3. Robbery while the fire is burning (3)
After a few days like this, in addition to going to Cining Palace to greet the queen mother, occasionally meeting with the emperor and telling the palace about the idle things, Xingzhen only stayed in the palace, or hugged her son, or talked and laughed with the concubines who came to say hello.
More than ten days later, one afternoon in early March, the personal palace maid next to Concubine Li came to Chuxiu Palace to greet the queen, and told Xingzhen, "The people outside, our little master has been notified, and we are waiting for the mother's good letter to be launched." ”
"I know, there is no big problem here in this palace, and when the time comes, I will wait for the fire burning outside your mother's mother." Xingzhen turned her head and instructed Fan'er, "Did you get the Dong'e Ejiao longan soup that the emperor boiled later?" ”
"It's already done."
"Okay, then you accompany me to the Heart Cultivation Palace, at this time, the emperor should have summoned the minister, and it is just the right time for me to go."
"Okay."
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Xingzhen came to the Heart Cultivation Palace, Yang Qingxi happened to be outside the hall and said something to a little eunuch, seeing Xingzhen and her party, she hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, "Queen Mother, you haven't come to the Heart Cultivation Palace for some days, and the emperor has been talking to the eldest brother several times." ”
"I don't know if the emperor is talking about the palace, but Mr. Yang, have you been talking about the palace, the palace is clear, are you thinking about the good tea and snacks in the Chuxiu Palace again?" Xingzhen opened her mouth and smiled.
"Ouch, I can't hide anything from you, the slave is really thinking about the tea in the queen's palace, but I've been busy on an errand lately, so I can't be free."
"When you're free, you'll come by yourself, and you can't ask the palace in person," Xingzhen scolded with a smile, "How is the emperor feeling today?" ”
"It's not bad, I haven't had much to worry about these days."
Xingzhen straightened her sleeves, "Then report it quickly." ”
"The emperor said, Niangniang, you come, you don't need to report, you just go in."
"It's okay, then the main palace will go in first, and I'll talk to you when I come out."
"Well, the slave listens to the mother's orders."
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Xingzhen stepped on the soft carpet in the main hall of the Yangxin Palace, and walked to the East Warm Pavilion paved with gold bricks, only to see Emperor Xianfeng, who was wearing a bright yellow Liuhe hat, tilted his head on the pillow and looked at a fold, and saw his queen enter the warm pavilion, the emperor got up and lazily stopped Xingzhen's salute, "The queen is here, sit down, don't be polite." ”
Xingzhen asked Fan'er to open the basket, took out a red brother kiln bowl with both hands, and said to Emperor Xianfeng with a smile: "The emperor is tired of the excerpts, drink longan ejiao soup and rest." ”
"Hmm," Emperor Xianfeng nodded, a warm smile appeared on his face, "The Empress has a heart." Xingzhen looked at Emperor Xianfeng's lazy appearance, and knew that he was slacking off again, so he said with a smile: "If the emperor feels that there is a shortage of criticism, he doesn't care who to serve, summons a noble person to sing a song, or Xuansheng Ping Department to sing a new play, it is very cheap." ”
Emperor Xianfeng's heart moved, and he was a little happy, but he still fell silent, "That's it, these internal and external troubles have come together one after another, and I still have the heart to listen to what music and what drama to watch!" ”
Just as you were about to say that this internal and external troubles were not revealed, Xingzhen's face did not show any light, but she asked in surprise: "This internal trouble is naturally a rebellion and a thief, but where does this external trouble come from, the concubine has never heard of it." ”
"But you don't know that on the 28th of last month, General Heilongjiang reported that the Russian governor of Eastern Siberia sent hundreds of soldiers on Sakhalin Island on a big boat, not to mention killing, burning and looting, and also drove all the fishermen who fished on the island for a living in the Qing Dynasty into the sea. Emperor Xianfeng slapped the table, his expression was angry, "Although the first emperor cut Hong Kong Island to Yingyi, but after all, it is the land of the South China Sea, I looked at the map of the Qing Dynasty yesterday, this Sakhalin Island is more than twice as large as Taiwan Island, and it is the land of Longxing in our Manchurian white mountains and black waters, if it is unreasonably occupied by the Russians in my hands, how will I go to see the ancestors and ancestors under the nine springs in the future!" ”
Xingzhen was a little disdainful for a while, this Sakhalin Island is a ball, in the future, you are the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the east of the Ussuri River, the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers north of the Heilongjiang River are not in your eyes, and they were blackmailed by Tsarist Russia during the Second Opium War, by the way, plus more than 100,000 square kilometers of land west of Ili in northwest Xinjiang, and they were thrown out without saying a word, hey, this northwest land seems to have been ceded out when Lao Tzu was listening to the government...... Ahem, let's not talk about this.
"What the emperor said is very much, this northeast is our base area, not a single cent can be retreated, and the evil neighbors in the north are really not a good thing, starting from the Holy Ancestor Dynasty, it is to salivate over our splendid China, and it is a little bit to be able to occupy a little bit, and now he is even more interested in our Sakhalin Island, and he unreasonably occupies and shoots fishermen, which is really hateful!" Not only hundreds of thousands of territories were ceded through the Treaty of Aihui and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, but also a militarily vital port - Vladivostok! This is the only year-round ice-free port in the Northern Hemisphere north of 40 degrees north latitude! If this port is not lost, and there is a naval base in the Sea of Japan that is eyeing the island of Honshu, then little Japan must not have the courage to make any small moves. In the future, the Beiyang Navy will not only shrink in Weihai and other places close to Gyeonggi, becoming an iron sampan guarding the gate.
"What you said is extremely true, I also want to teach Russia a lesson, but now this is not the same as the Holy Ancestor Chaoyu's inner peace. Now the south is rampant, and the strength of the whole country is concentrated on exterminating the rebels as the first priority, and the north is really not able to take care of it, not to mention that the Heilongjiang general only has a few thousand men and horses, and he is really more than enough but not enough. Emperor Xianfeng pressed his temple with his hand and said distressedly.
After the flattening of the three feudatories in the early years of Kangxi, the eighteen provinces of China and the three provinces of Kwantung belonged to the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and only Zheng Jing (Zheng Chenggong's son) and Zheng Kexuan's father and son in Taiwan were still unified and did not obey the orders of the Qing Dynasty. Soon he was also defeated by Shi Lang, the former general of Zheng Chenggong and the then commander of the Fujian Navy, and had to open the door and surrender. Kangxi was very happy, named Shilang the Marquis of Jinghai, and ordered the establishment of a government and three counties in Taiwan, which belonged to Fujian Province.
Since then, the power of the Qing Dynasty has reached overseas, Siam, Annam and other countries have sent envoys to pay tribute, and even European countries such as Italy and the Netherlands have also sent people to make peace, asking for the opening of the sea ban and maritime trade with each other. After deliberation, the ministers of the Qing court decided to establish four customs offices in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jianghai to collect customs duties, which was the basis for coastal trade in the future
Happy April Fool's Day, everyone.