There were robbers in Yangzhou, who attacked and killed the officials of the imperial court in the salt field, and there were officials who broke up without a fight, no matter which one they were, they all exceeded the limit of what Qianlong could tolerate!

The robbers' attacks and the officials' self-defeat without a fight, if you want to say that there is no cat in it, will Emperor Qianlong believe it?

The most hateful thing is that the local government of Yangzhou actually allowed robbers to rush into the salt merchants and loot them wantonly, what do you want to do?

Who gave them such audacity and confidence?

What made Emperor Qianlong most angry, or frightened, was the local officials in Yangzhou. But he didn't dare to be deeply entangled, only dared. Will pretend to be deaf and dumb.

This is still the world of the Qing Dynasty? Is it my world?

The current situation in Yangzhou has collapsed to the point where Emperor Qianlong feels out of control!

After He Shen arrived at the palace, Emperor Qianlong took him without saying a word and rushed to the Qianqing Palace, and the two had a secret discussion in the palace for a long time, and Li Dequan, the chief eunuch, watched outside.

Except for the three of them, no one knew what they had discussed.

“……”

The next day, Emperor Qianlong suddenly decided at the court meeting to seal the Shangshu of the Heshen Punishment Department and become one of the dozen important ministers at the peak of the power pyramid of the Qing Dynasty.

When the news came out, there was an uproar.

Huang Shihua, the original secretary of the household department, was even more silently handed over the seal, left the center of Chaoyan, delegated to the locality, and became a political envoy.

Not only that, Heshen's side, as soon as he took office, he was entrusted with the important task of Emperor Qianlong, and handed over the salt business, which was nearly 10 million taels of silver a year, to him to fully control.

This move immediately triggered a fierce opposition from the entire Chaoyan.

It's a pity that this time the banner owners of the Eight Banners, as well as a few iron hat kings, did not obviously stand up against it.

The minister of the South Study Room, headed by Ah Gui, also sighed.

The matter was settled, but what He Shen did next caused an uproar again.

He took the sons and daughters of the noble bureaucratic system as the core, and after recruiting the martial arts generals, he set up a temporary salt control yamen in the household department.

However, the first fire after the establishment of the salt system yamen was not burned in Yangzhou, but announced the opening of open-pit salt mines in Tibet.

As soon as this incident came out, one stone stirred up a thousand waves!

The government and the opposition were in an uproar, and voices of opposition rushed into the sky.

And in the face of this situation, Emperor Qianlong chose to forcibly suppress it!

“……………”

Yangzhou salt merchants, not to mention for the time being, is about to come to the day of the queen mother's birthday, the court, the people, and the connection has action.

There is a popular saying among the people, "For the royal birthday, the red couplet is pasted nine days in advance, and the paint is painted nine days ago".

Therefore, when the Lord of Heshen raised the birthday of the Queen Mother, the courtyard doors and doors of every household in the capital were repainted with lacquer, and the red paper door was pasted, and the pleasing words such as "looking up to see joy", "welcoming the Fengjian Eunuch", "Long life of the Queen Mother" and so on can be seen everywhere.

There are also some wealthy families who should pay more attention to the door and paste more elegant couplets:

"The Queen Mother has a long life and accepts the rest of her luck, and the Jiajie is a strong mountain and river."

"The years of destiny increase longevity for a thousand years, and the years are full of joy."

He Shen ordered the officials to toss back and forth in Beijing for eight or nine days, and they were already so tired that people turned their backs, at this time smelling the fragrance of steamed buns and trowels in the air, and looking at the joy everywhere.

In this atmosphere, everyone in the officials couldn't help but feel a little impetuous and flustered, especially those who had families and well-known officials, and they all aimed their eyes directly at He Shen.

He Shen understood the thoughts of these people and understood their feelings, and after these officials had finished their work, he gave an order: "You will be disbanded on the spot, and tomorrow morning, you will settle the money at the yamen, and each of you will be paid an additional hundred copper plates." ”

In the cheers of "Lord Gaoyi" and "Lord Xie's reward", the official left happily.

“……………”

In the palace, under the noon sun, the bright sunlight falls on the ground of marble carved bricks, and the vermilion colorful imperial gate symbolizes joy.

On the Queen Mother's side, she has repeatedly said that she should act thrifty, but as the mother of Emperor Qianlong, how can she live an ordinary birthday ceremony.

The banquet of the inner court, the rewards of the court, and the congratulatory tables of civil and military officials are all indispensable.

This time, the 70th birthday banquet was held in the Cining Palace.

The hall of Cining Palace is rich and luxurious to the extreme, and a feast is about to begin.

In the middle of the banquet is a phoenix jade seat, and there is a real dragon jade seat, the table legs are carved into the sky of blessing clouds, and the style of longevity peach is on it, symbolizing longevity without borders, which is the seat of the emperor and the queen mother.

He Shen sat down on the seat that had been set up earlier, and several nearby officials looked at him with unnatural expressions.

