One day in the late autumn and October of the eleventh year of Shunzhi, the lonely moon hung high, and the autumn wind was bleak.

Fu Lin in the Weiyu Palace was frowning tightly, looking at the southeast battle report that had just been presented to the imperial review with an angry face, thinking for a long time, the red pen was lifted and lowered, and finally he couldn't write a word......

The two palace doors shook for a long time under the push of the autumn wind, and they couldn't hold on any longer, and they fell into defeat with a "squeak" and hit the lintel fiercely. The wind was coming, struggling to pick up the annoying battle report, and "Hula" fell on the emperor's face!

The darkness in front of him was instantaneous, which completely shattered the last trace of patience that Fu Lin had, and he pulled the long book off his face and yelled into the wind outside the door, "Damn! You all deserve to die! ”

In the darkness, all the palace maids and eunuchs who were with them knelt down one after another, only the chief eunuch Wu Liangfu quickly stepped forward to close the palace door, turned back and re-lit the yarn lamp on the imperial case, and then picked up the battle report, carefully folded it in half, and then gently put it back in front of the emperor. "The master is angry, and the dragon body is important." Wu Liangfu was softly relieved while observing his words.

"Anger? It's easy to calm your anger, but how can you extinguish the successive defeats on this frontline? "Since the pro-government of Fulin, Li Dingguo, the remnant of the western thief Zhang Xianzhong, has been erratic and has not been eradicated for a long time; Although the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was struggling to survive, it often made waves; Zheng Sen in the southeast has repeatedly refused to surrender, although there is a gambling general danger offered by the little prince, but it is still far from being implemented. That day, when discussing the plan to recover the Zheng family with the ministers of parliament, this half-year-old breast, who was sitting in the arms of the Queen Mother, repeatedly insisted on "accepting (Zheng Sen) again in the coming year", but whenever anyone doubted, he repeated "Accept again in the coming year", and then smiled strangely and fell into the arms of the Queen Mother. It can be seen that the emperor's mother is also full of doubts, but she still set the tone for her son and the ministers according to her grandson's wishes. Yesterday, according to the kid's arrangement, he and Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, staged a poignant and graceful "Ten Miles to Send Off", and today, the front line sent a war report, saying that Li Dingguo's division of the Great Western Army has taken Gaoming in Guangdong, and is besieging Xinhui, in a vain attempt to join forces with Zheng Sen in Xinhui! If they succeed, the thieves can attack Guangdong from the east and west, and then try to capture Guangzhou. In this way, the remnants of the shili can be merged. If the traitors march west along the Yangtze River again, or cross the river to the north, and attack Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, then their restoration plan is promising, and the Qing Dynasty is in danger!

Hum! Once the little guy's prediction is deviated, no matter if you are auspicious from the sky, or if you confuse the public with evil words, I, as the emperor, can only kill my relatives with righteousness! Thinking of this, Fu Lin viciously smashed his fist on the imperial case......

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At the same time, the east side hall of Yongshou Palace, the biological mother of the emperor's eldest son and concubine Dong E, is also very popular!

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the boy from the East Second Institute is getting bigger and bigger day by day, eating all kinds of snacks every day, but he is pointing out the government word by word! In contrast, his sons are more than a year old, but they can only say a few words like "eat, want, play, and no". It's strong, but what's the use! Although this is the custom of young sons growing up, who let her Tong Jia's give birth to such a heretic! But the Queen Mother still wants to say that he is an auspicious omen of the Qing Dynasty!

Is it just resigned to fate? Could it be that he just watched his eldest son slowly move away from the throne? Are you just waiting for yourself to die in the palace in the future? No! Heaven is not merciful, I try to be strong! In the end, we have to see whose hand the deer dies!

Concubine Dong E couldn't sit still any longer, so she stood up, opened her door, and walked towards the main hall of Yongshou Palace without looking back, leaving behind the dim light and shadow, letting it sway in the autumn wind, and extinguishing it with a "poof......

