Chapter 1251 The Crown Prince was deposed for the first time and volunteered to take the throne
Kangxi had long wanted to depose Crown Prince Yinreng.

And this long-standing idea is not due to the reasons in the TV series.

After all, for an emperor like Kangxi who had sat on the throne for decades, the prince's misappropriation of imperial items, corruption and bribery were all trivial matters in the plot.

This has been seen frequently in all dynasties.

Kangxi didn't care about these trivial matters at all.

Although things like buying and selling official positions, private transactions, interfering in waterways, and providing backing for salt merchants are also quite despicable, they are also done by ministers in the court.

Therefore, Kangxi still had some patience with what the prince did.

What really made Kangxi think of "deposing the crown prince" can be traced back to an incident that happened a few years ago when he personally led an expedition against the Junggar tribe.

When attacking Galdan that year, the battle was so intense that the elderly Kangxi caught a cold.

The news was passed back to the capital by Soetu's followers. When the crown prince learned that Kangxi was "seriously ill", he not only did not show any sadness, but excitedly had a dragon robe and jade seal made privately, preparing to ascend the throne and become emperor.

When Kangxi returned to the capital and learned about this, he was devastated and so angry that he wanted to depose the prince on the spot.

It was only through the earnest pleas and persuasion of the Empress Dowager, concubines, civil and military officials that Yinreng was able to barely retain his position as Crown Prince.

Now, several years have passed, and Kangxi still holds a grudge about this incident and has never forgiven Yinreng.

Now, as a member of the prince's party, Su Mingzhe intercepted the woman that Kangxi liked, which immediately magnified Kangxi's hatred for the prince's party and others.

The twelfth month of the year.

After the eldest prince returned to the capital, he soon obtained some evidence of the prince's crimes by "chance".

Just when the eldest prince was sharpening his knife and preparing to impeach the crown prince, he received a letter from the ninth prince Yinzhen.

……

The first month of the lunar year is approaching, and in the blink of an eye, it is New Year’s Eve.

Kangxi invited his family to a gathering in the Qianqing Palace.

This time, Ruoxi did not receive any invitation.

After all, it was a family dinner, and without Kangxi's specific request, it would be difficult for others to bring Ruoxi here.

Su Mingzhe brought his principal wife Rouze, his concubines Nian Shilan and Lan Xin, as well as his eldest son Honghui and his daughter Jiashan to attend the banquet.

Hongyun and Hongshi were not brought here because they were young and born out of wedlock.

As singing, dancing, crosstalk, drama, storytelling and other performances came on stage, everyone drank more and more.

The eldest prince straightened his back several times, ready to stand up and hand over the impeachment memorial in his sleeve.

Seeing this, Yinsi and Yinlu hurriedly grabbed him tightly.

"This boss is really impatient. Today is New Year's Eve, a day for family reunion. If he impeaches the crown prince and the fourth son at this time, the crown prince will most likely be deposed, but will he be able to celebrate the New Year?"

Yinsi and Yin'er discussed for several days before they found an idea that would both impeach the crown prince and prevent the eldest prince from taking advantage. However, they could not let the eldest prince destroy the idea at will.

The eldest prince was not very smart to begin with. Seeing that Yinsi and Yin'er were trying to stop him, he could only hold his anger and sit back down.

But Yinzhen, Yinsi and Yinlu were all unaware that Su Mingzhe was watching their every move coldly.

"Speaking of which, this eldest prince has been in the frontier for such a long time, but he is still a reckless man! It seems that the saying that this environment can change people cannot be fully believed!"

The prince was unaware of all this, his eyes were fixed on the dancers and singers.

When people see his lecherous look, they would really suspect that he is the reincarnation of a eunuch from his eighteenth life.

When Kangxi saw this, he felt even more disgusted.

Among the other princes, although the Fifth Prince and the Seventh Prince are also considered as the Prince's Party, they are both cautious in character and do not want to get involved in unnecessary matters.

