Qimuge, female, the only daughter of Wutai, the king of Zasaktu County, the former banner of the right wing of the Horqin Right Wing of the Zhelimu League. ⊥, Guangxu was conscripted into the army as a man in the autumn of the 18th year, and was transferred to the Central Reconnaissance Company because of his outstanding training achievements. In the 20th year of Guangxu, he was awarded the Medal of Wisdom and Courage for his outstanding achievements in the First Sino-Japanese War between the Qing Dynasty and Japan. Later, he took over the post of commander of the Central Reconnaissance Battalion, which left the team due to injury, and after that, he still performed well in various battlefields. In the spring of the twenty-second year of Guangxu, he was transferred to the commander of the Royal Praetorian Guard Battalion......

Guangxu took Qi Muge's resume, which wrote all Qi Muge's experiences since the army, a thick stack. This is no different from the resume of the previous commander of the Qimug Royal Praetorian Guard, except for gender. But another note says that Qimug was able to join the army as a man mainly because she and her three maids joined the army at the same time. Because she had a letter of recommendation from the Jerimu League, she was also specially arranged to live with three maids, and she was not socially compatible with other comrades-in-arms, so she never found out her true identity. And all the letters of recommendation from her Jelimu League, one is that Utai raised her as a boy since she was a child, and the most important reason is that the children on the grassland are not as squeamish as the women of the Central Plains, and she wants to prove her ability.

Guangxu put Qi Muge's resume back on the table, Yang Zao'er, who was sitting opposite with white eyes, said angrily: "The reason why I don't accept a concubine has already been told to you. Backyard fights may be inevitable, but they must not affect the men from fighting outside. Especially if we are royalty, we will move the whole body. Qimuge is a royal daughter, or a Mongolian, and the Manchurian and Mongolian marriage has been a rule since Taizu. The reason why I will marry you is not only what we can say, but also your status as a Han woman, and marrying you is to eliminate the antagonism between Manchu and Han. Miko Tomilyaku is Japanese. Even if I spoil her again, her child will not be able to become a prince. But Kimuge's children are different. The doctor in your belly said that it might be a girl, what if Mr. Qimuge gave birth to a boy? The nobles would ask me to make Kimuge's child the crown prince. Because it represents orthodoxy. But now that most of the court are Han ministers, and the Han people have actually controlled the entire country, they will inevitably support the succession of princes with Han blood. The current international situation does not have time for China to stop, and as long as the court starts fighting, the development of the whole country will come to a standstill. Foreign forces will inevitably re-enter China, and what will be ruined at that time may be the future of China -- you, you, I will leave the family in your hands, and you will not tell me about such a big matter as taking a concubine. ”

Listening to the emperor's resentful words. Yang Zao'er was really a little scared. As a woman who has lived in a very traditional family since she was a child, she has received the education of three virtues and four virtues since she was a child. Although I came into contact with Western ideas when I grew up, I could not easily change the traditional ideas. It is a sparse and common thing for large families to have a group of wives and concubines, not to mention the royal family. When I first entered the palace, I didn't know anything, and I was always careful. When she was familiar with the situation in the palace, and when she could fully control the power of the inner palace, especially when she was pregnant, Guangxu always rubbed on her body from time to time at night, and she came up with the idea of giving the emperor a concubine. Although the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards are just a saying, as an emperor, you must have three wives and four concubines. Although she also thinks in her heart that these women will compete with her for favor. But that's what this society looks like. It's just a daughter born in a civilian family, and she has only been in the palace for more than a year, and the emperor and queen mother have doted on her, so Yang Zaoer and Ben didn't realize it. The emperor's every move had a deep political purpose, including marrying her as his wife.

"Okay, okay, it's not impossible." looked at the aggrieved jujube. Guangxu's heart softened again: "Even if everything goes well with the Mongolian raiders, Qimuge will have to wait until next winter when he returns to the palace." You're about to give birth, too. After giving birth to this daughter, let's work hard and strive to conceive a boy before Qimuge returns to the palace, and it will be no problem. Other than that. I have ordered the NSA to kill Utai, and if he gives birth to a boy, he will be killed on the spot, and then there will be no boy in Utai to inherit the throne. I will announce that the eldest son of Qimug will inherit the throne of Utai when I take the concubine. Then even if she has another son, it is unlikely that she will be made the crown prince. In this way, I hope that the court can pass smoothly. ”

finally persuaded the aggrieved Yang Zao'er, and Guangxu helped her to the room. Pregnant women are clumsy in everything, so Zao'er changes clothes and shoes before and after going to bed, Guangxu has always started it himself. It wasn't until Miko entered the palace that these things were taken over.

