It's really hard for the old lady to explain Master Pardon's confusion. It can't be said that Yun Yatou forced her good grandson to kowtow to her and ask for this marriage.
She didn't expect that Girl Yun would be so decisive today, leaving no way for her to fall back.
That scene caught the attention of all the maids and women serving in Rongxi Hall. If she denies the marriage today, Yun Yatou will have to twist her hair and go to the temple to become a sister-in-law tomorrow.
However, Xiangyun's performance today also made the old lady determined. If this girl has such decisiveness, she will be able to manage their family well in the future.
Thinking of this, the old lady decided to officially get engaged to the two after the Lantern Festival. Firstly, it can stop the thoughts of those who are interested in Baoyu, and secondly, it can be regarded as leaving a bloodline for one's natal family.
For various reasons, Mr. Pardon only heard from the old lady that both Baoyu and Xiangyun were willing, and that other things were not important at all, so he nodded and agreed to the letter to the Shi family brothers.
He also added: "This is a great happy event. Do you want the old lady to go to the palace and tell the empress? If the empress can give me a gift, it will also bring blessings to Baoyu and Yun Yatou? If you can please It would be better to touch the Queen Mother or the Imperial Concubine."
Who said the pardon was crude? Look at the idea behind it. Even the old lady thought it was a good idea.
Although Xiangyun was born into a noble family, she actually didn't even have a real natal family. It was the old lady who made the decision for her to be engaged, which made the scene so big that many people would probably laugh at her privately.
But if the palace grants one or two things, it is best to ask the Queen Mother or the Imperial Concubine to grant a marriage, which will give Xiangyun face.
The old lady thought about it for a moment. Xiangyun's father died fighting for the country, so maybe he could actually ask for a marriage decree.
At worst, if I shamelessly visit the Dragon Head Palace, the saint will probably give me some face.
Everything was settled. On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the old lady took advantage of the snow to stop, put on a formal suit and entered the palace to see her.
It happened that the imperial concubine Yang was chatting with Yuanchun in Fengzao Palace. The chamberlain reported that Mrs. Rongguofu was in front of the palace to see her, and immediately invited her in.
Hearing that the engagement was for the second master Bao who was born with jade in Rongguo Mansion, Yang also became curious. After saying hello and greetings, she asked which girl it was.
The old lady told Xiang Yun's identity and current situation bluntly, and the imperial concubine Yang was also filled with sadness.
There was a lot of turmoil in the Baolinghou Mansion that year, especially when Shi Yu, the eldest son of Baolinghou, died in the battle in Southern Xinjiang, and Mrs. Shi Yu committed suicide after giving birth to her posthumous son. This caused a long-standing turmoil.
After the old lady burst into tears for a while, Yang finally figured out what the old lady meant.
As an imperial concubine, she is in charge of the Phoenix Seal, so she can naturally do this.
Moreover, after Yuanchun entered the palace, he always respected himself and never borrowed favors to become spoiled. The Ningrong Jia family were also the emperor's confidants, so the marriage was a matter of course.
So Yang smiled gently and said, "Since this girl is a loyal queen, how can I not pity her? Don't worry, Mrs. Tai, after I report to the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, the harem will issue a decree on the Shangyuan Festival."
The old lady did not expect that the invitation today would be so easy. After a moment of surprise, she felt overjoyed.
She hurriedly bowed to Mr. Yang and thanked her, but Mr. Yang stretched out her hand to support her.
"Madam, you are slapping me in the face. Please get up quickly."
Yang helped the old lady up, held the old man's hand and lamented: "Back then, General Shi died for the country, leaving an orphan girl. The imperial court allowed his younger brother to seize the title, thinking that he would be raised by close relatives, but he didn't want to The Shi family would actually do such a thing, it’s really..."
