The Merry Emperor set up a new empress

The three dynasties return to the sky and enjoy the temple

Fang Bao, the prime minister of cloth, also experienced the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties. Now, Zhang Tingyu abandoned Qianlong first.

In the second year of Yongzheng, Fang Bao returned to his hometown to bury his mother. For three years, he returned to Beijing as a teacher, and was still in the south study, specially awarded Zuo Zhongyun, and then moved to the cabinet bachelor. Fang Bao resigned with athlete's foot, and ordered to lead the book, without having to consult the cabinet, looking for his life to teach Xi Jishi, and serving as the president of "One Unification Chronicle". In the first year of Qianlong, he served as the vice president of "Three Rites and Yishu", and was ordered to re-enter the south study and serve as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites.

In the early years of Qianlong, there was a severe drought in many parts of the country, and the following year, the south of the Yangtze River was hit by floods and droughts. At this time, Fang Bud handed the fold into the dredging and said:

It is advisable to save the famine. At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the flood and drought are abundant, and eight or nine out of ten have been seen.

The old routine of reporting disasters must wait until after August and September, and the victims of the disaster will not wait for the night, and they will be able to play it

Purpose, moving through the month of October. Please follow the floods and droughts, and play them in May and June

Report. There must be a pool in the city of the ancients, and the two officials are set up around the periphery, and the two officials are solidified, and the ditch is raised

The tree is guarded, please repair it in time. Tongchuan can spend the river, and frustration can be

Xingdawei, and Zhutang weir should be created and repaired, if the town should be opened ditch,

Those who built the fort made a book and reported it, apologized for the year, and worked for relief

……

Fang Bao often played to the Qianlong court, saying that the people's livelihood was scarce, please ban shochu, ban tobacco planting, ban rice and grain to go to the sea, and ordered the second official to supervise the people and livestock, and the gentry to dredge the waterway. Please also correct the habits and rejuvenate talents, and said to Qianlong:

"Be fooled to see the courtiers for a long time, don't be evil, show likes and dislikes. The inner Jiuqing and the outer governor are convinced that they are loyal and selfless, and they will know their own orders. Try things first, break the favoritism, pure selfishness, and be generous and long-term honorable, give gold silk, and enter the rank. In particular, the six departments have their own duties, and they must be cautious and concise, so that they can train their subordinates, and advance and retreat in time, so that the middle material is self-conscious. ”

Fang Bao's words are undoubtedly targeted for the "playing emperor" who is so happy. Qianlong also felt that it was reasonable, and handed it over to the ministry to discuss, those such as the ban on alcohol, smoking, and rice and grain going abroad; Accumulation of habits, revitalization of talents, etc., what can be done will be done, and what cannot be done will be shelved.

Qianlong ordered Fang Bao to select the art of the former Ming Dynasty and the great masters of this dynasty, criticize and edit it into a book, and show the students the criteria. The book was completed, and the "Four Books of the King James Order" was ordered. Fang Bao wanted to imitate the Zhuzi School's tribute examination subject program, and to teach Xi Shu Jishi, and asked to change the rules of the library class and the dispersal of the museum, but the discussion style was not possible.

Fang Bao was six or seven years older than Zhang Tingyu, old and sick, Qianlong took pity, and repeatedly ordered the imperial doctor to see him and give him imperial medicine.

Fang Bao offended Gao Bin, the governor of the river, and Gao Bin handed over the fold to expose Fang Bao's personal affairs, and Qianlong began to alienate him.

It turned out that Fang Bao and Shangshu Wei Tingzhen were very friendly, at that time Wei Tingzhen was ordered to guard the Tailing, and Fang Bao lived in Wei Tingzhen's mansion. Qianlong once summoned Fang Bao to the advisor, and Fang Bao said:

"The emperor is shining in the dark, and the minister thinks that Shangshu Wei Tingzhen is solemn and upright, and he is a usable material, so he looks at the saint."

After this answer, Qianlong passed on the decree and promoted Wei Tingzhen to the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, which was second only to the prime minister from the first rank. Before the emperor's edict was issued, Fang Bao moved out of the Wei Mansion and moved outside the city.

"There are no three hundred taels of silver here", Fang Bao's departure has become the truth of Gao Bin's impeachment of Fang Bao.

Later, Fang Bao moved to Wu Qiaoling's house. At that time, the Shujishi Hall was dissolved, and the test date had been set, Wu Qiaoling did not catch up with the exam, so Fang Bao asked him to make up for the retest. Gao Bin also lived in Wu's house with Fang Bao and asked for favoritism. With these two things, Qianlong issued a decree to reprimand Fang Bao, and cut his rank as a waiter, and still ordered the revision of "Three Rites and Righteousness".

Fang Bao was eighty years old at the time, and his illness was deep, and the scholars played on his behalf, please give the title of servant, and allow him to return to his hometown for the rest of his life. Qianlong played on time, Fang Bao had already made a decision, and returned to his hometown in Tongcheng after many years of absence.

In the fourteenth year of Qianlong, Fang Bao died of illness in Tongcheng at the age of eighty-two. Hearing the death of Prime Minister Buyi, when there was a shortage of people in the country's sacrificial wine, Qianlong sighed:

"This official can make Fang Bao do it."

The courtiers around listened to it, but they sighed, but no one answered.

In March of the fifteenth year of Qianlong, Zhang Tingyu, the prime minister of the Three Dynasties, finally left. Qianlong did not lose the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, and still had a good deal with Zhang Tingyu, and ordered the minister of the scattered rank to lead the ten guards to escort back to Tongcheng.