Meizi exited the queen's room after changing clothes for the emperor, Yang Zao'er was going to let Guangxu go to Meizi's room, but Guangxu hugged Zao'er and lay down: "I'll accompany you tonight." ”

The days in the capital are becoming more and more lively because of the arrival of the Spring Festival, and the statistical work of the court at the end of the year is also being carried out in an orderly manner. It seems that everything is as usual, except for the frequent transfers of the northeastern departments, everyone knows that there can be no fight at this time, and the war will break out in the future.

The train, which the general scriptures thought would shake the ancestors' mausoleum, is now just a big iron car that is more powerful than a horse-drawn carriage and can pull a lot of goods at a time in the eyes of the common people. After not having the feeling of fear, the people are also willing to see and even touch this rare thing from foreigners up close. As the construction of the Daqing Railway became more and longer, more and more labor was needed on the construction site. Because many railway construction sites are deep in the mountains, railway builders use small trains to pull people into the construction sites to work, and over time, the people will not be surprised, they must be a kind of guy who runs faster than a horse-drawn carriage. In the future, relatives who will go far away will not be able to take the train quickly, or the train ticket is so expensive.

Of course, it is expensive, the more new things in the early stage of research and development and the cost of initial investment must be recovered as soon as possible, so any new things are not something that ordinary people can play, and the price of a seat ticket alone is expensive for small factory owners. But for merchants, time is profit, in order to win orders, in order to create more profits, tickets have to be accepted. It's good that the road is close, and it's nothing to sit for half a day. It is uncomfortable for the long distance, from Shanghai to Beijing, the train has to run for two days and one night, and there are special sleeper compartments on the train, but in order to save some train ticket money, you can only sit in the seat and watch the sunrise and sunset outside the window.

Yang Qishan, who took the train for the first time, was a little excited when he first got on the train, and the row of steel on the platform was so mighty. Taking advantage of the gap between the suspension of the Chinese New Year School, he was entrusted by the Ningbo Prefect and the Hangzhou Governor. He went to the capital to inquire with his son-in-law, who was a general, how the Ministry of Education had selected the gentleman who had been sent to Beijing after this year. Elementary schools in various parts of the city are in the final stages of construction. When will the imperial court be able to decentralize its policies to the local authorities? If this is not only a political achievement, it will be a great merit to educate the people.

Yang Qi Yamamoto has a good reputation in the local area. In addition, when there is also a son-in-law who is a general, he has become the best candidate to go to Beijing to inquire about the news. Since he was sent by the government, he naturally didn't have to pay for the travel expenses out of his own pocket. The Lord Governor even waved his pen and asked him to take his wife into Beijing. You don't have to pay for your own travel and take a look at your daughter who is about to give birth, Yang Qishan is naturally willing. Under the arrangement of the Governor, Yang Qishan took his wife to board the train to the capital in Shanghai. Yang Huang never thought that there was a place to sleep on the train.

Yang Qishan looked at the changing scenery outside the window but his mind was heavy, it was not suitable to travel far away from home for the New Year, but he really couldn't rest assured. It is not a matter of entrustment from this government. It was the newspaper from half a year ago in his arms. The newspaper printed the portrait of the emperor and the queen at the time of the emperor's wedding, and every time Yang Qishan looked at it, he felt that the emperor and queen in the painting were more similar to his daughter and son-in-law. This time I went to Beijing to take a good look at who this son-in-law is.

However, in the distant United States, a slender hand was easily opened, and a newspaper with a photo of the Qing Emperor's wedding floated into the fire. A purely Western-style wedding is being held, Anqian, who is dressed in a white wedding dress, is smiling and walking towards her groom under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, and Huang Xing, who is wearing a straight suit on the stage, is also looking at the bride who is getting closer and closer to him with affection.

Sleeper tickets are expensive, but there are still no vacancies. The carriage was full of men, which made Yang Huang, who went out for the first time, really uncomfortable, but he was at ease. I don't fit in anymore, and I admit it in order to see my daughter in the capital. Two days and one night passed quickly, and after a long journey, I finally heard the words in the carriage: Passengers, you are about to arrive at the terminal station of this train - Beijing Railway Station, please bring all your luggage and prepare to get off.

