Both sides of the royal street of the Beijing division are crowded with onlookers, and even many officials get off the horse and get off the sedan chair and look out in the crowd, but no one dares to step on the royal road, and most of the rich people have chartered the rooms facing the street of the restaurant and song courtyard on both sides of the royal street, because it is the period of national funeral, these singing and dancing places are extremely depressed, and the room is very empty, very cheap. As far as the eye can see, the whole street is really crowded, like crossing the river, and there are many miscellaneous discussions.

In a very short period of time, the royal street from Shichahai to Xihuamen was surrounded by water, and the traffic between the east and west cars and horses was not to be considered. If you want to pass, the soul winner stepped on the shoulders of the people, leaving the middle of the royal street alone, and no one dared to step on it.

"It's coming, it's coming, people are coming!" A loud voice erupted in the distance, which immediately detonated the atmosphere of the audience, everyone had heard of immortals, but no one had really seen immortals. But right now, in this Jiaqing Dynasty, Lord Qianlong has just been in the sky for half a month, and the emperor's favorite minister and Shen of the previous dynasty have become immortals, which is simply breaking through the sky of people's imagination, even if you are bold in telling stories, you don't dare to make up so nonsense, you are not afraid of being beaten to death by the old men who listen to books, you can do it!

But things are so bizarre! And it happened right under everyone's noses! Not only have the people and the old man become immortals, but now they are also going home to visit their relatives. This forced Emperor Jiaqing, who had ordered to kill people and raid his family, had to be summoned and played in the Jinluan Palace.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty... These generations of Ming monarchs who have left their names in history are all sending people to visit famous mountains, travel to rivers, and look for immortals all over the world, praying for the blessings of the immortals, and wanting to seek a true immortal Dao method but it does not work. You are a little Jiaqing, and you have only been in power for more than half a month, so you dare to say that your merits are in the sky? The immortal is in the capital division, but you don't care, no wonder this White Lotus Sect is making a mess all over the world, it is obviously not good for virtue and politics, so this common people will make trouble.

The sound that was noisy at the beginning became smaller and smaller as the palace guards approached, and a tall and mighty figure appeared in the distance and suddenly choked everyone's shouts in their throats, and they couldn't come out at all.

The ground trembled slightly, "servant ~ servant ~" as a sound of vibration approached, as if a silent drum slammed into the hearts of the onlookers. On the royal street, four teams of eight honor soldiers passed in front, followed by four eunuchs, and then a monster with a height of one zhang and a length of three zhang appeared in front of everyone.

This thing has white hair and black lines, a big king character on the top of the head, yellow eyes and phoenix tails, and a nameless translucent flame under the four legs, which falls to the ground and becomes a lotus flower. Although this thing is huge, but it is full of majesty, there is no evil spirit, where is this monster, it is clearly the mount of the fairy family! Then to the tiger spirit (now everyone is not called a monster, but called the essence, this is a foreign body that can be subdued by the fairy family, can it be called a monster?) looked at the back, only to see a handsome noble son, wearing a black clothes and silver belt sitting on it, although the tiger spirit is big, walking is silent, the noble son sits on it, not shaking at all, calm as water. On the contrary, the visitors in the restaurants and song courtyards on both sides are not affected.

"This person is Heshen?"

"Heshen is so young?"

On top of a small building, several figures by the window stared blankly at the parallel boy passing by outside the window.

"It's really with adults!"

"It's really an immortal method, in just half a month, this and adults have regained their youthful appearance. ”

"Yes, looking at his son Feng Shen Yinde like brothers, no wonder the first emperor likes him so much. ”

"My family is saved!"

"Sure enough, it's the will of heaven, the Fucha family won't just fall like this!

The high wall of the Forbidden City opened the imperial gate, and the tiger spirit disappeared behind it with Heshen, and the two sides of the royal street breathed again, as if everything was alive.

"I was scared to death just now~"

"Yes, so did I, I felt a big stone pressing on my heart, and I didn't dare to move. ”

"Is that a fairy beast?"

"Sort of, have you ever seen a white tiger with a phoenix tail? And it has three tails, and there are flames under its feet. ”

"That's right!

"Do you see that mouth? You can swallow several cows in one bite!"

"Scared the hell out of me!"

Countless people reacted at this time, and flocked to the royal road, touching it with their hands and rubbing it with cloth, just wanting to get some lotus gas. The shape of the lotus flower, in the Taoist and Buddhist schools, is a sign of extremely high cultivation, and it cannot be obtained by non-saints. A tiger spirit can give birth to flowers under its feet, what is this not a fairy beast?!

It's a pity that these lotus-shaped flame patterns quickly disappeared from the ground, and some witty people rubbed and rubbed the rags in their hands on them, selling them on the street, and finally were coaxed to sell them at a high price of fifty taels of silver, which can be seen.

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In the 60th year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong finally determined his fifteenth son, Prince Jia, Aixin Jueluo Yanyan, to be his successor.

Because this successor has at least four things that make him very satisfied:

First of all, from the perspective of personality, the fifteenth son of the emperor is young and old. His biggest characteristic is that he has a lot of self-control: he has a regular life, behaves well, studies diligently, works seriously, and never exceeds the rules, which is the most appreciated by Emperor Qianlong.

