235 Dragon Capture IV

Yangxin Palace, since Yongzheng moved the living place from the Qianqing Palace to the Yangxin Palace, it has always been the Qing Dynasty emperor to summon ministers, deal with government affairs, and the emperor read, study and live. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info heart hall is an I-shaped building, divided into the front court and the back bed, and is connected by a hall in the middle. Compared with the Qianqing Palace, the layout of the Heart Cultivation Palace is smaller, but for ordinary people, this is also a huge place.

Qianlong was writing in the palace of nourishing the heart at this time, he was good at dancing and writing by nature, vassal elegance, plus he reigned for a long time, and there were a lot of poems in circulation, even reaching more than 43,000, you must know that the whole Tang Dynasty poems were compiled 48,000 poems, of course, there is no lack of works attached to it, and it is like a military minister with a good memory who always remembers him. Of course, it is useless to write too much, and in the palace of ancient Chinese literature, Qianlong is not ranked. As for calligraphy, even in the era before Bai Nan's crossing, there were many Qianlong works in circulation, and some calligraphy works could even be sold for millions. Of course, Qianlong's own calligraphy can only be called decent, and in terms of artistic achievements, compared with his fifth brother and the eighth Mr. Sun Qigong of Prince Hongday, it is a world of difference.

The level of rotten people can't stand up to the emperor is the emperor, and there is an endless stream of touters, Qianlong is like a test subject that is constantly exerted positive influence, and he likes to do these more and more, especially now that he has entered old age, he is even more fond of calligraphy, poetry and other things.

After inscribed five lines of poetry, Qianlong put down his pen with satisfaction, and the eunuch next to him immediately showed a shocked expression and praised vigorously. Qianlong only thought that the eunuchs knew the goods, and he was indeed everyone's demeanor, so he didn't take it to heart at all, and he picked up a cup of fragrant tea served by the eunuchs. casually asked, "What's going on in the harem lately?" ”

The head of the eunuch bowed down and replied: "It is said that Concubine Rong of Baoyue Lou is not in good health these days. The mood is depressed. I don't have a good appetite, I don't go out much, and I don't want to see people. ”

Qianlong put down the teacup, frowned, and asked, "But what's the pain?" ”

Many people don't know who this Concubine Rong is when they hear the title, but if you want to say that the name of the outside world is known, everyone should know it, and she is the famous Concubine Xiang. His brother was Taiyoshi, who was loyal to the imperial court in the Hui department. In the battle of Jinchuan, he contributed a lot, and finally Emperor Qianlong rewarded his brother and married him as a nobleman. Concubine Xiang was a proper old girl when she got married, she was twenty-seven years old, but she was still loved by Emperor Qianlong.

It is said that the year she entered the palace, the lychee tree originally transplanted from the south actually produced more than 200 lychees, which were regarded as auspicious by the palace, and the queen mother personally decreed that she was canonized as Rong Concubine, and then promoted to Rong Concubine. To say that Emperor Qianlong loved the queen of the Fucha clan the most in the first half of his life. Then the favorite in the second half of my life is Concubine Rong. He carved verses from the Qur'an on a marble tablet outside the Old Summer Palace for Concubine Rong to make it easier for her to pray. Her palace has a dedicated Hui chef who prepares halal meals for her. There were only a few concubines and concubines on Qianlong's southern tour. Among them was Concubine Rong, and she was given more than 80 kinds of delicacies along the way. In order to let Concubine Rong see the scene of her hometown, Qianlong built the Baoyue Tower, and you can see the Huihui camp and mosque on the opposite side of the Beihai Sea. After her death, Concubine Rong was buried in the Yuling Concubine Garden, which was the first of the concubines, second only to several queens and imperial concubines with higher status. Even on her coffin, according to Uighur custom, the words "In the name of Allah" were inscribed in Arabic.

Naturally, in the wild history and the stories of various literati, Concubine Xiang was forced, and her lover was Huo Jizhan, the Hui chieftain who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, and was captured by Zhaohui and dedicated to Qianlong. It doesn't matter how the novelist writes, but Concubine Xiang is indeed very favored by Qianlong.

Although Concubine Rong has passed forty years and her face is no longer good, Qianlong still loves her for ten minutes and responds to her needs. At this time, Qianlong heard that Concubine Rong was unwell, so he wanted to visit Concubine Rong.

The eunuch replied to Qianlong's question and said: "Concubine Rong and the slaves and maids in the palace said that the Tang Yi incense milk and balsam that the servants of the Internal Affairs Office loyally offered in the past have been cut off for two months. Now that there are no fragrant milks and balsam, Concubine Rong said that her skin is old, and wrinkles are about to come out, I am afraid that the emperor will no longer be favored, depressed, and unwilling to see people. ”

Qianlong said helplessly: "This person has birth, old age, sickness and death, heaven and man, how can he always stay young forever, Concubine Rong is beautiful, bowing carefully, Roujia is careful, careful and conscientious, serving Cifu diligently for a long time, serving the internal post without violation, dreaming of the rules of the female history, how can I only love her color?" Anyway, I went to Baoyue Tower in person, so I comforted her. ”

