"The royal family has no affection". In the feudal era, the emperor, as the Supreme Being of the Nine Five, was naturally unique in his status. Even his brothers and relatives dared not respect him.
In Qing Dynasty royal family, there was such a pair of brothers. After the brother expressed concern for his younger brother who was seriously ill, the younger brother who was seriously ill actually burst into tears. This was not moved by his brother's love, but felt that his death day was not far away.
What did this brother say? How could he scare his younger brother like this?
worry about his younger brother
Qing Dynasty After Yongzheng died, the fourth prince Aisin Gioro Hongli ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Qianlong. But Yongzheng did not only have Qianlong, especially in the eleventh year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng, who was over 50, was able to "joy to get a noble son" and gave birth to his youngest son with Concubine Liu, and his last son Hongzhan .
So how did Qianlong do these younger brothers?
In fact, Qianlong still loved these younger brothers very much, because although Yongzheng had many sons, only Qianlong, Hongzhou and Hongzhou lived longer than Yongzheng.
In other words, after Qianlong ascended the throne, he had only two younger brothers to be placed. Among them, Hongzhou, the older one had long been the prince, while Hongzhan, the younger one was arranged by Qianlong to raise him in the palace.
Compared with his father Yongzheng's arrangement of his younger brother as "Aqina" and "Seth Hei", it is absolutely a great kindness and a righteousness.
For Xiao Hongzhan, who was only three or four years old, Qianlong definitely took good care of him. The nanny he arranged for him and the eunuch he accompanied him all had rich "parenting experience". A large group of people followed Xiao Hongzhan, for fear that he would bump into him.
And because Hongzhan was born in the Old Summer Palace, Qianlong did not let Hongzhan move, and still let him live in the Old Summer Palace. When others talked about it, Hongzhan was called "The Prince of the Old Summer Palace".
One day, Qianlong went to the Old Summer Palace to enjoy the flowers, and happened to see Xiao Hongzhan also, so he walked over.
Behind Hongzhan, a group of eunuchs serving him saw Qianlong coming, quickly knelt on the ground. Hongzhan, who was having fun, was stunned when he saw this. When he saw the eunuchs kneeling down, he actually wanted to kneel down with the eunuchs behind him.
Qianlong frowned when he saw this. Xiao Hongzhan played with the eunuchs, and there was no royal ethic at all. It was naturally right to kneel down, but how could he kneel behind the eunuchs?
So Qianlong waved to Hongzhan: "Hongzhan, come here, come to me."
Hongzhan looked up, and his emperor brother was frowning, looking at him with a serious face, and he couldn't help but shrink back in fear.
Seeing this, Qianlong said again, "Come here, let me see."
Hongzhan looked at Qianlong when he heard this, and actually shivered, stood up and ran away.
Looking at Hongzhan's "escape" back, Qianlong couldn't help but look at the eunuchs who were still kneeling on the ground. He could only exhale them: "Look at what you have brought Hongzhan like."
said, and asked someone to take these eunuchs down and punish them severely.
But this matter was far from the past in Qianlong's mind, and soon Qianlong began to think about his education for Hongzhan.
In the end, Qianlong found a teacher for Hongzhan, which was Confucian scholars Shen Deqian .
is not just Hongzhan's education, but Qianlong also thought a lot about Hongzhan's future.
In March of the third year of Qianlong, Qianlong's uncle, Prince Zhuang Yunlu, submitted a report, Prince Guo Yunli, had no son, and hoped to adopt Hongzhan to Yunli as his son. Qianlong was very happy when he heard this.
This father's son is going to be given to someone else. Why is Qianlong still happy?
It turns out that Yunli died of illness a month ago. Now whoever gives Yunli a son can directly inherit the title of Prince Guo.Qianlong naturally agreed to Hongzhan for such a cost-effective deal, so Hongzhan became Prince Guo as soon as he turned around. His teacher Shen Deqian naturally had a high status. A year later, he participated in the imperial examination at the age of 67 and won the Jinshi in one fell swoop.
However, after high school, Shen Deqian's main job was still professor Hongzhan's academic performance. Even in the seventh year of Qianlong, he was edited by Hanlin Academy , Qianlong still asked him to take care of Hongzhan more.
Wealth beyond abilities
Under the guidance of Shen Deqian, Hongzhan's academic performance has also made great progress, but in just a few years, all poetry and articles have been exquisite, and the wealth of books is enviable.
Qianlong was naturally very happy to see Hongzhan's progress. When Hongzhan just turned 18, he was appointed as the general manager of Wuying Palace and the general manager of the Eight Banners Army of the Yuanmingyuan.
And the original Prince Guo, Hongzhan's cheap father Yunli, was very respected by Qianlong when he was alive, and even specially allowed him to "prince's double salary", that is, to directly receive two wages, which allowed Yunli to basically lose tens of thousands of taels of silver every year.
Now that Hongzhan has inherited the title of Prince Guo, this money is naturally his. Moreover, more than ten years have passed, and these wealth and profits have already been an astonishing amount.
