Clearly, she doesn't want to be a concubine

"If there is a next life, I don't want to meet him again..." The Empress Dowager fell into silence.

The Empress Dowager accompanied her.

The Empress Dowager regained her composure, saw that she was still there, and let her go: "Let's go, let's go."

The empress dowager had no choice but to leave.

Aunt Su Ma waited for the Empress Dowager to turn over.

The Empress Dowager said to Aunt Su Ma very late, at the end of December, "After I die, you are not allowed to follow me. I will ask Xuan Ye to pick a child for you, and you should take good care of him."

The Empress Dowager pretended to be majestic and said: "If you don't listen to me, come with me, and when you reach the Pure Land, I will never recognize you again."

Although Aunt Su Ma felt bitter, she could only accept it.

This is all for later.

On the ugly day of November 27th, Zhang Jiagui gave birth to the eighth daughter of the emperor.

However, because the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, Kangxi didn't care, and only sent someone to reward her.

Kangxi went out most of the time to revise memorials, and he went to the Compassionate Peace Palace, rarely staying overnight or flipping signs.

On December [-], the Empress Dowager was critically ill, and Kangxi stayed around day and night, offering decoctions and medicines in person.

Afterwards, Kangxi personally led the princes and ministers to the Temple of Heaven on foot, praying to God, requesting to damage his life and prolong his grandmother's life.

When Kangxi recited the Zhu Wen, he burst into tears and said: "I recalled that I was young, lost my parents early, and inherited my grandmother's knees. For more than [-] years, I have been taught by Ju Yang, and I have achieved success. If there is no grandmother, the empress dowager, there will be no success." Established today, the kindness of the same extreme is hard to repay in a lifetime... If you have a big plan or are poor, I would like to reduce the age of the ministers, and hope to increase the life of the empress dowager for a few years.

However, this move is useless, after all, it cannot be like leaving Umalu and the fetus in her womb.

The Empress Dowager finally passed away on the 25th of December.

Before she died, she asked Kangxi again to put her tomb next to Fulin's tomb, and she did not want to be buried with Taizong.

Kangxi wept and agreed.

Tidy up clothes, decorate court clothes, rectify appearance, put into coffin, and stop at the Palace of Compassion and Peace.

According to the funeral etiquette, the Ministry of Rites asked the two not to go to the mourning hall because Umalu was pregnant and the imperial concubine Tong Jia had been ill for a long time, lest there would be a collision.

Umalu didn't object when he heard the words, he just told Liuli to go down, banning laughter in the Yonghe Palace, all the staff were plain and wore white flowers on their heads.

Everyone in the womb is like this.

After Liu Li came back, she told Uma Lu that the same was true in Chengqian Palace.

Umalu nodded, Quan Zuo knew.

After ordering the palace people to leave.

When the funeral was held, Kangxi stood for a long time, took off the small knife that was attached to his body, and wanted to cut off the braids to show his filial piety.

The Ministry of Rites took the example that the emperor did not cut their braids at the funerals of Empress Xiaoduanwen, Empress Xiaokangzhang, Empress Renxiao, and Empress Xiaozhao, and asked the emperor not to cut their braids.

Kangxi refused: "In the past, although there was no case of cutting braids after funerals. However, the empress dowager's education is very kind, and I can't repay it... I have made up my mind to cut braids."

When the empress dowager heard that the emperor wanted to cut the braids, she came forward to dissuade her, saying: "When the empress dowager was seriously ill, she once said to me: 'If I am sick, the emperor will not cut the braids.' The emperor should obey."

Kangxi didn't listen, and cut off his braids resolutely.

The rest of the concubines wept at the same time when they entered the room.

And the queen mother, who had already had a happy knot with the empress dowager, was crying and unable to get up.

Kangxi ordered the kings and ministers to invite the queen mother to return to the palace.

The Queen Mother refused.

The kings and ministers asked again, the queen mother agreed, and Nalantu helped her to leave.

Because the Empress Dowager died on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the ministers agreed to move Empress Xiaozhuangwen's Zi Palace out of the palace on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Kangxi thought that the time Zigong stayed in the palace was too short, so he asked Qin Tianjian to choose another date.

