15. Five-Year Trivia (1)

On the third day of the first month of March, the uprising of the Shanghai Little Knife Society was jointly extinguished by the Qing government and the armed forces of various countries, and the leader Liu Lichuan was righteous. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On March 20, Zeng Guofan, together with Hu Lin's wing, defeated the Taiping army's naval division without Shi Dakai's command at Hukou, burned all the Taiping army's naval divisions, went down the river for 100 miles, and joined forces with Wang Jinxiu to recover Tongling and approach Wuhu. Zuo Zongtang's troops marched from Jingdezhen to recover Qimen, Huizhou and other places.

On March 25, Li Hongzhang left Luzhou Mansion, recovered Wuwei, Chaohu and other places, and then moved to Chuzhou.

On the 9th of April, more than 10 pirated ships entered the Fengtian camp and plundered merchant ships.

On April 18, Seng Greenqin exterminated the East Twist Army, and Zhang Zongyu, the commander of the East Twist Army, did not know what happened.

On 20 April, Shi Dakai conquered Quzhou and went down to Qingyuan County in Fujian Province.

On April 25, Zhang Guoliang and Ming Chun marched into Xiaolingwei again and rebuilt the camp in the south of the Yangtze River. At the same time, the Jiangbei camp was rebuilt by Jiangning General Xianghou.

On 14 May, Taiwan Province reached an agreement with US Captain George Pat to allow US businessmen to come to Taiwan to trade with each other.

On 3 June, 40 pirate ships came from Shanghai and reoccupied Shidao in Shandong.

This year's draft is slightly later than three years ago, set on the fifth day of the first month of June to enter the palace, the first four days of the Xianfeng Emperor's 90,000 birthday festival in early June, the emperor issued an edict, and gave the daughter of the chief Jin Ru Yehenala as the noble Lin, the daughter of the alternate Lang Guilin Suo Zheluo as the noble, and the daughter of Yunshou with the red flag Fucha as the Ming Chang, because Xingzhen said that there are not many Han military flags in the palace, and the special chose six Han military flags to be given as promises. Xingzhen is busy with the matter of entering the palace, everyone is below the nobles, and Xingzhen is arranged to Jingyang Palace - at present, they live in their own places in the Old Summer Palace, everyone lives together, and whoever is lucky to enter the concubine position in the future, and then live in another palace.

On the fifth day of the first month, enter the Old Summer Palace, and on the morning of the sixth day of the first month, the new concubines and the old people come together to meet the queen, from the concubine Zhen, Concubine Li, Concubine Wen, Yun Concubine, Wan Concubine, Chun Noble, Lin Noble, Suo Zheluo Noble, Xin Chang Zai, Rong Chang In, Ming Chang In. And the six agreed, and the main hall, which was full of skylight, greeted the queen together.

Xingzhen looked at the delicate nephrite in front of her and was confused, and hurriedly asked them to get up. And let the new concubines meet the women of the six palaces below the concubine again, and then said with a smile: "This is the first time the sisters have met, and it is appropriate to make a salute, and there is no need to be polite when the family meets in the future, they are all a family." The new concubine said yes again and again, and Xingzhen nodded with satisfaction, "Wufu, is the big stage ready there?" ”

"Back to Niangniang's words, the Shengping Department sent someone back and forth, saying that it was ready, and the girls could pass now."

"Okay, the ninth day of the first lunar month is the emperor's holy birthday, and I have set a play to sing for three days in front and a play for five days in the back. This palace will go to Qingyin Pavilion with you, and when the time comes, you will have a long face in front of the emperor. ”

"Yes, Queen."

So all the women dressed in court clothes, with crowns and pearls, each sat in a sedan chair and went to the big stage of the same paradise.

Tongyuan Garden is the largest stage in the Three Yuanming Gardens - Qingyin Pavilion. The big stage of Qingyin Pavilion sits in the south and faces north, is divided into upper, middle and lower three layers, there is a ground well under the first floor of the stage, and the second and third floors are connected by partitions, if the repertoire needs the ground well can spray water, the second and third floors can communicate up and down freely. The Qing Dynasty emperor was very fond of listening to operas. Especially today's Emperor Xianfeng, every time the queen mother and the queen emperor are born, they have to sing the drama of the ninety-ninth celebration here, like the birthday of the concubine, the Shangyuan Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival.

In the north of the Grand Theater, there is a theater building for the emperor and queen to watch the play. Up and down two floors, the eaves of the upper floor hang the plaque of "the same paradise", and the hall hangs the plaque of "the scenery is always new" at the same time. The couplet on both sides is: 'The music plays the phoenix dance in the sound of the Jun Tianyu pipe; Yin Xuan Guang Mo Yun Xuan Yun Li Ye Qu Song'. The emperor sat in the hall on the first floor, and the queen and concubines sat upstairs watching the play. When the queen arrived with the concubines of the six palaces, the emperor had not yet come, so everyone gossiped under the plaque in the same paradise. The new promise is often in the noble people in the past are the family pampered Gege, this way to see the style of the heavenly family, no one is secretly speechless, a few clever, come forward to pester Xingzhen to speak, who does not know this inner court, the queen is not the most favored - the most favored is Concubine Li, but the queen is the emperor's most trusted person, the emperor of the previous dynasty The queen can be half of the master, whose maiden father and brother are not officials in the court!

What's more, now only one of the queen's concubines is under the emperor's knees, so the new palace concubines are all flattering, but they are praising Queen Xingzhen.

There was a stack of clapping voices in front, and the women knew that the emperor had arrived, so they hurriedly arranged shifts and followed behind the queen according to their positions.

The emperor wore a stone blue auspicious robe, entered the same paradise, called everyone to get up, glanced at the new concubines, and said with a smile: "This year's summer is really hot enough." ”

"Exactly, please take a seat, the play is waiting for the emperor's royal pen."

Xianfeng swept the new young and beautiful concubine with his eyes, "Now we are the head of the family, there is no one outside, and they are not called the fifth, sixth, and seventh, Qingxi," the emperor called Yang Qingxi, "Put my case on the top, and the palace will be more lively together." ”

This color embryo didn't see the new beauty ready to move, and said it so high-soundingly, Xingzhen secretly slandered, but she didn't say anything, took the emperor's hand, and went up to the second floor together.

The internal affairs office is used to errands, in a moment, the emperor's throne is placed, the emperor is seated, the fan behind the fan keeps fanning, the emperor still feels hot, see everyone is wearing stone blue auspicious gowns, the weather is very hot, the makeup of the concubine is evaporated by the sweat to powder greasy fragrance, but the more red lips and white teeth, extraordinarily delicate, good-looking is good-looking, but the emperor can't bear it, so he smiled, "Now the weather is really hot, our own family doesn't have to be formal, let's change clothes first." ”

Fortunately, everyone's palace maids are carrying clothes bags, and there are many idle houses, so they change their clothes, Xingzhen wore the bright yellow yarn embroidered eight groups of waterless gold dragon single robes, the palace beauties took off the heavy stone blue Ji gown, the flowers and colors in them show their powers, the most bright is the concubine, the lotus color eight groups of Kui dragon robe, a lotus lotus color makes her more delicate, the new palace concubine only wears pine green, light purple, azure, but also extremely elegant. (To be continued.) )

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