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On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Jueercha family was ordered to enter the palace to visit Concubine Xin.

When Jiang Heng saw her, he felt that Er Niang seemed to have something on his mind.

When she asked Ercha to have dinner at the Yonghe Palace, and Jue Ercha agreed without hesitation, Jiang Heng was sure that Er Niang had something to tell her.

As the emperor said, Guanbao is a down-to-earth type in his official career. The more meritorious he is, the more humble and low-key he is. His principle of being an official.It's not that the family doesn't enter the house, Jue Ercha followed the pace of her husband in this respect.

Just like the Chinese New Year last year, when Jiang Heng just gave birth to the princess, at that time Jue Ercha wanted to ask for a favor to visit the Yonghe Palace for a while, which was justified, and the empress' refusal seemed harsh.

However, the Jueercha clan was more observant than in previous years, resigning from the palace at the same time as Concubine Xi and Concubine Yu's natal family.When he left, the expression on his face was even more flawless joy after being meticulously crafted, and he was full of gratitude in front of the queen mother and queen.

Jue Ercha fully understands the sadness of the complete disparity between her mother's family and her husband's family.

And Jiang Heng also felt the deep maternal love in Jueercha's reluctant eyes when he was about to leave.When Juercha turned her head away at the end, Jiang Heng felt that eyes were like a plaster being torn off, tearing a pain on her skin.

This year the situation is similar to last year.

The princess's first birthday banquet has just passed, and Jiang Heng has just gone through the concubine canonization ceremony, which is the time when the Yonghe Palace is a bit hot.Jiang Heng originally thought that the Jueercha family would decline to stay in the palace for dinner, so she thought of a good way to persuade Er Niang: the emperor has already promised the divine favor, it would be bad to refuse again.

However, Jue Ercha didn't wait for Jiang Heng to bring the emperor out, so he agreed with a smile, and said that he really missed the empress, and wanted to tell the empress a lot about raising the princess.

Jiang Heng immediately felt that there must be something going on outside.

So without waiting for dinner, he invited Jueercha to the back hall to see Minmin.

Although it was the New Year's Eve, there were many houses in the palace and many wooden eaves, so this first month was not as lively as outside, with constant firecrackers and fireworks.

There must be a fixed time and place for setting off fireworks in the palace.

So even though it was the second day of junior high school, the palace was quite quiet, and Minmin was sitting and eating steamed egg custard as usual.

To Juercha's surprise, the princess did not breastfeed, but sat in an armchair with a slightly weird shape that stuck her body. The small table that came with the chair had fixed bowls and spoons.The princess sat at the small table and guarded the small bowl, digging egg custard and eating by herself.

The two wet nurses were waiting by the side, and at most they would come up to wipe the princess' custard when she dropped it.The two older nurses stood beside them like pillars.

As Jue Ercha watched, the princess ate very well, she didn't thump everywhere, she ate every spoonful very seriously, even Erniang didn't notice when she came in.

Jiang Heng was gratified: what a solid and reliable cook.

On the other hand, the nurses and nurses, seeing Concubine Xin and Mrs. Su Yibo entering the door, hurriedly bowed their knees to say hello, Jiang Heng waved: "Go down, I'll watch here."

Jueercha couldn't help turning her head to look at her daughter and these nurses and nurses: she knew the rules of the palace somewhat. When the prince and princess landed, there were 40 people who took turns to serve them. Eight each, and the shifts are enough to make the princes and princesses impenetrable. If the status of birth mother is not enough to be favored, it is really difficult to see your own children from this group of people—the treatment is similar to that of a consort. If you want to see your own children, Instead, take some minions.

Jue Ercha was not worried about the wet nurses bullying their daughters so far - the emperor valued letting the princess be raised with the biological mother, and these wet nurses would be more restrained.

But I really didn't expect that my daughter could dismiss the nurses and nurses casually, and they retreated immediately, and they didn't even dare to guard the door, and retreated directly to their respective rooms.The maid Qiuxue also said naturally: "You don't need to run around, the princess is hungry and will call you over."

It can be seen that in the Yonghe Palace, the nurses and nurses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not counted, even the maids are inferior.

Jueercha felt much relieved: she was really afraid of her daughter's soft temper when she was at home, seeing that everyone is a good person, and then let these nuns cage the princess to teach her not to kiss her mother, and in the future she will only listen to the fearful nuns. Ladies, being a princess for a lifetime is a lifetime of anger.

But Jueercha didn't know that the palace people of the House of Internal Affairs, especially the older nurses, were not so obedient in the first place, and they always fought with the old idea: the emperor will love such a princess in the future, and beat the little one. If the princess is subdued, they will be able to live in the princess mansion as old matriarchs, just like countless seniors.

