Chapter 361: Twilight Years

Two days after the Holy Lord left the capital, Kangxi's decree was sent back to the capital, but this time his anger was spread to the royal family.

A few days ago, when Shuhui Concubine was in a vocal situation, all the princes and princes walked respectfully, but the Duke of Fuguo Puzhao and others walked on horseback. Someone reported the list of royal families who were riding on horseback to the imperial court. Kangxi was furious when he saw it, and issued an order to make the clan mansion investigate and report it.

Soon after, the clan mansion was delivered to the imperial court, and there were a large list of involved ones. Among them, the highest title was Beizi, and the rest were Duke of the Fuguo and other royal families.

Kangxi was already old and understandable that Beizi Sunu and others remained in office, so he was relieved. The Duke of the Suiguo Puzhao and Xinghai both changed their titles and imprisoned the clan's mansion, and chose to inherit the titles.

But an old concubine went to deal with several officials and two royal families, which finally temporarily relieved Kangxi's anger.

During this trip to the Holy Driving, the whole atmosphere was depressing and forced everyone, and everyone was cautious, for fear that they would anger Kangxi.

This time, the errand was much longer than Cao Yong had imagined. I don’t know what Kangxi thought. On the 19th, he arrived at Anfeng Hall and visited Xiaoling for a while. The next day, he started to travel to Rehe Palace.

On the way, Cao Yong received a letter from his family and knew that Chu Yu was pregnant again. Cao Yong couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad. He wrote a long letter to Chu Yu, so he could not help but give him a lot of instructions.

Judging from the world situation at this time, the Cao family's house is actually a little thin. Cao Yong knew that Chu Yu did not say it, but he was also sad because of the rumor of the "jealous woman" from outside.

She was not afraid of her reputation, but she was afraid that it would delay the reproduction of the descendants of the Cao family because of her own reasons.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong felt relieved. After all, he was the second child, and it was more difficult than having a first child? What's more, it was cheaper to hire a good imperial physician in the capital.

Therefore, his worries were gone, leaving only joy. Thinking that his parents were also concerned about the movements of their son and daughter-in-law, he also wrote a letter to Jiangning's parents.

Going north is colder than Zhili, and many civil servants are frost-diseased. However, no one dares to delay on the road, for fear of being accused of being in diligent, so they gritted their teeth and followed.

Now, Kangxi is already in Jiazi, and he is increasingly taboo about the word "old". If he is really an old official, he will not give any good face to those who are tired at the age of 40 or 50. He seems to be afraid that others will do this intentionally, and deliberately reminds him that he, the emperor, is old.

Who has such courage? It’s just that Kangxi himself was too careful.

Recently, what Kangxi was most happy about was the news from the palace, and another young prince was added to the harem.

He was still able to add a baby in his sixties, and Kangxi was in a happy mood for several days.

On the 11th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Shengjia and his party arrived at the Rehe Palace. Kangxi only stayed here for two days, summoned several Mongolian princes and the great lamas in the temple here, and set off for the trip back to Beijing.

A 40-mile trip a day, a vast army with flags on the front and back were erected, and the Eight Banners soldiers were accompanied by martial law on both sides of the road.

Trouble is just torment. Looking at the officials who coughed all day long and kept snotting, Cao Yong felt a little lucky.

I went to Outer Mongolia once in the summer. Although I was tired, Cao Yong's body was much stronger. His tanned skin color gradually returned to his old fairness after this month, and he looked very energetic.

On the way back to Beijing, Dethei and Nalanfusen looked for Cao Yong several times, and a few words of chariots were nothing more than Li Ding's affairs. Regardless of Li Ding's life and death, the guards' office have been removed from the list, and a new guard has come in.

Cao Yong himself had a lack of guards on his body, so he thought there must be a lot of vacancy on the guards. Although Li Ding disappeared, he could not see anyone alive or corpses died. He was so cold and irresistible.

He expressed his doubts in his heart, and then he heard Det's underworld say: "There are no vacancy now? If there is no vacancy, I don't know how many people are thinking about it in and outside the palace." At this point, he lowered his voice and said: "I heard that a vacancy can be worth thousands of taels of silver, and there are many people waiting to share the money."

