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"What are the princesses of Khalkha doing in the palace now?" Concubine Yu left the poker table with regret, and came to the Palace of Compassion and Ning with Jiang Heng.Concubine Yu naturally thought of the draft at the time of the draft: "Speaking of which, there have been a few years when no princess has married to Mongolia. Could it be that the emperor wants to accept several Mongolian concubines?"

Jiang Heng remembered that the emperor had mentioned before that he wanted to find a Mongol Gege who had his own opinion and temper for Hongshi. Maybe these are the candidates selected by the emperor?

After all, the emperor can only see whether the princes of the Mongolian tribes can be used, and draw a range, and the Queen Mother should look at the temperament of the princesses.

Jiang Heng and Concubine Yu met Concubine Xi at the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning. The three greeted each other and entered together.

The queen mother's palace has never been so lively.

I saw that the queen mother was still wearing the auspicious clothes she wore when she was drafted, sitting on the top, with several concubines sitting on the left and right, and five Mongolian princesses in their own costumes sitting on the bottom.

The Mongolian Gege is different from the girl in the Mongolian Army Banner.

The bannermen of the Mongolian Army Banner, like the Manchu and Han Army Banners, lived in the garrison cities for generations according to the arrangement of the emperor.After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, many Mongolian Bannermen who were born in Mongolia have been gradually assimilated. Because they are bilingual in Manchu and Chinese, some of the younger generation can't even speak the Mongolian language of their ancestors very well.

It is completely different from the Mongolian tribes that live on the grasslands.

Gege of these Mongolian tribes has the real breath from the grasslands, and their smiles are as bright as wearing red agate and turquoise headdresses.Even though he was a bit cautious when he came to this strange palace, the vigorous heroism in his speech could not be stopped by the rules.

When the three concubines arrived at the Palace of Compassion, it took a long time to greet the three concubines: the three concubines had to greet the queen mother and concubines respectively, and the Mongolian princesses had to stand up and give up their seats to greet the three concubines. When Xu took his seat again, Jiang Heng glanced at the clock, and sure enough, a quarter of an hour had passed.

Among the concubines present here, Jiang Heng has seen and is quite familiar with, such as the concubine and the concubine sitting on the right hand side of the empress dowager.

Concubine He was also from the Guerjia family, and she met Jiang Heng by chance in the former palace, and was very kind to Jiang Heng.

Especially after Minmin was born, Jiang Heng and the concubine met Jiang Heng more often at the empress dowager's place.Because the concubine and the concubine had only given birth to the eighteenth daughter of the emperor in the 40th year of the first emperor, but the princess died without a formal order, and the concubine and concubine have not had any children since then.

Now that the palace has finally added a princess, and the concubine is very rare and likes it very much, but whenever the empress dowager takes Minmin, she always wants to come and have a look.Seeing Jiang Heng now, he gave her an extra smile.

Let’s talk about the concubine and the concubine being a few years younger than the emperor, who just turned [-] this year. Although she is a concubine, she has a lively temper, which is different from concubines who only care about paying respects to the Buddha. She can play with the empress dowager. The venue, so that the Mongolian princesses are not too nervous.

Also present here is Concubine Xuan, whom Jiang Heng has rarely seen.

This is the only Mongolian concubine left in the palace today, and now Ge Ge from the grassland is coming, so the Queen Mother invited Xuan Taifei, who always lives reclusively, to talk with her.

Whether you want to kiss the people in your hometown or not, compared to the fact that Concubine Xuan is obviously here to complete the task and warm up the scene, Concubine Xuan is much more excited. Ji Li Gua La and several Ge Ge took turns speaking Mongolian and asking about things on the grassland.

Except for Concubine Xuan, everyone else here since the Queen Mother, Mongolian is an unfamiliar elective course, and they can only order 'Have you eaten? ''How's the child' and the like.

If you connect a large number of words together, you can't understand them very well, but you just smile at each other.

After the excited Concubine Xuan came to an end, the Empress Dowager looked at the time and spoke at the right time to end the show.

"Gege will live in Jianfu Palace first, Concubine Xi Yufei, take Gege to resettle one or two, Concubine Xin will stay first, Aijia has something to say to you."

Jianfu Palace?

Concubine Xi and Concubine Yu were at a loss for a while: If these Gege were Mongolian concubines that the emperor wanted to accept, they should live in Chuxiu Palace.

