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Chapter 267 Heshen's sneer

The emperor was assassinated in Qufu.

The news quickly spread throughout Yanzhou Prefecture like a hurricane, and then continued to roll in and out in all directions like a wind.

Although many gentry, officials and people were muttering in their hearts that the Emperor was most likely to cause trouble on the emperor's journey to the southern tour, when this day really came, they were still extremely shocked.

Especially the location where you do it, Qufu.

The Kong family in Qufu was previously affected, and the attacking Qingshui Sect Wang Lun was obviously supported by the Emperor Han. Whether Wang Lun's series of actions were his own madness before his death or the Emperor Han's intentions had caused countless speculations.

That is, Wang Lun was buried in Qufu County, which made people puzzled and also washed away some of the suspicions of the Emperor Han.

Wang Lun chose to die even though he could escape. The series of things about Kong's family in Qufu seemed to be his madness before his death.

But even so, no one can deny the influence of the Emperor Han in the Qingshui Sect, and no one can completely clear the suspicion of the Emperor Han...

This makes many people feel interesting.

Because a rebellious organization, as a leader who is determined to rebel, should not have such a great grudge with the Kong family.

Isn’t this just because of the inability to change?

But no matter what, people in the world speculate that they will not be able to kill the mastermind of the emperor and Han.

There is still room for easing between the Emperor Han and the Confucius family.

But this time, the Emperor and Han people directly attacked Qufu City and assassinated the king, which showed that they didn't care about the Kong family at all.

In other words, Qianlong was fine, but he only died some of his entourage princes, ministers and guards, such as Cao Wenzhen, and they were bombed to death on the spot, even Kong Xianpei himself was injured.

But Qianlong was fine, so it was fine.

Zhao Liang hid in the space and watched the Qing soldiers outside, the Kong family and others busy. He didn't care at all about how many people he killed with his fierce operations. As long as Qianlong didn't die, everything would be fine.

And he didn't know what was going on in his heart. When he saw Qianlong today, he felt a sense of awkwardness in his heart for no reason.

However, this aberration was quickly left behind by him.

The news that I made himself would definitely not be hidden from the population, so I don’t know what impact it would have on the Qing Dynasty after it was spread.

Although there are many jokes about the novel king assassinating the king, I think this is really common. In fact, this kind of thing is very rare, especially since it was not caught at this moment, and so many people were killed by the assassin...

It is reported that the Qing Dynasty's face will be greatly lost.

Zhao Liang even doubted whether there would be six trips to Jiangnan in this life. It would be that the fifth chapter would be a shocking sound.

After all, with such a big threat swaying outside, who is still interested in traveling around?

If it were Zhao Liang, he would definitely not have the leisure time.

However, Qianlong still acted like a person. No matter how angry or nervous he was, he still calmed down. He ordered him to walk slowly? He also asked the scholars and people who were taking the bus along the way not to kneel down and avoid mercy. He walked all the way to the people's homes to visit the people's homes and seek the suffering of the people? He looked kind and kind? It seemed that everyone was a father and son.

If it weren't for the fact that there were too many military guards accompanying him, it would be really "appropriate".

Walking to Shunheji in Suqian, this way? Subtract some of the soldiers and most of the accompanying vehicles, and then cross the Yellow River in Xujiaji. Qianlong followed the regulations set by him before, first patrolled the river affairs in Qingkou where the Huanghuai converges? Then he started to sail along the canal. The fleet first stayed in Yangzhou for a day.

But Qianlong's mind was not in Yangzhou, so he quickly set out from Jingkou to cross the Yangtze River.

Without going to Jiangning first, the Governor of Liangjiang, the Governor of the Governor of Liangjiang and other officials were welcomed in Zhenjiang.

The imperial ship continued to go south? Arrived at Hushu Pass? Local officials, gentry and celebrities came to the south of the bridge to pick up the bus. Qianlong and his party first went to Ruiguang Temple to pray for blessings, then climbed the city tower from Panmen, looked at Su Tai's mist and clouds, and admired it very much, making a brisk appreciation. It seemed that they were not affected by the previous events at all.

Then the team entered the city.

The streets and alleys in Suzhou City have been decorated with lights and full of joy? This shows the joy of the emperor's arrival.

Throughout history, from all dynasties? This kind of face-saving project is indispensable.

The next day, Qianlong and his party visited Huqiu?                                                                                                                        �

Many local gentry and celebrities knelt on the ground and kowtowed and made suggestions, requesting to reduce the excess grain collection in Su Tai and other places. In order to show the great emperor's grace, Qianlong first ordered the guards to collect the memorial, and then immediately sent a message to Jiuqing Kedao to handle the matter at his discretion.

For a moment, the shouts of "Long Live" sounded in the entire Suzhou city.

Only then did Qianlong show his sincere smile on his face for the first time.

Wu Shulai and the servants were relieved. Since the Qufu incident, Qianlong's heart has been in a state of disgrace and has been unhappy for several days. But others have to go out to show off and pretend, which means Qianlong is even more unhappy.

For many days, the eunuchs and palace maids were dragged out in front of the imperial guards.

