[Red House] Lixian

Queen Wang and Concubine Wu died on the same day.

Rumors abounded in Gongzhong immediately.

Wei Qian made a decisive decision, ordered people to seal the palace gate, and told the palace people to shut up.Then report to the Queen Mother and start the funeral arrangements.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner. Fortunately, Wei Qian was in charge of the palace affairs during this time, with power in hand and high prestige.

Moreover, the queen does not hold power, which is different from other emperors' harems.As long as Ye Ting is running smoothly, there will be no danger of chaos in the harem.

"Don't do it, don't do it!" Ningshou Palace, Wei Qian took a sip of tea and complained to Empress Dowager Chen: "Although the concubine's entry into the palace is not a blessing, but it is not dedicated to working hard. If you want to worry , This kind of matter is left to the Ministry of Rites. The concubine is too lazy to be stained with fishy smell."

After tossing all afternoon, I was dizzy from work.

Empress Dowager Chen pinched a preserved plum with a calm expression.She had long been mentally prepared for the two to die.Who can hide the things in the harem from whom?

Queen Wang poisoned Concubine Wu, and Concubine Wu poisoned the Queen instead. How can such a dishonorable harem be spread?

And there is also Queen Mother Chen pushing hands.The death of Queen Wang made Empress Dowager Chen happy and relaxed.The death of Concubine Wu made Situ Yun less of a hindrance in the previous court, so he could attack the Wu family with confidence.

Therefore, she helped clean up and erase the evidence of the poisoning of the two.

"Who will do it if you don't? It's just like the saying that the head of the family must go through red and white things." The Empress Dowager Chen said with a smile: "This opportunity is just for you to show your authority to the palace people."

Wei Qian frowned slightly, thinking of her management in the palace these past few years, she sighed: "Forget it, but my sister..."

"I originally asked you sisters to come together. But yesterday the imperial physician came to report that Concubine Jia is pregnant and inconvenient to move her fetus."

Therefore, those who can do more work can only be done by Wei Qian.

In the evening, after Situ Yun visited Fengzao Palace to visit the dragon fetus, he came to Wei Qian's place to discuss the funeral.

"The empress is naturally buried according to the empress's ceremony. Tomorrow, the Ministry of Rites will send the regulations. Your majesty can just have a look."

Situ Yun frowned, he really didn't have the heart to worry about this at the moment.He had a lot of affairs in the previous dynasty, and there were droughts and earthquakes to deal with, so he was very busy these few days.

"I don't worry about your work, you can do it according to your needs. Tomorrow, I will send a decree for the Minister of the Ministry of Rites to come."

"How can this work?" Wei Qian was shocked when she heard this: "I am talking to the Minister of Rites in person? The rules of the harem must not be like this."

"I'm going to discuss with some adults about the disaster relief in Jiaodong tomorrow, and I don't have time to manage it. I will discuss it in the mother's harem, and the queen mother will intervene, and others can't say anything." Situ Yun was a little impatient: "It's not that you didn't talk to Zhu Zhiming have met before?"

"Okay." Wei Qian agreed.She had a blunt temper, and she asked the Minister of Rites to pass on the message through the emperor, just because she was afraid that others would gossip.But Situ Yun didn't care, what was she worried about?

"Then what about the concubine sister? After all, my sister has the virtue of managing the six palaces, and she has made great contributions to His Majesty in the past. And..." Wei Qian hesitated, and said softly: "To comfort the family members is also to calm people's hearts."

With a twitch in Situ Yun's heart, he understood Wei Qian's hint.A generous burial for Concubine Wu can temporarily ease the conflict with the Wu family.

By showing your generosity, you can paralyze the Wu family by the way.In the future, it will not be a fault of your own.And now that the imperial court is busy with disaster relief from the previous court, it is indeed not suitable to clean up officials.

"It can make the Wu family's forces temporarily put aside other thoughts, and the burial is a good political hint." Situ Yun was alive in his heart, and he did have some love for Concubine Wu Gui.At least Concubine Wu Gui is more lovely than the queen.

"Then what do you mean..."

"The imperial concubine is already a top-ranking concubine, and there is no way to seal her. If she is buried with the ceremony of a queen, even if Sister Wu has no children, it will have an impact on the prince. It is better to use half a queen's guard of honor to show her honor."