He also ordered that the 14-year flood allowance in 30 prefectures and counties such as Tongcheng and Guichi in Anhui Province be exempted and given relief, which can be regarded as looking at the face of Prime Minister Xiu.

Since the sudden death of the queen Fucha clan in Dongxing Jinan, there has been a lack of queens in the six palaces. Less than four months after the death of the Fucha clan, although he was ordered by the Empress Dowager: "Xian Guifei Nala succeeded to Kunning, and was first canonized as the imperial concubine and took charge of the six palace affairs." But she was never given the title of queen until August of the fifteenth year, when the Empress Fucha died for two years and five months, and the Qianlong Imperial Taihe Palace, in accordance with the decree of the Empress Dowager, officially canonized the imperial concubine Nala as the queen.

Nala is the daughter of Narbu, who was originally just a side Fujin, and was named a concubine in the second year of Qianlong, and a concubine in ten years. After being canonized as the queen, her fate happened to be as tragic as that of the Empress Fucha.

Queen Nala is extremely strict, and if Qianlong makes a mistake, he will be admonished. At this time, he was in the middle palace, and he was even more reprimanded. Partial life met Qianlong blessed, the outside set to return, the martial arts shocked, the country has nothing to do, the world is peaceful, the ministers praise and whitewash, called the lord of Yao Shun. For a while, there was no trouble.

However, it is said that in August of the fifteenth year, after the canonization of the queen of the Nala clan, Qianlong led the king and ministers to celebrate the Empress Dowager's Imperial Cining Palace. Add the emblem of the Empress Dowager and say: Chongqing Ci Xuan Kang Hui Dun and the Empress Dowager.

Then the Empress Dowager visited the Xiling, Xiaoling, Tailing, Xiaodongling, Jingling, Songshan and Luoyang, and got rid of a filial son and grandson.

Because of the first eastward tour in 13 years, Qianlong exempted Jiangsu and Anhui from the first year to the thirteenth year of Qianlong, and Zhejiang this year, and reduced the number of people who committed crimes more than three times in Zhili Province. Because of the previous year's patrol of Songshan and Luoyang, he was exempted from Henan 14 years ago. Qianlong was quite good at whitewashing the peace, buying people's hearts, and wherever he went, he would spread the grace of exemption wherever he went.

In the first month of the sixteenth year, Qianlong was sent to the south tour of the Empress Dowager and left Beijing by dragon boat and phoenix. The accompanying ministers included Fu Heng, Ji Xiaolan, editor of the Hanlin Academy, and Erong An, the minister of the interior, who did not let the newly canonized Queen Nala go with him this time, but let Concubine Yi Wei Jia, Concubine Hui, Yan Hong, Ying Ying and other concubines accompany them. Otherwise, the strong-tempered Nala clan may not live for thirty years, and he will vomit and die in this southern tour.

Gui ugly, the dragon boat and phoenix pass through the territory of Zhili and Shandong, and Qianlong issued a decree to exempt the Zhili and Shandong places from passing through three-tenths of the amount this year. Since then, this has been the case for every southern tour.

At that time, Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu were hit by drought, and Zhejiang and Guangdong were hit by floods. Qianlong traveled all the way south, saw the frequent disasters in the Qing Dynasty and starvation all over the wilderness, and remembered the turmoil in the early years of Qianlong when Liu Tongxun presented "A Thousand Miles of Hunger and Death", and his mood was very deep. At that time, Tian Wenjing and a group of cool officials, the court argued and insisted that he kill Liu Tongxun, but fortunately he treated the officials with leniency and burned the "starvation map", but saved Liu Tongxun's life. Later, Liu Tongxun was loyal, he had been a secretary of the Criminal Department and the Ministry of War, and now he was the Minister of Military Aircraft, and he was on an errand in Nanjing.

Qianlong is good at traveling in the mountains and rivers, if there is no loyal officials like Fu Heng and Liu Tongxun like Zhang Tingyu to run errands for him, there is no peaceful situation, what is the interest in playing?

In recent years, the imperial warehouse has been abundant, so wherever he goes, he can be exempted from the amount of money and food, and he has won the praise of the common people.

In February, Xinwei, relief from drought in seven counties such as Lanshan in Shandong, exempted the two Huaizao households from the past years. Bingzi, the Empress Dowager crossed the Yellow River, read the Tianfei Gate, and read the Gaojiayan. Seven counties such as Yixian County in Shandong Province will be exempted from flood payments. Yiyou, the mighty fleet of imperial ships arrived at Jiaoshan.

At that time, the governor of Liangjiang was the crown prince Taibao Yin Jishan, and the former governor Jin Ji was transferred to the governor of Liangguang. This time Qianlong's southern tour, in the beautiful name, is a private visit to observe the people's feelings, so except for the edict issued by the inner court before the departure, saying when the imperial car will arrive in Jiangning, it is not ostentatious. Now there is no announcement of where the royal car has gone.

