Chapter 72 (12) Obai and Yue Fei

Qianlong's early administration had three main tasks: Qing palace room, deal with old cases, turn over old accounts. Let’s talk about the palace of the Qing Dynasty first. In the previous palace, there was only one male owner, Yongzheng. Now that Yongzheng is dead and his son Qianlong lives in, the first thing is to see if there are other men in the palace. Logically speaking, there should be no other men in the palace!There should be eunuchs... No, in the palace of the Yongzheng era, besides Yongzheng, there were at least three old men.One is Daoist Zhang Taixu, the other is Daoist Wang Dingqian; in addition, there is a bald-headed monk named Wenjue Chan Master from Changsha.This Zen master is amazing. He participated in at least four major cases involving Nian Gengyao, Kolondo, the eighth and ninth sons of Emperor Kangxi. It is not an exaggeration to say that this Zen master is Yongzheng's think tank.

When Qianlong entered the palace, the first thing he did was to find two old Taoists and Zen masters, and said: "Several people, there is such a thing."When the late emperor was here, he wrote many letters to you, and it is said that there are also death-free coupons.You bring these letters, and I will ask someone to register them and keep them on file.If you have something to do in the future, we can check it out. The two veterans and the Zen master were overjoyed, and immediately went back to their room, rummaged through the box, found out all the letters and papers that Yongzheng had written to them, and brought them to Qianlong.Qianlong accepted these letters and said with a smile: "Three, there is one more thing, I forgot to tell you just now, the former emperor ordered you three to leave the palace immediately before his death, and you are not allowed to stay for a while.By the way, that bald-headed Chan Master Wenjue is you. You will go back to Changsha immediately. You are not allowed to ride a horse, take a sedan chair, or take a car. You are only allowed to walk back to Changsha... what?You want to go back and change?Change your clothes!Is there any mistake, now that I am the emperor, what I say is an imperial decree, if I tell you to go back to Changsha, you have to go back to Changsha for me, even half a step away!

The guards were dispatched, drawing swords and bows, riding horses and sitting in sedan chairs, and supervising Zen Master Wenjue walking together.Moreover, the guards escorted Zen Master Wenjue on a business trip at public expense, and each meal had four dishes and one soup, chicken, duck and fish, and nothing less.And Chan Master Wen Jue was miserable, he could only beg for alms while walking, clapping his hands together and crying when he saw people: The benefactor is kind, please pity the poor monk, the poor monk has not touched his teeth for many days, and he is about to starve to death... …

Poor Chan Master Wenjue was kicked out of history in this way—together with all the written materials on his participation in the political activities of the Yongzheng era, Qianlong piled them up into a hill, threw a torch on it, and in the blazing flames, the real history is gone.All that remains is Yongzheng's grotesque appearance of being a loner and widow. After destroying the historical evidence, Qianlong decreed: to rehabilitate the old official who died unjustly.Everyone understands that in the case of Oboi's injustice, the injustice lies in the fact that this old minister was too loyal, and Kangxi killed him because he was too loyal.If Kangxi didn't pick him to attack, but found someone else, he would definitely be killed by the other party on the spot, and he would never be polite to you.Only Oboi, he knew that Kangxi was wronging him, the purpose was only to cultivate the emperor's cruel and poisonous mentality of bullying men and women, but Aoboi still did not say a word, fulfilling Kangxi's emperor's name.

When Kangxi was alive, in order to establish the image of a Mingjun, he wanted to kill Oboi alive.Yongzheng's time in power was too short to vindicate this unjust, false and wrongly decided case.Now is the era of Qianlong, of course he wants to use this case to establish his image as a wise king. Obai rehabilitated, posthumously named Wu Chaogong - this is the highest posthumous title for a military general in the Qing Dynasty, which is equivalent to Yue Fei's Wu Mu.Only Oboi and Yue Fei were the military generals who won this highest honor in history. Although it feels a bit awkward to put Aoboi and Yue Fei together, history is like this.

After Oboi was rehabilitated, it was the turn of Qianlong's uncles, that is, the eighth and ninth princes who failed to seize the throne with Yongzheng. At this time, the eighth elder brother had been imprisoned to death in the clan mansion, and the ninth elder brother was tortured to death in Baoding Prison, but the tenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother were still in captivity. Qianlong delivered the decree, to the effect that it was right to arrest you back then.Is there any wrong reason for the court's decision?It is correct to let you go now.Letting you go doesn't mean you didn't do anything wrong, it's just that over the years, you've faced the wall and thought about your mistakes, reformed yourself, and made a little achievement, so you're released as a reward.

Rehabilitating the emperor's uncles, Qianlong's reputation rose instantly. Then Qianlong did the third thing: turn over old accounts. This old issue is the case of Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi.Back then, the two master and apprentice fooled Yue Zhongqi into rebelling, but Yue Zhongqi sent them to the court. Yongzheng and Zeng Jing started a court debate and won a complete victory.After that, Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi marched around the world beating gongs and drums, exposing their treasonous crimes everywhere.Because Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi had a very good attitude of repentance, Yongzheng tried his best to reject the public opinion of the ministers to kill the two, released Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi back to their hometown, and specially issued an order to order the local people Officials are not allowed to harm Master Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi for any reason.

The purpose of Yongzheng is to keep these two negative teaching materials in order to better educate the masses. Moreover, before his death, Yongzheng already felt that his son Qianlong was not a fuel-efficient lamp, so he gave Qianlong a special order: my descendants will not use it to slander me in the future, and pursue killing... Li, if you are my son, you can't overturn this case, and you can't kill Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi. At that time, Hongli nodded again and again: "Huang Ama is sagely, and Huang Ama can do whatever she says..." Yongzheng died when he was talking, and Qianlong immediately turned his face: I, Qianlong, a living emperor, do you still care about your Yongzheng being a dead emperor? ?

Order: arrest Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi, and execute Ling Chi. He also knew that if he did this, people all over the world would talk about his betrayal of his father, so Qianlong solemnly issued an announcement, explaining: "Believe me, you must believe me, I will definitely listen to the words of the first emperor."The late emperor said that Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi should not be killed, so I will never kill them... However, if Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi are not killed, the masses of the people are not happy.Look at the white mountains and black waters, and listen to the roars of anger on both sides of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.So even though I don't want to kill Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi, I can't go against the wishes of the people... Besides, the hundreds of millions of subjects are so angry that they want to punish people today, how can I win the hearts of the people? Evil?

However, why did Qianlong kill Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi, and in such a cruel and vicious way? This is because Qianlong really can't stand the stupidity of his father.