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The Thirteenth Master took away Prince Lian, and turned around to persuade the emperor to calm down, so that he wouldn't be spoiled by the hot weather.

After entering the door, Prince Yi talked to the emperor with the data: by the end of this year, the money and food that can be recovered in various places will be several million taels; Si has done a good job in regulating the river, the flood of the Yellow River has been reduced this summer—in short, he has brought out all kinds of good news to make the emperor not think about Prince Lian for the time being.

Sure enough, the emperor's brows were gradually smoothed out.

Yes, compared to when he took over in the previous life, the situation in the court is much better.

Huang Ama was a good emperor, he captured Oboi and leveled the San Francisco when he was young, but no matter how good the emperor was, he would probably be tired after decades of being the emperor.The last ten years have been a bit of a nightmare.

The emperor still remembered how he felt when he ordered people to prepare for the funeral and at the same time received the amount of money from the treasury.

When he saw that all the silver left in the huge national treasury was only a few million taels, he really had an unfilial thought for a while: How about simply doing the funeral of Huang Ama, and these scenes every day are just a waste of time. What a waste of money.

Of course reason stopped him later.

So just 27 days after the first emperor was born, he, a new emperor, began to issue imperial decrees, severely punishing the deficit of money and food, and collecting debts from his courtiers.The anger in it is not enough for outsiders to say.

Here, the situation is far from worse than in the previous life, but Emperor Yongzheng's heart to collect debts has not changed.

I must spit out what I eat, and I have to spit out the profits.

Seeing that the emperor had calmed down a bit, Prince Yi tentatively asked: "Brother Emperor, there is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, so naturally we can't go out before that. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, do you want to go to Mulan Paddock to relax? If you want to bring the Eight Banners Hunting, my brother should go and make arrangements early. The paddock has been deserted for three or four years."

Since the prince was abolished in Mulan Paddock in the 47th year of Kangxi, the land has been vacant.

Emperor Yongzheng originally wanted to refuse, but felt that it would be a waste of working time to go out, and the words came to his lips, but he changed his mind.

Speaking of which, he himself pays more attention to the practical work of the government. In his previous life, he had never paid much attention to such things as Mulan Qiuhun, which is a martial arts activity with the Eight Banners hunting together and communication with various Mongolian tribes. I have never been to the Mulan paddock in 13 years.

In fact, he regretted it a little in his later years.

In the ten years of Yongzheng, the Qing Dynasty suffered a major defeat in the war.He thought about it later, it was probably because the Eight Banners saw that the emperor did not pay attention to performing martial arts, hunting and other things, but only paid attention to farming and mulberry economy, so they gradually neglected their fighting skills.

That being the case, this martial arts performance still needs to be done.

Seeing that the emperor nodded and agreed to go hunting this autumn, Prince Yi immediately showed joy on his face - even though his arithmetic was taught by the emperor himself, he is also very proficient in various general affairs.But he is not like the emperor, and his daily hobbies are also nerdy, and he likes to critique papers.In fact, both he and Shishi prefer to hunt horses and hunt, and have fun everywhere. They can be regarded as standard Manchurians.

While the two were talking, Zhang Tingyu asked to see him again, and reported to the emperor the expenses of building the river, the wages of the river workers, and the compensation for the injured.

This brochure was sent up by Guanbao, along with a brochure from the Fourteenth Master.

The emperor took a look, and after a rough calculation in his mind, he knew that the amount of money was reliable.It can be seen that Guan Bao, as the governor of the river, not only has no corruption himself, but also restrains his subordinates and spends money on business.

As Zhang Tingyu was the second in command of the 'Great Qing Audit Bureau', of course this book was calculated before being reported to the emperor.

Seeing that the emperor also approved "yes", he received the order and was busy submitting the expenditure report to the Ministry of Households for approval.

