The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 577 Raising the Flag ①

Luo Fu hurriedly got up, with a smile on her lips: "I know that concubines are the most gentle, so how can I care about my concubine's unintentional mistakes?" His eyebrows flew away, and he gave Yu Wan a look: " You were dug out from the pile of the living dead just now, so you should control your mouth and stop saying sobering things!"

It was the emperor who sent Shu Yuwan out of the cold palace, and Wannai was the one who took her back to the palace. Luo Fu's words offended Wanya again, but she didn't know it, and kept laughing and laughing.

Seeing how stupid she was, Ru Ge's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help kicking her, and said in a low voice, "You don't want to talk anymore."

Yu Wan was losing her mind when she heard Wan Lai say in a solemn voice: "Concubine Liang knows more rules than Concubine Luo."

Ru Ge knew that Wanyu would not be able to tolerate him, so he simply did not treat her well: "This rule is rooted in people's hearts, and all sisters have the same duty of respect for imperial concubines."

Wan Lai nodded indifferently, her gaze wandering on the concubines in the palace.

Lin Lan looked at her for a moment, then asked, "What are you looking at, Your Majesty?"

Wan Lai took a long breath and said: "It's nothing serious, I just feel that the main hall of Changchun Palace in my palace is a little smaller, and the crowds are increasing, and it gradually cannot accommodate it."

Luo Fu licked her smile and flattered her, "If your empress thinks it's too young, I'll ask the emperor to move the Yongshou Palace to you. That land is the most spacious and decent! It's only appropriate to have someone like your empress take over."

"Where is it so troublesome?" Wan Yurou pointed to the low-ranking concubines standing outside the hall, and said with a smile: "Those promised, always present, nobles, aren't they all waiting outside the hall?"

Luo Fu laughed and said, "They are lowly in status, how can they serve the empress in the main hall?"

Wan Yu also smiled: "Then from now on, you will wait outside the hall with them."

Luo Fu didn't even think about it and said: "My concubine, I would like to thank the imperial concubine." It was not until the words were inappropriate, and after making everyone laugh, he said: "What do you mean by what the empress said?"

Concubine Rong Xiuyan was the first to laugh, leaning forward and back together, stroking the arm of the chair with one hand and covering her lips with the other, and said, "Don't you understand? The empress of the imperial concubine means that you don't have to greet us in the main hall from now on. On the contrary, it's from outside." I promise to always be more in line with you."

"How can this be?" Luo Fu was a little anxious: "A concubine is the lord of the first palace, how can that be?"

"Jinli, come in." Wanyan called Jinli to enter, and interrupted Luo Fu's words: "Let someone go to the palace of the concubine Luo, and take back the papers and court clothes of the emperor's concubine. From now on, she will be Luo Fu." promise."

Hearing this, Luo Fu froze in place as if frozen in ice.

Before she could react in time, Jinli summoned a few maidservants to remove the court clothes from Luo Fu's body.

Only then did Luo Fu come to his senses, and suddenly knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

But why is Wanyu willing to pay attention to her?When she was looking at Ru Ge, she suddenly got up and took off her court dress and threw it on the ground, saying coldly: "The concubine knows what the empress wants, so the empress will not open her mouth."

Wan Yu shrugged her shoulders and smiled: "You are so smart, no wonder the imperial concubine admired you so much in the past. The emperor's intention is not to deprive you of your title, so you and Luo promised to work together slowly from the promised position, which day? Once you know where you are wrong, I will speak a few words of kindness for you two in front of the emperor, and there will always be a chance to be promoted."

After ordering the two of them to be pulled out of the main hall, all the concubines in the hall, led by Lin Lan, suddenly got up and knelt down, and said in unison: "The ministers (concubines) and concubines should follow the lead of the imperial concubine and empress."

Wanyu's face was calm and Rushui told them to calm down: "Serve the emperor well, I am not Tong's family, and I can tolerate sand in my eyes when I do dirty things. I have watched people fight in this palace for twenty years. Bored. If anyone thinks about what they shouldn't do in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless with iron fists. Do you understand?"

"The ministers (concubines) and concubines respectfully obey the teachings of the imperial concubine and empress!"

The main hall was bustling with excitement, but he didn't want Li Jian to enter through the palace gate, and after he got Wannai's consent, the emperor's oral order was passed on.

"The emperor ordained: 'Tong Guogang, Minister of the Han Army Capital Command of the Xianghuang Banner, please return to Manchuria, and he gave the Tong family a flag and a surname. He raised his nationality from the Han army flag and entered the Manchuria Xianghuang Banner. He gave the surname Tong Jia. Qinzai.'"

After Li Jian's words fell, the whole hall was in an uproar.

He was drenched in sweat and hurriedly tried to escape, but was stopped by Wan Lai and asked, "Where is the imperial concubine? How should I deal with it?"

Li Jian hesitated for a moment, and said word by word: "If you are trapped in Chengqian Palace, you must die. You must not get out."

