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Chapter 403

The time for the women of the outer life and the women of the inner life and the men of the royal family to pay homage to the empress is different. Xiao Wenqing did not see the emperor and the prince and other royal men. She heard that the emperor would personally pay homage to the empress. The minister was worried that he would be hurt by the scene, so he stopped him from coming, and he was only sad elsewhere.The other princes and grandchildren were ordered by the emperor to go to the fief after the crown prince was established. It would take a long time for them to go to the capital for the funeral.

After the grand national funeral of the empress, the life of the people in the capital gradually returned to normal.This year's winter is very cold, and the imperial court has to care about the soldiers in the northwest, because the northwest is colder than the capital.Xiao Wenqing was very concerned about the reports of the war at the Northwest Frontier, but she was still keeping a filial piety for her mother-in-law and could not go out, so she had to beg Mrs. Zhan, who was of noble birth, and the mother of her eldest sibling, Mrs. Zhan, to help her find out the news.

Mrs. Zhan, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Minister of War, is no less concerned about the battle situation than Xiao Wenqing, because her son, Zhan Feiyang, one of the four handsome men in the capital, has also been transferred to the army by the emperor.Through her mother-in-law, she learned a lot about Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of War, but she dared not disclose some of them.Knowing that Xiao Wenqing's mouth is tight, and she can't go out to socialize now, she quietly told Xiao Wenqing.

There were victories and losses in the Northwest War. Overall, the situation on the Daqing side was still very good, but the water on the Northwest side was turning into ice. The soldiers in Daqing were not used to it, and many of them suffered from frostbite.General Zhen Guo ordered the whole army to defend and wait for the spring.Beichuan Kingdom, which is accustomed to the cold climate in the northwest, is unable to cross the border to plunder this year. It knows that the soldiers of Daqing will launch a big attack while waiting for the spring to bloom, and mobilize the army to attack many border towns in the northwest. Resources replenish themselves.

The army and people in the northwest of Daqing united as one, not only repelled the invading Beichuan army, but also invaded the Beichuan border twice, chasing and killing the fleeing Beichuan soldiers.Because of his bravery in battle, Mo Yuxuan, the grandson of General Mo, the god of war in the Northwest, took the lead many times, and his reputation began to spread.

Xiao Wenqing heard the news that Mrs. Zhan sent her cronies to go to the front, and felt a little comforted in her heart, hoping that Mo Yuxuan and their guards could return to the court fully.She was in charge of the marriages of those guards, and she was afraid that she would make an innocent woman a widow.

This year's Spring Festival is very light, because the empress has just passed away not long ago. Although the ban has been lifted in the capital, the ministers and imperial wives dare not go around to visit relatives and friends for New Year's greetings.I heard that the emperor's health is getting worse and worse. Recently, he is reluctant to even go to court. Many political affairs are directly sent to the prince for handling. The court is very worried.

Daqing is mobilizing troops against Beichuan. If the king of a country dies, it will greatly affect the morale of the soldiers in front.Everyone knows the principle that one king has one courtier. If the emperor dies and the prince succeeds, will he adjust the foreign policy and let the two countries talk about peace and stop fighting?Or increase investment in the war, and strive to solve Beichuan, a country that threatens the stability of Daqing's frontier, once and for all?How will he reward the soldiers who have made great achievements in combat?Is it to take back all military power after the truce, and to rise up and surrender to senior generals?

For the sake of the country and the morale of the soldiers at the border, it is best for the emperor to last until the army returns.

But as the saying goes, the more you worry about something, the more things will happen.On the evening of the second day after the Lantern Festival, all the important ministers in the capital were rushed into the palace.Liu Hanlin, the head of the Hanlin Academy, is one of them.

The emperor's bedroom was brightly lit, and a group of imperial physicians knelt on one side with their hands folded and their heads bowed. The prince knelt in front of the dragon bed with tears in his eyes and a sad face.The ministers who were urgently summoned to the palace already guessed something when they were on the road. Seeing this, they knelt down to pay respects to the emperor and the prince, and then bowed their heads to listen to the emperor's last words.

Although the emperor was unable to move at the moment, his sanity was still clear. He intermittently explained his affairs one by one: pass on the throne to the prince, and told the prince and all ministers that the army must not relax when fighting in the northwest. The power of the whole country supports the Northwest and eliminates the border troubles of Daqing forever.

When the political affairs were explained, the emperor ordered all the ministers, eunuchs, eunuchs, and court ladies to go out, leaving the prince and his personal eunuch Shang Ming alone for more than 60 years.Others knew that the emperor had something to say to the prince, so they all bowed out and stood outside the palace.The concubines don't abide by the defense of men and women at this moment, they stand outside the bedroom and wait anxiously.

After about an incense stick, the prince with tears all over his face came out.The great eunuch Shang Ming shook the whisk in his hand, and announced with great pain: "The emperor... is dead." As he spoke, he sobbed, with tears streaming down his face.

emperor……

The ministers immediately took off the black gauze hats on their heads and kowtowed. Concubine Cui Guigui led the concubines to kneel and howl, and the death knell sounded again in the sky above the palace.Long Yubintian, Emperor Jiaqing who reigned for 40 years, mourned the whole country.

I ordered the ladies to enter the palace to pay homage to the emperor, the crown princess, and the future queen empress specially summoned Xiao Wenqing, saying: "The crown prince has an oral order. When the father was alive, he loved the little prince Mo Yunlin very much, and he personally allowed the young prince to call him the emperor's grandfather." , Therefore, the crown prince Xuan Xiaohou entered the palace to pay respects to the emperor's grandson, and then he mourned for the emperor for a year."

The emperor's favor to Mo Yuxuan was visible to others when the emperor was alive, and it may be an oral order from the emperor to the successor emperor to let the young master give the emperor the emperor's grandchildren's gift, or it may be that the successor emperor wants to continue to reuse the old emperor's old minister Mo Yuxuan, So it is special for Mo Yuxuan's eldest son who stays in the capital.In short, no matter what, this is the royal family's favor to Lord Mo and his son, and it means that this favor will not disappear with the death of the old emperor.

Knowing the truth in her heart, Xiao Wenqing took the order and sent people to the Hou Mansion to pick Xiaoxiao over.After putting on the filial gown that only emperors and grandchildren would wear, she solemnly told him to obey the orders of the concubine and the prince.

Xiaoxiao is very smart. Although she doesn't know the complicated and cumbersome etiquette of national funerals, and why he was brought to the palace to worship at the age of three, after being sent to the royal man's place by the princess, she followed carefully. All the emperors and grandchildren around saluted together without making any mistakes.

A hundred days later, the Zi Palace of the former emperor was moved into the imperial mausoleum, and the imperial mausoleum was sealed permanently.Hundreds of officials changed clothes, the new emperor ascended the throne, waiting for the next year to change the reign name.When the new emperor came to the throne, he made his eldest son Yunqin the crown prince, and the other princes were crowned kings after they held their coming-of-age ceremonies.

The new emperor conferred the title of Empress Dowager De'an on the previous empress, and conferred the title of Empress Dowager Deshun on his biological mother.Concubine of the first imperial concubine: Concubine Cui was granted the title of concubine in Jin Dynasty. Because there is no empress dowager in the harem, she can live in the Palace of Compassion and Peace; concubines with sons are sent to their sons for the elderly; those who have no children or only princesses live separately in several relatively In a remote palace.The concubine crowned the queen, the side concubine Cui was named the concubine Shu, and the old people of the East Palace were promoted to be concubines or Zhaoyi one by one.

With the new atmosphere of the new emperor, everyone looks forward to Daqing becoming more and more prosperous.

(End of this chapter)