In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Hongli did not agree to marry Qingying because of her obedience, in fact, his heart had already bloomed for her!
After Zhen Huan returned to the palace, the queen's life became uneasy. After losing Concubine Qi and An Lingrong successively, the queen had almost no chance to turn the situation around. At this moment, the only thing she can hope for is the third elder brother. The queen is bent on becoming the only queen mother, and desperately wants to find a wife with a strong family background for the third elder brother.
The first thing she considered was naturally her own maternal family, the Wulanala clan, a prominent family belonging to the Yellow Banner of Manchuria and the Upper Three Banners of the Eight Banners. The queen couldn't wait to hold a flower-viewing banquet and introduced her niece Qingying into the palace, hoping that she would marry the third elder brother.
However, the blind date process did not go smoothly. Although Qing Ying tried her best to curry favor with the third elder brother, the latter obviously did not understand the queen's intentions. The third elder brother, who was in the rebellious period, was unhappy with the queen's excessive interference in his life. The queen even had to arrange the marriage of her niece, which touched the rebellious psychology of the third elder brother. So, the third elder brother used Jiang Xiangmei as a metaphor and clearly told the queen and Qingying that he would not agree to this family business.
As the serious daughter of the Ulanala clan, Qing Ying has never experienced such a grievance. When the queen wanted Qing Ying to stay by the third elder brother regardless of her reputation, her answer was crisp and neat: "My aunt was also a side fortune no matter how poor she was back then, how come I need to be a nameless concubine!" ”
Hearing this answer, the queen was furious. Fang Fujin's matter has always been a pain in her heart. If it weren't for Chunyuan having an ambiguous relationship with the emperor when she was pregnant, how could she have been reduced to a side blessing! Therefore, the queen was impulsive and decided to throw Qingying to the fourth elder brother.
Even Jianqiu thought that the queen's pointing out Qingying to the fourth elder brother was a promotion of the latter, but the queen insisted on her opinion on impulse. Subsequently, the emperor talked about the queen's intentions when chatting with Zhen Huan. Zhen Huan was reluctant at first, but later agreed to this family business under "force".
In fact, Zhen Huan was not really unwilling, she was just testing the emperor. The Wulanala clan is a famous family, if she really marries her daughter to the fourth elder brother, then the fourth elder brother will have more opportunities to inherit the throne. And Zhen Huan is not just planning Qingying's affairs. Originally, Zhen Huan chose the Fucha clan for the fourth elder brother, and the Fucha clan, like the Wulanala clan, belonged to the three banners of the Manchu army.
If it weren't for deliberately shirking Qingying, the emperor would probably think that Zhen Huan and the fourth elder brother had different intentions, thus causing more trouble. Zhen Huan shirked and first occupied the commanding heights of theory. Then, under the pretext of "the empress's partiality", the Fucha clan was also brought under control, so that even if the emperor later felt that there was a problem, he could not blame her.
When the fourth elder brother learned about it, he came over to Zhen Huan, but he also expressed his reluctance on the surface. However, Zhen Huan advised him: "I don't expect you to raise eyebrows with her, just keep you in the house and serve with good food and drink." Zhen Huan didn't tell the fourth elder brother what she really thought, because she was worried that the fourth elder brother would be impetuous, and once she knew that she had so much to rely on, she would be elegant.
However, the fourth elder brother is obviously not as frivolous as Zhen Huan thought. Growing up in the Old Summer Palace since he was a child, he had seen the hot and cold world, and after returning to the palace, he learned to taoguang and cultivate obscurity. Coupled with Zhen Huan's teaching for a period of time, how could he not even hide this thought. The fourth elder brother's purpose in looking for Zhen Huan is also a temptation. He understood the status of the Wulanala family, and on the surface he said that it was enough for him to marry a Fujin, but he also said that he didn't want someone that the third brother didn't want. In the final analysis, he just wanted to see what Zhen Huan thought of him marrying the Wulanala clan.
Zhen Huan's biography: Hongli agreed to marry Qingying not because he was obedient, he was worried that if he really married the Wulanala clan directly, Zhen Huan would have a grudge against him because of the conflict with the queen. Zhen Huan's enlightenment made the fourth elder brother understand that she was not disgusted with him marrying the Wulanala clan. This is tantamount to giving the fourth elder brother a reassurance. In the previous dynasty, he had the full support of the Fucha clan and the Wulanala clan, and there was Zhen Huan in the harem, and it was difficult for the fourth elder brother not to be the emperor! Maybe after Zhen Huan's palace ** came, the fourth elder brother would wake up laughing every night because of joy!