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Chapter 1,253 The prince breaks the law and is punished for the same crime as the common people.

As the saying goes: When a prince breaks the law, he is as guilty as the common people.

This is correct or not!

Because according to the records of past dynasties, although the princes and dignitaries broke the law, they were equally guilty as the common people.

However, there have been methods of "atonement" and "atonement" throughout the ages.

And these methods of "atonement" and "expense of guilt" are simply beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Therefore, "when a prince breaks the law, he is guilty of the same crime as the common people." After that, we need to add another sentence--different punishments for the same crime.

Kangxi forty-four years.

The end of the first year.

The eldest brother took the lead in impeaching Crown Prince Yinfeng for sixteen major crimes.

All of these sixteen major crimes have been found to have solid evidence, and the prince is completely unable to refute them.

As long as one of these serious crimes is committed on ordinary people, it will be a serious crime that affects the nine tribes.

Nowadays, Prince Yinreng has committed so many serious crimes, but he was only deposed from the position of crown prince and then imprisoned the sect's mansion.

Early February.

The storm of the crown prince's dethronement has not subsided yet.

Xu Chao, the Minister of the Han Dynasty of the Ministry of Household Affairs, raised another major case called "The Records of Hundred Officials".

After being investigated by Dali Temple and other officials, Kangxi ruled:

"The Eighth Beileyin, the Ninth Beileyin, the Tenth Elder Brother Yin, and the Fourteenth Elder Brother Yin colluded with each other and committed the thirteen major crimes."

Among the thirteen pieces of evidence, the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince jointly compiled the "Hundred Officials", which aroused protests from the officials.

This "Hundred Officials' Journey" contains the secrets of more than 300 court officials, and more than 200 officials were coerced and forced to form a party with the Eight Kings for personal gain.

In order to support the huge Eight Kings Party, Yin, Yin, Yin, Yin and other brothers accepted bribes of nearly 20 million taels of silver in just a few years, including 12 million taels of Jiangnan salt tax.

You must know that throughout the history of Jiangnan Salt Patrol, the salt tax paid to the national treasury was only more than 6 million taels a year.

The Eight Kings Party committed such a serious crime, which can be said to be a heinous crime.

Moreover, the number of officials involved in the Eight Kings Party has also begun to shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

Kangxi was furious. In anger, he demoted the four princes to common people, imprisoned the clan and let them stay with the prince.

Many concubines in the harem were also implicated.

For example, there were sixteen concubines in total, including Yi Fei, Rong Fei, Hui Fei, Liang Fei, etc., who were all deprived of their concubine status and thrown into the Yeting Palace.

The emperor's cronies, such as Li Dequan, Liang Jiugong, Wei Zhu and other leading eunuchs, were also involved. A total of more than 30 eunuchs, big and small, and more than 60 maids, all were given poisoned wine and committed suicide.

Prince Yinzhen of Zhijun colluded with the Eight Kings Party, demoted his title to Beizi, took away all official positions, and reflected at home.

In addition, the two to three hundred court officials involved in the case were all found to be involved in forming cliques for personal gain. Countless of them deserved to have their homes confiscated, their clans exterminated, and exiled.

After this incident, the Qing government was seriously injured.

Kangxi even fell seriously ill because of this, and could only leave major affairs in the court to the princes to handle together.

Now there are six adult princes in the court: the third elder brother Yinzhi, the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, the fifth elder brother Yinzhen, the seventh elder brother Yinyou, the twelfth elder brother Yinyu, and the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang.

Among them, Yinxiang belonged to the hardcore "Four Ye Party" and was sent by Kangxi to conquer Zhungar and Lhasang Khan.

The seventh elder brother, Yinyou, was lame in one leg and could not succeed to the throne.

The twelfth elder brother Yinzhen, his mother-in-law came from a humble background, and she was also a little transparent.

The only ones who can compete with Su Mingzhe are the third elder brother Yinzhi and the fifth elder brother Yinzhi.

However, after seeing Su Mingzhe's insidious and vicious methods, these two elder brothers were so frightened that they claimed to be ill and recuperated at home. They also cut off their relations with the ministers of the DPRK and China, and pretended that they would no longer compete.

In this way, the Qing Dynasty formed the de facto "Fourth Master Supervising the Country".

At this time, Kangxi finally realized that it was really a biting dog that never barked.

I used to use ‘Guchen&q’

uot;The image of Si Age is the real old woman who is very cunning.

It's just that now that Kangxi wanted to regret it, it was already too late.

Before we knew it, it was May.

Su Mingzhe has been in prison for three months.

