Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

Yiboer smiled and said: Elder brother likes Tang Yin very much, he said that he wanted to live with fame and fame, "learn literary and martial arts, and become a king's family", but he was frustrated. He is an outstanding figure with the theme of "Taoyuan Mountain Forest". Viewing paintings is like viewing people.He sent a painting by Tang Yin to each of our three rooms.

Yingluo nodded, and saw two small square pictures.A piece of white silk, two open-mouthed yellow croakers, a tung leaf, a pile of blue river shrimp, and a bamboo basket beside it, with a fishy smell coming; With the bright green stems and leaves and two light yellow six-petal flowers entwined on the vines, a lazy fat red-billed black gray finch stands on the slanting vines, the color is gorgeous and refined.Seeing that the inscriptions were all "Yun'er", he was extremely surprised, and looked at Yi Boer on the bed.

Yi Boer laughed and said: After having a baby, I have nothing to do at home. Elder brother was afraid that I would be tired so he wouldn’t let me paint, but at home and in the palace, I followed the master to learn painting. My family once invited Mr. Qian Zaiqian. It is Ling Guifei's master Jin.Just practice pen, draw slowly without rushing.Yingluo sighed, "Qianzai?"Fu Heng often talked about him.Your calligraphy and painting are all so good, as expected, your family education is different.

Ibor said: "My aunt praises you."Calligraphy is also taught by Ama since she was a child. Yongqi also likes to write. We often practice together.I don't like playing the piano very much, and I don't have that patience. When I was at home, Ama often said that I was not like a lady.Sister Jiajia can play the piano very well, as you know.Elder brother can only go to the east courtyard if he wants to listen to the piano.Yingluo laughed.

After going to the east room, Yongqi asked Haishi to sit on the kang, and knelt down to pay her respects.It was only then that Hai Shi opened up the bundle that had been left there just now, and took out two pairs of yellow satin studded gold thread tiger-head sandals and a red melon and fruit pattern crepe padded jacket with a large breast.She said that she made shoes for the twins, and the cotton jacket for Zhe Zhe, and that she was too busy with housekeeping to avoid Yong Qi's embarrassment.Before Gege took Zhezhe to Yujing Garden, but it was not convenient to take it out, so Yongqi asked Yongqi to say that she made it for her granddaughter, and said that she thanked Hu Gege for making the pastry.Then she happily said: Now that you have become a prince and live in such a good palace, Er Niang is happy, so these things can be used to make do.

Yongqi felt sad in her heart, touched her heart, tears fell down, and said: Er Niang, why do you say these words again, without Er Niang, where would Yong Qi and Yong Qi's children come from?What you make with your own hands is more precious than anything else.You have suffered all kinds of grievances for your son.

Yongqi is wearing a white lard uniform today, with a gold-plated buckle in the waist, a complete square in the middle, and two and a half squares on the sides, inlaid with red amber inside, with orange natural patterns on it, the whole body is elegant and clean. luxury.The clothes were also made by Hai's, except that Yong Qi's formal clothes when he went out were made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he wore clothes made by Hai's at home, and his wives and concubines knew about it.

Hai Shi also shed tears, held his face in his hands, wiped away his tears, and said: Er Niang is really happy now, your family business is prosperous, and your future is bright, your Huang Ama values ​​you so much, you have to do good for him Don't worry about me, I'm fine.You are filial to me enough, Er Niang is content.You have today, Er Niang is worth it no matter what, and I like the present day, away from the Forbidden Palace.My child, your aunt, uncle, concubine Rong Qing in the palace, and the queen mother, there are so many people who are fighting for you, you have to stand up for everyone.

Yong Qi nodded.He gave his mother the Hutian Kiln Avalokitesvara statue of the Song Dynasty and a string of orange-yellow ivory beads from the Ming Dynasty given by the Queen Mother, saying that after Jun'er gave birth, the Queen Mother said they gave it to Haishi when she met him in Changchun Garden.Hai Shi saw that the face of Avalokitesvara was rich and at ease, looking straight ahead, his body was covered with wreath clothes, sitting on the cloud platform, his right hand was raised like a flower finger, and there was a faint orchid light in the white, he felt relieved, and said: Empress Dowager, she The old man hasn't forgotten me as an outsider, it's all because of your fighting spirit, you have to be filial to her.