Secondly, this son has the quality of "dignified and pure", frugal life, humility, especially compassionate, very sincere, good at thinking about others, compared to being able to treat his brothers and courtiers well after his return to heaven, the court will not have major ups and downs, which is extremely important to the country of Aixin Jueluo's family.

Thirdly, from an academic point of view, after more than 20 years of uninterrupted rigorous, systematic and high-quality imperial education, Yan Yan has a lot of experience in the study of Confucian mind. His cultivation is based on his studies, and he has a solid foundation because he has learned to gain it. In addition, although this son's martial arts performance is not as good as that of his father and great-grandfather, he is second to none among all his brothers.

Fourth, in appearance, he is of medium stature, fair skin, good facial features, and a graceful and luxurious appearance. The shape of his face is between square and round, showing the balance and intellect of his character. After training in appearance since childhood, when he attends big occasions, he always behaves nobly, calmly, speaks unhurriedly, and is very organized, and has the attitude of an emperor.

In addition, this year, Yan Yan was thirty-six years old. At this age, it is both energetic and experienced. Life has changed from the youthfulness of adolescence and the enthusiasm of youth to the steadiness and strength of early middle age, which is the best age to take charge of a vast empire.

As a result, this grand ceremony held on the first day of the first month of the first year of the Qing Dynasty was grand and gorgeous, the atmosphere was peaceful and tranquil, and even the weather was so sunny and splendid.

At 9:32, as Qianlong, who was sitting on the throne, handed the "Emperor's Treasure" with a smile to the Jiaqing Emperor kneeling in front of him, an unprecedented record in Chinese history was born: the smoothest transfer of power in Chinese history was successfully completed.

The Qing Empire officially entered the Jiaqing Dynasty.

With the passage of time to the fourth year of Jiaqing, the Qing emperor, who had been in office for three years, was thirty-nine years old, but he was still a mystery in the hearts of the whole empire. Aside from his always smiling face and a few personless edicts, the courtiers knew nothing about him. However, the various performances of the new emperor seem to show that he is a gentle and steady person, and the major policies of the court will not change much in a short time.

But everything happened so suddenly.

At the end of the third year of Jiaqing, the eighty-nine-year-old Emperor Taishang got a slight cold. On the first day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, the emperor and the kings Baylor and the ministers above the second rank came to the emperor to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor according to the custom, and the emperor could still receive the throne as usual. Unexpectedly, on the second day of the first lunar month, the condition deteriorated, and the emperor's body organs showed signs of failure and fell into a coma. At seven o'clock in the morning of the third day of the first lunar month, the Emperor Taishang stopped breathing.

The subjects of the Qing Empire, who were celebrating the New Year happily, had to put on mourning clothes and enter a period of national mourning. Not many people, though, are truly grief-stricken. What kind of person is really interested in what kind of person Emperor Jiaqing will be.

However, things turned out to be more than anyone expected. On the morning of the fourth day of Emperor Qianlong's death, Emperor Jiaqing issued an edict that surprised the subjects of the whole country: Emperor Qianlong's first favorite minister and Shen were dismissed from the posts of Minister of Military Aircraft and Admiral of Jiumen. At the same time, a large-scale raid unfolded, and a shocking huge treasure was revealed in the cellar of Hefu.

The whole country was immediately impressed by this emperor, who was quietly creeping beside Emperor Qianlong like a shadow before, and now the emperor of the empire. It can be said that Zhu Heshen is a successful demonstration of the new emperor's ability to deal with political crises. Many people are rumored that the current emperor is only afraid of another Qing Shizong.

However, the facts slapped this ambitious emperor in the face, and the biggest corrupt official of the Qing Dynasty, He Shen, was taken away by the immortals, and the new emperor's first sword was a failure! Therefore, for half a month, Jiaqing did not make any moves, he was cautious, and his initial actions were unfavorable, so he immediately contracted, and prepared for the next action in line with the principle that no fault is meritorious.

And at this moment, the news came from the sticky pole that was always monitoring the mansion, and Heshen, who had returned with the return of the immortals, came back, and Qi came back on a strange beast, the strange beast was a hundred feet long, and his eyes were ghostly, it was a white tiger with three phoenix tails!

Jiaqing felt bitter in his heart, killing He Shen was a last resort, and it was really a dangerous move for him.

When he ascended the throne three years ago, the Qing Empire was already like a seriously ill patient, and it was already in an advanced stage, and the diseases in the body were much heavier than the external manifestations showed.

The most serious problem, of course, is corruption.

In fact, as long as it does not spread, corruption is not an incurable disease. Local, sporadic corruption will exist in any dynasty and in any system. However, once corruption spread and became a common phenomenon in the imperial court, the difficulty of its governance increased exponentially.

In the middle and late period of Emperor Qianlong, the corruption of officialdom had already shown a trend of collectivization. In a short period of four years, from the 46th to the 49th year of Qianlong, the imperial court successively uncovered five major cases of corruption by local officials, all of which were "handling one case and leading a string; investigating one case and bringing a nest with one." If one person is exposed, dozens or even more than 100 officials in the network related to him will be exposed. Often, a single person commits a crime, and the bureaucracy of a province is paralyzed. All of them are rats!

