The first snow in Beijing has traditionally been modest, but this time it was unusual. The first snow of the year is a cold rain for a while, followed by snow particles like sugar, which melt as they fall, and freeze and freeze in the second half of the night, and the snow stops. When I got up in the morning, every family, young and old, went out together, smashed the shovel with a hammer, and immediately cleaned up. But this time, it was slow, and at the beginning it was butterfly snow, and the snowflakes as big as a palm slowly circled in mid-air, like hundreds of millions of white butterflies flying in the air, and they were not in a hurry to land. The next morning, the style suddenly changed, first the wind stopped, the snow fell quickly and quickly, and in an instant all the shops and pavilions, dragon towers and phoenix ques and dense streets and alleys were covered with silver makeup. The clouds in the sky are getting thicker and heavier, the clouds seem to be pressed on the wings of the rest of the Wufeng Tower, the dense snow is no longer a "piece", they form a "group" in the air, like countless naughty children standing in the sky to play the world, throwing down the soft snowballs...... There is no business in such weather. Almost all shops are back closed. The vendors who had already come out of their stalls packed up their bodies and rushed back. The city of Beijing has become a silent world of snow.

Fu Heng slept in the morning, and rushed to the military plane without eating, and saw that several rooms were empty, only the guard eunuch and a few military aircraft Zhang Jing were busy sorting out the papers, and when they saw him coming in, they all lowered their hands to ask for peace. Fu Heng asked, "What about the middle hall?" Why are there no foreign officials today? ”

"Back to the words of the lord," a military aircraft Zhang Jing smiled and said: "Today is the winter solstice, there was a will, the officials below the second grade in Beijing went to Guozijian to listen to Zhang Zhao talk about the "Yi" scripture, Zhang Hengchen said "The Mean", and Long Live Lord also went in person. In this kind of weather, all the yamen have stopped, and there is no matter of reporting and handling, so there will naturally be fewer foreign officials. Fu Heng asked, "The emperor is still in the country?" That Zhang Jing said: "It's been half an hour since I came back, and when I went in, I said that the sixth master should come early, please go in too......" Before he finished speaking, Fu Heng had already turned around and walked out of the military aircraft.

It was only a stone's throw from the military aircraft to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and when Fu Heng arrived outside the Hanging Flower Gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace, he was already covered in snow. When the eunuch ** saw him come in, he greeted Qian'er with a smile on his face, and while he was busy brushing the snow off Fu Heng's body, he said with a smile: "Good my master!" The slave was about to deliver the decree, but the snow was heavy, and the master said that Fu Heng didn't have to come in. Since it has come, the minion will return to the master......" said the cat's hands and cats running in on tiptoe. Fu Heng was like a knife because of the wind in the doorway, Su Lun and Haiwang stood upright, and were about to answer a few words of greetings, ** had already run back, and said with his hands: "Sixth master, call in!" The master is in the Dongnuan Pavilion......" Fu Heng only nodded slightly to the two guards, and hurriedly followed, took off the big hat on the Danqi and handed it to **, and listened to Qianlong's voice inside:

"Fu Heng? Come on in! ”

"Yes!" Fu Heng hurriedly agreed loudly. A little eunuch Sula had already lifted up the thick and heavy cotton curtain, he stepped in, calmed down a little in front of the throne in the outer hall, stepped into the Dongnuan Pavilion, kowtowed to the ground and said, "The slave should die, he overslept...... Greetings to the master! After that, he raised his head and saw Qianlong sitting cross-legged against the wall in the big kang, and the kang table in front of him was full of folds, and there was a cinnabar pen and inkstone next to it. Naqin, Qingfu, Agui and a few low-grade officials from other provinces were there, except for Neqin and Qingfu sitting diagonally on the small wooden pestle, the rest were kneeling on the ground.

