Chapter 73: The 73rd Day of Wanting to Die
Some were almost scared to death after hearing what those people said. The Sixth Prince was alive and well. It was said that the Emperor had taken the Sixth Prince out of the palace before, but they had never seen him.
And can you say that here?
Don't you want to live?
If someone with ulterior motives heard this, it would be like seeking death.
Those people were also shocked, but they couldn't calm down for a while, because how could the Sixth Prince know about cowpox?
Hiss, but he let their children get vaccinated for free and he went to try out the medicine himself, so the Sixth Prince must be a good person.
The word quickly spread among the people that the Sixth Prince was a kind-hearted man who cared about the world.
Anyway, just say good things to the Sixth Prince.
It was the first time for them to get to know a prince so well. They were very curious about him, but more importantly, they wanted to be close to him.
Many ministers were so angry when they saw the emperor doing this that their faces twisted.
The Emperor is blatantly protecting the Sixth Prince.
The prince's faction was somewhat dissatisfied. This was clearly the crown prince's achievement. Why was the emperor so partial? It felt as if the Sixth Prince was being allowed to take advantage of the situation.
Your Majesty is too partial.
But before they could act, they heard news that the cowpox was discovered by the Sixth Prince.
I brought it up when I was in the hospital vomiting blood. Many people were there, but it wasn't reported at the time.
The prince's party was immediately frightened. Fortunately, they did not go to seek justice, otherwise they would have been very embarrassed.
Does the Sixth Prince actually have this ability?
Could it be that he has finally gotten the hang of it?
The spinning machine was also the Sixth Prince's idea.
Hiss, the Sixth Prince is going to take the upper hand later.
But the Sixth Prince's health wouldn't allow it.
Your Majesty, isn't this a futile effort?
Why not give this credit to the prince?
The prince's faction used to be very calm and Buddhist, but as the princes grew older, they became a little anxious.
After all, at the beginning they only had the eldest prince as their enemy, and the emperor had completely different attitudes towards the eldest prince and the crown prince, so no matter how powerful Nalan Mingzhu's faction was, they didn't care.
After all, they understood the political significance of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the Emperor.
But now a Sixth Prince has appeared, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has fallen to the point of working for him. It's simply outrageous.
In fact, they still noticed that Kangxi's attitude had changed and he treated the Sixth Prince too well.
They had discovered this when they attended court before, that several princes were also afraid of the Sixth Prince.
I don't know what the Sixth Prince did to make the Emperor suddenly be so partial to him.
The art of resurrection?
That's not right. There are no ghosts in this world.
They have never seen this, so they don't believe it.
But now I have to think about it again.
Lord Suo'e Tuso was called to the study again today. I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also there. I wonder what the Emperor will say to him.
The group was leaderless and could only wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return.
They also noticed that the Crown Prince had become a little cold towards them, and wondered if it was because he had been too busy recently.
Originally, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was too respectful to them, so they were all a little arrogant. Now that they were ignored, they realized that they really couldn't live without His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Because the emperor really attacks indiscriminately.
Everyone in the court was so tortured that they wished they could just bang their heads against each other and die.
We have just investigated the loan issue, and now we have to investigate the shipyard issue.
They had also heard of the shipyard; after all, there was a lot of money to be made there.
The Emperor wouldn't come in person to see how big the ship was, so...
But I didn't expect to hit a wall.
Alas, why did the emperor start to be so petty? He is so stingy.
I heard that the people in the kitchen were also arrested because they embezzled the money for buying eggs and inflated the price.
This shocked everyone. The emperor was so stingy that he even hagged over the cost of an egg?
This is too exaggerated.
That's not all, now there's another case of cowpox.
No one knew what would happen next, but now they dared not say anything to disobey the emperor. After all, the emperor had too many backup plans.
It's totally helpless.
Finally, under the leadership of two princes from the Qing Palace, the people finally launched a program to vaccinate against smallpox.
The Imperial Medical College is responsible for all of this.
Start with the surrounding areas first, then ask the local authorities to send people over to learn, and you will be able to do it after learning from them for a round.
Very simple.
Two days later, Yin Zhuo was finally allowed to be released.
There was also Yinzhen who was severely tortured. Although his body was not harmed, his mind was.
A bigger bald man came out leading a smaller bald man, and instantly scared Kangxi, Yinzhen and Yinreng who were waiting at the door.
How come all the hair on Fourteen's head has fallen out? Could it be that cowpox has some side effects?
Both of them looked surprised: "Fourteen, what happened to your hair?"
Why are you bald?!
It was an accident that Xiaoliu was bald alone, but now that there was another one, they had to be vigilant.
