Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 2587 Nine Volumes 69 Crown Prince

Concubine Rong's regret is not exactly the same as Wanxi's.

Wanxi laughed, "That's not the case? But Jiujiu is also a caring little padded jacket. She must know that we haven't cared enough for her, so she gave birth to another little Jiujiu."

I think Jiujiu was given this nickname back then because the child was Princess Jiu, and Wanxi herself was Jiuer.Now Jiujiu has given birth to a little Gege, it's like the second round of Wanxi's life has continued.

"It's just that we don't care enough to chirp. When our granddaughter grows up, we can hold them in our arms. How can we pamper and love?"

Concubine Rong couldn't help but her eyes lit up, "Is it really possible? I see that the ones brought into the palace to be raised are all the granddaughters of the emperor and the clan, after all, they are all girls from the Aixinjueluo family, and there are no granddaughters... After all People with foreign surnames."

Wanxi nodded with a smile, "It's just that it's not qualified to be taken into the palace to be raised. We often call in to say hello, so that's it."

Concubine Rong laughed through her tears, and was full of hope for such a future.

How did Concubine Rong know at this time, after a few years, after the imperial concubine and the nine princesses had all left, little Gege was really taken into the palace by the emperor as an exception, and was raised within the inner court.And it was entrusted to her to...
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After Wanxi comforted Concubine Rong, she also looked at Xiao Shiwu and smiled.

"Being a real uncle for the first time, I'm glad you are."

As is customary every year, when October comes, the palace becomes extraordinarily busy.This year is Xiao Shiwu's first year as an official adult, and the emperor has already entrusted Xiao Shiwu with many errands such as paying homage to the imperial mausoleum.After returning from Qiuxi, Xiao Shiwu was so busy that he kicked the back of his head.

Wanxi just vaguely felt that there must be a reason for Xiao Shiwu's busyness, but she didn't think too much about it.After all, I feel that he has just grown up and is about to get married, so the emperor intends to cultivate him and ask him to accumulate more experience.

How did Wanxi know that the emperor's desire to establish a crown prince is already in sight.

Xiao Shiwu is so busy, but today he put everything down, just to see his little niece, and after returning home, he described it so happily, it can be seen that he loves it extremely.

Xiao Shiwu also smiled and said, "It's still my little niece who is naturally cute, and my son can't put it down."

Wanxi smiled and lowered her eyes, and blinked at Yuqin, "It's really time to like children."

After all, they are going to get married. The love for children at this age is not just the kind of love they had when they were young.It's natural, it's also age.

Yuqin also understood, and nodded with a smile.

Wanxi didn't say it in front of her son, because she was afraid that his face would not be wiped off, so she found another reason, "Maybe this child was born in October, and you are a month old, so this must be a predestined relationship."

Little Fifteen was also excited when he heard this, "Ernie was born in September, and Ninth Sister was born as Princess Nine, so Enie and Ninth Sister are mostly related to Nine Numbers; the son was born in October, and the little niece was also born in October, this is the continuation of September and October, and it is also a wonderful fate."

Wanxi smiled and nodded, "That's a good point. The continuation of life is just like the continuation of numbers, and it is a continuous meaning."

At this age, I have seen with my own eyes how many famous officials in the previous dynasty and how many women in the harem left one after another when their life expectancy came.Jiao Wanxi had to look at the age of the emperor and herself, deeply feeling that that day may not be far away.

Therefore, the continuous thought of this meeting is always a lot of comfort to people's hearts.

——This generation, this life, is not far away.However, this life and this story have already been passed on, and through the children, it will last forever, which is also a kind of longevity in a sense.

Xiao Shiwu said these nine or ten words out of joy today because he was an uncle for the first time, but he didn't know that soon after, a certain fate really came unexpectedly, which made this fate even brighter.
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On the fifth day of November, the emperor went to the Lent Palace to fast for the Winter Solstice Festival.

Before entering the fasting palace, Wanxi only felt that this year's emperor was particularly nostalgic.

The emperor even revisited the old events more than 30 years ago, talking about Wanxi's reluctance and distress when he first entered the palace when he entered the fasting palace.

The once youthful infatuation is sweet in retrospect, but it is also shy.

Wanxi said embarrassingly, "At that time, I just entered the palace, and I didn't know that the winter solstice festival was a time for the royal family to worship the heavens. I just thought that I didn't eat a bowl of jiaoer, but I didn't know that as the emperor, I worshiped the heavens." That's the number one priority."

The three major festivals in the Qing Dynasty are Winter Solstice, New Year's Day and Longevity Festival.Among them, New Year's Day and Longevity belong to the world and the emperor himself, and only the winter solstice is dedicated to respecting heaven.Therefore, the winter solstice always has the most special meaning in the sacrificial ceremony of the royal family.

