The Tang Dynasty, which has been in Zhenguan for ten years, has been hard working by Li Shimin and other monarchs and ministers, and it can no longer be described as thriving, but going from one peak to another.

The world has completely recovered from the shadow brought by Emperor Yang of Sui, especially those who have lived under the rule of two kings at the same time, and it feels like they have risen from hell to heaven.

After all, Yang Guang, the first tyrant in the past, and Li Shimin, a king who can compete for the first saint in the past, are so close to each other that they can be regarded as unique.

The crown prince Li Chengqian followed Li Shimin step by step to learn how to deal with government affairs, and he no longer had any extra thoughts about Li Shimin's pampering of Li Tai, the king of Wei, and the important ministers in the East Palace gave him enough security, especially the existence of Luo Xuanye, and the eldest grandson Empress also told him that he could do things in peace.

Time passed slowly in this calm, Li Shimin received the assassins of Zhuzhou in the Taiji Palace, and met the envoys of various countries in Qinzhou, and sent Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin let Li Fan order to receive them.

Just as everything went well in the nine years of Zhenguan, it seems that the ten years of Zhenguan will pass in this increasingly prosperous atmosphere, but God never makes people happy forever.

Empress Eldest Sun was sick, and very sick.

It's not wind chill and wind heat, these diseases have basically been cured by Rock, but qi diseases.

In fact, Empress Changsun has always had a disease of qi, which is a disease that has been carried since the womb of the mother, just like the wind disease of the Li royal family, which tormented Li Yuan in her later years.

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The once prosperous and brilliant Taiji Palace is now shrouded in a layer of lingering silence and sadness.

The glittering gold can't cover the bleakness of today, and even the vermilion lacquer paintings on the carved beams seem to have lost their former brightness with the illness of the eldest grandson queen.

In the delicate incense burner in the hall, the aroma is no longer as strong as usual, but wafts into the air as if it were nothing, mixed with a trace of the bitter fragrance of medicine.

"Your Majesty, the queen's pulse is almost silent, and the medicine stone is hopeless."

Luo Xuanjing, who was summoned by Li Shimin from the Hongwen Pavilion, made a somewhat difficult and ruthless verdict with a trace of sorrow.

Listening to the words of this holy hand, the light in Li Shimin's eyes dimmed suddenly, and tears filled his eyes almost instantly, and he couldn't restrain himself from flowing down at all.

There may be many ruthless emperors in this world, but he is definitely not included.

The gorgeous beaded curtain is half-hanging, reflecting the figure of the eldest grandson queen lying on the sickbed, she used to have bright eyes and bright teeth, but now she is described as haggard, and the ruddy of the past has been worn away by the pain.

Li Shimin slowly stepped forward and hugged her in his arms, hugging her tightly, tears dripping down her pale cheeks, but Empress Eldest Sun chuckled and stroked Li Shimin's cheeks, "It seems that the concubine has no chance to accompany His Majesty anymore." ”

Luo Xuanjing left here quietly, and Li Chengqian and the eldest grandson Wuji were in the inner hall and the outer hall respectively, listening to the last farewell of the emperor.

Historically, most of the queens were not buried with the emperor, but re-established a mausoleum next to the emperor's mausoleum, but the eldest grandson queen was unwilling to do that, she said with a heavy illness: "Building the queen's tomb is too expensive, and now the Tang Dynasty has finally recovered, don't be in vain because of me, your imperial tomb has been roughly built, so put me in it first, and then bury me with me after you are a hundred years old, okay?" ”

The emperor and queen are in the same hole!

This is the wish of the eldest grandson queen, in the past, those bright eyes flashed with the brilliance of the mother's world, but now, Li Shimin seemed to see the girl who was coquettish to him and smiled Yan Yan, he cried: "Okay, good, we are born and die together, and life and death are not separated." ”

Empress Eldest Sun was very happy, and the violent emotions made her breathe heavily and cough twice, and then said: "In my life, I am very lucky to have met you, and when I am leaving, I think about what to say, and finally I think of our child.

Our four daughters.

Changle married Jun Cheng, that is a good child, I don't worry about her, Hengshan is still young, but you set him Jun Lie, the child of Yongguo Gong, I am relieved.

Jinyang and Xincheng are still young, I know that you want to give Jinyang to the second son of King Zhou Jun, I think you can.

Only Xincheng has just been weaned, and you will have to worry more about it in the future, and the three of them don't know what life and death are, so don't let them come to see me. ”

The eldest grandson is like a family, chattering about the shortcomings of the family.

"Our three sons, Cheng Qian is a good boy, but after his leg is lame, he has some inferiority complex and is a little willful.

I always remember that when the army was in chaos, he was so small that I couldn't bear to see him sad.

Actually, I'm worried that you will abolish him, you look at him more, he is actually very good, very good. ”

The worry in the heart of the eldest grandson is very heavy, this extremely smart woman knows very well that Li Chengqian's position as the crown prince is not because of Li Chengqian's own ability, but because of the eldest grandson, because of Luo Xuanye, the king of Zhou County, the two people who have the deepest influence on Li Shimin, one inside and one outside, kept Li Chengqian's crown prince.

