Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

Concubine Rong nodded and said: I like this story very much, thank you for telling me, but why did you tell me your secret?Baljur said: Because I want the imperial sister to take Uzhina away, Uzhina is her name.Concubine Rong was taken aback, and said: What?take away?You mean, take her back to Beijing?

Baljur said: Yes, Uzhina is always insecure here, I and her, my wives have nothing to do with it, this is a common thing, my wives and I have several children, But if she had kids, she would be dangerous, both she and the kids, and I couldn't be with her all the time to protect them.So we have never had children, and she has always wanted children. I met my sister last year, and I thought we could have children.

Concubine Rong understood everything, why he repeatedly invited the emperor and herself to come here this year, nodded, and said: "So you have already thought about it, after the emperor decided to come to Horqin several months ago, you made her pregnant, but others You don't even know, and then wait for me to take her away?Baljur said, "Sister, are you willing to help me?"Concubine Rong looked into his shining and sincere eyes, smiled slightly, and said: Of course.

Baljur said: I know you will be willing. I told Uzhina that you will definitely help us.She didn't believe it, but she said that she must try it for me and her children.Concubine Rong said: You not only want me to take her away, but also want your child to get the status he deserves, right?Baljur said: I don't want my children to become rich and prominent people, but I want them to be safe and their surname is Borzigit. Although they can't be with me and my family, I think my sister can do it to, right?

Concubine Rong was surprised and said: Children?She also had children before?Baljur smiled and said: She has two children in her womb.Concubine Rong was very surprised.Baljur said again: The most experienced doctor here has seen it and said that she is pregnant with a boy and a girl.Concubine Rong was even more surprised, and suddenly felt very happy, happy for Baljur.She nodded and said: "Okay, I promise you, I will properly arrange her and the child, and then let the emperor give them surnames."Baljur got up and knelt down to her, Concubine Rong hurriedly helped him up, and said with a smile: I agreed, but why do you think I can be trusted and can do it?

Baljur smiled and said: "Sister Huang, the Emperor loves you, of course I understand, because I know what it is like for a man to love a woman."A guy like him would do anything for the people he loves, just like me.And you, a good man, are my sister.Concubine Rong smiled again and said: What if I didn't become your older sister?Baljur said: Then this matter will have to wait, but sooner or later, she will have my child, she is the most important person in this world to me, I can't teach her to be sad.

After Baljur left, Concubine Rong immediately asked Caiyun to find Madam Nalan.When the emperor came back, she told him the story of Baljur, and said that she had promised Baljur to help him.The emperor was very surprised when he heard this, and after a long while, he said: You will take me as a favor.Concubine Rong smiled and said, "Then are you going to help or not?"The emperor also laughed, scratched her nose, and said: How can I not help with your brother's matter.

Concubine Rong smiled and said: Thank you, Your Majesty!Is the emperor really doing it for me?With Uzhina and the child, you don't have to worry about Baljur and Mongolian cavalry.The emperor also smiled and said: Since he gave us his sweetheart and child, he naturally thought it over.I am also for you.Concubine Rong nodded with a smile, she now knows the emperor very well, but this does not prevent her from loving her husband who is so powerful and powerful.

Two days later, a Mongolian doctor came to Fu Heng's yurt. He was nearly 70 years old, and his wife was a midwife, who was also nearly 60 years old. Both of them were brought in blindfolded. I got the pulse of the two women who were also masked. Her wife asked a lot of details, and then went to the outside to dance the gods. The couple discussed it alone for a while. It's a boy.

After the old couple left, Yingluo and Wei Mei were very happy, feeling that their wishes had come true.Yingluo taught Pearl to tell Concubine Rong, and Concubine Rong was also very happy, so she told the emperor at night and congratulated the emperor.The emperor didn't really believe it, but he was naturally happy.

Concubine Rong said leisurely: Are you going to ration Mrs. Nalan's daughter to your elder brother?The emperor laughed, but said nothing.Concubine Rong said: Jiangjiang ration... She was at a loss for words for a while, because Yingluo had a joke with her last time, and gave her daughter to Yongqi in the future, just like she and the emperor. ?Yingluo quickly said: If I am like your mother, I am very willing...

The emperor still smiled without saying a word.It turned out that during the southern tour, Yingluo had asked the Queen Mother to name a girl named "Jiang Yuan". Fu Jiangyuan, the emperor also thought it was a good name.In ancient times, there was a virtuous woman Qi Jiang, who was the daughter of Duke Huan of Qi, the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the wife of Duke Wen of Jin Chonger. It is said in "Biography of Lie Nu Biography Jin Wen Qi Jiang": "Song said: Qi Jiang is fair, never slack in words and deeds, and encourages Jin Wen. , Undoubtedly rebelling against the country, the young master would not listen, Jiang conspired with the criminal, carried him drunk, and became the hegemony." Yingluo and Fu Heng naturally liked this name, and since then, Yingluo and Concubine Rong have called this unborn child. child making ginger ginger.

