starling is not a bird

After the Chinese New Year is the Shangyuan Festival, Ling Pu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, took the head of the Shengping Department day and night to discuss how to please the saints. Those who stand out are all chosen to rehearse.All kinds of offerings, costumes, and props must be newly made, so that the night will be bright and eye-catching.

He also specially invited the current head of Lei's family from the Ministry of Industry to set up a tall three-story stage in Changyin Pavilion of Ningshou Palace: the upper floor has a rope mechanism that can hang down to the lower floor; the middle stage has a square pool hole. , connecting the upper and lower layers.Under the lower deck, there are five ground wells in the center and four corners, which communicate with a water well in the backstage basement to enhance the sound effect.

The three-tiered stage can be used alone or in a play together, especially in the performance of a fairy play such as Mulian saving his mother. The three stages are used together.

In order to improve the solar terms, Ling Pu, in addition to presenting the Yiyang accent "Shengping Chusui", "Buddha Transforms the Golden God", and "The Blue Moon Brings Prosperity", also prepared for the empress dowager "Blessings", which the emperor must order every year. "Zhongsi Yanqing", "Loyalty and Yi Xuantu" (Water Margin Opera), "Encouraging Goodness and Gold".

For a whole half a month, Yiyi's high-pitched voice could be heard from far and near in the Forbidden City. It happened that the elderly masters in the palace liked to listen to operas, so the younger brothers had to bear it to death.

Not to mention how Ling Pu had to decorate the palace with lanterns and festoons, and how to prepare novel styles for viewing lanterns and fireworks in the Old Summer Palace in the western suburbs.Brothers have had enough of all kinds of salty and sweet Lantern Festival in the past three days. Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi would rather go to school early than see these glutinous rice dumplings shaped like a full moon in their bowls, whether they are stuffed with walnut, hawthorn and jujube paste or meat dishes. They are tired of stuffing.

The only thing to look forward to in the Shangyuan Festival is the lantern dance that the club has rehearsed for a month that night, showing off its eyes and ears.In front of the building, 3000 lantern dancers lined up, singing Taiping songs, each holding a colored lantern, moving in and out in a circle, each according to its omen.

Once rotated, 3000 people line up into a character of 'tai', which is then converted into the character of 'ping', followed by the characters of 'ten thousand' and 'year';The so-called long live peace is also among the characters.

After the dance, there will be great fireworks, the sound is like thunder, and the flames will burn for a long time, but seeing thousands of red fish jumping swiftly in the sea of ​​clouds, it is a wonderful spectacle in the world.

It was the time when the moon was clear, the bright moon was in the sky, the long smoke was cleared, the colorful lights downstairs were dazzling, and the fireworks above the heads were colorful, reflecting the brilliance on everyone's faces, which was very bright.

Before the banquet, there are peonies and peonies forced out of the warm fire in the pit of the imperial garden. Among the flowers, there are piles of colored lanterns as Aoshan, and crickets in charge of the weaving government are placed in it.

After the banquet music was played, the sound of chirping insects came out from the colorful lanterns and flowers.Spring flowers and autumn insects complement each other, laughter and insects sing together, and the monarch and ministers drink fine wine together, and the relationship is harmonious and enjoyable.

A few younger elder brothers couldn't survive being carried down to rest by the wet nurse, and the dozen or so elder brothers at the banquet had their own feelings.

The eldest elder brother got off his seat early with a cup, and mingled with the thick Baylors to pour wine one by one. The prince sat in the second seat, telling a joke to the empress dowager from time to time, and serving some dishes with chopsticks to Emperor Kangxi, Quite the posture of a prince.

The third elder brother was looking at the spring posts posted by the ministers, holding a jade tube and a wolf hair in the cold to make a poem.

The fourth elder brother bent over with his chopsticks and knocked on the ceramic, jade, and carved lacquer jars, making the insects scream non-stop.

