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Volume 9, Volume 16, Amitabha(1/2)

Originally, Wanxi was still in the confinement period, and Yuqin and others didn't want to disturb Wanxi's rest, but Yufei's words were both open and secret, regardless of intention or not, and this was a way to avoid both Xiao Shiwu and Xiao Shiqi.

It seems that the two princes produced by the Imperial Concubine are not as good as those who have just died.

However, whether it is Yuqin, Wanpin, Yingfei, Yupin and Rongpin, although they are all high-ranking positions, they are really unable to be as close to Wanxi to the emperor... They never dared to ask some questions in front of the emperor, and they dared not guess the emperor's heart without authorization.

Therefore, these questions can only be entrusted to Wanxi to solve them.

On this day, when you arrived at Wanxi's bedroom, Yuqin tried to be as gentle as possible, first growing from her short feet that she was not good at Manwen, and said, "In the past few months, you have reported the good news, and the news from the palace and outside the palace have been blocked outside, so you are not allowed to come in and disturb you."

Wanxi nodded, "I know Yongqi is dead, and Hu Borong also went with her."

Yuqin said carefully, "The emperor gave Yongqi his posthumous title "Zhu". I just know that this Chinese character was also "Zhuhuang Emperor" in the past; there was also a word "Zhuhuang" in the name of the imperial concubine Chunhui. Then this character seems quite noble. Since they are all used by the emperor and imperial concubine, the royal princes could not use it easily, right?"

"But our Qing Dynasty is different from the previous Ming Dynasty. If you have titles and posthumous titles, you have to read Chinese characters. I don't know anything about Man characters, so I have to ask you about this."

Wanxi just smiled faintly, "The word pure is indeed a good character. But as my sister said, Chinese characters are the same word "pure", but in fact, the word full may not be the same; or even the word full is the same, but it is used in emperors, concubines, and royal families, because of their different identities, the meaning expressed is not the same."

"If this word is used in the posthumous title of the queen, it means 'Zhongzheng and Cu, Duncheng and Chouyi'; if it is used in the posthumous title of the Wang Beile, it means 'Zhongzheng and Cu, safety and one mind'."

"The word "pure" can also be used as the posthumous title of a minister, meaning "loyalty and one mind to be safe and dangerous"... My sister looked back at the differences between these three identities. Although it seems that the three meanings are similar, it is actually not the same thing."

Yuqin also lowered her head and thought about it carefully, "So that's it!"

Wanxi nodded with a smile, "In fact, it means that the prince uses the word "未" and Yongqi is not the first one. This character was once named Longxi, the seventh son of Shunzhi, who had already been named "Prince Heshuochun", which refers to the title of the prince; and this character has been used as the posthumous title of the prince for a long time: Prince Jian Jidu during the Shunzhi period was the posthumous title of "未".

Yuqin finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, "To put it this way, the word "pure" is noble, but it is not just Yongqi. It's a good thing that Concubine Yu is still so boasting."

Wanxi lowered her eyes lightly, "It's interesting to say that Yongqi's title of prince during her lifetime or posthumous title after her death, she seems so noble, which makes people easily confused."

Yuqin sighed, "I'm afraid it's just a name, but it's not true. The 'Prince Rong' in his lifetime is actually not the same as the child born by Shunzhi and Dong E. The 'Prince' after his death is actually not the same as the posthumous title of the emperor. Moreover, the prince used this word, and there were old examples before, and nothing new or special."

Wanxi raised her eyes quietly, "No matter what, the emperor is actually still caring about the father-son family affection. Yongqi has been famous all these years, so the emperor gave him enough cover in his name. Outsiders do not know the truth about the inner world, and do not know that the emperor has issued so many decrees. If they only guess from the name, they can fully realize the reputation behind Yongqi."

"The white-haired man gave the black-haired man, and the emperor has tried his best to cover up Yongqi."

Yuqin also nodded, "After all, before you gave birth to a prince, the emperor really valued Yongqi the most. If the emperor could cover up Yongqi like this, then Concubine Yu shouldn't be so nonsense anymore, otherwise she wouldn't know how much blessings behind Yongqi would be erased."

