Forbidden City, Chonghua Palace, loud laughter is coming from the palace.
The owner of the laughter is Aisin Gioro Hongli, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, who regained his freedom and took charge of the government again.
Chonghua Palace was originally the second of the five Qianxi Palaces in the Ming Dynasty. In the fifth year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, Emperor Qianlong moved here from the Yuqing Palace. In the same year, he held a wedding ceremony here and married his direct descendant from the Fujin family, the Fucha family, who later became known as Xiaoxian. Queen.
The couple lived here for nine years, so this place was not only Qianlong's late residence, but also had great significance to Qianlong's life, especially as he got older, the more he missed his old friend.
Every time he thought of the love of his life and the extremely virtuous Empress Fucha, Qianlong felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.
The relationship between the couple is really deep.
Today, after he severely punished the rich thief in Yangxin Palace and expelled a breath of bad breath from his heart, for some reason, Qianlong's heart became extremely empty and lost. Looking around, there was no one to talk to, and he deliberately acted out of grief. Come to Chonghua Palace.
Perhaps because he was in a good mood, Qianlong laughed out loud from time to time, which made the Chonghua Palace feel like a spring breeze.
You must know that since the palace change, this is the first time that the emperor's happy laughter has been heard in the palace, which makes many eunuchs who have experienced the palace change feel like they have not seen it for a long time.
Emperor Qianlong, who was already 65 years old, seemed to be in good condition except for being a little thin. He was not only talkative, but also walked steadily and energetic. It would be an exaggeration to say that he was a forty-year-old man.
Accompanying personnel were Suolin, Minister of Military Aircraft, Yuan Shoudong, Mingde, Bachelor of Cabinet, and others.
Suo Lin and Yuan Shoudong were the heroes who "smartly captured" the traitor Fulehun. Together with another hero Liang Guozhi, they were given the double-eyed flower feather by Qianlong.
Gasolin was appointed as the minister in charge of Luan Yiwei, supplemented by the title of minister of internal affairs, and also served as the commander-in-chief of Manchuria Xianghuang Banner;
Added Yuan Shoudong as imperial minister, bachelor of Wuyingdian, chief master of Shangfang Shu, and granted the privilege of riding horses in the Forbidden City;
During the reign of Liang Guozhi, he was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and a bachelor of Dongge University. He was also given the title of Horse Rider in the Forbidden City.
He also appointed Suolin as the chief minister of military aircraft, dismissed Kuini, who was the former minister of the Ministry of Rites and was working in the military aircraft department, and dismissed Qinggui who "had no meritorious service".
Introduced He Shen, the Minister of Household Affairs, into the Military Aircraft Department, and was appointed as the Minister of Internal Affairs in the previous period;
Wang Jie, the former censor of Youdu, who ordered the return of the revolution, was a bachelor of Wenhua Palace and immediately went to Beijing to join the military aircraft department to see his duty.
Qianlong originally intended to carry out a general purge of the entire court, but was persuaded by Suo Lin, Liang Guozhi and others, saying that although the rich thieves and their backbone were controlled, there were still many of his followers in the court. If the emperor wanted to make a big move, these people would definitely Will take desperate risks.
In particular, the traitor Jia Shikai holds military power outside the country. If things in the capital are not kept secret and stir up turmoil, we must beware of Jia the traitor Shikai taking the opportunity to bring troops to the capital to follow the old example of Ming Jingnan.
Liang Guozhi suggested slowing down efforts and taking measures slowly, and adopting the strategy of "tightening internally and loosening externally" against traitorous parties.
On the one hand, "regardless of previous crimes" was used to appease the traitorous party members inside and outside the capital; on the other hand, the fourth son of the emperor, Prince Lu, secretly went to the front line to "peacefully" take over the command of the army and win civil and military support from the front line, completely isolating the traitor Shikai. , Only in this way can it be solved in one fell swoop with thunderous means.
As the folk saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient.
What's more, there is still a tiger named Prince An lying in the capital.
The emperor will spare no effort to clean the inside and outside of the court. Can Prince An sleep and sit still?
After all, after being the emperor for more than 40 years, Qianlong also had his own priorities, so he adopted the suggestions of Suo Lin, Liang Guozhi and others to take things slowly.
