Mao Cheng and Shi Ban were almost driven out of the Wenhua Hall by Emperor Jiajing.

After the two came out, they looked confused, with a lot of question marks hanging in their heads, and they couldn't understand what the little emperor was doing.

Shi Ban said, "Xianqing, do you understand what Your Majesty meant? Why does Your Majesty only say small things? Could it be otherwise? 「

Mao Cheng sighed: "Although there is confusion in the front, but in the end, Your Majesty actually made it clear that he was fighting for the funeral of the Empress Dowager Shou'an, but he couldn't say it too obviously, let me wait and guess...... In fact, you don't need to guess, you should know what Your Majesty means."

Having said that, Mao Cheng vaguely felt that things didn't seem to be so simple.

If it is just to fight for the number of funerals of the Empress Dowager Shao, or whether the Empress Dowager Shao can be buried in the Maoling Mausoleum, will this matter be simpler?

The little emperor's mind is too complicated, and with Mao Cheng's experience in competing with the little emperor on the issue of big gifts for more than a year, Zhu Si seems to have gone too far this time.

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Cabinet duty.

Yang Tinghe heard the news that the Empress Dowager Shao was critically ill, and with his shrewdness, he naturally expected that it might involve the etiquette dispute behind the Empress Dowager Shao.

The five members of the cabinet sat together, ready to have a small meeting to prepare for the funeral of the Empress Dowager Shao, which may be involved next.

Mao Ji said: "Now that Maoling has already sealed the palace and the dormitory, His Majesty must not be allowed to start construction here. With His Majesty's dedication to the number of posthumous ceremonies since his accession to the throne, I am afraid that this time we will have another argument with Your Majesty, and then all of you here must have the same opinion, and we must not mess with ourselves."

This was more to Liu Chun and Fei Hong.

He is the only one who is likely to contradict the orthodox civil servants.

Liu Chun sighed: "Now that the Empress Dowager Shou'an is still alive, I am waiting here to discuss this matter, will it ...... Isn't it good?"

Before the old man died, he began to discuss the aftermath of his death, or before the emperor convened the ministers to discuss, it was obvious that he would talk to each other first, so that the ministers could unify their opinions and unanimously target the emperor.

To put it mildly, this is a big disrespect to today.

To put it mildly, you are openly forming a party for personal gain, and you clearly want to rebel!

Yang Tinghe looked at Mao Ji and said, "Weizhi, since Your Majesty has summoned the people from the Ministry of Rites and Hanyuan to inquire about the number of rites, you will go to inquire in the afternoon to see what Your Majesty said, first understand Your Majesty's intentions, and then make a decision."

In fact, Yang Tinghe already has a headache on the issue of gifts.

Since he did not stop the Empress Dowager Shao from being crowned the Empress Dowager before, now the emperor wants to bury his grandmother and grandfather in Maoling, in fact, from the perspective of etiquette, it is difficult to refuse.

Yang Tinghe asked Mao Ji to go, and it was also what Mao Ji said that moved him.

If you really want to talk about the number of etiquette, you can't talk about the emperor, the emperor's stubbornness in filial piety and etiquette, that is, the nine cows can't be pulled back, it is better to dissuade the emperor from burying the Empress Dowager Shao elsewhere on the grounds that Maoling can't move the ground without authorization.

It is not clear what the little emperor means, so he asked Mao Ji to ask.

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Empress Dowager Shao died of illness at sunset that afternoon.

Zhu Si was very sad and went to guard the spirit in person, although Zhu Si had never met this grandmother before he became the emperor, but he knew very well that this was the result of Emperor Hongzhi's obstruction, it stands to reason that the concubine who has a son, if the emperor is merciful, he will let him live in his son's feudal country to show filial piety.

Although Empress Dowager Shao once gave birth to three Dong sons for Xianzong, only the eldest son, Zhu Youhang, lived the longest and had children, and the other two sons died one after another and had no children.

Hongzhi and Zhengde, father and son, never thought of reuniting Empress Dowager Shao with her son.

Zhu Si felt that he had not fulfilled his filial piety to his grandmother, and that night, accompanied by the eunuchs, he cried so much that even the Empress Dowager Zhang, who went to check the situation, saw it, and felt that this stepson was really filial.

For a grandmother who doesn't have much emotional foundation, she is pure love and filial piety, and she should not be bad for her in the future, and this son doesn't seem to have made the wrong choice.

The funeral will be held before nightfall.

Some basic etiquette numbers were decided first.

From now on, the bells and drums are not allowed to ring within 13 days, and the emperor will not go to court in the coming day, and the number of sacrifices will be set by the emperors and nobles in the capital, and they will worship in the temple.

In Beijing, the civil and military officials were mourned, dressed in black gauze hats, and brought black horns to rest in this yamen, not drinking alcohol and eating meat for three days.

In addition, the women who are above the three grades in Beijing come to the palace from the Donghua Gate to the outside of the Qingning Palace for a day of crying sacrifices, and ordered the Guanglu Temple to purchase sacrificial supplies, with the 30,000 bells of the temples and Taoist temples in the capital, the capital prohibits slaughter for seven days, and the mourning clothes of civil and military officials and women in Beijing need to be served for 27 days.

This number of gifts is published...... Actually, it makes sense.

It is equivalent to the rules of the queen's funeral.

But now after all, it is almost the New Year, even if the restriction on not drinking alcohol and eating meat is only three days, but the ban on folk slaughter is seven days, and now it is the critical time for the people of the capital to purchase New Year's goods, and the sudden ban on killing has a huge impact on ordinary people.

