The news of Apocalypse's death came from Guangzhou to Hue, Shouhan's new home, a month after his death.

Hearing such news, Shouhan's first reaction was that Lao Tzu had another funeral!

But then the chain of thoughts was, "Is the apocalypse dead?" He has no children, but his good brother Chongzhen took over his class, but this good brother lived up to the trust and expectations of his brother and sister-in-law, and ruined a family business! Wait a minute! It seems that soon after he died, Wei Zhongxian, who could support the overall situation for him, was sent to Xiaoling to burn incense? Then die? Then the old Eight Emperor Taiji soldiers of Hachi came to the city, and then the Qin Wang army mutinied and killed Yuan Inspector, which had a great impact on the future. ”

While thinking wildly, Li Peilin, who rushed to hear the news, hurriedly rushed from his signing room to Shouhan's mansion.

Now Shouhan's office and private residence have honestly and unceremoniously entered the former palace of the Ruan family. However, those buildings that are obviously encroached upon are either blocked or sealed, and Shouhan does not want to make trouble for himself because of over-standard housing.

And each department entered the office space of the former Ruan family to handle official business.

"Big brother, the Emperor of the Apocalypse has died, what should we do?"

"Lord, I was about to ask you about this, how to deal with the funeral?"

Shouhan asked how to handle the funeral and what about the etiquette? And Pei Lin's question is a matter of political attitude. Should we ignore it or should we do it?

"The lighting ceremony stipulates that the great funeral of the Son of Heaven is divided into small burials: bathing the face of the Daxing Emperor, bending his hair (combing his hair into sideburns), changing his shrouds, and furnishing memorial objects in front of the corpse. The place of the mortuary, the emperor is in the Qianqing Palace (the residence of the emperor before his death), which is called "the end of life". After that, there is the burial: that is, the deceased is put into the coffin. In front of the coffin, there are "several feasts" (offerings with sacrificial objects such as wine and food), a soothing silk, and a standing inscription (like a flag, with the words "Daxing Emperor Zigong" written on it). On the day of the funeral, the concubines and concubines of the Emperor and the Emperor of Daxing are all required to wear plain clothes to pay their respects. In Beijing, civil and military personnel and women of the third grade or above must be dressed in mourning clothes for three or more days, morning or evening, from Xihua Gate to Sishan Gate to cry.

"Wait, what is a mourning dress?" Li Shouhan, who can only say that he knows nothing about the various rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, is a little embarrassed, and originally thought that the mourning clothes were a white filial piety clothes, but from Li Peilin's tone, it was obvious that it didn't seem to be so simple.

Before the uniform, the civil and military officials wore plain clothes, with black yarn on the crown and black rhino horn belt at the waist, and the "chopping clothes" after the uniforms were served, that is, filial piety clothes made of coarse cloth without seizing the edges. ”

Then there is the funeral: generally before the big funeral or small funeral, from this day on, the temples in the capital should each strike the bell 30,000 pestles, for the benefit of the Daxing Emperor. Slaughter is prohibited in the capital for 13 to 19 days. Princes, county kings, princesses, princesses, county lords, and civil and military officials who were divided into foreign places all wept and mourned in the local court. ”

"Shouldn't we face the north and make a sacrifice?"

Shouhan stared at Pei Lin and asked very sincerely.

"This, according to the etiquette, should be so!"

"Good! Instructed the ceremonial room, sent the order down, and all the cities, villages, towns, and towns, and forts, on the day of the arrival of the official document, set up altars and tents to worship, and allowed the soldiers and civilians to go to cry and mourn filial piety. The General's Mansion set up water and land dojos in various temples in Hue City to worship Emperor Daxing. When the official letter arrives, the slaughter shall be stopped everywhere for three days, and the fasting shall be performed. Oh, and all the battalions, workshops, mines, and forest farms may not carry out this order. In addition, seafood is not included in the fasting process."

