Chapter 19 Eight Dismissal of Eunuchs
The Forbidden City is peaceful on the surface, but the order inside is chaotic.Since I was sensible, I have often heard of robberies, fires, and murders in the palace.As for smoking and gambling, let alone.By the time I got married, the theft had progressed to such an extent: just after the wedding, all the treasures on the queen's phoenix crown inlaid with pearls and emeralds were replaced by fakes.
I know from the masters that the treasures in the Qing palace have long been famous all over the world.Just talking about antique calligraphy and painting, the quantity and value are extremely impressive.Most of the treasures collected by the emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties for hundreds of years are still stored in the palace, except for two times that were taken away by foreign soldiers.Most of these things have no number, and even if they have number, no one checks them, so no one knows whether they are lost or how many are lost.This opens the door to convenience for thieves.
Thinking about it today, it was a catastrophe.Those who participated in the robbery can be said to be from top to bottom, everyone included.In other words, anyone who has the opportunity to steal steals everything, and they can steal as much as possible.There are also different ways of stealing. Some steal secretly by pulling the door and picking the lock, and some steal blatantly according to legal procedures.Most eunuchs use the former method, while ministers and officials use mortgage, auction or loan appreciation, and request for rewards, etc., that is, the latter method.As for the one-reward-one-receive method adopted by Pu Jie and I, it is the most advanced method.Of course, at that time, I would never have such a thought. All I thought was that other people were stealing my property.
When I was sixteen, one day, driven by curiosity, I asked the eunuch to open a warehouse at the Jianfu official's side.The seal on the warehouse door is very thick, and it has not been opened for at least several decades.I saw big boxes piled up to the ceiling all over the room, with Jiaqing year seals on the boxes, and no one could tell what was inside.I asked the eunuch to open one, and it turned out that it was full of hand-scroll calligraphy and paintings and very exquisite antique jade objects.Later, I found out that this was Qianlong's favorite treasure back then.After Qianlong's death, Jiaqing ordered that all those treasures and playthings be sealed up, and they filled the warehouses of many palaces in the Jianfuguan area. What I found was just one of them.Some warehouses are full of Yi wares, some are full of porcelain, and some are full of famous paintings, including many paintings painted by the Italian Castiglione for Qianlong.In the warehouse behind the Hall of Mental Cultivation, I also found many interesting "treasure boxes", which are said to be Qianlong's playthings.This kind of treasure box is made of red sandalwood. It looks like an ordinary book box. When it is opened, it looks like a staircase. Each staircase is divided into dozens of small grids. An inch-and-a-half copy of the Four Books hand-copied by some famous people, a finely carved tooth ball, a walnut carved with ancient stories, several melon seeds carved with poems and paintings, and an ancient Egyptian coin, etc.In a treasure box, there are calligraphy, paintings, gold and stones.Jade wares, bronze wares, porcelain wares, ivory carvings, etc. are all in place. They are called Baibao, but in fact, there are hundreds of kinds in a small box, and more than a thousand kinds in large ones.There is also a special red sandalwood kang table, there is no message on it, and each message contains a treasure. I have not seen this thing. At that time, I only took the treasure box I discovered by myself. There are about forty or fifty boxes. , They were taken to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.That's when I thought about the question: How much treasure do I have?I have brought what I can see, how much can I not see?What about those treasures that are in the whole warehouse?How many were stolen?How can the theft be stopped?
Master Johnston once told me that many new antique shops opened on Di'anmen Street where he lived.I heard that some are opened by eunuchs, and some are opened by officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or relatives of officials.Later, other masters also felt that measures must be taken to prevent theft.In the end, I took the advice of the masters and decided to take stock.In this way, the trouble is even greater.
First, there are more robberies.Someone broke the lock on the warehouse door of Yuqing Palace, and someone opened the rear window of Qianqing Palace.Things are going from bad to worse, and the big diamond I just bought is gone.In order to investigate the robbery case, the concubine called the chief servant of the respected office to organize the chief of the nine halls to interrogate the eunuchs involved, and even imposed punishments, but no matter whether it was torture or offering a heavy reward, there was no effect.Not only that, just as the Jianfu officer's inventory had just begun, a fire broke out suddenly on the night of June 27, and all the counted and uncounted items were burned up.
