Jia Yingchun of the Red Chamber

Looking back, Emperor Qianyuan said that after the first batch of grain and grass were sent out, he didn't take a breath for a while.Then put into the second wave of grain and grass mobilization.

Emperor Qianyuan did not have a chance to breathe, that is, on the morning of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Qianyuan received a secret letter from the King of Beijing County, telling the Holy Majesty two things.

The first is to announce the good news to the Holy Lord that the war in Ping'an Province has been calmed down, and the rest is how to recuperate.

Second, King Zhongshun took the opportunity to appease the victims this time, recruited more than a thousand civilian husbands, and beckoned them to practice day and night.

The king of Beijing County boldly guessed that King Zhongshun was raising private soldiers under the guise of recruiting civilians, with impure motives or ulterior motives, so he asked His Majesty Ji whether he should disband these private soldiers forcibly.

When Emperor Qianyuan previewed the secret letter, his first reaction was to be furious and recruit soldiers privately. He might have something wrong, which is blatant and malicious.

Afterwards, Emperor Qianyuan sneered three times: There is no way to hell, you just want to break through, I will help you!

Emperor Qianyuan immediately wrote a secret letter: If you want to take it, you must give it first!

Later, Emperor Qianyuan secretly recalled the general troops of the Ruijian camp stationed in Xishan back to the capital, and then dispatched the deputy commander of the imperial guards as the admiral of the nine gates, and sent a secret letter to Peng Kai. If an army intends to enter Beijing, it will be captured by treason immediately. If any officer refuses to obey the order and forcefully breaks through the Nine Gates, no matter how noble his status is, he will be executed first and then played later!

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Ningshou Palace.

But it is said that the queen is imprisoned, and there is an imperial physician guarding her every day, not allowing her to die, nor allowing her to get well, and sleeping on the bed every day, eating and drinking.Emperor Qianyuan would also report a copy of the imperial residence to Kunning Palace every day, and let Doctor Gu read it to the queen.In desperation, the queen began a hunger strike on the tenth day of the first lunar month, hoping that Emperor Qianyuan would spare her natal family after her death.

Imperial Physician Gu was terrified. The Queen's life and death involved the lives of Imperial Physician Gu's family. Force-feeding was carried out. As a result, the Empress bit her lip and refused to swallow a mouthful of rice soup.Imperial Physician Gu was so frightened that he didn't dare to go to Qianqing Palace to ask the emperor for help, so he ran to kneel down in Chengqian Palace.

Yuan Chun was born in Kunning Palace, and even if she will become a queen in the future, she will also have the brand of Kunning Palace on her head. She really wants the queen to die immediately, but she looks sad on the surface, and tells the queen's wish for death in a deep voice. Emperor Qianyuan.

As a result, Emperor Qianyuan didn't have the slightest sympathy, and swore to be disgusted, and said cruelly: "Go and tell her, I didn't tell her to die, and she will suffer for me. If she dares to kill herself, I will immediately punish her with a crime." Destroy her nine clans!"

The queen is already honest now, and she swallows food every day, just begging not to implicate her natal family.

Afterwards, Yuan Chun pretended to be unintentional, and proposed to Emperor Qianyuan: "On Zhengdan Day, the concubine went to Kunning Palace to visit the queen. The empress once mentioned something to the concubine. She wanted Yang Jinyu to be attached to the palace. Yang Cainu was also happy. At that time, the concubine did not dare to agree because of the empress dowager. On the eighth day of the eighth day, the concubine mentioned something to the empress dowager, but the empress dowager said that this matter is a matter of the harem, and the concubine is in charge. Yesterday Yang Cainu actually asked someone to intercede with Yanxi Palace, saying that she was willing to attach to Kunning Palace and take on the responsibility of taking care of the empress."

Now that Yuanchun has fully controlled the harem, Yingchun is in Ningshou Palace eating snacks and drinking tea with the empress dowager, chatting teeth, when she suddenly heard the Queen Mother of Beijing come to greet the empress dowager.

