At the funeral, Kangxi insisted on cutting braids to mourn.

From time to time, some courtiers wanted to be the god of Empress Xiaokang and respected the temple on the grounds that Empress Xiaokang had been promoted for a long time and was not suitable to move.

The scholar Wang Luo said: "Your Majesty's Holy Filial Piety, the Empress Dowager at that time, the temple, was never respected with Empress Xiaoduan. How can Empress Xiaokang and Empress Xiaohui be respected together? ”

This is the question of Confucianism's thousand-year-old filial piety: how can a biological mother be respected with a mother-in-law?

Confucianism is about kings, ministers, fathers, sons, fathers, sons.

The king is the minister, the husband is the wife, and the master is the slave.

Since Kangxi chose to use Confucianism to restrain the world, he will also be shackled by Confucianism.

The Qing Dynasty is about master and slave.

Kangxi naturally could only abide by the etiquette of Confucius and Mencius, and he reprimanded the minister who proposed to respect the two queens and ordered him to correct it.

Subsequently, the god of the mother was added to the birth mother.

In the end, the tablet of Empress Xiaohui was added to the tablet of Empress Xiaokang.

He looked at the Divine Lord in silence.

The early death of his biological mother was a pain in his heart. However, over the years, the emperor has been very good to him.

He looked at Azusa Palace in silence.

The funeral of the Queen Mother, Umalu can't help but come.

What's more, over the years, the Queen Mother has repeatedly looked at her and comforted her.

Umalu stopped when she walked half a step away from Kangxi, and she quietly looked at the Empress Dowager Zigong.

Kangxi heard footsteps and knew it was her.

He asked her softly, "Do you think I'm doing something wrong?" ”

Umalu soberly said, "The only people who have always cared are the living. ”

Talk like a stick.

Kangxi reacted suddenly, and said with a wry smile when he heard the words: "Yes, people die like lights going out." The only one who can't let go is myself. ”

Umalus stood silently with him.

After a long time, Kangxi came back to his senses and reluctantly said: "You are not in good health, you don't have to accompany me like this, you can go down and rest first." ”

Umalus took his leave.

Kangxi glanced sideways at her departing back.

There were many times when he would suspect that she actually had no heart, more like the perfect puppet created for his wishes, just dressed in a human skin - she was perfect and could give him everything except love.

So, he obviously has everything, but he is still unwilling.

It's a pity that time and space can't be reversed, and wishes can't be renewed.

He retracted his gaze and looked at the Empress Dowager Zigong.

His heart was empty.

I wanted to shed tears, but I couldn't shed a little.

Mourning is greater than heart death, mourning is silent.

On December 15, Kangxi personally went to Ningshou Palace to lay wine and pay tribute.

Everywhere you look, things are not people.

After thinking about it, he had no elders alive, Kangxi was overwhelmed with grief, and finally cried out the tears that he couldn't shed before.

Before the official could begin to read the text, he wept bitterly until he lost his voice.

Until the end of the reading, I still sobbed.

Subsequently, until the third day of the first month of the next year, Emperor Kangxi lived in Cangzhenmen, did not return to the palace, and guarded filial piety for the queen mother.

He never entered the harem and spoiled his concubines.

Except for a few concubines, the rest, for him, is just a thing to pass the time after all.

On the twentieth day of the first month, the Hanlin Academy reviewed Zhu Tianbao and played again, saying that the storage position was important and could not be transferred like chess.

Kangxi was already sad because of the death of the Queen Mother, and when he met such an eyeless performance, Zhu Tianbao was beheaded with an expressionless face.

In the spring, the leader of the Dzungar tribe plotted against Alabutan and sent troops to attack Tibet, and Lazang Khan asked the Qing Dynasty to send troops to rescue.

Kangxi invited all the ministers to discuss together.

Fighting is to be fought, but how to fight, who leads the troops, and how many troops to lead still need to be studied in detail.

Kangxi already has a candidate in mind, but he is not in a hurry. It is to be consulted by the ministers.

On the third day of the third month of March, the Queen Mother passed away for 100 days, and the funeral was over.

Kangxi said: "After today's major event, the twelfth elder brother will stop acting as the chief manager of the Internal Affairs Office." ”

During this period, Kangxi was very satisfied with Yinyi's compromise and rewarded him more than once.

A few days later, on March 12, Jiuqing and others asked for peace in the name of asking for the crown prince.

Kangxi wrote an edict to refute it.

At this time, Prince Heshuocheng Yinzhi, because he was ordered to open the Mengyang Zhai Hall, gathered a group of scholars around him.

Later, somehow, it was rumored that Yinzhi was named after the prince.

When Kangxi heard this, he just laughed and ignored it.

