The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Princess Wen Xian wanted to prepare for marriage, so the dowry was naturally prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to regulations, Princess Heshuo's dowry was also rationed.

In the Qing Dynasty, royal women were divided into two categories: clan and gege: gege was originally a name for an unmarried woman in Manchu, which means girl.

After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, imitating the Ming system, the emperor's daughter began to be called a princess, and the daughter born to the clan below the prince was called Gege.

Among the princesses, the one from the emperor's middle palace is Princess Gulun. "Gulun" means the country. Generally, only the daughter of the queen can be canonized as Princess Gulun.

The concubines of the emperor and the daughters of the clan who were raised in the middle palace are married off, and they are named Princess Heshuo.

Gege is divided into five classes, followed by the princess, county master, county lord, county lord, and township lord.

There are generally fixed cases for princesses to marry.

After all, the marriage of a princess is a royal standard, and there must be fixed traditions and standards. Generally, it is equipped with a princess mansion, a large number of servants and entertainers, as well as gold, silver and jewelry.

Of course, the favored princess has more rewards and honors.

Princess Wen Xian is definitely one of the favored princesses, or the most favored princess.

Her dowry was in accordance with Princess Gu Lun's dowry specifications, and even Kangxi, Empress Dowager, and Concubine De all added dowry.

The fourth elder brother added four boxes of makeup to her, prepared by Si Fujin, a box of rare fabrics, a box of four sets of head masks, a box of 1000 taels of silver, and a box of jewelry.

The little fourteen was very simple and rude. He gave Princess Wen Xian a box: "Sister, you don't lack jewelry and other things. The Huangzhuang and Tianzhuang that Huang Ama gave you as a dowry are enough for you to eat and drink. Others give you a box. The fabric is enough for you to wear for three years without heavy samples, but my brother has no jewelry, no fabrics and satins, and no royal farmland, but my brother thinks that no matter how high or low a woman is, she must have money in her hand!"

Princess Wenxian looked at the box: "So what you gave my sister was money?"

Princess Wen Xian was very curious. She was old enough, but she had taken money before, and knew about copper plates, silver and gold.

But she doesn't really care about money that much. She is a princess and has never had to worry about food and clothing since she was a child. Why would she worry about money?

When she was about to get married, her brother gave her a sum of money, a box of gold ladles, 1000 taels of gold.

"Yes, sister, there is no mark on this gold." Brother Fourteen said, "You can spend it as you like, and no one will find out where the gold came from. The Tong Jia family seems to be famous, but there are many people who are right and wrong. You are a princess, they will not do anything on the surface, but who knows what will happen in the future? Especially the forehead son-in-law, if he does not enter the gate of the princess mansion for ten days and a half months, the younger brother must ask, what is going on? What's the situation? Also, how is the preparation of the dowry mother?"

"These are Huang Ma and Er Niang who are arguing, I..." Princess Wen Xian couldn't help but smiled bitterly: "I'm still embroidering the dowry."

"Don't worry, I will leave this matter to my younger brother!" The fourteenth elder brother knew how hard life was for the princesses of the Qing Dynasty after they got married, and he would never allow his own sister to be kidnapped by a nanny.

After he went back, he immediately contacted his uncle, Bo Qi, and met at the House of Internal Affairs.

"Uncle, my sister is getting married, you know that?" Elder Fourteen said directly.

"Of course, Wu Ya's family will also provide some make-up. It's great. It's better for your sister to marry in Beijing than Fu Meng." Wu Yaboqi has never met his niece, but it's better than marrying to Mongolia.

After many princesses from the Qing Dynasty married to Mongolia, there was no news, and then there was news of death.

Of course, the same is true for the noble girls who are drafted by Mongolia to enter the palace. Once they enter the palace, it is as deep as the sea.

It doesn't matter if you are not favored, but if you are not free in the palace, these Mongolian girls will soon wither like flowers, and what is sent back to Mongolia is not good news, but death news.

"Sister's dowry nanny, has the Ministry of Internal Affairs settled it?" Fourteenth elder brother was not interested in getting married, so he asked the nanny.

"It's settled. Two nurses with Manjun Banner and two nurses with Han Army Banner. The head nurse is Tumen, and the nurses with Manjun Banner are Bilu and Kuyala respectively. Hanjun Banner Nanny is Mrs. Li Sun and Mrs. Sun Li, these two are sister-in-law and sister-in-law." Wu Yaboqi actually said it clearly.

"It seems that uncle cares about my sister too!" Elder Fourteen couldn't believe that he was able to tell so many inside stories without preparation.

"Since you are serving as a dowry nanny for your sister's daughter, you must be clean and you must know who they are." Wu Yabo said with a smile: "And I am no longer a guard. I was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became a A comprador, a fifth-rank official position, is lucrative!"

