Emperor Qianlong: the beginning of his glory

Chapter 84
After sending Sun Jiagan away, Yin Jishan just hesitated standing on the bank of the misty Yangtze River.Of course he noticed that Qianlong only mentioned Kangxi incidentally in this secret edict, and did not mention "government with leniency", but just blindly talked about "my emperor will clarify the administration of officials and turn the world around".Coupled with the two corruption cases in Shanxi and this decree, even the blind can see that the imperial court is going to rectify the administration of officials again.But how it will be done, it is difficult to guess based on this decree alone: ​​whether it is like Kangxi, who persuaded all officials to "obey the law and be vigilant" and kill others; A big nest?He looked at Sun Jiagan's official ship that had become as big as a sesame seed, and the vast river swirled and flowed rapidly to the east from under his feet.Looking at the river flowing eastward, he felt that the stone bank he was standing on was drifting westward... He had already lost his mind.

"Zhongcheng," said a long follower behind him, "it's still a long way from the city. You should always keep an eye on this place, and the young ones can get some food and drink nearby."

"Huh? Huh." Yin Jishan woke up from his reverie, turned around and mounted his horse in front of the Wangjiang Pavilion, and said, "I just had a drink with Mr. Sun, so why are you hungry? Let's go into the city together. I'll go to the Hedao Yamen to meet the imperial envoy." Mr. E, just deliver the decree, and then go back to the post station. You go back to eat." He stabilized his horse, pondered for a while, and said: "In the east of the city and west of the Forbidden City, our house may have dozens of rooms. Bar?"

"Yes, there are hundreds of rooms! It's because of Hurd's bad deeds, the late emperor rewarded the master—"

"Don't talk about that. Clean out that place. The gentlemen who live in Yali Garden, Xueqin and the others, will move there tomorrow."

"Yes! If gentlemen ask--"

"Just say that the garden here needs to be repaired." Yin Jishan pinched his legs lightly, and the horse was already walking slowly. "Of course it will be moved in after it is repaired."

He stopped talking.Several fast horses trot along the post road of Xuanwu Lake.After Yin Jishan broke up with his family, he went to see Eshan alone.Passing through the deserted treasury area, you can see a green hall covered by lush bamboo, and the river government has arrived.Eshan's imperial envoy is located here.The soldiers guarding the gate all recognized Yin Jishan, and when they saw him dismounted, they came up to greet him, and wanted to go in to report, but Yin Jishan stopped him with a wave of his hand, and walked into the courtyard alone.Hearing E Shanzheng talking to someone, he smiled and said: "E Gong, the unexpected guest has come!"

"Is Brother Yuan Chang here?" E Shan replied with a smile in the room.Then when the bamboo curtain was raised, E Shan came out to meet him, followed by a middle-aged man in his 30s, wearing a gray poplin shirt, with a handsome appearance but a rather humble expression.He retreated to the side, waiting for E Shan and Yin Jishan to meet, then he carefully gave a thousand dollars to each of them, and said: "Master E, you want to see a guest, and if you have nothing else to do, I will leave the humble position. Yin Zi, I will definitely come back in a few months." Seeing that E Shan nodded and said nothing, the man backed away and hurried away.Only then did E Shan ask Yin Jishan: "Haven't you already moved to the station and thanked the guests behind closed doors? What brought you here?"

Yin Jishan glanced at the man's back, followed E Shan into the study without saying a word, and without taking a seat, looked at E Shan and said slowly: "There is a secret order for you." Don't be too busy, let me change clothes and take orders."

"No need." Yin Jishan said dryly, "Because things are in a hurry, I also came here in a hurry." After Eshan knelt down, Yin Jishan explained Qianlong's order for Eshan to enter the palace to preside over the rural examination, but omitted the secret order Original text by Sun Jiagan and himself.

"Sir, lead the order, thank you!"

When E Shan got up, Yin Jishan said, "Sun Xigong has another mission. I don't know why there is such an imperial decree. You have made great contributions to water control here. The emperor asked you to run a school mission, so there is a meaning of experience." E Shan said: " Shengen Gaohou, I didn’t say this at first, I just thought it was too abrupt. Just now I was thinking about strengthening the Gaojiayan Dam and asked them to calculate the cost of money. One purpose, I have to deal with literati again. "

Because Yin Jishan had something on his mind, he didn't want to sit any longer, so he stood up and said with a smile, "Is that person in the cashier? I thought he was asking you to borrow some money from you! How about this, you tell them about the matter here." Let’s go, tomorrow, come to my place at the latest, study and play chess, okay?”

"I really guessed it for you," E Shan also stood up with a smile. "It's a post from a post in Beijing's Ministry of Internal Affairs. The year before last, I went to Yunnan and Guizhou to make up for a military vacancy. It is said that my family suffered a return. I want to go back to my hometown and have a look. I temporarily borrowed 1000 taels of silver from my river project. We often met in Beijing, but it’s not too sympathetic. I gave him 500 taels and sent him away. I will go tomorrow , you bring a few more sets of rare edition books, worrying about river construction every day, listening to the sound of abacus and beads, and thinking about earthwork, stonework, and labor expenses, I am almost becoming a philistine!" Outside the gate, the two bid farewell.

