Chapter 2099 Flower Fight (7)

Common people love to watch the excitement, whether it is attending temple fairs or watching people beheaded. Ju and his friends also went to see it once, but they went a little late. Even if they stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks, what they saw was still the same.

It was impossible to see what was going on inside the execution ground due to the human head.

During the Ming Dynasty, the execution ground was in the West Market, located in the inner city. After the Manchus entered the capital, the inner city became the "Yisetian" where the Eight Banners were stationed, and the execution ground was also moved to "Caishikou" in the outer city.

The purpose of placing the execution ground in a place with a large flow of people was to allow more people to see it and to have a deterrent effect. However, people at that time believed that "the shape complements the shape", and many people took a lot of money for it.

, waiting to buy the blood of the condemned prisoner from the executioner and take it back as a "medicine".

You can't see the excitement, but it doesn't prevent you from hearing the excitement. It was there that everyone listened to passers-by talk about the legend of the "Drum Demon".

Juren specially wrote the word "gu" next to "gu" for Nick. "These two words have the same sound, but have two meanings. Gu is the drum that makes a thumping sound."

But when Juren heard what a passerby said, the first thing he thought of was the Gu from Yunnan, because the "soul-calling" magic in Zhili was different from other areas. There was a strange insect that appeared. Legend has it that this strange insect came from neighboring provinces.

In Shanxi, images of the insect, which can bite people to death, are posted in many public places, drawn by anonymous people, and citizens circulate leaflets predicting famine, plague and rampant ghosts.

Everyone speculates that the legendary strange insect may be related to Zhang Tingrui, a student from Shanxi Province, but "rumors only stop with the wise". BJ has a dense population, and rumors spread faster than rumors can be refuted. As the saying goes, "if you are not surprised, you will lose yourself."

", too lazy to pay attention to these white men. Although it is stupid to put a charm on the door, don't worry about it. It's just that the security of the capital is obviously tighter than before. It may be because the Governor of Zhili died and the Military Aircraft Department was directly responsible for the security of the imperial city.

Fang Guancheng, the governor-general of Zhili, was one of the "Five Governors" of Qianlong. He was once a guest of Prince Ping, who was one of the Eight Great Emperors.

Because in the Ming History case, the Hanlin editor Dai Mingshi's "Nanshan Collection" quoted Fang Guancheng's grandfather Fang Xiaobiao's chapter about the King of Gui's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, the Fang family was implicated. Fang's father and Fang, who were serving in the Ministry of Industry at the time,

His grandfathers were exiled to HLJ. Fang Guancheng and his brother were exempted from exile because of their young age. They lived in Qingliangshan Temple in Nanjing and made a living by monks.

Although his life was saved, Fang Guancheng had no chance to take the imperial examination in his life. Fang Guancheng, who was extremely poor, fell to the capital and made a living by measuring calligraphy outside Donghua Gate. By chance, he was favored by Prince Pingjun, and in the tenth year of Yongzheng's reign, he went to Junggar.

At that time, Fang Guancheng was selected as a counselor.

This was another way out for "scholars" besides the imperial examination. They could be apprenticed to dignitaries and be recommended by them. Fang Guancheng, who had no chance of an official career, suddenly became secretary of the cabinet, and in the early years of Qianlong's reign, he even entered the Military Aircraft Department.

This made Juren think, why not follow Fang Guancheng's example and join the shogunate of ****? This is much more meaningful than wasting time eating, drinking and playing in the city.

In fact, there are many people who think like him, and the threshold of the rich and powerful families has been leveled. Not only those without official positions like Juren, but also those with official positions are running away. They bring many rare gifts, as well as poems and songs.

"Stepping stone".

Juren's wealth is not as good as theirs, and they cannot buy rare gifts. There are also many people who write poems and songs. How can you stand out from these people?

He thought hard for a long time, and one day when he was passing by a church, he suddenly saw a foreigner wearing the clothes of a Manchu official getting off the sedan chair.