The Thirteenth Master took this opportunity to continue to say good things to make the emperor happy: "The imperial brother's examination house is really ingenious. From now on, the ministries will no longer dare to privately report and sell it privately, and hide all kinds of accounts." Then he advised the emperor to rest more: "Brother Huang has been busy for more than ten days for this examination mansion. Now that my younger brother and Mr. Zhang have entered the door, the entire examination mansion has started to operate on its own. Brother Huang should take some time to rest."

The emperor has a memorabilia in his heart.

After the examination mansion is completed, even if one item is ticked off.

There are still many major events left, but the emperor believes that this time he will have more time.It is better to walk more steadily than the previous life.

Before the thirteenth master resigned, the emperor had already recovered his calm.

In fact, he had already made arrangements for Lao Ba and the others in this life, but he was put aside before the time came.But the emperor didn't bother to see Lao Ba Ri's aggrieved face, so he directly issued an order: "Prince Lian is weak and sick, please place him in the Changchun Garden for rest until he recovers."

Changchun Garden is considered to be the palace and other courtyard that Lord Kangxi likes to go to.

The emperor still prefers his own Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden is a waste of human resources and material resources, so he threw the old eight in there to 'recover his illness', and then threw in the old nine and ten who kept saying they were willing to take the blame for Prince Lian. It can be regarded as comforting their brotherhood.

Now an important matter has come to an end.After the emperor had finished the details for today, he folded up the rest of the invitations and prepared to read them tomorrow.

Now, he was going to see how the pomegranate tree he admired was doing.

Su Peisheng went back yesterday, cultivated the soil these days, and finally moved the pomegranate tree over.

In the Yonghe Palace, Jiang Heng was also admiring his newly arrived pomegranate tree through the window, then turned to Qiu Xue and said, "This tree blocks the windows of the west wing a bit tightly."

Qiuxue wiped the floating ash in the cracks of the diamond-patterned window lattices, looked carefully at the courtyard for a while, nodded and said: "It's really blocked." Then said: "This morning, Zhou promised to go to the east again to see the imperial concubine. Yesterday One time, one time today, it's rare that the imperial concubine is willing to see her."

Qiu Xue was a little worried: "Master, aren't you afraid that the imperial concubine will instruct Zhou to promise to do something?"

There are many women in the palace who are often in, promised, and official, and the imperial concubine's Yikun palace has a high threshold, and the imperial concubine is not good-tempered, and she won't meet everyone, but she can see the ordinary Zhou Xu twice, presumably because she is drunk Weng's intention was not to drink, but to Jiang Heng.

Jiang Heng held his chin: "Zhou promised to do something, but the actions of this meeting are not at the behest of the imperial concubine."

The noble concubine is the type of no one in the world, even if she is not the only favorite, she is the only noble concubine.In her opinion, even if Zhou promised to be her dog, he had to prove his worth first and then bring his own dog food.

After all, there are too many people in this palace who want to curry favor with the noble concubine as her attendants.

When the imperial concubine was the only one in favor, many people actually didn't dare to flatter her, or thought it was useless to flatter her—the imperial concubine had such a temper that she would never share the emperor's bowl with others.

But now there are a lot more low-level concubines who go to curry favor with the imperial concubine: the imperial concubine will not let the emperor out of her own bowl, but the problem is that now the emperor is in someone else's bowl!The imperial concubine must be very willing to poach the emperor from other people's bowls.

It can be said that the enthusiasm of non-prime concubines to hug the thigh of the imperial concubine has never been higher. There is no situation where the imperial concubine is suspected of falling out of favor, and the traffic is sparse in front of the door.On the contrary, because of this suspicion, the front of Yikun Palace became more lively.

After all, in the palace, it is the only way for a woman to fall out of favor.

The imperial concubine has been able to keep the record of exclusive petting for five years, and she was directly conferred the title of imperial concubine with the status of the Han army flag, and she is already an idol worshiped by the low-ranking concubines in the harem.