Fu Heng got up and sat down next to Qingfu. Qianlong turned his face to look at the snow flakes flying in the courtyard, and he didn't look at Fu Heng, and he was stunned for a while before he turned his face and asked Qingfu: "So, 'Yizhihua' They didn't gather on the white lawn in Wu'an?" At this time, Qianlong was meeting Fu Heng, when Fu Heng looked closely, Qianlong's face was tired, his very handsome melon seed face was pale, his eye circles were dark, he held the red pen in one hand, but he stopped, as if he was a little struggling to open a pair of eyes, his gaze wandered and scanned the hall, Fu Heng only glanced at it and hurriedly lowered his head. Qingfu said: "Yes! The last time he received the order, the slave immediately ordered the Criminal Department to send personnel from Sangqiao to Handan, and then to Wu'an, together with the prefect of Handan, Wu'an County ordered to set up eyeliner for extensive interrogation. 'Yizhihua' and their gang of bandits seemed to be fighting inside, and when they arrived in Wu'an, they fought with the local bandits entrenched in the Evil Tiger Cliff, but failed to occupy the mountain, and then disappeared. However, the order of Changzhi County, Shanxi Province reported, saying that someone saw a group of seven or eight people preaching in the Nuwa Niangniang Temple, and the government went to arrest them, but somehow lost their wind, and the thieves fled first...... That's all we know for now. ”

Qianlong snorted, and the bodies of several magistrates kneeling underground shrank, and he heard Qianlong ask, "Who is the prefect of Handan?" ”

"Minister, Handan Governor Ji Guoxiang!"

"According to the bandit excerpt reported by Sun Jiagan, the governor of Zhili, there are only about 30 bandits in the Evil Tiger Cliff, how can they defeat the gang of bandits 'Yizhihua'? They are making a big move, you don't know anything, you prefect should be interesting! This group of bandits was defeated and fled, why didn't the prefecture and county take advantage of the situation to arrest them, and they made mistakes again and again? If it's true that they all fled from your Handan realm, or didn't you take the imperial court orders seriously? ”

Ji Guoxiang and the Wu'an County Commander who was kneeling beside him were so frightened that they kowtowed again and again. Ji Guoxiang replied in a trembling voice: "The evil tiger cliff thief Kou Huo, Wu'an County and the slave only found out afterwards, and the criminal department sent personnel to investigate, only to know that it was 'a flower' that flowed from Shandong to the territory of the slave. At that time, the slave knew that the crime was big, so he ordered the six counties of the prefecture to suppress and comb the grate and check it three times...... Banzai! The 'One Flower' bandits have indeed escaped. The little brother of the evil tiger cliff bandit Luo was arrested, and confessed that 'Yizhihua' was in a hurry to attack the mountain, and suddenly his own people started fighting, they took advantage of the situation and shouted, and the enemy retreated. The slave has no form in his duties, he does the law of heaven by himself, he has lost the evil culprit, and the crime is unpunished, so he asks the emperor to punish him heavily! Seeing that Qianlong was looking at him, the commander of Changzhi County from Shanxi Province hurriedly bowed his head and stammered, "The slave county has always been peaceful, and I heard that there are a few men and women who spread the cult in the Nuwa Temple in Fushan. Although there is a reason for the incident, the slave did not come to Fushan in person, this is a sin, please punish the master heavily! ”

"The Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have already impeached you." Qianlong coughed lightly, "Sun Jiagan has a share of the prefect of Handan and the county order of Wu'an, saying that you have been in office for less than two months, and the official reputation was good when you were in office. I will not be able to do two things, and I will give it to the officials, and I will no longer be entangled in this matter, but I must be dismissed and retained to see the after-effects. As he spoke, he put down his pen, opened his eyes and took out two copies of a stack of pieces and handed them to Fu Heng, and said with a smile: "You transferred it to the Ministry of Officials for archiving, and the Qing officials should not be practiced, and if something happens, it will be rectified, which just weighs the hearts of a group of filthy Beijing officials." At this time, the four foreign officials were already sighing, and they prostrated to the ground and kowtowed again and again.

When Fu Heng took it and looked at it, it was indeed an excerpt of two county decrees impeaching the prefects of Handan and Changzhi, and the Zhu batch on it was as red as blood:

The mood is all known. The prefect of Handan, the county order of Wu'an, the prefect of Changzhi, and the county order have their due offenses, and what they play is also. However, this is a transit bandit, who came and went suddenly, and he didn't have time to check it for a while, and there is something forgivable about it. And it is reported that the four of them have good conduct on weekdays. It can be seen that its "one-branch flower" bandits cannot entrench themselves in their territory and create chaos. The order of the state to set up a state pastor is to love and support the people and appease the party, and I can't bear to abandon it for a long time. That is, the officials kept the file, Ji Guoxiang and the other four people were dismissed from their posts and retained, and they were guilty of doing errands. Chin this!

