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Volume 2 Chapter 209 Death of He Shen (2)

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    After returning to the palace for many days, the emperor kept his eyebrows raised. People around him didn't know what happened and thought he was in bad shape. However, there was only one Jingyu who had been by his side for many years. She heard about this from beginning to end, so she understood that he was in trouble.  She was worried about how to deal with it; but she understood that the court had regulations, and it was not for her as a woman to comment on such important matters, so she had to think of other ways to relieve him, "Your Majesty, the story you told your slave last time has not been finished yet.  Woolen cloth?"

    "Huh?" The emperor said absently, "What did you say?"

    "Is it the Heshen incident during the reign of Emperor Gao?"

    "Ah, what about this?" The emperor smiled bitterly, "Jingyu, let's wait until later?"

    "The new year will start in a few days, and you will be busy again by then. I don't dare to bother the emperor with such a thing, so why not do it now?"

    Hearing her soft pleas, the emperor knew that she was talking to him intentionally to prevent him from worrying too much. He couldn't bear to refute her kindness and nodded with a smile, "Okay, where did we talk last time?"

    "Last time you said that Emperor Rui wanted to recruit Master Zhu to the capital. """()"

    "Oh yes."

    Zhu Gui was Yong Yan's teacher when he was the prince, and they had a very good relationship with each other. In the fifteenth year, Prince Yujia made his elder brother the prince and succeeded him. At that time, Fu Kang'an, the great scholar of Wuying Palace, and Sun Shiyi, the great scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, became vacant one after another.  The Supreme Emperor decided to transfer Zhu Gui to the capital. When he came, he must enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister. Naturally, the current emperor was "confirmed in his wishes and did not dare to invite his ears". He was very happy and wanted to write a poem to congratulate the teacher.

    Unexpectedly, the poem had just been finished and had not yet been sent out.  Because He Shen knew about it, he complained to the Supreme Emperor, and he did it openly, "The emperor wanted to please the master. The secret was leaked before the edict was issued." The evidence is that poem.

    The Supreme Emperor was very concerned about the control of power, because he was familiar with the Twenty-Four Histories, and in view of the stories of Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, and Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, he knew how painful it was to be a Supreme Emperor who was "too supportive", so he believed that the subsequent emperor's move  They are preparing to seize power, which is simply rebellious.

    Jingyu didn't dare to disturb him at first, but now he couldn't help it anymore, "Your Majesty. What poem made the Supreme Emperor so angry? But there are many taboo words in it?"

    "If you study it carefully, this poem is really bad." The emperor raised his head and recalled for a moment, "No. I can't remember it so carefully. I can still remember a few lines, but they all violated the Emperor's taboo. Yes.  It is written like this, although the Holy Lord is rare in ancient times, the Confucian scholar is still in his sixtieth year. This is to compare Zhu Gui with the Supreme Emperor, which is disrespectful; the next sentence is that officials have great power and high responsibilities, and Taiwan and Ding wait for famous people. This sentence is a promise to the ministers  To take on a heavy responsibility is to overstep one's bounds; and then to follow it is to pray for long periods of time, as if it is more like a mountain than a river. This sentence is a sign of overstepping the bounds of etiquette."

    Jingyu stuck out his tongue in surprise, "So many sins!"

    The emperor smiled noncommittally.  Continuing to tell the story, "The Supreme Emperor summoned the minister of military aircraft who was in the same class to meet with him, and said to Dong Gao, the scholar of Dongge University, you have been in the Ministry of Punishment for many years, what do you say about this matter in the "Qing Code"?"

    Dong Gao was horrified. How could the Supreme Emperor use criminal law to measure the actions of subsequent emperors?  After thinking for a moment, he met his head and replied, "The Holy Master has nothing to say."

    This was a face-to-face accusation that the Supreme Emperor had made a mistake. Everyone was frightened and sweated for Dong Gao. However, the Supreme Emperor was the British master after all. After pondering for a while, he nodded and said, "You are a minister of the country. Please guide me to the successor emperor."

    Having said that, the Supreme Emperor was still wary. Instead of recruiting Zhu Gui to the capital, he transferred him to Anhui as governor. When the subsequent emperor learned of this, he was naturally more careful and was extremely polite to Heshen.  {/Update uploaded by book friends} The profound meaning was that Dai Quheng was a bystander, so he hurriedly advised, "It seems inappropriate to summon Master Zhu to Beijing urgently."

