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Concubine Yu came to Yonghe Palace the next day after seeing her son.

This is also Jiang Heng's first concubine who came to visit her alone after she became pregnant.

When Qiu Xue entered the door and announced that Concubine Yu was visiting, Jiang Heng put an invisible pause on the plan of "On Taking Over Major Projects (i.e. Pregnancy) and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace (i.e. getting along with concubines)" that he was writing in his mind. key.

From the perspective of human biological emotions, normal pregnancy is also called joy, which is a happy event in ordinary families and should be blessed in social life.

But philosophy tells human beings to look at things dialectically.In different environments, the same thing will have different effects.

If one compares a concubine to a profession without any emotion, then the matter of pregnancy is an important project that affects the entire career, and it affects not only one's career.

When a project can affect the ownership of the company in the future, there must be an essential competition among all eligible heirs.

Normal feelings are one thing. Jiang Heng feels that he has a good relationship with Concubine Yu and Concubine Xi. At least they don't interfere with each other, and they can talk about their palace affairs loosely and naturally when they meet.But that's not the case now.

In the future, her children will naturally squeeze the living space of other people's children.

Then interpersonal relationships will inevitably change.

What Jiang Heng simulated in his mind were all kinds of plans after the sudden change of interpersonal relationship.There are the best and the worst.

Speaking of which, after the completion of the literacy class in Yonghe Palace and everyone in the palace knew how to use words, Jiang Heng also had a distressing thing: he really dared not write many things now.

And in addition to avoiding the palace people to see it, it is also necessary to avoid others.

There are too many people with bright eyes and bright hearts in the palace, and the emperor is the first one.As his attention to the Yonghe Palace gradually increased, Jiang Heng dared to write something like a work plan at first, and then burned it later. Now he has not written at all, for fear that the emperor will walk in sometime to see it. , I had to write it in my head.

He was used to seeing all kinds of schedules with itemized items, and could only draw up a draft in his head, Jiang Heng always felt that it was not clear enough.

Besides, Jiang Heng wrote the plan in his head, in the eyes of the people of Yonghe Palace who pay close attention to her now, it means that the master spends a lot of time in a daze every day.

Since Jiang Heng became pregnant, Qiu Xue has been highly nervous, and her eyes have been staring for a long time, so that they seem to be permanently magnified.

She even went to ask Nanny Yu specifically: "Ask Nanny, it's okay for our mother to be in a trance for a long time."

Nanny Yu is well-informed and stable, she smiled and said: "Pregnant women are short-spirited, this is a common thing, the letter concubine asks for a safe pulse every day, Imperial Physician Liu is very experienced, I also see It's on. You don't have to be too nervous."

Qiu Xue apologized, "It's because I've never seen my master like this before, so I asked Mammy a few more questions, it's not that I can't trust Mammy."

Nanny Yu waved her hand: "Although I came out of the Empress Dowager's Palace, these days, we always think about the matter of believing in the concubine's fetal image, and you can talk about what you want. After all, I didn't follow the empress before, I don't know the details."

Therefore, when Jiang Heng was silently drafting the summary report in his mind, many people were paying attention to and worrying about her.

For example, at this meeting, before Concubine Yu came to visit, of course she ordered the court lady Huang Yang to come to the front station first to inquire if it was inconvenient for Concubine Xin and if there was any discomfort.

Qiu Xue tried to persuade her: "Your Majesty looks more sleepy than before, why don't you see the guests first?"

Everyone else agreed, but Jiang Heng was puzzled: "Sleepy? Not at all, I am full of energy." Pregnancy is not an easy task. In order to better protect Xiao Minmin, she has many plans in her mind.Among them, the interpersonal relationship with the concubines in the palace is one of the most important tasks at present.

Concubine Yu took the initiative to come to the door, she should have made her own decision after digesting the news that Concubine Xin is pregnant.Her coming here this time is also a manifestation of her attitude.

Jiang Heng is waiting to collect more and more comprehensive data to improve his plan.So she simply accepted Concubine Yu's visit, and since the weather was getting hotter, she invited Concubine Yu to come and play in the evening.Also asked Qiu Xue to prepare various fruits and iced cheese to cool off the heat.

