Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1224 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 148

It has to be said that Jiang Xinxin's proposal made Qianlong very excited. He had read the various manuscripts collected by the Emperor in the Qianqing Palace, and also retrieved the excerpts of books and letters from the Jingyang Palace. All these signs showed that the world was very vast, and the English had already begun to take action against Tianzhu, that is, India, and made a lot of money in India, and the Portuguese were said to have discovered the New World.

Finally, the "treasure map" of silver and gold mines in Japan that Jiang Xinxin personally prepared was also discovered by Qianlong. The first thing he wanted to do after getting the thing was to send people to Japan to test and confirm the authenticity of the standard gold and silver mountains on the map.

At this time, when his brothers were unable to help and he had no support from his maternal family, Qianlong first thought of the fleet organized by Jiang Xinxin with the help of the previous emperor.

But although this is the first choice, it is not the only choice. When the emperor does things, he must have multiple options, so Qianlong first went to Jingren Palace to talk to the queen.

This matter is very important, because once it is confirmed that the drawings are authentic, the benefits will be huge. The queen seems to be clear-headed, and his brothers-in-law are all smart but not self-righteous. However, whether they can be of the same mind as him, the emperor, still needs to be tested first.

At this moment, Qianlong really wanted to make his eldest son the crown prince. After all, Yonglian was not only his eldest son, but he also showed intelligence and kindness. He already possessed the qualities of a wise ruler. All he had to do was to train him with all his strength.

So when Qianlong arrived at Jingren Palace, after exchanging a few pleasantries with the empress, he directly asked the empress about her arrangements for Yonglian and Jingse: "After you left that day, the Empress Dowager suggested that even if it was not appropriate to send Jingse and Yonglian to the upper study room to study together, we should not neglect their training. What do you think, Empress?"

Speaking in private, the queen did not have to worry too much, so she answered directly: "As a mother, I certainly don't want to waste my children's talents. I hope they can fly higher and farther."

Qianlong smiled and nodded, obviously very satisfied with the queen's awareness, and vaguely promised the queen: "The Queen Mother said that in the future, our princesses can't be taught to be like ordinary women who only know how to manage household affairs. Our Jingse's aunts must take a different path from their aunt."

The queen understood what Qianlong meant, and stood up to express her gratitude to Qianlong on behalf of her daughter Jingse. Qianlong pulled the queen up and said, "The queen is the mother of the princes and princesses. Am I just an emperor and not their father?"

The Queen also enjoyed the tender moments created by Qianlong, even though she knew very well that as Qianlong gained power, her attitude towards him would gradually change from that of a sympathetic wife to that of a subject. However, she could not change her identity and position immediately.

Moreover, such a transformation itself requires flexible response based on Qianlong's attitude towards her and the children. How can she just do it right away?

At this time, Qianlong had not yet turned into a power machine. He was already very satisfied with the queen he had handpicked. Looking at her help over the years, he became more grateful for her kindness. There was less ambiguity between them, but more of the stability and tacit understanding that belonged to family members.

There are many things going on in the court, and they are very complicated. Small details that seem to be unimportant are actually chess pieces used by the old ministers to test the bottom line of the new emperor.

Although as Jiang Xinxin said, he could make decisions with his status as emperor, he had to consider the impact of the decision he made today on the future.

The subordinates would ponder and analyze the emperor's actions over and over again, so both the late emperor and Jiang Xinxin asked him to decide the trivial matters thrown out by the old ministers according to the law and his own bottom line from the beginning. On the one hand, it was to set rules for the court officials, and on the other hand, it was to remind him not to change his orders every day or act impulsively.

That night, Qianlong stayed in Jingren Palace. When the concubines in the harem paid their respects the next day, he could not help but pull the empress aside and ask her all sorts of questions.

The queen was speechless, but she could only appease the concubines who were eagerly looking forward to Emperor Qianlong's visit to the harem: "The emperor is busy with state affairs now, so it is okay for him to visit the harem less. I know that you are a little anxious after not seeing the sun for a long time, but now we are still in mourning for the late emperor, and there is no point in being anxious."

The Queen had said it so bluntly, if anyone continued to hold on to it, it would be really embarrassing, so everyone could only disperse in frustration.

Lianxin and Yexin served the queen and had no right to say anything about the performance of the concubines in the harem. They were all concerned about the queen's hard work.

The Queen was very satisfied with the attitudes of Lianxin and Yexin. After all, although she regarded Lianxin and Yexin as her confidants, it could not change the fact that they were just palace maids, and it was not good for her to let them speak casually to the concubines in the harem.

After another three or five days, Emperor Qianlong finally received the result from the Sticking Office that the Jingren Palace ornaments had been poisoned.

Qianlong took a deep breath before he dared to look through the stack of records. Before that, he had even set his sights on the concubines in the harem.

But the results were unexpected in some places.

Xia Qie, the leader of the Sticking Rod Department, knelt below and dared not move. He did not expect that the Imperial Household Department's bannermen, who had been purged by the previous emperor, would make a comeback in less than ten years.

The investigation results showed that Concubine Jin colluded with the Jin family, a bondservant of the Imperial Household Department, and secretly intercepted the secret medicine of the previous dynasty that was confiscated by the previous emperor and was about to be destroyed, and used it for their own purposes. The poisonous ornaments that suddenly appeared in the Jingren Palace were made from the secret medicine of the previous dynasty that was intercepted by the Jin family.

However, these ornaments were not sent into Jingren Palace by the Jin clan, but were conspired by the Nara clan, a bondservant of the Imperial Household Department, and the Juechan clan.

Qianlong looked at the stack of testimonies, which recorded that Nara and Juechan both wanted to overturn the previous emperor's decree regarding the bannermen women, so they planned the bannermen's frame-up of Princess Fucha to cause her miscarriage. Because there was a ready-made scapegoat, even the previous emperor did not think of Nara and Juechan.

This time, the scapegoats pushed out by the Nara and Juechan clans were the Dong, Yang, Li and Chahara clans.

Before he finished reading the testimony, Qianlong felt a chill all over his body.

In theory, he had been trained as the crown prince for quite a few years. He had served in all six ministries and had also represented the late emperor in the southern, eastern and western tours. He had also returned to the dragon's birthplace to pay homage to his ancestors. Along the way, he had seen a lot of human hearts and evil spirits, but at this moment, he still felt that he was looking at the world from a narrow perspective.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, members of the Nara clan and the Juechan clan of the Imperial Household Department entered the palace as concubines. Emperor Kangxi's eldest son, Prince Zhi, was a descendant of the Nara clan of the Imperial Household Department's bannerman Concubine Hui. There were at least two other concubines of the Nara clan who lived in the same period as Concubine Hui, but only Concubine Hui has records of her today.

The most prominent time for the Juechan clan was when they were the general managers of the Xinzheku and sent women from the clan into the harem of Emperor Shengzu. They also gave birth to the eighth son of Emperor Shengzu, who was then known as the Eighth Wise Kings.

However, these two families had clearly gone through several purges during the previous emperor's time, and there were almost no people left in the Imperial Household Department. I didn't expect that even under such circumstances, they could still plan such a big thing!