bookcurios Chapter 148 Junggar
Chapter 148 Junggar
"What a lucky fate!"
Guarjia Gefuhe, who was originally the most confident in his life, couldn't help but grit his teeth out of envy.
Because she was not elected as the Crown Princess and was promoted, and because her father went to war against Tsarist Russia and she was used as a pawn by the Crown Prince to gain military merit, now she has returned with a great victory and her whole family has risen to a high position.
Is this the power of the wave of luck?
Forget it. If she was really so lucky, why didn’t the Third Prince succeed to the throne and was instead humiliated to death during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng?
Kangxi's longevity had already laid the foundation for the Crown Prince's demise.
No matter how lucky she is, she won't win.
She will have a miserable time in the future.
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Because Empress Xiaozhuang eventually died of her illness, the Ministry of Rites slowed down its wedding preparations, which had been proceeding at full speed.
This year, there was no need to rush to prepare for the betrothal gifts for any of the princes, so the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it is true that war is used to support war, the axis has not turned back yet and he has been spending money all the time. He is worried that one day the emperor will ask about it. He will have to kowtow and say, "Your Majesty! The treasury is empty! There is no money left!"
The royal family has its own so-called rules for marrying off princesses, and now that the new year is almost over, the wedding date has just been set.
It is the second day of June next year.
Now that Mongolia is in our grasp, marriage to a foreign princess does not seem so urgent.
In the future, there will be more and more princesses who will stay in Beijing, and the marriage between Manchus and Mongols will eventually sink into history.
Therefore, the original idea of marrying the second princess to the Balin tribe of Mongolia has now come to an end in Kangxi's mind.
Slowly, if Mongolia is sensible, they should send a hostage to Beijing to ask for the prince's daughter or the daughter of a nobleman in marriage.
Now that the world is at peace, there is naturally no need for his princess to travel far away.
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The dull 29th year of Emperor Kangxi came to an end like this.
The new year began with another war.
Peng Chun went into battle again. This time he was required to pacify the Dzungar Khanate and the rebel was Choros Galdan, the sixth son of Batur Hun Taiji.
In recent years, the Qing army has always focused its attention on Tsarist Russia and ignored the various small moves of the Mongolian Dzungar Khanate.
However, before Tsarist Russia completely recovered the territory, spies intercepted secret reports from Dzungar to Tsarist Russia, intending to form an alliance and requesting military support from Tsarist Russia to assist him in preparing for the invasion of Mongolia and the invasion of Central Plains.
It's not that I won't avenge myself, it's just that the time has not come yet.
Now, the time has come.
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The fire at the border could not burn the walls of the capital, and the emperor's feet were still filled with singing and dancing, and a life of debauchery and extravagance.
The recovery of Tsarist Russia brought more high-end pleasures to the nobles.
That rough aesthetic, which is no less elegant than that of Mongolia, guides the current aesthetic of the Eight Banners costumes.
How to wear large gemstones appropriately on the body is the current mainstream.
He Junyi'erha, as the future prince's wife, naturally gave a version of the answer that was sought after by countless noble ladies.
Among them, the poppy flower created by the prince several years ago played an indispensable role, and it can be said that it was at the forefront of the times ten years earlier.
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Time passed quickly for the Dong E family.
The eldest son Zengshou did not go with Peng Chun because of his wedding.
He successfully married Princess Heshuo Chunxi and lived together in the princess's mansion.
There were not many princesses who stayed in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty, so there were no such extravagant rules. There was no rule that the prince consort was not allowed to live in the princess's mansion, the prince consort was not allowed to be summoned or see the princess, etc.
A princess is a daughter of the royal family, but even in the Qing Dynasty, when feudal monarchy was at its peak, she was just a "woman".
On the wedding day, Mr. Huang came with his five sons.
Sitting at a separate table, the protagonist of the wedding seemed to have changed his role.
After taking a short rest and drinking a few bottles of wine at an auspicious time, we left.
However, this was enough to keep the guests present at the time entertained for several months.
Although the descendants are not at home, the process of marrying a bride is still going on.
The twins' wedding was held on the same day, which, in Fucha's words, was just to save trouble.
As the two brothers grew up, they no longer looked that alike.
Looking closely, Erdenbu, who has always loved reading, is actually more like Peng Chun, while Erhe, who insists on practicing martial arts, looks like Fucha's biological son.
In the subsequent wars, after a series of great victories, they seemed to be able to handle them with ease.
So two years later, Peng Chun's sons gradually withdrew from the battlefield.
After he had earned all the military merit, the rest was handed over to his father Peng Chun and the Eight Banners descendants who came one after another to share the military merit.
Spring comes when all flowers bloom; a single flower dies early.
Their fathers and brothers will never forget their younger sister's famous saying.
Today, their marriage would be considered late, but looking back on their military careers as teenagers, this late marriage would be a badge of honor rather than a joke in drunken conversation.
For fear that someone would take advantage of the sensitive period of the twin brothers getting married on the same day to cause trouble, on the day of the wedding, every step of the process was monitored by special maids and stewards, so even though the girls from two families were welcomed at the same time, nothing foul happened.
The order of entering the door and worshipping in the hall is also impeccable, with the elder brother coming first and the younger brother coming last, which is appropriate in terms of both emotion and reason.
Although Achuhun was a bastard's son, because of his promising youth and the fact that he was the Crown Princess's brother, Hesheli was very happy to have a closer relationship with him.
The woman he married, Hesheli, was the granddaughter of Hesheli Gabula and the daughter of Hesheli Changhai.
As a bastard's son who has developed since entering the Pass, his treatment is the first in the entire Qing Dynasty.
Since Kangxi, people have said that they did not pay attention to the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children, but Kangxi did not marry a concubine's daughter to his son.
Apart from the Fifth Lady who had her own considerations and had wrong ideas, the daughters of high-ranking officials are already the lowest match.
After Zhang Ying returned to the court, although he was resentful about his eldest son making friends with the Eight Banners nobles, he immediately changed his views and prejudices for the sake of Dong E and after several personal conversations with Fulgon.
If he was inflexible and stubborn, he would have died ten times already.
The daughter of the Zhang family must show her character even after getting married.
This was his last stubbornness as a Han Chinese official in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, among the dowries of Zhang Ying's four daughters, there were twelve unique copies that were copied by several men in their family by staying up late into the night.
This is the inheritance of a family of scholars.
In the future, when Zhang Ying's fourth daughter has a daughter who will get married, her father, mother, and brother will also continue this tradition.
Perhaps, by then there will be not just twelve, but twenty, or even more.
The sixteen-year-old Folgon was an intellectual and gentle girl of fifteen. It seemed that their marriage age had finally caught up with the tide of the great era.
Young couples are just beginning to fall in love, at an age where they would blush even when meeting and shaking hands.
Astringent, but the taste is just right.