Wu Shulai was worried about waiting for him, for fear that he would fall into the limelight one day.

Fortunately, Qianlong was finally happy.

As soon as Qianlong was happy, he visited various gardens in Suzhou, and then traveled to Lingyan Mountain to visit, and stayed for ten days.

Then he set out from Suzhou and continued to move along the canal. After reaching Youmen Town, Jiaxing, he rode a boat and went to Haining to see the seawall, and then went to the mist and rain tower on the island in the middle of Nanhu Lake to play. When he boarded the boat again to travel south to Hangzhou, it was late March.

In March, Hangzhou is the most beautiful time of the year. It is covered with smoke and willows, and the wind curtains and green curtains. Qianlong climbed the Guanchao Tower in Hangzhou to inspect the Jiangzhe Navy, visited the beautiful scenery of West Lake, wrote poems and essays, and was so happy that he stayed there for another half a month.

And just as April was quietly entering, Heshen and Kaninga had already investigated the case of Li Shiyao in southern Yunnan clearly.

The Li Shiyao case is not difficult to investigate, because Haining has exposed Li Shiyao's old secrets. After Heshen arrived in southern Yunnan, he followed the map and quickly obtained the conclusive evidence.

In mid-March, the memorials of Heshen, Kaning A and others were delivered to Qianlong, and the memorials said: Li Shiyao received two thousand taels of silver from Zhuang Zhaokui, the magistrate Suerfang A and 3 thousand taels of silver from the magistrate of Guanming, 5 thousand taels of silver from the magistrate of Lin'an Prefecture, 2 thousand taels of silver from the magistrate of Dongchuan Zhang Long. The two years ago, sent his family member Zhang Yongshou to Beijing to repair a house. Suerfang A and gave five thousand taels of silver from the turf of Deqian, all of which were handed over to Zhang Yongshou at Banqiao Post. Zhang Yong received the offer, and his master handed over two beads, one to the magistrate of Kunming County, and asked for three thousand taels of silver and one to the magistrate of Tongchuan Fang Luo, and asked for two thousand taels of silver. A total of 31,000 taels of silver were stolen.

No one believed this. Li Shiyao sent a governor and governor to the emperor for more than 20 years and paid tribute to the emperor more than 120 times. He was generous every time. The value of the tribute was enough for a few times.

It is as nonsense as saying that Li Shiyao's case is only 30,000 taels of silver, just like saying that Heshen's property is really 800 million taels of silver.

But although Heshen was not a professional judicial officer of Daqingguo, he knew very well the court's unspoken rules for handling cases. For this case, even if he wanted to kill Li Shiyao (Li Shiyao and Heshen were not dealt with. Generally speaking, Li Shiyao looked down on Heshen's sudden popularity. He worked for Qianlong for so many years and never became a military minister. Heshen was young and had no credit for nothing, so it would be strange if Li Shiyao had a good relationship with Heshen), he had to adhere to the rule of "handling cases on case".

Moreover, in the investigation and handling of corruption cases of governors and governors, whoever does not investigate and deal with whom or what circumstances are investigated, the bureaucrats are completely under the control of the emperor. There must be no omissions in handling the case, and no delays are allowed.

If the emperor wants you to investigate, just investigate whatever you want. If you don’t care about other matters, don’t worry about them. The investigators have no initiative.

Moreover, as long as the amount involved in the case of more than 30,000 taels of silver is settled, it is enough to allow Heshen to end Li Shiyao's political life.

The idea is political life, not life.

Because Li Shiyao is Li Shiyao, when he realized something was wrong, he admitted very quickly that he had accepted bribes, but he refused to admit that he had embezzled.

Because the Qing Dynasty law stipulates that there is no provision for the sentence of bribery in the sentence, which can be considered death. Only the crime of corruption explicitly stipulates: "Whoever steals the warehouse money and grain and enters the person, and the number is more than one thousand taels, the prison guard shall be killed."

The charges that Li Shiyao had confirmed were bribery rather than corruption. After realizing that something was wrong, he immediately made up for all the deficits in his post.

Therefore, in the memorials of Heshen and Kaning A, the two had a clear attitude and suggested that Li Shiyao "beheaded the prison guard", which means he was suspended from death.

From a legal perspective, this belongs to the transplanting of flowers and wood.

This is not Heshen's originality, but another unspoken rule in the officialdom. At that time, most corrupt officials died on this, regardless of whether their behavior did meet the provisions of this law. In order to show their deep hatred of corruption, the case handlers would recommend this article, and even add a sonorous sentence of "Please do the right way" to the point of recommendation, and openly suggest that they go beyond the legal provisions and increase sentencing.

Heshen did not do this. It was enough to end Li Shiyao's political life. Whether to go further or not is the emperor's business. He was very clever to leave room for maneuver for the emperor.

And he really felt that Li Shiyao was unlikely to die.

This is Li Yongfang's descendants. If he doesn't look at monks and Buddha's faces, the emperor will not kill Li Shiyao.

It also means that Li Shiyao has paid tribute to the emperor again and again over the years. Heshen really didn't believe the emperor, so he didn't know Li Shiyao's corruption and bribery.
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