Biography of Ilha in Qing Chuan

Chapter 139

One of Zhang Qu's hobbies is collecting antiques. In the first few days when he first arrived in the capital, he was only busy talking about business with his father.When the business negotiation was almost done, I went to the antique shops in Beijing when I was free.There is a rule in the antique shops in the capital, there are no connections, and if no one introduces you, you can't find good things, so Zhang Qu went shopping for a few days and found nothing.

Once in Liulichang, I met a "runner" who sold him a piece of "Picking Weitu" by Li Tang of the Song Dynasty. up.

At first Zhang Qu thought that he had encountered a "savage head seller", but after seeing the painting, he hesitated.Zhang Qu has been in this industry for several years, and he thinks he has some eyesight to see that even if this "Picture of Picking Weird" is not an authentic work, it must be an imitation made by famous masters of later generations.So after much hesitation, I still spent a lot of money to buy the "Picture of Caiwei".

Coincidentally, Zhang Qu's father got on the line of Prince Yu Fuquan through someone's introduction, and was wondering what to give as a present, when he learned that his son had bought a famous painting of the Song Dynasty at a huge price, so he sent this painting "Picking Weitu" was given to Fuquan.

After Fuquan received the painting and read it carefully, he entered the palace that night.The next day, the unlucky Zhang Qu and his son were arrested by the officials of the infantry commander's yamen.

The following series of changes were unexpected. A small tea merchant and a picture of Li Tang's "Picture of Gathering Weeds" ushered in a big cleansing of the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty.

On the seventh day of September, the owner of Yutong Pawnshop was taken into custody, and Yutong Pawnshop was closed.Next is the Ministry of Household Affairs. Several principals of the Ministry of Household Affairs were taken into custody, and the Minister of the Household Department was demoted and retained.Two Zhanshis in Zhanshi's mansion committed suicide at home, and the governor of Zhili was dismissed and investigated.However, after further investigation, this storm of corruption in the capital even spread to Jiangnan, thousands of miles away, and involved the fraud case of the Jiangnan examination room last year.

Song Luo, the governor of Jiangsu, was dismissed because Jackie Chan's grandson, Yu Zhun, succeeded him.Many officials from the Jiangning, Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, and Zhenjiang prefectures under the governor's jurisdiction of Jiangsu were also dismissed for investigation.Everyone who was in panic all day long thought that the matter had come to an end, but they never thought that the most exciting finale was still waiting for them.

It starts with Kangxi's class teacher returning to court.After returning from Zhaomodo, Kangxi learned that there were four princes and members of the party spying on his every move.Two are imperial cooks, one is a person in the imperial tea room, and the other is an attendant named Dezhu.Kangxi only put these people to death at the beginning, and did not investigate too deeply behind the scenes.

It's just that when the incident of Yutong's pawn shop broke out and Kangxi learned that Suo'etu's party used the money from the disaster relief to pave the way for himself in the south of the Yangtze River, he could no longer sit idly by.

Jiangnan has always been rich and prosperous, and it is a place where the treasury is heavily taxed.After entering the customs, Huang Kao paid special attention to the Jiangnan area.In order to prevent people from taking advantage of the rich and prosperous south of the Yangtze River to carry out rebellion, the governors of Jiangsu and Anhui were also set up separately to divide the intertwined forces in the south of the Yangtze River.

So when he realized that things had already exceeded his expectations, Kangxi had no choice but to use this trivial corruption case to strangle Prince Suo'etu's followers.Of course, such a large-scale purge also ushered in Suo'etu's dying counterattack.

Kangxi's spies told him that Suo'etu was talking about murder.kill?who to kill?When to kill?Is it Suoetu who wants to kill, or is he afraid of being killed by others.A series of question marks stumped Kangxi.

Suo'etu helped the prince "conspiracy for major events" because a series of changes in the capital and the south of the Yangtze River are already imminent. Suo'etu has won over courtiers for many years, and brought under his command those veterans who were resentful because of their crimes. The self is powerful and shocking.

(End of this chapter)