But the Empress Dowager let her live in the Jianfu Palace...that was not within the scope of the East and West Six Palaces, but an unused long and narrow palace in the westernmost part of the Forbidden City, which was indeed a standard for hospitality.

After Concubine Xi and Concubine Yu left with a few Mongolian princesses, Concubine Xuan resumed her usual calm and sat there with a bored expression, and began to reminisce about the things on the grassland that the girl from her hometown had just told her.Concubine He winked a lot, seeing that the Queen Mother left Concubine Xin alone and had something to say, so he called several concubines: "It's a good day, let's go back and draw cards."

Jiang Heng couldn't help but smile when he heard the words: Fortunately, Concubine Yu had left earlier, otherwise she must have been envious when she heard about it.

They belong to the hard-working people who finally took their annual leave, but were pulled from the poker table to work overtime-the next annual leave must be wasted, the queen mother is still busy drafting girls, and the three concubines must be responsible for entertaining these Mongolians rattle.

After all the concubines left, the queen mother let out a long breath, and Aunt Wu Ya came up to remove the auspicious costume crown which was extremely heavy for the queen mother.

The queen mother took off the golden nail cover on her hand, raised her hand and pressed her eye sockets: "I have been watching the show girls for the past few days. I am so sad that I am going to lose my eyes."

Aunt Wu Ya said anxiously from the side: "Your Majesty said such a non-taboo thing again!"

The Empress Dowager said to Jiang Heng: "You passed by, of course you know, all the beautiful women are wearing the same light blue color, the same dress and the same clothes, if you look at them row by row, wouldn't your eyes be dazzled." Then she pointed to a court lady: " Go to the Tiyuan Hall to pass a message that the Ai family will not pass today, please work hard for the queen. Send another one to the queen."

After a few gossip about the draft, the Queen Mother took a break and said to Jiang Heng: "There is a reason for Aijia to keep you. The emperor's intention is to choose a Mongolian-born Fujin for Hongshi. It’s all about the same, it just depends on the personality.”

"Piansheng Ai's family and the Queen are inseparable these days, and in this Palace of Compassion and Ning, these little girls are also bound by the rules, and it is difficult to see anything for a while. But you should pay more attention in private, each of them How's your temper?"

Jiang Heng wanted to decline politely: "After all, it is the third elder brother's Fujin, and the concubine is not..."

The queen mother sighed: "Concubine Xi and Concubine Yu both have their own sons who are inconvenient to talk, and the Ai family can trust your vision. And you only help palm the eye, and it will be all right to tell the Ai family about your temper."

Jiang Heng had no choice but to accept the order: "What kind of granddaughter-in-law does the Empress Dowager want?"

The queen mother thought for a while: "After that incident, Hongshi was so frightened that he lost his courage and became bored. Since the emperor has determined that it must be a Mongolian Fujin, he should be lively and innocent."

"Be steady, assertive, and have a strong temper."

When Jiang Heng heard what the emperor said, he directly sighed deeply.

During the day, she had just received the order from the Queen Mother, and at night the Emperor also came to the Yonghe Palace, and put forward the opposite assessment criteria for Hongshi's Fujin.

Hearing her sigh, the emperor guessed it, and said with a smile: "I won't make things difficult for you, you just agree to what the empress mother has to say, of course I have something to persuade her old man here, and it has nothing to do with you."

Jiang Heng was relieved: With the words of the emperor, it will be done.

Let's say that the five Mongols entered the palace, and the splash outside the palace was definitely bigger than that inside the palace.

Several princesses came from Khalkha Mongolia, belonged to the three major ministries, and had different origins; they entered the palace and lived in Jianfu Palace, but did not live in the Chuxiu Palace where new concubines should live; All kinds of fragmentary news from the palace made the clan members of the right age panic.

Wouldn't the emperor want them to marry Mongolia Gege? !

You know, when the first emperor was 40 years old, he married several princesses and princesses and went to Mongolia.And the emperor will celebrate his 40th birthday this year, but there is only one biological princess under his knees, and she is still in her infancy.After the fourth princess was born, the emperor received all kinds of honors, and it didn't look like he was willing to marry his daughter away to Fumeng.

Since the relationship between the imperial court and Mongolia is mostly strengthened by marriage, the emperor will not marry without a princess, so he has to do the opposite, use the marriage of their clansmen as the top, and marry Mongolian princesses to win them over!

Among them, the most panicked ones are the fifteenth master and the sixteenth master.