The ministers still insisted on the original date.

Kangxi retorted: "The taboo you said is just for my consideration. I am the emperor, so there is nothing to avoid. I went to the Temple of Heaven to pray to heaven, and I planned to shorten my lifespan to increase the lifespan of the empress dowager. How could it be Because I was worried about staying in Zigong, beyond the year, what would happen, only caring about the principle of taboo? If there are any consequences caused by taboos, I will fully bear it."

He stubbornly said: "Otherwise, the taboo theory is false and unreliable. This move can also dispel the doubts of future generations. Let them all believe that what I said today is true."

The ministers had no choice but to retreat.

Kangxi was distraught and couldn't rest for a long time, so he just stayed in front of the mourning hall of the Compassionate Ning Palace and did not leave.

For two days in a row.

However, New Year's Eve is the end of the year, and there are always taboos;

By convention, even during a great funeral, the emperor would return to the palace on these two days.

Kangxi has been living in the Cining Palace since the Empress Dowager was ill.

Before New Year's Eve, the officials repeatedly kowtowed to invite the emperor to return to the palace.

Kangxi said: "The emperor has many palaces, so he can move according to the time and situation. But if the common people have encountered such a big change and only have one place to live, where will they move to because of taboos? The matter of returning to the palace Impossible."

He thought about it, still puzzled, and said: "Suppose the Empress Dowager's accident happened to happen on the 29th or [-]th day, what should I do? You can only gather here, how can you avoid it elsewhere? What do you say? It's too absurd and unbelievable, don't say any more."

There was no other way, all the kings and ministers went to the Palace of Mercy, and asked the Queen Mother to issue an edict to invite Kangxi to leave the palace.

Even so, Kangxi did not obey.

The Empress Dowager grieved for a long time, and finally relieved a lot. Hearing this, she asked Na Lantu to clean up for herself, put on court clothes, left the Palace of Kindness, entered the Palace of Compassion, and urged him to go out again and again.

Kangxi sat there for a long time, before returning to her after a long while: "Emperor Niang, let them break up. My son just wants to be alone for a while."

The empress dowager had just left, and the empress dowager was at a vulnerable time, seeing him like this made her feel sad.After standing for a while, after going out, he shook his head and left.

Although the Empress Dowager had the intention to call the Imperial Concubine Tong Jia, Concubine Yi and Concubine De, both of them had to avoid the mourning hall. As for Concubine Yi's temper, she might not be able to persuade Kangxi.

The queen mother can only give up.

Kangxi sat quietly for a long time, and finally, for the sake of the empress dowager and ministers' face, Kangxi only agreed to move from the front of the Zi Palace to the front yard of the Ci Ning Palace, and live in the tent where the princes were mourning, but he still did not return to his bedroom.

The minister just left.

But on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Kangxi, like a wandering soul, forced himself out, drank rice water, and went to court to be a council member.

After absent-mindedly going to court, Kangxi let the ministers leave and returned to the Palace of Compassion.

He was restless and unable to manage.The memorials piled up like a mountain.

He has always been a hard-working emperor, if he hadn't been extremely sad, he would never have abandoned the country.

However, at this moment, if he is asked to govern, he will just hold the memorial in a daze, and he has no intention of doing so.

The government is almost at a standstill. Even if there is a minister of the interior, he only dares to fool the small things first. Only when Kangxi nods can the big things run.

The empress dowager tried several times to persuade her, but there was nothing she could do.

On the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Umalu began to have labor pains, and the imperial physicians and nuns were all ready.

Today, after the empress dowager finished admonishing her, she sighed and said to Kangxi, "Concubine De is about to give birth."

Kangxi sat in a daze for a while, then he got up and walked towards Yonghe Palace with the lantern.

Liang Jiugong was speechless, and chased him out with a lantern.

Go all the way.

When I arrived at the Yonghe Palace, I saw basins of blood pouring out, and there was a little crying from inside the house.

Kangxi knew that Umalu must be in great pain.

For a stubborn person like her, if she wanted to cry, she would only cry in her dreams.When I was awake, if it wasn't in extreme pain, why would I cry in front of others?

