Chapter 70 Chapter 70: The Emperor's Worries

Qing Chuan felt the pain in her chest at this moment, she asked tremblingly: "Si elder brother, are you alright?" The fourth elder brother saw her hurt like this but asked himself how it was, and was even more moved in his heart, he quickly shook his head and said, "I'm fine." Qingchuan breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he is fine, he is the future emperor, if something happens, it will be a big deal.Does she save his life by doing this? Will it be recorded in the history books in the future?Thinking of this, Qingchuan couldn't help showing a hint of a smile, relaxed her mind, and passed out immediately.

In the distance, the leader of the assassins had already been beheaded by the followers of the fourth elder brother. Seeing that the assassination was not successful, the leader was killed again and scattered all over the place.The entourage hurriedly flew over, knelt down in front of the fourth elder brother and apologized: "It's not good for the slave to protect the master, please punish the fourth master." The fourth elder brother is not in the mood to pay attention to these things at the moment. Qingchuan was seriously injured, and her life and death are unpredictable. Only by going to Beijing to find a doctor quickly can she save her life. He hugged Qingchuan and flew on the horse, and said coldly: "Go back to Beijing immediately!"

The entourage glanced at Qingchuan who was in the arms of the fourth elder brother, saw that she had a dagger stuck in her chest, and the blood was continuously gushing from the wound, so he tried to persuade him: "Si ye, this girl is seriously injured, I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on." In the capital, I know that there is a doctor with excellent medical skills in a nearby town, why not send this girl there first." The fourth elder brother looked at Qingchuan whose face was like gold paper in his arms, hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "Let's go!"

The entourage took the fourth elder brother to send Qingchuan to a medical clinic in a nearby town. The doctor was surprised when he saw Qingchuan's injury, and first used silver needles to protect her heart veins, and then he was careful. Pulled out the dagger, and sighed with the fourth elder brother who was standing by the side: "It's only a little bit away from the heart, and the wound will be incurable if it is an inch longer, young master, you apply medicine to her every day according to my prescription, about a dozen or so." Day will be fine." The fourth elder brother ordered someone to go with the doctor to get the medicine, while he sat down beside the bed, looking at Qing Chuan who was sleeping in a daze, shouldn't she be guarding the tomb, why did she end up here and mix in with the victims?Could it be that there is some conspiracy?But if there was a conspiracy, why would she risk her life to block the sword for him?

For a moment, his heart was extremely complicated. For such a woman, he had been angry, laughed, lost, and unabashedly proud in front of her. He had even tried every means to kill her, but he never thought that it was she who saved him in the end. life. He sat silently like this for the middle of the night, intending to get rid of Qingchuan once and for all, but hearing Qingchuan call his name several times while in a coma, his already hard heart could not be ruthless no matter what.He looked at Qingchuan silently for a long while, got up and left the room, and left two attendants to take care of Qingchuan, while he rode his horse to the capital.

In the capital, people were panicked because of the fact that the fourth elder brother was ordered to investigate the deficit of the national treasury. Before the fourth elder brother met Kangxi, Long Kedo stopped him outside the Qianqing Palace, and carefully reminded: "The fourth elder brother is wrong. Although the emperor has ordered you to recover the deficit of the national treasury, he does not want to cause people to complain about it. Boiling, now many ministers have reported that Si elder brother is reckless, which chills the ministers, even the emperor does not like it."

The fourth elder brother nodded and said: "I didn't expect the matter to develop to this point, but without some powerful means, the treasury's money can't be recovered at all." Long Kedo sighed in a low voice: "How many times have I told you that there is a way to please the emperor, and you must not harm the interests of others, otherwise only the emperor supports it, and it is useless if others do not support it." The fourth elder brother fell silent, and after a while he said: "I was assassinated outside Beijing, I'm afraid it's related to this matter."

Longkodo was surprised when he heard this, and pondered for a while and said: "Nowadays, the eighth brother's party is very powerful, and the fourth elder brother should be more cautious in his actions. Let's find an opportunity to win over people's hearts. Well, go in quickly, don't tell the emperor to wait .” The fourth elder brother nodded, and entered the Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace together with Longkodo. Kangxi was a little thinner than before, but still in good spirits. After asking the fourth elder brother about the situation in the disaster area, he turned to Long Kedo and said, "There are more and more disaster victims in the capital. Have you figured out a way to resettle them?"

Long Ke is more concerned: "The treasury is not enough in silver, and the household department has more than enough heart but not enough power..." Kangxi snorted coldly, interrupted Longkodo, and said angrily: "I asked you to investigate the deficit, and you investigated all the grievances, but you didn't find much money back. You also said that you would mobilize large households in Beijing to take in the victims, but it lasted for several days. There was no movement in the past, is this how you do errands for me?" The fourth elder brother and Long Kedo didn't dare to make a sound, they knelt on the ground and bowed their heads to listen to the training.

Li Dequan came in from outside tremblingly, gave Kangxi a careful look, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the eighth elder brother is asking to see you outside." Kangxi was furious, but his heart calmed down a lot, and he said lightly: "Call him in." A moment later, the tall and handsome eighth elder brother came in with a brocade box, handed it to Kangxi by Li Dequan, and said: "Huang Ama, my servant has raised 300,000 taels of silver, and is preparing to build four shelters in the capital." The center will take in all the refugees who are idle in the capital."