"Then congratulations to uncle, how is grandma?" Fourteenth elder brother, after getting to know Wu Ya's family these years, gave gifts to foreign families according to the New Year's festival.

Not that expensive, but a lot of everything.

"Okay, okay, I'm still eating the bird's nest you sent. The old lady is in high spirits. When you have time to go out of the palace, you can go and have a look!" I have also been thinking about my grandson.

He used to buy bird's nest for the old lady to eat, but the old lady didn't like it, saying it was too precious, so she ate the bird's nest given by her little grandson.

The old lady is in great health and is very hard. She doesn't even take a pair of medicines all year round.

"That's good. If I have a chance, I'll go and see the old man." Brother Fourteen can't leave the palace casually now, and the last time he went out to the housewarming banquet, it was already a very special treatment.

"Those nuns, what do you want to do?" Wu Yaboqi is not an idiot either. What do the nuns in the Princess Mansion do? If the princess is coerced, it will be difficult to handle.

"What do their sons do?" Elder Fourteen asked a key question.

Wu Yaboqi's eyes lit up: "You can have a husband, but you can't leave your son alone."

The uncle and nephew discussed it for a long time, and the fourteenth elder brother even went to the fourth elder brother to come over and make arrangements, and finally the arrangement was finally made.

But winter is not the time to get married, not to mention that although the princess mansion has been built, it is still a little short, so the fifth princess spent a year in the palace.

During the Chinese New Year, everyone gave the fifth princess a lot of lucky money, and many good things were also donated from various places.

The fourteenth elder brother has been pestering the fifth princess, saying that in the future, my sister will be someone else's daughter-in-law, and now she is his elder sister, he wants to get closer to her sister, and even pulls the fifth princess to eat a plate of hand catches with the empress dowager mutton.

The old lady was also reluctant to part with the fifth princess. The empress dowager gave the fifth princess two boxes of makeup, one box of gold, silver and jewelry, and the other box of good leather from outside.

After the new year, the marriage of the fifth princess is approaching.

The fourth elder brother went to see the princess mansion in person. From the construction to the repair, the fourth elder brother was busy. The fifth princess was very grateful. My brother was different from others. Even the empress dowager took the opportunity to praise Si Fujin several times.

The marriage was carried out in a peaceful way.

The fifth princess got married at dusk, and Tong Jia's dowry, in addition to the regulations, also included 500 taels of gold and a pair of pure white grassland horses.

It expresses the importance of the five princesses.

The fourteenth elder brother saw Tong Jiashun Anyan, to be honest, this brother-in-law is indeed handsome and handsome, and Tong Jiashun Anyan is also the fifth elder brother's haha ​​bead, a classmate in the Shang study room, and later he became a second class Guards, the ones in yellow jackets.

The most important thing is that Tong Jiashun has a very high vision for An Yan. Before he got married, he didn't have any concubines, concubines and maids. Of course, there might be some, but they were all cleaned up before the wedding.

The big wedding of Princess Heshuo Wenxian, with red make-up, is very lively.

The fourth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother went to get married together, the other princes basically went to have a wedding banquet, and the princess mansion was even more magnificently renovated, even the princess mansion was next to the son-in-law mansion, and the two mansions shared a queen. garden.

In this case, it will be much more convenient.

The fourth elder brother greeted everyone with the forehead outside, but the fourteenth elder brother sent Princess Wen Xian to the bridal chamber, and then called the five nuns to come to him: "Your family members, young master, have been arranged by someone. Well, you have to take good care of my sister's life here, but let the young master know that whoever of you is obedient and deceitful, the slave bullies the master, and you are the second master in this princess mansion, don't blame the young master for being rude, after all , you are all servants of the royal family, the princess is your master, the forehead and the princess have a good relationship, you will naturally have a good life, if you let the young master know that you are locked in the door, and the forehead is not allowed to see the princess, and they are not allowed to reunite with each other , I will let your family reunite, and go underground to reunite!"

"Don't dare, don't dare!"

The five nuns all knew about this young master's tricks. Last year, their husbands and sons were dragged away. The Huangzhuang and Tianzhuang under the princess's name were all sorted out by the fourth elder brother, and they controlled them in the mansion. However, their husbands and sons work as errands under the hands of others to make ends meet.

"Don't talk about it, don't take it seriously. If the young master finds out, the young master will cut your whole family into pieces and never break his promise." The fourteenth elder brother reprimanded and gave the five nuns Get off your horse.

The five nuns didn't dare to complain. They used to want to be the second master to show off their prestige, but now they don't have any thoughts.

Let's not talk about Princess Heshuo Wenxian, who was raised by the empress dowager, and the mother-in-law Defei is also a ruthless character, just saying that she is not a girl, she has an older brother and a younger brother.