Qiu Xue had to go nervously.

When Wujin fell to the west, Concubine Yu came as promised.

After communicating with her son, Concubine Yu thought about it all night, and finally decided to put away the pressure and tension in her heart, continue to build a good relationship with Yonghe Palace, and release her goodwill.

And she is also the most suitable main concubine to be friendly with Yonghe Palace: no matter what, her son has the least chance of getting a reserve position in the future.

Concubine Yu is the latest concubine Jin in the palace, and it seems that mother and child have the least advantage, but because of this, her social interaction is the most flexible-if Concubine Qi or Concubine Xi suddenly becomes enthusiastic and goes to Yonghe Palace Run, I'm afraid that the attention of the emperor and queen mother will be concentrated immediately, and I suspect from the bottom of my heart that if the next thing is abnormal, I'm afraid there will be a demon.

Concubine Yu's identity and temper are here. As the first concubine to go to and from Yonghe Palace, she is much more normal.

And she came here with great care.

Concubine Yu stepped into the main gate of Yonghe Palace, and she was greeted by Nanny Yu with Qiu Xue in person.The palace was exceptionally clean, and the maids and eunuchs were all busy.

Concubine Yu felt relieved when she saw that Yonghe Palace was careful inside and outside.He simply said directly: "Nurse Yu, it's good if you stay here all the time. Although I have given birth to a child, it has been several years. I have forgotten all the taboos. Before I came here today, I just thought about it." I'm going to change into clothes that haven't been scented, and I forgot that the incense bead bracelet made for the Dragon Boat Festival is still on."

As he spoke, he took it off his wrist and handed it to Nanny Yu himself: "Look, old man, there aren't any medicinal materials for invigorating blood circulation and removing stasis in this fragrant medicine bead, or any spices that my concubine Xin can't smell now."

Yu Mammy has a specialization in surgery, and she remembers the miscarriage matters of the women in the palace, as well as all kinds of fragrance powders, and what was used by He Si, and she remembers them all in her mind.

At this moment, she was leaning on crutches with one hand, and took the incense beads handed over by Concubine Yu with the other, and said: "The old slave is so disabled that he can't hold the pearls from Concubine Yu with both hands, so I apologize to the empress." While sniffing the fragrance beads gently, Then said: "This is the evil spirit beads that the Imperial Hospital makes every Dragon Boat Festival and distributes to the palaces. It also smells like jade scraps and wormwood."

Concubine Yu smiled and praised: "Sure enough, Mammy has the sharpest nose. In order to smoke mosquitoes in my palace, I used a lot of wormwood mixed with jade shavings incense for the past two days."

Nanny Yu handed it back to Concubine Yu: "Don't worry, ma'am, this bead is fine, and it's suitable for you to wear it in summer with a hot constitution. If the empress next to you is weak and cold, you can take it off after summer. You can take it to the equinox."

Concubine Yu said that she had learned, and Huang Yang behind her had already prepared the purse for Nanny Yu: even if it is a concubine, it is not always possible to give a red envelope to the nanny in the Empress Dowager's palace.

Jiang Heng felt relieved when he saw Concubine Yu enter the door.Very good, at least the interpersonal relationship here is preserved.

In the harem, one asks about traces but not about one's heart.

Jiang Heng would never ask Concubine Yu to be happy for her pregnancy from the bottom of her heart. She is not a saint herself, so how could she ask someone else to be a saint.As long as Concubine Yu doesn't take hostile negative actions towards her, that's enough.

From the look in a person's eyes, you can see what kind of emotion they are carrying.

Concubine Yu obviously came with a kind of positive emotion to show her favor.

Jiang Heng got up to pick up Concubine Yu as before.

Concubine Yu directly stepped forward and took her arm, and asked her to sit on the south window kang: "Sit down quickly, from now on you don't need to pick me up! I'm not afraid of you, but I'm afraid of my child."

Jiang Heng sat down following her gentle force, and then thanked Concubine Yu for the congratulatory gift.

This time she was pregnant, and most of the gifts she received from various palaces were the eternal god of gifts in the harem—clothing.Occasionally there are some side objects, but there is nothing that can be imported, and everyone avoids suspicion.