The head of the eunuch was busy supporting Qianlong, and whispered from the side: "Concubine Rong has been relieved by the emperor, and she can be relieved." It's just that this beauty is born with a love of beauty, and she always thinks that if she can be a little young and beautiful, it is excellent, if the emperor has a heart, it is better to look for some Tang Yi's fragrant milk than the servants of the Internal Affairs Office, and Concubine Rong will be able to get it. ”

Qianlong said unswervingly: "The ban on Tang Yi's goods is an edict issued by me personally, how can I go back on my word?" ”

The head of the eunuch hurriedly knelt down and said: "The emperor wants to ban the sale of Tang Yi goods by the people, which is naturally a great truth, just a little Tang goods, the nobles in the palace are quite fond of it, if it is just like this, it is not good, and Tang Yi is wrong to corrupt the virtues of the people of the Qing Dynasty, but the fragrant milk and fragrance in the Tang goods are right, just a little collection, for the palace, without harming the instructions of the court." Moreover, this rare thing should have been exclusively enjoyed by the emperor and nobles, so Tang Yi didn't know anything, so he had to sell it everywhere and breed the people's vanity, which was very undeserved. ”

Qianlong thought about it and felt that it was true, at least in the past few months, he no longer used daily chemicals from Datang in his bath, and he felt that his body was quite unclean, and he did like some of the rare Datang objects he got a few years ago, and he suddenly broke off and felt a little unbearable.

However, he didn't reopen this opening, but said: "This matter will be discussed again, now go to visit Concubine Rong first." ”

As he spoke, the eunuchs prepared a luan chariot for Qianlong, and the emperor walked in the palace and rode in a chariot. There are five chariots and three public opinions in the palace ritual system, the five chariots are jade, gold, elephant, leather and wood, the five chariots are large, the specifications are higher, and the travel is more solemn, and the significance of travel is more in the ritual system as a symbol of the Son of Heaven, which is generally used when major sacrifices and patrols. On less formal and important occasions, the emperor used the sun, the setting moon, and the ploughing to worship all of them, all of which were used to ceremonial public opinion, and the light step was used for good luck, and the step public opinion was used to enter and exit the palace.

However, even the most informal and unceremonious steps are exaggerated. The step is wood-coated with gold, and no cover is applied. Leaning on the height of one foot six inches and five minutes, openwork. In the middle is the dragon, the seat height is 1 foot 8 inches and 5 minutes, the vertical is 1 foot 8 inches, and the width is 2 feet 2 inches. Seating sable in winter, bright yellow satin in summer. The four legs are the head of the tiger's claws, the round beads are inherited, and the cloud dragon is painted. The foot is three inches and one minute. It is two straight and five feet five inches long. The large crossbar is two, seven feet six inches long, and the middle is the head of the double dragon. 4 small crossbars, 2 feet 8 inches long; Eight shoulders, five feet six inches long. Sixteen men carried it.

This is just the emperor's dragon chariot, in addition, even if the emperor goes from one hall in the palace to another, he also has his own honor guard. In the early years of Qianlong, he designed a complete set of ritual systems, which were much simpler than those of the previous generation, but still complicated. The emperor's travel is divided into four types of customization, such as big driving, law driving, luan driving, and riding driving. Take Qianlong's preparation to drive Baoyue Tower, it is just the simplest Luan drive.

The so-called simplest, but also quite complicated. In front of it, there are two playing bamboos, followed by six orchestras, four seven-hole flutes, two shengs, two cloud gongs, one guiding drum and a clapper. In turn, there are four imperial staffs, four Wu battles, four standing melons, lying melons, stars, and Yue, ten five-color golden dragon flags, ten five-color dragon flags, ten double dragon yellow fans, ten yellow nine dragon umbrellas, and a nine dragon crank yellow canopy, followed by the emperor's chariot, and the emperor's chariot is followed by ministers and guards with swords and guns.

That is to say, when Qianlong wanted to travel, he had to speak first, and then the eunuchs would explain that they would prepare for Luan, and when they were all gathered to form this Luanjia, it would take a while.

It's just that Qianlong's luck was not good on this day, when he Shi Shiran stepped on the foot and was about to drive, there was a sudden rumbling sound in the sky. Then there was a panic among the guards and eunuchs, and even Qianlong's steps shook.

Qianlong was immediately dissatisfied, "Why is it so noisy? ”

"Your Majesty, I don't know what is strange in this sky, please quickly dodge." Cold sweat had already broken out on the eunuch's head, and the loud noise and huge volume made him very frightened by the four big things in the sky.

Qianlong couldn't help but be surprised, he opened the curtain, looked out, and saw that there might not be a distance of more than ten zhang in the sky, as if something the size of a small house was suspended in the sky, and a hurricane shot out from it, making the guards all messy, and some people even trembled in both strands, and the ritual weapons in their hands fell to the ground.

The unknown is always frightening, Qianlong has lived in the deep palace for a long time, although he has traveled many times, but he is definitely not the kind of person who has seen a lot, and this terrible existence that makes a loud noise and releases a storm makes him, who has always been very powerful, can't help but be afraid.

That is, at the moment when he showed his head, a door suddenly opened on the giant thing in the sky, and several guys dressed in strange yellow-green painted skin looked down from above, these people were dressed strangely, and they seemed to be holding something black in their hands, Qianlong didn't know what it was, but he saw that the hole tube of the black hole was facing down.

He seemed to understand something right awayβ€”it was a firebolt! (To be continued.) )