Emperor Kangxi sent me to marry

Chapter 284
An important function of Changchun Garden is to escape the summer heat.

The houses are built as tall as possible and have smooth ventilation, and the number and size of windows are several percent more than those in the Forbidden City.

This kind of design is undesirable in summer; in winter, it really makes the people living there suffer from the cold.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not mistreat the elder brothers. There were plenty of charcoal basins, quilts, and hot water. But once the people's hearts are cold, it is difficult to warm them up again.

The silver frost charcoal in the earth dragon was burning hotly, and the faint light of the fire reflected on the faces of the prisoners who were warming themselves.

They stayed up all night, arguing until dawn, and exhausted each other.

The first ray of morning light casts lazily on the ice.The neat slogans of the little eunuchs soon sounded outside the window. They dug open the lake that had refrozen at night around Luhua Building to ensure that it was an isolated island, isolated from the outside world.

There was only a small boat, which carefully pushed aside the broken ice and docked at the bottom of the building.

The newly appointed Minister of Justice, Wang Shizhen, was ordered to come to assist in the investigation.

The first step, of course, is to obtain the statements of all witnesses at the scene.

The brothers sitting around the fire immediately became alert when they heard the sound of keys unlocking downstairs.

The fifth elder brother stood up first, rushed to the stairs and looked down, but he could not recognize Wang Shizhen.

"Who is this old man?"

The fourth elder brother who was walking behind him hated iron.

"That's the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. At least you have recognized all the heads of the Sixth Ministry. Otherwise, Khan Ama will never send you errands at any time."

"The ministers of the six departments are constantly changing, and sometimes there are two or three ministers in one department. I can't remember it!"

Wang Shizhen's body is actually not strong due to his age, and it is even more difficult for him to climb stairs.Brother Si wanted to help him, but he was overtaken.

The eighth prince walked down the seven or eight steps and grabbed Wang Shizhen's trembling right hand.

The fifth elder brother disapproved, snorted, and sat back in his seat.

Wang Shizhen did not dare to be presumptuous, so he politely declined the eighth elder brother with a few words, slowly climbed up on his own, and bowed respectfully to all the elder brothers.

"Old minister, I would like to pay my respects to you. The emperor's instructions are to first invite the two princes and uncle Tong to go and ask questions. When the three come back, you will naturally know who will be summoned next. Old minister, I am just a person. Just a guard."

The fourteenth elder brother still had some eyes. Seeing that he was the youngest here, he consciously went to run errands, climbed upstairs, and invited the three elders to come down.

After Princes Yu and Gong and Uncle Tong left by boat, Wang Shizhen confessed his crime and asked the young eunuch to bring a chair and sit down to monitor his brothers.

Then the brothers suddenly realized that Wang Shizhen was sent by Khan Amma to prevent collusion between them.

No one dared to speak.Even though there is a floor in between, the sounds of the Fujins upstairs after getting up, walking back and forth, washing themselves, and taking care of their children can be clearly heard.

Wang Shizhen's body is old, but his eyes are vicious, and he sees every elder brother clearly.

Out of more than a dozen elders, only five are thinking right now.

The prince, the eldest elder brother, the fourth elder brother, the eighth elder brother, and the ninth elder brother.

He didn't think any further.

The fourth princess may not have a say in what happens next, let alone him, a Han Chinese.

Wang Shizhen then thought about his own affairs.

The fourth princess is really interesting.

Every word she said was perfect, but two of them reminded him frequently these days.Even when I get up in the middle of the night, I have to think about it for a long time.

"Both Han men and women are not worthy of speaking loudly in the Qianqing Palace. If we continue to dislike each other, won't we never get ahead?"

The Wang family in Xincheng has been ups and downs for nearly a hundred years. At one time, the inheritance was almost cut off due to war.Finally, they stood up again. All three of their brothers passed the Jinshi examination and took the children in the family to advance.

People from aristocratic families always have to move around, and they know exactly what each other is doing without saying anything.