So the two of them immediately looked up and stared at Kangxi's head.
Kangxi was wearing a yellow hat. When he noticed the two people's gazes, his face changed and he said, "I am not bald!"
These brats are real, don't think he doesn't know what they are thinking of him.
Kangxi went over and touched Fourteenth's head twice, and indeed saw some blue stubble.
"Why do you want to shave your head?"
Kangxi understood the reason and said to Fourteenth in a bad mood.
Yinzhen looked innocent and gave Kangxi a silly smile: "Sixth brother said so smartly, he thinks I am too stupid."
After the devastation he suffered in the past few days, Yinzhen couldn't help but stay away from his sixth brother. He was simply a devil.
He felt that if he continued like this, he would become bald and not grow taller. It was too scary. Can you imagine how it felt to do the questions with your eyes closed?
[What's so good about your hairstyle? It's even worse than being bald. Nowadays, when people talk about the Qing Dynasty, they always complain about their hairstyle. It's so ugly.]
Kangxi felt very touched. Why did people in later generations still dislike his hairstyle?
You should know that Kangxi specially asked foreigners to paint his portrait so that people could see it, but he didn't expect that they all thought his hairstyle was ugly.
But this is a custom they left over from the grassland.
It has been like this since ancient times and is easy to maintain.
If people in later generations don't understand, they shouldn't talk nonsense. They all have their roots.
Didn't those Han people also surrender?
I voluntarily shaved my head and returned to the Pure Land.
But Kangxi still felt uncomfortable. Humph, it's bad enough that he said he had pockmarks, but he even said that his hairstyle was ugly.
Are those people prejudiced against the Qing Dynasty?
But Kangxi's face froze. Thinking of what his useless descendants had done, he couldn't bear to blame them.
Those junk snacks are really useless. They have brought trouble upon him.
Kangxi gritted his teeth.
"Let me see the pimples on your arms."
Kangxi still cares about Xiaoliu.
Yin Zhuo and Yin Zhen both exposed their arms in public. Even the blood scab on Yin Zhen's arm had fallen off, and there was nothing on his arm except a growth at the wound, which made Yin Zhuo envious to death.
He has quite a few on his arms.
He always feels disgusted with himself when he reveals it.
[It's over. Now people in modern times won't call me Ma Zi or Ma Bao, right? I don't want that. Ma Zi should be Emperor Ama, and Ma Bao should be Second Brother.]
Yin Zhuo rolled his eyes, looking at the two small dents on his arm that were left by carelessness, and said hesitantly, "Father Emperor, can you please not let people remember the dents on my arm? It would be so embarrassing if the younger generations saw them."
Kangxi sneered: "I am already in a good mood, and you are still worried?"
Not only did he allow people to write, he also wanted people to write more. He wanted them to be so close to each other as father and son that even the pockmarks would remain on their bodies.
This is the bond between father and son.
Kangxi kept this in mind, and then looked at the two people with heartache: "You have lost weight, both of you have lost weight."
Yin Zhuo pinched his own face, then looked at Fourteenth's rounder face, and looked at Kangxi with a look that asked, "Are you blind?"
[It's true that your mother thinks you're cold, and your grandmother thinks you're hungry. Why is your father acting like an old grandmother? Fourteen is almost as thin as a piglet, and he's still skinny. It's true that studying math makes you fat.]
Yinzhen wanted to defend himself loudly, saying that he was anxious.
The less he could make it, the more he wanted to eat it, and the more he wanted to eat it, the more he wanted to eat it, so he became fatter in just a few days and was no longer the handsome fourteen year old boy.
Yinzhen was extremely sad. His sixth brother still spoke of him like this. He was really heartbroken.
Kangxi asked curiously, "What did you do in there?"
Yinzhen pursed his lips, tears were about to fall, he choked and said: "Sixth brother forced Fourteen to do the test, it's too difficult!"
Fourteenth Prince finally couldn't hold on any longer and couldn't hold on any longer in front of Kangxi.
Yin Zhuo glared: "Didn't you say you knew everything? Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Does Yinzhen dare to say it?
Sixth Brother was in such a state that he could easily explode. He was afraid that he would be broken into pieces by Sixth Brother like the falling apart chair. After all, he didn't dare to fight back.
So Kangxi and his companions heard from the palace servants how much time the two had spent together during these days.
After hearing this, Kangxi looked at his two sons who were having dinner, especially Xiaoliu, and felt extremely impressed.
It was too much torment, but Fourteen could endure it. If it were him, he would have given up long ago.
Isn't it just tutoring 14 students to do their exercises?
