer so sure.

In fact, the succession of Khanship before the Manchus did not advocate the continuation of bloodline at all. Most of the time, they were elected from the powerful people in the tribe.

However, it was not easy for Kangxi to ascend the throne, and after being influenced by Han culture for decades, he felt that the throne should be passed on to his son.

He was also afraid that if he passed the throne to Yinreng, a hundred years after Yinreng's death, the change of the throne would cause large-scale unrest.