When the mother and son came out when they were young, Yong Qi sent them out of the mansion quietly, and went out through the side door. It took only an hour before and after, Hu Lin and all the guards came to meet them freely.

In a few days, a guard from the mansion was waiting in Nanny Pan's room, and she was startled when she came back in the evening.The guard announced his name, said that he was responsible for protecting her safety, and passed on Madam Nalan's instructions. If she needed to contact Madam Nalan, she should just contact him.After the guard left, Mother Pan murmured: "My lord, Zhilan finally waited until this day!"She knew very well in her heart that this guard was Madam Nalan monitoring her at the same time, but she was not worried.

Ali Gon did not give gifts to Prince Rong's mansion this time, because he was invited to attend the Suo family's banquet and gave the gift to Guanbao.

What Yunduan did for the fifth elder brother was to investigate the matter of weaving horse hide and using cooked cowhide.

In addition to providing fabrics for imperial use, Jiangnan Three Weaving is also a base for the production of important military supplies.Both the first emperor and the emperor used troops in the northwest and southwest many times, and repeatedly ordered the three weaving places to come forward to purchase or manufacture various military supplies, and the quantity was quite huge.The first emperor once issued a decree: "For the transmission and weaving of the three foreign countries, buy more silk and cotton according to the income, and send them to the inner treasury for future use. I respect this."On the same day, it was also ordered to "make 21 cotton-padded jackets, [-] pairs of cotton socks, [-] rockets, and [-] bamboo slips." Waiting for the green camp, a total of [-] pieces of cotton armor were added, and all the export personnel were used by this cotton armor, which was successively repaired by three weaving places at any time.

Since Yong Qi followed Fu Heng to rectify the establishment of the green battalion the year before last, the emperor gave Yong Qi the supervision of the weaving and production of military supplies.In the middle of this year, Yongqi received a secret report from Xiaoquanzi, saying that there was something abnormal, and it happened that Yunduan was released from the prison of the Criminal Ministry, so he was asked to take charge of a detailed investigation. 520 and eight pairs of cotton armor, 520 and eight leather bags accompanying the armor, but none of the three weaving places used cooked cowhide to make armor bags according to the regulations, and used horse hide without authorization. wait.

After the emperor came back from the east tour, Yongqi told the whole story, saying that he asked Sang Yunduan to do the investigation, and submitted the report written by Yunduan.The emperor was amazed and praised the two teenagers very much. Each of them gave a gold-plated copper astronomical telescope made in England, and rewarded Xiao Quanzi. He also ordered the current Jiangning weaving Zhangbao, Hangzhou weaving Xining, and Suzhou weaving Sazai to "compensate and return to the official position", and asked them to take back the more than [-] horse leather armor bags at the price.Yun Duan knew in his heart that this was actually an opportunity specially given to him by Yong Qi to let the Sang family take the blame and make meritorious service, and he was even more convinced by Yong Qi.Yun Duan made such a great contribution, which was also one of the reasons why the emperor readily proposed marriage.

At this time, Yunduan and Yichun are newly married.Wang and Sang's family both wanted to get married in a low-key way, and the houses were close together, so the preparation time was not long. Sure enough, according to what Princess Sang said that day, it will be done together with the Chinese New Year, which is more joyful!Yichun got up early and pushed open the window, the cold breeze was blowing on her face, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then let out a long breath, then looked at the snowy scenery outside, her upturned eyes were full of smiles.

Since the marriage negotiation, that is, the second time she came out of Mochou Teahouse, she never went back to school, because her husband's family was settled, and she had to prepare for the marriage, and Yun Duan didn't want her to tie her breasts again, saying it hurt.Yun Duan himself continued to go for a while.Shao Fan told Master Zeng and everyone that Wang Yichun's family had a sudden change and his family was going to move out of the capital, so he asked him to drop out of school.Master Zeng is still very concerned and regretful.