Therefore, whatever is decided on the day of the winter solstice when offering sacrifices to heaven must be the most important matter for the royal family.

But even though Wanxi is smart, she still can't guess what the emperor has hidden in her heart at this time.

The emperor looked at Jiu'er's still ignorant look with satisfaction, and felt a little complacent in his heart.

It's good that she knows the importance of the winter solstice. If she knows that he is about to do something for her during the winter solstice... then she must not be as calm and calm as she is at the moment.

The emperor smiled and stretched out his arms, wrapping Wanxi in his arms, "The winter solstice festival is celebrated every year, and the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is held every year, but the most memorable thing for me is the winter solstice of that year. But after this year, I bet you the most The unforgettable thing must be this year’s winter solstice.”

Wanxi was really a little confused, she raised her eyes to look at the emperor, "Master... is there anything special about this winter solstice?"

The emperor just smiled and said nothing.

It was Wanxi who found an answer for herself, "Oh, I remembered, Master said we have a granddaughter!"

It is said that women are satisfied with everything when they have a son, but now that they have a granddaughter, they will be more satisfied, so they will only think of the little granddaughter first in everything.

The emperor could only laugh, "Let's go see Jiujiu and his little granddaughter these few days, I know, you're going crazy."
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On the eighth day of November, the Winter Solstice Festival, the emperor held a grand ceremony to sacrifice to heaven in Huanqiu.

Also on this day, the emperor sent the fifteenth elder brother Yongyan to the Mausoleum of Empress Xiaoxian to offer a few gifts to Empress Xiaoxian Hanghou, Concubine Zhemin, Concubine Huixian, and Concubine Shujia who had been buried in the underground palace of the Emperor's Mausoleum. The bitch salutes.

The emperor's arrangement is a bit special.

At the same time as offering sacrifices to heaven during the Winter Solstice Festival, sacrifices must also be made to the ancestral tombs of the Qing Dynasty: Yongling, Fuling, Zhaoling, Zhaoxi, Xiaoling, Xiaodongling, Jingling and Tailing, plus the filial piety of Emperor Qianlong's dynasty. Empress Xian's mausoleum, and the prince's garden headed by Duanhui Crown Prince Yonglian.

However, the ancestral mausoleum and the prince's garden are all sent for worship, and only the mausoleum of the empress, the imperial concubine, headed by Empress Xiaoxian, is worshiped by Yong Yan.

This is already the second time that Yong Yan worshiped Yongzheng Lord's Tailing alone at the beginning of the year, and at the beginning of the year, he worshiped Yongzheng Lord, and at the end of the year, he worshiped his mother-in-law, Empress Xiaoxian, and all the imperial concubines. From the perspective of family etiquette, it is also the order of inheritance.

The ministers who knew the inside story couldn't help but feel agitated.

But as expected, at the same time as the winter solstice sacrifice to the sky, the emperor saluted the sky, officially sealed Yong Yan's name in the treasure box, and ordered him to hide it behind the upright and bright plaque—on the day of the winter solstice sacrifice to the sky, the emperor's fifteen sons Yong Yan, formally established secretly as the Crown Prince of the Qing Dynasty!

This is the first prince with half Han blood in the history of the Qing Dynasty!

As the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, at the same time, he was the emperor who emphasized the maintenance of Manchu traditions. The emperor was able to choose a prince with half Han blood to inherit the dynasty under the premise that there were so many adult princes and grandsons. , It must be said that this emperor has always regarded himself as the emperor of the whole of China, not just the emperor of the Qing Dynasty established by the Manchus.

It can also be seen that the emperor's love for the biological mother of the fifteen sons of the emperor, the imperial concubine Wanxi, is so great.He doesn't hesitate to break the ancestral system, he doesn't hesitate to be criticized by the former court and the harem, and he doesn't change his affection.
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It is also wise for the emperor to choose to formally establish the crown prince at the time of the winter solstice ceremony.

Because in ancient times, the canonization of the crown prince was not just a simple canonization.Because the crown prince is the next emperor, and the authority of the emperor is bestowed by the heavens, the appointment of the crown prince must be performed with a grand ritual of offering sacrifices to the heavens and reported to the heavens.

At that time, the candidate for the crown prince must be written in the sacrificial rites, asking for the meaning of God's judgment.If the crown prince is approved by the heavens, please ask the heavens to bless him to succeed to the throne smoothly; if the heavens think that the crown prince cannot be established, he can use God's will to make him die early, so that the crown can be vacated and another more suitable candidate can be found.

However, when it came to the establishment of the reserve, in the Qing Dynasty, there was a turning point with Lord Yongzheng-Yongzheng established the system of secret reserve.

Therefore, it is no longer possible to publicly hold a grand ceremony for the establishment of the reserve, and it is inconvenient to publicly sacrifice to heaven.

