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March in the fifth year of Yongzheng is destined to be a year of frequent events.

In March, when it used to be known as Yingshi, all the greenery in the imperial garden is dawning, the green is blowing against the face, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.

However, Eunuch Su, who walked through it, did not enjoy the victory of the forest leisurely.He took four little apprentices carrying empty flat boxes, and walked like the wind under his feet.The eunuchs who were cleaning or walking on the road stopped quickly when they saw him, and called Su Adanda politely, and Grandpa Su flatteringly.

Su Peisheng didn't have much time to think about it, and went straight to the gate of Yonghe Palace, and adjusted his clothes and hats at the gate.

The eunuch of the Yonghe Palace entered the door and announced, Su Peisheng was standing in the yard waiting, couldn't help but raised his hand and beat his waist a few times.In the past half an hour, he has only walked - from the Hall of Mental Cultivation to the Buddhist Hall of the Zhongzheng Hall and then to the Yonghe Palace, it can be said that he walked out of a big triangle.

I heard that Concubine Xin has to go from Yonghe Palace to Zhongzheng Hall every day, she wonders how she is in good health.

Seeing Qiu Xue's figure, Su Peisheng hurriedly stopped beating his waist.Qiu Xue smiled and said: "My Lady, please come in and talk."

Su Peisheng followed Qiuxue inside, saw that she didn't take him to the main hall, but kept walking towards the backyard, so he asked, "Is your empress taking care of the fourth princess?"

Before Qiu Xue answered, Su Peisheng had already seen Concubine Xin.

I also saw the flowers in the backyard of the Yonghe Palace. If the Forbidden City is a painting, then this small backyard is the strongest stroke of spring.

Concubine Xin was wearing a homely light crimson narrow-sleeved flag dress, and she took a copper pot and watered a camellia plant herself. The bowl-sized Chidan camellia bloomed in full bloom, and the flower center was as tight as a pearl. Brilliant flowers are refreshing to look at.

Su Peisheng smiled flatteringly: "The flowers in the empress's palace are really blooming, but why did the empress water the flowers herself?"

Jiang Heng smiled, and asked Su Peisheng to sit down first without saying anything: "There was a big event in the previous court, and the emperor was very busy. Eunuch Su is exhausted after thinking about it these few days. What are you doing here now?"

Su Peisheng said: "The servant is bothering the empress. Long live Lord is very busy these days, sleeping for three hours a day is too much, and once the adults from the military aircraft department are summoned, he will not be able to take care of the meal. The servant watched, The dim sum in the imperial dining room is also rarely used by Long Live Lord, no, I came here specially to ask for some dim sum."

Jiang Heng is also used to Su Peisheng often coming to bring some baby food back - now Chang Qing in the imperial dining room has called two white case cooks over, afraid that the small kitchen of the Yonghe Palace will be too busy.

She nodded here, and a few apprentices behind Su Peisheng hurriedly carried the flat box to the small kitchen.

"Grandpa Su sit down for a while and have a rest. They have to write a lottery and put it in a box, and they will have to wait for a while." The dishes and snacks presented to the emperor by each palace must be written with the lottery of each palace on the outside of the box, and then sealed and marked, before arriving at the imperial court Only the eunuchs of the Hall of Mental Cultivation will unseal and test the meal before it reaches the mouth of the emperor.

A little eunuch had moved a stool made of bamboo strips to invite Su Peisheng to sit down, while Qiu Xue personally brought a cup of thick nutmeg tea.

There are various crispy nuts such as hickory nuts, pine nuts, dried lotus seeds, and water chestnut in the fragrant noodle tea.It is not so much tea as it is a bowl of porridge with nut noodles, which is very sugary and very filling.Madam Yu Qiuxue and the others were so busy that they didn't have time to eat, so they were all willing to make a drink.

Qiuxue thought about the major events of the previous dynasty one after another, and Su Peisheng was so busy that he rarely showed fatigue, so instead of serving the guests with green tea, he brought a bowl of tea with nut noodles.

