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Chapter 53 Impeachment

On the morning of March 18, Yinzhen rushed to the Meridian Gate in vain and quickly handed over the sign to ask for a meeting.

Kangxi was not in the mood to organize this year's birthday. Then he thought that he could take this opportunity to eliminate the tension between the inside and outside the capital, so he happily agreed to the requests from the ministers. On the morning of the 18th, Kangxi led the kings, Beile, Beizi, Gong, Minister of the Inner, Grand Secretary, etc. to the Tai** Middle School to pay tribute, and then moved to the Taihe Hall to accept the congratulations from all civil and military officials. Then the court musicians played music and danced. After the ceremony, the ministers naturally had to praise me. [The latest updates are all in search.]

Kangxi didn't feel anything interesting when he heard it. As a result, after decades of listening, his ears were almost calloused when he heard it. It would be strange if he was interesting, but he was still patient and accepted the congratulations from the ministers with a smile. He also praised him from time to time. He only moved his feet slightly until it was near the end. Li Dequan, who was beside him, immediately shouted with understanding, "After the ceremony, I will present the birthday gift."

The first one to offer the birthday gift was Crown Prince Yinreng. He had thought about this year's birthday gift and put in a lot of effort. He presented an old birthday star carved by jade. The jade quality and handicrafts are naturally the best, and what is rare is this meaning.

After the crown prince, there were naturally a group of princes. Each of them offered calligraphy and paintings, or pearls and jade, and then a group of royal relatives and nobles, and finally the ministers. Kangxi didn't care much about the birthday ceremony. He saw too many good things over the past few decades. He often just glanced at these birthday gifts and asked Li Dequan to put them aside. After the princes' birthday gifts, he noticed that there was no fourteenth birthday gift this year. He immediately thought about it. Is it because the fourteenth birthday gifts were not given? Or did someone intercept the fourteenth birthday gifts?

Just as he was thinking about it, Li Dequan stepped forward and said softly: "Your Majesty, the 14th Prince is handing over a sign to ask for a visit."

Fourteenth actually ran back? Kangxi was immediately happy and said softly, "Suxuan."

Yinzhen learned from the eunuch that the birthday gift was coming to an end, so he ran away and entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony. He walked forward a few steps and knelt down, "My son Yinzhen, I wish the emperor a long life and all the best."

Kangxi nodded with a smile, looking at Yinzhen, who was empty-handed and dusty, was a little puzzled. This reckless boy actually came to pay his birthday with his hands empty?

Yinzhen's sudden arrival naturally attracted the attention of a group of princes and ministers. They were as puzzled as Kangxi, why did Yinzhen come to celebrate his birthday empty-handedly? The entire hall immediately became silent, and his eyes were stuck to Yinzhen.

In front of everyone, Yinzhen felt very embarrassed. He ran too fast. The little eunuch holding the gift box had not been followed yet. But this matter was difficult to explain, so he had to look out. This action made everyone understand that it was not that he did not bring a gift, but that the things did not follow behind.

Kangxi felt relieved. He was thinking about how to make this happen. He liked this son who could make money from the bottom of his heart. If the Ocean Trade Fleet could be successfully formed, he would immediately earn another 20 million yuan. This is half of the total annual income of the country. With this money, what else can't be done?

With Yinzhen's arrival, Yinsi, Yinzhen and Yinyi were naturally happy. The crown prince and other princes felt tired of it. This fourteenth brother came from Shanghai to celebrate his birthday, but he was really good at it.

Since the birthday ceremony had not arrived, everyone was even more curious. The 14th Master came from Shanghai and what birthday ceremony was offered? Just as the ministers were curious and suspicious, Xu Yuanzheng, the left censor of the Censorate, flashed out and knelt down and said, "My minister Xu Yuanzheng impeached the 14th Prince Xu Beile Yinzhen for eight major crimes."

The people in the palace were shocked. Today is not a court meeting, but a birthday festival. Did this guy take the wrong medicine? He actually chose to impeach Yinzhen at this critical moment. Kangxi was not only stunned, but he had never encountered such a situation on the birthday festival. Needless to say, the Crown Prince party was waiting for the fun, while the Eighth Master party was shocked. Yinzhen was so depressed. I haven't even offered this birthday ceremony yet. You are just anxious to impeach it. What are the eight major crimes? Is it that exaggerated?

Xu Yuanzheng ignored the reaction of the crowd. He knew that this opportunity was rare. Before the crowd could react, he said loudly: "During the time when the fourteenth prince Yinzhen was in Shanghai, he privately took Han girls as concubines, and did not respect the ancestor system. Second, he took concubines but came to propose marriages and entered the palace, which was actually a crime of destruction and disobeying customs. Third, he was not indifferent to the court, and he arbitrarily changed the customs and privately entrusted customs. Fourth, he was arbitrarily adjusted the customs system and privately entrusted to the customs. Fourth, he was arbitrarily adjusted the national tax rate and invited people to buy people's hearts. Five, he raised the price of cotton cloth, fed his private bags, and caused trouble to the chaos of the place. Six, he appointed privately to control the cotton cloth trade, used privately to abolish the public, and deceived the emperor. Seven, as an imperial envoy, he did not complete his job and did not return to Beijing privately. Eight, he was covered in dust and faced with the king, and the king lost his manners before the emperor. He asked the emperor to punish his crimes for the court to correct the court."

After Xu Yuanzheng finished speaking, the people in the hall were like mud spears and wood carvings. Some people who didn't care about him thought in their hearts that Xu Yuan was just brave. Not to mention whether the impeachment was true. Since Yinzhen dared to do this, the father and son must have communicated long ago. You should not worry about eating Luo Butan. It doesn't matter why you die today, don't bother us to suffer.

As soon as Kangxi finished hearing this, he thought to himself that Xu Yuanzheng was the son of Xu Zhuo, whose courtesy name was Zizhen, from Deqing, Zhejiang. He was a Jinshi for 24 years. He was good at poetry and prose, and wrote one volume of Qingxiaolou grass and Luanpo grass. He was quite famous among the scholars in the capital. He always strictly adhered to neutrality. How could he suddenly attack the fourteenth under such circumstances? Was he gained fame, or did the fourteenth touch his family's interests, or did he secretly surrender to the Taizi Party? Thinking of this, he glanced at the crown prince Yinreng.

Yinreng was thrilling when he heard Xu Yuanzheng’s eight solid crimes, waiting to see how Yinzhen made a fool of himself, but Kangxi was frightened by a glance. He was not an ordinary person, so he immediately realized that Kangxi was suspicious that Xu Yuanzheng’s performance today was his own instruction. In an instant, he was so scared that he had a cold sweat. It was the birthday of the whole family. If Kangxi thought so, it would be very unfilial!

He immediately thought of what Xu Yuanzheng was thinking about today? Who was instructed? This was not impeachment of the Fourteenth, but was it trapped in the trap of unfilial and unrighteousness. Is it the eighth son's plan to kill two birds with one stone? However, at this time he had no time to think about it, and he had to take it apart before talking about it.

Thinking of this, Yinreng knelt down and said, "I heard from Emperor Ama, but Xu Yuanzheng was full of reading scriptures, but he was jealous and capable. He did not know how to keep his own way. For his own selfish interests, he made false accusations, left his relatives and was jealous and chaotic in the court. He was actually a slander of my Qing Dynasty. My son begged Emperor Ama to expel him from the Hall of Supreme Harmony to serve as a warning to others."
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