Chastity Layman

  Chapter 1028 Picking Gold Hanging Seal

  In the Xianju Palace, Cheng Qian knelt in front of the body of Empress Changsun, crying like hell, with tears and snot in his nose. At this moment, Cheng Qian was just a child. He blamed himself painfully, hated himself for not returning to Beijing earlier, why he stayed in Haiyan Fort for so long.

  Why didn’t I even see my mother for the last time.

  Qin Lang knelt beside him, feeling sorry for his mother-in-law-to-be. A generation of virtuous queens left in their thirties. The best years of their lives suddenly passed away. I have to say that fate is unpredictable.

Empress Changsun's life was not easy. Her mother Gao was the stepmother of Changsun Sheng. When the Empress was only a few years old, her father died of illness. Three drove out several.

They had no choice but to go to their uncle Gao Shilian, but Gao Shilian was involved in the rebellion case of Hu Si, the minister of the Ministry of war, and was demoted to the couch. Fortunately, this uncle was very good. , I still took out a sum of money to buy a small courtyard for my sister, and left them a sum of money to live, and then went to Jiaozhi to be the relegation county director.

  Since then, Empress Changsun, mother and son have been living in poverty. The eldest grandson's family has a big business, but they have nothing to do with them.

At that time, Gao, the former daughter of a famous family and the wife of a great general, also began to weave and embroider to supplement her family expenses, but she still insisted on teaching her sons and daughters to read, write, and etiquette. Empress Changsun has been tenacious since then.

Fortunately, when his father, Changsun Sheng, was still alive, he liked this little daughter very much, and the eldest grandson's family was also very concerned about her marriage. Uncle Changsun Chi personally found Tang Guogong Li Yuan's family for her to marry, especially admired Li Yuan. His wife Dou's wisdom and grandeur persuaded Changsun Sheng to marry Tang Guogong.

   Later, although the eldest grandson died shortly after the marriage agreement was made, Tang Guogong's mansion did not intend to regret the marriage. Five years later, when the eldest grandson empress was thirteen years old, the Li family sent someone to welcome the eldest grandson for the second son Li Shimin.

  It was the ninth year of the great cause, the world was already in some turmoil, the Sui Dynasty was precarious, and the thirteen-year-old eldest grandson married sixteen-year-old Li Shimin.

The experience when she was a young girl made Empress Changsun, a daughter of a famous family, have rare virtuous qualities, filial piety to her in-laws, respect and love for her husband, and after marriage, she took care of her husband and raised her children. Even when her husband became the number one person in the world, she was canonized as a queen , and never arrogance.

She has always maintained the habit of kissing silkworms. Every year, she personally sews clothes for her husband and children, teaches them etiquette and culture, and manages the inner palace in an orderly manner. She even often advises her husband and brothers. Qi is too kind.

  The only exception was because the half-brother Sun Anye participated in the rebellion, and the eldest grandson knelt down to her husband and begged him to save him from death.

  Conspiracy is heinous, but in the end the emperor spared the eldest grandson Anye from death because of the queen's cry.

  Back then, the elder Sun Anye and his brothers drove the queen, mother and son out of the house, but many years later, the queen was still able to let go of the past.

  Married at the age of thirteen, died of illness at the age of thirty-six, and the husband and wife have lived together for twenty-three years.

  Young people get married, support each other, the husband and wife are deeply affectionate, and the husband is wise and his wife is virtuous.

  Qin Lang looked at Cheng Qian, who was crying with tears and snot, and really wanted to kick this guy twice. What's the use of crying now, people can't be resurrected after death.

  Before the queen died, she had been looking forward to the last time for a long time, what a pity.

  With the empress present, Chengqian's position is the strongest. With the eldest grandson empress here, no matter how messed up Chengqian is, Li Shimin will not have the idea of ​​changing the reserve.

   Now, the queen is gone, and Chengqian's biggest backer is gone.

