The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 295
In his later years, Emperor Jingning became more and more suspicious, indecisive, and often hesitant. In order to balance the court, he killed many people who should not be killed, and indulged many people who should not be indulged.

The saint said that benevolence should be governed by benevolence, but King Su always knew that the father's benevolence was false, and the old emperor had never just bought people's hearts with benevolence. In addition, his repeated attempts to establish a crown prince led to confusion in the administration of officials. , Corruption is serious, and the country is now a Chinese robe full of lice holes. From a distance, the palace is magnificent and the country is powerful, but when you look closely, it is a pile of mess. If it is not rectified, it is unknown that the building will collapse.

The old emperor waved to Li Zhao, asked him to sit by his bed, and said slowly, "Your father is a good player in military affairs and buying people's hearts, but he is bold, but narrow-minded and not lenient. Soldiers are good, but governing the country is bad. You are more temperamental than your father, and you should persuade him more by your father's side, lest you tell him to completely destroy my country!"

These words really did not save King Su any face. Compared to the resentment towards King Su that the old emperor still hadn't dispelled, everyone in the room looked serious, Li Zhao's face was even more livid.

No matter what the emperor's grandfather said before his death, he didn't care about those. He knelt down and kowtowed, crying: "The emperor's words are absurd! You... really misunderstood my father too much! Please rest assured and hand over the burden to my father." !Father will never destroy the foundation of the ancestors!"

The old emperor ignored him, looked at King Su and continued, "The Meng family must not have a real job, otherwise, you just wait, and one day, you will personally ransack your grandfather's family and destroy it."

When Concubine Shu heard this, she was so angry that she wanted to strangle the old man to death!

You can't even see them when you're dying, right?
If Eunuch Wang hadn't come over in time to hold Concubine Shu, she would have rushed up and scolded the bad old man.

After that, the emperor said again: "You all leave, the third child and Zhao'er stay."

After everyone withdrew as promised, the emperor looked at King Su and suddenly said, "Ning family, what do you plan to do?"

King Su chuckled: "Didn't you already move nearly half of the military households from the Northeast to the Chahar area? You took care of it for me, so what else should I worry about?"

Seeing that his father was still worried, Su Wang said: "My son told people to continue to expand westward and northward. When the time comes to build a guard post on the Mongolian grassland, the garrison in the northeast will have to be dispersed. We will not keep Ning The family has so many soldiers in their hands."

The old emperor sighed and said: "The national treasury is empty, you have to be careful, don't use military force!"

"Ha, I don't know who is the one who resorted to violence." King Su's patience with his father's constant stabbing at the deathbed has reached the limit.

Li Zhao quickly held down his father, who was about to jump violently, and clasped his fists to the old emperor, saying, "Grandfather, when it comes to tax administration, we have no shortage of capable ministers in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Even if the father is not good at this way, as long as we make good use of capable ministers, the country will naturally be prosperous and strong." , Grandfather, please rest assured!"

The old emperor sighed again when he heard the words.

No need to say who this capable minister was talking about, no matter how angry Song Jianming was for his betrayal, the old emperor had to admit that he was a truly capable minister.

So he said: "A minister is like water, he can carry a boat and overturn it, treat this kind of minister, you... do it yourself."

The emperor stopped talking.

Su Wang's face became even worse, thinking that his father was really old and confused, and he was full of thoughts about making him unsafe. Before leaving, he first belittled him in front of all the officials, and then provoked the father-son relationship between him and A Zhao , and now provoke the relationship between him and Song Jianming.

He was so angry that he could hardly contain his anger, so he simply stood up and strode out.

Li Zhao sighed in his heart, thinking that his father was good in everything, but his temper was too violent. When he was young, he was beaten to death because of his temper, and was even demoted to Lingnan. Now that he is middle-aged, he still always I can't hold back my anger.

Seeing that King Su had gone out, the emperor felt a little complacent, but after the complacency, there was endless emptiness and deep loss.

He began to close his eyes and meditate.

Li Zhao recruited Eunuch Yin, and the two waited in front of the dragon bed together.

During this period, Eunuch Yin didn't go to see the old emperor very much, but kept his eyes on Li Zhao from time to time to observe him.

Li Zhao smiled and said, "If Eunuch Yin has anything to say, you might as well just say it."

Yin Hongwen hurriedly knelt down, touched the ground with his head, and said: "Old slave...Old slave, I have nothing to ask for. Your majesty has supported and supported this old slave, and this old slave will never forget it. I only hope that after your majesty goes down, this old slave can Always accompany His Majesty underground, and hope His Majesty will be fulfilled."

