Chapter 63: The 63rd Day of Wanting to Die
But at the same time, Kangxi was quite curious about Yinzhen, and he took a rare look at the child seriously.
According to Xiaoliu, Yinzhen presided over the state funeral of him and the fourth brother.
You have to know that not everyone can be competent for this state funeral. Only someone he can trust and rely on can have such an honor.
Before he died, what he was most worried about, besides who to pass the throne to, was his own funeral.
After all, as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, even if he died, his funeral had to be beautiful, otherwise he would not be able to rest in peace.
Aren't these the things that matter in life?
No wonder Xiaoliu is so nice to Xiaotwelve.
If it were him, he would also be sincere.
Yinzhen was weak and helpless, trembling all over. The looks from the Emperor's father and the sixth brother were so scary. They kept staring at him and still laughing.
Yinzhen really felt that he didn't have that much ability.
He wiped his head guiltily, then lowered his eyes and pretended to be dead. Don't look at him!
He is only ten years old this year.
Yinzhen refused to accept the offer and said that if his sixth brother died, he could also collect his body and hold a funeral for him.
So, it's okay to not have Twelfth Brother, he is still here.
He will definitely live longer than Sixth Brother.
Kangxi snorted coldly: "It is not my fault that they were forced to do this job. They did it voluntarily. If you don't believe me, ask them."
Yin Zhuo stared, he never expected the emperor to be so shameless.
[It's really funny. Who would be willing to take the initiative to do the work? Wouldn't that be a complete fool?]
Yinzhen smiled bitterly, he was just a big fool, he was willing to work.
But now he regrets it. At his age, he should stay in the Shangshufang, which is where he should be.
Yinxiang and Yinzhen also looked at each other and touched their noses. They had thought so before. Who wouldn't want to work for the Emperor?
But now I feel confused. It was such a simple thing, but in their hands it made me.
Seeing that his brothers were silent, Yin Zhuo said in disbelief, "No way? You all work on your own initiative? Are your awareness so high?"
Are they all so self-righteous that they actually asked the Emperor to take the initiative to work?
He has begun to reflect on himself.
[The Emperor is really resourceful. My second brother has been experiencing the life of a high roller since he was five or six years old. Now he is so cruel that he lets his eight or nine-year-old brothers start to experience work in advance? Is this still the Emperor? Is he a workaholic? It is possible. The emperor's father reigned for 61 years and started attending court at the age of eight, so... he may really be used to this rhythm. But don't force it on the child. In history, the second brother has been forced to be abnormal. Well, how can I say it? I think it is true that Kangxi chose the fourth brother to be the emperor because he was optimistic about Hongli. After all, both of them are model workers. But Qianlong was okay in the early period, but he became incompetent in the later period. He almost surpassed his father and became the longest-reigning emperor in history. But at that time, he respected Kangxi very much and didn't want to exceed his reign, so he abdicated and became the emperor emeritus. He was the emperor emerged for several years and lived to the age of 89 before he died. 】
Kangxi was stunned. That kid Hongli lived to be eighty-nine years old?
Then the first thought that came to my mind was that everything made sense. No wonder he could write more than 40,000 poems and live so long.
Although it is still exaggerated, even Kangxi would be jealous of such a long life.
But it must be said that if Qianlong was incompetent in his later years, he would have abdicated earlier. What's the point of reigning only one year less than him?
Kangxi secretly made a decision. Since Xiaoliu had come, he would not only be in power for 61 years, but he would also live.
But he doesn't have to be on the throne. If the time is right and a few of his favorite sons grow up, he can also become the emperor and enjoy his life.
After all, he couldn't occupy the throne forever and watch the tragedy that Xiaoliu described happen again. All Xiaoliu's efforts would be in vain.
Kangxi reflected on himself and sighed. Xiaoliu was right. He had too strong a desire to control Yinreng.
After all, that was the child he raised.
Yinzhen was shocked. How long did the fourth brother's son live? How many years did the fourth brother reign? It shouldn't have been long. At least not as long as the emperor's father and Qianlong.
He thought again about the Emperor's usual performance. Except for the last few days, he was really diligent and hardworking. His days were fully scheduled and he liked to do everything himself.
They had only seen the Emperor a few times in the Shangshufang, but they had seen him a few times in E'niang's palace.
Tsk, the Emperor is so busy on weekdays, yet he still has time to visit the harem. Doesn't he spend this time with my elder and second brothers?
