Chapter 169(1/2)
After Yinzhi returned from his southern tour, he often went to pay tribute to his mother, occasionally sitting in the palace, and talking between the mother and son.
"Baoqing seems to have hidden some worries today," Concubine Hui is responsible for coordinating with the imperial concubines and Prime Minister's palace affairs, ranking first among the four concubines, and she is responsible for the food and clothing in the harem.
The Qing Dynasty stipulated that the prince should not be kept by his biological mother after he became sensible, so as not to be distracted by the woman's temperament, and he would have to live in the prince's life as soon as he reached his age.
When Huifei was in the palace, every time she saw Yinzhi, she felt that he was changing little by little. She didn’t see the eldest prince in two months of traveling in the southern region. The child had changed a lot, taller, stronger, and like a man.
The relationship between mother and son is still there, but there are still some traces of unfamiliarity.
In Huifei's impression, Yinzhi liked to eat meat when she was a child and did not like sweet food, so she prepared jerky meat.
However, Yinzhi ate two honey cakes and did not touch the jerky meat.
Memories are still stuck in the past, while the child's taste has changed. These little bits and pieces gather in the heart of a mother are an indelible loneliness in the deep palace.
Concubine Hui herself is better because she has the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince under her name. Two little babies are already able to walk. It is just when she is very active, and it is so funny to make her tease.
The other concubines were treated like this, and those without children would not be even more tormented. No wonder the concubines competed for favor as soon as the emperor came back from the southern tour, and fought hard as if they were black-eyed.
Women's inner huddle methods are nothing more than those. Concubine Hui is still tired of seeing it too much. She is more willing to spend her time on the donkey than being disturbed by the humble concubine and asking to make the decision and be fair.
After the age of twelve, Yinzhi came to Huifei's palace gradually more and more, and gradually he formed the habit of coming to pay his respects every day.
From these changes, Hui Fei guessed that the eldest prince's status was gradually increasing and his power was becoming stronger.
So, why not fight for it? If you want to live comfortably and want to do whatever you want, all this depends on power, right?
Concubine Hui is the leader of the four concubines. When her own son grew up, she still has two adopted sons. She has palace power and the emperor's feelings for the old man. Who doesn't envy her in the harem?
"My son is just thinking about his recent official duties," Yinzhi smiled and told Concubine Hui some interesting things.
"Yu Guozhu is really good at financial management and has made a lot of efforts to make a fortune and horse for the newly established Ministry of Commerce. Khan Ama said that if he had not committed any crime, he would probably be able to be the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue based on Yu Guozhu's qualifications."
Kangxi's original words were: I remember that Yu Guozhu's excellent service ability was very good, and I planned to promote Yu Guozhu to the position of Minister of Revenue to replace Liang Qingcheng. Now it seems that Liang Qingcheng can only continue to work in the Ministry of Revenue for a period of time.
Liang Qingxuan also suffered unrestrained disasters and instinctively went to the Ministry of War to take charge of military power. His power seemed to be evenly transferred, but in fact he was more powerful than the Ministry of Revenue. However, because he had no successor, he was forced to stay in his post to work.
And the prince, after he had been at the Ministry of Rites, he went to the Ministry of Revenue!
After Sha Cheng, Liang Qingcheng became the best candidate to take over His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Seeing that the situation was wrong, Hang Ai submitted a memorial to Kangxi. The memorial mentioned issues such as trade and reception of foreign guests, and fully expressed his yearning for the Ministry of Rites.
The vacant position of the Minister of Rites Manchen was just about to be able to be taken over by Hang Ai.
Kangxi transferred another censor of the Inspectorate, Koerkun, who was born in the Irgen Jueluo family, to serve as the Minister of Revenue.
Yinzhi said: "Khan Ama has given Yu Guozhu a false title of left minister of the Ministry of Commerce." But in fact, the Ministry of Commerce has not even confirmed the office space. The manpower is a process from scratch. Even the head of the court has not even piled up a large amount of calculation work on Yu Guozhu's case.
"This Yu Guozhu is also famous and has become the 'jail assistant' that people say is said to be."
"As soon as the Ministry of Commerce gradually takes shape, Yu Guozhu's salary will increase," Yinzhi said: "If Yu Guozhu is willing to work during the New Year and holidays, he may be able to pay off his debts in his lifetime."
Yu Guozhu's descendants also took on debts. Before paying off the debt, they could not go to restaurants, traveled, took horse-drawn carriages, cruises, or left Beijing. The cost of clothing should be based on the common people. The food purchased every day should be full and they should not eat expensive meals.