"Lord, this? Seems a bit too much, right? As long as we look at the north and worship the weeping spirit. ”

"Nope! As a courtier, you should do your duty as a courtier! Order all the newly annexed places to be solemn and solemn! If anyone dares to disobey, the administrative officer will be demoted and fined, up to dismissal from his position, and the officer will be demoted to three ranks! ”

"You must arrange competent manpower, in the Tianlong Temple in the city, convene the great monks and great virtues, chant and pray for the emperor of my Daxing, and the silver and two coins and grain needed will be withdrawn from the treasury, and if the treasury is insufficient, it will be paid in advance from the inner house! We must let Emperor Daxing have a very beautiful funeral in my Nanzhong! ”

Hearing this, Pei Lin understood the intention of Shouhan, he wanted to make the funeral of the Emperor of the Apocalypse a big activity to build the sense of identity of the people of all ethnic groups in Nanzhong, as long as this purpose is achieved, it is worth spending more money!

"After a while, Brother Lao will supervise them to build a spiritual altar for Emperor Daxing, these people are not familiar with the rules and etiquette, don't make jokes!"

Bundles of white coarse cloth were taken out of the storehouse and distributed to officials and soldiers at all levels, and all of a sudden, Hue, Ha Tinh (Thang Long, Thang Long), and firewood sticks immediately turned white.

A mourning shed made of huge bamboo and cedar trees is located in front of Miyagi. On the huge offering table, there are incense and candles. A huge copper jar is at the entrance to the mourning shed, where the people who come to worship first incinerate a thick stack of paper money for the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

On top of the huge incense case, according to the etiquette, the display of jue three, tea one, soup two, rice two, vegetable four, roasted meat one, roasted liver one, meat bone one, oil cake one, horn one, chestnut one, jujube one, round eye one, lyxiao one, walnut one, steamed bun two, mutton one, tied meat two, juice pot one, wine jug one. In addition, before the main case, there were also black cows, sheep, and pigs, the so-called prison gifts,

For a time, from Hanoi in the north, to Chai Stick in the south, to the sea in the east, and to Myanmar in the west, there was a cry everywhere, black smoke from burning paper money and black butterflies were quickly blown away in the wind.

That is, before the workers everywhere take up their posts, they must also go to the table with the spiritual seat of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, perform three bows and nine bows, and the foreman will offer incense on their behalf, and then they can go to work.

"In order to fight ghosts, with the help of Zhong Kui!"

On the water and land dojo of Tianlong Temple, Shouhan and Li Peilin drank tea and snacks in the makeshift tent and took a short rest, while watching a group of female dependents of the Nanzhong Army led by their own women go to incense, add lamp oil, and incinerate paper money to the spiritual seat of Emperor Daxing, and then cry and worship.

The two of them drank a small pot of red date and lily soup, and felt a lot warmer around them. Accompanied by bursts of Sanskrit chanting in the prayer shed, the two undisciplined guys began to have a conversation that was not humane to outsiders.

"Now that the autumn harvest is over, the strong men everywhere are training, and in the slack season, I will find something for them to do, so as not to cause trouble. What's more important is to let the people everywhere know that it was their emperor who died, and they were my Ming courtiers! ”

"When the lord acts, it is an upright conspiracy!"

"Also, you organize people to write articles, and I order the people of the Han Yuan firm to change the "Nanzhong Business News" to "Nanzhong Business Daily", which is preliminarily scheduled to be published every three days, and the articles you write will be published in the Business Daily."

"So, what do you write?"

Hi! I've never seen you so stupid! Shouhan smugly in his heart.

