Chapter 125: Life is a Big Dream

After Zhu Qizhen came to Cining Palace.

But I saw that the Cining Palace was already crowded with people.

Lou Yuan saw Zhu Qizhen, sighed softly, and shook his head.

I have done my best.

Zhu Qizhen didn't say much, stepped forward a few steps, and came to the queen mother.

The Empress Dowager looked at Zhu Qizhen, smiled slightly, and said, "Zhen'er, you're here." Let my mother look at you again. ”

Zhu Qizhen had a sour nose and said, "Mother." ”

The Queen Mother said: "You were sticky to me when you were a child, but when you grow up, you won't be close." But it doesn't matter, you did a good job as an emperor, especially now that you have destroyed Annan and fulfilled your father's wish, I will go down to see him, and I also have something to say. ”

Zhu Qizhen had a thousand words for a while, but he didn't know what to say.

And the Queen Mother doesn't seem to have anything to say to Zhu Qizhen.

The Queen Mother's gaze condensed, as if she had passed through time, a long time ago.

A long, long time ago, a six-year-old girl was standing in the East Palace when she heard a voice asking, "What do you do?" ”

That was the first time she had seen him.

One glance is a lifetime.

I don't know how many twists and turns there are.

For example, when she was newly married, she was not his concubine.

He told her that she was his wife all his life, and that he couldn't do anything about this now, but he would definitely do it in the future.

As a result, there is something that the whole world knows about the abolition of the aftermath, which makes a lot of noise.

Now the outside has a bad opinion of her.

But she didn't care.

After his death, she was worried about her son at first, and waited for him to gain a firm foothold. There is only the endless night of missing. At this moment, she seemed to see that he was dressed in military uniform, riding a horse, bending his bow and shooting willows, and won the first place, which impressed Emperor Taizong.

And he turned to his side and said, "Come, come with me." ”

She suddenly smiled and said, "Okay." ”

It seemed that time had receded from her body, and in an instant she had returned to the best of her time, her skin became taut and delicate, like freshly dyed silk, her hair coiled on her head, and the golden phoenix crown nodded tremblingly.

A big red wedding dress sat on his white horse, matching him in a military costume and the Jin family, and then went to the endless distance.

She leaned against his chest.

Countless times have passed through my mind, it is the original horseback riding and archery, the first time the two of them practiced painting together, they have already fought crickets with each other, and so on.

"If life is a big dream, and after waking up from the dream, you can see him again, then what is there to be afraid of death." A thought flashed through the Queen Mother's mind.

All illusions of the world receded in an instant.

Some were just the last tears of the Queen Mother flowing from the corners of her eyes.

She slowly closed her eyes.

She woke up from this dream.

The cry shook the sky.

Zhu Qizhen held the hand of the Queen Mother, although he didn't cry, but the tears couldn't stop flowing.

Even though Zhu Qizhen is rich in the world, his power is all over the world, and if one person dies, his people have to die, but he has no ability to save the lives of those closest to him.

Even though he had been mentally prepared in his heart, at this moment, sadness still robbed him of all his senses.

He lost the ability to process external information.

But even if he wanted to escape, some things wouldn't stop because of his escape.

In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of orthodoxy, the Empress Dowager collapsed in Cining Palace. 100 days of national mourning.

How to handle a national funeral, the court has always had certain rules. There is no need for Zhu Qizhen to deal with it personally, he just needs to be like a marionette and bear all kinds of etiquette.

And the wedding and funeral of the emperor has always been the top priority in the world.

Therefore, this matter has become the first thing for officials in Beijing to do.

For a while, Zhu Qizhen was almost busy.

The Empress Dowager naturally wants to be buried with Emperor Xuanzong, and the tomb is reserved, and only after the Empress Dowager is sent in, will it be truly sealed.

For the funeral, Zhu Qizhen asked the prince to do it for him.

As mentioned above, the changes in Gaopingling made by the Sima family, and later emperors were generally personally buried and worshipped, and they were all done by the closest people.