On the morning of this day, Yin Jishan and Jin Ji were arranging the palace guards in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Yang, Haining, Huzhou and other places with the three officials of the three divisions of Yamen, Jiangnan, and Zhejiang provinces, as well as the generals at or above the military guerrilla level, to discuss the matter of taking over the car. Yin Jishan finally said:

"It's almost over, everything is according to the original arrangement of Liu Zhongtang, but the mobilization and relocation of defense must be at night, and the smaller the momentum, the better. The city's leading yamen are guarded in the urban area and are all changed into civilian clothes. The emperor's micro-service visit should be loose and tight, and the inside and outside should be relaxed. In addition to the three pine and cypress evergreen color gates at the Wangjiang Pavilion Ferry, the government does not set up any rest. Those who voluntarily build the door of the people can't help it. That's it, is there anything else to make up for the gold system? ”

"There is one more thing: to help the poor and calm the people." Although Jin Jiao had already been handed over as the governor of Liangjiang and was about to leave, he knew that the emperor was going to visit something in private, and he would still make use of him, the former governor, so he emphasized, "The commanders of all prefectures and counties came to the door in person and told the landlords and owners that they were not allowed to resign from the tenants." Each county should set up at least two porridge sheds, give up rice to help the poor, and the porridge should be thick. ”

The No. 100 officials in the council hall left their seats with a bang, bowed and dispersed. Yin Jishan and Jin Ji came to the West Flower Hall of the Governor's Mansion to meet Liu Tongxun. Liu Zhongtang's face was anxious, his head was full of sweat, he changed his usual steady and calm attitude, and walked around the hall with his hands behind his back.

"Here's how! Such an urgent document was missed for four days in Qingheyi! With that, he threw a letter with the paint peeled on the table.

Yin Jishan took the letter, hurriedly skimmed through it, his face was also purple, his eyes were straight, and he muttered:

"Fu Heng is also so reckless? After thirteen days of dry road, we entered the ground south of the Yangtze River no matter what, and we were still in the dark as the officials of the feudal territory! ”

Jin Ji took the letter and looked at it, so it turned out to be like this:

Yanqing Zhongtang is like a meeting: after receiving the master's urgent call, the younger brother is with Ji Xiao

Lan, Erong'an and the two concubines of Yihui in the palace, Yan Hong, and Yingying are the emperor

and the Queen Mother set off, and the micro-service went south. The master of the trip did not tell, probably

The imperial ship first arrived in Shandong, and then arrived in Ningbo by dry road. The master is not allowed to sue in advance

Know, please quickly inform the Jishan Golden Horse to prepare for the drive. Don't rush

Hurry, Fu Heng's first month Xinhai day.

After reading the letter, Jin Jie's head swelled all of a sudden, and he said anxiously:

"The brigade of personal soldiers and guards followed the Queen Mother Fengge, and the emperor brought at most Fu Heng, Ji Xiaolan plus Yan Hong, Ying Ying, White Dragon Fish Eyes, and two women, although the sixth master was a soldier, but Ji Yun was a weak scholar, how to escort him? This more than 1,000 miles of dry road, going out of the pool, how can we explain? ”

"Don't be nervous," Yin Jishan calmed down and said lightly, "This is the temperament that the master can't change, and it was like this in the mansion back then." Now that the bandits in Shandong and Anhui have been eliminated, it is a peaceful road, not to mention that there is Fu Heng by his side, and there is no big event. ”

"I'm angry with Fu Heng," Liu Tongxun shouted with his bare head, "Is this a comic play?" I want to be in Beijing, kneeling outside the Qianqing Gate, to see if he is micro-behavioral? Master, you ...... Now there is no movie news, ask me where to find you Liu Tongxun......"

As he spoke, this Liu Laozhongtang actually hid his face and sobbed. Yin Jishan and Jin Ji were comforting Liu Tongxun, and suddenly a guerrilla from Jiangning galloped outside on horseback, jumped off the horse and rushed straight in to make an urgent report:

"Zhongtang, the two governors, the emperor's imperial ship has arrived at Wangjiangting Wharf, please go and welcome it immediately!"

The three jumped up from their seats, muttering as they ran:

"Quick, quick!"

It was too late to prepare the car and sedan car, so the three of them jumped on horseback and galloped towards the Wangjiangting ferry under the support of the guerrillas and the personal soldiers of the government service. On horseback, Liu Tongxun was still complaining to Yin Jishan and Jin Jie:

"What's going on! Just now I was talking about dry roads, and now it's the royal boat that is under my nose. ”

It turned out to be a nightmare: on the dragon boat and phoenix, only the queen mother, Concubine Yi, Concubine Hui and other palace people, escorted by the minister of the interior E Rong'an and a large group of eunuchs and palace maids. met with the queen mother on the phoenix, the old woman who also loves to play in the mountains and rivers like her son, said with a smile:

"Has your master arrived?"

Liu Tongxun replied with a sad stomach:

"Back to the Queen Mother, Long Live Lord has not yet arrived, and the minions are in a hurry and don't know what to do."

"It's okay," the Queen Mother said lightly, "He said, maybe they arrived first, maybe we arrived first." Sitting on the boat and watching the scenery, he was naturally happy all the way, and he insisted on doing something about the private service of microservices, so he just suffered a little bit in the car. Let's go to the palace first and wait for your master. ”

Nanjing's palace is still the Jiangnan Weaving Office where Cao Yin received the Holy Grandfather, that is, Cao Xueqin's Daguan Garden. Since the early years of Yongzheng, the house was copied, and the Caofu compound and the "Grand View Garden" were confiscated and confiscated, and they were under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Liangjiang. Who would dare to live in the place where the Holy Grandfather lived?

Moreover, the palace where the Holy Grandfather lived in the south is not only the "Grand View Garden" in Jiangning, but also has many places in Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Haining, and Huzhou, all of which have been deserted in the past 20 years. This time, in order to welcome the Qianlong Lord to move in, the household department allocated 6 million taels of silver, and the Ministry of Industry and the Governor's Office sent special personnel to supervise the repair, which was more than the money spent on building the garden back then.

