Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2158 Flower War (sixty-six)

  On the Dragon Boat Festival in the 28th year of Qianlong’s reign, the Qingyan Hall of Jiuzhou in the Yuanmingyuan caught fire. Qianlong, who was resting in the hall after watching the dragon boat, was almost burned to death. At that time, the fourth elder brother Yongxuan was on duty beside Qianlong.

Qianlong and Yongxuan were soon trapped in the fire, and the smoke billowed. Entered, rushed into the fire and carried Qianlong out on his back.

   At that time, Yongxuan had already escaped by breaking the window, leaving Qianlong alone in the sea of ​​​​fire. After the two came out, the queen mother and other brothers rushed over, and the fire was quickly put out. It didn't take long for Qianlong to adopt Yongxuan to the heirless Prince Lu. In the previous four years, he had already given Yongrong International to the prince, plus the second elder brother who died early. The elder brother and the third elder brother, who were disobedient at the ceremony, suddenly the fifth elder brother Yongqi was called the "eldest son", that is, the most likely heir to the throne.

It is a pity that Yongqi died of illness three years later. The sixth elder brother, Yong Rong, the "uncle" of the Xiaojun King, did not have the same bad record as Yong Xuan, and he also presided over the editing of "Siku Quanshu". Although Ji Xiaolan was the editor, but Yong Rong is responsible for allocating human, financial and administrative resources. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also operates normally under his management. Generally speaking, Yong Rong is a talented and versatile person. Except for the fact that he has been adopted, he is a good candidate for the crown prince.

  If Qianlong takes back the sixth elder brother, then the fourth elder brother Yongxuan is also possible, so there is a risk of repeating the "Nine Kings Seizing the Inheritance".

   In the 26th year of Qianlong’s reign, the Yellow River also burst its embankments, also in Henan, and there were 15 bursts, affecting 52 counties. Liu Tongxun was in charge of the river work at that time.

  Yuan Shoudong was trained according to the future military ministers or high-ranking ministers. Unfortunately, the life span of mortals is not like Arhats, and can be extended by themselves. Originally, the cases in Gansu and Shandong had come to an end, and Yuan Shoudong could continue to go home to Ding You. However, in the forty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign, the Yellow River was about to burst its embankment again. At that time, Yuan Shoudong was seriously ill and his complexion was not good. However, the emperor had already personally greeted him at Lugou Bridge. After the Yellow River flood was dealt with, Yuan Shoudong also stayed After the root of the disease, he died in the forty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign as the governor of Zhili. After his death, he enjoyed the honor of grief, gave the prince Taibao, and entered the shrine of the virtuous.

   Ji Xiaolan married his two daughters to the two sons of Yuan Shoudong's younger brother, and became the same family as Lu Jianzeng.

After Lu Jianzeng Lianghuaiyan cited the case, Ji Xiaolan was banished to XJ because of his intercession. Lu Jianzeng himself was put on death row, and his descendants were sitting together. Ji Xiaolan's daughter, Lu Jianzeng's daughter-in-law, fled with her 9-year-old son. He took refuge in Jiaoqiao, Shandong, and was safe under the shelter of Yuan Shoucheng's two daughters-in-law.

Sansedorji's direct descendant, Fujin, has a daughter, Prince Yunxi, who was born from a concubine, and is also married to a Mongolian prince. Maybe Tianyun Duanduoerji will also go there to take refuge like Lu Jianzeng's grandson. , Moving more between relatives can deepen the relationship. In the future, when he goes to Kulun, it will not be as easy to visit relatives in the capital as it is now.

   What's more, it is reasonable for Xiaojun Wang to take the bride around when he is newly married. What if the first-born mother is not his biological mother?

   The legendary bewitching exists in people's stomachs, and there is an idiom "bewitching people's hearts", but people are not worms in other people's stomachs, they really know what others think.

   When dealing with the Lianghuai salt case, Gao Jin's nephew Gao Heng was not given special treatment because of the "eight pilgrimages", but was executed according to the king's law.

There has been corruption in the Lianghuai Salt Industry for 20 years. The salt government involved is not only Gao Heng. The first salt government Jiqing not only collected tax silver from the salt merchants, but also asked them to pay "filial piety" silver, but directly asked not to give salt. The benefits of the merchants are not a long-term solution, so he made a memorial. After the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, the population expanded rapidly. The salt that was collected by "oral feeding" in the past was not enough to eat. I hope the court can send more to the two Huai Rivers. Qianlong thought it was justified, so he allocated some more, but Jiqing still felt that it was not enough, so he also sent out the salt for the year of life in advance, and the salt merchants immediately rejoiced.

  In this way, whenever there are happy events such as marriage, birthday, full moon, etc. in the auspicious family, the salt merchants will give generous gifts, and there will be more joy and willingness to raise money.

When the second salt administrator, Pufu, came, the salt merchants were as filial as they were serving Jiqing, but Pufu was timid, and although he was greedy, he refused to accept all bribes on the surface, so the salt merchants bought fields, houses and utensils one after another. gave to his family.

Seven years later, Pufu left. Before leaving, he borrowed 40,000 taels of silver from the salt company's account. He also assumed that he had no travel expenses. The salt merchants collected another 10,000 taels for him. Qianlong also thought that he was a clean official with "two sleeves and a breeze".

Next is Gao Heng. He held meetings as soon as he took office, and he likes to treat guests to dinner. Whenever he invites, the salt merchants are never absent. Taking advantage of Qianlong's trip to the south of the Yangtze River, he has "meetings" many times, and occasionally comes. If you are a guest in a salt merchant and see a beautiful antique calligraphy and painting, as long as you stand for a few more seconds, the calligraphy and painting will be delivered to Gao Heng.

