Chapter 2096 Flower War (4)

   When encountering a stranger, the first thing a healthy ordinary person sees is his appearance.

  The emperor is usually in the deep palace, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see his true face, and the appearance of the emperor is called "Yu Rong". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, influenced by Buddhism, the appearance of the emperor was mostly presented by life-size Buddha statues. It was only in the Sui Dynasty that portrait portraits appeared, but most of the portraits were enshrined in ancestral temples, and it was difficult for ordinary people to see them.

   In the palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of the painters were local, and some were missionaries. Lang Shining often painted for churches during his time in Italy, and he is good at oil paintings with high realism and three-dimensionality. When he first came to China, he didn't know how to work around it. Once when he was painting an oil painting portrait of Emperor Kangxi, he found a black light and shadow on Kangxi's face. Black was unhappy, dropped the painting on the ground and left.

Later, the chief **** around Kangxi told Lang Shining that it is better not to be too sincere. It is a taboo to have black things on Dongfang's face. Lang Shining painted Kangxi again. In this painting, there is no black light and shadow on Kangxi's face. Well, Lang Shining just reused it.

   At that time, Qianlong was only 4 years old. Soon he and Lang Shining formed a friendship in the palace. After Qianlong ascended the throne at the age of 25, he often took time to see Lang Shining painting, and sometimes asked Lang Shining to paint for him.

People like to go to temple fairs. The function of temples is not limited to incense. The market is also open nearby. During the Qianlong period, the most lively temple fair in BJ city was the Huguo Temple. Both temples are presided over by lamas.

  Macartney visited the palace built according to the Potala Palace after arriving in Rehe. Although the Potala Palace was originally built by Songtsen Gampo for Princess Wencheng, there were still lamas living in the palace. Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the emperors of all dynasties have been advocating Tibetan Buddhism. Even the Lama Temple, the house where the Prince Yongzheng lived, was changed into a yellow temple by Qianlong, and the roof tiles were changed from green tiles to yellow tiles.

Emperor Qianlong once published an article titled "Lama's Talk", which probably means Xinghuang Temple, that is, to settle the Mongolians, so he distributed silver taels from the Ministry of Internal Affairs not only as a need for worshipping Buddha, but also built a lot of Buddhist temples, exhausting the skills of the world. Gather lamas and monks for him to chant Buddha and chanting sutras.

   The Lianghuai salt case lost 10 million taels of silver, and the total cost of Qianlong to BJ Tibetan Buddhist Temple was almost 10 million, only a lot more. Although Gao Heng's head was beheaded, Lu Jian Zeng died in prison, the shortfall still had to be made up, and the money was apportioned to the salt merchants.

In addition to the expenses of the emperor's southern tour, the cost of building palaces, transplanting flowers and trees, and repairing pavilions, the rich salt merchants could not get that much money. Later, Qianlong "been generous", and prospective salt merchants only paid 6 million taels. installment.

   Lama has a great practice of empowerment. It was originally a ceremony for the enthronement of an Indian emperor. Tantra introduced it. After empowerment, it can awaken the energy in the practitioner's heart or something. Qianlong took Zhangjia Lama as the national teacher and held a grand ceremony to empower the teacher. The national teacher sat on a higher chair and Qianlong sat on a lower chair until the end of the empowerment.

The special title of the emperor in the Song Dynasty was Guanjia, and the special title of the Ming Dynasty was Laoye. When the Manchu Dynasty first entered the customs, the Jurchen leader was called Manzhu, which originally meant "Buddha" and "auspicious". After the founding of the country, the Chinese translation of Manzhu is "Father".

   Qianlong described himself as Manjushri, and some Western painters also participated in the process of drawing thangkas, so this kind of thangka has a perspective effect, and the characters are more accurate and realistic, instead of the traditional portrait thangka that only emphasizes the resemblance.

   The appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang has become a historical mystery, because Zhu Yuanzhang in most of the classics has a strange face and looks very ugly.

  Lang Shining knew about beautification when he painted the emperors. Don't other painters know about it, so they have to paint realistically?

   There was a folklore in Nanjing at that time that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to paint a painting to be passed down to future generations. He found countless painters who were not satisfied, and killed if he didn’t like it, so he killed countless painters.

   How much is there a literal prison?

The farther away you are from Zhili, the better your life is. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, 12% of the interest is legal, and it is possible to increase the interest rate tenfold in three years. The system of the Qing Dynasty allows it. Slavery existed, and many civilians were forced to become slaves.

   There are also people who are unwilling to be slaves. Without usury, the common people may only be beggars for a while. With usury, people will be beggars for the rest of their lives, and even their ancestors should continue to be beggars from generation to generation, because "the father's debt, the son's repayment".

   Mortgage the land and the house. There is no other mortgage except for themselves and their wife and children. These people who have lost everything chose to flee, and there are many beggars in the big cities in the south.