The old lady's face turned gloomy, and Yang finally realized that the Shi family was also the old lady's natal family. The atmosphere in the palace was a little awkward for a while. Fortunately, Cining Palace sent someone to tell them that the Queen Mother heard that Mrs. Rong Guofu had come to the palace. , ask her to go to Cining Palace to talk about it.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the old lady and Yuan Chun barely exchanged a few words, but the marriage between Baoyu and Xiangyun was pretty much settled.
Not only did he get the royal concubine's promise of marriage, but the Queen Mother also gave her a pair of warm jade pendants.
The koi-shaped jade pendant is very beautiful
, as soon as the old lady came home, she called Baoyu and Xiangyun, and each of them hung one on her body.
With the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine looking after her, at least no one dared to make irresponsible remarks in public.
After the Laba Festival, the carriages traveling between Ning and Rong Mansion never stopped. Boxing gifts from the Jia family's in-laws and old friends from all over the country are being sent to the capital one after another.
In the two days of Yingchun and Tanchun, I had no time to joke about Xiangyun and Baoyu. I stayed in Rongxi Hall to help the old lady keep accounts and reply.
Lin Ruhai returned to Beijing in spring to report on her work. Although she cared about her relatives in Beijing, she could only send letters to convey her thoughts.
Officials travel, officials travel, how can they control themselves when they become an official?
The salt courses in Jiangnan were improving. Lin Ruhai, as an imperial envoy to inspect the salt administration of various prefectures and provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, opened a new salt farm, recruited salt workers, organized team training, suppressed private salt dealers, and cracked down on hoarders. For a time, the price of Jiangnan salt fell by 30%. .
However, the salt tax has not decreased, but has increased by more than 10% compared with last year. On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lin Ruhai, who was in charge of Jinling Mansion, sent twenty shipments of salt tax money and a large number of rare treasures obtained from raiding private salt dealers, with a total value of more than five million taels of silver.
It is said that Wen Tongxuan, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, went directly to the Qinzheng Hall with his bedroll and tortured the emperor for a whole day, and finally took away half of the money.
After hearing this, Jia Cong immediately stopped thinking about entering the palace. He would not give away someone's head foolishly. He would leave the matter of hunting wolves after the new year.
It had been more than a month since Jinse gave birth, and since Lin Ruhai was still in Jiangnan, the full moon banquet was just a meal for the family behind closed doors.
At Jinse's request, the old lady personally gave the Lin family's hard-won baby a nickname - Moyu.
The red color of Xiao Moyu has not faded yet, but it can be seen that his skin is fair and he is an exquisite brother.
Jia Cong poked his little face and immediately received a lot of criticism from his sisters.
"Don't poke children's faces with your hands, as they tend to drool."
Yingchun gently knocked off Jia Cong's hand, then skillfully picked up little Moyu who woke up after Jia Cong fiddled with her, and hummed a song to coax the child.
Tanchun and Xichun came closer, and they actually used cat teasing sticks to tease the child. The child was not attracted, but the two cats, one white and one yellow, became more playful and circled around the cat teasing sticks. Meowing and meowing.
The one-month-old child has poor eyesight but sensitive hearing. When he heard the sound, he wanted to find the source of the sound. Finally, he beckoned to the cat in the spring and carefully placed his little black jade hand on the cat's soft belly.
Cluck cluck...
Meow meow meow meow...
The little doll and the cat sang together, adding more comfort to the warm house.
Daiyu and Jinse answered the letter, put it in an envelope and handed it to Jia Cong.
Jia Cong hesitated and persuaded, "Aunt Mo really plans to go south next spring? Brother Mo is still young, and Jiangnan is a mess. We might as well wait until Brother Mo is older before taking up my uncle's post."
Jinse shook her head. She really couldn't trust Lin Ruhai to fight those people alone in Jiangnan.
Although the letter did not mention the turmoil in Jiangnan, she could still be sure that Lin Ruhai was having a hard time in Jiangnan.
Stealing people's wealth is like killing their parents. Now it's just a salt lesson. The real war will begin when the new year starts.
"well……"
Jia Cong knew that persuasion would have no effect, so he could only sigh and turn his eyes to Daiyu, hoping that Daiyu could help persuade her.