Fu Heng carefully tucked the fold into his sleeve, and said with a smile on the stick: "The emperor loves the people, is a clean official, and is as holy as the sky!" The insight of the minions, this criticism is not limited to four people. It should be published in the Di Bao so that the world will know about it. ”

"Huh?" Qianlong listened to Fu Heng's praise of the holy cliché in front of him, smiled, turned to ponder, and said, "You seem to have other words?" ”

"Yes!" Fu Heng sat down in a precarious position, and said calmly with his hand: "Since the emperor issued a decree of leniency to the world, the ministers inside and outside the small university admired the holy virtue, lightly gathered, thinly levyed, reduced forced labor, and cleared prisons, and the recovery of the people's industries has been compared with the heyday of the Holy Ancestor. The rule of the prosperous era is to prevent the slightest, and the rule of officials is the most important, so Emperor Shizongxian painstakingly rectified and punished corruption and eliminated evil. At this time, since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, we have the best public security, the most solid warehouse, the richest treasury and the best officials. This is all the result of the emperor's diligent government day and night, the transformation of holy virtues, and the dependence of hundreds of officials and bodies to the sacred heart, and the result of not being greedy or blasphemous. Let's take a look at recent years, such as 'Yizhihua', Piaogao, Wang Laowu, and Han Xiaoqixiao gathered in the mountains and forests to be enemies of the imperial court, and they were defeated one after another, and there was no place to stand, which is also for this reason. The state does not take accumulation as a thing, officials do not take greed and self-enrichment as a thing, and it is natural for the people to be prosperous. If there is enough food and clothing, the people who are evil and rebellious will have nothing to do. The emperor's will is not only for these four ministers, nor does it mean that the Qing officials can not be corrected. The emperor abandoned his small mistakes and took his big end to be honest, in order to advocate a clean style and set an example for the officialdom, not only let the officials know, but should let all officials know, which is in line with the road of governance. The slave couldn't think through it for a while, and what he said was all clichés, so please ask the emperor to give him a lecture. ”

Qianlong raised his face and listened carefully, chewed Fu Heng's words, and said with a smile for a long time: "In a hurry, it is indeed not easy to talk about this, and the cliché is actually Jingguo Avenue." Nine times out of ten, the country that has fallen since ancient times has forgotten the clichés, and the kings who have fallen since ancient times will not listen to the clichés! Therefore, if you play well, you will follow your opinion - don't publish the newspaper, that is, the court will be issued clearly, and the officials will announce it. You published a little mansion newspaper, and he still thought that you were still occasionally 'cliché', wouldn't it have disappointed your heart? There are some things that you dare not say as a courtier, or you can't explain them thoroughly in a few words, and my leniency is different from Sejong's administration. It's just a superficial thing. Confucius taught the seventy-two sages according to their aptitude, and they are the same as the government of a country, which can be wide or fierce, and it is just a benevolence at the root. The Holy Ancestor is benevolent, Sejong is benevolent, and I am also a 'benevolent' character, but depending on the situation at the time, the law is different. But how can everyone know about the tens of thousands of bureaucrats in the world? Hundreds of millions of scholars, how can they be all gentlemen? Judging from the current situation, it is indeed the best since the founding of the country. But when it comes to 'extremely prosperous', it is far from it, that is, in terms of the rule of officials, some officials see that 'leniency is the government', and they are sure that I am a rotten and good person, and they will not be willing to kill, so they give birth to a greedy heart, 'go thousands of miles to be an official, for the money', how can a little bit of honest silver fill his appetite? This kind of thing has happened in all dynasties, and I have never seen a few edicts to persuade these corrupt officials to return, your knife is not happy, there is no blood on the knife, the silver is brighter than the knife, the black eyes are against the silver, where can you take care of your life? He said this at length, breathed a sigh of depression, reached out to get the **, Gao Dayong was already cold, and hurriedly took a step forward to stuff a cup of hot ** in Qianlong's hand.

