Chapter 2192 Flower Struggle (100)

In the forty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign, Zhengyang Gate suddenly caught fire for some unknown reason, burning down the east and west moon walls, official rooms, shop houses, and some facilities and shops on the street.

It is the main entrance of the palace, and it is also an important traffic thoroughfare. If it is not repaired, it will hinder the view. Overall, it is a large-scale maintenance project. It was entrusted to Prince Yongrong of Zhijun. After three years of construction, it was finally completed on the 48th day of Qianlong's reign.

It was completed in 2016, but the total cost exceeded the budget, especially the bricks, which exceeded 30% of the budget.

The bricks in the palace, especially the bricks used in the buildings on the central axis such as Zhengyang Gate, are all bricks tribute from Linqing. These bricks are obtained from the local "lotus soil" and the silt of the Yellow River.

Seriously, at the same time, it also left behind fine and impurity-free river sand in Linqing with suitable sand viscosity. After the river water washed it, it would leave a pattern like lotus petals on the bank, so it was called "lotus soil" and was fired with it.

There is a sound when the bricks are knocked, and the bricks used in the Temple of Heaven Echo Wall are also tribute bricks from Linqing.

However, freight rates increased at that time, and the price of firewood for burning bricks also increased, which resulted in the budget exceeding the standard. This was not a big problem at first. It was normal for prices to increase during the prosperous times. However, after the project was completed, the old and new cities were

A horizontal crack appeared, which frightened Ying Lian, who was in charge of supervising the repair.

To put it in the worst direction, this was an "apocalypse". It was unusual for a fire to occur for no reason. Later, after inspection, it was discovered that the new Wengcheng did not have a new foundation, but was made of wood on the original foundation.

Di'anmen is a place where ordinary people go, but Zhengyangmen is where the emperor often goes. If something goes wrong and collapses, it will be a big deal, so Yinglian made a bargain and asked the old and new Wengcheng to be rebuilt together.

, but the cost will be borne by Yinglian himself.

When He Shen, the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, learned about this incident, he also took the bait and said that although Ying Lian was in charge of Zhengyang Gate, he was responsible for all the construction projects and all the constructions were related to him.

Reconstruction should be discussed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and all costs should be borne by Heshen and Yinglian.

Qianlong's Zhu wrote that Ying Lian, He Shen and project supervisor Wai Lang Xishun were jointly responsible for the compensation. But that's what he said. We'll have to wait and see if we can get the money when it's time to reimburse.

Yong Rong wanted to hand over a memorial to report this matter, and it happened that he had used too much force when practicing archery a few days ago and his hands hurt, so it was up to Juren to write the memorial.

First of all, this matter cannot be written in the form of "please greetings to the Holy Ann". During the Kangxi period, Cao Fu, a weaver in Jiangning, "respectfully requested the Holy Ann" and reported the rice harvest and rising grain prices in the south of the Yangtze River. He "incidentally" reported the salt difference between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River when Li Chenchang was in office.

Died of illness.

Putting aside the question of why food prices are rising after a bumper harvest, it is unlucky to ask An Zhezi to report his death. These two mistakes are big or small. Fortunately, Kangxi was thinking about his relationship with the Cao family for many years, and Cao Fu was still a "

"Ignorant child", so Kangxi did not investigate carefully.

His comment was: I understand, the price of rice is still high, how can you say that the harvest is very good, it is very inappropriate to write it in the greeting card for someone who has died.

Even using secret documents won't work. How big of a conflict does Yong Rong and He Shen have that they need to be put to death by a denunciation?

It's the first time for everyone. Perhaps it was because Ju Ren had been brewing for so long that he still couldn't come up with it, and his expression looked like he was constipated, so Yong Rong gave him a nod.

When Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, he built many palaces. One of them was called Taipingzhuang, which had a watch room, a military aircraft office, etc., as well as a mansion for accompanying officials. The money there was not accounted for.

Qianlong was over seventy years old. When he was young, he had a good appetite. He not only wanted meat for every meal, but also snacks. Now his taste is lighter and he eats more vegetables. The taste is soft and easy to digest, such as eggplant puree and tofu.

Farm food was also put on the table.

He did not smoke or drink, but he only had a special liking for tea. Tea before Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty was all Tuancha, which was very troublesome to brew. Even if the emperor did not have to brew it himself, Zhu Yuanzhang still loved Heya tea, which is simply boiling water to brew tea.

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Nomads love to drink milk tea, and Qianlong also drank some sometimes, but he preferred to drink it directly after boiling snow water.

Translated, Qianlong is pursuing a refreshing and elegant taste now, a bit like Emperor Yongzheng, which is completely different from the lively taste he had when he first came to the throne.

Before the Shangyuan Festival banquet in the fifth year of Qianlong's reign, the censor Zhong Yongtan once asked not to be so extravagant. The Shangyuan celebration was a diplomatic affair for the Qing court to win over foreign vassals and act as a soft deterrent to vassal countries. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty once hosted a banquet for Turkic envoys at Danfeng Tower.

As a result, the two sides got into a fight over the seating issue.

