Chapter 13 - The Bitterness of Mother and Child Separation
In the midst of Su Mala's strategy, a turmoil that was almost caused by the arrival of the baby Hongyi smoothly evolved into a cadenza of "auspicious rain from heaven and eternal blessing of the Qing Dynasty", and everyone was happy, except for the chief eunuch Wu Liangfu.
Glancing at the "little master" who was just born today, Wu Liangfu was angry. When the Queen Mother scolded herself loudly just now, her life was really hanging by a thread. After the danger of beheading was resolved by Su Mala, that angry spirit prevailed.
In front of him, the queen mother and the emperor who were teasing the baby, as well as the new "Concubine Kang" Tong Jia's family, their family showed the joy of their noble son, and they made themselves feel even more tormented. According to his own judgment, everything that the queen mother is happy about, zuihou often becomes the emperor's master unhappy, if so, he will continue to hug the emperor's thighs, further keep an eye on the queen mother, what is going on, remind the emperor in time.
Especially that Tong Jiashi, it really doesn't look pleasing to the eye! At the beginning of entering the palace, she was just a small constant, and she didn't understand or disdain the rules of the palace, and she never even honored herself with a decent meeting gift!
Although she is always restrained everywhere because of this, lest the young and vigorous, sexual~desire~ vigorous emperor give her grace, but she can make people, and that day in the shooting hall actually made this little girl become! What's even more infuriating is that after being favored and promoted to the position of nobleman according to the convention, she has no "filial piety" for herself! There is also this Tong Jia's father, Tong Tulai, a little third-class Jingqi Nihafan and Gushan Ezhen, who saw himself on the way to the next dynasty, and was actually arrogant, and never even took the initiative to say hello, let alone make friends and pay homage in private! Do you really think of our family as that useless castration?! No, I can't let this Concubine Kang be proud anymore, let her know who is the famous character in this back ~palace~!
"Emperor, look at this kid, he looks a little similar to Emperor Taizong......" Wu Liangfu was just about to use his means, when he suddenly heard the Queen Mother's words, so he had to continue to stand aside.
Baby Hongyi is suffering from his face being touched and twisted by this group of "close relatives", so he is not irritable, and by the way, he is curious about what kind of appearance he has now, but unfortunately he can't move, otherwise he would have gotten up and found a bronze mirror to look at. It's a pity that Hongyi, who doesn't know Manchu yet, can't hear the following conversation-
"Huang Eniang, Erchen also feels a little similar......" looked up at his mother, but at this moment, a few tears were oozing out of the corners of his eyes, and they were rolling in his eyes...... Fu Lin knew that she remembered the past again, so she quickly knelt under Eniang's knees, and said with tears in her eyes: "Huang Eniang, don't be sad. How many hardships and grievances you have endured for our Qing Dynasty and for the love of the Xinjueluo family, Erchen will never dare to forget for a moment! You can rest assured, in this Qing world, my son, I will make it last forever! …… You need to take care of yourself! ……”
"Well, let the emperor be sad, it's all bad to mourn the family, get up, today we are a family of three generations, just like ordinary people's families, talk well." Pulling up Fulin and pressing it beside her, the Queen Mother continued, "Before coming here just now, Yougui just told me a Han word, called Hanyu Teasing Sun, haha, well said, an old lady of the mourning family, seeing that the emperor is now governing our Qing Dynasty better and better, I am happy, I can concentrate on biting the candy cube and playing with those two little grandsons!" ”
The Empress Dowager knew that her son, the emperor, was devoted to Han, and deliberately said a Chinese idiom, which could be regarded as taking the initiative to get close to her son. Looking at Fu Lin again, he saw that the emperor's son was a little excited, and hurriedly said: "However, there is something that the emperor must decree to do." ”
"Please show the emperor." Fu Lin was happy that the queen mother would no longer interfere in the government, and when he heard this, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked.
"It's better that the "Taizong Record" should be surveyed as soon as possible, and it should not be careless."
That's what happened! Fu Lin's heart is very wide. "Taizong Records" is an official archive that comprehensively records the life of Fulin's father, the husband of the Empress Dowager, and the former emperor Taiji, and it must be published publicly. The historical relationship between the Empress Dowager and Hong Chengchou and Dolgon has become a major focus of attention of the Borzigit clan. And as the emperor, Fu Lin knows what is important.
"Please rest assured, before the sons came here, they were also in the palace to read the "Taizong Record" that had just been compiled. Didn't they also ask them to bring you a copy of the Holy Judgment? Fulin replied.
