On April 15 of the first year of Yong'an, General Pingxue led 5,000 personal soldiers to Chixue Mountain, and the 30,000 troops promised by Emperor Yong'an would sail out of the distant hinterland of Jiangnan and travel thousands of miles to Chixue Mountain to join General Pingxue.

On the imperial city, Emperor Yong'an gave General Pingxue three glasses of liquor to help General Pingxue return triumphantly.

General Pingxue was dressed in military uniform, and the high-grade horse who stepped down the four hooves and dotted the snow was the thousand-mile horse that Emperor Yonghe rewarded him in the twentieth year of Yonghe. He drank the wine in his glass, threw the cup into the sky, drew his sword, and led the 5,000 soldiers out of Kyoto.

This is a joke, but no one dares to laugh at the ministers above the imperial city, and no one dares to laugh at the entire Dashun.

At the beginning of May of the first year of Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an issued an edict that women at the age of thirteen and eighteen in the world should stop marrying, and choose their good ones to fill the harem and extend their heirs for the royal family.

The concubine selection system of the Dashun Dynasty is selected once every five years, and 300 women are selected into the palace each time. Those who are favored will be placed in the concubines, and those who are not favored will be released from the palace after five years and married again.

The last time the Dashun Dynasty chose a concubine was in the twentieth year of Yonghe, but this time it was the new emperor who ascended the throne, so the selection of concubines was more powerful and more severe than before.

In June of the first year of Yong'an, Leng Tuo, the third prince of the Snow Country, came to Dashun as a proton. Emperor Yong'an ordered the 30,000 troops transferred south to return to Jiangnan by the same route, and ordered King Rui to garrison Chixue Mountain, and was not allowed to return to Beijing without the emperor's edict.

At the end of July of the first year of Yong'an, the three hundred women who passed the third trial lived in the Chuxiu Palace located outside the West Sixth Palace, waiting for the final trial.

The final trial is to let the queen mother or the emperor see each other in person, ask her family, test her etiquette, and those who pass will be directly crowned concubines and concubines, and given to live in the six palaces in the east and west. Those who are unqualified, as long as there is no big mistake, will not be expelled from the palace, but stay in the Chuxiu Palace, waiting for the emperor's choice at any time. If he is still unknown within five years, he will be released from the palace and married again.

Emperor Yong'an's biological mother, Empress Jingren, has long since passed away, and the noble Concubine Jinghui is far away from worldly things.

And the Empress Dowager Xiaohe, since the first month of the first year of Yong'an, has been seriously ill and has been more than half a year.

Yongshou Palace, Changle Palace.

Lingxi coaxed the boiled medicinal juice to Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager to take it, and stuffed a candied date into the Empress Dowager's mouth just about to cry bitter.

The sweetness masked the bitterness of the medicine, and the brows of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe were already frowning stretched.

Mama An brought a bowl of clean water, handed it to the Empress Dowager, and said softly, "The emperor came back early, and left when he saw the Empress Dowager asleep." ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe took the water and swallowed it in a small sip, handed back the small bowl of blue and white porcelain, and said, "What are you doing when you come to see the mourning family?" If you have the ability to do that, you will be able to endure it! ”

Lingxi received Mama An's eyes, and carefully persuaded, "The emperor still feels sorry for the Empress Dowager, since the Empress Dowager was sick, he came to see you every day, and ordered the slaves and maids to take care of the ......."

Xiao and the Empress Dowager lay down on the phoenix couch, closed her eyes and said, "The mourning family saw him wrong before." ”

In the cognition of Taixiao and the Empress Dowager, Emperor Yong'an is a person as moderate as Emperor Yonghe, in addition to Emperor Yonghe's moderation, Emperor Yong'an has a trace of unnecessary kindness in his heart. That kind of mercy is not what the superior should have, so she is not optimistic about Emperor Yong'an to inherit the unification, so she will agree to Emperor Yonghe's proposal to support King Rui.

But in the end, she and Emperor Yonghe were wrong. When everyone was not optimistic about Emperor Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an ascended the throne in an extremely unexpected way!

In terms of ruthlessness, they are not as good as Emperor Yong'an, otherwise in the nineteenth year of Yonghe, he should be abolished as the crown prince and set up someone else; In terms of Taoguang and obscurity, the many princes of Emperor Yonghe are even more incompetent, otherwise King Rui should not have shown his edge so early, so that Emperor Yongan would have forced the palace; In terms of strategy, it is even more superior, otherwise how could King Ping ask for troops in the frontier again and again, so as to transfer King Rui out of the capital. Not to mention Cui Guifei and Dong Guifei, these people have defected one after another, I'm afraid that in addition to them, Emperor Yong'an also arranged a lot of back-ups, but they didn't take it out.

Such a successor to the throne made Xiaohe Empress Dowager happy, because there were successors to the Dashun Dynasty. But at the same time, it was also gratifying to make Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager afraid, because Emperor Yong'an was too ruthless, a ruthless superior, and he could do anything.

For three days in a row, Emperor Yong'an will come to the Changle Hall as soon as he arrives, and the Empress Dowager will not see him, so he will sit in the outer hall of the Changle Palace, not anxious or annoyed, and will not leave until the lamp is ten points.

On the fourth day, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe finally agreed to let Emperor Yong'an enter the inner hall.

