Chapter 573: Self-Petitioning
According to the system, the emperor died, and the funeral was a total of bathing, meals, small burials, chopping clothes, setting up a few feasts, making Zigong Palace, large burials, costumes, soothing silk, standing Mingjing, Shangzun, and Zigong Citation.
Yesterday, that is, at the seventh hour of the seventh month of the twelfth year of Yuan You, the sage made a great trip.
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Rites, after the emperor bathed, he personally placed jade in the mouth of the saint, that is, rice.
Later, he and the crown prince Liu Hong, the prince Liu Yi, and Liu Ke changed into twelve chapters of dragon robes for the saints, that is, the small burial.
The Ministry of Rites invited to play, the emperor gave an order, the sage was in a big line, and the princes, grandsons and harem concubines were beheaded for twenty-seven months from the date of their uniforms.
Outside Beijing, the princes, princes, princes, princesses, princesses, princesses, and lords of the clan were dressed on the fourth day after receiving the funeral report. also serve the twenty-seventh month.
All civil and military officials in Beijing will serve 27 days on the fourth day of mourning.
Twenty-seven days later, whenever they enter the court or go to the Yamen office, civil and military officials need to wear plain clothes, black gauze hats, and black horn belts, and this time is 27 months. Prisoners, officials, and monks are also required to wear plain clothes for 27 months.
The women of the hundred officials also need to wear plain clothes for 27 days, and as for the rest of the ordinary soldiers and civilians in the country, they need to wear plain clothes for 20 days.
In addition, all music and ceremonial activities in the country will be suspended for 100 days. The marriage of men and women will be suspended for 100 days, and the homes of ordinary soldiers and civilians will be suspended for 1 month......
When the Jingyang bell rang ninety-nine eighty-one, the people of Gyeonggi no longer needed the order of the imperial court, so they changed into mourning clothes, and all the people mourned together, holding incense and candles, and walked on the street to kowtow and cry in the direction of Longshou Palace.
The emperor was forcibly carried back to the palace by Liu Yi and poured a bowl of decoction and fell asleep all night, and dragged the sick body to the imperial palace the next day.
"Your Majesty, the minister has something important to do......"
Jia Cong's voice was particularly eye-catching in the crying in the hall, and all the emperors and officials looked sideways, and after secretly glancing at the grief-stricken emperor, they quietly lowered their cries and wanted to hear what Jia Cong had to say.
saw that the emperor just beckoned to Jia Cong and signaled him to come closer, and didn't give them a chance at all.
Jia Cong stepped forward and knelt on the right side of the emperor, and whispered: "The concubine Liu Xian died yesterday, and my father's hand ...... automatically."
The emperor's movement of throwing paper money into the brazier froze, and his gaze at Zigong became even more sad.
"I can't complain that your father is missing for more than a month, my father is really heartbroken for me."
The death of the old fourteenth, the emperor did not have the slightest sense of sadness.
is different from the second and thirteenth children, except for the flesh and blood, the fourteenth has nothing to do with him Liu Heng.
"Send a message to your father and ask him to come back quickly. He is his father's favorite son and nephew, how can this funeral be without him. ”
The emperor didn't think about Liu Chen's future at all, but he was worried that if Jia Yu didn't come back quickly to send the old man on his last journey, he was afraid that he would leave a lifetime of regrets.
I didn't want Jia Cong to shake his head, because since dawn, his father has been constantly sending news to the palace.
As soon as the city gate was opened today, Jia Yu had already rushed back to the capital from the imperial tomb.
But he didn't go back to Rongguo Mansion and didn't come to the palace, but made it clear that he drove to Yizhong Palace.
"My father entered the city after dawn, went directly to the Yizhong Palace, and abolished Liu Ye."
The news from the pro-soldiers, Liu Ye didn't want to stand up in his life. A former prince concubine who is both hands and feet is useless, it is impossible to have the slightest threat to the holy throne.
If it weren't for Liu Ye having the blood of the first prince on his body, Jia Cong would bet that the eldest lord would not hesitate to send him on the road with Liu Chen.
The emperor didn't know what secret decree the old man gave Jia Yu, but judging from the two things of killing Liu Xin and abolishing Liu Ye, apart from Jia Enhou, who could do it so cleanly?
However, this secret decree was enough to give the emperor a headache, because he didn't know how many people the old man wanted Jia Yu to kill.
"You go and spread my will, let your father enter the palace quickly. No matter who his father asked him to kill, stop it. My world is now not afraid of any intrigues! ”
All privacy calculations are simply vulnerable in the face of strength.
The emperor is confident that even if his eldest brother is reborn, he will not be able to withstand his supremacy in the hearts of all the people in the world.
On the contrary, Jia Enhou continued to kill like this, and he was worried about causing turmoil in the court.
After all, the old man has just gone, and some people are worried that once the emperor is a courtier, the emperor will settle accounts with them.
It's a pity that the emperor's order was obviously late.