It is no longer easy to make the envoys of Chao congratulate sit there in a proper manner. Sometimes war arrangements also need to be admonished at banquets. Qianlong spent a lot of energy learning Tibetan, Mongolian, and Miao after Ping Xiao Jinchuan, which means that this

The standards could not be lowered in such an occasion, so Qianlong used the indispensable ceremony of "outer vassal Mongolia, pilgrimage to the court, and banquets and drinks" as a "shield" and did not adopt Zhong Yongtan's memorial.

Zhong Yongtan was a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong's reign. He became the target of public criticism for uncovering the party dispute between Zhang Tingyu and Ertai, as well as for revealing the truth about Wu Shigong's excerpts.

Whistleblowing is annoying everywhere, but snitching on whistleblowers is even more annoying. Zhong Yongtan was born in a poor family. When he went to Beijing to take the exam, his wife made him several pots of sorghum buns and a pocket full of noodles as part of his journey of thousands of miles.

Little did he know that when he arrived in the capital, the examination period had passed and he had only two cornbreads in his pocket. He had to wait four years for the next imperial examination.

Zhong Yongtan was so heartbroken that he burst into tears holding his two heads in his hands. He happened to meet Qianlong who was visiting privately incognito.

The folk fabrication of Qianlong's private visit in private was not entirely false. Qianlong saw that scene and was moved by his compassion, so Qianlong gave Zhong Yongtan the opportunity to make up the exam. Zhong Yongtan also became a Jinshi, and was nicknamed "Wowo Jinshi"

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Like Eshan, he did not participate in the party struggle, but he became a victim of the party struggle.

Many people know that there is a problem with what He Shen did, but now the problem lies there - there is no money to reimburse. The Taiping Village where the Taipingzhuang Palace is located was called Chencun in the Ming Dynasty. Qianlong specially changed his name to Taiping.

There is also a domino lantern show in the palace. Each Shengdan Jingmo in the opera garden carries a lantern with a domino pattern on it, and then changes the formation to form the sky tiles, the earth tiles, the human tiles and other formations, and sings various kinds of lanterns.

Such an auspicious song.

"Being less than thirty" is the most ideal state in life, but how many people are so lucky?

There is also "The Drunken Concubine Yang". Regardless of why Yang Yuhuan drinks to drown her sorrows in "The Drunken Concubine", the white and rosy skin color of the drunken beauty is stunning.

There is a variant of Shu tea, also called Zui Yangfei. It is named after its flower. It is a kind of camellia. However, this tea is not in the list of tribute tea, and it does not even have the words "retain" and "go".

He had no qualifications, but Qianlong knew about this kind of camellia.

Concubine Yang was called the "Jie Yuhua" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Even though she knew it would be harmful to dote on her alone, she was still favored by thousands of people. Until the Anshi Rebellion broke out, people attributed all the faults to her.

There is a place called the Imperial Mission Office, referred to as the "Investigation Office". Cases involving ministers who are close to the ministers or special missions are heard and investigated there, and the verdict is decided by the emperor.

According to the rules there, if reimbursement is delayed by more than one month, you will be fined one year, or two years in serious cases. Taipingzhuang Palace and Zhengyang Gate have been completed, and there is no difference in inspection, but the blame for delayed reimbursement is really hard to argue. Taipingzhuang is late.

Two years later, the relevant persons should be fined one year's salary. Zhengyangmen was three years late and should be severely fined two years.

Juren wrote this excerpt, and Yong Rong read it once and handed it in without changing a word. A month later, the red book approved by Emperor Zhu arrived, with only "I understand, and I admire this" on it.

With this discount, Yong Rong could use the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deduct Heshen's salary, or not. There is a saying that "use chicken feathers as arrows." If the eunuch owed usurious loans and refused to repay the money, the moneylender actually chased him to the ground.

It's settled.

There is also a saying, "beat the dog to see its owner." It is natural to pay back debts, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs may not go to the store run by your family to buy things, or it may warn other people who have business dealings with you to immediately collect debts and use working capital

They were all swept away, leaving behind a pile of unsellable goods.

Those guards usually have nothing to do. They sit in your pawn shop every two days to see if there are any stolen goods from the palace in your warehouse. If they come three times a month, the business will not be able to continue.

Even if the eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty were not like the "factory officials" of the Ming Dynasty, you still have an absolutely reasonable request, "give mercy to others if you have to." There is a kind of woman like this, who is beautifully dressed and looks well-informed.

, but she is just like those scolding shrews who are "reasonable and unforgiving". She herself does not curse, and there are many slaves around her who are like mandarin ducks to please her, or people who feel that they are judging and are on the right side.

The one who helped scold her, if unfortunately she became the "mother-in-law", life would be difficult for the daughter-in-law of that family.

The daughter-in-law ignored her. She couldn't argue even if she wanted to. The key was that "mother-in-law" still had an "I'm always right" look. She also wore sharp armor on her little fingers, which looked like sharp claws.

It is better to offend a gentleman than a villain. After the memorial was written and the emperor knew about it, there was nothing more to do. During that time, he did not go to see the memorial in stock. He went back to the temple to read "A Dream of Red Mansions".

