[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

"What did she end up picking?"

Su Peisheng hurriedly presented the pamphlet he had prepared to the emperor.

A few days ago, the emperor was busy with Annan's affairs, only Concubine Xin went to the Yonghe Palace for half a day on her birthday, and Concubine Xin went to the main hall of Yonghe Palace to see it after moving to the palace, and then she had no time to enter the harem.

But just when he went to the main hall of Yonghe Palace, the emperor felt that it was still a bit empty and needed more decoration to live comfortably.

So the emperor asked Su Peisheng to guide Jiang Heng to the storeroom to pick it up as mentioned before, and added an extra sentence: "Let her go to the thirteenth storehouse to pick it out first."

Shisanku is the abbreviation of "Guangzhou Shisanhang Tribute Collection Library".

Over the years, the tributes of the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou are mostly Western goods, such as clocks, large globes, Herschel telescopes, etc., which need special maintenance, so they are stored in a separate warehouse.

Su Peisheng took the order and went away, thinking: Your Majesty, you don't say an upper limit, and you are not afraid that the concubines will be carried away by you.

When Jiang Heng arrived at Shisanku, it was indeed like a mouse fell into a rice vat.

The large globe she is familiar with (but the base is pure gold that she was familiar with in her previous life but owned very little), the telescope she is familiar with, and even the sofa and even the swivel chair she is familiar with.

Jiang Heng chose a set of exquisite swivel chairs as the first item, and finally he was able to slide away without dragging the chair.

Afterwards, I selected a few more items, all of which were much more convenient for daily use than the utensils in the palace - the emperor was busy with many political affairs, and I am afraid that he did not have time to browse the thirteen warehouses carefully, and his understanding of Western objects must be far less than She is a modern person with a lot of integration of China and the West.

She wanted to impress the emperor from the daily life: Don't just look at Annan, but also look at the distant overseas.

At this time, the imperial court has not banned the sea. The entire eastern coastline runs from south to north, and there are dozens of ports such as Guangzhou, Ningbo, Yuntai, and Jiaozhou that allow foreign merchant ships to travel.

In her memory, it was more than [-] years before Qianlong that all the gates in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places were closed, leaving only Guangzhou.After switching it on and off, the door was forcibly opened by someone. Since then, this land has ushered in a long period of nightmare from the sea.

"Sofa swivel chair?" The emperor opened the brochure Su Peisheng handed over, and saw something unfamiliar to him at first glance.

The word sofa is also translated from a foreign language, which is very strange to the emperor.

So he didn't look down, and closed the booklet: "Forget it, I'll go and see for myself, what she has picked out."

"Your Majesty, be careful, this chair doesn't look stable at all." Every time she saw her slid around in the study, Qiu Xue felt anxious.

What's wrong with this Westerner? Shouldn't the chair be stable? Why does it have a wheel? It would be great if the lady fell.

"No, if you're used to sitting, you'll know it's convenient." She skilfully slid to the front of the bookshelf to get the book, then slid herself back: "Actually, the emperor only needs one."

These days, the higher the status of the person, the thicker the chair.

Jiang Heng had been to the imperial study to see him, and he saw that the dragon chair in front of the emperor's desk was unusually wide and solid, carved with dragons and clouds.The prestige is there, and the domineering is also there, but it is very inconvenient to think about it.

Not to mention the emperor's big dragon chair, just Jiang Heng's rosewood chair, every time she wants to move herself out of the desk, she has to spend a little effort.And if it accidentally knocks on the armrest of the chair, it will be a piece of blue immediately.

"What do I need?"

Jiang Heng was taken aback, and got up to meet him.

She found that she had to be more careful when speaking in the main hall.The emperor entered the main hall from the main gate, and the straight line distance was very short. If he didn't wait for his servants to report, the palace servants of Yonghe Palace would have no time to inform her that the emperor had arrived.

The emperor walked into the east room where she used as a study, and saw her stand up from a round chair with a strange shape to greet her.

As she got up, the chair slid back a little.

