Chapter 22 The 22nd round of the Royal Garden Garden Amazement Reminiscences of the Past

For two consecutive days, Qianlong stayed in the bedroom of Concubine Rong in the Hall of Yangxing. He wanted to take advantage of the time before the Lantern Festival to relax his tense heart.In the west half of the Forbidden City, no matter which palace sign you turn, there will be eunuchs making noise early in the morning, calling "Turn off the lights, remove the thousand taels (locks)", and sweep the floor.During the New Year's Eve, concubines and concubines would visit each other to gossip and greet each other with New Year's greetings. Although their voices were not loud and they were far away from the wall, he was used to getting up early since he was sensible. When he woke up early, he heard these movements faintly again, thinking about it again. Falling asleep and getting back to sleep is harder than going to heaven.Concubine Rong has another advantage over other "masters": she doesn't care much about sex, she doesn't rely on favors when she gets favored, she gets along indifferently, and each of them can do as he pleases.Unlike other women, as long as he is awake, he will do everything possible to twist and knead, "Please the emperor's dragon and horse spirit, and then..." It makes people feel dizzy and weak, and their emotions are depressed.Therefore, I had a good night's sleep.

On the morning of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Qianlong didn't get up until the maozhengshi card. Hezhuo had already woken up with bright eyes. He lay beside him and looked at the misty and clear window paper. Qianlong was invited to sit in front of the big mirror, and he combed his hair by the side.Seeing her flicking something in her hair with her slender fingers, Qianlong asked with a smile, "Did you see the white hair?" "Yes, a big (thick) one." Hezhuo smiled childishly. "When I went to Beijing, the most ridiculous thing was to see men with braids and their foreheads shaved off. It doesn't look good, but it doesn't matter if you get used to it, and it's ridiculous when you think about it—Emperor, you have supreme power , why don't you order this braid not to be taken away?—I'll pull it out—will you?"

Qianlong stopped her with a wave of his hand with a smile, and sighed: "This is the family law of the ancestors, there is no way to do it. I wanted to change this full dress 20 years ago. The queen mother, and all the princes and relatives are all unreasonable." Oppose it. If you insist on reforming, you may be punishing me, the emperor!" Qianlong smiled and said, "Let's go to the Queen Mother to pay my respects, shall we?" He Zhuo smiled, tied a knot at the end of Qianlong's braid with a bright yellow silk sash, and loosely tied the Hanyu Luozi to Qianlong's Wolong bag, stepped aside and said, "I will follow the master." Shao Yao Hua'er said from the side: "The slaves will tell them to prepare the chariot."

"No need." Qianlong stood up and said, "I went for a walk with the imperial concubine, and you will wait on me." "tie--" When the three of them left Yangxing Hall to watch, the sun had already risen.It's just that the palace walls and palaces are blocked by rows of scales, and it's cold and cold below. The yellow glazed tiles, 罘罳, and bronze horse and animal heads on the palace walls are all reflected in the rising sun, shining golden and dazzling.When Qianlong arrived at the north and south alleys, he seemed to hesitate for a moment, and when he saw Qin Meimei trotting all the way from the south, he asked: "What's the matter?" , the old man wants to walk in the imperial garden, please don't go there to pay her respects. Ask He Zhuo to prepare, and Ci will come to the Hall of Yangxing later, and breakfast will be served here, don't need so much etiquette, just follow the minute Just fine."

"Yes." Qianlong bowed and agreed, then smiled at He Zhuo and said, "It seems that the hand-cooked mutton cooked by your cook is right for Lafayette. Shao Yao'er went to pass the decree and asked the cooks to curry favor with them. There will be a reward for serving the Lafayette——after that, I will wait in the imperial garden." "Pull! The slave will take the order!" Gao Shaoyao'er knelt down and seemed to fly away.Qin Meimei knew that Qianlong was going to the Imperial Garden, she bowed her waist and walked northward with Qianlong and the Zhuo family.From the North Jiadao shortcut to the west, a bend is the east gate of the Imperial Garden.

As soon as Qianlong entered the garden, he knew that the queen mother hadn't arrived yet.The huge garden is empty, only a few old eunuchs in Qin'an Hall Danchi are hanging bird cages, and the flower eunuchs in the sunny greenhouses from Fubiting Pavilion to Wanchun Pavilion in the east are busy adding firewood to the cages of the greenhouse. Old trees with bare branches intertwined, under the tree that had been swept to the point where no grass knots were found, a few white-haired eunuchs were sweeping seriously with brooms in their arms, and it was very sparse and deserted.He Zhuo followed Qianlong on a stroll towards the Kunning Gate, and couldn't help asking, "Fugeda Khan, why didn't they salute you?"