"Corruption has always been dealt with by the method of 'slaughtering chickens for monkeys'." He bowed down on the pestle and said, 'The monkey has seen a lot of blood, and he knows that he is coaxing him, so he is not afraid.' How severe is the law of punishing corruption in the former Ming Dynasty, embezzling 200 taels of silver and peeling the skin and pulling the grass! After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, corrupt officials were still everywhere, and they couldn't be punished. In the end, it still buried Qianming, and it's really shocking to think about it. So the slave thought that the monkey had to be killed and shown to the monkey. Don't just pick the small and soft ones to do it, the court moves seriously, cuts the grass at the beginning of the germination, punishes the greedy and does not avoid the powerful, or you can suppress the greed a little. "He himself is the prime minister and a member of the royal family, he is famous for being honest and self-clean, and he has no entanglement with foreign officials. Qingfu sat beside him, digging out his mind and wanting to say a little cliché, Qianlong smiled and put down the ** cup, "It's all very good, Ming'er is called Hengchen, a few of you will discuss the government and the edict together with Gu Zuofa, and tell the ministers inside and outside." Now that the government is still good, it is making a fuss about preventing micro problems. His spirit seemed to be better, he brushed the braid around his neck to the back of his head, and said to Ji Guoxiang and the others: "Today, I discussed with the ministers, and you can't help but preach it." In the same year, you can talk more about these things among colleagues, subordinates, relatives and friends. This place of virtue is standing, and it will be easy to be an official under me—kneel down! ”

"Wow!"

After the four of them retreated, Qianlong smiled and said: "Discuss the bandit government, and run out of a clean government." It's kind of a digression! 'Yizhihua' still escaped in the end - this is not an ordinary thief, because there is no food and clothing, and the mountains and forests are gathering to survive, and 'Yizhihua' is a rebel who is the enemy of the imperial court, and he has evil magic to move the people's hearts, and I heard that there is still collusion with the descendants of the Zhu dynasty, so he must be eradicated to the end. Life wants to see people, death wants to see corpses, there is no reason to appease! Fu Heng continued Qianlong's words and said: "There is a Li Wei in the Yongzheng Dynasty, who is an expert in controlling thieves, and now Li Wei is old and sick and unbearable. My Qianlong Dynasty now lacks a figure like Li Wei, and the slave sees Liu Tongxun as upright, witty, upright and honest, but he is currently in the Han Shangshu of the Criminal Department, which is specially used to appease thieves, and it seems that he has been wronged. Li Wei was the governor of Liangjiang back then, and he also ruled the bandits in the world, and did a very good job. Can Yin Jishan concurrently serve as this messenger as a guide? In short, if you have a special minister to take care of it, things will be on the road. "Yin Jishan has too many errands." Qianlong shook his head and said: "He is the governor of Liangjiang, and he is also in charge of the customs, the transportation of the Qingjiang estuary, and the river defense of the estuary of the Yellow River. Moreover, Yin Jishan's strength is literary affairs, and he is familiar with poetry and songs, and the literati at home and abroad have a close relationship with him, which is also a major matter for the court to restrain the scribes. I still have Liu Tongxun to do this, although Li Wei is not in charge, he lives in Beijing, and it is always okay to consult. In the battle of Heicha Mountain, the underworld on the rivers and lakes is also terrifying to you, and you will take care of it. At present, the politics of the court are getting better and better, asking for money, money, food, and food, and the people donating for three years, pay attention to disaster relief, and don't call some places out of cooking and lack of clothes. The common people are well fed and clothed, and if you whip them with a whip, they will not easily take risks, so they can only preach and cure diseases and demagogue, and they can't stir up big things, and that's why. ”

Fu Heng was full of fear that the emperor was always worried about the great victory of the Heicha Mountain to suppress bandits, and limited his talents to capture and cure the gangsters and dog thieves in the rivers and lakes, and he was full of thoughts that he would lead 100,000 heavenly soldiers to conquer in all directions and become Wei Qing and Huo Qubing of the Qing Dynasty. When Qianlong said this, his face immediately turned red, he glanced at his relatives, and said, "The slave obeys the holy order!" The mind of the slave is difficult to escape the holy jian, in fact, he has a little experience in leading troops in the war in Heicha Mountain, and he wants to abandon literature and martial arts, and make meritorious contributions to the west and south of the Lord! ”

"I've already seen what you're thinking!" Qianlong smiled, moved down to the kang, stepped on the green satin cool soap boots, walked and paced comfortably, and said: "All those who come to Beijing from Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, and Guichuan, no matter the big or small officials, you must personally meet them, set up long talks, interrogate the weather, geography, customs, mountains, rivers, and roads, the difficulty of deploying troops, and the release of grain, grass, and silver salaries. I don't have the heart to lead the troops, so what do you do with these? You've been so fond of befriending the scribes, and you've been getting sparse lately! And my dear, don't you think the same way? Fu Heng can lead the troops to fight Heicha Mountain, why can't I go to Jinchuan, so I hung the map of Western Xinjiang all over the study, is there such a thing? ”