"Please sit down, Your Majesty."

Seeing the emperor looking at the swivel chair, Jiang Heng warmly invited the emperor to try it.

As a migrant worker who often works overtime on liver projects, a good chair can last a lifetime.The design of the dragon chair is entirely to show the imperial prestige, and it is not enough in terms of comfort and ergonomics.

Jiang Heng believes that the emperor, who has to sit for a long time every day to review papers, should prefer this kind of soft and convenient swivel chair every day.

Sure enough, the emperor sat down, moved for a while, sat down at the table again to feel it, and quickly raised his head to ask Su Peisheng: "Is there such a seat in Thirteen Curry?"

Su Peisheng nodded quickly: "I remember that it was written on the file that this sofa chair was sent to the Thirteenth Bank in Guangzhou by a foreign businessman named the East India Company. He wanted to add this kind of very expensive seat to the list of commercial goods, and he sent a total of ten. set."

When Jiang Heng heard about the 'famous' East India Company that once monopolized opium across time and space, he felt very complicated.In any case, things like opium can no longer flow into the land of China!Jiang Heng once paid attention to it: it is probably the aftereffects of taking elixir in the previous life. In this life, the emperor is very resistant to all kinds of cinnabar pills. Drink, finally embarked on a serious road of physical fitness.

If the emperor knew about the dangers of opium, he would have banned it from entering the Qing Dynasty.

Jiang Heng took this matter to heart, thinking that it would not be bad to draw the emperor's attention to the East India Company first.

Sure enough, the emperor caressed the armrest of the sofa chair: "Western skills are somewhat different from ours." Jiang Heng nodded beside him: "The emperor asked my concubine to enter the thirteen warehouses, and my concubine also chose some machine-woven fabrics. Well. Although it is not as exquisite as the Kampot in the south of the Yangtze River, it is said that Westerners use machines to weave cloth, and the output is very fast."

Seeing that the emperor started to contemplate, Jiang Heng stopped talking.

Sure enough, the emperor himself sat on the sofa and thought for a long time.It wasn't until after a cup of tea that she seemed to wake up. Seeing that Jiang Heng was still standing aside without making a sound, she smiled, and simply pulled her to sit on her knees in front of her: "I'm lost in thought for a while, and you don't know what to do." Don't speak, just stand quietly like this, wouldn't it be exhausting."

Jiang Hengxin said: If you can be as vigilant overseas as you are to Annan, I am willing to stand here all night.

Su Peisheng leaned against the door, wanting to leave but dared not.

After all, the emperor just asked about the seat, so there must be more orders to follow.

Sure enough, the emperor turned his head and said to him: "Send two sets to the manufacturing office, let them make it as it is, and match it with dragon and cloud patterns." He paused: "Make a few more sets of python patterns."

The emperor did it for Prince Yi without any hassle.

Su Peisheng got an errand and happened to run away.

In the room, the emperor asked Jiang Heng again: "Recently, you are always called Hengchun Nursery? Do you want any flowers? The space in the palace is limited, and the conservatories in Hengchun Nursery are small. Many famous species are not complete. There are no flowers in the palace." The Hengchun Garden in the Yuanmingyuan may not be there." The emperor felt that she was always wronged that she did not have a banquet on her first birthday after entering the palace.

If she wanted some famous flowers, she couldn't find a way to get them.

This question hits Jiang Heng's point.She got up and showed her project plan to the emperor.

"The concubine wants to build a small garden in the apse, please look at the emperor."

When the emperor opened the "Yonghe Palace Garden Collection", he was shocked visually.

I saw flowers blooming everywhere, and the colors were extremely bright.

Jiang Heng has painted many paintings, all of which are similar to the atmosphere of dream gardens and fairy tale gardens, with a dreamy style that catches people's attention.

There are delicate and charming red roses under the blue moonlight, thousands of flowers like brocade under the flowing sunlight, a wall of jeweled salon roses in the magnificent dusk and sunset, and even the golden eyes painted by her thinking of "The Little Prince". Yellow rice fields and little foxes.In short, all the pictures are overwhelmingly contrasting extremely strong colors.

