In the wide palace, white cloth was hung on the doors and windows of colorful paintings and double-joint four bowls of diamond-shaped flowers, putting the originally rich decorative cloth in a layer of sad tone.
There were 10 or 20 young women kneeling inside, wearing mourning clothes, and their eyes were blurred.
The crying of YīngYīng was like an elegy, echoing in the palace for a long time.
These women were all concubines who were granted titles in Hong Xi Dynasty and did not give birth to children for the Zhu family.
Now that the emperor has passed away, they will also be buried with him according to the law.
Burying with one's own burial is not a living thing. First, hang yourself and then someone from the palace cleansed them and continued to serve the late emperor underground.
Their appearance and figure were carefully selected, not only with a beautiful face, but when they were selected, they took off their naked body and checked them all.
Even so, some of these concubines have never had the chance to meet the emperor, so they naturally cannot have children. If the emperor fails to compete for favor during his lifetime, this is the price; and some of the concubines who are lucky enough to give birth to princesses will be able to survive. Even if the days in the future are a little lonely, they will no longer have to worry about being plotted to fall out of favor. Perhaps living quietly is also a reward.
Some eunuchs were moving stools and hung white silk on the beams of the house. After tying them, they should pull them hard to ensure that they could hang them.
The eunuch who supervised the spot was Haitao. He was the eunuch who served in the Sili Supervisor. Because he had served the Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji in the Eastern Palace before, and had experience in the Sili Supervisor's affairs, there was vague news that he would be promoted to Sili Supervisor's pen this time.
There may be more than 100,000 eunuchs in the world, and the eunuchs who presided over the literature of the Silijian are the second largest eunuchs, so the eunuchs working around them are respectful and orderly. If Haitao asks anyone, he will probably kneel down and answer.
After all, he is the second...
The eunuch boss's appointment seems to be Wang Gou'er.
Haitao was a little dissatisfied with this. In terms of age, Haitao was older than Wang Gouer, and his hair was silvery and almost never had black hair. Moreover, Haitao thought that he had served the prince in the East Palace and was closer to Zhu Zhanji, so he really couldn't understand why Wang Gouer wanted to suppress him.
But he would not show it. Being a eunuch in the palace is sometimes more sinister than in the officialdom. Everything should not be exposed on his face and easily makes enemies with others.
He walked in the hall for a while and saw that the concubines were standing on the stools with tears in their faces, and most of them closed their eyes in despair.
Haitao waved his hand impatiently: Okay, remove the stool.
The eunuchs hurriedly bent over and moved some stools away. The women's bodies immediately hung empty, and a sound that made people's scalp numb immediately sounded in the palace.
It is not so easy to hang yourself. It is much more painful than slashing your head with a good knife. It can keep a whole body if you have a delicious food. If they die, they have to accompany the emperor on the ground. They can't be with the female ghost who has broken their heads to accompany you.
The concubines' faces were twisted, and their beautiful faces had become ferocious; their legs were kicking around, making their skirts messy, and soon they would stretch straight and then tremble in the air, just like the chicken's neck was cut and twitching when they were killed and eaten.
Then the person will suffocate and his muscles will no longer be tense and will become incontinent.
Anyway, the scene of fragrance and jade loss is very brutal.
Suddenly, a woman jumped off the stool and wanted to run away with her long skirt. Seeing this, Haitao hurriedly shouted: Hurry up and catch her!
There were people guarding the door, and several eunuchs immediately surrounded her and caught her by the arm and took her back.
The woman knelt in front of Haitao: Eunuch Hai, please let me have a way out, I don’t want to die!
Get up quickly, you are the master, our family is a slave, what do you think of kneeling?!
Haitao glared, but there was no humble expression on his face as a slave. He only pointed at him and ordered his little eunuch to help her up. He said, "Don't Beauty Wang want to be loyal to the late emperor and go down to accompany the late emperor?"You were buried in the imperial tomb to enjoy your happiness. You gritted your teeth and endured it and passed the current level.
