On the first day of May, the emperor went to Changchun Garden to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager.

"I will return to the palace today. Before returning to the palace, I will pay my respects to the emperor's mother."

The Empress Dowager nodded, "I understand. I want to sacrifice the summer solstice, and go back to the palace to fast."

The emperor lowered his eyes and smiled faintly, "Not only that. My mother forgot that this year is the year for the selection of the Eight Banners women."

The Empress Dowager also sighed, "Oh, isn't it!"

The emperor stared at his fingertips.

The hand of the emperor is in the hands of the world.

The only thing that cannot be controlled without authorization is the mother of the birth body.

When dealing with mothers, you cannot use the power of the emperor, but only the feelings of the son of man.

The emperor lifted his robe and suddenly knelt down on his knees: "My mom, my son wants to be the imperial concubine to be the imperial concubine, and he also asks her to allow her to allow her."

The Empress Dowager was shocked.

But he wasn't too surprised.

The old lady closed her eyes and said, "Here I come, it's still here. I knew that you will talk about this with me again in the end."

"It's just the emperor. In the past, you named her a concubine. I will let you go; but this imperial concubine is not something you can say that Jin is! The imperial concubine is your second wife, and is no longer a concubine! How can she become your imperial concubine with a Han family background under her inner custody?" (There is the word "second wife" in Manchu. The imperial concubine is a wife but not a concubine, so the imperial concubines of the Qing Dynasty can also be buried with the emperor together; it is impossible for concubines.)

"Even Huixian, Chunhui, Shujia and others, although they are not ladies from the Manchu and Mongolian family, when you named them imperial concubines, they were already sick, so they were happy! - In my harem of the Qing Dynasty, there has never been a royal concubine named Han who was awarded the title of the Han Dynasty in addition to the commemoration of the Qing Dynasty!"

The emperor was not surprised by the Empress Dowager's reaction.

When he was conferred the title of Concubine Jiuer as a concubine, his mother opposed it so much, he was really angry.

But today, he is a fifty-five-year-old man. Although he is still unhappy, he is no longer angry.

Anyway, what the Emperor Mother said over the years has been the same.

The emperor listened with filial piety, his face calm and he was not in a hurry to argue.

After the Empress Dowager finished speaking, the emperor nodded lightly, "What the emperor said is, but my son also has a reason to be granted the imperial concubine as the imperial concubine."

The Empress Dowager took a deep breath, "What are the reasons for enlisting the seal? You said to me, "

The emperor said calmly, "The year before us is the selection of the Eight Banners women. My son is fifty-five years old, so it doesn't matter if my son doesn't choose people in his harem this year. But this year, Yongyan and Yongyan are at the age of marriage; and Miande is also the time to re-string the strings."

"The marriage of two princes and one grandson is a big deal and cannot be delayed. Otherwise, it will be three years later. In order to extend our royal descendants, this time we can't be delayed."

The Empress Dowager couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

That's right, even if she is the Empress Dowager, she can't stop her for this reason.

The emperor said again, "The queen is crazy at this time. How can she preside over the selection of the Eight Banners women? If she had to let her go, wouldn't the emperor's mother be worried? The one she chose for the prince and grandson were all the ones she looked at in the eyes of her crazy men?"

The Empress Dowager was speechless.

The emperor then raised his eyes and looked at the Empress Dowager respectfully, "Besides, the emperor's mother is already in high spirits this year, and my son really can't bear to ask the emperor's mother to take charge of this matter again. And the son himself, after all, he is choosing a daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law. How could the son go to see it in person? In any case, it should be convenient to leave it to the prince's mother and the emperor's mother."

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes, stuttered in her throat, and then said slowly for a while, "...even if the Queen and I are not convenient to go, it is just called "Imperial Concubine" to act on her behalf. Why do you have to be promoted to the Imperial Concubine?"