That's it. In terms of power, Hongzhan is the general leader of the Eight Banners of the Old Summer Palace. In terms of status, he is Qianlong's younger brother, , the prince of Qing , and in terms of wealth, he is rich and rich.
, and other things that ordinary people envy are gathered on an ordinary young man for a while, and it will inevitably make this young man unable to withstand the test.
Soon the consequences of these wealth and status to Hongzhan came.
First of all, Hongzhan is becoming more and more greedy for money.
That's right, this man who is the royal prince and the emperor's younger brother, who is almost standing on the top of the pyramid of the Qing Dynasty, is actually very greedy for money.
In the 19th year of Qianlong's reign, Qianlong handed over the office to Hongzhan for management. This was a fat department. Hongzhan took this opportunity to build a black coal mine in private to make money for himself, and even forcibly demolished people's houses, and several "vicious incidents" occurred.
The people went to sue the officials, but when the local officials heard that it was Prince Guo, naturally no one dared to care about this matter. Hongzhan's arrogance became more and more arrogant.
But there is no airtight wall in the world . In the end, Qianlong still heard some rumors, but he didn't care too much. After all, it would be a strange thing if all the people inside were not greedy.
So Qianlong just touched Hongzhan indirectly and asked him to restrain himself, but Hongzhan didn't care at all.
After a while, the latest " Yudian " of the Qing Dynasty royal family was repaired. This was to be sent back to his hometown in Shengjing. Qianlong asked Ling Hongzhan to do this.
This "jade letter" is to put it bluntly, it is the family genealogy of the Qing Dynasty, which is updated almost every generation. The above has been recorded from the Qing Dynasty's Xianzu Tukshi to the current situation, which is definitely a top priority for the royal family.
In this way, the "jade letter" was sent to Hongzhan, but at this time Hongzhan had already been dressed neatly and was in a hunting outfit and heroic look.
This is not because he had heard the news and was about to set off for Shengjing. The prince was preparing to go out for hunting.
Seeing that his brother gave him another errand, Hongzhan couldn't help but feel disappointed, and waved his hand and said, "I understand, let it go first, I'll send it when I finish hunting."
said that, and rode his horse away.
people had to go back to the palace to report this to Qianlong. When Qianlong heard this, he was naturally angry and glared at him. Is this family tree for the ancestors not as important as you hunting?
When Hong Zhan came back, Qianlong immediately let him enter the palace and scolded him severely. However, in the face of his emperor brother's scolding, Hong Zhan was still indifferent and still looked careless, which made Qianlong's dissatisfaction with Hong Zhan more and more.
But Hongzhan did not realize the seriousness of the problem at all. Instead, he felt that Qianlong taught himself a lesson in public and lost face, so how could he have to find the situation back?
My brother and I fought with
Soon after, we arrived at Hongzhan's mother Concubine Qian for her birthday, Hongzhan didn't tell anyone, but instead complained about Qianlong's "not polite" the next day, and did not come to celebrate Qian's birthday as usual, and even wrote a poem to implicitly mock the matter.
When Qianlong learned about it, he laughed angrily and asked Hongzhan: his son is worth one million yuan, he has a mountain of gold and silver, but he is very stingy to his mother. He often cried from his mother for money to ask for money. Can such a son be considered filial? Does such a son still have the face to talk to others?
Qianlong's beating was, first, to directly respond to Hongzhan's "irrespectful" incident, and second, to tell Hongzhan that I know all the small actions behind your back. I know more about how much money you have than you, so don't treat me as a fool.
It’s a pity that Qianlong’s move was obviously playing the piano against a cow, and Hongzhan obviously didn’t understand Qianlong’s meaning.
Not long after, the "Jiuzhou Qing Banquet" in the Old Summer Palace left the water, and the fire was extremely fierce. Several princes living around the Old Summer Palace brought people to put out the fire. Qianlong also heard the news and looked around for a week, but found that Hongzhan did not come.
This Hongzhan almost lives in the Old Summer Palace, but he didn't come?
The fire is getting smaller and smaller, but Qianlong's face is getting darker and darker.
Wait until the fire was extinguished, Hongzhan came late with a few people. He did not ask about the fire when he came, nor did he pay homage to Qianlong. Instead, he had an agitated with his little prince and little belle, and did not look at Qianlong's dark face at all.
Afterwards, Qianlong naturally blamed Hongzhan. Hongzhan also played the old tune again. He said whatever you like, and my left ear went in and out of my right ear.
And seeing that Qianlong is getting worse and worse to him, Hongzhan actually started looking for "allies".
Once Qianlong went to pay his respects to his mother, but he saw that Hongzhan and Hongzhou were also there, and were kneeling beside the Empress Dowager.
Hong Zhan and Hong Zhou saw Qianlong coming, and also stood up to salute, and then sat down again. However, Qianlong's face was not good now, because Hong Zhan happened to sit on the right side of the Empress Dowager, but according to etiquette, as long as Qianlong was present, this position could only be seated by Qianlong.