Neqin and Fu Heng didn't expect the emperor to be so insightful of their thoughts, they looked at each other in confusion, stood up together, and were about to speak, Qianlong smiled and squeezed it with the handle of the fan, and said: "Sit down - I am commending you, Yue Wumu said that Wenchen does not love money, Wuchen is not afraid of death, and the world is peaceful." The honest government that Fang just talked about is that Wenchen does not love money. The clan and the royal family are unwilling to be rich and honored, and they are willing to lead the troops and let go of the horses, which is not afraid of death, so I praise and am happy in my heart! Gao Heng is in Shandong, and he will take 'a flower' without asking for a decree, whether he succeeds or not, and it is a matter of fact, it is difficult to have this sharp spirit. In peacetime, it is commendable that I have raised a group of heroes who are willing to spill blood on the battlefield and do not want to die of old age! In his later years, the Holy Ancestor was restless in the western frontier, the royal division was defeated several times, and almost did not return a piece of armor several times, and the royal clan heard that he was fighting with the Khalkha Mongols, and he was cowardly in his heart, and refused to lead the troops. Foreign official Wen Yi and Wu Huan were even more afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and they were bluffed when they heard the word "expedition". The Holy Grandfather wants to know from the spring, and I don't know how happy I am to see these many sons and daughters of Xun Qi asking for the enemy to try! Qianlong's eyes were blazing, at this time the snow outside the hall was a little smaller, and it was still a mess of Qionghua, and the snow light reflected through the glass on his excited red face, which became more and more heroic and upright. Fu Heng and several others were also excited in their hearts, looking up at Qianlong, there was no words for a while, for a long time, the relatives said proudly: "Long live what the master said, is exactly what the slave thought." Now looking up and down to tens of thousands of Chen soldiers, the size of Jinchuan is not appeased, the slave asks the master to give Shang Fang the sword, and is willing to make meritorious contributions to the southwest, for the court to remove this disease of ringworm scabies! ”

"The slave is also willing-" Fu Heng rushed to say half a sentence, but Qingfu intercepted: "This is the slave's messenger who has not taken care of his innocence, and he doesn't dare to bother the two ministers." The slave is willing to cross the horse and travel south on the same day. Within this year, we will definitely sweep the big and small Jinchuan! ”

Qianlong lowered his head, pondered for a while, and asked Ah Gui: "Ah Gui, you are under the command of Zhang Guangsi in Sichuan Green Camp, with your knowledge, are you sure that you will clear the big and small Jinchuan within a year?" Is that class dead or alive, and what insight does Zhang Guangsi have? ”

"Long live back!" Ah Gui hurriedly kowtowed, he is a very clear-minded person, he has been leading troops in western Sichuan for a long time, and he has become more and more experienced in his training. But the emperor said so, and the prime minister said so, he couldn't pour cold water on it anyway. If Ban Roll was really dead, the rebellion of Jinchuan would have disintegrated long ago, and there would be no need to garrison troops up and down, which was obvious, but as soon as these words came out, he would immediately offend Qingfu, and it would be even more unpredictable in the future. He paused for a moment, already had an idea, and said: "The big and small Jinchuan and the upper and lower Zhan pairs are actually a battlefield now, the place is vast for thousands of miles, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the rivers are dangerous and the roads are dangerous. The soldiers went deep into this dangerous place to fight, first, they had to coordinate with all sides and encircle and suppress them in sections; the second is food, medicine, and military supplies; the third is to be widely recruited as a guide, step by step, slow and steady; Fourth, it is necessary to divide the Ban Roll Shalopun tribe, suppress a place, follow politics, comfort the place, and go to consolidate a place, although it is slow, but it can be done once and for all. This is the insight of the minion, and it seems that he is in a hurry after a year of flattening. Zhang Guangsi actually thought that the slave was cowardly and transferred from the Chinese army to specialize in grain and grass, but the holy lord asked, the slave dared not say anything? As for the life and death of Ban Roll, the matter is a big responsibility, and the slave cannot be judged by hearsay, according to Zhang Guangsi, Ban Roll seems to have fled into Jinchuan, so it is difficult to consolidate the situation without curing Jin, but Zhang Guangsi also has no real evidence, which can confirm that Ban Roll is still in the world. This is the truth, please see it! ”