"Well, the mourning family also saw it, and it was well repaired. It's a pity that Chen Mingxia, the university scholar and president, has to talk nonsense about the stupid words of 'just keep your hair and redress your clothes, and the world will be peaceful', the emperor is right to deal with him strictly, he is useless, and there are scholars in the world who are virtuous and talented and loyal to my Qing Dynasty! It's like that vice president of revision, called Jiang Hede, right? The mourning family sees that he is rigorous in his studies and intelligent, so he can increase his responsibilities! "The Empress Dowager grasped the root of this matter, the main writer Chen Mingxia turned out to be the emperor's person, fortunately he had just been hanged, and if the new writer was included in the account early, it would be of great benefit to himself.
Glancing at his mother, Fulin also continued: "That's what Erchen also means, Emperor Eniang Shengming!" Wu Liangfu immediately passed on the decree and promoted Jiang Hede, vice president of the compilation and revision of the "Records of Taizong", to a scholar of the National Academy of History. [1] Wu Liangfu had no choice but to pass on the decree first, but he had no choice but to put aside the resentment in his heart for the time being.
The Queen Mother looked at her son with satisfaction, admiring that he understood her thoughts. But suddenly remembered another thing, his face flashed, and then he said: "Emperor, the mourning family has been in good health recently, often fiddling with some flowers and plants, and there is Su Ma nearby, which is also very comfortable." In addition, Concubine Kang gave birth to this little prince, and our original eldest brother [2], the two little ones can often come to accompany the mourning family to relieve their boredom, and they are very happy. Fulin was a little dazed, and he didn't understand what Eniang meant for a while.
"Therefore, the mourning family plans to issue an edict in the next few days, so that the Fujin and side Fujin of the prince Baylor's family can rest for a while, and they don't have to run to the Cining Palace of the mourning family in three days, so that they can concentrate on their husbands and children at home. Catch up with Ming'er, stop the old practice of ordering women to change their lives to concubines. When the queen mother saw Fu Lin silently, she thought that he had moved her mind, so she directly said what she meant.
"So it was against her?!" Fu Lin suddenly realized and said silently in his heart. In fact, the Empress Dowager had already discovered that Fu Lin and his younger brother, Bomu Bogol's Fu Jin Dong E's eyebrows, seemed to have a hidden secret.
"This ~ palace matter, everything is arranged by the emperor's mother, and the ministers have no objections." Fu Lin was okay in his mouth, but he was already angry with his mother in his heart, and he also counted his youngest son in it by the way: giving birth to a son, but involving many things!
As a baby, Hongyi watched the conversation between the two women, and was really bored, so he had to turn back to look at the grandmother Sun, and called twice in his mouth, which was regarded as a greeting, but he didn't know that his new emperor Ama Fulin was resenting himself in "loving the house and Wu".
Sun found that the little prince was snorting when he looked at him, and immediately his mother's love overflowed, and the milk immediately spurted out. But in front of the queen mother and the emperor, he can't take it and feed it like ordinary people. Fortunately, the queen mother is experienced, and when she heard the call of her little grandson, she knew that he was hungry and looking for milk. In fact, Hongyi really doesn't mean this, it's just idle and boring, don't speculate nonsense!
"Sun, you can also feed the little prince, don't starve him. He was tired and hungry for most of the day. By the way, Su Ma, do you remember that after the mourning family arrived at this Jingren Palace, it has been so long, this little prince has not eaten a mouthful of milk, and he doesn't cry anymore, it is up to him to judge the emperor, haha, it is really very spiritual! ”
While helping to send Xiao Hongyi to the Sun family, Su Mala agreed: "Isn't it, the master's emperor, all of them have inherited the wisdom of Taizu Taizong and the master, and they can't be wrong!" ”
Seeing that the Sun family had held the baby and was about to flash to the side hall to breastfeed, Fu Lin, who was not interested in the affairs of his younger sister Dong E, was already ready to find an excuse to leave, and just took the opportunity to say, "Huang Eniang, the son has some questions that have not been approved, so I will kneel down for you first." ”
Just about to leave, Wu Liangfu, who had already come back and stood behind the emperor and was ready to go, said: "Master, where do you think the master's residence is?" ”
It turned out that in order to prevent the queen ~ palace concubine from giving birth to the prince, "the mother is precious by the son", and then interfered in the government affairs, the Qing Dynasty implemented a strict system of the prince living alone after entering the customs, and soon after the little prince was born, he had to leave his biological mother to live alone in the north of the palace in Qiandong or Qianxi Wu. At that time, the eldest brother had already lived in the East One of the Five Institutes in Qiandong. However, this system does not clearly stipulate how long after the birth of the prince before moving to live alone, and this "how long" can be ten days and a half months, or after the full moon, there is no fixed number. And at this moment, our baby Hongyi was born at more than ten o'clock in the morning, and it has only been half a day now, and no one has remembered this tragic incident of separation between mother and child.
