Jia Jing, national teacher of the Red Chamber

Because the first emperor died on the throne, his funeral ranks third among royal affairs in terms of importance and grandeur, the fourth is the funeral of the Supreme Emperor, and the fifth is the emperor's wedding.The second is a combination event, the abdication of the Supreme Emperor and the new emperor's enthronement, and the first is Feng Chan.After all, as an emperor, he must experience enthronement and death or abdication in his life, but Feng Chan, this may be sealed once with the efforts of several generations of emperors.

The late emperor's coffin has been placed in the palace for 27 days theoretically, but it has actually been placed for more than 50 days.To be disrespectful, the princes were all surprised. Although the weather is not hot now, there will always be some smells.Under their vague hints, the eunuch in charge of the palace also prepared spices, but it was useless in the end.There was no smell coming from the coffin.

On the fifth day of June, the first emperor went to the funeral.

The late emperor's coffin is a coffin but not a coffin.After all, apart from the emperor, no one's coffin can use golden nanmu, and no one's coffin can cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, with three layers inside and outside.

Jia Jing didn't have any impression of the emperor's funeral in his memory, so he was taken aback on the morning of the late emperor's funeral.Let's talk about the emperor's coffin first. There are 72 people who carry the coffin.Jia Jing accompanied him to the funeral in the palace, which is not according to the rules, it should be after the first emperor's concubine, prince and others have finished offering sacrifices, and then the bearer will carry the coffin out of the Meridian Gate.Jia Jing could barely be regarded as a civil and military official, and these people should be waiting outside the Meridian Gate.

However, although the first emperor did not knock on the coffin much after Jia Jing was made a first-class prince, he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of well ropes. Several princes, including the emperor who almost always listened to Jia Jing Feeling that the unconventional rules are almost broken, and he doesn't care about this last time, so Jia Jing accompanied the princes, standing at the place closest to the late emperor's coffin, and walked out of the Meridian Gate together.

In addition to the guard of honor who was in charge of distributing guide money and playing music, the current emperor walked in the front holding the portrait of the late emperor, and behind him was the coffin carried by 72 people. Jia Jing and the remaining five princes stood three on each side of the coffin side.Behind is the guard of honor that can't be seen to the bottom at a glance. The funeral of the late emperor, including Jiao Da's coffin, is also in this team.

That's right, Jiao Da's body was found.As for the bodyguard who was left by Jia Zhen in the Rong Mansion, he is also a wonderful person, because he has a reputation and a job. Although it is not easy to go directly to the inner courtyard of the Rong Mansion, it is not considered to be wandering in the outer courtyard. So rude.

So at the beginning, Mother Jia first sent dozens of servants from Rongfu to look for the corpse, and left a few people to serve tea to the elder brother of the guards, but when the guards saw that Rongfu still had idle people, they said nothing He said that he went to Rongxi Hall and directly preached to Jia Zheng.Well, now even the servants of the two brothers Jia Zheng and Jia She went.

The elder brother guard was still not satisfied. He compared the situation in his own home, and went to the concierge, the horse pen and three side gates. In less than an hour, a servant from Rongfu No. 700, male, aged over 12, Those who could get out of bed were sent out.

This is an errand assigned by His Majesty the Emperor, and it is related to the funeral of the late Emperor. Do you dare to give it a try? !

As for Jiao Da's corpse, it's actually not hard to find.Although it was a broken mat at the beginning, it was thrown into a mass grave, but there is only one mass grave commonly used in Rongfu, but the corpse has been thrown there for so many days, even if it is not so rotten that only bones are left, it is already completely unrecognizable up.

If the corpse was wanted by someone else, maybe the Rongfu would dare to find someone to fool it, but because it was to be buried with the late emperor, it really didn't dare to do it casually.So there were [-] male servants in the Rong Mansion, led by the housekeeper Lai Da, covering their mouths and noses with rags, and rummaged through the mass graves.

Jiao Da was wearing clothes uniformly issued by the Ning Mansion, and was wrapped in a straw mat. The clothes were easy to identify, but the straw mat was not.Because this straw mat is the standard configuration for a corpse without a coffin, and to find recognizable clothes, the straw mat must be opened.

Butler Lai said that he no longer wants to recall the scene of that day, and can only say: Even thinking about it brings tears.

It was very easy to find the corpse, put it in a coffin and transported it back to Rong Mansion.Mother Jia was both sad and angry, firstly, it was not her turn to be buried in the Rongfu, and secondly, when did such things enter the gate of her Rongfu!

The elder guard nodded and said, "That's right, I didn't expect to find it in a long time. You wash it first, and I will go back and report to the manager. By the way, you will set up a mourning hall for sacrifices in these two days, and someone will come to welcome you in the palace after three days." of."

wash?how to wash?Is it possible to wash away the rotten meat and leave the bones...

There are also sacrifices, this is from Ningfu, and because of the funeral of the first emperor, Zhu Er's mourning hall had to be canceled only after March [-]th, this is actually making room for the slaves to worship.

In short, after three days of tossing, Jiao Da's corpse was finally put into a coffin after being sprinkled with spices.Mother Jia breathed a sigh of relief, it was finally over.