Seeing that it was him, Liuli hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "My Majesty, best wishes and golden safety."

I knelt down.

He waved distractedly: "Do yours."

Umalu seemed to hear the sound outside, and the crying sound disappeared immediately.

He stood outside for a long time, the moon was in the sky.

He asked, "Liang Jiugong, how long has it been?"

"If you go back to the emperor, two hours have passed."

His head was empty: "It's been so long."

Liang Jiugong laughed dryly and said: "Women always give birth like this. Some are quick, and it takes several hours. Slow ones often take one night, and some even take one day and one night, or even three days and three nights."

Kangxi responded, stood there for a long time, left in a daze, and sat alone all night.

He seemed to have regained some energy, and seemed to have figured out something, he took a breath and notified the Ministry of Rites, deciding to move the Zi Palace out of the palace on the eleventh day of the first lunar month.

At the same time, let the Ministry of Rites prepare a title for the Empress Dowager.

He gradually managed, although a bit slower, better than before.

However, he still works in the Compassionate Ning Palace, and moves everything to the Compassionate Ning Palace, occasionally looking at the memorial, he would be dazed for a while.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the Ministry of Rites sent several posthumous titles for Kangxi to choose.

He was choosing, but his mind was wandering. He looked at several posthumous titles again and again, but they didn't come into his eyes, and he was still undecided.

In the time of You, Liang Jiugong came to report, and Concubine De gave birth to the fourteenth son of the emperor.

His soul seemed to be drawn back to the world at this moment, and he could see those posthumous titles.

He chose the posthumous title, added a few words himself, and finally decided to be Xiaozhuang Ren Xuan Cheng Xian Gong Yi Yi Tian Qi Shengwen Queen.

It is called Empress Xiaozhuang Wen for short in history, also known as Empress Xiaozhuang.

According to the last wish of Empress Xiaozhuang Wen, the coffin was not transported to Shengjing to be buried with Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty Huang Taiji, but was temporarily placed in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty in the east of Jingdong.

Empress Xiaozhuang's Zigong was temporarily placed in the funeral palace outside Chaoyang Gate on the 27th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Kangxi.

According to the usual practice, the emperor should return to the palace after the funeral ceremony in Zigong.

However, Kangxi wanted to live in the funeral palace in order to facilitate the sacrifice and avoid the tiredness of traveling back and forth, but was opposed by the officials and kept kneeling and begging for persuasion.

Kangxi insisted on his own opinion and lived in the funeral palace for three days.

The kings and ministers had to kneel down for three days.

Kneeling and kneeling, they were also muttering, wondering if they should continue to wait.

Nalan Mingzhu is the old god waiting, not in a hurry.

Yu Guozhu asked him, "Why is your lord so calm?"

"The emperor will come out." Nalan Mingzhu said no more.

Yu Guozhu didn't ask any more questions.

A minister advised Tong Guowei to persuade Kangxi to go to court.

Although Tong Guowei was a general, he was not so stupid as to be so stupid. He glanced at him and said nothing.

Finally, Kangxi reluctantly returned to the palace under the repeated insistence of the ministers.But he didn't go back to live in the Qianqing Palace, but lived in a tent outside the Qianqing Gate.

During the Yu sacrifice, Kangxi ordered the kings and ministers to ask the queen mother not to go to salute, but the queen mother did not agree.

The two mothers and sons are exactly the same stubborn.

Kangxi had no choice but to make concessions.

It was not until the 22nd of the first lunar month that he returned to the palace after performing the ceremony of release, and still lived in the side hall.

On the same day, Guo Xiu published "Shenhe Chenshu" to the imperial court for the first time as a supervisory censor, stating that Jin Fu, the governor of the river, under the support of the Minister of the Ministry of Households, Fulun, had improper river control measures and attached to the Pearl, which caused the Jiangnan area Trapped by floods, the people complained a lot.

In February, Liu Kai went to the public again to impeach Jin Fu for improper employment. There were more than 100 miscellaneous staff in the Hegong Road Office, but they failed to control the river, and they only listened to reports every year.