Hearing this, Concubine Kang on the bed got up one by one and shouted loudly: "The queen mother, the emperor, let the slave and maid accompany the little prince for a few more days!" Then he knocked his head on the bed, and helpless tears welled up, and after a while, he soaked the brocade quilt under him.
Seeing this situation, Fu Lin was a little annoyed, looked back at Wu Liangfu, and wanted to say something, but he still didn't say it. After all, he is still his new head of the Thirteen Yamen, and these rules of the harb~ palace are also there, and appropriately giving the slave a little authority, even if it is a small one, it will often be exchanged for the slave's 100,000 diligent service to his master. It's just that Fu Lin is also thinking about whether Wu Liangfu is a little too unkind to put forward this motion so early.
The queen mother and Su Mala were also stunned, although this is a rule in the palace, but the mother and son are connected, you Wu Liangfu Weishenme brought up this matter at this time, which is really disgusting. But the rules are the rules, which also makes it difficult for the Queen Mother to express her position casually, whether it is accurate or not, it is to make people sit on wax.
"The queen mother, master, the slave has ordered the thirteen yamen to clean up all the five east and west, just waiting for the queen mother and the master to issue a will, and the slave will give a degree to the master's mercy. There are also the calls of the master, including eight nannies, eight nurses, four needlework people, four people who wash the pulp, four people who master the lamp, and four people who are on the stove, as well as deacons and eunuchs who guard the door and sweep, a total of forty people, all of whom have been arranged to stop. Wu Liangfu ignored Concubine Kang who kowtowed on the bed, and knelt on the ground and said his plan.
"This ......" Fulin didn't have an idea for a moment, and looked back at the Queen Mother.
"Emperor, the rules set by this ancestor can't be changed, and the regulations you set can't be moved, Manager Wu said, this thing really has to be done!" The Empress Dowager glared at Wu Liangfu as she spoke. Regardless of whether the eunuch over there was kowtowing and thanksgiving, she continued:
"But the prince is still young, and he was born only half a day, so he can't afford to spend a lot of time. Concubine Kang is also a gift, so let their mother and son delay a few more days. In addition, those envoys who were prepared for the little prince asked the inner thirteen yamen to submit the roster to the mourning family to see, what kind of goods they were, if it was not appropriate, they would transfer a few from my Cining Palace, so that they could have more eyes for the mourning family. Especially that little gongzi, smart and meticulous, just transfer to the little prince's envoys to be a leader, emperor, what do you say? ”
Since Wu Liangfu, who was kneeling on the ground, had already made up his mind at this time, he didn't do anything, and said before Fu Lin spoke: "The slave asks the Queen Mother to move the young master to the East and West Five Institutes as soon as possible!" ”
Regardless of the empress dowager's eyes that could cut him with a thousand knives, he continued: "The slave is the eunuch of the previous dynasty, and I saw with my own eyes those princes and grandsons who died in the Ming Dynasty, just because they have been by their biological mother's side for a long time, and they have a lot of admiration for their female dependents, and they are often as weak and crying as women, and they can't become a big thing. Not only that, but they are also accustomed to some exaggeration, at a young age, they only know how to be powerful and blessed, relying on the protection of their mothers, they have no fear, and they have no ambition to prosper the world, so it is strange that the former Ming Dynasty will not die! And I have already made a rule for Emperor Taizu Taizong, and I must not have those useless descendants of Aixin Jueluo in the Qing Dynasty. Only when the prince lives alone from his mother can he learn the bow and horse, be heroic, put an end to the power of the son and the mother by virtue of the son, and protect me from the eternal prosperity of the Qing Dynasty! After speaking, Wu Liangfu also kowtowed, and on the other hand, he was also in tears, looking like a loyal minister who risked death to admonish and did not regret death.
In this way, even if it is the queen mother, it is irrefutable. The admonition of Taizu and Taizong is like a big mountain, you can't get around it, you can't climb it, you can only obey it. Even Concubine Kang over there quickly stopped crying and knelt on the bed. At this time, if you ask to live with the little prince, that is, "the son is powerful and the mother is expensive by the son", which will definitely delay the growth of the prince and hinder the eternal prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, who can afford it?
"That being the case, let Xiao Gongzi escort the little prince to move to two of the five institutes in Qiandong today, and go to be a companion with the eldest brother of the first place in the east...... The clever attendants around the mourning family also asked Su Ma to pick a few and follow him. Emperor, what do you say? The Queen Mother reluctantly expressed her position.
