Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2206 The Battle of Flowers (One Hundred and Fourteen)

The vast majority of the refugees resettled in Qingjiangpu were "guests" who travelled down the Yangtze River from Sichuan to the south of the Yangtze River. Although the chaos caused by them was not unrelated to their loan sharking and exploitation, they were repeatedly attacked in their "hometown". They were burned and looted, and they didn’t take much property with them when they escaped. Currently, they are in a state of extreme poverty and unemployment, and it happens that building a river requires a lot of manpower. Originally, there was no problem in relocating refugees in this way.

The material warehouse where the dam was built last time was burned. Although stones and the like were not afraid of fire, all the equipment made of wood was destroyed. It takes money to repurchase these equipment, and it also costs money to buy flood control materials, but Emperor Jiaqing will not make more. The money was given, so the Nanhe Governor's Office moved out the old method that He Shen came up with - Yin Yin, which not only solved Su Qi's request for assistance in investigating the case, but also met the actual needs of the river for money.

From a certain point of view, Heshen is indeed worthy of the words "brilliant", but not long after Emperor Qianlong's death, Emperor Jiaqing arrested him and gave him suicide, just three days before his death, and Shen left a poem on the prison wall:

  The stars are surrounded by the cold moon, and the solitary ministers are weeping. For Jingshang's previous life, Huaicai mistakenly made this mistake.

  Some people hate talent for not being met, but He Zhongtang hates talent for mistaking himself.

   There are many ways to stab to death, some drink poisonous wine, and some give white silk, which is originally a kind of white silk, very thin, suitable for women's underwear. In the thirty-six episodes of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Xiren is making "the apron in the white lingerie red with the pattern of mandarin ducks playing lotus on it".

   On the eighteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, Heshen was not nervous at all when he saw the white silk that was bestowed by the emperor. He asked for a pen and wrote a poem on the white silk:

   Fifty years of dream come true, now let go Xie Hongchen. When he was full of water, he thought that the cigarette was the back.

   Two days ago, the Admiral had a dream. He dreamed that a woman was dancing in the sand.

   Originally, it's not strange for a man to dream of a woman dancing, even if the admiral is quite old. But the Admiral said that the woman danced vigorously, with white tulle wrapped around her arms, and she threw it out to a height of more than ten meters, looking like smoke.

That is, the year before Heshen committed suicide, the Yellow River burst its embankment. Therefore, some people's interpretation of Heshen's poem "The water is full of dragons in other days" is that Heshen will be reincarnated until the next flood. . It just so happened that the Admiral dreamed of a woman holding a "Qingyanluo" in her hand, so he decided that there was going to be another flood this time, and that the Huaihe River was about to burst again.

  There are different opinions about Heshen's death poem, especially the meaning of the last two sentences, but there is no way to invite Hezhongtang again and let him explain it to everyone.

   There is also a saying that in Heshen's poems, "water pans with dragons" uses the allusions of the Xiahou Longbi. The general idea is that at the end of the Xia Dynasty, Emperor Xia obtained the dragon concubine from two dragons, that is, the saliva of the dragon, and locked it in a box. It was passed down from generation to generation that no one dared to open it. The dragon concubine turned into Xuanyuan, and Xuanyuan entered the body of a girl. This girl was conceived without a husband and gave birth to a daughter. It was for Baosi, that is, King You of Zhou later played the feudal lords in order to make her laugh, which led to the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Women, and "cigarettes" have the meaning of inheriting the lineage, so some people connect the two, saying that after Heshen's death, he will turn into a woman like Baosi to harm the Qing Empire.

Nick has heard that Bai Ling will be used to wrap the newspaper boxes containing memorials. This kind of box is specially made and the size is for the convenience of the courier to carry on long distances. A seal will be affixed so that it can be broken along the way at the inn.

However, the newspaper box will pretend to be a leather protective cover to prevent the documents in the box from being damaged by rain and moisture, but the seal is not protected, so there is such a layer of white wrapping. After the box is wrapped, it is tied to the body, usually white silk is used to report funerals, and yellow satin is used for greetings.

  Nick didn't know what Heshen's poem meant, but he comforted the Admiral, he was thinking about it every day and dreaming at night. Nick was still worried about where to go next. When the rainy season in Jiangnan arrives, it rains almost every day, and the locals will play oil-paper fans.