"They..." Qianlong said with a smile: "These are all old people who have served Lord Kangxi, the youngest is over sixty years old, most of them are deaf and dumb, and their eyesight and energy are useless. Besides, I never come to visit the garden at this time, and I don’t go through this side door, so they can’t think it’s me.” "Are they all deaf and dumb?" "That's right," Qianlong said with a smile, "what's so strange about it? In his later years, the Holy Grandpa had housework in the palace, and some things couldn't be spread out, so they were stabbed deaf and dumb, so I'm here to take care of the garden for the elderly." Seeing that Shao Yao'er followed her back, she ordered: "I'm taking a walk with the imperial concubine, you stay here and watch, Lafayette will come and let you know." Seeing He Zhuo standing still, he pointed to the northwest and said, "We will go to the Qianqiu Pavilion. Over there, the sun is warm and the greenhouse is also beautiful—what’s the matter with you, you’re a little distracted?” Hezhuo was stunned for a moment before recovering, and while walking slowly with Qianlong, he said, “Listen to me this morning. The things I saw were all terrible. I don’t know if I will see more things in the future... For example, piercing the ears of the deaf and the throat of the dumb..." Qianlong was also startled, then laughed, and said: " You are a beautiful and kind princess who grew up outside the territory. It is not surprising that you have this idea. It is good for women to stay away from politics and war. So when I saw you, I said, you are not allowed to interfere in government affairs. Slowly you get used to it. Understood, um...the more you know about these things, the more you will understand," he pondered, then turned and pointed to the east and said, "We passed by those five low palaces just now, and once imprisoned an empress dowager. , people supported her son as emperor, but did not recognize her mother's status, and imprisoned her there for 20 years. When her son saw her, she was sick and blind, holding his son's clothes Said a sentence: 'My son has grown up, what regrets do I have when I die?' I just mourned..." Qianlong said, his voice trembling.

The two of them stopped almost at the same time, standing under the altar of Qin'an Hall, not speaking. "Over there," Qianlong pointed to the northwest corner again, "that place is called Chonghuaguan. There used to be a prince there who hid there for ten years. Even the old emperor didn't know that he had a son! Because , his mother can't protect him, and other concubines would rather the emperor have no son for their own status, and would kill the prince at any time... No one told the old emperor until he was an adult. Father and son nature, that child will jump at his father when he sees him Into his arms..." Qianlong said, his eyes filled with tears, and pointed to the side, "My place is called Yangxing Palace. Two hundred years ago, the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty was called Zhu Houzhao. One night, seven maids used ropes to strangle him to death..."

"My God! Your Majesty—" "They didn't succeed." There was a smirk at the corner of Qianlong's mouth, "The rope is tied in the dark - think about it, what does the emperor look like? What does the court lady look like?" He Zhuo's face was so pale that there was no blood, trembling. Su said: "Your Majesty, don't say it...don't say it... I... I'm afraid..." "It's good to listen to this." Qianlong patted her shoulder calmly and said slowly: "What I said It was all caused by the emperor, and hundreds of years have passed. After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there was only one case. In the early years of Yongzheng, a military minister named Long Kedo led troops into Changchun Garden The Forbidden City searched the palace, and Emperor Yongzheng imprisoned him with a decree. It has been fifty years. I told you that I want you to know that this is the hub of all things in the world. It is different from the people, and it is different from your hometown. Those mountains and rivers are beautiful, clear and clear, and it is good to be vigilant." Qianlong smiled, "You are a person who can see through your heart at a glance, and no one will hurt you, let alone me!"

Just as they were chatting, they suddenly heard the sound of people frolicking in the Beichengrui Pavilion of Qianqiu Pavilion.The two searched for their reputation, and saw that the bamboo forest was tightly blocking the area, and there seemed to be a group of children playing hide-and-seek in the other forest, some were laughing, some were clapping their hands, some were chattering, but the shadows were not clear.Qianlong listened attentively for a while, and while climbing up the stone steps, he said with a smile: "This is a young eunuch who just entered the palace. He is being taught by the senior eunuch in the Chonghua Palace. Maybe the New Year's festival is not strictly controlled, and they all sneak into the garden Come to play." He Zhuo said: "Children, I like to play." While talking, he walked through the bamboo forest, and sure enough, he saw a dozen children playing in the empty field, but it was not hide-and-seek.The older ones are about eleven or twelve years old, and the younger ones are only about seven or eight years old.Some jumped up and down with one foot crossed and bumped into "fighting cocks", some played tops, some pulled gourds, and seven or eight people gathered in a pile to see what was rare.When Qianlong looked at it, it was an old gray-haired eunuch kneeling on the ground, drawing something.None of the children knew Qianlong, so they ignored them, and they circled around the old eunuch with great interest, pointing fingers and chattering:

"This is the Qianqing Gate!" "This is the Compassion Palace!" "This is a woman, why isn't she wearing pants? She has thin legs, like a goblin! This person has braids, and it's a man—he doesn't wear pants either. Hehe..." Someone immediately retorted: "There are also big girls with braids outside, how do you know it's a man?" The child pointed to the painting and said, "Look, he doesn't have any eggs in his legs!" Then someone responded: "Do you have any eggs? Come out and let me see!" Amidst the burst of laughter, a child asked the old eunuch: "Hey, madman Gao, what do you draw all day long? Is it male or female? Tell me!" Only then did Qianlong notice that the brick floor in front of the Chengrui Pavilion was full of paintings, including palace gates and figures of men and women, skewed and distorted in a disorganized manner, with some traces of old and new paintings overlapping, and some of which had been trampled on. clear.Pay attention to the old eunuch, about sixty years old, with disheveled braids, the back of his head felt like sticky felt, and the hair on his forehead was more than three inches long, hanging down to cover half of his face. He was holding a piece of talc used by a tailor to draw thread , staring at the ground with straight eyes, drawing crookedly with shaking hands.In an instant, Qianlong felt that his face was familiar, thought for a while, and shook his head again. "Immortal! Don't talk, pee on him!" a child shouted.This remark immediately aroused the excitement of a group of people, even the young eunuchs who were scattered on the side came over, everyone pulled up their robes and trousers, took out their penis, stood far away, and tried their best to urinate on the old eunuch.The old eunuch suddenly had urine dripping from his head, face and body.It was such a prank in the cold weather, Qianlong was smiling, but his face sank, and he was about to stop, when someone among the little eunuchs shouted: "Eunuch Qin is here!" Not left.Qianlong turned around, and sure enough, he saw Qin Meimei striding towards him. He knew that the queen mother had arrived, and before he could speak, he turned around with Zhuo and ordered, "Which palace is this eunuch? If you are sick, you can be treated as usual. This way is What observation? Ask someone to shave his head and change his clothes—and this group of bastards, who cares? Such behavior is not disciplined! Tell the Department of Punishment, including the eunuchs, each will be rewarded with five sacks!" He asked again: "Which palace did this old eunuch serve? I look like I've seen him—" As Qianlong said, Qin Meimei answered "yes" repeatedly, and carefully helped Zhuo's family down the stone steps, and said: "This tall lunatic is an old man, and he will first serve the pen and ink in the Lama Temple and the master's study. When the master ascends to the pole, he will come in. At that time It was still Gao Dayong who was in charge, he was very proud, he followed the first master, then the current master, and then Niu Gui, and for some reason, he violated his birthright with Gao Yun, accusing him of stealing calligraphy and paintings from the palace. He sold it, was beaten up, and sent to the North Fifth Institute to sweep the yard. That year when the emperor came back from his southern tour, he could have returned to Chuxiu Palace to work as an errand, but somehow he went crazy, and anyone who saw him would lie down on the ground without saying a word. Painting, I have been like this for many years. Other slaves don’t know..." Qianlong was busy listening to him, but couldn't remember for a while. Seeing the Queen Mother coming from the Kunning Gate, Chen and the two Fourteen Fujin supported her one by one and walked tremblingly towards Qin'an Palace, followed by a group of eunuchs.Hurriedly rushing up to meet her, Dai Wuya helped the Queen Mother, and said with a smile: "Your twenty-fourth aunt came in so early to greet Lafayette so early? - Lafayette is in a good mood today! My son said I brought you and Zhuo to pay my respects. I met Ji Yun and Yu Minzhong just now, and I got dizzy, so I said that I also came to the garden, and I heard that your old man came too. Isn't this the nature of mother and child?" "I'm fine." The queen mother smiled and said, "I got up early today, and the Korean rice cakes brought in by your twenty-fourth aunt, although they are easy to use, are afraid that they won't stop eating, so I come out and walk around, walk around I still don’t feel any pain in my legs! Let’s ask your twenty-fourth aunt to help you. You’re over sixty. It’s warm here in the sun and there’s no wind. Ask them to move a spring stool to sit and talk while basking in the warmth. Go and disturb the Zhuo family." She said, and the Zhuo family had already saluted, and