Lian Chenghai told He Shen that there have always been two different views on the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty in the Heaven and Earth Society. One is www.biquge.info to unite the forces of the Han people, take the concept of Han Yi intolerance, and subvert the Manchu regime by uprising. This view has been the mainstream for a hundred years, but in the past hundred years, there have been countless uprisings and riots, large and small, all of which were quickly suppressed by the Qing court.

Therefore, another view has gradually become the mainstream, that is, the Qing court has become bigger and stronger, and the possibility of subverting it in the short term is becoming less and less, and we should focus on the long term, look for opportunities in the contradictions between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty, and in the political struggle within the Qing court, and support our own strength. Nowadays, the political atmosphere is becoming more and more corrupt, and among them is the Tiandihui. Let the political system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Eight Banners system rot from the roots, and do not hesitate to spend hundreds of years and the efforts of several generations, which is the mainstream ideology of the Tiandihui now.

Based on this kind of thinking, the conditions of the Heaven and Earth Society are also very simple. At all costs, he will support He Shen to ascend to power, but He Shen will be a big corrupt official, a big corrupt official who has a cholera regime, forms a party for personal gain, excludes the loyal and good, and creates contradictions between the Manchu and Han courtiers. At this time, Qianlong had already passed the age of hard work, and began to enter the stage of being content with the status quo, cronyism, the pursuit of pleasure, and self-satisfaction, which provided an opportunity for the implementation of this plan.

After listening to Lian Chenghai's words, He Shen showed a mysterious smile that did not match his age. Supporting a big corrupt official? The actions of the Tiandihui are indeed incredible, but everything is in line with reality, and it can even be said to be quite far-sighted. And he was chosen by the Heaven and Earth Society, and from the perspective of outsiders, it is impossible for He Kun, who is deeply favored by the emperor, has strong roots, and is a young man with ambition, to be pulled into the water, but only He Kun himself knows the anger, resentment, loss and strong dislike of officialdom buried in his heart. It seems that this is a well-constructed bureau, a tailor-made bureau, but this is a bureau that makes He Shen full of interest.

"Mr. Lian, the emperor is very kind to me, but I have no foundation in the court and lack help, I am afraid that I will not be able to complete the plan of the Heaven and Earth Society. Do you have any advice?"

He Shen's smiling question was not like talking about family and country affairs, but it was as natural as talking about business, but Lian Chenghai felt an invisible huge pressure, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"And my lord, if you decide to cooperate with the Heaven and Earth Society, these two gifts are your greatest help. Unconsciously, even Cheng Hai has changed his title. "One is Li Shiyao's housekeeper, who is originally a member of our Heaven and Earth Society, and he has physical evidence of Li Shiyao's corruption in his hand. And in today's court, there are many internal lines of our Heaven and Earth Society, and many of them are already in high positions, so they will naturally be the power of adults in the future. Including this Lord Li Shiyao, he has a lot of contact with the Heaven and Earth Society, so the Yunnan-Guizhou border has been stable and uneventful. It depends on how you write the recital to the emperor. ”

"This second gift is the large amount of wealth left by the third prince of the former Ming Dynasty, the total amount will never be less than the current inner treasury, we will slowly transport it to the adults, there are rich people, and the great cause of the adults will not be lost. ”

No one would have thought that the trend of history would be fundamentally reversed in the border town in the southwest, and even the strategizing Lian Chenghai could not see through how He Shen had become a deep, restrained, iron-blooded and retributive minister overnight, let alone know what the future would be if he bet on He Shen.

Sure enough, as Lian Chenghai said, when He Shen arrived in Yunnan, Li Shuyao's housekeeper turned against the water and sent the hidden private accounts of Li Shuyao's bribes to He Shen. This made He Shen have to sigh at the strength of the Heaven and Earth Society, and the thoughtfulness and concealment of its actions.

After thinking about it, he had already made up his mind, he wrote two transcripts and went straight to Li Shiyao's house. Without beating around the bush and testing each other, He Shen directly threw the first transcript to Li Shiyao, on which was the ironclad evidence of corruption he found, the time of acceptance, the amount of money received, and the name of the bribe-giver. Seeing that Li Shiyao changed color and broke out in a cold sweat, he couldn't guess how the young man in front of him could have such a cloud-shaking method.

He Shen didn't listen to his explanation, and threw the second recital to Li Shiyao. This is not so much a notebook as a private letter to Qianlong, which mainly writes that Yunnan is located in the borderlands, the people are fierce, and the Heaven and Earth Society and the Miao forces collude with each other, and it is very easy for major changes to occur. And Li Shuyao accepted bribes, and there was a loss in the honor, but the silver he got was mainly used to pay the officers and soldiers of the green battalion, and there were very few green battalions in the country that could not be paid salaries, and naturally their combat effectiveness was weak, and the Yunnan green battalion alone was well-equipped and had high morale.