Concubine Yu smiled and said: "Actually, I have already picked out the satin for you, but the emperor was not in the palace at the time, and the empress dowager hadn't delivered anything yet, so naturally we have to go to the back row."

When Jiang Hengzhen was born and conceived, the emperor was raising chicken babies in the wheat field of the Old Summer Palace, squeezing his son and child laborer to do farm work.

The empress dowager waited for the emperor to come back to reward first, and then set the rules for the reward, let alone others.

Sure enough, after the emperor returned to the palace, he was rewarded according to his concubine's position in the Yonghe Palace. Things are always in boxes.

What is in the box, the emperor does not say, the queen dowager does not ask, it is useless for others to scratch their hearts and livers.

This kind of invisible reward makes people feel that the emperor is partial to Xinfei!

In the past, I still couldn't see it, but this time the emperor directly took away the concubine's reward, and the concubines in the harem and the wives inside and outside who learned about this all sighed in their hearts: Good luck for the letter concubine!

Originally, he had been in the palace for less than a year, so it was not Dafeng who broke the rules and was promoted to the rank of concubine.

Now that she is pregnant again, when her child falls to the ground, the three-year mourning period for the late emperor will be over. If the emperor grants the sixth palace again, it is estimated that she will still be able to enter another rank.

Concubine Yu's words seemed to be an understatement, but she focused on "picking out the satin early", intending to express her goodwill, and told Jiang Heng that the clothes were not just taken out casually.

The clothes in this palace are not the newer the better.Take the most common cotton cloth as an example. It depends on which year the cotton in Songjiang is the best. The newer the better.Rare materials depend on luck, and it is impossible to say which year a batch will be dyed.For example, the purple material that the Empress Dowager loved last time, Jiang Ning Weaving has not reproduced the next batch so far, and she is always worried and bald.

This time, Jiang Heng looked at the clothes sent by Concubine Yu, and found that they had really spent a lot of money to choose them, and they were patterns that hadn't been seen in the palace in the past two years.

So Jiang Heng thanked him earnestly again.

Concubine Yu's heartfelt gift, felt the heartfelt and thoughtful thanks, and her face became more and more happy.

She thought more openly in her heart: With Concubine Qi at the forefront, she really didn't have to give birth to Yonghe Palace just to conceive a concubine Xin.It is impossible to say that she does not want to be the crown prince at all.But Concubine Yu treats her son as a crown prince, just like parents want their children to be admitted to Qingbei. They have such good expectations but know that it is basically impossible.

So Concubine Yu quickly said: "That child Hongzhou is still thinking about eating fried chicken. I'll tell him, you believe that the empress is going to give you a younger brother or younger sister, so let him not disturb you."

Jiang Heng said: "If it was two days ago, I'm afraid I really didn't dare, maybe I would feel like throwing up when I smell something. But in these two days, I'm a good person again, my lady let Hong Zhou come - I promised the child Yes, it’s not easy to make a slip of the tongue and disappoint the child.” Seeing Concubine Yu’s hesitation, Jiang Heng added: “Don’t worry, empress, as long as I’m uncomfortable and unable to hold on, no matter how polite I am.”

Concubine Yu smiled when she heard what she said openly.

When talking about children, Concubine Yu often mentioned Hongzhou's pitiful appearance, talked about parenting lessons, and at the end she seemed to inadvertently point out: "Hongzhou has been squeamish since he was a child, and his temper is not stable. I think he suffers from hardships and suffers from pain." Panicked and felt that it would be wrong, his Ama is Huang Ama, and he will not be able to run away from a rich prince in the future, so why bother."

Jiang Heng also smiled: "Yes, it's best if the child is safe and sound."

It is unnecessary for a smart person to speak so clearly, but both of them intend to take a step back from each other and draw a new line of safety for their new interpersonal relationship.

What Concubine Yu and Jiang Heng showed is exactly what Jiang Heng likes most: everyone has their own projects, they don't interfere with each other, they have occasional exchanges, and they never cross the border.

Jiang Hengxin said: Concubine Yu is really my favorite kind of colleague.

