Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Kangxi sat at the table with a solemn expression.

Others fell to their knees, some panicked, others calm.

Emperor Kangxi had been emperor for decades and had long been used to seeing scenes like this. But when he caught sight of that gentle and jade-like figure from the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but feel excited.

"Yinsu!" Emperor Kangxi pointed angrily at the kneeling eighth elder brother and shouted, "What did you do in the capital behind my back!"

The Eighth Prince knelt with his back straight and replied slowly: "Huang Ama, I didn't do anything. I didn't instruct them to do anything. They just did what they felt like, so why not?"

Emperor Kangxi turned his attention to Ma Qi and others.

The two younger brothers beside Ma Qi secretly looked at their elder brother, but saw that his elder brother had a calm face, as if he didn't care, and they couldn't help but murmur.

After lunch today, Ma Qi took his third brother Ma Wu and his fourth brother Li Rong to Bao Mian Sheng.

The intentions of the three brothers were good. After all, the New Year was coming soon, so they came in advance to pay their respects to the Emperor, and to express their sincerity as courtiers.

Obviously, the two younger brothers think simpler than their elder brothers.

As a bachelor, Ma Qi is used to thinking too much.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and I won't be attending court for a while after the new year.

Ma Qi will not attend the royal family banquet tomorrow night. If he wants to discuss political affairs again, he will probably have to wait until after the 16th year. Then, he and Tong Guowei may have to postpone the recommendation of the eighth prince to be the prince.

——The emperor's various actions before seemed to want to promote the deposed prince Yin Reng as the prince again. This is what these important officials least want to see.

Regardless of the first prince's character, their previous behavior of recommending the eighth prince will also make the first prince unhappy. The emperor is getting older and older. If this person is really allowed to take the throne, they may not be in the best position. Not guaranteed.

He had been thinking about this before he came to see the emperor. Now after entering the door, he did not expect to see the eighth prince there.

Ma Qi felt that this was not only a good opportunity, but also meant that God was blessing them and insisted on giving them a chance.

He immediately knelt down and bowed: "Your Majesty, please appoint a crown prince as soon as possible!"

His two younger brothers followed him to the palace to meet the saint.

The brothers hadn't agreed on what they were going to do when they came in, but their elder brother was the crown prince's Taibao and a bachelor, so he knelt down as soon as they entered the room. And when they looked at each other, they saw that the eighth prince was also there.

The two younger brothers of the Fucha family thought that their elder brother had made an agreement with the eighth prince in advance, or that the emperor had acquiesced, so they knelt down with their elder brother and said: "Please also ask the emperor to appoint Ba Beile as the crown prince!"

At this moment, Emperor Kangxi's expression suddenly changed.

He originally thought that the eighth elder brother came to greet him sincerely, and he also thought that the three brothers from the Fucha family came to see him sincerely.

Who knew that people from these two sides were actually colluding together?

Originally, Emperor Kangxi was very taboo about secret collusion between princes and ministers.

He had reprimanded Brother Eighth and Tong Guowei before, and they all agreed. They also promised him that they would never communicate secretly in the future. As a result, the scene before him happened.

Originally, Emperor Kangxi was in a good mood. Today he had people prepare a lot of small things. He also received food and small clothes from the Thirteenth Brother, and planned to send someone to Mongolia to deliver them to the Eighth Princess.

Unexpectedly, everything was fine in the morning. In the afternoon, Ma Qi and Ba Age went to the palace to see him, and this happened.

Emperor Kangxi was furious.

This Ma Qi has a criminal record. Some time ago, he clearly told Ma Qi not to get involved in the matter of establishing a prince. In the blink of an eye, this old man got together with Tong Guowei and promoted the eighth prince in the court.

Now, it's the same again.

He had just promised the emperor that he would no longer interact with his elder brothers in private, and then he discussed it with the eighth prince again and came over to force him, the emperor, to appoint the eighth prince as the heir apparent.

Emperor Kangxi looked at the people kneeling in front of him, and suddenly felt a slight chill in his heart.

——This battle is almost like forcing the palace to rebel.

It's just that the number of people is a little smaller. Otherwise, who knows if the few people in front of me will actually put their "forced palace rebellion" into action?

Emperor Kangxi stood up slowly, walked up to these ignorant people, and asked in a deep voice: "When did you decide to come to the palace today?"

Only then did Ma Qi realize that something was wrong. He had indeed come by chance, but it was too coincidental, which could easily arouse the emperor's fear and suspicion.

Ma Qi hurriedly kowtowed and apologized: "Your Majesty, I forgive you. I didn't discuss it in advance. It just happened to happen..."

"Yinhu, do you think it's a coincidence?" Emperor Kangxi didn't wait for Ma Qi to finish, and turned to ask the eighth prince.

The eighth prince frowned, but still said truthfully: "Yes."

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and today you have to come and force me to make a decision." Emperor Kangxi was disgusted that they all formed cliques for personal gain, and hated that Yinhu, as a son, did not understand his father, and even worked with outsiders to force him as a father again and again.

: "You don't even want me to have a good year."

He didn't want to deal with it too harshly.

After all, one of them is his son, and those people are veterans who have been with him for decades. I think back then, these veterans followed him through thick and thin and contributed a lot to the stability of the country.

But under the current situation, how could he let these people go?