"Then...the long lively..." Cao Yong was surprised when he heard this. In the past two years, Kangxi rectified the palace and dealt with many eunuchs. The ministers and the general manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have also changed several times. How could anyone dare to act like this?

Naranthusen was beside him and whispered: "Havenly Master has been strict in the past two years, but he always raised it high and let it go, and those who can be forgiven are all lenient. Everyone saw that, Havenly Master is indeed getting older."

Even if Kangxi showed the majesty of an emperor, he was already in his twilight years in his heart. Although no one dared to fool him on the surface, there were not many honest people in private.

Cao Yong sighed in his heart. According to the news sent from the capital, Li Xu had arrived in the capital and was waiting for the meeting in the capital. Although the guard office had to be approved by Kangxi except for Li Ding's name.

Kangxi, who has always treated the Li family with preferential treatment, did he show mercy this time to appease his close ministers or was he already tired of the Li family?

On the side where the Ministry of Revenue is deficit, the Li family has had to be almost the same in the past two years, but it was filled with Lianghuai Salt Tax. Although the deficit was filled in this way, it was instructed by Kangxi, but the salt tax was originally required to enter the treasury.

Li Xu's way of doing this is equivalent to using the emperor's money to make up for the deficit left by the emperor. This is not a credit or a crime. It's just that Li Xu's life is luxurious, and everyone in Jiangnan knows it, and Kangxi knows it.

The Li family's deficit was clearly to take over, and the Li family's own expenses were quite large. In this way, Kangxi paid for Li Xu's luxury in Jiangnan.

Everyone has a scale in their hearts. Is the emperor so easy to take advantage?

When Cao Yong thought of this, he sighed that Li Xu could not see through it. Even if he was an emperor, don’t expect him to be tolerant of the world.

*

Capital City, Dongzhimen, Li’s House.

Li Xi's face was very gloomy. The journey was already exhausted in the cold winter. As a result, as soon as he entered Beijing, he got news and knew that Li Ding's guards had been eliminated.

I don't know whether this person is alive or dead, so I can't wait to leave him with no face for the Li family! Because of this, Li Xu even walked to the Eighth Prince's Mansion.

The current Minister of the Inner Guard is Ah Ling, a hard-core supporter of the Eighth Prince. In theory, no one is considered an outsider, so why do you act so mean?

The Eighth Prince was not in a good mood. He was in charge of the Ministry of Justice for many years. The Minister of Justice Hashan and the Minister of Justice Wang Qiong were both his confidants.

In recent days, both of them were charged with "stolen official positions" for "stolen official positions" and were both dismissed.

The "Changming Case" is still the aftermath of the case. At that time, an official involved in the case was named Changming. A person from the capital originally ordered a sentence and sent to Ningguta. He was sent to February this year.

Because he knew that the Wanshou Festival would be a general amnesty for the world, he pretended to be sick and stayed halfway. After the general amnesty for the world in March, he returned to the capital and now lives in Fangshan County.

After Delin's case came out, Kangxi ordered people to verify other criminal officials in the Tuoheqi case, and then found out that Chang Ming was found.

The Ministry of Justice also arrested Chang Ming. Although he insisted that there was no bribery, the Minister of Justice Hashan and the Minister of Justice Wang Qiqi were biased. This year's edict was not "sanctioned in the middle of the journey and was exempted from being sent." The two of them acted like this in a way that they were "good at mercy." Now that they pursued it, they are famous for their masters.

The Minister of Justice, Hashan, and the Minister of Justice Wang Qiqi, plus the Minister of Works Mandu who was dismissed in November, and the Minister of Justice Ma Jintai, the Eighth Prince's power in the court was reduced by half.

Even if Kangxi was nothing unusual to the Eighth Prince, how could he not be afraid of his wings when he cut them off like this?

Before Kangxi deposed the crown prince, he dismissed the crown prince step by step and asked the crown prince's people. In the end, the prince was left with a bare body, saying that he had been abolished.

Just in this situation, Li Xu, the old minister who was relied on, came to visit him. How could the Eighth Prince not be taboo? Maybe there were so many eyes looking at him, the Beile Mansion, how dare he treat guests?