The mother-in-law is the imperial concubine, the elder brother is Baylor, the younger brother is the prince's elder brother, and was raised by the empress dowager. Princess Wen Xian is not only superb in skills, but she is also a shrewd woman.

In addition, she is favored, so naturally, she is different from ordinary Heshuo princesses.

Brother Fourteen finished training them, went to see Princess Wenxian again, and told all the maids around Princess Wenxian that before getting married, no good-looking maids are needed; ; If you have a bad personality, don't.

Anyway, the pick and choose, the dowry maids are all elderly, ordinary-looking and family background, the most important thing is that these court ladies will get married when they reach their age in the future, not for the forehead, bed-warming maids and the like, there is no way Son!

The night was very lively, but after the excitement, Xiao Shisi reluctantly left the princess mansion. After Tong Jiashun Anyan lifted the hijab in the bridal chamber, he went through a certain procedure, and he was relieved when the others withdrew. , Seeing Princess Wenxian, he even smiled: "Brother Fourteen is really reluctant to let the princess get married, and threatened the servant a lot along the way. If he is sorry for the princess, he will make the servant look good!"

Made Princess Wenxian laugh.

Princess Wen Xian was already beautiful and had such a good temperament, when she smiled, she really looked like a beautiful country.

Tong Jiashun, An Yan, the son-in-law, was stunned.

The couple's bridal chamber wedding night was good, but the fourteenth elder brother missed his own sister so much that he didn't eat well in the past few days.

Fortunately, three days later, it was the day when the eighth elder brother got married.

I don't know what Kangxi thinks, the date of the eighth elder brother's marriage has been postponed, and he is actually ranked after Princess Wenxian's surrender. Oh, the princess's marriage can't be called marriage, but "surrender".

The Ministry of Internal Affairs arranged the wedding of the eighth elder brother very well, but Kangxi asked the eighth elder brother to hold a wedding banquet at Prince An's mansion.

At the first hearing, Brother Fourteen didn't turn the corner: "Brother Ten, I didn't understand what you said."

"Huang Ama asked someone to hold a banquet at Prince An's Mansion." Elder Brother Shi said with a wry smile, "After hearing this, Mynah was silent for a whole day without saying a word."

"Why?" Little Fourteen's eyes widened: "It's not like the starling doesn't have a mansion."

Even if you don't live in the palace, it's fine to hold a banquet in the mansion. Why do you want to go to Prince An's mansion?In that case, it's as if mynah is a door-to-door son-in-law. You must know how detrimental to a man's dignity in ancient times.

In ancient times, women only took the sedan chair when they were married, but if the son-in-law was married, it was the son-in-law who took the sedan chair.

It is equivalent to marrying into the woman's family, but the status is not high.

What's more, the eighth elder brother is still a prince elder brother, and his mother's family status is not low!

"Probably want to appease people from Yue Le's lineage!" Elder Brother Shi didn't know what to do. When he saw Xiao Shisi today, he couldn't help complaining: "Myna seems to have been hit hard."

If Huang Ama does this, how will Myna face the world in the future?

Little Fourteen had no other way, so Eighth Brother settled the matter. On the day he got married, Fourteen didn't go, but Ninth Brother went with Tenth Brother. People who went with the tenth elder brother said that Prince An's mansion was very lively, and it was almost time for the eldest elder brother to get married.

But the fourteenth elder brother knew that the eighth elder brother was suffocated and angry!

After the beginning of spring, two weddings were completed, and then came Kangxi’s Longevity Festival. The [-]th elder brother still followed the trend and gave gifts. On the same night, he made a bowl of longevity noodles for Kangxi. This time it was still a double-yellow poached egg. .

Kangxi was satisfied with the food, and took people to Changchun Garden before it was hot.

In Changchun Garden, the vegetation is lush and the flowers are blooming like brocades, which makes people feel good. It is no wonder that Kangxi likes to live in the garden.

On the first day here, I settled down, and on the second day, Xiao Shisi was called to have dinner alone by Kangxi.

Kangxi seemed to be in a good mood, married his daughter and went out, and asked her to go back to the palace to see Concubine De, and then came to the garden to visit the Empress Dowager.

And his Huang Ama.

Princess Wen Xian is worthy of being a person with a pure heart and a heart. When she came to Changchun Garden to meet Huang Ama, she actually cooked for Kangxi herself and made a few home-cooked dishes for Kangxi.

Steamed dumplings stuffed with beef and chives, fried day lily with mushrooms, rapeseed and meat, and Chinese cabbage with vinegar and pepper.

Stir-fried bean sprouts and shredded tofu.

Although it was not a delicacy, it made Kangxi eat it all, and felt that it was the supreme delicacy.

But in comparison, it is much worse when the eight blessings enter the palace to have an audience!