Soon, neither Zhao Xu nor Empress Dowager Gao had the intention to pay attention to Wang Gui's affairs anymore.
Because the condition of the official family of Funing Palace deteriorated rapidly.
In Yiwei (the second year of junior high school), I could no longer feed him any soup or rice.
His body fell into complete paralysis.
Except for breathing, he was almost dead.
Someone began to suggest whether they could try the so-called 'elixir' offered by a monk named Dao Qin in the fifth year of Yuanfeng.
It was also on this day that Zhao Xu completed all the procedures for establishing a crown prince - according to tradition, when a prince establishes a crown prince, he needs to express his humility with seven expressions of gratitude (the emperor is fifth, the queen mother is one, and the queen is one). Of course, all the expressions of thanks are , all written by Deng Runfu on his behalf.
Therefore, on this day, the Prime Minister of the capital promulgated a general amnesty, in the name of establishing a prince and praying for the emperor, to grant amnesty to the whole world.
On Bingshen (the third day of the junior high school), all the methods used by the Chinese doctors of the Imperial Medical Bureau to stimulate the emperor who was lying in bed were ineffective.
After discussion, the two palaces could only do the last thing they could do for Zhao Xu's father.
They informed the officials about the "elixir" offered by Taoist monks in the fifth year of Yuanfeng.
The governors then went to the table and asked the two palaces to use the 'elixir'.
Although, everyone knows that this will not help.
Everyone also knows that all elixirs and elixirs of longevity are fake.
Even the emperor who was sick in bed knew about it - otherwise the 'elixir' would not have been kept in the imperial medicine hospital.
But at this time, the manpower has been exhausted and can only be used as a living doctor, so we have to do this.
Otherwise, how will future generations evaluate it in terms of national history?
There is an 'elixir' but it is not used by the emperor?
What would the prince think if he knew this when he grew up?
Therefore, the two palaces issued an edict and agreed to the prime minister's request, and ordered Liang Congzheng to retrieve the 'elixir' stored in the imperial medicine courtyard.
Hopefully it will work.
It's a pity that even after trying every possible means, the emperor could not get the 'elixir' to be taken.
No one dared to risk "damaging the dragon's body" by forcefully opening the emperor's mouth.
No one dares to use those folk remedies.
The prince is watching from the side!
Zhao Xu shed tears and looked at the anxious and sweaty doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau, as well as Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang who were crying like him.
He sighed.
"Mother...mother..." Zhao Xu cried and said, "You can order the Chinese doctors to withdraw!"
"Father Emperor's dragon body must not be damaged at all!"
Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang both nodded with tears in their eyes.
They knew in their hearts that the so-called 'elixir' was just a gimmick.
It is used to silence others.
Now that the prince has agreed, there is no need to risk damaging the dragon's body to do something that is bound to fail.
Seeing this, Zhao Xu closed his eyes and knelt down in front of his father's bed again.
He knew that the palace carriage Yan Jia was right in front of him!
But he at least allowed his father to die in peace before he died.
There is no need for someone to force open the mouth and force the egg-sized heavy metal 'elixir' into the stomach.
Let it go away with pain in the end.
Outside the curtain, the governors all prostrated.
Inside the curtain, the Chinese doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau also apologized and exited.
And at the moment when the Chinese doctors came out of the curtain.
Zhao Xu saw the prostrate Prime Minister in the palace.
He counted only six people.
In other words, Left Prime Minister Wang Gui is still staying at home.
The next day, on the fourth day of March, Chen Yijian from the Imperial Medical Bureau reported that Guan Jia's pulse could no longer be felt, and he could only hear Guan Jia's weak heartbeat and short breathing.
On this night, senior monks from the entire Bianjing City gathered in the Vajra Dojo of Daqing Hall.
The chanting continued throughout the night.
As the crown prince, Zhao Xu, accompanied by Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang, personally attended this Vajra Dojo.
However, the gods and Buddhas did not perform miracles after all.
The next day, Wuxu Day (the fifth day of the Lunar New Year), Chen hour.
As the bell tower on the Xuandemen Gate was rung, the entire imperial city became silent.
The emperor who had been in the world for nineteen years finally passed away!
In the Funing Hall, the emperor's body had been carried out and placed on the west steps of the hall.
Zhao Xu knelt in front of the soul, crying extremely sadly.