"Okay. Tomorrow, you can discuss it with the Minister of Rites." Situ Yun fell asleep after washing up.

The emperor's job is indeed not easy to do.

Wei Qian managed Nanqin already understood the difficulty of the king, let alone the huge country of China.

After blowing out the lamp to rest, the two of them woke up at the same time early the next morning.

Dressing and eating hastily, Situ Yun rushed to the front court to handle government affairs, while Wei Qian arranged for the funeral ceremony in the palace, and replaced white banners and soul lamps everywhere in the palace.After greeting the Supreme Emperor, I came to Ningshou Palace to see all the concubines.

Jia Yuanchun was very excited in the past two days, the queen and Wu Guifei died at the same time, and two old rivals died, and he couldn't recover for a while, like a dream.

Seeing that her expression was not right, Wei Qian invited Jia's mother to comfort her early in the morning so as not to hurt the fetal gas.

Jia Mu went to the palace and ordered her to raise her baby with peace of mind.

"If you can get a boy in one fell swoop, this is the real big victory. It doesn't matter if you hand over the rights to Wei Qian for the time being, as long as the mother is at ease to raise the baby and give birth to the second prince, with our family's hard work in the future, maybe we can fight for it."

Needless to say, Jia Yuanchun naturally knew how to do this.

Therefore, Jia Yuanchun in Ningshou Palace behaved dignifiedly and decently, with a look of mourning.Greeted Wei Qian: "The two sisters have taken good care of us in the past, my sister must send the two sisters to sleep peacefully."

Wei Qian couldn't tell whether Jia Yuanchun was telling the truth or irony, so she nodded in response.

Afterwards, the concubines went to keep watch for the queen, and Jia Yuanchun went together.It's just that she has a double body, the queen mother didn't dare to make her work hard, so she went around the two palaces and sent her back to the palace to rest.

And Concubine Wen was by Wei Qian's side, discussing with the Queen Mother.At present, the palace is busy with affairs, Wei Qian has no way to separate herself, so she has to ask Concubine Wen to help.

Wei Qian said: "The prince is young, so I'm afraid he doesn't know what's going on. But after all, he is his biological mother and adoptive concubine. Let the nanny carry him around the two palaces."

Concubine Wen agreed with a full face: "That's right, we can't let people point at the prince and say they are not filial in the future."

The queen mother thought for a while, and ordered people to go to the apse to invite the prince out, and asked Concubine Wen to take the prince to guard the spirit for the two queens.

Soon after, Zhu Zhiming, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, came.

He showed the queen mother and Wei Qian the funeral process prepared by the Ministry of Rites.

The Empress Dowager read it hastily and handed it to Wei Qian. Wei Qian studied it carefully and silently recorded the etiquette process in the palace.This kind of thing has reference value for Nanqin.

"This kind of etiquette is acceptable. However, after discussing with His Majesty yesterday, Concubine Wu benefited from beauty and virtuousness, and sponsored internal affairs. She should be buried as a half-queen honor guard and buried in His Majesty's mausoleum."

The Minister of Rites made a calculation: "It's also in line with the etiquette system, and you can be buried on the same day as the empress, and you can borrow half of the empress's guard of honor."

Next, detailed consultations are carried out.

Wei Qian has learned a lot from Liu Shilian, and his style of acting is quite similar to that of the former dynasty.Zhu Zhiming's initial discomfort dissipated by three points.

"I thought it would take a long time to discuss with the empress dowager and the concubine, but I didn't expect the concubine to be a straightforward person." The bad impression of Wei Qian's act of arrogating power in Jinling in the past has gradually changed.

Wei Qian acted neatly, which saved him a lot of talking.

It didn't take long for the two to make arrangements.

"However, the posthumous title is still for the queen mother to choose." Zhu Zhiming presented some posthumous titles discussed by the Ministry of Rites.

The posthumous title symbolizes what a person did in life.As a concubine, Wei Qian is inconvenient to discuss, only the Queen Mother can make the decision.

