Chapter 5: Sorrow

Soon after, He Lin followed Ah Gui to Jiangnan.

Although Sheng Zhu is a person with adults, he has also done adults a great favor when he found Chen Huizu's contract transfer case before. However, this time he was too careless, and he actually let people catch people in the capital and seize the stolen goods. Even if he has the heart to help him, in the face of the facts, he is powerless.

Sheng Zhu was also very cooperative, knowing that he couldn't run anymore, so he simply made a move, and he made all the moves. Ah Gui was very angry: Rub, Lao Tzu finally came to Jiangnan, you gave me two more days, can't you recruit you when I'm done shopping? ! I haven't saved enough invoices for this trip!

Sheng Zhu said: I know the country's policy, and I am frank and lenient.

Ah Gui shook his head vigorously: confess leniently, sit in prison; Resist strictness and go home for the New Year.

Sheng Zhu was angry: Rub, you didn't say it earlier!

Without further ado, He Lin and Ah Gui soon returned to the capital. When Lord Qianlong heard the news, he deliberately waited in the Heart Cultivation Palace. The military aircraft department was less than 100 steps away from the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the two of them came to the Hanging Flower Gate in a blink of an eye.

"Two adults, the emperor is waiting inside! Get on board! Wang Lian saw Ah Gui and He Lin, and hurriedly led the two in.

Ah Gui and He Lin entered the Xinuan Pavilion one after the other. I saw that Lord Qianlong was flipping through the folds, and he was sitting on a chair at the east end and talking about something.

"The minister knocks to see the emperor!" Ah Gui and He Lin go through the procedure first.

"Get up!" Qianlong Ye said lightly, "How is the case investigated?!" ”

"Back to the emperor, the facts of the case have come to light, Sheng Zhu is corrupt and perverts the law, the facts are conclusive, and the subordinate states and counties are seriously deficient."

Qianlong Ye stood up, didn't say anything, and paced two steps in the room.

"Ah Gui, according to your meaning, what should Sheng Zhu do?!"

"According to Weichen's opinion, Sheng Zhu knows the law and violates the law, and he has a lot of stolen goods, so he should be punished severely and plan to behead the prisoner."

"Kill the Prison Marquis?!" Hearing this, Lord Qianlong's brows furrowed: Sheng Zhu is the brother-in-law of the fifteenth elder brother, and the family is not easy to do!

"Helin, what do you think?"

"The minister thought that Sheng Zhu had worked diligently for a long time in office, and his crimes should not be punished. Moreover, when he went to Jiangnan to investigate the case, Sheng Zhu immediately bowed his head and confessed his guilt and repented. The minister thought that Sheng Zhu could fall lightly. ”

"You two don't agree on the same thing, and I'm not good at making decisions. In this way, wait for me to have a meeting, call all the scholars and Jiuqing, and discuss it again! Qianlong Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief: It's still this and Lin can talk.

"Yes!" Ah Gui and He Lin hurriedly responded.

"Ah Gui, Jiangnan Taoyuan, Anton River Decision. I think about it again, you still have to plug this opening! You go down and rest for a few days, and then go to Jiangnan! ”

"Obey the order!" Ah Gui hurriedly received the order: Rub, why is it me again?! Really take me PLA?!

He smiled with adults: It's a shame to not be able to figure out the leader's thoughts!

Lord Qianlong was dissatisfied with Ah Gui's attitude towards Sheng Zhu, and clearly transferred him out of the capital! As soon as you leave, won't Sheng Zhu live?!

He Lin also smiled: It's still my brother's height!

"And Lin!"

"The minister is here!"

"You have just passed the year of establishment, but you are old and serious, and you are organized and reasonable, I will promote you to the imperial history of Huguang Dao!"

"Thank you for your grace!" He Lin listened and knelt down to thank him: Could it be that the eldest brother had already guessed it?!

"Good! Good! Are you all right?! If it's okay, go back! ”

"Yes!" Gui and He Lin bowed and retreated.

and Lin were promoted, and Ah Gui felt very uncomfortable. Although the imperial history of Huguang Dao is not a fart to him, his attitude towards Sheng Zhu disappointed him very much: obviously he learned Heshen!

