My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 227 Adopting Hongsheng, the Third Prince Loses His Second Son!
Then Yongzheng handed the memorial from an imperial censor impeaching Hongsheng for soliciting bribes from Su Keji, the governor of Shanxi, to his third son: "Take a look yourself, and then ask your son for me if he solicited bribes from Su Keji."

The third son took the memorial and began to read it carefully.

At the same time, Hong Sheng began to breathe rapidly.

He didn't expect that Emperor Yongzheng would find out about this.

The others, except for Hongli, the tenth prince, and the thirteenth prince, were also quite surprised.

Because they didn't know the cause and effect of the matter.

After reading the memorial, the third son fell into deep thought.

He naturally knew that since Yongzheng had brought this up in front of so many people, it meant that the evidence was conclusive and he could not deny it.

So, the third brother glanced at the thirteenth brother.

He subconsciously thought that it was the thirteenth brother who was trying to mess with him.

After all, he didn't get along with the thirteenth prince, who had the best relationship with Yongzheng and was one of the people who could most influence Yongzheng's will.

However, the third brother was not in the mood to think about who was trying to mess with him.

What he needs to do now is figure out how to save his precious son, Hongsheng.

After a moment's thought, the third son gritted his teeth and knelt down decisively: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Although it was Hongsheng who did this, it was actually me who forced Hongsheng to solicit bribes from Su Keji! Please see the truth!"

Yongzheng looked at the third son and narrowed his eyes.

Hongli also looked at his third son, and at the same time felt quite emotional, realizing that his third uncle truly loved his son!
Hong Sheng himself looked completely bewildered.

He never expected that his father would take the blame for him, turning him into an accomplice.

"It seems that Hongsheng is aiding and abetting his father's evil deeds?"

At this point, Yongzheng asked the third son a question.

The third son bowed and replied, "You are wise!"

"Although I helped my father do evil, it was because my nature was extremely wicked that I helped him do evil!"

Yongzheng immediately spoke sternly, then glared at Hongsheng.

Hong Sheng's heart trembled, and he knelt down at that moment.

At this point, Yongzheng asked Hongsheng, "Is what your father said true?"

Hong Sheng hesitated for a moment, then uttered a single word: "Yes!"

“In that case, you are no longer suitable to be your father’s son. Otherwise, you will only be led astray by your father and will not only help your father do evil, but may even help your father kill the king.”

A hint of disappointment flashed in Yongzheng's eyes, and then he began to speak, turning to Zhang Tingyu: "Hengchen has drafted an edict, ordering Hongsheng to be adopted by Prince Dun, Yun, and to be confined within the Prince's residence with high walls, to be strictly guarded by Prince Yun!"

"Whoo!"

Hongli sighed inwardly. As expected, Yongzheng followed his previous suggestion to deal with Hongsheng, allowing Hongsheng to be adopted by the tenth prince.

Hong Sheng looked up in great surprise, his eyes filled with barely concealed anger.

Sending him to be Lao Shi's son, where he would be confined and controlled by Lao Shi, is no different from killing him.
The third son trembled slightly, unable to believe that Yongzheng would treat his son this way.

"Please, Your Majesty, do not punish Hongsheng in this way. He had no intention of helping his father do evil; he was only forced by me."

The third brother then hurriedly pleaded.

Yongzheng immediately pointed angrily at the third son: "Don't you dare try to exonerate him!"

"Not only did he deliberately humiliate the thirteenth prince, but he also complained to me about the fourteenth prince, saying that his fourteenth uncle had secretly released his eunuch out of the capital. However, the fourteenth prince himself arrested the eunuch and brought him before me. This made me realize that the eunuch was not released by him, but was instructed by someone else to deliberately frame the fourteenth prince!"

"It's obvious that the person trying to frame the Fourteenth Prince is Hong Sheng!"

After Yongzheng revealed that the fourteenth prince had been framed, the third prince, Hongsheng, and the fourteenth prince all looked astonished.

The third prince gritted his teeth and said, "I forced the fourteenth prince to do this, it's not that Hongsheng is like this by nature. I beg Your Majesty not to give him to the tenth prince!"

"Third Brother, so you're saying you really wanted to frame me?"

When the fourteenth brother asked about the third brother, anger flashed in his eyes.

