Seven days later, Emperor Changtai obituary told the world, the crown prince, as before, the number of respects, and the obituary also briefly said about the crown princess.

The people of the world mourned for a while, and at the same time lamented that the prince and the princess were deeply dependent on each other for life and death.

In order to mourn Prince Gong, Emperor Changtai also ordered the court officials and the people to observe filial piety for one month, and forbade wedding and other festive banquets within one month.

Because the crown prince has no heirs, and Emperor Changtai has no grandson, the second grandson of the young king, Shangguan Hao, who is only eight years old, holds the filial piety pen and holds the soul banner to do filial piety.

Originally, Shangguan Changzhi also invited himself to hold a filial piety basin for the prince, but it didn't matter if he would rather surrender to his own generation, so as not to be empty behind the imperial brother. But Emperor Changtai considered that this was not in line with etiquette, and said that the prince held the filial piety basin, which was a scene that would only appear when the emperor was in a big line, and the intention was not good; Not to mention anything else, there are many explanations from Taichang Temple and the Ministry of Rites, so he was not allowed to make this request.

However, because of this, Emperor Changtai praised Shangguan Changzhi's heart for the imperial brother, thinking that he had the meaning of love, which can be regarded as a matter of relief for Emperor Changtai for a period of time.

Emperor Changtai went to the East Palace to see the prince on his last journey, and after seeing the Zigong Palace set off, a trace of ominous feeling surged in his heart.

In the past few years, the royal family has been mourning constantly, first the Empress Dowager Ciyi, and now the crown prince and princess, there are still a lot of princes, grandsons and concubines in the middle, as well as miscarriages and slippery tires.

Emperor Changtai thought that he was more than sixty years old, and he still didn't have a grandson, which was not something beneficial to Guozuo. Even, this can be regarded as the sorrow of Dayeon!

How come I never thought about this before? I also said that I was at the peak of spring and autumn, unconsciously. Has the people in the palace withered to this extent?

Thinking of this, Emperor Changtai couldn't help but sweat coldly, and his descendants were not happy, this is a crisis or even a dead end! He couldn't help but resent Taizu. On Monday, he couldn't understand why Taizu set the rule that a male member of the royal family must be at least twenty-two years old before he could get married and have children, so how many fewer people would be in the Dayong royal family than the minister's house.

It seems that as soon as the prince's funeral period is over, the marriages of the remaining princes will be put on the agenda, otherwise the royal family will have no successor! - Emperor Changtai doesn't plan to follow this rule anymore!

After the funeral of Prince Gong and the crown princess. The East Palace was deserted. There is no master in the East Palace, and there is nothing to tell the emperor and queen in the long history of the East Palace. Such a situation rarely occurs in the history of Dayong for more than 200 years, and the huge East Palace, the palace maids who still come and go, but there is no master!

Although Emperor Changtai and the Empress are still grieving, the sun still rises and life must go on. The first thing in front of the emperor and queen was the placement of the East Palace.

As mentioned earlier, the East Palace is the residence of the prince. It is not appropriate to send anyone to take charge of the East Palace, and Prince Gong has not been in charge for a long time, and no one dares to take the initiative to sit in the East Palace, which will definitely make the emperor and the queen unhappy, and no one wants to touch that mold.

Although several adult princes are going crazy when they want to move into the East Palace, this moment. They are all standing still, who knows how the queen in mourning will react? If you offend the queen because of this, it will be a big loss!

Since the crown prince, the princes have quickly discovered the value of Empress Jiang: the main palace, the childless, and the 120,000 soldiers and horses of the Long Right Guard behind him. It's a huge gold mine, and it's not a lot of weight!

Now is the time for the battle for succession, if you get the favor and help of the queen, the bargaining chips for the throne will be much heavier.

Before the emperor appointed the crown prince, it became necessary to curry favor with the queen and obtain her support. This has become the consensus of the three princes including Shangguan Chengyou.

So recently, Kunning Palace has been a lot more lively, and Concubine De, Concubine Xian, and Concubine Li Guifei will walk around Kunning Palace if they have nothing to do. In the beautiful name, it is said to accompany the queen and let the queen relieve the pain of losing her child.

When there are more people, there are naturally more things to see. Scenes such as petty flattery, flattery, and deep concern are all staged in Kunning Palace.

Concubine Xian thought that the queen had lost weight during these days, and tried every means to make medicinal food and send it to Kunning Palace, and also collected a lot of secret recipes for the queen to maintain beauty and skin care. Concubine Xian thought. It is the nature of every woman to love beauty, even the queen who has lost her child.

Concubine De knew that the queen cared about Prince Gong the most, but she didn't go to such great lengths as Concubine Xian, but just presented a hand-copied "Death Mantra" for the queen, and also instructed the palace maids in Yanxi Palace to recite the "Past Life Mantra" for Prince Gong 300 times a day. Of course, these things were done, and Concubine De deliberately let people reach the ears of the queen.