Among them, the Gansu fraud case implicated almost all officials at and above the county level in Gansu Province. Hundreds of officials joined hands from top to bottom, cooperated with each other to make false accounts, and swallowed more than 8 million taels of treasury silver into their private pockets. If all of them were investigated and dealt with, the operation of the whole province of Gansu would be immediately paralyzed, and Emperor Qianlong had to set a death line of 20,000 taels. But even so, as many as 56 officials were executed.

However, after the climax, everything is business as usual. Officials in various localities, from top to bottom, from large to small, are still receiving and giving gifts, buying and selling official positions, and the yamen everywhere are still unremittingly slack, and they are indifferent to all the people's weal and woe except for the interests of their departments. The entire bureaucracy is no longer ashamed of corruption, but rather takes it for granted.

Why?!Just because behind them stands the biggest corrupt official in the history of the Great Qing Dynasty~He Shen! He is the spiritual pillar of these corrupt officials, big and small!

Everything is supported by adults!

So He Shen had to die, he had to kill! If this continues, the Qing Dynasty will die!

And at this moment, this great sinner of the Qing Kingdom is coming from outside the palace step by step, facing his own king of the empire with a new identity.

Jiaqing squinted his eyes, not hiding the murderous intent in his eyes at all, looking at the figure of the layman in the hall, he was stunned in his heart, this sinner has become so young?! It can be seen that those so-called immortals are all confused immortals, where can they care about the suffering of the people!

There were also several important ministers waiting together in the Jinluan Palace, and they couldn't help but be surprised when they saw He Shen who came slowly, they really couldn't imagine that there was really an immortal method in this world that could rejuvenate themselves.

"He Shen has seen Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty. He Shen stood in the Jinluan Palace, and after bowing slightly to Emperor Jiaqing on the throne, he raised his head and looked directly at this person whom he had ignored for many years.

"Bold! Don't kneel down when you see the emperor?!" a minister stepped out and scolded.

"Scholar Wang's personality is still upright~" He Shen's heart has changed, and he doesn't care about these words, and says frankly, "I am a cultivator, only kneeling to the master of heaven and earth, not to the emperor of the world." ”

"Oh~ Look at your appearance, you really have a way to cultivate immortals. I don't know what you, an immortal, came to earth for?" Jiaqing held back the anger in his heart and spoke softly.

"Come here to save the Qing Empire, Emperor Jiaqing, if you don't reform, this Qing Dynasty will really die!" He Shen said loudly.

"You don't know to me?!Doesn't this corrupt official of the Manchu Dynasty take you as an example?!You say!If I don't kill you, who should I kill?!You, the biggest corrupt official in the dynasty, stand on top of the court, and thousands of moths are under your protection, what qualifications do you have to say such things to me?!" Jiaqing slapped the edge of the dragon chair, stood up angrily, and pointed at He Shen and scolded.

Aren't you a god? Look at it, all the corruption in this Manchu Dynasty was caused by your leadership!

He Shen sighed slightly, he knew his past sins, and said, "Since the emperor is so disgusted with me, then I will introduce myself again." The seven divisions under the command of the Shenxiao Jade Palace, one of the seventy-two Earth Evil Star Monarchs of the Heavenly Court Division, and the Earth Prisoner Star Monarch has seen Emperor Jiaqing. This Xingjun is here today to offer a good plan to save the Qing Dynasty. ”

As soon as He Shen's voice fell, the entire Jinluan Hall suddenly went black, the palace walls, the temple roof, the floor tiles, and the pillars were completely gone, and everyone in the entire hall suddenly felt that they had come to the ancient starry sky, and countless planets were rotating and shining around them, and the He Shen who was standing in the court had undergone new changes.

I saw that his figure was tall, as if a great god was standing in the starry sky, unchanged for eternity. The tiger-headed human body, dressed in gorgeous armor, wrapped in a chain on his hands, dotted with starlight, interlocking, under the careful look of the people present, it turned out to be made of thunder.

"Seventy-two Earth Prison Star Monarch~" Jiaqing's body suddenly weakened when he saw this, and he sat on the dragon chair with his butt and muttered to himself, "There are really such immortals in the world~"

Ji Xiaolan is a literati, and she is also bold, seeing He Shen incarnated as a giant god, she barely held her mind and opened her mouth to scold, "Whether you are the Earth Prisoner Xingjun or He Shen, who do you want to scare when you look like this?

"Brother Ji, why should I be alarmed, I learned about the Qing Dynasty a hundred years after the Qing Dynasty from the realm of the Earth Zhuang Xingjun, and I specially found countless materials for Emperor Jiaqing's reference, this Xingjun wants to ensure the continuation of the Qing Dynasty!"

As time passed, Jiaqing's face slowly turned pale, and his forehead sweated, "I can't imagine that my Qing Empire will be in such a situation, I'm sorry for my ancestors and ancestors!"

"Emperor Jiaqing, the opportunity for reform is right in front of you, it depends on whether you can seize the opportunity!"