The so-called "death is like life" means that what the emperor is like when he is alive, he should also be like after death. When you are alive, you must have a palace with front and back bedrooms, and the same rules must be followed after death. You should live a luxurious life when you are alive, and you cannot live a less luxurious life underground. Even some emperors had to bring a large number of concubines to be buried with them when they died.
Now we are in the Qi Dynasty, which not only has not experienced any cultural epochs, but also has no foreigners to change their customs. The tradition of the upper and lower palaces in the imperial mausoleum, which had lasted for thousands of years, was completely changed. The construction regulations for imperial mausoleums, which were supposed to appear hundreds of years later, were brought forward so many years, which had to make Huang Qiong suspicious.
It's just suspicion, but Huang Qiong, as a descendant of future generations, naturally cannot make any comments on the actions of his ancestors. Most of the Chinese dynasties have promoted filial piety to govern the world. And this so-called filial piety does not refer to being filial to parents, but to the rules set by ancestors, which cannot be changed even one bit.
Even if they are unscrupulous and ruin the country no matter how bad the descendants are, at least they still abide by the so-called ancestral system. Even if the system left by our ancestors no longer meets the needs of the development of the times, there must never be any doubts. For future generations, the ancestral system is an ironclad law that cannot be touched.
What's more, it's his own business how his ancestor wanted to build his tomb, right? Although Huang Qiong was more curious about the true identity of the Guilin County King back then, and how he persuaded his ancestor to change the old system since the Han and Tang Dynasties. Judging from his series of actions, his ancestor was not the kind of person who was pioneering and enterprising.
Moreover, although these imperial tombs are still luxurious, compared with the custom-made imperial tombs handed down from the Han and Tang Dynasties, especially those in the pre-Tang Dynasty that were based on mountains. At least the project volume and cost have been greatly reduced. This can be regarded as reducing the burden on the people, which is a good thing overall.
As Empress Dahang's Zi Palace enters the temporary anfeng hall inside the funeral palace, this room is closed as the main door of the temporary anfeng hall. The concubines, kings, and princesses in the capital who were attending the funeral took off their filial piety robes and burned them. This was the first imperial funeral that Huang Qiong experienced back in this era, and it basically ended here.
All that's left is to wait for the emperor's Shouling Mausoleum to be completed, or for the construction of the underground palace to be completed. Qin Tianjian selected an auspicious day and buried the queen in the underground palace. However, judging from the current general trend of the world, we don’t know how long this wait will last, and no one can guarantee it.
If the drought in the northwest continues, even if it doesn't cause any trouble. With the current annual income of the imperial court, a large amount of money and food must be allocated for disaster relief. The time to resume construction of this imperial mausoleum may have to be delayed again and again. Once the severe drought in the northwest really causes chaos, it is estimated that the completion of the Shouling Mausoleum will be even more elusive.
Of course, the Daxing Queen can also be buried first after the square city, Baoding, and underground palace are completed. The rest of the buildings, such as the Ling'en Hall, Lingxing Gate, and Len'en Gate, will be constructed slowly. However, it depends on the emperor's intention, and it is not something that he should worry about.
It's just that although the queen's funeral seemed to be completed peacefully, only God knows the real situation. In fact, anyone with a keen sense of smell in the capital knows clearly that there are many things hidden beneath this calmness. The calmness in front of me is probably just a precursor to the coming storm.
At least King Jing and King Duan, who were close to the Jingzhao Mansion, repeatedly found excuses to shirk the emperor's previous request for them to enter the palace to serve the sick. Later, when his mother was away from home, he still ignored requests for him to come to Beijing to express his condolences and see his mother off.
Now that the major event has been basically completed, many people know that the moment the Queen's Zi Palace enters the funeral palace, the sky in this court may change. With the emperor's character, the disloyalty and unfilial behavior of these two men was probably as far as he could tolerate. Now that the weather has entered autumn, it is a good time to settle accounts after autumn.
On the way back from the funeral, in addition to the carriages riding by the concubines, they were closely escorted by the Royal Guards. The rest of the princes, princesses, princes and dignitaries who attended the funeral were said to have returned by car, sedan or horse respectively. The prince and princess were better off. They usually couldn't stand each other, and they wouldn't get together to chat at this time.
But the ministers in the team were obviously not so calm. Either two colleagues were crowded in a sedan chair, or three or two people were riding in a carriage, discussing something in a low voice. Although the funeral lasted for more than 20 days and traveled more than a hundred miles to deliver the funeral, everyone was extremely tired. But right now, these ministers are feeling a little heavy on their minds.
When returning from the Gongyi Imperial Tomb Area, Huang Qiong, who finally no longer had to walk more than a hundred miles back, rode on a horse and followed the team back slowly while chatting with King Yong who was dragged out of the carriage by him. King Yong looked at the ninth brother who was looking at the scenery on both sides of the road with great interest and shook his head.
The scenery along the way from the imperial mausoleum to Jingzhao Mansion was already familiar to King Yong, who accompanied the emperor every year to worship his ancestors at the Gongyi Imperial Mausoleum, and he had no interest at all. King Yong, who had been guarding the spirit for more than twenty days, would be a little tired even for a healthy person. He originally just wanted to take a rest in the carriage so that he could recover his energy as soon as possible.