Meiren Wang cried: Why didn’t Eunuch Hai go down to serve the late emperor?
A hint of coldness flashed across Haitao's face, and he looked back and said: Come on, tie the hands and feet of Meiren Wang, and then "please" her up.
Meiren Wang struggled desperately and said: I am pregnant, don’t kill me!
The eunuch holding the rope advised: Stop tossing, everyone else has hung it up, just like Eunuch Hai said, it will be fine in a while.
But Haitao suddenly raised his hand and said: Slow.
The eunuch who had just spoken hurriedly bent down and said: She must have said this in a hurry. If she is really pregnant, why do she say it now?
Haitao was careful: This is the truth, but if one day in the future, someone came up with this matter and said that he had killed a concubine with a dragon son, and how many witnesses could be found on the scene, how can he explain it clearly?
Should we dig up the tomb of the late emperor for autopsy?
Besides, how can the corpse behaves into white bones?
Meiren Wang stayed first, found someone to check the files of the concubines who were sleeping within a year, and then found an imperial doctor to show her.Haitao said.He didn't bother with it because there was still time left before the burial of the late emperor.
The matter here has been handled almost completely, so Haitao rushed to the Ganqing Palace to report.
He is very careful on weekdays, for fear that others will plot against him; because he will plot against him more than once.
Just as a liar who deceives others many times, it is difficult to trust others in the future, and he will feel that everyone may deceive themselves, even their parents and relatives.
Walking up the overpass of the Ganqing Palace, Haitao saw Prince Zhu Zhanji in a warm pavilion and found that Wang Gou'er was also serving him.
Haitao knelt down and bowed, and then said that the harem was done. Only when Wang Meiren said she was pregnant and could she finish it after examination.
Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji said as soon as he heard this: If he was really pregnant with the dragon vein of the late emperor, how could he say it until now?
Haitao replied: I am also in the same way as Your Highness, but I feel that this matter is too big and I dare not make any decisions, so I have to be more cautious.
Zhu Zhanji nodded and didn't care.When Haitao saw that he and Wang Gou'er seemed to be chatting well, he might be asking him to leave immediately.Haitao hurriedly said: I have something else to do.
explain.Zhu Zhanji said.
Haitao bowed and said: Because yesterday, Your Highness asked about an official from the Foreign Court named Zhang Ning, I remembered that I had seen a memorial to impeach him in the Silijian, which was the memorial at the beginning of this year.At that time, Zhang He, the head of the Ministry of Revenue, impeached him to conceal his life experience. He was not originally named Zhang, but because he was adopted by the Zhang family when he was in a cradle. Zhang Ning was born in Hongwu for 35 years and his hometown was Nanjing.Therefore, those who impeached him believed that he was not well-known and should not enter the officialdom.
Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji was attracted by the attention as soon as he heard this, and asked a few more questions, leaving Wang Gou'er aside and talking to Haitao.
Wang Gou'er had a little displeasure on her face and said to herself: What's up to you, what's wrong with you? Do you harm others for no reason?
You go find the note and send it to me for a look.Zhu Zhanji ordered.
Zhu Zhanji still wanted to figure it out when he heard about Zhang Ning, because Zhang Ning was one of the group of people he planned to promote.
Zhu Zhanji is about to ascend the throne to the new emperor. He believes that he cannot only use the elderly in the previous dynasty, but also needs to discover and promote a group of new officials to join his own circle of power. This will not only bring fresh blood but also form some checks and balances.
Especially for Zhang Ning, he likes it very much.
Although he had known this young official for a while, Zhang Ning's wit and insight left a deep impression on him; he also had eight days and nights of persistence, and he believed that Zhang Ning was a patient and perseverance.
In the new era of developing national strength, talents of such quality are needed, who have political opinions and can tolerate and persist, and form a stable and beneficial national policy.
Therefore, Zhu Zhanji's original plan was to further test and train this person in the process of gradually promoting him to see if he could become a new talent reserve for the empire.
