Chapter 3 Tent Night Watch

1 In the late autumn of the forty-seventh year of Kangxi (1708), the vegetation in the north had already withered, but the landscape in the south of the Yangtze River had not yet shed its colorful decorations. On the surface, life was as usual, but in the teahouses and restaurants, there were gradually shocking rumors. Knocking on the case chattered, and soon, the emperor's eyes and ears were informed of this movement. Kangxi's biggest eyes and ears in the south of the Yangtze River is Cao Yin, weaving in Jiangning.At that time, he was fifty-one years old. When he was not working for the emperor, he was engaged in literature and collected books. At that time, he published his favorite leisure books "Five Kinds of Neem Pavilion" and "Twelve Kinds of Neem Pavilion". "Frosting Spectrum" focuses on the production process of a small category of delicate sweets, which shows how rich and delicate his leisure is, and how rich and elegant his life is.But when he collected the rumors, he was really empowered like thunder, and his heart was in a mess. Before he had time to report to the emperor, the mansion report arrived, and the contents of the mansion report proved that the rumors were not false, so he hurriedly wrote the memorial , which said: "I got a report from the mansion on the 22nd of this month. I heard that my eighteenth elder brother passed away, and then I heard an abnormal change. I am a domestic slave, that is, Yi Xing went north. I am really afraid that my eyes and ears will be shocked." In the past 23 days, people have heard a little bit about it, and it’s all because of the strength of the two rows of satin cloth. Generals and governors strictly forbid thieves. Jiangnan is peaceful now. The price of rice is already cheap.” This memorial is written with affection. Sincerely, but also very skillful - listed the time when the rumor appeared after the official internal report, and found out that the source of the rumor was the footwork of transporting silk and cloth for commercial companies in the north and south, and at the same time expressed that he had paid attention to "strictly guard against thieves" at this critical moment. ", and comforted the Holy One with "Jiangnan Taiping" and "The price of rice is already cheap".

2 The eighteenth elder brother mentioned in the Dibao was one of the twenty prefaced sons of Kangxi at that time, and he was only eight years old when he died.Although Kangxi had so many sons, his father's love was boundless and boundless. He loved the eighteen elder brothers born to his concubine Wang's family. Or the young prince accompanied him, and especially brought the eighteenth elder brother with him. The temperature difference between day and night in the northern autumn is very large. This kind of armed travel is not suitable for an eight-year-old child. Sure enough, the eighteenth elder brother went to From today's point of view, the disease was probably mumps, not a terminal illness, but the imperial physicians at that time could not cure him. Kangxi hugged his beloved son, prayed earnestly, and even said that he would rather sacrifice his health in exchange for 18 years old. Elder brother's life, the 18th elder brother with high fever got better at the end of August, and Kangxi was ecstatic, but the good times were just a flash. On the morning of the second day of September, the eighteenth elder brother passed away, and Kangxi was distraught.

If only the eighteenth elder brother passed away, the folk satin cloth firm might not have much interest in spreading the news, but what happened afterwards was the "abnormal change" that Cao Yin could not express in the memorial but only implied , That is what the government and the public must pay attention to. The rumors spread by the satin cloth merchants on their way back from Beijing to Jiangnan are this "abnormal change". What kind of "abnormal change"? Going back thirty-three years, at the end of the fourteenth year of Kangxi (1676 according to the Gregorian calendar), Kangxi established his son Yinreng (the second elder brother in terms of ranking) as the crown prince, and Yinreng was less than two years old at that time.The crown prince was pampered since he was a child. After he became sensible, Kangxi invited the master Confucianism at that time to teach him homework, and followed the ancestors to teach him how to ride and shoot. Under the careful training of Kangxi, the crown prince is proficient in Manchu, Mongolian, and Chinese, and is proficient in the "Four Books" and "Five Classics". , Calligraphy is also very good, and he is good at making pairs. When he was more than ten years old, he wrote the famous pair of "drinking in the building because of the bright moon, and the poetry on the river is the sunset". When he was five years old, he shot one deer and four rabbits while hunting. As an adult, he assisted his father in handling state affairs and showed his political talents. Kangxi entrusted him to stay in Beijing to act as an agent of political affairs during several expeditions. Although some of his shortcomings were criticized, such as pointing out that he did not pack tightly the packages sent to the place where his father led the army, and many of them were damaged after arriving, and should be improved in time, etc., but in general, at least on the surface Look, it is only a matter of time before Yinreng succeeds in power, and there will be absolutely no "mutations".For more than 30 years, royal cronies like Cao Yin have become accustomed to being loyal to Emperor Kangxi and Crown Prince Yinreng at the same time. This runs through their thinking and behavior, and has never wavered Pass.However, what I never expected was that on the sixth day of September in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, Kangxi deposed the crown prince and made it known to the world.