Xiaoliu has too little patience.
It's a bit unbearable.
Yinreng and Yinzhi knew Arabic numerals; Xiaoliu taught them when they were checking accounts at the Ministry of Revenue.
It seems that this is the numerical symbol used in later generations, because Xiaoliu is very familiar with it.
But after seeing what Shi Si had written in the past few days, they were overwhelmed.
What are these strange symbols?
And Xiaoliu can actually make glass.
This really surprised Yinreng. How powerful is Xiaoliu in the future? He knows how to do all these things.
Yinzhen was also stunned.
He swallowed nervously. He wanted to see that world with his own eyes after he died. He wondered if it was as beautiful as Xiaoliu described.
If that were true, it would be like paradise there.
Yin Zhuo didn't know that he had shocked the Emperor and his brother again inadvertently.
He looked at Kangxi's serious expression and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is so good, he will definitely do it, right?"
Kangxi snorted proudly: "No big deal."
These are not just symbols replacing Chinese characters. He converted them and they matched.
But I have to say that Xiaoliu's method is very simple, and there is also the multiplication table.
He remembered that it was also recorded in ancient books, specifically dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but none of them were as catchy as what Xiaoliu wrote.
But it's basically the same, and the one in Xiaoliu is converted into Arabic symbols, so it doesn't seem to have much content.
[Haha, I'll let Huang Ama experience the pain of tutoring children. You know, some people nowadays would even want to throw their children away when they are tutoring them. I wonder if Huang Ama would do the same?]
But Yin Zhuo soon remembered.
[No, when it comes to tutoring children, Old Master Kang is an expert. He personally taught my second brother until he was twelve years old before letting him go to the Shangshufang School. Tsk, I miscalculated. Fourteenth almost made me angry. I can't bear this pain alone!]
Yin Zhuo was still unwilling to give in.
Seeing that he really didn't want to give up, Kangxi said directly, "Wait a minute, I will correct Fourteen's homework."
He just didn't believe it. They were all his children, and fourteen couldn't be much different.
The corners of Yinreng and Yinzhi's mouths twitched, and they looked at Fourteenth, who had frozen in place, with sympathy.
Yinzhen now wished that it was himself who was going to stand up.
Forget it, let's just leave it to fate. Life and death are in the hands of God. If the emperor gets angry enough to faint, he may not see the sun tomorrow.
Yin Zhuo's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Don't worry, Father Huang, don't you understand Fourteenth?"
[I don’t know if Mr. Kang has any hidden dangers of the three highs in his body. Don’t let high blood pressure get high, which would be a serious problem.]
Kangxi had wrinkled eyebrows. What are the three highs? Is it a disease?
He had never heard of high blood pressure but he could roughly understand the literal meaning. It seemed quite serious.
Although he was old, Kangxi believed that his physical condition was no different from that of a young person. For example, his body was definitely stronger than Xiaoliu's.
So, he is not afraid.
There was nothing wrong with Xiaoliu, so he definitely won't have any problems either.
Outside the door, Yin Zhuo and his elder and second brothers hid out. When they heard the sound of slapping on the table inside, their heads shrank.
Yin Zhuo sighed: "See, this is the result of not disciplining a child properly. You have to pay attention to Hongxi's schoolwork in the future, or else it will be useless to bang the table."
[Although Hongxi has performed well, the father and son should also improve their relationship. However, they should not treat Hongxi the same way that Kangxi treated himself. After all, there is only one Yinreng in the world, and only Yinreng can handle Kangxi. The two are a perfect match.]
Yinreng: ...
He would never do that to Hongxi, but seeing how the Emperor was tutoring his child, he imagined what would happen if Hongxi was like Fourteen. No, he couldn't accept it.
Although the emperor's approach is not advisable, it is better to have a baby as early as possible.
He needs to pay more attention to Hongxi's education so that he won't end up like his fourteenth uncle.
By then, I won’t even have anywhere to cry.
Being an amah is so difficult.
After a while, Yinzhen came out as if he had lost his soul.
Kangxi was similar.
Talking to Yinzhen about the problem could cost him half his life, and it was more difficult than having daily verbal battles with those court officials.
Seeing the miserable looks of the two men, Yin Zhuo couldn't help but take a step back.
As expected, tutoring has been a difficult problem since ancient times.
Adults say that children cannot turn around, so they only have a partial understanding, but children don’t understand and they really can’t do the questions.
So it is better to practice to gain true knowledge.
Kangxi looked at Xiaoliu who was hiding far away and snorted, "Xiaoliu, as the elder brother of Shisi, you are responsible for supervising his studies. If I check his studies next time and find that he has not made any progress, I will punish you."