The emperor was still calm, "Even the imperial concubine, he was still a concubine, but the princes' concubine, and he could not be called the mother of the prince. The selection of the Eight Banners women this time is a big deal, especially when marrying the prince and grandson, how can the concubines be solely hosted? Then how can the dignity of our royal family be preserved? Also, how can the selected women be properly prepared?"

"In the eyes of the ministers of the previous dynasty, wouldn't it be that the mother's family of these women were also worried? We don't value their respective families?"

The emperor quietly looked up, "At this time, the only way is to be able to be the imperial concubine as the imperial concubine and to preside over the selection as the mother of the prince."

The emperor put such a big problem in front of the empress dowager, and the 73-year-old man was helpless.

After all, this time, it was not just to choose a harem for the emperor, but to choose a concubine for two princes and one grandson!

The emperor was confident in his heart and raised his eyes quietly, "In addition to enthroning the imperial concubine as the imperial concubine, there is no other way to do this. My son also asked the emperor's mother to allow him. This time, my son was not for himself or for the imperial concubine, but for my royal descendants for thousands of years!"

"My son has made up his mind, please let the emperor's mother agree!"

The Empress Dowager sighed, but there was nothing else to do.

I can only say that the queen is too unscrupulous! She is at this critical moment when she can’t make a fuss? She asked this to catch up with the selection of the Eight Banners women when she went on the southern tour, so she was gone!

The emperor returned to the palace from Changchun Garden and before entering the fasting palace, he went to Yuqing Palace.

The location of Yuqing Palace is between Zhai Palace and Fengxian Palace.

The Zhai Palace is a place where the emperor worships heaven and earth, and the Fengxian Temple is a ancestral temple where the royal ancestors are worshipped. Yuqing Palace was specially selected to be between the two, and the meaning of its inheritance is understandable.

The emperor visited Yuqing Palace in person to check out all the arrangements that Xiao Shiwu was about to move in.

After checking, the emperor looked back at Mao Tuaner, "What do you think?"

Mao Tuaner hurriedly knelt down and said, "I'm daring... Emperor, the fifteenth prince is not on his fifth birthday at this time. If he had moved into Yuqing Palace so early, he would be a little far from the inner court. If the fifteenth prince misses the noble concubine and the noble concubine, how distressing it would be to the heart of the people?"

Mao Tuaner's words were tactful, and the emperor also understood.

The emperor snorted, "What I said is, don't you feel sorry for me?"

The status of Yuqing Palace is really special. He is still young at the age of fifteen. If he moves in, it will inevitably make others feel restless.

The distance between Yuqing Palace and the inner court and the Yangxin Palace is far. Even if the emperor and Wanxi and Yuqin are concerned, they will probably not care about it.

"But, Mao Tuaner, there is a saying that I cannot tell others, but you are my haha, Zhuzi eunuch. I have been with me since I was a child. My relationship with you is right and wrong, others can compare with others."

The emperor sighed softly, "I have read the "Zizhi Tongjian" carefully. I have remembered the gains and losses of emperors from ancient times to the present. I know even more clearly the lifespans of those emperors. From Qin Shihuang to the present, about 400 people have been elected emperors. Half of them live less than forty years, and the other half are less than sixty years old."

The emperor raised his head to the sky and closed his eyes gently, "I am fifty-five years old. Even according to the birth of the emperor, I have made arrangements in advance. If it is too late, I am afraid that I will not be able to stabilize Xiao Shiwu early. If I really just wait for my Bintian to read the secret order that day, Xiao Shiwu will still be young by then... His brothers and nephews are older than him, then he will be surrounded by dangers!"

Mao Tuaner was also shocked, and her heart felt even more painful as she twisted.

Yes, the emperor has reached this age and should always plan for the future.

I was no longer willing to think of such a sad thing, but this matter was already at an age that I could not escape.

"If you want to ask your fifteenth prince to live in Yuqing Palace, besides my own arrangements," the emperor narrowed his eyes, "This is the most important thing for you, the fifteenth prince, to have someone around you who can be assured."

