Of course, it was Su Shun who spoke first, "The disease above is much worse than what is known outside!" He said, "In a word, 'the lamp runs dry,' and that's it." () This fall, the whole thousand pounds of burden, on us. While there's still a breath in the head, let's let him say something! ”

"Isn't it just a matter of sending a minister to take care of your life?" Zaiyuan said, "Anyway, you can't leave Gong Lao Liu inside." ”

"Also, you can't pull the queen in!"

"Jiyuan," Su Shunhan said, "what do you have a good idea?" Say it, let's hear it. ”

Du Han had read a few sentences of the book, thought for a while, and said slowly: "The minister who cares about his life, has more personal orders, and has never been a minister to submit an example, if he takes the liberty of making a statement and arouses disgust, but it is not as expected, is it not self-defeating?" ”

"It won't." Su Shun said with great certainty, "I'm sure." ”

"Okay, let's think of a name then!" Duanhua pointed with his fingers, which were blackened by snuff, and said, "You, him, me, and him." There are only four of them. ”

"The whole class of the Minister of Military Aircraft."

"No, no!" Su Shun corrected Jaewon's words, "How do you say it's the whole class?" Wen Bochuan is not included. "How could Su Shun let Wen Xiang enter the team that cares about his life.

"Then it's four. Mu Du Kuangjiao, plus our brother three, a total of seven. Enough, enough! ”

"There should be another one." Su Shun said this, looked at Du Han and asked, "Do you understand what I mean?" ”

"I understand what Zhongtang means." Duhan nodded.

Not only Du Han, but also Zaiyuan Duanhua, after thinking about it a little, they also understood Su Shun's intentions. The family law of the Qing Dynasty, for the four words of "kissing and respecting the virtuous", heavy, the selection of ministers to protect the young master, but not to violate these two rules, but the "respectful" of the virtuous, only by Chen, the "kiss" of the pro, but can not be pretended at all, the closest relatives are not as good as siblings, and the emperor was raised by the Empress Dowager Xiaojing, so in this way, the relatives of the relatives, such as King Gong, so in the list of ministers of Gu Ming, if you want to exclude King Gong, there must be a proper person, as a replacement.

Jing Shou is the forehead, the emperor's brother-in-law, older, and the former minister of the imperial palace is also responsible for taking care of the affairs of the eldest brother's study, and is sent as the minister of care, without losing the meaning of "kissing", so that with this taciturn old man to resist King Gong, and even to resist the queen who is far away in Beijing, he can barely Du Se Youyou.

Speaking of the queen, Du Han asked again: "The situation is not good, queen, do you want to come over?" ”

"Can't please!" Su Shun said categorically, because it was discussed in the secret room, so Su Shun spoke a lot more straightforwardly, "The queen loves to interfere in political affairs, if she comes, although there is no story of the curtain in this dynasty, but I can't say that I want to blow the wind in my ears on the emperor's side, before I thought about letting her come quickly, lest she be powerful in Beijing and do something inappropriate, now that the wood is in the boat, then I can't let her come anymore, even if the emperor wants her to come, I will never agree!" ”

The eight ministers of Gu Ming are available. Then he drew up a list of "Ministers of Funeral Rites", which is an honor and a merit, as long as the list is on the top, after the funeral is over, there will be a reward as a reward as usual. Su Shun does not have a certain prejudice against these irrelevant lists, so King Gong is also one of the candidates. However, he set a principle, that the "ministers of funeral services" in Beijing did not have to go to the funeral, and only worked as errands in Beijing. Of course, this is also a boycott of King Gong.

Of course, this is a matter after the emperor's death, and it is enough to issue an edict on paper, so there is no need to be urgent at this time. On the contrary, the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who specialize in the red and white ceremonies of the palace, have been very busy for a while these days, just like the days before the emperor's long life.

Preparing for the aftermath cannot be done in an open and joyful manner like the grand ceremony of longevity wedding. So Su Shun convened a secret meeting to check and prepare in advance, and the first thing is, of course, to ask for money, not a problem. But there are two other things, which are more important than money, which are readily available in the capital and can be set up, but in Rehe, they must be opened early.

It's the same as the emperor's coffin, the weather is too hot, and it has to be buried as soon as it falls. The emperor's coffin is called "Jin Kui", the material has long been available, it is a pair of gloomy wooden boards, its color is dark, and it is said that the body is contained in it, and it is not broken for a thousand years. This kind of rare material is found in the mountains of Yunnan, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has reimbursed 400,000 taels of silver for the freight alone. The materials were stored in the "Imperial Wood Factory" in Beijing, and Su Shun ordered: Hurry up, fast, and secret.

There is also a white cloth. As soon as the emperor entered the "Golden Kui", the young lord became a suit, inside and outside the palace, the concubines and concubines of the palace and the civil and military officials, all of them had to change into white cloth filial piety clothes, and many places also had to change into white cloth filial piety curtains, most of which had to be supplied by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In Beijing, as long as a few "Xiang" brand shopkeepers were passed on, how much and how much they wanted, but in Rehe they had to prepare in advance. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )

PS: On this day in 1860, the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, remembering.