When Yinreng was about to set off for Shanxi, he received news from the capital.
He had long anticipated the fate of Prince Gong Changning, but he did not expect that Kangxi would give the task of investigating the White Lotus Sect to Longkodo.
It seems that Kangxi still favors the Tong family.
But it doesn't matter. The more he favors her now, the more the other princes will dislike the Tong family. In the end, no matter who comes to the throne, the Tong family will not have a good fate.
Yinreng originally planned to take Yinzhen to Shanxi after dealing with the port affairs.
But he found that throwing Yinzhen into the port might advance the construction schedule.
While he was interrogating Liu Qingzhou and others, Yinzhen relied on the large army to suppress them and directly started the construction of the port.
He reproduced the hardships he had endured at the port exactly as they occurred to the White Lotus Sect and the officials.
He arranged the other half of the people who were actually doing hard labor to be "overseers."
All treatment will be the same as that of the original White Lotus members.
Deng Yunlin and others were guarding him beside him. Seeing his actions, they knew that the Fourth Prince was taking revenge.
This shows how petty the Fourth Prince is.
They still have to be careful in the future. If they make this gentleman unhappy in any way, they may not be able to escape similar "revenge".
Yinzhen's original intention was indeed revenge, but after this pattern ran for a few days, he found that the members of the White Lotus Society were fighting desperately to survive.
The construction time lost due to the previous ban was quickly made up.
Seeing how hard they worked, Yinzhen's desire to exploit them gradually faded.
But in a short period of time, it would be impossible for Yinzhen to completely erase their punishment.
So I put some thought into the food.
People at the port do heavy physical work, so when they saw meat in boiled vegetables for the first time, everyone was a little bit incredulous.
When has the imperial court ever been so generous in levying corvee labor?
Steamed buns and porridge were already the only treatment they could not hope for. According to the old people in the village who survived by chance, when they were young, many of their elders died outside because of performing labor service.
Yinzhen went to check the boiled vegetables himself and felt a little dissatisfied.
But when he saw that the laborers were satisfied with the food, he did not take any other action.
The project will take more than a year to complete, and the budget for food expenses is actually not much. If he had not gotten a lot of money from Liu Qingzhou and others, he would not dare to spend so much.
Yinreng allowed Yinzhen to keep all the silver he had confiscated.
In fact, according to the rules, the property seized from corrupt officials must be deposited into the national treasury.
However, Yinreng felt that several parts of the port had been built with inferior materials and needed to be demolished and rebuilt. After a few demolitions, the funds allocated by the court were no longer sufficient.
So he pointed out the situation in the memorial, and after reading it, Kangxi quickly gave a positive answer.
Before Yinreng left, he left the dozens of men who had been protecting Yinzhen at the port to him.
In addition to being Yinzhen's personal guard, he can also help him deal with some things.
It also means helping him to form a team.
But unfortunately, the two guards who were taken away eventually died at the hands of the White Lotus Sect.
After Yinreng arranged everything, he led his men to the Three Jins.
When Kangxi learned that dozens of the guards he had selected with great effort were given to Yinzhen by Yinreng, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth several times.
In addition to the commander Dachun, the one hundred men he carefully selected were all talented people secretly selected from the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han.
In fact, the majority of them came from the Han Army Banner.
These people have very clean identities and backgrounds, and have no connection with any forces in the DPRK.
If Yinreng used them properly, these one hundred people would be a powerful weapon in his hands.
I haven’t done anything yet, but I’ve already given away a small half of it.
Kangxi was a little crazy.
But Yinreng had already divided the property, and he couldn't take the person back.
Kangxi decided that he would not write to Yinreng for the next month!
Let Yinreng feel his anger.
But Yinreng was busy on his way and had no time to pay attention to Kangxi.
After feeling depressed for a while, Kangxi realized that his son really disliked him.
So he found fault with everything and cursed everyone in the court for a few days.
Among them, Chang Ning was scolded the most severely.
He simply held a birthday banquet for himself at home, but was accused by Kangxi of being extravagant and unaware of the suffering of the people.
He was punished by staying at home to reflect on his mistakes for a month!
Chang Ning felt bitter.
Didn't he just make some money out of sheer delusion?
Third brother has also punished him.
Why do you keep bringing up the past over and over again?
Chang Ning felt wronged.
Chang Ning didn't dare to resist.
Chang Ning stayed at home quietly for a month.
Success made me sick from frustration.
The second is Tong Guowei.
The Tong family had accepted many gifts in the previous case of rebellion. Kangxi directly accused him in the court of being suspected of accepting bribes and forming a clique for personal gain. Everyone in the court was shocked.
This was the first time that Kangxi used such serious words to criticize Tong Guowei.
Tong Guowei also found it hard to accept.
In his heart, he was Kangxi's uncle. Since he ascended the throne, he had worked tirelessly to maintain his throne. His brother Tong Guogang even died on the battlefield.
Even if he had no merit, he had worked hard. Kangxi's move was tantamount to peeling off his face and throwing it in front of all the officials to step on. How could he accept this?
However, Kangxi did not think that he had said anything wrong. He even used him as a negative example to warn all the officials in the court to abide by the law in the future and do practical things for the people, which was much better than using those crooked ways.
Tong Guowei was dumbfounded.
He is Kangxi’s uncle!
The gifts he received were just normal social interactions. Which important official in the court doesn't accept gifts?
Even Fuquan collected a lot!
Why didn't Kangxi take action against him?
Those who didn't know would think that he had done something unforgivable, which was why Kangxi treated him like this.
Tong Guowei felt that everyone was laughing at him and looked extremely embarrassed.
Not long after the court session ended, Tong Guowei took sick leave.
Little did they know that Kangxi was venting his anger on behalf of Yinzhi.
When Longkodo bullied Yinzhen and Yinsi, Yinzhi took revenge for Yinsi. Longkodo even dared to aim his bow at Yinzhi in such a treasonous manner.
He had originally planned to give Longkodo a leisurely position in the future.
It also fulfills the friendship between them as cousins.
But this time the incident happened suddenly, and he couldn't find suitable people to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to investigate the case.
So they had no choice but to send Longkodo over.
Kangxi always remembered that Tong Guowei had intercepted evidence and tried to fan the flames to cause a falling out between Yinzhi and Mingzhu.
If Tong Guowei can vent his anger for his son, then he can also vent his anger for his own son.
Fair, just and reasonable!
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