But the current situation made him a little sad. On the one hand, he cherishes talents, and on the other hand, he still cares about Zhang Ning's background, especially because he may have something to do with the remains of Jianwen.
Zhu Zhanji is different from his father Zhu Gaochi. He has no prejudice against his grandfather Emperor Yongle. It can be said that his relationship with his grandfather is much deeper than that of father-son family affection.
Thinking about how old Zhu Zhanji was when Emperor Taizong took him by his side in the Northern Expedition, he taught him where to camp and what circumstances could he march, and how to teach him how to arch and horse riding and archers. Even when his grandfather was reading memorials under the lamp, he would also let him be by his side and educate the way of governing the country from time to time.
Grandpa hopes that he will become a wise monarch who can be literary and martial, and give his country to such a grandson.
Zhu Zhanji had a deep relationship with Taizong, so he naturally would not deliberately overturn Taizong's policies; while Emperor Hongxi was very kind to the people, but some practices were not conducive to the monarch's power, so Zhu Zhanji did not intend to fulfill all his father's will, such as overturning the verdict for Jianwen Dynasty.
He didn't want to continue to carry out large-scale persecution of the remains of Jianwen, but he knew that he could not quell the wrongs for them; not only that, he was still resentful of his grandfather's death, because when he was in Nanjing, he heard Hu Ying mention something that he thought his grandfather died was strange.
Because of these two reasons, he had no good impression of Jianwen's resignation for his grandfather's feelings and the mystery of the late Yongle year.
If Zhang Ning's life experience was really related to the remains of Jianwen, even if he was loyal to the court now, Zhu Zhanji would not be able to survive his personal relationship and could not use this person.
After all, people have feelings and likes and dislikes. Even a wise king of the generation, just like the great emperor Yongle is inevitable.Zhu Zhanji realized this.
After the eunuch Haitao brought the note over, Zhu Zhanji began to read it. After a while, he looked up and said: Go and pass the message and ask Hu Ying to come to the Ganqing Palace to meet.
The servants obey the order.Haitao said hurriedly.It seems that this matter was not done in vain, at least it caters to the prince's likes and dislikes.
There were 10 or 20 young women kneeling inside, wearing mourning clothes, and their eyes were blurred.
The crying of YīngYīng was like an elegy, echoing in the palace for a long time.
These women were all concubines who were granted titles in Hong Xi Dynasty and did not give birth to children for the Zhu family.
Now that the emperor has passed away, they will also be buried with him according to the law.
Burying with one's own burial is not a living thing. First, hang yourself and then someone from the palace cleansed them and continued to serve the late emperor underground.
Their appearance and figure were carefully selected, not only with a beautiful face, but when they were selected, they took off their naked body and checked them all.
Even so, some of these concubines have never had the chance to meet the emperor, so they naturally cannot have children. If the emperor fails to compete for favor during his lifetime, this is the price; and some of the concubines who are lucky enough to give birth to princesses will be able to survive. Even if the days in the future are a little lonely, they will no longer have to worry about being plotted to fall out of favor. Perhaps living quietly is also a reward.
Some eunuchs were moving stools and hung white silk on the beams of the house. After tying them, they should pull them hard to ensure that they could hang them.
The eunuch who supervised the spot was Haitao. He was the eunuch who served in the Sili Supervisor. Because he had served the Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji in the Eastern Palace before, and had experience in the Sili Supervisor's affairs, there was vague news that he would be promoted to Sili Supervisor's pen this time.
There may be more than 100,000 eunuchs in the world, and the eunuchs who presided over the literature of the Silijian are the second largest eunuchs, so the eunuchs working around them are respectful and orderly. If Haitao asks anyone, he will probably kneel down and answer.
After all, he is the second...
The eunuch boss's appointment seems to be Wang Gou'er.
Haitao was a little dissatisfied with this. In terms of age, Haitao was older than Wang Gouer, and his hair was silvery and almost never had black hair. Moreover, Haitao thought that he had served the prince in the East Palace and was closer to Zhu Zhanji, so he really couldn't understand why Wang Gouer wanted to suppress him.