Pay more attention to the children. Including the Fifteenth, the Emperor already has fifteen sons and eight or nine daughters, which is a lot.
Yes, what Sixth Brother said is absolutely right. We should pay more attention to our children.
For example, asking him to read each book 120 times and memorize it 120 times, he can't do it at all, it's totally unreasonable.
There are also big characters to write every day.
His hands and neck were sore from writing.
This time, Yinzhen decided to stand on the side of his sixth brother. He really could not reach the standards that the emperor could reach.
He doesn't care. He just doesn't like studying or memorizing.
But other than that, the study is still a lot of fun.
He wants to learn things, but he doesn't want to learn them over and over again.
This is also the reason why Yinzhen hates studying.
Yinzhen and Yinxiang didn't dare to speak to each other at all.
Yinzhen didn't care how long he could live. After all, he was the one who sent away his father and fourth brother personally. What's more exaggerated is that he almost sent away Emperor Qianlong as well. So it was estimated that he could live to be eighty or ninety years old.
It's good to be alive, only by being alive can there be a future.
I don't know what the Qing Dynasty will be like in a few decades.
But seeing how nervous the Emperor and his brother were, as well as the foreigners that his sixth brother described as being very fearful of, he felt that the future direction of the Qing Dynasty would definitely be related to foreigners.
The foreigners cheated the Qing Dynasty out of so much silver, which was in the hundreds of millions.
Why was so much money taken away? There is only one answer: defeat compensation.
When Yinzhen thought of these four words, his whole body trembled.
The Qing Dynasty is now chasing after Galdan. Isn't their military force strong enough?
The foreigners who were far away on the other side of the ocean actually dared to act so presumptuously on the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
Simply arrogant.
Yinzhen looked at the emperor with burning eyes. The emperor must know something.
The moment he saw the Emperor, his heart suddenly calmed down. Don't be afraid, the Emperor is here.
He has eleven older brothers to support him.
But what he was worried about was not this, but the Qing Dynasty after their death.
Yinzhen's gaze seemed to travel through time and see the scene he had imagined.
He shook his head to get rid of this unrealistic idea.
But if that is the case, they have to take the initiative.
After all, if the younger generation can achieve such a situation in the future, it is already their incompetence. They, the elders, must make plans in advance to leave a glimmer of hope for the future.
Or to remove the weeds at their roots.
Yinzhen was not a stupid man. On the contrary, all the princes in the Qing Dynasty were not stupid men.
Yinxiang said nothing, pursed his lips and looked at the emperor with a serious face.
Not seeing any angry expression on his face, he finally let go of the worry he had for his sixth brother.
Is it okay for Sixth Brother to say these things?
But what he heard next frightened him so much that his legs went limp.
Yin Zhuo secretly glanced at the Emperor's father and his brothers, laughing secretly in his heart, he thought of a funny thing.
[Speaking of the Emperor's affair with the second brother, I thought of some interesting things. When the Emperor's father went out, he usually left the second brother behind to supervise the country. But according to gossip, when the Emperor's father left, he would take a piece of clothing that the second brother had worn.
[That's not all. He often wrote letters to show his concern for his second brother. But every time, the emperor wrote more letters, and the second brother didn't reply. I think the emperor was annoying enough. The second brother finally managed to get away from the suffocating care of the old father, but he still wrote to the second brother every day. in his heart. Anyway, it was the old father who was sad, and then he forced the second brother to reply to him.]
【When his second brother was deposed in the 47th year of Kangxi's reign, he lay in bed for days in grief and could not fall asleep. He even ran out to see his second brother secretly. He was also worried that his other sons would hurt his second brother, so he directly surrounded the place where his second brother was imprisoned with a high wall. In this way, Kangxi felt that his second brother was safe and those outsiders could not hurt him. Tell me, if this is not a psychological problem, then what is it? You are relieved, but have you asked your second brother what he thinks? The way to feel at ease is to imprison your second brother with a higher wall. 】
[The second elder brother is also a person. He helped the emperor a lot. When he was young, he became a "political tool", a tool for Kangxi to surrender to the Han people and accept Han culture. For this reason, the second elder brother was personally taught by the emperor to get up early every day to recite the classics 120 times, and then recite 120 times...]