Wanxi was also a little dazed and grabbed the folding fan beside her and looked at it.

When Yuqin looked at it, it was the one that Yong Yan gave to Xiao Shiwu.

Yuqin's heart beat a little and she asked carefully, "Jiu'er, why did you take Yuanzi's fan down? Are you still in confinement? Where can you see the wind?"

Wanxi shook her head with a smile, "I'm not saying it's just for fanning."

Yuqin pretended not to know, "What do you want this fan?" Yuqin deliberately took a closer look, "Yong Yan's words and paintings are really good. They are the best among all the princes."

Wanxi also nodded, "Yong Yan's handwriting is beautiful and elegant. I like it the most among the princes. It is not in vain that his concubine is Fuling, and she lives up to the fate of Nalan Rongruo in-laws."

Yuqin bit her lip, "Then why is this folding fan... not right?"

Wanxi raised her eyebrows and sighed softly, "Sister grew up in the south of the Yangtze River. These elegant things are the most common and do not think they are strange. But don't forget that they are in the palace at this time, and the palace of the Qing Dynasty."

Yuqin's heart trembled slightly, "Tell me clearly."

Wanxi stretched out her hand to point to the three words "Brother Jingquan", "Sister, the two words Jingquan are the words "Yong Yan"."

Yu Qin raised her eyebrows, "What's wrong? The word "王" is the son of morality. Throughout history, how many men who have studied in the school do not take the word "王"?"

Wanxi raised her eyes quietly, "Sister said, does the emperor have the word "王子"?

Yuqin was asked, and was stunned for a moment, then shook her head.

Wanxi asked again, "Sister said, can the emperor's name be used in the name of the Han people be called 'Aisin Gioro Hongli'?"

"Of course not!" Yuqin also said hurriedly, "The emperor has scolded the royal family and the ministers of Manchu for this."

"That's true." Wanxi gently shook Yuqin's hand, "It's like my mother's family, although she is a Han family, she has already entered the flag. Therefore, my Ama's name is 'Qingtai', the name of the bannerman, without the surname; and if we follow the tradition of the Han people, I Ama has another name. The name of the Han family is not mixed."

Yuqin nodded, "So what the emperor was not happy about was that Yong Yan took the word "大天" for himself in the form of a Han Chinese?"

Wanxi raised her eyes and said, "Sister, there are too many Han ministers in the study. The emperor was worried that Han ministers would use Han people to get the name of the princes and nicknames... They are princes, not ordinary people. They must be the ones who adhere to the Manchu traditions most and must not lose all their foundation."

"Either the emperor or the princes admire Sinology. They can write good characters and draw good paintings, but this does not mean that the nobles of the Tian family can throw away all the traditions of Manchus. If neither the emperor nor the prince can inherit the tradition, how can they ask the banner people to not forget their ancestors?"

Yuqin frowned, "But I heard that there are quite a few people in the prince who have the word "天天" and go with the same name. In addition to Yongyan, the "正quan", it seems that Yongqi also has the word "Yunting". There is also Yongyan, whose name is "天天天天"..."

Wanxi blinked with a smile, "Jiu Master also has the word "Chunhe"; Jiu Master, the sons of Fu Ling'an, and the four-headed princes also have the word "Bi"... Although there are some, they are just calling each other privately outside the palace and cannot be used in front of the emperor."

"Besides, the prince is different from the ministers. The emperor may not pursue the ministers, but he must not allow the prince to do so."

Wanxi took a breath, "Besides, sister, I think about it, Yongfeng is the son of the Imperial Concubine Chunhui, and has half of the Han ancestry; Yongfeng is the son of the Imperial Concubine Shujia, and has half of the Goryeo... In addition to Yongqi, they use the name of the name and the nickname of the two of them!"

Yuqin's heart finally skipped a beat.

She heard that something important was coming.