After replying this sentence, while Wanyu was still in a daze, she hurriedly bowed her body and bid farewell.

But they didn't want him to leave, but the Changchun Palace exploded.

Especially Lin Lan said the most angrily: "Bitch! How could the good emperor allow Tong Guogang to return to Manchuria? Did he ignore the death of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang?"

Xiuyan said: "I also know that Tong's family has managed to produce such a person who is about to win the post in the harem. Even if it is unbearable, he must be protected. If the news of her execution is made public, how will the people of the world treat Tong?" Clan?"

Yu Wen listened to the Buddhist beads in his hands, and rarely showed anger: "The centipede is dead but not stiff! The emperor forgives her capital crime, how can I explain it to the harem? When Bao Qi is on the spur of the moment, I remember it again." Lost her! Can our life be better than half a minute?"

Wan Lai stood still on the spot, shaking her head helplessly: "Now, it's Tong Jia's family." She calmed down, sighed and comforted everyone: "Now that the former dynasty and the Junggar are at war, Tong Guogang is a military genius and has made great contributions to the society. , Renben is also the elder brother of the Empress Dowager Cihe, so it is reasonable to carry it into the Manchurian flag."

Xiuyan was astonished and said: "Your Majesty is so open?"

"So what?" Wan Yu said coldly: "Could it be that I want this palace to immediately lead you to kneel in front of Qianqing Palace to force the palace? If you think about it carefully, today's Tong's immortality is the greatest humiliation and torture for her. She is already on the verge of death, trapped in Chengqian Palace, how can there be an imperial doctor willing to treat her? Anyway, she is dead, the emperor is just selling face to the Tong family."

Lin Lan frowned with resentment, and said more and more fiercely: "Face? How can the face of the Tong family be greater than that of the emperor's heirs, or that of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang?"

Greetings on this day ended in a quarrel with each other.

Du Linlan stays in the palace with Wanyu, only she knows that the calmer Wanyu looks, the more she hates her in her heart.

After everyone had dispersed, she sent the palace servants Du and Wanyan into the bedroom.

"Sister really let her go like this?"

Wanyu fiddled with the newly blooming winter jasmine in the glazed vase with a half-smile, "If I said that I knew that Mrs. Tong would not die early in the morning, would you believe it?"

Lin Lan shook her head and said nothing, Wanyu said again: "On the contrary, I am very happy with the result now. Please return to Manchuria is just a gimmick. The Tong family is too big to lose. They use this to threaten the emperor, just to test the emperor's mind. The emperor must also be wary, if he is not allowed, he may turn against him immediately in times of war. Don't we know what kind of person the emperor is? How much he was able to endure Oboi when he was young, it must be doubled now Can bear the Tong family."

"Sister, do you mean that extremes must be reversed?"

Wanyu casually picked a winter jasmine flower, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed lightly: "Don't mention other things, let's see what kind of good fruit Tong Guogang can get after he wins the Junggar in the future."

　Remarks ①: Raising the flag refers to the system in which bannermen in the Qing Dynasty raised their flag status in order to improve their background.

　　When the Eight Banners system was first established, four banners were set up: yellow flag, white flag, red flag, and blue flag. In 1614, due to "returning to Yiguang", the four banners were changed to Zhenghuang, Zhengbai, Zhenghong and Zhenglan, and four banners of bordered yellow, bordered white, bordered red and bordered blue were added, collectively known as the Eight Banners.After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Zhenghuang Banner, Zhengbai Banner, and Xianghuang Banner were the upper three banners, which were directly under the emperor, and the remaining five banners were the lower five banners.After the Kangxi Dynasty, the empresses (including posthumous empresses), noble concubines and their mother's family who were in the lower five banners were all incorporated into the upper three banners to improve their status, that is, to raise the flag.

　　Remark ②: Tong Guogang (?-1690), Tong Jiashi (originally Tong family, later raised the flag to give the surname), minister and relative of the Qing Dynasty, under the Manchuria Xianghuang Banner, the eldest son of the crown prince Taibao Tong Tulai, Empress Xiaokangzhang (Cihe Empress Dowager), brother Tong Guowei, uncle of Emperor Kangxi.

　　In the first year of Kangxi (1662), he attacked the third-class Jingqi Nihafan and was awarded the Minister of Internal Affairs.In the 16th year of Kangxi (1677), he was the first-class Duke of Xijue.In the 20th year of Kangxi (1681), he was awarded the capital of the Han army with the inlaid yellow banner.In the 27th year of Kangxi (1688), please return to Manchuria, raise the flag into the Yellow Banner, and give the surname Tong Jia.In the following month, he followed Suo'etu and signed the "Nerchinsk Treaty" with Tsarist Russia to protect the northern border of the Qing Dynasty.In the 29th year of Kangxi (1690), he conquered Galdan (the leader of the Junggar tribe) with Emperor Kangxi and died in Ulan Butong.In the early years of Yongzheng (1723), the Grand Tutor was given as a gift.

　　
　
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