Cao Yin was the favorite courtier of the Kangxi Emperor Xuan Ye. The two have known each other since childhood and have been together all their lives. In the long years, only he, let Xiao Xuanzi love for a lifetime, broke his heart.
Cao Yin's court dress diagram
Xiao Xuanzi once had an obsession: "With my Great Qing Dynasty, the Paul Cao family has been prosperous for generations."
The "generational prosperity" of the Cao family began with Cao Yin's father Cao Xi. Kangxi's kindness to Cao Yin is incomparable to anyone, even if the emperors of later generations have no deep affection for Cao Yin.
So, why did Cao Yin get the love of Xiao Xuanzi's life?
First of all, the Cao family was born as a slave in the coat and worked as an errand boy in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for generations. Cao Xi was calm and capable, standing out from the many officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was a close household slave that Empress Xiaozhuang and Xiao Xuanzi relied on and trusted, and was also the first Jiangning weaver in the Kangxi Dynasty.
Cao Yin was Cao Xi's eldest son, four years younger than Xiao Xuanzi, and when he was young, he could enter and leave the palace and accompany Xiao Xuanzi to read, learn martial arts, and play. In addition, when Xiao Xuanzi was 16 years old, when he was 16 years old, there were also Cao Yin's among the accompanying teenagers who rushed up to fight. Yes, that year Cao Yin was 12 years old, very handsome and very capable of fighting.
Cao Yin casual clothes picture
There is also another important reason, Cao Yin's mother-in-law, Sun Shi, is Xiao Xuanzi's nanny.
There are two errata here, one of which is that Sun Shi is not a wet nurse, but a nanny. According to the regulations of the Qing Palace, the crown prince had eight grandmothers (that is, four nannies and four nurses) to serve. The nurse is only responsible for breastfeeding, while the nanny is the one who teaches the grandmother and is responsible for taking care of the prince's life. Therefore, the status of the nanny is much higher than that of the nurse, and Sun Shi is one of these four nannies. Xiao Xuanzi also had a nanny named Wen Shi, who had a son and a daughter, the son was Suzhou Weaver Li Xu, and the daughter was Cao Yin's wife.
Another correction is that Cao Yin was not born to Sun's own son, nor was he a concubine, but was born to Cao Xi's wife, Gu Shi, and was the eldest son of Cao Xi. It was only the early death of the Gu clan, so Cao Xi continued to marry the Sun clan, and only gave birth to Cao Tsuen a long time later. Cao Quan was much smaller than xiao Xuanzi and Cao Yin.
Xiao Xuanzi's feelings for the Sun clan were particularly deep. Because Xiao Xuanzi was two years old and had smallpox, he could only be sent out of the palace for recuperation. Sun Shi was quite knowledgeable, and under her careful care, Xiao Xuanzi finally recovered and returned to the palace. In addition, when Xiao Xuanzi was young, his father was busy with love (Shunzhi and Concubine Dong), and his mother was depressed all day after falling out of favor, and both parents died early. Therefore, Xiao Xuanzi attaches great importance to family affection, and many years later, he also wrote "Ruixuantang" for Sun's handwriting, calling Sun "my old man".
Cao Yin's childhood was really wonderful. His father was a powerful official in the palace, his mother was Xiao Xuanzi's nanny, and his younger brother had not yet been born. When he was a child, he often followed his mother into the palace and played with Xiao Xuanzi. Both loved poetry, rode and shot, had similar interests, and spent their teenage years together.
In the eleventh year of Kangxi, the Shuntianfu Township Examination, 15-year-old Cao Yin was on the list, but Xiao Xuanzi was not happy. Because of the regulations of the Qing Palace, if the clothed slaves were recruited, they could not work as errands in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Therefore, Xiao Xuanzi did not let him take the exam again, and Cao Yin, who was not yet 18 years old, and another classmate who had just turned 18 years old (Naran Zhide, who had just turned 18), entered the palace as an errand boy together. According to the system, he should have reached the age of 18 before entering the palace, but as a result, Cao Yin actually entered the Luan Yi Guard and raised eagle harrier three years in advance because he passed the township test. Therefore, he laughed at himself as a "dog supervisor", and by the way, he also ridiculed his classmate Naran as "Ma Cao", because Naran was assigned to the Shangsi Courtyard, any first-class imperial guard. Making such a joke may be that Cao Yin does not like this kind of daily work from the accompaniment driver.
