An hour later, Dorobelle Xuanye had already taken Park's hand and wandered around Liulichang Street full of curiosity, looking like the old nanny of a big family, leading her little master and a group of house slaves, out to hang out and play.

As usual, although Xuan Ye is a prince and has already been awarded the title of Dorobelle, he can be regarded as a minister and a dignitary of the clan, and he has already gone out of the noon gate to worship the Taimiao, collect prisoners, go to Gyeonggi to read the Eight Banners, make a declaration, and go further to the Mulan enclosure to fight and worship, but it is all carried by his grandmother, the emperor's order, and the key is that there is a group of people to support him left and right.

Now that he is not yet an adult, it is completely impossible for him to bring a few entourages by himself, and he can leave the palace if he wants to, and he is still in this mixed city! But when Park showed hesitation just now, Hongyi was no longer embarrassed, and immediately got up and went to Cining Palace.

For half an hour, Xiao Xuanye was soft and hard in front of Huang Mama, begging like a child for a while, and making a statement like an adult for a while, but the queen mother just didn't let go, the left one was not allowed, the right one was messing around, and she was ironclad.

Hongyi was at a loss for anything, so he turned to look at Su Mala with a pleading face.

Su Mala saw it in his eyes and knew that this young master was by no means a playful master, and there must be a lot of articles behind him. But he didn't say anything, which can only prove that this matter can only be done by a private interview. So, Su Mala turned around and took a cup of ginseng tea, walked gently to the queen mother, and said seemingly lightly:

"The Queen Mother, when the slave maid and the second master were so old, they had already ridden on the foal to chase the hare. At that time, the sky on the Horqin grassland was so blue, and the young eagles had already learned to fly in mid-air. Perhaps, the young eagles at that time sometimes flew lower than the old hens, but the old hens could never fly as high as the eagles! ”

The tea bowl that the Queen Mother held to her mouth really stopped, and she didn't move for a long time.

Hongyi is really a five-body surrender to Su Mala's admiration, isn't this sentence almost the same as what the Russian fable writer Krylov said more than a hundred years later? This Aunt Su Ma lives in the palace, but she has profound thoughts!

The gist of this fable in Krylov's Fable is that the eagle flies high in the sky and then rests on a low barn and then flies towards another barn. When a crested hen saw it, she sighed, "Why are eagles so respected, and if I want to, I can fly between the barn, and we should not be fools in the future, thinking that eagles have more noble ranks than us, and they fly as low as chickens." The pigeon was disgusted by this and replied: "It is true that the eagle sometimes does not fly as high as the chicken, but the chicken can never fly to the clouds!" Krylov concluded, "Comment on geniuses, do not look for their shortcomings, but see their merits and be good at understanding the heights they have reached."

In today's matter, the queen mother should be understood as: Xiao Xuanye, who has been auspicious from the sky, has never acted recklessly for more than a year, and now she suddenly proposes to leave the palace, she must have a plan. Although emotionally willing to fulfill, the place to go is the Liuli Factory where the Han people are concentrated......

Just when the Queen Mother was a little loose and hesitated a little, Su Mala still helped aside, saying that Xuanye is already Dorobelle now, and he can't be regarded by the standard of a simple royal child, and it is natural to see things outside the palace earlier. In addition, the place to go is Liulichang, which is the place where the Han important ministers in the outer city live, and it is recognized as the "place of Kyoto Yayu", so there must be no problem with safety. And getting in touch with the daily life of Hanchen earlier can also prevent those second-chen from scheming in the future.

The thoughtful Su Mala continued to say that another internal eunuch could be sent out of the palace in advance to inform Fan Chengmo to take the throne in advance and welcome the prince. Who knows that Xuan Ye is "ignorant of current affairs" 10,000 unwillingly, saying that Master Fan is in charge of political affairs, and he can't let him go to the Buddha for this trivial matter, it is better to bring a guard of Cining Palace, which is convenient and trouble-free, and if there is danger, he can also show his identity and retreat.

The Empress Dowager Bumu Butai also thought it was reasonable when she heard it. After all, Fan Chengmo is a Hanchen, and he has long been Xuanye's "Longxing Sacred Miracle Day Lecturer", except for those Manchurian old things every day, in fact, he has already informally enlightened the two princes. Recently, I am going to write the book called "Chinese Studies and Western Studies", and I am in and out of Xuanye's East Second Institute frequently, and the two seem to be close during the day, if I let him go out to wander with the second son of the emperor in Pingbai, it will be closer and closer. As a Hanchen, the Empress Dowager always had a vague distrust of him.