Kangxi Dynasty cleaned up the treasury silver, the book is 50 million taels, in addition to the deficit, there are actually only more than 10 million taels, Yongzheng Ye and the thirteenth brother Yunxiang, Xing Shi moved the public, made the chickens and dogs jump over the wall, and finally cleared the original treasury silver, the total amount is more than 30 million taels, and this time to repair the palace, the cost of 6 million taels, equivalent to one-fifth of the treasury silver, it can be seen that Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, the cost is extravagant, the consumption is great.

The queen mother and the second concubine Yihui, after resting in the palace, there are Erongan and a large group of eunuchs and palace maids, and it is inconvenient for local officials to disturb more, just need to offer a steady stream of delicacies and jewels from the mountains and seas in the south of the Yangtze River. It is to visit the scenic spots in Nanjing, and the local guerrilla generals send plainclothes to be guarded, accompanied by their own palace guards and eunuchs.

There is still no news from Qianlong, who is in Weifu, and Liu Tongxun sent fast horses to visit everywhere without results, as if the five masters had evaporated on the ground in the south of the Yangtze River. He was so anxious that he couldn't eat and couldn't sit still.

Where did Lord Qianlong go?

The forty-one-year-old Qianlong was just the time when the man's blood was strong, his energy was the most vigorous, and his lust was noisy, and the world was peaceful. Although floods and droughts are continuous, there are always many provinces in the big country of Huanghuang that have good weather and rain, and the imperial grain is continuously transported into the capital through the Cao River to enrich the imperial warehouse. Therefore, wherever he went, there were always local officials who were busy giving alms, and the hungry people would get a scoop of gruel and no longer make trouble. The emperor will no longer see the scene of "a thousand miles of starvation", and he can go to the mountains and rivers with peace of mind, looking for flowers and willows.

When he arrived in Yangzhou that day, Junchen dressed up as a merchant and stayed in the Xiaolinglong Mountain Pavilion. Here was originally the old residence of Wang Maolin, a high-foot disciple of Wang Shizhen of the Kangxi Dynasty, there are 100 feet of sycamore in the garden, a thousand years of wolfberry, a huge exquisite stone that is, Taihu Lake stone is higher than the eaves, it is not carved, it is equipped with the wonder of penetration, wrinkles and thinness.

After the master and servant stayed, they visited the 24th Bridge, Pingshan Hall, Di Garden, Slender West Lake and other scenic spots during the day, and at night they either went to Fireworks Willow Lane, singing and dancing boats to listen to music and play strings, or simply hired fireworks women to sing and dance and drink in Liangmingxuan. After getting drunk, Qianlong hugged a beautiful woman on his left and a famous prostitute on his right, and had fun all night. Yan Hong and Ying Ying can only serve in both sides at this moment, and they will do their part.

One night of drinking and having fun, Ji Xiaolan was half drunk and half awake, and said:

"The clouds and noble people never know poetry. Jin Maozhi said in the "Seven Revisions Manuscript" that when he met a talent, he tried it right, and it was late spring, saying: "The horse is powerless to step on the red dust." 'If you can't do it. ”

Qianlong took a sip of wine and said indifferently:

"What's so hard about that? There is an ancient poem: 'Chicken chirps Zimo and dawns cold', isn't it innate? ”

"The master is smart, who can compare." Ji Xiaolan said again, "Is there another pair of masters?" ”

"Say it and try it."

So Ji Xiaolan said:

Qiankun Shengshi scratched his head,

Qianlong responded:

The clouds and rain Wushan broke their bowels in vain.

Ji Xiaolan came out again:

Flying double cranes on the Sanqing Palace,

Qianlong immediately responded:

Six dragons in the five-colored clouds.

Qianlong has been reading since he was a child, that is, he is good at reciting poems, so Ji Xiaolan can't help but be an elegant son. He smiled and said:

"The wisdom of the Son of Heaven is very incomparable." Ji Xiaolan frowned and thought for a moment, then replied, "The Buddhist's 'Yin Horse Hidden Phase', has the master ever heard of it?" ”

"I haven't heard of it," Qianlong said, who also likes to talk strangely, "Tell me about it." ”

Ji Xiaolan looked at Yan Hong and Ying Ying who were accompanying her, and stopped talking. Qianlong knew that Ji Yun was taboo against women, and he became more and more energetic, he hugged Yanhong on his left and Yingying on his right, and sprayed them with a nose of wine and said:

"Ji Aiqing, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Ji Xiaolanping was also full of anger in Japan, and when he got the master's approval, he let go of his courage and said:

This is what is said in the Samadhi Sutra of the Buddha, not a minion. It is said that when the Buddha was the crown prince, there were 500 maids around him......"

Yan Hong smiled and asked:

"There are so many maids?"

