My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 285 Yongzheng protected Hongli, leading to the death of Prince Cheng!
"Who knows, he might just be that despicable!"

After hearing Hongzhou's account, Yongzheng dismissed it with a cold snort.

Then, Yongzheng puffed out his cheeks, roughly put the glasses on his eyes, and then took the document that Hongzhou had copied and began to read it carefully.

Hongzhou didn't dare to say anything more, and just stood obediently to the side, while thinking about Hongli's instructions to him.

"Don't speak up for Uncle San at this time, or you'll only hurt him."

Hongzhou listened to Hongli's words and remained silent.

The more Yongzheng looked at this, the heavier his breathing became.

"What are you still standing here for? Are you waiting to plead for your third uncle?!"

Yongzheng suddenly glared at Hongzhou with bloodshot eyes and roared a question.

Clearly, Yongzheng was thoroughly enraged by the documents and papers confiscated from Yunzhi's house, and he vented his anger on Hongzhou.

Hongzhou was so frightened that he immediately knelt down: "Your subject dares not! Your subject will take his leave now!"

At the same time, he couldn't help but secretly admire his fourth brother's foresight, and how fortunate he was that he hadn't spoken up for his third uncle.

Fu Hui also trembled and woke up from her dream.

Ma Jia Yun Jin, who was serving Fu Hui, immediately hugged him: "Eighth Master, don't be afraid."

Emperor Yongzheng suddenly realized that he might have lost his composure, so he stood up and said to Hongzhou, who had not yet left, "Take these and come with me to see him!"

"Whoo!"

Therefore, Yongzheng brought Hongzhou to Yunzhi's place overnight.

In the Qing Dynasty, a curfew was imposed in the capital city.

But since Yongzheng was the emperor, his travels were naturally unrestricted.

So, not long after, he still arrived at Yunzhi's residence and first sent someone to exempt Yunzhi from the formalities.

When Yongzheng met Yunzhi, he threw a pile of documents and papers that he had confiscated from Yunzhi's residence in front of him:
"Do you really want me dead, and your thirteenth brother dead?! Are you so insignificant to me and your thirteenth brother?!"

Pale-faced Yunzhi knelt on the bed in great fear, then kowtowed and cried, "Master, please forgive me! This is all the work of those Han gentry who are framing this servant!"

“They forged my writings, deliberately bribed my people, and left these forged documents in my residence so that Hongzhou could copy them. How could I possibly have such disloyal intentions!”

"Were you framed by Han Chinese gentry?"

Why would they frame you?

“You are usually closest to them, even closer than the Eighth Prince.”

“Li Fu, Chen Menglei, and now Wei Tingzhen and Wang Jingzeng of the Ministry of Rites, have all been close friends with you.”

"Even if they frame you, flies don't land on eggs without cracks. If you are truly as pure as jade, how can they slander you? And even if they do slander you, who can believe them!"

"You were always treacherous and despicable. Back then, when the eldest brother cursed the second brother, why did you only point it out when the eldest prince failed?"

"If I believed you after what you've done, I would be doing God a disservice!"

Yongzheng pointed at Yunzhi and spoke sternly.

Yunzhi knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face, looking around helplessly before glancing at Hongzhou.

Hongzhou quickly lowered his head.

At this moment, Yongzheng pointed at Hongzhou and said, "You even asked your nephew to protect you. Fortunately, he didn't, otherwise you would have committed another crime! But this also shows how dishonest you are, so you can't blame me for not trusting you!"

Then, Yongzheng asked Hongzhou, "Hongzhou, tell me, did your third uncle ask you to protect him?"

Hongzhou had no choice but to reply, "Yes!"

Yunji opened his mouth wide at this moment.

He hadn't expected that what he had said to Hongzhou would be known to Yongzheng so quickly. Afterwards, Yunzhi could only grit his teeth and kowtow, saying, "Your Majesty is wise, and Heaven is our witness. This servant dared not conceal anything. This servant did speak nonsense to outsiders in secret to gain fame, but it was merely nonsense; I never dared to commit the slightest act of disloyalty!"