When the Empress Dowager heard the words, her complexion suddenly changed: "Is the old dowager alone?"

After Concubine Xu was refused to visit relatives, she tried to bribe the guards of Kunning Palace, but Feng Ziying stopped the matter. After hearing the news, the Empress Dowager saw that no one was sent to warn her in the face of King Beijing Jing, and she just sent the eunuch who came forward to the Punishment Division To show vigilance.

Although Princess Beijing has always been mindful of the overall situation, she has helped the empress dowager, she hopes that her sobriety can be maintained, and the empress dowager does not hesitate to be a charitable aunt, otherwise, don't blame the emperor's family for being selfless.

The empress dowager ordered someone to clean up the leftover nuts, and cleaned the corners of Yingchun's mouth, and then sat upright, smiling lightly: "Please come in quickly!"

For a moment, Princess Beijing came in, first saluted the empress dowager, and then greeted Yingchun, Yingchun left her seat to return the salute, and both parties sat down.

After the Northern Princess took her seat, she asked with concern: "On the Lantern Festival, my nephew and daughter-in-law looked tired looking at the Empress Dowager. I don't know how these days have gotten better?"

Then I asked every detail, first I asked the empress dowager if she slept well these few days, and the food was delicious.The concern in the eyes does not seem to be pretending, the whole is a filial nephew and daughter-in-law.

The empress dowager and the concubine Bei had feelings of distress, and they were very pleasing to the ear, and said with a smile: "I had a migraine last night, thanks to Concubine De who gave me a massage, I feel much more refreshed today."

Princess Bei was grateful to Yingchun. Although Xu's daughter was ignorant, she was her daughter-in-law and nephew's wife. Yingchun didn't directly complain to the queen mother, nor did she secretly envy her, leaving the initiative in her own hands. Li, although there are some internal injuries in the li, but face is saved.

Princess Bei seized the opportunity, hurriedly expressed her attitude, and praised Yingchun fiercely: "The concubine De is really filial. My nephew and daughter-in-law should congratulate the queen mother for getting a virtuous daughter-in-law."

Yingchun heard the words and got up hurriedly: "The princess is too famous, and the concubine should do everything. The word daughter-in-law, the concubine dare not be ashamed!"

The Empress Dowager waved her hands with a smile: "Welcome the girl to sit down, it has nothing to do with you, don't bother with her, she is always obsessed with memorization!"

Bei Wangfei saw that the Empress Dowager was not angry, it could be seen that she doted on this Concubine De concubine very much, she felt confident at once, she stood up with a smile, and took the Empress Dowager's arm, she was wronged and said: "Why are you so obsessed, Auntie! You don’t know the nephew and daughter-in-law, the old saying goes, the emperor has 81 royal wives, so the emperor’s royal wives are the empress dowager’s daughter-in-law, what’s wrong with the nephew and daughter-in-law!”

The empress dowager also smiled at the difference in the relationship between the northern princess and other clansmen: "Look at you, you are dozens of years old, and you have a daughter-in-law, so you want to act like a baby with me, so that people will see you, and you won't laugh at you."

Princess Bei smiled and said: "The 80-year-old grandson and father-in-law are supported by generations. Let alone the nephew and daughter-in-law are not old, even if they are old, they are also the younger generation of the aunt. After seeing you, they are still qualified to act like a baby and ask for candy." .”

The empress dowager couldn't hold back and laughed.

Yingchun also laughed. She asked herself that she would not dare to be so tough as the empress dowager. This Northern Princess is really not simple, but also very cute.She acted so old and shameless, seemingly inadvertently, but she was actually telling herself that she had a very close relationship with the empress dowager, and her influence on the empress dowager should not be underestimated.