It is said that the fire was first discovered by the fire brigade of the Italian Legation in Dongjiaomin Lane.When the firetruck drove to the Forbidden City and called the gate, the guards didn't know what was going on.The fire was extinguished overnight by fire brigades from all over the place, but the area around Jianfu Palace, including Jingbao Pavilion, Huiyao Building, Jiyun Building, Bilin Pavilion, Miaolianhua Room, Yanchun Pavilion, and Jicui Pavilion, was still destroyed. A large area of the pavilion, Guangsheng Building, Ninghui Building, Xiangyun Pavilion, etc. was burned to scorched earth.This is the place where the most treasures are stored in the Qing palace. How many things were destroyed in this fire is still a mystery.In some of the muddled accounts published later by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was stated that 2,665 golden Buddhas, 1,157 calligraphy and paintings, 435 antiques, and tens of thousands of ancient books were burned.On what account it was written, only God knows.
When fighting the fire, Chinese, foreigners, people in the Forbidden City and people outside the city came and went, boiling and busy.It is conceivable that they are busy with anything other than fighting fires.But the Forbidden City is grateful for it all.There was a foreign lady who came to fight the fire. For some reason, she had an argument with the Chinese firefighters.Later, she asked someone to show me the fan to show her bravery, and I wrote a poem on it to show my gratitude.After the fire passed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs not only entertained the firefighters with refreshments, but also gave the police and fire brigade 60,000 yuan in "remuneration".
If we want to estimate the loss this time, we might as well talk about the disposal of the pile of burned and "touched" garbage.At that time, I was looking for a vacant land to build a court, and Johnston taught me to play tennis. According to him, this is a game for the British aristocrats.This fire scene is just for this purpose, so I asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to clear it out as soon as possible.Of course, there were no calligraphy, paintings, or ancient porcelains to be found in the pile of ashes, but there was still a lot of melted gold, silver, copper and tin.The Ministry of Internal Affairs called gold shops in Beijing to bid, and one gold shop bought the right to dispose of the ashes at a price of 500,000 yuan, and picked out more than 17,000 taels of melted gold nuggets.After the gold store picked up these things, the Ministry of Internal Affairs packed the remaining ashes into many sacks and distributed them to the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Later, an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs told me that his uncle donated two gold "mandalas" to each temple of Lama Temple and Bolin Temple in Beijing at that time. The diameter and height of the mandala were about one foot, and they were extracted from ashes in sacks. from.
The cause of the fire and the truth of the loss are equally impossible to investigate.I suspect that the thief deliberately set fire to extinguish the traces.Not many days later, another fire broke out on the window of Wuyizhai, the East Courtyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Fortunately, it was discovered early, and a ball of cotton soaked in kerosene was found to be extinguished as soon as it was on fire.My suspicions immediately grew.I think it's not only someone who wants to set fire to put out the traces, but someone who wants to murder me.
In fact, theft and arson are both facts, and the masters did not shy away from this, and the murder of me may be due to my own nervousness.My suspicious character has been revealed at this time.According to the ancestral system of the Qing palace, no matter how busy the emperor was every day, he had to read a page of "Sheng Xun" (these things were placed in the emperor's bedroom all year round).At this time, I especially admired Yongzheng's "Special Appeals".Yongzheng once said this: "Those who are trustworthy are people, and those who are not trustworthy are also people. If you can't trust others, you will never fail yourself. Otherwise, you can't use people's abilities."He once commented on the memorial of his trusted minister Ertai: "It is the first secret to employ people if you don't dare to trust people. I never doubt people, and I don't know people to trust."He also said that for people, "no matter how many things they have experienced, they can only believe in their past, and pay attention to their future, and never believe that they will not change."These words are deeply imprinted in my mind.I also remember Kangxi's words: "Those who are superior to others, although they are trustworthy in employing them, they should not be trusted suddenly."Kang and Xi specifically said that eunuchs cannot be trusted. He said: "From ancient times, there are few good eunuchs. It is necessary to guard against the incipient and be cautious at the beginning."These instructions of the ancestors were brought into my thinking by these fire alarms.
I decided to act in accordance with Emperor Yongzheng's instruction to "observe and observe".I came up with two methods, one is to ask the little eunuchs around me, and the other is to eavesdrop on the conversations of the eunuchs by myself.Later, I used the second method. Outside the window of the eunuch’s house in the East and West Road, I found them talking about me behind their backs, saying that my temper was getting worse and worse, which aroused my suspicion even more.On the night when the fire broke out in Wuyizhai, I went to the eunuch's window to eavesdrop again. Unexpectedly, I heard their discussion go a step further, saying that I set the fire myself.I think they really have ulterior motives. If I don't take measures first, the consequences will be endless.
