The Harem of the Qing Dynasty - the next era

After Brother Nine shot the show girl, the queen summoned the frightened parties one by one. Then, internal news came out that Wu Ya was crossed off the candidate list by the queen from the clan prince Fujin's candidate list. The reason was simple: she had withstood the inner court. All concubine selection tests.

The queen suffered a plot during the general election that year, and she changed directly from Prince He Fujin to Prince Bao Gege. Although the Empress Dowager Chongyuan had already kept her mouth shut in time, the upper echelons of the aristocratic family had heard about it, and she was unwilling to find a daughter-in-law who was better than herself, of course. It is also a matter of reason.

"They're right." When Yongxi couldn't bear to come to collect the evidence, Han Ling replied, "Your original partner must come from a wealthy family. Wu Ya's can be a concubine. If you want to change your original intention, it's okay to keep her." No problem."

Yong Xi said anxiously: "Er Niang——"

"Okay, the important thing about marriage lies in the orders of your parents and the words of the matchmaker. I originally promised you to choose Fujin from various aristocratic families, and I fulfilled your wish not to accept a concubine. You should be my master. Now you have not How about it, you really want to marry into the palace because of her disgrace, why don't you teach me to act according to my wife's face!" Han Ling waved her hand, "Don't talk about this matter again, you ama I really want to give Zhaohui grace, but he can't take the position of the patriarch Wang Yuezhang. Zhaohui has a son, and you also have several younger sisters. When the time comes, he will be honored as a son-in-law. I'm afraid that he won't work for his son's future with death. Is it?"

"Son doesn't dare!" Yong Xi was unhappy, "Son resigns!"

Prince Zong, who has been going smoothly for 14 years, will suffer a double blow.

In October, Liu Zhenyu, a student from Jiangxi Province, traveled to Hunan. Taking the provincial martial arts examination as an opportunity, he tried to trick Zhou Renji, the chief minister, to submit his book "A New Policy for the Peace of Zuo Li Wanshi" to the imperial court. Words such as "Guan Sheng" and "Easy Clothes System" were naturally judged as rebellious books. After notifying the ministers, they reported to the capital. The minor governor Fan Shishou was also fined and punished, which also complied with the normal punishment procedure of the Qing court’s civil prisons (severely punish the parties-destroy the books and prints-investigate the officials involved in the case).

Literary inquisition has always been the shackles of the Qing Dynasty to control the literati, and it was considered to have developed to its peak during the Qianlong Dynasty. The so-called extremes must be reversed, but the future family princes dismissed it.

Yongxi studied throughout the Han and Western Yi. After participating in politics, he put forward the political concept of "staying in the Manchurian Festival, learning from the Han, and learning from the West". The benefits of sea-going weapons.As soon as the Hunan case happened, Yongxi pleaded for Liu Zhenyu's "he is more than [-] years old, old and confused, and will not cause serious harm". Hongli was quite shocked. It depends on others", and backhandedly changed the intention of "student Liu Zhenyu beheaded" to "no family members", and indirectly responded positively to Yongxi's pleading behavior.

The son went astray, and the people around him were to blame. Before the end of the year, Hongli found an excuse to send off all the masters of Yuqing Palace and Zhan Shi. Yongxi, who was new to the court, was almost hit. After a setback, he gained a deeper understanding of the ethical relationship of "monarch and minister, father and son".

The two relatives were unwilling to shake the crown prince's status, so Sige found the queen immediately, hoping that his sister could resolve the rift and misunderstanding between father and son in time.

"Don't worry about it!" Han Ling rubbed Yong Xin and said, "The emperor decides the affairs of the court. It's not that I didn't tell him not to rely on his father's favor to interfere in the government affairs. A person who can run faster than a horse? If it doesn’t stumble, wouldn’t it be a joke?”

Sige argued: "Sister, the prince of the clan is just involved in government affairs, and it is inevitable to put the style of getting along with the family on state affairs, and the emperor understands it. Less mention is better."

"Talk to Yongxi." Han Ling frowned, "I'm already old enough to marry a wife and have children, how many more years can I worry about him?"

Sige felt helpless: "Sister, the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant's nest, and there will be many such things in the future. If we can't prevent it from happening, once the emperor's dissatisfaction with the prince of the clan accumulates—"

"Okay, okay, I get it." Han Ling pinched Yong Fan's chin, "Look at your uncle, he's getting more and more nagging now."

"Sister, Elder Brother Twelve is still young, but Prince Zong is the eldest son!" Only Si Ge dared to say this, "Now you have a holy favor, but what will happen in the future is unknown, once the status of Prince Zong is shaken... , it will not only affect the honor and disgrace of the mother and son."

"Next, do you want to use Wu Jiang and Empress Dugu to persuade me not to favor the younger son?" Han Ling said lightly, "It's not a day or two that Yong Xi thinks he's smart and willful. , with the Empress Dowager here, no one in the harem dares to slander him, and you and Uncle Fucha are backing him outside, and it’s been smooth sailing to this day, how can he stand a little trial? Can’t let him learn to advance and retreat early, you are a harm He, not protecting him."

