Chapter 2076 Tianshui is ready (2)

Shakespeare once wrote such a story. Around the 11th century in Scotland, the Scots were at war with the Norwegians. There was a general who went to fight on the king's orders.

When he wielded his blood-filled sword and slashed, he looked like a villain and a hero. However, just when victory was close at hand, a ruthless storm rolled up from the east, and the King of Norway saw an opportunity.

, immediately launched a new onslaught. But just like a rabbit could not scare away a lion, the general continued to fight bloody, and victory finally belonged to the Scots.

So the king of Norway sued for peace with Scotland. The king of Scotland demanded that Norway pay 10,000 gold coins into the national treasury, otherwise he would not be allowed to bury the soldiers who died in the battle.

It would have been nice if the story ended here, but unfortunately on this gloomy and bright day, three witches appeared beside the general.

"Bless you, Macbeth, Sir Glamis!"

"Bless you, Macbeth, Sir Court!"

"Bless you, Macbeth, future king!"

The three witches called the general Macbeth by different names. He looked surprised, as if he was afraid of hearing this good-sounding news. However, Sir Court is still alive and powerful.

No matter how you look at it, Macbeth cannot replace him.

However, the witches suddenly disappeared, and Macbeth could only return home with questions.

His wife heard the witches' prophecy but believed it to be true, so she kept encouraging Macbeth.

Macbeth did not take the words of the witch and his wife seriously at first, but then the king's messenger came. It turned out that Sir Court had committed treason, so his title was awarded to Macbeth for his military exploits.

Then Macbeth began to believe the witches' prophecies and his wife's instigation, and it happened that the king came to his castle. The couple planned a murder against the king and blamed it on a drunken soldier.

Human nature cannot withstand experiments. Even if it is not as absolute as Legalism, which compares people to beasts, there is still a dark side in human nature, and power will continue to stir up the dark side in people's hearts.

Some people may feel that they are not a person like Macbeth. People always like to hear praise and praise, but do not like to hear criticism and derogation. Praise satisfies people's need for "respect". In praise and praise, he gains the respect of others.

recognition, and proves the social value of one's own existence. People feel confident in praise and praise, but are these praises and praises sincere?

In the story of Macbeth, the witches "predicted" that Macbeth's descendants would also become kings, but in the end it was not the case. His wife later went insane and died. He himself was a regicide and usurped the throne. In order to consolidate his rule, he killed

Many people caused chaos in the country and blood flowed everywhere. The more this happened, the more people turned against him, so much so that he later swore to take back Scotland from the tyrant together with the son of the former king who was exiled in England. In the end, it was the son of the former king who became the king.

Did the witches prophesy inaccurately? Or maybe it was a lie from the beginning, they were playing a trick on Macbeth, or it was part of another prophecy.

A person who obeys you on the surface and says nice things to you may do it for more benefits. But one day when you are unlucky and in trouble, he will say nice things to your opponent for the sake of benefit and reduce you to nothing. If it is Kong

Meng Hui would classify such people as villains. Who would find it pleasant to be a villain?

If Legalists meet a Confucian debate master, they will basically be scolded for "not being taught by saints." Han Fei believes that instead of evading this problem, it is better to use this greed to provide a basis for rule, just like Gongsun Yi loves to eat fish.

, it is precisely because he loves to eat fish that he does not accept other people's fish. If he accepts other people's fish, he must accommodate the performance of the fish giver. If he does not accommodate the performance of the fish giver, he will definitely violate the law. If he violates the law, he will be dismissed.

, or else your life will be lost. Severe punishment can make people self-interested and self-disciplined.

This is possible based on China's national conditions, but it is not easy to do in the West. The bourgeoisie can change laws, such as the "Factory Law", which was originally a law for state supervision of factories, but now it has become a kind of poor relief law.

Supplementing is like giving you what you deserve as benefits.

William Pitt Jr. believed that raising orphans was a burden, but in the short term it was, but what if the social value they created when they grew up exceeded the cost of raising them?

In no case should the parish steward be the one who beats these children and sends them to the factory, while he himself gets the kickback, rides a good horse, and wears a silver pocket watch.

