"Sixth master," the Empress Dowager Cixi specially added: "The big wedding ceremony is still hosted by you and Baojun." Mention a stroke in the edict to save irrelevant people and make a fool of it. ”

I don't know who this refers to? Prince Gong couldn't study it for a while, so he only promised to hand over the three drafts to Shen Guifen, filled in the name and title on the corridor of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and submitted the imperial case.

Half a year later, that is, in the twelfth year of Tongzhi, the emperor could govern in person. The two major events of big marriage and pro-government, in the emperor is like a scholar's "big Dengke and small Dengke", it is a time of pride in his life.

But for the Empress Dowager Cixi, it can be said that she was unhappy to come!

For the emperor to choose the Arut clan as the queen, the Empress Dowager Cixi was heartbroken, if it was purely out of the emperor's will, it could be tolerated, and the most painful thing for her was that the emperor obeyed the instructions of the Empress Dowager Ci'an.

In October, she was pregnant with her own son, and her heart was to outsiders, in her opinion, this was rebellion! And if there are words of suffering, it is even more infuriating, and he can only confide his grievances to the palace maid who is close to his cronies: "I have been so strong in my life, but my son does not fight for the mourning family!" ”

Fighting for anger or not, in the end, it's just a feeling in my heart, just look at it.

Leaving the bead curtain, returning the big government, and empty-handed "power" is the most worrying thing for the Empress Dowager Cixi.

When she thinks of the emperor's pro-government, she will think of Xiao Anzi being killed, the emperor is not filial, and he has such a blatant act against himself when he has not been in power, once he is in power, what should he do if he is not in love?

At that time, the emperor only listened to the words of the "east", and everything he did was not to his liking, and he was angry all day long, how could he live this life?

For this reason, from spring to summer, the Empress Dowager Cixi often made trouble and could not look at the court. After the autumn, I got better for a while, but recently I felt tired and worried, so I simply avoided laziness and went with the emperor himself.

However, the Empress Dowager Cixi is really careful, and the Empress Dowager Ci'an has been uneasy in order to kill An Dehai and Lihou. The emperor often apologized, so after listening to the advice of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, although he did not think so, he had no intention of disobeying, and immediately took the fold and went to the Changchun Palace to ask for instructions.

From the day the preparations for the big wedding ceremony began, the Ministry of Internal Affairs became a greedy gully that filled the dissatisfaction, almost everything was ready, and it came up with tricks to ask for 1.4 million taels of silver. The ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Chonglun and Mingshan, who were in charge of affairs, were able to speak directly and indirectly in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Prince Gong and Bao Jun couldn't help but think of a perfunctory way, and it took 600,000 taels to be evened out after a patchwork, so the household department repeated, saying that this amount could be allocated between July and August.

I have always asked the household department for money, even if it is military spending, there is room for bargaining, on the one hand, I say how much I want, on the other hand, I say how much I can give, if it is not enough, how to land, there is no need to mention it, and no one will ask about it.

This ambiguous convention is naturally known to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Unbeknownst to him, in July, the Ministry of Household notified that there were 600,000 taels of silver to be allocated, and when the Ministry of Internal Affairs was asked to receive it, the clerk in charge of the treasury added a sentence at the end of the "seal collar": "I owe 800,000 taels." ”

When the official matter was sent to the household department, Bao Jun was greatly displeased, and accepting this "seal collar" was equivalent to admitting that the household department still owed 800,000 taels of silver to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was not a child's play.

Fortunately, Gui Qing, who was a waiter in the household department and walked in the Hongde Hall and taught Manchurian dialect, was newly appointed as the Minister of the Interior, and Baojun entrusted him to expose this case from the Interior Office.

So Gui Qing made a twist, blaming the secretary for adding the words "two outstanding silver taels" without the consent of the court officials when handling the manuscript of the Consultation Department, and "the intention was confused", and asked for the discussion.

"What does this idea mean?" The Emperor asked sternly.

The emperor's words were sharp, Prince Gong felt very embarrassed, the matter had to be settled, and it was not a matter to just listen to the emperor's complaints. So his mouth was only in his mouth, but his eyes looked at the Empress Dowager Ci'an, hoping that she would say something.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an is also about to speak: "Like these things, we must always give people a chance to complain." This was the Empress Dowager Ci'an teaching the emperor, and then made a ruling: "Let Chonglun and them understand the echo!" ”

"Yes!" Prince Gong agreed and asked for instructions: "The secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is really bold and self-authoritarian, and the minister's request will be handed over to the Ministry of Ministers first." ”

Of course, this is true.

After retiring from the court, the Empress Dowager Ci'an specially brought the emperor and told him that he should not be in a hurry to listen to the government and do things. The shortcomings accumulated over the years are not rectified all at once.

For something like today, it is enough to give the Minister of the Interior a nail in the coffin and make them vigilant.

He also said that the superior should be considerate of the hardships of his subordinates, although Gui Qing was on the fold, in fact, he didn't want Chonglun's face to be too ugly, if he had to be strict and grudge against each other, it would be difficult for Gui Qing to do things in the internal affairs office in the future.

Therefore, for the sake of Guiqing, it is not appropriate to deal with it too strictly.

The emperor thought to himself, the people of the Internal Affairs Office were tired and stubborn, and if they were lenient, this generation of villains would become more and more unscrupulous. In any case, it should be strict, not lenient!

Therefore, he didn't think that the words of the Empress Dowager Ci'an were audible. But since the beginning of knowledge, has he not disobeyed her? Therefore, the heart did not think so, but the mouth still agreed very docilely.

And I can't help but feel a little emotional, it is really difficult to be an emperor, I can't act according to the words in the book, all kinds of involvement, I can't help but wronged myself, these hardships are not understood by outsiders.

"And your mother," the Empress Dowager Ci'an said again, "how many years of hard work have it been, it's really not easy!" You have to coax her more. ”

Now listening to the words of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, she immediately replied: "As long as it can make the two emperors happy, the son will do whatever he says." However, I really don't know how to make my mother happy? ”

Empress Dowager Ci'an was silent. If you don't mention it, you don't think about it, when you mention it and think about it, the emperor is really embarrassed. Unless it doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, everything is obeyed, the Empress Dowager Cixi will be happy.

But this is something that can't be done, she wants to be in power, can she just hang the curtain for the rest of her life and not let the emperor govern in person?

So she had no choice but to reply: "My son coaxes his mother, it's nothing more than to go and see, talk with him, have fun or something." If you go to Changchun Palace more, you will naturally be happy! ”

At the mention of this layer, the emperor couldn't help but feel ashamed.

He himself knows that since he was a child, when he was here with the Empress Dowager Ci'an, he has always been more here than when he was with the Empress Dowager Cixi, although he has his reasons, but this reason is not clear to others, and he does not want to say: The Empress Dowager Cixi has always looked down on her son!

In front of her eyes, she either suffered a meal or listened to a lesson, which made people dare not get close.

So, he stood up and said, "Erchen will go to Changchun Palace now." ”

"That's right!" Empress Dowager Ci'an happily, "You go first, and the mourning family will also go to see it later." (To be continued.) )