A Gui is a pen post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, promoted to the prefect of Shaanzhou, because of the case of the escape of Wang Lao Wu by Qianlong, changed the text to be promoted to general, served under the account of the general Zhang Guangsi, is a rare official among the generals who have the right to fold secrets, has always been treated differently by Qianlong, but his words made Qianlong feel slippery, the smile on Qianlong's face slowly disappeared, Fu Heng confirmed his impression of the big and small Jinchuan with his heart, and slowly calmed down, after all, he has fought with real swords and guns, It soon coincided with Gui's mood. Qingfu didn't understand the situation in Jinchuan, but felt that he was fighting a bad war in the upper and lower directions, and the matter of the class roll also made him worry all day long, and he didn't go to save the situation in person, and felt that it was difficult for all parties to deal with it, so he cheered up and said: "The number of my troops is almost equal to the population of Jinchuan, but in fact, it is a soldier against the people, how can there be such a big effort?" The relatives also smiled, "100,000 heavenly soldiers are tofu scum, can't they kill a few old sows in Jinchuan?" ”

"Gui, you've really disappointed me!" Qianlong swept his head all day long, and glanced at Ah Gui coldly, "The morale of the soldiers is sluggish, all because the generals are afraid of their heads and tails." You yourself have set up the method of soaking mushrooms, which can bring out brave warriors. If I am Zhang Guangsi, I don't need you to urge food and salary - you go down, and there is another will for you, and your envoy will be handed over to the household department, which will be handled by the household department! ”

Ah Gui listened, his head "buzzed" and swelled, and he couldn't think of the advice he took painstakingly to pull out, but it was still "I don't shine on my sincerity during the day!" He swallowed the indignation and sorrow in his chest, trembled and kowtowed, and sobbed: "What a great grace is it for a master to treat slaves? If you are questioned and do not tell the truth, is it not disloyalty? Although the minions were incompetent, they did not have a reputation for fear of death in the camp...... begged the master to check the slave's words again, and still let the slave return to the army, and the slave would rather die in battle. ”

"Hmm." Qianlong responded noncommittally, and when he stared outside the glass window, he took a heavy breath, and walked out of the main hall of the Heart Cultivation Hall by himself. Several eunuchs guarding the entrance of the hall stood with their hands bowed down their necks, and when they saw the emperor coming out, they were so frightened that they all knelt down together. Wang Zhong has chased him out to put on a big coat for Qianlong. The four ministers in the hall did not dare to move or talk casually, and without saying a word, they all looked at Qianlong in the courtyard through the glass with their necks straight.

Qianlong stepped on the soft and white snow like new wadding, and slowly paced around the copper stumbling block. He stretched his body, rightly stood in a "big" shape, tilted his face and let the snowflakes fall on his face, hands, and into his neck, the cool, crystal snowflakes melted in his mouth, and his warm face and hands were also covered with snow, and he only felt that the tiredness and tiredness of his body were driven away without a trace. After a long time, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, returned to the temple with brisk steps, removed his cloak, wiped his hands and face, and became refreshed. But I saw the eunuch Bu Yi come in and call Qian'er and said: "Chen Shiqi, the political envoy of Liangjiang and Huainan Grain Road, handed over the sign and asked to see." ”

"Call in." Qianlong rinsed his mouth, handed the teacup to Bu Yi, turned his face to smile at everyone, and said, "It seems that Xu is in a hurry." I didn't expect Xiao Xiaozhan to be so difficult to get to the land of Jinchuan. Tens of thousands of soldiers have been used for more than a year, and it is still an impossible situation! Seeing that Qingfu and Ah Gui were blushing and were about to apologize, Qianlong waved his hand and said, "That's it!" I'm underestimating myself too. I was a little anxious. The Holy Grandfather personally conquered Qinghai and Tibet three times and settled down for decades. After all, the land is thousands of miles away, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and he can't set up a liuguan ** Yamen to be restrained at any time, Celing Alabutan, and the Qinghai Hui Department are all ready to move, without the imperial court's holy decree, they have attacked and annexed the land tribes without authorization, and they have completely ignored the imperial court decrees! I have opened up the road up and down, and for the future unforeseen events, the army can enter Tibet for a long time. Unexpectedly, there was another big and small Jinchuan incident! Little Jinchuan is so hard, what if Western Xinjiang will use troops on a large scale one day? ”

