Tong Guowei's means of revenge were direct and swift.

Ma Qi has now been promoted by Kangxi to become the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace. The incident of Maska did have some impact on Ma Qi, causing him to stay in the Inspectorate longer.

But he was eventually promoted all the way until he became the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace.

In the past, the relationship between Tong Guowei and Ma Qi was not very good, but it was definitely not so bad that they would set traps for each other and try to kill each other.

After all, Kangxi was there. He could allow conflicts between the two, but he would not allow them to frame each other and make his court a mess.

However, Kangxi would not allow the two to collude with each other.

Although Tong Guowei is known as Tong Banchao, most of his subordinates are below the second rank, and there is no one above the first rank.

Tong Guowei is smart in this regard.

He didn't have much contact with the first-rank officials in the court, and even if he had contact with them, they were basically his children, grandchildren and in-laws.

Unlike Mingzhu, who sold official positions to Kangxi, Kangxi couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart if he didn't deal with him.

Tong Guowei knew that the Inspectorate was Fucha Ma Qi's territory, so he did not impeach Ma Qi in the court, but instead found someone to set up a trap for his disappointing sons.

Ma Qi had nine sons in total, but none of them had outstanding talents.

Like most people of that era, Ma Qi also adhered to the principle of "a filial son is born under the stick" when educating his son.

He either beat or scolded his sons.

The son he raised was indeed well-behaved and obedient, but the ambition, spirituality and adaptability he desired were also destroyed by his day-to-day beating and scolding style of education.

Such children have been living in a psychologically repressed environment, and a single spark will cause them to—"Bang!"

Exploded suddenly.

Tong Guowei's methods of setting up the scheme were not very clever. He either used women or induced gambling. It was these two unwise methods that directly ruined Ma Qi's four sons.

By the time Ma Qi realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

This shows how evil Tong Guowei's heart is.

Ma Qi also quickly guessed that it was Tong Guowei who did it.

So the two groups started to attack each other under the nose of Kangxi.

And what did Kangxi do?

Kangxi sat on the mountain and watched the fight between tigers. As long as it didn't happen in front of him, he pretended not to know. If it happened in front of him, he would try to smooth things over.

In front of Kangxi, Tong Guowei would not suffer any loss, but he would definitely not gain any advantage either.

Ma Qi soon realized that Kangxi's actions were all to protect him. After all, ever since he entered the court as an official, he had never seen anyone who could offend Tong Guowei and get away with it.

Although Ma Qi was already the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace, he was very clear about his position in Kangxi's heart, and he was definitely no match for Tong Guowei.

Although he didn't know why Kangxi protected him, Ma Qi soon figured it out. He wanted to take revenge on Tong Guowei, and now was undoubtedly the best time.

If he gave up this opportunity because of Kangxi's inexplicable attitude, it would be difficult for him to take revenge once Kangxi changed his attitude.

After Ma Qi thought the matter through, he let go and began to kill Tong Guowei and his group.

After losing a high-ranking student, Tong Guowei gradually became furious...

For a time, the court was in a state of panic and everyone felt insecure.

Ye Keshu, Qingfu, Qingtai and others were at the center of the storm. After feeling the increasingly solemn atmosphere in the court and at home, they sought help from Yinzhi and Yinsi.

The two of them also symbolically provided support two or three times, but they were unable to gain any advantage over Ma Qi, and even lost several of their men.

Yinzhi and Yinsi spread the results in front of Qingfu and the others, and Qingfu and the others knew what to do and stopped talking.

When the two men were attacking each other most fiercely, at the instruction of Kangxi, the Minister of Justice released all the playboys in the prison and extorted a large sum of money from their families to compensate the civilians they persecuted.

At the same time, Yinzhen also handed over the evidence of Orondei's crimes to Kangxi.

Kangxi decided not to protect the Tong family any longer, so he simply learned about Orondei's crimes and made them public.

Also announced along with it were his punishment measures against Orondei.

Kangxi could not bring himself to kill his own uncle's relatives, so he stripped Orondei of his titles and official positions, confiscated his property, and took back his house.

Orondei inherited the title from Tong Guogang. Kangxi thought about it for a long time and finally gave it to Orondei's brother Fahai, whom he hated to the core.

This result was unbelievable to all the civil and military officials in the court, and even the princes who were familiar with the inside story found it unbelievable.

Although Kangxi did not kill Orondei directly, it was no different from killing him.

As Kangxi's cousin, Orondai had been living a life of luxury since childhood, and even his father Tong Guogang looked down upon him. Now Kangxi had directly stripped him of his official position and confiscated all his property. Even with Tong Guowei's support in the future, Orondai's life would not be much better.

Not to mention...

The person who succeeded him to the title was Fahai, the person he hated the most.

Apart from Orondei himself, the person who found it most difficult to accept this matter was Tong Guowei.

Orondei was Kangxi's cousin. Although he made some mistakes, they were not serious enough to lead to his demotion and property confiscation.

Tong Guowei refused to accept it. After the morning court session, he went to meet Kangxi alone to plead for Orondei.

However, Kangxi stopped Tong Guowei with a sentence "A king never jokes".

Tong Guowei's plea failed, and his expression became ferocious for a moment, but Kangxi had been observing Tong Guowei and did not miss the resentment that was about to overflow from his eyes.

After Tong Guowei left, Kangxi sat on the couch in silence for a long time.

There is a Buddhist verse that says: Put down the butcher knife and you will become a Buddha instantly.

Even if a person has done bad things thousands of times, as long as he is willing to lay down his butcher knife, he will become a Buddha.

Even if a good person does good things all his life, as long as his morality is tainted with the slightest flaw, he will be criticized and cursed by thousands of people.

Oh……

Kangxi laughed at himself.

When he first ascended the throne, the Tong family was just a third-rate family in the capital, Tong Guowei was just an imperial guard, and even his biological mother was just a small concubine when she entered the palace.

It was not until he overthrew Oboi that he promoted Tong Guowei to the position of Grand Secretary.

Over the years, he felt that he owed his biological mother something, so he always favored the Tong family in everything. Sometimes, even his own son had to avoid the Tong family's edge.

However, he spent decades raising the Tong family to its current level, but Tong Guowei was so ignorant that he began to resent him.

It's really ridiculous...

Kangxi never liked people who were not satisfied, and it just so happened that the Tong family was full of such people.

In the past, he was willing to spend time and effort to make the Tong family look good because he was thinking of his biological mother.

Now that he doesn't miss it anymore, the Tong family has to bear it!

He wanted to let Tong Guowei know that he could take back the things he gave to the Tong family if he didn't want to give them anymore...