The relationship between the three men and Cao Xueqin is probably like this.
(The following is what I typed earlier. Now some of them are not very mature, but they can roughly explain the relationship between the three men and Cao Xueqin and A Dream of Red Mansions. )
After Cao Jiaju's family moved to Beijing, life gradually stabilized. At that time, Cao Xueqin was about seven or eight years old. He had at least three playmates who often studied together. One is his first love Zhu Hongyu, his distant cousin Li Xiangyu, and the other is Liu Huilian, who is similar to attacking people. They studied together, grew up together, and lived a close life together, just like in the novel, from sister Lin to Jia family, and then to Baochai, Baoqin, Shi Xiangyun and so on. What is certain here is that Zhu Hongyu and Cao Xueqin should be the best when they were young. At this time, the Jia family also has the possibility of revival in Beijing, because they also have many networks at home, just like the four Jia families, which are gradually becoming stronger. It is certain that their networks involve the struggle between the royal family. At this time, something special appeared, probably the court draft. At this time, Tsao Gong was about twelve years old, and Zhu Hongyu, who was about one year younger than him, was reluctantly accepted as a daughter by the Cao family to run for Li Xiangyu. Zhu Hongyu, like Lin Daiyu, is a beautiful and versatile girl. He has a hazy love for Tsao Gong, and may serve Tsao Gong around like Qingwen. She entered the palace shortly after she changed her identity. He and Cao Xueqin refused to get married like Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, but for the benefit of their group, Zhu Hongyu and Cao Xueqin obeyed.
Shortly after Zhu Hongyu entered the palace, she stood out in the examination of women's literature in the palace. Bandu, who was chosen as the princess, was already in the fourth grade and belonged to a female official with an official position. Her image in the palace has no shadow in the existing Dream of Red Mansions, and may be written in the lost ending of Dream of Red Mansions. That is to say, Lin Daiyu didn't die of illness, but when it was stormy, King Jing of Beijing might have a marriage scene with her, but the book. There are two ways to die, one is hanging and the other is diving. Zhu Hongyu didn't die here. Maybe he thought life was worse than death, but maybe they thought there was a possibility of reunion outside the palace. At this time, when Yongzheng visited the princess by chance, he saw Zhu Hongyu and her literary talent, just like Xue Pan saw Lin Daiyu for the first time in his book. He was fascinated by it, and soon the old emperor took possession of Zhu Hongyu, who was originally a princess in Bandu. At this time, Zhu Hongyu was about fifteen years old. Jia's interest group is very happy. They saw hope, and Zhu Hongyu soon became very popular. It can be said that Yongzheng was extremely arrogant, but Zhu Hongyu was not happy. Like ChristianRandPhillips, she is unsmiling and often Lacrimosa, which is also the shadow of Lin Daiyu in the book. Old Yongzheng became a concubine in Zhu Hongyu and made him Lord of the harem soon after. At this time, she was about seventeen years old, during the Yongzheng period. Zuo Zongtang is also old enough to get married. Although he missed Redjade very much, he knew that he had no chance. Under the arrangement of her family, she married Li Xiangyu and Liu Huilan as concubines. In the meantime, there should also be a mothering activity, the scale of which is equivalent to that of mothering, to try to help Jia's financial resources and status. Jia's resurgence should be in recent years, and the so-called "three spring leaves" means that this period is about three years.
The image of Qin Keqing in A Dream of Red Mansions is somewhat the shadow of Zhu Hongyu's marriage. Zhu Hongyu was born as a small player like Zodiac, but Ke Qing was adopted. Ke Qing is Jia Rong's wife, but she has an affair with her husband Jia Zhen. Another allusion is that Zhu Hongyu was originally the capital of a princess or a royal family, but Yongzheng occupied her. The first beauty in the Red Chamber died young, and her funeral appeared in capital letters. It is also possible that Zuo Zongtang wrote a festival about Zhu Hongyu in order to record his life stage. But Ke Qing's illness, the so-called saying that he will know whether it is good or not next spring, is also caused by the actions of his political group. Ke Qing's younger brother is Qin Zhong, which means Tsao Gong and Zhu Hongyu are madly in love at this time, which may indicate that they may leave a relationship with Zhu Hongyu.