After Jia Yu entered the city, he didn't intend to hide it from people at all, but made it clear that the carriage and horse broke through the gate of the Yizhong Palace, and abolished Liu Ye's hands and feet in the mansion.
Just when Jia Cong was about to leave the palace in person, Baiguan had already received the news that Liu Xin was dead and Liu Ye was deposed.
At this time, the pardoning lord was attaching great importance to filial piety, kneeling from the Great Xia Gate into the palace in three steps and kneeling towards the Longshou Palace.
"Your Majesty, Jia Yu is bold and reckless, and the minister thinks that he should be handed over to the secretary to ask for the guilt!"
"Killing the royal family without permission, the crime should be beheaded, and the ministers should ask for a holy judgment!"
"Let's ask first, Jia Yu is an important minister of the country, it is impossible not to understand the consequences of killing the imperial family without permission......"
Most of the royal clansmen who were originally "crying" on the ground had white faces.
The struggle for succession in the last years of Zhaowu, as well as the power struggle in the early years of Yuan You, except for the old thirteen and a few families, almost all of them were the Fourteenth Master Party and the Yizhong Wang Party.
The old man is here, and the emperor gives them some face.
Now that the old man is in a big business, who doesn't worry about the emperor settling accounts with them?
Jia pardoned to kill Liu Xian and abolish Liu Ye, it was definitely the emperor's idea!
The emperor couldn't see the thoughts of this group of people, but he didn't care about such and such infamy on his back.
He didn't even bother to explain, he just glanced coldly at this group of waste royal relatives, and said to the officials with various attitudes: "Father and emperor have just made a big trip, and the funeral is not over, don't bother me with these shitty things." Before his father's death, he took Jia pardon as his own nephew, even if he wanted to ask for the crime, he had to send his father to be buried before he said it! ”
People's "own son" wants to send him to be buried, do you not let Jia Enhou wear linen and filial piety for these things, are you still human?
The hundred officials were suppressed by the emperor's attitude, and some people in the imperial family were not angry, but unfortunately the old man who had protected them in the past had passed away, and in the face of the "mean and unkind" emperor, who dared to say more?
Jia Yu's forehead was covered with blood, and his knees were also stained with blood.
But he still took three steps and knocked once, leaving stains of blood on the royal road, and went straight from the Great Xia Gate to the front of the Imperial Palace.
"Minister, pardon, send the saint to heaven!"
Knock knock knock......
The sad shouts caused many old ministers in the hall to cry and flow down uncontrollably.
The emperor who ate meat and wine with them is gone, and the emperor who allowed them to pass away is dead!
The hall, which was still arguing just now, was once again full of bitter tears.
Liu Hong personally went to help, but Jia Yu stubbornly knelt and moved, until he fell to the ground in front of Zigong and cried bitterly.
"Let him cry, for he has lost another father."
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For funerals, the Ministry of Rites has a complete ritual process.
The officials and relatives of all families also came to the palace to pay tribute according to the rules, and the Empress Dowager Cao was old and fell ill after two days.
Daiyu had to stay in Cining Palace with several princesses to serve the sick, or when the crown princess Zhang came to the Huangji Palace to ask for a funeral, Jia Cong received news from home, saying that the old lady was too sad and had a high fever.
By the time he and his father Jia Yu hurried home, the imperial doctor had just left.
"Boss, come here......"
Jia Yu took a step forward, but saw the old lady holding her body and reaching out and slapping her eldest son in the face.
"I know that you have been ordered by the saint, but you are gambling on the heart of the emperor with the life of the clan, do you want to anger me?"
The old lady's slap was something that several people in the room didn't expect.
She knew that the old sage was the emperor in the eldest son's heart, and the eldest son's bones had a different kind of foolishness, loyalty, and filial piety towards the old sage, which had been formed since he was a child.
She also knew that the old sage had favored and treated the Jia family favorably, and after the first prince killed himself, many families related to the East Palace were almost implicated.
Even Mrs. Zhang was exiled by the whole family, and the Jia family could enjoy wealth and prosperity in the capital, to put it bluntly, it was the special care of the old man.
But Jia pardon killed the royal family without permission, this crime is too big!
If one is not good, the nine clans of the Jia family will be implicated.
"Mothers don't have to worry, children have their own opinions......"
"Since it is the secret decree of the saints, you have people secretly spread the contents of the secret decree. Although this will damage the reputation of the saint, it will avoid a lot of trouble for our family......"
The old lady was really sick and confused, and Jia Cong had to persuade her: "Absolutely not, the secret matter must not be put on the surface." ”
"What Brother Cong said is that although the eldest brother has been ordered by secret order, this matter is to remove the great trouble for His Majesty, even if the eldest brother is really punished at that time, it will be a good ...... for Your Majesty."
Look, even the always dull political master can see the mystery in it.
Jia Yu didn't have this idea, but looked in the direction of the ancestral hall, kowtowed to the old lady, got up and walked outside the house.