After more than ten years of such a rich and somewhat hard and aggrieved life, Cao Yin's father died. Xiao Xuanzi immediately ordered Cao Yin to assist Jiang Ning weaving, and prepared to make this position hereditary for the Cao family. But not long after, Cao Yin returned to Beijing and served as Langzhong, the minister of internal affairs. For this reason, the mainstream view of the academic community is: because Sun shi is not happy.
Although Cao Yin was the eldest son of Concubine, he was not the biological son of Sun. Moreover, that year, Cao Quan turned 18 years old and became an adult, but he did not have a position. If Cao Yin went to take over Jiangning Weaving, what would happen to his own son?!
Xiao Xuanzi began from the year of Cao Xi's death, fulfilled the responsibilities of Cao Xi's parents and brothers, and broke his heart for the Cao family.
Sun Shi is not happy, it is definitely not okay, then the sons are not doing well!
If you don't say that Xiao Xuanzi is an emperor for thousands of years, he has made great achievements in the outside world, and he is also a good hand at handling household chores.
He first made the more senior Masangar do Jiangning weaving, an appointment that was announced a month after Xiao Xuanzi went to Cao's house to pay homage to the Cao family and visit the Sun family; then appointed Cao Quan as the "Administrator of the Interior Ministry" (responsible for managing all the documents of the palace, an important but easy position), and accompanied the imperial companion. In this way, the 18-year-old youngest son Cao Quan followed Xiao Xuanzi to enjoy prosperity, and the 30-year-old eldest son Cao Yin was sent to Jiangnan on an errand. Sun was satisfied.
Then, Cao Yin went down to Jiangnan again, first as Suzhou Weaver, and two years later as Jiangning Weaver; Suzhou Weaving was given to his brother-in-law Li Xu; and a few years later, Hangzhou Weaving was given to Sun Wencheng, Sun's nephew.
Xiao Xuanzi asked Cao Yin to go to Jiangnan, of course, not just to be a Jiangning weaver; he also had two important tasks: one was to secretly report all the major events and small things in Jiangnan to the emperor, and the other was to appease the gentry of Jiangnan and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, and consolidate the imperial power.
Therefore, Kangxi invented the "secret fold" system, "secret fold" is not through the Department of Communications, directly from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the emperor's hands, the fold does not write the name, only write "South Study Room Seal". Later, with Puyi's departure from the palace, the Qing Dynasty's secret folds from the Kangxi Emperor onwards were transferred to the National Palace Museum in Taipei. With the continuous announcement of these secret folds, the legend of Cao Yin and the real reason for the sudden collapse of the Cao family have gradually been unveiled.
During Cao Yin's exile, he and Li Xu took turns to handle the two Huai salt affairs, run the imperial business, buy copper, square meter prices, and report the rain, becoming the only generation of famous ministers in the early Qing Dynasty who were praised by both the Manchu and Han dynasties.
He is good at riding and shooting, and his strength is extremely high (as a 12-year-old who fights with Aobai...). ), was sincerely respected by the Manchu and Mongolian nobles who were still martial.
His birth mother, Gu Shi, was born in the poetry ceremony and was the sister of Gu Jingxing, the first gongsheng in the late Ming Dynasty and a famous scholar in Jiangnan. Gu Jingxing is very prestigious among the remnants of Jiangnan, and Cao Yin's family origins, even poetry and poetry, calligraphy and painting, and even arranging and arranging plays are everyone, and his appearance is elegant and elegant, so Cao Yin has also been unanimously loved by the ming dynasty remnants and Jiangnan scholars, and his engraved "Quan Tang Poems" and his adaptation of "Hall of Eternal Life" have been passed down to this day.
