Forty-one, the queen concubine (8)

Prince Li happily walked out of the palace of the Old Summer Palace, "By the emperor's order, the second daughter of the first-class Chengen Gong Guixiang will be appointed as the queen!" ”

Everyone's face suddenly appeared happy, indeed, the emperor is about to get married, then it is about to be able to pro-government, this is this year's big event, although there was a little turmoil because of other things, but before the emperor's twentieth birthday, the queen was established, this is really a happy thing, and this matter seems to everyone almost has nothing to do with political affairs, just a pure happy event. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The ministers who were raised by the Queen Mother, including several from the Military Aircraft Department, were very satisfied, and the selection of this queen fully showed that the emperor cared most about the feelings of the queen mother, otherwise how could the queen mother's niece be the queen? It can be seen that even if the emperor is in charge in the future, the most respected person will be the queen mother, and it will never be anyone else.

Prince Alcohol has been hanging for a breath, this time he also participated in the affairs of the post, nervous, a little dizzy, Prince Li hurriedly asked the eunuchs to help Prince Alcohol go down to rest, Prince Gong was silent, Bao Jun behind him sighed silently, "It's really this one, the Queen Mother's heart is really too big." ”

Li Hongzao, Xu Tong and Weng Tongyi, the masters of these emperors, have the honor of scholars, so they are also waiting for good news here, hearing this, Li Hongzao first frowned slightly, and then stretched, "This is a great event, the emperor is finally established!" Xu Tong was extremely happy in the back.

Weng Tongyi glanced at Li Hongzao and didn't speak, just twisted his beard and pondered, and shook his head slightly in the end.

In the Old Summer Palace Palace, the five show girls also got the instructions of the aunts and withdrew from the Old Summer Palace Hall in turn, they did not follow the emperor, after all, it was not suitable to meet the foreign ministers.

Since it already has an identity, it is not appropriate to stay in the garden, to go back to their respective homes, and then prepare to carry a sedan chair into the palace, the wedding day will be in the autumn, at that time has also returned to Luan, will not stay in the Old Summer Palace, so Jingfen was taken back to Wuling Spring, and did not stop, directly out of the Old Summer Palace, sitting in the carriage, the finch was just chattering excitedly talking, Jingfen touched the jade Ruyi, looked at the various scenery outside the window, I don't know why she suddenly shed tears silently," Miss, what's wrong with you? ”

"It's nothing," Jingfen raised her head, wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and showed a determined look in her eyes, "I'm just so happy, I really don't know what to say, after so many years of hard work, I finally have a good future, I don't have anything to do, finally let Amma feel a little more relieved." ”

The carriage is stable and fast, after a while, it will arrive at the Fangjiayuan Splitting Wood Hutong, this car has already flown to report the good news, the mouth of the alley is to beat gongs and drums and drum music in unison, the crowd of people, the carriage finally lined up everyone, to the door of the Cheng'en Mansion, Gui Xiang has already taken the family to kneel at the door, Jingfen took the jade Ruyi and walked off the carriage, Gui Xiang burst into tears, kowtowed again and again, "The cold door has to invite the heavens, and the mother has to be the queen, which is really the most glorious thing for the slave." ”

Jingfen was silent for a long time before she personally helped Gui Xiang and her mother, "Okay, and look at the future, Amma, I followed your wishes and entered the palace to fight for the throne of this queen," the firecrackers roared, unable to cover Jingfen's extremely cold voice, and faintly entered Gui Xiang's ears, "Then you also have to help my daughter." ”

"This is nature," Gui Xiang smiled tremblingly, "the slave will never disobey the mother." ”

At this time, the ministers, they all arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, this Qinzheng Hall is used by the emperor, the country's major events, mainly celebrations, have to wear the python robe commonly known as the so-called "flower clothes", the big guy knows that this is to be the queen of the concubine, so it has been prepared for a long time, in the duty room to change clothes, there are happy events to be offered Ruyi, the military aircraft department of the general dedication of a handful, the palace ministers, also have to offer a handful of Ruyi, some of them are handed over to the internal affairs office, and some are presented in person.