However, the Thirteenth Prince Yinxiang wanted to remind the Crown Prince several times, but Su Mingzhe gave him a look, signaling him not to meddle in other people's business.

A New Year's Eve feast ends.

It was the first day of the first lunar month.

After the New Year's greetings, when Su Mingzhe sent people to deliver gifts to various mansions, he specially sent local specialty snacks to Ruoxi and some Buddhist scriptures to Ruolan. The two sisters received the gifts, but they had different feelings.

Since it has been confirmed that Ruoxi has no other possibility except marrying into the Zhen Beile Mansion, every bit of goodwill shown by the Zhen Beile Mansion to Ruoxi can ease the two sisters' worries about the future.

At the same time, Ruolan was also constantly curious about whether Su Mingzhe had a one-sided love for her sister, or whether they were in love with each other but her sister was just a little slow to react.

the other side.

After Su Mingzhe arranged the gift delivery, he went straight to the East Palace to visit the prince.

By the way, he also told the prince that the eldest prince's party and the eight princes' party had joined forces.

When Crown Prince Yinreng learned that the eldest and eighth princes seemed to be about to impeach him yesterday, he immediately became nervous:
"Fourth brother, are you exaggerating? Yinzhen has always been arrogant, how could he possibly get involved with the Eighth Brother?"

"Big Brother is indeed arrogant and won't take the initiative to seek cooperation with Eighth Brother, but that doesn't mean that Eighth Brother and his friends won't take the initiative to seek Big Brother!"

Su Mingzhe sighed as he spoke:

"Now, if they cooperate with each other, I'm afraid that they will destroy the world. Second brother, you have to be prepared and deal with some things as soon as possible!"

"Old Four, don't worry, I won't leave any loopholes for them!"

The prince had no idea the real reason why Su Mingzhe came to see him.

After sending Su Mingzhe away, the prince immediately called his confidants and sent people to various places to deal with the aftermath of his own troubles.

I have to say that Su Mingzhe's move of 'startling the snake by stirring up trouble' was really brilliant.

Originally, the eldest prince Yinzhen and the eighth prince Yinsi and others had joined forces, and that was all they had on the crown prince.

If Kangxi was in a good mood, and all the civil and military officials pleaded for the prince together, perhaps he would be let go.

As a result, Su Mingzhe deliberately reminded the prince to take care of the final details.

With the abilities of those good-for-nothings under the prince's command, what was originally a small matter was turned into a big deal by them.

The Lantern Festival passed in a flash.

At the first grand court meeting of the new year, the eldest prince suddenly impeached the crown prince on sixteen charges, each of which had evidence.

When Kangxi heard the eldest prince shout out the "sixteen" charges against the prince, he was stunned at first.

The charges he asked Li Dequan to bring against the eldest prince were at most five or six. How come the number was doubled?
Kangxi felt a chill and couldn't understand where the eldest prince got so much evidence, but the arrow was on the string and had to be shot.

Immediately, Kangxi ordered people to thoroughly investigate the various crimes committed by the prince to see whether they were true.

End of January.

With the alliance between the eldest prince's party and the eighth prince's party, Yinreng's position as crown prince was abolished.

Just when the eldest prince's party and the eighth prince's party wanted to take advantage of the victory and capture the third prince, the fourth prince and others.

Urgent news came from the border that the Junggar tribe and Lazang Khan had jointly rebelled.

The situation in the government and the opposition changed instantly.

Su Mingzhe took the opportunity to volunteer:

"Father Emperor, I am willing to lead 50,000 troops to fight against the Junggar tribe. I will not return to the court until the rebellion is wiped out!"

When Kangxi heard this, a hint of joy flashed in his stern eyes.

He had already deposed the crown prince, so his anger towards Su Mingzhe was not as intense.

The original idea of ​​pushing Su Mingzhe to the end was now shaky.

Now Su Mingzhe has taken the initiative to lead the troops to fight, which Kangxi sees as "self-exile to the frontier."

Just as Kangxi was about to nod his head in agreement, a figure suddenly rushed out and shouted:

"no……"

(End of this chapter)