In this way, classmate Hong Zhou's fried chicken feast was decided.

Returning from Yonghe Palace to Concubine Yu's Xianfu Palace, you still have to go through the Imperial Garden.Huang Yang looked at the snow-white swans walking back and forth on the bank from afar, and said, "My concubine Xin likes to feed the swans, and there are many people in the harem who promise to follow suit and feed them too. These swans have also learned to stretch out their wings to catch them." There will be something for people to eat. The lady sees that they are so fat that they can't even fly."

Concubine Yu also stopped to look at the fat geese for a while: "It's a pity that Concubine Xin can't come to feed the geese now, I see that she really likes these swans."

Huang Yang asked his mother again: "The last time our fifth elder brother went to Yonghe Palace for dinner, my mother specially ordered the servants to go to the empress Xi to inform her, and indeed the fourth elder brother also went. This time..."

Concubine Yu pondered for a while: "Go ahead and say it, let's see what Jingren Palace does."

No better than Concubine Qi—everyone could see Concubine Qi's anxiety overflowing from her face since Concubine Xin was pregnant.But Concubine Xi couldn't see anything from her expression and words, so she had to watch her actions.

As concubine Yu and many people think: Compared with the eldest son advantage of the third elder brother Hongshi, the advantage of the fourth elder brother Hongli is actually that the birth mother is Niu Hulu, a common surname in Manchuria.

But now, Xinbi's child will break this advantage.

Concubine Xi didn't know how to react.

In the Yonghe Palace, after Concubine Yu left, Nanny Yu came to ask Jiang Heng what he wanted to eat with a smile, and quickly withdrew.

Nanny Yu rarely asks about the Yonghe Palace.Why did Concubine Yu come here today? She knows everything, but she will never say a word.

Nanny Yu showed her affection for Jiang Heng by avoiding it, and often gave her space to talk to her confidant maid.

Sure enough, Qiuxue also had a lot of things to say to Jiang Heng, and she came to Jiang Heng with the beautiful woman who was beating her legs: "The concubine Yu is the first one to make friends, so it's not surprising that the maidservant is the concubine Qi. It's okay to be pregnant, but in the past two days since San Elder Brother returned to the palace, Concubine Qi always looks at you with cold and resentful eyes." To put it bluntly, it makes people's skin crawl.

Jiang Heng shook his head and smiled: In fact, in the workplace, what you fear most is not Concubine Qi, who is exposed and stumbling, but colleagues who are affectionate on the surface but have no bottom line behind their backs.

Concubine Qi belongs to the "good wolf" who wants to be a wolf, and before others find out, she shows her big tail.

But Jiang Heng encouraged Qiu Xue to think more about the situation in the palace, so he just nodded and said, "Let's talk about it, what else is there?"

Qiu Xue continued on: She also felt that she had to learn to analyze things more, so as not to be unable to help the empress in the future.

In particular, it takes a long time for the empress to conceive and give birth, she will always be in a daze now, and she will be even less energetic in the future.

Jiang Heng could feel that Qiu Xue was trying to get closer to her thoughts, to think about the problem from a more comprehensive position.

This is good, because Qiushuang is a person who has strong executive ability but doesn't like to make up her own mind.

Just like when Chen Debao committed crimes at that time, Qiu Shuang was afraid of the respect room and couldn't make up his mind to stand up.Of course, if Jiang Heng said to take care of it, Qiu Shuang would perform the task perfectly like Meng Zhang Fei.Including when the Jue Ercha family entered the palace later, Qiu Xue was more mobile and soon bound her family to the mansion. Qiu Shuang needed someone to demonstrate before she could keep up.

This is just right, the two have their own strengths, one is careful and thoughtful and is trying to cultivate leadership thinking, and the other is determined and strong in execution, and they will get along much more harmoniously.

"Concubine Qi must take care of it." Jiang Heng shook his head, "But there is one person who is most important."

Qiu Xue was taken aback for a moment, and then said incredulously, "Is your empress talking about the concubine Nian?"

