After seeing the dense folds of Double Snake Mountain and Hutou Mountain, Qianlong's heart was steady, and he asked for the imperial meal but couldn't eat it, so he stopped and was just distracted. He had just come back from Li Wei's mansion and got some bad news about the palace, so he just thought about it for a while. Since Xia Buren was killed, the eunuch who waited on him was named Gao Wuyong.

Gao Wuyong saw that his master was just stunned, and asked cautiously: "Long live the master, but today's meal is not palatable?" Use no slaves to call Shang Shanzheng over and reprimand him well. ”

Qianlong didn't speak, he ate two more bites, he really had no appetite, so he had to order someone to withdraw his meal, get up and paced two steps, and said to Gao Wuyong: "You go to see if Prince He is in the study, if you are here, call him over." ”

Gao Wuyong agreed, and walked out in small steps. Just about to go out, he was called back by Qianlong: "By the way, Ai Ruoqing from Jinxiulan will be called in together." Set up another table of delicate dishes here, and I will talk to them. ”

Gao Wuyong agreed yes, and then turned away. After a while, Prince Hongday and Prince Hongday arrived first, and a eunuch had already prepared a table of dishes and put them on the palace. The prince was about to kowtow, Qianlong waved his hand and said, "Fifth brother, get up and sit down." I'll send someone to ask Ruoqing to come over too, and you can tell me about the Twin Snake Mountain. ”

The prince sat on the stool and said with a smile: "The emperor has also prepared a celebration banquet, and the minister has not eaten when he comes, and he is just playing the autumn breeze here with the emperor." ”

Qianlong smiled: "You eat, I have already eaten and I have no appetite." "Listen to the emperor's orders, the prince has anything else to say, just feast. After another cup of tea, Gao Wuyong came back and said, "Ai Gongzi is outside the palace." Only then did the prince raise his head and ask, "Did the emperor call Ruoqing in?" ”

Qianlong said, "Let her come in and talk." ”

The prince nodded and said yes. Gongzi came in and knelt down to salute, and Qianlong smiled slightly. Let the prince sit opposite the prince. Gongzi sat down, and Qianlong said, "Listen to the fifth brother." In the battle of Double Snake Mountain, what about Ruoqing's contributions? That's why I'm calling you today. Let's have a good drink and talk. ”

Gongzi replied lightly: "The emperor has won the award." It was all the prince's command Ruoding, Ruoqing was just a spectator, and the success of the bandits in Double Snake Mountain had nothing to do with Ruoqing. ”

Qianlong said to Prince He again: "In this way, the fifth brother is broad-minded and witty. You, the prince, are not in politics and are a little ruthless to me. ”

The prince was originally drinking a lot of wine, and when he heard the emperor say this, he hurriedly threw down the wine jug and said with a smile: "The emperor also looks down on his ministers." The minister often recited: The world is impermanent. The cup cup Tailang is drunk with red dust. It is rare to have a confidant in life, and you can talk about the past and the present when you push the cup. Political affairs or something, it has nothing to do with the minister, and the minister is lazy to think about those things. ”

Gongzi said lightly: "If the prince is wise and foolish, how can people of my generation understand it?" ”

Qianlong was about to say something more, but when he saw that Shang Shu of the Ministry of War was in a hurry to go to the Danqi of the Heart Cultivation Palace, he stopped. When the messenger came in to see the ceremony, Qianlong asked, "It's almost dark, what are you doing here?" Urgent? ”

He took out an excerpt from his bosom and presented it to him. said: "The six hundred miles that Sun Guoxi just handed in. ”

Qianlong looked at it and said, "If you want this from the military aircraft department, it's better not to have it." I heard that there was no one in the military aircraft department all day, did you still say it? Take the court's fortune. If you don't do court affairs, what's the use of the military aircraft department? ”

The relatives didn't know where the emperor got the news, and as soon as he entered the door, he was beaten with a stick. I didn't dare to argue, so I hurriedly bowed down and nodded yes. Qianlong ignored him anymore. Immerse yourself in the rush to see the twists and turns. After reading half of it, he was so angry that he got up and threw the piece on the ground. He got up and paced two steps and said, "It's almost the opposite." ”

The prince didn't dare to drink, so he stepped aside and asked, "My family, what's wrong?" ”

Neqin replied in a low voice: "Two butchers selling meat in Shaanzhou hijacked Zhizhou, and four or five hundred outlaws gathered to riot and occupy the county government, saying that they would help the prince of the Zhu family to become king. ”

Qianlong said angrily: "Fart! Chongzhen Prince Zhu Cihong disappeared when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, and it has been a hundred years since then, where did the prince appear? ”

To say that this Zhu Cihong can be said to be the least concerned prince in history. In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong was born, and then he was made the crown prince. It's a pity that at that time, the Ming Dynasty was at the end of its rope, and there were internal and external troubles, and Li Zicheng's rebel army was pressing on the Beijing division step by step. Emperor Chongzhen saw that there was no way to return to heaven, so he ordered the concubines in the harem to commit suicide so as not to fall into the hands of the rebels and be humiliated. After that, he personally slashed Concubine Yuan and the eldest princess with his own sword, and urgently recruited the prince. The crown prince was only sixteen years old at the time, and Emperor Chongzhen ordered him to escape from Beijing as soon as possible.