As soon as these words were spoken, Yin Zhuo and Yin Zhen's faces changed.
But Yin Zhuo's face turned pale, and he could not accept the reality at all.
Yinzhen, on the other hand, took pleasure in the misfortune of his brother and let his sixth brother trick him. Now he is suffering the consequences of his own actions.
Yin Zhuo was a little upset: "I can't do this."
[It seems that the Emperor can't control Fourteenth Brother either. As expected, he only has patience with Second Brother, teaching him from childhood to adulthood! Why do I keep thinking about this? Because I've become a lemon! My face is twisted with sourness! ]
Kangxi and Yinreng: ...
Xiaoliu is sick again.
Kangxi felt somewhat happy because Xiaoliu was actually jealous of him teaching Yinreng personally. If Xiaoliu was willing, he could also teach him personally now.
But Xiaoliu is a person who can't sit still at all. He has tried to teach him before, but with little success.
And he was asking for trouble. Kangxi thought about the previous situation and just pretended nothing had happened.
Never mind, he hadn't heard anything.
By then Xiaoliu would really be so angry that he would pass out.
Yin Zhuo felt jealous for a while, and finally gave up on Kangxi.
[Forget it. Kangxi's cramming-style learning is not suitable for me. It is only suitable for my second brother. I will be choked to death by then.]
So, Kangxi and Yin Zhuo both took a step back and gave each other a way out.
Fourteen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his eyes were no longer on him. It was enough for him to study.
He is too fragile now.
And he was terrified, because not only did he drive his sixth brother crazy, he even drove the Emperor crazy.
At this time, Yinzhen felt that he was extremely powerful and awesome.
He doesn't care, this matter must be recorded in history books, he wants future generations to take a good look at his achievements.
Yinzhen puffed out his little chest proudly.
But after looking at his own age, he once again hated his own age. Why didn't he trade ages with his sixth brother?
He wants to grow up now so that he doesn't have to suffer the pain of studying anymore.
Seeing that they were still talking, Yinzhen remembered the purpose of his visit: "Xiaoliu, that soap you gave me, I have researched it for you."
Yin Zhuo quickly asked, "What does it look like? Show it to your brother."
Kangxi was also curious. He had asked Yinzhen to do this, but he didn't expect it to be accomplished so quickly.
When Yin Zhuo saw the beautifully shaped soap with a floral scent, he was amazed for the first time at the wisdom of the ancients.
Apart from anything else, just understanding this point really saves a lot of trouble.
Yinzhen was also very proud when he heard Xiaoliu's thoughts, and he did a good job in the tasks Xiaoliu assigned to him.
Yin Zhuo put the soap back carefully.
"In that case, big brother, find someone to do more work, and then we can sell it ourselves. When Yinsi and Yinlu are able to go out to sea, let them take it to sell to the foreigners."
Yinzhen discovered that Xiaoliu had a special liking for making money from foreigners.
It seems that foreigners are really hateful.
He actually dared to burn the royal gardens and steal the Qing Dynasty's silver.
We won't let them take advantage of the situation so easily this time.
Kangxi also felt a sinking feeling in his heart. This foreigner was almost becoming a knot in Xiaoliu's heart.
Afterwards, Yin Zhuo took two bars of soap and took Yin Zhen to Yonghe Palace.
When Concubine De saw them, she immediately hugged them in her arms, tears streaming down her face: "How can you two be so bold? Do you know how my mother has been living these days?"
I'm so worried about her.
When they heard that the two of them had come out, they couldn't wait to snatch them away from Kangxi, and fortunately they waited for them.
Yin Zhuo explained the situation honestly to his mother, and he was deeply moved to see that he was so worried about him and Fourteen.
"My dear, we are fine."
Defei wiped her tears and said, "You are all my children. If anything happens to you, I will die."
Defei was really scared.
Especially in the past few days, Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi sent people to give her gifts to comfort her, which made her so angry that her teeth itched.
Everyone came to laugh at his joke.
Fortunately, her fourteenth and sixth children are lucky.
After a while, De Fei noticed that Fourteen's head was bald. She was shocked and asked, "Where is your braid?"
"Sixth brother grabbed my braid, so I lost my braid."
Yinzhen just came up with a jingle.
Concubine De was stunned. She turned to Yin Zhuo and asked, "What do you want Fourteenth's braid for?"
Yin Zhuo looked aggrieved: "Mother, don't you know who I am? How could I be that kind of person? It was Fourteen who envied my intelligence and cut his braid. He couldn't stop it."
