Chapter 342: People Die and the Lights Go Out
Beautiful women always grow old one day, Jiang Guifei is no longer in the mood to comb her makeup, her loose hair falls on her shoulders, and she holds Emperor Qingwen's hand tightly with tears in her eyes.
"You're here." A mouthful of turbid air was slowly exhaled by Emperor Qingwen, and he was not surprised that Jiang Guifei would come.
"Your Majesty, you have to get better," Jiang Guifei sobbed, her eyes full of sadness.
"It's not going to be better." Emperor Qingwen waved his hand weakly: "I am going to see my father." ”
"Nonsense!" Jiang Guifei suddenly raised her voice: "You also promised your concubines to go to see the Aoshan Lantern Festival together on the Yuan Festival!" You... How can you... How can it be..."
She took out the brocade box in her arms as if she was crazy: "If you eat this, you will definitely be fine!" It will be good by all means...! ”
The brocade box contains a round pill, and there is a fragrant smell when you get close, this pill is the pill that Emperor Qingwen takes every day.
"I can't get better." Emperor Qingwen looked straight at Jiang Guifei, there was no light in his eyes, only a faint guilt.
Jiang Guifei said in disbelief: "How... Yes, you don't feel better after eating! ”
Emperor Qingwen shook his head slowly, his eyes were staring, and his voice was faintly inaudible: "Remember... That autumn, the maple leaves on the mountains outside Kyoto were red, and you had to go to see the red maple trees, so you left the minions for your own pleasure, and then you got lost in the mountains, and when I found you, you cried like a tearful man. ”
"I've never seen you cry, that's the first time."
Jiang Guifei's weakly held hand tightly, and the wry smile on the corner of her mouth continued to spread, where did he say and her memories, and he would embarrass her when he was dying.
"I thought, your heart is so hard, harder than iron armor, I really want to break it open to see if there are iron filings inside." Tears stuck in the corners of his eyes and refused to fall: "Fortunately... You're still willing to come to see me. ”
"Your Majesty!" Jiang Guifei suddenly raised her voice and interrupted Emperor Qingwen's words: "Concubine beg, don't say it again!" ”
The most humiliating thing for her was not the struggle with Cao Huifei, but the love of Emperor Qingwen for her mixed with others, that person was like a shadow, everywhere, pervasive! It made her almost crazy.
"Cough cough, cough cough" Emperor Qingwen coughed violently, his curled body trembled with the cough in and out, he struggled to clench the quilt, the green tendons around his eye sockets burst out, his eyeballs protruded, and only gasping sounded as he swooped.
Suddenly, he let go.
The candle with the thick arm was still crying, and the palace people who were keeping vigil forgot to cut the wick, and the crackling sound was a little lively.
"Your Majesty!" Jiang Guifei shouted in surprise, her eyes showing a panicked look.
The big eunuchs waiting in the outer hall rushed in, a group of imperial doctors didn't care to touch the emperor's pulse, in the chaos, someone knocked over the candlestick, the wax oil flowed unscrupulously on the expensive carpet, and someone hit the pillar, overturning the case, the Qianqing Palace has never been as lively as today.
Emperor Qingwen opened his eyes and did not blink an eye.
"The Emperor... Your Majesty, the Emperor is dead! The eunuch's unique shrill voice pierced through the night, startling many sleepers.
The cries grew louder and louder in all directions, converging into a great river that flooded the entire Forbidden City.
Jiang Banxia stood in front of the Qianqing Palace, beside him was the belated Cao Alcohol, and the little eunuchs were well-trained and handed over their mourning clothes.
"Forty-eight years." Cao Alcohol sighed with some emotion: "That's the end of it." ”
Emperor Qingwen ascended the throne at the age of twenty-seven, reigned for twenty-one years, and grew from a prince who could be bullied by everyone to an emperor who played with people's hearts.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and it is obviously a snow but it has become a national funeral.
Jiang Banxia looked up at the roof of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and Li Sanshun waved the robe of Emperor Qingwen and shouted hysterically to summon spirits.
The wind was too strong for her to hear clearly, and she could vaguely catch two or three words.
I guess it was 'come back'.
Emperor Qingwen's death caught the courtiers off guard, and everyone thought he would survive the winter, including Emperor Qingwen himself.