    "Why?"

    ¡°I¡¯m just afraid that I¡¯ll scare off the grass and scare the snake.¡±

    The emperor thought about it carefully, suddenly realized it, and suppressed the matter for the time being.

    By the evening of the second day of the first lunar month, all the relatives and military ministers were living in the palace. Yongxuan, Yongxuan, and Yonglin were all in the upper study room of Qianqing Palace. They stayed up all night and sat quietly around the fire, waiting to bid farewell to the emperor.

    Shortly after dawn, the eunuch of the Yangxin Hall came to report that the Supreme Emperor was about to leave, so everyone rushed into the Yangxin Hall. They saw the Minister of Internal Affairs Yunbu standing on the steps waving his hands to signal silence.  In the Nuan Pavilion, I saw that the Supreme Emperor had been helped up, with a large stack of brocade quilts placed behind him, supported by two eunuchs on the left and right. Shang Yi and Jia Boxiong were kneeling in front of the emperor. The emperor stood behind him. He turned around when he heard the sound, but saw a look on his face.  of tears.

    Everyone knelt down, and Shang Yi, who had been diagnosing his pulse, suddenly turned to Jia Boxiong and said, "Xianxiang."

    Shang Yi took a piece of lit incense and held it close to the Emperor's nose. The flame of the incense flickered on and off, showing that there was still a faint breath. In just one cup of tea, Shang Yi handed the incense to the emperor.Jia Boxiong turned his head to look at the golden clock on the red sandalwood coffee table, turned around, knelt in front of the emperor and said, "The Emperor has passed away."

    After Haoyun cried loudly, He Shen stepped forward for the second time and said, "Please forgive me for the moment, Your Majesty. Your Majesty's important affairs are important, and I need to ask His Majesty to preside over them!"

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Out of the blue, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Shengzhu, held a hot handkerchief and handed it to the emperor. He whispered, "Please move to the front hall so that the concubines can come to mourn."

    "No, just go to the study room. The leaning house is also located there."

    Whenever there is a national mourning, the succeeding emperor will not stay in the main hall. According to the ancient precept of "leaning on the hut and sleeping on the floor" in the "Book of Rites", he will summon the ministers in the upper study. There will be no throne and a bamboo mat will be spread on the carpet to sit.  "My servant has informed Qin Tianjian that Xiao Lian will be at noon, and Shenke will be at Dali. Xiao Lian will be in Yangxin Hall, and Dali will be in Qianqing Palace." He Shen said, "I have drawn up a list of the Prime Minister's funeral rites personnel. Please invite  The emperor has seen it."

    "Just read it."

    The list drawn up by Heshen was headed by Prince Rui Chunying, followed by Prince Cheng Yongxuan, Prince Yijun Yongxuan, Dongge University scholar Wang Jie, Hubu Shangshu Fu Changan, Li Shang Deming, acting soldier Shang Qinggui, Xing Shang  Dong Gao, Gongshang Peng Yuanrui, Shengzhu and Yunbu, the ministers in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

    The emperor heard that among the bachelors in the list of relatives and princes, there was Wang Jie but not He Shen. He didn't know why. If he thought about it carefully, he understood that He Shen was taking retreat as a way to advance!  "Why don't you add your name?"

    "This slave is suffering from an eye disease due to the death of the Supreme Emperor. He cried excessively, which made his eyes dim, and he forgot to think about the Emperor's important events. How dare I fail to do my best, there are already on the list."

    "It's good if you have it. Let's include the list in the mourning edict. There is no need to issue another edict." Immediately afterwards, the emperor ordered a few more things, waved his hand for everyone to leave, and everyone got busy.

    As early as the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, after the Supreme Emperor secretly established the reserve.  Then he took care of his own affairs.  The coffin for storing bones has a coffin and a coffin, both of which are made of fine nanmu. The outside of the coffin is covered with gold foil, so it is also called a golden coffin; a coffin within a coffin.  It is called Zi Palace, and its production is even more exquisite. It is made of vermilion lacquer, with a swastika pattern as the base, and Sanskrit characters in Yang script that are several inches in diameter.  Peony patterns are carved around it, as are the empress dowager's and the empress's official posts. The difference is that the Sanskrit characters are in inscriptions.