The matter of the western expedition to Galdan has been decided, and it has been handed over to the Minister of the Interior to recruit troops and carry grain and grass.

He's not so busy.

Since the death of the people around him one after another, Kangxi has not been as diligent as before, he just wants to cherish the people in front of him.

When he has nothing to do, he will go to the palaces and say a few words to the concubines.

There were even a few times when Kangxi flipped Umalu's green card.

Umalu quipped: "If you want to come, just come, why turn over the cards." ”

Kangxi shook his head: "It's just that I felt a little emotional for a while, we are all old." ”

Kangxi spoiled his concubines less and less, and he went to most of the concubines' palaces, just to see these women who had been with him for many years.

Time flies like a white horse.

He also had to serve the old age.

He was like every old man, gossiping with people in the past.

Everywhere he went, it was his time.

Kangxi once took Concubine Yi and talked about that time: "I remember one year, you accompanied me to fish, but I didn't catch a single fish." ”

Concubine Yi said angrily: "Why didn't the emperor say that the slave accompanied you to fish several times?" ”

Kangxi smiled.

In such nostalgia, he suddenly let go of his mustard for Concubine Hui and lifted Concubine Hui's grounding, but he didn't let her take care of the affairs of the Sixth Palace.

Kangxi often chatted with Umalu.

"I remember one year when I went on patrol, I thought I bought you two ceramic dolls. What about things? ”

Umalu laughed and said, "That's a long time coming." ”

Umalu shook his head and said, "I don't know where I put it." If you want it, I'll let them find it. ”

Kangxi was just interested, and asked casually, but he only said forget it.

Later, I chatted and chatted, but I don't know how to talk about other concubines.

Kangxi said: "I met Baoyin some time ago, and she is already old. Thinking about it, she has been in the palace for many years, and she can't help but feel a little guilty in her heart. ”

He sighed and said: "When the emperor dies again, there is no other Borzigit woman in the entire harem except Baoyin." ”

He sighed heavily.

Umarus did not answer.

Kangxi said again: "I also thought about whether to reward some gold, silver and jewelry, but I felt that it was a little slighter." ”

Hearing the song, Umalu knew the meaning of the strings, and said: "The harem has not been sealed for many years, so you might as well take this opportunity to be promoted." ”

She plucked herself out: "I don't care about it, and I don't know. You might as well ask Concubine Guifei or Sister Rong. ”

"It's fine." Kangxi thought for a while and said, "It's true that I haven't had a big seal for many years, so I have to promote some of them." ”

Kangxi made up his mind, so he went to Chengqian Palace and discussed with Tong Jia Cangxue.

Tong Jia Cangxue has never been waiting to see him, she endured her impatience, and ordered a few concubines and concubines with him in a regular manner.

Therefore, in 1718 AD, in April of the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, Kangxi told the Ministry of Rites that he would canonize six people in the harem who were between the ages of forty and sixty and had given birth to princes.

The Ministry of Rites is going to do it.

On 28 May, Li Guangdi, a university scholar, died of a hernia.

Kangxi sent Prince Heshuo Heng Yinqi to mourn, nicknamed "Wenzhen".

Yinqi was ordered to lay tea and wine with the Minister of the Interior Marse, the late scholar Li Guangdi, and brought a thousand taels of silver

On the day he learned of Li Guangdi's death, Kangxi sighed.

The people around him left one after another, which gave him a big blow.

He still remembers that when Li Guangdi was still in good health last year, he asked Li Guangdi about the candidate for the prince in his heart, and Li Guangdi recommended Yinxi.

Although he was dissatisfied, he didn't say anything.

Lee Kwang-di is very good, but he doesn't understand his heart.

However, although the monarch and the minister are centrifuged, he is old after all, and he can't see the dead.

He let out a long sigh, but didn't say anything.

In July, Zhenguo Gong swallowed pearls and died, and Kangxi ordered people to give two saddle horses and two loose horses, and two thousand taels of silver. Send Prince Shuoheng Yinqi to send it.

When he was young, even though he knew about the dead, he still felt that it was a common thing and did not take it to heart.

But now that I'm older, the people around me are going one after another, and it's inevitable that I feel a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

At night, he stayed in Yonghe Palace and sighed: "Human life is too fragile. ”

"Yes, human life is already fragile." Umaru closed his eyes and prepared to fall asleep, but he still replied, "Life itself is a miracle and should not be taken away." ”

"You don't understand, the government is ...... Sometimes, you can't kill it. Kangxi closed his eyes and sighed.

"But if you can, don't kill it." Again, Umalus advised him, "Be forgiving and forgiving." ”

What Umalu advised was not to kill people for no reason, not to make a big fuss, and to sentence them for minor crimes.

