Chapter 343: The Seventh Day
The emperor's words were like a basin of cold water poured on the two kneeling on the ground, and the fear continued to spread, but more of it came from the deep fear and uneasiness in his heart. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But things are no longer up to them, the lowest minions of the palace.
Out of the East Wing Pavilion, the snow has stopped, and there is thick snow all over the ground, walking on it, making a "creaking" sound.
The emperor did not ride arrogantly, Liu Yan walked side by side with the emperor with a paper umbrella as she did when she came, and Zhang Fuhai and a handmaiden followed.
Before leaving, he glanced meaningfully at the maid and father-in-law who were kneeling on the ground, their eyes were indifferent, without a trace of emotion, these two people, in his eyes, were already dead.
After turning around, only two parallel footprints were left in front of him.
There is never an intersection.
In the fifth year of Dayong, the imperial concubine Ren died of illness at the age of 23.
The emperor was so sad that he couldn't help himself, fainted several times, and couldn't sleep all night in the palace of Yixin, promulgating a decree and announcing it to the world.
Posthumously named Ren as the queen, and the nickname "Jingxian" was "Queen Jingxian".
Since then, the Jiaofang Palace has been closed and no palace concubines are allowed to live.
The day of the funeral is set three days later, on the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve.
The whole country mourns, no lanterns, no firecrackers, no red, no marriage, until the mourning period for Queen Jingxian expires for one year.
As soon as this decree was issued, the government and the opposition were shocked and the whole country was sensational.
All the officials sighed that even if Ren died, there was still such a big movement in the court, but no one dared to touch the emperor's scales.
The queen is the most embarrassing, located in the middle palace, holding the phoenix seal, is the most noble woman in the entire Dayong, and the only woman who can keep pace with the emperor.
But now she was robbed of all her favor by a concubine, a concubine, even if she is the imperial concubine, but after all, she is a concubine, or a woman who has been degraded to an honor, and after her death, she was posthumously named the queen, which makes him embarrassed as the queen of the main palace who is still alive?
A hundred years later, when the underworld meets, do you still want her to salute her?
But in the end, the queen calmed down, did not make a single movement, did what she should do as the mother of a country, and then chose to be silent.
Alive, she can still fight with her, but now that everyone is dead, do you want her to fight with the dead?
The queen was silent, saying that she was sick and bedridden, and handed over the errand of presiding over the posthumous affairs of "Empress Jingxian" to the concubine.
For her silent attitude, the emperor didn't say much, and let the concubine preside over the major event of the national mourning, after all, after Ren's death, in this harem, except for the queen, the most respectable person should belong to her.
It is inconvenient for the hundred officials to mix too much with the emperor's family affairs, since the queen is silent, then above the court, the two forces headed by the Zhenguo Gong and the Huguo Gong are naturally silent, and only a force that belongs to the emperor led by Wu Gang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, has secretly risen, and in this incident, it has exerted a super control ability.
Above the court, no one objected, but it was a bit too much to explore the emperor's move in private.
It's just that, this decree prohibits marriage within a year, but it is a bit redundant, it really makes many people frightened, and the people of Pingtou are easy to say, it is not allowed to be allowed, as long as it is not too public, it can still be improvised, but in this imperial city, the latest marriage is February 2 after the year, the wedding day of the Marquis of Jingyuan and the lord of Hui, but now, the will, this marriage is not only to be postponed, but also in this, think out of other things.
Now the lord of Huijun has entered the palace, nominally to accompany the queen mother, but anyone with a clear eye, who will not see that the emperor is actually trapped in the palace under semi-house arrest, after all, in the past, the lord of Huijun worshiped the three products in front of you, and he was a red man in front of the emperor.
It's just that the parties don't care, they, outsiders, just talk about it secretly.
In the Yixin Palace, the heating is pervasive, and the faint aroma is flowing, but the anger is a little low, making the heat of this room seem cold to the bone.
Wu Gang knelt on the ground, his face was pale, there was still a thin snow on his shoulders that had not melted, his shoulders were straight, but there was still a sense of trembling, today, he came to deliver a letter, and the letter was sent from the front line.
The letter is sealed with fire paint, and it is written that the emperor personally opened, except for the emperor, everyone else does not know the content of the letter, Wu Gang is also afraid, what is the war ahead, regardless of it for the time being, in the eyes of the emperor, a small Dayan is not enough to fear, at the latest in the spring of the next year, he will inevitably lead the army to go out and smash the Yellow Dragon.
The most important thing is the 1,000-year-old army led by the seven-year-old boy, and it is their 1,000 soldiers and horses that will be defeated in this battle.
The emperor's slender fingers slid lightly across the letter, and the afterglow lightly swept Liu Yan, who was sitting quietly drinking tea on the side, as if feeling his gaze, Liu Yan raised his head slightly, and looked at him.
The emperor didn't expect Liu Yan to look at him so directly, and suddenly felt that Liu Yan's eyes were extremely good-looking, round, bright, like a brilliant gem, which made people fall into it and couldn't extricate themselves, but in the next moment, the emperor had already lowered his head, and he didn't dare to look at such eyes anymore, and opened the letter in his hand and looked at ten lines at a glance.
Half a sound, the stone that had been hanging in my heart fell quietly.
Today is already the seventh day of Yuan Tianzhi's army, according to his marching speed, at this moment, he should also meet the Dayan Self-Defense Army, and the 200,000 troops led by Rou Gangyu are two days late.
The letter was handed out by Qiu Zheng, who was hidden on Rou Gangyu's side, two nights ago, Qiu Zheng's handwriting was unimitated, and there was a code in the letter that only two people knew, so it can be judged that the content of the letter is true.
Two days ago, Rou Gangyu's commander's camp received a distress letter, which was a letter drafted by King Xian himself, hoping that Rou Gangyu could lead the army to arrive in time to rescue, they had been surrounded by Dayan soldiers and horses on the plain thirty miles north of Taicheng, and the whole army was wiped out, only in an instant.
The soldiers and horses of Taicheng and Wucheng guarded Taicheng for three days, and when they waited for reinforcements, they were a thousand men and horses led by King Xian, and they were disheartened and had no heart to fight. (To be continued.) )