She doesn't have grace at this moment, but her position is still there, and it's time to promote newcomers.

"Based on what I know about the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine may have just slapped a word on Zhou Xu." Jiang Heng cleared his throat, and imitated the concubine's arrogance when she raised her jaw slightly and looked down: "I don't like useless things. people."

Qiuxue and Qiushuang both laughed and said: "Although Zhou Xu's status is low, but they are both in the harem, the imperial concubine would not be so shameless."

Jiang Hengxin said: "Acquaintances in the book can be regarded as acquaintances, the imperial concubine definitely has this tone."

"I will tell you two things. First, the Yikun Palace is for me to live in. No one else can live in it. Second, I look down on useless people."

Zhou promised to sit on the couch, and what played in his mind was the "One" and "Two" of the imperial concubine.

She mustered up the courage to go to Yikun Palace yesterday, but she did not see the imperial concubine herself, the maid who sent the message only sent her away, saying that the empress had seen too many people, and she was not in the mood to say goodbye.

After Zhou promised to resign in dejection, he also retreated.However, when he returned to Yonghe Palace, a pomegranate tree was planted in front of his window in the next afternoon.Moreover, Qiu Xue, the maid of honor, said outside the window: "Oh, no matter how nice the trees in our palace are, they are not as lovable as the trees in Yikun Palace."

Zhou promised to tremble in the room: Lord Xin knows that I have been to Yikun Palace.

Consciously being forced to go to Liangshan, Zhou Xu promised to hurry up today and continue to beg to see the imperial concubine. After giving money and begging the imperial concubine, Zhou promised to finally meet the imperial concubine.

The aura of the noble concubine was so oppressive that she couldn't find Bei. After she explained with a trembling voice that she was "bullied and suppressed" by the nobles, and then expressed her wish to be loyal to the noble concubine and stay in the Yikun Palace, she got several favors from the noble concubine. With a sneer, the 'one' and 'two' have been declared.

Zhou promised to cry in Yikun Palace.

The noble concubine got up and ordered someone to see off the guests, and said: "I don't like useless people, but if you can be useful, I can go to the empress and tell you to leave Yonghe Palace."

Zhou promised to grab this life-saving straw immediately.

In Zhou Ying's opinion, the smiling Xingui is the most terrifying ghost. She has offended people severely, and the only way to survive is to leave the Yonghe Palace.

Be a useful person... That's right, as long as she can make the nobles see her crimes against the emperor, the imperial concubine will be happy, and she will definitely find her useful!

Even sacrificing his own chance to be favored, in Zhou Ying's opinion, it doesn't matter anymore: After carefully dressing up last time, after wanting to attract the emperor with beauty but seeing the impatience in the emperor's eyes and throwing his sleeves away, Zhou Xu has already I don't have the confidence to win favor on my own, and live a good life in the harem.

Then hugging a thigh is her last way out.

If no high-ranking concubine is willing to protect her, she will definitely be tortured to death by the nobleman in the future.

The emperor walked to the Yonghe Palace by himself. The distance from the Hall of Mental Cultivation to the Yonghe Palace is not short, just to disperse the muscles and bones.

He said to Su Peisheng as he walked, "Is the arrangement in the Imperial Garden ready?"

Su Peisheng said hastily, "Don't worry, Lord Long Live."

The emperor thought that he would be free today, so he took the nobleman to the Yuhuayuan lake to dispel his psychological shadow: Hearing what she said last time, she was really afraid of swans.

If you are afraid of swans, you will be even more afraid of wild animals and birds in the Mulan paddock.The emperor really wanted to take her to ride a horse to relax.Especially the Haidongqing falcons that assist in hunting. The emperor has raised two of them himself, and he is going to show her their majesty.

Let her get used to it with the swan first.

Su Peisheng received the order, and went to the rare bird room to find the chief eunuch, and asked them to release the two most docile and beautiful swans, making sure that this time they are not easily frightened swans that beat people.

