On this day, there was a controversy about Zhang Guifei's funeral, and most of them thought that there was a posthumous record on the matter, and it was better to move Zhang Guifei's coffin to the Imperial Palace, and Zhang Weijili rejected public opinion and strongly opposed it, saying that the matter must be discussed with the ministers the next day.

After Wen Yanbo resigned, Chen Zhizhong was summoned back and his phase has been restored. The next day in the court, Wang Gongchen tried to be ahead of the ministers, and insisted on asking for a funeral in the imperial hall. Chen Zhizhong saw that Jinshang also had this intention, and finally nodded his head and allowed Liu Xin, the governor of the political affairs, to be the guardian envoy, and Shi Quanbin and others were responsible for handling the funeral matters.

When the news reached the forbidden middle school, Zhang Weiji burst into tears, looked in the direction of the main hall and kowtowed, and knocked until his forehead was stained with blood.

"Your Majesty!" He wept and asked in a loud voice, "If you can't be upright, why should you be strict inside and outside, be dignified, and level the world?" ”

He is far from alone in fighting for Zhang Guifei's affairs. The next day, it was announced that he would drop out of the dynasty for seven days, and four days later, Zhang Guifei was posthumously registered as the queen, and then successively issued edicts to set up a small taboo for it, set up an ancestral hall, and sacrifice a music chapter in the queen's temple. Each of these decisions was opposed by most of the courtiers, led by the Tai Counsel, and the Zhang Shu of the Advice was submitted to the Present in an endless stream, but perhaps, as the Empress said, Imashang felt that this was the last thing he could do for the concubine, so he ignored these opponents, and the only thing adopted was the Privy Councillor Sun Wei's amendment to the name of the Zhang family.

At first, Jinshang gave the Zhang family "Gongde", obviously this praise was seriously inconsistent with what she had done in her life, and the ministers scoffed at it. Later, Sun Wei found a reason that was easy for Jinshang to accept: "The names of the four queens of Taizong all use the word 'de', which is from their temples." What is the basis for today's compliment? In the end, at his request, Jinshang changed Zhang's nickname to the tepid "Wen Cheng".

Because the advice was not accepted, a number of Taiwan officials asked to make up for it. Later, Zhang's funeral was overstepped, and the two officials of the Rite Academy, together with the Taichang Rite Academy, Dr. Taichang, Jixian School Manager Wu Chong and Taichang Temple Taizhu, Jixian School Manager Ju Zhenqing handed over the funeral rites to Kaifeng Mansion for punishment, so it angered the ruling Liu Xin and others who were responsible for the funeral, so they suggested that Wu Chong should know the Gaoyou Army and Ju Zhenqing should know the Huaiyang Army.

Soon after, a newspaper with Feng Jing's news was quietly circulated by everyone in the harem: Zhiji Xianyuan, Nan Cao of the Judges' Department, and Feng Jingluo's initiates living notes.

The details are not difficult to hear: he previously commented that Wu Chong and others should not be deposed, and his words were straightforward, saying that what Wu Chong and others did was to maintain the etiquette system, and there was no fault, but Wen Cheng's funeral exceeded the system, which seemed to be thinner than the temple and thicker than the concubine, which greatly damaged the holy virtue, and should be investigated for the crime of the mourner. The ruling Liu Xin was furious and immediately asked Jinshang to release Feng Jing Zhihaozhou, but this time Jinshang did not agree, saying: "Feng Jing is guilty of speaking directly? Therefore, he was only temporarily relieved of his position as a fellow initiac and was not allowed to make a record during this period.

But for this champion who caused a sensation in Tokyo City back then, there has always been a kind of love for his children. However, a few months later, he was reinstated to his original official position, and he was still ordered to write and repair the living notes.

Throughout the first year of Zhihe, the palace and the outside were shrouded in the shadow of a series of events triggered by Wen Cheng's death. In October, Zhang Weiji, an old minister loyal to the queen, passed away. It is not only the empress he has guarded for many years who is sad about this, but also not limited to colleagues, friends or subordinates like Pei Xiang, Deng Baoji, Zhang Maoze, and me, but also the emperor who once refused to listen to his advice and insisted on posthumously enrolling Zhang Guifei.

