Looking at the somewhat stubborn Yinzhen in front of him, Yinreng said slowly,
"The truth is there isn't one."
The light in Yinzhen's eyes dimmed immediately, he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Yinreng knew he couldn't accept it.
Because he had truly seen what life was like for the lower-class people. Even though he knew in his heart that the suffering he endured was only temporary, he couldn't help but feel sympathy.
He still has the purest kindness in his heart.
Yinreng stepped forward, patted his shoulder, and said softly,
"You are still too young to see the true face of officialdom in this world. When you grow up, you will find that it is not that the Manchus cannot produce honest officials, but..."
Rather, the treatment that the Manchus enjoyed from the day they were born was based on the taxation of the Han people.
Yinreng sighed, but never said the last sentence.
"Go back... If you have the ability to make life easier for the Han people in the future, it would be a great deed."
Yinzhen felt a tightness in his chest, bowed to Yinreng, and turned to walk out.
It was still drizzling outside.
Su Peisheng wanted to come forward and hold an umbrella for Yinzhen, but he was stopped by him with his arm.
Yinzhen walked in the rain, letting the cold rain hit his head and body, shattering his beautiful fantasies about the world.
How frustrating it was to suffer at the port, how satisfying it was to investigate and crack down on corrupt officials, how sad it is now.
Yinzhen felt sad when he thought of Liu Er's carefree smile when he came to say goodbye to him.
He said that he was born with half sinful blood in his body, but in order to fulfill his mother's expectations of him before her death, he decided to repay her kindness first.
As for the sins he bears, he will pay for them on behalf of that beast in his next life.
Liu Er is an ordinary Han Chinese. The most vicious thing he has done is probably cutting in line a few times when getting food, but he was bound by fate and could not escape.
He now felt that he was also caught up in these rules.
Can't break free.
Aren’t the lives of the Han people lives?
They are also citizens of the Qing Dynasty. Why can those people decide the fate of others so casually?
Yinzhen was never a soft-hearted person.
The officers who whipped him at the port were skinned alive by him, beaten half to death and thrown out of the port.
As for whether his subordinates would sacrifice their lives in order to please him, Yinzhen didn't care.
It is only natural to be punished for making mistakes.
Can…
Why should those people who have done nothing wrong and are just trying to survive sacrifice their lives for the greed of others?
Less than a year after the port was opened, thousands of people died from various reasons.
If not, the officers who were stationed outside the port to recruit laborers would not have to stay there every day.
Folgo pretended not to have any evil intentions, as the number of corvée laborers who died in the construction accident was actually only two or three hundred.
It’s less than one-tenth of the total.
Now he finally understood why the Han people put the four words "natural disasters and man-made disasters" together.
Human desires are sometimes more terrifying than natural disasters.
Yinzhen stopped, raised his head, looked at the inky black night sky, and began to understand his second brother's actions.
He heard about the fact that his second brother had just entered the court and exposed the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel.
I used to think that my second brother’s behavior was unpopular.
Looking back now, I still feel that the emperor’s punishment on them was not severe enough.
With only a few days left until the Wanshou Festival, the atmosphere in the capital began to become tense.
Kangxi was forty years old this year, which was considered a long life in an era when the average life expectancy was less than forty.
What surprised Yinreng was that Chunxi and Rongxian also returned to Kyoto.
The two of them went to the palace every day to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager, and in order to avoid being lazy, Yinreng often stayed in Ningshou Palace.
After Kangxi finished his work, he wanted to spend more time with his son. Every time he asked Liang Jiugong, the answer he got was that he was in Ningshou Palace.
Kangxi was a little jealous.
But besides jealousy, I also felt a little relieved.
The fact that Yinreng was so close to the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager shows that he was not a heartless person.
There was no other way, so in order to find his son, Kangxi also ran to Ningshou Palace.
For a time, the Empress Dowager's Ningshou Palace became a hot spot in the palace.
The Queen Mother was only fifty-four years old now. She took good care of herself and her eyesight was still quite good, so it didn't take long for her to notice the little awkwardness between the father and son.
After Kangxi left, the Empress Dowager privately advised Yinreng to be more obedient to Kangxi.
After all, thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all grace from the emperor.
Everything he has now was given by Kangxi.
If he really angered Kangxi, he would definitely gain nothing.
What could Yinreng do but to agree with him that he understood.
Knowing is knowing.
But I just won’t change.
In his previous life, when he was imprisoned in Yuqing Palace by Kangxi, his brothers all pleaded for him, but only the empress dowager risked offending Kangxi to death and went to see Yinreng in person.
Tell him that she believes he is incapable of doing such a dirty thing.
Yinreng felt soft in his heart.
This grassland woman, whose heroic spirit was worn away by the palace walls, was the second elder in the world whom he wanted to protect.
In fact, under the circumstances at that time, if Yinzhi and others had forced their way in, they would have been able to see him.
It's just that they don't dare.
As the Wanshou Festival draws closer, members of the royal family begin to move into the palace.
This made the already not very spacious harem even more crowded.
When there are more people, it becomes more lively, but it is also easier for trouble to occur.
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