Unexpectedly, Daiyu also smiled and said, "After spring, I will go south with my aunt..."
"ah?"
"What? Sister Lin is going back to Jiangnan again?"
Both Jia Cong and Sanchun looked at the smiling Daiyu in surprise.
I saw Daiyu solemnly nodding to a few people with a smile on her face. After a long time, Jia Cong had to sigh: "In that case, I will accompany Sister Lin and my aunt to go south."
There was no obstruction in going south, mainly because the old patriarch Jia Jing had made plans long ago and planned to find an opportunity to return to his ancestral home in Jiangnan to clean up the mess in the eighth house of Jinling.
Seeing that the resolute Daiyu could not be persuaded, the old lady explained carefully to her nephew Jia Jing, and then sent a letter to Jinling to inform Lin Ruhai of this situation.
After the plan was finalized, during the last ten days of Yuanyou's fifth year, the two houses of Ning and Rong were preparing for the New Year, while packing up and preparing to go south.
Don’t be greedy, little kids, it’s the New Year after Laba.
Lililala twenty-three, twenty-three sugar melons are sticky,
The 24th is house cleaning day, the 25th is buying tofu,
Twenty-six buys a catty of meat, twenty-seven slaughters a chicken.
Twenty-eight handfuls of dough, twenty-nine steamed buns,
Stay up all night at thirty, and have dumplings on New Year’s Eve every year.
Everything was prepared in an orderly manner, and with the sound of firecrackers, the time came to the first day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of Yuanyou.
At the beginning of Mao Shi, Jia Cong, who had stayed up all night, washed his face with cold water, shivered, put on his official uniform, and boarded the carriage with a fluorene board in hand.
Today, in the Zhengdan Dynasty, everyone with official titles in the two mansions, including Jia Jing and Jia Rong in the Ningguo mansion, and Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Cong and Jia Baoyu in the Rongguo mansion, will go to the palace to pay homage.
In the past, when Taizu founded the country, the Ministry of Rites asked the emperor to pay tribute. On the first day of Yuan Zheng's first year and the return of the first sun in the winter solstice, the saints paid great attention to it and made it a gift of greetings.
Especially in the Zhengdan Dynasty, the royal family members, military nobles, civil and military officials, and envoys from various vassals all came to Fengtian Hall to worship.
"Daxia Hudian" contains: National celebrations, people from all over the world come to congratulate each other. From the winter solstice to the Yuanzheng period, congratulatory ceremonies are held. According to the stories of the country and dynasty, grand battles, music and dances, etc. are organized. The common people are honored by the emperor, and the old rituals will not be abolished. fall.
Before dawn, hundreds of officials were already wearing court robes and waiting at the south gate of the imperial city. After the Jingyang bell in the Forbidden City rang, the emperor lit incense and offered sacrifices to heaven to pray for a good harvest for the people.
At the end of the day, the sky was slightly bright, the Jingyang bell rang again, the palace door slowly opened, and hundreds of officials lined up to enter the palace and stood outside Fengtian Hall.
The first lunar month in the North coincides with the coldest period. When Jia Cong felt that his hands were almost numb from the cold, the sound of the whip in the hands of the Han general finally came.
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
Three whips were fired, and the nine Han generals shouted in unison: "Yuanzheng Qi Zuo, everything is new, and hundreds of officials have entered the palace!"
Fire tunnels have been laid in the Fengtian Palace for a long time, and the temperature inside and outside the palace are like two different worlds.
The space in the palace is limited and can only accommodate officials of fifth rank and above. Fortunately, Jia Cong is a small official and does not have to endure the cold wind outside the palace.
Today is the first day of the dynasty, and the solemnity and solemnity are awe-inspiring. Even Jia Cong, who is used to being undisciplined, knows the importance and stands obediently at the end of the third-grade military attache, quietly waiting for the arrival of the holy driver.