"Is the emperor here to drink tea? The concubine has mixed seven or eight kinds of pomegranate tea these days."

Seeing the emperor coming, Jiang Heng consciously submitted the project "Research Report on Pomegranate Related Tea Drinks".

The emperor couldn't help laughing: Sometimes the nobleman is quite similar to himself, there is some work on hand, and he has to finish it.

"I'll drink tea when I come back. You change into thicker clothes, and I will take you to... a place."

After listening to the emperor's meal, Jiang Heng knew that it was going to be a trick, so he went in to change clothes without asking.

Qiu Xue seriously thought about the plan: "Master's clothes don't need to be changed into thicker ones. Although the sun has set, it's still hot when you go outside. Why don't the servants bring you a cloak for preparation."

"The one with the fleece." Among the clothes newly sent by Shang Yijian, there is a fleece one.Jiang Heng used to like the kind of furry clothes that look very comfortable and look like a rabbit.

When she came out, the emperor was reading her book in front of the bookshelf.

The emperor didn't come to Yonghe Palace many times in person, but he had a good memory and found that every time there were two more books, and they were all for children's education.Originally, he also thought that Jiang Heng, like the concubines in the harem, put some enlightenment children's books here, with the intention of recruiting a son.

But later, when she looked at the manuscripts of Manchu and Chinese handwriting that she had accumulated in her case and arranged according to the day, she realized that she was reading and practicing handwriting.

Looking at the date marked on it, we can see that she practiced calligraphy persistently and never stopped, even if she twisted her foot, she didn't stop.This perseverance is rare.

"If you like reading, there are many books in the Jingyang Palace behind the Yonghe Palace. You can go there and get some." Jiang Heng was pleasantly surprised when he heard that Jingyang Palace is the place she has always wanted to go, and there is also a The plot point of the original novel "Xinfeilu".

"Thank you, Your Majesty." She smiled happily, and the Emperor's heart brightened when he saw it.

So he took the initiative to reach out his hand: "Let's go, it will be completely dark in a while."

However, as soon as the emperor and Jiang Heng walked out of the door, they saw a familiar figure poked in the corridor.

Jiang Heng's spirit was shaken: Oh, Zhou promised to come!She's finally moving!

When it comes to a familiar figure, only Jiang Heng himself is familiar with it and has an idea.The emperor didn't notice Zhou promised last time, and he still didn't notice this time.

But Jiang Heng wanted to defend the emperor: this time, the emperor really can't be blamed, because Zhou promised to change his attire this time.

Zhou promised to dress up intentionally last time. Although it was also moon white clothes in soft tones, it was obviously a delicate flower of Chu Chu after decoration. This time she was wearing a somewhat bleak and old light blue flag dress. The pattern on it is also very sparse, if you don't look carefully, it is no different from the light blue patternless clothes of ordinary court ladies.She only wore two chopstick-like hairpins on her head, and she didn't know where she found such simple jewelry.

In general, standing in the porch, she blended perfectly into the group of court ladies, so much so that the emperor passed her eyes, but there was no reaction, and he was still ready to take Jiang Heng out.

Zhou promised to see that the emperor didn't know her at all, and the hesitation in his heart was gone all of a sudden, and he suddenly had the courage to break the boat.She rushed out very resolutely, and knelt down in front of the emperor, her voice was desolate and soft like weeping: "Your majesty, my concubine greets you."

On this summer night, Jiang Heng felt a little chilled by her desolation.

But the emperor was startled: just now he had been thinking about how to take the nobleman to see the big swan, and suddenly someone jumped at his feet. If he hadn't heard the word "chenqie" and retracted his legs in time, he almost subconsciously Activate the defense mechanism and kick people out!

Now the emperor suddenly understood why Jiang Heng was so frightened by the goose that he twisted his feet.

A petite human being pounced on him, and even a big man like him was startled, not to mention Mr. Xingui was just a girl, facing a crazy big swan.

