The old man in the imperial city

When the fifth elder brother was about six months old, the imperial concubine finally came out from behind the curtain of the Qianqing palace again, and stood behind the emperor again with red sleeves adding fragrance.As a result of bargaining, the emperor let the fifth elder brother return to Qiangong to raise him.

Yinzhen finally sighed that Lao Ba finally came back.His temperament is still the same, he is afraid of this and worry about that, but this is his younger brother.

The emperor did not treat the fourth elder brother badly, as the fourth elder brother enjoyed the honor as the eldest son of the middle palace, the light covered all the other older elder brothers.

After the second elder brother was six years old, the emperor set up a reading place for the prince in the South Study Room, called the Shang Study Room, and brought all the children of the clan who had reached the age of six into the palace to accompany the prince to study.The first master of Han Confucianism was Chen Tingjing, a Jinshi on the new list, and Gu Badai, a censor Ji Kaisheng.Tang Ruowang was also employed as a teacher, giving lessons to the prince every ten days.

The queen mother has been recuperating in Changping and has not returned to the palace. The fourth elder brother also entered the Shang study when she was five years old.

At that time, the empress took care of the fourth elder brother in Sijiu City for half a year, and went back and forth to Changping Palace to serve the empress dowager for the other half of the year. Naturally, the palace affairs went back to the imperial concubine's hands in a circle.

The queen mother was blocked on her way back to the palace, of course she was very angry at first, what she was most worried about was that her son would treat the fourth elder brother slowly because of that woman.

However, the news that the queen brought from the palace sounded good, the fourth elder brother was well-off in the palace, and wherever he went, there were a lot of servants and servants.I heard that after the fourth elder brother went to the Minister's study, the imperial concubine asked someone to replace the stool that the fourth elder brother was sitting on with a soft chair. From October [-]st to the fourth elder brother can hold a hand stove to attend classes, other elder brothers, including the fifth elder brother But there is no such treatment.I heard that the emperor also told Master Shangshufang that the fourth elder brother is weaker, so there is no need to kneel down to worship the master, just nod his head.

The Empress Dowager also personally asked the fourth elder brother who made the tea and meals for the fourth elder brother and who delivered them to the fourth elder brother, and if there would be a gap in the middle, she pondered at the end: Mrs. Dong E is too calm, right? Does he really not intend to send his son to the throne?

Who are you showing all these favors to the fourth elder brother?

To Aijia?To courtiers?For the clan?For Mongolia?

The Empress Dowager faintly felt that the emperor had reached an agreement with the Dong E clan, and the worst possibility was to take the noble status of the fourth elder brother to shield her fifth elder brother from wind and rain.But isn't she afraid that the fourth elder brother will really become big, while her fifth elder brother is mediocre?At this time, the opinion of the clan can influence the situation, just like when Emperor Taizong was buried, several princes decided that her son would succeed her.

In any case, the fourth elder brother can only rely on the queen.Think about the time when the son was detained in the palace by Dorgon when he was young, saying that he taught them personally and did not allow their mother and son to meet, that kind of suffering cannot be experienced by the grandson again.

The queen mother can only step up training the queen desperately, and give examples of all possible manipulations in the harem.

Autumn goes to winter, and the fifth elder brother has also reached the age to go to the Shang study. This time, Yinhu endured cruelly and sent his son who had been hurting like an eyeball for five years to the Shang study to be beaten. Brother, people are not allowed to use the fifth elder brother, let alone the soft stool.

Yinhu is still calm, and Yinzhen has already sharpened his sword and can't wait to discuss the issue of having another child with his younger brother.

The emperor said: "Look, I supported a harem with no income in the general election the year before last, and was sprayed all over my face by the censor last year. Mu Ningqi is already five years old, and in a few years he will marry a wife and raise a son. You can't stare at your son's family like this?"

Yinhu: ... just now entered the Shang study, and thought of getting married and having grandchildren?Who are you kidding.

Yinzhen said: "Baby, I can't compare to you in terms of patience and two lives, but five years is really the limit. I still hope to be sweet and play with girls, and I will design small dresses for New Year's Eve for my daughter." Little jacket.

Just imagining the life of holding my daughter with my left arm and leading the dog with my right hand, and leaning on my younger brother on my shoulder, I will never compromise this time!

There were not many imperial princes in the palace, and when they all gathered in the study room, their hearts of comparison and competition were surging, and everyone hoped that the master of Chinese language could say something nice about himself in front of the emperor.Both Yinzhen and Yinhu had to admit that the elder princes of this generation were more wolf-like than theirs and dared to speak.

The emperor and his younger brother watched the youngest son beating his heart in the Shang study with cold eyes, and did not say much to comfort him.In their view, there is no shortcut to all of this, and they must experience it personally to know the pros and cons of showing their sharpness.

The few elder brothers also have their own merits.

The second elder brother has always been favored by the noble concubine of the Qian Palace, and Concubine Ning has taken refuge in Cheng Qian Palace Gan as a servant early on. Naturally, he expressed his wish to be a virtuous king early on.

In contrast, the third elder brother in Chuxiu Palace took a completely different path.Without the favor of the old empress or the emperor's curtains in the palace, Concubine Tong is firmly in the lord of the palace, but how can the hearts of the palace be measured by the law?Under the urging of Concubine Tong, the third elder brother studied and practiced martial arts day and night, striving to win the favor of the emperor with his wisdom.

