Chapter 338: Great Funeral

She has been visiting the Qiang gathering place privately for several months, and she only came back in a hurry to stay for a while when her wife was about to give birth.

Fortunately, Liu Zhi has an open-minded and generous personality, and he does not have the delicate spirit of ordinary golden branches and jade leaves, he only hates that he can't go together.

Not only did he not complain in the slightest, but he was very supportive of his actions.

was just worried about his safety, so he specially sent a few more Long Linwei to protect him secretly.

After all, these places are far away from the emperor, and the leaders act unscrupulously, and most of them are barbaric and ignorant.

Lai Yan acted in secret, so naturally he did not reveal his identity, and he would inevitably be injured by mistake.

The places he went to were around Qianwei County and Ba County, where most of them were Qiang tribes, while Hanzhong County and Shu County were dominated by old Han people.

Geographically, both places are steep mountains, and the roads are difficult and difficult to navigate.

Therefore, every time Lai Yan went, it took more than a month or two to go back and forth, and he pretended to be a merchant and went to the local area to collect local products.

Take the opportunity to learn about the customs and ideas of the locals and wonder why they are not compatible with each other.

Because of this incident, the couple did not return to the capital during the Chinese New Year, so they stayed in Chengdu, Deng Meng was not at ease, and sent Deng Yuan over to give his little grandson Lai'an many gifts.

During the Chinese New Year, Empress Dowager Yun lamented that the emperor had not been officially drafted for many years, so he asked him to add a few more young concubines while he was young.

In recent years, except for the addition of a Tian Sheng, the harem has not entered a newcomer.

In fact, Liu Zhi knows his mother's thoughts, he has never added a boy and a half girl for so many years, and most of the children have become adults.

The old people of this era are adhering to the concept of having more children and more blessings, and they are naturally willing to see their children and grandchildren full, the more the better.

Liu Zhi didn't like to dismiss her heart, and promised to come down, "Mother help me choose, you have a good eye, and you can't be wrong with what you like." ”

Sure enough, in the first month, the Empress Dowager Yun really helped him choose it seriously, Liu Zhi was in the prime of life, and he was the Ninety-Five, so naturally there were a lot of people who were willing to send their daughter to the palace.

Liu Zhi didn't pay attention to this matter, anyway, for him, these young women are all about the same, Chunlan and Qiuju, each with its own merits.

Wait until one day the Queen Mother told him that five women from the family had been selected, let him take a look first.

At first, Liu Zhi didn't pay any more attention, these women were all fifteen or sixteen years old, with good looks and curling grace.

But the name of one of the women suddenly reminded him of a long memory.

"This is Dou Miao, the daughter of Dou Wu, the captain of the city gate."

Dou Miao?

Isn't that the Empress Dowager Dou in the later Lingdi period?

The fate of the entire Dahan has changed, why did this woman still walk in front of him.

If it was the original historical route, by the time Dou Miao appeared, Deng Meng should be gone, and he would not be long in life.

It seems that not long after Dou Miao was established as the queen, he died and was directly promoted to the queen mother, Dou Miao, obeyed the arrangement of his father Dou Wu.

Liu Hong, the Marquis of Duting, was chosen as the emperor, officially opening the road to the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

And Dou Miao and Dou Wu also died because of this wrong decision.

The girl in front of her was like a full moon, shy and quiet, but Liu Zhi suddenly felt a little heavy.

With a stroke of his pen, he directly crossed out Dou Miao's name from it.

Now that everything has changed, let's make this ending very different.

Dou Miao thinks that she has outstanding appearance, talent and etiquette, and she is the best in this draft, but she never expected to be brushed down by the emperor at the last moment.

The arrogance is as arrogant as she only feels that she has been hit hard, and she originally had a heart to compete for favor, but now she has no chance at all.

Empress Dowager Yun was also very optimistic about Dou Miao before, but she had never forcibly interfered with Liu Zhi's choice, although she felt a little regretful, but she didn't say anything.

This draft suddenly made Liu Zhi realize that although his crossing has changed many things, the wheel of history still follows some mysterious trajectory and rolls in.

Even if he deliberately avoided something, he would take a detour and return to the avenue.

This year is the thirteenth year of Jianning, and it is also an extremely sensitive year, and the name "Jianning" should have been Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

And he deliberately used this era name in advance, just to change the trajectory of history.

Liu Zhi, who has never believed in fate, summoned the great teacher Zhang Heng to meet him and asked him to open an altar for himself.

However, the result made him even more confused, Zhang Heng connected three hexagrams, all of which were not hexagrams, and they could not be calculated at all.

Does this mean that his fate is in his own hands, and whether it is good or bad depends on what he does?

Previously, he planned to go to Chengdu this summer to escape the summer, and by the way, he would visit the southwest to develop the economy there, but now he has canceled it.