The third brother had no choice but to reply, "Now that things have come to this, I have nothing to hide. I did want to use this matter to get the Emperor to punish you. I thought that would make the Emperor happier, since everyone knows that the Emperor is very wary of you."

"So, Third Brother, in order to please the Emperor, you're willing to harm your own brothers?"

Old Fourteen asked in a deep voice.

At this moment, Emperor Yongzheng declared righteously, "I do not need this kind of flattery!" Then...

Yongzheng continued, "Furthermore, I reiterate what I said: regardless of whether Hongsheng was also forced by you to do this, the fact that he did so demonstrates his extremely vicious nature! Moreover, he not only framed his own uncle, but also wanted to strangle the grandson when he was born. His wickedness is simply outrageous!"

Upon hearing Yongzheng's words, Hongsheng's veins bulged, but he still gritted his teeth and kowtowed, saying, "Your Majesty, Fourth Uncle, please have mercy and not allow your nephew to be adopted. Your nephew is willing to accept punishment and be imprisoned in the Imperial Clan Court!"

"No!"

"Since Prince Cheng has admitted that he forced you to do many evil things, then we must not allow you to be forced by him to do bad things again, or to commit even more rebellious acts!"

Emperor Yongzheng refused Hongsheng's request on the spot.

Hongsheng pursed his lips and said nothing more.

The third brother's body trembled slightly.

He never expected that Yongzheng would separate him and his son, and make Hongsheng no longer acknowledge him as his father.

But he couldn't say anything more, because he had already chosen to take the blame for Hongsheng, but that didn't make Yongzheng let Hongsheng off the hook.

Zhang Tingyu had already drafted the imperial edict and presented it to Emperor Yongzheng.

Yongzheng immediately had the seal affixed.

Upon seeing this, Hong Sheng's eyes immediately filled with tears.

The third son also looked up at the completed imperial edict, and remained stunned for a long time.

At this moment, Yongzheng looked at the tenth prince and said, "Tenth prince, receive the decree."

"No!"

Before the tenth brother could respond, the third brother spoke up and shouted loudly.

Then he stood up and said to Lao Shi, "Lao Shi, you cannot accept this decree that forcibly separates father and son!"

"Yo ho?"

"Why can't it be done?"

"Third Brother, if you can advise the Emperor that Fourth Brother should kill Eighth Brother and Ninth Brother, what's wrong with me becoming Hongsheng's father in your place?"

The tenth brother laughed nonchalantly and asked the third brother.

The tenth prince had already seen the memorial from the third prince requesting the execution of the eighth and ninth princes, so he now loathed the third prince to the extreme and was naturally happy to discipline Hongsheng on his behalf.

The third brother's face immediately darkened.

With irrefutable evidence in the memorial, he naturally couldn't deny it in front of the emperor.

But the fourteenth brother's face turned even uglier: "Third brother, I never expected you to have such thoughts. Do you really think of us brothers as people who can be sacrificed at any time?!"

The third brother still couldn't deny it.

Because that's what he actually believes.

He didn't believe in true brotherhood. He believed that neither Yongzheng, the Eighth Prince, nor the Fourteenth Prince did; they could only pretend to care about brotherhood now, while he couldn't pretend anymore.

So the third brother just smiled dismissively and didn't answer the fourteenth brother.

“Hongli, tell me, even if your cousin Hongsheng has a thousand faults, he shouldn’t have been adopted by someone else. Are you willing to see your third uncle and your cousin no longer father and son?”

At this point, the third son, in a desperate situation, began to speak to Hongli.

“Third Uncle, Tenth Uncle is no stranger! Besides, Father is doing this for the good of my cousin and for your own good, so that Father will not have to take stricter punitive measures in the future to uphold the law of the court!”

"Uncle Shi is willing to do this in order to avoid you taking on even greater crimes for your cousin in the future, such as treason, and ending up in an even worse situation."

"You should understand Khan's good intentions, and you should also understand Tenth Uncle's good intentions!"

Hongli bowed and replied.

The third brother's lips trembled as a result.

"Hongli is right!"

At this moment, the tenth prince echoed the sentiment and then knelt down before Emperor Yongzheng, saying, "Your subject accepts the decree!"

The third brother saw that the tenth brother had received the imperial edict and thus took a few steps back.

Hong Sheng almost gritted his teeth to pieces.

(End of this chapter)