The situation of the fourth elder brother from the middle palace is somewhat different. From his birth to now, his food and clothing are all extremely extravagant, and his temperament is also more arrogant.There is no empress dowager in the palace, and the empress alone spends half a year supervising the fourth elder brother's studies, which is beyond her ability.

But these are not important. The important thing is that the queen was born in Mongolia and grew up in a deep palace. From childhood to adulthood, the Manchu and Mongolian families are very close. reveal such a meaning.

The imperial concubine at most takes care of the fourth elder brother when the queen goes to Changping, and of course she will not remind the queen's sons to respect Confucianism and teachers.

When Chen Tingjing played the role for the emperor, he faintly revealed a hint that Si Age's Chinese studies needed to be strengthened.The emperor didn't show it on his face, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: If the fourth elder brother didn't make a big mistake, the Hanchen in the court would not easily give up his son-in-law to take the throne.But if the fourth elder brother was arrogant from the beginning, the situation would be quite different.

Changping Palace was strangled by the emperor. Because the empress herself is not sensitive to politics, she only talked with the empress dowager about Si elder brother's excellence, so that it took two full years for the empress dowager to find out about the emperor and that woman. At this time, the Chinese proficiency of the fourth elder brother is far behind that of the fifth elder brother and even weaker than that of the second elder brother, and it is hard to get back.

Facing such a situation, the emperor sincerely sighed: Fifth brother, you suffered a lot back then, and I will remember your credit.

Yinhu continued to pretend to be a good old man, hiding in the deep palace and pretending to be mushrooms, and ignored Yinzhen because he had another.

Although Yinzhen's methods are always rough and cannot stand scrutiny, the most important thing is persistence.Yinhu couldn't stand the old fourth's croaking day and night, and couldn't prevent his endless tricks, and finally succumbed to another sweet and deadly love story inexplicably, and promised to try again.

So it happened out of nowhere.

Now Yinhu is completely unwilling to recall the words that the fourth child used to persuade him, and even the fourth child is unwilling to meet.

The imperial doctor said that this baby is likely to be a princess, but the imperial concubine has been exhausted from toiling palace affairs in the past few years, so she should rest.

The emperor asked the empress to take Prime Minister Tong Concubine to the palace affairs, and then he almost went crazy with joy. The old eight is really proud of him, and I want to do what I want.What does it matter if I sleep in the palace for ten months if I can get a daughter?

Ever since Yinzhen knew that Yinhu was a girl, he became more and more considerate to him, taking care of everything about food and clothing, and temporarily stopped listening to politics.

Yinhu didn't see her happy face for several days, and finally one day the emperor excitedly said, "Princess Abu Ding's patriarch gave birth to a girl the day before yesterday, so you've waited for it."

Yinhu was stunned for a while, so excited that she couldn't speak clearly, and it took a long time before she asked, "How is she now?"

Yinzhen smiled and went up to grab someone to touch his belly, and replied: "I heard people say that both mother and daughter are safe. It's just that although Abu Ding has no titles in him except for his crimes, he behaves very low-key. Although the eldest princess gave birth to a daughter , The clan is still watching, these old idiots."

Yinhu was in a daze for a while, and said: "Fourth brother, although Abu Ding was convicted and deprived of his title, Princess Gu Lun is the daughter of Empress Xiaoduanwen after all, her child..." He couldn't go on, it was a matter of concern. His own mother, he didn't know if the fourth child had already made arrangements.

Yinzhen said: "Why hide it? Abu Ding is always a descendant of the Chahar clan. Even if he goes to the title, he belongs to the Eight Banners of Meng. With the rank of Princess Gu Lun, if you are not at ease, just see if you want to find someone else." The excuse is to keep it in the palace, so as not to worry about it every day."

Yinhu thinks about it, this girl is really related to the empress dowager and the noble concubine, and it is not difficult to send her to the palace to be raised under the name of a Mongolian concubine.

The emperor even thought about the candidate: "I will be raised under the name of Concubine Shuhui. There is no need to change the jade certificate. I just say that I voted for the empress dowager's favor and will be raised in the palace."

So this girl, who had just been washed for a few days, was quickly brought into the palace by the emperor and raised in Zhongcui Palace.

Princess Gu Lun is of course reluctant, but she also knows that she should be ruthless for the sake of the girl's future.With the favor of the nobles in the palace, at least she won't marry too poorly because of her mother's troubles.If you vote for the emperor or the empress dowager, you may be able to marry as a princess or even a higher status.

Concubine Shuhui also suspected that the Empress Dowager hadn't returned to the palace in the past few years, so why did she say "the Empress Dowager's favor".But this girl's background cannot be faked, and she believed that even if the Queen Mother took care of her for Empress Xiaoduanwen's sake, it would be justified.The most important thing is that life in the harem is lonely and bitter. After Dong E entered the palace, no one in the harem could get the emperor's attention except the queen who could see the emperor once or twice a month for a cup of tea.Concubine Shuhui originally thought that this life was doomed to be lonely forever, but she never thought that a fair and tender girl would descend from the sky, how could she have the time to think about it?

In order not to attract too much attention, Shuo Sai's second daughter, Prince An's second daughter and Ji Du's second daughter were all brought into the palace to be raised together, and named He Shun, Rou Jia and Duan Min respectively.

The emperor personally named the eldest princess's daughter Chun'an, and raised her according to Dorogege's grade.

At this time, neither he nor Yinhu knew that 13 years later, this girl would still marry into the royal family and become the royal daughter-in-law again.But this time, it was Prince Yu Fuquan who personally asked her to marry him.

Chun'an gets married according to the etiquette of the princess, and enjoys half her life as a side Fujin.