Kangxi couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard the words, he glanced at the fourth elder brother and Long Keduo, and said in surprise: "Oh?" The eighth elder brother lowered his head slightly, and replied respectfully: "I think that now that the national treasury is in short supply, it is impossible to provide money to relieve the victims, and the major households will have resentment in their hearts. Instead, It’s better to let them pay some money to build a few shelters.” Kangxi nodded slowly and asked, "Are they willing to pay?" "They don't want to, so I promised them that the Ministry of Household Affairs will issue a document to indicate the amount, and it will be regarded as a loan from them by the state. When the treasury is sufficient in the coming year, I will return it to them and promise a small interest." Eight princes said Then, he lifted the corner of his robe and knelt down on the ground, kowtowed to Kangxi, and then continued: "The matter is urgent, the old man made the decision without telling Huang Ama, and I ask Huang Ama to forgive me." Kangxi laughed out loud when he heard this, and he came down to help Eighth Brother himself, and said with a smile: "Get up, you have solved a big problem for me, how can I blame you?" The eighth elder brother had a sincere smile on his face when he heard this.Kangxi praised him a few more words, and then told him to go down with the fourth elder brother, Long Kedo and others. Seeing that Kangxi's mood improved, Li Dequan bravely brought over the green-headed card for the concubine's bedroom and asked Kangxi to choose it.Kangxi glanced casually, but waved his hand, and said, "Go and sit with Concubine De." Li Dequan knew that Kangxi was nostalgic, so he often went to sit with some concubines who had been in the palace for a long time, and hurriedly greeted people to drive them to Yonghe Palace. In the Yonghe Palace, Fei Cui was talking to Concubine De about a strange incident that happened in the palace recently. She said that a young eunuch from Shangyijian went to Kunning Palace and hanged himself.Concubine De suddenly remembered that the prince had mistakenly worn a dragon robe when she came to pay her respects in her palace a few days ago, so she asked Fei Cui in a low voice: "Go to Kunning Palace secretly to see, the python robe that the prince wears is inside .” Fei Cui replied: "My servant also thought of this place, and I went to see it. I found the prince's python robe from the cupboard in Xinuang Pavilion. It was very similar to the dragon robe that I wore by mistake that day. Obviously someone Secretly dropped two pieces of clothes, deliberately framed the crown prince." Concubine De nodded lightly when she heard the words. The prince came to Yonghe Palace wearing a dragon robe that day. She found out that she hurriedly asked the prince to change it, but before she had time to change it, the emperor arrived. It was obvious that someone had brought this matter to him. When I reported it to the emperor, thanks to Jade's cleverness, she hurriedly changed the five claws on the dragon robe to four claws, the five claws were dragons, and the four claws were pythons, so she managed to cover it up. But, who is going to frame the prince?Is it the fourth child or the eighth child?Just as she was thinking, there was a letter from a young eunuch outside, saying that the emperor was coming this way, Concubine De didn't dare to think about it, she hurriedly arranged her makeup to greet her. When Kangxi came to the Yonghe Palace, he was silent all the time, just sitting quietly on the couch.Concubine De took a careful look at him, handed a cup of ginseng tea to Kangxi, and asked in a low voice: "What is the emperor thinking?" Kangxi took the tea, put it aside casually, and replied: "I'm thinking about the crown prince, the fourth and the eighth..." Concubine De was shocked when she heard this, and asked softly: "What happened to the three of them?" Kangxi sighed lowly, and said: "The prince is kind. If he is a benevolent king in a peaceful and prosperous age, he is just indecisive and has no opinions. I am afraid he will be led by the nose. The fourth child is a talent, willing to endure hardships, and knowledgeable, but He is moody and unpredictable. If he was born in troubled times, he would be able to do something. If he was born in a peaceful and prosperous age, he would probably kill too much, which would be detrimental to his virtue. He is still a good old man. He can advance, attack and retreat, and he can defend. , and not procrastinating...why don't you speak?" Concubine De smiled softly, "The concubine is listening to the emperor." Kangxi looked up at her and asked, "What do you think?" Concubine De couldn't figure out what he meant by asking her like this, so she thought about it and asked, "Isn't the crown prince already appointed?" Kangxi sighed a long time and said, "I'm afraid he won't be able to pick it up." Concubine De smiled softly, and asked Kangxi softly: "The concubine is just a concubine in the harem, and besides, one of the three elder brothers is the concubine's own child, what does the emperor ask the concubine to say?" Kangxi didn't take it seriously, and just said lightly: "I know you are always fair, and I want to hear your opinion." Concubine De pondered for a while, and said: "Actually, what the emperor said makes sense, but the emperor has more than these three elder brothers. Not to mention the third elder brother and the fifth elder brother who are older, they are the thirteenth and fourteenth elder brothers." All of them are talents. The emperor is in the prime of his life, so he has time to take his time and observe slowly. If he makes a decision too early, it will be like the prince's matter, and it will hurt the feelings of father and son." Kangxi nodded slowly, and said softly: "What Concubine Ai said makes sense, it seems that I have to think it over, think it over..." Concubine De thought for a while, picked up the ginseng tea on the table, put it back into Kangxi's hands, and said with a smile: "The old fourteen is thinking about his emperor Ama, so he specially ordered some western tea from Xinjiang. The emperor has to taste it anyway. Have a taste." After hearing this, Kangxi smiled a little on his always heavy face, and asked Concubine De: "How is old Fourteen doing? Is he used to the life over there?"