Qianlong repeatedly ordered: "Shaoyaohuaer, go to pass on Yizhi——He Zhuo family, this is the twenty-fourth aunt , you squat a Wanfu ceremony!" So everyone was busy, some passed orders, some arranged defenses, and drove out the idle eunuchs.The people who opened the gate and moved the spring benches scurry back and forth, and the quiet garden immediately became noisy.During the handover between Wu Yashi and Qianlong just now, Qianlong had secretly pinched his wrist. Seeing that "Shaoyaohua'er" was an eunuch, he couldn't help smiling, and said, "Shaoyaohua'er, what a good name!" He returned the salute to He Zhuo and said: "Master Rong, you are the master and I am a slave, so you can break my royal rations. Lafayette, take a look: the clothes and appearance of the lady Rong are better than the ones from Persia." The picture of a beautiful shepherd is beautifully painted on it! Ah! Tsk tsk tsk... Dressed up like this, isn’t that a Persian Guanyin?” The Queen Mother nodded with a smile, and Wu Yashi came to help, Qianlong’s hands were not mature once again.Wu Yashi only smiled compensatingly, and Chen Shi also laughed.The Queen Mother was unconscious, and saw that the wisteria spring stool was brought up, and they sat down with their support, and said: "Just now that Zhao from the House of Internal Affairs came back to me and said that He Shen sent in another three hundred taels in Shandong." Gold made hair towers. I didn’t care about this. Since it’s almost finished, it’s fine. The palace even melted gold spoons weighing two or three coins, and the base of the head was poured with two stirs of gold and silver. Come out. Emperor, we are the heavenly family, and these unurgent things in our house are not at all harmful. You just order, don’t search in such corners—okay?” "Listen, my son." Qianlong said with an apologetic smile, "Mother is too frugal. No gold from the national treasury was used to build the pagoda well. It is purely a little filial piety of my son. What my mother said is that the base of the lower head can be cast with gold and silver. That's it. For the three hundred taels of gold sent by Heshen, peony flowers passed the decree to the Palace of Compassion, and the rest were put into the base, and the gold was no longer requisitioned.” Seeing Wu Yashi covering her mouth with a handkerchief and laughing, she asked, "What are you laughing at?" Wu Yashi blushed from laughing, and said, "Back to the emperor, this servant still laughs at the name Shaoyaohua'er. Such a pockmarked eunuch It's dark and not autumnal, and it's called "Shaoyaohuaer", and it runs like a dog's tail, and it's also "Shaoyaohuaer"!" Chen said: "The eunuch of the aunt's palace was left by the late emperor, and the name is not strange. It’s not surprising that you’ve seen it a lot—a few eunuchs in Wushu’s mansion, some called “shit”, “bastard”, “bastard” and so on. There's a 'son of a bitch'.Once Uncle Wu ate food that didn't taste good, lost his temper, slapped the table and scolded: 'How did you do it here? ——Bastard bastard! The two eunuchs were so frightened that they knelt down together, and said with a bitter face: "This is not the business of the slaves, it is the shit that went to the kitchen to confess!" " As soon as the words fell, everyone immediately burst into laughter, more than a dozen court ladies staggered with laughter, the eunuchs bowed their backs, turned around, coughed and fell, only He Zhuo didn't understand, and looked at everyone with a pair of big eyes and a smile.Seeing his mother trembling with laughter while holding a bowl of rice in one hand, Qianlong hurriedly took out a towel and wiped it off.While beating the Empress Dowager's back, Mrs. Chen said with a slight smile, "It's my fault, it seems Lafayette is choking..." Laughing, the atmosphere in the garden is no longer as solemn as when he sat down.When talking about watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival, dignified female officials and court ladies also came to have fun. Some said that they would set up a big dragon lantern in the Imperial Garden, some said that they would set up a lantern shed in the Palace of Compassion, and some said that they asked the eunuchs in the palace to trample on the lanterns. Playing tricks on stilts, dry boats, sedan chairs and lantern dances... and elephants and elk are released, the scenery outside is absolutely unsatisfactory.Qianlong said with a smile: "A group of wild beasts are driven in from the Forbidden City. What is the situation like? This imperial garden is going to hold a feast for all officials. It is not good to be solemn. It is better to simply go to the Old Summer Palace, the empty field next to the West Sea of ​​Baoyue Tower." , make the House of Internal Affairs lively, spacious and elegant. Is this possible?" The queen mother smiled and shook her head when she heard this: "No matter how you manipulate the palace, it won't be really fun. They dance and dance, When I thought about it, it was some eunuchs who came out to look fancy, and I couldn’t laugh even if I wanted to. Go out here to Zhengyangmen, which is the most lively in Beijing. When the first emperor was young, he took me to see the lanterns, the fireworks and firecrackers, and the Silver Mountain. Huo Shu, that