Chapter 36: Death

"Good boy," Empress Xu gently grabbed her hand: "I know your heart, but you don't understand my heart yet." ”

Zhang Zhaohua's tears flowed involuntarily: "Mother, I don't understand, why are you." ”

The Yisha she sent over soon returned, but it was Mama Li beside Empress Xu who stopped him. Zhang Zhaohua wanted to ask why, is there really a person in this world who can allow others to intervene when the couple is in deep love? Is it because he is too confident in his own feelings, or is it because of the depth of love that he can't wait to bring him all the best things in the world?

"On the day of sideburns, it is always difficult. Queen Xu said: "This life cannot be expected to come to the next life, and the present dynasty cannot be expected to come to the future." ”

In the days to come, there will be more time for drowsiness and less time for soberness. When she was sober, she said something to the emperor, and at this time, she talked about the mausoleum, "Choose a good place to bury it, just like now, and be together every day." ”

One day, he also called Gao Chi to go in and said, "The women of Beiping, Baoding, and Yongping are all guarding the city for me, don't forget to see them for me again in the future, saying that I remember them." ”

finally called Zhang Zhaohua in and said, "If you give birth to a princess, everything I have here will add makeup to her." When I gave birth to a brother, I had nothing more to give him, so I made him a set of clothes so that he would remember me in the future. ”

"Yongping, Gao Sui-" Empress Xu suddenly grabbed her hand, and her eyes showed a light of worry and pain: "They don't tell me to rest assured!"

"I swear to take good care of them," Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help crying: "No matter how you lose each other, you must be saved!"

"I handed them over to you," said Empress Xu, "I left something for you, and if they were disobedient, I asked them to come and guard the tomb for me...... If there is still a little salvation, it is the grace of flesh and blood...... What she couldn't tell her to say became true......"

When the princes, kings, and princesses all gathered around, kneeling beside the bed and crying, a short smile suddenly appeared on Queen Xu's face, which had been tormented by illness for a long time: "...... Brother Tsubaki......"

Brother Tsubaki lay in front of her, pressed against her face, "Milk, I'm here!"

She didn't look at Brother Chun'er, and still said, "Brother Chun'er...... At night, the lights ...... Aoshan ......"

Zhang Zhaohua suddenly understood: "Light the lamp! The queen mother wants to watch the lamp!"

In Kunning Palace, a number of lamps were hurriedly lit, and they were bright for a while, and even lights were lit all the way from the palace to the outside of the palace, the four doors were opened, and the lanterns were spread all the way, just like the Milky Way in the sky.

"The Queen Motherβ€”"

The obituary had not yet reached Fujian, and the sea breeze had already brought Zheng He's fleet, and his first trip to the West was over, and he returned to Middle-earth full of harvest.

"The minister once paid homage to the Buddha tooth relics of Ceylon," Zheng He said: "I wish that the Ming Dynasty will be peaceful and the people will be happy." ”

The emperor said "oh", but said: "You didn't know that the queen was sick at that time, if you knew, worship in front of the Buddha for me, maybe the queen will not go so early." ”

The "Five Grain Trees" and "Borneo Trees" that Zheng He brought back from overseas were planted in Linggu Temple, Tianxi Temple, and Dabao'en Temple respectively, where blessings were being recommended to the empress, and temples of all sizes in the capital were the same.

The palace quickly stopped for three months, but the emperor did not have the slightest intention of being buried, because he decided to build a mausoleum in Beijing, and since the queen's mausoleum was set there, the emperor's mausoleum after a thousand years of life was also there.

In December, Zhang Zhaohua and Li gave birth to brothers one after the other.

So this year, in fact, there are many brilliant points, such as the completion of the "Yongle Grand Canon", such as the pacification of Annam, such as Zheng He took the envoys of Ryukyu, Zhongshan, Shannan, Borneo, Sumatra, Manjara, Xiao Gelan and other countries to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty - how many things can a person do in a lifetime? How many things can an emperor do when he is in power?

The emperor of the fifth year of Yongle was forty-eight years old, and he was full of energy, but after so many famous achievements, he couldn't sleep all day and night-

"Jianwen is not dead!"

He often heard such words, in the shadows, in the corners, in his sleep, even in the midst of lightning and thunder. When he heard this, the hairs on his body stood on end.

In the past, Empress Xu comforted him and persuaded him, but since the queen died, he felt over and over again that there was a lingering ghost in this huge palace, which was the shadow of Jianwen hanging over his head.

He knew that Jianwen was not dead, he knew who the corpse dragged out of the fire was, and the jade seal in his hand was even missing, and the missing piece was taken away by Huang Guan, although Huang Guan was dead, but the piece of the jade seal was not found!

He secretly sent people to look for Jianwen, because this kind of thing could not be made a big deal, and he had already announced Jianwen's death to the people. However, after the emperor thought about it repeatedly, he came up with a way to find out Jianwen's whereabouts: a way was really looking for it in the country, and he sent a few henchmen to track down Jianwen's whereabouts in the name of issuing books to the whole country.

The second way is to look overseas, which is also inspired by Yuan Hui and Huang Zicheng. Isn't it because Yuan Hui learned the art of being a person at Luojia Mountain on the sea? Huang Zicheng also said that he wanted to "float to the sea to recruit troops" and planned to save the Jianwen Imperial Court? Maybe Jianwen crossed the sea, went to a foreign country and settled down temporarily, and waited for the restoration in the future!

Zheng He's first voyage did not bring any news of Jianwen - this did not reassure him, and he had to send him until he was looking for his traces.

"Your Majesty," said the eunuch kneeling in front of him, "there is still no movement in the cemetery. ”

The cemetery is the cemetery of Prince Yiwen, Zhu Yunwen's mother Lu is still alive, with her young son Yunxi, living there, surrounded by the emperor's eyeliner sent by the past, firmly monitoring them.

"Wait, I'm not in a hurry. The emperor showed a dignified light: "His mother is here, he can't not see him for the rest of his life." ”