Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1249 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 173

Another Golden Award Festival passed. This year, Princess Shuhe brought her husband into the palace to participate. She sat together with Princess Chaogui and Yue Xing'a, and the four of them had a lively chat.

Qingying was finally allowed to enter the palace again to attend the Gold Award Ceremony. She seemed to be much clearer-headed now. It was a pity that Jianqiu was still frightened by her behavior last year and did not dare to let her get too close. Naturally, she seemed to be neglected by the Cining Palace.

When the old wives saw this situation, combined with some vague rumors from last year, and some people mentioned that Jiang Xinxin still didn't like any women from the Ulanara clan outside the family, they all distanced themselves from Qingying, the wife of Prince Duan.

Jiang Xinxin was surrounded by a group of young people and children, and she was in a very good mood.

Qianlong was not planning to perform a dance again this year. It would certainly be a surprise if he did it once in a while, otherwise it would be easy to make a fool of himself if he did it every year.

Especially this year, because the navy crossed the sea to the east to carry out a secret mission, the news sent back confirmed the authenticity of the "treasure map", and also trained the Eight Banners men. Qianlong was very happy, and now he is greeting the male guests in the front and cannot get away no matter what.

The empress became more popular, although everyone knew that the empress had limited influence in the previous dynasty and the real decision would have to be made by Emperor Qianlong alone, but what if?

Pillow talk has been proven countless times over thousands of years and is the most powerful wind in the world.

If one has too much money and his ideological level cannot keep up, it will easily cause many troubles, so Qianlong found time to seek help from Jiang Xinxin.

Jiang Xinxin directly suggested that the court pay for road construction. "You are the emperor, you should understand the benefits of smooth roads, especially now that we have channels to purchase food from abroad, and there is almost no famine in the Qing Dynasty, so paying for road construction is the best investment right now."

Qianlong understood the huge benefits after a brief thought, but there was still a problem: "Now the Mongolian nobles are willing to go south and spend money, and almost everyone in the royal palace in Beijing has a considerable fortune. Empress Dowager, I want to find a way to make them more content."

Jiang Xinxin also came up with a feasible plan in a blink of an eye: "Then build two suitable racecourses and two Cuju fields."

"Whether it's polo or Cuju, they are both large-scale activities suitable for both men and women. Moreover, building such a venue requires a large number of manpower and money. If we let those people contribute, people around the capital can also participate and earn some hard-earned money."

"If the money piles up in the treasury without being spent or circulated, it will become a dead thing. Only by letting the money circulate continuously can it be good for the court and the royal family."

As soon as Jiang Xinxin said that, Qianlong understood the key.

There are many smart people in this world. Some people did not bring it up first, perhaps because they were blinded by one thing and did not think of it, or perhaps because it involved too many things to be the first to speak up. In short, with Jiang Xinxin taking the lead, the court officials completed all the details after a little discussion.

The former dynasty was busy and the harem was also uneasy. Because of the addition of princes and princesses, the concubines in the harem had to be promoted. Su Concubine had two princes and a princess, and she felt that she was more capable than the queen, but she was still only a concubine, and she was very unwilling.

However, the image she established to the outside world was that of a timid, good-natured person with a soft temper. Except for the occasional outburst when she could argue with reason over the affairs of the princes and princesses, she usually didn't care about anything else.

When she was on the ship to Beijing, she drugged the Jiangnan women on the same ship as her and ruined their offspring. Not only Chen Guiren got the news, but Qianlong also knew about her cruel nature. So even though she gave birth to another princess, she only received a large reward. Qianlong never considered promoting her to a higher rank, and he even didn't bother to give her a title.

The Queen was a little worried at first, but after listening to Qianlong's explanation, she began to be wary of Concubine Su, and even secretly asked people to observe Concubine Su's children. After confirming that both of Concubine Su's sons were far less intelligent than the eldest prince Yonglian, and even the second princess was not as beautiful and intelligent as the eldest princess Jingse, she gave up the idea of ​​taking action against Concubine Su's children.

Concubine Su was punished, while Concubine Chen received rewards from Emperor Qianlong and preferential treatment from the Empress. Even though she was not promoted, she was still very happy.

After giving birth to the fourth prince, Hai Jia was promoted to Concubine Yu. However, her delivery was not smooth. Even though she gave birth to the fourth prince safely and there was no problem with his health, she herself suffered from bleeding due to the difficult labor and was unable to sleep with the emperor for a short time.

Qianlong originally did not realize that someone was behind the incident involving Concubine Yu. After all, Concubine Yu was not very favored by Qianlong in the past, and her temperament was very dull, so she could not confide in Qianlong.

When the Queen was preparing a midwife for Concubine Shu, she accidentally learned that one of the midwives who delivered Concubine Yu had a misfortune in her family and was missing. She felt that something was strange and investigated secretly. She found out that the midwife had been bribed before, and her only son had been seduced into gambling addiction and once owed a debt of more than a thousand taels of silver in the casino.

Soren Zhuo was secretly investigating from the casino, and finally he found out about Lady Bai who had been promoted to a noble lady.

After receiving such a result, the Queen could not believe that Concubine Bai, who was born as a musician in the Southern Palace, had the ability to set up such a big trap on Concubine Yu, especially since many of the other party's methods were carried out outside the palace and the forces involved were not small.

The Queen thought that if she really should suspect Lady Bai, she might as well suspect Ulanara, the one behind Lady Bai, so she told Emperor Qianlong the whole story and asked him to let his subordinates, the Sticking Rod Department, take care of it.

However, Qianlong did not want to waste his experience in the Sticking Rod Office in the harem.

As I said, Qianlong felt that he was still young, and it didn't matter if he didn't have many children now. The previous emperor was able to safely give birth to four princes and two princesses in his fifties. If he took care of himself from now on, he could still have children for at least several more decades, so children were really not rare in the palace.

Therefore, after confirming that Concubine Yu herself did not realize that she was being plotted against, Qianlong directly handed the matter over to the Empress to handle: "Empress, all matters in the harem are under the management of the Empress. You should also give Concubine Yu and the Fourth Prince an explanation for the plot against Concubine Yu during her childbirth. I am busy with my previous affairs."

The empress could tell that Qianlong was very unhappy, so no matter what excuses he made, she could only agree obediently and repeatedly stated that she would manage the harem well and not let Qianlong worry about it anymore.

Qianlong was finally satisfied with the sincere words. He nodded and praised the queen casually: "Thank you for your hard work, Queen. The Queen is really a good wife to me. Yonglian and Jingse are also very well educated."

After hearing what Qianlong said, the Queen's excitement became even more real.

Even though the Queen had not given up the idea of ​​letting Yonglian take the throne, she also understood from Jiang Xinxin's suggestion that she and Suolentzhuo could not bring up the issue of establishing a crown prince in any form, otherwise disaster would befall them.

But this did not prevent the Queen from using other means to provide various benefits to the eldest prince Yonglian.