And the queen mother liked the crown prince the most. Let the crown prince do this thing, and it is also the wish of the queen mother.

It's just this one thing, though it subsided.

But for Zhu Qizhen, it is eternity resounding in the depths of his heart.

In a person's life, he will experience two things and grow greatly, one is marriage.

Because to start a family and become the head of a family, you must have responsibility.

Secondly, there is the loss of parents.

This changes differently in different situations.

Some people lost their parents at a young age, and some sent their parents away at the age of seventy or eighty. Naturally, each situation is different.

As there is a saying, when your parents are here, there is still a place to come in life, and when your parents go, there is only a way back in life.

Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne at the age of nine, and now he is twenty-eight years old. Thirty-seven years old.

For a politician, this is actually a very young age, but Zhu Qizhen has to calculate one thing, how many years can he live.

Even if Emperor Daming is long-lived, Emperor Taizu is only sixty-nine years old, Emperor Taizong is sixty-four years old, and as for Renzong, Xuanzong is even more waiting.

In other words, whether Zhu Qizhen wants to or not, his life has entered the second half.

Reigned for twenty-seven years, even if Zhu Qizhen is dead now, among all the Ming Emperors, it can be regarded as a long reign.

Zhu Qizhen certainly wanted to live a long life, but a reality told him that it was impossible for him to live for so long. First, there is the problem of the development of medical technology in this era.

He was sure that whether it was the Empress Dowager's illness or the Empress Dowager's illness, it was a terminal illness in this era, but it may not be in the future.

Secondly, there is the issue of Zhu Qizhen's living habits.

Zhu Qizhen has exercised since he was a child, and he has rarely been sick for so many years. But Zhu Qizhen also had to admit that being a good emperor is not a profession that can live a long life.

The way of health preservation, how to say, is naturally to pay attention to diet, think less and worry less.

The former Zhu Qizhen can do it, and he has been doing it, and the latter can't do it even if he kills Zhu Qizhen.

The court seems to be calm, but the situation of a hundred battles between monarchs and ministers has never subsided, and Li Xian has no ideas of his own? Liu Dingzhi doesn't have his own ideas? Even from the cabinet scholars, all the scholars who were selected by Zhu Qizhen were capable ministers.

But whoever is capable does not think of a minion. They all have their own political aspirations and ideas.

The contradictions between them, the contradictions between the monarchs and ministers, and other contradictions, Zhu Qizhen should not think about it carefully. If it is just to maintain stability and suppress it, it will be easier.

But Zhu Qizhen has something to do.

How could it be possible to stop for a minute of intrigues.

It can be said that the profession of the emperor is the kind of person who has to fight with others for life if he does not stop breathing.

How can it be less thoughtful.

Zhu Qizhen is not afraid of death.

Instead, he has to organize his schedule with the time he has left.

He estimated that he would live to be 60 years old at most, but that would be just over 20 years.

Twenty years is most of a person's life, but for a country, it is very short. Not to mention anything else, the land of Zhu Qizhen has been going on for several years from beginning to end.

It will take more than a year to even wrap it up completely.

As for the reform of the military system, it has been prepared for many years from the beginning to the end, and it is only now in the final stage.

If it is done at this rate, how many things can Zhu Qizhen do in his life. Can he profoundly change this society and deflect the future direction of the Ming Dynasty in another direction?

A sense of urgency emerges.

Time is too short and there are so many things I want to do.

But he understands better.

It is useless to be in a hurry about many things, and the more anxious some things are, the easier it is to make mistakes, and it is easy to make a mess.

And if it's too rough. Even if he was alive, he did it strongly, and when he was gone, he would be counterattacked.

It is even necessary to see the lessons of the Northern Song Dynasty's reforms.

It was because of a party dispute caused by a change in the law that the country died, and even if the Northern Song Dynasty had not changed the law, maybe it would have been able to support it for a longer time.

These two thoughts struggled back and forth in Zhu Qizhen's heart, and he was worried about the Empress Dowager's illness for many days.

Zhu Qizhen fell ill.