She used Western toners and pigments, and oil paintings in Europe are very common these days.There were also many Westerners in the Qing court, and Lord Yongzheng certainly saw them, and even he himself was called a "cos master" in later generations, and he left many pictures painted by Western painters.

But the current oil paintings still tend to be delicate and elegant, but Jiang Heng subconsciously used the modern style of thick, contrasting and strong colors.

When the emperor took it over and looked at it, his eyes lit up, not to mention whether the painting is good or not, but when such a painting appeared in front of his eyes, his eyes lit up first.

Such a stack of large blocks of bright colors was rarely seen by the emperor before.

Most of the paintings of the Han people leave room for it, and I have never seen anyone with such overwhelming brilliance.

But it's just such a bunch of flowers that don't fit the trend, after he looked at it carefully, he liked the full and vivid emotion in it.

The emperor continued to look back, and found that Jiang Heng had also drawn a small individual portrait of each flower she wanted to plant in the yard, and on the side was a bilingual record of the season when the flower was suitable for growing. Insect recruitment, whether the flowers are sun-tolerant, dry or drought-loving.

It can be seen that you have done enough homework, and you have done it very carefully, the emperor couldn't help asking: "How long have you been painting these?"

Jiang Heng did the math: "It must be a month."

The emperor once again felt that although she was a girl, in some respects she was similar to himself and the courtiers he admired: one must do one's best, and spend one's energy to do one thing well.

Holding the heavy "Yonghe Palace Garden Collection" in his hand, seeing her so devoted, the emperor suddenly wanted to tease her.

He coughed lightly, pretending to be serious: "I see that many flowers here need to be put on extra shelves, and even the branches and leaves have to climb the palace wall. There is no such old practice in the palace."

The emperor pretended to refuse, thinking that the person in front of him would be disappointed—this was his experience back then.When he was Prince Yong, he was ordered to do business in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he wrote a detailed memorial to "pursue payment of grain arrears to various places", which is basically the initial outline version of his current administration.

In order to be detailed and well-founded, he spent several months collecting data from various places, trying to impress Huang Ama with actual figures.

However, Emperor Kangxi still dismissed him with the phrase "changes are easy to happen, and the court is unstable", and directly rejected the plan.

Emperor Yongzheng experienced persistent heartache and shortness of breath at that time.

Because he felt that Jiang Heng's temperament was very similar to his own, the emperor wanted to tease her and see how she would react when he saw her put out a book of gardens with great care.

He was also worried that she would be too sad, so he didn't say anything to death, only saying that there was no such old practice in the palace.I was going to wait for her to be disappointed, and then I would turn around and say comfortingly, "I can make an exception for you."

Unexpectedly, the person in front of him was slightly stunned when he heard his implicit negative words, and then laughed it off: "If there are no old rules and rules, it's fine, and the concubine can just bring a few pots of flowers from the Hengchun Garden to raise them."

It's common for projects to be killed, not to mention the emperor's strict rules.Jiang Hengwei thought regretfully: Maybe it is impossible to build her dream garden in the Forbidden City.According to what the emperor said, the Old Summer Palace is very big, if there is a chance in the future, it should be fine to go there and build a garden.

Soon Jiang Heng had finished adjusting his emotions and was about to take away the "Garden Collection" from the emperor.

However, the emperor refused to give it to her.

Jiang Heng: What's going on?If you don't give approval for funding, you won't be approved. I have to pay back my painstaking plan!There is no backup of this painting.

So Jiang Heng said: "Your Majesty?"

Only then did the emperor let go and returned the booklet to her, and still reached out and pulled her onto his lap to sit down.The distance between the two is so close that they can even see each other's shadow in each other's eyes.

The emperor just looked at her like this: "You have spent so much effort, if it doesn't work, then forget it?"

