Kangxi stared at Alinga coldly, and when he saw that he did not answer for a long time, he shouted angrily,
"I'm asking you! Speak!"
"Slave deserves death!"
Alinga trembled all over, and cold sweat quickly seeped out of his face, soon covering his entire face.
But he was kneeling on the ground and no one could see him clearly.
Listening to Alinga's apology, Kangxi suddenly stood up, walked around the table, took two steps in front of Alinga, and kicked him.
"ah!"
Screams echoed throughout the hall.
Everyone felt their arms tighten.
Yinreng was no exception.
His arm was broken by Kangxi last time, and even though it had healed for a long time, he still felt phantom pain when he saw Kangxi kicking people.
Yinreng's face darkened.
I don't know what's wrong with Kangxi, but he won't kick women, but he will kick anyone else without hesitation.
Kangxi took a breath and said to everyone with a frosty face,
"Look, a small family like Wuya was willing to give me a hundred thousand taels just to say a few good words for him."
"It seems that my search was not thorough enough."
The Uya family is the maternal grandfather's family of the Fourth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince. After Kangxi finished speaking, more than a dozen eyes fell on the two of them.
Compared with Yinzhen's calmness, Yinzhi's face looked much uglier.
On that day, when Defei failed to seek help from Yinzhen and was seen by him, he found an opportunity and went to the Qianqing Palace to plead for the Uya family.
However, the emperor's answer was ambiguous. He neither said that he would spare the Uya family nor confirmed that they would be severely punished.
It would be a lie to say that he was not disappointed. He thought that with the amount of favor the Emperor had for him, even if he couldn't completely forgive the Uya family, he would at least be lenient with them.
However, it turned out that his position in the emperor's mind was not as important as he had imagined.
Kangxi stood there thinking for a moment, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.
"I can show mercy and spare them, and even retain their original positions..."
Kangxi finally gave in, but no one thought it was a good thing at this time.
Because his attitude changed so quickly, people had to be on guard.
Yinreng was much more direct——
"Hey, what's up with that old man?"
"All the major bondservants are to hand over one million taels to their private treasury, and the chief stewards of the seven departments and three courts of the Imperial Household Department are to hand over three hundred thousand taels. I must see the silver within two weeks. If not, I will issue an IOU!"
Kangxi ignored Yinreng and stated his request in a few words.
Everyone was confused.
"this……"
They thought of countless possibilities, but they never expected that Kangxi would ask for money so openly.
Even Yinreng was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed.
"The old man finally figured it out. Fortunately, there are no pedantic scholars to disrupt the situation, otherwise the old man would definitely be criticized!"
The Imperial Household Department originally embezzled Kangxi's money, so it was only natural to take it back. However, it was a bit embarrassing. After all, an emperor who was rich as a behemoth plundered the property of his servants.
If this were to get out, people who didn't know the truth would definitely accuse Kangxi of being greedy for money.
but……
Kangxi was the one who bore all the blame, it had nothing to do with him.
If the seven ministries and three courts plus the major bannermen families agreed, the silver they would send to Kangxi would be at least tens of millions of taels. He had to figure out how to get some of it out, and couldn't let this old man take it all!
The thought of Yinreng making money flashed through his mind, and he didn't dare to think about it too much.
However, some of the others could no longer stand.
"Your Majesty, the money these bondservants embezzled originally belonged to you. It's understandable that you take it back, but isn't this one million taels a bit too much?"
The first person to stand up was Prince Heshuo Jian Yabu.
No matter how greedy the bondservant families are, they can't possibly embezzle one million taels of silver. Most of what they embezzled were rare items, hadn't they all been confiscated by the emperor?
If we ask them to pay another one million taels, it would not be cutting their flesh, but asking for their lives.
His deceased wife was Xilin Gioro, who also came from a bondservant family.
He was the first to jump out not because of his deep affection for his deceased wife, but for the sake of profit.
He could understand that the emperor ate meat, but he had to leave some soup for them. They couldn't even get some soup, so who would be willing to do that?
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