It can be seen that Huang Qiong was very interested, so in the end he did not take the carriage, but chose to ride a horse with Huang Qiong. As for the prince, he had already taken his bodyguards with him and rode all the way back to Jingzhao Mansion, regardless of the objections of the accompanying guardian envoy and minister Zuo Cheng. As for the King of Shu, he voluntarily stayed in the funeral palace and observed a hundred days of filial piety for his mother. No one can object, right?
What's more, the King of Shu's decision must have obtained the emperor's consent, and it would be even harder for others to interfere. The absence of the two legitimate sons of Queen Daxing, the Crown Prince and the King of Shu, made the entire funeral procession relax a lot. So Huang Qiong and Yong Wang rode side by side, and no one had any objections.
Even the minister Zuo Cheng who served as the guardian of the spirit and took charge of escorting Queen Zi Palace to the funeral palace. Worried that something unexpected might happen to this troublesome King of England. In particular, one hundred cavalry were dispatched from the three thousand imperial guardsmen who escorted Zi Palace to the funeral to protect the two princes. To prevent this guy from running around and causing some accidents.
The prince was assassinated and seriously injured before. How many people in the court were implicated and lost their hats? This minister, Zuo Cheng, is still fresh in his memory. I don't dare to be careless about this prince. What's more, this prince is currently accompanied by Prince Yong, a prince who is also prone to troublemaking. How can two trouble-making princes reassure Minister Zuo Cheng?
The one hundred cavalry sent were not so much to protect the two princes as to watch them not to cause trouble. As long as these two princes don't cause any accidents on the way, and stay calm until they return to Jingzhao Mansion, I can go on a mission. Presumably, with a hundred cavalry to protect them, there probably wouldn't be that blind thief who would dare to take the initiative to mess with these two.
Neither Huang Qiong nor King Yong paid attention to the thoughts of Zuo Cheng, the minister. The two people riding on the horse looked at the scenery on both sides and talked casually along the way. Although the scenery along the way from Gongyi to Luoyang is far less spectacular than Zhongyue Songshan Mountain in the south, it is not without scenery.
As for King Yong, although he is very familiar with this road, he feels that it is a bit boring. But he also knew that his ninth brother had been sitting tight and closed since he was born. For eighteen years, King Yong didn't even know how his ninth brother survived.
Thinking about the days when he faced four walls all day long and couldn't do anything, King Yong probably wouldn't have gone crazy if he had been in his shoes. And after finally leaving the palace, the old man did something like this again. In his entire mansion, people who were either the old man's or the prince's were there.
Not to mention the ninth brother who has a somewhat special status, no matter who he is, he has to continue to sit in the house and watch the sky, for fear of arousing the suspicion of his father and brother. The old man is better off, he is his biological father after all. But the prince is someone who cannot rub a grain of sand out of his eyes. Seeing that you are wrong, I don’t even know how to kill you.
A few days ago, King Zhao, King Jia and Prince Fengcheng died. Although King Yong did not know the inside story, he also knew that these three brothers definitely did not die in a normal way. Even King Zhao's illness lasted longer than that of Queen Daxing. But King Yong still knew very clearly whether King Zhao, the only one of his brothers who was close to him before Huang Qiong left the palace, died of illness.
Although he didn't know who did it, King Yong always believed that the prince should be the first choice. Therefore, King Yong did not have a general understanding of the reason why Huang Qiong had never left or stepped out of his own house. But if he were allowed to live that kind of life, King Yong felt that he would go crazy even if he couldn't hold it in.
Riding on the horse and looking at Huang Qiong beside him, King Yong couldn't help but shake his head. This brother of his was really ill-fated. I finally went out once, just to the outskirts of the capital, and encountered an assassination attempt. Not only was he seriously injured, but he also damaged the only trustworthy person around him.
This time he came to Gongyi with the funeral procession for Queen Daxing. It was probably the first time since he was born that he saw the scenery outside Jingzhao Mansion. Although I am a little tired, this guy is the only good brother I have right now. Since he has such leisure, he will risk his life to accompany the gentleman this time.
Although King Yong decided to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, walking like this along the way has never been his style. Among all the mourners, there were only two people on horseback, and they gradually closed the distance from the slow-moving sedans and carriages behind them. King Yong was at a loss for words and came to Huang Qiong's side and said, "Brother, I have only seen Concubine Jing a few times in the past few days."
"Good guy, this aura is really too much. Not to mention my incompetent brother, I didn't even dare to show off when we first met. It's the prince and the king of Shu. If it weren't for their strong support, they would probably I can't even stand anymore. Look at those ministers who have experienced what happened back then. Didn't that one fall to his knees in fear?"
"That aura is far inferior to even that of Queen Daxing. To be fair to you two, compared to Queen Daxing and Concubine Jing, both of them are petty, submissive concubines. As for Concubine De. , and she has become a true shrew. I really don’t know how you, the kid, have survived in the hands of Concubine Jing all these years."
"At first glance, Concubine Jing is the kind of person who is very demanding. Either she doesn't do something or she must do her best if she does something. In the hands of such a mother, I'm afraid your life will not be easy these years. What about you? You may look smooth on the outside, but in fact you have a very strong personality, which was probably taught by Concubine Jing. Now that I think about it, I really don’t know whether it is a blessing or a curse for you to have a mother like Concubine Jing.”