The fifth elder brother looked at the camel jumping team in the audience and was very envious. This time, Ling Pu got a team of white camels from nowhere. They turned over and knelt in front of Kangxi. Stuttering: "Huang Ama, my son thinks, go down and follow him, and they will pass that camel together!" Kangxi looked at the empress dowager next to him, looked at this simple and honest son, and nodded: "Go, I will reward you if you win!" drink!"

Kangxi was not without regrets in his heart. This son was taken up by the empress dowager. Except for a single mouthful of Mongolian, he was basically ignorant of writing and ink. Kangxi was conceited and talented, but his own son could not influence him to teach him. .

Looking down at the elder brothers at the banquet, Lao Qian sat there quietly. It was also a great regret for his son to be born with a foot disease.Just as she was thinking about it, there were bursts of applause from the audience. The empress dowager has been paying attention to her grandson since he stepped down from the stage. At this time, she even asked people in a series of voices: "What's going on down there? Report it soon!"

An eloquent internal servant reported that the five elder brothers won a big victory, jumping seven camels in a row, and the empress dowager was even more happy. Kangxi was also happy when he heard that, so he hurriedly ordered the elder brother to come up and poured wine Give it to him, the fifth elder brother knelt down, gulped it down, and kowtowed to the empress dowager and the emperor a few more times: "I wish the emperor's wife a long life and good health, and the emperor's mother will be healthy and prosperous!"

Kangxi was even more happy. Looking at his son who had grown up, he said with a smile: "Fifth elder brother, you are growing up too, and you should have someone to serve you, Queen Mother, don't you?"

The empress dowager has always liked this grandson, so it is natural to discuss his lifelong affairs at this time: "The fifth child is not laughing, it is time to take care of it, the emperor really loves his son!"

Kangxi smiled and said: "Yeah, looking at the son who is full of eyes, I feel that I am old, and the years are not forgiving! The seventh elder brother and the fifth elder brother are the same age, so let's do it together. Let's do it together, everyone. Let's have fun!"

The imperial concubine Wen Xi who was seated hurriedly got up to receive the order.Seventh elder brother also dropped the dishes in his hand and came out to accompany his brother Xie En.For a while, father and son had fun together, which was really warm.

Xiao Shi stared blankly, then suddenly grabbed Yinhu's sleeve: "Brother, look, Huang Ama is going to let the fifth brother and the seventh brother get married!" Yinhu had known that the two brothers got married in the same year, and even I became Ama in the same year, but the fifth brother's family is a son, and the seventh brother's family is a girl.

Xiao Jiu became anxious when she heard this: "Brother, I don't know which family's daughter Huang Ama will marry?" Yinhu thought for a while and said: "The left and right are just noble girls who are full of ministers, what are you worrying about?

Xiao Jiu blushed all of a sudden: "Brother, you really don't know what to do, you are only fourteen years old in the new year, and you are about to get married, so you are not afraid that your brothers will pick all the good ones away? "

Xiao Ten also nodded: "Brother, it's good to marry anyone. Don't want the niece of Concubine Yi, she has a bad temper, and her family has a bad family style, and she is used to bullying others. Be honest, mynah, marry her. Can't see the light of day?"

Yinhu didn't have time to be funny, the fifth brother and the seventh brother pointed out that Fujin was just mediocre, and for a person like Huang Ama, naturally even his son's marriage had to be carefully calculated.

Counting my brothers' father-in-law Lao Taishan, the most powerful one is naturally the crown princess's mother's house, there are several governors and generals among the cousins, and in the Yongzheng Dynasty, there was Shi Liha, who specialized in playing with the emperor's favorite ministers. bobbin.

The remaining ones are Ah Ling, Ma Qi and others, but let's see who their son-in-laws are, the seventeenth, twelfth, and fifteenth brothers!A bunch of little hairy kids!

