At the time of Shen on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yinreng was in his study reading the review of the major plans sent by the Ministry of Personnel when He Zhuer suddenly reported that several princes had arrived.
Yinreng was stunned for a moment, then threw down the memorial and walked towards the door.
Yinreng had previously instructed the eunuchs guarding the Yuqing Palace that no matter which prince or princess came to the Yuqing Palace to look for him, they should be taken to the main hall first.
On the few steps from the study to the main hall, Yinreng asked He Zhuer who had come.
Only then did I realize that all my younger brothers, from the third to the eleventh, were there.
The Eleventh Prince Yinzhen moved to the Prince's Residence at the end of last month.
In fact, Yinzhen was already six years old at the beginning of the year, but he was weak, so Concubine Yi asked for mercy and Yinzhen's enrollment was postponed for one year.
As soon as he entered the door, Yinyou, who had been staring at the door, shouted,
"Second brother is here."
As soon as these words came out, everyone stood up and saluted him.
"Meet the second prince..."
Yinreng put on a smile, walked in front of the crowd and said,
"I told you, there's no need to be so polite in private. How come you have time to come to Yuqing Palace to look for my second brother today?"
He walked to the top and sat down, and Yinzhi and others took their seats.
As soon as Yinreng finished asking, Yinzhen couldn't help but speak.
"Second brother, can you save the eldest sister and the second sister?"
Upon hearing this, Yinreng's temples throbbed twice. He knew that these little guys came for this matter.
If he remembered correctly, there were still four days until the eldest princess would be conferred the title.
In his previous life, he learned that the eldest princess was going to marry in Mongolia in early November. An envoy from the Khorchin tribe came to the capital to meet Emperor Kangxi, and his words revealed his desire for marriage, which Yinreng heard clearly.
After the court session, Yinreng directly asked Kangxi whether he wanted to marry the eldest princess to Mongolia.
Kangxi did not hide it from him and said that he had this plan.
He remembered that in his previous life, he begged Kangxi for a long time before Kangxi agreed to negotiate with the Khorchin Mongols to send a man of appropriate age to the capital to marry Chunxi.
He also bluntly advised Kangxi that the Khorchin Mongols agreed to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty because they valued the martial arts, backbone and courage of the Eight Banners men, rather than relying on sending women to marry and strengthening the alliance through in-laws.
Don’t you know that there is no such thing as an unbreakable covenant in the world? There are only eternal interests.
Later, before every sister in the palace got married, Yinreng would ask them what they thought. As long as they were unwilling, Yinreng would try his best to make Kangxi give up the idea.
In this life, Yinreng had already known Kangxi's plan and had asked Kangxi for help.
But Kangxi did not agree to him.
Even though he repeated to Kangxi all the words of advice he had given in his previous life, Kangxi still rejected him in the end.
The reason is simple and crude.
When Kangxi personally led the expedition against Galdan, nearly half of the Khorchin Mongols' troops were lost. Sending the eldest princess to Khorchin was one of Kangxi's means of appeasing Khorchin.
After Kangxi told him the key to this matter, he knew that there was no turning back.
Yinreng looked at the bright eyes in the room, his throat choked and he couldn't speak.
In fact, it was Yinzhi who first proposed to come and ask for help from Yinreng.
Because the second princess will also be granted a title and married to Mongolia after the new year.
Yinzhi had a special interest in Chinese studies and read too many pedantic articles, which made him arrogant and aloof. He didn't often talk with the second princess, but he was still quite concerned about his sister.
There was hope in Yinzhi's eyes when he looked at Yinreng.
Yinreng gave a bitter smile.
"I have already asked the Emperor for help."
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became silent.
Except for Yinzhen, everyone present could hear the unspoken meaning in Yinreng's words.
After a moment, Yinreng stood up and said,
"Let's go to the warm room and warm ourselves up first. Then we can come up with a plan. Even if my sisters want to marry into a foreign alliance, we can't let them suffer any injustice in their husband's family."
Looking at Yinreng's already tall figure, the light in Yinzhi's eyes rekindled.
"good."
Including Yinreng, nine people suddenly rushed into the warm room, filling the not-so-large space.
Everyone gathered around the small table and listened to Yinreng talk about the solution he had come up with.
"It's still some time before my two sisters get married, so I've come up with a few ideas. Let's see if they're feasible."
"First, find some people with good strategies to assist my two sisters.
A few days ago, I went to the clan house and picked out a few maids who were capable and had family members still alive. I planned to use their family members as leverage and ask them to assist my eldest and second sisters wholeheartedly.
It would be best if I could help my two sisters control the Prince Consort, so that even if they are not favored, they will not suffer too much grievance."
"Secondly, we will teach the sisters how to use their status to gain benefits for themselves. The most important point is to use the Qing Dynasty's reputation to intimidate those who want to plot against them. We are also part of this plan."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Yinzhen was outspoken and asked,
"How could we be part of the plan?"
"Since we want to use the tiger's skin, we can't just pretend to be a tiger without being a real tiger. Otherwise, sooner or later people will find out, and then the sisters' fate will be even more tragic. What we have to do is to become the real tiger."
"Let the Prince Consort know that we..."
Yinreng pointed at all the princes,
"We are the strongest support for our sisters. If they want to bully them, it depends on whether we agree or not."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes lit up.
"Second brother is right. I want to be your sisters' backer! If the prince consort dares to bully you, I will beat them to a pulp!"
“No no no.”
Yinreng waved his finger, making a gesture of disapproval.
"Fighting is the lowest form of intimidation. What we need to do is not to beat him, but to make him understand that only when his sisters are doing well can he sit firmly on the chair. Otherwise, we can make him lose all his supporters in an instant and become penniless."
"Of course... this presupposes that we, or the Qing Dynasty, are strong enough."
Yinreng looked at his brothers who were lost in thought, a smile forming on his lips.
In fact, the most important point he didn't say was that he intended to set an example by raising his daughters to be domineering women. Even if the world did not allow women to stand out, he would not allow his daughters to be bullied.
He didn't intend to fool his brothers at first.
But the old man was really a bad person. He planned to influence his younger brothers in his own way so that they would not follow Kangxi's example and send their daughters to Mongolia in the future.
After pacifying this tribe, pacify that tribe.
It never ends.
The more it went on, the more outrageous it became. Apart from not requiring women to bind their feet, all other dirty and smelly rules were imposed on women.
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