What surprised Suo Lin and others was that the emperor did not order the execution of the culprit, the rich thief Lehun, but instead imprisoned him in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and even asked the guards to bring him into the palace for talks every two days.
Then send it back as is.
This made many ministers doubtful.
Seeing that the emperor was in a good mood, Liang Guozhi, the military minister who accompanied him, wanted to once again propose the right example of bringing rich thieves to justice.
This is also a manifestation of the policy of "only punishing the first culprit and leaving the rest alone".
Without killing the thief Fulehun, how can we explain the coup of three ministers that happened at the Military Aircraft Department?
How to characterize this coup attempt?
If the rich thief survives, do his gang of gang members still have hope?
But just as he was about to step forward to make a speech, the emperor asked the people around him: "Where did Li Yu go?"
"Reply to the master, Mr. Li will take care of him. He is no longer here."
The person who answered was an eunuch named Oroli. This man's name seemed to be Manchurian, but he was actually a Han. After entering the palace, he admired Manchuria, so he changed his name to himself in private.
"Li Yu was killed?"
Qianlong was stunned and asked Eroli what was going on.
Oroli couldn't say anything. Seeing this, the accompanying cabinet scholar Mingde stepped forward and quietly revealed the truth about Li Yu's death to the emperor.
According to Mingde, General Manager Li was tied up in a sack by the Sehen Tu gangsters and beaten to death. After his death, his body was sent by carriage to a mass grave outside Beijing. Most of the bones were missing.
"Li Yu,"
Qianlong felt sad for a long time, and finally sighed softly and walked silently towards the residence where he and Queen Fucha lived.
In fact, Mingde did not explain clearly that after Li Yu's death, Sehentu's people ransacked his private residence outside the palace and seized a large number of antiques and treasures, including hundreds of gold and silver. Together with the real estate and shops, Beijing
Land abroad, private property back home, and Mr. Li’s personal savings total more than 16 billion.
An account book was also found at his home, which recorded that 158 officials, including feudal officials, paid bribes to him.
Sanbao, the former governor of Zhejiang, even called Manager Li "Yi Ama" in a disgusting letter.
In the bedroom where he and Empress Fucha lived together for nine years, Qianlong carefully touched everything like an archaeologist.
The accompanying officials were outside and did not dare to disturb the people inside. After a long time, they saw the emperor walking out of the house and said to everyone present: "I am responsible for tens of thousands of people and work hard all day long. All the affairs in the palace were handled by Empress Xiaoxian back then. It was a very hard work."
Gao, he also handles things appropriately, and I have a deep relationship with the queen."
At the end of the story, Qianlong suddenly ordered the Ministry of Rites to give the posthumous title of Empress Xiaoxian, who had died many years ago, which surprised all the ministers present.
They all thought of the twelfth elder brother who was appointed as the crown prince by the emperor in public.
"Let's do it."
Qianlong didn't care what his ministers thought. He waved his hand and ordered him to drive to Qianqing Palace, and called He Shen to see him.
Luan Jia then went from Chonghua Palace to Qianqing Palace.
This was Qianlong's first visit to Qianqing Palace since he regained his freedom.
After arriving at the main hall, Qianlong suddenly asked all the officials to go out, and then asked the eunuch Oroli to bring a ladder and remove the secret box he placed behind the upright and bright plaque.
Eroli looked up at the plaque, wondering when the emperor had hidden something here.
Not daring to be slow with my hands and feet, I immediately climbed up the ladder carefully after getting the ladder. I found a secret box behind the plaque, took it in my hand and quickly came down.
"master!"
Oroli respectfully handed the dusty secret box to the emperor.
Qianlong glanced at the box: "You all get out."
"嗻!"
Eroli and other eunuchs lowered their heads and quickly left without daring to make a sound.
There was silence in the palace.
After carefully examining the secret box for a few breaths, Qianlong reached out and touched the mechanism. With a "click" sound, the box opened instantly, revealing a yellow cloth inside.
Looking at the yellow cloth with the heir's name written on it by his own hands, Qianlong felt a little excited, but also felt vaguely uneasy, so he picked up the yellow cloth and spread it out to look at it. He suddenly changed his color: "Guiziliu, I am your eighth generation ancestor!"