"It's not even a question of cursing the thirteenth prince, let alone daring to curse you, my master. After all, I, Yunzhi, am just a servant. How could I dare to ask you to treat me as a brother?"

"As for asking Hongzhou to protect him, it was only out of fear of his master's authority that he forgot his limits for a moment."

Yunzhi behaved very humbly.

As a result, Yongzheng's anger subsided considerably, and he sat down in a chair, looking at Yunzhi and saying, "You can get up now."

"Thank you, Master!"

Yunzhi then shakily tried to stand up.

Yongzheng gave Hongzhou a wink.

Hongzhou then helped Yunzhi up.

At this moment, Yongzheng said to Yunzhi, "You just said that you secretly spread rumors with outsiders in order to gain fame."

Speaking of it.

Yongzheng chuckled and said, "Now you know the consequences of talking nonsense with outsiders, don't you?"

"They won't stop betraying you or talking behind your back just because you're friendly to them!"

"Just like you didn't treat me as one of your own, you would betray me, and even slander me!"

At this point in Yongzheng's speech, Yunzhi raised his head, about to explain, but Yongzheng did not allow him to do so, and continued:

"I know that you, like the Eighth Prince, Ninth Prince, and Fourteenth Prince, are not satisfied with my becoming emperor. You might even prefer that you or the Eighth Prince or Fourteenth Prince inherit the throne!"

"Of course, none of the things I've done will make you happy."

"Imprisoning the eighth and ninth princes, adopting my own son, adopting your son, and even stripping your son of his title and changing his name, has made you, Prince Cheng, who did not want your imperial relatives to be treated so cruelly, think that I am cruel and heartless."

"So, on the surface you are respectful to me and dare not call yourself the emperor's elder brother, but in reality you hate me to the core, and you also hate the thirteenth prince to the core."

Snapped!
Yongzheng suddenly slammed his fist on the table and stood up, glaring at Yinzhi: "But do you think I want this?! You only want to undermine me and Hongli. Can't I protect the Qing Dynasty and Hongli?!"

"My late father entrusted the empire to me so that I could restore order, not so that I could allow you to collude with outsiders to corrupt and destroy it!"

After Yongzheng said this, Yunzhi raised his empty, lifeless eyes and then knelt down again: "This servant deserves to die, please punish me, Your Majesty!"

"What else can I do? If I execute you, it will only further confirm my crime of cruelty and inhumanity!"

Yongzheng chuckled coldly.

Then, Yongzheng stood up and walked out, but then stopped and turned his back to Yunzhi, saying, "Third brother, I only have one piece of advice for you: you'd better go before the thirteenth brother!"

With that, Yongzheng waved his sleeve and said, "Otherwise, I can't trust you!"

Yongzheng's words sent a chill down Hongzhou's spine.

Yunzhi himself was also wide-eyed, and after Yongzheng and Hongzhou left, he closed his eyes and almost fainted.

Hongxi and Hongjing rushed over to support him: "Father!"

At this moment, Yunzhi shed tears and said to them, "If the emperor wants his subject to die, the subject has no choice but to die. Don't hate the emperor, don't hate Hongli, don't hate Hongzhou. It's those Han gentry who are too shameless. I treated them so well, and they betrayed me and harmed me without any mercy!"

After that night, Yunzhi's condition worsened day by day, until he became emaciated.

When Prince Heng, Yunqi, and Prince Xun, Yunti, came to visit him, Yunzhi was once again unable to get up. He could only weep and say, "My end today is all because I trusted the Han gentry too much, and they betrayed me like this! My death is not innocent!"

When Hongli and Sertu came to see him, he couldn't even lift his hands, let alone get out of bed. He could only mumble to Hongli and Sertu:
"Emperor Chongzhen was right, all Han Chinese gentry should be killed! They should all be killed!"
Yunzhi could no longer speak shortly after speaking, and then he died, which greatly embarrassed Wang Jingzeng and other Han officials who had come to visit him.

"No, why are we the ones who should all be killed? It was clearly you, Prince Cheng, who betrayed us first!"

(End of this chapter)