Qianlong twisted her and said:

"There are three thousand concubines in the sixth palace of Qin Shi Huang, what is five hundred? Don't interrupt, listen to it. ”

"There is a concubine named Xiumantuo," Ji Xiaolan continued, "Prince Feng has been in the past years, and his roots are not visible. Another named Jingyi said, in the eighteenth year of the prince, there is no convenience, and there is nothing else? At that time, all the women said that the prince was not a man. The prince sleeps day and night, and the women want to see the prince's penis. At that time, the prince's yin horse stood out, the root was like a lotus, its color was red and white, the upper and lower two or three flowers were connected, and there was a body root in the flower, such as a boy shape, suddenly like a husband shape, and the women were overjoyed to see it. Then I saw countless Bodhisattvas holding white flowers, surrounding the roots of the body, which is called the Yin Horse Tibetan Phase. The Buddha told Ananda, when I first attained enlightenment, seven hundred and fifty disciples came to my place on the side of the Xilian River, and sat down on the grass with the roots of their bodies for seven turns, and said these words: 'I have no desires, so the roots of my body are like this, as in the heavens.' ’”

Hearing this, Qianlong laughed and said:

"The roots of the body are so long, you can go around the body for seven turns, and you still say that you have no desire, Yingying and Yanhong, do you believe it?"

"Believe," Ying Ying stretched out her hand and said with a smile, "Is the master so powerful?" ”

Ji Xiaolan and Fu Heng retired one after another. Qianlong was teased by the two girls and burst into flames, and rolled towards the bed with his arms in his arms......

Qianlong Weifu played in Yangzhou, and he couldn't bear to leave after a few days. It was Fu Heng who reminded him:

"Master, you originally agreed to go to Nanjing to wait for the Queen Mother, or the Queen Mother to wait for the Master in Nanjing. The minions calculated that the Queen Mother's fleet should have been in Jiangning for many days, and it seems that we should not be delayed in Yangzhou for too long. ”

"That's what I'm saying, then you send someone to the imperial boat to inform you, abandon the car from Jingkou tomorrow and change the boat, and go to Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple, or don't alarm the local officials."

Fu Heng agreed and left. In fact, the so-called micro-service private interview, they only have five masters and servants on the face, but in fact, there are hundreds of imperial guards and flag battalion soldiers led by General Zhaohui around them, all of whom have changed into civilian clothes to escort in secret. This was even kept in the dark by Qianlong himself, and it was arranged by Fu Heng, the Minister of Military Aircraft. Zhao Hui's eyeliner was about to leave, and he kept in touch with Fu Heng, so Fu Zhongtang didn't need to go far from the Little Linglong Mountain Pavilion to arrange everything properly.

On the second day of February, Qianlong's master and servant five arrived at Jinshan Temple by small boat, and the imperial boat was guarded by Zhaohui and followed far behind. This is still for the sake of "micro-service", if you come to Zhenjiang by imperial boat, the target is too big, and the emperor's whereabouts will be leaked. Abandon the boat and go ashore, patrol Jinshan Temple for a week, drink a cup of tea in the dining hall, Qianlong for Jinshan Temple a spring well, the royal pen inscribed:

The first spring in the world

The monk unexpectedly got the "Qianlong imperial pen" of "the first spring in the world", and stayed there in a daze, Qianlong and his party of five people went away, went down the mountain and boarded the boat to go straight to Nanjing. Arrived in Nanjing, abandoned the ship at a small pier and landed, blended into the flow of people in the city, and went to the streets.

Qianlong really wanted to "micro-serve" in Nanjing, and said slowly to the four people who followed him:

"Today, we only had breakfast and drank a cup of tea in Jiaoshan. Yan Hong, you are in charge of expenses, you are not allowed to use a penny of silver today, even if you go to the porridge shed to eat, you have to go to the street to beg for a day, and you have to observe the people's feelings. ”

"Wan -" Yingying's word "year" was stopped by "long live" before she could say it, and Yingying changed her words and said: "Master, we can go to beg in this dress, but you are a rich businessman, how can you speak?" ”

"Let's go to the porridge shed and get food, can't we just give it to the master?" Yan Hong said smartly.

Ji Xiaolan, who was holding a big smoking pot in her hand, was wearing a tattered coarse cloth green robe, oil stains and dirt, a melon skin hat on her head under a messy canopy, and a mustache and hawthorn like a hedgehog drilled out of a hole in the ground, but she really looked like a master who escaped from the desert and asked for food. When he came to a crowded and noisy porridge shack on the side of the street, it was already late in the afternoon, and his stomach was rumbling with hunger. He didn't care about the decency of Hanlin's editing, so he squeezed in, held a broken bowl, took a scoop of gruel, and devoured it.

Over there, Yan Hong and Ying Ying covered each other and rushed in, and they also won a big victory and got two bowls of porridge out. Carrying the porridge to the corner of the street, Yan Hong handed a bowl of porridge to Qianlong, and Ying Ying handed another bowl to the university scholar. Qianlong took the porridge and drank it deliciously, but Fu Heng was like Uncle Boyi, who would rather die than eat Zhou Su, and stiffened.

Qianlong drank half a bowl of gruel, and he couldn't swallow it, although the porridge was not mixed with sand, but there was a musty smell, where was Qianlong, who was accustomed to eating rare imperial meals, could eat it as a meal? He's just getting a taste.

Just like every year in front of the Huanqiu in the New Year's Palace, the plough is "imperial ploughing", and plowing a blank is also regarded as the emperor's personal "imperial ploughing" -- it is all for the world to see. They have to travel around the mountains and rivers, eat and drink spicy food, sleep with women, spend the hard-earned money that the people have tightened their waists, and make an appearance of compassion and love for the people. It's really going to be the first and set up the archway.

Besides, Liu Tongxun, Yin Jishan, and Jin Ji of the Governor's Mansion were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and they hadn't closed their eyes for two days and two nights. There is no news about the emperor's whereabouts, and the old queen mother is tired of playing in Nanjing, so she naturally wants to go to Wuxi, Suzhou and other cities ahead. I have sent the eunuch Gao Wuyong to ask many times.

