Chapter 4: The Queen's Death

After Jiaqing was called to the Heart Cultivation Palace, Lord Qianlong severely reprimanded him.

"You kid is crazy, what are you running to the military plane if you have nothing to do?"

"Huang Ama, I also want to learn and pave the way for my future work!"

"I think you're trying to use me as a foreshadowing!"

"Erchen doesn't dare!"

"I don't dare! You are not dead yet, be your heir emperor in a proper manner. Don't overthink it, it's not good for you to think too much. ”

"Erchen knows."

"If there is anything in the future, let me know first, don't make your own opinions, Taihe Hall is not as simple as you think!"

……

Jiaqing was very hard, and he returned to Yuqing Palace without daring to let go of the, and plunged into the study, refusing to come out.

This emperor is really boring!

"Your Majesty, the queen mother is unwell, and she has summoned the imperial doctor to come for treatment......" Seeing that the sun was setting west, the foreman and eunuch of Yuqing Palace came to the outside of the study and whispered.

Jiaqing gently pushed open the door and headed towards the dormitory. The queen has been unwell for the past six months, and the imperial doctor has tried his best, but still has not been able to make her condition better, and Jiaqing is very worried.

In the dormitory, Hitara was lying on the sickbed, his face was pale, and his eyes were deeply sunk into his sockets, which made people feel pitiful.

Commiseration.

What mercy is there in the court?!

In addition to being cold, it is pouring.

Politics itself is cold.

The blood is boiling and destined to ignite the fire.

"Your Majesty, the concubines ask the emperor for peace!" When the Hitara clan saw Jiaqing, he barely stood up and said goodbye to Jiaqing.

"Don't be rude, lie down and rest!" Jiaqing hurriedly stepped forward to support his wife.

"The concubine has been lying on the hospital bed all winter, and she doesn't know what it's like outside Yuqing Palace......"

"You have a good rest, in another month, the cherry blossoms will bloom, and then I will accompany you to the garden to enjoy the cherry blossoms......"

"Are the cherry blossoms about to bloom? I've been sick for so long......"

"Your Majesty, it's time for the slave to serve the queen and take medicine!" The palace maid standing on the side saw the time to take the medicine and hurriedly stepped forward to report.

"Good!" Jiaqing nodded, "You take medicine quickly, take care of your illness with peace of mind, we are about to get through the end, good days are waiting for us ahead, you must go down!" ”

Hitara listened and closed his eyes. It has been a year since Jiaqing succeeded to the throne, and I don't know how many times I have said this sentence, and the Hitara clan has long been disheartened.

The world is endless, and the days are inescapable!

Hitara's condition became more and more serious, and by the evening of the seventh day of the second month of Jiaqing (1797), she had begun to become delirious and began to babble nonsense.

"Emperor, Emperor"

"Queen! Empress! Looking at his wife, who had lost his mind, Jiaqing couldn't help but be in a hurry. Physician! Physician! Find a way! ”

When the imperial doctors heard this, they ran to the bed in fear, and looked at them all and asked about them, which was very professional.

"How?!" Jiaqing asked anxiously.

Terminally ill, heaven and earth are doing nothing, we still want to think of a fart method!

However, in order to protect their immature heads, these old men still wrote a lot of books, and opened the list one by one. Open to the end: away from the grass on the plain, smell the birds everywhere, want to be poor, and know how many flowers fall. Rub, where is this!

Only then did they remember the ancestral teaching: ancestral psoriasis, specializing in the treatment of old Chinese medicine.

Rub, this is a little rush!

"Your Majesty......" The imperial doctors saw that the queen was no longer breathing, and knelt on the ground in unison.

"Queen! Empress! A terrible shout suddenly sounded in Yuqing Palace. Jiaqing pounced on his wife and shook it vigorously. Her body was still warm, but her eyes could no longer be opened.

Outside Yuqing Palace, cherry blossoms fall all over the place.

"Queen's ......" The entire Yuqing Palace cried.

At this time, Lord Qianlong was playing calligraphy and painting with Lord He in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts.

Qianlong was extremely obsessed with calligraphy and painting all his life, and the calligraphy and painting treasures inherited from his grandfather were huge, unparalleled in the world.

Some of these collections come from the contributions of their servants. For example, when Qianlong made his second southern tour, Shen Deqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, went to pick up the driver and presented seven pieces of calligraphy and painting at one time: two volumes of Dong Qichang's books, one volume of Wen Zhengming's landscapes, one volume of Tang Yin's landscapes, one axis of Wang Jian's landscapes, one axis of Yun Shouping's flowers, and one axis of Wang Hui's landscapes. And the golden Buddha who makes offerings to adults is even more huge, "a few feet long, and it is in the middle of the que".

Of course, a considerable part of Qianlong's collection was made by the Inner Government. Emperor Qianlong was particularly fond of jade, and he spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to devote himself to the production and collection of jade, so the Qianlong Dynasty collected a lot of jade. Only one piece of "Dayu to control the water" of the jade mountain, the jade material from Xinjiang to Beijing by waterway, and then transferred to Yangzhou, and then transported back to the Forbidden City after being made, it took 10 years.

This giant jade carving, nine feet five inches high, weighs more than 10,700 catties, can be called the king of jade. Now this jade mountain is placed in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and it is subject to inspection by tourists. At the same time, tens of thousands of large and small jade artifacts were also inspected, most of which were collected during the Qianlong period.

Decades of art from the whole country to search for fine art, Qianlong appreciation often stamped "Qianlong Imperial Treasure of Appreciation", "Sanxitang Jing Jian Seal", "Yi Descendants" and other chapters, in order to show the meaning of the collection, and then let the elegant ministers of their own way, divided into categories, compiled into a catalog, approved by the emperor, and then compiled and printed into a book, such as "Western Qing Ancient Jian", "Ningshou Ancient Inkstone" is a collection of ancient bronze catalogs, "Western Qing Dynasty Yan Spectrum" is a collection of ancient inkstone catalogs.

