sbdcsierra Chapter 116 Everything happens for a reason
Chapter 116 Everything happens for a reason
He Junyi Erha replied calmly,
"Relax, we just need to follow His Majesty's wishes. Now we don't have to worry about survival like before, but we have to follow more rules.
However, because of this, my daughter can only stay in the palace for two years at most before she has to ask to return home.
After the New Year, let Ama bring it up. You can go and ask to see the old ancestor with your status as a royal lady. She will definitely see you."
"I'll remember that, mother."
After giving instructions on his own affairs, the matter returned to the Wang family, the magistrate of Suzhou.
"The Wang family's matter must be completed by the end of autumn or the beginning of winter this year."
"Okay, mother will arrange it in two days. It will definitely not dirty our hands, nor will it let them do too much and alarm the higher-ups.
It would be best if we could put the blame on that ostentatious Guarjia clan. You wait for your mother to think of a solution carefully."
"I am most relieved when my mother is doing things."
In early December, Shi Wenbing was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Han army of the Plain White Banner. The Guaerjia family was going to come to the capital and settle down, and no longer have to travel with Shi Wenbing.
Therefore, based on this time point, some people who are interested believe that this incident must have been an action taken by the Guwalgiya clan to take away potential enemies and eliminate dissidents before leaving.
However, the death of a mere county magistrate's daughter would surely alarm only those who were on the same mission as her.
Over the past six months, the identities of the remaining two taskers have been lost forever.
I don’t know if I can hook them out this time and let them compete with the high-profile Guarjia Gefuhe.
……
Wang, the daughter of a small county magistrate, her death actually had little to do with dragging down the Guaerjia family and other task force members.
Her death was caused by the Nine Dragons' struggle for the throne.
Although her path to becoming a favorite concubine in the reign of Emperor Kangxi was very difficult, as she was born in a Han army banner and her father was of low status, she gave birth to three sons, the fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth princes, and was only posthumously named Concubine Mi seventeen years later.
The Fifteenth Prince was in poor health and had mediocre talents. He died in his thirties and was a marginal figure throughout his life.
But her two remaining sons, the Sixteenth Prince and the Eighteenth Prince, both have their own good jobs.
The trigger for the dethronement of Crown Prince Yinreng was the death of the eighteenth prince born to Wang.
He and Jun Yierha must strangle this potential explosive pack at the root. Even though Yinreng's temperament is not so cold and indifferent to his brothers, it is better for the Eighteenth Prince not to show up if possible.
But if that were the case, Wang would not have been sentenced to death.
He Zhun Yierha's real concern was her second son, the Sixteenth Prince.
He is the wolf who truly hid until the end.
The Sixteenth Prince was not well-known in his early years. He devoted himself to studying, mathematics and music, and even compiled books with foreign missionaries. His attainments were comparable to those of modern high school math teachers who were proficient in geometry.
It was such a seemingly ordinary prince, keen on miscellaneous studies and transparent among transparent ones, who was sent back to the palace by Yongzheng to be responsible for the security work within the palace on the night when Kangxi passed away in Changchun Garden, and two days later he took up the post of acting Minister-in-Chief of the Imperial Household Department.
What a trusted confidant he was! He was sent to defend the 'base camp' just when the succession to the throne was most uncertain.
Before this incident, the two had never had any overt closeness or even any contact.
If this is just suspicion rather than strong evidence, then half a year later, Prince Heshuozhuang and Boguduo died.
This "Prince Zhuang" was one of the eight famous iron-hat princes at the founding of the country, and his title was hereditary. Moreover, Boguduo had no descendants.
At that time, all clan members and court officials believed that the iron-hat prince should choose the son of Boguduo's younger brother, who was closest to Boguduo in blood, to inherit the throne from the Aisin-Gioro clan.
However, Yongzheng himself had not yet firmly established his throne, but he went against all odds and even could not come up with any strong excuses, and used royal power to force this iron hat on the head of the sixteenth prince Yinlu.
If the Sixteenth Prince, a distant relative, could inherit Bogoduo's title, then at least two-thirds of the entire Aisin-Gioro clan would meet the requirements for inheriting the title.
All kinds of favoritism and partiality happened after Yongzheng successfully succeeded to the throne.
But what is extremely intriguing is how much effort did the Sixteenth Prince make for the Fourth Prince's party that Yongzheng did not treat him as well as his close friend Prince Yi?
Apart from this, what concerned He Zhun Yierha the most was something he did at the funeral of the Thirteenth Prince, when there was solid evidence that the Sixteenth Prince was a knife in Yinzhen's hand.
Many years later, Prince Yi died. Eight days after his funeral, the Sixteenth Prince submitted a memorial to impeach the Third Prince, Prince Cheng Yinzhi.
"I, your servants, have been ordered to handle the funeral of Prince Yi. All the people gathered were weeping in grief, except Prince Cheng Yunzhi, who was late to arrive after the Emperor himself returned to the palace.
When the emperor's edict was read, everyone wept bitterly. But Prince Cheng had already gone home. Moreover, he showed no sorrow at all during the daily mourning period, which was like alienation. Please hand him over to the government office for severe punishment.'
With this impeachment as the fuse, Yongzheng was furious and asked the Sixteenth Prince to sort out the evidence of the Third Prince's heinous crimes.
Among the ten heinous crimes, one of them is translated into vernacular as follows:
I heard that the emperor (Yongzheng) was working very hard, but when the third prince Yinzhi heard about it, he not only did not take the initiative to comfort Yongzheng, but pretended to be ignorant of the matter. This is the crime of "deceiving the emperor" and "great disrespect".
After piecing together the ten major crimes of the third prince Yinzhi, the sixteenth prince then wrote a letter suggesting that "Yinzhi should be stripped of his title of Heshuo Prince, expelled from the royal family, and executed immediately!"
A dignified Prince Heshuo was to be killed simply because he violated funeral regulations.
Yongzheng, who followed the trend, was filled with sorrow after reading the memorial.
"I cannot bear it, so I will be lenient and pardon him. I will remove Yunzhi from the title of Prince, and how will he be detained?"
Thus began the second half of the life of the third prince Yinzhi, who was stripped of his title and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He was a prince, but he was stripped of his title and sentenced to life imprisonment just because of some problems in the funeral rites.
Rather than being lenient, this is actually the most severe punishment, right?
He Zhun Yierha himself was a tasker who knew the history, but before Yongzheng ascended the throne, who could have known that the peaceful and talented Old Sixteen was Yongzheng's wolf?
When the brothers above were fighting fiercely,
If the Sixteenth Prince considers himself as 'young',
Add a label of "rationalist",
In front of Kangxi or the court officials, he said, "Let's be honest. From the perspective of an outsider, this matter..."
After this series of punches, even He Junyi'erha herself felt that even if she didn't die on the spot, she would at least be badly injured.
Even if the suspicion can be cleared and the injustice is redressed in the end, but...
Now that she knew this would happen, why did she let the situation develop to that point and leave herself with such a huge disaster!