Later, when the emperor went to see Wei Mei, Wei Mei was also very happy, and said to him: Your Majesty, Wei Mei's wish to give birth to an elder brother for you is about to come true!God is so kind to me!The emperor couldn't help but be moved, she was really single-minded to herself, just like Shen Bi, but she was much simpler than Shen Bi.

It was inconvenient to travel, and one day after arriving in Horqin, while the queen concubine was going to meet someone, and Zhen'er went to serve the queen, Yuan Chunwang reasoned that he was unwell and wanted to rest, but he wanted Zi Wen to come to his yurt.After Zi Wen came tremblingly, he asked her to stand in front of him.Zi Wen kept trembling, and he said: Don't be afraid, little boy, come on, the Lord loves you.As he spoke, he reached behind her, stretched out his hand from behind, put it on her stomach, and said: "It's a pity, sir, seeing your big frame, even a person with such a small frame can give birth..."

During the southern tour, the queen never knew that Yingluo was pregnant again, because after leaving Jiangning, they parted ways.When I went back to Yuanmingyuan, I didn’t see Yingluo again. I didn’t see Yingluo until I was on the way to Horqin, and I realized that she had it at the beginning of her southern tour.Nala didn't care anymore, and Zhen'er felt that her fate was good. Master Fu Heng seemed to like her very much. Yuan Chunwang was naturally angry and painful, but Ziwen didn't understand what he was talking about. The only pregnant woman in the palace is Concubine Ling, when she saw Yuan Chunwang say this, she thought he was secretly ordering concubine, and she was even more frightened.

Ziwen was in a state of panic, when suddenly she heard Zhen'er's voice from outside the tent, she was talking to Qimuge's court lady Tuoya, Yuan Chunwang panicked, and immediately asked Ziwen to hide under the bed, then slept on the couch by herself, closed With eyes closed, he hung his feet on the edge of the bed, the fur dragged down, covered his feet, and covered the front of the couch.When I was young, Zhen'er and Toya came in, only to hear Toya whisper: I don't know where Ziwen has gone, so I can only come to you to get it, and disturb Yuan Yuan's rest.Zhen'er also said in a low voice: It doesn't matter.With that said, he started looking for things everywhere.Yuan Chunwang wondered what she was looking for.After a while, Zhen'er said: Did I put it in the box under the bed?After speaking, he walked towards the bed, Yuan Chunwang immediately pretended to wake up, and said, "Are you back?"Empress, they broke up?Look how long I've been sleeping!

Seeing that he woke up, Zhen'er said embarrassedly: Did it wake you up?The empress and the others haven't left yet. The empress and empress want to show the Mongolian prince and wife how to embroider. She originally said to get it from the nobleman, but the purple pattern was gone. Toya couldn't find the key to the box, so I came back to look for it. I remember that the empress was there On the way here by car, I embroidered a picture of rich and noble peonies, but I forgot where to put it.do you know?Yuan Chunwang sat up from the bed and sat on the edge of the bed. Toya hurriedly greeted him, and he smiled at Toya and said, "Excuse me."Then he said to Zhen'er: "My mother took it out and embroidered it the day before yesterday, maybe it was put in her place."Zhen'er hurriedly smiled and said: "Yes, yes, yes, look at my memory, no wonder I can't find it everywhere, I will go to work first, are you better?"

Yuan Chunwang smiled and said, "Alright, go get busy, I'll wait for you for dinner tonight."Jen'er then went out with Toya again.Yuan Chunwang heaved a sigh of relief, let Zi Wen get out from under the bed, and hurried back to the nobleman's yurt, Zi Wen was still in a panic, his clothes were all wet with sweat, and he hurried away.Along the way, Toya smiled and said: Sister Zhen'er, I think you and Manager Yuan are really good, Manager Yuan is so capable, he must love others, right?Zhen'er blushed and nodded.

Tuoya thought to herself: How happy to be like this after following a eunuch!If you want to follow, you should follow the emperor, it's so convenient to be with the empress... It turns out that this Toya is the daughter of Tali, the servant of the Ministry of officials. She was born in Zhengbaiqi, Mongolia. In the draft, she was selected into the palace last year, allocated to that nobleman, and became her grand maid.

Sure enough, Zhen'er found the embroidered stretch in the queen's yurt, and the two went to get it to the queen.Yuan Chunwang was frightened, and he never found Ziwen in the grassland again, Ziwen heaved a sigh of relief and secretly thanked himself.