Li Zhao frowned.

How to arrange such an old minister of the first emperor depends on the father's thoughts.

If there is no great uncle in Nanjing, this old eunuch surnamed Yin might still be able to stay, but now that the troubles have reached this point, the emperor still doesn't give King Su any face when he is dying, and the eunuch Yin is afraid that he won't be able to stay.

In this way, Li Zhao helped Eunuch Yin up, and took the initiative to say: "If the father-in-law has such an idea, the emperor's grandfather must be very pleased. As for Deng Cunjin and Wu Zhien, what can the father-in-law explain?"

Those two were the adopted sons and grandsons of Eunuch Yin. Yin Hongwen hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head.

Li Zhao said with a smile, "Eunuch Yin's loyalty can be learned from the sun and the moon."

He said so on the lips, but he was disdainful in his heart, pretending to be so eloquent, looking at his nephew who is a wealthy businessman in Shanxi, they don't know, when he is about to die, they only care about the nephew outside the palace who has never honored him at all , but ignored the two adopted sons and grandchildren who treated him like dogs.

Cool to Sri Lanka.

Outside the window, the setting sun left the last ray of light, completely addicted to below the horizon. Emperor Jingning, who had reigned for 39 years, breathed out his last breath in a coma and passed away.

Dozens of palace guards dressed in white rode out from the palace gate, shouting all the way: "Your Majesty is dead! The whole country is in mourning! Your Majesty is dead, the whole country is in mourning!!"

They took the badges from the palace and went to many temples and Taoist temples in Beijing to inform them that His Majesty the Emperor had passed away, and each bell rang [-] sticks.

For a time, bells rang all around the capital, and every household hung up white lanterns and white sails.

The whole city seemed to be covered with a white veil.

In the palace, the mourning hall has already been properly arranged. The emperor’s coffin is carefully carved from high-quality nanmu. The emperor is dressed in a luxurious cloud brocade shroud, wrapped in quilts from the Quanzhen and Sanqing scriptures, which are made of agarwood. In the inner coffin, after fixing it with rivets, it was waterproofed with paraffin wax before it was placed in the outer coffin of nanmu wood.

After staying in the palace for 49 days, they will be transferred to the imperial mausoleum in the suburbs of Beijing, and they will be buried for another three months.

But before putting the corpse into the coffin, King Su took out the emperor's green bracelet that his father loved most during his lifetime, and put it on his wrist.

Everyone said that His Royal Highness King Su did this to remind himself, but in fact, King Su wanted to remind himself with his father's bracelet that he should not be as confused as his father when he gets old.

To be honest, when he thinks of his father now, his teeth still itch with hatred.

He had never enjoyed his father's love much in his life.Throughout his life, the old emperor always showed disgust and oppression towards him.He endured it for 40 years, and now he finally doesn't have to bear it anymore!

The cabinet will show the prepared posthumous names and temple names to King Su, who is already dressed in sackcloth and filial piety.

Posthumous Title: Fa Tian Li Dao Ren Ming Sincere Respect Zhao Wen Xian Wu to De Guang Xiao Rui Emperor
Temple name: Xingzu

After seeing it, King Su took his father's emerald bead string in his hand, and quickly turned it around. The green emerald beads rattled, as if jumping desperately on the tense nerves of the ministers.

His Highness the Third Prince, who is about to become the new monarch, sneered, crossed out the word "Xing Zu" with a ink brush, and wrote the word "Hui Zong", all the officials' eyelids twitched. His Royal Highness King Su hated his father to the bottom of the ground.

After that, he crossed out the word "Renming" in his posthumous title and changed it to "Yingyi", crossed out "Zhaowen" without adding anything, and finally changed the word "Rui" to "Xian".

After finishing writing, he read it again, "Fa Tian Li Dao Ying Yi Sincere Respect Xian Wu Zhi De Guang Xiao Xian Emperor."

After reading, he nodded, threw the bright yellow silk decree to Yan Shoufu, and said, "That's it. It's enough."

All the ministers were sweating, and King Su said again: "Decree to go to Nanjing, let the elder brother and the fourth younger brother come back for the funeral!"

In the following days, King Su led a group of concubines and brothers and sisters to cry collectively.

On the first day of the old emperor's death, the new emperor's first edict was to make his wife, Concubine Meng Shu, the Empress Dowager of Chengxiao!