At the second quarter of the hour, the Holy Spirit is coming. All the officials performed obeisances and dances according to the rules, shouting "Long Live Long Live" three times, the Grand Duke delivered a speech, and the Privy Council announced their answers.
After the congratulations, the emperor went to the palace to give a banquet to the chief officials and hundreds of officials, and the ministers celebrated their longevity by drinking wine. The emperor and his ministers enjoyed each other's company in the palace, and the emperor ordered Hanlin to write poems and paintings to record them.
There were not many twists and turns in the Zhengdan Dynasty in the sixth year of Yuanyou. Everything was in order and no one dared to act arrogantly at this time.
Until the beginning of Si Shi, the banquet had just ended, and the palace gate came to report that Guangxi had sent eight hundred miles to rush...
The emperor opened the wax seal, turned a page, turned cold, and walked away.
The ministers in the palace were dumbfounded. According to the rules, the vassal states would still pay tribute, receive gifts in return, etc. But the emperor had already left. What should we do? ..
The officials of the Ministry of Rites were stunned. Just as they were about to inquire, they saw the eunuch Xia Shouzhong coming back with a solemn expression.
Xia Shouzhong shook off the dust and preached: "Your Majesty has decreed that the emperor's fourth son will preside over the court on my behalf. Three ministers, including generals and above from the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, cabinet ministers, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry, will go to the Qinzheng Hall to discuss matters."
"I respectfully obey His Majesty's decree!"
As the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, Master Pardon naturally went to Qinzheng Palace with the British generals. Jia Cong watched his father leave and secretly guessed that the war in South Vietnam must be unfavorable and that it was an extremely serious change. Otherwise, the emperor would not have walked away from such an important occasion as the Zhengdan Dynasty.
Liu Hong temporarily presided over the Zhengdan Dynasty on behalf of the emperor. The Minister of Rites who sang the ceremony was a little distracted. Most of the remaining civil and military officials in the palace were whispering. The imperial censor did not calm them down despite repeated warnings.
After hastily completing the rest of the process, Jia Cong quietly went to the fourth prince Liu Hong to inquire about the news. Liu Hong just whispered to him that Shui Rong suffered a defeat as soon as he arrived in Guangxi.
, and he wasn’t very clear about the rest.
The emperor decreed that it was strictly prohibited to enter within twenty steps of the Qinzheng Hall, so Jia Cong finally said goodbye and left with Liu Hong, who was equally anxious.
After all, this year was extremely unsettling. Master Pardon returned at night. As soon as he got home, he asked his soldiers to go to Ningguo Mansion to invite Jia Jing to come over. Everyone gathered in the Rongxi Hall again.
"Shui Rong led a total of 100,000 troops from Liaodong, Hexi, Sichuan and Guizhou, etc., and arrived at Nanning Prefecture in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. After taking over the command of Guangxi Commander Hong Zhengyuan, he gave up the strategy of guarding the city and divided his troops into three. Lu rashly sent out troops, causing the army to be divided by the South Vietnamese monkeys. They defeated Zhen'an first and then Siming. The only 30,000-strong army that invaded South Vietnam marched in a hurry, with poor logistics and trapped in the vast mountains. To this day, No news at all.”
Although Mr. Pardon's voice was quite calm, everyone in the room was worried.
It was said just now that Shui Rong brought soldiers and horses from the Sichuan Local Guard to Guangxi, so...
I heard Mr. Pardon suddenly let out a long sigh: "I'm afraid the Shi family is really going to suffer. Shi Nai is so confused that he actually got together with Shui Rong."
"According to Hong Zhengyuan's report, Shi Nai followed the army south and temporarily served as Hong Zhengyuan's deputy. The original plan was to have him hold the city in Zhen'an Mansion and wait for the army to encircle and capture the 20,000 South Vietnamese vanguards. Unexpectedly, Shi Nai did not listen to Hong Zhengyuan's order. He rashly attacked the city, resulting in the fall of Zhen'an Mansion, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city were slaughtered by South Vietnamese monkeys."
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