"Regardless of what Your Majesty thinks, I will say the same thing: I will absolutely not interfere with anything concerning Xiao Liu."

Seeing that this approach wouldn't work, Emperor Kangxi had no choice but to leave.

Qianqing Palace

Yinyu sat on the chair below. "Father, I want to bring my mother to live with us for a while. I haven't seen her for ten years since I left, so I'm thinking of bringing her to live with us."

Although Emperor Kangxi had been somewhat wary of Wanwan and had suppressed her in recent years, he still did not want her to leave.

“That won’t do. Although she is an Imperial Noble Consort, she is also the mother of the nation. How can she just leave like that?”

"But Father Emperor, Mother Empress is also the Empress Dowager of the Flower Country."

"Besides, my son and I have been separated for ten years. Can't we live together for a while longer?"

Emperor Kangxi was utterly astonished by the term "Empress Dowager." What exactly is an Empress Dowager?

There would only be an empress dowager after the emperor died; he's still alive and well right now.

Kangxi's voice carried a hint of anger: "I'm not dead yet, so there's no need for you to make your mother Empress Dowager so soon."

Upon hearing this, Yinyu suddenly realized that his actions seemed somewhat inappropriate.

He was only thinking about giving his mother the best; how could he have forgotten about his father, the Emperor?

“Father is right. If it is your son who has done wrong, then you shall become the Empress Dowager.”

"You're also nominally an emperor emeritus in China."

"Is this alright now?"

"However, if Mother wants to leave with her son, Father, you cannot stop her. Besides, the three concubines in the harem can also help manage things."

"Even without the Empress Dowager, I don't think anything will go wrong."

"Besides, maybe the Empress Dowager also wants to go out and travel. Who wants to stay in this square palace for the rest of their life?"

Yinyu finished saying everything he wanted to say in one breath. In less than half a month, he would be leaving.

Suddenly remembering about his eleventh brother, he said, "Oh, right, the eleventh brother is coming with me this time. It's just too busy over there, and I can't manage it all by myself."

Kangxi listened to his son's scheme and said through gritted teeth, "You're quite the schemer. You came all this way to poach a bunch of my talents, and it's probably not just your brother, is it?"

Yinyu felt a little embarrassed by what was said, but then he said confidently, "Isn't this normal? He's still my younger brother no matter what."

"However, the others are insignificant; none of them are high-ranking officials, and some of them aren't even officials at all."

Kangxi, still unwilling to give up, thought to himself, "Are you really not going to become the crown prince? If you become the crown prince, the exchanges between the two countries will definitely deepen, and in the end, we will become the most powerful country."

Yinyu had already planned to push the four of them to the top, so how could he possibly agree to that?

"Then Father Emperor should think it over carefully. If his son ascends the throne, the first thing he will probably do is abolish the Eight Banners."

Upon hearing this, Kangxi's anger continued to rise.

The Eight Banners system has existed since the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains; how could it be so easily abolished?

Moreover, why abolish the Eight Banners system?

How could he not understand? This was Xiao Liu rejecting him.

"It's up to you. If you don't want to be one, then don't. Anyway, you're still my son. We can strengthen ties and exchanges with China."

Upon hearing this, Yinyu grinned and said, "Why didn't Father Emperor think of this earlier?"

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