It's better to be still than to be still, it's better to sit in Luoyang, in case he can't change his life against the sky, and he also has time to arrange the future.

At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang Weijia was unified in the four seas, if he hadn't died violently on the way to patrol, how could he have been taken advantage of by Zhao Gao, Li Si and others.

The fate of Great Qin will not die twice, it will be so short.

In the early summer, Liu Zhi was fine, but the Empress Dowager Yun suddenly became ill, and the famous doctors of the Tai Hospital took turns and were diagnosed with severe thirst.

Liu Zhixin was half cold, although the range of Chinese medicine thirst quenching disease is very wide, but the queen mother's symptoms are obviously modern diabetes.

Emaciation, polyphagia, thirst and irritability, sweet urine, etc., are at least symptoms in the middle and late stages.

This disease is a terminal disease in modern times, and it can only be controlled but not eradicated, even if Chinese medicine advances by leaps and bounds, there is still a huge gap compared with modern times.

Therefore, Liu Zhi realized that the life of the Empress Dowager Yun had really come to an end.

So I tried to accompany her whenever I had time, birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, and such a terminal illness can't demand those doctors.

I only hope that this life will not leave regrets like the previous life.

The eldest princess of Yang'an, who was far away in Chengdu, heard that her grandmother was seriously ill, and immediately took her son who was less than one year old and set off to return to Kyoto.

At this time, Lai Yan was still in Ba County and did not accompany his wife back, Liu Hua left him a letter so that he didn't have to worry.

As the eldest princess of the empire, she is the king of Yitong, so according to the etiquette system, Liu Hua can have a maximum of five hundred guards.

But she and Lai Yan have always lived in a simple house, and there are only forty or fifty people in total, including the secret guards, because they are not at ease, so thirty people followed Lai Yan to Ba County.

Yizhou sent more than 200 soldiers, plus her own guards, and about 300 people from Long Linwei.

Although Liu Hua was anxious, she had no choice but to slow down with such a young child, and by the time she arrived in Luoyang, it was already midsummer.

Empress Dowager Yun's condition has taken a turn for the worse, and now she is bedridden and often falls into a coma.

The old man was very happy to see his eldest granddaughter and his great-grandson, so that by the early autumn, his body was already getting more and more unbearable.

After several doctors consulted, they all said that they were unable to return to heaven, so they asked His Majesty to make plans early.

As the emperor's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Yun will undoubtedly be buried with the former emperor Liu Yi in Boling.

After Mrs. Ma died of illness, even though she was Liu Yi's wife, she was buried next to Boling because she only had the status of a nobleman.

According to the tradition at that time, a place had already been reserved for the Empress Dowager Yun in Boling.

In this regard, the burial system of the Eastern Han Dynasty is significantly different from that of the Western Han Dynasty, where the emperors and queens of the Western Han Dynasty have the same mausoleum but not different tombs, and the coffins are located in different locations than the mausoleums.

However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that the emperor and queen would be buried in the same room, and if they did not die at the same time, they needed to leave a good place.

On August 15, the reunion family banquet was held in Yong'an Palace, because the Queen Mother was no longer able to eat dry, Liu Zhi personally fed her some milk.

After this last Mid-Autumn Festival, the Queen Mother basically entered a state of death, and she was unconscious most of the day.

According to the Eastern Han Dynasty etiquette system, the queen mother was seriously ill, and in addition to the clan, the ministers of the second rank and above also had to enter the palace to take turns on duty.

On the night of August 17, the Empress Dowager Yun, who had been unconscious, suddenly became clearer.

Liu Zhi experienced life and death, and knew that she was returning to the past, so he hurriedly summoned his wife, concubines, and children to come to see her off.

Looking at the dozens of descendants neatly arranged in front of the bed, in the life of the Empress Dowager Yun, from the daughter of a small official to the extremely noble Empress Dowager of the Empire, the husband dotes on his son and is filial, and it stands to reason that there are no regrets.

But she still looked at Liu Zhi with pleading eyes, and was silent for a long time, and this last insistence also made him helpless.

Liu Zhi understood her thoughts, sighed secretly, and whispered in his mother's ear:

"Mother, don't worry, I have issued an edict to pardon the third brother and let him return to Bohai as the king of the county."

Hearing this, the Empress Dowager Yun finally showed a smile, she has been kind and kind in this life, and she has always felt sorry for Mrs. Ma and her two children.

Seeing that Huangquan Road was near, I was worried that I would not be able to explain to my husband and Mrs. Ma when I got to the spring, so my wish was not fulfilled, and it was difficult to look at it.

On that day, Liu Kui was immeasurable, whimsical and wanted to rebel and usurp the throne, Liu Zhi only regarded him as a clown, which made him feel most unforgivable that the Queen Mother regarded him as her own.