Not long after, Jin Jian sent someone, saying that there was a vacant room, which was newly built. The fire at Zhengyangmen destroyed the rebuilt building last time. His first wife, Fujin, gave him another maid. It was inconvenient for the maid to live in the temple, so he stayed there.

There is a "home" there.

"Thirty dissatisfied with the beauty hunter", people's situations are different, He Shen married the daughter of a bachelor, but he only "attacked people".

Later, "Xi Ren" disappeared, and "Bao Yu" realized his remorse. He did not live in the temple, but rented a house that was about to collapse, and there was a hanged man inside.

There are many situations where ghosts find substitutes. Some are drowned, and some are eaten by tigers. They become a kind of ghost called "minor ghost". There is an idiom called "acting as a puppet for a tiger". After becoming a "minimalist", it becomes a ghost.

To lure people to eat for the tiger, as a substitute for yourself.

There is a tiger city in the northwest beside Taiye Lake. There are many tigers in it. Kangxi likes to hunt when hunting. In order to maintain their ferocity, the Tiger Spear Camp will let two tigers fight each other. At the same time, when the beast comes out of the gate, the spearmen must be ready.

If you are not careful, you will be bitten to death.

In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, a tiger from the Tiger Military Academy was killed by a tiger. Fulong'an wrote a memorial to ask for compensation, but he only received thirty taels of compensation in total.

There was a monk in Cangzhou who claimed to have the power to summon wind and rain, subdue dragons and tigers. He was taken to the capital as a member of the Demon Party. Hundreds of people were dispatched to arrest him. He wrote a letter to Yong Rong in prison, and then he was thrown into the Tiger City.

Fighting alone with the tiger.

Wu Song had beaten the Jingyanggang tiger after drinking. The monk was also using his bare hands, but he did not rely on wine to strengthen his courage. For a while, there was a strong wind and the sound of tiger shadows. From day to night, the monk and the tiger were exhausted, but neither

Kill the opponent.

Then the monk went to be the abbot of Nianhua Temple next to Shichahai Sea.

In the Ming Dynasty, Nianhua Temple was called the Thousand-Buddha Temple for Protecting the Country and Repaying Benefit. It was built by Feng Bao, the eunuch who was responsible for the rituals, on the orders of the Empress Dowager Xiaoding to worship a monk from the Western Regions. There is a bronze Buddha cast in the Ming Dynasty in the pavilion, with a sitting figure in the middle.

The Buddha is sitting on the lotus seat. There are thousands of lotus flowers around the Buddha seat, and there is a Buddha image on each one.

When Emperor Yongzheng changed the name to Nianhua Temple, the Buddha statues in the temple had been removed to Baita Temple and Fayuan Temple, and were replaced by eighteen Arhat statues and twenty-four heavenly statues.

Ju Ren had never thought about it before, but now that he thought about it, it was strange. With his ability as a "Tiger Crouching Arhat", he would not be caught "easily" at all. If he wanted to run away after entering Nianhua Temple, there would be no guards around him.

That was easy, but he didn't run away. He was just like an ordinary monk, eating fast and chanting Buddha's name in the temple, and he was not anxious even if the incense was not strong.

Nianhua Temple is not far from Huo Shenjun's Taoist temple. On the other side, you can see the legendary "haunted" temple where Juren's "contemporary" once lived.

Thanks to him staying up to read at night instead of going to bed early, he found that the light turned green, and then ran away that night, but the person who lived next door was not so lucky.

There is a folk legend in Fuyang, Zhejiang. There is a dragon who was sentenced to death by the Jade Emperor for making a mistake. A monk somewhere learned the news and took a bowl to catch the dragon's blood. He sealed his mouth and placed it under the Buddhist table.

, on the night of the 48th, the two of them suddenly left, warning the monks and Taoists not to open it. The others couldn't bear their curiosity and had to open it. Then a red-faced man flew out from inside. This person was Guan Yunchang.

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Then he reached into the dragon's blood and pulled out a cold broadsword, the Qinglong Yanyue Sword.

In addition to being the god of wealth and wealth, Guan Gong also plays a role in controlling the house. He is different from the door god. The door god treats evildoers as outsiders, so he sticks them on the door. Guan Gong wants to place him at the deepest part of the house, and he does not take the one that attracts wealth.

Knife, Guan Gong holding a knife does not attract wealth, but Guan Gong holding a house must hold a knife.

I wonder what evildoer Shichahai got into, and it was related to human skin. Could it be that the mandrill went to the Pichang Temple to steal the human skin and wear it?

When the evil spirit got stronger, the Zhengyang Gate burst into flames. The royal relatives and relatives living nearby certainly didn't believe it. After all, they were ordinary people and could not see the evil spirit rising into the sky. Moreover, the cracked position of the Zhengyang Gate happened to be the embankment in the south.

Juren is also old, so it is better to leave things like subjugating demons to young people. He has not figured out the temper of Emperor Jiaqing yet. This memorial must be handed in as soon as possible. The Nan'ao General Soldier must have handed it in because he fired the cannon.

,So, we can’t delay it any longer.
Chapter completed!