Su Peisheng couldn't help being delighted when he saw it: Let's say that he ran this big triangle all morning, and his stomach was really empty. If you really bring him a cup of good green tea or Pu'er to scrape off the little oil and water, then his stomach will be empty. It is even more about singing empty city tricks.

He couldn't help but apologize, then picked up the spoon next to him, and drank half of it in one go, only to feel that his head was not so dizzy, and his body was not so heavy.

Sweetness makes people feel better.

Eat people's mouth is soft, not to mention that Su Peisheng will be soft on people in a while, after eating a cup of noodle tea, it's not good to just sit silently, and said: "The servant was ordered to send the peace scripture copied by Long Live to the Zhongzheng Hall, the Queen Mother Empress is also in the main hall and has not left."

This March, the reason why it is said to be a March with frequent events is not only the result of the unexpected draft and the marriage of the third elder brother Hongshi, but also the outbreak of war in the Northwest.

Now the beautiful women who have passed the re-election are still waiting in their boudoirs, waiting to be married, but they have to wait first-the emperor now doesn't care about the old age, and he has to focus on the Northwest War first.

If Jiang Heng had to describe this battle, it would be "the whole northwestern Shanxi has become a pot of porridge".

At the end of February, it was still snowing on the Pamir Plateau as far away as Tibet, which was the season when there were no people.However, the king of the Junggar Khan, Cewang Allah Butan, deliberately picked this season and ordered the vanguard to raid the Heshuote tribe in Tibet, directly beating Lhazang Khan, but he was not blinded for long-he lost his head. I won't be confused.

However, the Junggar army had not been complacent for long, and had not had time to consolidate the rule of Tibet. The Qing army led by Celeng was once again behind. It changed from a hunter to a prey, and had to fight in embarrassment in the newly conquered Tibet. .

This matter should have ended here. The Fourteenth Lord, who is in Qinghai, only played the role of "holding the troops" in the plan.

Unexpectedly, Junggar probably had a guilty conscience, and was afraid that the Qing Dynasty would find out something, so at the end of February, he raided Tibet and pretended to attack Qinghai at the same time, thinking of better restraining the Fourteenth Master's attention.

Now the Fourteenth Lord is no longer sleepy: Brother Huang repeatedly ordered me to sit in Qinghai and not act rashly, but he didn't let me get beaten and not fight back.

So Junggar made a false attack, and the Fourteenth Lord really fought.

It wasn't until Celeng, the oriole, swallowed Junggar's 6000-strong team that attacked Tibet and captured the Junggar general alive, that Junggar realized that he was a mantis catching cicadas, and was actually plotted against by the Qing Dynasty!

The Junggar Khan was ashamed and anxious—the Junggar general Dun Duobu, who was taken hostage by Celen, was not only a general, but also his own brother!

The younger brother was arrested, and Tibet was not defeated. The Junggar Khan Tsewang Alabutan became anxious and simply left Tibet alone, mobilizing the army to turn around and start attacking Qinghai, especially Xining City where King Xunjun was stationed!

Daqing arrested his younger brother, how can he get him back?The cession of land and indemnity is absolutely not willing to give up, so we can only treat him in his own way, arresting the younger brother of the Qing emperor, the king of Xunjun who is now in Qinghai, and everyone exchanges hostages, and then returns to the original starting point.

So by accident, the Fourteenth Lord, who was originally used as a cover, became the main force in the Northwest War. He was made dumplings by the Junggar army. It was Celeng who had planned for a long time and only faced a vanguard of 6000 people.

When Celen heard that Cewang Alabatan personally led an army to Qinghai to besiege King Xun, he was also very anxious: "I don't know how the fourteenth master is prepared. After all, the fourteenth master even sent him the best torch!"

But Celen is a general after all, counting the time and distance, he may not be able to help Qinghai in time, so he simply took people to fight in Yili, Junggar Khan's hometown!Surrounding Wei and saving Zhao, he didn't believe in the plan. When Alabutan found out that his hometown was about to be taken away, he could go to Qinghai without hesitation.