But he would not show it. Being a eunuch in the palace is sometimes more sinister than in the officialdom. Everything should not be exposed on his face and easily makes enemies with others.
He walked in the hall for a while and saw that the concubines were standing on the stools with tears in their faces, and most of them closed their eyes in despair.
Haitao waved his hand impatiently: Okay, remove the stool.
The eunuchs hurriedly bent over and moved some stools away. The women's bodies immediately hung empty, and a sound that made people's scalp numb immediately sounded in the palace.
It is not so easy to hang yourself. It is much more painful than slashing your head with a good knife. It can keep a whole body if you have a delicious food. If they die, they have to accompany the emperor on the ground. They can't be with the female ghost who has broken their heads to accompany you.
The concubines' faces were twisted, and their beautiful faces had become ferocious; their legs were kicking around, making their skirts messy, and soon they would stretch straight and then tremble in the air, just like the chicken's neck was cut and twitching when they were killed and eaten.
Then the person will suffocate and his muscles will no longer be tense and will become incontinent.
Anyway, the scene of fragrance and jade loss is very brutal.
Suddenly, a woman jumped off the stool and wanted to run away with her long skirt. Seeing this, Haitao hurriedly shouted: Hurry up and catch her!
There were people guarding the door, and several eunuchs immediately surrounded her and caught her by the arm and took her back.
The woman knelt in front of Haitao: Eunuch Hai, please let me have a way out, I don’t want to die!
Get up quickly, you are the master, our family is a slave, what do you think of kneeling?!
Haitao glared, but there was no humble expression on his face as a slave. He only pointed at him and ordered his little eunuch to help her up. He said, "Don't Beauty Wang want to be loyal to the late emperor and go down to accompany the late emperor?"You were buried in the imperial tomb to enjoy your happiness. You gritted your teeth and endured it and passed the current level.
Meiren Wang cried: Why didn’t Eunuch Hai go down to serve the late emperor?
A hint of coldness flashed across Haitao's face, and he looked back and said: Come on, tie the hands and feet of Meiren Wang, and then "please" her up.
Meiren Wang struggled desperately and said: I am pregnant, don’t kill me!
The eunuch holding the rope advised: Stop tossing, everyone else has hung it up, just like Eunuch Hai said, it will be fine in a while.
But Haitao suddenly raised his hand and said: Slow.
The eunuch who had just spoken hurriedly bent down and said: She must have said this in a hurry. If she is really pregnant, why do she say it now?
Haitao was careful: This is the truth, but if one day in the future, someone came up with this matter and said that he had killed a concubine with a dragon son, and how many witnesses could be found on the scene, how can he explain it clearly?
Should we dig up the tomb of the late emperor for autopsy?
Besides, how can the corpse behaves into white bones?
Meiren Wang stayed first, found someone to check the files of the concubines who were sleeping within a year, and then found an imperial doctor to show her.Haitao said.He didn't bother with it because there was still time left before the burial of the late emperor.
The matter here has been handled almost completely, so Haitao rushed to the Ganqing Palace to report.
He is very careful on weekdays, for fear that others will plot against him; because he will plot against him more than once.
Just as a liar who deceives others many times, it is difficult to trust others in the future, and he will feel that everyone may deceive themselves, even their parents and relatives.
Walking up the overpass of the Ganqing Palace, Haitao saw Prince Zhu Zhanji in a warm pavilion and found that Wang Gou'er was also serving him.
Haitao knelt down and bowed, and then said that the harem was done. Only when Wang Meiren said she was pregnant and could she finish it after examination.
Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji said as soon as he heard this: If he was really pregnant with the dragon vein of the late emperor, how could he say it until now?
Haitao replied: I am also in the same way as Your Highness, but I feel that this matter is too big and I dare not make any decisions, so I have to be more cautious.
Zhu Zhanji nodded and didn't care.When Haitao saw that he and Wang Gou'er seemed to be chatting well, he might be asking him to leave immediately.Haitao hurriedly said: I have something else to do.
explain.Zhu Zhanji said.