Yin Jishan did not return directly to the post station, but turned back to the governor's office.I want to meet Liu Xiaolin and others, and personally comfort him a few words.It was just after lunch, and all the book offices in the governor's yamen went back to eat and did not come back. It was very deserted, but I saw old trees whirling and yellow leaves falling.Qiu Jing is very chilling.Yin Jishan walked step by step, and was about to reach the entrance of Xihua hall. Seeing that there were still people in the office next door, he couldn't help being surprised: someone rushed to the yamen to handle an errand?Then he stepped in and saw a few booksellers who were sweating profusely binding up some newly printed documents, and asked with a smile, "It's so early! What are you busy with?"

"Ah, it's Mr. Zhongcheng!" The book office were all taken aback, and rushed over to say hello, and the secretary in charge of the book office said: "These are some documents captured at sea. I made it up last night and just printed it. Send it to all states and counties. The younger ones will eat in the big room." He said and handed over the manuscript.Yin Jishan glanced at it, and it was the text of the Ministry of Punishment, signed by Shi Yizhi himself:
In order to find out who pretended to be Sun Jiagan's censor and submitted a false manuscript without authorization, the imperial order wanted to make trouble for Lu Lu.After receiving the document, the provincial governors' yamen immediately investigated and arrested them.Lu Lusheng, 33 years old, was originally a pen post style in the Yunnan-Guizhou Tribute Library of the Imperial Household Office...

There were still many writings below, and Yin Jishan impatiently looked at them carefully, threw the documents on the table, turned and left.After walking a few steps, Yin Jishan was suddenly moved: 33 years old, written by the Ministry of Internal Affairs-Yungui!Couldn't it be the man I met at Eshan's place just now?Turning around quickly, he grabbed the document, read it carefully again, and murmured: "The age and appearance are all the same... Huilu? Borrowing money?——" He conveniently handed the document to the book office in front of him.He said anxiously: "Ride a horse and fly to report to Mr. Eshan, and ask him if he is this person! I'll wait in the flower hall!" After that, he didn't go to the garden, but went straight into the flower hall, brewed a pot of tea and ate it, distracted Ning waited for someone to report back.

After about a quarter of an hour, there was a sound of horseshoes outside the hall. Yin Jishan saw E Shan coming through the glass, and knowing that it was probably true, he stepped out quickly, stood on the corridor and asked, "Grand E, is it right?" this person?"

"It's true, he is Lu Lusheng." E Shan turned and got off the horse, "So he escaped from a big case! How dare you borrow money from me. This thief is really daring!" E Shan said and hurried up the steps , very annoyed, blushed and sat down on the chair, said: "I have good intentions, and I almost got a reputation as a capitalist! But now I don't know where he is, how should I deal with it?"

"I can't run away from him!" Yin Jishan gritted his teeth and sneered: "He is Tu Xingsun, and he will not be able to leave Nanjing City at this moment. Tell everyone in the book office to come over!"

Several secretaries in the book office had long been listening to the movement here, and when they heard the greeting, they rushed in, stood down and bowed their hands to obey.

"There are several orders, you pass them on immediately!"

Yin Jishan stared out of the window, and said word by word: "Attend to the Nanjing city gate and lead the yamen to dispatch immediately to block all the main roads in and out of Nanjing city; the Eight Banners stationed troops in the suburbs of Beijing, guarding all land main roads, under martial law day and night, all pedestrians passing by, Strict investigations will be strictly enforced; the Xuanwu Lake Naval Office will immediately enter the docks and docks to conduct strict searches; ships will be sent to block the waterways; the inspector's office will immediately send people to write letters to the counties around Nanjing City. Immediately detain him for interrogation; the Nanjing prefecture and county yamen immediately sent yamen servants to search all the hotels, Qinhuai brothels and other places one by one. We must get this Lu Lusheng before dawn tomorrow—it's over!"

"tie!"

"Come back!" Yin Jishan sternly said, "Tell them, the smaller the noise, the better, and the more intensive the interrogation, the better! Bring the arrest papers and send them to the yamen. Once the criminal is found, all suspicious persons must be released immediately—go! "

"tie!"

The yamen servants roared in unison, and immediately split up to convey Yin Jishan's constitutional order, and there were only the two of them left in the huge flower hall.E Shan had a gloomy face, drinking the strong tea one after another as if in a state of anxiety, looking outside the door from time to time.Yin Jishan knew what he was thinking: this great-grandson of E Bilong has been careful and hardworking since he entered the official career, and he is very favored by Qianlong. He does not want to leave any stain in Qianlong's mind.This Lu Lusheng couldn't keep it, and the 500 taels of silver he funded was an inexplicable matter; even if he caught it, he would inevitably be punished if he borrowed money from the treasury to support bandits.Seeing that he was holding an empty cup in a daze, Yin Jishan got up and filled him with tea, and said with a smile, "Your ancestor Conglong has fought more than [-] battles and made great achievements in battle. Is this your guts? Just made such a strict arrangement—come on, let’s play a game of chess, and within two hours, I’ll ask you to meet this Lu Lusheng again!——Don’t be so distraught. Not a single mistake!"

"I can't beat Yuan Chang today." E Shan reluctantly smiled and took the white handed by Yin Jishan, "Now I can't say anything about my ancestors, but if I catch up with that time, I will usually kill people and set fires. I don't want to surpass my ancestors, I just want not to humiliate my ancestors." Yin Jishan said: "Conservation is a way of preservation, and aggressiveness is also a way of preservation. I think it is better to be aggressive than to be conservative." "Don't talk about it," E Shan smiled and said: "You always lose to me in Go, so you blindly 'advance' for you, your own chess is full of faults, and you are greedy for my pieces, this is a downgrade."

(End of this chapter)