Clearly, she doesn't want to be a concubine

Chapter 85

Umalu frowned slightly.

Imperial Concubine Tong Jia said: "My younger sister is a smart person, I don't need to say more, I just want to say one thing, in this entire palace, who gets promoted faster than Concubine Yi, and how many concubines Yi are favored."

Concubine Tong Jia said: "But that Concubine Yi is no more hated by everyone in the harem than my sister."

Speaking of this, she sighed sadly: "Even I misunderstood my sister because of this."

Umalu smiled softly, without any strength: "Sister thinks too much, Sister Yifei is innocent and bright, she is the most natural."

"It's no longer bright and refreshing." The imperial concubine Tong Jia sighed, "So no one thinks about her."

Umalu persuaded: "They are all harem sisters, who can compare to my sister, don't worry about my sister."

She paused and said, "I only hate that I'm stupid and not in good health, so I can't help my sister."

The imperial concubine Tong Jia looked at her calmly, and said in her mouth: "I don't want to say such things, if you are fine, that's fine."

Umalu looked at her with tears in his eyes: "Sister."

Imperial Concubine Tong Jia got up: "Okay, you rest, and when you give birth to the emperor's heir, I will let the fourth elder brother stay with you for a few days, and take a good look at your younger brothers and sisters."

"elder sister……"

The two talked affectionately for a while before they separated.

Back at Chengqian Palace, Yinzhen was taken out by Hongshao.

Brother Ying took a look and saw that there was no one around, so he said, "The virtuous master?"

Concubine Tong Jia said: "It seems that she really doesn't know, maybe she is the shield pushed by the emperor."

She looked at Brother Ying thoughtfully: "Concubine Yi is stupid, she really needs a shield."

She opened her hands, closed them again, played with her fingertips, and said casually: "It's a pity."

Brother Ying looked up at her and stopped talking.

Concubine Tong Jia waved Brother Ying out.

It's a pity that Concubine De is too smart and has no weaknesses. She still has two sons and is pregnant with one, the fourth child is not as easy to use as the first time.

If she makes a move again, that Concubine De may not be able to use it for her.

With her face propped up, she thought casually that she didn't really care who her cousin loved, she just wanted to be in a high position and protect the prosperity of Tong's family.

She doesn't want what she can't get.

She put her hands on her lower abdomen. It would be great if she could give birth to an emperor's heir.

She raised her head, her eyes dim.

Even if there is a prince, so what?It is too easy to die alone.

Disease, drowning, water, poison, assassination...

Just like her sixth younger sister, she will die quietly in the well without anyone knowing.

Even if the historian mentions it, she will only record that there are only five girls in her family.

She thought about it all slowly.

The emperor...for whom did he stop conferring?
Even though she is an imperial concubine, she is only a concubine after all, which is different from the empress.

She can accept that her cousin of the emperor is only temporarily suspended as empress, but she cannot accept the so-called "emergency is permanently vacant for her sweetheart" comic drama.

So, who is it?Who made her cousin the emperor break his promise to her and only made her a concubine?

The imperial concubine is only a concubine after all.

Her cousin the emperor would not fail to understand.

At that time, not long after she entered the palace, she lived in Chengqian Palace and was in charge of the affairs of the palace.

The emperor came to see her, saw her coquettish, walked away from the left and right, and said to her: "Emiang passed away early, the Tong family is weak after all. After you enter the palace, be less coquettish, and as time goes on, I will thank you for your kindness. Allow you to take the next seat."

He promises the next position, and teaches her to avoid coquettish anger, reform herself, and change her love.

She still remembered it, but he changed his mind.

The old man's heart is changeable, so take it easy?

After Tong Jia's imperial concubine left, Liu Li sent out the orb, and then said: "Master Tong Jia, this is it?"

Umalu was silent for a while, and then said to Liuli: "She came here just to kill someone with a knife."

"Master is weak..."

Umalu interrupted: "At least on the bright side, I am loved by the emperor, and I am the only one who can be as important as Concubine Yi."

She paused and said: "She may not care who the emperor loves, but she cannot tolerate someone vying for her power."

Umalu sighed, "Besides, she's just a noble concubine."

"I don't understand." Liuli didn't realize it, "No one in this palace knows that Master Tong Jia is honorable."

"She's just an imperial concubine..." Umalu explained to her calmly and carefully, and said, "A concubine can be named a queen, but an imperial concubine is not required to be named a queen."

Umalu lowered his eyes: "The imperial concubine's title was rewarded by the emperor. It sounds glorious, and it seems to be closer to the latter."

She paused and said: "But if you want to make her a queen, why bother making her an imperial concubine?"

She raised her head to look at Liuli: "There is a saying among the Han people that it is said that one who walks a hundred miles is half ninety, that is to say, if you want to walk a hundred miles, if you walk ninety miles, it is only halfway."

Umalu closed his eyes wearily: "If you haven't reached the end, it's not considered the whole journey."

Liuli was startled: "What the master means is that the emperor can choose someone from the concubine position to be the queen at any time."

