I studied in modern times

Chapter 53

The next day, it was already Hai (the sixth day of the lunar new year).

The dragon body of the Emperor Daxing was moved into the Zi Palace, which is called a big funeral.

After the funeral, it is ready-to-wear.

As the eldest son and heir, Zhao Xu first changed into special mourning clothes according to the tradition—not the plain white clothes of the people.

It is a mourning dress handed down from Taizu Taizong.

Straight-collared cloth 襕, wrapped around the waist with mourning linen cloth, black and silver belt as leather, no hat, disheveled hair in mourning, and holding a bamboo stick at the same time to show filial piety.

According to the tradition, the mourning period of the emperor changes from day to month, and it takes 49 days in seven to seven days, a total of seven stages of consolation by the officials, in order to relieve the grief.

In addition, everything during other mourning periods also has a system.

Including how to cry, how to pay homage, and how to salute.

And because Zhao Xu was young, the queen mother took him and taught him these things.

Zhao Xu was naturally very happy and asked the queen mother to teach.

At the same time, for the sacrificial ceremony, important officials above the rank of attendant must be present.

This allows the officials to see that Zhao Xu and the Queen Mother are in harmony with each other and depend on each other for life.

This is very helpful to strengthen the authority of the Queen Mother.

This day is Zhao Xu's uniform day.

Naturally, it was also the first ceremony day for the new monarch to pay homage to the Daxing Emperor.

In front of the Daxing Emperor Zi Palace, Zhao Xu followed the instructions of the Empress Dowager and completed the first memorial ceremony.

Everything is going smooth.

Standard etiquette, standard manners, even crying is very standard.

When the officials were consoling, Zhao Xu showed a calmness that surprised the officials. He accepted the consolations one by one, gave them tea and wine, entrusted them with state affairs, spoke humbly, and acted like a good student and respectful corporal.

After everything was over, the Empress Dowager took Zhao Xu, under the guard of Yu Longzhi, out of the Daqing Hall temporarily stored in the Zi Palace of Daxing Emperor, and went back to the Funing Hall.

Today, Zhao Xu is still guarded by Yu Longzhi outside Qingning Palace.

These people, after Zhao Xu ascended the throne, got what they deserved in return - the Queen Mother asked the Queen Mother to issue an edict, and was awarded the third son of Yulong Zuozhi.

It was not like Zhao Xu's last life, when he ascended the throne, he was immediately scattered and placed among other forbidden troops, and in the following years, he was transferred to various borders one after another.

In the end, only a dozen or so of the imperial guards who had guarded Zhao Xu during his most vulnerable months were still alive after Zhao Xu took power.

It is no longer an organizational scale.

Now, they got their rewards.

They were officially incorporated into Yulong Zhi, and got a designation: Yulong Zuo Zhi No. [-] Zhi.

The monthly salary alone has reached the peak of the soldiers of the imperial army: a total of five thousand!

As we all know, the salary of Zhu Zhi in front of the imperial court is just a bonus.

All kinds of rewards and great prospects are the most enviable things of the Imperial Imperial Guards - the most ordinary Imperial Imperial Guards, as long as they have been in the army for eight years without making any mistakes, they can directly apply to go to the local military state to serve as the third-class envoy or the third-class errand.

And Yanda's three sons also got rich rewards.

They were promoted seven levels in a row, jumping directly from the third class of small envoys to the big envoys.

Although he is only the deputy envoy of the Xishang Pavilion Gate, the lowest in the ranking of ambassadors, it is equivalent to half a foot into the senior rank of military minister, surpassing most people overnight after ten or twenty years of hard work.

He even defeated many frontier generals who had made great achievements at the border.

If such a person is released after three to five years, he will have the qualifications of a close minister of the emperor and a military minister in the hidden residence.

Even if he is only the deputy envoy of Xishanggemen, he is qualified to serve as the commander of soldiers and horses along the way.

If it's among the people, it's enough to make those coordinators bow their hands and say: Taiwei!

This is the reward for Conglong's success!

It's so rich that it makes people's blood rush, making people uncontrollable!

The mother and son, under the guard of Yulong Zhimen, returned to the Funing Hall smoothly, and were about to enter the hall through the passage of the pavilion gate, but in front of the pavilion gate, they met Zhao Xu's nurse mother-in-law who was waiting here.