Just as it is not enough for the daughters of the clan to marry far away from Mongolia, the marriage is not effective enough and the princess must be married, so the marriage of the sons of the general clan does not have the weight of a marriage, but the two of them have sufficient status. The position of Fujin is still vacant, a proper marriage partner.

So the two of them were in a hurry, while they went to plead with Thirteenth Brother by themselves, and at the same time they passed a message to Wang Shi, the birth mother in the palace, and asked her to beg the Queen Mother from the palace to find a way.

"So reluctant?" The Yonghe Palace's intelligence team was functioning well, and Qiuxue knew that her mother was busy with Mongolian affairs, so she would deliver any new news as soon as possible.

Jiang Heng was really puzzled when he heard that.

According to her reception of Mongolian Gege these few days, these Geges showed great awareness and wanted to try to marry into the Qing clan or even the imperial palace.It can be seen from their Manchu level that the literary allusions are not very clear, but there is no problem in normal communication with the concubines in the palace. Obviously, they have worked hard at home.

They were very straightforward, and after getting acquainted with Jiang Heng, who was about the same age, a straightforward and bold Gege said to her directly: "You see, we are all from Khalkha, but in our eyes, each other's tribes are different. People, livestock, and the most beautiful grassland are all competing on the grassland. If I marry a clan member in the capital, the tribe will have more confidence to compete with the outside."

Seeing that they all wanted to fight for the 'retention' in the capital, Jiang Heng felt a lot more at ease. If it was for the family, the third elder brother was really a good choice, he was the eldest son of the serious emperor.

But she didn't expect the clan members outside to be so afraid of marrying Mongolia Gege.

Maybe there will be some places that need to be adjusted because of different life styles, but as for the resistance?

After all, she is not an aborigine, and she doesn't understand many unspoken rules deeply enough.

Jiang Heng invited Nanny Yu to ask, and now Nanny Yu was willing to talk to Jiang Heng with all her heart, and said, "That's all right, it doesn't matter if you really marry a Mongolian Gege. Only the fifteenth and sixteenth masters are special." Worried. The two of them want to marry noble girls from Manchuria."

"Your Majesty also knows that Mitai Concubine was originally from a Han nationality and was brought back from the south of the Yangtze River by the late emperor. It was illegal for a woman who was not in the flag to enter the palace. Later, in order to silence outsiders, it was recorded as the Han army flag."

"For this reason, Mi Tai's concubine naturally has no support from her mother's family in Beijing. When she was the most favored before, she gave birth to three elder brothers in a few years, but the late emperor refused to even give her a concubine. Lord Fifteen The sixteenth master is not married and has not been knighted yet, so he doesn't have the support of his mother's family, so he hopes that this time the draft will point out a girl from a wealthy family full of army flags as a Fujin, and she will have the help of a wife and family, which can be considered as compensation My own regret."

She spoke thoroughly, and Jiang Heng understood: The essence of marriage is actually a business.

For Ten 56, marrying Mongolia Gege did not meet their expectations and demands.They didn't catch up with the good time and were enshrined in the hands of their own father, Lord Kangxi - they fell into the hands of their half-brothers, so of course they couldn't compare with their own father in terms of stability.

The emperor has many brothers, and Prince Yi Zhuyu is in front of him. These little ones are not good at all. If they don't have a stronger wife and family, they will often raise the premise and support the emperor, even if they are serious emperor brothers. , Maybe the title of a shellfish was put aside.

Especially Mitai Concubine is different from others, she has suffered from her status, of course, no matter how favored she is, it will be extremely difficult for her to be promoted.

Now I don't want my sons to repeat the same mistakes, because after marrying Fujin from Mongolia, they have always been used as a marriage archway, and they can't get any real difference.

The hearts of parents in ancient and modern times for their children are connected-the children's affairs are the big ones.

For a child's school place or job opportunity, it is not uncommon for parents who have been strong all their lives to bow their heads and beg for help.

What's more, the fifteenth master and the sixteenth master are married and have overlapping titles - the two most important things in the clan have been added together. Of course, their mother and son are nervous, and they must try their best to fight for themselves before the imperial edict is issued.

Mammy Yu was a trustworthy person of the Empress Dowager before, and now she works as Dinghaishenzhen in Yonghe Palace. She knows many secrets, for example, this Mongolian Gege was actually chosen for the third elder brother.