The Ruyi of the former minister and the minister of military aircraft, of course, is to offer in person, gold inlaid with jade, red sandalwood ivory, gems and crystals, and jewels are full of jewels, and the emperor stands in front of the imperial case, putting his hand on all kinds of Ruyi and slowly walks over. After the ministers congratulated the emperor on his establishment, the emperor didn't know what to think, and he didn't look very happy at this time. ”

"It's ready," Prince Li said, he waved his sleeves, let Xu Geng step forward, he is now a pen in the military aircraft department, Xu Geng stepped forward, presented two edicts in yellow face and red seals, which have been written clearly in block letters, the emperor first looked at the first edict, which read: "Qin Feng Cixi Duanyou Kang Yi Zhao Yu Zhuang Cheng Empress Dowager Yi Decree: Emperor Yin Shao Piji, Spring and Autumn Rifu, Yun Yi choose the virtuous to match, Zuo Li Gongfu; With Xiekunyi, and auxiliary Junde. The daughter of Guixiang, the deputy capital of Cheng'en, is hereby selected as the queen of the Yehenala clan, who is beautiful and virtuous. ”

Seeing the word "Li", the emperor couldn't help but feel a little prickly, and then picked up the pen and crossed out the word "Li" with a red pen, and noted the word "Zhuang" on the side.

"There's no problem with the edict after the establishment, so let's do it."

"Yes," Prince Li replied, "the next one is an edict on how the four show girls are titled and graded, please ask the emperor to circle it." ”

This edict still uses the tone of "Fengyi's will" to announce the two daughters of Changxu and the four members of Jia's Xilin Jueluo clan. Under the three words "sealed as", there are four empty squares, and a list is attached, on which are written eight characters, all of which are "jade". Although it was the first time for the emperor to deal with such an incident, it is not difficult to imagine that these eight words were used to choose the title.

The emperor glanced at it and circled four words, "Jin", "Zhen", "Ying", "Qi", and put the four titles in the space, the seventeen-year-old Talara is the Jin concubine, the fifteen-year-old Tatara is the Zhen concubine, the nineteen-year-old Xilin Jueluo is the Ying concubine, and the eighteen-year-old Jia is the Qi concubine. "When you first enter the palace, you shouldn't be too high, just seal the concubine."

Prince Li and others said that they retreated, leaving only Emperor Guangxu alone in the hall, he put his hands behind his back, looked at the Ruyi on the imperial case for a while, and sat down slowly, the afternoon sun shone into the deep hall, illuminating the emperor's young face, he seemed to be a little excited but a little sullen, sullen because of the feeling that the reality was not as beautiful as he thought.

More than ten years ago, the Tongzhi Emperor's wedding set, just can be used as usual, in September, it is the day of the wedding, after the Double Ninth Festival, the emperor returned to the Forbidden City, busy for half a month, the end of September is the day of the announcement of the queen.

Before noon, hundreds of officials gathered, three o'clock at noon, the emperor ascended to the throne in the Taihe Palace, in the loud and crisp sound of the net whip "brush, brush", the prince and the hundred officials, performed three kneeling and nine kowtows, and then the officials of the Ministry of Rites announced the system. Read out the edict of the canonization of the queen, Fengying is the envoy of Wuyingdian University scholar Erle and cloth, the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Kuirun, and the special Fengying ten ministers and ten members, kneeling to listen, waiting for the emperor to return to the palace, and then hold the festival by the Dan Majesty in the middle of the palace, escort the queen's golden book and jade treasure, and put a royal pen in the book "Dragon" word Jin Ruyi Fengyu, out of the Taihe Gate, across the Jinshui Bridge, through the Noon Gate, the Daqing Gate, fold to the east, slowly go to the back of the palace.

As soon as the queen was not immediately welcomed into the palace, according to the time chosen by the Qin Tianjian, until midnight when the twenty-seventh son was handed in, the queen began to accept the treasure. At that time, the west wind was blowing, like a galloping horse, and the onlookers all spread this auspicious omen. Fortunately, the Luan Yiwei will run errands, hundreds of pairs of painted phoenix lanterns, and use glass as lampshades, which are very delicate and dexterous. The bitter thing is that the four "women who are welcome orders" should ride horses as usual, the wind horns the horses neighing, and they can't sit steadily on the saddle, all of them are frightened, and they are desperately holding the "judge's head" on the saddle, and they can't stop chanting Buddha in their mouths.

Therefore, the honor guard of Fengying went slowly. Zizheng out of the back house, from the Fangjiayuan through Shijia Hutong, East Street, Chang'an Archway, Bingbu Street, Dongjiang Rice Lane, into the Daqing Gate, has been Yinshi. The Jingyang bell at the noon gate slammed, and the sound shook the nine cities, and the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven knew that the queen had entered the palace.

As soon as Fengyu entered the Qianqing Gate, there were twelve eunuchs, holding the incense stove, and introduced the Jiaotai Hall after the Qianqing Palace, carried Fengyu from the brazier, stopped outside the palace gate, and the queen descended to the public opinion, and was supported by four female officials into the palace.

There are tricks in entering the temple. A saddle is placed horizontally on the threshold in advance, two apples are hidden under it, covered with red felt, the queen must step over from the saddle, enter the palace to worship heaven and earth, and then introduce the Kunning Palace behind the Jiaotai Palace.