The above is the most simplistic battle situation that Jiang Heng has painstakingly summed up.

The real battle situation in the Northwest is naturally a hundred times more chaotic than what she summed up. It really is a mess, and a harmonious closed loop has been realized where you fight me, I fight him, and he fights you.

The most injured was the Tibetan Heshuo Special Department, which had been beaten and wiped out.

With such a chaotic battle, how can the emperor not be busy?Since the first battle report was sent to the capital from the northwest in March, the rest of the affairs had to be put in the back row. The Military Aircraft Department and the Sixth Department followed the lights of the Hall of Mental Cultivation all night long.

The troops from Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan are also receiving orders to help. This battle has affected half of the Qing Dynasty, and the Queen Mother naturally knows about it.

After hearing that Xining City, where her youngest son lived, had become the center of the war, the Queen Mother immediately forgot about the draft and other matters.

Sitting in the harem, she can't help at all, she can only turn to metaphysics, and almost lives in the central hall.Copy peace scriptures every day, recite Buddhist scriptures, and watch Master Yunzhang's practice to pray for peace.

The Fourteenth Fujin also knelt down together - when she received those 'annihilated' family letters, they were all sent to her by Junggar's feigned attack, and the Fourteenth Master was happily playing hamsters.But since the center of the battlefield moved to Qinghai, King Junggar Khan came to encircle Xining in person, so the [-]th Fujin naturally couldn't receive any letters from his family.

Listening to the court situation outside every day, I don't understand and am afraid, and I can't sit and sleep. It's better to go to the palace to accompany the Queen Mother to kneel sutras.And once there is any good news, the palace must be the first to know.

All the children and boys in Xunjun Wangfu went to the study to study with the master, and they brought them to the Queen Mother to watch them together.

The queen mother is like this, of course all the concubines in the harem immediately lived in seclusion, and only copied the peace scriptures in their own palace every day, praying for the safety of King Xun and all the soldiers on the battlefield.

Even the Emperor, in order to comfort Er Niang in his busy schedule, wrote a few pages of the Sutra of Peace by himself, which was not just sent by Su Peisheng today.

When the queen mother saw these pages of scriptures, her heart ached to her death, and she told Su Peisheng many times: "Don't allow the emperor to spend any more energy writing these, how long does he only rest every day? Still want to copy the Sutra of Peace?! These things have their own sorrows. Do it at home, you go back and tell the emperor, he takes care of his body and sleeps a little longer, it is much more important than this in Aijia's heart."

Su Peisheng kowtowed again and again, promising to bring Yizhi back.

When Su Peisheng comes out of the main hall, counting the time, the emperor must be discussing matters with the Minister of Military Aircraft at this moment, and he will poke it outside as a pillar when he goes back. Why not go to Xinfei Niangniang's palace to get some snacks and watch Send it up to the emperor, even if the emperor takes an extra bite, it would be good.

"master……"

Seeing the young apprentice coming out with an unsealed flat box, Su Peisheng asked cautiously, "Eunuch Lu prepared this snack in the small kitchen, but... please take a look, master."

This made Su Pei angry: Unlucky boy who has no eyesight, what kind of snacks should be put in the small kitchen of Yonghe Palace, why did you show me it?Why, I am higher than Concubine Xin, can I become Concubine Su?

So he smiled at Jiang Heng and stared at the little apprentice, looking quite divided. "Concubine Xin, this child doesn't turn his head, he's just simple and honest, don't blame him."

The little eunuch didn't dare to raise his head, his knees were weak, but he was still holding the flat box.

It was Qiu Xue who came to pick up the lid of the flat box, and Jiang Heng said with a smile: "It's this flavor, so I can't blame Su Gonggong's apprentice."

Sure enough, Su Peisheng was also dumbfounded when he saw it: I saw this familiar black and purple, isn't this the only dim sum that the emperor asked to return, is it striped laver?No wonder the little apprentice came back to report tremblingly, Yonghe Palace actually wanted to send this dim sum over there?

So Su Peisheng said euphemistically: "Madam, Lord Long Live has really lost his appetite recently."