This "abnormal change" not only cast a shadow over Cao Yin's mind, but also affected his nephews and grandchildren. 3 The trigger event of "Anomaly Change" is "Temple Night Watch". The so-called tent hall is the tent where the emperor stayed when Mulan was in autumn.According to Kangxi himself, in addition to the unscrupulous things he had discovered in Yinfeng, "there is also something different, Yi approached the cracks in Putrajaya every night and peeped in... It makes me unpredictable that I will be poisoned today and killed tomorrow, and I will be on guard day and night. How can a person like this be given to his ancestors to promote his career!"

Is there such a thing as a "night watchman in the tent"?Like the "candle light and ax shadow" in the Song Dynasty, "梃打", "Hongwan" and "Yigong" in the Ming Dynasty and other palace mysteries, the "Night Police in the Tent Hall" incident in the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty is also quite confusing.When Kangxi announced the abolition of the crown prince, in front of Yinreng who had been bound and several princes who were tied up, as well as important officials and Western missionaries enshrined in the court, he angrily counted Yinreng's sins and revealed many old things. Hate the new enmity, especially when Yinfeng's younger brother, eighteen elder brother, was dying of illness and his father was extremely anxious, he was indifferent, without loyalty, filial piety, righteousness and brotherhood.But a few days later, Kangxi calmed down a little, and felt that the crown prince seemed to be insane rather than treasonous. On the way back to Beijing, strong winds surrounded him, and Kangxi thought it was a warning from the sky. The Empress Dowager and Yinreng's biological mother, Empress Hesheli, the former was one of the decision-makers who made Yinreng the crown prince, and the latter was his favorite woman. In the dream, the two ladies looked displeased; It was found out that the elder brother who was a concubine used the Mongolian lama Bahangerong to suppress Yinreng with false accusations. Afterwards, he summoned Yinreng several times in a row, and found that Yinreng's madness had disappeared, and he felt more and more relieved .Four months later, he restored Yinreng as the crown prince.

After Yongzheng became the emperor, because he was likely to steal the throne, he revised the archives of the Kangxi Dynasty wantonly, and some of them were simply destroyed. In his version of "Night Police in the Tent Hall" at that time, it was said that Kangxi had been in the In the middle of the night, I felt that someone was approaching the imperial couch in the tent hall, and made a sound. The voice of that figure was clearly Yinfeng. If this was the case, no one would need to expose it. When announcing Yinreng's crimes, he only said that he "approached the crack in Putrajaya and peeped in"?And why did he restore his crown prince status four months later?According to the records of the Yongzheng Dynasty, when Yinfeng was escorted back to Beijing and imprisoned in the temporary tent of the Shangsi Courtyard in the palace, he defended himself and said: "If the emperor says that I am different

Yes, everything is there, it's just the matter of rebellion, and I really don't have such a heart. "This is probably closer to the truth. The "night police in the tent" was probably reported by others rather than discovered by Kangxi himself. Some historians pointed out that the contradiction between Kangxi's imperial power and Yinreng's reserve power developed, exposed, and intensified step by step. To a rather absurd level, for example, he appointed Ling Pu, the husband of Yinreng's nanny, as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not because of his character and ability, but only for the convenience of Yinreng's access to various royal supplies; Kangxi later regretted and said: "The crown prince wears all things in yellow, and all the ceremonial notes he sets are no different from mine, just like two monarchs!" As the prince grew up, he became more and more conscious of his "thousand-year-old" status. Deeper and deeper, staying in the capital as a "generational emperor" during his father's expedition was very addictive, and his party members are also increasing day by day, and they often show more urgency and arrogance than him in desire for power, which strengthens Yinfeng's " However, Kangxi is healthy and energetic, and he is a long-lived monarch. Yinfeng's forbearable desire to succeed, and Kangxi's obvious tendency to never delegate power until the end of his life, have led to the unbalanced relationship between their father and son. tragic ending.Of course, it makes sense for historians to analyze this from a political perspective.But as a living individual existence, whether Kangxi or Yinfeng, their hearts are very complicated, and their conflicts should also be mixed with other, non-political, and not necessarily so combined with power and wealth. Intense psychological and emotional conflict.This field should be cut into by literature and art.