He secretly scolded Li Xu for being confused, even if you have to use the title of errands, you have to run to Prince Yong's mansion. Li Xuchun was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue during the day, and the Ministry of Revenue was not involved in any way with his eighth prince.

He couldn't see him when he saw him, so he asked him to be sick and not to see guests, so he asked someone to send him away. No matter how old Li Xu was, in the eyes of the Eighth Prince, he was just a lot more than him, but he was less than him.

Now the Ninth Prince is well-managed and has hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Therefore, the Li family does not value it as before in the eyes of the Eighth Prince.

Li Xu is not a reckless person. The Eighth Prince is one of the princes in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even if he comes to pay his respects and asks his son for his affairs, it is not a transcendence.

But the Eighth Prince was avoiding it tightly and was in panic, and he didn't remember this.

Li Xu has been in the officialdom for more than 40 years and has never seen anything before. He naturally knows that the so-called "not seeing guests while sick" is just an excuse.

He was so angry that he could only bear it and beat Beile Mansion home.

Li Xu was a little confused. Seeing that the eighth prince was not as respected as he usually said. Even if he really ascended the throne, what could the Li family be able to do? He would be a servant of the clothes.

Originally, he was still comforting himself in his heart that the eighth prince should not have done the job of Li Ding. Maybe it was A Ling and the others who did it privately because they were greedy for money.

Now, Li Xu is open-minded when he sees the Eighth Prince's avoidance. Although he has a high opinion of himself, in the eyes of the "Vertical Prince" who is supported by all officials, he is afraid that he does not treat the Li family as a dish.

The answer is obvious whether it is the interests of the confidants of the powerful and powerful in the capital city, or whether it is important to take into account the face of the Li family.

Li Naisu stood in his hand, and when he saw his father come back from beating outside, he was angry and cautiously did not dare to respond.

He was also a sixty-year-old, just two brothers Li Nai and Li Ding. Although his eldest son was stupid, Li Ding was smart enough to comfort him. Now, now... Li Xu only felt sad.

Li Xu picked up the teacup and was about to take a sip. He was so angry that he didn't want to sweep his eldest son's cowardly look. He immediately became angry. He threw the teacup on the ground and shouted, "Look at your unreliable appearance, you are such a waste. It's been two months since you found out!" At the end of his speech, he was so angry that he was trembling all over.

Li Nai was so scared that he knelt down and begged: "It's because my son is not good, but because my son is not promising. Please calm down! Beating my son twice and scolding me a few words will make me kid you just want me not to get angry and hurt your body!"

If Li Ding was scolded, even if he didn't speak sophisticatedly, he would have to think about making his father happy.

In contrast, Li Xu was more and more thinking about the goodness of his second son, sighed, waved his hand to Li Nai, and said, "Get up!"

Li Nai stood up in response, and Li Xu said, "I have already inquired about the news. The emperor will arrive in the capital the next day. For the father, I will see if I can pray for the will and leave it until the New Year before going back. Shuntian Mansion and the infantry commander's yamen, you can go there again in the past two days to find a few people who can speak, don't save money. Even if your brother is really in trouble, you must search for the body first..."

Li Nai felt uncomfortable and whispered: "It's all your son who is useless, and you have to bother your father and worry about these things."

Li Xu smiled bitterly in his heart. If his eldest son was really a smart person, he would not have sent his second son to Beijing.

Although the whereabouts of his son were not found, some things should be investigated and found out. He raised his face and asked, "Which officials have come to socialize in the house in Shichahai? Have you checked them carefully?"

Li Nai replied: "There were more than ten people who had eaten in the past. Because my younger brother had always been secret, some things were unknown to the servants. Among these ten people, three of them stayed overnight. Only one of them was a doctor in the Internal Affairs Office, and the other two were not aware of the identities. The boy in the gatehouse there just heard that one of them was called 'Tuye' and the other was called 'Liuye', but he didn't even see his face."

Among them, there may be a murderer who murdered his son. Thinking of this, Li Ding couldn't help but have a murderous intention to fight Yang Ruixue there and frowned.
Chapter completed!