Regarding the pregnancy of Yi Concubine Ulan Tuya, now Emperor Chongzhen can be said to be overjoyed and attaches great importance to it.

He didn't care whether Ulan Tuya was carrying a boy or a girl in his belly, as a traveler from later generations, he didn't have the slightest idea of patriarchy.

However, in stark contrast to the emperor's overjoyed and unusual attention, when Concubine Lan's personal maid Ulan Tuya was pregnant with the emperor's dragon seed and was named Yi Concubine by the overjoyed emperor, there was no congratulatory voice expected by the emperor in the court.

Except for Niu Juming, the person who brought back Concubine Lan Hai Lanzhu and Yi Concubine Ulan Tuya from Horqin, no one else wrote to congratulate the emperor's concubine because she was conceived.

At most, the military attache of the imperial attendant next to the emperor and the current commander of the three guards of the guard, when they met the emperor, they congratulated him a few times in person.

Not only is this the case in the outer courts, but in the harem, in addition to the Chuxiu Palace, the Kunning Palace, where the Zhou Empress lives, and the Chengqian Palace, where the Li Fei Tian family lives, are also shrouded in gloomy clouds.

For the ministers of foreign dynasties, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty marrying a foreign woman was originally a very uncomfortable thing for them.

Now among the alien women who have entered the palace, they are the first to conceive the emperor's dragon species, which makes them feel even more uncomfortable.

Although Yi Concubine's pregnancy shows that there is no problem with Emperor Chongzhen, the world of the Ming Dynasty will not have problems in the future because the current Emperor Chongzhen has no heirs.

It's a good thing to say, but this Yi concubine named Ulan Tuya is also an interracial woman no matter how you say it.

If the princess born is fine, if the eldest son of the emperor is born, then it will be a big trouble in the future.

The worries of the ministers of the foreign court were similar to those of the queen of the harem.

Although Empress Zhou is very virtuous, it does not mean that she will be willing to see other women give birth to sons to the emperor first.

Zhou Hou is not worried about any alien race, after all, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, the king's minister, what happened to the alien woman, is it still the emperor's heir?

If Concubine Yi gives birth to a princess in the future, then it is easy to say anything, but if she gives birth to the eldest son of the emperor in the future, what should she do as a queen?

If you can give birth to a son-in-law, then it's okay to say, but what if you can't give birth to a child?

Since learning that Ulan Tuya of Chuxiu Palace was pregnant, Queen Zhou fell into a state of anxiety and self-blame every day, worrying that she would never be able to conceive the dragon species, and on the other hand, she felt self-blame for her belly.

Compared with Empress Zhou, the beautiful and jealous Concubine Tian was unhappy not because Ulan Tuya was pregnant with the dragon seed and she was not pregnant.

Emperor Chongzhen spent a lot of time on her, and she knew this very well, but who could blame her for not being pregnant?

The reason why she was depressed for many days was because she was worried that her position in front of the emperor would weaken, and she was worried that the emperor's previous favor for him would be shared by others, or even taken away by others.

Because before Concubine Lan entered the palace, especially when she was in the palace of the king, she was the one who favored the harem!

The empress is of course the first in the emperor's heart, but the emperor stays with her the most times and for the most time.

Concubine Yuan, who is quiet by nature and has no quarrel with the world, is not her opponent at all.

However, this situation quietly changed after Concubine Lan Hai Lanzhu entered the palace.

Although the emperor still loves her, her sensitivity as a woman can still feel that Concubine Lanhai's status in the emperor's heart is getting higher and higher.

All this made her feel lost and uneasy.

And when Emperor Chongzhen canonized Ulan Tuya as a concubine in public in Chuxiu Palace, the kind of pity and joy from the bottom of her heart was what she dreamed of.

When she said something sarcastic, the way the emperor looked at her made her tremble and regret it.

The ladies were in a bad mood, and the maids in Kunning Palace and Chengqian Palace naturally immediately fell into a gloomy fog.

This situation soon reached the ears of the emperor.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are absolutely not allowed to develop informants in the palace, but this does not mean that the emperor is blind to the situation in the palace.

Whether it is Cao Huachun, the eunuch with the palm print of the celebrant eunuch, or Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace who is now second only to Cao Huachun in the inner court, they all have their own eyeliner in the palace.

After the news from both sides is summarized together, even if it is a matter in the harem, as long as the emperor wants to know.

It is almost impossible to hide anything from the emperor's eyes for a long time.

What's more, Queen Zhou's expression was gloomy and depressed, and her unhappiness was almost written on her face, and she didn't need to bother to observe.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen, who was supposed to stay in Chuxiu Palace, came to Kunning Palace in the evening at the suggestion of Concubine Lan and the newly sealed concubine Ulan Tuya.

The Kunning Palace in the Forbidden City is the last of the three palaces of the harem with the same specifications as the three major halls in the outer city, and the Qianqing Palace is separated by a relatively small Jiaotai Palace, but the specifications are comparable to the Qianqing Palace.

Kunning Palace sits in the north and faces south, faces nine rooms, enters three deep rooms, and there are corridors and heavy eaves before and after, after the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing, it has always been the palace where the queen lives.

At this time, the Kunning Palace still retains the tradition of Chinese culture, and has not been transformed into a place where pigs, boiled meat, and dancing gods are killed on the fifteenth day of each month.

