After all, it's one thing to have a son born out of wedlock before the Crown Princess, but if he doesn't respect people and things get chaotic in the inner quarters, won't he be the one in trouble?
On the third day of the second month of the 38th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign (1699), the Kangxi Emperor set off for the Jiangnan region for his third southern tour.
Sherry and Gao Wa happily took the children out to play.
At the end of July of the same year, Consort Min passed away and was posthumously honored as Imperial Concubine Min.
In the 39th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign (1700), Consort Liang was promoted to the rank of Imperial Concubine because of her son's performance.
Yinzhi became increasingly active.
Yinreng received news from various places and saw the Eighth Prince's handiwork.
I suddenly chuckled. Some people are really something else, their ambitions are sky-high!
Yinreng watched coldly from the sidelines.
Soetu became increasingly restless and was reprimanded by both Yinreng and Kangxi.
The father and son recalled their childhood intimacy, a bond that only reached when Suo'etu was wounded.
Surprisingly, Shirley's eldest son, Yinxi, got along very well with Yinzhi.
Both of them loved reading. Yinxi's studies were a mess, and his martial arts skills were mediocre, but he was particularly fond of reading.
Sherry once thought he inherited her love of reading storybooks.
But when she actually looked at it, she realized it was a field she had never been to before.
"Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" and "Mirror of Judgment".
"Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" was written by Song Ci during the Southern Song Dynasty and is the world's earliest forensic medicine treatise.
The book details various methods of autopsy in the Song Dynasty, including examining the cause of death and injury, investigating various poisons and potent drugs, and identifying injuries before and after death. The content is very rich.
The "Zheyu Guijian" was compiled by Zheng Ke of the Song Dynasty and is the earliest existing compilation of case studies in China.
The book is divided into ten sections: Exonerating the Wrongfully Accused, Refuting the False Accusations, Investigating the Truth, Examining the Treachery, Verifying the Treachery, Proving the Evil, Uncovering the Evil, Determining the Suspicious, Miscellaneous Offenses, and Direct Account, totaling 195 cases.
The book contains mostly cases from the Song Dynasty and earlier, with some cases from after the Song Dynasty.
Of course, there are also storybooks.
Examples include "Records of Wrongful Convictions" and "Collection of Doubtful Cases".
Shirley looked at her son and belatedly realized that her grown son was focused on the field of criminal investigation.
Emperor Kangxi knew about it even earlier than Shirley.
I had long planned to arrange for him to go to the Ministry of Justice when he was a little older.
In the 40th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign (1701), it was another year for the imperial concubine selection.
Emperor Kangxi planned to select a consort for Yinzhi.
Sherry rejected him.
Emperor Kangxi always felt that Xue Li was a terrible mother.
When asked, Yinxi's attitude was that it was optional. Sensing Xue Li's meaning, he also declined.
Yinxi was different; he got incredibly excited when he heard about the talent show.
He jumped up and down, asking Kangxi to let him choose, stretching out his palm and shouting hoarsely, "Father, Father, if my brother doesn't want me, I will! I won't take more than five!"
Sherry: ⊙▽⊙
Kangxi: ⊙▽⊙
Yinxi: ⊙▽⊙
Sherry covered her face with her handkerchief and laughed heartily. Yinxi chuckled and flicked her forehead.
Emperor Kangxi was both amused and exasperated: "Oh dear, you're not good at your studies, but you're quite eager to think about your wife!"
"Ah, son, son is also trying to share the burden with Father Emperor," Yinxi said shamelessly.
"Hmph—what worries have you shared with me?" Kangxi asked him with some interest.
Yinxi patted his little chest and raised his little chin, his posture exactly the same as Xue Li's.
"Getting married and starting a family is the way to go! Once our son is married, he can share the burdens of Father Emperor!"
Kangxi: ...
Sherry kept laughing, ignoring her.
Kangxi looked at her with some helplessness. He should keep an eye on his son; his mother was really unreliable.
