The Legend of the Lucky Tablet

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After Qianlong abdicated the throne and let Jiaqing succeed him, Heshen was quite unbalanced in his heart. In private, he always liked to compare himself with Qianlong: in terms of wealth, although he was above ten thousand people, after all, he was under one person, and this "one person" was Qianlong; in terms of fields, although he had countless manors and fields, but "under the world, could it be the king's land", most of the whole world belonged to Qianlong; in terms of descendants, Qianlong had dozens of children, hundreds of grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, but he only had one only son, Fengshen Yinde, and although Fengshen Yinde had wives and concubines in groups, he did not raise only a man and a half girls, and his family could be said to be difficult to continue; in terms of lifespan, Qianlong saw that he was going to have a "rice" lifespan, and he was only fifty, but his back was sore and his legs were aching. Falling sparse teeth, I'm afraid it's hard to say if it can pass the 60-year-old!

Heshen rubbed his fingers and compared, and the more he compared, the more he felt that he could not compare with Qianlong. Qianlong's "blessing" was too great, and it had never been seen in the past! But how could Qianlong have such a big "blessing"? After thinking about it, Heshen remembered the legend of the "blessing tablet" passed down from generation to generation in the palace.

This sentence is a bit long. It is said that when Kangxi first succeeded to the throne, the Qing Dynasty was unstable, with Aobai domineering and domineering inside, and "San Francisco" coveting outside. What's more, most members of the Qing royal family, including the emperor, were short-lived! Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, the "housekeeper" of the Qing Dynasty, was also old and sick at that time, and was very worried about this matter. In the 60th birthday of Xiaozhuang, she ordered Kangxi to call all the senior monks in the world into the palace to "pray for blessings and disasters" for the royal family. One of the eminent monks of Mount Emei pointed out a coup for Xiaozhuang, asking the little emperor Kangxi to write a big "blessing" character. When writing, the side and strokes of the "blessing" character should be specially treated: the lower half of the left side is written with the word "Zi", which can be connected to the point above to form a "Cai" character; the upper "one" and "mouth" on the right side are written in a straw "multi" character, and the lower "Tian" character is not sealed, and the whole right side can be viewed together to form a "Shou" character in Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion". In this way, there are words in the words, and the words are connected, which means many sons, many talents, many fields, many longevity, and many blessings. It can be said that the five blessings are close to the door, and all blessings have the same origin!

Xiaozhuang was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Kangxi to write the word "Fu" according to this method. He also ordered people to search famous mountains and find a strange stone with the texture of "unified mountains and rivers". He engraved the word "Fu" together with Kangxi's imperial treasure and turned it into a reclining tablet that stood in the palace. Therefore, this strange stone tablet was called "the word Fu". It is also strange to say that since then, the rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty have become stable day by day. Kangxi captured Aobai, leveled "San Francisco", took over Taiwan, chased Tsarist Russia, and settled Mobei in his lifetime... He pioneered and expanded his territory, and made great achievements. He reigned for 60 years. In the later years of Kangxi, among the many imperial grandsons, he only took a fancy to Hongli, the son of the fourth prince, Yin Zhen, and gave the lucky monument to Hongli. The intention is self-evident. With the light of the "lucky monument", Yin Zhen finally succeeded the throne, which was Yongzheng, but Yongzheng died suddenly after only thirteen years as emperor, and Hongli succeeded the throne, which was Qianlong. Qianlong was the emperor of Taiping for sixty years, and now he is the supreme emperor, governing martial arts, and chasing his grandfather. In the end, isn't it thanks to the treasure of the town and the country, the "lucky monument"?

Thinking that he had found the reason for Qianlong's blessing, Heshen suddenly had a bold idea: steal the blessing tablet into his mansion!

But the Fu tablet was too big, more than four feet high, nearly twenty-four feet long, and more than two feet thick. It was not as easy as stealing gold cups, jade plates, and pearl agate from the inner treasury. Once Heshen took a fancy to the two "Xiangfei Bamboo" in the Summer Palace, and took the opportunity to enter the garden to signal the two attendants to dig it out and take it away. He didn't want to be grabbed by Haifu as soon as he arrived at the door, which made Heshen feel embarrassed. Fortunately, the butler who came with him, Hu Shitu, had a wink and took the initiative to take the matter over.

But Heshen was a person who liked something and insisted on getting it. He felt that he had two "advantages" in stealing Fu monument: first, he was trusted by Qianlong and held multiple positions. He was in charge of the construction of the Summer Palace and was Haifu's immediate boss.

Not long after, Heshen proposed to Qianlong: The water in the pool and marsh of the Summer Palace is full of stagnant water, and there is no life, so it is better to dig a dark river to pass the living water outside. As soon as Qianlong heard that he was reasonable, he immediately instructed Heshen to handle it. Heshen received the imperial decree and recruited many servants to dig ditches inside and outside the Summer Palace to dig rivers. After the dark river was dug, Heshen ordered Hushitu to bring people to throw a long hemp rope along the water at the entrance of the dark river outside the Summer Palace, straight to the pool in front of the Ningshou Palace. And in front of the Ningshou Palace, a group of people had already responded. After pulling the hemp rope, they tied the fallen Fu monument firmly and pushed it vertically into the waterway. The people outside worked hard together and quickly pulled Fu monument out of the waterway with the help of the buoyancy of the water…

There were no airtight walls in the world, and the news of the theft of the Fu Stele finally reached Haifu's ears. Haifu guessed that it must be Heshen who did it without thinking.