Zhu Hongyu successfully helped Yongzheng give birth to six princes, and won the love of Yongzheng. It is likely that he gave it to the child in a secret letter. Yongzheng was already in his fifties at this time. It has been more than ten years since he ascended the throne at the age of 44, and it is also in the prime of life. However, it is likely that Yongzheng likes Zhu Hongyu too much, and he has bad habits of eating Dan and gluttony. Zhu Hongyu intentionally or unintentionally took advantage of an opportunity to make Yongzheng die suddenly. Shadows can also be found in A Dream of Red Mansions, among which the deaths of Jia Jing and Jia Rui are all related to this, and the death of Jia Rui is more appropriate. Yongzheng's lust can be found in many materials, saying that he had reached the point where his lower body could not move and suddenly died. It is also possible that he died like Jia Rui, or it may be the result that Jia's affiliated interest groups want. Unfortunately, after Yongzheng's death, they didn't benefit, and the situation went downhill. Qianlong ascended the throne with the help of his interest groups, and the north wind was tight overnight. What he said is possible. ) Yongzheng died.
When Qianlong ascended the throne, the Jia family and its affiliated interest groups should be the interest groups dominated by the royal family such as Hongxi, the so-called Sun and Moon faction. The Japanese faction actually represents the emperor and those who support the existing emperor. Representative tasks include Li Hong and Loyalty to the King. The Moon School represents the Prince School who is preparing to seize the throne. Its representative figures are Hongxi, the son of Emperor Kangxi, Yun Lu, the son of sixteen sons of Emperor Kangxi, and his descendants Hong Sheng, Hong Chang and Hong Jia (four family prototypes). This is the so-called Hongxi inverse case in history. In this struggle (in this struggle, it was Qin Keqing's time), Qianlong Li Hong consolidated his power and dealt a powerful blow to this force. Time is four years, that is to say, Zhu Hongyu has been the queen mother in the palace for three years, but at this time there are two queens, one is Li Hong's mother, so naturally the queen mother will not be affected by being late. As a result, the life of the empress dowager, who didn't even give a servant, became more and more difficult, and interest groups gradually lost. Therefore, Zhu Hongyu in despair chose to become a monk and leave this sad place. And her son (or Cao Xueqin's son) is Hong Zhan. At this time, he was about six or seven years old, that is to say, he was about three years old when Yongzheng died. Four years later, after his influence group lost its ability, Zhu Hongyu became a monk. That is the extraordinary image of Miaoyu in the book.
There are many shadows of Zhu Hongyu, including Lin Daiyu, Qingwen, Miaoyu, Qin Keqing, and possibly Lian Win, Xiao Hong, Lingguan and so on. Representing each stage respectively, for example, the background of Lingguan, Qingwen representing Maid Redjade, Daiyu representing the period after being accepted as Jia's daughter, and Qin Keqing and her situation after entering the palace (Ning Guofu often alludes to the palace in a Dream of Red Mansions, but Zhu Hongyu's bedroom layout in the palace can be seen), and Miaoyu representing the situation after Zhu Hongyu was taken out.
Speaking of death, after he gave birth to a son to Cao Gong, he had an argument and contradiction with his wife Li Fa. In addition, his true identity was known by the palace during this period, and due to various unfavorable factors, she chose to hang herself because she could no longer be with Cao Gong or was forced by interest groups. After her death, like Qin Keqing, she enjoyed a high level of treatment, because she was still the empress dowager. However, only after Ganlong grasped her background and some relations with the above-mentioned groups did she wait until 7749 days (more than 30 days after May 7) when the Queen Mother was buried, and her son Hong Zhan Dai Houxiao presided over and wrote an inscription for her. This is also the case. Cao Cao's family was copied again, and Cao Xueqin became a monk. One is to escape the political blow, and the other is to mourn the death of Zhu Hongyu. His wife, Li Xiangyu, is his cousin and the prototype of Baochai. After breaking up in discord, she also got a divorce certificate and separated from Zuo Gong.
