Chapter 40 The Empress Dowager's Funeral

When I arrived at the Cining Palace, there were already a lot of people gathered there, the Empress Dowager Zhu, the Empress, the Lady Concubine, and the Virtuous Concubine were already here, and they were constantly wiping their tears, I walked to the Empress Dowager's bed and sat down to look at her, the Empress Dowager seemed to feel my arrival, slowly opened her eyes, she held my hand, it was so weak, like the rootless duckweed

"Emperor, you're here."

"Yes, Imperial Grandmother, I am here"

When she saw my new dragon robe, she said to me, "Emperor, your dragon robe? ”

"Queen Mother, you take them all out first, I will talk to the Queen Mother alone," I turned to the Queen Mother and said

"Then the emperor, you should accompany the Empress Dowager well" Empress Dowager Zhu wiped her tears and told me to take good care of the Empress Dowager, while taking the Empress and others out of Cining Palace

"Emperor, the imperial robe is where my royal prestige lies, why do you want to change it so easily?"

"Imperial Grandmother, your body is already like this, don't let these mundane things get entangled anymore, your priority now is to have a good rest."

"Emperor You!!" After hearing my words, the Empress Dowager's chest began to rise and fall with anger, "Also, Emperor, you dismiss those old ministers of the Pillar Kingdom, who will help you protect the country in the future, and you appoint those courtiers, except for those martial artists who don't know anything, they just want Liu Shihai to be a copper-smelling market man, this is to make my Great Song Dynasty like the sunset, it will not be long."

"Imperial grandmother, you are already old, whether this great Song Dynasty is prosperous or sunset in my hands, it is not what you say, but what I say about the emperor, those old ministers you used in the past are some guys who only understand the majesty of the court and do not understand the favor of the court, they seem to be loyal and patriotic, but in fact they are misleading the country and the people, since the queen mother likes them so much, after you return to heaven, I will let them bury you with you" I unceremoniously pushed back the queen mother's words, and the queen mother was even more angry with red face, constantly gasping for breathI don't know if the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and kept coughing up blood, but I didn't call someone in, but continued to speak to her

"Blindly abide by the rules left by the ancestors and don't know how to change, is this right, the rules set by the ancestors at that time were based on the national conditions at that time, and the current national conditions are different from those at that time, but the courtiers you rely on have always asked me with the things of which era, do you say they are misleading the country and the people?"

"Ahem, cough, you!" The Empress Dowager's face was covered with the blood she coughed up, weakly stretched out her hand to me, and finally her hand hung down weakly, and her eyes became unfocused, I knew that her last flame of life had been extinguished, although she was guarding the ancestral rules that she thought were right until the last moment of his life, although she was so stubborn and old-fashioned, but after all, she was still an old man who was reluctant to give up on the world but had to be taken away by fate. I took two steps back, slowly knelt down, and respectfully kowtowed to her three times

I walked out of the Cining Temple, looked at the people who were watching me, and said to them

"The Empress Dowager is funeral, the Empress Dowager cleans and changes her clothes, and the Empress Dowager Yi decrees are passed on, all the palace people in the Cining Hall are martyred for the Empress Dowager, and the funeral is buried when the Qintian supervisor is in charge, and the Ministry of Rites arranges the funeral of the Empress Dowager, and the Emperor Yingzong is buried together, Fang Kong, guard here, all the palace people in the Cining Hall are not allowed to leave" After speaking, I left without looking back, only to hear the cry from behind

The funeral of the Empress Dowager, the court boycotted the dynasty for five days, on the first day all the civil and military officials in Beijing, all the relatives of the emperor came to mourn and worship, and the second day began all the officials in the Gyeonggi area and except for the border generals all came to mourn and worship, the fifth day of the funeral, from the imperial city to the outer city, the whole capital is a vegetarian, I as the emperor need to keep the soul of the Empress Dowager for three days, one day for a year, and then support the coffin to the imperial mausoleum to be buried with Emperor Yingzong, and within fifteen days after the burial of the Empress Dowager, wear vegetarian clothes, eat vegetarian meals, and abstain from all encouraging entertainment, Three times a day, I need to go to the Empress Dowager's spiritual throne to worship incense, in short, I have to do what the children and grandchildren of the common people should do, but because I am the emperor, I can't delay the government, so many etiquettes have been reduced accordingly

And at this time, the Liao State and the Jurchens, probably we should say that we should say that it is the Jin State now, since the Marquis Yelu Qing returned to the capital of the Liao State to Beijing (now Mongolia Bahrain Left Banner) after telling their great emperor Yelu Hongji everything he heard about the Jurchens in my Great Song Dynasty, and added fuel and vinegar to say a lot of bad things about the Jurchens, and took out the letter I gave him to increase trade between the two countries in order to fool him and handed it to Yelu Hongji, the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji was overjoyed when he saw it, and really rewarded Yelu Qinghou, And immediately sent people to contact our country to discuss the issue of trade, and then sent the generals Alandar and Yelu Gefeng together with Bohai to send 20,000 troops to attack the Jurchens, and at this time the Jurchens had already planned to oppose the Liao, but they really did not raise troops, and the Liao people who suddenly killed really caught the Jurchens off guard, and the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens was also recorded in the Liao secret text, the Jurchens were not satisfied with 10,000, and they were invincible, and they hurriedly organized a 1,700-person Wanyan Agu fight, He led the Jurchens, who barely had a decent weapon, miraculously defeated 20,000 well-armed Liao soldiers, and cut off Yelu Gefeng's head and inlaid it with silver to make a wine bowl