One stone stirred up a thousand layers of waves, and for a time there was silence in the court, and all the officials looked at Heshen - stealing the Blessing Stele was a big sin of ripping off the family's head, and now I'm afraid Heshen will be finished! I saw Heshen take two steps forward and kneel down to Qianlong: "Supreme Emperor, I do have a 'Blessing Pen ', but it wasnot stolen, it was rewarded by you, Long Live!" Saying that, he took out an extra-large copper tube brush from his sleeve bag and asked the servant to present it to Qianlong. It can be seen that Heshen has been prepared.

Qianlong narrowed his eyes and looked at the brass brush, only to see that there was a word "Fu" engraved on the top of the brass tube, the size of a melon seed, embedded in gold dust. He could not help but nod and say: "Not bad, this word was written by me, so there is such a thing. When I was playing in the Summer Palace that day, I was happy to write the inscription for a while, so I presented this pen with Aiqing, and asked me to inscribe the word" Fu "on it, so that I could touch my light. How could I not agree? Just write it. This became the" Fu character pen ", which is indeed my reward..."

Haifu was anxious and played loudly: "Supreme Emperor, it's not this Fu character pen, it's your Fu character tablet that Heshen stole from the dark river!"

"Dark River?"   Qianlong's ears were a little back, "What did Dark River steal?"

Heshen also raised his voice and said: "Supreme Emperor, you forgot that when you rewarded the minister with the blessing pen that day, the minister immediately asked the little bookboy who came to burn incense and worship the sky to show the minister's piety and gratitude to the Supreme Emperor. The name of the little bookboy is An He! But this little An He's mouth is too greedy, and he stole a piece of Supreme Emperor's bean cake and let the minister scold..."

"Oh, I remember. That little boy's name is An He, he has a beautiful eyebrow, sharp hands and feet, and he looks like Aiqing back then! I am very happy, not only did I not blame him, but I also rewarded him with two bean cakes." Qianlong stroked his white beard, remembered the situation that day, and couldn't help but smile.

"The Supreme Emperor's memory is really divine! The Supreme Emperor's holy light is really the blessing of my Qing Dynasty, I am the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, long live the Supreme Emperor, long live, long live!" Heshen praised loudly and kowtowed. As he shouted, the civil and military officials below had to kneel down and shout "long live," and the entire court suddenly rang out "buzzing." Only Hai Fu stood up stupidly like standing out from the crowd.

When Qianlong saw it, his face showed displeasure. After the ministers finished kowtowing, he snorted coldly: "Haifu roared in court, spread falsehoods, arbitrarily framed ministers, and committed a crime of great disrespect. Come, take off his top Dai Hualing, drive him out, and never hire him!"

As soon as Haifu called out "wronged," he was put out by the guards. Jiaqing, who was sitting next to Qianlong, couldn't help but owe his body and opened his mouth a few times, but in the end he didn't say anything.

He Shen let out a long breath, and a smirk of pride appeared on his face: Hmph, his "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea" and "moving flowers and connecting trees" serial plan succeeded! Haifu believed and was suspicious, but was slandered. After returning home, he was loyal and indignant, and hanged himself that night.

However, the lucky monument did not bring Heshen the slightest blessing, but hastened his death. A year later, Qianlong "died", and after only three days, the impatient Jiaqing quickly arrested Heshen and imprisoned him. Haifu's son took the opportunity to file a letter with his father. Jiaqing naturally understood that Haifu had been wronged, and immediately rehabilitated Zhaoxue for Haifu, and strictly examined Heshen, ordering him to account for the whereabouts of the lucky monument. But Heshen Ning did not say anything when he died, but left Jiaqing with a gritted-teeth sentence: "The lucky monument is in Heshen Mansion, but no one can move it!" Jiaqing ordered people to search Heshen Mansion carefully, but they could not find the lucky monument. Jiaqing was very angry and immediately issued an order to kill Heshen.

The Qing royal family went downhill again. Since Jiaqing, the Qing Dynasty has been struggling with internal and external difficulties, ceding land for compensation, and the country has no peace, and there have been short-lived emperors and a lack of children from generation to generation. Xianfeng died of hemoptysis at the age of 30, leaving a son, Emperor Tongzhi, but Emperor Tongzhi died at only nineteen years old. Emperor Guangxu, who succeeded him, was frail and sick, and none of the concubines in the palace gave birth. He was in a hurry to seek medical treatment. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong Yixin of the country all remembered the miraculous lucky monument. In order to revive the royal family, they began to search for the lucky monument again. Unexpectedly, after several changes, the He Mansion of the year has now become Prince Gong's Mansion of Yixin himself. Yixin is overjoyed and personally directs the crowd to search his mansion, which can be dug three feet into the ground. Even the pool water in the mansion is drained, and the blessing tablet is still missing. Prince Gong can't help but look up at the sky and sigh, "I will be in the Qing Dynasty when the sky dies!"

The vicissitudes of life, in 1962, the national cultural relics management department decided to rebuild King Gong's mansion. While repairing the Dicuifeng rockery in the back garden, a staff member accidentally found a stone a little strange, tried to knock it, and heard an empty sound inside. There is no doubt that the rockery is empty, and this time people are interested. When they dig up the stone, a hole appears, and the words "Secret Cloud Cave" are written on the forehead. When they enter the cave, a stone tablet engraved with the word "Fu" lies in it, deeply embedded in the body of the rockery.

It turned out that Heshen had hidden the Fu monument in the rockery and integrated it with the rockery! The mysterious Fu monument that had been missing for more than 160 years finally saw the light of day again.

Nowadays, people who visit Prince Gong's mansion always stop in front of the blessing monument in front of the Secret Cloud Cave to admire this wonderful "China's first blessing" and listen to the legendary story of the blessing monument.