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After the abolition, Concubine Borzigit Meng Guqing was lying on the kang in the main hall of Yongshou Palace, accompanied by a lone lamp, watching her shadow float on the wall.

After she was deposed, the Empress Dowager remembered that she was her own niece, and that she had indeed not been able to be the master of her son in this matter, and felt guilty, so she asked her to go back to the Horqin steppe province in Mongolia. After nearly ten months, she reluctantly returned to the high walls of this deep palace under the urging of the queen mother several times and the persuasion of her father and the king.

It's strange to say, after Concubine Jing came back, the surrounding maids found that the abolished queen had really become a lot quieter, as if she was waiting for something, and she sat alone every day, without saying a word, but there was no cursing and crying when she was just abolished. Even after the Queen Mother heard about it, she only sighed for a long time.

Meng Guqing looked at his own shadow on the wall, beating lightly, as if returning to the vast grassland when he was young, and the meadow swaying in the wind was as soft and comfortable as this shadow. As the daughter of Wu Keshan[1], the prince of Korqin Zhuo Liketu[1], she has been innocent since she was a child, and she has grown up to be lovely, smart and clever. It's a pity that this shandan flower, which should have belonged to the grassland and could be proud of the wind and snow, was cultivated in the high walls and deep courtyards of this palace......

"Master Jing, Concubine Dong E's family asks to see you." Concubine Jing's close attendant palace maid cautiously revealed. Since the abolition last year, the originally arrogant Concubine Jing has become more perverse and eccentric, and if she is not careful, the palace maids around her will be beaten and punished.

Concubine Jing lay on the kang with her face facing inward, without a response, just a slight shake of her shoulders, and there was no more follow-up. "Master......" The palace maid looked up carefully, and only called softly for a long time. Unexpectedly, Concubine Jing suddenly turned over and sat up, staring at the palace maid with a pair of clear big eyes, and seeing her shaking up and down into a sieve, she said with a smile: "No one has visited this palace for a long time, will the sun come out of the west before dawn?" Haha, well, let her in. ”

The palace maid was relieved and retreated, but it was very difficult to disappear like a desert.

Looking at the former queen under the flickering lights, Concubine Dong E also regretted it a little. Just now, he ran across the courtyard on the spur of the moment and without hesitation, and rushed directly to the door of Concubine Jing's bedroom, all relying on the maternal strength of his son, but now he was hesitant.

"Slave and maid, please say hello to Master Jing!" Hesitation, there are still a lot of courtesies. Dong Eshi cautiously came to a half-squatting and stopped there.

"Don't be polite, don't be polite, I can't afford to be abolished." Concubine Jing was humble in her mouth, but she stared at Dong E's like a cat and a mouse, to see what was going on below.

"Master Jing, the slave can listen to a word of discussion, after thinking about it, I still have to come and report to you......" Dong Eshi squatted there for a long time to look at Concubine Jing's expression, but he couldn't see any disadvantages, so he made up his mind, slowly stood up, approached Concubine Jing's side, and made a decisive move.

"Oh? Let their subordinates chew their tongues, this palace is very comfortable now, except for going to my imperial aunt (referring to the queen mother) every day to say goodbye, and then accompanying the new queen and Shuhui Concubine and my nieces to chat, what other words do I have for them to enjoy? haha......" Concubine Jing asked with a relaxed face and a smile.

"Master Huijing, I heard that the slave maid was ...... last August" Dong Eshi also raised his head, stared at Concubine Jing's face tightly, and said word by word.