She couldn't help reminding her mother: "The emperor intends to point out Mongolia Gege to the third elder brother. Before the marriage decree comes down, you can't reveal it from the mother."

The tone is very dignified: "This is the big deal."

Don't use the seriousness of Mammy's words, Jiang Heng already knew the seriousness of this matter.

Since Lord Shunzhi, the number of Mongolian concubines in the palace has plummeted, and it is almost recognized inside and outside the court that it is impossible for Mongolian concubines to become queens of the Qing Dynasty.So if the prince is accused of being a Mongolian concubine, it is equivalent to being excluded from the candidate for the prince!

At this time, many people outside the palace guessed the reason why these Mongolian princesses came to the Forbidden City, but few people really guessed that this was actually the Zhengfu Jin for the third elder brother Hongshi.

Don't look at the calmness that the emperor told Jiang Heng, the queen mother also accepted this reality, but once the news is made public, it will definitely be a wave of explosive news.

The emperor's eldest son, the third elder brother Hongshi, was actually excluded from the candidate for the crown prince!

This news must not come from Jiang Heng.

Seeing that Concubine Xin responded solemnly, she obviously knew the importance, so she didn't hold back and added a few more words: "The old slave knows that the empress is actually a very soft-hearted person. The concubine Mi is eager to love her son, and wants to go to the empress dowager's palace." The empress dowager didn’t see you because she was too busy with the draft.” From the empress dowager’s point of view, there was nothing to say, just wait for the imperial decree, how could she disclose the affairs of her children and grandchildren to Mi Tai, who was not very familiar with her? Concubine, so she simply disappeared.

"Mitai Concubine couldn't help it, so she went to Concubine Xi's palace again." The Empress Dowager clearly asked Concubine Xi to take care of Mongolia Gege in Jianfu Palace. Come on, I want to find out.

Nanny Yu said: "Concubine Xi has always been the one who will never open her mouth for things that have nothing to do with her and fourth elder brother."

She looked at Jiang Heng, with a little helplessness in loving the younger generation: "This old slave is worried about my mother. If the mistress comes over, please don't look at the mistress anxiously and pitifully, and feel unbearable. Say something."

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived.

Sure enough, Concubine Mi Tai came to visit Yonghe Palace soon.

Because of her birth, even if she gave birth to a prince, Mitai Concubine was always cautious. Over the years, this kind of caution became a fixed temperament.

Even towards concubines of the younger generation, there is always an overly kind and polite manner.

Unlike Concubine He's kindness and thoughtfulness, Concubine Mi almost wrote 'I'm easy to talk, I don't want to offend others, I will bear with it' written on her face.

But she is so timid and only wants to be safe. Ever since Lord Kangxi went away, the concubine who hardly ever goes out except to worship Buddha, ran around for her son regardless of face, begging everywhere.

The clothes on her body are only half new and not old, but the few pieces of material sent to Yonghe Palace are extremely rare.

Just like the rare purple satin material given to Jiang Heng by the Empress Dowager before, it is a rare material, probably it was rewarded by Lord Kangxi privately during the years when she was in favor.The colors of these clothes are woven into it, even if it has been left for many years, there is no sign of being old.

Probably all the good things that can be taken out are used as a gift.

Mi Taipin's expression was very haggard, and her tone revealed a kind of cautious pleading, as if she was afraid of offending others even if she begged, showing a kind of uneasy feeling at a loss.

Jiang Heng couldn't bear to see it, and since he couldn't tell her the news, he could only speak very slowly, and advised him to take care of himself.

But the better Jiang Heng's tone and attitude towards her, the more helpless and desperate the concubine Mimi seemed: Why is the emperor's most beloved concubine Xin, so polite to an ordinary concubine like herself who has no family background?I thought it was because I couldn't do what I asked for, and I felt sorry for myself.

It's all because I don't have enough background to give my son a little bit of help, so that they are about to be used as a 'marriage'.

Mi Taipin almost left with tears in her eyes.

Jiang Heng didn't know what to do, and sat there feeling very uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, would you like to run so hard for the princess one day, but still not be able to beg for mercy?" Qiu Xue said suddenly when she served tea.

Jiang Heng looked up at her.

Qiu Xue took a step back and knelt down: "This servant offends the empress, and deserves death. But the servant is really thinking about the empress and the princess."

"If the fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother become the emperor in the future, if something happens, is the empress also willing to beg the concubine Xi and Concubine Yu in this way, and leave the safety of the princess to others to deal with?"