"Even if you get married now, you won't be able to do anything for me! How old are you?! Besides, your handwriting looks like scribbles, and you still want to get married?"
Kangxi grew angrier as he spoke. He had seen ugly handwriting before, but he had never seen anything so ugly.
They're quite smart, and they can learn anything if you ask them to, but they just don't take it seriously.
He's only half-baked at everything.
He can speak the languages of foreigners from various countries and ethnic minorities.
There are also pen pals, exchanging letters like wild geese...
Emperor Kangxi had a headache just thinking about it, and he asked about it with Xue Li more than once.
Sherry looked surprised when she heard this.
He thought she would teach that brat a lesson.
As a result, Shirley started learning various languages with her son and also sought pen pals through correspondence.
When Kangxi received the news, his head was spinning, and he scolded Xue Li to Yinreng.
Yinreng's lips twitched, but he tried hard not to laugh.
Emperor Kangxi did test his sons' knowledge, and he reprimanded Yinzhi and his brothers more than once.
The sons, however, protected each other.
Yinxi would act coquettishly at the slightest disagreement, and would even whine and argue with him while her eyes were full of tears.
Looking at his tearful expression, Kangxi couldn't help but recall how Xue Li had pestered and begged him.
Because of Microsoft's influence, I let him off the hook in a daze.
This led to a vicious cycle.
After Kangxi left, Shirley asked Yinxi why he had five wives.
"Of course, I'll have them play mahjong and dominoes with me. Besides, women love beauty, so it'll be more convenient for them to help me research skincare products and nourishing creams. Tsk tsk tsk, I plan to promote our 'Beauty Trap' in the future."
"Beauty Trap" is their skincare brand. It was originally created when Shirley instructed Yinreng to find many servants to learn medicine.
Later, Yinxi began to specialize in skincare and health preservation.
Another part involved opening a traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy in Daqing, which naturally included the cultivation of many Chinese medicinal herbs.
Sherry will collect it later. She also searched for many notes and prescriptions, and studied how to cultivate Chinese medicine in the secret realm.
Sherry postponed her son's wedding, after all, he was still young.
Emperor Kangxi simply issued an order for the Imperial Household Department to make preparations.
The principal wife was from the Hui-fa-na-la clan, and there were two secondary wives, one from the Li clan and the other from the Suo-chuo-luo clan.
Six years passed in this way.
Sherry thought the Crown Prince would seize an opportunity to make a move. But he remained well-behaved.
Sherry had run into him a few times while strolling in the garden.
Yinreng's eyes were deep, and Shirley had no idea what he was thinking.
In the fourth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign (1708), the emperor once again harshly rebuked the crown prince.
Because of the sudden illness of the nineteenth prince, Emperor Kangxi was anxious but helpless.
Despite Yinreng's numerous arrangements, Kangxi remained troubled.
Meanwhile, his younger brothers, who were also eyeing the crown prince position, couldn't contain themselves any longer, and Yinzhi reported Yinreng to the authorities.
It's nothing, they've lived like this for decades.
However, Kangxi used this as an excuse to angrily rebuke the crown prince.
Although the crown prince was not deposed, the atmosphere was not as lively as before.
Kangxi first targeted Suo'etu, who was imprisoned by the Imperial Clan Court for "discussing state affairs and forming cliques and acting recklessly."
This action stirred up a storm of emotions in the princes.
One by one, ambitions are growing vigorously.
Shirley didn't know what Yinreng was thinking; she just watched coldly from the sidelines.
Her two sons are married and have children.
The Crown Princess finally gave birth to a son, but the child almost didn't survive because of the infighting in the inner court.
The Crown Prince has become cold towards his concubine, Lady Li, but he still values the children she bore.
Shirley didn't interfere; the Crown Princess's methods were far more sophisticated than hers.
After having the Crown Princess, Shirley never bothered with matters of the inner palace again.
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