The implication is that it was fun for you to joke with the emperor with dim sum in the past, but recently the emperor really doesn't think so, what if you get annoyed.

Jiang Heng really wasn't joking.

It was four days ago that the emperor came back to Yonghe Palace.He didn't eat dinner, didn't stay overnight, and didn't even talk much, just lay down for a while silently holding her hand.Before leaving, he went to see Minmin again. At that time, Minmin was asleep, and the emperor watched his daughter's sleeping face for half a quarter of an hour, and even put his forehead on the car for a while.

Really tired.

When he got up, the emperor was still in a daze, staring at the white wall for a while.

When Jiang Heng asked, the emperor said that when he looked at the white wall just now, there seemed to be swimming black mosquitoes flying past in his eyes.At that time, Jiang Heng understood: she was always staring at the computer screen in her previous life, not only her short-sightedness and dry eyes had increased, but she also had floaters.

Especially after staying up late and working hard, the floaters look heavier.

How did it work out then...

Seeing her pensive face, the emperor patted her hand and comforted her, "It's okay, don't worry, I've always been like this before." The emperor in the previous life also had bad eyesight, and there were a pair of dioramas kept everywhere in the palace. .

Then the emperor hurried away again.

On the other hand, Jiang Heng kept thinking about what the doctor said when he went to the hospital before: for floaters, you need to rest more - this is definitely something the emperor can't do now.At that time, she couldn't do it in the overtime liver project.The doctor said that it is just to take some medicine.She remembered that she was prescribed some western medicine at that time, and the doctor told her that it would be okay to eat more kelp, as more iodine in the body would relieve some of the symptoms.

There is no need to add iodized salt these days. People in the mainland, especially in the mountains, often suffer from big neck disease.There is no shortage of all kinds of seafood such as dried and fresh scallops in the palace, but few people suffer from big neck disease, but the amount of iodine consumed in daily consumption must be less than that of modern people.

Jiang Heng said to Su Peisheng: "This is not the kind of rice with prunes that the emperor doesn't like to eat. It is a roll made of the best seaweed and black sesame. The emperor's eyes are tired recently. It is good to eat more of this." ——The emperor doesn't like to drink any seaweed soup, and the emperor also refused to drink the goji berries stewed in the imperial dining room before, so I have to see if the emperor can use some of this snack."

Hearing this, Su Peisheng hurriedly ordered the little eunuch to seal the flat box, and then left.

When he got out of the gate of Yonghe Palace and turned on the palace road, Su Peisheng turned his head and asked a few young disciples: "I got up before Yinshi today, and after running all this way, did my chest stick to my back? How many times did I take you?" When you come to the Yonghe Palace, it's the master who loves you——but it hurts your stomach?"

"Eat, eat." The first two eunuchs hurriedly said: "Thanks to following the master!" They entered the small kitchen just now, and the palace staff of Yonghe Palace methodically pasted notes on the snack boxes, and Xiao Lu, who was in charge of the small kitchen, Zizi also arranged for people to greet these little eunuchs in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

They are not the same as Su Peisheng, they are not so free, and the number of times they even go to Gong's room is limited when they are on duty, so they don't send soup and water.

Instead, he served them two large plates of white steamed buns with oily duck egg yolks sandwiched between them.

Firstly, the white flour dry food is very hungry, and secondly, some oily duck egg yolk is sandwiched, so the dry food will not choke people.

The steamed buns in the palace are all made of small ones, known as the small buns with elephant eyes, just for one bite, so that they can be eaten concealed and clean without leaving traces on the face and clothes.

A little eunuch embarrassedly laughed and said, "I ate eight."

Su Peisheng was speechless: ...well, when I look back at the Yonghe Palace, I'm afraid I brought people here to fight the autumn wind.

"The empress of Yonghe Palace treats the palace people very well." A young eunuch, who could not forget the taste of steamed buns with duck egg yolk and white flour, said with eyes shining brightly: "The steamed buns are all eaten, and the cook picked them from another small stove. The steamed buns were brought up again, and looking at the stove and steamer, one knew it was specially prepared for the palace people." It can be seen that what they ate was also the dim sum of the palace people who passed the Ming Road in Yonghe Palace. the best.