As for Xin's concubines who had not yet been named concubines at that time, they didn't pay much attention to them: young concubines, no matter how spoiled they were, were inexperienced in raising children, so they had to rely on them.What's more, there are still old palace rules and regulations, and the children of the late emperor's empresses and concubines all came here, so does Concubine Xin dare to disobey the rules?

Unexpectedly, after entering the gate of the Yonghe Palace, he found that this was not the case.

Concubine Xin is young, but she is very assertive and dares not to follow the old rules. Moreover, there is a Nanny Yu who is taller than them and beat the Queen Mother, so they really can't get involved.

The more well-behaved ones hibernate, preparing to have a romantic relationship in the future, even if they can't control the princess, it's good to cultivate a deep relationship.

There are well-behaved ones, and naturally there are also pretentious ones, relying on their status and qualifications to come up and touch them.

Jiang Heng's raising children is different from concubines in the harem. It's too much for the nuns to criticize. Before, there was a nun named Li who stood up with a coffin-like face and began to 'teach' Jiang Heng .

Looking at her, Jiang Heng thought of Mother Ye when he first entered Chuxiu Palace.

But now and then, she didn't need to listen to such nonsense anymore, she just calmly coaxed her daughter to get something by herself, and then said to Qiu Lu: "Fork it down."

There is a reason for saying this to Qiulu: Xiao Luzi and Qiulu were the duo sent by the Yonghe Palace to study in the Imperial Dining Room.

When Qiu Lu was learning cooking, she didn't want to lag behind others, and she had to do the same physical work as male cooks, such as turning the spoon and moving the pot, so she practiced a lot of strength.

Seeing that she happened to be in the house, Jiang Heng asked her to use her strengths to fork the nun out.

Nanny Li, who was kicked out by the palace maid, stood in the courtyard red-faced and didn't recover for a while.Originally, he thought that he would have the opportunity to go to the Empress Dowager or the Empress Dowager to sue the Yonghe Palace, but Jiang Heng spoke before her.When the emperor came again, Jiang Heng directly asked for instructions and said that he wanted to change to a nanny, and he didn't even bother to say why she took the university.

At that time, there were still two wet nurses and two nurses in the house poking and caring for the princess. Hearing her say this, I was shocked: what is the reason for not having eyes!

They dared to obey the law and violate it, relying on their status to teach the young master a lesson, relying on the palace rules.Everything they say and do is stuck in the "old rules" of the palace, "the emperor's concubines also came here like this".This is full of confidence, even if the master doesn't like them, he can't say anything wrong with them.

Who would have thought that the concubine Xin would tell the emperor that she has no good relationship, so she wants to replace the senior nanny of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, isn't that out of order...

Unexpectedly, the emperor just nodded and said casually: "If you don't have eyes, you can change it, just like this cup, saucer and tea bowl. No matter what others say about the craftsmanship, whether you like it or not, you should change it. Unhappy reason."

Li Baomo has disappeared since then, and it is said that after returning to the House of Internal Affairs, she was assigned to a very remote job by her superior, Nanny Gu.

Since then, all the nursing mothers and nurses in Yonghe Palace have suddenly become less 'polite', at least not in front of Jiang Heng.

After there were no outsiders in the room, Jue Ercha no longer controlled herself, and her eyes were full of sensitivity.She has only one daughter, and naturally only one granddaughter.If the daughter is married outside, it means that the daughter-in-law cannot go home often, but it is only natural for the grandson and granddaughter to go home.No more than the sons and daughters of dragons and grandchildren in this palace, golden branches and jade leaves, her grandmother sees only a few in a year.

Seeing Minmin eating so well, Jue Ercha couldn't help admiring: "It's rare to see such a young princess who eats so well."

Jiang Hengxin thought that Erniang was a child of aristocratic family, she must have been fed by a group of wet nurses since she was a child, of course she would not eat so early by herself.

However, Minmin is really smart when it comes to eating.

So he smiled at Jue Ercha and said, "Probably the golden bowl was caught at the first birthday ceremony, which illuminated Minmin's ability to eat."

Before he finished speaking, he was slapped suddenly, turned around in astonishment, and saw Juercha said: "You also said that about your own daughter? Let me put it this way, our princess grabbed the golden bowl, as if to eat it ! That golden bowl is a good intention to be perfect for a lifetime!"

Jiang Heng once again experienced the intergenerational relationship, and he was beaten because of Minmin, and he was no longer the mother who looked at him and could draw strings.

