Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 247 Changchun Garden

The emperor's most important task now is to recover Taiwan, and it is time for Chen Wenxin to take a longer view.

She knew that relying solely on those battles in the harem to bring down Tong Guifei, a bad woman, was far from enough.

The crux of the problem lies ahead.

Now the emperor wants to reuse Tong Guowei and other ministers, so she can't stop it.

But she can also develop her own power.

The father and son of the Chen family are officials in the same dynasty, so are they not as good as him, Tong Guowei?
In terms of age alone, Chen Wenyi, who is young, has an infinite future than Tong Guowei, who is over fifty.

Ever since Chen Wenyi's shotgun team came back from Horqin, Chaozhong was no longer as disdainful of the training of the shotgun team as it was at first.

They knew that Ouyang Jiaoyue, a mere woman, could use a shotgun to take the head of an enemy general among thousands of troops.

If the shotgun team is really well trained, one shot per person is enough to outweigh the number of troops.

The emperor did not intend to send the Green Battalion to fight again. There were Han Eight Banners in the south and Man Eight Banners in the north.

The green battalion was relaxed.

Taking advantage of this rare leisure time, Chen Wenyi put all his heart on the shotgun team.

The gun that Ouyang Jiaoyue used to shoot and kill Prince Dalu was different from that of other soldiers, it was a modified short-handled gun.

It is so short that it can be worn on the waist like a dagger, and it can save a lot of effort when shooting, and naturally it can be more accurate.

Compared with this modified short-handled gun, the original long-handled shotgun is extraordinarily bulky.

He planned to mass-produce the short-handled gun and train more soldiers to shoot accurately.

This encounters a problem. The emperor is now spending all his military expenditure on recovering Taiwan.

At this time, if the appropriation is raised, it will definitely attract criticism——

Your green battalion shotgun team obviously has a lot of long-handled guns, but you insist on spending money to make short-handled guns. Isn't this forcing the ministers to impeach you?
Or, you, Chen Wenyi, dare to spend money from the state treasury indiscriminately?

The treasury has surplus money, but they dare not spend any of it indiscriminately.

I am afraid that one day Tsarist Russia and Zhungeer will change, and the army will not be paid enough to defend against the enemy.

After donating silver on Chen Wenxin's birthday, the emperor wore a patched dragon robe once, forcing all the ministers to donate a lot of silver.

He seemed to be addicted to wearing it. Since then, he always wore half-new and outdated court uniforms, so that no one dared to wear new clothes among the courtiers.

The emperor wears old clothes, who dares to wear new clothes?
So frugal, there are not many emperors in the past dynasties.

At this time, Chen Wenyi asked the emperor for money to build a new type of short-handled gun, but the emperor would definitely not give it to him.

then what should we do?

He used his own money to build fifty of them, which were reported by the Ministry of War, and then left in the shotgun team for training by the soldiers.

These fifty are so precious that the soldiers have to be very careful during training, lest the guns be damaged.

A short-handled gun costs an average of 20 taels of silver, and fifty taels is 1000 taels.

Just this batch of guns cost Chen Wenyi's salary for one or two years.

Fortunately, Chen Wenyi was deeply favored by the emperor, and he received a lot of rewards for his repeated meritorious deeds, so he could afford the money.

He always believed that it was worth spending money on these guns.

One day, Qing will see the decisive role of this shotgun team.

Chen Wenxin also wanted to help him, so she asked him to bring one of the guns into the palace for her.

She had previously given Chen Wenyi a Western tribute short-handled gun. This new short-handled gun was produced by combining Western manufacturing methods with the traditional manufacturing methods of the Qing Dynasty.

The gun looks slightly thinner than the Western gun. She tried to find an open place in Yikun Palace to shoot, but it didn't frighten everyone in the harem.

The sound is not very loud, and the recoil is also reduced, which looks very good.

The only downside is that she can't hit it right.

Although Yikun Palace is big, it is not always easy to practice spears in the palace.

There are so many people in the palace, let alone scaring people when they see it, it is also difficult to accidentally hurt someone.

If you want to practice guns, you still have to go to the school grounds of the barracks.

Chen Wen thought for a while, and decided to go to Qianqing Palace.

"Xuan Ye, it's almost May, shouldn't we go to Tsinghua Garden to escape the summer? I heard that it's quite different after the expansion last year, so we should go and see it."

She urged the emperor to go to Tsinghua Garden, it's okay not to mention this, but the emperor frowned when he mentioned it.

"If I had known that there were so many military expenditures this year, I wouldn't have renovated the garden before."

This is not a good thing to say, but didn't the Chen family talk about it together?
In addition to the Tsinghua Garden, the garden that the emperor vigorously renovated last year is the Nianxin Garden.

The Nianxin Garden was a gift from the emperor to compensate her for the grievances she suffered during the southern tour.

The emperor hurriedly changed his words, "I didn't mean that, it's just..."

Chen Wenxin gave him a blank look, "Is there anything to explain, I know how many hairs you have on your head, what else do you need to explain?"