The censor Lu Zuxiu also impeached Jin Fu for "the accumulative evil has been filled", using the metaphor of Shun killing Yu to imply that Jin Fu should be killed.

Suddenly, Jin Fu became the target of public criticism.

Jin Fu was not convinced, and Shangshu defended himself.He listed his success in controlling the river, and refuted those who attacked him, such as Guo Xiu, Yu Chenglong, Mu Tianyan, Sun Zaifeng, etc., and exposed their conspiracy to frame him.

Jin Fu Shangshu said: The reason why these people attack the slaves is because their fields are in the Xiahe River Basin, and Qingzhang's seclusion has damaged their interests, so these people are full of hatred.It's not really that the slaves are ineffective in controlling the water.

Kangxi got the notebook, sneered, and nodded to give him a chance to argue.

Umalu was confinement, he went to Yonghe Palace to see Umalu.

Umalu became thinner and thinner until he only had a handful of bones.

He held her hand with only a thin layer of skin, and said: "The night you were born fourteen, I thought a lot outside, and I couldn't bear you."

He stroked her temples for her: "The imperial grandmother has gone, they have all gone, and you are still alive, then it is very good."

He seemed to be a little choked up: "There is always one that belongs to me, and it is still alive."

"I can't bear you." He hugged Umalu, feeling sore in his heart.

A person's life is like a kite, as long as there is a string, no matter how broken the kite is, it can still fly in the wind.But if the thread is broken, it will fall into the mud.

He grew up under the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, and she was his thread.

Therefore, he listened to them very much.

Now, he selfishly put that thread on Umalu.

He prayed to God that in this life, he could feel at ease and not wander in haste.

Hui Ke, the second patriarch of Zen sect, wanted to worship Bodhidharma as his teacher for peace of mind, so he did not hesitate to set up snow at the entrance of the cave and cut off his arms to seek the Dharma.

Finally, because of Bodhidharma's sentence "You bring your heart, I will rest for you", and I became enlightened.

Su Shi also wrote a poem saying: This place of peace of mind is my hometown.

Let Umalu take care of his heart.

She used to be able to put people's mind at ease, otherwise, every time he saw her, all the messy thoughts in his heart would disappear.

He hugged her and refused to let go.

Umalu let him hold him.

After a long time, he let go.

Umalu invited him to have dinner together, and then took him to see Changsheng and Fourteen.

Kangxi's heart calmed down.

Umalu pointed at Fourteen with a bit of distress and said with a smile: "The palace man came to report that this boy is not willing to drink the nurse's milk."

Kangxi said helplessly, "I'll ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find another wet nurse for him."

He nodded Fourteen's forehead: "You kid, you don't eat this, you don't eat that, it's not good to be weak."

He teased Shisi half-jokingly, and said: "If you are in good health and are good at bow and horse, I will make you a great general."

Both Zi Gong and Zi Coffin refer to the coffins of emperors and empresses.
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Big Eye Boy, Orange Xuanya

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I recently translated some archives on the upbringing of princes and daughters in the early Qing Dynasty. I feel that their wet nurses may be more complicated than the existing research thinks...

To put it simply, we generally refer to wet nurses, and the number of them is relatively clear.For example, Emperor Shunzhi had three wet nurses, Bomu Bogor also had three wet nurses, and Emperor Kangxi had one wet nurse, all of which are very clear.However, there are serious changes in the wet nurses of individual prince's children.For example, Chenghu, the son of Kangxi, changed his wet nurse frequently, even three times a month.In this case, how to define his nurse has become a problem instead...

Comment below:

ps, Cheng Hu's frequent change of wet nurses may be related to the lack of experience of the caregivers. It is speculated that it is an individual case because he cares too much. The eldest son, it seems that Shisi also changed twice, and the concern is chaotic [Khan]
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Fourteen that time was because she found out that the nursing mother was not coated, so she probably felt it was not credible.

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But that comment is unlikely. There is such a file in the file: The ministers would like to play, obey the edict, choose a wet nurse for elder brother, and choose Sun Wencheng's wife as elder brother's wet nurse. Han Chinese,...both old and young are familiar,... ...fire life.I would like to play for this.