But since the death of the Fucha clan, Qianlong can already feel that the harem has begun to surge, and even the various factions in the court have joined in betting on the princes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info especially inside the Eight Banners of Manchuria, which was already somewhat contradictory, was even more ready to move, and their respective intelligence networks were silently unfolded in the harem. Qianlong was worried that if this state of affairs continued, a new confrontation would arise, and the important officials of the court would put their minds on their own harems, and who would they rely on for the major affairs of the country? In desperation, he hurriedly made a wrong decision, under the pretext that the eldest son of the emperor Yonghuang and the third son of the emperor Yongzhang were not sad enough at the funeral of the Empress Fucha clan, which violated filial piety, and issued an edict announcing the disqualification of the two from inheriting the throne.

In fact, he hoped that the courtiers would understand that he had no candidate for an heir now, and hoped that everyone would stop making groundless speculations and that he would be a virtuous prince in the future. But his attitude made the battle in the harem go underground, because all the princes were concubines, and the eldest son was not qualified to be a prince, which meant that every prince had a chance, and every family began to accumulate the strength around him.

In fact, Qianlong is a very kind person in his heart, thinking about everything in a good place, and he lacks the ruthlessness of his father's bloody storm. He had seventeen sons in his life, most of whom did not survive to adulthood, and if he favored any one and paid too much attention to which, the child would surely die young. This is by no means a curse, let alone a coincidence, but Qianlong is unwilling to think in that direction, or the intricate political forces of the court hinder him from investigating deeply.

And it just so happened that the emperor's eldest son, Yonghuang, was an extremely weak person in his heart. Yonghuang's biological mother is Qianlong's concubine in Qiandi, her status is extremely low, and she has no relationship with Qianlong. She had no name for many years, and was later crowned as a concubine, but she was still stained with the light of the Fucha clan as the queen. So Yonghuang has been discriminated against since he was a child, and he has never had the idea of being wrong.

But the deaths of Yonglian and Yongcong made all the court forces turn their attention to him as the eldest son of the emperor, and it was the humiliation he had accumulated for many years that was released at once, and he seemed to understand the true meaning of his life. He began to deliberately please Qianlong, risked making friends with some courtiers, and studied poetry, books, rituals and music seriously, which he was not interested in. But as soon as all this began, he was removed from the qualification of the prince by Qianlong for the crime of wanting to add. The huge contrast made him angry, and he had been weak and sickly, so he fell ill at once. In March of the fifteenth year of Qianlong, he finally couldn't hold on and returned to the west.

Yonghuang's death was another big blow to Qianlong. Qianlong was not unkind to Yonghuang, but he felt that Yonghuang, a child, lacked temperament and had a weak personality, and was not a suitable candidate to inherit the unification. And before he issued that edict, although he reprimanded Yonghuang, he also comforted and encouraged, and also gave him a set of "Zizhi Tongjian" that he had annotated, the meaning of which was self-evident. The edict also tactfully expressed his true thoughts, and after the edict was issued, he was afraid that Yonghuang would think too much, so he found some reasons to give him a lot of rewards.

It's a pity that Yonghuang didn't comprehend all this hard work at all, but only one-sidedly understood that he had lost Qianlong's grace, and since then he has been beaten into the cold palace, and the meaning of life has been lost. If this happened to the two hard-hearted emperors, Kangxi and Yongzheng, there would not be much trouble, and what does it matter if there is one more or less descendant of such an unenlightened and politically minded descendant? It is a pity that this happened to Qianlong, which made him fall into deep self-reproach for Yonghuang's death.

So much so that Qianlong, who has always been diligent in government, did not go to court for three unprecedented days, and he did not enter the courtyard of Jingshan Xiaoyulan for more than a month.

It was under Qianlong's depressed mood that in early May of Qianlong's fifteenth year, his son with Xiao Yulan was born.

Qianlong got the news that the child had been born for three days, and Xiao Yulan had been waiting for two months in anxiety. Qianlong hurried to the small courtyard in Jingshan, and after visiting, he told Xiao Yulan in detail about his arrangements. Qianlong had discussed with the Empress Dowager before, and was ready to send this child to the coated servant of the Empress Dowager's mother's family, Niu Hulu's family, and now the Zhenghongqi Fujian Deputy Governor Chang Bao family.

Chang Bao's loyalty to the Queen Mother does not have to be questioned, the key is that he is a contented and happy character, and he has no motivation to make progress. Therefore, Chang Bao has very little interaction with people in the officialdom, but stays away from the circle of right and wrong, and the child will not be conspicuous in his home. In addition, Chang Bao is not a wealthy family, and the family is only well-off, and the child should not be infected with the disease of Eight Banners. The child's name Qianlong has also been chosen, and the children of the Changbao family are first arranged according to the method of Shanbao. When the child became an adult, he changed his name to Heshen. It means "with the light and dust, Ruoshen first bath", I hope that this child will not show his edge and have no quarrel with the world.

Qianlong discussed with Xiao Yulan again, and after the child was sent away, he sent someone to send her back to the Guangtai class in She County, Anhui Province first. The two agreed that after dealing with the current complicated situation in the court, they would go down to Jiangnan to meet Xiao Yulan a year later, and then discuss the future matters.

