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Chapter 386 What a filial son!
Compassionate Palace, side hall.

The emperor, who was dressed in plain clothes, not only did not eat any food for a whole day, he did not even drink a drop of water. All the officials knelt down and begged the emperor to mourn.

The emperor's sorrow for the empress dowager was even more eye-catching, and the officials wept, unable to bear to look up.

In the end, under Heshen's persuasion, Qianlong reluctantly drank a small bowl of porridge.

It was very late at night, and the crowd of mourners in the main hall was still endless, and the incense was permeating the air. The Yellow Sect monks arranged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs were already performing rituals for the Empress Dowager.

Since the Ministry of Rites has taken over the matter of the Empress Dowager's national funeral, according to the rules, the emperor needs to confirm the list of princes and ministers involved in the Empress Dowager's national funeral.

In the list jointly drafted by the Military Aircraft Department, the Ministry of Rites, the Clan Mansion, and the House of Internal Affairs, there are two princes, one is the fourth son of the emperor, Yongcheng, the king of Lujun, and the second is the sixth son of the emperor, Yongrong, the king of Zhijun.

As for the clan, Prince Zhuang Yongzhen and Prince Jian Fengneheng are on the list.

In terms of important ministers, Fu Long'an, Suo Lin, Minister of Military Aircraft, Minister Yinglian of the Ministry of Justice, Minister Fulehun of the Ministry of Rites, Minister Yonggui of the Ministry of Households, and Minister Asiha of the Ministry of Officials were listed.

There is also Jin Jian, Minister of the Interior.

Because the emperor was overly sad, under the persuasion of the late fifth elder brother's birth mother Yu Guifei, he has now moved to the west ear room of the Buddhist hall, and only the chief eunuch Li Yu personally waits on him.

The fifteenth elder brother's birth mother Ling Huang Guifei contracted an illness for some reason the day before yesterday, and was bedridden, unable to get up.Qianlong specially asked the fifteenth elder brother to comfort his mother and let her recover from her illness in peace, so that she could worry about the empress dowager's national funeral.

After the list of the funeral committee was drawn up, Chief Minister of Military Aircraft Yu Minzhong asked He Shen to go to the ear room to submit the list for approval.

There is no problem with the list, it is all determined according to the ancestral system.

When He Shen came in, he found that the emperor was silently mourning holding a box.

When I got closer, I found that the box was full of hair.

"These hairs all fell off when the Queen Mother combed her hair in recent years. I specially asked the servants of the Palace of Compassion and Peace to keep them well."

Qianlong, who mourned his mother eagerly, couldn't help sobbing again, He Shen hurriedly took out his handkerchief and handed it over.

Qianlong didn't mind it either, and wiped away his old tears with his hand.

"I still remember that in the first month of the lunar year, I accompanied the Empress Dowager to eat at the Jiuzhou Qingyan while watching the lights set off by the princes. At that time, the Empress Dowager was surrounded by me, the emperor's grandson, and the great-grandson. I'm worried that the Empress Dowager is getting old, and I'm afraid that she will be careless, but the Empress Dowager is kind and healthy, and she is happier than me when she is playing around."

The more he talked, the more sad Qianlong shed tears again, and the pain on his face could not be concealed.

He Shen also cried, wiping the emperor's tears while crying, and advised the emperor to mourn, not to hurt his body.

"I'm fine, I just feel sad when I think of the past events of the Queen Mother's life,"

Qianlong asked Heshen when the Ministry of Rites was going to give Xiaoyu, and Heshen explained that it would be tomorrow morning.Qianlong nodded, his eyes fell on the title book in Heshen's hand: "Is the list out?"

He Shen hurriedly handed over the list.

Qianlong took it and looked at it, pondered for a moment, but asked Li Yu to fetch a pen and added two names on it.

One is Xinjun Wang Chunying, and the other is He Shen in front of him.

This move made Heshen a little panicked: "How can a slave be qualified?"

"You are not qualified, who is qualified."

Qianlong stopped Heshen, handed the box in his hand to the other party, and said: "The box is full of the Queen Mother's hair. I am sad to see it. You ask the building office to cast a gold tower to store these hairs that the Queen Mother dropped during her lifetime. "

"The slave obeys the order!"

He Shen took it with trepidation.