Pick up the package with only a change of clothes. The moment he stepped out of the train with the bustling crowd, Yang Huang seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and finally got off the train. Because there are regulations at the train station. Unless the old and young are traveling alone, they are not allowed to enter the station to pick up passengers. Otherwise, if you catch it, you will be locked up in the class room, so the platform is full of hurried people. Yang Qishan didn't care about looking left and right. Holding Madame's hand, he was about to follow the crowd and walk out. Yang Huang suddenly shook off Yang Qishan's hand, this old husband and wife holding hands in front of the public, wouldn't it be laughed at. But the husband said angrily: "What are you doing? In such a crowded and complicated place, if you get lost, how can the old man explain it to his daughter? ”

Yang Qishan took his wife's hand again and found that the smooth and tender hands of the girlhood were now calloused. Yang Qishan gently stroked his wife's hand, and couldn't help but say with feeling: "Mrs. has worked hard to take care of the housework. ”

Yang Huang said shyly: "It's an old husband and wife, and they still say these things." Don't be heard as a joke. ”

"The old man doesn't care who laughs at him. As long as Madame doesn't laugh. Yang Qishan took his wife's hand and followed the crowd with a smile.

Yang Huang suddenly found that his husband also had a lot of tenderness, and being held by his husband felt like returning to his girlhood. I heard that foreigners call this? Oh, by the way, it's called romance.

In Yang Huang's memory, except for the first two years of marriage, his husband seems to have never held his hand. Now that he is being held by his husband and walking in the crowd, Yang Huang's heart is very calm. I think this road can't be finished.

Go down the stairs and take the tunnel, and at the end of the brightly lit tunnel is the ticket gate. After Yang Qishan showed two train tickets, he took his wife and walked out. Because he was unfamiliar with the place, he did not follow the scattered crowd, and walked straight forward after standing according to what was written in his daughter's letter.

"Father—" A cry of joy and sorrow sounded in front of me, where stood the daughter of a married woman.

Yang Huang saw that his daughter Li Ke dropped her husband's hand and ran forward, hugged her daughter in her arms, and comforted her in a good voice: "Don't cry, don't cry, this pregnant woman can't cry." Let my mother take a good look at you. Yang Huang looked up and down carefully: "Okay, the face is ruddy, and the people are a lot richer, it seems that Li Ming treats you well." ”

"Mother, my daughter saw her father holding your hand." Yang Zao'er asked very gossipy.

"It's all your father, who is not ashamed, saying that he is afraid that your mother will get lost, so he has to pull it. Why did you lose your mother when she was such an adult?! "Yang Huang's this is also hard-mouthed.

"Humph!" Yang Qishan on the side was not happy, and waited for his daughter to come over to greet him before saying, "Li Mingwei didn't see anything." The old man came all the way to see him and didn't come to greet him, and let a pregnant woman come to pick him up? ”

"Your daughter has made amends for you on behalf of your son-in-law. This is not that the government is busy, and I really can't spare time. ”

Escorted by a group of sturdy men, Yang Zaoer's family came to the parking lot. Leave the train station by car. The mother and daughter sitting in the back seat said thoughtful words, and Yang Qishan sat in the front seat and looked at the capital outside the window. Sure enough, it was prosperous.

"There's the Forbidden City ahead." Yang Zaoer told her parents in the car, and after a while, the car drove in front of the **: "Go home today and have a good rest, and tomorrow my daughter will accompany her father to have a look." ”

"Nonsense." Fortunately, this was in the car, otherwise Yang Qishan would have to kneel down on the spot: "This is the residence of the Son of Heaven, no nonsense." The words made the guard who drove the car laugh. Yang Zao'er smiled and didn't answer, thinking that she didn't know what the scene would be when her father saw the emperor's son-in-law.

The convoy turned a corner, and after the guards' inspection, when the sun had gathered its last rays of sunlight and only the afterglow of the horizon remained. Drive into the place where there are guards in yellow coats everywhere. The convoy stopped at the north of Yingtai Bridge, and at the moment when Yang Qishan got off the car, the State Council in the north also happened to be the hour of the next dynasty, and the emperor in a dragon robe walked out of the gate surrounded by ministers. Yang Qishan was not in a hurry to see what the emperor looked like, his first reaction was to quickly bow his head and kneel, and kept beckoning his wife and daughter to kneel down together, the thousand-year-old imperial rule has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of these literati.

"Father-in-law, please get up." Guangxu stepped forward to help Yang Qishan.

didn't think that Yang Qishan was only halfway up and suddenly knelt down again, and said tremblingly: "The emperor ...... Emperor...... Emperor...... Long live the grass people knocking on my emperor......"