He had seen translators in Fujian. In the capital, there were many who knew Mongolian and how well they spoke. Immediately, he became enlightened and went to the church to learn foreign languages ​​from the priest.

At that time, the imperial celebrity Lang Shining had died, and his replacement was the Frenchman Wang Zhicheng, who was famous for his copperplate engravings. After the Junggar rebellion was put down in the 20th year of Qianlong's reign, Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng, Ai Qimeng and Andeyi first painted

The line drawing, with Qianlong's approval, was sent to France through Guangdong Customs to make copper engravings.

However, Castiglione died the next year after the sketch was sent away. Before he could see the finished product, Wang Zhicheng resigned from office. It was obvious that he was not the one getting off the sedan in official uniform. And in the palace, worshipers often have to accompany them, even if the weather has stopped.

The summer was so hot, but Qianlong still didn't come back from Rehe. This may be because the demon party had sneaked into the capital.

This scene happens almost every day in the capital. Usually in the early morning before dawn, water trucks will enter the city from Xizhimen and then be transported to the Forbidden City.

This water is taken from Yuquan Mountain more than 20 miles away. In fact, there is a well in the city, but I don’t know why no one drinks the water from the well. We have to go to great lengths to get it from outside the city. Even if there is well water, it is usually just

The maids washed clothes or used it to put out fires after a fire broke out in the palace.

So the people outside the palace said that the princesses, concubines and ministers in the palace were fighting openly and secretly, especially the beauties in the harem, and secretly poisoned the well. The Ming Dynasty emperor's favorite concubine Wan Guifei poisoned the well, and the underground river

It may be that they were interconnected. When she poisoned one well, other wells were also poisoned, so the palace went outside to get water.

Juren heard that the Forbidden City went through many disasters during the Yongle year of Ming Dynasty, and a large python was dug out. Many people confused snakes with dragons and dragons, maybe thinking that the python was used to protect the palace.

At that time, Juren was young and a little fearless. Later he found out that the official who got off the sedan chair was from Qintian Prison. In addition to abnormal celestial phenomena, thunder and lightning were also a warning from heaven.

The summer of the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign was very hot, but there were no torrential rains to cool down the temperature. To be more serious, this was a sign of drought, and the destructive power of drought on farming civilization was inestimable.

This again involves a major case during the Qianlong period. The so-called "donation to prison" means that the government allows some people to donate food in exchange for the qualification of prison guards during times of poor harvests. Prison guards are the abbreviation of imperial guards, who are usually obtained through the official position or shadow of their fathers and ancestors.

If you are qualified, you can go to prison and continue studying if you fail the examination. After three years, you can continue to take the examination. Students will live in the dormitory and take care of food. Not only can you save a living expense, but it is also a privilege.

Wang Danwang was also a governor during the Qianlong period, and later used money to buy a county magistrate. A few years later, he was promoted step by step, and became the chief envoy of Zhejiang, and temporarily became the governor of Zhejiang. The secret of Wang Danwang's upward climb was to use money to clear the way, bribes and gifts.

In order to curry favor with his superiors, in the 39th year of Qianlong's reign, he was transferred to Gansu as the chief envoy and started the "prison donation and fake relief" activity.

He took advantage of the incompetence of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Lerjin, to break the grain into silver and conduct an auction for the qualifications of "supervising students". He also lied to the court about the drought and fabricated that the "supervising grain" was used for disaster relief. In fact, he used the donated money

All the silver was divided privately, and everyone from the governor to the state and county officials had a share.

In Gansu Province, 20 people embezzled more than 20,000 taels of disaster relief money, 11 people embezzled 10,000 to 20,000 taels, and 26 people embezzled 1,000 to 9,000 taels. The key offenders were Leerjin, Wang Danwang, and Chief Envoy Wang Tingzan, from Lanzhou.

Not counting the prefect Jiang Quandi and others, the amount of inheritance confiscated from Wang Danwang's family was as much as 3 million taels.