The situation was complete, and all the officials surrendered and petitioned Kangxi to make Sibeile Yinzhen the crown prince.

In this case, unless Kangxi chose to break up, he could only hold his nose and acquiesce to the matter.

In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign, it was June in the summer.

Kangxi, who was still ill, accepted the advice of the civil and military officials, appointed his fourth elder brother Yinzhen as the crown prince, and ordered the prince Yinzhen to supervise the country. He himself took some young princes, princesses, and concubines to Went to Chengde for summer vacation and recuperation.

Send off Kangxi Luanjia.

Su Mingzhe then moved his whole family into the Prince's East Palace and began to organize the government affairs.

**, the Big Brother Party and the Eight Kings Party were all destroyed, leaving countless messes.

If Su Mingzhe doesn't handle it in time, there will really be a big mess.

As for the memorials that were processed every day, Su Mingzhe had another copy made and sent to Kangxi for review on time.

At first, Kangxi thought that Su Mingzhe was a big woman who did great evil, and he deceived himself with the image of a "lonely minister".

However, it washes away over time.

Kangxi looked at Su Mingzhe's means, methods and reasons for handling government affairs, and gradually understood Su Mingzhe's governing philosophy.

Comparing himself with those of the same age group, Kangxi had to admire Su Mingzhe:

"It's a pity that the fourth child is not the daughter of Empress Xiao Yiren. Otherwise, what would happen between us father and son?"

Early July.

Kangxi sent someone to pass on the imperial edict, stating that all affairs in the court would be handled by Prince Yinzhen, and there was no need to submit them to Chengde for inspection.

This imperial edict also represented Kangxi's trust in Su Mingzhe's ability to govern.

The situation in the DPRK was originally somewhat chaotic, but with the issuance of this imperial edict, people's hearts were suddenly stabilized.

At this time, Yinxiang, who had been sending troops for more than four months, received good news. He had three victories in three battles and defeated Lhasang Khan. Now he began to fight in the Tianshan Mountains and continued to attack the Zhungeer tribe.

Su Mingzhe was overjoyed when he heard that he specially requested an edict to commend Yinxiang as the king of Duoluo County. He also issued an edict ordering Martai and a dozen other generals outside the Great Wall to assist Yinxiang in attacking Jungar tribe.

In the blink of an eye, another month has passed.

In previous years, Kangxi would have returned from Chengde in August, around the time of autumn.

But this year, Kangxi ordered people to prepare dragon boats in advance. In August, he took the boat down to the south of the Yangtze River.

Waiting for Kangxi to ride on the dragon boat and make five trips to the south of the Yangtze River.

Su Mingzhe continued to concentrate on handling government affairs.

This day.

Crown Princess Rouze, along with Nian Shilan, Lan Xin, Yixiu and several other women, came back from concubine De to greet her, her cheeks full of sorrow.

"What, are you feeling unwell?"

"That's not true."

Yi Xiu was someone who couldn't hold back his words. Before his sister could speak, he directly said:

"Just now when my sister took us to say hello, my aunt said she missed the Fourteenth Master, and she said some ugly words..."

"Hard words?"

Su Mingzhe couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

In the past six months, every time I went to pay my respects to Concubine De, Concubine De did not give me a good look and often said unpleasant things to me.

Unexpectedly, Concubine De's temper is getting worse and worse now, and even her two nieces, Rou Ze and Yi Xiu, no longer want to give her face.

"It's actually nothing."

Rou Ze didn't want the man to worry about this, so she forced herself to smile and said:

"Perhaps it is because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching and my aunt misses my fourteenth brother that she is like this. Maybe it will be better in a few days."

Su Mingzhe thought for a moment, thinking about the now stable situation in the court, sighed softly, and said:

"The love of parents for their children is the supreme principle of heaven and earth."

"The Queen misses her fourteenth brother

, so I feel depressed, and I’m afraid the worries will accumulate and cause injuries!”

"It is a human duty for children to be filial to their parents."

"Now I know that the Queen is sad and sad, but if I don't do anything about it, I'm afraid the world will not tolerate her."

"Guan'er, you go to Yonghe Palace again and tell E Niang that I have written a memorial and send it to Emperor Ama immediately, asking Emperor Ama to grant permission for the fourteenth brother to return to the palace and be imprisoned. In addition, during the Mid-Autumn Festival , and will also allow the fourteenth brother to enter the palace and reunite with E Niang!"

Throughout the ages, "loyalty and filial piety are the foundation".

If Su Mingzhe doesn't want to continue to be criticized by the government and the public, he must do his best to show off in front of the concubine.

As for what he did behind the scenes, who can say anything as long as it is not written into the history books?


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