Qianlong also instructed Li Yu to bring the braids he had cut in front of the Empress Dowager and hand them to Heshen, and told him: "After the golden pagoda is built, you can put my braids in it so that I and the Empress Dowager, mother and son will be together." together forever."

He Shen hesitated for a while, but still responded.

After explaining this matter, Qianlong took the ginseng soup from Li Yu's hands, drank a couple of sips, and asked, "What's the situation outside now?"

He Shen said: "There is no difference."

"Recently, rumors about me and the queen mother have been repeatedly suppressed, even among the banner people. I don't believe that no one wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, but I have been on the throne for 40 years, and I am still a bit powerful."

Qianlong sneered, "It is really ridiculous to say that I am a Han Chinese. I am an upright Manchurian, a descendant of Aixinjueluo. Those people think that they can steal my position by arranging that I am not the son of the first emperor."

Ask Jia Jia Shikai again if he has gone to the infantry to lead the yamen.

"It has been ordered to go,"

He Shen presented Jia Jia Shikai's cloth note with blood loyalty.

Looking at the bright red blood loyalty, Qianlong couldn't help but look sideways, and then felt a burst of sadness in his heart, and said sadly: "I didn't expect that the clan would dare not use people now that I employ people, and instead pointed to the Han army flag."

After a pause, he asked Heshen suddenly: "Is it wrong for me to ask the National History Museum to compile the records of the second official?"

"Your Majesty is not wrong. There are many Han people in the Qing Dynasty but few people in the country. If you want Han people to follow me from Manchuria, you should tame them with loyalty, courtesy and filial piety."

He Shen couldn't understand the emperor's original intention of compiling the record of second officials.

"It's ridiculous that many people in Manchuria don't know such a simple truth,"

Listening to the chanting sound from the main hall, smelling the faint scent of incense in his nose, Qianlong moved his forehead lightly, "If the clan is going to make trouble, I think it will be this month."

After the establishment of the National Funeral Committee for the Empress Dowager, they immediately carried out a small funeral for the Empress Dowager according to the system. Jia Liu heard that Qianlong cried to death when the Empress Dowager’s body was put into the coffin. He cried and died in front of his mother-in-law's body.

The whole country mourned inside and outside the capital, and no abnormal incidents occurred.

In grief, Qianlong made a decree to change the Changchun Immortal Pavilion in the Old Summer Palace, which the Queen Mother had not had time to live in, into a Buddhist hall. Wuzheng nunnery was rebuilt into Enmu Temple, where the pharmacist Buddha was enshrined, so as to "respectfully recommend kindness and blessings, and less express sorrow and admiration" for the empress dowager.

After the small burial, Qianlong discussed with the ministers about the Queen Mother's posthumous title, and decided that the big burial would be held in four days.

Since the Zi Palace cannot be parked in the palace for a long time, it needs to be moved out of the palace in time, so the Zi Palace of the Empress Dowager was moved to the Hall of Nine Classics and Three Things in Changchun Garden after the funeral.

And the end of the queen mother's life must be the late emperor's Tailing.

Tonduo, the former nine-door admiral who was demoted to Xiling, wrote a letter saying that Tailing had been eroded by wind and rain for 40 years, and there were many damages, and it needed to be fully repaired and oiled.

Therefore, it is still unknown when the Empress Dowager Zigong will be buried in the Tailing Mausoleum, and it may take more than a month at the earliest.

"Does Toendo want to learn from me?"

Jia Liu, dressed in filial piety, raised his legs and asked Liu Heyi.

In theory, this possibility exists, after all, both of them are directors of the management committee.

However, Liu Heyi shook his head and said, "If the Empress Dowager is buried in the Tailing Mausoleum and opened the underground palace to recognize her relatives, whether the emperor is the son of the late emperor or not will become a mystery through the ages."

Jia Liu also shook his head: "Not good, we can't lead the direction here."

"why?"

Liu Heyi felt that it was much better to push Bo's blood to recognize relatives than to force the clan to rebel, and this method was also more grandiose.

"nothing,"

Jia Liu sighed: "I haven't had time to dig out my grandfather yet."

Not only was his grandfather not dug out, but the old man and his wife were still lying under the peg bed.

I don't know if it's moldy or not.

(End of this chapter)