Soon, under the guidance of Shouhan, Li Peilin organized a group of people who taught in various schools, Wu Laowolf and other people who worked in various yamen, and wrote a series of memories of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, reviewing the government's financial taxation, the implementation of various systems and tasks, the establishment of the prestige of the central government, and the results of the crackdown on separatist forces in the southwest and eastern Liaodong during the period when the Emperor of the Apocalypse presided over the work of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, it is more profoundly pointed out that the current work of Nanzhong is to continue to unremittingly take the road of Nanzhong under the wise leadership of the lord, "No one can only enjoy rights without undertaking obligations!" ”

"My lord, Fang Jinguo has a great mourning, and the new monarch has just been established, presumably there will be some turmoil in the political situation in the DPRK and China, how should my Nanzhong Army deal with itself?"

"Big brother, I don't read much, and what I know in daily life is some memorization, and many things and truths are still told to me when you lecture and read the scriptures. I only know that the Book of Changes is still in which book it says, Tianxingjian is a gentleman who strives for self-improvement. A gentleman is independent and fearless. Only if we do our own internal affairs well, external things will be easy to handle, and anyone or any force that wants to fight us must think about whether they have that good tooth and appetite! ”

"What did you mean when you said that there will be political turmoil in the DPRK and China?"

Pei Lin put the bowl in his hand aside, and bowed respectfully to the north, "Emperor Daxing's dragon is a guest, and the new monarch ascends the throne, which is bound to promote a group of his own henchmen, whether it is above the court, the generals of the border towns or **, they will be affected, this has been the case throughout the ages, as the so-called son of heaven and a courtier are also!" ”

"I just listened to what the lord said, the gentleman is self-reliant, independent and fearless, which is the secret way to deal with it. No matter how turbulent he is in the DPRK Central Securities Bureau, tens of thousands of elite soldiers of our South and Central Army are in hand, more than 100,000 male soldiers are guarding key passes everywhere, and dozens of gunboats and hundreds of lucky ships are shuttling back and forth in various places, so everything can be worry-free! ”

In the past ten years, the strength and power of Shouhan have been judged by the eyes of Li Peilin and others, and they have swelled to a situation where they can be proud of the Quartet. But Shouhan himself seems to be unimpressed.

"After the funeral, the focus of our army is to train soldiers. The training I am talking about is not in the playground and in the barracks, but in the removal of those Tusi local officials who refuse to join them, the villages that illegally possess weapons, and the people who do not obey the king! In the jurisdiction of our Nanzhong Army, there can only be one army, and that is our Nanzhong Army! Whoever possesses a weapon without a registered permit is a traitor! Rebel! I can kill anyone in Nanzhong! ”

With the smell of incense and candles wafting from the altar in the distance, and the crying of the women, mixed with the chanting of the monks, Shouhan's understatement made Pei Lin feel so discordant, he saw a burst of killing in the words, he believed that in a few months, there would be a cry and mourning in all parts of Nanzhong, followed by reports from all over the country, breaking through a number of villages, killing a number of people who resisted, and capturing a number of officials and slaves. That's right, what this lord wants is a regime similar to that of Qin, and within the territory, there can be no private soldiers, let alone those Tuweizi and Tu Emperors who can compete with the general's mansion!

Thinking of this, Pei Lin decided to take a risk, the two have been friends for nearly ten years, and they can be regarded as Uncle Lang's closest relatives, but now, Shou Han is just busy every day, handling affairs everywhere, Pei Lin is watching him change from a guard to a thousand households to a situation where he is now opening a mansion and building teeth. What is the goal of this young lord? Is it just to claim the king and hegemony in this south? Is there another big plan? This must be clarified!

Why did such a feat come?

"My eldest brother asked me what I was doing with all my hard work, but why?"

This made it difficult for Shouhan to answer. Do I say, I sue you, so that I do not keep myself and my children and grandchildren from having braids on my head? No longer shave your head while thinking about your parents? No longer have to raise a monarch who thinks he is not a Chinese, but also to wipe the ass for decades and hundreds of years for the things this monarch provoked, pay hundreds of millions of taels of silver in compensation, and pay the price of tens of millions of human lives?