The riding and shooting competition in the Horqin Grassland is held once a year. People from more than a dozen tribes, big and small, come to participate. Each tribe chooses the strongest three people to participate, and finally one person from each tribe enters the final. The scene is very grand. The host He has always been the leader of the Zhelimu League.This year when the emperor of the Qing Dynasty came, the imperial court had to send people to participate in the competition. Since they were guests, they were allowed to send three people directly to the finals.This is not just an entertainment event, it is a show of force, especially important to the court.The emperor only sent two people, Fu Heng and Cai Yanlin, so Fu Heng had to come.

Baljur knew Fu Heng. He had met him many times in previous Qiuwei and League meetings. He knew he was a great hero of Ping Zhuan. He and Fu Heng hunted together many times, but it was the first time Fu Heng participated in the Horqin riding and archery competition. .Cai Yanlin only entered Beijing after the Junggar War, and Baljur didn't know him at first.Seeing that the emperor only sent two people to participate in the competition, many princes and soldiers in Horqin felt that the emperor was trusting him. Naturally, two people had a better chance of winning than sending three people. They felt that the emperor had contempt for them. .

The riding and archery competition in Horqin Grassland of Mongolia has a characteristic, that is, the horses are not saddled and bridle to commemorate the primitive tradition, so the difficulty and danger of riding and archery increase.However, the final contest where Fu Heng and Cai Yanlin participated was actually a set of horses.Horse harnessing is to choose dozens of fierce horses over three years old without saddles. In the racecourse, after each player enters the arena, holding a pole in hand, dismounts and rushes into the horse group, wrestling with the fierce horses, and the first to be harnessed. The one with the most people wins.This is no longer a simple riding and archery, but an advanced equestrian skill. Specially selecting strong horses makes it even more difficult. On the other hand, lassoing can be carried out in a smaller venue and can be watched throughout.

On the morning of the competition, after Fu Heng woke up and took a shower, Yingluo looked at Pearl and dressed him in the uniform, and put it on the yellow smoked leather gown bestowed by the emperor. The train is divided into two pieces on the left and right, and is fastened to the thigh with four buckle loops at the end, which is very light and thin.Then he wore a yellow jacket and a three-eyed plume cap.Because today's horse harness needs to be light, the yellow mandarin jacket does not pass through the knee-length robes, which are only at the same level as the seat.After Pearl withdrew, Yingluo tied the concentric tassels on the waistband of his trousers by herself, and then looked at Fu Heng, smiled and said, "Master, are you ready?"Fu Heng also smiled and said: Don't worry.As he spoke, he kissed her on the cheek.

The wind is sunny and sunny, and a multi-layer semicircular high platform is built on the grassland. There is a platform in the middle of the high platform, which is about one-third of the height of the high platform. In a circle, each person has his own small tent. The small tent is as high as one person, and the inside is as wide as three people can sit side by side. There is a table in front of the tent, and wives can attend. Many Mongolian princes and wives of Manchu Banners officers directly sit in the tent. After the case outside.There are ordinary seats on the upper and lower sides of the platform, allowing those with lower official ranks, family members and servants to sit in a row.

The emperor's seat is naturally the most spacious, followed by Baljur's, and the two are adjacent to each other. Because the Mongols respect the right, Baljur sits on the left, and the two occupy the best position on the platform to watch the game.The empress, concubine Rong and the emperor sit outside, with the empress on the right and concubine Rong on the left.Concubine Shu ordered the noble concubine to sit in the tent, and a transparent thin curtain hung in front of the tent.The eunuchs serving the emperor and concubines, including Li Yu and the interpreter, all stood outside.Baljur and his first wife, newly married this year, sat outside the tent with two male servants on either side, and his other wives also sat on the dais, but not on the platform.

Fu Heng's tent was on the right side of the emperor's tent. Yingluo was sitting in the tent, but the thin curtain was rolled up. Like the concubine Ling, she was inconvenient to see people. Pearl stayed with her inside, and maids were not allowed to attend such a situation. But because Yingluo was pregnant and she didn't have a male attendant, Horqin allowed Pearl to serve as an attendant.Fu Heng sat outside, and Fu Kang'an was brought in by the eunuch, and sat beside Fu Heng, while Zatiwei and Ah Zheng stood beside him.

The horse-riding final is the core part of the grassland event.The first program of the event was the emperor's writing of poems.

With a sound of drawing drums to supress Shuangwei, Qianqi Pinggang rolls up the snow and clears.

Changwei gradually merged with Tangshan, and the two wings were shining red with tooth flags.

Snowflakes fly in May in Shangdu, and hundreds of thousands of houses are instantly filled with silver.

He said that he didn't believe in people from the south of the Yangtze River, and only wore leather jackets instead of gauze.

These are two poems by Yuan Dynasty poets describing Shangdu. The first one is about the hunting scene and momentum, and the second one is about the scenery of the grassland outside the Great Wall.After the emperor wrote on the scroll on the spot, the muezzin hung it up, read out the translation in Manchu and Chinese, and then Baljur explained it in Mongolian.The prince of Horqin looks back at the present and looks back on the past. It has been 400 years, and his chest is full of pride.