Will there be writers who are willing to describe the stories that happened in Mulan's camp during the period from the end of August to the beginning of September in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi?Especially in the dead of night, the treacherous scene of the crown prince "approaching the crack of Putrajaya and peeping in"... But to write such a novel, at least one must understand the layout of the "tent hall" of that year. According to historical data, the total number of participants in the Autumn Festival It can reach 10,000 people, and all personnel including the emperor will live in tents. At that time, camp booths will be set up, and they will be arranged in an orderly manner. The yellow mantle city in the middle is the residence of the emperor, and the net city is added. There are 175 tents, which is the inner city; There are 254 tents in the city, and there are also police tents; the whole camp is round inside and square outside; and the outer periphery is the tents of Mongolian and other princes and Taiji.It is conceivable that the crown prince’s tent is near the emperor’s tent, but it is not easy to avoid the dense patrolling personnel in the middle of the night and approach the royal tent privately. To make the plot of the novel logical, especially the details, it is not so easy to write .We all know that there was no punctuation in Chinese classical Chinese before the New Culture Movement in 1919. The sentence "approaching Putrajaya cracks and peeping inwards" is now quoted by more punctuated sentences as "approaching Putrajaya, peeking inwards through cracks". Horror, because "crack" is a verb, then Yinreng had to use sharp weapons such as daggers at that time, and the murderous aura was pervasive; but if another sentence is interpreted as "approaching the cracks in Putrajaya and peeping in", then there is no need to use sharp weapons, Yinreng The image of him is not vicious, but a poor wretch who is driven mad by the desire for voyeurism.May I ask, will there be "cracks" in the imperial tent?If the "crack" is understood as a "broken gap", it is certainly not credible, but after all, the tent is composed of several pieces of cloth and curtains, and there may not be any parts where "cracks" can appear when you pull them apart...

What happened to the "Night Watch in the Tent Hall"?The truth of its original ecology will never be revealed. 4 After the "Night Watch in the Tent Hall", many dramatic changes took place.As mentioned above, four months later, Yinreng was reinstated as the crown prince.But if Kangxi didn't find out about the "Night Police in the Tent Hall" personally, then who told Kangxi the secret?Kangxi never solved this mystery.Among the princes who followed the emperor at that time, the elder elder brother Yin (36 years old) and the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang (22 years old) belonged to the camp against the crown prince. The location in the camp should be close to the father and the crown prince, so it is likely that they told Kangxi the secret.Yin was soon exposed by the third elder brother, who used the Mongolian lama to intimidate the crown prince and made him crazy. Later, many puppets used to suppress the nightmare were found in his mansion, and Kangxi cut him off in a rage He spent the rest of his life in confinement, and died in the confinement at the age of sixty-three in the twelfth year of Yongzheng.Yinxiang's experience is very strange. When he was entrusted with the prince for the first time in the 33rd year of Kangxi, he was still young, so it was understandable that he was not entrusted (that time he was only entrusted to the thirteen-year-old eighth elder brother), but after the restoration of the prince, Kangxi In the forty-eight years of entrustment, even the fourteenth elder brother was granted the title, but he was not. This situation continued until the death of Kangxi. After Yongzheng came to power, he was granted the title of Prince Yi. Why didn't Kangxi title him?In the unexplained, we can realize that he must have played the role of an informer in the "Night Watch in the Tent" incident. This role is needed by the father, but he despises and loathes it from the heart.And Yongzheng's heavy reward and reuse of him is probably because he thanked him in his heart, "Fortunately, there was a 'night police in the tent' incident because of the informant, or Yinfeng might have really changed from a thousand years to a long life."