In his lifetime, Cao Yin sent more than two hundred "secret folds" to Xiao Xuanzi. He didn't care about the 300-word rule, he wrote as long as he wanted; he sometimes didn't want to call himself a "slave", he called himself a "vassal", and Xiao Xuanzi didn't mind; he borrowed silver from the Ministry of Internal Affairs without interest, borrowing 333333 two (Xiao Xuanzi's nickname at home is the third prince); he could say whatever he wanted, from major state events to anecdotes to his parents' shortness to eating, drinking, and having fun, and even angry and complaining... Sometimes Xiao Xuanzi only said "I know", sometimes drew a small red flower above the three words "I know", sometimes she nagged back a bunch of words, of course, sometimes discussed confidential matters.
When Cao Yin was serving as an inspector of the imperial history of salt, he found that the floating fee was complicated, so he suggested that the miscellaneous fee be abolished.
Xiao Xuanzi advised him: "It is better to have one thing than to have less... I am afraid that the tail will be difficult to harvest, and the posterity will be left behind."
Cao Yin was still not dead-hearted, and then listed the specific details. Xiao Xuanzi deliberately wrote another sentence next to the 34,500 Jiangsu Provincial Fee
"If this paragraph cannot be removed, it will be deeply offended by the overseer, and the amount of silver is not much, so why bother to accumulate harm." Xiao Xuanzi was afraid of the wind to cao Yin to suffer losses, and wrote at the end of the letter, "This proposal is confidential, and must not be let people know."
Someone went to the secret to inform Cao Yin of the deficit, and Xiao Xuanzi quietly pressed down while quickly writing a secret letter to secretly tell him:
"There are many people who have lost money in the wind and heard that there are many people, but I don't know how to make up for it?" Be careful, be careful, be attentive, be attentive! ”、
"There are many drawbacks and many deficits in the two Huai, it is necessary to try to make up for it, there is nothing to do during the term of office, do not neglect, be careful, be careful, be careful, be careful!"
Later, the deficit could not be suppressed, so he let him go to the salt patrol to fill the pit with money, thinking or not at ease, the errand of making copper and making money was also given to him... If you haven't paid it back, then lend him my little vault without interest...
Cao Yin's eldest daughter and Concubine, Xiao Xuanzi, referred to the marriage of Narsu, the king of Ping Commandery, as Concubine Fujin. The King of Pingjun is the King of the Iron Hat, hereditary, and there are only nine in the whole Qing Dynasty, and the honor is the same. According to the Qing system, Han women could not be the proper wives of the royal family, and Xiao Xuanzi gave her the surname "Cao Jia" and married as a Manchu noblewoman. But will the GaoPan Palace let the family despise their daughters? Xiao Xuanzi was not at ease, and personally held a "back-to-door banquet" to support the scene for Cao Yin's eldest daughter as the eldest uncle of the mother's family. Cao Yin was moved to tears, and said in Xie En's fold, "Report that there is no land, Enwei is in a trance, I don't know why."
Later, Cao Jia gave birth to his eldest son, Fu Peng. Xiao Xuanzi took Fu Peng into the palace and raised him with his own grandson Hongli.
"In the palace of Emperor Zuren, the king was young and served, and he bowed down to his family."
A few years later, Xiao Xuanzi married Cao Yin's second daughter to the Mongol prince. The Cao family produced a second princess.
For a while, Cao Yin was very weak and always sick. He listened to the words of some warlocks in Jiangnan and thought that the wild people in the northeast who ate Manchuria only for the emperor to eat would live a long life, so he asked Xiao Xuanzi for it. Xiao Xuanzi sent someone to drag a cart of expensive ginseng to send. Fast forward to the spring of the following year, Cao Yin was not only in poor health, but also suffered from eye diseases. Xiao Xuanzi hurriedly went to the letter, and scolded with disgust, saying that your illness is because you have eaten too much ginseng, and you can no longer eat it, you eat six flavors of yellow soup!