[Alas, think about it, the relationship between them is too complicated. The second brother loves the emperor, and the emperor also loves the second brother, but this love is too suffocating. The second brother is like a gourd without a mouth. He is your father, you can make trouble for him if you think he is annoying. You are his son, you also need your own space, you also need to rest. ]
Thinking of this, Yin Zhuo's eyes became moist.
Alas, he sniffed. They were both wrong. The eldest brother shouldn't blame the second brother.
But it is also very touching to see the father and son, who were once very close, come to such a point.
Yinxiang's face turned pale. It was well known that the Emperor was good to his second brother, but sixth brother, please don't say it directly in front of the Emperor.
You can't blame Sixth Brother, he was just thinking about it in his heart.
But when he thought about what the Emperor had done to his second brother, he felt a pang in his heart.
What a huge mistake did the second prince make.
Since the Emperor is still thinking about the Crown Prince, why doesn't he lock him up? It would be fine if he just locked him up, but he also felt so uncomfortable that he couldn't sleep for days. Isn't this just asking for trouble?
Not only did he ask for trouble, but in order to make himself feel at ease, he also had people raise the height and fence off the place where his second brother was imprisoned.
Yinxiang really didn't know what to say.
By the way, when my second brother was imprisoned, was he also locked up?
Originally Yinxiang still sympathized with his second brother, but now he doesn't care anymore. He was imprisoned because he angered the emperor and was disliked by the emperor.
He had originally been standing up for his second brother, but now he realized that he was the one who was the culprit.
He is worse than his second brother!
Yinxiang was speechless.
Can't you two, father and son, talk it out peacefully?
He really suspected that he had become the target of the emperor's wrath if he had to drag innocent people into this.
The second elder brother suffered a miserable fate, so they let the other brothers suffer with him.
Sure enough, what Xiaoliu said was right, the emperor was mentally ill.
Both father and son are abnormal.
Yinzhen was speechless. The emperor really thought very carefully about his second brother.
For the safety of his second brother, he actually built a higher wall to protect him.
He didn't know what his second brother thought of his "kindness", but he felt that his second brother would never have thought that someone would care about him in this way.
Yinzhen felt jealous. The emperor couldn't live without his second brother before, and now he can't live without his sixth brother.
Tsk tsk, the emperor can't live without his son, right?
I hope the Emperor will be nicer to Little Six and stop thinking about any special favors for him. His brother is too weak to bear it.
The emperor's love is too strong to be understood by ordinary people.
To be honest, he really wanted to know how his second brother felt at that time. Looking at the higher wall outside the door, he wondered if his heart towards the Emperor had become even colder.
There may have been a hint of regret before, but it may have turned into resentment at that moment.
The four people who were about to come in were stunned.
They couldn't bear the emperor's love.
Several people wrinkled their noses. The emperor was quite something. Although it was not nice to say bad things about him because he was the emperor, why did you carry second brother's clothes with you when you went out?
I have worn it before!
Ahhhhh, those with a germ fetish are about to scream.
At this moment, Kangxi's face had turned from black to red, and then from red to green.
Looking at Xiaoliu's slightly red eyes, I couldn't vent my anger.
He's not, he doesn't!
But the rebuttal is not that strong, he did do some of these things.
But he won't acknowledge anything that hasn't happened yet.
This was the only stubbornness Kangxi had left.
Noticing that his sons were all looking at him furtively, his old face turned red, he turned his back, held out his hand to calm himself, and whispered, "The child is innocent, the child is innocent."
If he didn't persuade himself, he would really be unable to resist hitting Xiaoliu on the head.
Alas, if he could say it, he really wanted to bribe Xiaoliu.
His little six, don't worry about him anymore in your mind. The emperor also has to save his face.
But now I can only eat coptis root in silence, unable to express my pain.
The main reason is that he has completely lost face in front of these little sons.
He turned his eyes and saw the four people standing at the door staring at him in amazement with a silly look on their faces. He couldn't help but hold his forehead with his hand.
Why is there someone listening here? It looks like they must have heard it.
He wanted to explain, but Xiaoliu was there, so he could only stand stiffly and intimidate a few people with his eyes.
Looking at Xiaoliu who was still in a daze, Kangxi couldn't help himself. He went over and tore his face with both hands. It turned out that his face had really grown flesh.
It seems that he has been well raised during this period.
Thinking of this, Kangxi exerted more force on his hands.