However, Liu Kui hijacked the Queen Mother with his own hands to achieve his ulterior motives.

didn't kill him at that time, but he already took into account the emotions of the queen mother.

But now, Liu Zhi feels that as long as his mother can go on the road with peace of mind, he doesn't have to worry about the rest.

But in any case, Liu Kui's wish to live in the capital for a long time will never come true.

The Empress Dowager Yun got her son's promise, and her heartstrings were loosened, and she fell into a coma again, until she died that night, and she never opened her eyes and looked at it again.

The Eastern Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and the death of the Queen Mother was a major event for the whole country to mourn, but because the Queen Mother had been ill for several months, all preparations were ready.

As soon as the death knell in the palace came out, the mourning began to be treated in an orderly manner.

During Liu Zhi's reign, this was already the second empress dowager he sent away, and after the death of the Empress Dowager Liang, he also buried her vigorously in accordance with etiquette.

The relationship between him and Empress Dowager Liang is very complicated, there is kindness, righteousness and hatred, but in general, Liu Zhi respects her more.

Therefore, whether it was the Empress Dowager Liang during her lifetime or after her death, Liu Zhi gave her enough honor.

Now the Empress Dowager Yun is her biological mother, and the mother-son relationship is deep, so she is naturally very different from the Empress Dowager Liang.

What's more, now that the country is strong, the four seas are peaceful, and the funeral is not out of the ordinary.

Therefore, the funeral of the Empress Dowager Yun was extremely glorious, not only amnesty to the world, but also let the people stop the wedding banquet for a month.

White flags were formed everywhere in the capital, doors were closed, and all trade was suspended in large markets.

Luoyang City, which was originally very lively, became deserted in an instant, and the sound of silk and bamboo was not heard everywhere.

The coffin of the Queen Mother is parked directly in the main hall of Yong'an Palace, which is convenient for the clan and civil and military officials to pay respects, and the court needs to guard the soul from the third grade and above.

In addition, envoys from various countries in Beijing will also come to pay their respects.

All ladies of all grades also need to enter the palace to mourn, which will be arranged by the queen.

Except for the old ministers and old ladies, who can rest every other hour, the rest of the people must bow down with the ceremonial officials.

The ritual takes place for seven days, after which it enters the stage of resting and does not take place until a month later, when the burial can be sealed.

The government and the opposition all know that the emperor is filial to his mother, so everyone is cautious and strictly controls their children, for fear that something will happen during the state funeral.

Because when the first emperor Liu Yi died, he was only a small Liwu marquis, so he was buried in the local area, and after Liu Zhi ascended the throne, he rebuilt his tomb according to specifications.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager Yun must also be transported to Boling to be buried, the Liwu County of the year belongs to the Zhongshan Kingdom of Jizhou, in order to worship the filial piety of the emperor Liu Yi, it was divided into a part of it, and Liwu County and Boling County.

Later, when he rewarded his second brother Liu Shuo, he renamed Boling County as Pingyuan County, and named Liu Shuo as the king of Pingyuan to inherit the mantle of the first emperor.

After Liu Shuo's death, Liu Zhi was very gracious, did not reduce his son's rank as the county king, and was still named the king of the plains, responsible for guarding the mausoleum of the emperor, sacrificing at four o'clock, and so on.

It is precisely because of these special reasons that the burial of the Queen Mother must be carried out by labor, and Liu Zhi, as the emperor, personally supported the spirit, from Luoyang all the way north into Jizhou.

On the side of the imperial court, he left Yuan Xu, Chen Fan, Du Mi and Wang Chang and other important ministers to sit in the town, and now that the four seas are peaceful, there will be no major incidents.

The team included almost all the royal relatives of the clan, the four surnamed Xiaohou, and even the Nanhai Gong Deng Yan, who was far overseas, rushed back thousands of miles to participate in the send-off.

The procession was huge, there were heavy coffins, and there were many rituals on the way to the spirit, so the speed of the march was very slow.

From September 18 from Luoyang, the capital division, until mid-October, it arrived in Pingyuan County.

After all, Liu Yi is posthumously sealed, and he can only be called the first emperor, not the emperor, so the specifications of the mausoleum in Boling are still much inferior to the real emperor's mausoleum.

After three days of resting here, a memorial ceremony was held, and then he was ready to be buried.

The procedure of the joint burial is very simple, open the Boling Xian Road, the emperor personally asks for the room, and after worshipping, the emperor and queen can be buried in a room.

In the room, the sarcophagus coffin of the former emperor Liu Yi stood quietly, and Liu Zhi could be said to have no impression of him.

Respectfully saluted, and after paying tribute to the queen mother and the emperor, he silently retreated.

Looking back at Boling, I felt a lot of emotion in my heart......