person in that scene...the palace couldn't pretend to be any good—the late emperor used a car for us, and watched it through the glass window in the middle of the night!" Her eyes stared forward, and her dim pupils radiated joy The light in the sky seems to yearn for the glory of the past, and it also seems to lament the passing of time like a river: "Oh, I haven't seen that scene again in fifty-five years..." "Since Lafayette has such a mood, my son should be obedient and filial." Qianlong was also infected by her emotion, and said with a smile: "The late emperor can let you watch the lamp, why can't my son? Let's just make a big fuss and inform the people of the capital , I will accompany you to the Zhengyang Gate to watch the lanterns! Queens, imperial concubines, concubines...and—" He glanced at the twenty-four Fujin, "Prince, county king, Baylor, Beizi, Fujin all went up to the stack, and all officials The banquet will be held inside the Zhengyang Gate——in this way, who among the common people won’t come to pay their respects? It’s getting more and more lively!” The queen mother said happily: “It’s good to be brave! I'm afraid there are too many people, and the people will be crowded, and the flower thieves mentioned in Guci'er also like to take advantage of the chaos and abduct other people's children." "That's not a problem." Qianlong said with a smile: "What does Li Shiyao eat? Just ask him to take precautions to protect you." As he spoke, seeing the Empress Dowager smiled and bowed and got up, she said, "Chen Shi and Aunt Twenty-Four are still supporting us, let's go to see the flowers in the greenhouse." A group of people got up one after another, accompanied by Qianlong, surrounded by the Queen Mother, went westward, but did not follow the original path of the stone steps, went north along the rampant stone egg corridor in the west gate, walked around Chengrui Pavilion, Shunzhen Gate to Fubi Pavilion, All the way along the greenhouse to see the flowers through the glass skylight.After walking to the north of the Wanchun Pavilion, Qianlong saw Gao Shaoyao'er coming back, followed by Wang Bashi, and hurried to this side, he knew something was going on in the front hall.Sure enough, seeing Gao Shaoyao said something to Wang Baxie, Wang Baxie stood still.Seeing Gao Shaoyao come over with a smirk on his face, Qianlong took advantage of the empress dowager, He Zhuo, twenty-four Fujin and Chen to look at the "thunder on the ground" flower inside, and asked, "What's the matter?" Shao Yao whispered: "Grandfather Fu Heng—— is dead!" "Fukang'an went to Tianjie to report the funeral, and now the military plane is waiting for the order." The smile on Qianlong's face seemed to be shocked by the sudden cold wind, and immediately froze and froze: knowing all the bad news that must happen, all knowing "just a few days", at first hearing, there was still a bang in my heart , sinking down as if collapsing.When he was stunned, he just came back to his senses, and hurriedly ordered: "Let Wang Baxie ask the military minister on duty to take Fukang'an to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and I'll go right away - order Li Shiyao to come in and see me!" He Standing for a while to make up his mind, he turned back and saw that the Huagong eunuch was presenting a bowl of royal honey juice to the Queen Mother, and ordered: "You take a sip first and then present it to the Queen Mother." He regained his energy, smiled and said: " Lafayette, I said earlier that my son has something to do, so I can't accompany you to breakfast. You just go and have fun, and the Zhuo family is also good at Western Region dance to amuse you! My son will go now, if you have time, Come in to accompany you again; if you don’t have time, I’ll go there to say hello to you at night. He Zhuo should be careful to wait on you. Aunt Twenty-Four won’t come in easily. She will spend more time with Lafayette. She also wants to see the queen. You don’t have to go back when it’s late; Chen Please take care of me—" The Empress Dowager smiled and waved her hands: "You are busy with your work. Does anyone dare to wrong me?" Qianlong walked out of the imperial garden with a steady pace, and a bright yellow soft sedan was waiting at the north of Kunning Gate.Hastily took a few steps up to sit, the sedan chair slid and moved forward quickly, and headed to the gate of Chuxiu Palace, the straight Yongxiang Nantou Chuihua gate of Yangxin Hall was clear, Ji Yun had already arrived, and Fukang in white filial piety Andu knelt down at the doorstep to greet him.When Qianlong got out of the sedan chair, he only glanced at the trembling Fukang'an, sighed, and said, "Come in..." and went straight into the hall.Wang Baxie and Wang Lian were busy taking off the leather robe for Qianlong, before the tea was served, Ji Yun led the way silently, Fukang'an staggered and walked into the Nuan Pavilion. "The emperor one by one" Fukang'an seemed to be paralyzed in all his limbs, almost stuck to the ground, trembling violently from his shoulders to his arms, his usually delicately combed braids were a little loose, and the hair on his forehead was an inch and a half Long, gray and dull, trembling with countless kowtows, he choked his throat and kept