Secrets of Yuqing Palace

After leaving the capital, Yinreng and Wanyu went to Shengjing as their first stop.

Yinreng wanted to visit his elderly great uncle.

Although Soetu had many selfish motives, he never betrayed him. He even supported him in the previous dynasty and gave him a lot of help.

When I asked him to resign, he did not disobey me and did so.

Now, as Soetu grows older, he gets sick from time to time.

Thinking of not seeing his aunt for the last time, Yinreng did not want to leave any regrets for himself, so his first stop after leaving Beijing was to go to Shengjing to see Soetu.

After the carriage left the capital, looking at the scenery outside the capital, Yinreng and Wanyu felt that all the constraints and burdens on them had disappeared.

The whole soul is free.

From now on, they don’t need to worry about planning anything anymore, they just need to live every day happily and comfortably.

Just go where they want to go and see the scenery they want to see.

The two people, completely free, visited Soetu and then traveled all over the country.

If they come across something new and interesting, they will buy it and have someone send it back to the capital for their family and children.

They would return to Beijing every one or two years.

While traveling, the two of them also heard a lot of news coming from the capital.

For example, Prince Yong not only loved Buddhism, but was also fascinated by farming.

He often brought his wife and children to personally plant various wheat, rice and vegetables in the fields within the Xiannongtan, including potatoes and other crops promoted by Hou Shiliha.

The eighth prince Yinsi was also extremely favored by the emperor and supported by many princes and ministers of the previous dynasty.

The reputation of the "Eight Wise Kings" even spread throughout the Qing Dynasty.

However, when Emperor Kangxi was 53, an event occurred that shocked the court and the public.

When the emperor was on his way to Rehe for an inspection, it happened to be the third anniversary of the death of the eighth prince's mother, Concubine Liang, so he went to pay tribute to his mother and did not go to pay his respects.

However, in order to show his filial piety, he asked the eunuch to present the gift he had prepared to the emperor.

It's a pair of Saker Falcons.

Unexpectedly, after Kangxi opened the cages holding the Saker Falcons, he found that the pair were already dying.

Looking at the limp and withered Saker Falcon in the cage, Kangxi was extremely angry, believing that this was a curse from the Eighth Prince. He immediately summoned all the other princes and blamed Yinsi again, saying, "From now on, the father-son relationship between Yinsi and me is severed."

He even said a lot of unpleasant words, scolding Yinsi, saying that he was born to a lowly woman in the Xinzheku and had been arrogant and sinister since childhood.

Yinreng had long known that the emperor looked down on Yinsi and that he could not cause any major trouble.

So after hearing the news from the capital, he just smiled faintly and put it aside.

The couple traveled all over the country, not only seeing the beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains everywhere, but also investigating many corrupt officials along the way, doing many good deeds, and accumulating merits.

Sometimes when I return to Beijing or leave Beijing, I will take a few children with me to travel and broaden their horizons.

In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Emperor arranged a marriage between Hongye, the current Crown Prince of Jin, and Dasina (Moon), the legitimate daughter of Lobsang Gunbu of the Borjigit clan and the Prince of the Left Wing Middle Banner of Khorchin.

The wedding was scheduled for October of the 56th year of the Kangxi reign.

When the Empress Dowager heard the decree, she couldn't stop smiling.

She liked all of Prince Jin's children, as they all had Khorchin blood.

Now that Hongye has married a princess from Khorchin, she is even happier.

So shortly after the emperor issued the imperial decree to grant the marriage, he brought Borjigit Darsina to the capital to live with him in advance.

He planned to let his great-granddaughter adapt to life in the capital as soon as possible and get married directly in the capital in the future.

Yinreng and Wanyu had already decided to let their son marry a Mongolian woman.

This was also something Yinreng had agreed with Kangxi in advance.

However, they have not decided on the candidate yet, and everything will be decided by Hongye himself and the emperor.

After learning that their son's marriage was set, they returned to the capital in August of the 56th year.

Even if they were having a great time playing outside, they still had to be present at their son's wedding.

Moreover, Fuluguochun and Hongye are twins, and Hongye is getting married soon, so his daughter's marriage cannot be delayed.

Wanyu and Yinreng had already decided on the candidate for Fuluochun's son-in-law.

Fucha Wululi, son of Fucha Funing'an, the Minister of Personnel.

Although they are both from the Fucha clan, they are not from the same branch as Wanyu's maternal clan, the Fucha family.

So there is no blood relationship between the two.

After they returned to Beijing, Yinreng went directly to the palace to ask the emperor for permission to marry him.

The wedding date was even set for April of the 57th year of the Kangxi reign.

Because they had to prepare for their daughter's marriage, the two decided to stay in the capital for a while longer.

But unexpectedly, sometimes the development of things is beyond human control.

From the end of the 56th year of the Kangxi reign to the 57th year of his reign, many things happened that disrupted the couple's plans.

The Empress Dowager is too old, she is already over seventy years old.

Just two months after Hongye and Darcina's wedding, on the fourth day of the twelfth month of the fifty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign, the Empress Dowager fell critically ill.

At this time, the emperor's health was not good, and his feet were so swollen that he could hardly walk.

He ordered his feet to be bound with handkerchiefs, and then he rode in a sedan chair to Ningshou Palace. He knelt before the Empress Dowager's bed, held his stepmother's hands in his, and said, "Mother, my son is here."

Yinreng also brought his wife, son and daughter-in-law to stay by the bedside.

Prince Heng Yinqi, Princess Wenxian and others also looked at the Royal Madam with worry.

The Empress Dowager looked at the Emperor, her children and grandchildren, and especially Mrs. Hongye, and tried hard to force a faint smile.

The Empress Dowager is in poor health and has difficulty speaking.

She held the hand of her son, Emperor Kangxi, and looked at him for a long time.

After a long while, he said with difficulty: "Xuanye, I am leaving."

"You should take good care of yourself in the future and don't work too hard for the children."

"I'm old enough to have lived a fulfilling life. Please don't be sad about my passing."

"Don't let the children's happy events be delayed because of my death."

"I won't be able to see Changfu's (Folguochun) wedding, so let the children's happy events send me off and make my departure happy and lively."

Kangxi tightly grasped the Empress Dowager's hand and said with difficulty, "My son will obey your Madam."

"Let... the Empress Dowager leave in a grand manner."

As Kangxi watched his last elder about to pass away, he not only felt the pain of his loved one's impending death, but also the fear of birth, old age, sickness and death.

On the sixth day of December in the fifty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign, the Empress Dowager passed away suddenly in Ningshou Palace at the age of seventy-seven.

From the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, two days before Empress Xiaohui's death, until the third day of the first lunar month in the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi reign, Kangxi summoned Prince Jin Yinreng to live with him in the Cangzhen Gate and did not return to the palace.

On December 15th, he personally went to Ningshou Palace to offer wine and offer sacrifices.

The past events were vivid in his mind, and things were gone. Kangxi was overwhelmed with grief. He burst into tears before the eulogy was even read, and he was still sobbing after he finished reading it.

Yinreng was deeply touched when he saw Khan Ama's grief-stricken expression.

Especially during the few days when he stayed with Khan Ama in Cang Zhenmen, he felt Khan Ama's rare fragility and desire for family affection.

It was also because of the death of the Queen Mother that he saw the vulnerable side of Khan Ama, and the gap between father and son was somewhat reduced.

In the 57th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, she was posthumously named Empress Xiaohuizhang and buried to the east of the Xiaoling Mausoleum, called the Xiaodong Mausoleum, and was enshrined in the Taimiao.