[What aesthetics are you talking about, my dear? That braid is so ugly. The emperor didn't say anything, so you don't have to worry about it. Besides, isn't it tiring for me to wear my hair in a bun every day? I'm tired of looking at flowers. ]
De Fei was about to say something when Yin Zhuo interrupted her: "My dear, this is the soap that my eldest brother asked someone to make. You can use it when you take a bath. It can remove dirt and leave a good fragrance. I specially asked someone to bring it to you."
Yin Zhuo blinked.
What else could Concubine De say? She could only move her subordinates.
Yinzhen heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that E'niang no longer pursued Xiaozhuzi.
This was the first time he was so bold, but he still found it very exciting.
Yinzhen also presented his things in a similar manner.
Before leaving, Concubine De took the two of them aside and gave them careful instructions, telling them not to do anything dangerous again, otherwise she, as their mother, would be so uneasy that she would not be able to eat.
Yin Zhuo had no choice but to agree.
E'niang also loves her son deeply, and he cannot say anything that will hurt her feelings.
As soon as they left Yonghe Palace, Yinzhen and Yin Zhuo felt disgusted with each other.
The two of them stayed together for a few days, which was really enough for them. When they parted, they didn't even want to talk. With a wave of his hand, Yin Zhuo threw himself on the bed.
It’s the same location, but the feeling is different.
Yin Zhuo sighed. He still wanted to know how to increase food production and how to reduce the burden on the people.
Kangxi, who was outside the door, heard every word of Xiaoliu's thoughts.
He originally planned to go in, but chose to leave.
Originally, he planned to come and find Xiaoliu and ask him to go back to the Qianqing Palace with him to sleep.
But now he feels that is unnecessary.
Xiaoliu is kinder than he thought.
Kangxi walked outside the gate of the prince's residence, looked up at the starry sky, and blinked: "I hope everything will be as Xiaoliu wishes."
Yin Zhuo didn't know that Kangxi had just been outside his door, and the palace maids were kept in the dark, not letting anyone in to disturb Yin Zhuo who was in deep thought.
Yin Zhuo fell asleep while thinking.
A lot of ideas popped up in his mind, and he needed to think about them one by one.
This cheat code isn't very easy to use. It requires him to use his brain. Can't it be printed out directly for him?
But the conditions were limited, so Yin Zhuo could only do it slowly.
As a result, the next day, when he woke up, he received a happy news.
It turned out that the news of his recovery and isolation with Fourteenth had spread yesterday, so when it was getting dark, everyone spontaneously gave him things at the palace gate.
What's even more outrageous is that some people burned incense for him, saying that he was a person who came down from heaven to benefit the people.
So burning incense is to pray for him.
Yin Zhuo was stunned. It would be fine if you were just sending gifts, but what was the meaning of burning incense at Donghuamen?
Yin Zhuo was suddenly at a loss for words, finding it both funny and ridiculous.
This was also the first time Kangxi encountered this.
The gifts everyone gave were not expensive, but that was the gate of the imperial palace after all, and people were not allowed to be presumptuous. But because everyone had good intentions, the Nine-Gate Commander reported the matter to Kangxi.
He arrested those people first, after all, he didn't know what their real intention was.
What could Kangxi do but envy Xiaoliu.
He had been emperor for so many years, but no one came to give him some food and drink.
As a result, Xiaoliu, at such a young age, actually enjoyed it.
"Why?"
Kangxi wondered, were those people so brave?
And burning incense is weird.
Xiaoliu is a living person.
Kangxi felt unwell.
Yin Zhuo felt the same way. As a modern man, although he was not superstitious, he did understand a little bit. It was a bit absurd to burn incense for a living person.
Yin Zhuo thought of something and went to find Kangxi immediately.
I plan to tell him my thoughts.
Kangxi also sent someone to look for Xiaoliu.
Yin Zhuo asked, "Did you arrest those people, Father Emperor?"
Kangxi knew he was going to ask this, so he explained, "The Nine-Gate Commander caught him."
It has nothing to do with him.
Yin Zhuo nodded to show that he understood, then he stood there somewhat at a loss.
Kangxi felt a little distressed when he saw his frail body: "If you have anything to say, please tell me."
Yin Zhuo sighed inwardly.
[You know, my second brother is a staunch atheist, so my father, who raised my second brother, certainly doesn't have any religious beliefs. But I do mind it a little bit. Why should others burn incense for me? It will shorten my life. I don't have long to live, and if you curse me, won't I have no future? ]
Kangxi said quickly: "Don't worry, Xiaoliu, I will have someone check it out."
Yin Zhuo clenched his fist and said, "I believe in you, Father."
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