After Mama An and Lingxi retreated, Emperor Li Chenyi of Yong'an knelt down in front of the filial piety and the Empress Dowager on the phoenix couch, and said, "The grandson is not filial, so that the imperial grandmother is worried and suffers!" ”

With that, he slammed his head on the ground.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe hurriedly sat up from the bed and wanted to get out of bed to help Emperor Yong'an get up, but Emperor Yong'an got up first and pressed her on the phoenix couch and didn't let her move.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe sighed, held Emperor Yong'an's warm hand and said, "You are now the emperor, why is this difficult?" ”

Emperor Yong'an sat beside the Empress Dowager Xiaohe and said sincerely, "I am not bad as the emperor, but I am also your grandson." If the emperor's grandmother can't forgive her grandson, the grandson will truly become a loner. ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe said angrily, "Nonsense! ”

Emperor Yong'an fell into the arms of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager as he did when he was a child, buried his face in the quilt, and his voice revealed tiredness, "Imperial grandmother, grandson is infamous in the world, and he is really tired." Day by day, only when I think of you in the Changle Palace, can my grandson have a trace of peace in his heart, and my grandson knows that you will not blame my grandson. Because I was born in the family of the emperor, there are too many last resorts......"

On that day, Emperor Yong'an had lunch in the palace of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe before leaving, and when he left, there was a trace of joy in his eyes.

On the tenth day of August in the first year of Yong'an, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe presided over the final trial of the concubine selection in the imperial garden, according to the power of his family, the individual talent and art behavior Yong'an Emperor elected one person from the third grade, three people from the fourth grade Jieyu, eight people from the fourth grade, twelve people from the fifth grade, and eighteen people from the fifth grade Baolin.

After choosing, he handed over the roster to Empress Zhu and asked her to arrange the palace. The six houses of the east and west are starting to be lively again.

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On August 15 of the first year of Yong'an, there was a family banquet in the palace on the viewing platform.

The palace banquet was more lively than in previous years, in addition to singing and dancing, there were also impromptu performances by the new palace concubines to please Emperor Yong'an.

Cao Yingying, the newly entered concubine from the third grade, had affectionate eyes and played a song "Getting the Moon" with a jade flute, and its tone was tactful and smooth, which responded to the theme of moon appreciation, and blew out the infinite thoughts of the youngest daughter's family. Emperor Yong'an was very happy, even if he appreciated the wings of the phoenix.

In the Dashun harem, most of the concubines are titled. There is a title, which represents dignity. And if everyone calls her instead of a title and uses her surname, it means that her family is powerful. For example, Dong Guifei and Cui Guifei in the past, Dong Guifei's title is Xiang, and Cui Guifei's title is Xue, but at that time, both the emperor and the concubines added their surnames in front of the title, because the family power behind them cannot be underestimated.

Cao Yingying's father is Cao Yi, the newly promoted Shangshu of the Zhengsanpin Military Department, and the Cao family is an official on behalf of the Cao family, which can be regarded as a loyal and good family. It is precisely because of this that Cao Yingying was named a concubine before she was served, and in the future, she will fill in a son and a half daughter, a concubine, and a concubine are just around the corner.

After Cao Concubine went down, there were five products of Qicai people came up to offer a dance, its waist and limbs are graceful, the dance skills are superb, Emperor Yong'an is very happy, and ordered him to sleep in the Manna Palace.

After listening to the reward received by Hou Qicai, although Cao Concubine was shy, the coated flower juice stabbed her palm. Although she was named a concubine from Sanpin, she has not been favored since she entered the palace.

After watching the Empress Dowager Xiaohe for a while, she was tired. After saying hello to Emperor Yong'an, he helped Lingxi and Mama An down the viewing platform amid the thousand-year-old voices of the concubines. Because he ate more and didn't want to sit in a sedan chair, he held Lingxi's hand and walked back slowly.

"The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year." In the imperial garden, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe looked at Jin Ju under the moonlight and whispered softly, "Isn't that what happened, batch after batch came in, and batch after batch went out." ”

Lingxi hurriedly said, "The Empress Dowager is the one who sits and watches the flowers bloom and fall. ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe shook her head, and the steps in her snow-white hair shook gently, "Others are flowers in the eyes of the mourning family, how can the mourning family not be a flower in the eyes of others?" The Biography of Concubine Ying: ..

Mama An took the cloak embroidered with auspicious characters from the hands of the palace maid behind her and put it on the Empress Dowager Xiaohe, and whispered, "Niangniang, it's cold at night, let's go back to the palace." ”

"Go back to the palace, go back to the palace!" The Empress Dowager Xiaohe handed over most of the weight of her body to Lingxi, and muttered, "Where can you go if you don't go back to the palace?" The mourning family has lived in this palace for a lifetime......"

Lingxi knew that Xiao and the Empress Dowager were silent in her heart, so she said, "No, call Princess Allure to talk to you?" ”

After the Snow Country sued for peace, the matter of harmony was put aside. Although the princess of Allure looks alluring, she was also forgotten by the palace people after forcing the palace, and she was forgotten that she would not be notified even if it was a family banquet, in the final analysis, because of her embarrassing life experience.

"Don't do it," the Empress Dowager shook her head again and again, "That girl doesn't look like a princess at all, she is too good to toss, and the mourning family wants to live for a few more years......"

Although the princess of Allure has no rules, she also knows that she must always greet Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager. But the princess of Allure is not used to it, and after a few times, Xiao and the Empress Dowager exempted her from this errand.

Mama An and Lingxi sneered after hearing this, Princess Allure is indeed too capable of making trouble, and when she entered the Yongshou Palace, she demolished the Buddhist hall, not to mention, and even the waterfront pavilion in front of the Wutong Hall was demolished. But as soon as the face of the alluring city was put on the smile of the alluring city, filial piety and the empress dowager were reluctant to punish him. After coming and going, Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager's request to the princess of Allure was, "If you don't come to mourn the family, you will be angry and mourn the family, and everything else depends on her." ”