Li Guifei neither stewed medicinal food for the queen, nor copied the "Curse of the Afterlife" for Prince Gong, but went to Kunning Palace every day to ask for peace and talk to the queen.

Concubine Li's behavior made Concubine Xian and Concubine De secretly laugh at her, thinking that she was poor in skills. Concubine Li's mother's family has no one and no money, so there must be no good way to win the queen's favor. Such a concubine Li and her five princes, why should they fight with my emperor?

Concubine Xian and Concubine De have such contempt for Concubine Li and don't take her in their eyes at all.

The queen knew what these concubines were thinking, but she didn't pierce everyone's minds, and while enjoying their flattery and flattery, she also missed Prince Gong even more.

Why wasn't it their royal son who died of infirmity? Rather, my emperor? If my emperor were still in good health in the world, there would be nothing to do with these people! One by one, these people can only survive on the breath of our mother and son - such a beautiful vision, the queen has thought about it more than once, and she is envious and jealous when she looks at those concubines who have children and daughters.

On this day, after Emperor Changtai left Kunning Palace, the queen felt even more depressed and had endless sadness.

It has been less than a month since Prince Gong was born, and Emperor Changtai sent people to take charge of the affairs of the East Palace twice. Could it be that in the emperor's mind, Prince Gong has already gone away? How can this be, even if Prince Gong is already gone, the East Palace can't be inhabited so quickly!

Prince Gong has lived in the East Palace for more than 30 years, and in the queen's mind, the East Palace is Prince Gong's, even if he dies, it will still be his. Now that she wants to hand it over, she won't be willing to say anything!

But she knew that this was impossible, as the residence of the prince, the East Palace symbolized the power of the next generation of emperors, and he always had to move into the next prince. As the mother of the country of Dayong, she can't and has no reason to take the East Palace for herself!

The prince's residence in the East Palace is justified, but it is a rule set by Taizu.

So, what's the solution? Is there any way to make the East Palace forever my emperor's? Let the emperor temporarily appoint a prince or even not a prince? How is this possible?

Because of thinking about such a thing, the queen has been calm for several days, and she doesn't have much good face for the virtuous concubine and Concubine Defei who came to please and flatter.

When Li Guifei came to Kunning Palace to greet the queen, the queen didn't pay much attention to her, and thought about the placement of the East Palace, and let Li Guifei talk to herself.

Li Guifei looked at the queen's absent-minded appearance, and her eyes narrowed slightly. She remembered the emperor's explanation, so she said softly: "The concubine recently heard the whispers in the palace, saying that the emperor plans to send someone to take charge of the affairs of the East Palace." But the East Palace is important, who dares to go to the East Palace Council? ”

The queen listened to Li Guifei's words, and the annoyance in her heart became even worse, the matter of placing the East Palace, even the people in the harem were talking about it? It seems that this matter really needs to be solved as soon as possible!

"The emperor's holy judgment has his own decision. Why speculate on such a thing! The queen said lightly.

"I heard that the emperor is bored about this matter. In fact, according to the concubine's shallow opinion, there is a good way to do this......" After saying this, Li Guifei seemed to suddenly feel that she had spoken too much, and hurriedly asked the queen for her guilt.

"Oh? Tell me about your good ideas. The queen's interest was aroused, and she wanted to hear what Li Guifei had to say.

Each of these concubines has eyes and ears in the palace, maybe they can really have some good ideas, Li Guifei asked for guilt or something, she didn't care at all, and asked her to quickly tell the method.

"The concubine thought that before the next prince was selected, the East Palace would be sealed first. In this way, there is no need to send someone to take charge of the East Palace, which saves a lot of trouble. Maybe after the next crown prince is decided, he has no intention of moving to the East Palace, so there is no loss in continuing to seal it. His Royal Highness the Fifth has said that the setting and beautiful scenery of the East Palace are only qualified for His Royal Highness Prince Gong to live. Li Guifei still said her method in a soft and soft voice.

When she said these words, the queen's eyes lit up. Yes, Feng Gong, why didn't she think of this idea!

Li Guifei's words contain several meanings, one is the method of placing the East Palace, that is, to seal the palace, seal the East Palace temporarily, and reopen it when the next prince is selected; the second is whether the next prince will live in the East Palace, which is unknown and can be planned; The third is that if Shangguan Changzhi is the crown prince, he will definitely not move into the East Palace, and will leave the East Palace to the queen.

These meanings, there is no need to say them explicitly, a person like the queen is very clear about such things. What Concubine Li said and wanted to say, the queen knew it.

Even what Li Guifei didn't expect, how to persuade the emperor and how to carry out this palace, the queen could also think of these.

This may really be a good idea, the palace can deal with the current situation first, and then pass this level first.

As for the next crown prince moving to the East Palace, as the queen, she also has her brother who is in charge of the 120,000 Long right guards, and there are ways to obstruct this! In this way, the East Palace will always be her emperor's, and no one can be more justifiable than her emperor!

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