Mr. Zhongwu was ashamed at the natural picture, and the queen vented her resentment on the emperor's husband: "I won't teach you to worry about the affairs of the harem, and don't teach me to hear about the affairs of the former dynasty. I don't believe it." When it comes to raising your son, can you be so much worse than the holy ancestor Kangxi?"

Hongli was taken away: "How about the son of the holy ancestor Kangxi? What about my son?"

"Prince Limi has been a prince for more than 30 years without the support of Empress Xiaochengren; Prince Feizhi died after being surrounded by brothers Zhenyan for decades; Not to mention Aqina, Lord Kangxi even said the words of father and son; both Sethhei and King Feidun have been punished; Prince Yixian has been imprisoned for many years; even the late emperor, didn’t he only hear good things from the emperor’s father?” Han Ling glanced at her husband contemptuously, “Look at the current princes, from Yonghuang to Yongxi, you haven’t done much. If you do this, you will be very wronged, and there are seven little ones behind, I think you have worn yourself out!"

Hongli was speechless: "Why don't you defend yourself?"

Han Ling raised her eyebrows: "Boys must be able to withstand beatings, they must not be used to them, they must not be indulged, lest they will not be able to bear the grievances in the future, even if they are placed on Yong Xi, I have nothing else to say."

"What you said is very reasonable." Hongli Laohuai comforted him, "If it's like this again, I have to turn my head to see their brothers' faces."

Han Ling continued to cheer her husband up: "The late Emperor couldn't do anything to treat you well. Who would let his old man's children be less fortunate? In this regard, you can let go of your hands and feet. To put it bluntly, Yonghuang and Yongzhang were not born to me. Yes, you scolded me harshly, I don’t speak for them, I have lost my duty as a mother, and now I just use Yongxi to set an example for my younger brothers, I just don’t believe it, can it be that my son still has to be disciplined?”

Hongli was overjoyed: "This is going to change Yongzheng, do you think so?"

"As long as it is for his own good, there is no reason to be reluctant." Han Ling changed the subject, "But as the youngest son, you don't have to expect too much from him like Yongxi. The people value the eldest son, and the emperor loves the youngest son. It doesn't make sense."

Just as Hongli was about to speak, Zhang Lei who was outside the hall hurriedly replied: "My lord, my servant has something important to report."

Han Ling said, "Come in!"

Zhang Lei entered the hall and replied: "Long Live Lord, Master and Empress, Yunju in the Moon Altar came to report that Concubine Qin is dead."

As one of the four imperial concubines, the death of Concubine Qin inevitably cast a shadow over the upcoming New Year's Eve.

Sheng Jia never moved back to the Forbidden City, and took care of Concubine Qin, a patient. Now that she has passed away, the funeral will naturally be handled in the Old Summer Palace.

Before the mourning hall, the one who cried the most was Ninth Prince Yong Jue.

Old ladies generally like energetic children, and Yong Jue, who has been lawless since childhood, took it for granted that he brought them a lot of fun. Concubine Qin and her descendants are not close, and they are willing to leave any good things for Yong Jue. In a heart-to-heart exchange, Yong Jue also has feelings for his concubine-great-grandmother who is full of kindness. At the age of less than ten years old, showing emotions is not considered to have lost the royal family. The atmosphere was lifted.

The son behaved like this, so the mother should pay more attention. The imperial concubine came to pay her respects, supported the queen and said to the emperor with emotion: "You don't have to be too sad. The concubine Qin has a spirit in the sky. Seeing you like this There is only reason to be full of gratification."

The "solid-eyed" Yong Jue was highly praised by Naifu. In contrast, the performance of the serious heir Sunguo Prince Hongluo, who had already married a wife and had children, was not well set off by his nephew at the funeral.

"Hongluo's filial piety is not enough, but he has the face to miss the concubine's relics, so he is not worthy of the honor of Prince Heshuo!" Hongli stepped into the main hall of natural pictures angrily, picked up the tureen on the kang table, and took a sip. "He's not as good as a child!"

"Brew ginger tea." Han Ling came out holding Yong Xi, and looked at Li Yu in surprise, "Who made our Long Live Lord angry again?"

Li Yu glanced at his master, because he replied to Hanling: "I just packed up the belongings of the concubine, but the prince was puzzled and lost a lot of softness. Mingxi said something like 'Jiu elder brother got much more than Yongxuan', Long live Lord—"

This can be regarded as avoiding the seriousness, Hongluo's original words are "This kid is cunning, no wonder he often walks around the Dowager Palace, it was originally for the things that the Dowager left—"

After hearing this, Hongli resisted not having a fit, and walked away with a dark face after looking at the relics. Hongluo felt guilty, relying on the favor of the empress dowagers of the two palaces and his elder brother, he did not dare to run into trouble in front of Hongli, and fled in desperation Out of the Old Summer Palace.

The author has something to say: Once the parents are eccentric, the consequences are usually very serious - Wu Jiang loves the younger son, and the younger son is killed by the elder son; Queen Dugu loves the second son, and the other sons do not end well; It is said that one of the reasons why Emperor Yongzheng disliked his mother and younger brother Yinzhen was that his mother did not make a bowl of water level; and then Emperor Qianlong (in history) in this article, he looked up to Yonglian. Look at Yong Cong, Yong Cong is dead, look at Yong Qi, Yong Qi is also dead——