There was a "miserable" Yu Guozhu's family in front of him, and Mingzhu's gangsters were booing, and no one dared to jump out again for the time being.
In addition, with Soetu returning, and Nalan Mingzhu is still in Shengjing, they can only avoid the sharpness of Soego's gang members and restrain themselves and lurk.
Concubine Hui said in confusion: "I heard that Baoqing paid money to release Yu Guozhu from prison." I'm afraid it cost a lot of money, right?
Why did Baoqing release a minister who had been imprisoned and abandoned by Mingjin's clan members bailed out?
"Yu Guozhu is now his son's man," Yinzhi used the waste and pinched Yu Guozhu from Mingxiang into his own hands.
"Khan Ama said that when Yu Guozhu is confined to his home and serves twenty years in prison and repays the debt, he may have the opportunity to sit in the position of Minister of Commerce. It is not certain whether he can live to be eighty years old."
Yinti said with a smile, not worried at all because his subordinates were confined to serve their sentences at home.
Hui Fei breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "My mother doesn't understand the affairs of the previous dynasty. She just saw that you have always been in a daze recently, so she was worried that my son had encountered any difficulties."
"It's not a difficult thing, I just felt some of the gap with the prince," Yinzhi mentioned a little, and Concubine Hui was suddenly shocked.
Yinzhi hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, mom, there is no movement in the mother tribe."
Even though he said that, Hui Fei frowned and sent someone to close the windows in the palace. He whispered to Yinzhi: "Yehennara is a big family. The family from which the mother came from is only one of them. However, because I became the head of the four concubines, I can't give them what they want, nor do I want my son to do some dangerous things for them."
"In the harem, I have reached the top, and the emperor will not let me go further. For me, I have lived a sufficiently satisfied life, and there is nothing in my heart that I am unwilling to accept it." There is a good life now, and I can still have hope in the future. When I get old, I have a son to support me and see me off, and there will be grandchildren in the future. Concubine Hui does not agree with the mother's desire to go further, fight for the throne and make the family more prominent.
"It should be noted that if you want to seize something better, the price you have to pay is even greater. Once you lose money, you will lose all your money and even endanger your life."
It was like gambling. Hui Fei looked at her trump card and thought it would be great now. If she continued to bet, the risk would be too great.
"My mom, don't think too much, my son doesn't mean that," Yinzhi saw that Concubine Hui suddenly became nervous and laughed and cried, and hurriedly explained: "Son Master is saying that in terms of knowledge and vision, my son found that he was a little worse than the prince."
Even if he didn't have that mind, he wanted to become a better person. What worried him was that the prince didn't seem to want to fight for it or maintain his position, and he was eager to compete with him.
Yinzhen: There must be a huge pit in it, so I won’t be fooled!
"You don't have it now, but it may not be the case in the future. The mother tribe is still counting on you and bringing them a more prominent honor!"
Look at the current Hesheli clan, there is a prince in front of him, which is full of glory.
The emperor's mother clan had a low status in the previous dynasty, and could not compare to the Hesheli clan, Niuhulu clan, or Yehennara clan. But now, there was an imperial concubine, two men from the Tong family, one was the first-class duke of the inheritance and the other was promoted to the Minister of Political Affairs. With the example of the Tong family's family ascension, Yehera clan was also very jealous!
Huifei: "When you grow up, if you don't fight, there will be someone pushing you to fight."
Yinzhi: "When my son grows up, I can't help but do whatever I want to do!"
"We cannot live outside our mother tribe. The court and the harem will influence each other." Hui Fei was worried that Yinzhi would fall apart with her mother tribe because she was unwilling to be manipulated. That was not advisable, because once this was the case, it was not that they abandoned their mother tribe, but that the mother tribe abandoned their pawn. At that time, their mother tribe would help others.
"Bones are broken and tendons are connected to each other."
"My mom, don't worry, my son knows this, he doesn't do things so impulsively. Is your son a brainless person in your heart?"
Concubine Hui: "You have been impulsive and reckless since you were a child."
Even his mother said this, and Yinzhi couldn't wash away the four big words "impulsive and reckless" on his head.
Will he grow up too? After learning so much and seeing so much, how could he still be the same as before!
The brain is a good thing, he picked it up.
"The prince is young and naughty. That's because he is still young. The emperor praises you for being mature and steady. Then you will be more mature and steady. You are the eldest son and have an extraordinary position in the emperor's heart."
Yinzhi said in surprise: "Young and naughty? Where did you come from the young and naughty saying that the prince is not mature and steady enough?"