    Because I was prepared in advance, it only took me half a day to go from small to large.  But methodically.  When the coffin is closed,  It went very smoothly, and the emperor burst into tears.  On the one hand, they also wanted to comfort the Emperor, Concubine Wangui, who was already eighty-two years old, and others in Qian Mansion - but in fact, as He Shen said, "happy and mourning", the concubines, princes, grandsons, princesses, etc. were only there.  I cried for a while, but soon stopped crying.  The only exceptions are Shige - Gu Lun and Princess Xiao.

    Shi Ge was born in the 40th year of Qianlong's reign, when he was sixty-five years old. Before her was Yonglin, the seventeenth son of the emperor, who was born in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong. Eleven years later, he had another daughter, "the smallest pity"  It is already human nature, not to mention that Shi Ge is lovely and most loved by Qianlong.

    Moreover, Shige's temperament is also very similar to his father's. He has been fond of martial arts since he was a child and dressed up as a man. From the age of ten, he often hunted with the Supreme Emperor during the Mulan Autumn Hunting. He wore a special, small and exquisite military uniform, rode a horse.  On the fruit horse¡ª¡ªthat is, the pony¡ª¡ªselected from the royal stable, she watched Zixiong, which made the Supreme Emperor very proud. He often said to her, "It's a pity that you are a girl, otherwise, I would definitely pass the throne to you."

    In the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, Shige surrendered to Heshen's family and married Heshen's son Fengshen Yinde. The Supreme Emperor specially named her Princess Gu Lun and Xiao, and granted her a first-class bodyguard.  This set a precedent that had not happened since Shunzhi. It turned out that only the daughter of the middle palace, that is, the queen, could be granted the title of Princess Gulun, and the other concubines should only be granted the title of Princess Heshuo.

    Thinking of the love between father and daughter, and the friendship between king and minister, it¡¯s no wonder that Shi Ge couldn¡¯t stop crying.  But in addition to these reasons, there is another reason that makes people feel that the road ahead is uncertain and full of unpredictable crises.

    It turned out that not long after she married Fengshen Yinde, his three brothers Yongxuan, Yongyan and Yonglin were named Prince Cheng, Prince Jia and Baylor respectively. One day the three brothers were chatting together and speculating on who would be able to succeed in the future.  After inheriting the throne, Yonglin said, "The artifact is precious, so why would you dare to covet it? I only hope that Heshen's house will be given to me in the future, and that will be enough."

    When word like this spreads outside, everyone knows that He Shen will be in great trouble in the future!  When the Supreme Emperor is here, there is no problem. Once the iceberg falls, how can the princess not cry bitterly when she thinks about the impending disaster on her family?  The more others persuaded her, the harder she cried.

    Instead, the emperor saw that the little sister was heartbroken. He came over and took her hand and said, "Little sister, don't be sad. Even though the emperor has gone, everyone understands that the emperor loves you, just like the emperor."  It¡¯s the same as when I was alive.¡±

    These words reached the princess's heart. She knelt down, touched her head and said, "Your Majesty, I wish you all."?Hold back tears.

    On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Jiaqing, who had just come into power, issued a decree, the content of which is as follows: "After the emperors and ancestors took the imperial examination, they all issued edicts and asked for words. If they listen to them both, they will be enlightened, and if they listen to one or two people, they will be ignorant. If only one or two people speak, even if  The Supreme Duke cannot know the affairs of the world, and he may not be the Supreme Duke." For this reason, "Tongxing Xiaozhi, all Jiuqing's officials and ministers who have the responsibility to report on matters, in terms of employment and administration, must be sealed and reported secretly.  "

    When dynasties change, the succeeding emperor issues an edict asking for advice. This is nothing new. However, this copy comes from Wu Shengqin, the censor of Zuodu, and the eight words "Jiuqing Kedao" and "employment administration" are circled in red pen.  Circle has some unusual meaning.

    Wu Shengqin and his younger brother Wu Shenglan were both lackeys under Heshen's sect. Wu Shenglan did the chief collation of "Sikuquanshu" because of his relationship with Heshen, and was later promoted to the Imperial Academy's Jijiujiu and Minister of Rites; Wu Shengqin became Zuo Duyu  History, to clamp down on the way of speech.

    This time, the emperor¡¯s edict was circled next to the characters Jiuqing Kedao and Employer Administration. It was obviously a hint that Jiuqing Kedao could launch an attack on the ministers who controlled the government.