A murder had just occurred at this time.A eunuch was accused of some negligence and was beaten by the steward, so he held a grudge. One morning, before the informant got up, he took a handful of lime and a knife, went into the house, and sprinkled lime on the ground first. The man's face, lost his eyes, and then stabbed the man's face with a knife.The assailant was later escaped and the injured were taken to hospital.At this moment, I remembered that many eunuchs had been beaten by me. Would they attack me?Thinking of this, I couldn't even sleep.From the outer room of my bedroom all the way to Baosha, there are eunuchs on duty sleeping on the floor bunks. If there is anyone here who has bad intentions for me and wants to make things difficult for me, wouldn't it be too easy to attack?I want to pick a reliable person to watch for me, pick and choose, and only pick a queen.From this day forward, I asked Wanrong to guard me all night, and if she heard anything, she would wake me up.At the same time, I also prepared a stick and put it beside the bed for contingency.For several days in a row, Wanrong couldn't sleep all night, I don't think this is a solution after all.In order to get it done once and for all, I finally decided not to drive away all the eunuchs!
I knew this was bound to cause a storm.It won't work if you don't deal with your father well.I came up with an idea and went to find my father in person.He had no way to discuss it with the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and his masters. When he suddenly encountered this problem, his eloquence became even worse and he stuttered even more.He tried very hard to give some scattered reasons, such as the ancestral system, these people have been on duty for many years so that they will not plot wrongdoing, etc., to persuade them.And said: "This has to be discussed slowly, the emperor will return to the palace first, in two days..."
I don't care what he says, just answer with this sentence:
"My lord doesn't agree, I will never go back to the palace from today on!"
When he saw me treating him like this, he was so anxious that he didn't sit or stand, he scratched his head, scratched his cheek, and kept spinning on the ground. A bottle of soda on the table was knocked down by his sleeve and fell to the ground with a bang. It exploded.Seeing his appearance, I couldn't help but giggled, and opened a book on the desk calmly, pretending that I didn't want to leave.
Father finally gave in.In the end, it was decided that all the eunuchs would be dismissed except for those who were inseparable from the concubine's side.
Nine rectification of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
My move to dismiss the eunuch was greatly praised and encouraged by public opinion.Under the further guidance of Master Zhuang, I then transferred the goal of "strengthening governance" to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Regarding the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I would like to first copy a piece of material written to me by an old man of the Ministry of Internal Affairs:
The old man had received a lot of stimulation because his family did not allow him to go to higher education, so he felt very deeply that the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not study.At that time, what I was most dissatisfied with was not vulgarity and ignorance, but that they "seeed cheating in the middle, as if they were telling the truth."
With regard to the stories of corruption and fraud in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is sufficient to cite two examples here.One is the astonishing expenditure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs every year. Even if the four million yuan preferential treatment fee is paid in full, it will not be able to make ends meet.After I left the palace in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, the "Clear House Rehabilitation Committee" disclosed in Beijing's "Beijing News" that the income mortgaged gold, silver and antiques amounted to more than five million yuan. There was no surplus in that year, and all expenses were spent.According to the author of the previous paragraph, the annual expenditure in those years was around 3.6 million taels, which is roughly consistent with the information disclosed in the "Beijing News".
Another example is a mortgage handled by my father-in-law, Rong Yuan.The date of the mortgage contract is May 31, the 13th year of the Republic of China. The signatories are Shaoying, Qi Ling, Rong Yuan from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Yue Ganzhai, manager of Beijing Salt Industry Bank. , the mortgage amount is 800,000 yuan, the term is one year, and the monthly interest is one cent.According to the contract, the 400,000 yuan was pledged by 16 golden bells (total weight 111,439 taels), and the other 400,000 yuan was pledged by the gold treasures of the eight empress dowagers and five empresses. Ten pieces, thirteen gold books, and gold treasure chests, gold seal pools, gold pagodas, gold plates, gold pots, etc., weighing 10,969 taels, nine cents and six cents, less than ten percent of the gold Thirty-six utensils, weighing 883 taels, plus 1,952 inlaid pearls, 184 gems, 45 agate bowls and other treasures.As far as the last mortgage of 400,000 yuan is concerned, it is tantamount to selling gold treasures and gold books and other 100% gold items as waste gold, and giving away the rest for nothing.There are always several such mortgages and price changes every year, especially when expenses are needed during the holidays.At this time, there will be secret news in the newspaper, and there must be a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to refute the rumor or explain it.For example, there were rumors about this mortgage in advance, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Rong Yuan himself also made a statement saying that all the things sold were invalid, and there was absolutely no such thing as the legendary Cixi's treasure.