Umalu nodded, and said slowly: "As long as she doesn't become a queen for a day, the emperor can make someone a concubine at any time, and then make a queen. Her position is not stable after all."

Umalu looked at her: "Don't forget, the women in front of me who loved me a lot, did not violate the rules. If the emperor really wants to exceed the rules, who can control it? The biggest rule in the world is the emperor. There's nothing he can't do."

She lowered her eyes, hiding all emotion.

Liuli hesitated for a moment, before saying: "I heard someone in the palace say that the reason why the emperor didn't continue to have a queen is because the two queens died early, and he was afraid that the successor would also die early."

"madness."

Liuli bowed and listened.

Umalu didn't intend to talk about this, paused, and continued: "She didn't react before, because in this harem, the family background is better than her, and she is not favored by her. The family background is not as good as her."

"Concubine Yi's family and my family both raised the flag, so she couldn't sit still." Umalu looked at Liuli, "Her family also raised the flag."

If there was no Kangxi, his family would be nothing more than the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army under the Five Banners. Although it is not coated, it is not very dignified.

For the Aixinjueluo family, the world is only divided into slaves and slaves are not as good as slaves.

His Tong family is no longer a slave.

The so-called favor and loneliness are just in the emperor's thought.

Since her Tong family can carry the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army to the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, how can she not guard against those whose families have already raised the Zhenghuang Banner of Manchuria.

Therefore, the imperial concubine Tong Jia was indifferent to their concubines, and now she came to test Umalu, because the imperial concubine Tong Jia was very wary of raising the flag of the concubine's family.

"Master is smart."

"She was too deliberate, and the temptation was too obvious." Umalu closed his eyes and couldn't help sighing softly, "She's upset."

Liuli's heart skipped a beat, and she thought to herself that she was a dexterous person, how could she become a fool in front of these two masters, if she made a wrong step, the master might be forced to become a vassal of the noble concubine Tong Jia.

She knelt on the ground and said bitterly: "The slave is stupid and cannot share the worries of the master."

"Stupidity also has its benefits." Umalu invited her to get up, saw her bow her head, and smiled slightly, "Liuli, let me ask you, there are two people, one is clumsy and the other is glib. When they fight, they both say It's the other party's fault, who do you believe."

"I believe she is clumsy, she..." Liuli had already understood, but she still finished speaking, "She is so clumsy, how can she lie, how can she have any bad intentions to frame others..."

"Great ingenuity is like clumsiness, great wisdom is like foolishness." Umalu smiled softly and stopped talking.

"The slave will do his best to be loyal to the master in the future." Liuli hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

"Get up."

Liuli got up, and after a moment of silence, she asked again: "I want to ask, what should I do if I am alienated from my master because of my stupidity."

Umalu was drowsy at first, when he heard the words, he said lazily: "So, first, I want you to be simple in the emperor's heart, and second, I want you to be as wise as a fool."

Although Liuli could know a few characters, she hadn't read the documents thoroughly, so she didn't know what Jane meant in the emperor's mind.

Umalu guessed that she didn't understand, so he opened his eyes and said lazily: "There is a saying in "The Analects of Confucius Yaoyue": "The emperor's ministers are not concealed, and simplicity is in the emperor's heart. "The so-called simplicity in the emperor's heart refers to those who are known and appreciated by the emperor."

Liuli's eyes widened slightly, as if she had realized something.

She suddenly remembered the behavior of the person in front of her. In the eyes of outsiders, Master De is indeed dull and stubborn, not good at liking, and unable to please the emperor. Master De's favor is inexplicable in the eyes of others, as if he is covering up the favor that Master Yi has obtained. .

but……

just in case……

Is Master Yi the shield?
Master De's everything is to please Shangyi, what she does, every word and every word, just scratches the emperor's itch?Does the emperor just love it?

It was like, what the emperor wanted was an edible peach, and all the other people sent peaches made of gold and jade, but what Master De sent was the edible peach.

In the eyes of everyone, the contempt given by Master De was not what the emperor wanted.

If this is the case, then blindly being smart is tiresome, blindly being stupid is tiresome.

Great Wisdom Ruoyu, just right.

Umalu's voice interrupted her conjecture: "I have never flattered him."

Umalu looked at her sideways, neither happy nor angry: "I am such a person, such a disposition."

Liuli bowed her head and confessed: "The slave is wrong."

Umalu raised his head slightly: "Okay, even though I'm not in charge, I'm not blind. You are dedicated to me, I know. Come and help me to rest."

Liuli stepped forward and helped Umalu to lie down and rest.

Liuli stepped aside.

Umalu closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Those palace people are just stupid people, don't interact with them."

She paused and said, "You also restrain some people from Yonghe Palace."

"Yes, the servant knows."

After a while, Liuli heard her breathing steadily, guessed that she had fallen asleep, and was about to tiptoe back when Umalu spoke.

She said: "Compared to the glory and stability brought by the latter position, the death of one or two women is nothing."

"Master...Master?"

Umalu said softly: "Okay, you go down, I didn't say anything, and you didn't hear anything."

