In the Yongzheng Dynasty, Ren Bo'an secretly recorded the mistakes of more than three hundred officials during his tenure as an official, and compiled them into a volume for the Hundred Officials.
Ren Bo'an is a disciple of the Nine Masters, that is, an important henchman of the Eight Masters Party, and the Hundred Officials' Narrative is also the killer weapon of the Eight Masters Party to control the masses. However, with the outbreak of the unjust case of the Criminal Department, Ren Bo'an was deposed and stripped of his post, and returned to Jiangxia Town in a depressed mood, and gradually left the Eight Ye Party. However, he did not give up, chose to reinstate the crown prince Yinrong, and took the initiative to offer the "Hundred Officials' Deeds". However, he also offered his own quid pro quo, the first being to get his brother Ren Ji'an out of prison, and the second being to reinstate him.
To this end, Yin Rong instigated Yin Xiang to kill Zheng Chunhua for him, and then used this as a handle to force him to let Ren Ji'an go. Yin Xiang told Yin Chan about this, and Yin Chan and Wu Sidao made a plan to secretly release Ren Ji'an, and ordered Yin Xiang to send troops to Jiangxia Town to re-arrest ren Ji'an and secretly capture the Hundred Officials' Narrative.
As a result, after slaughtering Jiangxia Town, Nian Qianyao successfully won the pawn ticket for the "Hundred Officials' Deeds", and Wu Sidao cleverly used clever tricks to steal the property in Yin Chan's home under the guise of Entrusting Yin Chan's home, raided the Wanyong pawnshop, and successfully won the "Hundred Officials' Deeds".
However, after exhausting all means to obtain the "Hundred Officials' Deeds", Yin Chan burned it in front of all the Brothers and Ma Qi, instead of keeping it for himself or giving it to Kangxi.
First, it weakened the strength of the Eight Ye Party. Yin Yu relied on the "Hundred Officials' Description" to blackmail hundreds of officials and do things for his Eight Masters Party, and his influence was not insignificant. Although Kangxi dealt a fierce blow to the Eight Ye Party in his previous campaign to elect a new prince, the power of the Eight Ye Party continued unabated. Yin Chan's burning of the Hundred Officials' Description this time broke Yin Yu's intention to rely on it to blackmail the Hundred Officials, which weakened the strength of the Eight Ye Party.
Second, let the prince YinRong not be able to do evil. Yin Rong had just been reinstated and then returned to his old ways, and wanted to use this "Hundred Officials' Commentary" to reorganize his henchmen and restore his prestige, which was obviously wrong. The reason why Yin Chan did this was on the one hand, his final exhortation to Yin Rong as an old princeling, and on the other hand, it was also to avoid the possibility of the re-formation of the princeling forces, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Third, stabilize the situation and think about Kangxi. Kangxi was in Nanjing at the time, and after learning that the Hundred Officials' Narrative had been burned, he was very angry at first, blaming Yin Chan for why he wanted to burn it, but immediately he calmed down and realized that Yin Chan was a prince with a big picture view. Because once the "Hundred Officials' Deeds" was handed over to Kangxi, would these recorded officials be checked or not? If you investigate, more than three hundred officials are bound to cause turmoil in the government and everyone will be in danger. But if they were not investigated and allowed to go, Kangxi would inevitably fall into the name of conniving at the corruption of the officials. Moreover, once the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" was sent to Kangxi's hands, it meant that the ugly deeds of the prince and the eighth master were all held in the palm of Kangxi's hand, and Yin Rong and Yin Yu might jump the wall in a hurry, and the disaster of Xiao Wall would rise up.
Therefore, this "Hundred Officials' Deeds" is both a big killer and a big trouble. And Yin Chan burned the "Hundred Officials' Deeds" in person, causing the Eight Ye Party to lose the great killing weapon, which helped him to take the wife in the future, and solved a big trouble for Kangxi, which helped to stabilize the situation in the dynasty.