"Father-in-law, don't be polite, please get up quickly. Mother-in-law, please get up, too. Guangxu only found out when he helped Yang Qishan up. Mother-in-law Yang Huang had already fainted. Only then did he hold his fists and said: "My son-in-law is busy with official business, so I can't go to the train station to greet my father-in-law and mother-in-law in person, and I also invite Lord Taishan Haihan." ”

"I don't feel it, I don't feel it." Yang Qishan was still shocked that his son-in-law was really the emperor, and he only responded mechanically to the hundred officials who came to greet the prince. In the main building, Yang Qishan and his wife gave a salute to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces. Because the emperor always said that the family should be lively and lively, and slowly the queen mothers also like this atmosphere. So dinner is eaten at a large round table. It's just that Yang Qishan and his wife are extremely restrained. The whole process of meeting the in-laws was that the queen mother was talking about it, and Yang Qishan and his wife kept nodding and agreeing. Only when the queen mothers praised the queen for her virtue. Yang Qishan and his wife showed a slight smile. The majesty brought by the emperor's and queen mother's every move made Yang Qishan and his wife feel pressured.

Maybe Yang Qishan and his wife are too restrained. The queen mothers went back to the Summer Palace early to rest, and after the emperor was also called to the front hall by the ministers, Yang Qishan thought that he didn't seem to have given the queen a gift.

Zao'er naturally pulled her parents to prevent her from saluting, and only after letting her subordinates retreat did she talk about her experience of becoming a queen and her palace life for more than a year.

The emperor still has to go to court every day, and Zao'er accompanies his parents to visit the capital by car. Because the delivery is imminent, there is no long travel, just walk in the capital. Ministers from all walks of life also brought gifts to meet the Lord. Yang Qishan and his wife not only saw the majestic appearance of the palace for the first time, but also heard the emperor himself tell the tragic life of the emperor for the first time: he slept later than a dog, woke up earlier than a chicken, and worked more than a cow...... It turned out that the emperor's life was just better than he imagined, and after practical close contact and understanding, Yang Qishan now thinks so.

Year after year, the New Year's dinner was held as usual, and this year there were more songs and dances. There are traditional Chinese dance music, there are foreigner opera, hundreds of officials sit in the front row talking about all kinds of dance music on the high platform, tasting the hundred flavors on the table. Merchants talk about their own goods versus other people's goods in the back of the field. In previous years, the Qing Dynasty Royal New Year's Dinner was hosted by the emperor, but this year it was replaced by the Prime Minister. Because the emperor needs to accompany the queen, this is the first time that the queen of the Qing Dynasty has appeared at the New Year's dinner, and she must not be sloppy.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, and it will be the New Year in just over an hour. But at this time, the queen suddenly had abdominal pain, and a pool of water flowed from under her skirt. It's not good that the amniotic water is broken.

On the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the empress was suddenly about to give birth, and the dinner party could not be cared about. The chaos in Yingtai was filled with anxious crowds. Someone from the hospital is here, someone from the Beijing Normal Hospital is here, and as for Wen Po, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces looked for a bunch three months ago, and now she has already entered the building. In the end, the queen mother of the two palaces also rushed over, and then someone presided over the affairs of the palace.

Waiting is the hardest thing in the world. Listening to the screams in the room one after another, every time he screamed, Guangxu's heart tightened. It's been almost an hour, why haven't you responded? Guangxu was sweating anxiously.

I finally heard the voice of the jujube in the house: "It hurts, I hurt so much." I'm not going to give birth—"

"Okay, don't give birth, let's not give birth......" Guangxu shouted anxiously outside, but was slapped to the ground by the Empress Dowager Dong.

Seeing that basins of hot water were brought in, and basins of blood-stained blood water were brought out, Guangxu was anxious and grabbed the guard's gun in his hand. But if something happens to the queen, no one in the house will live.

At the moment when the New Year's bell rang, at the moment when the New Year's fireworks bloomed in the sky and illuminated the heavens and the earth, the loud cry of a child finally came from the house. finally gave birth, and Wen Po came out: "Return to the emperor, return to the queen mother." The mother gave birth to a princess. Mother and child are safe. Guangxu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, but sat on the ground and smiled happily.

There was a commotion in Yingtai, and the Queen Mother couldn't wait to go into the house to see their granddaughter, and Mother Yang also went in.

Kou Liancai came to the dinner with joy and announced to the anxious guests that the princess of the Qing Dynasty had been born -- the court full of Chinese and foreign officials and merchants all rejoiced to the royal director of the Qing Dynasty. This is naturally a gratifying thing, and it is also a matter to announce to the world. Li Hongzhang thanked everyone for their congratulations on behalf of the emperor, and then summoned the courtiers to congratulate Yingtai, but there was always a trace of unwillingness in their hearts. When the news reached the homes of the princes and nobles, they breathed a sigh of relief and began to prepare congratulatory gifts. When the news reached the General Staff Headquarters, Wang Shizhen, who was on duty, sighed and put away the gun warship made of gold that had just been wrapped. Start preparing additional gifts.

In Yingtai, Yang Qishan came to the emperor's side but said with a sigh: "The emperor is still young, and the days are still long." (To be continued......) u