According to etiquette, unmarried couples are not allowed to meet each other, except that with the permission of Mrs. Wang, Yun Duan took her to meet the fifth elder brother once and once to Duke Zhongyong's mansion to thank Mrs. Nalan face to face.At that time the marriage had already been decided, and Mrs. Nalan was very considerate and asked the two of them to go for a walk in the garden by themselves.When walking along the lake hand in hand, she asked Yun Duan: Madam, aren't you afraid of taking responsibility?Yun Duan looked at her with a smile that was not a smile, and said: Madam understands me, I am a gentleman, even if Miss Wang is willing, I will not...

She blushed and turned away angrily.Yun Duan immediately caught up with her and coaxed her: "Fenfen, I'm talking nonsense. I urged Erniang to hire her quickly, saying that I want to get married quickly. Please forgive me, okay?"Yichun still got angry and ignored her, Yunduan rushed to her and stopped her, and said urgently: "Fenfen, if you are angry, hit me and scold me, you can do anything, don't ignore me!"As she spoke, she patted herself with her hand, she laughed, poked him on the forehead, rolled his eyes again, and scolded with a smile: idiot!Seeing her smile and anger, Yun Duan was very emotional, hugged her and kissed her, she hurriedly pushed him away, and said angrily: "It's outside in broad daylight...in Yujing Garden, Yun Duan told Yichun, Yun'er Nai Yongqi's concubine, and her mother-in-law knew that they had known each other in school.

Just as he was thinking about it, Yun Duan also got up, surrounded her from behind, and asked her what she was thinking.Yichun looked back and smiled, then continued to look out of the window, and said with a smile: I was thinking, you are so good, how could you wait for me.Yun Duan said: No one wants me, only you want me, Fenfen.Yichun laughed again: The little prince is too modest.Yun Duan kissed her temples, and said: I'm serious, and I'm no longer a little prince.As he spoke, he sat down at the edge of the case, dipped his pen in ink, and wrote:

The red light is smooth, the smoke is penetrating, and the golden crows are waiting to be pecked in the waves of flowers.

Flying flowers flutter little by little, and the dream slowly fades away;

Letters and rain are hard to open, but I know where my mind is.

When the moon suddenly becomes a pair, whoever is the master of the flocs;

Suo teaches Chunnuan to sleep in a daze, and to live in spring by crying and laughing.

Yichun laughed and said: What bag did you drop?Yun Duan smiled and said: This is a friend's celebration of our newlyweds.Yichun looked at it carefully, and then asked: Why don't I know this person?Yun Duan just smiled and said nothing, this is the congratulatory poem written by Yun'er to him in the second letter, now he can rest assured that she has given birth to a second son, and he will have no worries about his status in the royal family, and these two children actually have him imprint.

Although Yichun didn't know anything about it, she sewed two pieces of yellow-ground lion-rolled hydrangea swaddling clothes as gifts (note: the swaddling clothes here refer to the quilt and belt that wrap the baby).When the swaddling baby was given to him by Wang's residence, Eniang looked at the intricate hand embroidery of cute big-headed lions and hydrangeas on it, and she gasped in admiration. Continue.Then he picked up his pen and continued writing:

Love is like water, easy to open but hard to break, if you know life and death.

It was snowing heavily outside the window, and the loving young couple in the Warm Pavilion smiled side by side. On the ground, a lacquered golden phoenix was burning in a large copper fire bowl, and on the table was a gilt copper sculpture inlaid with precious stones. plume of smoke.In the tall white-glazed plum vase on the middle table is a large branch of blooming red plums, like rouge, full of fragrance.

This white-glazed plum vase was a wedding gift from Yongqi and Yuner, and it is an antique from the Yuan Dynasty.Dignified and straight, plump and vigorous, graceful and elegant.The bottom of the bottle is exposed, with the words "Jingdezhen Kiln".The carcass is firm, white and moist, and the whole body is covered with opacified white glaze, with a warm and moist luster, like lipid jade.Plum vases are one of the classic shapes of Yuan Dynasty porcelain, among which Jingdezhen kiln plum vases are particularly famous.It is extremely rare to see Yuanbai glaze handed down from generation to generation.According to "Yuan History Sacrifice Records", "clothes should be of high quality, and sacrificial utensils should be pure", combined with the Yuan people's aesthetic custom of "preserving whiteness", this plum vase is the best.