That evening, the three of them sat in the West Flower Hall waiting for news from the horses, and the official put a table of sumptuous wine and food on the table, and invited many times, but no one was seated. Liu Tongxun said anxiously:

"We can't sit back and wait, you inform Liu Yong to come again tonight, and I will rearrange the messenger for him. Liu Blind asked him to pay attention to the rivers and lakes, and sent a document to the Yamen of the Liangjiang Division in Anhui Province, Shandong, and all the hotels and shops in the territory must be re-registered with insurance to ensure the safety of the master and get clues from it. That's all I have in mind now, you can do it! ”

Liu Tongxun said a word, and Yin Jishan responded. The two were about to withdraw, when they suddenly heard a curtain sound, and a middle-aged man in his forties walked in, patted the fluttering wind and dust on his body and asked with a smile:

"What kind of fire burned the monkey's buttocks, do you need to do it quickly?"

"Sixth Master Fu!"

The three feudal officials stayed there at the same time, clay sculpture and wood carving, and Liu Tongxun thought it was a daydream. Stammered and asked:

"How...... Why are you the only one? What about the master? ”

Before the words fell, Yan Hong and Ying Ying raised the curtain one by one, behind Ji Xiaolan's big smoke pot, Qianlong walked in softly, glanced at the table full of food and sat down on the Taishi chair, and scolded with a weak smile:

"Okay, your master is begging outside, but the three minions are eating and drinking spicy food here......"

"Oh my God!"

Yin Jishan and Jin Ji exclaimed in surprise, and knelt down, and Liu Tongxun collapsed on the Taishi chair with his buttocks, and he didn't even have the strength to knock. Yan Hong, Ying Ying and Ji Da Yan Pot, looking at a table of fragrant food, hungry ghosts came up like a pounce, Yan Hong first filled Qianlong with a bowl of rice, and said:

"Master, if you are hungry, you can't drink first, it's not too late to eat a bowl of rice and then drink."

Qianlong took the rice bowl and devoured it, looked at the kneeling and paralyzed people there with strange eyes, and muttered:

"Get up, the full man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, and it is not etiquette to be hungry."

Liu Tongxun relieved his breath at this time, prostrate on the ground and kowtowed, and cried with old tears:

"Your Majesty, look at you starving like this, what should you say to the old minister!"

Qianlong picked up half a bowl of rice in one go, choked up and said with a smile:

"You are like hot ants, and you are deliberating day and night about the Savior, and you must be hungry like this when you kneel and tremble. Get up and eat together, eat! This is what makes the people take food as the sky, and give good relief to the hungry and hungry. ”

Only then did the three "minions" burst into tears and laughed, got up and sat down at the table, eating and talking. Yin Jishan only asked the official to add food and vegetables, Ji Dayan was half full, and said with a smile:

"In the afternoon, I begged for a bowl of porridge to drink in the porridge shed. The porridge is not thin, not mixed with much sand, a little musty, it is nothing, but the spoon is a little smaller, too many people, too crowded, the spoon is too horizontal, ask him to add a little, his eyes are like cow eggs, and he said that I am an old sow belly. ”

Yan Hong smiled:

"You were originally an old sow's belly, drinking gruel and purring, how like the master, you stopped after drinking half a bowl."

"Master," Liu Tongxun took a few mouthfuls of food, his spirit had recovered, and he owed a debt on the chair, "The Queen Mother has been in Nanjing for a long time, you don't want to 'micro-serve' anymore." Where are you going, the old minion is following closely anyway. ”

"The master has not listened to advice several times, and that is Beijing, and this is in Nanjing. You really don't know your mistakes......" Ji Xiaolan suddenly felt that it was too much, and she had a twist of inspiration, and continued, "Well, this is it...... Good is great! ”

"If you don't change your mistakes, you are very good," Qianlong sprayed a haha, "Ji Da Smoke Pot, this is also the invention of you, a literati bachelor, this is the first time I have heard of it." After finishing the meal, he picked up the tea cup, slowly dialed the tea leaves with the lid of the cup, took a small sip, and turned to Liu Tongxun and said, "Yan Qinggong, don't be careful." If I go further, I can't do it without the Queen Mother. In fact, 'algae decorates the world' and 'whitewashes peace', which dynasty and generation are the same. I heard that the Holy Grandfather toured the south, Jining Mansion was obviously so dry that only four percent of the harvest was made, and even the old woman who called Huazi was dressed up, and the old woman who fed the pigs learned a few words of lame Chinese, what 'Huang Tong Baisuo, sharing the world of Shengping, the farmer is a pawn, and he doesn't know the worry of hunger'. Fake, for example, the smoke pot touches a small spoon of porridge, and as soon as my law arrives, won't it all be replaced with a big spoon tomorrow? Do you think that's the truth? ”

Yin Jishan is a local parent official, and when he heard it, he immediately stood up and replied, "Yes." ”

"I am not only for you," Qianlong was also sober, "I am a nine-fold high, enjoy the glory and wealth of the world, and when I come down to the south, I must always observe the people's suffering like the Holy Grandfather." Yan Qinggong, as the minister of the above study, you wrote a letter to the governor of Anhui to ask, how did you get 50 catties of grain to the victims, and where did the 35 catties go? Told him to quickly gather the refugees and return to his hometown, and when I returned to Luan, I saw that the flooded barren fields and villages were uninhabited, not only could he not do anything as an official, but he was also worried about his life. ”

"Yes, yes!" Liu Tongxun agreed repeatedly, "The minister will write tonight." ”

"Okay, I'm tired, and I have to go to the palace to say goodbye to the Queen Mother." Qianlong got up and turned around and said, "Ming'er will drive to Wuxi and Suzhou, you will all do your own thing, just have Liu Zhongtang with you." ”

In front of the yamen, Long Yuan had been waiting for a long time, and General Zhaohui, who had secretly escorted more than a thousand miles, had a face-to-face with the emperor for the first time.