In the end, after some twists and turns, the Empress Dowager still issued an order to send her personal guard, the third-class guard of Cining Palace, and the Acting Jia Lae Zhen [1] Mara to serve and accompany her. So, Hongyi took Park, Sun, Xiaogongzi and Mara, a group of five people, holding Yangwen Hefu [2] engraved with the words "Shunzhi First Year System, Xihua Gate" and "Open Xihua Gate by Order" on both sides, and then took a sedan chair out of the palace from Xihua Gate. Why exactly five people, no more, no less? It turned out that at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were corresponding regulations on the number of servants who followed the princely officials in and out of the Forbidden City. Shunzhi nine years of the rule: the prince entourage of six, the prince and the prince of the five people, the eldest son, Baylor four, the son of three people, two dukes. Therefore, Xiao Xuanye, as Baylor, can take four people on a trip, and when he returns to the palace, he must also inspect the number of people.

Hongyi and his entourage went out of the palace city into the imperial city, first went out of Xi'an Gate to the west, then turned south, along the root of the imperial city wall, through the gray factory sandwich road [3], through Xinglong Street and Dashilar, before coming to West Chang'an Street, and then turned back to the east on the "Heavenly Street [4]", turned south in front of the right gate of Chang'an, parallel to the imperial road, crossed the Daqing Gate out of the imperial city into the inner city, and went to the Zhengyangmen arrow tower, only to store the sedan chair at the defenders of the city gate cave, and then rode on the shoulders of Xiao Gongzi out of the inner city into the outer city, along the West River, and then turned westward, After Yanshou Street and to the south, this is near the Liulichang. Along the way, Hongyi suddenly missed the "Peace Gate [5]" in later generations, and if there was one at that time, he wouldn't have to shuttle back and forth like this.

Along the way, Hongyi was an eye-opener, and finally had a deeper understanding of the famous old Beijing "Inner Nine and Seven Imperial Cities Four [6]", and it was the cherished love for the Ming and Qing Dynasty city walls, and quickly dispelled the small idea of building the "Peace Gate". Listening to Park's explanation, this Tiananmen Square is the south gate of the imperial city, and the Daqing Gate should be counted as the outer gate of Tiananmen, the main gate of the imperial city, also known as the "first gate of the imperial city". Moreover, when Hongyi casually said "Four Gates of the Imperial City", Park was a little unexpected, and hesitated for a moment before correcting and saying: "Lord Belle, how do you think that this imperial city has seven ......gates" It turns out that there is one gate in the south, south, east and west of the imperial city, Tian'an in the south, Di'an in the north, Dong'an in the east, and Xi'an in the west. There is a thousand-step corridor in the south of Tiananmen Square, and there is a Daqing Gate in the south of the thousand-step corridor. On the east and west sides of Tiananmen Square, there are also the left gate of Chang'an and the right gate of Chang'an. Combined, there are a total of seven gates in the Imperial City. After listening to this, Hongyi felt that he had lived and worked in Beijing for so long, and he still knew very little about the history accumulated by these histories!

Along the way, Hongyi's eyes were not enough, and he kept looking around. From the inside out, the palace city is solemn, the imperial city is noble, the inner city flag is pure, and the outer city is a prosperous and lively scene. The first time he set foot in the outer city dominated by Han people, Hongyi personally experienced the strict imperial power hierarchy in the early Qing Dynasty and the clear distinction between the Manchu and Han people's inner and outer cities.

"Mama Pu, why do we go far and near, isn't it good to go straight down from Xihua Gate to Xuanwu Gate, why do we want to go around Daqing Gate?" Hongyi behaves like a child and is extremely curious, because he really doesn't understand.

"Back to Lord Belle, after the Xihua Gate comes out, we can only get out of the Imperial City by going west out of Xi'an Gate, if we go out of Xihua Gate, we will go directly south on the Long Street [7], and to the southernmost point is the Middle Street, but we will reach the root of the Imperial City, it is a dead end, and we can't get out." Park replied with a smile, after all, the young master in front of him is still a young child, and he still has no concept of the streets of Sijiu City!

"Oh, Xuan Ye knows."

"Besides, even if the long street can go straight down to West Chang'an Street, you can't go to this Xuanwu Gate, Xuanwu Gate is dedicated to the prisoner car, and this Zhengyang Gate is dedicated to the dragon car!" Park followed Hongyi's side, and also returned to the Tao respectfully.

