Orondei kept swearing, and Tong Guowei's face turned even darker.
When Orondei wiped the water off his face and saw Tong Guowei's old face clearly, he felt as if someone had strangled his throat, and his cursing stopped abruptly.
"Sixth...Sixth Uncle."
Normally, he would not be afraid of this uncle, but he cursed so harshly just now, even cursing his ancestors. It would be strange if Tong Guowei was not angry.
"Look at what you look like! You don't do anything during the day, you drink every day, and when you're drunk you smash things everywhere. Do you think the things here are free?"
Tong Guowei didn't care much about his insults, after all, he didn't see him just now.
What he really couldn't stand was Orondei's hopeless appearance.
Upon hearing this, the smirk on Orondei's face quickly disappeared.
He raised his head, his face, which had not been taken care of for a long time, was covered with stubble, and there was even a bit of resentment in his eyes.
"So what do you think I should do?"
Tong Guowei did not miss the resentment in his eyes. His heart could not help but tighten, and then he fell silent for a long time.
Jiefu sensed that the atmosphere was not right and reached out to pull Tong Guowei's sleeve.
"Sixth Grandpa, please go sit downstairs for a while. I'll help Ama wash up..."
"No need."
Tong Guowei shook his head and looked at Orondai again.
"Ever since your father died, I've always prided myself on never mistreating you, yet now you're actually blaming me..."
Tong Guowei's voice became deeper and deeper.
He came here today, originally wanting to talk to Orondei about his future development direction.
Unlike Shun Anyan, Orondai still has the possibility of returning to the court. Tong Guowei originally thought that he would sacrifice his old face to beg Prince Yong to help arrange for Orondai to go to Tianjin Port, even if it was just to be a small manager. After the storm passed, Orondai could still be active in the court.
I think because of his eldest daughter's affection, Prince Yong would definitely not refuse...
As for the Nine-Gate Patrol Camp, Orondei has been running it for nearly ten years, so he can't be without any confidants. Tong Guowei also plans to let Orondei do some work to cause some trouble for the newly appointed Nine-Gate Admiral and vent his anger at the same time.
So that he doesn't have to be in this lifeless state every day.
But after seeing the resentment in Orondei's eyes, Tong Guowei no longer had any thoughts.
Orondai looked at Tong Guowei and felt a sudden panic in his heart.
"My nephew is not..."
Tong Guowei waved his hands indifferently.
"Whatever you think has nothing to do with me. I have already handed over the deeds of these two houses to your wife. How you live in the future depends on you."
Tong Guowei turned and left after saying this.
Jiefu hurriedly chased after him.
"Sixth Grandpa, don't you care about us anymore?"
Tong Guowei paused, looked down at Jiefu, who looked anxious, and did not directly answer his question.
"You are a good person. If you work hard, you can take the imperial examination. Although I don't have any other talents, I am confident that I can protect your career."
Seeing that although Tong Guowei was saying affectionate words, his facial expression became increasingly dull, Jiefu could not help but stand there in a daze.
When he came to his senses, Tong Guowei had already gone downstairs.
Tong Guowei sat in the carriage, thinking about everything that had happened to the Tong family over the years, and thinking of the group of disappointing children and grandchildren in the family, he couldn't help but feel sad.
Maybe... he really did something wrong.
Kangxi pondered for a long time about the candidate for the Nine-Gate Commander-in-Chief but could not make up his mind, and the court became increasingly chaotic because of this matter.
In the court today, the eldest prince's party headed by Prince Zhi is the most powerful, followed by the eighth prince's party headed by Prince Lian, and the weakest is the party of Prince Yong.
Kangxi also wanted to give Yinzhen more bargaining chips, but after searching among Yinzhen's subordinates, he couldn't find a single outstanding person.
In the end, I had no choice but to give up.
The princes were all aware of this. They fought each other openly but exchanged information with each other in private. All the officials in the court who had no ability but were promoted by relying on the influence of their fathers were cleared out by several people.
For this group of people, being in office but doing nothing is their smallest flaw. They are not only incompetent but also greedy and vicious.
As long as they have something to show for themselves, the princes will not go too far.
The vacant positions in the court were divided up among the people under several people. Because the distribution was relatively reasonable, it did not arouse Kangxi's suspicion.
Moreover, the people they arranged were people who had been repeatedly examined by several people and had strong abilities and moral character, and Kangxi himself was also satisfied with them.
More than half a year passed like this, and except for Kangxi's trusted ministers, almost all the corrupt officials below the second rank were replaced by several people.
At the end of September, after the autumn hunt was over, Kangxi also decided on the candidate for the Nine-Gate Commander.
The person who finally took the position of the Nine Gates Commander-in-Chief was Guo Luoluo Wenktuo, the cousin of the Fifth and Ninth Princes. Influenced by Yinzhen, Wenktuo was also a member of the Eighth Prince's party.
In order to stabilize the political situation, Kangxi never thought of giving the position of Nine-Gate Commander-in-Chief to anyone under Yinzhi. But what he didn't know was that no matter which prince's subordinates he chose, the final result would be the same.
After the dust settled on this matter, the struggle between Tong Guowei and Ma Qi came to the fore again.
During the past six months, both of them were bloodthirsty, but because the three princes made more noise than the two of them in cleaning out the termites, the attention of the court officials and Emperor Kangxi was focused on them.
Now that the princes have ceased fighting, everyone realized that there were signs of a fight to the death between Tong Guowei and Ma Qi.
Even Kangxi felt that the two were going too far.
When Kangxi was planning to find an opportunity to call the two men over and reprimand them, his confidant who was sent out to monitor the world gave him a copy of "Nanshan Collection".
After reading it, Kangxi was furious and felt that the author of "Nanshan Collection" Dai Mingshi wrote this book in order to criticize the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty.
So he sent people to arrest Dai Mingshi regardless of the consequences, and even arrested all the famous scholars who had connections with Dai Mingshi.
After Dai Mingshi was arrested, Kangxi was still not satisfied. He bought all the books circulating in the market and asked his confidants to read them. If he found something wrong described in the book, he would directly put the author in jail.
Because of this incident, scholars across the Qing Dynasty began to feel insecure.
Yinreng, who was far away in Weihaiwei, also heard about this.
He remembered that something similar happened in his previous life, but because of his insistence on reasoning, Kangxi did not kill all those scholars in the end.
He even recruited them into the court and made them officials.
It was also because of this incident that the relationship between Kangxi and him took a sharp turn for the worse. He did not take it seriously at the time, thinking that Kangxi just couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he went to busy himself with other things.
When he was free again, he would be confined to Yuqing Palace...
There is still more than a year left before he was imprisoned and given poisoned wine by Emperor Kangxi, and it is unknown whether he can overcome that hurdle in this life.
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