When the mother-in-law saw the Queen Mother and Zhao Xu coming back, she immediately stepped forward to salute: "My wife greets the Queen Mother and everyone!"

"Grandma Guo, please stand up!" Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

The Empress Dowager Xiang also recognized the emperor's wet nurse, and she had a relatively close attitude towards the mother-in-law Guo, so she also said: "Madam, please come up!"

According to the system, the emperor's wet nurse will be included in the list of the first round of rewards after the emperor ascends the throne.

According to the ancestral system, the emperor's wet nurse was first appointed as the county lady. Although the award has not yet been given, the title of the queen mother is not wrong.

After a pause, he asked softly to the Queen Mother: "But Concubine De sent his wife to see the official family?"

I just wanted to avoid it and leave some privacy for the official family and his biological mother.

The mother-in-law of the country hurriedly said: "The minister's wife knows that the queen mother, everyone... It is indeed the concubine De who sent the minister's wife here!"

"But the concubine De sent the courtiers to see the Empress Dowager, to ask the Empress Dowager to be kind...and everyone to be kind..." The mother-in-law Guo said while observing the expressions of the Queen Mother and Zhao Xu.

"Huh?" When the Queen Mother heard that it was Concubine De who came to look for her, she was surprised, and after glancing at Zhao Xu, she asked softly, "Why is Concubine De looking for me?"

"Zouzhi Niangniang, Concubine De is here to intercede for the beauty Chen Shi!"

"Beauty Chen?" The Queen Mother thought for a while before she remembered that there was such a person: "Is it Chen Meiren who gave birth to Eleven Lang for the late Emperor?"

"Yes!" Grandma Guo said: "Since yesterday, I heard that Emperor Daxing was promoted, and Beauty Chen was in the pavilion. She didn't eat or drink, only read Buddhist scriptures, and only said that she would go with Emperor Daxing!"

The queen mother looked at the mother-in-law in disbelief.

If someone from Chen Meiren Pavilion came to tell her, she would definitely not believe it.

In order to fight for power and profit in the palace, what ghostly tricks has no one used?

Over the years, the Empress Dowager Xiang has been living in the Kunning Palace, and half of the reason is that she is too lazy to intrigue with the concubines in the palace - it's boring!
However, the one who came to report to her was the official wet nurse in Defei Pavilion who had nothing to do with Chen Meiren.

Moreover, it was Defei who sent her here.

Empress Dowager Xiang believed most of it immediately.

Concubine De has dealt with the Queen Mother before, and knows her nature.

The official birth mother, except for a little exaggeration, everything else is fine.

He had no intention of competing with her, nor did he dare to compete with her for the custody of the official family.

In front of her, she is low-key and small, just like a concubine in a big family's family, for fear that her regular wife will drive her out of the house.

Now, since Concubine De sent the official wet nurse to sue.

Even for Concubine De's face, Empress Dowager Xiang felt that she had to take care of this matter.

However, before making a decision, the Empress Dowager decided to ask the little official beside her.

"Sixth brother, what do you think?"

Zhao Xu naturally knew what was going on.

He looked at Grandma Guo's anxious look, and sighed inwardly.

What should come always comes.

The beauty Chen is the biological mother of Zhao Ji's boy.

This concubine of Emperor Zhao Xu's father can be regarded as a miracle in the palace!
Since the Song Dynasty, this grand nephew has only heard that the emperor favored a certain concubine alone.

For example, Zhenmiao loves Jizhang to dedicate Ming Su, while Renmiao loves empress Wen Chengzhang, and Yingmiao respects, loves and fears Empress Gao.

But there has never been a concubine who fell in love with the emperor, and even accompanied her life and death.

Unexpectedly, Chen Meiren broke the record of the Song Dynasty for a hundred years.

As a concubine, she was an insignificant one among the emperor's three thousand harem beauties.

She loved her husband, the man, and the monarch very much.

At the expense of life and death!

In Zhao Xu's previous life, after Zhao Xu's father passed away, Chen Meiren died of a hunger strike without eating or drinking. Before she died, she still held tightly in her hand a poem written by Zhao Xu's father.

Therefore, the entire Ouchi was full of sympathy and respect for him.