yelling: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Ji Yun knelt side by side with him. I can't help it, but my complexion is gray, my eyes are dull, and the corners of my mouth are a little twisted, twitching as if I want to cry, but this square inch is the hub of the world, and the rules have always been the strictest. Exceeding the limit was also rude to the king, so he could only hold back his sobs and wipe away his tears, and said, "Fu Heng let go..." Qianlong was speechless for a moment, looked out of the window as if he was lost in all directions, and then looked up at the algae well on the top of the hall. Suddenly, tears filled his eyes.With trembling hands, he took the towel from Wang Baxi and wiped away his tears, his voice became hoarse: "Really? This really hurts my heart...he is only in his fifties...he has been with me for more than forty years Is that the way to go?" His eyes were blurred with tears, and he looked at Fukang'an again, still kowtowing again and again, his throat seemed to be hardened, and he couldn't breathe all over his body, and his thin white fingers desperately grasped the slippery golden skin. brick floor.Qianlong said: "My child...I know you are sad, don't be like this, don't...you cry aloud, cry...don't be afraid..." Fukangan let go of his voice with a "woo", turned his body sideways, twitched, twisted and danced, and almost collapsed on the ground.Qianlong's tears fell like rain amidst a long cry. The people in the palace thought of Fu Heng's treatment of people on a daily basis, regardless of high or low, never domineering, simple and peaceful, and kind and lenient. .Ji Yun cried with Fu Kang'an for a while, feeling a little relieved in his heart, thinking about the many important matters to be arranged, sobbing and wiping away his tears, he said: "Although Fu Heng is gone, his life has been full of vigor and vitality. Revealing the virtues of the common people, making brilliant achievements and establishing a long history, the ministers of scattered ranks have moved to the first-class princes one after another, and they are sincerely a model for my courtiers. What regrets there are in life and death! The ceremony still needs to be arranged, the emperor should not be too sad about it, and Fukang'an should be honored and mourned, sincerely think of filial piety, and send it back to Fu Heng properly, and transfer filial piety to loyalty, so that Fu Gong can be happy in the underground..." After finishing, Enduring tears and kowtow again and again. "Stop court for three days to mourn for Fu Heng." Qianlong said after wiping his face from the snow and waiting for Fukang's tears to stop.His voice became muffled and heavy, and he said as if he was weighing his words: "Ji Buy drafted a sacrificial oration on my behalf, and the prince Yonglin went to Fu's mansion to pay homage... The Dharani Sutra was prepared long ago, and I was originally There is still a glimmer of hope, so if there is no gift, Ji Yun and Yu Minzhong will go to the government to issue a decree to bestow it. The rest of the etiquette will be buried according to the first-class public, and the Ministry of Rites will report it to me." He pondered and said: "As for the sympathy code It is needless to say that Fu Heng wants to enter the Xianliang Temple. After the funeral, Fu Heng Danqing's portrait will be sent to Ziguang Pavilion for offering. Fulong'an will add the first-class earl and Fuling'anjia the second-class earl. Use. Fu Kang'an is Fu Hengzheng's consort son, so you will inherit your father's title and become a first-class duke." Fu Kang'an, who was kneeling on the ground, trembled.Ji Yun's waist also straightened up, and the previous rewards were all within his expectations, and Fu Heng's prestige and loyalty among officials, soldiers and people, and his life's achievements deserved the emperor's rewards.But "first-class public" is the pinnacle of fame for a minister, and how many lords and relatives of the previous generation may have spent their entire lives on the battlefield to earn such a high title.Taking lightly and taking lightly is not only taboo, but also leaves no room for improvement in the future. What good does this do for Fukang'an?Qianlong has always wanted to promote Fukang'an, everyone knows that, several times he proposed to add a third-class public military aircraft, and he was promoted, and at this moment he was suddenly promoted to "first-class"!Ji Yun thought it was wrong, but he didn't have the guts to ask him to stand up alone, and given the current situation, he couldn't repeatedly refute on Fu Heng's shirt. Intentionally or unintentionally," touched Fukang'an.Almost at the same time, Fukang'an had kowtowed and played back: "The emperor's shirt is the honor of his father Fu Heng. The slave should not have resigned. I remember the emperor's repeated instructions: 'A good woman does not wear dowry clothes, and a good man does not eat his parents' fields." You should be self-reliant and self-improving, and then make meritorious deeds. Repay the emperor for the kindness of the heavens and the earth, and repay your father's longing for hard work. Make this decree a reward for the slaves. Both public and private benefit." "Then put this article into the imperial decree, and I will leave room