After Yinreng survived the crisis of "night police in the tent", he still did not gain the trust of Kangxi in the end. In the fifty-first year of Kangxi (1712), Kangxi announced that after Yinreng's restoration, "the madness has not been cured, and he has lost people's hearts. You can entrust your ancestors to promote your career", and he was detained again. The deposed prince, who was nearly forty years old, spent the rest of his life in confinement. He died in the prison at the age of fifty-one in the second year of Yongzheng.After Yinfeng was abolished for the second time, the eighth elder brother coveted the reserve position for a while, causing many disturbances, but failed.Kangxi took the failure of the establishment of the reserve as a lesson, and no longer publicly chose the successor. Some historians said that he was trying to establish the reserve secretly. There is a lot of evidence that he secretly selected the successor. The sudden death made his painstaking efforts in vain, and the result was that the fourth prince, who was least expected by ordinary people, ascended the throne as Emperor Yongzheng.After Yongzheng came to power, he successively murdered his brothers who he thought were threats to his status. The most severely punished were the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother. It is called Seth Hei. What do these two notorious names in Manchu mean? Some folks say they are "dog" and "pig". Historians have verified that they are "Zushang Frozen Fish" and "Disgusting". It was "notorious", and then both of them suddenly vomited and died.The fourteenth elder brother is the same mother and brother of Yongzheng. According to folklore, Yongzheng, through the infantry commander Longkodo, described the "ten" in Kangxi's edict "The Fourteenth Prince" when he blocked the news of Kangxi's critical illness from other princes. It was changed to "Yu", and it was said that the name was written in the will. The name of the fourteenth elder brother is a chastity next to the word, and the name of the fourth elder brother is a truth next to the word. After the plaque, the edict was taken out, and the description of "zhen" was changed to "true". However, historians pointed out that the practice of putting the edict behind the "upright and bright" plaque and not being able to read it until the emperor died was the rule set by Yongzheng. This was not done during the Kangxi period, and the Manchu writing styles of the fourteenth elder brother and the fourth elder brother were obviously different. The published biography of Kangxi is located in his last edict, which is not a single sentence but a long paragraph of text. However, after comparative research, there are many doubts, and the Manchu language seems to be translated back from the Chinese, which is inconsistent with the rules of the time when Manchu was first translated into Chinese. Therefore, we can still come to the conclusion of Yongzheng’s corrective edict; in fact, Yongzheng punished Longkodo and Nian Gengyao who supported him shortly after he ascended the throne. .The fate of the fourteenth elder brother is slightly better than that of the eighth and ninth elder brothers. He was first sent to guard the mausoleum, and then he was imprisoned. In Qianlong, he was restored to the title and became the king of the county. He lived to be sixty-eight years old before he died.

