Chapter 45: The First Emperor of the Ages
After Qianlong's 70th birthday, the weather became cooler day by day. At this time, the summer resort was no longer suitable for Qianlong to live in, and he wanted to return to the capital and prepare for the winter after the autumn.
In autumn, the fields are full of grass, a piece of golden, and beautiful. Qianlong stopped while walking, and as he got older, he became more and more empathetic to the grass and trees in autumn.
The sunset may be in line with his mood at this time! It is the same as creation, and it is scattered into mud.
No matter how great a man is, he will not escape death. Qin Shi Huang was, Napoleon was, and so did Qianlong.
Looking at the fallen leaves on the side of the road, he remembered what had happened to him.
I was the emperor all my life, why did I do it?!
To do it, you have to do it to be the best.
He wants to be the ultimate emperor, become the first emperor in ancient and modern times, and be worshiped by future generations with a peak attitude.
Leave a name for eternity, immortal.
This can be seen from his posthumous name: Fa Tian Longyun Zhi Cheng Xianjue Ti Yuan Li Ji Fu Wen Fen Wu Qin Ming Filial Piety Divine Pure Emperor.
25 words, domineering enough.
Of course, he did not dare to surpass his ancestors.
The emperor with the longest nickname in history is his grandfather's grandfather's father, Nuer Hachi, nickname: Chengtian Guangyun Shengde Shengong Zhaoji Liji Jiren Xiaorui Wuduanyi Qin'an Hongwen Dingye Gao Emperor.
27 words, crazy.
Six days later, Qianlong and his entourage arrived in Tongzhou. As soon as I arrived in Tongzhou, I encountered heavy rain.
Two days later, the rain cleared, and the sky was gloomy.
"'The autumn wind rises and the white clouds fly, the grass and trees fall yellow and the geese return to the south', and now I am in the wilderness, I know the charm of this poem!" Qianlong Ye sighed.
"Good poetry, good poetry! Every word is emotional, and there is a sense of peace in it. He then echoed: "The ancient literati were all sad and sad, but now the slaves are very happy to see this autumn scene. The pond in front of me is blue, and the sky is also blue, so it is really 'autumn water and the sky is the same color'......."
Qianlong Ye smiled: You are really good at talking!
And the adults also laughed: This sycophant is angled, right?!
The two laughed.
It was the end of September and the end of October when the group returned to the capital. As soon as he returned home with the adults, his 'friends' broke through the threshold. The first person who came was familiar to us, snuffbox - Sun Shiyi.
"Lord Sun, I haven't seen you for a long time, how have you been lately?!"
Now that Lord Sun is already the editor of the "Siku Quanshu", in order to thank him for his promotion, this girl runs to Hefu every once in a while, and this relationship is very efficient. and adults mistakenly thought that the two were friends for the year.
"Okay, you have a cover with your lord, it's hard to say!"
"Haha, Lord Sun is polite!"
"Where, where! By the way, and my lord, I have a bag of good tea brought back from Yunnan, and I specially bring it to you to taste today, you have just returned to Beijing, the journey is tiring, and it is just a clear ....... spirit."
"It's still Lord Sun who thinks thoughtfully, Liu Quan, bring me my good tea set.......
The two walked into the study arm in arm, drinking and chatting.
"Is the work going well?!" I drank tea with adults, and it is indeed the best Pu'er in Yunnan.
"It's okay, it's just that some information is not easy to find, and the progress is not very big."
"Didn't the emperor order books to be donated from all over the country?! I remember that at that time, the Old Summer Palace was full of books inside and out, wasn't that enough?! ”
"Not enough, far from enough. Let's just say that "Yongle Canon" has not been seen yet! ”
"What?! No "Yongle Canon"?! ”
Compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Canon, originally known as the Literature Dacheng, is a collection of Chinese encyclopedic documents, with a total of 22,937 volumes (60 volumes of contents), 11,095 volumes, about 370 million words, and a collection of seven or eight thousand ancient and modern books. The Encyclopædia Britannica called it "the largest encyclopedia the world has ever seen."