Jiang Heng nodded and said bluntly: "There are regrets, but do your best to fulfill your destiny. If your destiny doesn't come true, then it's fine." She stroked the booklet in her hand: "Besides, my concubines are very happy when they draw these, but there are no real flowers. These paintings are always concubines."

After all, her character is 'constant', not forceful.Her perseverance will eventually reconcile with herself, and she pursues a life of doing her best with no regrets and no regrets.

If you really can't ask for it, don't ask for it. You can't force yourself to death.

The emperor could hear that these words were completely sincere, and he couldn't help muttering to himself: "I can't do it, I have to force it."

The person in front of him is similar to him, but he is not like him in essence.

He had always thought that he liked Jiang Heng's like him, but at this moment, he suddenly realized that what he really thought she liked was that she was not as relaxed and free as he was.

She does her best in everything, but she really lets go.

"Don't overdo it, don't be insufficient." This is a sentence of encouragement written by the emperor to himself when he was struggling with ambitions.

But he still can't let go.He can't help but dig into the corner, thinking that if he works hard, he should be rewarded, and if he doesn't, he should work harder.As a result, I over-exaggerate many things, get twice the result with half the effort, and even hurt others and myself, and finally regret it.

"This is very good." Jiang Heng only felt that the emperor's arm seemed to increase strength unconsciously, as if trying to hold something precious.

"You have such a temper, it's very good." The emperor's tone was very firm and dignified.

Jiang Heng also smiled, and replied: "The concubine will never change."

The emperor came out of his emotions and realized that he had lost his composure just now, so he quickly changed the subject and said: "I agree, the apse will be changed according to your liking."

And quickly announced that Chai Yun, the steward of Hengchun Nursery, would come over and ask him to deploy manpower, and how to arrange plants, trees and flowers in the back hall of Yonghe Palace should be arranged by Concubine Xin.

Director Chai was very excited: the previous work was not in vain, and our Hengchun Nursery has ushered in the big project ordered by the emperor!

Let's say that after the emperor approved Jiang Heng's 'Garden Project', she didn't stop the painting habit she had developed for a month.

When I came back from Chengqian Palace this day, I was still writing.

It's just that this time it's not flowers.

After finishing the painting in one go, she stopped to admire her first figure painting: it was a little girl in red skirt with a stubborn expression on her face, reaching out to pick a delicate and charming rose.If someone who is familiar with the emperor sees it, they will definitely recognize it at a glance. The girl's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to the emperor's.

Jiang Heng named this painting "Aixinjueluo·Minmin".

That's right, what she painted was the clay sculpture version of the emperor!

Yesterday the emperor said to himself, "I have to force it", it fell into Jiang Heng's ears, and he immediately connected his forcefulness with Zhao Min, the paper man she especially likes.

So he gave the emperor this nickname, and planned to secretly make a clay sculpture of the emperor in private.

Coincidentally, Jiang Heng just drew two pictures, and the emperor happened to bump into them.

The person who was sculpted by the clay stared at the portrait carefully, while Jiang Heng was beside him in fear.

After a long while, the emperor turned to ask her, "Do you want a daughter?"

The emperor was really emotional: my son and heir are not close, of course she doesn't know.Seeing that she also likes children, she will eat fried chicken with Hongli Hongzhou, and will be a sugar figurine in the palace - presumably she really wants to have a child of her own.No, I've even thought of a name, it's Min Min.

There is also a clear sense of emotion in this painting.

pity……

The emperor's mood became complicated.

And Jiang Heng quickly realized that the emperor had misunderstood something.However, since the emperor misunderstood, Jiang Heng simply let himself go.

Next, she drew tsundere girls in all kinds of little skirts, and even crying while holding a candy figurine—of course, they were all in the clay sculpture emperor.

When Jiang Heng painted, he couldn't help laughing.

On the contrary, the emperor felt strange when he saw that all the paintings she painted were little girls.Compared with the princess, the concubines in the palace should want a prince more, why does she draw girls.

Jiang Heng smiled and paved the way for his clay sculpture: "My daughter is like my father. The emperor carefully looked at the little girl I drew, does the girl look like you?"