Chapter 650
Queen Wang was only 21 years old when she died. She was buried in Longping Mausoleum with the posthumous title of Empress Xiaowuding.

After the death of the queen, the young and promising emperor Sima Yao changed. He never drank alcohol, and since then he has been addicted to alcohol.

Sometimes, he would sit in the cold palace for a whole day, staring at the empty cold palace in a daze, and the maids and eunuchs knew that he was missing the queen.

However, no one can tell clearly about the relationship between the empress and the emperor. In the eyes of outsiders, the two of them have no intersection at all, and there is no deep relationship between them.

I don't know why the empress is unwilling to accept the emperor, and I don't know why the emperor insists on embarrassing the empress. I don't know why after the empress died, the emperor made an oath not to have an empress again.

Two people who obviously didn't want to share the same room during their lifetime, but they wanted to share the same acupuncture point after death. The emperor said that Empress Xiaowuding was his only empress.

Therefore, three years have passed, and the emperor not only did not establish a new queen, but he did not even marry a concubine.

Because of the issue of the emperor's heir, the empress dowager and the concubine really turned gray with worry.

Empress Dowager Chu was already old, and she was worried about the war between Qin and Jin, worrying about the royal heirs, and also caught up with the collapse of the empress and the decline of the emperor. Empress Dowager Chu was exhausted and became thinner and thinner.

The concubine seldom went to Yongshou Palace before, because the empress dowager was aloof since she was a child, and her sense of oppression made the concubine pale by comparison, and she couldn't help but feel inferior.

However, the Empress Dowager's health was deteriorating day by day, and the Empress Dowager was really worried about her, so she often went to Yongshou Palace to talk with her to relieve her boredom.

But in fact, Empress Dowager Chu is the most talented woman in the world, and the concubine can't read Chinese characters, so she can't communicate with the queen mother on a spiritual level.

But even so, Empress Dowager Chu still accepted the concubine's kindness and found it fresh and interesting to hear her say some homely things.

After Jing Ran came back, Empress Dowager Chu was really happy, because there were countless interesting stories in Jing Ran's belly, and Jing Ran had half of the blood of the Sima royal family in her body, so Empress Dowager Chu couldn't help but get close to her.

In the last years of Empress Dowager Chu, Jing Ran and concubine Li Lingrong accompanied her through the journey. Finally, a few months after Jing Ran returned to Beijing, Empress Dowager Chu came to the end of her life.

That day, Empress Dowager Chu sat on the phoenix seat as usual and listened to Jing Ran's story with a smile. Jing Ran told the story of Wu Zetian. This was the first time Jing Ran heard about Empress Dowager Chu. Mrs. Stories.

At that time, Jing Ran never thought that one day she would become close to the legendary Empress Dowager. At that time, she thought that Empress Dowager Chu was the same person as Wu Zetian.

When she told the story to the Empress Dowager Chu, the Empress Dowager Chu smiled and said: "The Ai family never wanted to be a queen. The Ai family has assisted six emperors in their life, and they have actually controlled the world longer than any emperor in history, but the Ai family Jia is just a woman from the Sima family."

After the Empress Dowager Chu finished speaking, she still had a smile on her face, but she had already closed her eyes. The concubine Li Lingrong was weeping uncontrollably. In the cold and lonely palace, the Empress Dowager was the only person who could accompany her.

Now, the empress dowager has also gone, and the empress dowager has become the only hostess in the Jin Palace in Nuo Da.

When the Empress Dowager Chu passed away, all the people mourned. This kind of mourning was no less than that of any emperor's death. The Empress Dowager Chu died at the age of 61 in the Xianyang Hall of the Longevity Palace.

The ministers of the DPRK and China started a discussion on the issue of mourning, because the Empress Dowager Chu is not the mother of the current emperor Sima Yao, but his sister-in-law.

Xu Zao, a doctor of Taixue, suggested: "Serving fathers and emperors should be respectful."

"The "Book of Rites" says: 'For the funeral of a husband and wife, the husband follows the father's funeral system, and the wife follows the mother's funeral system', so the husband should follow the emperor's ceremony, and the wife should follow the posthumous ceremony."

"It is the mother's funeral system to wear the same mourning for the queen mother. Today, the emperor personally enshrines Emperor Kang, Emperor Mu, Emperor Ai, and Empress Jing, and respects them as if they were his own. How can he respect the emperor and wear mourning clothes according to his own parents? We should perform the funeral ceremony, A year of mourning."

Emperor Xiaowu followed this opinion and buried Empress Dowager Chu in Chongping Mausoleum.

 In ancient China, the death of an emperor or empress dowager was called "Ji Beng".

  
 
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