The cave room for the big wedding is usually located in the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace. However, the banquet was held in the West House, and the emperor and the empress entered the banquet prepared in the dining room with a pair of Quanfu guards singing the Manchu "Heyu Song". This is naturally a form, as soon as the singing is over, the feast is over, and then the female official is introduced into the cave room.

At this time, almost all the idle people had already withdrawn, and the emperor was a little reluctant, but this was a good day for the wedding, and the two of them were bound to be together, he coughed slightly, and said to Jingfen, "It's not too early, please settle it." ”

"Yes," Jing Fen was very generous, but at this time she was really very shy, shy and bowed her head and did not speak, the emperor drank a few glasses of wine, and saw that Jing Fen under the makeup was very cute, and couldn't help but move slightly.

When the emperor sat down, it was already dawn, many people didn't sleep this night, Emperor Ying and Princess Rongshou presided over the internal affairs, and they were very busy, until the time when the matter was almost done, they came to Chuxiu Palace to hand over the decree, and when they arrived at Chuxiu Palace, they found that the Empress Dowager Cixi was not placed at all, but just sat in the Dongnuan Pavilion and poured herself a drink, and there was a table of dishes, An Dehai was on the side of the dishes, and when she saw the two people coming, the Queen Mother drank a glass of wine and nodded, "It's over?" ”

"Yes."

To do this great event, Princess Rongshou and Concubine Ying are the hubs of the previous and the next, and they haven't slept peacefully for many days. The Empress Dowager Cixi didn't care about everything, seeing that their faces were yellow and thin, she couldn't bear it, so she said lovingly: "You two are tired enough!" It's finally busy now, so let's take a break! Come back and listen to the play with me. ”

"The concubine is not tired," Concubine Ying hurriedly said, "If Lafayette does not dislike the concubine, the concubine can accompany Lafayette to have a few drinks." ”

"Nonsense," the Queen Mother said with a smile, "You are so tired, you can get drunk as soon as you drink, and you are not busy drinking with me, you have a rest first, and you will always have a banquet in a few days, and you will accompany you when the time comes." ”

Concubine Ying squatted on her knees and retreated, and the Queen Mother also asked Princess Rongshou to retreat, Princess Rongshou shook her head, "My daughter also wants to take a look at the four concubines who have newly entered the palace." ”

"If you don't say that I forgot," the Queen Mother said with a smile, "Since you go, don't go empty-handed, Xiao Anzi, you take out some of the good things of the Internal Affairs Mansion and let the eldest princess send them over, this is the five daughters-in-law who enter the door together, and my mother-in-law can't be partial." ”

Princess Rongshou smiled, "The emperor's mother is the fairest, and there will be partiality." ”

"Let's see what they lack, just entered the palace, they are not familiar with the place, I am afraid that they feel that it is not more convenient than the family, Xiao Lizi went to ask, about they are shy and embarrassed to say something, you go better."

Who said that the Empress Dowager didn't like the rest of the candidates, this is obviously a considerate move, Princess Rongshou nodded yes, she was a little eager to say and stopped, and the Empress Dowager Cixi saw it clearly and smiled slightly. "Don't you think the emperor doesn't seem to be very happy?"

"My daughter thinks the emperor is a little tired," Princess Rongshou said with a smile, she deliberately interrupted with a joke, for fear that the Empress Dowager Cixi would feel that the emperor was not willing to marry Jingfen and would not be happy, "How could he be unhappy with his own daughter-in-law?" It's just that I've been tossing for so long, and I'm probably tired. ”

"I don't care about the emperor's choice," the Queen Mother took the wine glass and turned around, "I chose it himself, he grew up," the Queen Mother was a little stunned, it seemed that she was a little sad about this growth, but she was a little relieved, "I know the pros and cons, children only look at love and hate, adults only look at the pros and cons, he knows who to appoint as the queen, the best for the government, the most reassuring for me, and the most reassuring for the ministers outside." ”

"The emperor is the most filial," Princess Rongshou also watched Emperor Guangxu grow up, and naturally she had to turn around on her behalf, "Whatever you do, you won't disappoint the emperor." ”

While the two were talking and laughing, Li Lianying came in with a fold and saluted the Queen Mother, "Lord Xi, it's a telegram from London." ”

"What's the matter?" The Queen Mother lazily poured a glass of wine, "What are the British making trouble with?" ”

"Britain and Japan signed the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, and the British provided tens of thousands of aid to Japan."

The Queen Mother looked at the pure wine in the wine glass, drank it in one gulp, and said indifferently, "Got it." ”

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