After that, the whereabouts of the little prince were unknown. Until the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, someone saw a young man in the mountains, and the two talked happily, so they walked with their companions. When he went to bed at night, the man found that the young man's underwear was rusted with dragon patterns, and asked about his identity, and the young man replied that he was Zhu Cihong, the prince of Chongzhen. At that time, Zhu Yousong had already ascended the throne in Nanjing. After hearing the news, he sent Li Jizhou to check it. Li Jizhou was ordered to come to see the young man, and when the young man saw Li Jizhou, he asked bluntly: "Welcome me into Beijing, will the emperor do it for me?" Li Jizhou shook his head and said, "This kind of thing can our slaves know?" On the first day of March of that year, the crown prince came to Nanjing and was handed over to the sect to take care of. Zhu Yousong sent two eunuchs who had been on an errand in the palace to check, and when the two eunuchs saw the prince, they hugged their heads and cried, and took off their clothes to put on the prince. Zhu Yousong was furious when he found out and questioned the two eunuchs: "If you don't distinguish between truth and falsehood, you will see the prince as a gift, bastard!" After that, he killed the two eunuchs, and then killed Li Jizhou.

After that, it was the foggy prince case again. Zhu Yousong originally won the throne hard, how could he admit that this young man was the crown prince? However, in order to block the mouths of the citizens of the world, they sent Hou, Bo, and Jiuqing to visit one after another. The former governor ran the eunuch for a long time and did not say a word. Seeing this, the prince said angrily: "Lu Jiude, why don't you kowtow when you see me?" Lu Jiude involuntarily knelt down and kowtowed, and his soul was no longer possessed. The prince scolded: "I haven't seen you for a year, you are as fat as a pig, it can be seen that you are enjoying a lot of happiness in Nanjing." Lu Jiude fought like he was fighting with his upper and lower teeth, and he was scolded by the prince for a long time before he came out. Later, I saw Zhu Yousong, but replied: "I can't recognize it." ”

Zhu Yousong was full of thoughts, how could he admit that he was the prince? If the person in front of him is indeed the crown prince, he will have to give up the position of emperor. So, he sent someone to recognize the prince again, but this time the recognition was different from the previous one. The minister's answer was that he could not recognize it. There was no way, Zhu Yousong had no choice but to find cronies to torture the prince. It didn't take long for the results to come out: the prince is a fake, and his real name is Wang Zhiming. But interestingly, the interrogation record is full of jokes. The interrogator asked: Wang Zhiming, what should you be guilty of pretending to be the prince? The prince replied: Since I am not the prince by you, why do you want to change my name? The subsequent interrogation was over, and Zhu Yousong put the prince in prison.

On May 10 of that year, the Qing army marched south. Zhu Yousong took refuge in Taiping Mansion. The people of Nanjing rushed into prison, rescued the dying prince, and embraced him to the throne. It's a pity that this throne lasted only five days. Five days later, the Qing general Duoduo attacked the city of Nanjing and asked, "Who is the crown prince?" Someone at the door replied, "There is no prince, only a man named Wang Zhiming who pretends to be a prince." Duoduo smiled and said: "You are so stupid, if he admitted that he was the crown prince, he would have been killed by Zhu Yousong." A subordinate took the opportunity to say: "He didn't admit that he was impersonating, this was all arranged by Ma Shiying." ”

Ten days later, Duoduo hosted a banquet for the newly captured Zhu Yousong and placed him under the crown prince. At this time, the prince said to Zhu Yousong: "You asked Li Jizhou to bring me, but you didn't recognize me, tortured me, and forced me to change my name, do you dare to say that you don't know these things?" Zhu Yousong bowed his head and didn't say a word. Later, Duoduo brought the crown prince and Zhu Yousong to Jingshi, and then both were executed. Zhu Cihong is a tragic figure, not remembered, displaced, and humane, and recently appeared on the market "Dream of Red Mansions" was written by him.

Interestingly, in the Shunzhi Dynasty, someone pretended to be the third prince of Zhu again. For many years after that, this third prince Zhu tossed the Qing Dynasty like a ghost, until the twelfth year of Kangxi, and three people appeared pretending to be the third prince of Zhu, but they were not arrested and executed.

Qianlong no longer expected that at this time, the Qing Dynasty had been in the Central Plains for a hundred years, and there were still people pretending to be the princes of the Zhu family. These guys are simply going to rebel.

The prince has always been witty, and he didn't say a word when he saw this. He has always been obscure, and he has nothing to do with government affairs, and he will never mix it casually. At this time, he was silent. While a few people were pondering, Qianlong suddenly asked, "Fifth brother, what do you think?" ”

Seeing that the emperor asked himself, the prince returned to his previous state, and said with a smile: "What good way can the minister have?" The minister only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun looking for women, and if you want to talk about political and military affairs, you really don't know anything. According to the minister's temperament, the minister must let the military department send troops to suppress it. Take the head and stomp him! Naturally, everyone else dispersed. ”

Qianlong didn't speak, turned to look at his relatives. Seeing Qianlong looking at himself, he hurriedly said: "The slave thinks it's not feasible to talk to the prince!" ”

Qianlong asked coldly, "Why?" ”

Neqin replied: "A governor of the imperial court is a hostage in their hands, and these people occupy the county government, of course, it is the easiest to suppress it with large soldiers, but it is not enough to consider the dignity of the imperial court. Think about it, these people are all outlaws, they have already embraced the heart of death, they are red-eyed, what can't they do? As soon as the army is raised, the whole world knows that the imperial court has to make a big deal about this idea, which is not worth it. ”

Qianlong nodded and said, "That's what you said, but what kind of thoughtful solution do you have?" ”

Ne Qin said: "The slave thinks that the case in Luzhou should be handled according to it." ”

Hearing what the relatives said, the prince was the first to laugh and said, "Do it according to the case in Luzhou?" My dear, do you really think, is it possible for my generals of the Qing Dynasty to learn from that thief and thief? (To be continued......)