Charity in the West is generally handled by religious organizations such as churches. After the French Revolution, it became a commune. Charity in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was handed over to charity halls. This is especially the case where the "soul-calling" case was the most violent.

The Jiangnan area is basically the responsibility of industrial and commercial organizations and local governments.

Theoretically, these beggars should be taken in by these charity halls. However, firstly, because there are too many homeless people, and secondly, because there is corruption in the charity halls, there were so many beggars during the Qianlong period. When Qianlong went to Jiangnan, he collected all the beggars.

Yes, the rest were driven away. This was also a "convention" in the Manchu officialdom. They reported good news but not bad news. Even if it was a whitewashed peaceful and prosperous age, it was still a "peaceful and prosperous age". It is worth praising and sending a few excellent songs.

Poems may even be appreciated by the emperor and transferred to the capital as an official.

Being able to "cater" is also a "way of being an official". The Governor-General of Liangjiang is in charge of the three provinces of Jiangsu, Jiangxi and AH, which is the most fertile vacancy in the Qing Empire. The core Yangtze River region of these three provinces and parts of Zhejiang are the subject of the "soul-calling" case.

Fadi, also commonly known as Grand Zero, is right next to the Liangjiang Governor-General's Office.

The Manchus will be Sinicized, and the Han people will also be Manchuised. The person who held this position at that time happened to be Gao Jin, the leader of the Zhenghuang Banner, who had the same surname as Gao Qiu and Gao Taiwei. He was not a "flowery Tai Sui" like Gao Yanei. His ancestors

Unlike Gao Qiu, who played football with the emperor, Qianlong loved water conservancy, so the son of Liangzhou's general soldier followed the advice of his uncle, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, and abandoned martial arts to study water conservancy.

After becoming a maid, the Han people's surname will be changed to Gaojia. The daughter of the uncle of the Wenyuan Pavilion scholar in Gao Jin Dynasty is Qianlong's concubine Huixian. Even the Manchus who don't believe in witchcraft, the harem is associated with witchcraft.

It is basically "extremely dangerous", not to mention that Gao Jia's daughter is already dead, and she has not given birth to a son or a half. However, Qianlong missed her, and from now on, Gao Jia's daughter will not get married.

It would be too bad.

Relying on women to intercede is basically out of the question. The last time Bernadotte was accused of treason by a mitzvah, it was thanks to his wife who interceded for him. Bernadotte's wife and Joseph's wife were sisters, so Joseph was

Help me to plead for mercy.

Hongli had to be given an explanation for the sorcery case. While other provinces were reporting continuously, there was no movement in Jiangnan.

The so-called Manchu-Han Banquet refers to the time when Emperor Kangxi celebrated his 66th birthday and invited officials from the Manchu and Han ethnic groups to eat at a flowing banquet for three days. Manchu and Han dishes were placed on the same table.

It’s not that easy to eat at a palace banquet. Generally, you eat Manchurian dishes first and then Chinese dishes. During this period, you have to "turn the table", that is, remove the entire table of dishes together with the tabletop. The order of picking the dishes is also particular, but it will never happen anyway.

It was like having a wedding banquet in a farmyard, holding up a wine glass and looking for people to toast to.

A meal can make one's stomach ache, so of course don't expect "Manchus and Hans to be one family". Compared with Shandong, where the latest newspapers are available at all times, Gao Jin seems to be planning to keep a low profile, that is, arrest those who spread rumors.

, and prohibition on spreading rumors. After all, Gao Jin was not an ordinary bannerman. He was "slowly promoted" from the county magistrate, rather than rising through internal routes.

However, according to the confessions from Shandong, several main suspects of sorcery have gone to Jiangsu, and the most active one, Funihan, is a Manchu official. He has already arrested several suspects.

So Qianlong turned his anger to Zhangbao, the governor of Jiangsu, who was also a Manchu bureaucrat who was "well versed in political intrigue". He was handling a fraud case involving Yangzhou's salt administration, and Gao Heng was the main defendant in the case. And Gao Heng's cousin

My brother happens to be Zhangbao’s immediate boss, and he also has a beautiful sister, who happens to be Concubine Huixian.

