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When Prince Gong heard that the eunuch, the chief steward of the Jingshi Room, had come to deliver the decree, he immediately changed his crown and went out of the hall to greet him. Shi Jinzhong greeted him first, and congratulated with a smile on his face: "The sixth master is very happy!" There is a grace from above. ”

As soon as he stood up, the two of them were in a different position, Shi Jinzhong walked to the top to deliver the decree, and King Gong knelt below to listen. At this time, the palace went up and down, running to tell each other, and the officials and housekeepers of the palace with high positions concentrated on the upper room, one to inquire about the details, and then to congratulate King Gong and Fujin.

Gong Wang Fujin came from a different background, and when he encountered this kind of thing, he was very calm, knowing that it was true, but he said that he was at a loss, and he wanted to "wait for the prince to come in and ask to understand".

King Gong rewarded Shi Jinzhong, returned to the upper room, everyone greeted him, just in front of the porch court, please congratulate him, and when he stood up, he found that King Gong's face was not happy, not only was he not happy, but he was also deeply unhappy. This look was strange, but no one dared to ask, only their own interests, and quietly retreated.

"What did the people in the palace say?" As soon as the girl lifted the curtain of the door, Gong Wang Fujin stood up and asked.

"There is only an oral decree that it is called a princess. And it was the 'West' who confessed it to his face. King Gong shook his head and said, "Anyway, the big girl is not ours." ”

"Alas!" King Gong Fujin Guerjia was shocked at first, and then he had seven points of sadness and three points of joy, and he didn't know what he felt in his heart.

The couple silently faced each other, thinking that there was a princess, I don't know what impact and changes it will bring to the house? At this moment, I heard someone outside the door of the hanging flowers, "Sixth Master, Sixth Master" shouting all the way in, and the voice was Baojun.

Bao Jun and King Gong have a very thick relationship, so thick that they don't talk about anything, and they don't avoid their relatives. So as soon as he arrived in the upper room, King Gong and his wife both came out, and looking at his face, they knew that they had received the news.

"Don't say a word of obnoximity!" King Gong didn't wait for him to speak, and stopped him first, "Otherwise, don't want to eat my whitebait hot pot tonight." ”

Bao Jun was stunned. "Sixth Grandma," he asked, turning his face, "what's wrong?" ”

"You are also a person with children, the mood of the sixth master. Can't you guess? ”

"It turns out that I can't bear to be a girl. Yes! Bao Jun quickly corrected himself, "From now on, it is not allowed to be called that again."

"This ......," he said in a low voice, with a straight face, "whatever." It's always a great joy. No matter how aggrieved and reluctant I am in my heart, I can't ignore the face above. After a while, there will be a greeting guest, but you can't help but smile perfunctory. ”

"Pei Xuan's words are very true." Gong Wang Fujin also said, "Sixth Master, you have to listen to him." ”

His beloved wife and friends all persuaded him like this, and King Gong finally restrained himself and put on a smiling face. Sure enough, it only took a moment to congratulate the guests. Some of them were stabbed, some were registered, some could be seen by the doormen, and some of them had to be received in person, according to the etiquette of the palace and the depth of friendship, depending on the identity of the visitor, and made different treatments. Among the congratulatory guests received by King Gong himself, some people said that they would invite Da Gege to come out and accept the congratulations as a princess. This was originally a full-foot-plus two-pronged service, but as the saying goes, "the horse's fart is patted on the horse's feet", which made King Gong very displeased.

"Forget it!" He replied coldly. "There is no etiquette for foreign officials to meet the princess of the queen concubine in this dynasty.

This time, the person who touched the nail was naturally ugly, and others also felt that it was boring, and they were all strange in their hearts, such a favor. Why did King Gong have such an attitude?

He was reminded that the unhappiness was only revealed in front of the closest people. That night, he left Baojun, Wen Xiang, Zhu Xueqin and others to eat whitebait hot pot, and when he had the intention of drinking, he complained and said self-deprecatingly: "People are more expensive than mothers and sons, and I am cheap to fathers and daughters, isn't this a joke?" ”

"Mother is more precious than son" naturally refers to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and "father is inferior to daughter" refers to himself, but why is this so?

Seeing everyone's confused eyes, King Gong explained: "Originally, I was the head of the family, but now there is another master out of thin air, I don't understand, I and the girl, what's going on?" When she comes back from the palace in the future, do I have to open the middle door to greet her? ”

This question made everyone tested, and led to another question, "Our princess, according to the rules, should be different from the eldest princess born to Concubine Ligui, right?" Baojun looked at Zhu Xueqin and asked, "Uncle Xiu, did you say it?" ”

Zhu Xueqin is now the Ministry of Literature Anthology Si Hanlangzhong, thought for a while and replied: "The original custom, the one who came out of the middle palace, was named Princess Gulun, the concubine, and the princess who raised the palace was named Princess Heshuo." But in the Yongzheng period, it was different. ”

"How is it different?" Bao Jun asked urgently, "Take an example!" ”

"The fifth son of Shizu, the title is also Prince Gong, his big Gege was bred in the palace, the first title of Princess Heshuo Chunxi, and the first year of Yongzheng into the Princess of Gulun Chunxi. This is a precedent. ”

"It's easy to do it if there is a precedent!" Bao Jun said confidently.

Wen Xiang nodded, and King Gong was silent. He is also a competitive person, and since Da Gege is going to be named a princess, he should be a Gulun princess.

So after Baojun's arrangement and after King Gong's humble speech, Ming issued an edict: "The Minister of Military Aircraft is ordered by the Empress Dowager Cixi: the daughter of Prince Gong, intelligent and anecdotal, is the most loved by Emperor Wen Zongxian, and repeatedly wants to raise the palace. Since he should look up to the Sacred Heart, he used Pettern to be named Princess Gulun immediately to show his favor. ”

On this day, Da Gege was welcomed into the palace and raised by the Empress Dowager Cixi herself.

After a few days like this, the Empress Dowager Cixi issued another edict: "How can you respond to the desires of one person, and be absolutely humane?" Princess Gulun, who is well-intentioned, filial piety and harmony, can't bear to isolate the father and daughter of the prince and his wife, so that Princess Gulun, when she is free, still often returns to Prince Gong's mansion to visit her parents. "From this point of view, the Empress Dowager Cixi's authority is really skillful.

Adding a princess in this way is a big deal in the palace, but it is not very concerned in the outside world, and the people in Beijing are most concerned about it now, nothing more than the war in Jiangning, a few days ago, news came from the south that Hong Xiuquan had died of illness, and now, this Jiangning Kefu is just around the corner.

April 20 of the first year of Tongzhi, late at night.

On the Bingbu Street in the east of Zhengyangmen of the Beijing Division, a fast horse came from the south exit, and when I heard the jingling bells, I knew that many of the differences in other provinces had arrived. Sure enough, the fast horse, crossed the yamen of the military department, and went straight to the office of the provincial Titang officials in Beijing, and I don't know how many people who were sleeping in spring woke up. When he arrived at the door, he strangled the horse in the ground, and with a long neigh, the man was immediately lifted off, and a red tasseled hat with a bright blue top rolled to the side, and the man struggled to get up, staggered and walked two steps, and before he stepped into the threshold, he leaned and fell down, foaming at the mouth. (To be continued.) )