5 The deposed prince died in the second year of Yongzheng, but the story about him continues.It's like Cao Yin's death, and the story of the Cao family will continue to be performed.In fact the first story always overshadows, or rather determines, the second. Yongzheng Taohui didn't ascend the throne until he was forty-five years old, but he died suddenly at the age of fifty-eight.When Yongzheng came to power, the Cao family was weaving in Dangjiangning, because after Cao Yin died, Kangxi let Cao Yin's only son Cao Yong succeed him, but Cao Yong died again; Cao Yin's mother Sun was Kangxi One of the nannies (nurturing mothers) when he was young, Kangxi used Cao Yin's weaving department as his residence during his southern tour. The Sun family visited him. Kangxi was very happy to see him, and said to Laozhi: "This is my old man." He wrote a large plaque of "Xuan Rui Tang" as a gift; Kangxi had a deep affection for the Cao family, and regarded Cao Yin as a "brother mother". Even after Cao Yin and Cao Yong died, he still wanted the Cao family to do weaving. Cao was here. In this case, the nephew adopted Cao Yin's widow as Cao Yin's son, and was re-elected by Jiangning weaving.Yongzheng had no feelings for the Cao family at all. If he had feelings, it would be negative disgust. In the fifth year of Yongzheng, the Cao family was raided, and in the sixth year of Yongzheng, the Cao family was arrested in Beijing for questioning.Although the situation of the Cao family's dark days in the Yongzheng Dynasty is unknown, there are still some archival materials and other scattered texts. As soon as Qianlong came to power, he cleaned up the political mess left by his father. For Yongzheng's political opponents, he released them, pardoned them, and enlisted them with kindness.Since the crimes left over from history in the royal family have been downplayed and even ignored, the fate of the relevant bureaucrats has also been greatly improved. The well-off life was restored again, and even soon reached the standard of living of the "middle-class family" among the nobles. At this time, Cao Xueqin, Cao's son, had entered his teenage years and lived a few years of sweet life in the gentle and wealthy village.Specifically, from the first year of Qianlong to the third year of Qianlong, the Cao family in these three "springs" can be described as "spring dreams are in full swing", as if hundreds of years of good days are waiting ahead. But in the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), the "Hongxi Rebellion Case" appeared.Who is Hongxi?He is the son of the abolished prince, and according to blood, he is the grandson of Kangxi. He was already fifteen years old in the year of the "Tent Hall Night Police" incident, and there are records to prove that Kangxi liked this grandson very much, and one of the reasons why he would restore the crown prince after four months was because of his two sons. Elder brother already has such an heir who looks to be a talent.When the Second Wasted Prince, Hongxi was almost twenty years old and an adult. During the Yongzheng Dynasty, he was arranged to live in the northern suburb of Beijing as the Prince of Li in Zhengjiazhuang, which was called Qi County in the past and now belongs to Changping District. The village is called Zheng Gezhuang), Zhengjiazhuang is such a countryside, can the prince live there?Don't just imagine, you need to check historical data. After checking, it turns out that Kangxi ordered to build a palace, palace, city tower and soldier barracks here in his later years. They were built one year before his death. There are 189 houses, and there are as many as 1973 dining rooms, tea houses, soldiers' houses, and shops. Of course, there are gardens and other facilities.What Kangxi meant was to move the imprisoned deposed prince to Zhengjiazhuang, and put him under house arrest in a royal mansion in the outer suburbs. This would improve his treatment, reduce the risk of staying in the court and plot misconduct, and even better The palace is located on the way of Mulan's autumn every year. He often stops by and closely monitors the abolished prince, and also sets up a large number of soldiers on the tower. The palace is actually just a luxurious prison.But Kangxi had no time to implement this plan, Yongzheng implemented it, and the abolished prince died, so he let Hongxi live in it.Yongzheng probably felt that the abolished prince was no longer a threat to him, like the eighth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother were far more "ferocious beasts" than Hongxi, so he relaxed the surveillance of Zhengjiazhuang.In the fourth year of Qianlong's reign, Qianlong was horrified to discover that Hongxi had set up a small imperial court in Zhengjiazhuang.Hongxi himself "thought that he was the son of the former Eastern Palace, and his intentions were unquestionable", that is to say, his treason was still expected. What shocked and