After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, he was renamed Emperor Daxing, and the funeral ceremony of the Qing court was very grand, mainly including small funeral, large funeral, stopping the spirit, moving the tomb, out of the funeral, and entering the funeral. The small funeral, held on the day of the emperor's death, dressed and hatted for the emperor of Daxing, at the same time, the prince and grandson should wear filial piety, and cut off a lock of hair to express mourning, the female dependents should take off all the ornaments, and the officials should take off the red tassels on the hats. The Great Funeral, held the day after the Small Funeral, will be the Great Hang Emperor Tai into the Zigong (the emperor's coffin). On the day of the funeral, the princes and ministers, civil and military officials came to pay respects to the emperor's remains. Stop the spirit, after the funeral, the emperor Zi Palace should be parked in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, for sacrifice, and at the same time issue a testament, the whole country mourns, and no acting is allowed on the 27th day.

Because Xianfeng died in Chengde, the small funeral and the big funeral were also completed in the Chengde Yanbo Zhishuang Palace, and then the spirit was suspended for ten days, and the coffin was returned to the capital. After arriving in the capital, he stopped in the Qianqing Palace for a few days for the princes and ministers of the capital, civil and military officials, and issued an edict. In these days when the Qianqing Palace was suspended, Xingzhen united with Ci'an and Yi? As well as many ministers in the capital staged a coup d'état, the eight ministers were quickly arrested and imprisoned, and the trials and executions were also extremely fast.

On the third day of the execution of Desu Shun and others, Xianfeng was sent to the Shouhuang Palace. After the coffin of the Emperor Daxing was parked in the Qianqing Palace for a period of time, the Emperor's Zigong Palace should be moved to the Shouhuang Hall or the Guande Hall in Jingshan to prepare for the funeral. Out of the funeral, but also after some complicated ceremonies, the most rear, the emperor's Zigong buried in the Qing Dongling or Qing Xiling, the most rear, Xianfeng was buried in the Dongling.

It was Su Shun who was originally in charge of Xianfeng's funeral, and after Su Shun was arrested, he was killed by Yi? Take over. What are these days? Although he rarely went to the military aircraft office, he still handled the funeral properly. With the completion of Xianfeng's funeral, it was followed by the enthronement ceremony of the little emperor. At first, the new emperor's era name drawn up by Su Shun and others was Qixiang. However, with the success of Xingzhen's coup, Xingzhen discussed with Ci'an and changed the era name to Tongzhi. On the day of the announcement of the edict, the officials of the Ministry of Rites chose an auspicious day for enthronement, and the day was set on the fifth day after Xianfeng's burial.

On the third day of the first month of October, the two palaces took the child Zaichun to the throne in the Taihe Palace. On that day, Ci'an held Zaichun in front and Xingzhen on the side, first went to the Baohe Hall to descend to the public opinion, and then to the Zhonghe Hall to ascend to the throne. Officials at all levels saluted. After the salute, the officials took their places, and the Ministry of Rites and Rites asked for the throne again. Zaichun is in the Taihe Palace, that is, the emperor's throne. At this time, according to the general ritual regulations, it was performed by the Zhonghe Shao Music Band, but due to the mourning period, the music was not performed. Only the bells and drums are sounded at the noon gate.

After Jae-chun ascended the throne. The whip was sounded three times at the bottom of the stairs, and the ministers knelt three times and bowed nine times according to the password. When the hundred officials saluted, the music was not made, and the congratulatory expressions of the ministers were further omitted. At the end of the year, an edict was issued to show that the emperor was the "true son of heaven", and the ceremony was solemn and solemn. First of all, Yucheng, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, took out the edict again, and handed over the edict to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites to the lower ranks. The official of the Ministry of Rites was placed in the cloud disk, and the people of Luan Yiwei carried the yellow cover from the middle road to the Taihe Gate. Whip again, and the new emperor returns to the palace. The civil and military officials were respectively from the Zhaode Gate and Zhendu Gate on both sides of the Taihe Gate with the edict out of the noon gate, put the edict in the Dragon Pavilion, and carried it to the Tiananmen Gate Tower to promulgate. The new emperor returned to the palace and changed into filial piety clothes. The scholars returned the "Emperor's Treasure" and stored it in Ouchi.