Last August, that is, August 26 of the tenth year of Shunzhi, was the sore spot and scar in Concubine Jing's heart. On that day, the emperor decreed, "The Ministry of Rites and Rites is only the emperor since ancient times, and he will be established to help him internally." However, they are all carefully selected, so that the mother can be the world. In the future, the king of Nairui was engaged to marry when I was young, without choice, from the beginning of the canonization, that is, he was not in agreement with my will, and the palace [kǔn] participated in the consultation [2], which has been three years, and the matter is under the emperor, and the difficult period of Shushan is not enough to rely on the weight of the temple, so I would like to hear the queen mother on August 25, and she will be reduced to a concubine and relocated to the side palace. ”

On the night before, his aunt and the queen mother also looked at him with tears in Cining Palace, helpless, and let himself cry in front of his knees. At that time, how aggrieved and helpless I was! Himself, Duan Li is as precious as a rose, but there are thorns in helplessness. In his own eyes, there is also true affection, the same innocence, but more of it is awe-inspiring and difficult to commit. That's right, he is arrogant, the queen should not be arrogant, and even-for-tat with the emperor, loudly reprimanded, and even blamed and ridiculed. Don't you really know that this is tantamount to the greatest humiliation for a hard-working and ambitious young emperor? The more you know, the more you want to stab him recklessly, just as he stabbed himself! Then it's really extravagant, the food utensils are all gold; Then he is really jealous, I can't see him being a little kind to the palace maid. But who knows, behind luxury is simplicity, and behind jealousy there is infatuation. It's a pity that he didn't allow himself a chance to turn around, he was gone, never to return.

I may be very similar to the emperor, the same pride, the same sensitivity, and the same heart. The two people who are similar are like thunder and fire, and when they meet, they either fall apart in love or hate each other. It's a pity that they are the latter. Maybe he really has a thousand bad deeds, but what makes him even worse and comes to an end is just that this man doesn't love her, this man is the emperor and can decide his own life and death. I just want him to love him, and if he doesn't have love, he will be vicious. If you don't love, let you hate, anyway, don't be bland in your heart without a trace, rather "the red face is not old and the grace is broken first, and the flowers fall and the people die". Even, even if I die, I will still give it to you, leaving you with an indelible sorrow for the Qing Dynasty......

And at this moment, you Dong E came rashly and lifted the scar in front of you, but why? Patience, patience, listen to the rest of the story......

Concubine Dong E saw that Concubine Jing's eyes were clearly sad and angry, but she was still silent, so she added another handful of firewood and continued: "...... In August last year, the Empress Dowager issued an edict to Tong Jia's to renovate Jingren Palace, but I heard someone say that the dragon son conceived by Tong's family is a blessing from God, and you are innocently degraded, which is a fate to restrain the little prince...... In order to make a pulse in the Qing Dynasty, you must first ...... "Smart people can be thorough, at this moment, Dong Eshi hopes that Concubine Jing in front of him must be ice and snow smart."

"Hmph, do you want to believe the nonsense of the subordinates?" Concubine Jing had a sneer on her face.

"The slave and maid know that the nonsense of the subordinates is not enough, but today the slave and maid also heard that Concubine Kang is full of ambition, saying that her second elder brother can stabilize the world before she can preface her teeth [3], and that the current queen is also an ornament, and she herself ...... She herself ...... "Dong E's is not in a hurry, according to the established policy step by step, when it comes to the critical moment, just like the model in all palace fighting dramas, it is really a matter of wanting to talk and stopping, and satisfying the appetite......

"How is she?" Concubine Jing was not stupid, she answered the words according to the fixed routine, and with the corners of her eyes raised slightly, she asked Dong Eshi to continue.

"She herself...... In the future, I will still take over the position of the queen, and let the three aunts and nephews of the Borzigit clan end up one by one! Dong Eshi swallowed a mouthful of saliva quietly, there was some panic in his eyes, but in the end he raised his head viciously and looked directly at Concubine Jing bravely.

"Bastard!" Concubine Jing commented, but she didn't know whether she was talking about the Dong E family in front of her or the Concubine Kang in Jingren Palace. She can compromise and seek perfection, because after this~ palace concubines, she didn't care. The only thing that cares is to make the emperor annoyed every time he sees him, he is upset, and he wants to take revenge, so he faces the emperor who abolished himself. But he is obedient, and another reason is that the queen's position is still in the hands of his Borzigit clan, his aunt is abolished, and his niece, your emperor just can't get out of the palm of our Korqin Borzigit woman! However, if someone wants to let their niece follow her own old path, then she must be doomed!