Of course, if the empress is here, Cheng Qian would not dare to make too much trouble. If the empress hadn't been seriously ill in the past two years, the emperor would have kept Chengqian's nonsense behaviors from the empress in order not to worry the empress. Never sit idly by.

   On the contrary, Qin Lang didn't care too much about his marriage with Chang Le, because it would take another three years if it was too late.

   Three years is only three years, Changle is only fifteen now, and three years later it will only be eighteen, not even ten.

   "Your Highness, condolences!"

Qin Lang sighed to Cheng Qian, now is not the time to cry, it is better to think about how to appease the emperor's anger, otherwise Cheng Qian's situation will be really worrying, no matter what, Qin Lang still hopes Being able to keep Chengqian's reserve position, after all, they have known each other for ten years, the relationship is still very deep.

  Chengqian turned a deaf ear to Qin Lang's words, and on the way back from Longyou, Chengqian never looked at Qin Lang directly.

  Whether it was because of the estrangement before, or because he beat him up in Haiyan this time, anyway, the prince is very dissatisfied with Qin Lang now.

   "His Royal Highness will go to the saint to admit his mistake!"

   Chengqian still ignored it.

   "Empress Changsun has always hoped that His Royal Highness can be an excellent crown prince, inherit the position of sage in the future, and become a virtuous and wise emperor! Don't let the empress' painstaking efforts and expectations live up to her!"

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  The entire city of Luoyang suddenly became plain, people were silent and sad, no matter who they were, they all loved Empress Changsun very much, because she was a virtuous empress.

  The queen never interferes in government affairs, nor does she seek personal gain. The queen has done countless benevolent deeds. Countless orphans, widows, sick and disabled have received relief and assistance from the queen. There is even a folk saying that the queen is the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

   Now that the queen has passed away, everyone says that the queen has gone back to the west.

   Everyone mourns the queen.

  The entire city of Luoyang was completely covered with plains, everyone wore sackcloth and white robes, and every family hung white lanterns.

  All the streets of Fangshi also stopped all entertainment immediately.

  There was no laughter on the faces of the people, and there was sadness in their expressions.

  Emperor also announced the fifth day of the court.

  Zhongshu Mingmen is in charge of presiding over the queen's funeral.

  The prince has returned to Beijing, but the relationship between the two fathers is very tense, and the emperor refuses to see the prince.

Qin Lang saw Princess Changle outside the Xianju Hall, pear blossoms were crying with rain, and her eyes were swollen. Qin Lang comforted her, but he didn't have a chance to say too much, so he could only persuade her to mourn and make an appointment to remarry after three years .

  Changle has grown into a slimmer, mature and steady girl. After this sudden mother's death, she seems to be more mature and sensible.

  The younger sister, Princess Jinyang, didn't seem to know what happened, thinking that her mother was just asleep, but she still sensiblely said not to disturb her sleeping.

Chengqian only stayed in the Xianju Palace for two quarters of an hour that day, the emperor said two quarters would be two quarters, and when the time was up, Habayashiro came and carried Chengqian away, Chengqian cried and roared, but no one paid attention , the four Habayashi Lang fought and lifted Chengqian out of Xiandianju, then stuffed it into a carriage, and pulled it all the way to the East Palace.

  The Habayashi Army took over the guards of the East Palace. In fact, Prince Chengqian was imprisoned in the East Palace, and no one was allowed to enter or leave without the emperor's will.

  Qin Lang was an exception, he could come in and out freely, but Chengqian beat things in the East Palace, beating and scolding the palace people like a lunatic, no one dared to approach.

  Every time Qin Lang went, Cheng Qian ignored him.

  Chengqian has been angry with him all the time, holding back his energy but refusing to talk to Qin Lang.

Facing Chengqian, who was on the edge of his horn again, Qin Lang didn't want to come at all, but now even Changsun Wuji and Gao Shilian were not allowed to enter the East Palace, and all the officials of the East Palace were forbidden by the emperor to enter and leave the East Palace. Some of the palace attendants were invited, but they still couldn't come out.

