Because Zhu Jue gave him a headache, Zhou Lang began to study this opponent seriously and began to collect information about this person.

It is impossible for Zhou Lang to collect too detailed and secret information, but some classic stories about Zhu Qi can be found in Fuzhou City by looking for some masters or old officials who have been up and down in the sea for many years.

There are really a lot of stories like this on Zhu Jue.

Unlike He Shen, Zhu Jue is an honest official, but he is not pedantic.

There are two stories, one of which takes place on Chinese New Year's Eve of a certain year, when a guest visits Zhu Ju and asks him how he earns that year, Zhu Ju holds the purse on his chest and says: "Pity this hollow, there is no money for the year." As soon as he finished speaking, the doorman said to Zhu Jue with a gift in his hand: "This is a protégé of a certain festival." Zhu Jue said to the guests: "These people are too stupid, I never know their faces, but I use Ah to block the flowing water!" ”

This story shows that Zhu Jue did not refuse the New Year's tribute from his protégé.

There is also a story that when Zhu Jue was serving as the political envoy of Shanxi, he and the local Yangqu County Commander Wu Chongguang were "friends of words", and the two admired each other's literary talents. Zhu Jue was ordered to enter Beijing, but he was not entangled, so he looked for Wu Chongguang, held an IOU, and said, "I was called to Beijing, but my bag was empty, and I needed 200 taels of travel expenses, and I borrowed a special note from you." ”

Wu Chongguang agreed, but he was embarrassed to accept the IOU, Zhu Jue said, "If you don't accept the IOU, do you want to bribe me?" The next day, Wu sent the silver taels and took the IOU away, and Zhu Jue accepted the silver. Soon, Zhu Jue asked someone from the capital to pay off the debt with silver, and asked for an IOU.

This story shows that although he also received New Year's Day gifts, Zhu Jue did not make money, and a dignified political envoy had to borrow money from the subordinate magistrates; But the official has achieved the level of a political envoy, even if he doesn't take the initiative to extort and greedy ink, there will be a lot of people who give away money, but Zhu Jue is so poor that he doesn't even have the travel expenses, at least it shows that he won't take unclean money.

Such a person, he can calmly accept the proper etiquette, proving that he is not pedantic and will not be incompatible with his colleagues because of his maverick.

As a political envoy, he is poor and does not even have travel expenses, which shows that he has a strong ability for self-restraint. As a high-ranking official, he can pull down his face to borrow money from his subordinates, which shows that this person is open-minded and does not stick to dignity and humility.

He naturally knows that his friend's money is not coming from the right way, but he can tolerate the status quo, which shows that this person is just a realist who can tolerate the shortcomings of reality, but he has strong self-control not to go along with the dirt, and he has a set of firm principles for dealing with people and things in his heart.

This set of principles allows him not to be corrupt, but to tolerate the corruption of his colleagues, not the kind of honest and honest people who are difficult to work with.

This kind of character, who is an official and does not seek wealth, is not stained by the mud, can still work with people friendly, has principles in doing things, will not make mistakes, and will not leave a handle, and he is the emperor's teacher, and he can also make the emperor respect, and his political resources are incomparable.

Such a person, how can He Shen not be afraid, the other party is not greedy for money, he can't use money to win him over, the other party has principles, he can't induce him to make mistakes, he can't catch his handle, and the other party's student is now the emperor, and when the emperor Qianlong dies in the future, how can He Shen be able to suppress this kind of person.

It is said that it was because he saw the terrible things about Zhu Jue that he instigated Qianlong to send Zhu Jue to Fujian to study politics after Zhu Jue had only taught Jiaqing for four years. There are also rumors that after Jiaqing ascended the throne at the beginning of the year, he tried to recall Zhu Jue from Guangdong to his side.

So he personally proposed to Qianlong that he wanted to continue to study ancient style poetry and ancient literature, and Zhu Jue was quite accomplished in ancient style poetry and ancient literature, so he hoped that Qianlong would recall Zhu Qi back to Beijing. Qianlong felt that Jiaqing's request was not excessive, so he agreed to transfer Zhu Jue back from the post of governor of Liangguang and promote him to a university scholar.

After Jiaqing found out, he was very excited and immediately wrote a congratulatory letter to Zhu Jue. As a result, the content of this congratulatory letter was obtained by He Shen, who was worried that Zhu Jue and he had not been in the same boat, and he was the emperor's teacher, if Zhu Jue was transferred back to the court to become a scholar, he would not be able to restrain him at all.

So He Shen told Qianlong the content of the letter, and warned Qianlong that the emperor "wants the city to be kind to the master", Qianlong was worried that the emperor would collude with the courtiers and would put him as the emperor empty, so he immediately changed his mind and disagreed to transfer Zhu Jue back.

I don't know if this rumor is true or not, it is the news that Wei Lianli got from the Guangdong officialdom, and it is from the yamen of the Guangdong Customs, and the officialdom is always full of various rumors about the whereabouts of the top leader.

There are so many dignitaries and dignitaries in Guangzhou, many of whom have grown up in the circle of elites in Beijing since childhood, they are well-informed, and the most important thing is that they are very familiar with Heshen, especially the Guangdong Customs, this institution is simply the forbidden area of Heshen.

The customs inspector is directly appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and no one can get this position without going through Heshen. And as a powerful person who became a customs supervisor, in addition to spending money for his position, he also had to report to Heshen every year. Of course, the bulk of this service is to enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is equivalent to serving the emperor, but it will definitely pass through the hands of He Shen, if He Shen will not peel off a layer of skin from it, I am afraid that no one will believe it, Guangdong Customs' annual service silver, it is said that no less than 1 million taels.

Not to mention that those who can be customs supervisors are cronies recognized by Heshen, even if they are not cronies, they will become cronies if they send one million taels to Heshen every year.

Therefore, the relationship between the Guangdong Customs Supervision and He Shen is very close, and the news about He Shen that they have a certain degree of reliability.

Zhou Lang carefully analyzed, even if this story is not true, the reality reflected is real.

He Shen served as the head of the Internal Affairs Office from the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), and later served as the head of the household department, the treasury and the imperial treasury shouldered, and won the new appointment of the emperor, and even married the most beloved little daughter to the son of He Shen, and gave him the name Feng Shen Yinde, you must know that most of the princesses of the Qing Dynasty will be married to Mongolia and relatives, the emperor's love for the princess, and the grace of He Shen can be seen.

Because he became a celebrity around the emperor, managed the finances of the Qing Dynasty, and also served as the Minister of Military Aircraft, the Cabinet Scholar and other titles, and Shen had been in charge of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for 20 years, he was the emperor's prince, even if Qianlong died, he still had a high status, and it was possible to continue to hold a high position, and He Shen had already begun to tie up Jiaqing before Jiaqing ascended the throne, he knew the inside story of Qianlong's establishment of Jiaqing as the crown prince earlier than everyone, and Jiaqing was friendly to He Shen under the strategy of Taoguang and obscurity. Most officials knew that Emperor Jiaqing was as important as Qianlong.

In this case, how could He Shen be willing to Jiaqing's teacher go back to Beijing, so without this matter, He Shen would be jealous of Zhu Jue, and with this matter, He Shen would naturally stop Zhu Jue.

The important thing is not whether He Shen made a stumbling block for Zhu Jue, the important thing is that He Shen does have the reason to be afraid of Zhu Jue, among the bureaucrats in the world, there are not many people who can be feared by He Shen, there were in the past, but the ending is not very good.

Thinking of the ministers who had fallen on the road that He Shen had climbed, Zhou Lang suddenly felt that he had a weapon to deal with Zhu Jue.