The two cases were stuck in Zhangbao's hands. Not only did Qianlong have a headache, but Zhangbao himself also had a headache. More and more court mails came from BJ. Qianlong could get angry, but Zhangbao had to be careful that his head was not saved. Even if

Is he a Manchu?

It just so happened that Peixian County was within his jurisdiction, where Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, once served as a pavilion chief. At a local market, a man named Jiang from Shandong knocked down an old man. She fell unconscious on the spot.

My son is a local farmer named Yang. He immediately jumped up to catch the stranger who bumped into his mother.

A big man from Shandong, how can a little man from Jiangnan catch him? But the farmer surnamed Yang is a local, and a group of people want to surround the man surnamed Jiang. And even if the people from Shandong are not thieves, they are also traveling merchants, and they will not be alone.

Go on the road alone.

A group fight broke out in the market. The eggs sold by the sellers were knocked to the ground by those who were rushing to watch the fun and those who didn't want to cause trouble. They cried to death. A thief took this opportunity to cut the money bag and was caught by the owner. The thief's hand

There was a knife on his hand, which was considered a necessary tool for sorcery cases and was used to cut braids. Then the victim started shouting.

"Come here, there is a demon who cuts pigtails!"

Originally, when a big man knocked down someone, most people wouldn't immediately associate it with "soul-calling." It was an old peasant woman covered in patched clothes. What was the person trying to do with her?

The thief took advantage of the chaos and escaped. He also knew what it meant to be convicted of this crime. The old man's son and relatives caught the attacker. When the official came, the Shandong man named Jiang became a pigtail cutter.

A monster.

It is not the governor of Jiangsu's turn to try this kind of case personally, because the Shandong man is a secular man, and the governor wants to arrest "Master Mingyuan" and "Master Yushi".

However, Hongli was very dissatisfied with Zhangbao's performance, especially the interstate and malfeasance in the process of arresting Jade. In order to restore the influence, Zhangbao investigated the Lianghuai Salt Tax Fraud Case.

The case was about to be concluded. Zhangbao fully expected that Hongli would praise him. Unexpectedly, Hongli was indifferent and instead scolded Zhangbao for not being able to distinguish priorities.

"Is the salt tax case finally over?" Bonaparte asked the "China Hand" with great interest.

"No, Gao Heng and the other criminals were transferred to the military aircraft office, and they were all sentenced to death in the end." said the silk vendor.

Georgiana looked at Bonaparte. He didn't look unhappy now, so was he happy or unhappy?

Then she remembered the idiom "The king's heart is unpredictable".

At this moment, Bonaparte's "hand-picked" opera star came on stage. He turned his attention to her and began to applaud.

Then everyone started clapping and applauding.

Unlike Grassini, this female star did not wear dazzling gems all over her body, but she did wear extremely gorgeous silk.

What she sang was an excerpt from Mozart's opera "The Escape from the Harem". It was a light aria. Originally, the maid who helped the escaped princess escape was supposed to sing this song. Look at her.

Dressed up, it looks like the princess herself is singing.

How happy, how joyful, my heart beats so fast.

I would tell her without hesitation, bring her the news, and prophesy to her weak and timid heart, with songs and laughter.

Happiness and joy.

In the story, even with the help of pirates, the princess and her lover still did not escape from the palace and were taken to the pasha. Her lover told the pasha that he was the son of a Dutch commander and was willing to pay a high ransom in the hope that

The Pasha released them, but the Pasha became even more angry because the commander was the Pasha's biggest enemy.

Just when they thought they were certain to die, they sang a duet.

The commander's son asked: Do you have to die because of me?

The princess said: Belmont, you will die for me, for the happiness of your upcoming death.

When the two gave up on themselves, the pasha appeared again. He told the princess that revenge was ugly and he decided not to punish them.

The story ends happily. The lover returned to Spain by boat. The palace guards who hoped to get the maid failed, and the Guards sang "Long Live the Pasha" in unison.

It would be great if "reality" could be the same as in the script.
To be continued...