The Shanxi Chen family, headed by Chen Tingjing, has been quietly making a fortune in recent years.On the surface, the mountains and rivers are not exposed; secretly, relying on Shanxi merchants to cover up, working for the emperor in Mongolia, he also accumulated a lot of wealth.The Chen family is building a house in their hometown, and the commotion is getting louder and louder, almost like a palace regulation.Without the emperor's acquiescence, how dare Chen Tingjing do this?
In recent years, Chen Tingjing has only relied on the fourth princess.He can avoid any elder brother tactfully and not get involved in the dispute over the reserve position.

The current Holy Emperor has made it clear that he does not like Shandong people; at this age, he has not yet had a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.Now in the South Study Room, Zhang Ying, the Minister of Rites, is old and frail; if he retires, a place in the South Study Room will be vacant.

Will Li Guangdi or Chen Tingjing take over?

Even if he cannot join the cabinet, the emperor, even if he considers him, it will be a great help to the Wang family in the future.

Fortunately, Wang Shizhen kept his ears open when he was thinking about something, otherwise the young eunuch might not have heard him when he called him.

"Master Wang!"

"Hey. Here he is. Hey, this man is old and his ears and eyes are all gone. Does the Emperor have any instructions?"

"Yes, your Majesty invites Eighth Prince and Eighth Prince to come over and speak."

The prince always thought that if Khan Amma didn't call him first, he would also call the eldest brother first. Unexpectedly, he would call the eighth brother, and even Fujin would come with him, which made him a little jealous.

The eldest brother sitting diagonally across from him simply put on a bad face.Judging from the tight jawline, his back molars were clenched tightly.

Bafujin, who was in danger but didn't panic at all, supported his lower back with his hands, looking like a pregnant woman feeling uncomfortable in the morning, and walked downstairs delicately.

"Hey, these uncles and uncles are in good spirits. They were so noisy last night, and they can still wait with their eyes open today. I can't do it. If I don't sleep, the baby in my belly will also sleep!"

The Eighth Prince hated her way of talking nonsense and making enemies everywhere. He wanted to give a few words of warning, but he was afraid that this vicious woman would talk nonsense in front of Khan Ama later and swallow her words alive. .

As soon as the door closed when they went out, the fifth elder brother couldn't wait and shouted to the other brothers:

"It may not be a good thing to go early! I think Khan Ama is aware of everything and must have known that it was the poisonous woman who gave the medicine, so he asked them to go. Let's just wait and see, and we will be out soon!"

Brother Si, who was still doubting Haifeng, advised him not to be too optimistic in a business-like tone.

"I spent half the night talking about Fourth Brother, but you didn't even think about this case."

The fifth elder brother didn't let him continue at all, and glanced at the brothers one by one with tired eyes.

"I have told you before that the fourth sister will not kill her father or her king! What is she trying to do? Khan Amma has her own strengths and weaknesses, and she can't be the emperor! I also believe that none of our brothers are evil-hearted. For that idea The power actually attacks my own mother! She is the eighth brother and sister! There is no one else!"

Brother Seven, who didn't even participate in last night's debate and said nothing, stood up calmly.

"I also believe in the fourth sister and brothers. No matter what, we are a family connected by blood."

The tenth elder brother, the twelfth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother, and the fourteenth elder brother all stood silently behind the seventh elder brother.The tenth elder brother stared, forcing the ninth elder brother to express his position, so the ninth elder brother also stood over.

The third elder brother always followed the crowd. Seeing them all standing up, he picked up his robe and ran over.

There were only three people sitting still.

The eldest brother, the prince, and the fourth brother.

Wang Shizhen watched with cold eyes, feeling quite shocked.

It turns out that the fourth princess is so popular among her elder brothers.

Understood.

Wang family, you can place your bets.

　Kangxi’s regional discrimination against Shandong people is not my intention to smear it.

　　He has made it clear and public at least three times that he does not like Shandong people, believing that they are "paranoid, competitive and hateful" and "the most unruly and easy to make cliques".

　　However, he had always been very optimistic about Wang Shizhen and felt that he was the only Shandong official who did not have these shortcomings.

　　Kangxi's praise of Wang Shizhen was only said a year later, so the old man doesn't know about it now.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)