"The sons and daughters will obey the emperor's decree." After listening to Wu Liangfu's speech, Fu Lin was overjoyed, and felt that he was really wise to appoint this person, so he accepted it. However, when she saw the sad Concubine Kang in a blink of an eye, her heart softened, and she continued: "Huang Eniang, the nurse Pu Shi [3] when her son was young, although Zunyi aims to live in the palace for a long time, she is also in the prime of life. Erchen also relied on her gentle charity, so it was better to accompany the little prince to move to the East Second Institute together, and it was good to have an elderly and respectful Jingqi Mama [4] to take care of her. ”
In one fell swoop, although this Pu family is the emperor's mother, but also his own close relatives, which can not only reflect his care for the little prince as the emperor's ama, but also insert eyes and ears to prevent the people of Cining Palace from becoming bigger.
"It's okay, the emperor has thought it through!" The queen mother knew her son's thoughts, so she agreed.
The two of them "put their hearts in their hearts", and the wits between you and me made Concubine Kang suffer on the bed alone. gave birth to a son, but he couldn't get close for a day, because that was the prince of his love Xinjueluo family, the national glory of the Qing Dynasty, and the master of all the people in the world......
The queen mother comforted Concubine Kang a few words, and also felt unbearable, so she drove back to the palace. Fu Lina didn't want to stay longer for a moment, so he casually said a few innocuous words of comfort, and also drove back to the palace. Under Concubine Kang's pleading, Wu Liangfu reluctantly asked Sun to bring the baby Hongyi in from the side hall and hand it over to his biological mother. Concubine Kang could no longer hold back the sadness and helplessness in her heart, and hugged the baby and cried bitterly......
Seeing that his reborn mother was so desolate, Hongyi roughly guessed that he wanted the mother and son to separate. When Concubine Kang's tears fell on his face in strings, he also thought of his parents in that time and space, and he didn't know how they faced their "departure", as well as Xiao Ai, who was deeply in love with him, and what kind of grief they would be at this moment. So, Hongyi also cried bitterly, crying bitterly......
Jingren Palace on March 18, 11th year of Shunzhi,
In the morning, the heavens and the earth opened, and the sky was auspicious;
In the afternoon, the vertical and horizontal shut-ups, the waves are magnificent;
In the evening, the mother and son parted, heartbreaking;
And the five Qiandong institutes in the north, the lights and shadows are flickering, and the good luck and evil are uncertain......
[1] According to the official history, on March 18, the 11th year of Shunzhi, two major events occurred, one was the birth of Xuan Ye, and the other was that Jiang Hede was appointed as a scholar of the National Academy of History.
[2] In August of the third year of Chongde, after Huang Taiji became emperor, the Qing Dynasty formulated a population registration system, which was the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, and ordered the children of the clan to "record their age and name in the file book every year of age". This kind of file registration left material for the children of Huang Taiji to record the deceased in "Jade" in the future. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Zongren Mansion was established in the ninth year of Shunzhi, and the royal population registration system was formalized.
In the Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties, the children of the royal family were not ranked according to the method of counting and dying, but by the number of adults. For example, the prince of Emperor Shunzhi, although "Jade" is recorded as: the first son Niu Niu (or as a button), born in November of the eighth year of Shunzhi, died 3 months later. The second son Fuquan, born in Shunzhi ten years, later became Prince Yu, died at the age of 51 in the forty-second year of Kangxi, and Fuquan's younger brother Emperor Kangxi made an inscription for Fuquan in this year, it was called "the eldest son of Emperor Kao Shizuzhang". Therefore, the eldest brother in this article refers to Fuquan, and the second elder brother is Xuan Ye, which is inconsistent with the "idiomatic usage" in later novels, so let's explain it again!
[3] Park, a native of Korea, was one of the nurses of Shunji. In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi (1659), when the news of Zheng Chenggong's siege of Nanjing reached Beijing, Fulin was furious and threatened to take the imperial expedition in person. In the face of the dissuasion of hundreds of officials, he actually used his sword to split the throne into pieces, so no one dared to stand up and admonish. His mother, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, turned around and retreated, and sent Fulin's nurse to dissuade her, because the nurse was respected by the Manchurians as if she were her own mother. The Park family went through the four dynasties of Taizu, Taizong, Shizu, and Shengzu, and died in the 20th year of Kangxi (1681). Emperor Kangxi posthumously sealed the Pu family: "Emperor Shizuzhang nurses the Pu family, protects the first emperor, Kezhao respects and prudence; When I was young, I devoted myself to caring for ...... Today, she is the Holy Lady, with the color of the top belt, according to the grade of the Duchess. "Park is buried in the Qing Dynasty Dongling, its tomb is the largest regulation in the four burial nurse gardens around Dongling, and it is also the earliest burial tomb of Dongling, the two Tongtuolong monuments and the seven monuments are very distinctive, and it is a must-go place for Dongling.
[4] Jingqi, that is, the Manchu word for "watching the mother", and "Mama" is the woman who serves the Agogege. "Jingqi Mama" mainly teaches the etiquette and habits of the Agogege, and after taking care of them, she also strictly controls their diet, sleep and etiquette.