After hearing from Yinreng that Dai Zi was the future of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi secretly went to the prison to visit Dai Zi the next day.

At that time, although Dai Zi looked listless, he had not suffered any physical pain.

Fortunately, Empress Xiaozhuang was seriously ill at the time, and Kangxi did not give any instructions after ordering Dai Zi to be arrested. Dai Zi's wife and children made arrangements, and the jailer did not touch Dai Zi.

Winning people's hearts was Kangxi's forte. Before long, the fear and resentment in Dai Zi's heart disappeared without a trace.

Kangxi remembered that when Nan Huairen was making the sky rocket, he used the method of provoking him. Kangxi took the pretext of asking for advice and complained openly and secretly about the expensive foreign firearms. Sure enough, Dai Zi also became indignant.

Dai Zi revealed the 28-shot musket while he was complaining.

What shocked Kangxi was that Dai Zi invented the repeating musket during the Sanfan Rebellion, but he did not present it to his superiors because of a dream.

Kangxi couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

If he had obtained such a useful firearm during the Three Feudatories Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty would not have lost so many soldiers.

Under the leadership of Kangxi, the first rapid-fire musket team of the Qing Dynasty was born.

Yinreng knew nothing about this.

After the busy period at the beginning of the year, Yinreng felt quite comfortable staying in the Ministry of Revenue.

At the beginning, Yisan'a and others actively taught him some methods of handling affairs, and they were very surprised by Yinreng's speed of acceptance.

After spending a long time with the prince, they all discovered that he actually had no ambition.

He usually does not participate in the management and operation of the Ministry of Revenue, but only stays in the few rooms at the edge of the yamen to look at the account books.

Yinreng just enjoyed the process of settling accounts when he looked at the account books.

The amounts of money and grain in the Ministry of Revenue's account books are basically reconciled, but the rationality of the income and expenditure of money and grain may not be.

In his previous life, Yinreng also discovered a lot of tricks in the Ministry of Revenue's account books, so he turned around and went to the Minister of Revenue to discuss solutions.

In order to win people's hearts, he gave those tricks as favors to the Minister of Revenue and the left and right vice ministers.

In this life, he planned to record all the tricks in a memorial, and hand the memorial directly to Kangxi when leaving the Ministry of Revenue, to see how Kangxi would deal with the "trusted minister" in his eyes.

The Ministry of Revenue was just the beginning, and he planned to continue with the next five ministries without making any changes.

Offended all six departments.

By the way, he also offended the cabinet ministers who had the power of supervision.

He just didn't believe that anyone would support him, such a stupid prince!

In early June, Kangxi took several concubines and most of the princes to Changchun Garden to escape the summer heat as usual.

Imperial Noble Consort Tong Jia was not among the entourage.

Yinzhen refused to go to Changchun Garden on the grounds that he had to serve medicine to Tong Jia.

Since Yinzhi had already married, Kangxi gave him the Bigen Garden, a small garden built near Changchun Garden.

On the first day of arriving at Changchun Garden, Yinreng also went to visit Yinzhi's garden.

Here, Yinreng met his eldest niece for the first time in his life.

And...the eldest wife is about to give birth.

As Irgen Jueluo was still one month away from giving birth, it was not suitable for her to travel by boat. However, Bichen Garden was next to Changchun Garden and not far from the Forbidden City. Yinzhi was not very confident about his first wife, so he brought his family, mother and daughter, to Bichen Garden.

Risking the risk of offending his eldest brother, Yinreng called Yinzhi out and talked to him alone about the harm that successive childbirths would bring to women.

To this end, he even used his mother as an example, which scared Yinzhi so much that his face turned pale.

But soon Yinzhi thought that Yinreng might have deliberately lied to him with those lies because he didn't want him to have a legitimate son.

Yinreng only said that his Crown Princess could not be selected until next year, and the earliest they could get married would be the year after next. Even if the Crown Princess became pregnant immediately after the marriage, there would still be more than three years before she gave birth to the child. He still had plenty of time to strive for the eldest grandson in the future, so why was he in such a hurry?

Yinzhi was half-believing and half-doubting.

Yinreng had no choice but to ask someone to call the gynecological expert Lu Anchen.

Fortunately, Lu Anchen was also one of the imperial physicians accompanying him on this trip.

So we arrived at Bicheng Garden very quickly.

After Lu Anchen finished taking the pulse of the eldest lady, there was not much change on his face.

This made Yinzhi start to become suspicious again.

Yinreng had no choice but to ask Lu Anchen to prove himself.

Lu Anchen's answer was exactly the same as Yinreng's, so Yinzhi believed it most of the time.

Yinreng had no choice.

Anyway, he has said everything he needs to say, and the rest is up to fate.

On the second day of July, the first wife, Yirgen Jueluo, went into labor and gave birth to a daughter two hours later.

The hope in Yinzhi's eyes was extinguished.

Although he was disappointed, the Second Princess was still his own daughter, so Yinzhi did not show any displeasure.

When the news reached Wanfangzhai in Changchun Garden, Concubine Hui was very angry.

On the evening of July 7th, the news that the Imperial Noble Consort was critically ill was urgently delivered to Qingxi Book House.

When Kangxi learned about this, he immediately rode away on horseback, entered Shenwu Gate from Xizhimen, and rushed back to the Forbidden City overnight.

The next day, the Empress Dowager also rushed back to the Forbidden City.

Almost everyone knows the meaning behind this action.

Imperial Noble Consort Tong Jia is also not doing well...

On the ninth day of the seventh month, in order to bring good luck to Concubine Tong, Kangxi directly issued an edict to make her the queen and issued an imperial decree to the world.

Unfortunately, this imperial edict to bring good luck did not have any effect.

On the tenth day of the seventh month, Queen Tonggiya passed away.

Kangxi was heartbroken.

Yinreng thought he was probably pretending.

If he really liked Tong Jia, as an emperor, he would naturally give his beloved woman whatever she wanted. He was the richest man in the world, so what could he not give her?

There is only one reason why it was not given: Kangxi was unwilling to give it.

Tong Jia longed for a child all her life, but the child she gave birth to only lived for less than a month. Kangxi only allowed her to sit on the throne of empress, which she had wanted when she was young, for one day.

It seems that her short life left behind only regrets.

What is even more speechless is that not only did Kangxi not cherish her when she was alive, but he also used her to pretend to be affectionate after she died.

In this emotional situation full of weighing the pros and cons, only the young Tong Jia took it seriously.

All my deep affection has been wasted.

Yinreng glanced at Kangxi, who was sitting in front of the coffin with a heavy face, and Yinzhen, who was kneeling quietly behind it, not even shedding many tears.

I sighed secretly in my heart.

In Tong Jia's mourning hall, perhaps only Yinzhen was truly sad about her departure.