All these arrangements seem to be seamless, but Qianlong ignored an important issue, that is, because of the matter of Lichu, the entire court has been in a rumor, and countless eyes are secretly staring at this quiet courtyard in Jingshan. These people have their own eyeliner, and these people also have their own interest groups, even if Qianlong deliberately covers it up, for them, this matter is almost transparent. There is no doubt that because of Qianlong's unreasonable attention, this newborn child has become the biggest threat to many interest groups aiming at the position of the prince.

Soon, a sinister and vicious plan was devoured. Although Qianlong entrusted his child to Changbao's family, who can guarantee that after more than 10 years, this child will not recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors? Although Xiao Yulan came from a humble background, he thought that the Empress Dowager Chongqing had not changed her nationality and entered the harem? Now, Qianlong did not dare to disclose the true identity of the child, giving them the opportunity to settle this matter once and for all.

Therefore, the safest way is to get rid of Xiao Yulan before she leaves, so as to prevent future troubles. After that, there was no proof of death, even if Qianlong wanted to take the child back to the palace in the future, he was not rightly named, and he did not have any backer to rely on. And Qianlong is most concerned about his false name, and he will not take the risk of violating the ancestral system to overturn this case. Moreover, they believe that Qianlong is only a temporary obsession with Xiao Yulan, and as soon as Xiao Yulan dies, it won't be long before Qianlong forgets about this relationship, and the child is not by Qianlong's side, he is just an illegitimate child, and there will be no more threats.

One less potential competitor allowed the interest groups in the haryamoto to reach a rare consensus, and the plan quickly began to be implemented.

What Qianlong didn't know was that as early as a few months ago, Lian Chenghai, the actual head of the Guangtai class, secretly came to Beijing. Together, there is also a great fortune. He assumed the pseudonym Chengtai in Beijing, made friends with powerful people, secretly set up eyeliner, on the one hand, he fought with the officials of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and on the other hand, he secretly contacted the Manchu wealthy families with the white flag.

The Qing Dynasty's Zhengbai Banner was actually a secret agency of the dynasty. Starting from Emperor Shunzhi, a large number of Zhengbaiqi disciples gave up their official positions and secretly infiltrated Jiangnan, mostly using the identity of merchants as a cover, but what they did was to collect Han people's dissatisfaction with the Qing Dynasty and carry out crazy suppression. Of course, their main job is to monitor the secret activities of the Heaven and Earth Society in Jiangnan.

For the emperors of the Manchu Dynasty, Heaven and Earth would be their confidants. On the one hand, with the goal of overthrowing the Manchu rule, the Heaven and Earth Society occupied the so-called moral high ground of Han orthodoxy, claiming to have the blood edict of the third prince of Zhu in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and was secretly supported by many Jiangnan clans. On the other hand, heaven and earth will infiltrate into the people, tightly organized, branches are scattered, it is difficult to completely eliminate, on the contrary, turmoil and uprisings in remote areas occur from time to time, since Qianlong ascended the throne, there have been more than ten incidents, every time he hears the three words of heaven and earth, Qianlong will have his hair stand on end, and the tea and rice are not fragrant.

Soon after Lian Chenghai secretly entered Beijing, a message was quickly sent to Qianlong's desk through the white flag. The Heaven and Earth Society is secretly preparing a major uprising in Jiaxing, Jiangnan, in the last two or three months. This is the Heaven and Earth Society, after a few years of silence, once again surfaced, and the place of chaos was transferred to the most densely populated hinterland in the south of the Yangtze River, which was the main source of taxes in the Qing Dynasty.

This incident successfully attracted all Qianlong's attention, and Qianlong's henchmen in the Zhengbai Banner also took orders one after another and went south to Jiaxing. These things happened on the eve of Xiao Yulan's birth of her son. Qianlong would never have thought that the so-called Jiaxing incident was just a false shot, but the real purpose was the small courtyard in Jingshan.

After Qianlong sent someone to send away the infant child, a cup of highly poisonous ginseng soup was brought to Xiao Yulan's bed. The sound of the porcelain bowl falling to the ground and shattering was shocking in the dead courtyard, but no palace maid dared to enter the house. Soon, the three men in black took away Xiao Yulan's body and went straight to the dilapidated courtyard not far away. The copper lock on the door has long been removed, and a deep pit has been dug in the courtyard early, it is the height of summer at this time, but for some reason, the tall locust tree in the yard, the leaves are constantly falling, and soon a thick layer is laid.

(Heaven and earth are infinite, and people are infinite, each according to its own kind; when you see its scheme, you will know the end of its success or failure.) Those who turn around are either auspicious or vicious, and the saints use the Tao to ensure the survival of the prophets, but they know the circle and follow the square. The round one, so the conjunctive, the square one, so the wrong thing. Those who transform are therefore looking at the scheme, and those who are receiving things are therefore looking at the meaning of advance and retreat. They all see their meetings, so that they may conclude their arguments. --"Guiguzi")