Before I left the palace, although I couldn't get evidence like the one mentioned above about the corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of "missed funds" every year told me a fact: the expenditure of my Ministry of Internal Affairs exceeded It is the highest record of the Queen Mother's Ministry of Internal Affairs.The Ministry of Internal Affairs wrote to me a document called “The Seven Years of the Official Regime and the Comparison of the Past Three Years”. According to their own statistics, excluding the salaries of princes and ministers, which belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was 2.64 million taels in the fourth year of the Republic of China, and 2.38 million taels in the eighth, ninth, and tenth years of the Republic of China. 890,000 taels, 1,710,000 taels, while the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Empress Dowager era spent no more than 300,000 taels a year at first, and when the Empress Dowager passed her 70th life, it only increased to 700,000 taels No matter how illiterate I am, I can't help but find it strange. At the same time, I have also noticed this fact: some nobles and prominent officials' families have been sitting on the mountain, and they are getting worse day by day. Fireworks and other news have appeared in the social column of the newspaper, but the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have opened up big businesses such as antique shops, ticket shops (money shops), pawnshops, and wood factories (construction industry). Although the masters have helped the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I am opposed to buying a car and installing a phone, but when it comes to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, no one likes it. Not long before Master Iketan passed away (a year before my marriage), because Master Chen refused to expose the malpractices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to me, It is said that Master Chen has committed the "crime of deceiving the emperor" and is not worthy of being a "Teacher". As for Master Zhuang, let alone, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the embodiment of "vampires" in his opinion. His views on the Ministry of Internal Affairs have contributed to my The determination to rectify the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"From the House of Internal Affairs of the palace to the stewards of every prince, they are all the richest." He once said, "The master does not know about his property, only those who ask these stewards, and even have to ask these stewards Otherwise, you won’t get any money. Don’t talk about restoring the old things, just talk about this little treasure in your hand, if you don’t rectify the housekeeper, I’m afraid you won’t be able to keep it!”
He also said: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs has a motto, which is - to maintain the status quo! Whether it is a small reform or a great ideal, when encountering this motto, it is all - Stop!"
My "car" has already been fully fueled by the masters and the engine has been started.If someone else was driving for me before, now I am sitting in the driver's seat and driving towards an ideal goal.Now I have just successfully driven through the "dismissal of the eunuch" intersection, no matter who tells me to "stop", it will not work.
I made up my mind.I also found "strength".
After the wedding was over, I was the first to use my right to be the master of the family. I selected a few people who I thought were the most loyal and capable from among the elders who attended the wedding, as my ministers.The selected ones recommended their friends. In this way, a total of twelve or thirteen braids were added to the Forbidden City.These are: Zheng Xiaoxu, Luo Zhenyu, Jing Yongchang, Wen Su, Ke Shaokou, Yang Zhongxi, Zhu Ruzhen, Wang Guowei, Shang Yanying and so on.I gave them the titles of "Walking in the South Study Room (Emperor's Study Room)" and "Walking in the Maoqin Hall (the place where the emperor reads stationery)".In addition, I also used two bannermen, Jinliang, the vice capital of Mongolia with a red flag inlaid with teacher Zhang Xueliang, and my father-in-law Rongyuan, who were sent as ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
None of their moving verbal performances left any records, and they couldn’t find all the reports they wrote. Now I have a report from Jinliang on hand-the date is "the first month of the 16th year of Xuantong", that is, when Jin Liang was in charge of internal affairs. Written by the minister of the government two months ago—copy the following paragraph (the title and sidewriting in the original text are omitted here):
After Jin Liang became Minister of Internal Affairs, another memorial put forward the so-called "two strategies of self-protection and self-support." ". "The method of reduction, there are those who should be cut, those who should be cut, and those who should be cut." In short, it starts with the rectification of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.This is an approach I fully agree with.
Except for those who are most active in "recovery of the secret map", even those elders with a negative and pessimistic attitude, most of them are not opposed to "protecting the palace, cleaning up property" and laying off staff and money.Only a small part of them, represented by my master Chen, always shake their heads when it comes to reforming the various systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Most of these people think that the House of Internal Affairs has deep-rooted malpractices, and it is not a one-day cold. Since the Qianlong era, with the increasingly extravagant court life, this situation has been created. It can't be done, how can it be easier said than done now?From Master Chen's point of view, it's good if the House of Internal Affairs is not in order, but if it is in order, it will get worse and worse;But old people like Master Chen, even though they don't agree with the rectification, don't speak well of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they can even remain neutral.