"And our Yuanzi has a similar identity to Yongyan and Yongyan. He has just started school at this time. If he learns from his brothers, or is guided by his masters, he has also taken the name and nickname..." Yuqin felt cold on his forehead, "It's a good thing that he discovered it early! No wonder the emperor got so angry this time and wrote such a long decree!"

Wanxi quietly lowered her eyes, "We are already carrying the blood of the Han people, and it is very difficult for you and I to have the status of today. But the princes said that there are more than our harem. Yong Yan was an unintentional act, and he also had a name for himself, but our Yuanzi was too young after all, and he didn't know the benefits and disadvantages of this."

"If Xiao Shiwu was ignorant and learned to go to Yongfeng and Yongfeng, and took the name of the name and nickname, then someone would definitely be plagued by this reason... Originally, many people from the royal family and Jueluo were not happy that I was promoted to the imperial concubine, so they would naturally take Yuanzi as a target. It's okay for us lords, how could we ask such a small Yuanzi to bear those things so early?"

Wanxi felt a little scared when she said that. This happened when she was pregnant with Xiao Shiqi and focused on raising her baby for those months, and didn't care about her. So she went when she was relaxed about Xiao Shiwu.

"If we can tell us to discover this matter in time, it is God who protects Xiao Fifteen, and we will not let this child go because of his young age. The emperor issued a timely order to scold this matter, and even more, he told Yuanzi that he would never have the chance to make this mistake again." When Wanxi said this, she patted her heart and quietly thanked God.

Yuqin couldn't help but get up and go to the small Buddhist temple in Dongnuan Pavilion to worship, saying "Amitabha".

After saying these troubles, Yuqin smiled and said, "By the way, there is also Zong Xi incident. The Ninth Concubine is also blessed. She is really destined to be with you. So before you, I will give birth to a little princess!"

Wanxi was also very surprised, "God, she actually hides it so strictly this time!"

Yuqin also laughed, "She is similar to you. At this moment, she is still quite old and dare not expect to give birth to a child. Then she has no excuses when she has a child... As a result, the melon is ripe and the stems are falling, but her children are all together."

Wanxi nodded with a smile, "I really want to congratulate Jiu Ye and Jiu Fu Jin Xian on their way."

Wanxi has not yet finished her confinement, so she only talked to her sisters such as Yuqin and Yuqin in private, but she did not seriously care about Yufei.

A head of the inner court lost her youth and imperial favor, and now she lost her only son... She is always pitiful if she says and does whatever she says and does. If she takes it seriously, she will not be able to do it.

Concubine Yu thought she was able to do something and said these words more smoothly, as if she was taking it seriously.

After the emperor was born in the Seventeenth year of childhood, he sacrificed his place to Fang Ze and then went to Heilongtan to pray for rain, and he did not have time to do it, but it does not mean that he knew nothing.

While Concubine Yu was spreading these words, the emperor was also discussing with the Minister of the Interior to choose the site of Yongqi Garden.

Originally, Yongqi was born with a prince and had children, so it was necessary to build a prince's garden alone. However, the emperor still ordered the Minister of the Interior to investigate the garden where the eldest prince Yonghuang and the third prince Yongzhang were buried together, and asked Yongqi to bury the two brothers together.

After receiving the emperor's order, the Minister of the Interior was busy.

On May 22, just one day before the seventeenth prince's little full moon, the Minister of the Office of the Interior reported to the emperor that the eldest prince Yonghuang and the third prince Yongzhang were buried, and another person was buried - that is, the Yuanwei Jin of Miande and the eldest prince Arishan of Princess Hejing.

The ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted an on-site investigation and found that there was no place to bury Yongqi outside the three tombs.

Since there is no place to bury this Prince Rongchun, we should choose another location or build a garden for Yongqi alone.

But those who can be at the level of the Minister of the Office of the Internal Affairs are very well aware of the emperor's thoughts. They all know in their hearts that the emperor didn't want to spend more money to build another garden for Yongqi, so they wanted to bury Yongqi directly into the ready-made gardens of Yonghuang and Yongqi.