On the day he heard the news of Zhang Weiji's death, Jinshang also burst into tears, went to Lindian in person, and set Zhang Duzhi's nickname as "Zhong'an".

Regarding the ministers of the DPRK and China, the best news of the year is probably that Ouyang Xiu has been summoned back to Beijing.

In September of the first year of He, Ouyang Xiu, who had been moving out for many years, was a bachelor of Hanlin and a historian.

I did not see him until the beginning of the first month of the second year. That day, Zhang Chengzhao and I went out for some reason, and when I passed by Hanyuan, I happened to meet him holding a volume of documents, Zhang Chengzhao hurriedly whispered to me, and pointed at him and said, "That's Ouyang Xiu!" ”

If Wang Gongchen left me with the impression of being cold and Feng Jing being beautiful, then what words should I use to describe this famous man I have admired for a long time?

Vicissitudes.

Yes, the wind and frost had stained his temples white, his eyebrows drooped slightly, and there were two or three uneven wrinkles in the center of his eyebrows, which made him seem to frown and sigh in such a calm state.

He walked in front of us without squinting, his steps were gentle, his face had obvious bags under his eyes, his eyes were sunken, and there was a look in his eyes, but they were not as bright as Feng Jing, or as sharp as a young Taiwanese official like Tang Jie, it was a kind of brilliance that did not show its edge, like ancient well water with a glimmer of light.

After he walked away, I asked Zhang Chengzhao: "How old is Master Ouyang this year?" ”

He counted the days and said, "It seems to be forty-eight years old." ”

"Is it only forty-eight?" I was amazed, "It looks so old." ”

"yes, he's aging pretty fast." Zhang Chengzhao said, "I heard that when he returned to Beijing last year to report on his work, the official family saw that his temples were gray and his face was full of wrinkles, so they couldn't help but cry at that time, and asked him again and again: 'How old is Qing this year?' How many years have you been away? Soon after, he was summoned back to Beijing, and now he has been promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin, which is very good to him, no, it seems that he has been summoned to the temple again...... He also held a document in his hand, and did not know what kind of edict he was proposing. ”

Later, we learned that Ouyang Xiu did not cite an edict that day, but his own advice to the emperor. Previously, Jinshang announced that he would pay homage to the ancestral mountain mausoleum, and the ministers saw that he actually intended to use this to lay the Wencheng Mausoleum Temple. Although Ouyang Xiu is no longer a speech official, he still specially drafted a chapter on this matter, saying that today's saints, benevolence, and filial piety should not make Chinese and foreign commentators say that the emperor intends to remember the favor of the harem, and use his name to confess to his ancestors, and lose his holy virtue, "Your Majesty's actions are the law of eternity, and you must not be careless." ”

And this time the admonition is also for the present Shangjiana, and then when the current dynasty is on the mountain mausoleum, it is too warm to become a temple and does not enter.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival in the second year of He, when the ministers of Hanyuan were ordered to write Dragon Boat Festival posts, they also wrote a few pairs for Wen Chengge. At this time, Wang Gongchen had been moved to the third envoy and was not in the Han Garden, and the Hanlin scholars looked at each other and did not want to write for Wen Chengge. Later, all the writings written for the rest of the pavilion were submitted to the palace, but Wen Chengge's was delayed. The scholars were terrified when they heard it, but they just didn't have the inspiration to write it. In the end, it was Ouyang Xiu who took over the task.

The post he wrote was quickly sent to the harem, and everyone in the palace watched and saw that he wrote four poems for Wen Chengge, the first three of which were:

The dense-leaved flowers become seeds, and the new nest swallows lead the chicks. Jun's heart is old, who offers a military talisman.

The rising sun reflects the curtain, and the flowing hibiscus is bright. The red face is easy to be scattered, how different is this flower.

Who can continue the life of the colorful wisps, and the jade is empty and self-locking. In the sad season of the old prison of Baitou, there is no one in the Pearl Pavilion in the summer days.

But I think what he really meant was in the fourth song: