Chapter 145 Chapter 145 What He Doesn't Know

Just as he was talking, Li Dequan, who was staying in Qianqing Palace, hurried in from outside, and said to the eighth elder brother: "The fourth elder brother is afraid that some elder brothers will join hands with the concubine De, and mobilize the princes and ministers to prevent him from ascending the throne. The heirs of the ministers were summoned to the palace as hostages, and if the princes and ministers dared to act rashly, they would kill them, and let these people die without children." Brother Ba and the others were taken aback when they heard this, and asked, "Is what you said true?"

Li Dequan said anxiously: "The old slave hid behind the curtain and heard it really." Concubine De felt a little panicked, and cried: "What should I do? This rebellious son has done this, which shows that he has a guilty conscience. If he succeeds again, I will die in the future, and I will have no face to see Emperor Daxing again." The eighth elder brother pondered for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry, this matter is easy to handle." He then turned his head and told the ninth and tenth elder brothers: "The ninth and tenth elder brothers will go out of the palace first and send the gang Bring the child into the palace, I will arrange for the princes and ministers to confront the fourth brother, and I want to see how the fourth brother threatens the princes and ministers?"

After speaking, the three of them hurried out, Concubine De chased after her and said: "Be careful in everything." After everyone had gone out, Fei Cui walked up behind Concubine De, and asked with some concern: "Master, what if they pull Si Age off their horses and make themselves king, aren't we going to make wedding clothes for others?" Concubine De's face lost the panic she had just had, she said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid. The old Fourteen has military power, so it will be easy to deal with this group of people when the time comes?" Fei Cui was stunned for a moment, and praised: "When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman wins. The master is really tall."

Concubine De shook her head slightly, "Man's calculations are always worse than heaven's calculations, everything should be done carefully. You go to Qianqing Palace to take a look, and come back and report as soon as you have any news." Jade nodded and hurried away. In the evening, Fei Cui came back anxiously, and when she came in, she said anxiously: "Master, it's not good, the princes and ministers have already expressed their surrender to the fourth elder brother." Concubine De was taken aback when she heard it, and hurriedly asked: "What's going on?"

Fei Cui replied in a panic: "The one sent by Manager Li today is a fake. Now the princes and ministers are all under the control of the fourth elder brother, which is already an expression of submission." It turned out that the fourth elder brother knew that Li Dequan was the eighth elder brother's eyeliner, so he deliberately used him to spread false news.When the eighth elder brother was questioning the authenticity of the fourth elder brother's edict with the princes and ministers, the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother went to the palace with the sons of the princes and ministers, because those sons were all from the Xiaoqi camp, and they carried swords with them .According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, those who carry swords are not allowed to go to the palace without an edict, otherwise they will be charged with the crime of extermination.The fourth elder brother immediately grasped this clue, and forced those people to behead their own heirs first, to show their selflessness.Everyone was unprepared and caught off guard by him.

Seeing that those people were speechless for a while, the fourth elder brother promised that if he recognized him as emperor, he would not pursue it, but if he prevented him from ascending the throne, he would behead their son first. After hearing Fei Cui's words, Concubine De only felt her legs go limp, she sat down on the chair all of a sudden, it's over, everything is over now. On November 16th, the fourth elder brother Yinzhen announced the will of Kangxi. On the 20th, he will be the emperor.Concubine De refused to move to Ningshou Palace, and only cried and said that she would be buried with Emperor Daxing.Fei Cui couldn't stop her, so she had to invite Yong Zheng, who had already been enthroned as emperor.

In the Yonghe Palace, Concubine De lost all her gentle and demure manner in the past, she sat motionless on the bed like a defeated rooster.Jade led Yongzheng in, and said, "Empress Dowager, the emperor is here." Concubine De slowly raised her head and looked at the fourth elder brother Yongzheng who was wearing a dragon robe. After watching quietly for a while, she smiled coldly and said, "I am just a concubine of Emperor Daxing, how can I be a concubine?" How about the word 'Queen Dowager'?" Yong's face changed slightly, he waved his hand to signal Fei Cui to go out, then he knelt down in front of Concubine De, and said bitterly: "Why is Er Niang so hard to think about it?"

Concubine De sneered and said, "You are proud now, why bother with the frustrated?" Yongzheng bowed his head in silence for a moment, looked up at Concubine De, and asked, "I don't understand, what is the difference between me being the emperor and the old fourteen being the emperor? We are both your biological sons." Concubine De replied without thinking: "Is this different?" "What's the difference?" Fourth Brother asked. For some reason, Concubine De turned around to avoid his sight, and only insisted: "It's just different!"

Yongzheng didn't argue with her any more, stopped for a while, then lowered his eyes slightly, and said softly: "My son remembers that my son grew up next to Concubine Tong Jia. In order to look after her son, Er Niang was always careful, walking on thin ice, not only It costs money to manage it, and you have to hide it from Huang Ama. Once Huang Ama finds out, you will be punished. But after the punishment, Er Niang still came to see her son. When he was seven years old, his son had chickenpox and burned. It was so hot that even the imperial doctors were helpless. But Er Niang refused to give up, dragged her pregnant body, and secretly came to take care of her son. The son still remembers that one night, Er Niang knelt in front of the Bodhisattva and made a wish, saying that if her son was ill, he would recover. If it is good, you would rather lose ten years of life. It is also because of this that my son called you Er Niang for the first time."