The east and west sides are nine wide rooms, and the middle three rooms are the Ming Hall, which is the place where the queen accepts other concubines or noble women to meet the court, and it is also the place where the queen's authority is exercised and the entire harem is managed.

The east and west of Kunning Palace have their own warm pavilions, which are also called West Warm Pavilion and East Warm Pavilion, all of which are open to the Ming Hall.

One of the two rooms in the Xinuan Pavilion is a Buddhist hall, which enshrines the Buddha and Bodhisattvas such as Fuxian, Manjushri, and Guanyin, and the other is dedicated to the Taoist Sanqing Tianzun and Tianhou Mazu, that is, the main gods of Buddhism and Taoism.

It is also a workplace where Queen Zhou personally spun cotton, weaved cloth, and made female celebrities and handicrafts in history.

The two rooms of the East Warm Pavilion are the real places where the Empress of the Ming Dynasty stayed in the Kunning Palace.

Therefore, although the emperors and empresses of the Ming Dynasty nominally claimed to be rich in the world, in fact, even in the Forbidden City, the places where they actually lived were only one or two houses.

When Emperor Chongzhen came to Kunning Palace, Empress Zhou was wearing a dress, clasped her hands, and knelt in the Buddhist hall of Xinuan Pavilion reverently, praying to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

Empress Zhou heard a sound coming, opened her eyes, and turned around to see the emperor standing at the door of the Xinuan Pavilion Buddha Hall, and immediately stood up and saluted.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly stepped forward, took her hand, did not let her get up, and knelt down facing the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

Empress Zhou instantly understood the emperor's meaning and no longer got up, so the emperor and the empress of the Ming Dynasty knelt side by side in the Buddhist hall, clasped their hands together, and prayed silently.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen is of course an atheist in his later life, and he has been to many tourist resorts such as temples and Taoist temples, but he has never knelt down on the futon and prayed.

Seeing that the queen was so pious, and knowing that she had been kneeling here countless times since she entered the palace, praying for an early birth of a noble son, praying for smooth wind and rain, and hoping that Emperor Chongzhen could govern the country well, and looking forward to the people of the Ming Dynasty living and working in peace and contentment, without the disaster of hunger, cold, and fire, my heart was moved.

Thinking about it again, it was the young queen in front of her, who followed the equally young Emperor Chongzhen into the palace for seventeen years, but she suffered for seventeen years, and prayed for the Ming Dynasty for seventeen years, but in the end, the country was still ruined, and she was desperate, so she committed suicide in this Buddhist hall, and she was even more embarrassed in her heart.

The original Emperor Chongzhen, also a faithful Confucian believer, has always pursued the principle of respecting ghosts and gods and staying away, in addition to the Confucian provisions of the sacrifice to the sky, the earth, the shrine, and the ancestors, never worship the Buddha and Bodhisattva, and never worship the Taoist Sanqing and other immortals.

Therefore, this time in the Kunning Palace Buddha Hall, so that Empress Zhou, who has always known the temper and temperament of Emperor Chongzhen, was very moved, she knew that this was the emperor praying with her, which showed that the emperor's heart was here with her, and he was always with her husband and wife.

The emperor and queen knelt in front of the Buddha for a while, got up, and ate a simple dinner while talking in the main hall of Kunning Palace.

Seeing that the queen's dinner was a bowl of cabbage and tofu soup that was extremely light and did not have a little minced meat and oil, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to suddenly understand the reason why the queen was never pregnant.

Emperor Chongzhen ate the two rice in the bowl in two bites, then put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said to Empress Zhou: "It is better to seek Buddha than to seek yourself, can the queen know why Ulan Tuya can get pregnant and the queen has not been able to do so?" ”

Seeing that Empress Zhou put down the dishes and chopsticks and listened carefully, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and continued: "It's not that I am thick and thin, the time I have stayed in Kunning Palace is the longest in the harem!"

Ulan Tuya is from Saibei, and his living habits are different from those of the queen and the concubines, and since entering the palace, he still likes to eat the cheese lamb chops that are popular in Saibei, and the cheese lamb chops are nutritious, so the body is healthy and plump, which is the old folk saying that it is easy to give birth to and nourish.

"On the other hand, in Kunning Palace, the queen worships the Buddha every day and eats fasting, and the light food of each meal is also crowned in the harem, so that the physique is weak and the influence is bad, which may be the root cause of the failure to get pregnant!

"For example, if you are planting, the land is too barren, and no matter how many seeds are sown, it will be difficult to grow crops!"

Today, Emperor Chongzhen was able to come to Kunning Palace to accompany her, and worship the Buddha with her, eat fasting, and pray for the Buddha's favor and blessing, which has made Empress Zhou feel a lot better.

At this time, hearing Emperor Chongzhen say this, and then thinking about the Saibei recipe from Chuxiu Palace, Empress Zhou found that the food on the table in front of her seemed to be indeed lighter, so she said with a smile while blushing:

"Long live the Lord knows a lot! Why don't you see the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital say that! ”

Although Empress Zhou said this, she recognized the emperor's statement a little in her heart, after all, how could the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital dare to talk to the queen like this.

When the emperor and queen of the night merged, they were naturally crazy and made people crazy, and they enjoyed fish and water.

The next morning, Empress Zhou sent the female officials who were useful around her to transcribe a copy of the daily recipes of Chuxiu Palace.