The Concubine of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty

A group of people just waited.

Yuanyan hurriedly came from outside Kunning Gate and also hurried into the inner hall with a serious look. Everyone knew that something must have happened!

As expected, soon after, the Empress, Consort Niuhulu, Prince Yu's wife, Prince Gong's wife, and a group of servants left the inner hall.

The Empress's face was gentle, and she was virtuous and generous. From her face, it was not possible to see any displeasure. She only told the concubines that the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, served by the two Princesses of the First Rank and their families, were already coming to Kunning Palace, and ordered the concubines to follow her and Concubine Niu Hulu to greet them at Kunning Gate.

Qin Rou couldn't help but feel a little curious. The queen is the mother of a country, and the emperor and the queen are one. Just from this point, we can see how honorable the queen is! Not to mention that the queen has always been obeyed by the six palaces and loved by the emperor.

Princess Gulun Xingping and Princess Gulun Shuhui were fine. The eldest princess, who was born to the Empress Dowager, had not been in the palace for a long time and was also an elder. Living in the palace, she did not need to pay respects to the Empress and could go directly to the Empress Dowager's palace, which was not unreasonable.

After all, she is my mother. The Empress Dowager is so powerful that the Empress will not openly go against the Empress Dowager. The world is ruled by filial piety, and the Empress Dowager is the most filial.

But Princess Korchin was a little confused. Didn't she go to the palace to pay her respects to the Grand Empress Dowager yesterday? She came this morning and didn't even give the Empress Kunning Palace a chance to pay respect, but went straight to the Cining Palace. Did she think there was no Empress in the palace?
Is he really from Khorchin? So arrogant!
Qin Rou only thought about it carefully. It was not her turn to think about what to do. Now she just had a thought. Then she stood in her position, along with the Queen and Concubine Niu Hulu, to welcome the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager...

The Queen led the concubines and the two princes' wives and waited for about a quarter of an hour before the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager's phoenix carriage arrived. The Grand Empress Dowager had experienced three dynasties and had been through a lot of hardships. When the phoenix carriage arrived, it was just like the means used by the Grand Empress Dowager in those years. The entire carriage was soaked with the shadow of the rest of the Grand Empress Dowager's life.

Silence! Order! ... Majesty!
When the sedan chair landed, the Empress, Consort Niuhulu, Prince Yu's wife and Prince Gong's wife came forward with a smile and gentleness, while Qinrou and others lowered their eyebrows and eyes to greet them. - If there is any irregularity, a word of "disrespect" will be said, and within a day or two, there will be one less person in the palace.

If they stayed a day longer, it would be considered as underestimating the imperial power and looking down on the Empress Dowager. Therefore, no one dared to make the slightest move.

The Empress Dowager landed outside Kunning Gate in a majestic manner! When the sedan chair landed, the palace servants on one side lifted the curtain, and the Empress came forward, together with Consort Niuhulu, Prince Yu's wife and others, to welcome the Empress Dowager out of the sedan chair.

"The Empress Dowager/Grand Empress Dowager."

The Grand Empress Dowager stretched out her wrinkled hands and was helped out of the sedan chair by her granddaughter-in-law and others. At this time, Princess Gulun Xingping and Princess Gulun Shuhui came hurriedly.

"How come the Queen left the sedan so soon? I was thinking that after my sister and I went to the court, the journey was too long and we could not be with the Queen to show filial piety. Now we finally get back and we want to be with the Queen to show filial piety." The woman's voice was full of vicissitudes. No one can resist the erosion of time. However, raising a child for a hundred years means worrying for ninety-nine. Even if he is already vicissitudes, he will unconsciously show the attitude of a child in front of his mother.

Qin Rou didn't know who was talking! She had been in the palace for a short time. However, the Empress Dowager had only three daughters, and the youngest daughter died young, and didn't even live to see the day of her marriage.

The eldest daughter is Princess Gulun Xingping, and the second daughter is Princess Gulun Shuhui. So the person who is speaking should be Princess Gulun Xingping.

"We all know that Uncle is filial and is thinking about serving the Crown Madam. Serving the Crown Madam is also the filial piety of us as granddaughters-in-law, and even more so of the Emperor and the princes. Uncle has come from afar, and for so many years, he has been served personally by his daughter-in-law. But Uncle should not compete with us as granddaughters-in-law for such things. We are used to it." The Queen said softly.

There was no anger in her voice. But she also pointed out the truth that should be understood. It was true that Princess Xingping of the Gulun clan was the Gulun clan princess of the Qing dynasty, but she had already married off. When she came back, she was the noble aunt of the entire Aixinjueluo clan. As a daughter, it was reasonable for her to personally serve the Grand Empress Dowager, but as granddaughters-in-law of the empress, Consort Niuhulu, Prince Yu's wife, and Prince Gong's wife, it was natural and right for them to serve the Grand Empress Dowager.

This makes sense, this is the queen.

How could the queen not be angry? Princess Korchin entered the palace and left her, the mother of the Qing Dynasty, aside and went straight to the Cining Palace. To put it nicely, she was rushing to serve her mother-in-law and the Empress Dowager, but in fact, she had no regard for the Empress. In the eyes of the queen, she was just a thief with a ruthless heart!
In fact, Korchin had always had this idea.

The Qing Dynasty cannot have another deposed empress. The empress knew this, otherwise being the empress, such a position as the mother of the country, would be a joke. But the empress could not be deposed, but she could still be killed.

The princess of Korchin is going to ascend the throne again, how can the queen have a good ending? Facing a person who hopes for her death and takes action, if the queen is just a face, then she is not a qualified queen.

Softly, you have to go back. Don't think that the emperor and empress of the Qing Dynasty were all spineless.

In front of the Grand Empress Dowager, the Queen still knows her limits. She uses words to make it clear, not too harsh! She is just being filial!

I won't stop you, after all, you are the eldest princess; but we are the granddaughter-in-law, so it is only natural. If we fail to do our job well, we will be criticized by the court and the people of the world.

They are all showing filial piety, it just depends on who is faster.

Princess Gulun Xingping was also brought up in a pampered environment. People who grew up in the palace and were influenced by what they saw and heard would not be fools. Moreover, Princess Gulun Xingping also had ambitions. She had the ambition to let Princess Korchin enter the palace again.

Her mother was the empress of the Qing court, her uncle was the first empress of the emperor's father, and her uncle, Hai Lanzhu, was the first concubine personally conferred by the emperor's father. Perhaps the title of first concubine was nothing in later generations, it was just a concubine.

But in the early years, when I was in the palace of Princess Gulun Xingping, Yuanfei meant "original wife and legal wife" in Manchu.

That is to say, in the eyes and heart of Emperor Taizong, Minhui Gonghe and Yuanfei Hailanzhu were his original wives and were above all the concubines. Didn't you see that Minhui Gonghe and Yuanfei's posthumous titles were the same as the empress?
The two successive empresses in the previous emperor's harem were also from Khorchin. Although they were not from her lineage, it was because she was not ambitious enough to give birth to a legitimate daughter.

Otherwise, the story of Emperor Hui of Han marrying his niece might have happened again during the reign of the previous emperor. In the early Qing Dynasty, people did not attach much importance to ethics and moral principles! It was common for a son to inherit his father's wife.

"The Queen is filial to the Emperor." Princess Gulun Xingping said. "But she is not lacking in filial piety for a moment, don't you think, Emperor?"

Princess Gulun Xingping's advantage is that the person sitting on the position of the Grand Empress Dowager is her biological father. She can act like a spoiled child easily. "My sister and I rarely come back, so we should show more filial piety to the emperor."

(End of this chapter)