Concubine Hui laughed in silence: "Where is mature and steady, it is said in the harem that the prince and the emperor play hide-and-seek in the Imperial Garden. Although the prince has been studying with the Ministry of Rites for so long, he is actually a child! The emperor is willing to play with the prince, which shows that he is also enjoying the family happiness between father and son."
If you want to talk about the relationship between father and son, it is the prince who is closer to the emperor. Protecting the Qing Dynasty, hey, when he should be steady, he is reckless when he should be steady, but he is worried about her.
Yinzhen: "..."
He thought of Yinreng's nonsense: Just because I lent money to the minister, Khan Ama chased me with Liang Jiugong's whisk and wanted to beat me up, and ran around the Imperial Garden three big circles!
Concubine Hui advised him with great sincerity: "You should get closer to other brothers. The prince takes the lead in getting close to his younger brothers. Don't be cold to his younger brothers. Since Niuhulu's noble family was named Concubine, he returned from the southern tour of the emperor and gave birth to the tenth prince. There are ten princes in the harem. You are the eldest, so you should have the appearance of an elder brother. Why don't you meet the seventh prince and the eighth prince when you come today? The prince will play with his younger brother, will you?"
Concubine Hui kindly ordered someone to carry the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince. The two children were three years old and four years old. They were already sensible and could call people.
Yinzhi really didn't have the patience to spend an hour playing games with his younger brothers. He likes to ride and shoot, and practice martial arts with his younger brothers, play with him, play with plaids, and play with bear dolls...
Yinzhi glanced at the saliva left from the corner of his mouth dripped on the back of his hand, and his back suddenly became furrowed. He kept shaved with a veil and asked someone to wipe it clean with a veil. He left in a hurry before he stayed for a long time.
Concubine Hui shook her head: "Hey, I said it wasn't impulsive and reckless, this child just couldn't sit still!"
The two little princes opened their blank eyes and hugged the bear dolls that Prince Ge Ge gave to all the younger brothers, as cute as the New Year doll.
"Xiao Qi will go to the study next month," Hui Fei picked up the seventh prince, reluctant to leave, but even if she is reluctant to leave, when the time comes, the princes will leave the concubines like the previous princes and live alone in the prince's residence until they leave the palace to build a mansion.
In fact, during the late emperor, the princes went to the study after the age of six. This precedent was made in Yinzhi and Yinreng. Both of them blamed their two children for being too outstanding, which directly affected their younger brothers.
Yinreng discovered that the fourth brother seemed to be "deeply obsessed with" his height.
Yinzhen was particularly dissatisfied with his height in his previous life. He felt that if he was not picky about food when he was young, he would drink more and exercise more, he might look as tall as the boss!
Yinreng asked him curiously: "Does the fourth brother want to grow tall?"
Yinzhen said: "Among brothers, the eldest is the highest, and the fourteenth is the second, maybe it is the relationship between martial arts practice, and then the higher one is the second brother of the prince and the second brother of the eldest brother, and the tenth brother of the eldest brother, and the ninth brother of the same disease as me is the ninth brother."
When it comes to height, in Yinzhen's opinion in this life, it is no less than his life!
He protested and said to Yinreng: "Crown Prince's Second Brother, can you not talk to me every time when I drink goat milk?"
Yinreng: "You drink too slowly. I was so nervous when I saw it that I wanted to fill you with a glass of it. You always sprinkle milk."
Yinzhen picked up his forehead, wanted to be angry, but was afraid of being pinched, so he finally chose to fight Yinreng with expressionless face: "You little child, please take care of yourself."
He wrote down this revenge of pinching his face, hum!
"You drink three cups of milk a day, you're drinking too much, just to grow taller?"
Yin Nei nodded deeply: "To grow taller."
Yinreng immediately felt sympathy.
How short was he in his previous life that made him so worried about his height? Can drinking goat milk really grow particularly tall?
[It is true that nutrition, exercise and environment will affect the development of height, but Xiaomei calculated based on Yinzhen's bone age to conclude that when he was eighteen years old, he was about 1.69 meters tall.] The conversion unit of meters and centimeters was only learned to read "Detective Conan". It is different from the length unit of the Qing Dynasty. However, Yinreng gestured for a while and found that the height of 1.69 meters was a little short.
[After aging, the intervertebral disc will lose nutrients and shorten its height, and Xiaomei expects that Yinzhen’s height before his death is about 1.59 meters...] Yinreng muttered secretly: Ah, this height does hurt his self-esteem a little bit.
He gestured at Yinzhen's height, compared his height when he was six years old, and sighed: Oh, the fourth brother is two centimeters shorter than when Gu was seven years old.
Yinreng shook his head: It’s no more to save it.
To be continued...