After realizing Jiang Heng's psychology in an instant, the emperor became angry. There are such unruly concubines in this palace? !

That is to say, in private, if he misbehaves at some palace banquet, he will lose his people.

But the emperor has never been a person who likes to tangle with his concubines and talk too much. For him, it is very unnecessary for him to speak harshly to a low-level concubine.So the chief eunuch of the Ouchi, the chief of Su Peisheng, immediately became the scapegoat.

The emperor turned his gaze to him: "You don't want your head anymore?"

Su Peisheng immediately changed into an eggplant face.He really didn't expect this situation today.

Zhou promised to intercept Noble Hu Xin the last time, but the emperor ignored her, and Noble Xin got a pomegranate tree instead.

Seeing that Zhou promised to come again this time, Eunuch Su ignored it like last time: if someone wants to lose face, it's none of his business.

They are all concubines who live in the Yonghe Palace. Could it be that he, the eunuch, can still control the young master and not let him pay his respects?

So Eunuch Su put on a posture of eating melons and watching the show.

As a result, Zhou promised to be too brave and rushed too fast, which hurt him, a melon eater. Eunuch Su was indescribably miserable, so he had to kowtow repeatedly.

"The slave is guilty, and the slave will 'ask' Zhou to go back to his Westinghouse."

The emperor frowned: "Zhou promised?" Then he turned to look at Jiang Heng: "I saw her with you last time, she doesn't seem to look like this."

Jiang Heng: ... I am a little unable to answer this question. Why didn't the emperor ask the magical conch, no, the magical Zhou agreed.

Zhou promised to speak without the emperor asking.

Zhou promised that there was no rouge on his cheeks, but a little red around his eyes - a straight man might think it was a natural blush and feel pitiful, but as a woman, Jiang Heng could naturally see what Zhou promised at a glance. makeup.

This is haggard grievance makeup.

Jiang Heng basically already knew what she was going to do.

Sure enough, only heard Zhou promised in a weak voice, with a few traces of trembling and crying that were imperceptible but would still be noticed by others: "Back to the emperor, the clothes of the concubines are so poor that they are disrespectful in front of the emperor, please forgive me. "

The emperor frowned and asked her: "Since I know that I am simple and disrespectful, why do you still come to the imperial court?"

Zhou promised to be taken aback for a moment, what the emperor said was not what she expected.But she quickly replied according to the words she had prepared: "Concubine, concubine is also helplessly wronged." Then she took a look at Jiang Heng with the fear of a lamb looking at a tiger: "Concubine has difficulties, please don't let me go!" Ask again."

The emperor stroked the fine marks on the cuffs from the paperwork: "I didn't intend to ask." Then he turned to Jiang Heng, who was one step behind him because of the accident, and half-hidden behind him: "Don't be afraid, let's go."

The reason why Jiang Heng was half a step behind was not because Zhou promised to rush out and was frightened, but because he almost laughed and hid behind the emperor.At this moment, biting his own lip, holding back a smile, he agreed perfectly, and followed the emperor around Zhou who was kneeling on the ground.

"Your majesty, my concubine begs the emperor to stay." Zhou Xu's voice suddenly sounded again.

Jiang Heng swore that he saw the obvious impatience on the emperor's face.

"Su Peisheng—" the emperor pointed with his right hand, signaling for himself to be quiet.Su Peisheng hurriedly brought two young eunuchs who had been on standby since just now, and prepared to forcefully 'please' Zhou to agree.

Zhou promised to go around Su Peisheng like a fish, and once again threw himself at the emperor's feet and knelt down.Cold sweat came down Su Peisheng's head all of a sudden: he actually stumbled and missed someone!This, this, it's over, I can only beg for a while to have fun with the nobleman Xin and the big goose, and forget about my mistakes and omissions today.

You Yuzhou promised to swim to the emperor again, and wept with real emotion.