The next day in Wuxi did not stop, Qianlong Feng Empress Dowager swam Yuantouzhu and drank tea in the garden under Xishan. Qianlong is a tea connoisseur, and he is full of praise for the spring water of the well at the foot of Xishan, and writes with a pen:

The second spring in the world

The first spring in the world of Qianlong Feng is in Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple, this Xishan "the second spring in the world", because a blind pianist sang "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" more than 100 years later, and the fame is far above the "one spring".

Yi Chou, Qianlong was stationed in the Suzhou Palace by the Empress Dowager. Tell the three Wu Shishu, each of them in their own business, and force the flashy. Here the treacherous charges of Zhurmat Namzal are proclaimed, and the punishment is as lawful. He deprived Yan Ruilong of his post and ordered Ali Gon to concurrently serve as the governor of Hubei. Exempt from new and old land rent in Wujin and other counties in Jiangsu, and exempt from the first year to eight years of Xinghua County. At the end of the month, he received the Erqin Chaoliang, the envoy of Zhungar in Suzhou.

In March, Qianlong arrived in Hangzhou with the Empress Dowager. At this time, the two ministers of military aircraft, Fu Heng and Liu Tongxun, were by their side, and all the important pieces of the imperial court that were urgently to be dealt with were sent to the palace where Qianlong was located by Ah Gui, the minister of military aircraft who stayed in the capital, and Zhu was approved by the imperial court, and then handed over by the two ministers of military aircraft, Fu Heng and Liu Tongxun.

During his stay in the Hangzhou Palace, he successively borrowed money from the flood banner people in Hulan, Heilongjiang, and exempted the official Zhuang from paying the annual amount. Avoid the flood in Chun'an County, Zhejiang, and the bad grain this year. With Zhang Shizai as the governor of Anhui.

Gengzi, Qianlong Feng Empress Dowager visited the Academy of Letters, and was fortunate to watch the military parade in Chaolou. Jia Chen, deputy commander of the Han army in Hangzhou. Yi Si, on the sacrifice of Yu Mausoleum. On the afternoon of Bing, the Empress Dowager Shangfeng was still stationed in Hangzhou Mansion. Ding Wei, military parade. Wu Shen ordered Gao Bin to still be in charge of the governor of the river with the rank of university scholar.

Gengxu, Zhejiang Shishu Chongbao Dunrang, Zili Tian. Ordered Bandi to be in charge of the minister stationed in Tibet. Xinhai, Dongge University scholar Zhang Yunsui died. Gui Chou, the Empress Dowager returned to Luan, stationed in Suzhou Mansion. Jiayin, relief of floods in ten counties including Haikang, Guangdong. Yi Mao, fortunately Song Dynasty ministers, literary scholar Fan Zhongyan Temple, give the garden name "Gaoyi", reward the descendants of Fan Hongxing and other mink belts.

Everywhere Qianlong went, he had to inscribe poems and inscriptions, leaving a lot of imperial poems and imperial tablet pavilions that cost the people and money but had no reserved value along the way.

Xin You, Qianlong returned to Jiangning Mansion with the Empress Dowager and stationed in the "Grand View Garden" palace. Zhang Tingyu, who was far away in Tongcheng to retire, although he knew the news of the emperor's southern tour as early as last month's imperial court newspaper, but because of Qianlong's "private visit to Weifu" when he went south, even the governors of Liangjiang, Yin Jishan and Liu Tongxun, did not know their whereabouts, and Zhang Tingyu, who lived in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, naturally did not have any news of Qianlong's arrival in Nanjing. But he did not forget the promise made when His Majesty returned home, and when the emperor toured south, he would go to Jiangning to greet the emperor.

Qianlong went from Jiangning, through Wuxi and Suzhou, to Hangzhou, Haining, Huzhou, and then back to Jiangning. The local government had a daily bulletin, informing the emperor of where he had arrived, which palace and which city he was stationed in, so as to do a good job of welcoming and sending him off. At this time, Zhang Tingyu, who was far away in Tongcheng, knew Qianlong's whereabouts well. What's more, after receiving the news that the emperor returned to Luan from Hangzhou to go north, Zhang Tinglu, the eldest brother who was a scholar and politician in Jiangsu, was entrusted by Yin Jishan, the governor of Liangjiang, and had already returned home with the official servants and official ships to welcome Zhang Tingyu to Jiangning to meet the emperor.

Fu Heng and Yin Jishan were both teachers and students to Zhang Tingyu, and when Yin Jishan was a scholar, he was the minister of Prime Minister Zhang Tingyu's study, which was a righteous protégé; Although Fu Heng is the uncle of the country, he read to Qianlong as a companion when he was a teenager, and he heard Zhang Tingyu talk about the Four Books and Five Classics together, not to mention that his promotion is not unrelated to Zhang Tingyu, the prime minister, so he has always respected the former prime minister very much.