Hongyi then understood, it is indeed true, the four nine cities of old Beijing actually refer to the four gates of the imperial city and the nine gates of the inner city, and the nine doors have different functions, each performing its own duties:

Chaoyang Gate - take the grain cart, so on the top of the city gate hole of Chaoyang Gate, there is a grain ear engraved.

Chongwenmen - take the wine car.

Zhengyangmen - take the "dragon car". Xuanwu Gate - Take the prisoner car, and there are three big characters engraved on the top of the city gate: "Regret late".

Fucheng Gate - Coal Truck. A plum blossom is carved on the top of the door hole of the old Fu city gate, the old gan is soothing, quite picturesque. Mei has the same sound as coal, which means that this place walks on the coal car.

Xizhimen - take the waterwheel. The city gate hole of Xizhi Gate is carved with ripples of water.

Desheng Gate - Walk the military vehicle. In the north, according to the stars, it belongs to Xuanwu. Xuanwu is the main sword soldier, so he sends troops to fight, and generally goes out of the city from the north gate. The reason why it is named Desheng Gate.

Andingmen - The old saying is that the military cart goes back to the city to go Andingmen. Actually, that's not the case at all. The Qing Dynasty implemented the banner and the people in Beijing, and the eight banners were divided into four corners and eight directions. In fact, Andingmen is a dung truck, because in the past, the vicinity of the Temple of Earth was the main dung dump in Beijing. The reason why it is said to be a military vehicle to return to the city is actually a kind of elegance of the name, which is the same as changing the stinky skin alley to the wall alley, the stinky leather factory to the Shoubi alley, the cowhoi alley to the inscription alley, and the dung factory compound to the Fenzhang compound.

Dongzhimen - bricks, timber cars and other people's cars. The earliest Dongzhimen Street is actually the current Dongzhimen Outer Street, the whole street is about three miles long, the ground is paved with stone pavement, there are more than 150 buying and selling shops, after the ice cellar mouth, tea, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, as long as it is necessary for the daily life of the people, whether it is food or use, it can be found on this street.

After chatting along the way, Hongyi finally fully figured out the special purpose of these nine city gates from the mouths of the Park family, the Sun family, and Xiao Gongzi.

"Oh, it should be 'Inner Nine and Seven Outer Imperial City Seven'! It seems that the old saying of 'Inner Nine Outer Seven Imperial Cities Fourth, Nine Gates and Eight Clocks at Eight o'clock [8]' is also a deviation......" Hongyi muttered to himself, but he didn't want to be listened to by the little work under his ass.

"Master, why haven't you heard of this 'old saying' minion, but what you said is true, these servants remember it as soon as they hear it, hehe's 'Inner Nine Outer Seven Imperial Cities Fourth, Nine Gates and Eight O'clock at 8 o'clock', it's easy to remember, it's really easy to remember! Does this 'nine gates and eight o'clock and one clock' mean that the city gate reports the hour? …… It should be...... Hehe, 'Inner Nine Outer Seven Imperial City Four, Nine Gates Eight o'clock and one hour', easy to remember! ......" Liang Gong learned to be a cultural person and shook his head and recited it there, and his funny appearance amused the Park family and the Sun family, but Hongyi made him cry and laugh - it turns out that this old saying has not been "popularized" at that time? Could it be that he "pioneered" this old saying? Maybe I just make a small contribution to the Beijing dialect......

[1] The Chinese translation of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty Jia Lae Zhen (named Jia Lazhangjing in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi) is Shen Ling, Zheng Sanpin. It is also the name of the organization. Each flag of the capital is divided into 5 participants. Each of the leaders has a number of subordinate leaders.

[2] It has a history of more than 2,000 years from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the end of the Qing Dynasty. The conformity system is an integral part of the Chinese emperor system and one of the ways in which the imperial power is exercised, so the conformity is not only a credit thing, but also a symbol of power. In the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City, as the center of the Qing Dynasty and the residence of the emperor, was very tightly guarded. The gates of the Forbidden City are opened at dawn every day, and at night, the palace gate must be locked on time, and the key is handed over to the chief of the division, and then the chief of the division leads the guards to inspect in turn, and at dawn the next day, the military academy of each gate comes to the chief of the key to receive the key to open the gate, which is the normal system of opening and closing the palace door. But there are many exceptions to everything, if someone in the palace has an urgent matter at night and needs to go out, this requires a special pass to open the city gate and let people out, this special certificate is called a conformity, and the person who goes out must hold a conformity to open the door and release. The specific method of use is this, the conjunction is composed of two pieces of yin and yang, the yin text is in charge of guarding the city gate of the official in charge, the yang text is hidden in the inner hall, if the night is ordered to travel, or there is urgent military affairs, or because of official business needs to go out in time, you must take the yang text from the inner to the palace gate, by the gate of the guard army will be the two pieces of the match, after confirming that it is correct, it will be released, and the next day to play the emperor.