Seeing that Hongzhan had no intention of getting up, Qianlong did not move and just looked at Hongzhan.
Hongzhan seemed to ignore Qianlong's intentions at all, but instead pushed the seat cushion beside him: "What's wrong with the emperor? Please sit down quickly."
Qianlong suddenly wanted to scold Hongzhan, because when he sat down, he became the head of Hongzhan.
or the Empress Dowager saw that the atmosphere was not right, so she quickly came out to smooth things over. Hongzhan's usurpation also completely angered Qianlong.
In the 28th year of Qianlong, the last straw that overwhelmed Hongzhan came.
official gave me a small fortune, but I blamed me
In this year, someone reported to Qianlong that many noble ginsengs were among the people, and some of these ginsengs were still treasures in the palace, and they were suspected to have been stolen.
Qianlong ordered a thorough investigation of the matter after hearing this. Finally, he found out that Lianghuai Salt Administration Gao Heng head. Gao Heng quickly recruited the ginseng. Those ginsengs were not stolen, but were sold by him for the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital.
It turned out that these high-ranking officials in the capital had good ginseng and too many good things at home, so they asked Gao Heng to sell it to make a profit.
is not a big deal. After all, things are originally from others. Even if they are rewarded by the emperor, they are already in their hands, and no matter how they deal with them, they are still their business.
But in the end, Qianlong looked at the list and found that Hongzhan was also among them. Even if someone asked to investigate the matter, why did Hongzhan still sell ginseng? Is he short of money?
The last question was that Hongzhan was short of money, but that he owed a businessman the money he didn't want to pay it back directly, so he took ginseng from his home and asked the merchant to sell it to pay off the debt.
Qianlong was so angry that he didn't know what to say when he heard this. This was simply a rascal act. There was no royal brother in the royal family, and the appearance of the prince of the Qing .
But how did Hongzhan owe merchants money?
Qianlong made people delve into it again, and he found out the shocking darkness again.
It turns out that there is a "treasure hunting team" in Hongzhan's yamen. He takes advantage of the opportunity of office work to walk around the country. As long as he finds any rare treasures, he will buy them for Hongzhan. The price is naturally as much as Hongzhan says. To put it bluntly, it is a forced purchase and sale, and a clever robbery.
The news reached Qianlong, and Qianlong was completely disappointed.
compete with the people for profit, are unable to discipline, and are arrogant. I am raising a younger brother.
Soon Qianlong's imperial edict came: "The confiscation of Hongzhan's 10,000 taels of silver, destroyed his prince's golden seal, demoted his title to Beile, and exempted him from all his official positions. He was also punished for three more years because of his impolite rudeness in front of the Empress Dowager."
's combination of punches was extremely heavy, and he even beat Hongzhan to his stupidity.
Why did he become so angry when he was a child?
But even if Hongzhan asked questions again, he could not ask Qianlong anymore, because Hongzhan was ordered to think about his mistakes at home and not to go out at will.
Hongzhan suddenly became a trapped beast in the cage and was locked up at home, but the longer he was locked up at home, the more frustrated Hongzhan became, and eventually became so depressed. Over time, Hongzhan became seriously ill and bedridden.
After Qianlong heard about it, he felt compassion in his heart and came to visit Hongzhan.
Hongzhan immediately burst into tears when he saw Qianlong. He pushed the quilt away and struggled to get up, kneeled on the bed and kowtowed to Qianlong for guilt.
Qianlong felt even more unbearable when he saw Hongzhan like this, and took his hand and said, "I just don't want you to make a big mistake because of your youth and aura. This is why you polish your temperament. I didn't expect that you are so childish and sick so much."
Then Qianlong ordered Hongzhan to be promoted to the title of Prince and let him take good care of his illness.
Who knew that as soon as Qianlong left, Hongzhan cried again, and pulled the people beside him and said, "I'm done. The emperor still refuses to forgive me. I'm not going to be curious in the future."
The people who serve him couldn't help but be curious. The emperor did not blame you anymore, and promoted you to a higher title, and asked you to recuperate well. Why did he not forgive you?
Hongzhan said with tears in his eyes: "What do you know? It turns out that I am the prince and was surrendered to Beile. If the emperor really forgives me, he should be re-appointed as a prince. Now he is just a prince, so he can't forgive me." When the people around him heard this, they were speechless, and they could only cry based on the prince.
But since then, Hongzhan's illness has never been cured. He lay in bed for more than a year and eventually died. He was only 33 years old and his posthumous title is "Gong".
Hongzhan's life is really a bad hand. His starting point is basically a height that 99.9% of people struggle in their entire lives. If he works diligently and loves the people and assists Qianlong well, it is not impossible to leave a name in history and be respected.
But he chose to indulge himself and stand out on the road of "death". Because Qianlong's title was lowered, he was worried that Qianlong would blame him, and he ended up in depression. Such a demeanor was really not the mind of a prince.
