Emperor Qianlong: the beginning of his glory

Chapter 74
A dozen girls in the upper room were both shy and happy when they heard it, their hearts were warm, and they just pursed their lips and smiled.The princess looked at the ashen-faced Zhang with a livid face, suddenly smiled, and said, "Mother Zhang, this is a last resort for the order. In fact, you know, I am the most kind-hearted. According to the order, I could have copied you." to see if there are any of my things. Killing people can’t kill you, why bother? You took the 1000 taels of silver and took your Zhang family back, so that they could serve you and be really an old lord. It’s a hundred times better to worry about things in my house.” She took a long breath, and seemed to be overwhelmed with emotion, “Don’t think about this or that. It’s embarrassing. You are still my nanny! How nice you were to me when I was young... I I won’t forget it for a while! Go back, and come and sit around when you have free time..." As he spoke, a few tears fell.

"Thank you, master, for your grace." Zhang was suspicious and then startled, and now she became sore again. She had already cried and collapsed on the ground, choked up and said: "...these are all slaves who are ignorant..."

"Stop talking." Eighteen Gege wiped away tears, and waved his hands resolutely, "You go!"

Here, Nanny Zhang and her relatives are packing up their luggage in desperation and preparing to leave, while Huameier and others over there happily lead people to clean the living room for the princess and the concubine.In the whole house, those who accounted for accounts, those who vacated houses and changed houses, and those who counted warehouses were busy in a mess.Some were crying, some were laughing, some were sarcastic, some were muttering and cursing, some were making a scene, some were sullen and silent, some were full of complacency and pretending to be reserved... like a nest exploded, Everyone is involved in this farce.Eighteen Gege saw that the west living room had been tidied up, took two girls out of the upper room, and stopped when he saw Ge Shanting, the forehead son-in-law, coming in from the second door.

Ge Shanting walked a few steps to Gege, patted his horseshoe sleeves and kowtowed, and said, "Greetings to Princess Qiantui!"Ge Ge Dun felt hot on his cheeks, and he couldn't say anything in front of the people in the courtyard, so he just said lightly: "Come in!"

"When we meet in private in the future, don't be so polite." Shiba Gege sat down, saw her husband put his hands on his knees in a manner, still in the same old way, he couldn't help laughing, "Today I'm fighting for the word 'husband and wife'. You look like a slave, what do you do?" Ge Shanting also smiled, put down his hands, and said: "It's hard to get back, I have lingering fears!" The princess smiled and said: "I am bitter, but I know you are also bitter, and you are not like ordinary officials who can beg yours." There are three wives and four concubines, and there are also some people placed by Nanny Zhang on your side. You pick and choose, and drive out a few who are useless, and don't make things too extreme, as if we can't tolerate people."

Ge Shanting smiled and thought about it and replied: "Yes! Just now I went to five or six sons-in-law, and everyone praised you as a hero among women. You broke the old rules all at once. This time I'm afraid the princesses are all making a big fuss in the mansion!"

"This is all the emperor's sage!" The princess laughed, "He is very sensible! Don't look at it as a trivial matter, some of these nuns are slaves of foreign relatives, and some are the confidantes of nobles in the palace. The emperor's 'protecting the golden branch' offends a sea of ​​people. Already!"

The young couple, who were far away from each other and reunited again, had a heart-to-heart talk until dark.The family banquet is served, the wine bottles are moved and the red candles are lit, and the young couple seem to be "drinking together as newlyweds".After drinking two glasses of wine, Ge Shanting forgot his body, shook his head and sighed: "Speaking of the greatness of the emperor's grace, it is true. The emperor is really a benevolent king! Alas... that's it, go out and listen, There are a lot of people chewing maggots! Our group of foreheads talk about everything everywhere, I heard—" He looked outside the door, and said: "I heard that Prince Li and the others are still thinking about the emperor!"

"Really?" The princess was startled for a moment, and urged her husband, "What's his idea, what kind of bad water did he put?" Ge Shanting was stunned for a moment, woke up from the warm tenderness, and said, "It's all just Why should the princess be serious about chatting teeth after tea and drinking? What does it have to do with us if they spoil the water?" Shiba Gege lowered his face, thought for a while, and said: "Of course it has something to do with it. It's what you said The emperor's benevolent government has also offended many people. My actions today are approved by the emperor. If they want to attack the emperor's bad ideas, they will add the crime of "contempt of the ancestors' family law" to the emperor. I have been awarded There is a share of death, how do you say 'irrelevant'? I ordered this play today, and actually met Nala noble master first, and cried a lot. Nala master said: "If you want to make trouble, I will I agree in my heart. However, there are some rumors outside these days. The emperor is angry in his heart today. Beware of him losing his temper and punishing you in public. It's about your own business, you can't put your hands aside and stand on the dry shore!"