As the heir of Lord Yongzheng, the emperor naturally cannot violate this rule; but why is he willing to wrong Xiao Shiwu? This is whether it should be sacrificed to heaven or sacrificed to heaven. Yong Yan's heart, report to God.

At the same time, with this method, the empress dowager was perfectly concealed.

Although the Empress Dowager and Xiao Shiwu's grandparents and grandchildren have a strong relationship, the Empress Dowager is a conservative Manchurian old lady after all, and her affection for Wanxi's mother and son has always been divided between Manchu and Han.It's not that the empress dowager doesn't like Wanxi, but she just can't accept Wanxi's ascension to the queen's position; then no one dares to easily determine whether the old lady will be because Yong Yan is the first half-Han prince in the Qing Dynasty. , and do everything possible to stop it.

Judging from the determination of the empress dowager to promote her concubine so hard when the emperor was over [-] years old, she insisted on installing another lady from a famous Manchu family for the emperor, it is inevitable that the empress dowager did not create another heir of pure Manchu and Mongolian blood. thought.

Therefore, the emperor couldn't take this risk, so he simply hid the old lady first.After all, it was the secret reserve system established by Emperor Yongzheng, so the word "secret" is applicable to anyone in the world.Even if the old lady wanted to blame, she was afraid that it would be inconvenient to blame the late emperor.
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When Xiao Shiwu came back from the imperial mausoleum, the emperor called Xiao Shiwu to his eyes alone.

Xiao Shiwu thought that the emperor wanted to ask him about the visit to the mausoleum, so he knelt down on the ground and played back respectfully.

Unexpectedly, the emperor just waved his hand with a smile, "Don't worry."

The emperor coughed, and saw that the little eunuch Ruyi came forward with a tray and knelt in front of Yong Yan.

Yong Yan was a little confused, and raised his eyes to look at the emperor.

The emperor nodded with a smile, "Open it and have a look."

There is a small jade bowl on the tray, the shape is familiar to Yong Yan - he also has one, which is kept by Er Nie, and he only shows it to him every year on his birthday.

Then lifted the lid on the jade bowl, and saw a lychee inside!
Litchi is a rarity, let alone fresh ones in this winter?

The emperor laughed, "Eat."

How could Yong Yan dare to eat it by himself, so he quickly asked, "I would like to give the lychees to Huang Mama's mother first, and I want to give the lychee to Huang Mama's mother first. If it is from Huang Mama's place, Huang Ama has already presented it, and I want to give it to Huang Mama over there." Erniang... If there is also Erniang, the minister there will give it to Qing Guifei Erniang..."

The emperor shook his head, "They don't have any. This is the only lychee that can be preserved fresh in the winter."

The emperor's smile narrowed slightly, but his eyes deepened, "...You have filial piety, Huang Ama is very pleased. But there is only one lychee, and it was given to you by Ama. You don't want to give it to anyone, just eat it yourself Bar."

Yong Yan was taken aback again.

Since there is only one lychee in winter, why did Huang Ama give it to him alone, but not allow him to present it to Enie and the others?

After being taken aback for a while, Yong Yan was so smart that his heart jumped suddenly.

Seeing the look in his son's eyes, the emperor smiled and didn't say much, just said, "Let's eat. After eating, An'an will go to greet you and the others with peace of mind."

Yong Yan looked down at the lychee again, his eyes were already blurred.

This unspoken intention between father and son is already a tacit understanding.

Seeing his son eating the lychee so solemnly, the emperor smiled and narrowed his eyes, as if seeing himself again.

In the first year of Yongzheng, he was still the prince Hongli at that time.After the Grain Prayer Ceremony that year, the late Emperor Yongzheng summoned him alone to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and also asked Su Peisheng to bring such a vermilion lacquer tray with a small dish on it.

He opened it and saw that there was a small piece of meat in the plate.

The meat was identifiable from its texture as veal.Veal is used for offering sacrifices to heaven, and it was brought back by the first emperor from the ceremony of praying for grain.

The late emperor also didn't say anything, just told him: "Eat."

Today, grandparents, fathers and sons pass on the inheritance. The prince Hongli who knelt down and ate meat with tears in his eyes is now the old emperor who has sat firmly on the throne for 38 years.Having experienced the feeling of being fed alone, and feeding his own son alone, at this moment, he felt indescribably satisfied and peaceful.

He finally lived up to the entrustment of the emperor's father, and he finally found someone who could trust the Qing Dynasty.

This child had already paid homage to the late emperor alone at the beginning of the year, and believed that his Huang Kao had already been read, and he had not entrusted him with any dissatisfaction in his dream in the past year; that is to say, the Huang Kao had accepted this child.

At this time, he had already reported to the heavens, and officially registered the child as the crown prince, and the Qing Dynasty will continue.I believe that if he went to Jiuquan at this time, he could see the emperor and the emperor with a smile.

(End of this chapter)