Not long before I got married, I did a stupid thing about cleaning up my property.At that time, at the suggestion of John Toton, I decided to organize an institution for the purpose of this work.I invited Johnston's good friend Li Jingmai, who was sent by the old Westernization Movement, to preside over the event. Li refused to come and recommended a relative named Liu to replace him.The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not directly express any objection, and once brought out my father to stop it.I ignored my father's dissuasion and insisted on appointing Li Jingmai's relatives to carry out this matter. They gave in and asked Liu to take up the post.But after working for only three months, he took a long vacation and went back to Shanghai.
After that failure, I still haven't seen the supernatural powers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.I put the reasons for my failure on the improper employment of people and myself not being "in charge of the government"; at that time, the political situation was changing rapidly, and I almost fled to the British embassy, and I had no time to take care of it.Now, I think the situation is very different from before. On the one hand, I have become an adult, and no one can stop me; on the other hand, I have a group of people around me, and my strength is stronger.With great interest, I selected Zheng Xiaoxu from this group of talents to take on this important task of rectification.
Zheng Xiaoxu is a fellow villager of Chen Baochen. He served as a consul in Kobe, Japan during the Qing Dynasty, and served as a border affairs supervisor in Guangxi.Masters Chen Baochen and Johnston both praised him to me in the past, especially Master Zhuang who praised him the most. He said that Zheng Xiaoxu was the person he admired the most in China for more than 20 years. There is no second place in China for moral articles. Come on, when it comes to ability and courage, there is no one better than him.Master Chen also told me that Zheng Xiaoxu had repeatedly rejected the invitation of the President of the Republic of China, refused to be an official of the Republic of China, and refused to take money from the Republic of China.I have also read articles praising him in the newspapers, saying that he has entertained himself with poetry and wine for more than ten years, and he is "respectful", and he is praised as a rising star of the Tongguang School of poets.I have seen his calligraphy before, and it is said that his income from calligraphy pens can reach thousands of gold every day.Since he gave up fame and wealth to come to serve, it can be seen that he is a rare loyal minister.
Zheng Xiaoxu and I met for the first time in the summer of the twelfth year of the Republic of China.He talked about the future of the Qing Dynasty from the beginning of Pangu, and when he talked about the joy, he was beaming with joy and spit, and when he talked about the passion and generosity, he burst into tears, which made me overwhelmed.I immediately decided to let him stay and ask him to develop his ambitions.I can’t remember exactly what I said at the time, but I just remember that he was very moved after listening to my talk, and quickly wrote a "Ji Si Poem":
After Zheng Xiaoxu became a "Walk in the Maoqin Palace", he told me several times that in order to achieve great success, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must be rectified first, and he proposed a more specific rectification plan than Jinliang's.According to this plan, only four departments are enough for the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a large number of people will be laid off, and a large number of expenses will be subtracted.In short, if his rectification plan can be realized, the restoration will first have a financial guarantee.Therefore, I made an exception to grant this Minister of the Han Dynasty the Prime Minister's Minister of the Interior, and "in charge of the seal key", as the chief of the Ministers of the Interior.Zheng Xiaoxu received my extraordinary promotion, and wrote two poems complacently:
The great king is in charge of the wares, and Goujian is also in charge of Wu.
However, if one thinks that the vulgar and ignorant Ministry of Internal Affairs will be defeated in the hands of Zheng Xiaoxu, then the estimate of this two-hundred-year-old court housekeeper's office is too low.Although Zheng Xiaoxu boasted extravagantly, and had my support and trust, his fate was the same as that of Li Jingmai's relatives, and he only worked for three months.
Those vulgar and uneducated people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who pushed Zheng Xiaoxu away, I still haven't fully figured it out.Is Shaoying making trouble?But Shaoying is notoriously timid and timid.Is it old age?Qi Ling is a layman who is not familiar with the errands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so he doesn't ask many questions.As for Baoxi, he has only been here for a short time, so he may not have such great supernatural powers.If it is said that the people below have made their own decisions, it is not entirely true that they dare to make trouble with Minister Zheng.After Zheng Xiaoxu took office, the first thing he encountered was a pile of cases since the Xinhai.Zheng Xiaoxu's way to deal with it is to get rid of his power first, expel the former Rentang doctor, and take over this important position, and his confidant Tong Jixu will take over.But unexpectedly, since then, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been paralyzed, asking for money, but there is no money at all—really no, it is clearly recorded in the account: If you want something, you can’t find a place to store it, and the account is also the same. remember this...