After he spoke emotionally, Concubine De's eyes were already red, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and whispered: "You still remember." Yongzheng nodded, "I don't understand. At the beginning, Er Niang could be so kind to her son, why did she become like this later? What did the son do to make Er Niang hate him so much?" Concubine De was silent for a while, then turned around to look at the fourth elder brother, and asked, "You really don't know why?" Yongzheng shook his head and said, "Please tell Er Niang clearly." Concubine De was stunned for a moment, her thoughts seemed to go back to a long time ago, she couldn't help but smiled sadly, and said: "This matter has been on my mind for many years, now that everything is a foregone conclusion, I am not afraid to say it, I still remember you When I was 18 years old, did Concubine Tong Jia suddenly become pregnant?"

Yongzheng didn't know why Concubine De mentioned this matter, nodded and said: "I remember. At that time, I don't have to be too scared. I was afraid that Queen Tong Jia would no longer love me when she had her own child." A strange smile suddenly appeared on Concubine De's gentle face, she said softly: "Not only you are afraid, but I am also afraid." Although decades had passed, the scene was clearly in front of her eyes. It was noon, and she ran to Yikun Palace on the pretext of congratulating Noble Concubine Tong Jia. On the surface, she wanted to congratulate Noble Concubine Tong Jia, but in fact she wanted to see her son.When she got there, Noble Concubine Tong Jia was taking a nap, and there was no servant waiting in the room, so it was quiet.Seeing the newborn baby in the cradle, she couldn't help but go over to look at the child. That child is so cute, snow white, like a pink ball, she suddenly had a particularly evil thought.She thought, if Concubine Tong Jia had her own child, what would she do to her fourth elder brother?Will she abuse you or him?Will not take good care of him? The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she was, the hand stretched into the cradle as if out of her control, and covered the child's mouth and nose with the quilt... She was not seen by anyone when she came. Things will happen without anyone noticing, but when she turned to leave, she found her son was standing at the door looking at her.She was suddenly frightened, afraid that the fourth elder brother would wake up the noble concubine Tong Jia, and also afraid that he would see her evil deeds just now, so she hurried forward and covered his eyes, and tricked him away under the pretext of playing hide-and-seek with him The Imperial Garden... "From then on, every time I see you, I will think of that terrible noon. Every time you smile at me, I feel that you are mocking me. You said Er Niang, I know your secret, I know You are not a virtuous and virtuous woman, I know..." Concubine De slowly turned her head to look at Yongzheng, and smiled sadly, "I also know what kind of person I am, but all the people in the world will make excuses for their evil, and hope that others will see their good side. The longer it takes, the more I reject you. I have been hypnotizing myself, you are not my son, you are the evidence of my crime..." A boulder that had weighed on her heart for decades was lifted off like this, Concubine De couldn't control her emotions anymore, and burst into tears. Until now, Yongzheng didn't understand why his mother hated him so much and favored his fourteenth brother so much...it turned out to be because of this reason.He paused, stepped forward to hold Concubine De's hand, and said in a gentle voice: "Emiang, I don't know about this, I just remember that you took me out to play that day, and when I came back, my little brother died. do not know anything." Concubine De was stunned for a while, but she burst out laughing out of control after a while, and said while laughing: "One really can't do bad things, once you do, God will punish you. Look, I am now I got punished, I got punished..." Yongzheng felt uncomfortable when he saw it, and persuaded him: "My son will not tell about this matter. He just hopes that Erniang can spend her old age happily. As long as you are willing to let go of other things, my son will let go. Rest, son. Say goodbye first." After speaking, he stood up and walked outside. "Fourth brother!" Concubine De called him suddenly, and pleaded: "No matter what, it's for Er Niang's sake, spare your fourteenth brother, okay?" Yongzheng's body froze, and after a while he replied calmly: "As long as he doesn't break the law of the country, my son will forgive me." After speaking, he left without looking back. Concubine De looked at her son's decisive back, and finally couldn't help crying loudly. Soon, the fourteenth elder brother rushed back with his troops, but when he wanted to break into the palace, he was stopped by Nian Gengyao's soldiers and horses. Yongzheng ordered him to be deposed as a prince and be reduced to Gushan Beizi. In April of the first year of Yongzheng, after Kangxi Zi Palace was transported to Jingling in Zunhua for burial, Yongzheng ordered the 14th elder brother to stay in Tangquan near Jingling and not return to the capital, and ordered Fan Shiyi, the general of Malanyu, to monitor his actions.The disharmony and conflict between the two brothers aggravated the condition of Concubine De, who was in extreme grief, and died soon. Different from the suppression of the fourteenth elder brother, Yongzheng first ordered the eighth elder brother to be the prime minister, and then he was granted the title of Prince He Shuolian, who was appointed Minister of the Fanyuan.In the first year, he was ordered to handle the affairs of the Ministry of Industry. Everyone couldn't see Yongzheng's intentions, they only said that he wanted to put aside his past suspicions and use Eighth Prince again, and even someone went to Prince Lian's mansion to congratulate him, but Qingchuan smiled wryly when he heard it, why is she still happy now?How could someone like Yongzheng let Eighth Brother go, this is just to temporarily stabilize Eighth Brother's mood. Sure enough, while Yongzheng was trying to stabilize the eighth elder brother, he began to slowly deal with the ninth elder brother, the tenth elder brother, the fourteenth elder brother, and Orondai, Sunu and others in the "Baye Party".Yongzheng dismissed and isolated the people who were close to the eighth prince, and then blamed and reprimanded them more on the pretext of poor performance.Although the imperial decree in Qingchuan's hand saved the eighth elder brother's life, it could not stop Yongzheng's deliberate censure and humiliation for him.