Letting their daughter marry such a prince is just to show their favor and respect, and it will not help the brothers' future at all.Others who are relatively powerful are the fourth brother and the thirteenth brother's old father-in-law, the infantry commander Fei Yanggu, the Minister of the Interior, and the Shangshu Prince Taifu Malhan.

But the Fujin they married were all the youngest daughters of the family. When they got married, the old father-in-laws were all very old, and Huang Ama was very smart.What's more, Marhan was an honest man, and Fei Yanggu was still holding his coat in the hands of the emperor. How could he allow them to help his son-in-law challenge power?

Back then, I married the daughter of Ming Shang'e's family. Her father-in-law came from a humble background and didn't have any titles. He was just an ordinary bannerman under the King An's family of Zhenglan Banner. Prince An Yuedong loved his daughter, so he married his mother-in-law to the family and let her play around. The master has a temper.Fujin herself followed her mother, and got into the habit of vicious chaos in her family.If you want to come to Huang Ama's marriage, you can rest assured!

I remember that the fifth brother and the seventh brother pointed out that Fujin's background was not high. If you want to come, Huang Ama also knows that her son has shortcomings, so she won't let the Yue family be picky.

Just as he was thinking about how to answer, the fourth elder brother poked his head quietly and made fun of it: "So Xiao Ba is also in love? But brother, let me talk about things for you, just tell Huang Ama that the New Year's Eve should be covered with rain and dew, don't Left out the other sons?"

Yinhu squinted at his elder brother, with a smirk on his face, and couldn't hold back what to say. When he wanted to refute, he couldn't find anything to say for a while. After thinking about it, he could only say: "Fourth brother is afraid that I think it's cold at night. I miss my brother and me." Reciprocity? Is the fourth sister-in-law not enough?"

Yinzhen didn't want to be beaten up by his younger brother, Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi next to him immediately started booing, Xiaojiu giggled and pointed to a corner of the garden, "Fourth brother, your old Taishan is guarding over there, so you dare to dislike your wife? You are not afraid of old age." Taishan is fighting you hard now?"

The few people were having a good time, and the emperor had seen it a long time ago, and asked loudly: "Si elder brother, what are you happy about? Tell the Queen Mother and Zhen to join in the fun!"

Xiao Jiu stood up and replied without waiting for others to speak: "Huang Ama, just now you said that you want the older brothers to get married, and the fourth brother sighed left and right. I am afraid that he is envious of the younger brothers to pick up wives. A wife who doesn't even have a princess is also miserable, Huang Ama, you should reward fourth brother by the way!"

All of a sudden everyone laughed, Yinzhen had no choice but to stand up and break up, but no one paid any attention to him.

Sitting down, Yinzhen was annoyed sullenly. Although Yinhu next to him wanted to persuade him, his smile was like poverty, something that couldn't be hidden, so he could only look at his fourth brother and couldn't stop laughing.

Yinzhen looked at the younger brothers who were staggering around, Xu Shi's eighth younger brother happened to be sitting next to a palace lantern, half of his face was reflected like a full moon, even mocking people looked more comfortable than Xiaojiu and the others.

In terms of appearance, Xiao Jiu is the most beautiful, with eyebrows like distant mountains and eyes like horizontal waves, even Xiao Shi has his own heroic spirit, the eldest brother is naturally heroic, the second brother is also dignified and noble, and the third brother is elegant and peaceful, but I don't know What, he just likes to look at his eighth brother.

Everyone finished laughing, the empress dowager rewarded Yinzhen with Taorenshan chicken and crab meat double bamboo shoots on her table, saying that she loved him in colorful clothes to entertain his relatives, and Xiaojiu next to him quit, so the empress dowager I like the liveliness of my grandchildren, and I also rewarded fried belly kernels, candied melon strips and emerald jade bean cakes, saying that it was for Brother Jiu's sweet mouth.