Kangxi seemed to listen, and he became more lenient in his later years, and he often said to his ministers, "Be forgiving and forgiving", "Everything cannot be investigated".

He could not strictly prohibit floating fees and silver regulations, and lenient the fire consumption and deficit of the state and county. Treating officials as leniently as possible has led to the abolition of official governance, corruption in the officialdom, deficit in the state treasury, fraud, and exaggeration.

Officials, big and small, have become accustomed to playing lazily, and they are especially favoritistic.

There have been riots and riots in individual areas.

Kangxi told Umalu about this in private, and said: "I'm old now, and I have a lot of things, and I don't have enough heart. ”

Kangxi sighed: "There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching: If you want to do it, you must fix it; He who wants to be weak will be strong; If you want to abolish it, you will rejuvenate it; He who takes what he wants, he will hold on to it. ”

Kangxi said: "Something else...... I can't do it anymore, so I can only do it first...... Be a pawn for the fourth. After the fourth child takes the position, he knows the temperament of those people in private, and when the time comes, he should be degraded and killed. ”

"No one in the world cannot be killed." His expression was a little cold.

Umalus listened in silence.

He sighed, "It's just...... The people have been wronged. ”

But then he said to himself: "It always hurts more to scrape bones to heal wounds." However, this is the root cause of the disease. ”

Kangxi looked at Umalu and tickled with jade ruyi: "I'm sorry for the fourth child for leaving him such a big mess." ”

"But don't worry, before that, I can do as much as I can for him."

Umalu snorted and said nothing.

She is like this, which makes Kangxi more at ease.

Kangxi greeted her in advance: "This expedition to the west, I plan to let Fourteen go." ”

Kangxi sighed: "This stupid boy, if he is pushed to the front of the stage, if he is not sent away, it will inevitably cause trouble." ”

He hesitated: "It's just that on the battlefield, the sword has no eyes." I can't guarantee that he will come back with good arms and legs. ”

He made it clear to her: "But if you don't send him away, whatever work you send him." The eighth will still push him to the front of the stage. I'm afraid that in the end, I will face up with the fourth brother, and the brothers will be embarrassed. ”

"Okay." When Umalu finally spoke, she said, "You don't have to explain so much to me, I asked him at the beginning, and he is willing to bear the consequences of his choice. Life, death, wounding, and disability, whatever they may be, are also what he deserves. ”

"Sometimes, I think you're impersonal. But sometimes, I'm glad you're such a person. That's why I'm able to spread out these things and explain them to you. He seemed to think of something that caused a headache, "If it were ordinary women, I would never say such things to them." If you can't say two words, it will cause people a headache. ”

Umalu said: "I heard that in order to pray for your jubilee, Sister Yi gave out thousands of taels of silver and three acres of seventy acres of incense land to rebuild the Maitreya Courtyard in Yongfengtun outside the Desheng Gate. ”

She persuaded him: "Even though Sister Yi can't share your interests, she is sincere to you, and it's not fake." You let her. ”

Kangxi looked at her fixedly for a while: "You are Lanxinhui, dignified and generous, enough to be the mother of the world." ”

Umalu laughed, "I'm not interested in that. ”

Kangxi snorted: "Yes, you are not interested in this, you are only interested in cultivation, why don't you see you soaring in the day." ”

Umalus was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the answer to you, and I want to come back to save you?" ”

Kangxi snorted: "If you want to leave me, don't you." ”

Umalu nodded: "Naturally." ”

She reiterated the old words: "You asked me back then, if I were a weaver girl, would I put on a feather coat and leave?" My answer has never changed. ”

Kangxi once again understood that she was not afraid of him and did not love him, so she only stayed because of him.

She seems to regard herself as some god, Buddha and Bodhisattva, and stubbornly wants to save him.

Or rather, it's his stubborn reluctance to let go.

If he said that he was willing to let go, he was afraid that she would leave without looking back.

He asked unhappily: "If it weren't for me, but someone else, who made such a request to you, would you have stayed?" ”

Umalus thought about it for a moment, then nodded.

Her gaze was as clean as the first time they had met.

She had never changed, and she had never let those things stain her eyes.

Kangxi wanted to be angry, but she felt that it was something she could do. So that little bit of anger dissipated.

The fact that he was no different from others to her made him feel discouraged and comforted.

In this world, there are some people who will not change no matter what.

Although he is not, he is fortunate to meet and it is enough.

He closed his eyes: "Sleep." ”

The two slept together.

Concubine Wei Jianyue was buried in the Jingling Concubine Garden at noon on August 18 of that year.

High emotional intelligence: listen to the strings and know the elegance

Low EQ: As soon as he takes off his pants, I know what kind of fart he is going to make

(End of chapter)