It's really a tm compatriot!

"He Shen, your younger brother is calm and steady, understands and is capable, and some things are more beautiful than Ah Guidu, it's really rare!"

"Thanks to the emperor's love, it is an honor for the slave family!"

"I heard that as early as when the Xian'an Palace was an official student, Yuan Mei praised the two of you, saying that one of you can support the sky, the other can hold the sun, and you are equally divided, and you are both the ministers of the humerus that the country relies on. Now it seems that he really got what he said! ”

"The emperor has won the prize!" He smiled with the adults: where is this!

"Heshen! I intend to confer on you the status of a scholar of Mandarin Palace, but you are still in charge of the household department, what do you think?! ”

"Your Majesty, the minions don't dare! The honor of the slave is already extreme, where can I dare to be rewarded again?! "Push first.

"I said you can get on it, what ink is ......?"

"This ......" for the second time.

"Don't you want to thank you?!"

"Wow!" It's done!

Time flies, and the status of Lord He and the He Lin brothers in the court is rising day by day. In the fifty-third year of Qianlong (1788), he was awarded the title of third-class loyal uncle, and rewarded with purple thorn (purple rope for riding horses). In the forty-fifth year of Qianlong (1789), Lord He was appointed as the official of the examination paper of the palace, and then he was appointed as a teacher of Xi Shu Jishi. and adults are rising step by step, the wealth is rolling, and the coquettish is incomparable, and the glory is extreme.

One afternoon, Lord Qianlong, accompanied by his entourage and other entourages, traveled in small clothes and drove a carriage towards the western suburbs. July in the suburbs of Beijing was already very hot, and the group was scorched by the sun. Lord Qianlong couldn't help being thirsty, got out of the car and went to a family in the village to ask for water to drink.

"Your Majesty, it's all to blame for the poor arrangement of the minions, it's really a crime that deserves death! You better rest in the car, the slave will fetch water for you! ”

"What do you blame, I didn't tell you where to go, and I should have gone to the farmer's house to inspect the people's suffering!"

Hearing this, the lord and the lord were relieved, and the monarch walked to the door of a house.

The farmer's house was very low, and there was no smoke in the middle of the day. When the host saw someone visiting, he hurriedly greeted him. Seeing this, Qianlong Ye couldn't help but be taken aback: he saw that this person was unclothed, his face was yellow and thin, and several children behind him were even more skinny, waiting for the protruding big eyes to look at the visiting stranger, which was very terrifying.

"This lord, is there anything wrong with you?!" The master asked weakly.

"We're thirsty on the road, and we want to beg for water."

"If we beg for food, we don't have it at home. But there's a lot of water, sir, wait a minute, I'll give you a scoop! After saying this, the master turned and went back to the house, and in a short time he came trembling with a ladle of water. Seeing this, he hurriedly stepped forward to catch it, turned around and handed it to Qianlong, but Qianlong Ye was only surprised, completely forgetting that he was thirsty.

"Master, I take the liberty of asking, what is the reason why your family is so embarrassed and miserable?!"

"Master, it's all to blame on the river!" Hearing this, the man's tears flowed, "In order to stabilize this river, the imperial court specially ordered that this river be renamed Yongding River. But the river never settled. During the flood season, the river overflows and the crops are flooded. In addition, the taxes in this area are heavy, and our family can only satisfy their hunger with wild vegetables! ”

"Isn't there an embankment in this Yongding River?"

"The embankment has long been ruined and in disrepair, how can there be any shelter!"

"Heshen, do you have silver on you?!" Lord Qianlong whispered to Lord He. When Lord He heard this, he hurriedly took out thirty taels of silver from his bosom and handed it over with both hands.

"That's all?!" Qianlong Ye weighed his weight, felt a little less, and asked.

And the adults didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly escaped for another twenty taels. Only then did Lord Qianlong nod with satisfaction.

"Master, you take this money first, buy some food for the child, and I will take care of the rest."

"Sir! You're a lifesaver for our family! The master burst into tears, and quickly knelt down, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

"Hurry up and put it away!"

"Sir! In the next life, we will make you cattle and horses, and we will repay your kindness! ”

"No need to repay it, I owe it to you!" Qianlong Ye sighed with emotion: The work is not in place!