Yinzhen looked at the depressed look of the ninth brother holding the sweet cake and felt that he was not at a disadvantage. After a long time of hilarity, he suddenly remembered something, pulled Yinhu sideways and said: "Little Ba, I heard that Yushi Yongtai was in a trance years ago. According to the booklet, it is said that Wu Dali, the uncle of your nanny Yaqibu, the stable chief, negotiated tariffs with him, but cheated privately?"

Yinhu knew about this a long time ago, but at this moment he refused to say more, and deliberately pretended to be surprised: "Why is there such a thing? Fourth brother, how did you know?" Lamented that the prince's power is too conspicuous, in order to suppress the elder brother, even the younger brother will not be spared.

After thinking for a long time, he said: "Children, study hard and don't worry about those things. Naturally, your brother will come out for you. Don't be impulsive. The Yushi is an official of the imperial court. You can't touch him!"

Yinhu knew it in his heart, and asked on purpose: "Which elder brother will stand in for me? I'm just a servant of the palace, who would take me as a real brother?"

Yinzhen knew that he was pretending to be pitiful and sympathetic, but he couldn't see this younger brother belittling himself like this, so he gave him a few hard blows: "They are all the sons of Huang Ama, except for the prince who is above you, there are also elder brothers and me, you are blind." What are you worried about?" He snorted a few times with his younger brother, and then picked a cricket jar from the ground and gave it to him: "Here, listen to it when you feel bored!"

Yinhu held a cricket jar, dumbfounded, what kind of comfort is this?Can crickets sing of flowers?Squeaking is no different from scraping the bottom of a pan!

The prince has no right to dispose of the court officials. In his last life, he was too impulsive. He didn't want to see people around him being bullied. He found an excuse to whip the censor, which fell into the hands of some people. When he sued Huang Ama, Huang Ama greatly In anger, he sent his nanny to Heilongjiang, and later he was given to death, and he himself was punished. How could he be so impulsive now?Protecting the people around him is not an empty talk, anyone with blood can't, but the result is still bad, he is not in a hurry, he can take his time!

Thinking about it, the crown prince didn't have much time to stare at the elder brother and himself. Huang Ama should have decided that the commander of the infantry should add [-] command arrows to prepare for deployment at any time and to publicize orders. Its inspectors and traitors eliminated thieves, so that the merchants and people were able to settle down.

This marks the expansion of the powers of the infantry commanders. Originally they were only in charge of the security of the inner city of the capital and supervised the affairs of the nine gates. Now Huang Ama ordered them to also take charge of the outer city, which was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. Patrol the third battalion, supervise the arrest, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the management of the city are also handed over to the infantry commander for management.

The fourth brother's father-in-law will be fully responsible for the security work inside and outside the capital, and all banners, people, etc., including the kings, are all under his strict control.

Under the command of the infantry, there is never a deputy, and one person can make decisions when things happen, and the term of office is long. He is the most powerful person around Emperor Ama.When the emperor went on patrol, the infantry commander, in addition to sending people to follow and defend, also increased defenses inside and outside the capital, and strengthened patrols until the emperor returned to Beijing. After all, it was just to put the prince who supervised the country?By the way, Huang Ama really got impatient after seeing Huang Ama's rights to the Etu.

I remember that Longkodo held this position from the 50th year of Kangxi until the death of Huang Ama. It is no wonder that the fourth brother was confident. With such a supportive background, he can naturally have the last laugh, but he is not the only one in this life. Ken is shaken!

Yinhu put down the cricket jar in his hand, and carefully thanked the fourth brother for his painstaking efforts. The two brothers cherished each other very much. Yinhu turned his head and pulled the younger brother who was working hard, and said softly: "Xiao Jiu, I think What business are you doing!"