After the situation subsided, Cao Xueqin was disheartened. He and Liu Huilan live in seclusion near Xiangshan, which is probably the Huangye Village mentioned in his friend's poem. His family lives in a humble home and leads a hard life. There is a poem by Ceng Yun: Artemisia selengensis is old and not beautiful, and the whole family often credits porridge and wine. The secluded alley of Hengmen is now worried about the rain, and the museum ruins the old dream. It's about his hard life after seclusion. At this moment, he was no longer moved by Hua Rong Fu Gui. While raising his son, with the help of his wife and friends, he spent ten years using the unknown things in the palace provided by Zhu Hongyu and his life for more than five years, as well as the history of their family and the whole group's struggle with Li Hong Group as a blueprint, cleverly conceived and worded, recorded the process from prosperity to decline, and skillfully left 1000 rubies in the book as a souvenir. A Cave in Hong Qian (Crying) not only shows that he wrote Hong Qian as Zhu Hongyu, but also shows that Hong Qian was buried in a cave, which shows that she is a collection of Hong Qian. Looking back again, I entered Cao at the age of six, became a class supervisor at the age of eight, and was accepted as the daughter of Cao family during this period. At the age of fifteen, he entered the palace on behalf of the Cao family. At the age of ten, he was named a imperial concubine to preside over the harem and went home to visit his relatives once. During this period, although the Cao family suffered the blow of the first property raid, it has recovered its vitality at this time, and after becoming a imperial concubine, their family has become a heyday. Three years later, around the fourth year, Yongzheng died suddenly. Zhu Hongyu, 20, was defeated in the struggle for power will (if her son ascended the throne, she could listen to politics). Soon after, he took his hair to practice and left the palace. After that, Cao Xueqin had the opportunity to meet her as a "wife", and this process lasted for a long time until Qianlong was more than ten years. During this period, he experienced great happiness. Cao Xueqin experienced the decline of his family and could do nothing about it. After fifteen to sixteen years of Qianlong, he gave birth to a son for Cao Xueqin and secretly moved to Cao's house to give birth. At this time, because of their love, she became jealous of her wife Li Xiangyu, just as Wang Xifeng knew about Second Sister You. Probably she received Zhu Hongyu from the government, had a conflict with her without Zuo Zongtang's knowledge, and escalated. Because Li is in charge of the government, he is also likely to be abused. Her death directly brought about the decline of the whole family. The paragraph describing the prison temple in A Dream of Red Mansions was also seen by Tso Gong himself, indicating that he should have been imprisoned, and was later acquitted and returned to his hometown with the help of others (in short, he should not be allowed to live in Beijing). Cao Gong fled Zen afterwards, went home after the storm, divorced his wife Li Xiangyu, forced Liu Huilan to write books in seclusion.
What can't be mentioned here is the literary inquisition since Yongzheng. He Ganlong's comprehensive deletion and revision of Zhu Hongyu's historical materials in traditional Chinese opera. First: Literary inquisition: Literary inquisition is a strong resistance to the slow development of literature in Qing Dynasty. It achieved the purpose of burning books and burying Confucianism through official bloody suppression, and what is more serious is the great potential danger of writing and reading. After all, there is only one Cao Xueqin, and too few people can make this achievement. So far, we are still lamenting how wonderful the second half of A Dream of Red Mansions is. The tragic endings of all the characters and the love list of Hong Qian's return to the unlucky company have been our readers' expectation for more than 200 years. Second, the lack of Zhu Hongyu's history: Cao Gong spent ten years, the purpose of which was to impress people with the words "red" and "jade". The word "bamboo" is hidden in Daiyu's alias, residence, many people and things, and the book is full of "bamboo", "red" and "jade" (bamboo is also hidden in the forest). It can be said that a dream of red mansions. The title of Cao Gong's writing place "Ai Hongxuan" also means mourning for Zhu Hongyu.
The above is what I wrote through analysis based on the information I read for several days and the knowledge of A Dream of Red Mansions. There will be many deviations from the facts, but there may be mistakes or mistakes in the process, but the structure is not too bad. Especially the original intention and sentimental feelings of Cao Gong's writing are undeniable. In that era when men were superior to women, a woman who was loved by thousands of people and was very noble deeply loved Cao Gong, sacrificed for Cao Gong's family and gave birth to Cao Xueqin. Tso cries from autumn to winter, from spring to summer, every step is blood, and every sentence is tears. After ten years of writing this dream of red mansions, it is not too much to put it at any height. In today's literary works, no one can compare. Perhaps it can be said that no one else can match it from ancient times to the present.