It was only at this time that several courtiers, big and small, understood the young emperor's ambitions; Neqin and Fu Heng couldn't sit still, and knelt down from their seats, and Neqin said: "The emperor is ambitious, and the slave is ignorant!" The slave is willing to go with Qingfu to handle the military affairs of Jinchuan and clear the road to Tibet. If you lose again, please ask the emperor to take the head of the slave to thank the world! Qianlong was about to speak, seeing that Chen Shiqi had kowtowed outside the warm pavilion to say goodbye, on a cold day, Chen Shiqi was only wearing a Tianma leather jacket robe, and he was wearing a peacock patch in a peacock suit, his slender braid hung softly behind his head, still drenched in snow, Qianlong couldn't help laughing: "You are already weak, why do you only wear such clothes?" Your family is a famous eunuch in Haining, so you are so poor? ”

"If you go back to Banzai!" Chen Shiqi sniffed his nose and replied with a smile: "The slave loves snow, so he came from the south, and when he encountered such a big snow, he couldn't bear to sit in a sedan chair, so he rode a donkey to see the emperor." It's not that the slave pretended to be poor, and when he passed the Zhengyangmen Guandi Temple, he saw that a man was too pitiful to freeze, so he left Dayu to him...... Ahh ”

He sneezed and made everyone laugh, and Qianlong ordered: "Give my Yuan Fox robe—the one with the sable cloak—to Chen Shiqi!" …… You are a serious reader, and you know how to pity the poor. Your sentence 'I can't bear to sit in a sedan chair' makes me want to ride a donkey to the snow to reward the capital! He ordered Chen Shiqi to get up and sit next to the smoker. Only then did he say to Neqin and everyone: "Neqin is now the first minister of Xuanli in front of me, Zhang Tingyu is an old man, and the affairs of the inner court are complicated, and I also want you and Fu Heng and these young people to take care of it more." I still asked Qingfu to return to Jinchuan, firstly, he was familiar with the manpower, and secondly, he did it poorly. Whoever owes the famine should pay it. Qingfu, you are a university scholar, and the country is old, so naturally you are the main one, and Zhang Guangsi is the deputy. Zhang Guangsi is more than strict, and you make up for each other with tameness, as long as the two of them are concentric, don't make trouble, this idea is not worth it. Now there are a lot of gossips about you outside, and they all say that Ban Roll is not dead. I don't have to track it down, I put down the Jinchuan rebellion, and it doesn't matter if he dies or not. If I don't investigate, I will let you go, and if you mess up the mission again, I want to let you go again, but I can't help it, there is a national law and a king's chapter! ”

"Thank the emperor for his dragon grace, the slave dares not to work hard to serve his life, and then die!" When Qingfu heard that he no longer pursued the life and death of Ban Luan, he was relaxed for a while, and kowtowed to the ground and said loudly: "As long as the food and salary can be supplied, within a year, the big and small Jinchuan and the upper and lower Zhan pairs will be quiet, please set up a flow official to build a yamen, and there will never be a risk of the opposite!" ”

"You are the person who was made out of the hands of the Grandmaster, and your family is an old family who is retired with the country. I am very pleased to have this ambition. Qianlong seemed to sigh and said: "Little Jinchuan, there is no reason to work for several years and pay millions of dollars. There is a Chen Shiqi here, food, asking for him, ordnance ** - also run by Ah Gui. I will give you a year and a half, no, two years, you give me a peaceful and stable Jinchuan and Zhan - the world will stay, you kneel in peace! ”

When everyone withdrew, Qianlong looked at the bell and pointed to the card before the end. Qianlong asked for a plate of assorted dim sum, two bowls of **, rewarded Chen Shiqian with a bowl, and said with a smile while eating dim sum: "You are three meals, you will not be hungry, drink the bowl while it is hot**, we should talk, and it is time to disperse." Chen Shiqi is a scholar of the Han family, and he prefers blessings and diets to maintain health, this bowl of people is really difficult for him, but "the king has a gift, and the minister does not dare to resign", he drank it in one breath as if he drank medicine, pursed his lips and put the bowl and smiled: "The minister entered Beijing this time, and he was looking for the master to fight in the ring, and he wanted to reduce the money and grain." The master turned to the slave to ask for military rations, which is really unexpected! Qianlong took a small bite of the snack, ignoring his words, but asked, "When did you arrive in Beijing?" ”

"Long live Hui, I came to Beijing the night before yesterday."

"Waterway or dry road?"

"First of all, the dry road, from Jinling to Anhui, through the south of the river to the north, and then to Shandong, from Dezhou to Tianjin Wei, from the canal, until Tongzhou disembarkation. Because there were too many boats going south, the river was congested, and it took a full month to get to ......"