Even with that guy Zhao Ji, he got a lot of glory.

First of all, she was entrusted by Chen Meiren to be raised by Zhao Xu's biological mother, Concubine Zhu, on her deathbed - Chen Meiren was in the palace and Zhao Xu's biological mother Zhu, because they were also born in a mild cold, so they had a very good relationship, and they were almost girlfriends who talked about everything!
Later, Zhao Xu took him by his side to teach and take care of him personally.

Zhao Ji's calligraphy and painting were taught by Zhao Xu.

Therefore, Zhao Xu also knows Zhao Ji's thin gold body, and his skills are actually very high. Although he is not as good as Zhao Ji, there is no problem in killing other fans in seconds.

In modern times, the work that Zhao Xu once sold for 100 million is a calligraphy post that is considered to be almost the same as Zhao Ji's handed down works.

Slightly letting out a breath, Zhao Xu looked at the Queen Mother and said, "I will report to the Queen Mother: Sister Chen has always respected and loved the Emperor!"

After thinking about it, Zhao Xu added: "When I was in the pavilion, I saw Father and Sister Chen walking arm in arm in the Royal Garden of the Backyard..."

This is a fact!

When Queen Mother heard the words, her eyelids twitched, and she ordered to the left and right: "Pass my order and ask Yousi to persuade Chen Meiren!"

"Emperor Daxing unfortunately abandoned the world just now, and the prince is young. Beauty Chen should die herself and raise the prince for Emperor Daxing!"

Want her to visit?

That is impossible!

She is the Empress of the Daxing Emperor, so she cannot visit a mere beauty in terms of etiquette.

Besides, the Empress Dowager Xiang resisted in her heart to see such a concubine.

Oh, as long as you are infatuated, I will be fickle, right?
Still strolling around the Imperial Garden arm in arm with Emperor Daxing? !
I have been in the palace for [-] years and have been married to Emperor Daxing for [-] years. I have never swam in the back garden with Emperor Daxing alone, let alone holding hands.

Zhao Xu looked at Granny Guo, and asked softly, "Grandma Guo, please pass on my will to Sister Chen..."

"Eleventh Lang is still in his infancy, please ask Sister Chen to read Eleventh Lang, so that he can breathe well and protect the prince for Emperor Daxing!"

"I also ask mother and concubine to comfort you a lot..."

He will be able to do this, in this life, it is impossible for Zhao Xu to sympathize with that bastard Zhao Ji again!

"Yes..." Grandma Guo bowed her head deeply.

……

However, this day will not end in such a peaceful way after all.

Before the palace gate was locked, a piece of bad news was sent into the palace.

The elder sister of Emperor Daxing, Princess Chen Guochang, unfortunately passed away in the princess' mansion yesterday, the day of Emperor Daxing's ascension.

The captain's son-in-law and the observation envoy of Jinzhou, Wang Shiyue, did not dare to report immediately, and they delayed reporting until today.

Zhao Xuhe heard the news from the Empress Dowager, and hurriedly set off to express condolences in front of the Empress Dowager Gao in Baoci Palace.

Empress Dowager Gao and Yingmiao had four sons and four daughters.

Except for the early death of the third son and the early death of the fourth daughter, the other three sons and three daughters all lived to adulthood.

Among the three princesses, the eldest daughter, Princess Chen Guochang, was the most loved and favored by Empress Dowager Gao.

Now, within one day, the eldest son and eldest daughter were bereaved together.

Empress Dowager Gao was naturally very sad.

When Zhao Xu and Empress Dowager Xiang arrived at Baoci Palace, they could hear Empress Dowager Gao crying in the confinement, calling her beloved daughter's baby name while crying.

　Note: The funeral of the emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty and the funeral of the new emperor are divided into Daxiang and Xiaoxiang. There are different etiquette and systems, which are simplified here.

　　Note 2: Hair disheveled is the standard etiquette for the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty to mourn for the first emperor, which began with Zhenzong.The bamboo stick was handed down during Taizong's time.

　　Note 3: The continuation of Zizhi Tongjian’s long article records that Princess Chen Guochang and Shenzong died on the same day, but there is no record on which day the report was made, but it is certain that the report was not on the same day, at least one day later.

　　
　
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