Both emotionally and objectively.
He must cry, and he must cry sadly!
Beside him, the Queen wept with him.
Empress Dowager Gao was sitting under the curtain in the palace, also weeping.
The ministers filed in from outside the palace.
When all the ministers arrived in front of the imperial court, they all cried, and then prostrated on the ground: "I would like to extend my condolences to Her Majesty the Empress Dowager, Her Majesty the Queen, and Her Majesty the Prince!"
"The country and the country still need the support of Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother, Her Royal Highness the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince!"
"I wait for ten thousand deaths, but I dare to invite His Highness the Crown Prince to ascend the throne in front of the late Emperor's soul, so as to stabilize the country and stabilize the world!"
So, immediately some ministers came forward on their knees, then lifted up Zhao Xu regardless of the situation, put a yellow robe that had been sewn long ago on him, and then placed him in the east corner of Funing Hall. On a prepared throne.
The ministers rushed forward, prostrated on the ground, held up the hut, bowed three times and kowtowed: "I respectfully wish to express my sincere wishes to His Majesty the Emperor!"
Then, outside the Funing Hall, the civil and military ministers who had gathered outside the hall also knelt down, bowed and kowtowed: "I respectfully wish that His Majesty the Emperor will bow down and pray for all blessings!"
Zhao Xu, who was sitting on the throne, was sobbing and crying.
His eyes were just looking at the late emperor's body which was placed on the west steps of the hall.
He knew that this was the ancestral system of the Song Dynasty.
When the late emperor ascended to the throne, he was no longer a king, but an ancestral spirit.
The ancestral gods of Shengxia only have the function of offering sacrifices.
This is the characteristic of the Song Dynasty.
Since Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan advocated the ancient prose movement and launched the Qingli Xue Xue.
The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty no longer believed in the influence of heaven and man, nor in the divine right of kings.
Now that the scholar-bureaucrats have even thrown aside Dong Zhongshu’s sense of heaven and man.
How could they be expected to be loyal to an emperor sitting on the throne of Bianjing?
joke!
What have the old party ministers done since the Xining Reform?
I won’t serve you anymore! Bye-Bye!
I went to Luoyang!
Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Sima Guang and others are all like this.
This is called 'If you don't follow the road, you will float in the sea on a boat'!
It's not just the old party ministers who are like this.
The same goes for the new party!
What happened to Aoxianggong Wang Anshi?
People in Jiangning said: Don’t cue, be busy planting flowers and chanting sutras.
This is why Han Qi was respected by the emperors of the Song Dynasty.
This is also the reason why Han Qi was given the posthumous title "Zhongxian".
When Han Qi was alive, even though he opposed the new law, he did not obstruct it, let alone destroy it. Instead, he assisted in the implementation of the new law.
On this point, in the emperor's mind, he was far ahead of other scholar-bureaucrats.
When Zhao Xu thought of this, he also sighed in his heart: "When the country is in trouble, we miss our loyal ministers!"
"Where are my loyal subjects again?"
He looked towards the palace.
Zhao Xu understood that the ministers currently in power were about to face the stormy waves of the Two Palaces Era.
No one can survive it!
Zhao Xu can barely protect the dignity of these people and let them serve as officials in local states and counties, which is already good.
Therefore, they are unlikely to be the 'loyal ministers' Zhao Xu needs in the short term.
Besides, Zhao Xu now doesn't need a real veteran of the late emperor to be in his ears, talking about the late emperor's ambitions and Xifeng's old stories every day.
Zhao Xu has his own ideas and does not need their teaching.
Therefore, it is better for these ministers to go out.
Zeng Bu and Deng Runfu, on the other hand, had good luck. One won the trust of Empress Dowager Gao, and the other gained the trust of Empress Xiang.
In this way, the two-house era that is about to begin will have these two variables.
But are they loyal ministers?
Deng Runfu may be, but Zeng Bu really has a big question mark!
As for the officials of the old party?
They say they are definitely more loyal than anyone else, but is that true? Only God knows!
So, Zhao Xu looked around the entire court, but there was not even a single 'loyal minister' he felt he could rely on!
I can’t help but feel sad in my heart!
Fortunately...
"There is still a loyal minister!" Zhao Xu looked outside the palace. He knew that there was a minister who was absolutely loyal and could be relied on. He was outside the palace at the moment.