"Ernan lived for a long time, fat and weak, and now he is sick, and he cannot use tonics; the most suitable users, six flavors of yellow soup, do not have to add or subtract, take more has its own effect."
Cao Yin wrote back that it was much better after taking the six-flavored yellow soup. Xiao Xuanzi was still not at ease, and wrote again:
"Got it. However, if the scabies is not taken, if the poison is introduced, it is later feared to become cannabis rheumatism, and it must not be cured except (except) seawater. Be careful, be careful! Soil poria can be substituted for tea, and it is often good to eat it. ”
It can be seen how deep Kangxi's love for Cao Yin is.
Later, cao yin's health is better, and he is going to play happily... He wanted to be a screenwriter and director, personally adapting and rehearsing "The Hall of Eternal Life" to tell the story of Emperor Tang Ming and Concubine Yang.
The problem is that when this play was performed a few years ago, it was just in time for the death of Kangxi's third empress (that is, Xiao Xuanzi's cousin), and Kangxi was furious, I died here the empress, and you played Concubine Yang there. As a result, the playwright Hong Sheng was dismissed from his post and sent to prison, and Guozijian was removed from his post; more than fifty officials who went to see the play at that time were also dismissed from their posts.
However, Cao Yin did not know which tendon was cramped at this time, he invited Hong Sheng to be a guest of honor, and the gong and drum noisily invited all the gentry and celebrities in Jiangnan to watch the play, and performed for three days and three nights in a row, which was a sensation.
Since Hong Sheng's "Immortal Hall was convicted", no one dared to take care of him. He asked his good friend Mao Qiling to write a preface, but he was directly rejected, and taunted him: "Even if the emperor does not blame, no one will give you a preface." Now Cao Yin feasted on celebrities, treated him as a guest, excited Hong Sheng, drank too much wine, on the way back, actually wanted to catch the moon, fell into the water and drowned...
Xiao Xuanzi didn't say a word...
Well, sure enough, the pampered one has no fear!!!
"The Hall of Eternal Life" was adapted by Cao Yin and became a superior product, which has been passed down to this day...
In the fifty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Cao Yin occasionally contracted wind and cold, and at first thought that it was harmless, but he did not expect to be seriously ill. He was busy entrusting Li Xu to send a letter to Beijing and ask for imperial medicine. Here, the tearful little details are coming! After Xiao Xuanzi received the letter in the middle of the night, he urgently replied to the letter detailing the dosage of the medicine, and sent someone to rush as fast as possible, "limited to Yangzhou on the ninth day."
"Now I want to give medicine to cure malaria, but I am afraid that it will be delayed, so I will give the stagecoach to the night of the stars." However, if malaria does not turn diarrhea, it is okay, and if it is sick, this medicine cannot be used. Southern quacks, whenever they use supplements, and those who hurt people do not count, they must be careful. Cao Yin was too willing to eat ginseng, and now he has this disease, and he also comes from ginseng. Cinchona cream specializes in malaria, with two dollars, the end, the wine to serve, if it is lighter, eat another service, necessary to live, back or a dollar, or eight points, even eat two servings, you can remove the root. If it is not malaria, this medicine should not be used, it must be serious, ten thousand advice! Wande! Wande! Wande! ”
Cao Yin was still dead. Even though the messenger arrived early, he did not wait for the medicine to come.
Xiao Xuanzi had Cao Yin's only son Cao Yan succeed him as the Imperial Envoy of Jiangning Weaving and Salt Patrol. At that time, many people proposed that Cao Yan was only 20 years old, how to become a salt inspector (responsible for the national salt tax, is a fat difference, generally forty years old and has been in the official field for a long time), Kangxi laughed. However, two years later, Cao Yan also died.
Xiao Xuanzi, who was already in his sixties, had to worry about how the two generations of widows of the Cao family should live. "The Paul Cao family has been prosperous for generations" is still xiao Xuanzi's obsession. So, who was chosen to be Cao Yin's heir apparent son?