The second program is Concubine Rong's white feather sparrow dance.

"White-winged sparrow" means "white sea blue bird", also known as "lark".The white-winged sparrow was born in the desert of Wuhuan. The male and female sing in harmony and enjoy themselves.Mongolians believe it symbolizes new life and hope, and there are many stories behind it.Legend has it that Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Japanese dynasty, met a weeping woman while hunting, and then heard the cry of a white feather sparrow in a pine forest.The voice was sad and melodious, much like the crying of that woman.Kublai Khan expressed his feelings and ordered the court musician Shuo Delu to compose his feelings into the song "Bai Ling Que". Sparrow Playing with Both Hands" is a piece played with a zither.From this song, the Bailing Sparrow Dance was born. This dance is a masterpiece of Mongolian dance. Kublai Khan later designated it as a national music.

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[Yuan Dynasty] The system of two capitals was implemented.Located on the grassland, Shangdu is the birthplace of Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan (Xanadu, Xanadu, located in the Zhenglan Banner of Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, beside the Lightning River in the northwest of Duolun County), known as Shangjing, Luanjing and Xiadu. "The place where the sacred dragon takes off" is also the political and cultural center connecting nomadic civilization and farming civilization.Dadu (Dayidu, a part of today’s Beijing City, located in the Central Plains, stretches from the Tucheng Ruins of Yuan Dadu in the north to Chang’an Street in the south, and reaches the Second Ring Road from east to west. The layout of the streets in the capital of Yuan Dynasty established the basic pattern of today’s Beijing city) is the Yuan Dynasty. The winter capital after the golden family of the first generation established a national regime.There are four post roads between Shangdu and Dadu.The emperor governed in Shangdu every summer (started to go to Shangdu in April), and returned to Dadu in cool autumn (August).

The Central Plains was only a small part of the Mongol Empire established by Genghis Khan Temujin, but in the era of the second emperor Yuan Chengzong, the Yuan Dynasty became the other four Han kingdoms (Qipchak Khanate, Chagatai Khan) split from the Great Mongol Empire Kingdom, Wokuotai Khanate, Ilkhanate) suzerainty.Since Kublai Khan, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty traveled to and from the post roads between Shangdu and Dadu every year, bringing with them many officials and tens of thousands of guards.This section of the Royal Post Road between Shangdu and Dadu is the place where government affairs are handled during the tour.A large number of retinue poems describe the customs of the post road, and historically reproduce the humanistic features along the post road.The emperor's tour and retinue administration for a hundred years, and the retinue's poetry and prose for a hundred years have achieved the historical road, cultural road, and civilized road between Shangdu and Dadu.This is the unique style of the Yuan Dynasty.The famous princes of Monan and Mobei in the Qing Dynasty were all descendants of Genghis Khan, which will be covered later in the novel.

Shangdu was the prairie capital established by the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty, also known as Jinlianchuan. It borrowed from the culture of the Central Plains and the Western Regions, and integrated nomadic and farming civilizations. It was open and diverse, and became an international metropolis with world influence at that time.Many poems describe the song of "Bai Lingque" and the dance of "Sixteen Heavenly Demons". As a large-scale song and dance sung by the royal court in the Yuan Dynasty, it is a pity that they have not been handed down completely, and it is difficult for the world to see the whole picture.The royal family of the Yuan Dynasty had a strong interest in religion, and strongly admired Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and even Nestorianism (a branch of Christianity, the religion of Kublai Khan's biological mother), while adopting similarities with Western Asian culture (ie Islamic|Islamic|Lan|Cultural) development mode.

Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty had diversified thinking, developed commercial economy, convenient transportation, few trade restrictions, and a strong Yuan Empire.Due to the decline of the influence of Confucianism, the people of the lower class and young men and women, despised the rituals and violated the feudal ethics more and more. There were many characters who violated the feudal ethics in the literary works of the Yuan Dynasty, which had a broad social foundation.There is a clear difference between the style of the Yuan Dynasty and the shackle style of the Qing Dynasty that is well known to the public.Many court Buddhist activities in the Qing Dynasty were inherited from Mongolia and Tibet, which can give a glimpse of the customs of the Yuan Dynasty, which will be covered later in the novel.Also because of this reason, Qianlong’s war against the Hui Ministry and Narong Concubine was the realization of a great family and country dream of passing on from generation to generation. Although the Yuan Dynasty had a vast territory, it did not get back to Xinjiang (mainly believed in Islam, that is, Islam|Islam|Lan|religion) At that time, the Chagatai Khanate, which owned Huijiang, was only a vassal state, and it was not as good as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.