When he received the plum vase, Yun Duan immediately remembered the saying in the Xie Ke Teahouse, "Green grass grows in Xie Ke's pond, and red plums grow old overnight". He had given Yong Qi the "a pool of spring green" ink at home before. He Yun'er, Luo Xiaohua's ink is rarely handed down from generation to generation, and there are many fakes. What he gave is naturally the real thing, which is very precious.Yun'er returned the gift with this plum vase, which shows that she also knows that sentence.

Then he looked at the copper-bodied cloisonné enamel ink bed on the desk. There was no ink ingot on it, but there was a pattern of longevity in the middle of the flower pattern on both sides, and the golden cloisonné, bright in color, rich and calm, and secretly made up his mind: If I want to help fifth elder brother ascend to the great treasure in the future, it doesn't matter if Yun'er is a concubine.Earlier when he knew that Yun'er was just the fifth elder brother's concubine, he couldn't help sighing. He thought it might as well be that she was just the wife of "Brother Qi". .

Also look at the old Guan Gong paperweight burned by the manufacturing office next to it. Guan Gong is copper brown all over, wearing a helmet and crown, with a square face, broad forehead, thick eyebrows, and phoenix eyes slightly closed.Wearing armor, wearing cloud boots, with his right hand in the shape of a beautiful beard, and his left hand stroking his crotch, he sits on a rectangular platform with a majestic appearance.Exuding a dignified and majestic style of a wise general.This was one of the congratulatory gifts from Mrs. Nalan, which was presented by Yichun.Recalling that when he took Yichun to see Mrs. Nalan, Mrs. Nalan looked Yichun up and down, saying that the daughter of the Wang family had an extraordinary name and an extraordinary bearing.Afterwards, he sent back all the mink fur and sable fur that he had given that day, saying that it would be a dowry gift for the Sang family who copied the house, and the sable coat he made for Yiboer had already been taken by Yong Qi, saying that Yun'er Wear it after giving birth.So he shook his head and laughed.

Toya has always wanted to get close to the Empress Dowager since she joined the Emperor, because she is very generous and deliberately wins over. Li Yu Desheng who is around the Emperor has always been close to her, but for several years, the Empress Dowager has always been indifferent to her. Well, I thought that the Empress Dowager was just a noble person because she was born as a palace maid, and her family was powerless and childless, so I was very discouraged.When talking to the emperor, the emperor never took it seriously. She didn't know that it was because the emperor and the empress dowager had an affair before, thinking that she didn't have enough status in the emperor's heart.

But after hunting in Miyun, she suddenly became close to the Queen Mother, the origin was still the emperor, she accompanied the emperor to hunt in those few days, and on the last night in the palace, the emperor took her to have dinner with the queen mother.When they were eating, she naturally waited on them standing up, the emperor praised her for serving people, saying that she was satisfied in the palace and hunting grounds, and that she taught the queen mother to run errands.She understood immediately, knelt down in front of the Queen Mother and said that she could go to Changchun Garden every few days to see what the Queen Mother wanted to say to the Emperor, and if the Queen Mother and Concubine Shu needed anything, she would come back and tell the Emperor and General Manager Sun.

The queen mother smiled and asked her to get up, looked at her carefully, touched her hand, and then said to the emperor with a smile: After all, she is a young child, not only looks good, but also has delicate skin and tender flesh.The emperor smiled and said nothing, she hurriedly said: Thank you ancestors, Concubine Rong has better skin than concubines.

The queen mother laughed and said: "He is a sincere child."Cheng, you, send a message to me and the emperor.Toya hurriedly knelt down to thank her.The queen mother was surprised and said: "I told you to run errands, why are you still thanking me?"Just take orders.Tuoya hurriedly said: "This kind of errand is all because the ancestors, you and the emperor think highly of concubines. If others want to come or not, shouldn't we just thank you?"The queen mother said happily: "It's a clever ghost!"Everyone in the room laughed.