Only Liu Tongxun was in Qianlong for six years, and he asked Zhang Tingyu to stop his recent promotion, although Qianlong had words of praise, but when Zhang Tingyu asked for the resignation of the ministry, Qianlong was warm and comforted. Therefore, Liu Tongxun's impeachment did not damage Zhang Tingyu at all, so it doesn't matter if he has a grudge.

Qianlong returned to Jiangning, and Zhang Tingyu was already in the palace. There is Fu Heng, Yin Jishan and even Liu Tongxun's admiration for Zhang Tingyu, and Qianlong's unpleasant memories of this prime minister of the three dynasties who stubbornly want to return to the field for the rest of his life are completely diluted. Under the imperial public opinion in front of the palace, when he saw the white-haired and frail Zhang Tingyu, he knelt on the ground with Yin Jishan, Jin Ji and other feudal officials, Qianlong walked up in three steps and two steps, and supported Zhang Tingyu and said:

"Old Aiqing, why are you here, I should go to Tongcheng to see you!"

"Your Majesty," Zhang Tingyu kowtowed, so excited that he burst into tears, trembling and speechless. Qianlong and Fu Heng finally helped Zhang Tingyu up, and at this time, the Queen Mother and the second concubine Yihui had just stepped down from Fengyuan, and Zhang Tingyu knelt down with a thud when she saw it, choked up and said:

"The Queen Mother, the second concubine Yihui, the old slave is ......"

When the Empress Dowager saw Zhang Tingyu, she seemed to have suddenly returned to the Kangxi Dynasty and the Yongzheng Dynasty. Without the loyal Zhang Tingyu, the new emperors of the two dynasties would not know how much blood they would have to shed when they ascended the throne! The ministers of the three dynasties had an accident one by one, and they were imprisoned and killed, but only Zhang Tingyu was still loyal to the master of the three dynasties. Other young people don't know, but she, the queen mother's wife, is a person who has come over, and she knows it clearly! So as soon as she saw Zhang Tingyu, the old queen mother came up and grabbed his hand, pulled him up, slapped him, and said with tears in her eyes:

"Old Xiangguo, your body is fine! I heard that you have returned to your hometown, and my wife owes you so much. ”

"The Queen Mother, the old slave saw the emperor and the Queen Mother once, and her body was ...... Days are numbered......"

Zhang Tingyu was so excited that he almost went limp again, and the Queen Mother immediately ordered:

"Gao Wuyong, quickly help the old Xiangguo to get into the sedan chair and carry it in."

Qianlong saw that the Queen Mother was so affectionate to Zhang Hengchen, and ordered: "Use my dragon chariot to carry Zhang Chen into the garden, and live in the west hall next to me, and I want to recount the old feelings with Lao Aiqing tonight." ”

The emperor spoke, and Zhang Tingyu was immediately worth a hundred times, and he simply became an unearthed cultural relic and a living treasure, and was carried in by the guards of Luan Yiwei. Qianlong turned around and waited for the Queen Mother to get into the soft sedan chair, and then exchanged a few words with the local officials kneeling on the ground, and said:

"Go back." After that, he turned around and walked towards the garden.

This was the last time Zhang Tingyu saw Emperor Qianlong, and Qianlong stayed in Jiangning for one more day. One day and two nights, the two of them had a long talk, and they were as harmonious as ever. Qianlong repeatedly consulted this old minister, who was over eighty years old and had experienced three dynasties, for advice on the government. Although Zhang Tingyu is old and dizzy, his thinking is still unusually clear, he is a person who is about to enter the ground, and he said without scruples:

"Throughout the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties, in the early years of the Holy Ancestor, although the soldiers continued, in addition to the worship and cutting of the three feudatories, the rebellion of Waiping Galdan, the harvest of Taiwan, and the great unification of the Qing Dynasty with great martial arts. So far, nearly a hundred years of peaceful rule. However, it is easy to control chaos, but it is difficult to deal with peace. It is difficult to bear the prosperity of the times, it is easy to produce false whitewashers, greedy and perverted the law, valus and extravagance, people's livelihood is difficult, and the officials force the people to rebel, which is the evil omen of the decline of the prosperous times in the past dynasties. ”

Zhang Tingyu's words were targeted, although they were said tactfully, but they poked at Qianlong's heart. I wanted to have a seizure, but I knew that the minister who was not a good minister was a sincere man, so I pretended to be smiling and endured it.

It wasn't until the third day that he drove back to Luan and left Jiangning, and Qianlong held Zhang Tingyu's hand alone among the ministers who sent him off and instructed:

"Old minister, take care, when I go on my next southern tour, I will definitely go to Tongcheng to visit Lao Aiqing."

However, Zhang Tingyu's words have been ringing in Qianlong's ears: "The beggar emperor puts the people's livelihood first, and is extravagant", in Zhang Tingyu's lifetime, Qianlong will not be able to go south on a lavish basis.

In April of the twentieth year of Qianlong, without waiting for the emperor to tour the south again, and without waiting for the two monarchs and ministers to have a long talk again, Zhang Tingyu, the prime minister of the three dynasties of the Taibao and the university scholar, died of illness in his hometown of Tongcheng. Qianlong still according to the edict of King Shizong, let Zhang Tingyu enjoy the Taimiao, and sent the scholar Fu Heng and the minister of the interior Erong An to Tongcheng to pay tribute to the emperor.

Zhang Tingyu was buried before the prime minister Wenduangong Zhang Ying's tomb five miles away from Longmian Mountain, known as the tomb of the two prime ministers. Zhang Tingyu is worthy of enjoying the Taimiao, and he is the only one among the Han ministers of the Qing Dynasty.