Tong Guowei couldn't help but feel sad when he heard what happened to Shun Anyan.
He had many descendants, but he only focused on training a few of them. Shun Anyan was the one he valued most among his grandchildren, otherwise something like what happened to Princess Shang would not have happened to him.
But today all his training was in vain. How could he not be sad and angry?
But Kangxi had already said it, which meant that there was no room for reversal. After leaving the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the only word left in Tong Guowei's mind was "revenge".
It was at this time that Wen Xian arrived late with his servants.
Tong Guowei bowed to Wen Xian.
"Your Highness..."
"Marfa!"
Wen Xian returned the greeting, and then a hint of anxiety appeared on his face.
"Why are you outside? Inside..."
Tong Guowei forced an extremely ugly smile on his face.
"You are a step too late. Shun Anyan is being caned. I am a little tired, so I will leave the palace first."
Wen Xian saw that Tong Guowei's face was really pale, and he had some guesses in his mind, but his face showed great concern.
"Mafa, please go back first. I'll go and look after my husband!"
Tong Guowei nodded, and then walked out slowly.
From an angle that Tong Guowei couldn't see, a hint of satisfaction appeared in Wen Xian's eyes.
Then he turned around and entered the Qianqing Palace.
At that time, only Kangxi and Princess An were left in the Palace of Heavenly Purity. When Wen Xian saw Princess An, he was confused.
With this person taking action, Shun Anyan's fate would definitely not be good. No wonder Tong Guowei had that expression.
After Wen Xian greeted the two men, he tactfully withdrew without saying a single extra word.
Princess An looked at Wen Xian's departing back, a hint of satisfaction flashed across her cloudy eyes. He was a smart man, but it was a pity... she married the wrong person.
Thinking of this, Princess An quickly glanced at Kangxi. Seeing that he was also staring at Wen Xian's back in deep thought, a hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of her mouth.
The Tong family's heart is all on Tong Guowei. If it weren't for Kangxi's support, the Tong family would have been stripped to pieces by various forces in the capital, leaving nothing behind.
If Longkodo were still alive, the Tong family would have someone capable of shouldering the responsibilities of this generation. What a pity...
I just don’t know how Longkodo offended this person, so that he ignored the relationship between cousins and insisted on taking his life.
But all this had nothing to do with her. He came here today to ask Kangxi something else.
Princess An narrowed her eyes and turned the topic back to Hua Qi.
Wen Xian was guided by the young eunuch to the place where Shun Anyan was being punished. By the time he was beaten with thirty military sticks,
Due to Tong Guowei's intimidation, these people did not use much force when torturing Shun Anyan, but Shun Anyan was beaten badly by Tong Guowei before entering the palace, so after the thirty beatings of military sticks, Shun Anyan fell into a coma.
Wen Xian hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to bring Shun Anyan back to the princess's mansion.
If she ignored Shun Anyan again this time, it would be like slapping Tong Guowei in the face. Although she was not afraid, she did not want to cause trouble.
Wen Xian glanced at Shun Anyan's bloody body with disdain, took a step back, and ordered the servants around him,
"Come here, lift up the prince consort and take him back to the princess's residence."
The eunuch supervising the execution was startled, then he leaned over and whispered a reminder,
"Your Highness, the Prince Consort's injuries cannot be delayed. Why don't we find an imperial physician to treat him first?"
"This... I forgot about this. Thank you for your help, eunuch."
She actually didn't care much about Shun Anyan's injuries, but since someone mentioned it, she had to pretend.
After applying medicine on Shun Anyan's back and buttocks, Wen Xian took him out of the palace.
That afternoon, another imperial edict came from the palace, Kangxi raised Hua Qi's title by one level and promoted him to Beile.
Along with this, the news that Shun Anyan would never be employed was also spread.
There was an uproar throughout the capital.
Some people think that Shun Anyan deserved the punishment, while others think that he did not deserve it.
At the same time, rumors that Hua Qi was jealous of the only son of the Minister of War spread in the capital.
Tong Guowei was so angry that he lay in bed for several days. When the rumors died down a little, he started to take action.
At first, it was not Hua Qi or the only son of the Minister of War who suffered.
But they were children of officials.
Their crimes of bullying men and women and extorting money from wealthy businessmen and minor officials in Beijing were exposed. The victims could not bear the humiliation and united to beat the drum to report the incident.
The accused had no connection to the Hua Qi case, so no one linked this incident to the Tong family.
Only Yinzhen's subordinates found some clues, and then traced them back to Tong Guowei's subordinates.
At first, Yinzhen didn't know what Tong Guowei's intention was. After all, those playboys were not worth Tong Guowei's effort to target. However, the subsequent development was beyond his expectations.
Because of the serious nature of the case, Kangxi was furious and ordered the Ministry of Public Administration, the Dali Temple and the Supervisory Office to conduct a thorough investigation.
However, as the investigation went on, more and more people came to beat the drum to report the incident, and most of them were bannermen whose land had been occupied. The more they investigated, the more things seemed to be wrong.
It was not until they found out that several veteran nobles and royal family members were involved that the people in charge of investigating the case realized that the matter was serious. They hurried to the Palace of Heavenly Purity with the sorted files.
Kangxi had been following the progress of the case these days, and when he learned that the case involved such a wide range of people, he immediately began to have doubts in his heart.
He ordered the three divisions to suspend the investigation, and then sent out his own spies. After more than ten days, the clues he found were extremely limited.
But Kangxi's vision was so sharp.
He guessed that the person behind the scenes was Tong Guowei just from those clues that were completely unrelated.
Kangxi looked through the files again and found that Tong Guowei had initially targeted the children of officials in the camps of the eldest and eighth brothers. There was still something he didn't understand.
Kangxi had his men keep an eye on Tong Guowei for a few more days, and only after he caught a key figure did he secretly summon Tong Guowei to the palace.
Intend to persuade Tong Guowei to give up revenge.
However, while the two were talking in secret, Yinzhen also shared what he had found out with all the brothers involved in the game.
When Tong Guowei came out of the Qianqing Palace reluctantly, a bigger storm was quietly brewing.
In the following days, the people who went to beat the drum to report the incident seemed to have disappeared overnight, and only the increase in criminals in the Dali Temple's prison proved the existence of this storm.
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