It is a pity that the "Yongle Canon" is ill-fated, after several catastrophes, most of them died in the war, and less than 800 volumes have survived today.
"Ji Xiaolan is looking for it, but she hasn't found it, and we can't help much."
"Have you checked it out at the Hanlin Academy?"
"I looked for it once, but the Hanlin Academy didn't pay much attention to it and didn't find it."
"Okay, you don't care about this matter, I'll talk to the emperor tomorrow."
The compilation of the Siku Quanshu was started in the 35th year of Qianlong (1770), which was of great significance to Qianlong. Qianlong Ye called himself a perfect old man, and this 'Quan' mainly refers to his martial arts: two battles to pacify Dzungaria, two battles to pacify the Great and Small Hezhuo Rebellion, two battles of Jinchuan (see Battle of Jinchuan), suppression of the Lin Shuangwen uprising in Taiwan, the battle of Burma, the battle of Annam and two battles against the Gurkha. There are exactly ten, because of the "Ten Perfections" to chronicle it.
As mentioned earlier, Lord Qianlong has great ambitions, and his goal is the first emperor of the ages. At the pinnacle of the emperor, it is not enough to have martial arts, but also to have civil governance. The ultimate pursuit of Wenji: to write a book! He wanted the world's largest encyclopedia earlier. It should not only surpass the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" compiled in the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods, but also surpass the "Yongle Canon" of the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, he transferred Ji Xiaolan back from Yili, and specially arranged for Sun Shiyi, who was to be punished, which can be said to be dedicated and wholeheartedly.
Speaking of Ji Xiaolan, I have to insert another sentence here, this goods returned to Beijing thanks to the light of adults. If it weren't for the 'guilty silver' system with adults, this child would have died in Ili a long time ago. In a way, he still owes a favor to adults. The TV performance of "Ji Xiaolan with Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth" is purely a joke, that is, the screenwriters made it up. In reality, Ji Xiaolan is 10,000 careful with adults: He is too popular, he can't be provoked, and he can't afford to hurt him.
Anyone who writes books knows how hard it is to get an original book out of the oven. Not to mention writing the largest encyclopedia in the world. No matter how smart Ji Xiaolan is, even if he gives him ten more heads, he can't complete such a large amount of work alone, and the entire Hanlin Academy can't do it. The only way to do this is: copy!
Who's copying?! Yongle Grand Ceremony.
As long as you find the "Yongle Canon", and then review them one by one, and delete the things that do not conform to the trend of the times one by one, it is very likely that the "Siku Quanshu" will come out before the fall of Qianlong.
This is also Ji Xiaolan's deadline, or the period of death.
Ji Xiaolan was very anxious.
And adults are also anxious. With such a large amount of merit, he naturally mixed it up. The opportunity to leave a name in history is not something that comes every day.
The next day, Lord He found Lord Qianlong.
"What?! Ji Xiaolan, please ask me to carefully investigate the Hanlin Academy to search for the "Yongle Canon"?! ”
"No, Hooray. The slave learned about this by accident, and the compilation of the "Siku Quanshu" was inseparable from the "Yongle Canon", so the slave implored the emperor to investigate the Hanlin Academy. ”
"Haven't you already found it once?!"
The emperor was angry. The minion only deduced that the "Yongle Grand Canon" might still be in the Hanlin Academy, and he didn't dare to guarantee that he would definitely be able to find the "Yongle Grand Canon" in the Hanlin Academy. The slave is eager to check the book, and hopes to do his part for the "Siku Quanshu", so he is sick and goes to the doctor......"
"Oh?! So how did you deduce?! "Lord Qianlong was a little displeased: Rub, you guessed.