Minmin finished eating the small bowl of custard, and then stretched out her hand and said clearly: "Hold my mother." After eating, she didn't like to sit in the baby seat anymore, she felt uncomfortable.

Jiang Heng carried her out, and Jue Ercha took the cotton towel prepared beside her and gently wiped her face, and gave her two mouthfuls of water: "The princess looks really healthy."

"That's right, since Minmin was born, except for the occasional cough or two, she has never been ill."

Before she finished speaking, she was beaten again by Jue Ercha, and she was told to knock on wood quickly: "It's impossible to say that! You can't boast that the child 'never gets sick'."

The custom in Beijing is just like a child's name not being given early. You can't say the words "my child never gets sick", for fear of talking about the plague god.

Jiang Heng's eyes turned hot, it wasn't because he was beaten, but because he remembered what his parents said.

As long as she mentions: "I haven't caught a cold this winter." Mom and Dad immediately stop her and ask her to pooh.

Jiang Heng lowered his head and began to teach Minmin to recognize his grandmother.Minmin was naturally sweet, and happily played with everyone, and quickly recognized someone and called out her grandmother, and Jueercha held her in a strange hug for a while without letting go.

When Minmin went to play on the kang by the window, the mother and daughter just sat on the edge of the bed and watched.

Jiang Heng then asked: "Is Er Niang going to the palace this time for something?"

Before Jueercha could speak, from the corner of his eye, he saw Qiuxue and Qiushuang retreating together, and saw from the bright tile window that one figure was at the door, and the other went to the corridor to guard the moon cave door.

Jueercha told Jiang Heng what Jueluo said at the princess's first birthday banquet.

"Involving Empress Xiaoxian has always been a taboo in the palace. Jueluo's mother's family's Fu Guogong's mansion has always been at odds with our family, and of course I will not let go of such gossip if I have the opportunity. But you, Ama, think that, This matter is not right from the beginning, how could there be admonitions written by the ancestors to Empress Xiaoxian in the letter of concubine concubine drafted by the Ministry of Rites."

In Guan Bao's view, the matter of the Ministry of Rites should have been arranged by someone.

The foreshadowing of the burial is also deep, so leave a little root first.At that time, if the newcomers are not favored when they enter the palace, let this matter ferment.Involving Lord Shunzhi and Concubine Dong E means that the emperor spoils his concubine and kills his wife, and will repeat the same mistakes as Lord Shunzhi.For the sake of his own reputation, or for the sake of his own reputation, the emperor had to behave like a virtuous one to avoid being favored. Isn't that the newcomer's chance to stand out?

So Guan Bao felt that this matter was very tricky: if he didn't act or argue, let others say it, and it was not good for the emperor to hear it. If he really took action to block a message, he took irrelevant matters to himself.

When Jiang Heng heard that the emperor knew about this matter, and even asked the Ministry of Rites to change the document himself, he relaxed a lot, and comforted Jueercha, who obviously regarded this as a major matter: "Er Niang, don't worry too much... "

Hearing the words, Jue Ercha felt that iron could not be made into steel: "Your Majesty has been in the palace for so long, don't you know that people's hearts are scary, and people's words are scary?"

"Once this matter spreads, especially in the palace, the emperor will probably neglect you for a period of time for the sake of reputation. It just so happens that a newcomer enters the palace again—there are coincidences in the world, but how can there be so many unfavorable coincidences? Come to you now?"

Jiang Heng: Your Majesty really doesn't know how to do it.

The emperor is the kind of person you can scold me if you want to scold me, don't scold your courtiers.What's more, it's impossible to let the wife and daughter take the blame and give in to gossip.

This matter is just a coincidence, if it was designed by someone, it can only mean that this person doesn't know the emperor yet.

Jiang Heng asked Qiu Xue at the door to go to the Jingyang Palace at the back and bring a set of the "Book of Songs" newly printed in the palace this year.

After the book was brought back, Jiang Heng turned it over to Jue Ercha: "This is a newly printed book this year, and the previous preface was changed by the emperor."

The Han people made a preface to the Book of Songs, and there is a sentence in it: "Whoever speaks is innocent, but whoever hears it is enough to refrain."

The emperor didn't like this sentence very much, what made the speaker innocent, how many important ministers like Wei Zheng in the world are there in the world who are serious and impartial in admonishing the point?Most of them are corrupt Confucians like the former Donglin Party who talked about harming the country and only wanted to clear their own reputation.

Many courtiers, in order to gain a reputation for direct advice, use "My heart is good, even if I say something wrong, I am not guilty. Your majesty, you should be tolerant of my loyal minister's direct advice" as a shield, and nonsense is not responsible. He also asked the emperor to change it if he had it, and encourage him if he didn't.

