Chapter 143: The Eighteen-Year-Old Empress Dowager (11)
"This ...... It's none of my business! ”
Although Prince Ling was very angry just now that he wanted to correct Taishi He on the spot, he really hadn't killed anyone himself, so when Taishi He slammed straight into his sword and the warm blood spilled onto his hand, he still hurriedly threw the sword away, and said in a trembling voice.
"Well, no one wants to do that.
Even if what he just said is true, many things are already a foregone conclusion, Your Majesty has now died, what the specific situation is, it is not for him to say, no one knows whether it is true or not.
Let's leave this matter at that.
When we finish our business, we will investigate in detail when we have time, and forget it if we don't have time, anyway, it doesn't hurt, as for the corpse, let's put it here first.
Empress Dowager, I want to find someone to dispose of His Majesty's body first, and trim and stitch it up a little.
lest His Majesty's face be too ugly.
Will you come with me, or will you go back to the palace for a while? We'll ask you when it's done? ”
Now it matters in the end, and what Taishi He said just now doesn't matter at all.
After all, at this time, no one had time to specifically explore whether what he said was true or false, so Zong Zheng naturally quickly swept past He Taishi on the ground and began to formally discuss the national funeral with Qiao Mu.
As for why he asked Qiao Mu if he wanted to rest?
Although the national funeral was big, it did not let the Empress Dowager, who may have to be upgraded to the Empress Dowager after a while, to personally participate in the whole process.
To use an inappropriate analogy.
Whose grandson died, and had to let the grandmother come over to preside over the funeral and cry, there is no reason for this.
Elders can cry and be sad.
But there is no one who makes the elders kneel to the juniors.
Not even the emperor.
As the empress dowager, even if Qiao Mu is not biological, then she only needs to sit down at that time, and she does not need to kneel or cry.
"Let's go back to the palace first, several palace maids in the mourning palace should be very panicked and scared now, the mourning family has to go back to the palace first to appease, and now the Empress Dowager Li has been poisoned, and the harem can barely be regarded as a group of dragons without a leader, if the mourning family does not go back to preside, I am afraid that many things in the harem will not be able to go smoothly.
If there is no assistance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the state funeral.
You should have a hard time dealing with it too.
The affairs of the previous dynasty will trouble Zongzheng and the princes to worry a lot, and the mourning family will go back first. ”
Qiao Mu has already intrigued over I don't know how many worlds, so at this time, he is naturally very skilled at retreating, giving up all the rights of the previous dynasty first, so as to obtain all the rights of the entire palace court, and at the same time, he can also appease the hearts of Zongzheng and several princes, lest they still think that they have any regent thoughts.
For Zongzheng and them, as long as Qiao Mu does not interfere in the affairs of the court, he is a very good person, as for being in charge of the harem, this is completely trivial in their opinion, and it is not a big deal with the meaning of the head of the housewife of the wealthy family.
Besides, in the harem now, except for the Queen Mother, there are indeed dragons without a leader, so they naturally have no opinion, and after Qiao Mu finished speaking, he immediately bent his knees slightly and saluted her.
That's when we got down to business.
For example, re-collect the Great Internal Forbidden Army, arrest a few imperial doctors, and let the imperial doctors quickly help the emperor sort out the current remains, and at the same time let people ring the death knell and inform the whole capital of the news of the emperor's death, and also ordered a large number of people to announce the news of the emperor's death to the whole country in the form of a quick horse, and officially start the national mourning.
The death knell is heard.
The whole capital was busy.
It's not a joke, it's true.
First of all, all the nobles and the ministers and generals of the DPRK and the central government who had not received the news before, after hearing the death knell ringing, no matter where they are now, what they are doing, all of them must quickly get up and change their clothes and go into the palace to mourn, even if you are drinking with others in the Qinglou and in bed, you must get up quickly without delay.
Delay a little longer.
Maybe someone will have to impeach.
Secondly, the owners of all the entertainment establishments in the entire capital also had to quickly close their shops, and at the same time, they had to hang up all kinds of white things, because during the national funeral, entertainment had to be banned in the whole country for a month.
These are the two classes of scholars and merchants.
In addition, the workers and peasants were relatively simpler and suffered relatively little losses.
Basically, as long as you do one thing, that is, if you have funeral supplies at home, hurry up and get some for yourself to hang on the whole family, and buy those who don't have them.
To say that at this time, the only one who did not lose.
Probably only those who sell white cloth.
The usual white cloth of seven or eight cents and one foot rose to seventeen or eighteen after a while, but everyone couldn't help it, no matter how high it rose, they had to pinch their noses and buy it, otherwise it would be a big disrespectful crime.
Of course, if you really don't have any money, you stay at home and don't go out, and no one usually checks it.
Because there is a corresponding process for this kind of thing like a national funeral, so in general, after Zongzheng and they officially took over the government, everything went smoothly, everyone cried according to the process, let kneel and kneel, and tossed until the moon rose more than halfway, and then went through the general process.
At this time, some young officials couldn't stand it anymore, not to mention those officials who were already seventy or eighty, and several of them were completely relying on ginseng tablets to hang their lives.
But it can't be helped.
Zong Zheng is the first time they are holding such a large-scale national funeral, and their heads are almost dizzy, where is there any time to care about the situation of those old ministers.
In addition, this national funeral is different from the previous national funeral, the previous national funeral was that the new emperor candidate has been determined, when crying and mourning, the new emperor in order to win people's hearts, generally give some old ministers, let them cry for a while and sit down, or let them cry for a while and go back, but this time there is no new emperor candidate, so naturally no one dares to let them rest.
So, those old ministers could only follow the other young people, crying for an hour or two, their eyes were about to cry blind, and the old ladies on the other side, that is, the luck of those ladies who were specially enshrined in the court was much better, after all, there were arbors there, seeing them kneeling over there one by one, it felt like they were about to die in the next second, and arbors were embarrassed to sit alone and watch them kneel over there for a few hours, so they specially issued an edict to let those over sixty cry for a while and sit down.
It's the same with those who are pregnant.
lest you turn back and weep.
A few more lives were removed.
That's a real sin.
Besides, there is one more person who wants to cry than those ministers, and those ministers only need to cry the emperor, but these ladies not only have to cry the emperor, but the Empress Dowager Li's mourning hall also has to cry for a while.
That's really going to be crying at both ends.