"The old lady can rest assured, this matter is borne by her son alone, and he will never be implicated in the family......"
"Am I afraid that you will implicate the family? I'm worried about you! ”
The old lady was really laughed at by the eldest son, she was partial to the younger son, but the eldest son was also the meat that fell from her body after all.
Now the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are impeaching the eldest son for killing the imperial family, although the emperor has temporarily suppressed the matter, but after the national funeral, who dares to guarantee that the eldest son will not be tried by the three divisions?
But Jia Yu's footsteps only paused, and then walked towards the door without stopping.
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During the state funeral, in addition to going to the palace every day to pay respects, the officials also had to go to the yamen to handle official business according to the rules.
Just when the cabinet convened a hundred officials and discussed the names of the saints and temples in the Fengtian Temple, the officials of the General Administration Department hurriedly ran in with a letter of recital.
"The Great Prime Minister, the excerpt that the Duke of Rongguo just sent, he asked to remove the lord and remove the official to atone for the crime of killing the imperial family without permission!"
"Ridiculous! What does the death of Liu Chen have to do with him? ”
Are you kidding? No matter how bold he is, can he kill the saint's own son in the imperial mausoleum?
You don't have to think about it to know that it was the old sage who made a secret decree, so that the imperial tomb guard could let Jia Enhou stay in the imperial tomb for more than a month, and he just waited for the saint to make a big move, and he killed Liu Xian with one sword.
Which of the several scholars in the cabinet couldn't guess the mystery of this?
Since the emperor acquiesced in the fact that those officials who couldn't see through it detained the black pot on himself, the original cabinet also planned to treat it coldly, anyway, Liu Xian and the people were all dead, could he really treat the emperor's crimes?
I don't want Jia Yu to jump out again, why are you doing? Not messy enough?
Old man Zhou Jiong dragged his sick body to preside over the cabinet meeting, and when he heard that Jia Yu was going to confess his guilt and surrender to the law, the temples of his temples jumped suddenly.
"The saint is gone, the British duke is gone again, who else can control this house? Ruhai, you go and persuade your uncle, let him go home quickly, don't make trouble at this time! ”
Lin Ruhai was taken aback by his eldest brother's operation, can he admit this crime?
was just about to receive the order to go out, but he saw a person with filial piety walking outside the hall, who else could it be if it wasn't his uncle Jia Yu?
"I did kill the man, I admit it!"
Jia Cong was still holding something wrapped in red cloth in his hand, and after he entered the hall, he bowed slightly towards Zhou Jiong, and then uncovered the red silk.
"Danshu Iron Coupon!"
It is indeed a Danshu iron coupon, and it is also a Danshu iron coupon given by Taizu to the first generation of Rongguo Gong.
"Liu Xin was killed by me, Liu Ye was abolished by me, and he was not instructed by anyone. I confess my sin. Liu Xi calculated how many times my family had counted earlier, and you should have heard of it. I killed him because it was a personal vendetta and had nothing to do with others. Whoever dares to talk about this matter in the future, I don't mind reasoning with him with a knife......"
As he spoke, he held up the Danshu iron coupon high: "Today, I confess the crime of murder with the Danshu iron coupon given by Taizu. Please follow the law, depose the Duke of my country, and remove me from all my official positions. When I send the saint Zigong to the imperial mausoleum, I will go to prison to serve. ”
"Is it possible to atone for my sins?"
Even according to Zhang Zhengju's newly revised "Great Xia Criminal Law", there are Danshu iron coupons, it is impossible to let Jia Yu exchange one life for another, let alone punish the nine clans.
This is where Jia Yu dares to say that he has his own opinions, and he doesn't want the old lady to worry.
He Jia pardoned today to confess his guilt and surrender to the law, to preserve the reputation of the old man, to preserve the reputation of the emperor, even if he lost the official title, the Jia family is still the top nobles of the country.
After all, he has two good sons, and a duke of a country!
Zhou Jiong looked at the piece of Danshu iron coupon engraved with dragon patterns, and his brain hurt even more.
This guy is really a bastard, the grandfather gave the Danshu iron coupon, which is more just a symbol of glory, which family will really use it to exonerate the sin?
However, there is a sentence engraved on this Danshu iron coupon: If you are not guilty of rebellion and treason, you can avoid death.
Liu Xi has long been demoted to a concubine, and even if Jia Yu really killed him, it would not be considered a good killing of the imperial family, let alone treason.
Therefore, Jia Yu's sudden operation is really stronger than cold treatment.
Whether it is the reputation of the old saint or the reputation of the emperor, the ministers of the court should be protected, after all, it is related to the majesty of the country.
After thinking about it, Zhou Jiong finally accepted Jia Pardon's plea.
"In this way, according to your request, the cabinet will request the holy ruling on the matter of removing the official and the lord, and there can be no more objections from the court and the central government in the case of Liu Chen. Ordered the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and Shuntian Mansion to ban rumors, and whoever dares to discuss this matter again will be punished according to the law! ”
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