With his death, Emperor Qingwen's ambitions and plans all disappeared, and the shackles that pressed on Jiang Banxia and the 'Eagle Dog' disappeared with them, and they began to unscrupulously attack dissidents and monopolize power.
The funeral of the former emperor and the accession of the new emperor were imminent, and the eunuch party and the Donglin party did not give in to each other.
"The first emperor has gone, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and the crown prince should be on the throne!" Some people in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty stood up to support the Donglin Party.
"Although the country cannot be without a king for a day, but the first emperor has not yet been buried, it is a little too early for you to talk about ascending the throne first." Li Sanshun said in a weird way.
He himself is the honor guard Emperor Qingwen climbed to the position of the palm seal of the celebrant supervisor, and now that Emperor Qingwen is dead, his backer is gone, but the prince is in their hands for a day, and these people have to take it easy.
"Dog day stuff! The first emperor treated you well when he was there! The grumpy courtier scolded bitterly.
"A few pavilion elders haven't spoken yet, what are you?" Li Sanshun sneered and scolded back.
Several members of the cabinet hesitated, the new emperor represented a new pattern of struggle, Emperor Qingwen died too suddenly, all the layouts were disrupted, and the cabinet alone was divided into countless factions, and it could no longer be twisted into a rope as before.
"Ladies and gentlemen." Jiang Banxia slapped the table with the handle of the knife to signal everyone to be quiet.
She stood in an unbiased position, in the middle of the past between the celebrant and the cabinet.
"This official thinks that it is only a matter of time before the new emperor ascends the throne, and it is not a big problem to wait for the national mourning to pass, not to mention that the edict of the first emperor has not yet been read, and a few people are in a hurry."
The contradiction between the factory guards and the courtiers has never been reduced, otherwise there would not be a saying that 'Zuo Shun will not pay for his life if he kills people outside the door', Jiang Banxia's words just fell into the courtiers, and some people laughed.
The man stood up, tilted his head and showed a contemptuous expression: "The national funeral is important, and the new emperor's accession to the throne is equally important, they are all for the country. ”
"It just so happens that all the adults are here, so let's witness one or two together." Jiang Banxia said with a smile: "Lest the confrontation with each other hurt everyone's feelings." ”
Hurt feelings? Is there a relationship between them? The crowd was disdainful.
Emperor Qingwen may have expected that he would have such a day, and he handed over the edict to Jiang Guifei, and only Jiang Guifei knew what was written in it.
On the high platform, Jiang Guifei held the box containing the edict and breathed a long sigh of relief, and all this was finally settled.
"I have been ordered by the emperor to live in the world..... The crown prince is filial piety and filial piety to the world, and his heir is the emperor... In the court, the ministers of civil and military affairs are dedicated to counseling... All the funeral rituals are simple. ”
The slender voice of the eunuch pierced Jiang Guifei's eardrums, and she opened her mouth wide and shouted in disbelief: "It's not right! This edict is not right! ”
She's obviously changed the contents!
Everyone was smiling, only she was crazy, she was obviously... Obviously changed the edict! Why not! Jiang Guifei's gaze flickered around, and finally fell on Cao Alcohol.
It's him, it must be him!
Cao Yu smiled evilly, but someone spoke before him.
"The concubine Niangniang is grief-stricken and delirious, and if someone comes, she won't take Niangniang down!" Jiang Banxia said indifferently: "The emperor is still waiting below, it's not good to delay the hour." ”
Concubine Jiang Guifei panicked, struggling to grab the edict, and shouted loudly: "The edict of the first emperor is not this!" The edict has been tampered with! ”
The Wenhua Hall was in an uproar, but soon there was silence, and countless brocade-clothed guards emerged from the shadows, staring at this group of courtiers with their swords in their hands.
"It's all said, the concubine is grief-stricken and wants to go with the emperor." Jiang Banxia's face did not change and said: "Don't bring people down 'well' yet." ”
A group of eunuchs poured out of the inner chamberlain, and they scrambled to catch the 'crazy' concubine, and some people used mourning belts to gag the concubine's mouth, tie her hands and feet, and then dragged people out of the Wenhua Hall like a dead dog.
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