Haitao bowed and said: Because yesterday, Your Highness asked about an official from the Foreign Court named Zhang Ning, I remembered that I had seen a memorial to impeach him in the Silijian, which was the memorial at the beginning of this year.At that time, Zhang He, the head of the Ministry of Revenue, impeached him to conceal his life experience. He was not originally named Zhang, but because he was adopted by the Zhang family when he was in a cradle. Zhang Ning was born in Hongwu for 35 years and his hometown was Nanjing.Therefore, those who impeached him believed that he was not well-known and should not enter the officialdom.
Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji was attracted by the attention as soon as he heard this, and asked a few more questions, leaving Wang Gou'er aside and talking to Haitao.
Wang Gou'er had a little displeasure on her face and said to herself: What's up to you, what's wrong with you? Do you harm others for no reason?
You go find the note and send it to me for a look.Zhu Zhanji ordered.
Zhu Zhanji still wanted to figure it out when he heard about Zhang Ning, because Zhang Ning was one of the group of people he planned to promote.
Zhu Zhanji is about to ascend the throne to the new emperor. He believes that he cannot only use the elderly in the previous dynasty, but also needs to discover and promote a group of new officials to join his own circle of power. This will not only bring fresh blood but also form some checks and balances.
Especially for Zhang Ning, he likes it very much.
Although he had known this young official for a while, Zhang Ning's wit and insight left a deep impression on him; he also had eight days and nights of persistence, and he believed that Zhang Ning was a patient and perseverance.
In the new era of developing national strength, talents of such quality are needed, who have political opinions and can tolerate and persist, and form a stable and beneficial national policy.
Therefore, Zhu Zhanji's original plan was to further test and train this person in the process of gradually promoting him to see if he could become a new talent reserve for the empire.
But the current situation made him a little sad. On the one hand, he cherishes talents, and on the other hand, he still cares about Zhang Ning's background, especially because he may have something to do with the remains of Jianwen.
Zhu Zhanji is different from his father Zhu Gaochi. He has no prejudice against his grandfather Emperor Yongle. It can be said that his relationship with his grandfather is much deeper than that of father-son family affection.
Thinking about how old Zhu Zhanji was when Emperor Taizong took him by his side in the Northern Expedition, he taught him where to camp and what circumstances could he march, and how to teach him how to arch and horse riding and archers. Even when his grandfather was reading memorials under the lamp, he would also let him be by his side and educate the way of governing the country from time to time.
Grandpa hopes that he will become a wise monarch who can be literary and martial, and give his country to such a grandson.
Zhu Zhanji had a deep relationship with Taizong, so he naturally would not deliberately overturn Taizong's policies; while Emperor Hongxi was very kind to the people, but some practices were not conducive to the monarch's power, so Zhu Zhanji did not intend to fulfill all his father's will, such as overturning the verdict for Jianwen Dynasty.
He didn't want to continue to carry out large-scale persecution of the remains of Jianwen, but he knew that he could not quell the wrongs for them; not only that, he was still resentful of his grandfather's death, because when he was in Nanjing, he heard Hu Ying mention something that he thought his grandfather died was strange.
Because of these two reasons, he had no good impression of Jianwen's resignation for his grandfather's feelings and the mystery of the late Yongle year.
If Zhang Ning's life experience was really related to the remains of Jianwen, even if he was loyal to the court now, Zhu Zhanji would not be able to survive his personal relationship and could not use this person.
After all, people have feelings and likes and dislikes. Even a wise king of the generation, just like the great emperor Yongle is inevitable.Zhu Zhanji realized this.
After the eunuch Haitao brought the note over, Zhu Zhanji began to read it. After a while, he looked up and said: Go and pass the message and ask Hu Ying to come to the Ganqing Palace to meet.
The servants obey the order.Haitao said hurriedly.It seems that this matter was not done in vain, at least it caters to the prince's likes and dislikes.
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