But they didn't know that the reason why Yingchun adopted a roundabout strategy was not only because of the relationship between Princess Bei and the old man of Rongfu, but also because she knew about her relationship with the Empress Dowager, the king of Beijing County was favored by the emperor.Now that I am selling it to face and Beiwangfu, smart people will naturally appreciate it.Even if the Northern Palace doesn't say good things for him, it's fine if he doesn't say bad things.

On the contrary, if she doesn't appreciate it and wants to fight against herself, this matter is also a touchstone. If the Beiwangfu blindly protects the calf, then she will have other ways to deal with it in the future.

Now it seems that Princess Bei didn't intend to tear herself apart from Rongfu, which saved a lot of trouble.Otherwise, if the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Northern Prince's Mansion wholeheartedly make enemies of the Rong Mansion and cause trouble for their sisters, they will be in trouble.

The king of Beijing County is Emperor Qianyuan's favorite courtier and brother, and if he is an enemy, he will be in great trouble.

Now, even if the king of Beijing County loves his wife, he will not openly deal with the Rong family. After all, the Xu family is about to fall, and the future situation, even the real power favoring the king, has to be weighed.After all, Yuan Chun is currently the highest ranking concubine in the palace, and also a favorite concubine, Yuan Chun is also young, once the prince is born, there will be another round of cards over there.

In the evening of that day, the Northern Prince's Mansion sent a load of precious medicinal materials and supplements to the palace, among which were three gift boxes, which Tete had specified for the Spring Festival.

Du Ruo stared at the gift box but was in a daze: "Mother, this wild ginseng is more than 50 years old, this field seven angelica is top-grade, and this blood swallow is also top-grade. Nunu estimates that these three together are worth a thousand gold. , we don’t have much friendship with Beiwangfu, we will not be rewarded for nothing, this gift is too expensive!”

Yingchun smiled and waved his hands: "It's okay, this snow goose is the most nourishing, I don't need it, I will send it to the empress dowager later, this angelica Tianqi will be registered and put in storage, and it will be consigned at the consignment office according to the old method, so as not to cause worms. gone."

Du Ruo sighed: "We're not short of these things, I always feel short-handed,"

Yingchun smiled: "It's okay, her daughter-in-law offended the second grandma, I made peace for them, this is Xie Yi from the Northern Palace, I deserve it!"

Du Ruo smiled: "In this way, Nunu can rest assured, we don't have to be affectionate for these things now."

Because Du Ruo was determined not to marry for life, Yingchun had already asked her to join the two men who embroidered oranges and play chess to take charge of Yingchun's business together. Because Yingchun was planning to let her go out to marry after she reached the age of [-], so now Du Ruo Now that he has become the head of Yanxi Palace, Du Ruo is responsible for the annual settlement of Yingchun Property.

In the past four years, Yingchun has been upgraded to a million-level rich woman, and her land assets are still growing. Therefore, Du Ruo, a housekeeper, has gradually improved her taste, and she no longer cares about a few silver coins.

Looking back, he said that Emperor Qianyuan's mobilization of troops and horses was soon overheard by Jinli, but it was Emperor Qianyuan's guard against King Zhongshun.Because King Zhongshun originally only had three thousand soldiers and horses in his hands.Now after the battle in Ping'an Prefecture, it has quietly grown to 5000 troops.

The reason why Emperor Qianyuan was so vigilant was that he was afraid that King Zhongshun would shoot his horse back and kill him back to the capital.

Yingchun knew, however, that King Zhongshun was not so stupid, not to mention that the palace had its own Jinyi guards, there were 3 garrison troops stationed in Xishan, and [-] troops were stationed in Miyun, who could rush to the capital at any time.Moreover, the leader of Xishan is Feng Ziying's father, General Feng, who is a loyal army of the king of Beijing County. Apart from the emperor, only the king of Beijing County can mobilize this team.

King Zhongshun would never hit a rock with an egg unless he wanted to die.