Qianlong pushed away the snack plate, rinsed his mouth with tea, asked for a towel to rub his hands and asked, "What do you think of the crops along the way?" "When the minister came, the crops had been harvested and put into storage." Chen Shiqi looked up and recalled, "Jiangsu is 12 percent mature this year, and Zhejiang is also 10 percent harvest." The southern part of Jiangxi was hit by drought, and the northern part was also a good year that had not been seen in a century. Chen came all the way, only Huaibei suffered floods, Henan Xisha storm destroyed crops, Shandong is the south and northwest have suffered insect plagues, but the east is also a good year, Henan, Zhili are mostly good years. It's just that it was rumored that Jinnan was also hit by a typhoon. Occasionally, I saw a few victims inquiring, and it was originally a good year, but a strong wind in the sorghum flowering season was blowing flat. It is the Huaibei disaster, refugees are also very rare, the local government relief grain, called the victims to make reed mats for food, Shandong is almost eaten by locusts to the grass, but the east is close to the sea, rich in fish and shrimp, and salt. The slaves passed from there, thinking that Jiangxi was short of salt and that Nanjing fish and shrimp were expensive, so they discussed with the local authorities and bought them 30,000 taels of salt and 150,000 taels of frozen fish and shrimp. Even Huguang can benefit. In this way, the price of salt and vegetables on the minions' side has also been leveled, and they have also received silver to help the disaster. I just heard that the master ordered me to be responsible for the grain and grass and military salary, and the slave thought, the wind disaster in southern Jinnan is just that the crops do not grow seeds, and the straw is used as fodder. Military reed mats can also be bought from Huaibei more, the common people get benefits, and the envoys of the servants are also done, isn't it glamorous? ”

"Good!" Qianlong listened very carefully, and his eyes lit up, "I know that you love the people and are honest, and you are a clean official, and now it seems that this test language cannot limit you." To be able to start from their own duties, but to focus on the world's plans, love not only the local people in the city, pay attention to the relief of disaster victims in other provinces and other regions, small accounts do not lose large account surpluses, this is the real love of the people, there is the style of ancient ministers! If you have this measure of temperament, how can I not fulfill your reason? I simply handed over all the envoys of Zhang Guangsi to you. You go down and write an excerpt, it's just those words, and I will listen to the ministry after I approve it. He paused for a moment, then smiled again: "I thought you were crying for the people of Haining again!" ”

Chen Shiqi was so encouraged by Qianlong, he was so excited that his whole body was warm, his face was red, he straightened his thin body and arched his hand and said: "Although the minister is only a magistrate, dare not take the worries of the Son of Heaven as the worries of the courtiers?" But the minister does have the intention of crying the people of Haining. Zhejiang is rich in the world, Haining is rich in Zhejiang, there is no reason to cry, that is called not knowing the general situation, deliberately crying, also called hypocrisy. Since Kangxi's personal conquest of Zhungeer, two-thirds of the world's military wealth has come from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In a place that was originally very rich, the people could only barely survive with red brown rice. In some counties, there are still many places where bran swallows wild vegetables are eaten. Master...... This is like a fertile field, planted stubble after stubble, and it will eventually become barren. The meaning of the slave is to fertilize, and when the soil is sufficient, it will be able to grow more grain. In recent years, more and more large households in Haining have abandoned agriculture and business, and the land price has become more and more cheap, which cannot be said to have nothing to do with it, so the minister cried, not only crying the people, but also moved the emperor's heart, and raised the heart of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a rich and fundamental land! Therefore, the master ordered the ministers to coordinate the field food and straw, and the ministers also had a word. Don't just keep your eyes on the rich land of the southeast. On the contrary, now it is only a battle of Jinchuan, and Huguang, Henan, Shandong, and Anhui should be the mainstay, and the money and grain should be coordinated to let Jiangnan rest for a while. In the future, the country will raise a large army to conquer the Western Regions, and Jiangnan will already be able to raise and be healthy, and then use Jiangnan's financial endowment, which is a long-term plan. ”

"It's up to you." Qianlong got carried away when he heard this, took a sip of tea, it was cold, vomited, and said with a smile: "You are very good at settling accounts." Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi provinces are all free of money and grain this year. ”

"Emperor Xie!" Chen Shiqi kowtowed again and again, and said with a smile: "This time, the household department is going to participate in the slave again!" ”

Qianlong stood up, "Don't be afraid of impeachment, there is me-Ming'er, you will hand over the sign again!" ”