  He came to the Eastern Palace twice a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Every time he came, he and Cheng Qian stared at each other for a while, and then they didn't speak to each other. After a quarter of an hour, Qin Lang said goodbye and left. Next, he summoned the prince's family order in the East Palace, waited for some close officials to give some tasks, listened to some reports, etc., and left almost, and came back in the afternoon.

  After leaving the East Palace, I had to go to the Zhengshitang under the Zhongshu Province in the imperial city. The queen passed away suddenly, and the entire Luoyang court was busy with the queen's funeral. The emperor said that the funeral of the queen must be held grandly.

  Although the queen once said that her funeral should be kept simple, she should be buried lightly, and gold, silver and jade should not be buried with her, and slaves should not be buried with her.

Wei Zheng couldn't understand the persuasion, saying that according to the emperor's will, the queen's funeral was even higher than the emperor's, so how could the daughter-in-law be higher than the father-in-law's? Thickness is too extravagant, contrary to the queen's last wish, and also contrary to the tradition of thrift in the Tang Dynasty.

   Li Shimin refused to listen.

  Wei Zheng has been admonishing.

   Li Shimin was furious, and asked Cen Wenwen to draft an edict to dismiss Wei Zheng from his post as servant and relegate him to Sima of the Governor's Office of Xiangzhou.

   Immediately afterwards, Cen Wenwen drafted an edict to worship Tong Ping Zhangshi Qin Lang as the inspector and preside over the affairs of the school.

  When he received the edict, Qin Lang was discussing matters with Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, and other ministers under the door of Zhongshu. When he saw the text of Cen's edict, he couldn't help frowning.

  Wei Zheng received the edict, with a face full of anger, he angrily took off the beam crown and the goldfish bag, while Qin Lang held Wei Zheng back.

   "Duke Wei, be safe and don't be impatient!"

   "Mr. Cen, the saint's internal system, forgive me Qin Lang can't accept it! Please return it!"

  Cen Wenwen didn't expect that Qin Lang would reject the edict, and was taken aback for a moment.

   "Qin Prime Minister, the imperial court knows the internal edict, and Xuanma worships the prime minister and confers generals. This is already a system, and even the Zhongshu sect has no right to reject it."

This is not the era of Wude. At that time, the power was in the three provinces, and the emperor's will also had to go through the three provinces. The draft edict was written in the central scriptures, and the door was rejected. Officials can even refuse to implement seals and orders.

But since the reform of Zhenguan, the emperor has strengthened the sect of Zhongshu in the three provinces, strengthened the collective governance of the prime ministers, and combined the decision-making and rebuttal powers together. The power of conferring titles and honors has been assigned to the internal system, and no longer has to go through Zhongshu's sect. This undoubtedly greatly enhanced the emperor's power.

   Therefore, the emperor does not need the consent of the prime ministers to worship the prime minister, the marshal, and the prince and prince.

  Qin Lang shook his head.

"I am not rejecting this internal edict as the prime minister of Zhongshumen, but I am refusing to accept this obeisance as a party involved! I think Wei Gong's advice is not negligent, and it is even very reasonable. The saint should accept the advice, It's not about driving those who advise you out of the court."

   "Wei Gong is very competent as a servant, there is nothing inappropriate, and it is not appropriate to go to the prime minister."

  Cen Wenwen was also helpless, this was the first time he encountered such a thing, "The edict has been issued!"

   "I refuse to obey the edict, please seal it back!"

   "Why don't Duke Wei answer and explain to the saint himself?" Cen Wenwen said helplessly.

   "Okay, I will go with Cen Gong to face the saint and return the imperial edict in person!"

  Wei Zheng and Wei Xuancheng, who had already taken off the crown and released the talisman, didn't expect Qin Lang to react more violently than him, so they were stunned for a moment.

  (end of this chapter)