Su Song Su Zirong!
In Zhao Xu's previous life, he already knew that this was a very loyal minister! After studying abroad for ten years in the modern era, Su Song's status has skyrocketed in Zhao Xu's heart!
He has been regarded as a confidant like a humerus!
Thinking in his heart, Zhao Xu wiped away his tears, looked at the prostrate ministers in the hall, and also looked outside the hall.
He choked with sobs and said, "I'll excuse you, sir!"
He followed what Empress Dowager Gao had taught him and said without changing a single word: "Unfortunately, Emperor Daxing is about to leave the world! With the blessing of the gods of my ancestors, I am loved by the world. At the young age, I am insignificant." I live in a body that is above all the people in the world. I am trembling with fear, as if walking on thin ice. I still hope that my ministers will give me more help and advice!"
"I will not give up even if I die!" The ministers bowed their heads and bowed again.
Therefore, when Wang Gui, the left prime minister, accused the family of being guilty, Cai Que, the right prime minister, was ordered to read out the imperial edict of Emperor Daxing.
This edict has been written a long time ago.
On the day when Zhao Xu established the throne, he wrote it together with the lyrics of the throne.
Now, just by changing the time, it can be read directly in court.
"I am Fei Liang, flattering the general, and being appointed to the ancestral temple for nineteen years... The crown prince is gentle and diligent, and wise. He is kind, filial and courteous, born from his nature! People want you to belong to him, and the artifact belongs to you! But! In front of the coffin, he is the emperor..." During Cai Que's cadence of reading, people inside and outside the Funing Hall choked up and sobbed.
Zhao Xu also left the throne, knelt down facing his father's body, and cried with tears.
The two immediately stepped forward, pretending to help him up, but they couldn't help him, so they could only advise: "I hope the officials will rest the dragon's body for the sake of the country and the country, and take care of the sacred bow!"
Cai Que, who was in the palace, paused for a moment before continuing to read: "However, the thought is just in the new year, the general affairs are extensive, the emperor's Xu is protected, and the mother-in-law of the emperor..."
"The Empress Dowager is a profound sage, compassionate and benevolent. She assists the late emperor, supports me and bows to me. She has a little knowledge and is heard all over the world. She can be respected as the Grand Empress Dowager!"
Empress Dowager Gao, who was behind the curtain, burst into tears. Several ministers quickly stepped forward, supported her, and urged her: "Please do it for the sake of the government and the country. We will mourn for the rest of the year!"
Cai Que paused for a moment, waiting for the newly promoted Empress Dowager to finish her mourning, before continuing to recite the edict: "The Empress Xiang, whose virtues are gentle and gentle, and whose ways are virtuous, assist me, uphold the virtues of Qi Ming, and serve as the crown prince." My legitimate mother, the one who teaches me the most by my own flesh and blood, can be respected as the Queen Mother!"
Empress Xiang, who was in front of the coffin, immediately started crying and wailing. She quickly stepped forward to grab the empress dowager who was about to throw herself down on the late emperor's coffin.
"The Queen Mother, please express your condolences! My condolences! The official family still needs the protection and support of the Queen Mother!" The female ministers cried and comforted the newly-promoted Queen Mother.
Cai Que still paused for a moment, waiting to express his condolences to the Queen Mother, and then continued to read: "In response to military and state affairs, the Queen Mother has the power to deal with the situation, and the Queen Mother has the power to assist, and Yu Yizhang Xian Mingsu's story will be implemented..."
No one listened to the rest.
All the ministers, both inside and outside the palace, faced the Empress Dowager inside the curtain and the Empress Dowager who was weeping on her back with the ministers in front of her. They held the phoenix in their hands and worshiped: "I respectfully wish the Empress Dowager a long blessing! "
"I respectfully wish the Empress Dowager a long blessing!"
Zhao Xu was in the palace, listening and watching quietly.
It's like a bright mirror in my heart.
…
Note: The issue of the elixir is recorded in a long article by Zizhi Tongjian. The original text is Shen Shen Nao Dao, so I won’t mention it. It is certain that there is such a thing.
Note 2: After the death of emperors in the Northern Song Dynasty, they were all buried on the west steps of Funing Hall, while their successors received congratulations on the east side of the hall.
PS: I obviously posted on time, why didn’t I post on time? ! Crumb system!
