Chapter 10 Harem Concubines
Wanru was ready for everything, led the maid to the main courtyard of Jue Luo's family, used a little refreshment, and then got into the carriage with Jue Luo and went to the palace. Fei Yanggu followed Kangxi to sacrifice to the sky early in the morning.
After staying in the Qing Dynasty for several years, Wanru was leaving the house for the first time. In the carriage, Wanru and Jue Luo were the two people, and the maids were in the carriage behind.
Jue Luo's mouth did not stop all the way, and he kept saying that he would enter the palace and the etiquette taboos to pay attention to, don't look east and west casually, don't talk casually if there are no major things, etc., after saying this, he said that he would not be nervous when he saw the nobles in the palace, and he would salute according to the generosity he had learned on weekdays, and then said that the temperament of the nobles in the palace, such as the Empress Dowager is very good, the Empress Dowager is also very good, and the general situation of the palace concubines, anyway, Jue Luo said the whole boy who knew it carefully, lest Wanru will not pay attention to offending that nobleman.
And Wanru sat on the side, and from time to time she answered that she remembered, and her small body seemed to be listening carefully, but she was actually listening to the movement on the street outside with her ears pricked up.
For entering the palace, Wanru is neither happy nor repulsive, in comparison, she is more interested in the bustling and noisy streets of ancient times.
After five years of nesting in the backyard of the Infantry Commander's Mansion, as soon as she left the mansion, Wanru felt that the whole air was free and fresh. People came and went on the street, and all kinds of shouting and selling made Wanru think of the snack street next to her school in the past. For a while, Wanru really wanted to jump out of the carriage and feel the crowded atmosphere of people coming and going up close. From the bottom of my heart, I hope that this road will be longer, and it will be longer.
A person carrying a small bag, a small horn in his ear, holding a snack in his hand, walking and eating on the crowded street, and the leisurely scene of going in and shopping when he sees a store of interest is really just a matter of a lifetime.
No matter how excited and sentimental Wanru's heart was, her face was not revealed at all. Even if they were reluctant, the kind and pleasant voices gradually faded away, and when the road finally came to an end, they arrived.
After getting off the carriage, what appeared in front of me was the noon gate, which was baptized for three hundred years and was very majestic and solemn. Wanru has been to the Forbidden City in her previous life, it was the National Day, there were people everywhere, and she has been following the flow of people, from the noon gate to the Shenwu Gate, she took a few photos and came out, and when she came back, she told her classmates about the scene of visiting the Forbidden City, the only thing that was clearly described was that there was no end to the human heads, and the palace gardens were floating clouds, which floated away after staying in my mind for a while, leaving only the mottled afterimage on the palace wall.
Went in with the other clan Fujin women, the first thing was to go to Cining Palace to ask the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, for Xiaozhuang, there are many legends and rumors. Wanru didn't know anything about Xiaozhuang, but she only knew that she was a woman in the deep palace who raised the emperors of Shunzhi and Kangxi in the early Qing Dynasty when there were Han people resisting outside Dolgon's worship.
Politics has been a man's domain since ancient times. It is a battlefield where there is no smoke of gunpowder for killing, and it is a stage for men to show their ambitions and pursue fame and fortune. On this stage where you just sang and I took the stage to fight fiercely, men have been the protagonists since ancient times, and women are almost all passers-by supporting roles.
However, in the long history, there are finally so many women who dare to fight against men and dare to break into this stage, and they have achieved the position of the protagonist after all difficulties, leaving a strong mark in history and writing their legends. For example, Wu Zetian, such as Xiaozhuang. No matter what their final fate is, what their temperament is, and what future generations say about them, this courage and strategy alone is enough to make Wanru who just wants to live a leisurely life sincerely admire.
Now that she is about to meet this legendary woman in history, Wanru is still looking forward to it. When I arrived at Cining Palace, the concubines were already waiting, and the three and three stood together, so Jue Luo took Wanru to ask the concubines to say goodbye, because it was in the palace of Xiaozhuang, so it was a simple salute, and after asking for peace one by one, everyone lined up in two columns, the concubine was in front, followed by the clan Fujin, and finally the important ministers. Feiyangu is the commander of the infantry army and is the second grade, so the position of the Jue Luo clan is very low, and he is basically at the door of the main hall of Cining Palace.
Cining Palace, the famous Tai**, in the Qing Dynasty, there were only two queen mothers who lived here, one was Xiaozhuang, and the other was Qianlong's biological mother Yongzheng's concubine Xi The historical Empress Xiaoshengxian.
Thanks to the popularity of Qing palace opera, these two queen mothers are known to ordinary people, so Cining Palace has attracted a lot of attention in modern times, but for various reasons, the Palace Museum is not open to tourists, and Wanru has not entered it when she went. But she couldn't imagine that one day she would walk in here openly and see the concubine of Kangxi ** in history and the legendary woman Xiaozhuang.