As for Wei Zheng and Li Jing, as well as the dependents of the East Palace, they are for outsiders and Li Chengqian, in order to suppress other people's thoughts and to uphold people's hearts.

If Li Chengqian's East Palace is called a mansion, then Empress Changsun and Luo Xuanye are his foundations, and the others are just items that are decorated on the outside.

Li Chengqian knelt behind the inner sanctum, sobbing quietly, in his most anxious years, the comfort from his mother always reminded him of the warmth of hiding in his mother's arms.

In fact, he was smarter than Empress Changsun thought, how could he not know that on his road to the crown prince, the role played by his mother was no worse than that of his uncle King Zhou Jun.

"Blue Bird and Infant Slave ......"

The eldest grandson didn't say any more, but said, "Our eldest grandson has been promoted to a high position because of me.

My brother did not have the outstanding talents and noble virtues of Luo, but he became the prime minister, which is not in line with my original intention, and this is the source of trouble.

If you can, just give them food and clothing, and don't give them high-ranking officials, I'm worried. ”

Empress Changsun has always believed that if she is not capable of getting a high-ranking official and a lord, she will only bring disaster to the family in the end.

So she has always opposed the eldest grandson Wuji as the prime minister, and Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji can't resist her, so the position of the prime minister of the eldest grandson Wuji did not sit for long, but only served as a fictitious title of the opening of the palace and the three divisions.

Empress Changsun knows Li Shimin very well, and she knows that if she doesn't say it, Li Shimin will definitely make the Changsun clan prominent again because of her own reasons in the future.

But she didn't want to, and at the end of her life, she still said it one last time.

The voice of the eldest grandson queen in the hall became deeper and deeper.

Every cough she coughed seemed to shake the entire palace, making the already quiet space even more desolate.

In this solemn and oppressive atmosphere, only the occasional sound of wind and falling leaves outside the window seems to be playing the final elegy for the empress who is about to go away.

Only when people are alive can they do things according to their own hearts.

Once you die, you can only watch others do it.

What does the future hold?

Empress Changsun didn't know that her lifespan was not very long, especially for those queen mothers who could regent after the emperor's death in history, it can be said that her life span is quite short.

But she has no regrets.

The man in front of her is the man who stands in the strongest column in this era, and even in all previous eras.

And she got the love of this man, and the greatest favor.

Enough is enough.

Thinking like this, Empress Changsun felt that her eyes became more and more blurred, and her voice became lower and lower, and she hummed softly, "The gods of King Su are in the sky, giving the king great light. ”

The arm hung down, and there was no longer a trace of breath, Li Shimin's arm holding the eldest grandson queen stiffened, and he couldn't help crying loudly anymore.

The eldest grandson Wuji was crying outside the hall for his sister who had depended on him since childhood.

Li Chengqian dragged his legs and looked behind the door, crying endlessly, his mother really died.

A team of palace people hurriedly walked up to the hall, Luo Xuanjing, who had previously exited the palace, re-entered the hall, and Luo Xuanling, who was on duty at the palace, also walked into the hall.

"People cannot be resurrected after death, please mourn Your Majesty."

The hall was solemn, and Luo Xuanjing said in a deep voice: "Please also let the palace people make up for Queen Daxing, so that Queen Daxing's soul can die in bliss as soon as possible and enjoy boundless blessings." ”

Luo Xuanjing's voice had a rhythmic taste, which was the effect of her self-study after many years of singing saints, Li Shimin woke up like a dream, and reluctantly let go of the eldest grandson queen, "Please ask Xuanjing Aiqing to pray for the queen." ”

Luo Xuanjing said solemnly: "The queen is virtuous, this is what a minister should do, please rest assured." ”

In the Tai Chi Palace, there is a breeze blowing through the palaces.

Princess Jinyang, who was only six years old, was in her sleep, very sweet, with a simple look on her delicate face, and the Jin King Li Zhi and Luo Junzhuo were reading quietly next to them, and they didn't know that the eldest grandson queen had collapsed.

The wind chimes hanging on His Royal Highness Taiji rang with the stroking of the wind.

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The emperor and his wife, the only love, and the later collapse, on the plain clothes to the court, for a long time difficult to restrain themselves, the ministers were shocked, there are instructions, Shang Nai Qi said: "I really know the reason, and I can't help myself." ”

King Jin and Princess Jinyang, young and lonely, very pitiful, then kissed and raised, this child to the mother and expensive, to the mother and spoiled.

Since ancient times, the holy lord of entrepreneurship, although the saint is upright, but also has internal help, the lord of the three generations of Xingwang, all have the help of the virtuous, in order to achieve the rule.

Empress Wende's eldest grandson, the order of the real boudoir is also benevolent, filial piety and frugality, less good reading, in favor of internal affairs, beneficial and Hongmore, and the sons of the sons often take humility and thrift as the first, and often take the emperor's heart as the rule, so as to make Taizong return to the heart, praise his virtue inside and outside, and praise the virtuous after Wende, which can be the law of later generations. - "Book of Tang: Biography of the Queens"

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