[3] Gray factory sandwich road, that is, today's "Fuyou Street". On October 10, 1913, Yuan Shikai was inaugurated as the president, and the presidential palace was located in Zhongnanhai. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the ash factory could not directly reach West Chang'an Street.

[4] Tianjie is the famous Chang'an Street in the history of Beijing, as early as the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), when the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di built the capital of Beijing, the royal family carefully arranged such an east-west horizontal street in front of the imperial city.

[5] The Peace Gate is a new city gate in Beijing, built during the Republic of China period (probably 1926), between the Qianmen and Xuanwu Gate, which is not the traditional city gate of Beijing, but only two arched holes in the city wall to connect South Xinhua Street and North Xinhua Street. The Peace Gate was originally named "Xinhua Gate", and was renamed "Peace Gate" in 1927 to distinguish it from Zhongnanhai Xinhua Gate. During the period of Zhang Zuolin, this gate was renamed Xinghua Gate, and later changed back. The door opening is 13 meters high and 10 meters wide, and each is equipped with two iron doors. In 1958, the door opening was demolished and replaced with a gap.

[6] "Neijiu" refers to the original nine city gates along the ring line subway: Dongzhi Gate, Xizhi Gate, Chaoyang Gate, Fucheng Gate, Chongwen Gate, Xuanwu Gate, Desheng Gate, Anding Gate, and Qianmen; "Outer Seven" is for the common people to enter and exit the outer city: Guangqu Gate, Guang'an Gate, Zuo'an Gate, Right Door, Dongbian Gate, West Gate, Yongding Gate; "Imperial City IV" is for the civil and military officials in the city to enter and exit the court: Tiananmen, Di'anmen, Dong'anmen, Xi'anmen.

[7] Long Street, which is today's North Long Street.

[8] Point: Because it is homophonic with "嘡", specifically a flat-shaped percussion instrument is struck on the city gate, which sounds like "嘡". Therefore, there is a saying in old Beijing that "nine doors and eight (o'clock) and one bell", and at the same time, the "hour" often said in the colloquial language of old Beijing probably comes from this. "Nine Gates and Eight O'clock at One Clock" is a folk tale about Beijing's "City Bell". "Nine gates" refers to the highest gate of the old Beijing city, Zhengyang Gate, and its Chongwen Gate, Xuanwu Gate, as well as Chaoyang Gate, Dongzhi Gate, Anding Gate, Desheng Gate, Xizhi Gate, Fucheng Gate. According to the old rules, these nine city gates, should hang a "point" of the hour, when the bell and drum tower in the center of the city are heard, the bell and drum tower "fixed watch" (one watch) and "bright watch" (five watch) of the bell, each city gate will be closed or open the city gate (after the "fixed change", only the Xizhi gate is not closed, for the royal transport of Yuquan Mountain spring water). But later, it became "nine gates and eight o'clock clocks", there were eight city gates hanging points, but Chongwen Gate hung a "city bell". Legend has it that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, each with its own strengths, but none of them became dragons. One of the dragons, "Pu Lao", is good at roaring, but at first it roared and screamed in the southeast of Beijing regardless of the occasion and place. In the Ming Dynasty, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di sent the "military advisor" Yao Guangxiao to train "Pu Lao". Yao Guangxiao's name "Daoyan" is the "great monk" who will enter the phase, he knows the origin and specialty of "Pu Lao", and thinks that it is most appropriate to cast it on the bell. With the bell as the book, the bell to carry the road, Yao Guangxiao once cast a Yongle bell full of Buddhist scriptures at the behest of the Yongle Emperor, and the bell was not cast into a dragon-shaped bell button because the bell buttons were full of Buddhist scriptures. This time, it happened that the "Pu Lao" was not making a fuss in the southeast of the capital, so the point of Chongwen Gate on the southeast side of the capital was taken off and replaced with the "City Bell" with the "Pu Lao" bell button.