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the little apprentices, Su Peisheng couldn't help but also smiled, and the warm and sweet nut noodle tea in his stomach also made him return a wave of blue bars.

Not to mention the emperor, who doesn't like to come to Yonghe Palace.

The Yonghe Palace is getting closer to the temperament of the Concubine Xin, with a sense of order full of vitality.

After Su Peisheng left, Qiu Xue stepped forward and asked with concern, "What would you like to have for lunch, Madam?"

Jiang Heng sighed: "Just steam the fish, and put less ginger juice and cooking wine to remove the fishy smell."

Qiu Xue and Qiu Shuang were helpless when they heard the words.

Speaking of the last time the empress was pregnant with the princess, they still vividly remembered it. At that time, the empress was only more than a month pregnant, and suddenly there was a reaction. His words were really loud.

But this time it's completely the opposite.

Counting it, it should be almost two months. People close to Yonghe Palace, such as Madam Yu and Qiu Xue, have noticed the changes in Jiang Heng's taste and work and rest, but she just didn't have a big reaction, and Imperial Physician Liu couldn't tell the exact truth. The pulse is coming.

Imperial Physician Liu has been in charge of Concubine Xin's mother and daughter in Yonghe Palace for a long time, and he is half of Yonghe Palace. Naturally, I looked for the signboard of the Yonghe Palace and paid close attention to it.

He could [-]% conclude that Concubine Xin was pregnant by looking, hearing and asking, but he just couldn't cut out the pulse.

Recently, things happened one after another in front of the harem, one after another, so the consensus reached by Liu Taiyi and the Yonghe Palace is to report to the emperor and queen mother after 100% confirming the happy pulse and the health status of the fetus place.

This time, there will be an empty joy, but it will be a big thunder.

Physician Liu suggested to Jiang Heng: When the empress was pregnant with the princess, she first had morning sickness like a disharmony between spleen and stomach, and then diagnosed the exact happy pulse.It might be that Niangniang's physique is like this, or Niangniang will try this trick again and use some seafood to see.

After all, the concubine Xin was very sensitive to the taste of seafood when she was pregnant before, and when the fish had no fishy smell, when it came to her mouth, she said it was like chasing and chewing on raw fish.

Jiang Heng accepted this little suggestion, and recently returned to the original flavor of his diet, basically eating all kinds of fish and shrimp with a little seasoning.

It was strange, there was no reaction at all.

At the end of March, good news finally came from the Northwest.

Celen's siege of Wei and rescue of Zhao had an excellent effect. Junggar really couldn't accept the consequence of "losing his home in one turn", so he allocated half of his troops back to Ili.Celen's sense of smell in battle is super sensitive, and when the Junggar army came back to help him, he led his 2 men and fled first.And if the Junggar army wants to leave, he will go and harass it.

Because he dragged half of Junggar's troops near Ili, the pressure on Xining City was greatly reduced.Therefore, Yue Zhongqi was ordered to dispatch troops from Gansu, Shaanxi and Shaanxi to help, opened up Yongchang and Batang, established a supply route with Xining, and successfully connected with the Fourteenth Lord.

The next one will not be such a critical battle, it will turn into a long tug-of-war.

The Qing Dynasty and Junggar are also used to tug-of-war, and there have been fights and stops for many years.

At present, how to divide the land and population of the large area of ​​the former Tibetan Heshuote tribe, the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar have a lot of trouble.Of course, it now appears that the Qing Dynasty has a great advantage and should be able to swallow most of the war profits.

The news that the king of Xunjun was safe and sound spread to the capital eight hundred miles away.

The Empress Dowager immediately donated a golden body to the Buddha she worshiped in the Zhongzheng Hall.Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs use the gold in her case to press out gold leaf, and re-attach and reshape the Buddha's body.