The emperor's vigilance was eased in early February, and the king of Beijing returned to the capital to sit in the capital, but the rebellious king Zhongshun led five thousand soldiers to the sea to supervise the battle.

The King of Beijing seems to be the backbone of Emperor Qianyuan. After the King of Beijing returned to Beijing, Emperor Qianyuan relaxed.

Beginning in early February, Emperor Qianyuan resumed walking in the harem, and the House of Internal Affairs began to formally arrange green-headed cards.It's just that the emperor didn't seem to be freed from the incident of the empress' green cloud cover. In the first ten days of February, he entered the harem for three days and all rested in the Chengqian Palace.

Emperor Qianyuan was also very respectful towards Yingchun, although he didn't look over the signboard of Yingchun, but every time before staying overnight in Chengqian Palace, he would find Yingchun to sit down and talk with each other.

Yingchun only waited for Emperor Qianyuan to find him so often, for the tea made by Yingchun himself.

The concubines in the palace suddenly complained, everyone has been dry for a year, waiting for the emperor to moisturize, now the emperor finally relaxes, and is willing to walk in the harem, but they are all monopolized by the virtuous concubine, calling them tender and healthy The beauty is cool on one side.

It's just that Yuan Chun now has a high position and authority, and he favors the harem, so no one dares to show his teeth in front of his face.

For some reason, these concubines thought that Yingchun could save them, or that Yingchun could break the deadlock, because the emperor occasionally went to Yanxi Palace to sit, and this was an opportunity. Since Yingchun couldn't catch it by themselves, they could come and rub Luck.

Therefore, starting from February, the Palace of Yanxi Palace, which welcomes the Spring Festival, suddenly became lively, with ladies from the East and West Six Palaces.Group after group came to the Palace of Yanxi Palace to rush through the doors.The status of the maids, mothers, eunuchs and eunuchs in the Palace of Yanxi Palace suddenly became more and more popular, and they were invited to eat and give gifts every day.

At the beginning of February, the garden of Ningshou Palace was already in full bloom. The Empress Dowager fell in love with visiting the garden these days, so she took advantage of the spring day to call the princes and nobles into the palace to give a banquet to enjoy the spring.

This day is the eleventh day of the second lunar month, the first day of the Hundred Flowers Festival.

Yuanchun and Yingchun sent people to give Daiyu a birthday gift. Yuanchun specially gave Daiyu a jade rabbit made of black jade. In addition, he rewarded twelve bolts of palace satin, twelve hanging coral beads, and a pair of southern beads. Four boxes of high-quality rice paper and a pair of Hu brushes.

Thinking that Daiyu didn't have a mother, Yingchun asked the imperial dining room to make 36 birthday peaches for Daiyu, and sent 36 kinds of palace snacks to her. Twelve bottles of wine and twelve bottles of top-grade Shanxi rice vinegar.I also remembered that Daiyu likes to eat green tea, so I pretended to be Mingqian Longjing tea from the space, and filled two green bamboo tea cans full.Then he gave Daiyu a complete set of tableware made by himself with water and peach blossoms, which filled a large cart.

Yingchun knows that Daiyu is a rich woman who is not short of money. She hopes these things can make Daiyu appreciate the love her sisters have for her.

The next day, Hundred Flowers Festival.

The Empress Dowager is anxious to order several old nobles from noble families to enter the palace to enjoy the spring, among them is the old concubine of the Beijing Palace.

Yingchun is a bit sleepy these days, the empress dowager didn't ask Yingchun to accompany her when she was free, but on the Hundred Flowers Festival, she specially called Yingchun to accompany her.

It turns out that today's trip is not an ordinary spring appreciation.

Princess Xu of Beijing County has been in the mansion for four years and has nothing to do. Princess Bei does not want her grandchildren to climb out of the concubine's belly, so she asks the Queen Mother to choose two side concubines of noble birth for the King of Beijing County to enter the mansion. In order to seek heirs.