Chapter 53: Right and Wrong
"He Shen, I've read "The Story of the Stone", it's really a good book!" Within two days, Lord Qianlong found Lord He again.
"If the emperor can like it, the servants will be at ease, and Cao Xueqin will finally be able to look at the nine springs."
"The reason why I revised the Siku Quanshu and banned a large number of books is to correct scholarship and enrich the hearts of the people in the world. Some literati are cynical and slander my ancestors and ancestors, and I will naturally punish them severely for such a great rebellion and incitement to civil revolt. However, this "Stone Record", the left and right are just about the love of children, and some parents are short, the writing is concise, and the words are appropriate. Jiangnan Bookstore is really a bit suspicious. In my opinion, "The Story of Stones" should not have been included in the list of **. I will grant your request to allow this book to be published! ”
"Emperor Shengming,"
"I'll leave the printing to you. But I think the name of this book is too cheesy, so I'd better change the name of it! ”
"Your Majesty, the minions are also thinking about the name! The servants had gathered many literati to discuss and determine a new name, and hoped that the saint would cut it. ”
"Oh?! What a name, you name it, come and hear it. ”
"The so-called 'good knowledge of the skeleton of the green mound is the person who hides the face of the Red Mansion', this 'Red Mansion' is the Zhumen, which refers to the deep mansion compound of the princes and nobles, and the 'Red Mansion Mask-Hiding Man' is the lady of the official eunuch'. According to the humble opinion of the minions, "The Story of the Stone" was written as a dream of the Red Chamber, so the minions dared to name the book "Dream of Red Mansions". ”
"Dream of Red Mansions?! The nobles of the Red Mansion, Nan Ke has a good name, it's right! ”
Note: The above plot is from the wild history and is not reliable.
In fact, the origin of the title of "Dream of Red Mansions" is still a mystery.
"Dream of Red Mansions" has four mysteries.
The mystery of Jia Yuanchun's judgment
The mystery of Jia Yuanchun's "Hate Impermanence" song
The mystery of the title of "Dream of Red Mansions".
The mystery of the twenty quatrains of "Dream of Red Mansions".
Unravel one of them and you're on fire.
Absolute fame and fortune, big hit.
It's so hot that you can't do it.
Don't say I didn't tell you. Hehe......
Mr. Liu Xinwu is famous all over the world.
As soon as the ban on "Dream of Red Mansions" was issued, he adults began to prepare. In order to ensure the quality of the printing, he specially ordered Wu Yingdian, who had the best reputation in the publishing industry at that time, to make a special collector's edition. Since then, "Dream of Red Mansions" has become famous and popular all over China.
and adults have been abusing all their lives, helping Qianlong Ye to prosper 'wenziyu', and slandering **. In the end, because of "Dream of Red Mansions", he made a great contribution to Chinese history.
Who can tell clearly whether the merits are right or wrong?!
Time flies, years go by. The time soon came to the end of March of the 46th year of Qianlong. In this year, Lord He was reappointed as the minister of the Imperial Mission and led the troops out of the capital.
That year, something happened in Gansu.
Su 43, a member of the Salar ethnic group in the Xunhua Department (now Xunhua County, Qinghai), which is under the jurisdiction of Hezhou, Gansu, is reversed.
The reason was that he was dissatisfied with the discrimination and oppression of ethnic minorities by the Qing Dynasty government, so he pulled up a force composed of Salar people and ** ethnic minorities and embarked on the old road of forcing Liangshan to go to Liangshan.
The first place they want to fight: Lanzhou.
Lanzhou is an important town.
Humans have been living here for as early as 5,000 years ago. The Western Han Dynasty set up a county governance, and called Jincheng by taking the meaning of "Jincheng soup pool". At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the Lanzhou Governor's Mansion was replaced, and it was originally called Lanzhou. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang and Song dynasties, with the opening of the Silk Road, there was a grand occasion of silk going west and Tianma coming east, and Lanzhou gradually became an important transportation artery and commercial port town on the Silk Road, an important metropolis and link connecting ethnic minorities in the Western Regions, and played an important role in communicating and promoting economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.
Lanzhou can't afford to lose!
For Baolanzhou, Qianlong urgently transferred garrison troops from Liancheng, Liangzhou, Shaanxi and other places. Tens of thousands of troops gathered together, and for a time, the city of Lanzhou was overcrowded.
It stands to reason that if tens of thousands of professional troops want to deal with a group of unorganized and undisciplined wild people in the deep mountains, then they don't play it?!
The opposite is true.
The battle was fought for more than half a month, and there was no progress at all. Su Forty-three is still coquettish like a flower, and he can play with you how he wants. Worry about you!
The leaders have big heads.
What's the problem?!
As the saying goes: when there are more people, there are more things. As soon as things go wrong, problems arise.
By the end of the month, the soldiers had to be paid. One asked the leader: No. What if you don't?! Cold. You blow your trumpet, I'll shoot my cannon. I don't say either.
Lord Qianlong was angry: What are you doing, a group of Diao people have been fighting for more than half a month, are you all eating dry food? ! Find a bird, Lao Tzu will teach you a lesson, as a punishment!
The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Leer, unfortunately won the bid and gloriously took off the black gauze hat on his head.
Leer stepped down from the stage, and Gansu was fried. The first line of defense to be broken through was Wang Tingzan, the political envoy of Gansu.
This thing can't stand it.
To put it bluntly: timid and scared, psychologically fragile.
Adhering to the legal principle of leniency in confession and strictness in resistance, this cargo was the first to stand up and prepare to strive for a leniency.
The method he adopted was: donate 40,000 taels of silver from his savings over the years to pay for the army.
Military salaries were settled. Something happened to him.
This is careless. He patronized and bleached himself, but forgot where his money came from.
Qianlong Ye took a look: No, you are just a political envoy, where did you get so much money? ! Rub, greedy, right?!
So, he came to Lord He: Check it for me, check it thoroughly!
Lord Qianlong guessed correctly, Wang Tingzan's money was greedy. But how to be greedy, here we want to focus on it.
There is a noun involved in this, and only when you understand the meaning of a word can you understand what is happening next.
Let's ask, if you don't do well in the college entrance examination and still want to go to university, what can you do?!
Some children's shoes will say: pay for it!
Not bad. If you have money, you can go to school.
This is true now, and so is the Qing Dynasty.
It's just that there are some differences in the expression: now it is called 'self-pay', and in the Qing Dynasty, it was called 'donation of prisons'.
The so-called 'donation of prisons'. That is to say, if you hand over a certain amount of grain to the government, the government will give you an admission notice, and then you can go to school with your luggage to 'Guozijian' (the highest institution of learning in the Ming and Qing dynasties). If you mix it well, after graduation, you can still be an official.
This is the 'prison donation'.
The Qing government explicitly stipulated that provincial governors should regularly report to the central government on local rains and grain prices. Since the 39th year of Qianlong, Governor Le has been reporting to Qianlong that the drought is serious, asking for donations to prisons and distributing grain.
Gansu has suffered from severe drought since ancient times. Qianlong didn't think much about it at the time, every time it was one word: accurate.
So is there a major drought in Gansu year after year?!
Apparently not.
Where is the food donated by the children's shoes and the food distributed by the government?!
You know.