I can often see them when I go to temple fairs. In fact, these people used to have families just like the people who went to temple fairs. However, during the ghost-calling case, the family members and the homeless vagabonds formed a confrontation. The wealthy don't want them to touch themselves, let alone understand why they're where they are.

Although the Manchu Qing was a big agricultural country, agriculture was very fragile. Although they kept farming, their population continued to grow. On average, the average per capita did not increase. The handicraft industry of many people has not developed.

Gao Jin, the governor of Liangjiang, was managing the floods in the Yellow River when the ghost-calling case happened. On his way to **** "Zhang Siru" to Miansheng in Rehe, he had to pass by Fengyang, which was Gao Jin's residence at that time. He immediately ordered "Zhang Siru" to be brought to him. trial.

  Unexpectedly, "Zhang Siru" suddenly turned his confession. He no longer admitted that he was a fortune-teller, but only admitted that he was a beggar, and he was from Wei County in the south of Zhili, not from Jiangnan.

   It is said that torture is not allowed to extract confessions, and Qianlong’s Zhu Critic was a little late. Zhang Si’s legs were both pinched and festering. It is estimated that he will not live long.

   Gao Jin was inconvenient for the torture, so he took all the physical evidence to see that the so-called crime tool knife was very dull and could not cut the braid at all, and the restaurant assistant whose braid was cut was born bald, and he was wearing a fake braid.

In Zhang Si's confession, the tall man Zhao San, who could not be found everywhere, became the head of the village, Zhao. Because Zhang Si and other beggars begged in front of his door, Zhang Si begged half a steamed bun, and the other beggars were one by one. This thing aroused the anger of the hungry men, and the two sides were torn apart. The head of the village, Zhao, went out and warned them, "There are people who cut braids here today, you better get out."

Zhang Si scolded them for a while before leaving with the beggars. Zhao was unwilling to be scolded, and suspected that they were foreign bad guys, so he asked hired workers to capture them, framed them, and stuffed a small packet of medicine and a knife onto them as if they were outsiders. .

When    arrived at Zhuangshang, Zhao lynched them, forcing them to admit that they were a demon party, and threatened Zhang Si’s son Qiu’er. Soon other witnesses also confirmed Zhang Si's testimony. At this time, Gao Jin had no other choice but to send Zhang Si to the BJ military plane, so that he and the criminal in Shandong could testify face to face.

This time, Liu Tongxun was in charge of the interrogation. After escorting the Shandong criminal to court, he found that he could not identify "Zhang Siru". Later, he admitted that there was no such person as Zhang Siru. He fabricated it. He knew a person named Zhang Si in the county. , but at that time he was tortured to extract a confession, so he added the word "Confucianism", as if it became the name of a gentleman such as a fortune teller.

  The military and aircraft ministers looked at each other in dismay. Could it be an unjust, false and wrongful case after a long trial? Fortunately, there is another Zhuang Shou, Zhao, who is still on trial for Zhuang Shou's framing of others, and the military ministers do not consider the judgment of the province.

  However, the military ministers could wait, but Lord Yama couldn't. Zhang Si died on the fourth day after arriving at BJ, and he still didn't catch up with "Mian Sheng".

The emperor appointed him to die, and the cause of death must be found out. After an autopsy, it was found that the guards did not abuse Zhang Si, and Liu Zhixian, who was responsible for escorting Zhang Si, immediately distanced himself from the relationship, confirming that Zhang Si was seriously ill before the escort, so No one in Peiping was responsible for his death.

  The ministers of military aircraft decided that Zhang Si was not the criminal they wanted to cut the pigtails.

   The identity of the people who settled the fields was also a soldier and a citizen, much like the later military farms. The management organization of the farmland is called "tunsuo" or Weisuo. After Uncle Wu was promoted to govern the village, he took office in the "tunsuo" and "opened the seal" in the "weizhong", under the jurisdiction of ten "hundred households", commanding a thousand Many people, although they were five-rank officials, were higher than the county magistrates at that time.

  The field is for military needs and can save military expenses, but the field system will definitely not be implemented in France, and is it necessary to pay this high military expenditure in peacetime?

  If you don’t pay, how will you fight the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh anti-French alliance wars?

  Perhaps as the person who recorded the case wrote, the so-called sorcery is a specter that arises from ignorance and grows out of jealousy.

  Nick's choice is understandable. Although the Admiral's daughter is beautiful, it is a challenge to live in such a society.

The theory of dependent origination is the cornerstone of Buddhism. Everything in the world does not exist out of thin air, nor can it exist alone. It must be established by the combination of various causal conditions. , the two are incompatible.

  With causation and emptiness, there will be fruit when combined. If not, all dharmas will be illusory and unreal. There is no need to experience the suffering and happiness of life.

   That's why the Diamond Sutra says: If you see all appearances that are not appearances, you will see the Tathagata.

   She couldn't help but say Amitabha, it seems that God bless Nick, although he missed love.

   (end of this chapter)