In order to win over the subordinate officers, Zheng Xiaoxu showed humility and listened to his subordinates. He stipulated that he would have a discussion with the officers once a week and ask them to give some ideas for reform.One of the officials suggested that a large number of fruit cakes were usually used for sacrificial offerings in the palace, and the cost was too great. In fact, it was just a meaning. It is better to use clay and wood carvings instead, which are equally solemn.Zheng greatly appreciated the idea, ordered it to be implemented, and promoted the person who came up with the idea.But those eunuchs who used offerings as their legal income (there are still about 100 left after the reduction), all of them hated Zheng Xiaoxu to the bone.Within a few days of taking office, Zheng Xiaoxu became the most unpopular person in the Forbidden City.
Zheng Xiaoxu didn't want to withdraw troops, so he received a threatening letter.The letter said: You are on the road of ignorance, you have to be careful of your head.At the same time, Johnston, who I sent to rectify the Summer Palace, also received a threatening letter.The letter said: If you dare to take office, there will be people waiting to kill you on the way.Later Johnston said to me very complacently: "I didn't take a car, but rode a horse to see if they dared to kill me. As a result, I survived to take office. I have seen through those people long ago!" He was referring to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. people.Both he and Zheng Xiaoxu expressed indifference to the threatening letter.
The final outcome of the matter is still with me.
I had just appointed Zheng as an envoy, and I got a very headache news: Another group of members of the Congress of the Republic of China proposed a bill to abolish the preferential conditions and let the Republic of China take over the Forbidden City.As early as two years ago, there was such a proposal in the Congress. The reason was that the Qing Dynasty was restored in the sixth year of the Republic of China. Attempt to restore.Now the old case is brought up again, saying that I not only violated Zhang Xun's posthumous posthumous law for the restoration, but even more illegally rewarded Zheng Xiaoxu, a Han Chinese, to ride a horse in the Forbidden City and to aid the Minister of Internal Affairs.
The news was published in the newspapers, and this news was like a signal, and attacks on the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeared one after another.For example, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sold antiques to Japanese businessmen, and the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rong Yuan, put the treasures of the empresses of the past emperors in the four major banks.
At the same time, during the counting of calligraphy and paintings, those ministers who were summoned to my side, especially Luo Zhenyu, were also criticized.When these newly added braids came to the Forbidden City, they had nothing else to do, except for a report on the left and a secret performance on the right to report on the grand plan of revival. A "Treasure of Xuantong Yulan", registered in the account.Unexpectedly, this count caused a storm in the city.I didn't know at the time, it's okay not to order, the more you order, the less things you have, and it has added various ways to make money for the elderly.Luo Zhenyu's Sanshi plate, Mao Gongding's ancient bronze rubbings, and Tong Jixu's Yueluo version of the palace collection of paintings all sold for high prices, causing a sensation both at home and abroad.The most troublesome thing is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of China suddenly promulgated the "Draft Law on the Preservation of Ancient Books, Antiquities and Monuments" for the export of antiquities sold by the Qing Palace.
Soon, Zheng Xiaoxu's open-source strategy—to transport the Siku Quanshu to the Shanghai Commercial Press for publication—was blocked by the authorities and all the books were seized.
My father found me at this moment, and told me in a tactful and stammering manner that Zheng Xiaoxu's method is worth considering, and if even the Republic of China authorities are not satisfied, it will be even more difficult to handle in the future.
The original Ministers of Internal Affairs, Shaoying, Qiling, and Baoxi, were still so obedient and did not say a single bad word about Zheng, Jin, and Rong.However, because Rong Yuan had an accident with the sale of book treasures, he no longer showed his face, and Jin Liang was scolded by my father for urging me to let Prince Jin retire because of the notice on the Internet, and I don’t know where he went.
On this day, Shaoying appeared in front of me with a timid look and said that the current infantry commander Wang Huaiqing was very dissatisfied with Zheng Xiaoxu's actions. There is no way to help me anymore.When I heard this, I was really scared.At this time, Zheng Xiaoxu's memorial "please go on an errand" arrived.As a result, Zheng Xiaoxu returned to "Walking in the Maoqin Palace", and Shaoying was still in charge of the seal key of the House of Internal Affairs.
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