Therefore, several ministers in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who have always been very experienced in serving the king,: Prince Zhuang, Fu Heng, Aligun, Debao, Sanhe, Sige and others, actually gave the emperor a seemingly incredible idea - "We must first move the brick circle of Prince Miande, choose a place near Donggezhuang, build another brick circle, build a wall, build three gates, and place the golden coffin of the concubine. The old foundation of the brick circle is repaired and clean, and a stone circle is built, and the golden coffin of Prince An Rongchun is built."

In layman's terms, it means picking Arishan out of the cemetery, moving it out of Prince Ding's garden, re-arching the empty pit and burying it into Yongqi.

As Arishan's identity, from the royal family, he was Yongqi's niece; from Princess Hejing, Arishan was Yongqi's niece again, but his uncle and uncle wanted to use the grave base of his niece and niece... It was always a bit weird.

Moreover, Yongqi and Arishan had a conflict for Miande and Yongqi during their lifetime. I wonder if it was a cause and effect in the dark.

Such a somewhat incredible request was approved without hesitation: "Add to move."

By making such a decision, we can also see the emperor's attitude towards these two people: whether it is to the granddaughter, Princess Hejing's grandparent, or to Yongqi, in the emperor's heart, they can move after death, and they don't care about the peace of these two people after death.

According to the emperor's will, the Minister of the Interior calculated the cost of moving Arishan's tomb and then building a tomb voucher for Yongqi.

When making tombs for the prince, all flowers are used, there are certain rules. The Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs calculated about 14,915 taels, five cents, and six cents of silver according to the regulations.

This amount seems to be a lot, but there is only one extremely important expense inside - the prince who was given a posthumous title should at least erect the tombstone. The cost of this item should be 3,000 taels alone, but the Minister of the Interior seemed to have forgotten to fill in the fee for this item in the accounting.

The answer to this mystery was a year later, on May 24, 32nd year of Qianlong, Yongqi's inscription was officially completed and revealed. The first prince who was born was not only not allowed to have a separate garden after his death, but also had to be buried with two brothers who were publicly deprived of inheritance by the emperor; there was not even a separate tombstone, which was engraved on the back of the tombstone of the eldest prince Yonghuang.

If the last few months of Yongqi's death were combined with the things in the tomb after his death, the emperor had already said everything he said to his son explicitly and secretly.

The construction of the garden for the prince is a secret for outsiders, but the harem knows it after all.

Concubine Yu never expected that the emperor would arrange Yongqi's tomb tickets in Yonghuang and Yongzhang's gardens, and used the original grave of Arishan... When the news came, she was filled with indescribable pain.

The joyful and gratitude she said before was no longer able to say anything compared to the real tomb tickets.

She had no face to see ordinary people in the harem again, and she felt really depressed, so she fell ill and just hid in a while and didn't have to see anyone.

Even the Seventeenth Prince Xiaomanyue, all the concubines should come to celebrate Xiao Shiqi, but she didn't come.

Concubine Yu fell ill, but Wanxi still remembered her child, Yingyuan's little prince, had successfully delivered the saint in March.

The child failed to meet him for the last time, and he didn't even have a formal name before he had finished planting acne. Concubine Yu was only concerned about falling ill and did not remember these things to the emperor. Wanxi asked for grace in front of the emperor for the child.

No matter who it is for Yingyuan and Yurui, to thank Debao for his loyalty over the years.

When the emperor heard Wanxi mention the poor child, he sighed. However, at this moment, the entire harem was still immersed in the joy of the seventeenth prince's little moon, and the emperor had not yet drawn up any good names.

The emperor looked up at Wanxi, "According to you, what do you wish for that child?"

Wanxi lowered her head and thought for a while, and smiled quietly, "This child has been in constant turmoil since she was born. First, I hope this child will have a stable future; second, I hope this child will have a long life."

The emperor's grandchildren had already used the word "mian". The emperor thought about Wanxi's heart and nodded, "There is a word that represents stability and longevity."
To be continued...
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