"The minion had carefully studied the location of the Yongle Canon. Since its compilation, the Yongle Canon has been treasured in the Wenyuan Pavilion in Nanjing. Yongle moved the capital and brought the book to the city of Beijing, where it has been stored in the imperial palace. In the 36th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, there was a fire in the palace, and after the fire, Jiajing had ordered a copy of the "Yongle Canon" to be copied and preserved, and the original was still stored in the Wenyuan Pavilion in Nanjing. Later, the original copy of the Yongle Grand Canon was lost, and the rerecorded copy was kept in the archives of the Ming Dynasty and later moved to the Hanlin Academy. Therefore, the slave deduced that this copy of the Yongle Canon must have been kept somewhere in the Hanlin Academy. ”
"I really thought that you still take the matter of "Siku Quanshu" to heart, and I am loyal to you, so I won't blame you, get up!"
Lord Qianlong is very serious, and a generation of emperors does not tolerate the slightest blasphemy. History has commented on him like this: the biggest **** in Chinese history.
He has worked hard for more than 60 years to complete the most meticulous, perfect and solid rule in Chinese history, and pushed the imperial power to the top. His cadredom has seriously suppressed the initiative and creativity of the masses and even the bureaucratic stratum, strengthened and ossified the system, and created huge obstacles to future development. He unreasonably used his ** power to exert unprecedented tight control over society, so that everyone did not dare to talk nonsense, and eliminated any bud of instability.
He implemented the institutional system of "obeying the king, obeying the father, and the wife obeying the husband, and not being reversed", emphasizing that it is not allowed to "petition at a higher level"; he always regarded the masses as a great enemy when they gathered to protest and defend their rights, and repeatedly stressed that they should be "dealt with strictly", and even "the law should be carried out without distinguishing between the first and the following"; Therefore, no matter how the ordinary people are oppressed and exploited by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they have no way out, they can only resign themselves to their fate and are not allowed to "petition at higher levels". As for the protection of officials who are opposed by the people, "the officials should be punished, and they will not be punished immediately." If you are worried that the bandits will be raped for a long time, you must not help but prevent them from getting worse."
I don't know what you thought of, but I thought of something anyway.
Three words: unspeakable. Ha ha.......
"Emperor Xie!" Kowtow to the adults and thank you.
"I've checked it all once, check it again, it's a little ridiculous....... and the adult's inference is very historical, but Qianlong Ye doesn't believe it, he believes in his prestige even more: rub, Lao Tzu asked you to check, but you didn't find it, do you still want to do it?!" cough cough cough ......."
"Your Majesty!" Seeing this, he hurried over, gently beat his back, brought the spittoon over, made him spit, and then handed over the tea and asked him to rinse his mouth. After a period of chaos, Qianlong Ye finally came to his senses and sat there panting heavily.
In fact, Qianlong is a very lucky emperor, in Du Niang's words, he is one of the luckiest kings in the world. There are three reasons: First, he has been in good health all his life and has not encountered a major disaster.
Second, he succeeded to the throne at the age of 25, and the process of gaining supreme power was very smooth and without twists and turns.
Third, he ascended to the throne at a just right historical juncture. Prior to this, the reign of three emperors, Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng, in 91 years (1644-1735) had laid a good foundation for his rule.
Lord Qianlong is old, no matter how good his health is, he can't help the toss of time. His cough gave him a chance.
"Your Majesty, you're out of the way, right?! Why don't you send the Imperial Doctor over and take a look?! ”
Qianlong shook his head weakly.
"Your Majesty, it's all bad for slaves, I made you angry just now, and I ask the emperor to condemn you!"
"Get up, you are also loyal, for the sake of the Siku Quanshu, how can I blame you? Spread the message, let the good students of the Hanlin Academy find it. You also go and help them find it, if you really find the "Yongle Canon", I will not hesitate to reward you! ”
"Holy Wisdom!" He smiled with the adult, "The Yongle Grand Ceremony must still be in the Hanlin Academy, I have received this merit!" ”
But is that really the case?!
Soon, Lord He realized one thing: what Ji Xiaolan couldn't find, he had to find it with the same difficulty.