Then it was announced to the world, changed the Yuan Tongzhi, for the Xianfeng Emperor on the honorific title, respected the Jing Emperor and the concubine as the empress dowager, respected the queen Niu Colu as the queen mother, the emblem of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, respected the biological mother Yehenala as the mother of the Virgin Queen Mother, and the emblem of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and announced that the new emperor was young, and the two palaces were hung to listen to the government, and the little emperor would return to the emperor after he became an adult.

At this point, history seems to have returned to its original appearance, although Xingzhen became Cixi a few years earlier, but the two palaces are strikingly similar to history. Ci'an is weak, he doesn't know Chinese characters, and he is not very interested in government affairs, so he is the one who is really in charge. After the funeral and enthronement ceremony, it was the one from Chuxiu Palace who really walked to the pinnacle of power.

After all the red tape was done, Ci'an moved to Cining Palace as usual, Xingzhen could have moved to Changchun Palace, but she ordered to live in Chuxiu Palace, and the two palaces were set to listen to the government in the East Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace.

On this day, Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang were summoned to Beijing, and the two palaces met with them in the East Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace. After carefully inquiring about the situation of the Huaishang bandits, Xingzhen ordered Rong Lu to be the minister of the Qin Mission, and the 30,000 horses of the new army in the capital went to Huaishang to suppress the bandits, and Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang were the co-organizers and would handle the military affairs of Huaishang. However, the new army and defense of the capital were all entrusted to Prince Yiyi, and the monk Lingqin garrisoned Tianjin to defend the capital.

After the will was issued, Rong Lu was stunned for a long time, and he couldn't guess what medicine was bought in Xingzhen's gourd, and then another will came, but it was Xingzhen who ordered Rong Lu to enter the palace to teach face-to-face.

At this time, Rong Lu had married Zeng Jijing, because Rong Lu made great contributions in the Qixiang coup, he was able to be named the Minister of the Guard, and the position of Yi Yongbo, and at this time, he was able to be named the Minister of the Qin Mission at the age of more than 20 years, which seems to have a bright future.

After An Dehai passed on the will, Zeng Jijing on the side gave some thanks as usual, and An Dehai smiled and said: "Lord Rong will change his clothes and enter the palace with the slaves, and then see through the bottom, the queen mother of the two palaces is very happy today, and she may reward the palace for dinner, and Mrs. Rong will not have to wait for Lord Rong." ”

Zeng Jijing was overjoyed, and felt that her husband had a bright future, and she added luster to the Zeng family, and she thanked her again. Rong Lu's face was solemn, and without saying a word, he turned his head back to the house to change his clothes, Zeng Ji Jing ordered the housekeeper to greet An Dehai, and he followed him quickly.

When he arrived at the house, Zeng Jijing waved his subordinates and changed Rong Lu's clothes with his own hands, Rong Lu pursed his lips and remained motionless, letting Zeng Jijing change his clothes for himself.

"Master, that An Dehai is the celebrity next to the Queen Mother, you can't snub him like this." Zeng Jijing said while buttoning the buttons: "Although the Queen Mother relies on you, Father-in-law An is always more personal, offending him for no reason, and it will be difficult to do anything in the future." ”

Rong Lu was very polite to this wife, and immediately hummed and said: "I understand, how many times have I told you, don't call me grandpa, just call me my cousin, you call me something I don't like." ”

Zeng Jijing's face was slightly red, and he hummed softly, and Rong Lu said again: "An Dehai is too flamboyant, and sooner or later he will lose power." You don't have to deliberately please, and if you make too many friends with the people around the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother will not like it. ”

"Hmm. Father...... What Zhonghua said is that my woman is not thoughtful. Zeng Jijing hung up the pearls for Rong Lu, raised his eyes to look at Rong Lu's cheeks, and couldn't help but blush on his face and said: "If the Queen Mother leaves you for dinner, she will send someone back to say it." ”

Rong Lu gently hugged Zeng Jijing, kissed her on the cheek, and whispered, "Well, wait for me to come back at night." I'm going to go on the expedition in a few days, and I don't know how long it will take me to return, so I'll rest in your room for the rest of the night. ”

Although Zeng Jijing and Rong Lu have been married for a while. But Rong Lu was very polite to himself, and rarely did he be so frivolous in the daytime, and he was embarrassed to respond at the moment. After Rong Lu finished tidying up his clothes, he followed An Dehai into the palace.