Yin Zhuo struggled to break free, covering his face, tears really falling this time: "What are you doing? You pinched me!"
Kangxi denied it: "Nonsense, I was just pinching the flesh on your face to see if you have gained weight. I am concerned about you."
Kangxi slapped Xiaoliu's face twice and felt relieved.
Seeing him staring at her pitifully, she snorted coldly, "You don't know how to be kind."
[You are a good person? You just pinched me! You pinched me! There must be red marks on my face. Why doesn’t the emperor find someone else to pinch when he is in menopause? What’s the point of pinching my face all the time? It’s so unlucky. ]
Yin Zhuo rubbed his face. He couldn't really compete with Kangxi.
But without his knowledge, Kangxi rubbed his fingertips and had to find an opportunity to pinch them again.
I didn't feel good when I pinched you just now.
Yin Zhuo was still a little unconvinced. He moved his face closer to Little Fourteen and whispered, "Quickly show Sixth Brother, are there any fingerprints on your face?"
[If there are fingerprints, Old Man Kang, I will not stop! I will pinch you too. If I can't pinch you, I will pinch your son!]
Yin Zhuo narrowed his eyes and had some evil ideas in mind.
Little Fourteen, who was originally very distressed about him, heard this and quickly said, "No, Sixth Brother has nothing on his face, and the Emperor really cares about you."
As he said this, he turned his head, not wanting to see Sixth Brother staring at the two finger marks in disbelief.
Alas, he had no choice but to lie, he was doing it for the sake of his own face. It was the emperor's son that the sixth brother wanted to take revenge on, and he was the youngest, so Yinzhen felt that the sixth brother was most likely to take revenge on himself.
Thinking that it would be better for him not to see it.
Don't blame his sixth brother, he is also doing it for himself.
Yinzhen clenched his fists and kept his head down because he felt guilty.
Yin Zhuo didn't believe it: "It's impossible. I can feel the burning pain where those two fingers left their marks."
Seeing that Yinzhen ignored him, he went straight to find the other two younger ones, but Yinzhen and Yinxiang also said no.
Yin Zhuo stood there and felt it was really strange.
He touched his face, wondering if all three brothers said the same thing. He thought it must be his illusion.
[If that's the case, I may have really misunderstood the Emperor. Could it be that the pain just now was just my illusion? ]
Yin Zhuo looked up at the Emperor suspiciously.
Kangxi frowned and said lightly, "What? I didn't do it, so I didn't do it. Are you giving up now? Ha."
Kangxi couldn't help but let out a sigh, and wanted to laugh but forced himself to hold it back.
Yin Zhuo: …
Yin Zhuo felt really strange. What was the Emperor laughing at?
Forget it, that's not the point. His main point today is to take credit.
Yin Zhuo directly took out a stack of papers from his arms and placed them in front of Kangxi: "Father, these are perfumes and soaps, things that foreigners have, we can also produce them ourselves."
Yin Zhuo raised an eyebrow at Kangxi.
Kangxi really couldn't help it.
There were two finger marks on Xiaoliu's face, one on the left and one on the right, left by the pinching he had just done. That wasn't the worst part. The main thing was that he kept making weird expressions with that face, which was really funny.
But Kangxi was the emperor, and he could sit in the court for the whole morning and resist going to the palace. This was a piece of cake for him.
He kept a serious expression, but when he flipped open the stack of papers, his face changed color.
The yellow turned to red, and then he said angrily: "Don't write in front of outsiders anymore. Chicken claws are better than yours. Also, why do you write so big?"
No wonder he saw something bulging in front of Xiaoliu just now. There were only a dozen words written on a piece of paper, and each one was as big as a fist.
Yin Zhuo shook his head in embarrassment: "I haven't learned to write small characters yet."
He thought about it, but if he wrote it down it would just become a ball of ink.
Kangxi sighed and shook his head. He couldn't do anything about Xiaoliu. He continued to flip through the books and said calmly, "You four just like standing outside, right?"
Hearing this, the seventy, eighty, or ninety people outside finally remembered to come in and hurriedly saluted the emperor. Kangxi waved his hand impatiently and told them to sit down.
Kangxi finished reading, rubbed his brows, and put it away. He didn't want to look at it a second time. Xiaoliu's handwriting was really eye-catching, but at least he could understand it.
He took a sip of tea and said, "I've kept the things."