He didn't know where the hellish weather came from, so he used "smoky rain" to describe it. The paper was easy to get moldy in such weather, and he began to regret that he didn't take out his picture album like everyone else in the days of Tiankuang Festival. .

  He kept a large bag of camphor in the box where the picture books were kept, and then took out his Spanish jackknife.

  The level of the British metal processing industry is very good, especially the ones produced in Birmingham, which are not rusted at all. Last time, the Macartney envoy also brought some knives as tribute to Emperor Qianlong.

   They hoped to open a port, preferably Tianjin as a port to sell their hardware products, but Qianlong gave them to the craftsmen of the building office.

   This is a huge cultural difference. Americans have the right to carry guns, which is also established in their constitution, while Confucian cultural circles such as China and even Japan prohibit the possession of weapons. People in the "Miaojiang" area held a lot of shotguns in the name of shooting birds. Like poison arrows, they also brought a huge threat to the Qing army. Therefore, in some areas that were pacified or did not have uprisings, officials They tried their best to capture these shotguns.

   Once the arms trade is legalized, the British will sell guns everywhere. In order to maintain the long-term stability and integrity of an ancient empire, it is necessary to go through this step. The swordsmen are all soldiers, and the yamen who maintain public order use weapons such as "iron rulers", which are similar to short swords without a sharp edge. Of the attackers Nick met last time in Guangzhou, only one had a weapon, the others used bamboo poles.

   Once this huge machine disintegrates, it must pay the price of tens of millions of lives to return from division to unity.

There was a woman from the Luyin tribe who asked this question: "Small does not recognize big, feathers do not recognize birds, dust does not recognize land, water droplets do not recognize rivers and seas, numbers do not recognize operations, the world is betrayed by things, how is this possible? "

   Solving puzzles is not some kind of martial act that doesn't require wielding a sharp blade.

  Nick put away the Spanish jackknife and continued to read the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic that he used to find the answer.

   In this book, the five lucks and six qi are mentioned to infer the relationship between climate change and disease occurrence.

  It is very interesting to mention here that if there is too much rain, the grass and trees will be withered, people will suffer from many diseases, and the bones will suffer from yin paralysis.

  Confucius once made this comparison between Xia, Yin and Zhou:

  Xia Dao respects orders, respects ghosts and keeps them away from ghosts, is loyal to people close to them, rewards first and then punishes, and doesn’t respect people. Yin people respect the gods, lead the people to serve the gods, first the ghosts and then the rituals, the punishments and then the rewards, respect but not closeness; The people of Zhou respected rituals and practiced rituals. They treated ghosts and spirits while keeping them at a distance. They approached people and were loyal. They were rewarded and punished with rank, but they were not respected by relatives.

  Nick tries to translate it…

   "No need to read," said Bonaparte impatiently.

   "I've never thought about it this way," Georgiana said as she turned the book to the next page.

  If it wasn't for Napoleon's collection of weapons, how could Boharnet's sword be taken away by him, and then how could Josephine send Eugene to retrieve the sword, and the two of them knew each other.

   "Why didn't you read it?" He asked lazily without noticing it.

   "Wait a moment." She said calmly, using all her strength to not curse him.

   Maybe she should send him something strange, like a lobster with bad luck.

   "What are you thinking?" he asked.

   She wanted to lie, for example, she was wondering what the last two lines of Heshen's poem meant.

   "I want to beat you," she said honestly.

   "Why?" he asked with a smile.

   She couldn't say anything, she was so angry that she almost cried.

   He stretched his arms around her, trying to coax her, but she cried even more sadly.

   During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the palace people often wrote inscriptions on the fallen leaves and flowed out with the Yugou water. Once the poet Gu Kuang got a large phoenix tree leaf from the flowing water of the Luoyang palace, and wrote a poem on it:

   As soon as you enter the deep palace, you will not see spring every year. Talk about a leaf, send it to a lover.

   This is the feeling of giving the right to choose fate to go with the flow. Moses encountered so many dangers in the Nile River. If he was not taken care of by an Egyptian princess, he was eaten by a crocodile instead.

   Also following the trend was Monk Tang, whose mother put him in a wooden basin and was finally rescued by a monk.

   This is fate.

   Falling flowers are intentional, flowing water is ruthless.

   That's not right, it's possible that the flowing water is affectionate, but they are in love, not her.

   (end of this chapter)