saddened Qianlong was that such a list of allies was found out. : In addition to the mastermind Hongxi, there are Prince Zhuang Yunlu himself and his two sons, two sons of Prince Yi Yunxiang, and a son of Prince Heng Yunqi (the original word "Yin" in the names of these princes was changed after Yongzheng ascended the throne. They were all changed to "Yun" by him).These three princes were originally the most favored in the Yongzheng Dynasty. Who knew that the "night police in the tent" had been involved for so many years. In their subconscious, they still respected Yinfeng as the successor of Kangxi, and they did not really obey Yongzheng. Qianlong came to power Afterwards, they were still not moved by the gentle policy of the royal family's affinity, and they even wanted to "settle the old and new accounts together". Evidence shows that they even conspired to assassinate Qianlong when he was on tour, and then use Hong Xi to "Rectify the throne of the emperor"! Qianlong is worthy of being a great statesman, capable of doing things with great skill.He deftly handled this dire political crisis.After crushing the coup plot, he did not disclose all the other party's crimes to the public, but only revealed things that did not seem to be so heinous. In the end, Hongxi was sent to the clan and imprisoned in the Jingshan Orchard. Hong Xi died of illness there a few years later; the rest of the accomplices were not dealt with seriously, some were imprisoned, some were only deprived of titles, and some were only suspended from their salaries.But this is the treatment of the political prisoners of the royal family, and it is absolutely ruthless to the ordinary officials involved, especially the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were born as house slaves like Cao Cao.After the matter was dealt with, it must have been ordered by Qianlong to destroy the relevant files. Therefore, there are only fragments of written materials about Hongxi and other royal family criminals, and the decline of the Cao family after being implicated only makes us feel that there is only one result and no evidence at all. lost track. 6 In the eighth year of Qianlong's reign (1743), Qu Fu, a famous poet, wrote a poem in memory of Cao Yin. The last two lines were: "Poems and calligraphers are all ice and snow. Where can there be descendants?" He didn't know that Cao Yin had a grandson named Cao Xueqin. Although he was reduced to the bottom of society at that time, he had already begun to brew and write an immortal masterpiece. is a novel.The text of the novel is of course inseparable from the fictional element.However, Mr. Lu Xun summed up the writing characteristics in this article: "All narratives are authentic, and what you hear and see is what you experience. It is because of the realism that it becomes fresh." This is a key to unlock the text. The Jia Mansion in the village is based on the Cao family. There is a "Red Gold Nine Dragons and Green Land Plaque" hanging in the hall of the Rongguo Mansion, which was inscribed by the emperor. There are three characters "Rongxi Hall" on it. Cao Yinzhi was stationed on the southern tour for eight years The "Xuanrui Hall" was inscribed when the mansion was built; and what is written on the "ebony joint tablet, inlaid with chiseled silver handwriting"? "The pearls on the seat illuminate the sun and the moon, and the front of the hall glows with haze." The pair in this novel immediately reminds us of the couplet written by the crown prince in life: "The drinking in the building is because of the bright moon, and the poetry on the river is "Sunset", it is very likely that the crown prince who accompanied him back then wrote his proud couple for the Cao family. It is written by combining the emperors of the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties.There is the Supreme Emperor in the novel. In fact, there was no Supreme Emperor until the death of Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty. Thirty years after his death, the Qianlong Inner Zen made Jiaqing ascend the throne, and then there was the Supreme Emperor. Cao Xueqin was not prophesying, he was writing about his ancestors, fathers and himself The real feeling, in fact, before Kangxi deposed the prince, people felt that the two monarchs coexisted. Kangxi himself later said that the prince’s Yizhu was "like two monarchs", and more specifically, everyone felt as if there was one The Supreme Emperor was instructing the "apprentice emperor" to govern the country together; at that time, when the courtiers greeted the emperor in the memorial, they would also greet the crown prince at the same time, thank the emperor for his kindness, and as usual would go to thank the crown prince again. "Fengzao Palace" wrote that after Jia Zheng thanked the emperor for his kindness, he "went to the East Palace again".From the second half of the eighteenth chapter to the fifty-third chapter, it is