Yinzhen felt mixed emotions.
Everyone seemed to have found their own path, except him, who was still going round in circles.
Perhaps in other aspects, the eldest brother and his brothers are more capable than the second brother, but in terms of long-term vision and the ability to recognize and utilize people, all the brothers combined cannot match the second brother.
Perhaps he had realized this a long time ago, but his pitiful and pathetic heart prevented him from admitting it.
Yinzhen took a deep look at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, then turned around and walked out of the palace with firm steps.
Two days later, Yinzhen left Kyoto with the imperial edict.
Although this job was not what he wanted, since he accepted it, he had to do it well.
As soon as he left, Yinreng was called into Qixiang Palace.
Kangxi is now old and frail, and no longer has the arrogance and sharpness he had when he was in power.
But when Yinreng faced him, he still did not dare to be careless in the slightest.
Kangxi was emperor for most of his life. Who knows if he had any backup plan?
In case Kangxi wanted to cause trouble before he died, although Yinreng was confident that he could handle it, it would be easier if he prepared for the worst and asked Kangxi not to cause trouble.
When Yinreng walked into Kangxi's bedroom, he saw him sitting on the Luohan bed in a middle-length robe, looking at him intently.
"My son pays his respects to the Emperor."
Yinreng ignored the discomfort in his heart and walked up to Kangxi and saluted him.
Without waiting for him to call out, Yinreng put down his arm and asked,
"I wonder why the Emperor called me here?"
Kangxi withdrew his gaze and pointed to the other side of the Luohan bed.
"sit."
Yinreng was a little hesitant.
He didn't know what the old man was planning, so it was better for him to be cautious.
Kangxi heard his inner voice and sneered,
"Is this all the courage you have?"
Yinreng saw the sarcasm on Kangxi's face, but he was not angry. Instead, he put his hands behind his back and looked at Kangxi calmly.
"Father, please tell me the truth first. Provoking me won't work on me."
Kangxi put away the smile on his face and looked Yinreng up and down, until his facial features wrinkled together.
But Yinreng's endurance was cultivated over three lifetimes, so even if he was uncomfortable, he had no intention of speaking first.
"I called you here today just to ask you what the world will be like in a few hundred years."
Yinreng's heart twitched, and then he swept his eyes over the eunuchs and palace maids in the hall, and found that they were all kneeling respectfully on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads.
"Everyone, go out. Let me chat with the Emperor..."
After thinking about it, Yinreng decided to briefly talk to Kangxi about the direction of history.
Anyway, this old man won’t live long.
The palace maids quickly got up from the ground and left the hall without looking back. Yinreng's personal guards quickly searched the hall.
After making sure that there was no one in the room who could threaten Yinreng, Yinreng leisurely sat down on the other side of the Luohan bed.
Kangxi was a little annoyed by Yinreng's extreme fear of death, but he held back and did not make any sarcastic remarks.
After sending all the guards outside to guard the gate, Yinreng said softly,
"You're not asking about something that will happen hundreds of years from now, are you?"
Kangxi pursed his lips and said nothing.
He actually wanted to know everything that was in Yinreng's mind.
But what he was more curious about was what would happen to the Qing Dynasty after his death.
Kangxi once heard this in Yinreng's heart. He reigned for sixty-one years.
It has been nine years since Xiangyi. If he had not abdicated, this year would be the sixtieth year of Kangxi.
In other words, his deadline may be less than a year away.
Kangxi was extremely nervous.
But after looking around, he found that he didn't even have anyone to talk to.
Even Fourteen, who was usually the most caring, had taken up a job and left the capital.
Kangxi's understanding of the four words "alone and helpless" has deepened.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Yinreng didn't force him and said to himself,
"According to historical records, you appointed me Crown Prince when I was two years old. I was deposed for the first time at the age of thirty-five, and then reinstated more than half a year later. During this time, you regretted deposing me and hinted to all officials in the court to recommend a reinstated Crown Prince. However, no one understood your intention..."
Yinreng recounted the events recorded in history books, and when he mentioned that after Yinzhen ascended the throne, almost none of the princes who participated in the fight for the throne had a good ending, Kangxi tore his clothes.
Yinreng looked up at Kangxi's angry and forbearing old face and was in a good mood.
By the time he finished telling the nearly three hundred years of Qing Dynasty history, Kangxi's old face had become as dark as it could be.
"The biggest characteristic of the Manchus is that they are more wary of the Han than the foreigners, because all Manchus know how they have lived extravagantly and tyrannically for more than two hundred years, trampling on the heads of the Han people."
"If the foreigners seize the Qing dynasty's rule, their lives will at best be a little harder, but if the Han people were to rise to power, their fate would be death."
"Oh... I'm only talking about the nobles and bureaucrats. The Manchu people at the bottom of society are not within their scope. Before the foreigners set foot on this land, the lives of ordinary Manchu people were even worse than those of the Han people."
The malice on Yinreng's face flashed away.
"Because when the Manchu population was small, everyone could receive money from the court to live, but later on, the Manchu population increased, and the court could no longer afford to support them, so they kicked everyone out."
"Those people have been supported by the imperial court for so many years, they can neither farm nor fish, and they still ask the Han people to teach them how to survive. Do you think they hate being Manchus in their hearts?"
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