When Yingshang found Kangxi, there were two very clear slap marks on his face.
When Kangxi saw his expression, he felt something was wrong. He frowned and asked,
"Why are you here? Where's Lao Jiu?"
Yingsang was about to cry with his swollen cheeks.
"Your Majesty, please go and take a look! The Ninth Master has forcibly searched my body and broken into your private vault..."
Kangxi's mind buzzed, and he roared in disbelief,
"What did you say?!"
Yingshang looked at Kangxi's furious face, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.
"Ninth... Ninth Prince said he had your oral order, Your Majesty. I said an oral order alone wouldn't suffice; we also need a written order with your personal seal. But Ninth Prince wouldn't listen..."
Ying Shang talked on and on for a long time, but Kangxi had no interest in listening any further. He threw the brush in his hand on the table, and without even bothering to ask anyone to prepare a sedan chair, he almost ran all the way to the private storehouse.
Thus, a strange sight that had not been seen in decades appeared in the Forbidden City. Kangxi was running in the front, the eunuchs headed by Liang Jiugong were running in the middle, and those who were far behind, with their legs almost smoking but still unable to catch up, were Kangxi's exclusive imperial guards.
When Kangxi ran to the private treasury, Yinzhen was directing the young eunuchs to carry gold onto the cart.
Yinzhen felt that the silver took up space and was difficult to move, so he planned to exchange the 3.63 million taels of silver for gold, and as for the remaining several thousand taels of silver, he would take them out separately as silver.
The surrounding imperial guards formed a circle, but no one dared to step forward to stop them. Seeing this scene, Kangxi's blood pressure soared.
"Rebellious son! Stop it!"
The angry roar startled everyone at the door of the private storehouse. When they turned around and saw Kangxi, they all knelt down in an instant.
"Your servant pays respects to the Emperor."
Yinzhen was holding a notebook and recording the gold that had been moved to the car. When he looked up and saw that it was Kangxi, a smile instantly appeared on his face.
"Father Emperor, why are you here? Don't worry, I only take what I should take. Honesty is the most important thing in business. I know this rule."
Kangxi walked up to Yinzhen with a gloomy face, and saw that two cars were already loaded in front. He was so angry that his face turned blue.
"Unfilial son, who told you to move?!"
Yinzhen was stunned.
"Didn't you say you would give all the 3.6 million taels of silver to your son? Qin'er heard it, and Eunuch Liang and the others were also present at the scene. They are all witnesses against your son!"
"I said I won't default on my debt. When did I ever ask you to move the money?"
"You didn't say no."
Kangxi: “…”
Kangxi was so angry at his pretending to be ignorant that he laughed.
"Ha, you're quite good at making excuses. Now, let me ask you, how did you get into the private vault without my warrant?"
"Of course, the two stewards gave me the key."
What Yinzhen said was a matter of course.
Kangxi followed his gaze and saw the purple face of Fusai, the deputy general manager of the private treasury.
Fu Sai's smile towards Kangxi was uglier than crying.
"Your Majesty, I was on duty today. The Ninth Prince came up and demanded the key to the vault. I refused, so he punched and kicked me..."
Kangxi couldn't believe it.
"Is this what you said?"
"My son has the Emperor's order. If he doesn't give it to me, then I have no choice but to find it myself. He actually dared to resist, so my son used a little bit of roughness."
Yinzhen pinched his little finger and stretched it in front of Kangxi to gesture.
Kangxi gnashed his back teeth until they creaked. He felt that he could not communicate with Lao Jiu at all, so he turned to look at the commander of the imperial guards who was guarding the private treasury.
"You! You just let him blatantly search the two stewards?"
The commander of the imperial guards saw that the fire was about to burn him, so he immediately kowtowed and apologized.
"I acknowledge my guilt! The Ninth Prince came with such righteousness and confidence that I thought he had received your order..."
The main thing is that I have never encountered such a thing before!
Where is this?
This is the emperor's private treasury. Anyone who is so blind as to dare to cause trouble here must be dead!
With this mentality, the commander of the imperial guards only stepped forward to understand the situation, and then tactfully retreated to the side.
Who would have thought that the Ninth Prince would actually come to the private vault to move the silver without permission? If I had known earlier, I would have pretended in front of the Ninth Prince and got slapped a few times by him.
The commander of the imperial guards was regretting his decision to the core.
"Bullshit! What are the steps to open a private vault? You've been running a private vault for so many years and you don't even know this?"
"I acknowledge my guilt!"
Kangxi took a deep breath. Sooner or later, he would be pissed off to death by these idiots!
"Issue an order: Min Kexin is derelict in his duty and must be dismissed and investigated!"
At this time, Yingshang also returned to the door of the private warehouse. Kangxi only fined them half a year's salary because they still stopped Yinzhen.
Yinzhen watched the whole process from the side, and the expression on his face faded.
Seeing this, how could he not know what Kangxi was planning?
Just as what Myna said, this damn old man clearly wanted to embezzle his money.
Kangxi suppressed his anger and dealt with these servants. He turned around and happened to see Yin'er rolling his eyes. This action completely annoyed Kangxi.
"Rebellious son! What's with that expression on your face?!"
Yin'er looked at the two and a half carts of gold with a calm attitude.
"It seems my son won't be able to take the money away today."
Kangxi's expression froze, and the anger in his chest suddenly dissipated a lot. He even didn't dare to look directly into Yin'er's eyes.
But this emotion only lasted for two breaths, and soon he became confident again.
"When did I ever say I wouldn't give you those three million taels of silver? You only half-listened, running here yourself, injuring two stewards, and forcing open the treasury. How is this any different from robbery?"
Yinzhen raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically without saying a word.
I didn’t say I wouldn’t give it to you, but I also didn’t say I would give it to you!
"Put everything back to me!"
Kangxi gave the order coldly.
Liang Jiugong responded and led the eunuchs to return the gold to the private vault box by box.
Yin'er's jaw was set tight as he watched all this with an expressionless face.
"Come with me!"
Kangxi brought the people to the palace in front of the private storehouse and stared at Yinzhen coldly.
"Do you know your mistake?"
Yinzhen pursed his lips and said nothing.
He was wrong. His mistake was that he shouldn't have had too high expectations of the person in front of him.
However, he knew that it was extremely irrational to go against Kangxi now, but he did not want to lower his posture and admit his mistake.
Regardless of whether he admits his mistake or not, he won't get the money, so why should he feel bad about it?
Kangxi got angry when he saw him like this.
"You broke into my private vault. Even if I chop you down today, no one will dare to stand up and say a word against me!"
The corner of Yin'er's mouth twitched, and he really wanted to say to him, "Then go ahead and chop it off." But when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he thought of the more than three million taels of silver that he had not yet obtained, and he could not go against the old man for the time being.
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