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The Qianlong Emperor, who ruled the Qing Dynasty for more than 60 years, used his abilities to create an era of prosperity. After he succeeded to the throne, he implemented the national policy of blending leniency with severity, conscientiously and pragmatically enriched the country and strengthened the army, and unswervingly straightened out the administration of officials. Not only did it formulate many policies to benefit the people, but it also showed a different kind of seeking talents than other emperors when dealing with talented people in the world. When he was in office, there were many capable and intelligent people in the court, and Qianlong was also very well placed.
Qianlong was a good emperor who was industrious and loved the people, but he did not like to bring it to the palace, or because the palace was boring and wanted to go out, he often took one or two retinues to micro-service private visits, and once it was said that Qianlong made melons on the side of the road and praised the melon farmers' melons. He had just walked 200 meters before he ordered, "This man must die!" "Even if you eat someone else's melon, you still want to kill others, and I have to say that the emperor is very willful." Let's take a look at the story. On this day, Qianlong finished handling the affairs of the palace, and felt a little bored and tired in the palace compound, and he wanted to go out to rest. So he asked the eunuchs to change their clothes and walked out of the palace with two close-fitting plainclothes guards, and the temperature was very high that day, and Qianlong was very thirsty, looking everywhere for something to relieve the summer heat.
Suddenly saw a piece of watermelon field, this hot day, the old man who planted the land fell asleep on the side, but Qianlong knew that he could not disturb the old man to rest, so he waited for the old man to wake up, after a while, the old farmer woke up, almost frightened, the three big old men were around him, at that time Qianlong was already waiting for a sweat, only the watermelon in his eyes saw the old man wake up and asked the old man: How do you sell this watermelon, but who knows that the melon farmer directly said that he would not sell it.
To know what the emperor wants, where is he not able to get, Qianlong Qi does not fight a place, I waited for you for half a day, you said not to sell? But the old farmer didn't know if he saw what was going on and said". Qianlong asked his men to get two watermelons, and the old farmer was eating melons while chatting with the emperor. The emperor found that this man was a very talented man, he knew everything, astronomy, geography and history, Qianlong and the old peasants talked very happily. Qianlong liked talent and asked him if he wanted to become an official of the imperial court, but he refused. Because the old man was accustomed to rural life, he did not want to participate in political affairs and secret battles in the palace.
Qianlong could not force the old man, after all, the old man was old, and Qianlong praised the melon farmers' melons as very sweet, saying that they were delicious. After eating, get ready to leave. Just after walking 200 meters, he was ordered to "kill him" because he was afraid of revealing his identity. If he was a bad guy, the emperor was in danger. But when his men returned to the melon shed at that time, the old man was no longer there.
epilogue:
Some people say that this old man was sent by heaven to alleviate the emperor's summer heat and confusion, I don't know if the old man saw Qianlong's identity as emperor, or just went home early, Qianlong knew that the old farmer was gone and did not recruit people to pursue deeply, this matter is also over, it can be seen that Qianlong is still a person who loves talent.