This may work for some emperors who swallow their breath and want to be famous, but it is a dream for Lord Yongzheng! '

Have you ever thought about the days when you usually use my salary to covet my treasury, and when you have nothing to do, you still have nothing to do to scold me for being famous, and ask me to help you if you scold me wrong?Let's reincarnate to see if I can find a good dynasty to go to.

This pua found the wrong person.

Jiang Heng also mentioned something that the Jueercha family knew, and laughed with her: "Before, there were people who wrote to the emperor, thinking that the foreign affairs office where the second brother is now is unnecessary. They only said, 'Westerners are shallow and mean, but it's strange. Erotic and skillful, the merchants' dealings with them still fall into the style of Chinese etiquette, so why did the Holy One set up a foreign affairs yamen?'" Anyway, he thinks that the foreign affairs yamen is not suitable. Take a look, your majesty, why don't you withdraw it.

In the end, I added a slippery remark to protect myself: I am loyal to my advice, if I miss a word or a sentence, the Emperor Wanwang will be lenient for the sake of my loyalty.

When the emperor saw this note, Zhu Bi immediately criticized it wildly.

After Zhu criticizes the scolding, it is not counted, and then there is a one-stop process of dismissal, checking the accounts of the incumbent: In the words of the emperor, it is not that the ministers are not allowed to impeach me, but I just want to see that these officials who stretch their necks to take care of irrelevant things, their own officials How are you doing?

Of course, the result was not so good, and now the official who asked the emperor to see his loyalty has embarked on the road of exile, making his own loyal contributions to the border sheep herding or quarrying business.

Yushitai is now very well-behaved, only looking at his peers, and almost no one dares to play the emperor.

When Qiu Xue came to treat him to dinner, Jiang Heng put the "Book of Songs" in his hand back into the original wooden box: "Emiang, our family doesn't care about this matter, what should Mafa, Ama and brothers do?" You can do whatever you want to do as an errand. If you are a sneaky person, don’t move anymore, if you move again, the emperor will be annoyed.”

Jue Ercha looked at her daughter and said with emotion: "Your Majesty has really grown up after being in the palace for three years."

Jiang Heng got up and held Juercha's arm, and said as he walked, "Actually, I have one more thing, I want to worry about Ama, and I'm afraid Ama won't want to."

There was no one around, Jue Ercha smiled and said: "You child, just say what you want, and turn a corner to provoke your mother first? You just talk, can the family not care?"

Jiang Heng said quickly: "I also ask Ama to find two suitable old doctors who have given people acne by their own hands."

When Juercha heard this, she was so startled that she stopped in her tracks, and asked repeatedly: "Is there anything wrong with being the imperial physician in the palace? If you want to talk about vaccination, I'm afraid the doctors outside are not as good as the imperial physician in the palace." Then he said: "Even if the princess grows up and needs to be vaccinated, she will have to be vaccinated at the age of seven or eight. What is the empress going to do with the old doctor now?"

The princes are mostly vaccinated at the age of six.

No matter how young you are, you may be afraid that your child will be weak and unable to survive, but if you are over ten years old, once you have a fever, you will easily develop a fever: Now doctors have discovered that high fever seems to be more dangerous for adults.

For example, chickenpox and other pox rashes are easy to get rid of when children, but they are more dangerous when adults get them, and many people even die from febrile convulsions.

In some ways, children are more resilient and vital than adults.

So after decades of exploration, the age for vaccination in the palace was set at six or seven years old.

The princess has always been considered to be weaker than the prince, and it would be two years later if she wanted to be vaccinated.

And Jiang Heng must vaccinate Minmin. Once smallpox is contracted, it is close to death. If it can be prevented in advance, of course it must be prevented.

But now people's pox is still planted in the palace. Most of the bean scabs are removed from people who have survived smallpox.

In the court that was cared for with utmost care, the prince was vaccinated, and nine out of ten out of ten could survive—in the smallpox epidemic prevention of this era, it was naturally a remarkable achievement.At present, all countries in the world are still learning from the Qing Dynasty. For example, in the 27th year of the first emperor, Tsarist Russia sent people to study acne medicine. Before that, King Louis XIV of France also wrote a letter to ask Kangxi about his experience in this area.

But an accident rate of one tenth, in Jiang Heng's opinion, is still too high.

She clearly knows the safer vaccinia.

And vaccinia does not require her to have strong medical knowledge, vaccinia is more like a gift from nature.

