Chastity Layman

In the spring of the ninth year of Zhenguan, Chang'an was extremely cold.

In the Daming Palace, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan was lying in the warm palace, but he still felt cold all over, shivering from the cold.

"fire!"

The Supreme Emperor roared, but his voice didn't have much strength.

Concubine Yin and Zhang Jieyu were surrounded by them, their eyes were full of panic. The hall was already very hot, and they even brought in a few charcoal stoves specially. All sweaty. But the Supreme Emperor was still shouting cold under several quilts.

"The saint is coming."

Li Shimin came in wearing a bright yellow dragon robe with a worried expression on his face. He directly ignored the concubines of the Supreme Emperor who were bowing down and came to the Supreme Emperor's bed.

"Grandpa."

Li Yuan was still angry there, mistook Li Shimin for the Huangmen in the palace, and yelled at him, "I can't even burn a fire well, dragged him out and killed him with a stick."

"Grandpa, it's me, Erlang."

Li Yuan opened his eyes wide and looked at him for a while, "Oh, the second brother is here."

"What are you doing here?"

Li Shimin looked at the skinny and skinny Taishanghuang, and suddenly felt a little sad, tears could not stop falling down.

"Erlang, why are you crying?"

Li Shimin bent down and hugged the Supreme Emperor, but the more he cried, the more sad he became.

Li Yuan babbled, "Is it snowing outside again?"

"Why don't Dalang and Shiro come in?"

Li Shimin agreed, "Chengqian and Qingque didn't come, call them later."

"I'm not talking about them, it's your elder brother Bishamon and your fourth brother Sanhu. I heard they were outside the hall, why didn't they come in?" Li Yuan pointed at the entrance of the hall.

Li Shimin's hairs stood on end, and when he looked back, he seemed to be surprised to see shadows outside.

"Grandpa." Li Shimin was terrified.

Li Yuan stared at the entrance of the hall, "Dalang and Shiro said you were here and dared not come in. Are you brothers arguing again? They are brothers of the same mother, why do they keep arguing... ···”

"Grandpa, do you remember what year it is?" Li Shimin asked.

"What year? Why are you so confused when you ask this? Now is the ninth year of Wude, Erlang. I did tell you before that I will pass on the throne to you in the future. Liyou, the way to bring disaster, your elder brother also has a lot of credit for founding the country, I can't abolish Liyou, don't blame me, let alone your elder brother, your elder brother has promised me that in the future, you will be entrusted with the founding of the country in the middle of Shu. ..."

Hearing this, Li Shimin let out a long sigh.

The Taishanghuang is completely confused, he can't even tell the ninth year of Zhenguan from the ninth year of Wude.

ten years.

Ten years ago, the Supreme Emperor was still the Son of Heaven, but ten years later, he was already thin and out of shape, and even completely confused.

"Dalang, Shiro, wait for me to say a few words to Erlang." Li Yuan said to the door.

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Coming out of the hall, Li Shimin wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

outside the temple.

Feng Shaoshi, Chai Shao, Dou Dan, Duan Lun, Yang Shidao, Dou Lu Huairang, Dou Fengjie, Qiao Shiwang, Su Xu, Yang Sijing, Cui Gongli, Xue Wanche, Zheng Jingxuan, Cui Xuanqing...

All the son-in-laws of the Supreme Emperor are waiting outside.

"The Emperor's Dragon Body?" Dou Dan with half-white hair stepped forward and asked.

Li Shimin shook his head, "The sage has lost his mind, and Feng Yu from the Shangyao Bureau said that the deadline has come, let's get ready."

"All the eldest princesses, please come to the palace to see grandpa off for the last time. The eldest princesses who are not in Beijing will also be called back immediately."

Several older sons-in-law such as Dou Dan, Chai Shao, Feng Shaoshi, Duan Lun, etc. were quite calm. In fact, the Supreme Emperor has been in poor health since last winter. , Sometimes the son-in-law and daughters can't recognize each other clearly.

During the New Year, he suddenly regained his spirit a lot, and even heard that the Supreme Emperor had blessed a young palace servant, but unexpectedly, he suddenly failed again.