"What's this!? I just think that if the court is strong, I will pass on this inheritance in the south, and if the Central Plains is in the middle of the country, there is something like Zhou Tianzi, I will be the Duke of Qi Huan, who respects the king, and determines the outline of the dynasty. The greatest extravagant hope is to ask Zhou Tianzi for a reward like Duke Wen of Jin! ”

In the ears of others, these words are like a breeze passing through their ears, but for Li Peilin, who is familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, it is no less than a 24-pounder cannon firing a salvo in his ears!

At that time, Duke Wen of Jin was heavy-eared, and sent troops to help Zhou Tianzi quell the rebellion, and attacked the younger brother of King Xiang, Wang Zidai, who had been exposed for adultery with his sister-in-law. After quelling the chaos, it is natural to talk about meritorious deeds, and King Zhou Xiang asked Jin Wengong what reward he wanted. Duke Wen of Jin replied that he planned to let my subordinates transport my coffin to the tomb through the guò tunnel after I died. This is the funeral rite of the Son of Heaven! This event is known as the Jin Wen Gong's invitation to the tunnel, and like the importance of the king of Chuzhuang, it is a sign of the ambition of the princes and kings. Of course, this request of Duke Wen of Jin was rejected by the Zhou royal family, which was not so weak at that time, and was replaced by a reward for four cities with more developed agriculture and more fertile land.

Now that Shouhan has said that I plan to be like Chong'er at most, this has revealed my innermost thoughts to Li Peilin. "If I have the opportunity, I will also consider winning the Central Plains!"

Pei Lin did not hesitate, picked up his clothes and knelt down in front of Shouhan, and saluted respectfully, "In the next family, you must do your best to help the lord complete the great cause!" ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, at this moment, they were already tacitly acknowledging each other.

Shouhan was about to stretch out his hand to hug each other, when outside the shed, there was a sound of talking and footsteps coming here.

"Xianggong. This master is the traveling monk who gave the elephant yellow rosary to Erya that day. ”

Yan Mei'er led a monk in cloth clothes and shoes to Shouhan.

"Amitabha, the little monk has seen two donors."

Although the monk's clothes were a little tattered, and even a little sloppy compared to the bright robes of the monks in Tianlong Temple, he was very clean, especially the eyes in his eyes, which made people not respect him.

After the salute was completed, the monk stared at Shouhan's face without blinking, and the essence light radiating from his pupils seemed to penetrate a qiē and directly reach the deepest part of Shouhan's soul.

I don't know how long it took for the monk to withdraw his eyes, his face full of confusion. "It's weird!"

"Great monk, what's so strange?"

"Yes. Zi is silent, strange and confused, if the great monk has anything, please say it directly. ”

"Needless to say, the appearance of this benefactor, the appearance of the most noble minister, and it is from the hairpin family, although there is a prison disaster, a flood, but it is also extremely Tailai. It was Hou De who moved in the wind and clouds, and followed the dragon's tail to the nine skies. The monk commented on Li Peilin's appearance and summarized Peilin's life experience. Yan Mei'er, who heard it, couldn't help but be amazed. She knew the origin of the Lord Li in front of her, especially the eight words of prison disaster and flood misfortune. Aren't the Li family brothers and sisters back then the people who were fished out of the sea to be used in the army? It was Li Peilin, the master, who smiled and said nothing after hearing it. He is also considered to be above millions of people under one person in Nanzhong. His origin, as long as someone pays a little attention, you can inquire about it.

But this benefactor made the little monk a little strange, but in terms of appearance, the donor should not be strange, it seems that he should have died in a military accident in his early years. But there is a sky-high royal aura between the eyebrows, which can't be explained. ”

The monk shook his head.

This guy has some tricks!

Shouhan couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this, his body was inherited from his predecessor, and his natural appearance was his. Maybe my predecessor died in the civil strife or the war in Annam in normal history, but he has created such a career.

Looking at the reverence on the faces of Yan Mei'er and the others, Shouhan couldn't help but jerk down in his heart!

