Chapter 593: Posthumously Crowned Empress Xiaoxian
The capital is indeed the center of power, but if people are indeed in the capital, but they are locked up in prison, you can't touch it even in the center of power. What's the use? It's better to go to the fiefdom, if you still have that kind of thought, you can plan slowly. At least the human body is free, how can you be a frog at the bottom of a well like now?
Of course, those princes will not understand, they will only think that it is beneficial to stick to the capital, and there will always be a chance to overthrow the rule of the new emperor. After Shen Yu saw the behavior of these princes, he just secretly felt that these people were really weak when they fought with the Eighth Prince, no wonder the Eighth Prince could slowly attract the attention of the emperor's grandfather from an unfavored prince, and then slowly move to the crown prince, and then ascend to the sky in one step?
Shen Yu really didn't have hope now, saying that he could support a prince from other princes to come out and fight with the Eighth Prince, which was impossible. It is estimated that it will not take long for these princes to be lost, and the eighth prince will have to be lost. The Eighth Prince can be forbearing, he can be small and low, and he can be compromised. This all means that what the Eighth Prince will do now, he will do whatever it takes to take revenge on those who have hurt him. So will he still talk about brotherhood?
Qiu Ning and the eldest princess stayed in front of the emperor's spirit every day, maybe the only thing the two of them could do now was to send the emperor through the last stretch of the road! And the eighth prince didn't seem to expect that the eldest princess and Qiu Ning were still busy with the affairs of the previous dynasty and dealing with the forces behind the princes. Busy cleaning up the abandoned queen mother's house, busy killing the big prince who guarded the imperial mausoleum.
Even if Qiu Ning knew all this, he couldn't do anything about it. And on the last journey of the former emperor, Qiu Ning really didn't want to make any more trouble. Even if the prince is the most wronged, but that is because he has done too much evil before. According to the Eighth Prince's handling of the abolished queen's mother's family, it is very understandable how much the Eighth Prince hates the former queen and the crown prince. Of course, although he took revenge on these people, Qiu Ning felt that it should not be, and everyone had no way out, so why did he have to force people to death?
But what can Qiu Ning do, is to go to the Eight Princes to turn over the theory and preach to the Eight Princes? Or do you want to anger the Eighth Prince and make the Eighth Prince pull out his hand to deal with himself and the eldest princess? Therefore, Qiu Ning could only continue to accompany the eldest princess like no one, and keep a daily vigil for the emperor with the eldest princess.
Qiu Ning was just pregnant, and now she has to work hard to guard the tomb of the emperor, even if Qiu Ning is willing, but the eldest princess is not very willing, for fear that her daughter's body will not be able to bear it. Therefore, whenever someone comes, the eldest princess will let Qiu Ning kneel, and when no one is around, she will let Qiu Ning go to the back hall to rest. The eldest princess feels that her heart is the most important, and her father will also be considerate of Bao'er.
It seems that everything is still relatively smooth, and the eighth prince has not come to make trouble during the wake, nor has he looked for trouble with the eldest princess and Qiu Ning. And there was nothing else happening, but the concubines left by the emperor in the palace all let the eighth prince lose the imperial tomb and guard the mausoleum. Speaking of those concubines, some of them are not yet twenty years old, but they have to live a lifetime in the cold and lonely imperial mausoleum, which makes people feel scared and terrifying when they think about it.
So naturally, there are concubines who make trouble, crying and dying, and looking for death and life. But the eighth prince was not moved at all, as if he was fine, and he didn't feel that these concubines were pitiful or anything. Instead, he directly ordered the eunuch to tie up these concubines, throw them in the carriage and send them away. To say that such indifference is really chilling, but what? The rules in the palace have always been like this, but all those childless concubines who go to the place after the emperor's death are either to be buried or to guard the emperor's mausoleum. It seems quite normal for the Eighth Emperor to do this as the new emperor, and there is nothing to blame.
But Shen Yu just felt that the Eighth Prince was too hateful, maybe in Shen Yu's opinion, those concubines were pitiful, but in the eyes of the world, what the Eighth Prince did was according to the rules. Since it comes according to the rules, there is nothing wrong with it. Anyway, everything is running according to the cloth, and after keeping the spirit, it is natural to go out of the funeral and enter the earth for peace.
And the emperor is naturally going to enter the imperial mausoleum and be buried with the queen. But it was just when the emperor was about to enter the imperial tomb that the problem appeared. The eighth prince directly posthumously crowned his mother concubine as Empress Xiaoxian, not to say that Empress Xiaoxian was to be buried with the first emperor. In fact, according to the rules, Empress Xiaoxian was posthumously sealed later, even if she is the queen, it is impossible to be buried with the emperor again, and the queen Shunrou who was personally sealed by the emperor before, that is, the queen mother of the eldest princess, has been buried in the queen's mausoleum first.
Naturally, there is no extra place in the Queen's Mausoleum to put Empress Xiaoxian, and in this case, the Eighth Emperor must also let Empress Xiaoxian enter the Queen's Mausoleum, and he must be a long-term husband and wife with the emperor. It's not that Queen Shunrou is not worthy of being a queen or something, so she directly invited Queen Shunrou out of the queen's mausoleum and put her into the concubine's mausoleum. What does this mean, this is a direct slap in the face of the eldest princess. The ministers who went to the funeral with them all knew how favored the eldest princess had been, and they knew that the emperor's favorite was Queen Shunrou.
Now when the new emperor entered the imperial mausoleum, he had to pull out the woman that the emperor liked, and put Empress Xiaoxian, who the emperor didn't remember during his lifetime. What would have happened if the emperor was alive! However, this also shows a problem, that is, when the new emperor was still the eighth prince, he had a friendly attitude towards the eldest princess. But now he obviously doesn't take the eldest princess in his eyes, but the new emperor can't do such a thing when he cares about the eldest princess's face. People pay attention to the dead in the ground, but Queen Shunrou is tossing back and forth, this is good to die, if you are alive, you will be angry to death, annoyed to death.
And the new emperor is not wrong to posthumously seal his biological mother, but he can't do such a thing! At the beginning, the emperor said that he would let Empress Shunrou accompany him to sleep underground. Now that the new emperor has disobeyed the will of the previous emperor, should everyone mention it or not? After the ministers looked at each other, in the end, no one said a word, and no one gnawed, obviously no one wanted to be this bird to offend the new emperor.
This is a good time for the newlyweds, who would do stupid things to upset the new emperor? Unless you don't want to mix it up, or you don't want to live at all. Before the new emperor exiled the late deposed mother Manchus, everyone still remembers it? So many people, who were originally noble official wives and ladies, suddenly became homeless. And the end of exile in this situation is actually similar to death. Thousands of miles away in the penal colony, how many people can survive it, and even if they survive, will they survive when they get there?
It is said that exile is actually similar to extermination, which shows how ruthless and poisonous the new emperor's methods are, and in such a situation, if you want to provoke the new emperor, you are looking for death. (To be continued.) )