He did the "donating to prison and pretending to be relief" thing without realizing it. He made up lies to fool Leerjin, and Leerjin followed his instructions and answered the court's "four incomprehensions". His trap was revealed.

It was also because Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River. Qianlong was not Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. He went to the south of the Yangtze River "to be considerate of the people's customs" and not to enjoy the mountains and rivers. However, when Wang Danwang greeted him, he was extravagant and wasteful, so Qianlong became suspicious.

Wang Danwang soon realized something was wrong. He went back to Zhejiang to pay tribute to his mother's death and left his position as chief envoy of Zhejiang. He kept his position as a pond worker. In the 46th year of Qianlong's reign, Agui, a bachelor, was ordered to go to Zhejiang to survey the seawall project to see if he was greedy.

It turns out that after the investigation, about 60 people were executed and more than 40 people were exempted from death.

Of course, at that time, people did not know what would happen in the "future". **** was a bit similar to the "Elixir Book Iron Coupon" of the Tang Dynasty, also known as the gold medal for immunity from death. Generally, noble titles will be downgraded every generation, but **

**Hereditary substitution will not be reduced. In theory, even if you commit a capital crime such as treason, you can still block it with a death-free gold medal. At that time, Juren thought that he could be as lucky as Fang Guancheng. Anyway, he had a chance.

Everyone wants to give it a try.

Mandala is a transliteration of Sanskrit, meaning mandala. When practicing Tantric Dharma, a circular or square earth altar will be built in the Dharma field to invite the Buddhas of the past, present and future to come in person, while the "demons" will be blocked.

Outside the mandala.

But what if a bug sneaks into the mandala, which represents safety?

Not all women in the harem like to fight. There are also some who come and leave quietly in the Forbidden City.

There are many plants in Yunnan, especially the camellia, which is also known as camellia. It is the last flower to bloom in the flower season. Buddhism believes that no flowers bloom after the bloom, so the camellia flower represents a kind of beauty of the end. If it is used to describe a woman

If so, youth is gone.

There is no cold palace in this world. It became a cold palace only because the emperor would not go to those places.

The autumn light of the silver candle paints the screen coldly, and the small fan blows at the flowing fireflies. The sky is as cold as water at night, and I lie down to watch the Altair and Vega.

It is said that during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Jinwuwei would beat the street drums in the evening when the curfew was enforced. Everyone who had not given birth to a child or had an emergency such as illness could not continue to wander on the streets. They had to wait until the drums sounded the next day before going out.

As trading places, the East and West markets had to wait until the market drum sounded before they could enter. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, they were gradually abolished. In the Ming Dynasty, there was the Dengwen drum, which meant that officials and citizens could beat drums to complain about grievances. This drum stood outside the Meridian Gate.

It was guarded by a supervisory censor, and then the imperial guards handed the petition to the emperor.

The emperor's original intention was to avoid unjust cases, but the prisoner's family could beat the drum before or even on the day of the execution, and then the execution would be suspended. So the family members took advantage of the evening to play the drum, which would postpone it until late at night, and the prisoner's family would

I can take the opportunity to replace him with a substitute.

As long as someone takes his life, whose life is not his life?

The candidate is not Zhang Tingrui. He is alone. He has no uncle or father. What others see as happiness is the pain of his loved ones.

Outsiders have sentenced him to death, but the family members are not sure. This child is obsessed with ghosts and stupid in reading. He does not deserve to be killed by a thousand cuts like a gangster for "this little thing".

So, will Zhang Tingrui really die?

Georgiana thought of Buddy Crouch Jr., his father, and his mother.

"You are really free."

She followed the sound and found that it was Carolan Lestrange.

"How did you..."

"Your little moldu is angry." Carolan said. "You have to be careful."

"Moldu?"

"This is how we call Muggles." Carolan said nonchalantly, "Napoleon is furious now."

After saying that, Carolan turned around and left, as if she had said something trivial.

Moldu=mou de bulbe

Mou timid

Bulbe bulb
Chapter completed!