As the saying goes, there are often unsatisfactory things in life. No matter how successful your career is, how glamorous you are in front of others, there are actually unspeakable suffering behind you. Taking Qianlong's favorite minister and Shen in his later years, an extremely human minister, holding the universe in his hands, he also had too many dissatisfaction when he was most brilliant.
He Shen loved treasures all his life, especially Ruyi. "Ruyi" is a kind of auspicious furnishings and is mostly used as a gift. Heshen presented a large number of wishful wishes to Emperor Qianlong every year. Most of the "Incoming Orders" started with "Wan Shou Ji Xiang Ru Yi", and other princes and ministers followed suit.
Later, after Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, he criticized the ministers for submitting to the evil habit of Jin Ruyi, saying that the Internal Affairs Office had no extra place to store these useless Ruyi, and during this period, every first lunar month he had to write poems that praise Ruyi seriously. The Emperor Jiaqing did not dare not praise it because the Emperor Tai liked it. Later, in the checklist of Heshen's family properties, there were as many as thousands of different kinds of Ruyi, and the number was astonishing. Just to collect these Ruyis requires multiple warehouses, which is really burdensome.
He Shen likes Ruyi so much, but judging from the last few years of his life, it is not so. His son married Emperor Qianlong’s most beloved daughter and Princess Xiao in the fifty-fourth year of Emperor Qianlong, and became a Gu Lun forehead; his younger brother and Lin Jin became dukes and became important commanders and officials of the border; he was in Jiaqing II. Nian also took over as Agui, became the Chief Minister of Military Aircraft, and won the title of First Class.
However, Heshen's superficial honor does not bring him happiness. At the same time as his life is the most glorious, unsatisfactory things have also come. In the autumn of the first year of Jiaqing, on the Qixi Festival, He Shen received an emergency letter from Beijing in the Summer Resort, stating that the youngest son was seriously ill. Heshen’s wives and concubines are in groups, but they only have two sons, one big and one small. The eldest son Fengshen Yinde chose to be the Gulun forehead son, while the younger one was born in the spring of the sixtieth year of Qianlong.
He Shen was very anxious when he learned that the child was sick, but he was in Rehe, and the Emperor Tai didn't like hearing sickness and death the most. He didn't dare to ask for leave rashly, so he had to send someone to deliver the prescription, and the youngest son died on this day. Heshen lamented his sentimentality, and wrote more than ten poems in succession, "Infant is a chapter of love and love, and I am infatuated with the book", meaning: whenever a child cries, the nurse will hold him to see the calligraphy and painting on the wall.It would break into a smile, and now it is a memory. There is also "Why don't you go quickly than before, and Guess the Phantom of the Empty Flower", the writing is also full of tears.
It is also the Double Ninth Festival that year. He Shen, who has just experienced the pain of losing his son, has heard news of his brother He Lin's death from Miao Jiang. Heshen was returning to Luan from Rehe with the emperor and the emperor at this time. The pain of the youngest son’s early death has not yet healed, and he has heard the bad news again. He Lin is three years younger than him, and has a very different personality. However, after the death of his parents, the two brothers depend on each other for their lives, and they have a deep brotherhood.
After He Shen became successful, he manipulated it with one hand, making his younger brother a small pen-posting style, and he will soon become prosperous within a few years. He Lin is cautious and does not evade danger. He travels to Jinchuan, goes to Gurkha, treats Tibet, and suppresses Miao. No matter where he is, he can live up to his mission. After the death of Fu Kang'an, He Lin became the commanding general trusted by the Supreme Emperor, and He Shen's strong support in the DPRK. It was originally intended that the two brothers were in politics, but they didn't want to die alone.
He Shen wrote fifteen elegies for his younger brother in one breath, one of which was:
Seeing if you have grown up to help you poor, your son and daughter will be hard-working.
How to be a funeral for the camp again, who will give it to me in the future?
According to historical records, Helin's temperament is very different from Heshen's, and he can be regarded as a good official who knows how to hold himself. His mansion is poor, and he has been leading soldiers all the time. The marriages of his sons and daughters are all handled by his brother He Shen. He has no money for money, no room for house. When He Shen wrote this poem, although he didn't think about the ending two years later, he seemed to have realized the ominousness.
After Jiaqing reformed the Yuan Dynasty, Hefu Lian was lost, and there were no successors. It was in decline. In the winter of the second year of Jiaqing, Princess Hexiao Yu Fengshen Yinde's son, Heshen's only grandson, died again. The following year, his wife, who had been married for thirty years and had a deep relationship, died of illness. He Shen mourns his deceased wife, and it is inevitable that he will have a sense of life, "I know that I am not a golden stone, and I will be counted." It's just that his family worship ended so fast, which he did not expect.
From Heshen's poems and essays, many good lines can also be found, especially the true feelings revealed in the mourning poems, which can best present a true Heshen. Maybe in Jiaqing four years in prison,When the property was checked, He Shen was not so painful, because he knew that the Zhigao Juexian before his death and the Wanguan family wealth behind him would be nothing in the end.
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