Seeing Jiang Heng nodding, Qiu Xue stopped her hands: "But... all the servants heard that the emperor has been neglecting Governor Nian, and he hasn't seen Grace for more than half a year. Besides, Nian's sister's family, the original Suzhou Weaving Master Hu, also The family has been sentenced to exile. What's more, this year has passed, and even the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, but the emperor has never given a decree to let the new year's concubine come out."

Jiang Heng's plan also included imitating the emperor's emotions and actions.

People with fierce and extreme emotions have the deepest love and hate scratches.

Whether or not he lets Nian's concubine basically depend on Nian Gengyao: if Nian Gengyao stays lonely in Beijing, accepts his fate and doesn't cause trouble, and his family slowly declines, the emperor may really not let Nian's come out again, and let him As a concubine, she lived like an invisible person in the palace, like a concubine who was in poor health, basically no longer appeared.

But if Nian Gengyao continued to do it, and eventually lost his own life, and the Nian family completely collapsed, the situation would be different.Concubine Nian has no older brother, no older sister, her relatives died and her mother's house was separated, if she grieves for this and suffers from some kind of illness in her body, which touches the past, the emperor may not have the heart to keep her locked up.

People's hearts are as they say, as long as enough weight is added to one side, it will be deflected.

Jiang Heng lowered his head slightly, and the emperor inserted a hairpin made of wormwood and a tiger hairpin made of red silk between her temples.

The Dragon Boat Festival is here.

The smell of realgar powder is everywhere in the palace—the greening of the Forbidden City is well done, and snakes, insects, rats and ants are inevitable, so in spring and summer, we must be very careful to repel insects and snakes.

This year is the Year of the Snake, and the palace pays more attention to the Dragon Boat Festival.

Jiang Heng is pregnant, so it is not good to burn too much wormwood.The emperor used human power to draw people from the House of Internal Affairs to drive away the snakes and insects manually, and told her not to go outside for the time being.

Therefore, Jiang Heng avoided the Dragon Boat Festival banquet.The emperor directly asked her to rest in the palace, but said that it was hot outside, and there was a dragon boat race in the Dragon Boat Festival palace, even if the concubines only sat on the high platform to watch, there were too many people, so there was no need to join in the fun.

Jiang Heng is as good as others: Actually, she doesn't like to participate in team building very much, it would be best if she can rest in the palace.

The sound of the Dragon Boat Festival drama came to the Yonghe Palace, and Jiang Heng's sleep was over, and he couldn't help feeling lost, and sat on the bed and didn't want to wake up.

Nanny Yu entered the door and saw Concubine Xin sitting in a quilt with some disappointment, thinking that she was worried because the emperor had not visited him recently, and since she was not allowed to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival, she rarely saw the emperor.

"Long live Lord has been very busy recently. I think it will be better after the festival. Don't worry, my lady."

It has to be said that although the two get along happily, Nanny Yu still doesn't know Jiang Heng well enough.

Jiang Heng smiled: "I understand what the mother said, the emperor has his own world to manage."

Besides, although the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the three major festivals, celebrating the festival is not the most important thing for the emperor to focus on.

Not to mention major festivals for the royal family, even the Ministry of Internal Affairs is fully responsible for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they are already familiar with organizing festivals.The emperor is mainly busy with getting Shisi to go to Qinghai after the Dragon Boat Festival.

In the beginning, the emperor sent the fourteenth to the military department. Except for Prince Yi, no one in the court would have thought or believed that the emperor would entrust such an important matter in Qinghai to his younger brother, King Xun, who was only in his twenties.

It’s only when the emperor is brushing up on the resume of the Fourteenth Lord: first go to the river channel to be regarded as having dealt with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and then go to the Ministry of War to brush up a layer.

But who would have imagined that just after the Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor actually ordered the king of Xun County to be "General Fuyuan", and ordered him to go to the northwest and stationed in Qinghai to take charge of the military power in the northwest.

There was an uproar suddenly.

King Xun is less than 30 years old.

Longkodo was the first to jump out and object: "The king of Xunjun is young, how can he take on this important task? He is still young and the governor is familiar with military affairs in the Northwest.

Besides, the relationship between Longkodo and Nian Gengyao was not very good.Especially when the emperor first came to the throne, the two of them were the most important among the foreign ministers, so the two always had to keep a close eye on each other.That is to say, one was in the northwest and the other was in the capital, so there was no fight.