The Kangxi Emperor sent a message to the Ministers of internal affairs:
"Now Li Xu is here, and the Minister of internal affairs and others are questioning Li Xu. In order to be able to raise Cao Quan's mother like a birth mother within the son of Cao Quan, it is good. The original Yi brothers are also discordant, and if they send those who are not in harmony as sons, they will become worse. Er, etc. should be examined and selected in detail, and this is admired. ”
This holy decree once again shows that Xiao Xuanzi knows everything about the affairs of the Cao family's inner house. Even if the Cao Yin and Cao Tsuen brothers disagreed with this kind of private matter, he knew it. Xiao Xuanzi grew up in the xiao shen palace, and he knew that there were too many things about his heir's filial piety to his mother, and he could not let Cao Tsuen's son bully a lonely widow left by Cao Yin. Therefore, he must let Li Xu (Cao Yin's wife's brother) choose someone to be assured.
Li Xu finally chose Cao Fu,Tsuen's fourth son, Cao Fu ( 曹頫 ) , to be the heir apparent, which was a wrong decision. This mistake led to the destruction of the Cao family. If the Cao family does not want this "prosperity of generations" at this time, can it hide from the future questioning of the family?! In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Cao Xueqin wrote the lyrics:"Prosperous, you must get out early." ”
Before talking about Cao Fu, let's first tell a story of Cao Fu. Cao Yan was 20 years old when he took over as Jiangning Weaving, the same age as When Cao Fu took office. In his letter at the end of the year, Cao Yan clearly explained the details of the various money and funds, and finally "still had thirty-six thousand four hundred and two pieces of silver left." When his father Cao Yin was in office, he was in deficit every year and had never seen a surplus. Therefore, the young Cao Yan said that he did not know what to do with the surplus silver, so he would honor the emperor to raise horses.
At that time, Kangxi was preparing for war, and he definitely needed military food and horses, which showed that Cao Yan was a very smart and careful good boy.
The old emperor was touched badly, both for Cao Yan's extraordinary ability to do things and for his filial piety. Immediately replied to Zhu Ping:
"On that day, Cao Yin was in Japan, but he was afraid that the deficit of silver and silver could not be completed." After the close body was gone, it was cleared, and the mother and son were lucky. The remaining silver, Erdang pay attention. In fact, the weaving cost is quite a lot, and the family's private debt is still there. Only six thousand taels of horses are needed. ”
At this time, it had been three years since Cao Yin told Xiao Xuanzi about borrowing a private debt before his death.
Less than a year after this incident, Cao Died Young at the age of 22. Xiao Xuanzi was very sad and mentioned it again and again:
"Cao Yan has watched him grow up since childhood, and it is a pity that this son has grown up. Of the heirs of the cloak used by the Fallen, there is not a single one like the other. ”
By the way, Cao Yin's concubine Cao Jiashi is also very smart.
Her eldest son, Fu Peng, looked exactly like Cao Yin, so from an early age, he was taken into the palace by Xiao Xuanzi to raise and read to Hongli, and was also deeply loved by Hongli's father Yong, so Cao Jia followed his son's path of the fourth master.
But her husband Narsu was a "Party of Eight Masters", and when she arrived in the Yongzheng Dynasty, Narsu was dismissed from his post and imprisoned, watching the Pingjun Palace being destroyed.
Yongzheng was super fond of her son Fu Peng, let him take the title of Prince of Pingjun, and when he was 25 years old, he appointed him to walk in the military aircraft, and trusted him very much. Fu Peng was a young man with a heavy army, becoming the youngest military minister and a hot upstart of the Yongzheng Dynasty, and later Hongli was jealous.
In the Qianlong Dynasty, Hongli took back Fu Peng's military power, so someone instigated that the generals in the army listened to Fu Peng's words and told Qianlong to guard against him carefully. However, throughout Fu Peng's life, Hongli always protected him and made him a rich prince. Hongli's poetry collection, as long as Fu Peng wrote the preface; when Fu Peng died, Hongli was so sad that he cried for two days and did not go to the court.