for you to improve." Qianlong said, "But you are different from Fulong'an and Fuling'an after all. If you resign, will they resign? - into the third class, Don't resign anymore." Qianlong said, seeing Li Shiyao coming in, he also knelt down to salute with his face full of tears, so he said again: "Both you and Ji Yun have received Fu Heng's kindness, and Ji Yun helped with the funeral arrangements for the Lord. You also need to go to Fu's mansion more often. Fu Heng is different from others. He is my brother-in-law's kinship relationship with me, and he is also a minister of society who shines in the annals of history. I can't go to Fu's mansion again. I'm afraid I can't bear it. If you have something to discuss, you can discuss it with me. ...that's..." Then she shed tears again. Li Shiyao's eyes were filled with tears, but he was a vigilant and agile person, and what he had learned through experience was not as pure as Ji Yun's scholar.Hearing Qianlong's order, he kowtowed and said with sobs: "Fu Heng has been my boss and a good teacher all my life. When I first heard the bad news in Longzong's gate, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, shaking my soul. , I still can’t believe that he has already gone... All I can think of at this moment is that Fu Heng is the prime minister who was cultivated by the emperor, and he is in charge of the country’s government affairs. Admiral, can you allocate a thousand soldiers to escort the coffin to Zirong? This is not up to the ministers to decide, please ask the emperor to judge." Qianlong looked at Li Shiyao without saying a word. Judging from Fu Heng's status and prestige in the army, it is not a waste of money to have a thousand soldiers protecting the coffin, but this is "overreach". There is no such precedent except for burying generals on the battlefield.I already have so many favors, and I still want to ask for more, what does Li Shiyao mean?He was silent for a while, and the three of them immediately felt an invisible pressure coming through, but Fu Kang'an couldn't refute, Ji Yun couldn't speak for him, and Li Shiyao couldn't change his words. He squirmed a bit, already feeling uneasy.Qianlong let out a "huh" and seemed to have understood that Li Shiyao was just "reckless" and wanted to make up for Fu Heng's funeral. It's too eye-catching, it's under the festival, the shock is too great, and Fu Heng is also uneasy. He has been cautious all his life, worrying, slandering and ridiculing, but he still wants to fulfill his heart." Li Shiyao quickly kowtowed: "It's the minister who said it's wrong, please be careful. Obey the oracle." Qianlong still wanted to talk, but when he saw Wang Lian coming in with two letters in his hands, he asked, "Where did you get it from?" , bowed his waist and said, "One is from Sui Hede, and the other is from Lord Fifteen, both of which have the words 'Urgent' on them,—there are three chicken feathers on the letter of Lord Fifteen, all of which are six hundred miles. Submit it. Master Ji is not here, the military aircraft Zhang Jing Liu Baoqi called the slave—" He didn't finish, Qianlong waved his hand to stop him. Wang Lian didn't dare to vent his anger, so he tiptoed back.Ji Yun and Li Shiyao didn't know what happened, they all knelt up straight, and even Fu Kang'an raised his head with tears in his eyes and stared at Qianlong.Qianlong compared the two envelopes. Sui Hede's was sealed with wax lacquer, and the edges were worn a little because of the long journey; Yongyan's was a mulberry paper envelope used by ordinary people on the market. Written to the Military Aircraft Department, the words "Urgent Do Not" are written on it, which is also very sloppy, and there are three chicken feathers glued to the seal.It was evident that both letters were urgently needed.But he first took a look at Sui Hede's, glanced at it and put it on the case, and then took a look at Yong Yan's, he was startled when he saw that it wasn't Yong Yan's handwriting, and asked: "Ji Yun, who followed Yong Yan? " "It's called Wang Erlie." Ji Yun trembled when he asked him coldly, and hurriedly said: "I am serving the emperor's elder brother to study in Yuqing Palace, and the editor of the Hanlin Academy—" Before he finished speaking, he stopped himself, because Qianlong was already there. Focus on the letter. There was no sound inside and outside the warm pavilion. The three kneeling people had completely forgotten about Fu Heng's funeral. Even the eunuchs held their breaths and peeked sideways at Qianlong.The letter was written on a small amount of paper, and the words were small and dense, which seemed to be very long.Qianlong's face was expressionless at first, but gradually turned red, his eyelids were slightly opened and released an angry light; then it dimmed for a while, and his face became gloomy and pale.He pushed the letter away, as if he didn't think about anything, and said for a long time: "I'm afraid something will happen, but something will happen!" He stood up, took the letter in his hand again, and wandered slowly in the hall. This is a very rare situation. Qianlong's sitting skills are actually better than Yongzheng's. He often sat down for three hours without moving.Military and state affairs, tens of thousands of letters, just