How could it pass so easily.

The first emperor's funeral team, after the guard of honor, was the civil and military officials. It was said that there were civil and military officials, but compared with the thousands of people in the honor guard, it was actually not much, and not everyone had a quota for civil and military officials.Unfortunately, Jia Jing found two places for his son Jia Zhen and his family's new third-class Rong Er. A servant of the late emperor's mausoleum.

Jia Zhen is not counted, and Rong'er is counted as one of the extra ones who came in, so naturally someone has to go out.So Jia Jing said again very carelessly, "My younger brother Jia Zheng's son went three days before the late emperor, alas~ white-haired people send black-haired people there."

So the emperor sympathized, and Jia Zheng was kicked out of the funeral procession.

As a member of civil and military officials, but can't go to the funeral, there is only one place to go.That is the people kneeling along the Xuanwu Avenue between Meridian Gate and Anyuan Gate. There are civil and military officials who are not in the funeral procession, as well as the families of civil and military officials.

It is extremely unfortunate that except for everyone in the Ning Mansion, the rest of the Jia family is inside.Such as Jia's mother, such as Jia pardoning Jia Zheng.So after they saw Jia Jing from the first echelon, Jiao Da from the second echelon, and Jia Zhen and Jia Rong from the third echelon, how sincere were they in kowtowing to the late emperor? There are three Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, as you can imagine.

After leaving Anyuanmen, they changed carriages and wandered all the way to the mausoleum of the late emperor for an hour.The mausoleum has been repaired a long time ago. The first thing every emperor does after he takes power is to repair the mausoleum. Therefore, as long as he dies in the first three years and has not been usurped by others, it is very likely that he will be more beautiful after his death than before his life.

After the sacrifice, the coffin of the first emperor was put into the mausoleum, and the 72 people who carried the coffin in drank poisoned wine and died in the front room. The gate of the mausoleum was closed and isolated from the world.

The seventh prince, now the emperor's seventh younger brother, the only seventh younger brother who has not been named a prince, stayed in the tomb of the late emperor, and the rest returned the same way.

Entering the city from Anyuan Gate, the guard of honor disbanded, and the remaining royal family and civil and military officials who could go to court returned to the palace.Unexpectedly, when they were about to reach the Meridian Gate, a person rushed out from the side, knelt down in front of the team, and shouted: "Wronged! Wronged! The Rongguo Mansion forced the descendants of Duke Ning to occupy the Ningguo Mansion! "

"You're wronged! Your Majesty!" The man kept kowtowing, and the ground was covered with blood within two strokes.

Ordinarily, when encountering this kind of thing, the guard should go out directly, but he was tired all the way. After the man finished speaking, it seemed that he was complaining to the Ningguo Mansion. The guard half looked at the emperor's carriage, and half looked at the big red man The carriage of Jia Jing's family.

After a while, Eunuch Dai's voice came from the emperor's carriage, "Bring him into the palace." The word "Hao Hao" was spoken extremely smoothly, without repetition or inflection, so the meaning of Eunuch Dai is the original meaning of "Hao Hao" .

When the guards arranged a carriage for Jia Qiang, Eunuch Dai got off the emperor's carriage and sat in Jia Jing's carriage, and brought the emperor's oral order, "I thought Rong Engong was at odds with his family. For such reasons, rest assured, I will vent my anger on you!"

The emperor's idea is actually very simple. As early as Jia Jing entered Rong Engong, under his proposal and the emperor's acquiescence, his son Jia Zhen was promoted to the fifth-rank supervisor in the body of Bai Ding, and his grandson Jia Rong became the prince. Not at all.But other than that, he didn't see him doing any favors for the rest of the Jia family, and he even expelled Jia Zheng from the funeral procession.

Jia Jing's branch is the eldest son and grandson of the Jia clan, and it belongs to the patriarch, so it should be for the benefit of the clan.

The emperor felt that his new Rong Engong was not very good at all. You see, although I hated the elder brother in my heart, I didn't like the seventh brother, and the fifth brother was extremely rude, but I gave everything that should be given.Even if it is the elder brother who is supported by the king of Beijing Jing, I only need half of his family property to let him settle his affairs smoothly.

Although the emperor appreciates Jia Jing's straightforwardness, if he doesn't like it, he just doesn't like it, but sometimes compromise is inevitable, just don't go too far.Who knew that today someone blocked the road and called for grievances, and that Eunuch Dai hesitated to speak, "The man who blocked the road will be recognized by slaves. He is Rong Engong's grandson. Although he is not his own, he has been growing up with Brother Rong in the Ning Mansion Daddy, I heard Rong Engong once said that since that night... well, I can't find it." The emperor felt that there was something hidden in it, and it sounded like his Rong Engong had suffered.Damn it!

Eunuch Dai finished speaking the emperor's oral order, and then said: "Your Majesty's intention is to let Rong Engong avoid it for a while, and it doesn't mean you won't let you listen. Just put a screen in the imperial study. Don't worry, Rong Engong, Your Majesty said Yes, I must give you a good breath!"