As early as the eighth year of Qianlong, he decided to carry out a large-scale sorting of the paintings and calligraphy collected by the Inner Palace. First of all, the works related to Buddhism and Taoism were compiled into a catalogue "Secret Temple Pearl Forest"; In the following year, the compilation of the Shiqu Baoji, which included the entire collection of paintings and calligraphy, began. This is an unprecedented reorganization effort that will bring to an end the collection of Chinese court calligraphy and paintings that has existed for 2,000 years. After the completion of the "Shiqu Baoji", including the sequel and three parts, a total of 225 volumes. This is a summary of the 600 years of court collection in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is also the last scale of the collection of the emperors of the past dynasties. In its heyday, there were more than 10,000 pieces of Qing Dynasty court collections, including 2,000 pieces of paintings and calligraphy from the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and 2,000 pieces of paintings and calligraphy from the Ming Dynasty, which was the largest scale of Chinese classical calligraphy and painting works at that time. And what Qianlong Ye is most proud of is the collection of famous calligraphy posts of the past dynasties for decades. Wang Xizhi's "Fast Snow Time Clear Post", Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival" and Wang Xun's "Boyuan Post" are the most loved by Qianlong, Qianlong 11 years he hid these three things in the Inner Yang Xin Palace in the Xinuan Pavilion, and named it "Sanxi Hall".

In the forty-fourth year of Qianlong, Qianlong ordered the four authentic copies of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" copied by Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Liu Gongquan and Feng Chengsu in the collection of the Inner Palace, the original engraved version of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface of Liu Gongquan's Book" in the "Xihongtang Post", the whole copy of Yu Minzhong's order to fill in the Que pen for this original engraving, Dong Qichang's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" copy, and Qianlong's hand to Dong Qichang's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" - a total of eight kinds of "Orchid Pavilion Preface" ink carved stone, named "Lanting Eight Pillars".

In addition to calligraphy and painting, Qianlong Ye was also keen to advocate the collection and appreciation of bronzes. In addition to the court collection, the trend of collecting antiquities was generally formed among the bureaucrats and doctors, and a number of accomplished collectors and paleographers appeared. They not only personally appraised and researched the evidence, but also recorded and copied the evidence, wrote books and arguments, and refuted each other, so that the study of the evidence that followed was very popular. Together, this trend has influenced the world of collecting and intellectuals for almost 200 years.

The wealth of Qianlong's collection is unprecedented in history, and purely from the perspective of the number of collections, Qianlong surpassed any previous emperor. An 1816 inventory shows that 15,000 calligraphy and paintings adorned the imperial palace from the Forbidden City in Beijing to Chahar, two-thirds of which were from 1644 onwards. It really responds to the old saying "there is no one before, and there is no one after", which not only records the unprecedented strength of the national strength of that era, but also deeply marks the brand of Emperor Qianlong's pursuit of grandeur and gorgeous and complex aesthetic taste.

Finally, it is necessary to remind everyone that there are two peerless divine weapons buried in the tomb of Qianlong, one of which is the "Nine Dragons Sword", with nine golden dragons embedded on the sword surface, and gems embedded in the hilt, which were later used to bribe Chiang Kai-shek; Another sword is said to be the sword used by the famous general Zhao Yun of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Dianying loves this sword very much, has always been with him, after the grandson was captured by the People's Liberation Army, this sword and fell into the hands of a general of the People's Liberation Army, and then the whereabouts are unknown, what a pity. If you can see this sword, you will have no regrets about dying.

Lord Qianlong and Lord He were pointing in front of a painting of Tang Bohu, and suddenly there was a faint cry.

"Wang Lian, what's the matter, who's crying?" Lord Qianlong was very unhappy when he heard the cry.

The older the elderly, the more they care about this.

"The eunuch of Yuqing Palace just came to report that the queen of the Xitara clan has died!"

"What?" As soon as Qianlong heard the word 'death', his face immediately changed. "I'm over eighty years old, so why don't you let me live a few happy days?"

In the last years, it is very taboo to hear about death. "Isn't it that Yan Yan wants to take this opportunity to hold a big funeral and take the opportunity to force me to drop out of the dynasty?" The more Qianlong thought about it, the more wrong it became.

Accompanied by Lord Qianlong with adults, he listened to Lord Qianlong's words word by word, and was shocked in his heart. I think that when Empress Fucha died, Qianlong's biological mother was still there, but he still held a big funeral, and even his sons and ministers cried not enough to be sad, and he had to punish him severely.

As the queen, the Hitara clan has children in Jiaqing, so how can she also enjoy the honor behind her, how can she act so hastily? If it were a normal day, it might not be the case with adults. It's just that he has just lost his young son and brother, and he can understand better how important mourning is for the living.

Why do you have a funeral, why do you have to go to the grave on Qingming Day?!

Not for the dead (who does not see), but for the living.

The purpose of this tradition is to remind us for all generations: man, at all times, never forget how you came into the world.

Don't forget the roots, so that our Chinese 5,000 years of passing on the torch, generation after generation.

The reason why traditional festivals can be handed down is because of the truth of the ancestors' life and work. None of us should give up, and we can't give up, it's just a pity.......

It's fading, it's getting fading!

What's wrong with China?

Boring!

Here is an advocacy: Don't pass this year's Christmas, and have a relationship with our Maoer. If you have to think about it, wait one more day, December 26th, the chairman's birthday, and everyone will spend it together.

Brothers, can you care?! (To be continued.) )