Everyone has to kneel, including King Su Li Da himself, only Concubine Shu has an armchair to sit on the side and accept the kneeling of all the female relatives!
Song Qingyue's seat was very high this time, and she cried hard.Drawing on the experience of crying spirit last time, I changed the chili water to ginger water, at least not to blind myself.

The concubines cried the most, especially the young concubines who were included in the "burial list" by Emperor Jing Ning, who almost cried out their hearts and lungs.

Su Wang couldn't bear to listen to their cries, and felt that the old man was not worthy of going underground to enjoy so many beauties. He should be in the sky or the ground, and kept his eyes open to see how capable his son was, better than him. How many!
So with a big wave of his hand, he directly burned the list of burials, and asked the carpenters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rush to work overnight to carve a batch of ugly and cute wooden figurines for the old man to replace the few concubines who were supposed to be buried.

Song Qingyue couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth when she saw those wooden figurines, they were so ugly!How much hatred and hatred, His Royal Highness King Su wants to treat the emperor's father like this.

As for Eunuch Yin, he had already prepared the poisoned wine himself, but when the cup was put to his mouth, the old eunuch hesitated again, and went to find Li Zhao in the middle of the night.

"Your Highness, please forgive the old slave for visiting late at night." He kowtowed as he entered the door.

Li Zhao was still wearing white filial piety. He was sitting in a chair with a gentle and elegant look, and smiled very gently: "I heard that the father-in-law even prepared the poisoned wine, why haven't he drunk it yet?"

"The old slave is still useful!" Eunuch Yin grabbed the ground with his head.

"Tell me about it." Li Zhao took a sip of tea without haste.

"Before King Shen was doomed, His Majesty gave him an edict to inherit the throne with the national seal!" Eunuch Yin said this, lying on the ground, not daring to look up.

This surprised Li Zhao, he held his head and thought for a while, then turned to Lin Wanfu and said, "Hurry up and call Father!"

"Yes."

After half a cup of tea, King Su, who was dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, was invited.

When he entered the door and saw Eunuch Yin lying on the ground, King Su raised his eyebrows in surprise, playing with his father's bead string in his hand, and said with a smile: "My father-in-law doesn't come to see me, but he likes to see His Highness."

Eunuch Yin's sweat-drenched clothes immediately became sweaty again.

Li Zhao stood up immediately, supported King Su on the chair and sat down, whispered a few words in his ear, King Su raised his eyebrows high, and after a while, he kicked Eunuch Yin on the shoulder and said angrily : "Dog slave, are you talking about such an important matter now?"

Kicking and still not relieved, he picked up the teacup on the table and smashed it down on Eunuch Yin's head.

Eunuch Yin's head was smashed instantly, and blood gushed out, he didn't dare to say a word, lying on the ground, he said: "I beg Your Majesty to spare the life of this old slave, this old slave is willing to testify for His Majesty, the late emperor never gave Shen What kind of imperial edict has the king passed!"

As if he didn't hear what Eunuch Yin said, King Su wanted to go up and kick him again, but was held back by Li Zhao and Eunuch Wang. The handkerchief helped him cover the bleeding hole in his head, while Qin Jifu ran out to find the imperial doctor and waited for him.

"Father, don't worry, Eunuch Yin is right, it's better to keep him." Li Zhao comforted his father.

King Su snorted and said, "How do I know what he will say then? If I don't know, he is a refugee and beggar that Empress Xu saved when he was young!"

Li Zhaodao: "Father, don't worry, this old guy has a nephew surnamed Ma who is a salt merchant in Zhejiang. Let's find his nephew, and forgive him for not daring to talk nonsense."

King Su patted himself on the forehead: "Confused by anger."

When Mrs. Yin heard Li Zhao's words, her complexion turned pale in an instant. If Lin Wanfu hadn't supported him, he could hardly stand upright, almost incontinent.

His original surname was Ma, but Yin's surname was changed after he entered the palace. He thought he had hidden the matter of his nephew well, but Su Wang and his son had already known about it.

Li Zhao helped his father and said to Eunuch Yin in a gentle tone: "Your words are reasonable, and it is indeed worth saving your life, but if you dare to talk nonsense, the palace will let your nephew and his family enter the cleaning room, cut off the roots of your descendants, and call him They are all eunuchs, do you understand?"

This is to get rid of people's family. In the future, he will not even have a person who worships incense. This is more sinister than killing the whole family!Eunuch Yin nodded tremblingly, breathed heavily, and said intermittently: "Old slave...Old slave...will definitely not talk nonsense."