Cows will develop a kind of vaccinia sores, mostly on the mammary glands of cows. If a milker is infected with vaccinia sores, although the symptoms will be very mild, it will not be life-threatening, and it will be fine in a few days.But from then on, you can be immune to smallpox!

This was discovered occasionally in England in the future. After that, England changed from smallpox to vaccinia, and the transmission rate of smallpox was greatly reduced.

Jiang Heng thought: English drugs should not enter Daqing, but cowpox should.

It's just that she is in the palace, except on the dining table, she doesn't see cattle at all.

So I had to ask Ama Erniang to find some cows with acne a few years in advance.

She still pretended to read it in Western books, saying that vaccinia can prevent smallpox just like human pox, but seeing Juercha's surprised face, Jiang Heng smiled bitterly: "Er Niang knows why I am afraid that Ama will not respond. Right. I'm afraid he thinks I'm fooling around."

Jueercha thought to himself, isn't it just nonsense to inoculate people with pox born by cows?

But looking at her daughter's face, she couldn't tell, alas, this must be the heart of a new mother.What weird folk remedies, as long as they are good for children, I want to try them.

Anyway, it's still a long time, so I followed my daughter's advice and went to find two old doctors, and then went to find some pox cows.

Even though Juercha thought it was impossible to do this, but thinking of her daughter being bored in the palace, she softened her heart, so she should be coaxed.

Looking at Juercha's face, Jiang Heng knew Erniang's thoughts.

But there is no rush to argue, as long as the family can find people and cattle for her.

After the day of welcoming the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the banquets in the palace gradually decreased.

Every New Year's Eve, people are really exhausted from the palace to the palaces.

Jiang Heng also knew why it was a year before the first month of the year - at least in the palace and in the palaces of princes and nobles, it would be better to take a rest during the new year.

It is said that in the first month, the folks do not even collect debts.

Thirteenth Lord can only stay in the mansion for a few days longer.

The Thirteenth Master usually spends more time in the palace than in the palace. Basically, he spends less than half a year in a year, and even sleeps in the palace at night.

But Thirteen Fujin never complained.She is a contented person.

After the low ebb in the late emperor's mansion, the busyness of Prince Ziyi's mansion at this time is just as sweet as it is, being respected and seen by others.

Thirteen Fujins still remember that in the 49th year of the first emperor, the silk and charcoal fire sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the House of Thirteen Princes (the Thirteen Lords had no title at that time and had to be called so) were inferior to those used by outside officials.

The most annoying thing is that the gold sent is only rough and not pure at all.

The gold and silver in the national treasury have to go through seven or eight processes, and finally the impurities of lead gold and silver or mercury gold and silver are finally removed, and finally the fine gold and silver are put into the warehouse.

But the Ministry of Internal Affairs dared to send semi-finished gold and silver mixed with lead and mercury to Lord Thirteen to make up the numbers!

The weight is the same, and the missing gold will naturally go to the purse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This kind of gold will be sent to the acquaintance to spread the gold and silver ladles. I'm afraid that people will laugh behind their backs!

At that time, Thirteen Fujin had to secretly send the extremely poor gold and silver out of the house, and re-expend and refine them in the name of slaves, so that they could be used.

This kind of piecemeal and irritating, I can't finish talking.

Therefore, when the emperor ascended the throne to rectify the House of Internal Affairs, Thirteen Fujin listened to it very much as he wished.

However, even if he hated the thirteenth Fujin during those days, he had to say that without that period of training, maybe there would be no husband now.

The Emperor's treatment of Prince Yi's Mansion is really good. It is false to praise the Emperor when others say, "The current prosperity is unprecedented, but in the eyes of Prince Yi's Mansion, it is the truth.

But even so, Thirteen Fujin watched in private, and his master really didn't seem to be domineering at all, he just praised it from his heart, thinking about everything for the emperor.

There are some officials who regard the country’s treasury as their own, and it’s not enough to dig out as much as they want, but the Thirteenth Lord has another meaning. , Changing ways to make money is more concerned about real own warehouse.

So the thirteenth master was cautious, she was more cautious than the thirteenth master, and would not easily answer people's entreaties.

It just so happened that the Thirteenth Lord was at home a lot these past two days, so Fujin told him about the housework during the New Year's Eve—it's really not too much to come to Prince Yi's mansion to ask for friendship and beg for favors during the New Year's Eve. many.

This time the husband and wife sat opposite each other, and Thirteen Fujin chose the most important thing first.

"Fu Guogong's mansion has come to the door several times, wanting to plead with the Lord."

This Fuguo Gong's mansion is the mother's house of the gossiping Jueluo family.