Ge Shanting sat there in a daze for half a day, and said: "This is what He Ying, the princess of Qi Gulun, and Le Gesai, the son-in-law of Thirteen Gege, and I were drinking together. Le Saige is sixteen. The guard of the prince. The road is easier than ours. When I was drinking, I said: "If we talk about it, we are also royal relatives, but I can't even look like the emperor. Even our husband and wife can't see each other every day. One day I really dare I came to my house and made a big fuss, and dragged my mother-in-law's house. That's good, you can't go to prostitutes outside, and you don't dare to touch a girl inside. My wife is a widow, and we are a group of widowers!' Legacy said:' So what if I see the emperor? I followed the prince into the palace, and I can see him every day. It’s nothing more than standing on duty to listen to greetings. What’s the status of speaking? But the emperor has already gone to Henan with Fu Liuye and the others, do you know? ——It’s not rumors outside!’……

"It was only then that He Ying and I knew that the emperor was not in Beijing. Nalegesai was already half drunk, his face was as red as a pig's liver, and he came up to our faces, breathing alcohol and said: 'There is a play in this show...Only the emperor himself I was kept in the dark! Prince Li and Baylor played tricks in Beijing, saying that the flag affairs were abandoned. In a few years, it will be difficult to determine who is the master and who is the slave. They gang up Look for our lord, and if you say so, please invite the lord of the Eight Banners who lives in Fengtian to come to Beijing to hold a meeting to discuss the flag affairs. Our lord, you know, has no backbone, so we should, saying that this is not a big deal. Feeling uneasy again, he called Prince Yi to come. When Prince Yi heard this, he stumbled and complained: "They came to me first, and I was blocked tightly. How could Uncle Sixteen respond? It's so embarrassing." No way!'

"Our lord narrowed his eyes and said: 'The first emperor and the emperor had a decree to rectify the flag affairs. What kind of urgent matter is this? There are two lords sitting on the flag, and Zhang Tingyu and Ertai are both in Beijing. won't they succeed?'

"'I don't know if it's true or not,' said Yi Wang with a gloomy face, 'I only know that in the fourth year of Yongzheng, the eighth, ninth, and tenth uncles also did this. The prince meeting—in fact, he wanted to abolish the late emperor at the meeting and return to the ancestral family law of the Eight Banners! At that time, you were working in Xining and didn’t know about Beijing. The late emperor ordered General Fengtian to stand by and the eight hereditary If the prince wants to make a change, he will cut it first and then play it! When it comes to banner affairs, he will say that the first emperor lost his power, and after losing his power, he will accuse the first emperor of being wronged, and then he will be abolished. You must know that at that time, the eight banner masters had military power in their hands! Eight uncles, nine Uncle and Uncle Shi turned somersaults over this matter, and never got up again!" Our prince laughed when he heard this, and said: "I just know that they have no military power, so I dare to call them here." Prince Yi said: " They have no soldiers, they are powerful and hopeful, and how many powerful ministers in the court are their coated slaves. Who can control the situation once it gets messed up? I will leave the word here. If you dare, you can call them Hu tossing, what happened is the Sixteenth Uncle, your old worry!'

"After hearing this, our prince lost his mind. He wanted to ask Zhang Tingyu and the others to discuss it, but he was afraid that it would become a serious matter to go to the study. He wanted to talk back, but he was afraid that people would say that he was incompetent. Prince Yi was smarter and said: 'You call them teachers. When Yang Mingshi came, they were afraid of Yang Mingshi. When Yang Mingshi was called, he advised them to study and not to worry about other nosy things. This matter will be gone quietly.'

"Yang Mingshi is really powerful. After listening to our lord's words, he went back to Yuqing Palace and took out the late emperor's "Shengwu Ji" to read. All the lords, Baylor, and Beizi knelt down to listen. After reading for three hours, Prince Li and the others were dizzy on their knees. Dazed, all of you are stupefied, and then you say that you have violated the sacred teachings of the first emperor and interfered in government affairs, and you will be punished. To deal with the prince's dignity, you will be fined to copy "Sheng Wu Ji" once, and other Baylor and Beizi will have "Sheng Wu Ji" on their heads. "Punishment to kneel for three days. However, Yang Mingshi did not participate in this matter anymore, and he is tolerant. If Yang Mingshi is here, he must appeal to the court for impeachment—Princess, if there are really rumors, I don't think anyone else would dare. Maybe it is This group of old and young brothers turned over their old accounts and wanted to make some troubles."

Princess Heshuo listened quietly, her face becoming paler and paler, holding the wine glass in her hand, she neither drank nor put it down, and said after a long time: "How can there be such a storm? What's the point of digging out the old accounts of several lifetimes? He cares about the prince. Still not satisfied? If it weren’t for the benevolence of the former emperor and the current emperor, he would have been deposed as a common man, and he would be confined to the courtyard to watch the sky!”

"The princess is really a kind person, and she hasn't walked around in the world. These people in the world are bad!" Ge Shanting said with a smile: "Sheng Mien, Dou Michou, this has always been the case. If you don't let the prince come out, it's fine if you are imprisoned; He didn't even think about it when he was released to live in solitude; he was promoted to prince again, just one step away from the throne, then he might think: You got the throne from your ama, and your ama got it from my ama That's what I got—this should be my Xumi seat, but I let you sit!—I'm holding back, can I get out?" The princess asked: "What is 'Sheng Mien, Dou Mi'? Enemy'?" Ge Shanting said: "You give him a liter of rice for emergency, that's a kindness. If you give him a bucket, he will have a new idea, so he has to worry about: you can give a stone, why only give a bucket— — that's what it means."

The princess' eyes flashed suddenly, this common saying is really wise!Isn't it like this for myself and my mother?While meditating, the self-ringing bell "Dangdang" rang nine times in a row, and it was already the beginning of Hai.She stood up, hesitated for a moment as if she could not make up her mind, and shouted: "Lanhuaer!" A little girl immediately trotted in and asked, "Master is calling me?"

"My son-in-law and I are going to enter the palace to greet Lafayette," the princess said, "You call Thrush and Parrot, tell them to get up and follow."

"Yes."

Ge Shanting looked at his unfamiliar wife with some puzzlement.Although she is gentle and kind, she has an unquestionable toughness to be strong.Ge Shanting murmured: "This... now the uterine door is keyed... I am a foreign minister..."

"Prepare the sedan!"

(End of this chapter)