King Su seemed quite satisfied with Li Zhao's handling. When he looked at Yin Hongwen again, he immediately lost his previous panic. He asked Eunuch Wang to find him a quiet courtyard and put him under house arrest. Both Eunuch Deng and Eunuch Wu were sent to take care of him. him.

King Su's actions made the courtiers very uneasy. He didn't keep any of the eunuchs who were reused by the late emperor, so what about the previous court?Is it because he doesn't want to reuse the old ministers of the former court?
In the past few days, there was an endless stream of people who wanted to come to Song Jianming's mansion to inquire about news and seek connections, so many that it upset Song Ge.

Don't say that Song Jianming is upset, even the threshold of Mr. Wu next door and Song Jianming's in-law Zhang Shilang's house will be broken.

Throughout May, Song Qingyue lost a lot of weight because of the crying spirit.

Li Zhao looked distressed, and every time she secretly asked someone to help her to rest, Song Qingyue refused.

Li Zhao went to bed at night and sighed while rubbing her legs. Song Qingyue leaned her head on his shoulder and said softly: "I am the eldest princess now. I rest. In the future, those gangs of censors will have a reason to attack your highness and me." Father."

Li Zhao kissed her hair and said, "It would have been fine if I had conceived a few days ago, now there is a reason to rest."

Song Qingyue said with a smile: "How can it be so easy? Those censors don't care whether you are pregnant or not. When did those sour literati in the court care about a woman's life? If they had a miscarriage because of the crying spirit, they I would also like to praise you for your purity and filial piety. If it works, pregnant women will be dragged to cry when they encounter such a thing in the future, and that would be a crime." She shook her head slightly.

Li Zhao was silent for a moment, then kissed her ear and said, "They don't care, I do. The only thing I care about in my life is you, Yue'er, besides Father. You are the only one by my side, Yue'er. Without you, I would be alone in this world."

Whenever he said words of love seriously, Song Qingyue would lower her eyes and not look at him.

Li Zhao was used to it now, so he smiled helplessly, and lifted her chin to kiss her.

After a long kiss, Song Qingyue bit her lips, feeling a little emotional. In the dark and flickering candlelight, she slightly raised her long eyelashes to glance at him, her eyes were moist and full of affection.She said in a low voice, "Your Highness must take care of himself. Yue'er cares about many people, but His Highness is the number one."

Although her voice was low when she said this, her expression was extremely serious.

Li Zhao pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly, buried his face in her neck, and said with a little resentment: "Yue'er is becoming more and more good at coaxing people. You little liar!"

She said so, but she couldn't help but want to believe in her heart, maybe she was telling the truth.

Song Qingyue has few confidants in this world, and even fewer people can understand her shocking thoughts.Master Song is the first, the second elder brother is the second, and the father-in-law King Su—now His Majesty the Emperor, can barely be counted as one, and then there is Li Zhao.

In fact, Li Zhao is not like this. A person is too smart and stands too high. The scenery he sees cannot be seen by others, so it is impossible to talk about it.

The relationship between him and Song Qingyue is not just a husband and wife, they are lovers, but also confidants. Song Qingyue understands him, and he is one of the few people who can understand Song Qingyue.

Although there were many differences and misunderstandings between them, they were consistent in the ultimate ideal. Li Zhao felt that his heart with Yue'er was getting closer.

This feeling is wonderful, beyond physical pleasure, is a kind of spiritual satisfaction.

He remembered that she once said that she was not only his wife, but also his comrade-in-arms and comrade.

The woman who was hugged tightly by him had a cold and expressionless face.Song Qingyue thought silently: I am acting more and more realistically now, and I just open my mouth to say pleasant and pleasant words.But sometimes even she herself can't tell whether she is just acting or if she has done a fake show for real.

June.

Prince Jing returned to Beijing for the funeral, but the eldest prince, Prince Shen, did not dare to come, and only asked his fourth brother to bring a volume of blood scriptures to Beijing.

Therefore, King Su scolded King Shen for being unfilial in front of his officials and all his brothers and sisters, and even reduced the title of prince to county king.

In fact, it is not enough for him to be reduced to a county king, he wants to depose his eldest brother as a commoner!But was stopped by Li Zhao: "Father, take it step by step. Grandpa Huang has just left, so it's not good to go too far at the beginning."

The eldest prince Li Chi was also very angry in Nanjing, when he heard that his father had passed away, he held the volume of imperial edict all day long and washed his face with tears.

If it wasn't for Li Sheng's repeated dissuasion and repeated persuasion that they would not be able to defeat the third uncle, Li Chi would have really taken out the edict and directly ascended the throne in Nanjing to establish another small court.

(End of this chapter)