When the new queen, Niu Hulu, thought she had a chance to win, and gradually began to challenge Twenty-Twenty, she never thought that the things she cared about were not in Twenty-Twenty's heart at all.

At this time, there was a knot in Twenty-Twenty's heart. This knot needed to be solved slowly by herself. Other people and other things would not cause her to worry too much.

People who don't know the inside story only think that the Queen Mother's worries are caused by the trouble-making third prince Mian Kai, or by Concubine Xiang's fall from favor, or the death of Concubine He...

Except for the people around N220, no one knew that N220 was actually quietly observing the affairs of the imperial mausoleum.

——It’s just that what Nian Twen paid attention to about the imperial mausoleum was not the same as what the new queen, Niu Hulu, wanted.

The new queen, Niu Hulu, thought that 2020 would mind Minning's delay in building the Queen Mother Mausoleum for her; but in fact, 2020 was not worried about this at all.

Because she is the empress dowager, with the dignity of the Qing royal family, how could she have a mausoleum where she rests?

What she was really concerned about at this time was that Min Ning violated the ancestral rules and actually decided to place his own mausoleum in Xiling!

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Because Emperor Yongzheng himself created the Xiling, Emperor Qianlong ordered to reset the order of selecting the sites for the tombs of future emperors. Emperor Qianlong himself was buried in the Dongling Tomb, and Emperor Jiaqing was in the Xiling. In this way, Minning should enter the Dongling again.

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Originally, Minning had decided this as well. He had already set the auspicious place of ten thousand years at Baohua Valley in Dongling. However, water seepage occurred in the underground palace later, and Yinghe and his family were exiled because of this.

But in fact, water seepage in the imperial mausoleum is not the first time for Minning. It has also happened during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and Emperor Jiaqing. Because the location of the imperial mausoleum was originally based on public opinion, which means that it was difficult to choose an excellent site.

Generally speaking, if you are a treasured Feng Shui place, you won’t change the location again. After all, Feng Shui is hard to find.

Therefore, Emperor Qianlong and Emperor Jiaqing renovated the underground palace that had seen water.

But when he got to Minning, he refused to do this.

Minning simply ordered the original Baohua Valley to be abandoned, and instead sent ministers to conduct a reconnaissance and select a new site.

Since then, Nian and Twenty has been quietly paying attention to the news about Minning's re-election of auspicious locations.

Now that the site has been re-selected, naturally none of the ministers dared to forget the ancestral precepts of Emperor Qianlong. They also suggested selecting a site in Dongling when they submitted the memorial. However, the ministers successively inspected Ping'an Valley and Chaoyang Jiufeng Mountain, but Minning did not.

None of them were satisfied. Minning even went to inspect Chengziyu in person, but he was still dissatisfied.

Could it be that the feng shui of these three places is not good enough to be the emperor's mausoleum - is it really not the case? Because Ping'an Valley among them was later used by his son Yi Chi? That is, Emperor Xianfeng chose the location of the imperial mausoleum.

At this point, only "confidant ministers" such as Xi En suddenly understood Minning's wish.

——Min Ning doesn’t want to “stay” in Tanglin at all!

As the "favourite" who can best understand the emperor's wishes at critical moments, Xi En was undoubtedly designated by Minning as the minister of affairs who would reassign the auspicious place in Xiling.

Xi'en, together with Jingzheng, the fourth son of Prince Su Yongxi, and Mu Zhang'a, another favorite of Minning, finally found a piece of auspicious land in Xiling.

Minning was so happy that he personally named this place "Longquan Valley".

The imperial family of the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to "ancestral rules." Minning, who had always followed the rules, openly violated the ancestral rules in the matter of the imperial mausoleum? This matter was discussed privately in the palace and harem.

Although Minning had the reason for water seepage in the original underground palace, but - this is not a sufficient reason. What's more, all the buildings in the original Baohuayu Imperial Tomb should be demolished? Moved to Xiling? What kind of reason is this?

Waste people and money!

Is this really the opposite of the "frugal virtue" that Minning has been adhering to all these years?

But Min Ning had firm belief in this matter and was determined to go his own way, not caring about any possible criticism.

Just a few months ago, the Zi Palace of Empress Xiaomu Shu Shu was also moved from Dongling to Xiling. In August of the 15th year of Daoguang, it was officially enshrined in the underground palace in Longquanyu.

At this point, Minning decided to rest in Xiling forever despite violating the ancestral system. The dust has settled and no one can change it.

This October, on the occasion of the 220,000th Birthday Festival, Minning came to have dinner with her again.

Nian Twenty smiled and said, "The rules left by Emperor Qianlong cannot be broken just because they are broken. I have a thought, Emperor, can you ask me to go as I wish?"

Minning hurriedly stood up and bowed to ask, "Please give me your instructions."

Twenty-two slowly suppressed his smile, moved his eyes away from his face, and looked out the window from afar.

"Why don't you build my mausoleum in Dongling, and let me take your place as Emperor Kao and serve by your side, Emperor Mafa."

Twenty-Twenty's eyes were warm and kind, "We have a deep love for mother and son. You haven't built a mausoleum for me in all these years since you came to the throne. I think you may also have such thoughts. Look, we are two sons.

, I really thought of a place to go."

"I would be very relieved if you, Emperor, could arrange this."

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After saying these words, the ministers also came forward one after another because since the construction of Minning's imperial mausoleum had been completed, it was indeed time to build a mausoleum for the Empress Dowager.

Throughout the seventeenth year of Daoguang's reign, Minning was irritable and irritable, and everyone in the harem was in danger.

In February of the seventeenth year of Daoguang's reign, the noble Wu Yashi entered the palace. However, something happened that angered Min Ning. After only nine months in the palace, he was demoted to Chang Zai.

Also in February of this year, Minning could no longer suppress his temper, and finally made the matter about Concubine Xiang clear, and formally issued an order to demote Concubine Xiang to the title of Xiangguiren.

She was directly demoted from the concubine position to a nobleman, without even leaving any transition to the concubines in the middle.

Concubine Xiang suddenly returned to her starting position when she first entered the palace - it was as if her years in the harem had been in vain; and the children she had given birth to to Minning had also been in vain.

Not even an ounce of affection was left.

Minning even decreed that the Mingxiang nobles should be ranked at the bottom of the noble hierarchy, inferior to the Xiu nobles who had just entered the palace.

After a fate and more than ten years of companionship, the two have finally broken up.

In this palace, Xianggui was in so much pain that she could only go to Shoukang Palace to cry. Although she knew that the Queen Mother did not want to care about these things, except for Shoukang Palace, this huge palace, and such a huge world, she had already

Nowhere to go.

It's just that this time Xianggui went to Shoukang Palace, she actually couldn't shed tears. She sat dryly for a long time, thinking that she would cry loudly and fight for the ground with her head, but it turned out that in the end, she just lost her mind silently.

She knew that she had given up.

She used to cry, she used to make trouble, she used to count on the Queen Mother to stand up for her, it was all because she still had illusions and hopes for that superior man.

She didn't believe that he would be so heartless. After all, they had had a good life for more than ten years.

But at this time, she could finally wake up from her dream.
Chapter completed!