all written about the first year of Qianlong. The real scene of recovery and prosperity in the first year. In the first ten chapters, Cao Xueqin wrote the story about Qin Keqing. After it was written, his close friend Zhi Yanzhai asked him to edit it, and he complied.It is worth noting that "Prince Yizhong, old thousand years old" appeared in the dark scene in the deleted text. He originally ordered the "Max" "from Huanghai Iron Net Mountain" from the royal merchant Xue's family, and planned to make his own. The coffin was not taken away because of a "bad thing". As a result, the "mast" was made into a coffin, and Qin Keqing slept in it.In Qin Keqing's bedroom, there are luxury items full of royal codes that are not found anywhere else in Jia's mansion. She is regarded by the most picky Jia's mother as "the first proud person among the great-grandson's daughters-in-law"; A Zhang Youshi diagnosed her. In the text, it is said that Zhang "went to Beijing to donate to his son".According to historical data, when the deposed prince was imprisoned, he took advantage of the opportunity of applying for the appointment of an imperial physician to diagnose Fujin's illness, and brought out the doctor's secret letter written in alum water to contact people outside; , also used the Latin learned from Western missionaries to write secret letters, and secretly negotiated with fellow party members in the capital; the prescriptions given to Qin Keqing by "Physician Zhang" in the novel, and the black words spoken to Jia Rong, may not be true. He was secretly conveying some kind of political message; Zhang Youshi, who entered the capital, did not dare to say that he was an imperial physician, but if he returned to a place where another imperial court was established, he might be a "true" imperial physician, right?The seventh chapter writes about "Sending Palace Flowers". The previous poem said: "The twelve flowers are the most beautiful. I don't know who is the person who cherishes flowers. If you meet him, ask for his name, and he lives in Jiangnan with a surname of Qin." "Flowers" are the most destined "flower cherishers".Was it Cao Xueqin who originally planned to design her as coming to the capital from Jiangsu and Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, or was it alluded to based on her prototype?After careful study, Zhengjiazhuang was called Qi County in the Qing Dynasty, and "Qin" or "Qi" sounded?Now there is still the place name of "Qincheng" slightly north there, and they are all in the south of the Baihe River (when the water was prosperous like a river); moreover, in ancient manuscripts, "Lin Zhixiao" has traces of "Qin Zhixiao" changed (Qing Dynasty There is an example where the prince donated his own servants to others), all of these are worth pondering.The eighth "explaining" that Qin Keqing was a wild baby adopted by a small official from the Yangshengtang was obviously a "patch" made by Cao Xueqin following the advice of Zhiyanzhai.It is very possible that Qin Keqing's prototype was the daughter of the deposed prince, a younger sister of Hongxi, who was raised in Cao's house in order to avoid disaster. Now that "Prince Yizhong is old and thousand years old" has been abolished, how can the Cao family dare to adopt his daughter as "great-grandson daughter-in-law"?Over the past few decades, their relationship has been too deep. When the crown prince was not abolished, his wet father Ling Pu went to the Jiangning weaving mansion to collect money at any time, and he almost regarded the Cao family as the prince's "bank treasury" (in-laws Suzhou weaving Li Xu's family also same), in the three years before the crown prince was abolished, people were sent to withdraw a total of 85,600 taels of silver from the Cao family and the Li family. What an astonishing figure!Behind the economic ties, of course, are political interests. The prince and his wings hope that they will be loyal to the end, and they will also feel that it is in their best interest for the prince to help him after all.After surviving the difficult period of the Yongzheng Dynasty and catching up with Qianlong's good policies, the Cao family benefited. It is really a dead tree and spring again, but there is a possibility of Zhengjiazhuang's "right throne".Therefore, reflected in it, in the fortieth chapter of "Golden Mandarin Duck Three Proclamation Tooth Card Order", the order words "Double hanging sun and moon illuminate the universe" appeared.This is originally a poem by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty, and it recites a historical fact that Tang Suzong himself became emperor in the chaos, and Tang Xuanzong had not yet given way to him at that time.When the position of the crown prince was stable, the Cao family had the feeling that two monarchs coexisted. After entering the Qianlong Dynasty, because the Zhengjiazhuang established a small court, Hongxi seemed to be "rooted and strong" and