Jiang Heng put down the teacup, looked at Qiu Xue and shook his head helplessly.

Sure enough, Qiu Xue is the mother chicken type, and she has never given up urging her to make progress.

But...Jiang Heng looked at Qiu Xue, then at the berry tea in the teacup, and couldn't help asking: "I'm not sure yet, how did you know?"

Qiu Xue was surprised and said: "Your maidservant remembers everything about your empress, why can't you see it? After a few years, your empress's taste has changed a bit, and she is still lethargic, so this servant has already been paying attention. In addition to your empress's menstrual affairs Generally, they are very accurate, but this is seven or eight days late, of course the servants are careful."

Jiang Heng took a sip of the berry tea: "There have been a lot of things going on in the palace during this time, and now the imperial physician Liu is still unable to make a diagnosis, so there is no need to show it."

Qiu Xue hurriedly responded.

Jiang Heng said: "Get up quickly." Then he looked into Shang Qiuxue's concerned eyes and said: "I have thought about what you said."

If there is no Minmin and she is alone, she thinks it would be nice to be a concubine.

But after Minmin, I said something else.

The same is true for the emperor and the courtiers, and the clan relatives.

Just like in history, Qianlong liked his ten princesses no matter how much he even named Gulun and Princess Xiao, and gave them to the son of his favorite minister Heshen. Naturally, he wanted to protect his daughter's prosperity and wealth for the rest of her life.However, Princess Hexiao was once more prosperous in Qianlong, and when Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, she was still merciless when it was time to copy Heshen. An accident happened to her husband's family, and Princess Hexiao's life naturally plummeted.

Concubines in the palace always think that if they have children, they can rely on them.

But the concubines He Taifei, Xuan Taifei, and Mi Taifei that I have seen in the past few days represent the three types of concubines in the late emperor's palace: those who are loved, those who have a family, and (have) daughters, who have been trapped in the palace for a long time. The days of life, and the fact that the first emperor had sons (or even multiple) by his side, but now he has to run around begging for his children and grandchildren.

In the end, only the queen mother lived an ideal life.

As soon as March entered, the courtiers were shocked twice in a row.

The first thing is that the draft is over, but there is not a single girl left in the palace!

What kind of draft is this?Fourteen Fujin was very surprised when he heard about it, and even blurted out when talking about it with Thirteen Fujin: "Isn't this a draft that wiped out all the troops?"

Thirteen Fujin laughed and stopped her: "You can't say this outside."

Fourteen Fujin quickly shook his head: "It's all our father's fault. When he came back from writing family letters, he always mentioned what battles he fought and what kind of thieves wiped out his army. This word was all over my head, and I said it all at once. gone."

The sister-in-law and sister-in-law have a good relationship, Thirteenth Fujin thought about it and laughed again: "The emperor hasn't pointed out the Fujin of the third elder brother. If there is a prince Fujin, it can't be regarded as an 'annihilation of the whole army'."

Two days later, Thirteen Fujin was about to lament that this should not be said indiscriminately.

The emperor decreed that a Mongolian princess in Khalkha was referred to as the third elder brother Fujin!

That's when a spoonful of boiling water was poured into the boiling oil, shaking the court and the public.The matter that the emperor himself did not keep a handsome girl before was not hot enough compared to this.

When Thirteen Fujin heard about this, the adjective for Fourteen Fujin popped up in his mind: It really was an annihilation type draft.

In the palace, Concubine Xi was also shocked by these two pieces of news.

Even if she boasted that she was good at nourishing Qi, and that she was someone who could hold her breath before the collapse of Mount Tai, she couldn't maintain her composure in the face of these two heavyweight news.

Telling all the palace people to step back, she couldn't help pacing.

The emperor actually appointed Zheng Fujin who was born in Mongolia to the third elder brother!This is definitely great news for her and Hongli.No matter how much their mother and son speculated before that the emperor didn't like the third elder brother, it was not as clear as this imperial decree, which almost cut off the third elder brother's hope of being the heir apparent.Since then, the eyes of the courtiers will also move away from the eldest son, and they will see Hongli who has gradually grown up.

If you want to talk about what Concubine Xi's greatest wish is now, it is to pray to God and worship Buddha, hoping that Concubine Xin will never have a son.

The emperor did not keep anyone in this draft, for whom, everyone inside and outside the palace knew very well.

Concubine Xi only begged that Concubine Xin would never have a prince, so Hongli would be safe.