But later when Nian Gengyao returned to Beijing and was left out in the cold, Longkodo also smelled the emperor's estrangement and beatings on him, and the two quickly used Prince Lian's mansion as an intermediary point to get closer tacitly, which can be regarded as a group to keep warm up.

Although now Prince Lian, the adhesive, has withdrawn and left.But the relationship between Longkodo and Nian Gengyao is getting better and better - there are fewer people hugging each other, so they have to hug tighter to be warm.

Especially since Nian Gengyao had been neglected by the emperor for almost half a year, his heart had changed from impatience to helplessness and grievance, and he wanted to find someone to resolve it.

The same is true for Longkodo: he feels that his uncle, the emperor, is becoming less and less respected.

At this time, the emperor actually asked King Xun to go to Qinghai. Nian Gengyao was really hit hard, and felt that his home had been stolen: Yue Zhongqi took charge of Qinghai temporarily, to him it was considered that he was temporarily absent, and someone showed him a home, but A letter from the general, King Xun, means that the dove will occupy the magpie's nest.

So he immediately spared no effort to win over people to speak for him.

Because King Xun was young and had no military exploits before, although not many people were willing to speak for Nian Gengyao, there were quite a few who wanted to persuade the emperor to appoint his younger brother.

When the emperor took time to visit Jiang Heng, he still mentioned this matter: "Is it possible that I am the child emperor who ascended the throne as a child? Let them shake things up and change the order day and night?"

Jiang Heng wanted to laugh when he heard it: Did the emperor say that he was bald, and he also included his own father, Lord Kangxi?

The emperor walked slowly around the room with her, one arm subconsciously opened to protect the side, while not forgetting to complain: "Some ministers always don't focus on the right way. Those who set a point for the king Different from the previous decrees, they will swarm up to persuade the emperor. If the emperor who persuades changes his mind, they will give themselves a name of "not afraid of the dragon's face and direct remonstrance". If the emperor doesn’t listen to their advice, and the government order makes waves again, they will be even more proud, and they will point at the emperor for being stupid and not accepting advice.”

The emperor snorted twice again: "But if the emperor insists on going his own way and turns out to be right later, they will keep their mouths shut and pretend to be honest."

Jiang Heng smiled: "The courtiers that the emperor said are like monks and Taoists who were deceived by outsiders."

The emperor nodded: "There are many people in the imperial court who pretend to be fools."

The mouth was almost finished, and then I thought about it: "Of course, there are some good ones." Needless to say, the thirteenth brother, Zhang Tingyu Ertai and others in Beijing are all hard-working people, Li Wei outside Beijing, Tian Wenjing and the people in front of him Ama Guanbao and the others also rolled up their sleeves and did business without pointing fingers at him, a good courtier of the emperor.

It's just that it's hard for the emperor to tell the harem people the names of these officials.

With Emperor Yongzheng's temper, once he trusted someone, he believed it to the bottom of his heart (of course, if he failed his trust, he would dig out the other person's bones).I don't want to continue talking at this time, not because I'm afraid of what Jiang Heng will do if he hears it, but because Lord Shunzhi put up an iron plaque in the palace so that the harem can't be involved in politics, so talking to her about court affairs won't do her any good, at least the queen mother knows It is not a good thing.

So the emperor complained to the courtiers like a dragonfly on the water (yes, his string of words that even got to his own father was just a shallow vomit to him), and he talked about the other side to relieve his boredom with Jiang Heng.

In Jiang Heng's place, the emperor even said a few more words with a vicious tongue, and when it came to court, he didn't even waste his tongue.

Immediately issue an ultimatum: I let King Xun go to Qinghai, who agrees and who opposes.

Although everyone originally submitted the papers, and the real-name system was used to persuade them, but it was not the same thing when Chen Shu followed the emperor's face and momentum in the letter, stood up on the spot and said, "I oppose you, the emperor".

Even Longkodo shrank, Nian Gengyao was alone, and had no strength to oppose it.

So far, it has been finalized that the king of Xun County, Yinxuan, is going to Qinghai for General Fuyuan.