After sending the silver, Qianlong Ye didn't drink any more water, turned around and went straight to the car. After getting into the car, he commanded in a low voice: "Go to the Dragon King Temple of Yongding River to have a look!" ”

"Your Majesty, the Dragon King Temple is far away, the bumps along the way have tired you, how can the slave explain!" When I heard this, I was a little anxious.

"Don't worry, I'm in good spirits today!" Lord Qianlong replied coldly.

Seeing that Lord Qianlong had made up his mind, as long as he let Lord Qianlong go.

The group walked for a long time and finally came to the Yongding River Dragon King Temple. As soon as I got out of the car, I was attracted by a stone monument in front of me. This stele is about three meters high, about one meter wide, the stele head carving floats with two dragons playing with pearls, and you know that it is an imperial stele at a glance. The stele is engraved with three big characters "Sorrowful Pavilion", which is the true handwriting of Qianlong Ye from the handwriting.

"Your Majesty ......." and the adults looked at the stone tablet, looking at Lord Qianlong with a look of wanting to speak and stopping.

"This Yongding River broke in the thirty-fifth year (1770), and I specially carried this plaque, hoping to keep the Yongding River safe." Lord Qianlong understood what Lord He meant, and said slowly, "I also ordered the embankment of the Yongding River to be rebuilt to reduce taxes. Now it seems that the local government is not doing well, completely ignoring the life and death of the people! ”

"The emperor is angry, the flow of this Yongding River and the meeting is extremely unstable, and there is a lot of sediment, so that the rivers in the plains are constantly silted, and the migration is uncertain, it may not be easy to govern him!"

"Although it is difficult to govern, it is not impossible to govern, if I had handed over this matter to Ah Gui, I would definitely not have the situation I have today." Lord Qianlong sighed and blamed himself deeply.

When he heard this, he felt very uncomfortable, but he couldn't say anything, so he kept silent. Lord Qianlong rarely spoke, and the group walked around the river for a long time before returning to the capital.

It was already dark when he returned to the mansion, and as soon as he entered the door, Liu Quan greeted him.

"Master, you can come back, Master Lin has returned to Beijing, and I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

"And Rin's back?! This kid doesn't say hello to me. ”

"He brought you a pot of wine, baby!"

"This Helin, she loves to drink, why, she also treats me as an alcoholic?!" He smiled helplessly, "Where is he now?!" ”

"Waiting in the study, go quickly!"

He walked straight to the study, the door of the study was open, and he smelled the smell of wine from a distance. He is not a lover of wine, but the aroma of wine fascinates him.

"Helin, what kind of wine is it?! Why is it so fragrant?! ”

"Brother, you're back! If you don't come back, I'll drink it all!" ”

"What?! Didn't you bring it to me?! ”

"It's yours, but I can't control it, so I took two sips......"

"Good! I just haven't eaten yet, so let's try this wine! ”

"Hmmm! The aroma of this wine is soft and elegant, fragrant but not gaudy, soft but not light, it is indeed a good wine! ”

"This is a friend from Hubei, and I don't know where he got it, authentic Moutai! I can't help but smell the fragrance, and the entrance is mellow and soft, so I drink it tightly! Even if you pour this wine into the glass overnight, the aroma will still last, and even the cup you have drunk will still have the aroma! ”

After a while, the wine and food were served, and the two brothers drank each other.

"How's it going, is everything going well in Hubei?!"

"Everything is fine, brother rest assured."

"What's the matter with coming back to Beijing this time?!"

"It's not a big deal, the main thing is to bring this wine back for you to taste!"

"You're a drunkard!"

"There's something I want to ask you, though." He Lin placed the wine glass on the table. "A few days ago, I discovered one thing, Hubei Inspector Li Tianpei pretended to be public and private, and took the opportunity of entering Beijing to smuggle timber by grain ships. At this time, there was also Fukangan's share in the middle, and there were documents for him to buy timber. I don't dare to make decisions about this matter lightly, I don't know if we can offend this Fukangan, I want you to help me come up with an idea. ”

"Fukangan?" Listening to He Lin's words, Lord He couldn't help but be shocked: It's time for revenge!