The birthday banquet gradually began with the queen mother and the emperor taking their seats...

Before the big event, there is always a leader who makes a long and boring speech.

The Queen Mother celebrated her birthday, and it was Emperor Qianlong who spoke.

He Shen watched all this from below, so bored that he was about to fall asleep, but he still endured it and didn't dare to wander.

After listening to the birthday celebration of a group of people, it is time for the birthday banquet to start with a cheering dance.

The sound of the bell and the ding was played, the melodious dance music echoed in the palace, and the graceful bodies of the beauties danced with the beat of the song!

The birthday gift presented by the Queen Mother's birthday is calculated in multiples of nine, which is called the ninety-nine birthday ceremony.

Symbolizing the emperor's biological mother of the ninety-five, the life of the ninety-nine to the yin.

Emperor Qianlong, on his side, said loudly: "Queen Mother, my son has also prepared a surprise for you, you see." ”

He pointed to the door of the temple, and the eunuch on standby hurriedly signaled, and someone brought in a red animal.

"This is auspicious......"

The Queen Mother stood up in surprise and leaned forward.

As the "surprise" got closer and closer, completely exposed to the light, everyone was shocked.

It turned out to be a slender pure red deer, covered like bloodstone and flawless, like a layer of red dust light, like a fairy deer in the sky.

In addition to Emperor Qianlong, the gifts given by other officials were also extraordinary.

Such as jade Ruyi, crown clothes hairpins, backrest mattresses, around the screen kang screen, Buddha statue scriptures, Buddha offerings, Yi Ding antiques, as well as a variety of calligraphy and painting, cultural toys, antiques, color satin, porcelain, jade, bronze, crystal, agate, furniture, and even a variety of food, and so on.

The other side!

In a certain mountain range in Gansu Province, there is a small stream that flows slowly all year round, and it is human instinct to live by the water.

“……………”

The villagers of Xiawa Village built their houses around this creek.

Although the villagers of Xiawa Village heard the news of the war between the imperial court and the Mongolian nomadic Mongol Zhunger, the villagers here still lived as they were, and did not feel that this place would become very dangerous because of some very bad news.

Because it is very remote, surrounded by many mountains, the mountains block traffic, block information, but at the same time protect them, and what happens outside hardly affects them, and they haven't had much war here for hundreds of years.

At first, they didn't think so, because in the hearts of these villagers, this mountain range is their home, their source of peach blossoms, and a treasure given to them by God, and there will be no evil people in this world near their dwelling place.

Until one day, an injured stranger arrives.

The stranger was a man, about thirty or forty years old, and had an extremely tongue-twisting name that did not resemble that of the Central Plains called "Tamur Zahan".

The man, Tamur Zahan, was badly wounded and fainted under a villager's thatched hut.

These villagers are very simple-minded, and because they are not polluted by the outside world, they are hardly wary of strangers.

For these people who have never left the mountains and mountains in their lives, if they can reach out to help but do not help, then they will feel very guilty in their hearts.

Under the careful care of these simple villagers, Tamur Zahan quickly recovered from many of his injuries.

Tamur Zayi, who had recovered from his injuries, took advantage of the night to leave the villager's house where he had been taking care of him for a month.

Words of thanks, Tamorzahan never said, even just one sentence, because in his cognition, all those who saw themselves so embarrassed would die, and as for gratitude, for him, the wolf, never existed.

This Mongol named Tamur Zahan, a thousand-commander in the nomadic kingdom of Dzungar, has a series of bloody legends that are hard to believe, and has an extremely terrifying title called "Hooked Eye Blood Wolf"!

Even among the many cruel and ruthless Mongols who killed people without blinking, Tamur Zahan was the most ruthless group of people, and it was an unprecedented evil star.

He kills people without blinking, kills for fun, and everywhere he passes, his hands are covered with blood.

He once made a bet with his good friend, a crazy bet, to shoot the captives with a powerful bow and arrow within the allotted time, and see who killed the most captives and who would be the winner.

At most, Tamur could pierce the heads of more than 200 captives with a bow and arrow in an hour, shoot them in rows when there were many people, and cut off the heads one by one when there were few people, and use them as fixed targets for children.

Young and middle-aged people are used as targets, as long as they are foreigners, whether they are men, women, children, old and weak, women and children, they will not let go.

Time passed slowly, and another month later, Tamur Zahan took several hundred of his men, rode on healthy horses, and galloped to the residence of the villagers of Xiawa Village.

Tamur Zahan first glanced at the low thatched huts not far in front of him, and then whispered to the two middle centurion's subordinates beside him: "Be sure to kill them all, and leave no chickens and dogs, even the tall children under the wheels, you can't let them go." ”

"Brush !!"

Then Tamur Zahan firmly drew his sword in his right hand, pointed at the village in the distance and shouted.

"Everyone! We are the offspring of wolves, and Immortal Heaven has brought us food and happiness by killing sheep with our swords, what are you waiting for, kill, kill, kill! ”