   Some of these paintings will be sent to Qianlong. For example, the paintings of Tang Yin, the "Four Talents in Jiangnan" of the Ming Dynasty, Qianlong not only inscribed poems on these paintings, but also copied Tang Yin's "Picture of a Lady Folding Plums".

  Some people have moved out from places like Huguang and Guangxi, but the population is still increasing. Unless a census is conducted, it is difficult to determine the exact number of people in each place and how much salt is needed, which also gives a loophole to the salt administration.

   Since the war broke out between the Qing Dynasty and Burma, the military rations were provided by Guizhou and Yunnan. ZY originally belonged to Sichuan, and was under the jurisdiction of Guizhou when the administrative region was divided in the sixth year of Yongzheng. This part of Yanyin also belonged to Guizhou.

   During the war, the census could not be carried out. During the Qing-Myanmar War, Zhang Bao, a Manchurian XHQ man, served as a senior officer stationed in the village to supervise food and rations, and supervised the transportation of military food into Myanmar.

  Zhangbao is not actually a person with "two sleeves". He also took a fancy to the "beautiful lack" of the Suzhou governor. Who knows that a good dream can turn into a nightmare. The two biggest cases of the Qianlong Dynasty were in his hands in the 33rd year of Qianlong.

Gao Heng was transferred first because Gao Jin served as the governor of Liangjiang to avoid suspicion, and second because he was transferred to the Minister of Internal Affairs. When he left, he told the salt merchants that he would take care of them in the future, so the "filial piety" of the salt merchants was given to him. For this royal relative, it was not given to the later Yan Zhengyou.

There is such a big hole for not doing him any favors. In his anger, You Ba Shi smashed this layer of window paper open, but when he wrote his memorial, he did not list the crimes of Gao Heng and other predecessors. He shared 85,000 yuan during his tenure. One thousand taels of silver, plus 278,000 taels of silver in the warehouse on credit, and there are still more than 190,000 taels of silver in the warehouse. Still, each merchant brings in three taels of silver and asks the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check.

   None of the previous salt administrations took the initiative to report the revenue and expenditure of Yanyin, but they kept saying that the population was increasing and it was necessary to increase the amount of salt. In the past 20 years, if every 3 taels were cited, the total tax revenue should have exceeded 10 million taels, but the Ministry of Household did not record the revenue of this salt import.

  Where did the money go? Zhang Bao also arrived in Jiangsu in April. In addition to Gao Heng's mansion in BJ Baochao Hutong, he also has a mansion in Suzhou, which is said to be a palace for welcoming guests. In fact, when Qianlong went to Suzhou, he lived in Suzhou Weaving House.

  In order to deal with corruption, he had money for keeping cleanliness, and Qianlong also knew about corruption when officials took office. However, 2 million taels were dug out from the cellar of the "clean" Pufu family, and the nature was different.

   says that there is no evidence, and evidence is necessary. Evidence of corruption cases is easy to find, but a case of soul witchcraft can only be based on confessions.

   Zhang Bao was dismissed because of the Soul Case, and he went to Yunnan again in thirty-four years.

  Although Siam did not deliberately not sell rice to Fujian, because of the war in the country, their people only had bark and grass roots to eat, but Fujian still suffered from famine due to natural disasters and various problems.

   Southeast is a province with a large population. Just imagining the consequences of losing the Qing-Myanmar War makes people shudder.

   This battle must be fought and won. E Ning sent a letter to recruit a Burmese general, and Qianlong transferred him to Fujian. He also took a recommendation letter from Xilin Gioruo's family and left BJ to join him.

   As for Zhang Bao, he also blackmailed the magistrate Wang Xi after he was transferred from Yunnan. The key is that he ran out of military rations. This case was also tried by Yuan Shoudong.

   After Yongzheng, he implemented the "Reform of the Tusi Guiliu", that is, the abolition of the chieftain system, and the establishment of prefectures, offices and prefectures. Immigrants have to face such a situation. On the one hand, they don’t talk about kingship and only talk about domineering officials. On the other hand, they all practice martial arts, and they don’t like the Miao people who use their words to argue for right and wrong. White Lotus Sect.

  The Miao people were not good at trading. The immigrants bought the daily necessities on credit to the Miao people at high prices. After the autumn, the Miao people returned the grain and used the land as a mortgage.

   There are also loan sharks. Once Miao people borrow money, it is difficult to get rid of the ruthless exploitation of loan sharks.

   At this time, no one was worried about the Miao Border Gu technique.

   On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the 50th year of Qianlong's reign, the Qiansou Banquet was held in the Qianqing Palace. More than 3,000 people gathered together, and the whole palace was staggered. Qianlong brought his prince, grandson, and great-grandson to toast.

  Because the world was peaceful, the world was prosperous, and it was in the prosperous age of Kang and Qian, the banquet scene was unprecedented.

   "Why not allow others to be happy for a while?" said Bonaparte suddenly.

  Georgianna was speechless.

   He suddenly pulled her up and waltzed in the cabin.

   Like when she danced with Severus at Hugo's house that day, there was no musical accompaniment.

   But the sound of music echoed in her mind, and she was still in the splendid palace.

   It was both real and fake, because she did seem to dance with him in the palace.

   "Where am I?" she asked, a little dizzy.

   "Then you won't know until you read it on the deck." He smiled and said, "Or do you want to continue reading?"

   She is now very worried that someone will "take advantage" while she is reading.

   "I'm not a nerd!" she yelled.

   He smiled with white teeth, then stopped, bent his arms, let her take his hand, and led her out of the cabin.

   (end of this chapter)