Emperor Kangxi laughed a few times, but in the next moment, he suddenly said coldly: "You people are secretly colluding and working together. For the sake of the position of crown prince, you will not hesitate to persecute me again and again! Especially you, Yinsi! You

As a prince, he cannot behave like a father and a son, and as a monarch and his ministers, and his thoughts are particularly vicious! I would like to ask if you still have a country, a country, a country, and a relationship between monarch and ministers in your eyes!"

The two younger brothers of the Fucha family hurriedly prostrated themselves: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Ma Qi said calmly: "Your Majesty, as a bachelor of Wuying Palace, how could Wei Chen not understand the etiquette of a monarch and his ministers? How could it not be for the country and the country? It is for the country of the Qing Dynasty that Wei Chen hopes that the Emperor will

A wise and courageous Lord of the East Palace can be appointed as soon as possible! Please give me your advice, Your Majesty!"

After saying this, he bent down and kowtowed.

Emperor Kangxi looked at the eighth prince coldly, but he saw that the eighth prince looked as usual, as if Ma Qi's sideways compliments to him were taken for granted.

Emperor Kangxi was furious and reprimanded the Eighth Prince for his treacherous nature and ambitious ambitions. He also said that Ma Qi, who was in a high position but was plotting for the country, had an evil intention to kill.

Finally, Emperor Kangxi issued an edict: to seize Yinhu's title of Baylor and demote him to an idle clan, remove him from the post of Maqi University Scholar, and hand over all members of the Fucha family to Dali Temple for strict investigation and to be punished separately!

At this time, Qianqing Palace was quiet. Everyone walked carefully, for fear that there would be bigger mistakes and accidents in the last one or two days of the old year.

Luo Jianing and Thirteenth Brother just heard that this matter "may happen". Not long after, Yinzhen sent someone back to deliver a message, talking about Yinzhen's reduction of rank, Ma Qi's dismissal from office, and the Fucha family

Something where everyone suffered together.

After hearing this, the thirteenth elder brother had some vague guesses in his mind, and asked the fourth sister-in-law in a low voice: "Is it possible that Emperor Ama really wants the first emperor brother to be reset?"

Originally, he wasn't particularly sure.

Although the fourth brother did not tell them about this matter, he and the fourteenth brother watched the process of the matter with a cold eye and found that the fourth brother had not said anything about other matters. Only about the "reset of the prince", the fourth brother

Brother mentioned it once.

Because it was only once, it was hard for the two brothers to guess what the fourth brother was thinking.

However, the fourth brother was very strict. He only smiled lightly and didn't talk much about anything he asked. When he asked the question in a hurry, he just said: "You are still young, don't talk more about this." and nothing else.

Now he can only ask his fourth sister-in-law.

As soon as Luo Jianing heard the tone of her thirteenth brother, she knew that Yinzhen had not told her brothers anything in detail.

She smiled and said: "I am a housewife and never get involved in these court matters. If you want to know, ask the fourth master. If the fourth master doesn't know the answer, what can I know?"

Brother Thirteen was stunned after hearing this, curled his lips and snorted.

Take a look.

He knew that the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law vented their anger from the same nostril, and although their words looked different on the surface, they were actually exactly the same.

Just don't let him and his fourteenth brother know.

Forget it, they were looking out for their younger brothers and wouldn't let them get involved, so he would just tell Little Fourteen that the two brothers could just sit back and watch, and just don't cause any trouble for his brother and sister-in-law.

But before leaving, the Thirteenth Brother told the Fourth Sister-in-law something she didn't know: "I heard that Brother Yi Huang has been going to Qianqing Palace every night recently to serve the Emperor and serve him tea and water.

I don’t know if it’s true or false.”

Luo Jianing asked curiously: "Is there such a thing? The fourth master never told me."

The thirteenth elder brother suddenly felt that he could do it again: "The fourth brother knew, but refused to tell the fourth sister-in-law. The younger brother also knew, but was willing to tell the fourth sister-in-law."

The implication is that his younger brother is really interesting.

Luo Jianing couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay, you are the best."

She was afraid that her thirteenth brother would miss something if he drank tomorrow night, so she quickly reminded him: "I haven't given birth yet, so I can't move around or attend banquets. Don't drink wine at the banquet, lest something big happens."

I can’t react.”

The thirteenth brother didn't take it seriously at first, but then he saw the serious look on the fourth sister-in-law's face, and then he became a little nervous: "Isn't it a matter of establishing a heir apparent?"

Luo Jianing is not sure either.

But seeing what the eighth prince did today, the emperor was completely annoyed. Maybe the emperor will give a "final conclusion" to this matter at the New Year's Eve family dinner tomorrow.

The thirteenth brother knew that the fourth sister-in-law was always alert. Since the fourth sister-in-law thought that she should be careful at the family dinner tomorrow, he naturally had to be more careful.

"My younger brother thanked my fourth sister-in-law on behalf of my fourteenth brother." The thirteenth elder brother bowed to Si Fujin: "Tomorrow, my brothers must be careful and never cause any trouble to my brother and sister-in-law."

Luo Jianing was amused by his appearance: "Let's go quickly, don't keep my brothers and sisters waiting." She managed to coax him out.

The first night was a New Year's Eve family dinner.

Because the student Zhang Ying had just passed away, Emperor Kangxi was still grieving, so although there was singing and dancing tonight, it was still a little less lively.
To be continued...