"Yes." Liuli paused, then tiptoed down.

Although Umalu closed his eyes, his mind did not stop for a moment.

In the past, Zhuge Liang knew three parts of the world before he came out of the cottage, and there is a saying that the sage knew the world without going out.

Although she is not as good as these people, she can probably figure out a thing or two.

There are no more than three types of concubines in the harem, one type of family background.

For example, Chuxiu Gong Gege who entered the palace at the age of ten is the concubine's younger sister of Empress Xiaochengren; the noble concubine Niu Hulu who entered the palace last year is the same mother and sister of Empress Xiaozhaoren.

The Xianfu Palace Gege Borzigit came in seven years after the death of Concubine Hui Borzigit.

Once the current imperial concubine Tong Jia dies early, the Tong family will definitely send in a second daughter of the Tong family immediately.

One is to show loyalty, and the other is that the honor and favor of these aristocratic women are often experienced in the previous dynasty.

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than proof that, you see, I have a good relationship with your family.

Therefore, even if these women are underage, they still have to enter the palace to stay.

For the emperor, it is to show the honor and favor to the ministers; to the ministers, it represents their holy family.

As she said, compared to the glory and stability brought by the latter, what is the death of one or two women?One dies, and there is another.

Kangxi knew, and those ministers also knew, what the later position showed was that the emperor clearly announced to the world: I value the ministers of this family.

Henceforth, the favor and glory of this family continued.

There are few people who can agree to the next position just because they like it.

The former dynasty and the harem complement each other.

Empress Xiaochengren, Empress Hesheli, is the first-class minister of the auxiliary government, the queen of Soni; Empress Xiaozhaoren, Empress Niu Gulu, is the granddaughter of E Yidu, the five founding ministers of the early Qing Dynasty, and the daughter of the first-class assistant minister, Ye Bilong. The Borzigit family is a Mongolian tribe. In the past, Huang Taiji contributed to conquering the world. Today's empress dowager and empress dowager are from this tribe; Tong's family is Kangxi's mother's family.

This is the embodiment of the previous dynasty in the harem.

How much sincerity and hypocrisy there is in it, I am afraid that Kangxi himself is not sure.

The second category is to give birth to many offspring and grow older.

For example, Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong are the elders in the palace, the eldest elder brother Yinti is born to Concubine Hui, and the third elder brother Yinzhi is born to Concubine Rong, so naturally they should be rewarded.

One category is like her and Concubine Yi, who are favored by the emperor.

There is also a saying about fighting in the harem, making enemies on all sides is not a good thing.

It depends on the family background, honor and favor. If you make a small promise, concubines and concubines can't afford to be angry with you.

The state has state laws, and the palace has palace rules. If you make a mistake, and it is not up to the higher-ups to take action, you have already been taught a lesson.

The same concubines have their own ideas, and rarely make enemies.

How do you know that if the person in front of you agrees today, he won't be equal to you tomorrow?
Aren't these all just in the emperor's thoughts?If the emperor's disgust is aroused by his words and deeds, the loss outweighs the gain.

Most of the time the palace is calm and there are few disputes. Although the palace people are punished, they still act according to the palace rules.

The whole world belongs to the emperor, so the palace servants in this palace belong to the emperor too.

This palace man can hit and scold, but he can't hit the face. If you hit the face, you hit the emperor's face.If you kill the palace servants, you will also damage the emperor's property.

　In the 1676th year of Kangxi in 15, Tong's family entered the palace, called Gege, and was treated as a special concubine.

　　Some people may not understand that the concubine raising the flag and the concubine's family raising the flag are two different concepts
　　The former may just be petting, not tempted.The latter was really favoring Rong, so... he was tempted.

　　So imperial concubine Tong Jia doesn't care about the former, because she can change at any time.But beware of the latter.

　　Hahaha, in addition, Yongzheng also wrote: I am such a man, such a temperament, such an emperor.If you and other ministers do not fail me, I will not fail you again, so encourage them.

　　ps. Some people speculate that the reason why Kangxi did not seal the empress later was superstition, fearing that his successor would die early

　　To put it indifferently, women in ancient times were used to marry and consolidate interests, so after the death of the first two empresses, two entered the palace immediately, one was Pingfei Hesheli (the concubine sister of Empress Xiaochengren) , one is Niu Hulu, the noble concubine of Wen Xi (the concubine sister of Empress Xiaozhaoren)
　　The imperial concubine Tong Jia of Huihui came here less than a year after the death of Empress Xiaoyiren Tong Jia (the current imperial concubine Tong Jia)
　　Concubine Xuan Borzigit came in seven years after the death of Concubine Hui Borzigit, they are all of the same clan, you know
　　If I'm really afraid of dying early, I won't be accepted into the palace.

　　It is a symbol of cooperation of interests

　　Some people regard these as Kangxi's love sisters, but each has his own opinion, and I personally prefer it because of interests.

　　Just like when Huang Taiji was at that time, all three aunts and nephews married her, and the two queens of Shunzhi were all from the Borzigit family
　　
　
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