wanted to "rectify". People deeply feel that "the sun and the moon hang together to illuminate the universe", but "there is no two suns", and the sun and the moon cannot hang side by side for a long time, so how can the Cao family choose?After the eighty chapters of the book, it is estimated that Cao Xueqin will write at a faster pace how the Jia family finally lost ground, from "everywhere turmoil and worry everywhere" to "suddenly lala like a building falling down, dire and miserable like a lamp is about to run out", " When the tree falls and the monkeys scatter", "the dead in the family scatter and run away", "It's like throwing a bird into the forest after eating all the birds, leaving a piece of white and the land is so clean!" So we also understand the exact meaning of the prophecy that Qin Keqing read to Wang Xifeng's dream in the thirteenth chapter: "After the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted, and each must find his own door": Cao Xueqin enjoyed the family from the first year of Qianlong to the third year of Qianlong. Three basically beautiful springs were used as the material, and most of the contents of the book before the eighty chapters were written. The 30-year history of the rise and fall of the Cao family from the "Night Police in the Tent Hall" is approaching the end of annihilation.After eighty chapters of the original version, no matter whether Cao Xueqin has written it or not, it is conceivable that the content of Gao E's pseudo-continuation is definitely not in its conception. 7 When Kangxi abolished the prince, he confessed his crimes. In addition to "night police in the tent hall", he also listed many aspects, such as "ravaging the public, violent and promiscuous, and it is difficult to speak out". Yi's subordinates, etc., behave surlyly and surreptitiously, and do everything, which makes me ashamed to open my mouth", "extravagant and extravagant, showing off their viciousness... Now it is even worse, and there is a tendency to leave all my sons behind" and so on.Although the words in the rage are exaggerated, most of them are well-founded, and they have been endured for many years, and they are definitely not made up temporarily.Yinreng's many evil deeds are in broad daylight Days and days, under the watchful eyes of the public, they did it swaggeringly, such as whipping princes and ministers, insulting teachers, greedy for money, and collecting more antiques and treasures than their father... There are also some acts, such as doing privately with their father during his southern tour. Narrow Xieyou, beauties who accept gifts from people who please them, befriend actors, etc., that is what Kangxi "embarrassed". Although he is unwilling to disclose it, he is not ashamed of it. It seems that he has his own reason". It is impossible for Cao Xueqin to meet the deposed prince, but he was able to get stories about the "night watchman in the tent" and other stories from his father's generation and social rumors, and imagine an image of Yinfeng with a complex personality. Perhaps, regardless of political perspective and The ethical and moral concepts of the mainstream society at that time, viewed from another perspective, will produce a new interpretation of its people and events.In it, he used Jia Yucun to discuss Leng Zixing, and put forward a theory of "combining the two qi of righteousness and evil" to explain the complex personality. At the top, one cannot be a benevolent gentleman, nor at the bottom, can one be extremely vicious and evil. If one is placed among tens of thousands of people, his intelligent, handsome and graceful spirit will be above tens of thousands of people. Under tens of thousands of people. If born in a rich and noble family, you will be an infatuated; If you are willing to be driven and controlled by mediocre people, you must be famous and famous.”Next, about 30 figures from past dynasties were listed in succession, three of them (Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong) were emperors. From a political point of view, they were all losers and could only serve as negative teachers. , they are not necessarily losers, they have all had poetic lives.Cao Xueqin wrote that Jia Zheng was flogged because of Jia Baoyu's "unscrupulous all kinds". Jia Zheng's hatred and anger were sincere and well-founded. "Abandoning studies at home, prostitution and forcing mothers and maidservants", if it continues to develop, it will inevitably lead to "killing fathers and kings", so father and son are merciless, and they are so angry that they must be beaten to death.However, when we read Cao Xueqin's descriptions of Baoyu, Jiang Yuhan, and Jin Chuan, we will find that this young man who "enjoys righteousness and evil" has his own unique pursuit of life. It is wandering in poetry. After reading it, we should have a deeper understanding of human nature after going back to Siyinreng's "Night Police in the Tent Hall".