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Chapter 105 Kangxi goes to court to settle accounts
The next day, the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City.

On the throne room
Kangxi, wearing a dragon robe, sat majestically on the high dragon throne, looking down. In the hall, civil and military officials, princes, dukes, beiles and other princes stood in two rows.

Everyone lowered their heads, looking dejected!

Only Kangxi's old voice sounded faintly, echoing in the hall: "A dragon throne can make heroes all over the world bow down!"

"One test will reveal how many loyal, treacherous, kind, and hypocritical people there are!"

"I just want to see if you can follow my will and live up to the expectations of my ancestors and me if I leave one day and hand over the country to you, and make the world peaceful and prosperous!"

"I always thought that no matter how unfilial you are, as long as you follow the rules and regulations, you can still govern for a hundred years!"

"But."

"Even I didn't expect that I just left and my body is still warm!"

"You guys are going to destroy the heavens in order to fight for the throne. You have gathered countless troops and even transferred the border troops far away in the northwest to the capital."

"Tens of thousands of people are at the gate of the imperial palace in the capital, swords are drawn, arrows are drawn, what do you call this?"

"Ignore the corpse and fight with the armor!"

With a bang

Kangxi slammed his palm heavily on the imperial desk and roared angrily.

A huge noise suddenly exploded in the sky above the Golden Throne Hall, where one could hear a pin drop, and everyone was trembling with fear.

"I am guilty, and I will put you to death!"

Everyone in the hall kneeled down and confessed their sins!
"Death?"

"What should I say to you? No matter how many times I say it, what's the use!" Kangxi sighed heavily and said disappointedly.

"Old Thirteen, I remember that I didn't let you out. Aren't you supposed to be staying in the clan residence now? Why are you at the city gate?"

Kangxi's eyes shot towards one of the princes like lightning and he shouted decisively.

The Thirteenth Prince Yinxiang lowered his head and replied in a low voice: "Your son, your son."

"Father Emperor, it was arranged by the Fourth Prince before he came to the palace. He falsely conveyed the imperial decree and released the Thirteenth Prince privately."

"And the Thirteenth Prince rushed to the Fengtai Camp, killed Cheng Wenyun, the commander-in-chief of the Fengtai Camp appointed by you, seized the military power, and then headed towards the capital, preparing to seize the throne by force!" The Eighth Prince Yinsi spoke first, his face full of the look of someone making a complaint.

Kangxi's eyes flickered and he looked at the fourth son, Yinzhen, who lowered his head and said nothing.

"You are so bold! I underestimated you." Kangxi said in a deep voice, not knowing whether he was talking about the fourth brother or the thirteenth brother.

The fourth son Yinzhen also risked his life at this time, and raised his head to report: "Father, the eighth son bribed the Nine Gates Admiral Longkodo early in the morning. He led his troops to surround the palace, trying to hold the ministers hostage and help the eighth son take the throne."

"I hope the Emperor will understand!"

Kangxi suppressed his anger and asked, "Where is Longkodo?"

"Your Majesty, your servant Longkodo is here!"

"Didn't I tell you beforehand to fetch the imperial edict and uphold my will? Why did you go against my will and mobilize troops to besiege the palace?"

"Your Majesty, please spare my life. I am guilty and deserve to die. Your Majesty, please spare my life!" Longkodo kowtowed and begged for mercy with a look of horror on his face, and kept kowtowing.

Soon, blood dripped from his forehead onto the floor of the hall. Kangxi looked at this man with disgust, then ignored him and turned his gaze away and asked, "Where is Zhang Tingyu?"

"Didn't I give you an imperial decree? Why don't you use it?"

Zhang Tingyu, with a head full of white hair, trembled and knelt forward, crying and saying, "Your Majesty, it's all because of my incompetence! I respect your Majesty's will and order Longkodo and Ma Qi to come to the Qianqing Palace to get the will. Just in case, I have also sent Tulichen as a guard."

"But who would have thought that Longkodo had been bribed by Prince Lian from the beginning. In the past ten years, Prince Lian gave Longkodo one million taels of silver every year, and ten million taels in the past ten years."

"Longkodo had already surrendered to the Eighth Master. When he saw the Emperor had passed away, he secretly ran outside the palace to mobilize troops on his way to get the Emperor's will. No one paid any attention to the will, and it has never been opened until now."

"The decree that the Emperor left for me is still in my arms. I am incompetent and have no chance to use it!"

By the end of his speech, Zhang Tingyu had broken down into tears and was lying on the ground wailing.

Kangxi took a look and sighed!

Who else but himself could handle such a situation? Why should he make things difficult for such an old minister, especially a Han minister at that, with an awkward position? Who would take him seriously?

What can he do?

Thinking of this, Kangxi ordered: "Yin, help Zhang Zhongtang stand up for me!"

"Yes, Father Huang!"

Li Yan walked to Zhang Tingyu and helped the old Zhang Tingyu up. Seeing that Zhang Tingyu was weak, he waved his hand and the guards beside him brought a chair and put it beside him. Li Yan helped Tingyu sit on the chair and leaned against the pillar beside him, then he stood aside and continued to listen to the government!

Kangxi nodded, ignoring Longkodo, who had a broken head, and continued, "Yinzhen, aren't you leading troops in the northwest? I remember there was no imperial edict to summon you back to the capital!"

"How dare you ignore hundreds of thousands of border troops and return to the capital without permission?"

The fourteenth prince Yinzhen knelt on the ground, knowing that no matter how he explained, he would not be able to argue, so he did not beg for mercy, but just remained silent!

Kneeling there in silence, I felt like I had thrown nothing into the ground.

"So, you left the northwest half a month ago. You are physically in the frontier, but your heart is in the capital! You determined that something bad would happen to me during this period, so you came to the capital but didn't come to see me for the last time. Instead, you hid outside the city, waiting for me to die, so that you could lead your troops to force me to abdicate and seize the throne!"

"Moreover, you concealed the truth and secretly brought troops from the border to Beijing. How did you bring them here? How many soldiers did you bring in total?"

"Say"

Kangxi roared!
He slammed heavily on the imperial desk, making a heavy sound, which shocked all the officials in the court!
The Fourteenth Elder said tremblingly: "The Huihui Emperor, there are only 10,000 people. They all took a boat from Suzhou, went down the Yellow River to Tianjin, and bypassed many checkpoints!"

"Then how did you get into Beijing? It's the middle of the night. Longkodo is the governor of the Nine Gates and is in charge of the Nine Gates. He won't let you in."

"Your son, your son." The Fourteenth Old Man trembled and stammered for a long time and couldn't say anything.

Kangxi said expressionlessly: "Let me say this for you. You are good at imitating other people's handwriting, so you forged my handwritten edict and falsely conveyed the imperial edict."

"You tricked the city gate open, didn't you?"

Old Fourteen shuddered all over and crouched even lower.
"Not only did you forge my handwriting, but you also forged the prince's military dispatch order in Rehe, and teamed up with Lao Ba to deceive me and frame the prince. You also imitated Ren Bo'an's handwriting and stole the official records from Wanyong Pawnshop. In the northwest, you imitated Lao Ba's handwriting and tricked Elundai into betraying Lao Ba."

"Have I wronged you?"

Each question was like a thunderbolt hitting Old Fourteen's mind. The secret deep in his heart was revealed and aired in public.

Old Fourteen suddenly felt as if a thorn was on his back, his hair stood on end, sweat poured out of his body, and his body was shaking like a sieve.

(End of this chapter)