"Great monk, today for the emperor of Daxing, no leisure, but also ask the great monk to go first, stay for a few days, after cooking a mundane business, then come with the great monk to participate in meditation and enlightenment, how about it?"

Seeing that Shouhan's words had the meaning of an expulsion order, the monk was also a figure with clear eyebrows, folded his hands, sang loudly, and turned to leave.

Shouhan saw his figure disappear from his field of vision, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

There can never be only one leader, one core. Whether it's the army or religion. He wouldn't let anyone form enough prestige outside of him.

When the day's worship ceremony was completed, Shouhan and Peilin returned to Miyagi from Tenryuji Temple in the same car. The coachman had just shaken his whip to drive the horses driving the vehicle, when suddenly a puff of green smoke rose from the backyard of Tenryu Temple, and with the wind, it quickly became extremely violent!

The group immediately stopped their action and stopped to watch.

After a while, the abbot of Tianlong Temple hurriedly came to Shouhan with cigarette ash on his face, "My lord, the monks of the small temple are slack, and a monk from the wandering side lit incense candles in the meditation room, and accidentally knocked over the candlestick, causing a fire. disturbed the worship of Emperor Daxing. ”

"What about the wandering monks? disturbed the funeral of Emperor Daxing, but did you take it?! Shouhan's face was gloomy.

"Back to the lord, the monk was hit in the back of the head by a beam and died on the spot."

A guard on the side, who didn't know when he came, whispered back to Shouhan's question.

The abbot, who was still there anxious, didn't care to think carefully about how the guard knew, and just wanted to end the matter as much as possible.

"Disturbed the funeral of Emperor Daxing, although his person has died, Tianlong Temple is also to blame. Originally, after the funeral of the emperor of Daxing, he wanted to give you 10,000 taels of sesame oil money, but now you must be punished for being thin, and this 10,000 silver will be discounted by 6,000! In addition, the monk's funeral expenses and aftermath are all borne by the temple. For the reconstruction of temples, houses, Buddha statues and other things that were destroyed by fire, you can write a post and withdraw money from the house. ”

The abbot's ordained bald head nodded incessantly, like a chicken pecking at broken rice. Originally, such a heavy thing, but there was water in his temple, which could be done if someone else was replaced, and the temple was demolished and the Buddha statue was destroyed. It's still the lord's kindness! Although the sesame oil money has been discounted by six percent, but the house that was burned or something, but it was built at the expense of the government, and the abbot has already made up his mind to rebuild the two-story temple that was burned down by the rebels during the last Hue battle, so that one day when he sees the Buddha, he can also feel at ease.

Li Peilin, who was on the side, was bright in his heart, and the wandering monk must have violated the taboo of guarding the Han to kill himself. However, he had never been so interested in these things. In his opinion, if the monk really knew about the past and the future, he should know the calamity of today, if he didn't know 500 years before and 500 years later, he would be pretending to be a ghost in front of the Shouhan, and there was a way to die.

Seeing the smile on the corner of Pei Lin's mouth, Shouhan also returned with a smile.

"This guy wants to be broad, but I'm not the Temujin of the."

"It's not Tang Shengzhi who needs Monk Gu and Teacher Gu to help him build his army!"

Who Monk Gu and Tang Shengzhi are, Li Peilin doesn't know, but Tongtian Wu is wide and has a grudge entanglement with his son-in-law's family, and Peilin has heard about it both from the history and from the mouths of the Mongolian soldiers in the family. He just laughed it off.

A group of carriages and horses turned around the intersection and came to the gate of Miyagi, Pei Lin was about to get out of the car and break up with Shouhan, but a voice sounded high in his ears.

"Wronged!"

The one who shouted grievances was the old acquaintance of the Shouhan, the leader of the reclamation people from Guangdong who was in the garrison at that time, and he was called Huang Baimu.

There are separate teachings: by the East River, grain and rice are piled up like mountains; South Coast, turned into a rubble field.

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