Not long after the morning court ended, the news of Mingzhu's misfortune spread throughout the court and the harem.

The entire court was in an uproar.

Almost everyone was trying to get information, asking why Mingzhu was suddenly impeached.

But after asking again and again, the only answer I got was, "I don't know either."

Even Soetu was confused.

Mingzhu was the head of the cabinet, how could he be removed so easily?

Why did it feel so unreal to him?!

Yinreng learned the news after the horse riding and archery class was over.

He had a heavy workload, and although his teachers would use things that happened in the court as examples to teach him, it was impossible for them to use something that happened in the morning as an example to teach Yinreng in the afternoon.

After class, Yinreng saw that Kangxi did not come to test him, and thought that he would not come again today, so he planned to go back to Yuqing Palace to rest. But before he could take action, he learned from the eunuch who was serving beside him that Kangxi had summoned him.

Yinreng had no choice but to go to the Qianqing Palace first.

By the end of March, the chilly spring season had passed, and the place where Kangxi reviewed memorials was moved from the warm room to the east side hall.

When Yinreng entered the room, Kangxi had already put down the red-ink seal and was sitting on the couch waiting for his arrival.

Yinreng subconsciously wanted to salute, but Kangxi called him directly to his front.

He handed the memorial that he had thrown in front of Mingzhu in the morning to Yinreng.

Yinreng took it and looked at it doubtfully, then he immediately became alert. He looked at Kangxi,

"this……"

"Let's take a look."

Kangxi calmly gestured for him to sit on a stool nearby and watch.

Yinreng screamed in shock.

"What's going on? Why is Mingzhu being impeached now? Isn't this supposed to happen at the end of the year? This process is wrong!"

Shouldn't Yu Chenglong secretly advise first, the old man send someone to investigate, and then thoroughly investigate by the end of the year, and then inform Guo Xiu to impeach him? Why did Guo Xiu submit an impeachment today?!

Yinreng flipped through the pages quickly. The crimes of Mingzhu and Yu Guozhu were almost the same as in his previous life, but the timing was obviously wrong, which made him more and more confused.

"Is it because of the butterfly effect I brought about? Why did this happen earlier? No, since I woke up, a lot of things have changed in the past six months. What exactly is the reason for this change? I clearly didn't do anything out of the ordinary, so how could it cause such a change?"

Yinreng was puzzled.

Kangxi was not worried about Yinreng's doubts.

Although he didn't want to mention that he could hear Yinreng's thoughts, if Yinreng guessed it one day, he would not feel regretful, but would choose to be frank with Yinreng.

In fact, if we put all of Yinreng's thoughts together, it is not difficult to see that although Yinreng is lazy, he is also concerned about the country and the people.

After Yinreng read the memorial from beginning to end, he looked away from it. Kangxi asked at the right time.

"What does Baocheng think about this?"

Yinreng pursed his lips.

He didn't know how to express his thoughts.

From his point of view, a parasite to the country like Mingzhu, even if he had made outstanding contributions in the past, his greed in the past seven or eight years was really too ugly.

Mingzhu exploited the officials in the cabinet, and the people in the cabinet exploited the officials under him. After layers of exploitation, the common people were the ones who suffered in the end.

As a result of the upper-level influence, corruption within the Eight Banners is gradually emerging.

So according to Yinreng's idea, he felt that Mingzhu should be dragged out and beheaded, and the rest of the Nalan family should not be punished if they are innocent. If they are guilty, they should be beheaded and punished according to the law. Otherwise, how can he give an explanation to the poor scholars in the world who have worked hard to enter the cabinet?

But then again, the internal relations of the Manchus were complicated. Mingzhu was the patriarch of the Nalan clan and also held a seat in the Council of Princes and Ministers. Kangxi really couldn't deal with Mingzhu based on his own preferences.

Otherwise, it would cause dissatisfaction among the people within the Eight Banners, which would have a great impact on Kangxi's rule.

After thinking about it, Yinreng gave a panacea answer.

"My son thinks that the matter should be handled according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty."

"Qing Dynasty Laws?"

Kangxi chuckled twice.

"Do you think the Qing Dynasty's laws allow the trial of a first-rank Manchu official?"

Yinreng was helpless.

He probably knew what Kangxi was planning, but with his current knowledge and achievements in imperial psychology, he could not give such an answer, otherwise Kangxi would be afraid of his intelligence in the next second.

"If the laws of the Qing Dynasty can deal with common people, they can deal with princes too!"

Yinreng's answer was firm and righteous.

"I wish it were so. The lives of ordinary people are the least valuable in this world, but the greatest wealth of those in power is precisely these worthless ordinary people. If the ordinary people are gone, who will flatter these nobles? Small nobles praising the great nobles? Haha..."

This group of people clearly eat steamed buns soaked in human blood, but treat the people who produce the steamed buns as grass. How pathetic.

Kangxi quietly tightened his hands on the table.

It is indeed as Yinreng said, the common people are the greatest wealth of the rulers. It is not that he does not value the lives of ordinary people, but he always looks down on them with a condescending attitude. The two very different words, property and human life, suddenly become concrete at this moment.

One is cold, the other is fresh.

Kangxi didn't know how he felt.

After a long silence, Kangxi sighed deeply.

"Today I want to talk to you about the relationship between the Eight Banners and the Imperial Family. After you have finished listening, we can consider how to deal with Mingzhu."

Afterwards, Kangxi explained in detail to Yinreng the origin of the Eight Banners and the division of political power within the Eight Banners after the Qing army entered the pass.

Yinreng nodded as he listened, but he couldn't help but complain in his heart,

'It has only been a few years since the Qing army entered the pass, less than fifty years at most, and the Eight Banners descendants in the capital have begun to become corrupt.

Except for the wealthy and powerful, ordinary soldiers could not even afford enough money for daily training and food. In order to show the nobility of the bannermen at the beginning of entering the Pass, the inner city was designated as a place where only bannermen were allowed to live.

There are no fields to plant and no pastures to graze in the city. Given the prices in the inner city, the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is barely enough to feed their families. No wonder they are becoming increasingly useless. Not only have they lost their fighting skills, they also have no ability to farm or graze. Not to mention two hundred years, the Eight Banners Army after more than a hundred years is basically weak, with lax military discipline and a weak military style.