Of course she knew that the emperor wasn't talking about her, but that he was worried about military expenses because of the war.

This was a bit rude, the emperor corrected her with a smile, "This is called hair, not hair."

"I didn't play for myself, Xuan Ye, think about it. There are a lot of red tape in the palace, and the cost will be high. If we all go to Tsinghua Garden, we will save a lot of trouble, and won't we save money?"

Her face was so full of interest that the emperor couldn't refuse it even if he wanted to.

"Okay, you come."

The emperor led her to the front of the case, "Tsinghua Garden was originally the old name left by the previous dynasty. Now that the expansion is complete, the weather is very different. I plan to give another name, and then move in."

"Okay. What name does Xuan Ye want?"

Speaking of choosing a name, the emperor suddenly thought of an interesting thing, "If you think about it, why do I name my elder brothers so uncommon?"

The names of the elder brothers are uncommon enough, so the fifth elder brother Yinqi is better.

"When I was young, Shenwumen was still called Xuanwumen. Canglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu, and the four spirits of the sky, to straighten the four directions. Shenwumen is in the north, so it has been called Xuanwumen since the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Wenxin figured it out all at once, "I know, Xuanwu Sect violated Xuan Ye's taboo."

In the past, when the emperor was still an elder brother, he naturally didn't explain it. Later, when he ascended the throne and became the emperor, everything in the world could not violate his taboo.

Xuanwu Gate was changed to Shenwu Gate.

It is not uncommon in history to change the name because of violating the emperor's name taboo.

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was originally called Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, but for the sake of Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, this word was hidden.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was even more exaggerated. Because he was a monk, others even avoided the words bare and bald.

The emperor smiled and took a thin golden hair, "I will give each elder brother some uncommon names, so that no matter who ascends the throne in the future, there will be less trouble of avoiding taboos."

The emperor's move is enough to show his love for the people. After all, the emperor's name is taboo, and the trouble is for the people and ministers, not the emperor.

In the mind of the emperor, each of his elder brothers has the potential to become the emperor.

What he valued was the talents and morals of his brothers, not just their background.

"It's not troublesome. I'm used to hearing Shenwumen, but I think it sounds better. Yingming Shenwu, this word is so good."

"Of course."

The emperor raised his eyebrows proudly, "I changed it myself."

He filled his pen with ink, and said to Chen Wenxin: "The new name of Tsinghua Garden, I will give you a word, read a word. Let's see if you can form a good name."

It's an interesting idea.

Chen Wenxin also took a pen from the pen holder at the side, randomly took a piece of paper and turned around to write.

"Xuan Ye is not allowed to peek at me."

While muttering, she held a pen to her chin, thinking about what to write.

Isn't it embarrassing if the two words don't match up?

If the emperor wrote a noun, she also wrote a noun.

such as……

The name Herb Garden came to her mind.

If the emperor wrote a verb, she also wrote a verb...

The name Picking Garden popped up in her mind.

bah bah.

She erased all her weird ideas in her mind, and if she really couldn't make up a name, she would rewrite it shamelessly.

After thinking about it, she decided to write the safest word.

It is spring now, spring returns to the earth, and everything recovers.

It's best to write a word of spring, since vulgarity is elegance.

Moreover, it is suitable for the occasion, and it is versatile with many good words.

As long as the emperor does not write about summer in summer, or autumn in autumn.

It would be too funny to make up a summer spring garden, hahaha.

She held the paper in her palm and turned to read what the emperor had written.

I saw that the emperor wrote a Chinese character "Chang" in regular script on the paper.

Chang, Chun Chang.Ah no, Changchun...

There seemed to be a flash of electricity in her mind, and the whole person stood on the spot, speechless.

The name Changchunyuan will be very familiar to anyone who has studied the history of the Qing Dynasty, even if they have only watched Qingchuan TV series.

This is a very famous garden in the history of the Qing Dynasty. It was a garden specially used for the elderly when Kangxi almost never returned to the palace in his later years.

This garden was built earlier and more ornately than the famous Yuanmingyuan.

Unexpectedly, half of the name of the garden was given by her...

The emperor took the paper from her hand, on which was written a word of spring in delicate handwriting.

Changchun, Changchunyuan, the combination of these two words is seamless and perfect.

"Okay, I will order people to remake the plaque today, and you can also order the palace people to prepare it. After the Qingming Festival, we will go to Changchun Garden to escape the summer heat."

The emperor was very happy for the tacit understanding between the two of them, and only then did he realize that Chen Wenxin was a little dazed.

"Niannian what happened?"

She herself is also a little strange, she has traveled to the Great Qing Dynasty for so long, so should she be so surprised by such a trivial matter?

How many historical celebrities she has seen, Xiaozhuang, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Nalan Rongruo...

Now it's just a name for Changchun Garden, why should she be so shocked?

It's just the deep sense of historical participation that made her feel extraordinarily solemn.

(End of this chapter)