Although he couldn't look at it randomly, he had the ability to have clairvoyance, so he quickly glanced at Kangxi's concubine when he came in just now, and then looked up and down in the blink of an eye in the process of asking for peace.
From the perspective of modern people, to be honest, the quality of Kangxi's early years was not very good. Most of them are just beautiful.
Because human beings are constantly evolving, modern people always feel ugly when they look at ancient people, although the emperor's concubines are all chosen beauties, but Kangxi first ascended the throne in order to win over the major families of Manchu Mongolia, and named their daughters as concubines. But these women are tall and noble enough, but some of them can be regarded as ugly in terms of current eyes. But they are all noble, all of them are bright and beautiful, even if their appearance is ordinary, their temperament is not comparable to ordinary women.
The current highest-ranking concubine in Kangxi** is the concubine Tong Jiahuang who stands at the front of the team, Sisi's adoptive mother, and later Empress Xiaoyiren. She is Kangxi's cousin, she has been a childhood sweetheart with Kangxi since she was a child, and she was very favored by Kangxi after entering the palace.
However, in Wanru's opinion, Kangxi dotes on Concubine Tong Jiahuang, not only because she is the daughter of the Tong family and her cousin, but also because of her appearance and temperament.
Concubine Tong Jiahuang is really good. The face is as bright as jade, the eyes are clear like water, the eyebrows are like Yuandai, the cherry is small, and she is as delicate as the Jiangnan woman of the Han family, but because of the practice of riding and archery, she also has three points of heroism on her body.
And just now I heard Luo said that he is also proficient in Sinology, and he is also involved in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which has the same hobby as the erudite Kangxi, and the two must have a common topic to talk about. Such a concubine of Emperor Tong Jia is very unique in the ** full of Manchu Mongolian concubines, no matter which one it is, she has enough capital to win Kangxi's favor. This is something that other concubines can't be jealous of, no matter how jealous they are.
After the concubine of Emperor Tong Jia, she is the concubine Wen Xi, Niu Hulu, she is the sister of the second queen of Kangxi, Empress Xiao Zhaoren, Kangxi is the concubine for the twentieth year, and the son is the tenth son of the emperor who is only two years old now, and later one of the iron triangles of the Eight Masters Party. Concubine Wen is ordinary-looking, and today she is at the level of a passerby, and she should be promoted to the title of family.
Under the concubine, she is the concubine. Kangxi has been sealed for 20 years, and the famous four concubines are all here at this time.
The eldest of the four concubines is Concubine Hui, Nala Shi, who is now in her thirties and has given birth to two sons, one of whom survived, and is the eldest brother Yinchu. Concubine Hui is definitely a wise and open-minded person, after her only son was imprisoned, Yongzheng was raised in the palace of Prince Lian of the eighth elder brother, and later Prince Lian was convicted, returned to the palace again, and died on the seventh day of April in the tenth year of Yongzheng. Such a ups and downs of life experience is by no means something that an unknowledgeable and narrow-minded inner palace woman can withstand.
Concubine Rong, Ma Jia's family, gave birth to five sons and one daughter, of which only the third elder brother Yinzhi and his daughter are adults, and they are the concubines who have the most children in Kangxi.
Concubine Yi, Guo Luoluo, has three sons, the fifth elder brother Yinqi, the ninth elder brother Yinyu, and the eleventh elder brother Yinyu. The eleventh elder brother died early, and the fifth elder brother was raised by the queen mother's side, and now only the ninth elder brother is raised by his side. Concubine Yi has a cheerful temperament and beautiful appearance, and she is also Kangxi's more favored concubine.
Concubine De, Wu Yashi. Sisi's biological mother,It's a scheming, vicious and eccentric villain in the Qing Piercing text.,The famous evil mother-in-law.,Always embarrassed to clear the heroine.,Often meddle in Sisi's backyard.,From time to time, give Sisi's young and beautiful women to the heroine.。
But when Wanru greeted her just now, her voice was soft, her face was delicate, and she was very kind. Such a concubine, Wanru didn't see her scheming and vicious at all.
The sixth elder brother Yinzuo, who was born in the nineteenth year of Kangxi, died in May this year, and now Concubine De has only one daughter by her side, and she is the only one of the four concubines who has no son to raise by her side. Concubine De is the youngest and most beautiful of the four concubines, with fair skin and a beautiful demeanor. Otherwise, with Concubine De's coating, it would be difficult to rise to the concubine position.
As for the later concubine, because she was born in Xin Zheku, although she gave birth to the eighth son of the emperor Yinxi in the twentieth year of Kangxi. But at this time, he is just a nobleman, and he is not qualified to come to Cining Palace to ask Kangxi for peace. However, Wanru really wants to see the beautiful woman who dominated the crowd three hundred years ago, and wants to see what kind of bright and moving woman can give birth to a woman as gentle as jade like Eighth Elder Brother.
Just when Wanru was thinking about it, the hour came, and a grandmother came out of the inner hall and announced that everyone would go in.