Mao Tuaner hurriedly said, "The chief manager Guiyuan is the one who is favored by his master himself. Several nannies have also served the fifteenth prince since childhood..."

The emperor shook his head, "Those people are appropriate, but they are not enough to make people feel at ease. After all, their relationship with your fifteenth prince is just an ordinary master and servant relationship."

The emperor raised his long eyes and said, "Mao Tuaner, I am not allowed to ask you to guard the tomb for your sixteenth prince! I will ask you to follow your fifteenth prince... You will make up for your guilt for your fifteenth prince!"

Mao Tuaner was stunned, then her body trembled, she was already lying on the ground, her shoulders trembling slightly.

"I am afraid that I will be sorry to the emperor and the master of orders..."

The emperor leaned over and pressed his palm on Mao Tuaner's shoulder, "Your Sixteenth Prince's departure is not your negligence, but you never thought that such a sinister woman would appear in our Qing Dynasty harem! If you say something wrong, I have established such a queen, and it will naturally be above you!"

"At this moment, you will pay for your sixteenth prince to guard the tomb, how much can you give your master? With her heart towards you, if she knows that you will guard the tomb again, how can she feel comfortable?"

"It's better to stay. Raise your spirit of 120% and help me and your master to protect your fifteenth prince like an iron bucket!"

Mao Tuaner burst into tears and kowtowed heavily, "Slave, I swear to be unfair! If the fifteenth prince makes any mistakes, the slave will chop him up and never enter the cycle of reincarnation..."

The emperor sighed in regret and nodded, "Okay."

After three days of fasting, on the fourth day of the fifth month, the emperor held a ceremony for sacrifice to the land.

Back to the Old Summer Palace that night.

On the Dragon Boat Festival the next day, the emperor took the Empress Dowager to "Wanfang Anhe". Like in previous years, he accompanied the Empress Dowager to have a meal here and watched the show on the water stage.

The one who stands next to the Empress Dowager's throne and serves is naturally the gentle one.

The emperor had not yet explained the promotion, but he had a tacit understanding with the Empress Dowager in his heart, so he looked up at Wanxi from time to time, and smiled at the corner of his lips.

Wanxi didn't know what was wrong with the emperor. In front of the Empress Dowager, the inner court, the prince and grandson, and the royal prince and concubine, she felt a little uneasy.

After all, she couldn't let go of the sadness of Xiao Shiliu's departure.

If she wants her to laugh, she really can't laugh for the time being.

Wanxi then lowered her head deeply and tried to avoid the emperor's gaze.

If you can't see it, don't force yourself to smile, right?

But the emperor asked, "Concubine, what did you embroider me this year?"

It is customary for the heads of the inner court to present sachets and sachets to the emperor on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Wanxi blushed and whispered in a hurry, "...I saw that the emperor had taken two large plates of sachets. The emperor should stop making things difficult for me. The emperor knew about my needlework and thread."

The emperor nodded, "The palace has never lacked exquisite craftsmanship, but the rarest thing is to return to the natural world. The female red concubine of the imperial concubine always has the wonder of "elephant invisible."

It’s a pity that the emperor actually has the ability to find such a high-sounding reason... Wanxi is so choked.

Wanxi understood that the emperor was afraid that she would be sad this year, so she deliberately wanted to make her happy.

Wanxi didn't want to disappoint the emperor, so she tried her best to curl the corner of her lips, "Look at what the emperor said, I'm even more ashamed."

The emperor simply walked around the dining table, stood in front of Wanxi, reached out to her, "Take it."

Wanxi had no choice but to take out a small sachet from her cuff.

She knew that the embroiderer could not do anything, so she only put some effort into the shape of the purse: because of the white jade gourd pendant of that year, Wanxi made today's sachet into a gourd shape. There was no special pattern on the top, but just embroidered a petal with colorful threads to form a five-petal flower, which was just the fifth day of the fifth month.

The emperor saw it but snatched it over, nodded with a smile, "That's it!"

After saying that, the emperor lowered his head and hung the sachet around his waist.
To be continued...