Emperor Qianlong went to Jiangnan six times, and every time he stayed in Zhenjiang for a long time. He had had enough of the mountains, rivers and rivers in Zhenjiang, and was tired of eating the famous food in Zhenjiang.
The last time he went to Zhenjiang, he lived in Jinshan Palace. On this day, he suddenly had a whim and wanted to browse the streets and alleys of the city alone.
Emperor Qianlong changed his attire, hid from Zhang Yushu, wandered into the city alone, and unknowingly came to a street near the Old South Gate. Chao Long was looking around when suddenly he heard a creak, and a family on the side of the street opened the door, and out came a woman who was about 20 years old. Although she was a family member, she looked very beautiful. When Emperor Qianlong saw it, he pretended to have lost something and looked around in front of the house. Keep stealing the eyes of the young woman.
The young woman was originally going to stand at the door for a moment, waiting for someone to shake the drum and buy some needles and thread. She didn't want to shake the drum and didn't wait until she saw a frivolous man walking around in the middle of the street with a pair of thieves staring at her. She didn't realize that her face was turning red, and she whispered "bad luck" in a low voice. She was about to turn around and go home when Emperor Qianlong was afraid of missing the opportunity and rushed to her side in three steps: "May I ask who the little lady's name is? What is your husband's business? Seeing that your family is not wide, it is better to go to the capital with me to enjoy the glory and wealth than to worry about firewood and rice." When the young woman saw him running over, she was startled. Hearing his words again, she was really afraid and hated, and it was too late to close the door.
Emperor Qianlong wanted to be in the palace, which concubine and palace maid dared disobey him? The little girl in front of him didn't care about him, and suddenly went to the house on fire, stretched out her hand and dragged the woman's clothes, and she was still scaring her: "Come with me, don't scream, spare you!"
The young woman was even more angry when she saw that he was actually moving his hands and feet. She separated Qianlong's arms with her left hand, raised her right hand, neither crooked nor slanted, and gave the Qianlong Emperor two crisp mouths, shouting loudly: "Help! Help! The robbers are robbing people!" In the blink of an eye, her family came out, and the neighbors next door heard the shout "Help" and opened the door. Emperor Qianlong saw that the limelight was not right, and he did not bring a escort by his side. Don't suffer a loss in front of you, and quickly wipe the oil under his feet and slip away.
When Qianlong returned to the palace, he discussed with his confidant eunuch, not to mention eating the mouth of the woman, but only saying that he would take the woman who had committed the crime against the decree. But he didn't know the name of the woman, and he didn't see where her house was facing east and west, so where could he go to capture it? Qianlong thought about it carefully, and only remembered that there were seven small round stones on the ground in front of her house, which looked like the Big Dipper Seven Stars. Good! He decided that the house with the seven star stone in front of the door was going to catch people. This news was heard by Minister Zhang Yushu. Zhang Yushu was from Zhenjiang, and he was afraid that if the case got too big, he would implicate himself and the officials and gentry in Zhenjiang, so he even went to the street at night and shouted at all the men, women and children in the street. Before dawn, the same size of seven star stones were laid in front of the house. The next day, the confidant eunuch took a large group of imperial guards to the streets to catch people. Unexpectedly, there are seven star stones at the door of the house, and I don't know which one is good to catch, so I can only hang my head and go back to repeat the decree, asking the emperor to recognize it in person.
Emperor Qianlong saw that he had not caught anyone, of course, he was disappointed, and he was reluctant to go down and catch him himself. He was a blind man eating wontons—he knew it in his heart. There was no light on his face when this matter came out, so he had to sigh and pretend to be magnanimous: "Forget it, there is no need to catch it, the people are ignorant, forgive them for being innocent!" Since that time, Emperor Qianlong hated the people of Zhenjiang, and he couldn't even say anything about Jinshan and Jiaoshan, which he had always praised. In front of the ministers, as soon as he mentioned Zhenjiang, he said, "Zhenjiang, it's really a poor mountain, bad water, shrewd, and a bad people!"