Although there are many rebukes of Li Shuyao's corruption, there is a faint writing of the helplessness of a supervisor who is worried about state affairs. This undoubtedly gave Li Shiyao a big step, and also gave Qianlong a step by the way.

After reading the second recital, Li Shiyao couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, and his eyes were also full of awe, and he arched his hand to He Shen and said: "He has a deep plan with the adults, and Shiyao is at his disposal." ”

An unsolved case that has been investigated for a long time, and only a month after He Shen arrived in Yunnan, it came to light. He Shen left an image of a capable minister in front of Qianlong, and the court's statement that He Shen welcomed the emperor to the throne and that there was no real talent and real learning slowly disappeared. And because of that private letter, Qianlong's impression of Li Shiyao has also changed, although he is suspected of being powerful and covering the sky with one hand, but he is a good general who governs the border and quells chaos.

Li Shiyao squatted in the prison of the Criminal Department for a while, just in time for the Northwest Rebellion, and Qianlong reactivated him, reinstated the official, and was the governor of the Northwest Military. When He Shen returned from Yunnan, he was promoted to the head of the household department, the former minister of the imperial court, and the management power of the internal affairs government was also returned to his hands. At this time, as Lian Chenghai said, a large amount of wealth was gathered into the hands of He Shen through various money houses, and the wealth left by the third prince of Zhu in the former Ming Dynasty far exceeded He Shen's imagination, and more opponents who had been in the court suddenly turned around and took refuge in He Shen's door.

He Shen took advantage of the opportunity to control the power of the Internal Affairs Office, and in the middle of the night, he slipped into the small courtyard where the former prince Yinren had been imprisoned, and dug up in the courtyard according to the hints in Lian Chenghai's letter back then. He Shen froze when his shovel touched a hard object, and rotting pieces of cloth appeared in the soil, as well as Sensen's white bones. He put down his shovel, sat down on the edge of the pit with his legs crossed, and silently looked at the full moon slowly rising in the sky, gilding the dilapidated courtyard with a layer of cold silver.

The novel came to an abrupt end here, but I think the rest of the story should be familiar to many people, He Shen, who was on the rise, fought with the martial arts faction represented by Fukangan and A Gui in the court, and the Yushi faction represented by Liu Yong and Wang Jie, and finally became a powerful minister above 10,000 people under one person, and the money he obtained from corruption is said to be ten times the income of the Qing court at that time. Of course, when He Shen's power reached its peak, there was an irreconcilable contradiction with the next new monarch Jiaqing.

But it is undeniable that in the decades that He Shen has been in power, a group of famous generals in the Eight Banners who stand alone have died and depreciated, and the seemingly powerful empire has been vulnerable in terms of armament. And the feudal officials in various places took looting as their own responsibility, making the heavens angry and resentful, and civil uprisings could occur at any time. The empire inevitably declined, and even if there were later Zeng, Zhang, Li, and Zuo's so-called Zhongxing ministers, it only allowed this broken car to go on the bumpy road for a few more years.

But what he may not have expected under Heshen Jiuquan is that the good situation that he has worked hard for a lifetime of corruption has not been well used by the Heaven and Earth Society. Lian Cheng Haiqi went sideways and took a dose of fierce medicine, although it weakened the Qing court, but the Heaven and Earth Society itself was also burdened by the medicine, did not want to forge ahead, set up each other's hills, killed each other, and did not see the weakness of the Manchu Qing, and it had fallen apart. On the contrary, it was cheaper for the imperialist powers, and China sadly entered the darkest century.

At this time, I remembered the desperate poem written by He Shen when he was in prison: "Fifty years ago, the dream was true, and now I am leaving the red dust." When he only spoke about the day, he remembered that the incense soul was the back body. There are many speculations about this poem in the wild history, believing that He Shen's previous life was Qianlong's unjust death of the concubine Ma Jiashi, and the reincarnation was Cixi, who listened to the government. But after reading Juan Bei's "Drama Soul", I finally understood what this fragrant soul meant.

And the strange book "The Story of the Stone" is not only the nostalgia of the previous dynasty, but also a prophecy of the present world, a prophecy written by countless actors with wisdom, emotion and life.

While I was meditating on my books, the solemn sound of a chiming bell came from the theater, allowing me to cross a hundred years and return to reality again. I realized that I was fascinated by reading the book, and I didn't notice that it was already intermission time, and it was estimated that the performance was unusually exciting, and the audience rarely left temporarily, which was reminding everyone that the second half of the performance was about to begin.

At the moment I got up, a familiar piece of music came to my ears, and I couldn't help but shudder and walked briskly back to the theater.

(It is the nature of all things near and far, although they are different from each other, and you see the essence and purity, then all kinds of things have their own differences, and there is no difference in nature.) This subtlety is clear, and you are honest and insightful. If you see things, you can see what I see. If the one who sees with you is called seeing me, and when I don't see it, why don't you see the place where I don't see it? If you don't see it, it's not the other thing, if you don't see the place where you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you don't see it, --"Lengyan Sutra")