Then there is the fact that civil and military officials should wear filial piety clothes for 27 days, that is, they will cross the entire New Year.

Wearing mourning clothes at home during the big holidays naturally can't go out to greet people or anything, and the impact on officials is also very drastic.

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Anyway.

A unique funeral ceremony began.

Because the funeral is not in a hurry, the question of where to bury has not been discussed for the time being.

But just this set of queen's funeral procedures made Yang Tinghe feel the "murderous aura" of the little emperor, as if in order to fight for a big gift, he can really do anything today.

Tomorrow.

Up and down the Hanlin Courtyard, they all changed into plain clothes, everyone had a straight face, they couldn't cry, the key was not to laugh, so it was best to have a blank face.

Fortunately, in addition to the stone class in the Hanlin Academy, there are no officials above the third grade, so there is no need to consider the problem of the old lady and mother-in-law entering the palace to cry and mourn.

At five o'clock, Zhu Hao just sat down at his desk in the repair room, and Yang Shen brought Sun Yuan, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, that is, Zhu Hao's brother-in-law, in.

"Respectfully, the Hanlin Academy is going to write a eulogy here, you come over and take a closer look."

Yang Shen called Zhu Hao to his desk.

Yang Shen directly took out a copy of what had been written a long time ago and unfolded it in front of Zhu Hao and Sun Yuan, but it was not a eulogy, but a statement about the funeral of the Empress Dowager Shao.

Zhu Hao asked curiously, "Did Your Majesty say that you want to be buried together?"

Sun Yuan usually doesn't have much contact with Zhu Hao in official business, and he looked at Zhu Hao in surprise when he heard this, obviously Zhu Hao's straightforward way of speaking, he couldn't adapt to it.

Yang Shen said: "Prevention is better than prevention."

As soon as these words came out, Sun Yuan looked at Yang Shen with the eyes of a monster.

After all, Sun Yuan has been an official abroad for many years and has seen many bizarre things in officialdom, but he has never seen Zhu Hao and Yang Shen speak and do things in this way.

One is ready to play Shu in advance to block the emperor's mouth, and the other directly talks about the funeral...... What kind of wonder is this? The point is, what are you looking for me for?

Does what you are talking about have anything to do with me?

Yang Shen sighed, "I know that Jingdao has always been careful about doing things steadily, but this time the matter can be said to be very important, comparable to the previous dispute with His Majesty on the matter of the great ceremony...... We can't just prepare for it when it's time to go, we have everything in place and we can deal with it at any time."

Zhu Hao nodded, as if agreeing with Yang Shen's statement.

Immediately, Zhu Hao looked at Sun Yuan on the side and asked, "Then you called Sun Bianxiu over to ask him to come to the joint name?"

"Hmm."

Yang Shen didn't hide it.

Sun Yuan is the son of Sun Jiao, and now Yang Shen seems to want to pull Sun Yuan to his side and let him have the same position as Yang Tinghe on the issue of Empress Dowager Shao.

When Sun Yuan heard this, his face was embarrassed.

I entered the Hanlin Academy only because the emperor took care of my father and asked me to come to the capital to be a filial son

Serving by my father's side, but now the factional dispute in the court actually involves me, isn't this a clear use of me?

"I don't think it's appropriate for Editor Sun to be involved in this matter."

Zhu Hao said something direct again.

Yang Shen smiled and said, "I know Jingdao's concerns, and I am not a strong man, it depends on Jingzong's choice."

Sun Yuan said, "I have to ask my father about this kind of thing."

When Yang Shen heard this, his face changed immediately.

Please show Sun Jiao this old stubbornness, can he still pull you into the water? You are more scheming than Zhu Hao, and you answer so well?

"In such a matter, scholars should come forward, why should they ask Ling Zun's intentions?"

Yang Shen asked with a dark face.

Yang Shen has a very good way of bluffing people, but his trick is okay to deal with others, and it has no effect on Sun Yuan at all, because Sun Yuan knows very well that he is not qualified to be promoted to a high position, and he is a mess in the Hanlin Academy.

Sun Yuan said: "My father taught a lot about etiquette, and when he first entered the officialdom, he didn't know much about many things, so please ...... Yang Hanlin waited for his father to be inquired about his intentions before making a decision."

Yang Shen frowned when he heard this.

Now he is actively doing things because his father promised him to be promoted to serve as soon as possible, and if this matter is according to the original plan, it can be completed before the year, and it is a matter of these days.

But now that the Empress Dowager Shao is dead, some matters in the court may have to be postponed, and it is estimated that the matters he will talk about as a waiter will not be finalized until after the year.

Although he is not a waiter now, he has to move closer to this aspect in his work, and he has to show his influence on the people in the Hanlin Academy, not only to show his father, but also to realize his personal ambitions.

But as soon as he came up now, Sun Yuan poured a basin of cold water on him.

"Brother Xiu, I don't think you have to embarrass Sun Xiu...... I am familiar with this person, and I am indeed very concerned about this kind of thing, if Sun Bianxiu does not ask for advice, he will act rashly, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain when he goes back. Again...... In the joint name, what is the difference between multiple people and few people? Why don't you find me?" Zhu Hao smiled.

Sun Yuan glanced at Zhu Hao with a grateful gaze.

He was thinking about it too.

Don't you Zhu Hao know that if you do this, you will offend the emperor?

How has this helped you in your career? My father said let me learn from you, just learn from your spirit of sharpening your head and drilling forward, not hitting the south wall and not looking back?

You're trying to cut off your career.