After Xuanwumen, it is really not easy to endure another ten years.

It is a kind of relief to leave now, and the sons-in-law also know that the past ten years have not been easy for the Supreme Emperor, and the Supreme Emperor is still there, and the emperor has always been affected by it.

Chai Shao said slowly, "The main body of the Supreme Emperor's dedicated mausoleum has already been completed, and the rest will not be affected, so there is no need to rush around."

From the beginning of Li Shimin's ascension to the throne, he built the mausoleum for the Supreme Emperor's camp. At the beginning, he specially asked Qin Lang to pretend to be Sikong as the envoy of the mountain mausoleum to build the Xianling mausoleum.

In imitation of the Changling Mausoleum of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, it was built on Beixumuyuan, Sanyuan County, Weibei.

The whole mausoleum is nine feet high, covered with a bucket-shaped mountain mausoleum, surrounded by palaces and surrounded by city walls. It took several years and a lot of money. Overall, it is still very grand and luxurious.

It's just that at the beginning of Zhenguan, the conditions were not good at that time, so the method of piling up soil to build a mausoleum was still adopted, which was different from Li Shimin's direct choice of a mountain to dig a mausoleum in history.

"Should Qin Lang be recalled immediately? He is the mausoleum envoy who built the Xianling Mausoleum."

In addition to building the mountain mausoleum, the Shanling envoys were also generally responsible for the funeral ceremonies of the emperor Daxing, which was also assigned by the prime minister.

The emperor had just made an appointment for the big wedding with Qin Qiong, and received the Qin family's gift, and waited more than half a year for the wedding on September 9th.

Now that the Supreme Emperor has collapsed, the marriage cannot be held.

Princess Changle mainly keeps filial piety for her grandfather, and according to the system, her granddaughter will serve her grandparents for one year.

That is to say, one must observe filial piety for one year, and during the filial piety period not only cannot participate in entertainment activities, but most importantly, cannot marry.

Even if the ancients gave birth to a child during the period of keeping filial piety, it would be considered unfilial.

If one's parents are mourned, one's own body is married, one should obey auspiciously if one wishes to be happy; one should hide one's mourning when one hears of one's grandparents' death;

During the period of keeping filial piety, you cannot marry, entertain, be an official, or take exams.

Those who marry during the observance of filial piety will be ordered to divorce by the government and sentenced to three years in prison. Those who forget their sorrows and enjoy themselves will also be sentenced to three years in prison. Those who ask for an official to take the exam during the filial piety period will also be sentenced to three years in prison.

Even children born during the period of filial piety are also unfilial acts, which are called giving birth to children in obedience.

"Tang Legal Household Marriage" clearly stipulates: "Those who live in the death of their parents, have children and brothers who have different origins, and different wealth, will only have one year. [Shu] Discussion: "The death of a child by a living parent" means that within twenty-seven months And those who conceive and give birth to children, as well as brothers who have different nationality and wealth, each have one year. If the child is given birth to him after serving him, if nothing happened, he would surrender himself.

The translation is that giving birth to a child at the time of death refers to giving birth within 27 months, and the delivery period is within 27 months, regardless of when the child was conceived. But Fu Neishengzi, if the government does not find out, no one reports, and the perpetrator turns himself in, he can be forgiven.

Especially the royal family, if they serve a child within the family, even the Zongzheng Temple will not give them a household registration.

So what if a woman is already pregnant during the funeral, under normal circumstances, she will have an abortion, or she will be adopted by another family after giving birth.

It is not allowed to conceive before the funeral, mainly because it cannot be conceived during the filial piety period, no matter when it is conceived.

This point is actually very inhuman, but the ancients valued filial piety, especially for Datang, and Li Shimin often clamored that Datang should govern the country with filial piety.

What is lacking, the more you have to pay attention to what is lacking. Because Li Shimin was forced to launch a coup d'état, he killed his brothers and put his father under house arrest, so he paid more attention to the word filial piety after he became emperor, trying to cover up his faults.

When the Supreme Emperor passed away, Li Shimin had to stay in mourning for three years.

However, the emperor's filial piety is generally changed from day to month, and the normal period is actually 27 months, so the emperor only needs to keep filial piety for 27 days.