You see, Cao Jia's life was the glory of the three dynasties, and the change of dynasties made her richer and richer; in addition, Cao Yan did not live to the Yongzheng Dynasty, if he lived longer, with his ability, he should be better than his sister Cao Jiashi.
Of course, Xiao Xuanzi knew that Cao Fu was not as good as Cao Yin's own children, and he was quite incompetent. Therefore, he took a sum of money from his own inner treasury and gave it to Cao Fu, asking him to pay off his private debts, and then let the successive inspectors of the Salt Imperial History be responsible for repaying the debts of the Cao family.
However, Xiao Xuanzi still fantasized that at least Cao Fu could continue this relationship with him. Therefore, when Xiao Xuanzi received Cao Fu's seventh secret letter, he couldn't sit still. Since you don't take the initiative to say it, then I will take the initiative to ask. Xiao Xuanzi asked kindly:
"Why don't you hear about big and small things in your family?"
Cao Fu actually thought that he was asking him to report the status of the family's property, so very honestly, very officially, very formally reported a hidden version of the family property list to Kangxi.
This is completely the wrong line, the wrong expression! How much gold and silver does the Cao family have, how many farms, how many antique calligraphy and paintings, Xiao Xuanzi is not ten times clearer than him, and he still needs to ask him?! I think xiao Xuanzi saw Cao Fu clumsily counting silver and measuring field yields, and his heart was estimated to be broken...
After a while, Cao Fu suddenly understood what Xiao Xuanzi was asking, and wrote a secret letter affectionately, telling that his mother Li Shi (Cao Yin's wife) was in good health and prostrated her head in the family incense case to thank Tian'en; and her sister-in-law Ma Shi (Cao Yan's wife) was pregnant with a widow, and if she gave birth to a boy, my brother (Cao Yan) would have a descendant.
Xiao Xuanzi was very happy, and their letters increased.
On the second day of the first month of June in the 57th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Cao Fu again made a polite remark on the price of rice and the rain and rain. The Kangxi Emperor said with deep affection and pity:
"Shu'an. Although Er is ignorant of children, but the care is not detailed, Nian Er's father has been contributing for a long time, so Turnen has come here. Although it does not matter the local affairs, it can also hear big and small things, according to the secret music of Er's father, it is a discernment of the non-degeneration. Even if it is a joke, it is better to make the old master laugh and laugh."
However, Cao Fuhui's secret fold actually told Kangxi two completely ignorant and clumsy and unfunny jokes...
I think Xiao Xuanzi's mood at this moment has not collapsed, only the sadness of the next life...
After all, Cao Fu was not Cao Yin's biological son, and he could not understand Xiao Xuanzi's affection.
That little hair, a close friend, a loyal servant, a brother, a confidant, a relative who could talk about the trivial affairs of life, and even a nephew who resembled Cao Yin, was truly dead and could never come back.
Even if you are obsessed with "the prosperity of the Paul Cao family for generations", you can't create people, and even let your only son die early, and your heirs are ignorant. Providence is like this, after all, it is powerless to return to heaven.
The tree fell and scattered, and since then the Cao family has no "Tenn".
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Cao Fu received Kangxi's last letter of Zhu Criticism because he had lost the porcelain used by the emperor and was reprimanded:
"I don't know how much porcelain I have cheated, but I don't know." After (to) the post-uploaded will, er is when the secret fold within the fame (affirmation) to play. If you don't play it in secret, then the incident occurs, I'm afraid I can't afford it. One is guilty, and there is no remorse. Even if there is a difference, it is also true. ”
There was no doubt that Xiao Xuanzi's incompetence towards Cao Fu had been tolerated to the extreme.
Many red scholars believe that the cao family fell because Kangxi died, Yongzheng did not remember the old feelings, and the Cao family participated in the "Nine Kings" to take the wrong side, and was raided. In fact, no, I have checked the two dynasties and found that the reason for the decline of the Cao family is that Cao Fu is stupid enough to be intolerable.