This time, she didn't dare to engage in the tricks of "speaking shyly" and "Don't ask the emperor", but directly said to the emperor: "Your majesty! She likes bright and soft clothes, because the concubine is like her." She fears that her ministers and concubines will not be allowed to wear them." Zhou promised to take a corner of her flag dress to the emperor and cry to the emperor that she would not allow her to wear it, and then took a hairpin from her head and said: "Even your head The jewelry on the dress is not allowed to be made of pure gold or inlaid with beads." She was not allowed to wear it well either.

Jiang Heng listened from the side, as if listening to someone else's story.

This is indeed someone else's story.

The emperor looked at Zhou Xu, and suddenly felt an unusual sense of familiarity.

From this strange promise, he suddenly saw the shadow of Lao Ba.

If I saw her clothes like others and asked 'Why are you dressed so plain', she would probably look at Mrs. Xin pitifully and say, 'No one forced me, I wanted to dress like this myself. '

No matter whether Jiang Heng argues or not, Zhou promises to continue to feel wronged and pitiful: "It has nothing to do with Noble Xin, it's because I'm timid, I'm afraid of stealing Noble Xin's limelight and making her angry."

When the emperor thought about Prince Lian's face of 'it's all my fault, I was too scared to make mistakes', his blood pressure became high.

The emperor looked back at Jiang Heng. Jiang Heng thought that the emperor was waiting for her to refute, so he said: "The concubine has never said a word to Zhou Xu in private since she entered the Yonghe Palace. I really don't know where Zhou Xu's conclusion came from." come."

Coincidentally, Zhou promised to be jealous of her at first, but later avoided her, went to the queen's palace to ask An, and never went out with her.She avoided herself, and Jiang Heng would not take the initiative to talk to her.

Except for nodding their heads when they had to meet, the two really had no communication.

Zhou promised to cry even worse when he heard this. He pointed to the pomegranate tree and said, "Your trustworthy person is not guilty of saying this? Don't say anything else, just say that the pomegranate tree is so big in the backyard of Yonghe Palace. Let people plant it in front of my window!" She looked at the emperor: "The emperor rewarded the nobleman with a pomegranate tree, but she took the opportunity to suppress the concubine and planted the tree in front of the window of the concubine, so that it would be dark when she got up early."

Jiang Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

That's great, let Qiuxue use the 'pomegranate tree' to stimulate Zhou's promise to live up to her.Sure enough, Zhou promised not to forget to talk about it.

The emperor didn't want to hear it anymore when he heard this: don't say that he didn't believe what Zhou promised, but that he ordered the pomegranate tree to be planted to the west, so as not to block Jiang Heng's light.Su Peisheng reported back and forth that day, and also mentioned that "the noble man is sincere, but when the servant mentioned planting trees, she only wanted to plant them in front of the unoccupied wing in the east." '

At this time, Zhou promised to use this incident to frame him.

"Su Peisheng. Hengchun Garden, maid of honor."

When the emperor started to utter single words instead of whole sentences, he was irreparably angry.

This time Su Peisheng performed the task perfectly, and immediately led people to promise Zhou to evacuate the scene quickly.Then I came back to confirm with the emperor: "Is this the servant who agreed to Zhou immediately... The servant should fight. Is it the maid Zhou who is going to be sent to Hengchun Nursery to work as an errand, or will she go back to the empress empress early tomorrow..."

Under the eyes of the emperor, Su Peisheng immediately recalled the holy intention: "This servant will order someone to send the maid Zhou over there."

After all, Jiang Heng doesn't know the emperor as well as Su Peisheng did. Just now when the emperor said "Hengchun garden, maid of honor", Jiang Heng was still thinking about what he meant, and now he understands that the emperor directly took away Zhou's promised concubine status and asked her to do it. A palace lady who raises flowers.

However, Zhou promised to dress up and was immediately drawn to be a court lady, which can be regarded as a perfect fit into the workplace environment.