But others have to strictly abide by it.

Princess Changle has to keep filial piety for her grandfather for one full year. Of course, this year actually refers to nine months.

Within nine months, marriage is not allowed, entertainment and drinking are not allowed, etc.

"Send someone to tell Qin Qiong that the scheduled wedding date will be cancelled."

"Decree to Qin Lang to recall the capital Chang'an immediately."

"In addition, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, Yuwen Shiji, and Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian, Changsun Wuji, and Qin Lang were ordered to be Shanling envoys."

There are a total of eight envoys from Shanling, all of whom are former prime ministers and current prime ministers, four of them are Xiao Chen, Yang Yuwen, and all of them were prime ministers in both Wude and Zhenguan dynasties of the Supreme Emperor. We specially let these few come in to show our filial piety.

The atmosphere in Daming Palace suddenly became tense.

A large number of censors surrounded the emperor's bedroom, staring at the emperor all the time, preparing to record the time of his death. All the concubines of the emperor, those with children, were allowed to take their children to watch from a distance.

Chai Shao and other older sons-in-law began to make funeral arrangements.

As for the young children born after the abdication of the Supreme Emperor, many of them still don't understand what is going on.

It's cold in spring in February, and it's extraordinarily cold.

It was even colder in Daming Palace.

Li Shimin simply went to court.

three days.

The Taishanghuang stayed up in a daze for another three days, and was there every day, sometimes sober and sometimes confused. When he was confused, he often called Jiancheng Yuanji's nickname, saying that they had come to pick him up.

Li Shimin couldn't stay any longer, and always felt creepy.

Three days later, on the seventeenth day of the second lunar month, the Supreme Emperor died in the Changsheng Hall of the Daming Palace, calling Jiancheng Yuanji's name as he left, with his eyes still wide open after death.

Li Shimin arrived and closed his eyes for his father, but couldn't close his eyes several times.

In the end, the Crown Prince Chengqian stepped forward to close his eyes for his grandfather, and finally closed them.

All the prime ministers and ministers in the hall secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Of the eight Shanling envoys, except Qin Lang who hadn't returned yet, the other seven immediately presided over the national funeral.

Announcing the national mourning to the world, the Supreme Emperor passed away due to illness in the Changsheng Hall of Daming Palace on February 17, the ninth year of Zhenguan.

The Prime Minister of Zhengshitang is Li Yuanding, the temple name Gaozu, and the posthumous title of Emperor Taiwu.

Li Shimin, dressed in hemp and filial piety, pondered for a long time after listening to the report before the funeral.

"Posthumous God Yao Taiwu Great Sage Da Guangxiao Emperor!"

Li Shimin added a nine-character posthumous posthumous title to his father.

It seems that only in this way can he show his filial piety to his father.

"How will the concubines be arranged?" Xiao Yu asked.

Li Shimin thought for a while, then looked at Changsun Wuji, and Changsun immediately answered for him, the concubines and concubines of the Supreme Emperor who had heirs all went out of the palace with their children, and each was given a mansion. In the future, the kings will entrust the feudal vassals, and they will accompany them to the country.

If there are no children, Chongsheng Temple will be built in the western suburbs of Chang'an as a separate temple for Gaozu, and all concubines who are of high grade and have no heirs will go to the temple to become monks. All ordered to shave their hair and go home.

Among the unranked palace people, those who were fortunate enough to be visited by the Supreme Emperor were sent to Xianling to guard the mausoleum, and the rest were released from the palace and returned to their respective homes.

Li Yuan gave birth to five sons before he became emperor, and seventeen more after he became emperor. Of the five sons before he became emperor, only Li Shimin was left.

Two of the seventeen sons who proclaimed themselves emperor died young, and there were fifteen more.

The eldest, King Jing Yuanjing, was eighteen years old and had already entered the kingdom of vassals, while the youngest King Teng, Li Yuanying, was only five years old. Li Shimin frowned even more as he looked at the group of little brothers in linen and filial piety. Fourteen sons were born, and three died, and now there are only eleven sons.

These younger brothers, who are as old as his sons, are four more than his sons.