sit and deal with them.Unless he is extremely angry or emotional, he will wander around the room like the impetuous Yongzheng.After an unknown amount of time, Ji Yun saw that Qianlong's expression was softening slightly, so he asked in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty... what happened?" "Pingyi County was served by someone." Qianlong's sudden sentence made the three of them tremble in fright, "...two firewood sellers competed for customers and fought in the firewood market. The county government officials dragged him to the shackles. , the firewood was confiscated and returned to the public! A blind mother who sold firewood went to feed her son, and they threw away the bowl and kicked the basket..." I don't know whether he was angry or sad, Qianlong gritted his teeth and shook his hands. Don’t provoke public anger? It was the fourth day of the new year, and it was noon, and the people all over the street were crazy. There was a man named Wang Yan—the fifteenth elder brother suspected that he was Lin Qingshuang—standing on the carriage to greet the crowd, five thousand Many people rushed up, smashed the prison, broke into the county government, robbed a street, and rushed away!... The county magistrate fled without a trace, his eldest son was beaten to death by rioters, and all six girls were raped. Twenty-one were killed, and I don't know how many were injured. What's even more hateful is that there are a thousand green battalion soldiers stationed outside the city. Knowing that the city is in chaos, the battalion is also in chaos. For defense, no one set up a blockade to block them. Seeing the thieves rushing out of the city, no one even closed the gate of the barracks. Two thousand rioters rushed in and kicked the camp. Thirteen soldiers and seven rioters were killed, and five shotguns were lost. , A cannon was blown up on the spot, food and New Year’s meat were robbed, and then they walked away!" He spat out "Yah", and hit the gauze grill with his fist hard, beating the The carved grille trembled and hummed.He shouted loudly: "Gao Yuncong come in!" "Slave...slave...slave is here!" Gao Yun trotted in, his face turned pale, and he lay down on the ground, "Master has a will, slave...slave to pass it on!" "Yesterday you asked the Military Aircraft Department, where is Ah Gui?" "Back to master, Gaobeidian!" "Send someone on a flying horse to pass the decree, and go fast, what's there to see on the road in winter, just dawdle?" "Yes!" Gao Yun started and stopped, repeating: "——go fast, what is there to see on the road in winter, just dawdling?" Seeing that Qianlong had nothing to say, he got up and walked quickly. Qianlong glanced sideways at the hall, as if looking for someone to vent his anger on, and made everyone shorter, but saw him staring at Ji Yun and asked: "Zhaohui's army is short of food, why didn't the Military Aircraft Department play me? "Ji Yun was preoccupied with the riots in Pingyi, Shandong, so he couldn't help being startled, and quickly kowtowed: "The military officials don't know much about it, but Liu Baoqi said that Yu Minzhong transferred 300,000 jin of radishes from Kaifeng to Xining The Ministry of War complained that the radish was only worth three hundred taels of silver for two cents a catty, and it took six thousand taels of silver to transport it—” "Sixty thousand taels of silver have to be transported up!" Qianlong roared hoarsely, "The people in the Ministry of War are a bunch of bastards! The more money he has, the better he can get it——Half of Zhaohui's soldiers are night blind now, and they came in with Zhuo Bu in the middle of the night. , without the slightest resistance,—remove the title of Ahemu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and tell him to escort the vegetables to Zhaohui camp quickly, and return with Zhaohui's receipt to exchange for his top son!" "Yes!" Ji Yun agreed and got up.乾隆皱着眉头叫住了：“叫王八耻去吧，还传旨给于敏中办。”王八耻便忙过来听旨，乾隆躁急的情绪平息了一点，吩咐道：“把山东平邑暴民造反的事知会于敏中，告诉他，兆惠营里的军务更要紧，叫他仔细着，除了蔬菜，看还缺什么，都紧着补给。谨记六个字：'西线安，天下宁！'去吧！” 这六个字显然是他深思熟虑过的，随口就缓缓说出了。李侍尧咀嚼片刻，立时掂出了分量：从内地军政民政，四边漏气，八方走风，西线得胜，尽可慢慢调元恢复，设若兵溃，那真是糜烂不可收拾。想想入京来诸事不得意不顺心，还不如出去打仗。心里一热，双手一撑，正要说话，福康安已抢先说话：“皇上，奴才愿意替主子分忧！兆惠是主将，奴才当先锋。” “你急切请缨，李侍尧也有点跃跃欲试，这是好的。不过事情还不至于急到这份儿上。”乾隆目光柔和地看着三个人，”摊子太大，出一点麻烦事，朕心里烦躁就是了。你父亲新丧，不要浮躁，好好安顿你父亲入土，照料好你母亲。三年孝满，朕自有用你处。”福康安生性倔强自负，喜兵好武，封了公爵，自觉无功，是沾了父亲的光，却不肯白白放过立功自效的机会，因连连叩头，说道：“皇上忧虑，是臣子效命之秋！家中有福隆安、福灵安全力护持，必定能周全丧事，慰抚高堂。如皇上不愿奴才去西宁，请给奴才一道旨意，到龟蒙顶去剿灭平邑匪徒。现在这群反贼是乌合之众，仓猝起事，立足不稳，拖得时日越长，越难征剿。皇上明鉴！”乾隆苦着眉头道：“平邑之乱，朕料只是匪人临时乘势，五千多人卷进来，真正上山的加上监狱犯人不会逾千。龟蒙顶山里原来也有土匪山寨，合起来大约也就不足两千，刘墉、和珅他们就在山东，应该不难料理的。” 福康安听了又叩头：“刘墉是吏治能手，辅相才干。和珅奴才以为是个庸臣！他何能料理军事？《左传·曹刿论战》云'一鼓作气，再而衰，三而竭'。一仗打不下来，匪寇站稳了脚根，再打就难十倍，且是山东、直隶匪人猖獗，一旦蔓延，情事可虞！” 和珅由銮仪卫进军机处行走，又直擢军机大臣，正是红得如日中天、炙手可热的人物，他竟不假思索，亢声而出“是个庸臣”！李侍尧和纪昀都吃了一惊：都说福康安豪迈胆大，果然名下无虚——心里又痛快又担心，都向乾隆望去。 “和珅不是庸臣，调和六部、理财都是好手。”乾隆说道，“打仗、出兵放马你说他不中用，朕信，其余你的话都对。”乾隆说着，纪昀和李侍尧目光一对，心中都是暗自惊讶：这事若放在别人身上那还得了！不革职至少也是一顿痛斥！怎么就容得福康安这么放肆呢？乾隆却不理会二人心思，他的口角甚至带了一丝温馨的微笑，却是皱着眉在款款教诲：“你已经是公爵，簪缨贵胄，懋德春华，不要动不动就出口伤人……你父亲是这样的么？要学他……征剿的事另派人吧，朕这时候也不忍让你夺情从公……” 福康安眼泪夺眶而出，伏地泥首说道：“父亲也是这样教训我的，临终时还拉着我的手说：论亲情皇上是你嫡亲姑父，我不愿你总记得这一条；皇上……是超迈千古的圣君，我愿你记牢这一条。要视皇上如父亲，如圣人……”他断断续续，已是语哽不能连声，“……他还说……生就的富贵靠不住，自己挣得的才算有……我后悔平金川没带你。我手里有权，满可以把你派到乌里雅苏台去带兵……去、去历练……” 乾隆听着，心中又涌起一阵悲酸，咬着下唇勉强抑住了，说道：“既然你父亲有这个话，朕已经变了主意，朕给你剿匪宣慰使身份，你到山东去！”