Seeing Dong E's family kneeling on the ground again, Concubine Jing's mind turned, calmed down, and said, "Dong Guiren, are you afraid that her son of the Tong Jia clan will steal your limelight?"

"Master Jing, the slave and maid will never dare! The slave maid is just afraid that her Concubine Kang will be big, and the mother will be expensive by her son, and she will not even take the queen mother in her eyes in the future! If the eldest son of the emperor can one day ...... can ......, the slave must let him know that the queen mother, the master Jing, as well as the queen and Concubine Shuhui, are all his benefactors, and they are no worse than their biological mothers...... "Dong Eshi kowtowed frequently under the shadow of the lamp, but he didn't look up.

"Get up, your thoughts about the imperial aunt and my niece, this palace has written it down. Go back! Concubine Jing said lightly at the black shadow.

"Master Jing! Master Jing ......, "When Dong E's head was raised and he was about to speak, he found that Concubine Jing was already lying on the kang, and she only pointed a graceful back at herself......

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The Queen Mother sat on the throne of Cining Palace, listening kindly to her niece Concubine Jing retelling the conversation last night, and nodding for a while and locking her eyebrows for a while in accordance with the progress of the plot, very seriously. In the end, she smiled and said to Concubine Jing, "Meng Guqing, my good nephew, what are your plans for this matter?" ”

"My niece is just worried that her Concubine Kang is big, which is not good for you, and it is not good for us Borzigit, but I don't care too much about the rest." Concubine Jing fiddled with the teacup and replied calmly.

"Well, the marriage between Manchu and Mongolia is related to the long-term peace and stability of the Qing Dynasty, and you can't be careless. For the rest, the mourning family has its own charter! The Queen Mother was very pleased to also pick up the teacup and drank a sip of authentic mare's milk wine.

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In the afternoon of the same day, the Queen Mother issued an edict, saying that the second elder brother was gifted by the emperor and was carefully raised by Su Mala instead of herself. Concubine Kang had meritorious service in giving birth to a son, but due to the ancestral family law, ordinary concubines were not enough to educate the prince, so from now on, they were not allowed to enter the five offices of Qiandong without permission, and they were not allowed to approach the little prince without permission...... Poor Tong Jiashi was deprived of his son's visitation rights for unknown reasons, or the right to visitation that did not exist in the first place......

The queen mother knows that the infighting in the harb~ palace is a good thing, as long as it does not affect her authority and interests, the more the better. Right now, the stakes lie in this little brother who is less than one year old. Concubines can be snubbed and admonished, but this little brother must be carefully cared for and used for himself......

[1] Wu Keshan, Borzigit clan, Prince of Korqin Zhuoliktu of Mongolia. The eldest brother of Empress Xiaozhuang Wen, Borzigit Bumubutai. In the seventh year of Tiancong (1633), the fourth daughter of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, Gulun Yongmu, the eldest princess Aixin Jueluo Yatuxu, was married to Wu Keshan's third son, Bier Tahar. Later, Wu Keshan was guilty, and Huang Taiji was very angry and wanted to break off the marriage. In the sixth year of Chongde (1641), the princess married at the age of 13. In the eighth year of Chongde (1643), Biltahar was given the title of Gulun Forehead, and in the fifth year of Kangxi (1666), Biltahar succeeded his father Wu Keshan Jue and was named the prince of Zhuo Liketu, and died in six years.

[2] "Gong Yan" originally referred to the bedroom where the concubine lived, but here it refers to the relationship between Emperor Shunzhi and the empress; "Shen Shang", "Shen Shang" and "Shang" are two stars in the sky that cannot touch each other, and when the Shen Xing comes out, the Shang Star just sinks, and no one can see each other. This refers to the fact that the relationship between Emperor Shunzhi and the Empress has become incompatible. The phrase "Gong Yan Participates in Business" means that the relationship between Emperor Shunzhi and the queen is not harmonious, and it is impossible to live together.

[3] Sequence teeth, sorted by age.