Go to the East Warm Pavilion of the Heart Palace. Rong Lu finished the salute through the curtain. Xingzhen gave him a seat, and before he could speak, the little emperor in front of him made a noise, it turned out that he had been sitting on the throne in front of the curtain for a long time, and he was already sleepy-eyed, so he made a noise, and Ci Anxin felt sorry for Zaichun, and said: "Sister." Sister, I was also a little tired, so I took Zaichun back to the palace to rest for a while. When something happens, send someone to spread the word. ”

Xingzhen snorted, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or unhappy, "Sister go slowly, and when you give a banquet to Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang later, you can invite your sister to come." ”

Ci'an answered and drove back to the palace, leaving only An Dehai and a few eunuchs and palace maids in the warm pavilion.

Since the last time he was alone, Rong Lu has not had the opportunity to be alone with Xingzhen, and the later coup d'état was also through An Dehai to exchange news, at this moment to see the beautiful woman, Ci'an took the little emperor and left first, the ripples in Rong Lu's heart rippled again, I just hope that Xingzhen can let these eunuchs and palace maids go out, so that I can be alone with her.

But then Xingzhen kept talking about the Huaishang bandits, which made Ronglu very disappointed, and he was a little absent-minded when he heard it. Xingzhen also knows the difficulty of twisting bandits, these twisting bandits to put it bluntly, picking up knives and guns are bandits, when the officials and soldiers come, put down the knives and guns and go to the old homes in the countryside to hide and become local residents, it is a spring breeze blowing again in the history of the Qing court.

Today, she specially summoned Rong Lu to come to remind him that he must master the local gentry and wealthy clans to suppress bandits, and suggested that he refer to the armor protection system of the Republic of China in later generations to implement it in Huaishang, so as to facilitate the distinction between the common people and the bandits. At the same time, Xingzhen considered that there were many twisted bandits in history, mainly because after the diversion of the Yellow River, a huge yellow flood area was formed in Shandong, Huaishang and other places, and there were many people who could not make a living. Last year, Xingzhen reminded Xianfeng to strengthen the Yellow River embankment, this errand was done by Prince Gong himself, and specially strengthened the embankment of the Yellow River in the Valan section, and there is no sign of diversion at this point this year, there is no flooding of the Yellow River, there is no hotbed for victims, and it should not be difficult for Xingzhen to come here to exterminate the bandits.

But Xingzhen talked to herself for a long time, Rong Lu still answered two sentences at first, but in the back, it was simply a succession, to make Xingzhen frown, after speaking, Xingzhen said lightly: "These words are said to you, you should know how to do it, this palace will not say much, go down to rest for a while, and then have dinner with Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang." ”

Through that curtain, Rong Lu only felt that the distance between him and her was getting farther and farther away, and even an insurmountable wall appeared between the two, could it be true that after she took the position, it was even more impossible for her to have any results with her, and she couldn't even talk like before?

What is the dinner in the palace, Rong Lu's food is tasteless, Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang are the first time to meet, although Rong Lu has long admired the names of the two, but he doesn't have the heart to talk tonight. Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang originally intended to make friends with this red-and-purple Lord Rong, but seeing that he was preoccupied tonight, they didn't say much, and after dinner, they each thanked him and went home.

When Rong Lu turned to the gate of the palace, he heard An Dehai shouting behind him: "Lord Rong go slowly." Rong Lu stopped and looked back in amazement, only to see An Dehai greet him with a smile on his face, and said in a low voice: "Please come with the slaves, there is an invitation from the deceased." ”

Rong Lu wondered in his heart, what old people invited? But who else could move An Dehai but her? I can't help but feel hot.

Following An Dehai to a side hall in the Imperial Garden, An Dehai retreated, the room was dark, and he saw a woman behind the screen in the house and said in a faint voice: "Do you have anything to say to me alone?" "This voice is not Xingzhen, who else? (To be continued......)