Fourteen Fujin's high-pitched heart was finally let go. After the Queen Mother returned to the Palace of Compassion, she planned to pack up and leave the palace to return to the palace tomorrow morning.

This is also the first time the emperor has returned to the harem for a meal in a month.

It does look a little haggard, but in good spirits.

After changing clothes at the Yonghe Palace, the emperor said, "It's not bad to eat seaweed rolls alone." It can be seen that the emperor was deeply hurt by plum rice balls, and he had a prejudice against seaweed.

Su Peisheng deliberately saved this snack to deliver when only the emperor and the thirteenth master were alone, and when the emperor frowned at the seaweed, he hurriedly and carefully explained the meaning of the concubine Xin.It just so happened that the imperial physician Mao who often followed Lord Thirteen was also there, and from the perspective of Chinese medicine, he also demonstrated that seaweed is good for the eyes.

The emperor tasted it and it was not bad, better than medicinal food.

Compared with the emperor, the Thirteenth Master unexpectedly likes to eat seafood, the emperor only ate one, and he knocked down half of the plate.The emperor left one for mass production in the imperial dining room.Now this Qing version of 'Seaweed and Sesame Crispy Roll' has become a must-have snack at the Military Aircraft Department.

The imperial dining rooms are all made the size of a little finger, one bite at a time, and everyone from Thirteenth Master to Ertai and others are used to touching a roll to eat when they have nothing to do.

"You have a heart." The emperor pulled her to sit down together, and asked his daughter again: "Is Minmin here?"

Jiang Heng shook his head: "The Empress Dowager picked her up. These days, Minmin often plays with the three princesses of Xunjun Prince's Mansion, especially Liu Gege in the mansion, who is only a little over three years old, and just happens to play with Minmin Go to a place. Tomorrow, the fourteen Fujin will take the children out of the palace, and the empress dowager will let their cousins ​​play for a while."

The emperor nodded, feeling relieved after changing his clothes, he leaned on the pillow behind him, motioning for Jiang Heng to lean over.

Then he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve.

"There are a lot of facts in March. I can breathe a sigh of relief about the northwest affairs, so I have time to deal with other things." The emperor motioned her to open it and read: "This is translated and delivered by the foreign affairs office. An English duke brought his king George A letter written by the Second Emperor to me."

After the drug incident, the English merchants were kicked out of the capital, let alone the port of Guangzhou.

Today's trade between the two countries has fallen to a freezing point, and it is indeed England that is anxious.

The person responsible for sending letters between the two countries this time is not a merchant, but a young duke who also owns his own merchant ship. For his own industry and the country, he actively became the messenger.

Because of his special status, he is not a merchant, but a man of noble rank in a foreign country. It took a long time to pass the approval of the governor of Guangzhou, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Beijing-China Foreign Affairs Office, and the emperor himself, and finally arrived in the capital. Under the care of "thoughtful" , In March, I arrived at the Foreigner Club behind the Foreign Affairs Yamen.

However, in the emperor's heart, Western affairs are certainly not as good as Northwest affairs.

So after receiving the news that the fourteenth brother was safe, he ordered the Foreign Affairs Office to submit the translated version of this letter for reading.

I also brought it to watch with Jiang Heng.

Opening the folded paper, the first thing that jumped into Jiang Heng's eyes was not the string of names and greetings of King George II at the beginning.

It's the middle paragraph.

"...We built many large ships and went to various countries, not to expand the territory and collect wealth, but to conduct friendly exchanges with various countries and share fun. At the same time, we are friendly to send the goods we have and they desire... ..."

Jiang Heng was shocked: So the word colonization can be said to be so fresh and refined!

She suddenly felt nauseous.

The emperor saw that Jiang Heng got up suddenly, covered his chest with a handkerchief, his face turned pale and looked uncomfortable.He also immediately got up from the pillow, and raised his hand to gently follow her back: "Why, are you uncomfortable?"

Jiang Heng: The smell of fish and shrimp is useless, but hypocrisy is.Thanks to Yingjili, her belated morning sickness finally arrived.