The queen mother looked at the posthumous titles given to the two.First, Concubine Wu Gui pointed to one of the characters "Yi" and said, "Jia Yi's words and deeds, use this word for Concubine Wu." Empress Dowager Chen thought of Concubine Wu Guifei's achievements in assisting Ye Ting these days, so she wanted to give her a good posthumous title.

Zhu Zhiming thought about it, and looked at Wei Qian.Wei Qian nodded slightly, Zhu Zhiming said: "I obey the order."

Then came the Queen.

"As for the queen..." The empress dowager looked at those words, most of the posthumous titles on the Ministry of Rites were words of good virtue.What "Mu", "Xian", "Ren", "Zhuang" and so on.

But everyone knows about the harem. Empress Dowager Chen has hated the queen for many years, and dislikes her for being a hindrance to her son all day long. How can she be willing to give her these words?

The queen mother was quite dissatisfied: "The queen has no merit, no virtue, and mediocre qualifications. How can I use these good words? Type it back and try again."

The heart of the Minister of Rites sank, seeing the Queen Mother's attitude, he knew that the Queen Mother didn't like the queen.But how does the emperor explain the Queen Mother's attitude?

"Your Majesty respects filial piety. The empress dowager means the empress. Master Zhu also chooses a few plain words after he returns."

"Ping Shi?" The Empress Dowager frowned: "Use a bad name!"

"This can't be done." Zhu Zhiming and Wei Qian blocked it in unison.

The two looked at each other, Zhu Zhiming said: "The queen has no merits, but she has no faults either, so she should not be given a bad posthumous title."

"Who said that? The Empress is in charge of the Six Palaces, and she secretly resorted to insidious tricks against the concubine. This is a big mistake." The Empress Dowager Chen pulled her face and refused to let go.I would rather find out the crimes of the past than give her a posthumous posthumous title.

"Your Majesty, think about it for the prince, you can't just give him such a bad posthumous title."

"That's right, given the empress a bad posthumous posthumous title, how will the prince deal with himself in the future?" Zhu Zhiming said righteously: "This matter must be discussed with His Majesty."

"Presumptuous! I am Your Majesty's biological mother, what can I not decide?" Empress Dowager Chen was furious, and Wei Qian stopped her.

"Solemnly abide by, strictly abide by words and deeds. Why don't we just use the word Su?" Wei Qian quickly said: "First, it can be regarded as a posthumous posthumous title, objective evaluation. Second, it can also wake up the empress, and act cautiously in the underworld."

Seeing the Empress Dowager talking with Wei Qian, Zhu Zhiming vaguely felt that something was wrong.What mistake did the queen make to get such an evaluation?

Su Zhengbu'a was not bad for the previous dynasty.But in the harem, if a court lady uses this word, where is it a good word?It is said that it is a posthumous posthumous title, but there is actually a certain irony.

"Forget it, just use this word, let the queen be cautious in her words and deeds in the underworld, so as not to offend the ancestors!"

Zhu Zhiming sent the situation discussed in the harem to Situ Yun. Situ Yun glanced at it and nodded, "Yes, just follow what Concubine Ning said."

A few days later, the Ministry of Rites began the burial according to the funeral ceremony.

The two were buried one after another, and both were around the emperor's mausoleum.It also makes future generations think about it.

As for the position of empress, Situ Yun returned a lot of words about becoming a queen, and he is not planning to become a queen at present.Only let Wei Qian and the queen mother be in charge of everything in the harem.

Netherworld, Emperor Gaozu sighed. "Pity."

"If Wei Qian is the queen, it will be easier for me to take away her luck in the future because of karma." But now, it's obviously not as good.After all, the concubine is not a queen, and she doesn't have much ties to the Situ family.

"Your Majesty, Empress Xiaosu and Concubine Yihuang have arrived."

"You don't need to see me, just take them down." Emperor Gaozu was a little displeased with Xiaosu's granddaughter-in-law.She is too petty, and her behavior and actions are not enough for the heavenly family. She was beaten to death by several concubines, and it would be embarrassing to say it.

But after all, she is the mother of the prince and Situ Yun's original spouse, so she still gives her some face.After blessing the Dragon Qi, let the Empress Yuan greet her.

The concubine Yihuang also did not meet each other, and asked the Empress Yuan to receive her.