The Household Department reported that there was a huge deficit in Cao Fu's tenure, the Shandong government impeached him for harassing the station and forcibly demanding bribes, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused him of sending a dragon robe that had actually faded and was of poor quality, in short, a bunch of broken things...
Yongzheng asked Gartai to check his abilities and character, and Gartai echoed:
Visiting Cao Fu was young and talentless, he cowered in the face of trouble, and the weaving affairs were handed over to the housekeeper Ding Hanchen to take care of. The minister had seen him several times in Beijing, and he was also an ordinary person. Yongzheng Zhu Commented: "The original is not a tool... Isn't it just ordinary? ”
Then it was ascertained: Cao Fu's deficit of more than 300,000 taels during his own tenure was deceived by the housekeeper Ding Hanchen, and he did not know it; his family forcibly demanded bribes in his name, and he did not see one or two pieces of silver, and he did not know until he was questioned; the dragon robes produced by Jiang Ning Weaving House were packed without careful inspection. The dragon robe was actually Cao Fu personally escorting Shangjing, and he accidentally soaked in water and faded on the road, and he didn't even know it.
At this point, Yongzheng decided that Cao Fu was a foolish and incompetent person, a stupid person who even had the ability to deceive him as a domestic slave.
At this time, Cao Fu was actually preparing to transfer his property. That's stupid... Can you bring gold and silver treasure to heaven?!
So Yongzheng was angry and ordered the house to be raided.
In the process of raiding the house, the new Jiangning weaver Sui Hede copied out a pair of gilded lions in the Cao Family Temple, which was deposited by Jiuye Yinyu (the Eighth Master Party member who was vying for the throne with Yongzheng). Sui Hede was stunned and immediately reported it to Yongzheng.
Yongzheng laughed angrily... Stupid and incompetent people will not rebel, but will only be killed.
Of course, he understood that someone wanted him to kill Cao Fu, fall into a cruel and unkind situation, and kill the bad reputation of the former emperor's close subjects.
Therefore, in front of all the ministers, Yongzheng pointed out sang and scolded Cao Fu, and issued an edict scolding Cao Fu: "Don't arbitrarily seek out people to intercede, don't listen to people's instigation, don't be intimidated by people and be used as a gunman, if you ruin your reputation, you will never be spared!" You just have to stay well, make up your mind not to be deceived, or pity you... If there is something, you are only allowed to find Yun Xiang. ”
According to the Yongxian Record, Yongzheng saw the List of Cao Family Raiders and was "overwhelmed by the smell". Yes, sadly. At that time, the Cao family had little property. The huge wealth of the Cao family throughout the ages, the rare treasures and antique calligraphy and paintings treasured by Cao Yin, even those ancestral houses of the Cao family where Yongzheng lived when he was a child, and many good things that Yongzheng had seen, were no longer on the list, and they had long been cheated away by all kinds of high-ranking people. Cao Fu was just a stupid person.
YongZheng issued a benevolent decree to return the seventeen and a half-old houses and three pairs of slaves in Cao Jiajing to Cao Fu, and ordered him to return to Beijing and return to the flag to serve his elderly mother. Yongzheng retained the identity of the Cao family's three banners, and at least had a living guarantee after returning to the flag.
The most critical reason for the cao family's downfall is Cao Fu's stupidity and incompetence, not in the power of the fall, nor in the loss of silver money.
Wealth and power, in the end, still have to have the ability to keep. Finally, when the property was transferred, none of the treasures that were handed over to relatives and friends to help hide were later returned to Cao Fu.
More than ten years later, in the Qianlong Dynasty, the old version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" "Stone Record" was circulated, and it is said that Cao Xueqin, the son of Cao Fu, was written in the western suburbs of the burrow, when he was poor and sick.
However, the book is not finished, and Xueqin has passed away...
"The Paul Cao family has been prosperous for generations", in the end, it is an empty, and it is really clean and white...