    He Shen was not afraid. His relationship with the emperor was not bad. With Princess Gu Lun there, there would be no major disaster. For example, on that day, his name was deliberately omitted from the list of mourners. Didn¡¯t the emperor immediately point it out?  Out?  It can be seen that the emperor has no intention of deposing himself, but he may not be able to monopolize power as before.

    But Heshen completely miscalculated the formality. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, someone came forward to ask for advice. One of them was Wang Niansun and the other was Guangxing. They were from the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Punishment respectively.  The former was the son of Wang Anguo, the Minister of Civil Affairs. He wrote articles at the age of eight and finished reading the "Thirteen Classics" at the age of ten, and was hailed as a child prodigy. During the 40th year of Qianlong's reign, he studied in the Hanlin Academy and was very knowledgeable. He was valued by Qianlong for a long time.

    In his memorial, he did not impeach Heshen, but presented the "Six Things to Suppress Bandits", but the first one was to blame Heshen for suppressing him at will in various military reports and deceiving the emperor, so that the Sichuan and Chu bandits were like this  Rampant - and this view is exactly the same as that of the emperor.

    The other one is Guangxing. He is the youngest son of Gao Jin, the great scholar, and the nephew of Gao Jia, the concubine of Emperor Huixian. Although he is a bannerman, he is very good at writing. In addition to He Shen, his memorials also impeach the university.  Shi Su Ling'a, Minister of Rites Wu Shenglan, Minister of War Li Huang, and Chief Minister of Taipu Temple Li Guangyun, these people are all members of Heshen's party. In the memorial, it is said that Heshen built a memorial hall and a tunnel at Jizhou's tomb.  The people call it 'Heling'.

    Neither of these two memorials were sent to the Military Aircraft Department, so He Shen felt that something was not good, but the clues to the inner court were all broken, and the eunuchs in charge of Yangxin Palace and Qianqing Palace had all been replaced, so there was no way to find out the news, but Liao Ke could masturbate.  What's more, if these two people are involved in his crime, the crime must be serious. The emperor will not punish his own crime. If he wants to do it, he must inspect the family property. Then he must recruit the Minister of Punishment and the Infantry Commander's Yamen to explain it face to face.  However, the officials of these two yamen have never entered the palace.

    What he didn't know was that Jiaqing treated the matter of dealing with Heshen completely as a household chore, and only discussed it with three people, Prince Yi, Prince Cheng, and the emperor's son-in-law, the new king of Horqin County who was walking in front of the emperor.  The consort's name is Suotnamu Dobuqi.

    The four monarchs and ministers agreed that Prince Yi and Prince Cheng would announce the arrest. At the same time, two secret instructions were given in Zhubi, one to Dong Gao, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, and the other to Prince Ding Mian'en, who was in charge of the infantry commanding office.  After a day of working with his subordinates, on the morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, as soon as He Shen arrived at the military aircraft, Su La came to report, "Prince Yi has arrived."

    "My dear relatives rarely come to the military aircraft. This incident seemed a bit unexpected. He Shen didn't know how to deal with it. A guard had already raised the door curtain. Prince Yi walked in boldly and asked, "Where is Fu Chang'an?"

    Fu Changan, who was sitting inside, agreed, "Here."

    "There is an edict." Prince Yi walked to the middle of the room and stood facing south. This was a formal announcement, and everyone in the room knelt down facing north.

    So Prince Yi unfolded the edict and read aloud, "He Shen, a great scholar, received money from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Fu Chang'an, the Minister of Household Affairs. The crime was serious, so he was dismissed immediately and handed over to the Ministry of Punishment. Prince Yi Yongxuan was also sent to become the official.  Prince Yongxuan, the great scholar Wang Jie, Liu Yong, the former great scholar Dong Gao, the Minister of Punishment, and Qinggui, the Minister of the Ministry of War, will review it together with the public, and will report the crime. I commend this!"

    After announcing the decree, they still had to "thank you" as usual, but how could He Shen and Fu Chang'an, who were so stunned, still want to get this?  Naturally, Prince Yi would not argue with them. He only made a gesture to the four Qianqingmen guards he had brought, and Guan Zi left first.

    From the death of Qianlong to the arrest and imprisonment of Heshen, it only lasted five days. In the history of the Qing Dynasty, no powerful official suffered disaster more quickly than Heshen.  (To be continued)

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