The author has something to say: Attached is a table of the prince’s Yue’s family

The eldest son of the emperor has been the king of Zhizhi County, his wife Yiergenjueluo, and the daughter of Shangshu Kerkun.Father-in-law grade: From a first-class civil servant

The second son of the emperor, Prince Limi, is the daughter of Dutong and Boshi Wenbing of the Guerjia clan of Fujin.Father-in-law Title: Earl; Grade: From the first rank military position

The third son of the emperor is the king of Chengyin County, the daughter of Dutong and Yongqin Gong Pengchun.Title of father-in-law: Duke (for the public); Grade: From a first-rank military position

The fourth son of the emperor, Emperor Sejongxian, Empress Nala, daughter of Fei Yanggu, commander of the infantry and minister of the interior.Father-in-law's title: Qiduwei plus Yunqiwei (Yongzheng and his relative Cheng Engong are not included for the time being); Grade: First-rank military position. (Minister of Internal Affairs was originally Cong Yipin, and Kangxi Tejia Fei Yanggu was Genuine Yipin

Prince Hengwen, the fifth son of the emperor, is the daughter of Zhang Bao, a member of Yuanwailang, who is a member of the Tatala family.Father-in-law grade: Zhengliupin,

Prince Chundu, the seventh son of the emperor, is the daughter of the Fujin Nala family and the vice-dutong Faka.Father-in-law grade: Second rank military

The eighth son of the emperor has been Prince Lian, his first wife Guo Luoluo, and his son-in-law Ming Shangnv.Father-in-law's title: Heshuo's forehead; Grade: Shiwu First Grade

The ninth son of the emperor has changed his son, and his first wife, Dong'e, is the daughter of Dutong's seventy.Father-in-law grade: from first-rank martial arts

The tenth son of the emperor is the king of Gedun County, his wife Abagai Borzigit, the daughter of the king of Lapp County in Urjinga.Father-in-law Title: Prince of the Outer Domain

Prince Luyi, the twelfth son of the emperor, is the daughter of the Fucha clan of Fujin, a Taibao, a bachelor, and Earl Maqi.Father-in-law Title: Earl; Grade: Zhengyipin Civilian; Palace Title: Taibao

The thirteenth son of the emperor, Prince Yixian, the descendant of Jin Zhaojia, Shangshu, and the crown prince Taifu Maerhannv.Father-in-law rank: Cong Yipin civil servant; Palace title: Prince Taifu

The fourteenth son of the emperor is the king of Xunqin County, the daughter of the Wanyan family of Jin Fujin, and the daughter of the servant Luo Cha.Father-in-law grade: From second-rank civilian

The fifteenth son of the emperor, Yuke County King, is the daughter of Dutong and Boshi Wenbing of the Guerjia family of Fujin.Father-in-law Title: Earl; Grade: From the first rank military position

Prince Zhuang Ke, the sixteenth son of the emperor, is the daughter of Nengte, a third-rank official, from the Guoluoluo clan of Fujin.Father-in-law grade: third grade

The seventeenth son of the emperor, Prince Guoyi, is the daughter of the Niu Hulu clan of Jin Fujin, and the daughter of Al Ling'a, Duke of Guoyi.Father-in-law Title: Duke

1. Jianjing Baylor, the twentieth son of the emperor, and his first wife Elete, daughter of King Abao of Garkasdoro County.Father-in-law Title: Prince of the Outer Domain

The 21st son of the emperor, the king of Shenjing County, is the daughter of the ancestor of Fujin and the daughter of Zuo Jianji.Father-in-law grade: fourth grade

The emperor's 22nd son Gongqin Baylor, his first wife Yiergenjueluo, and the daughter of the servant Shuangxi.Father-in-law grade: From second-rank civilian

The 23rd son of the emperor's county, Baile Yunqi, the first wife of the Fucha family, and the daughter of Siwu Nasitai.Father-in-law grade: Zhengbapin

The 24th son of the emperor, Prince Jianke, is a descendant of the Wuya clan of Fujin, the daughter of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Shangshu Haiwang.Father-in-law's rank: From the first grade of civil and military affairs (Military position of Minister of Internal Affairs, civil position of Shangshu)

Note: The [-]th elder brother used to refer to marriages for Kangxi (not included), and later for Yongzheng.