Later, when Madam Liu was serving the Queen Mother to bed, she asked the Queen Mother what it meant when the emperor came suddenly.The queen mother said: "Do it for that one."Mother Liu was puzzled, and asked: "Which one doesn't know that you and the emperor are reconciled, and sent a nobleman to communicate, which means you are reconciled?"The Empress Dowager shook her head and said: "It means that there is no reconciliation, but because of filial piety, although I don't run away, I will find someone who is obedient and run away, so as to silence outsiders.That one must think so, and this is the only way to be convinced. In fact, there is still a heart disease.You see, after arriving in Miyun, he didn't come to my place, he only asked Li Yu to come to say hello every day, but once he came, he brought a nobleman with a low rank.Only then did Nanny Liu understand, and said with a smile: You still understand the emperor.

The author has something to say:

[Qian Zai] The word Kunyi, the name Sheshi, and the name Wansong Jushi, was born in Jiaxing.In the first year of Qianlong's reign, Bingchen recommended Hongbo, and in the 17th year of Renshen Chuanlu, he entered the Ci Lin.studious.Work poetry ancient prose.The coloring of flowers is simple and detached, which captures the will of ivy and white sun.Wuzi was born in the 47th year of Kangxi, and Kuichou died in the 58th year of Qianlong, at the age of eighty six.

[Historical prototype] [Military tasks undertaken by weaving and the horse skin case] As mentioned in the article, but the horse skin case occurred in the 32nd year of Qianlong. Retired, and ordered his predecessors Jiangning Weaving Zhangbao, Yongtai, Hangzhou Weaving Xining, and Suzhou Weaving Sazai to "compensate and return to the official position", and asked them to take back the more than 26 horse leather armor bags at the same price.Leaving aside the verdict of this case for the time being, the amount of armor and armor packages undertaken by Sanzhizhi should be said to be huge.Accordingly, it can be said that the three weaving sites are actually bases for the production of important military supplies.Zhangbao was commissioned to weave in Jiangning in the 30th year of Qianlong, and Yongtai was commissioned to weave in Jiangning in the [-]th year of Qianlong.

[Copper Cloisonné Enamel] is what we are familiar with as "cloisonne", a handicraft combining copper and enamel, because it became popular in the year of "Jingtai", and the glaze color at that time was mostly blue, so it was named "cloisonne".During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, because of its elegance and magnificence, "cloisonné" was widely used on palace utensils. The production of "cloisonné" is to pinch flat thin copper wire or gold and silver wire into fine patterns, stick them on the copper body, and then fill them with enamel glazes of various colors, and then undergo four or five times of repeated high-fire sintering. Polished and gilded.Due to the high cost of production due to the complicated process, bowls and bottles have always been the majority. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was famous for his pursuit of novelty and elegance, which was reflected in the utensils regardless of cost.

[Burning Ancient] One of the techniques of imitating ancient jade and bronze ware in ancient China, also known as burning color.Its name can be found in the archives of the building office of the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the Inner Mansion of the Qing Dynasty, and it probably originated in the Song Dynasty.The unique color charm of ancient artifacts in the pre-Qin and Qin-Han periods was created artificially.Among them, the burning of imitation jade wares is done by methods such as smoking, roasting, boiling, and firing to make a color change or qualitative change that only occurs after the jade wares in the tomb come into contact with underground organic or inorganic matter and are corroded, that is, Artificial Qin.The jade comb mentioned earlier in the novel given by the emperor to Concubine Rong is such.Bronze wares are made by dipping them in mercury and then fuming and washing them; or soaking the ground in clay alum, brushing them with other chemical materials, and grilling them over charcoal fire.There are many methods.In the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou's bronze ware was the most famous.Looking at the archives of the Qianlong period, burning ancients and gilding are the two most commonly used decorative techniques in bronzes.Because Qianlong was fond of antiquity and became obsessed with it, the building office did what he liked, and the technique of burning antiquity was quite mature.In this period, the ancient burning process in the palace took a long time and consumed a lot of charcoal fire, so that it could be fired into various skin colors such as black, yellow, and purple. Its elegance is beyond the reach of the folk.