Yin Zhuo was still looking at him expectantly: "Father Emperor, you have finished reading it, then what?"
Yin Zhuo pointed at himself.
Kangxi pretended not to understand: "Isn't Xiaoliu a gift to me?"
Yin Zhuo paused and said, "I guess so. But shouldn't the Emperor give me some reward?"
Kangxi suddenly realized it at this moment, and then leaned back in relaxation: "I'll save it for you first."
Yin Zhuo: …
Then the next second, in front of everyone, Yin Zhuo sat down on the ground and said, "I don't care. I want it now. If you keep it for me, it won't belong to me. Besides, your memory is not good. If you forget, I will have nothing!"
As he said this, he lay down on the ground and started rolling around in front of Kangxi's desk.
Everyone in the room was stunned. What was going on?
Sixth brother, you are the prince of the Qing Dynasty!
How can you roll on the ground just by rolling?
But the Emperor's father was too much. The gift given by the Sixth Brother must have been a good thing. It would have been fine if the Emperor's father didn't give it as a reward, but he even fooled the Sixth Brother by saying that he was saving it for him. How could people not believe it?
Besides, a reward is a reward, so how can it be justified?
Yin Zhuo just lay on the ground, since it wasn't dirty anyway.
He exploded directly and refused to get up unless Kangxi gave him a reward.
"Give it to me, give it to me!"
Kangxi's face turned pale: "Xiao Liu, how old are you?! You are the oldest in this room, and you actually rolled around in front of so many younger brothers?"
To be honest, Kangxi really underestimated Xiaoliu's thick skin.
He was the oldest in the room, but instead of trying to maintain his image in front of his younger brother, he just lay on the ground and started rolling around. It was so embarrassing.
Yin Zhuo rolled over and rested for a while, then he shouted loudly: "You are still the emperor, you are not trustworthy."
Kangxi denied it: "I never promised you anything."
Yin Zhuo lay on the ground and cried: "Little cabbage, the ground is yellow, the emperor doesn't keep his word~ Xiaoliuxiao, you are so pitiful, you were deceived——"
Kangxi was so angry that he laughed and even started singing.
Yinzhen, who was standing by, also came over anxiously and advised, "Sixth brother, get up first. The emperor is not that kind of person. He will definitely give it to you. The ground is cool."
Yin Zhuo looked at the innocent Fourteen and felt deeply saddened: "Fourteen, this is the second time he has said something like this."
Yinzhen stared, the emperor really did it!
Kangxi was somewhat proud. No, it was the third time.
But Xiaoliu had come prepared this time, and Kangxi felt sorry for him, so he said, "Okay, okay, I'll give you a reward. I'll give you 10% interest on the money you make. How about that?"
Yin Zhuo lay on the ground and thought for a while.
But he felt a little uneasy, so he sat up and nodded, and was about to reply, but suddenly he thought of something and said directly: "No!"
[Who knows when the distillation technology will be developed? I don't know if I will live to see it, and I may not even see the money.]
Kangxi was helpless: "This won't work. Tell me, what do you want?"
Yin Zhuo wiped his tears and then stated his request: "I want a house, to build a mansion outside the palace."
Kangxi frowned, sighed, and said sadly: "Do you really want to leave the palace? Is there nothing in the palace that you would like to remember? Your father-in-law really loves you in vain."
[Heh, enjoy yourself. I want to go out of the palace and enjoy myself.]
Kangxi would never let him leave the palace to build a mansion. Hearing his thoughts, he thought: "It's not possible to leave the palace to build a mansion. You haven't married Fujin yet. How about this? The emperor will reward you with a courtyard and you can name it yourself."
Yin Zhuo stopped crying, patted his butt and stood up: "Yuanzi?"
【Is it a big garden like the Old Summer Palace? No, that's not right. The Old Summer Palace was not completed or hadn't started to be built at that time. It should have been completed in the 48th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign. Unfortunately, such a big garden only existed for more than a hundred years. It was finally burned down by the British and French allied forces. The treasures and antiques in the garden were looted and are still in foreign museums. If you want them, you have to buy them yourself. Some of them cannot be bought back even with money.】
Yin Zhuo felt depressed when he thought of those antiques that couldn't return home yet.
Kangxi was not as calm as he appeared.
Yuanmingyuan? He had never heard of this garden.
But how could the royal garden be allowed to be burned by the British and French forces?
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