Chapter 418: The Emperor of the Death Ao is afraid of protecting the sect and serving as ghosts and charms

The Empress Dowager of the Taihuang passed away on November 18, 1442. The emperor was named "Integrity, filial piety, respectful, and Mingde, Hongren, Shuntian, Zhaoshengzhao" and buried with Renzong together with Xianling. Empress Zhang (the Empress Dowager of the Taihuang) was as virtuous, wise, tranquil, and conservative as Renzong. She was a hero of women, and had been through Hongwu, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and Zhengtong. She had been in charge of the dynasty many times, but she was cautious in her wife's manner and was content with the inner palace. She strictly controlled her mother's family and did not allow them to interfere in the government affairs. She was a highly praised empress. Empress Dowager Sun hurried for several days and believed that she was buried in the territory.

An Weizhai buried the Empress Dowager, lying tired and tired, thinking of the common people's praise for the words of the Empress Dowager. But most of the patriots and kind people should not be careless and forget that if the Empress Dowager was intercepted or deposed during the Zhengtong period of Xuande, they would leave behind the achievements of the eternal record in history. However, the world praised the mother and lamented that people yearned for regret: the human sacrificial system still slaughtered innocent common people in the world! The Empress Dowager was capable of governing and could not handle it, leaving unreliable regrets for Queen Mother Sun and most common people!

"Are you better, mother?" the emperor came in and asked with a smile. The maid Qian Yiniang, and Zhou Yinghuan came in to agree.

"Mom is fine. I'm a little tired, just take a break." Queen Mother Sun said while lying down and still not moving.

"I want to come here. I am afraid that there will be more people to come first, so I will disturb my mother's rest!" said the emperor with concern.

"I am very busy, don't use it. You all go down, I'll chat with the emperor." Empress Dowager Sun wanted to tell the emperor that he had intercepted the sacrificial cause. In addition to his own ideas, seeing that the empress burying the empress, there were some people among the subjects who were in urgent need of helping the empress Sun to intercept or depose the emperor. For example: maids such as Fan Shun, Tan Juan, Miaoyin Gang, Wan Nianhou, Li Haohong, etc., especially Ning Xiaoying, who had just left here. She brought several orphan girls adopted in recent years, and had become a little girl in Baiyunguan, and asked the master of Ningguan to kneel down and beg the empress Dowager Sun. The dynasty had no resistance from the empress dowager, and they asked the empress Dowager Sun to intercept or depose the sacrificial cause as soon as possible. Empress Dowager Sun wanted to look at the emperor and stood in front of the bed and said.

"Yeah!" The maids responded and left the bedroom.

"Son is sitting here?" Queen Mother Sun slapped the bed and said to the emperor.

"My mother is sick, let's talk about it someday?" The emperor asked, afraid that Empress Dowager Sun would be tired.

"I'm fine, sit down." Queen Mother Sun said with a smile.

"Mother, listen!" the emperor said without sitting, standing in front of the bed.

"When you were young, my mother would test you for the words, do you remember?" asked Queen Mother Sun.

"The word "文" is remembered, "文" is called "文" and "文" is called "文". The father of the late emperor passed away and forever to bury the concubines!" Without thinking, the emperor said in a low voice.

"Who said 'The country is forever'?" Queen Mother Sun asked in shock.

"When I was in the process of mourning, I didn't understand the disaster and asked Wang Zhen, what Wang Zhen said," said the emperor.

"On the day your breasts died, I was talking in the court. You listened vaguely, and Wang Zhen was asking?" asked Empress Dowager Sun.

"Yes." said the emperor.

"What do you think about the system of human sacrifice?" The emperor was not only growing up, but his ideological awareness was also improving. He would take the initiative to ask for advice on unknown issues. The resistance of the system of human sacrifice (the empress dowager) also had to pass the emperor's gate. Empress Dowager Sun asked while looking at the emperor's confusion expression.

"The emperor is afraid!" said the emperor.

"The idiom interprets ancient myths, saying that the Nuwa clan cuts the foot of the turtle to stand on the four poles of the ground, the giant tortoise. Source: Liezi? Tang Wen: 'However, the sky and the earth are also things, and things have shortcomings. Therefore, the former Nuwa clan strung five-color stones to make up for the gap, and cuts the foot of the turtle to stand on the four poles.' If you have any doubts, just say it!" Queen Mother Sun thought.

"I want to intercept the immortals, and the great immortals and the disasters are said to be afraid of causing disasters and common people will suffer! I asked Gao Gu, Gao said theories, I heard that there is something

The truth, mother, listen..." The emperor walked in two steps and said the theory of disasters and phenomena mentioned by Gao Gu. The idea of ​​this theory is that any thing, a dynasty, a country, or a person's decline will be some signs in advance. This sentence is not a superstitious saying. For example, the sky is cloudy, and ants are busy moving in groups on the ground, and people know it will rain. Another example is: a healthy person suddenly loses appetite, has a yellow complexion, is dizzy, and has weak limbs, must have been sick. Especially before the arrival of a large earthquake, a tsunami, a large volcano, a flood, a plague, an ice disaster, a snow disaster, etc., there will be some signs in advance and a warning to humans are issued. This is a theory of disasters and phenomena.

"Gao Gu is right, will it be related to natural disasters and human sacrifice?" Queen Mother Sun asked with a smile.

"I am confused about this point. Compared with the Western Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had fewer self-criticisms. Why is this?" the emperor asked.

"Society is developing, and the Tang Dynasty was later than the Western Han Dynasty. People will go further in understanding the celestial phenomena. When my memory was discussed, my mother read some historical books..." Empress Dowager Sun thought of explaining disasters to the emperor: The Tang Dynasty's understanding of celestial phenomena should be more thorough than that of the Han Dynasty. During the Han Dynasty, people believed that water, drought, earthquake, sun, lunar eclipse, etc. belonged to the category of disasters and differences, and basically used the theory of Yin and Yang and Five Elements, the theory of induction of heaven and man, etc. to explain the occurrence of disasters and differences and express their understanding of disasters and differences. The Tang Dynasty still focused on agriculture-related disasters and differences, and the relationship between the two countries. Compared with the Han Dynasty, the disasters and differences such as earthquakes, solar eclipses, fires and other disasters were basically ignored. Based on the epistemology of disasters and differences between the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty still believed that disasters and differences were punished by heaven, but some people downplayed Dong Zhongshu's idea that "the things in heaven and earth have inconsistent changes are called differences", believing that "catastrophe" is not "catastrophe". Disasters are common, and they are objective or caused by humans. This is the theory of natural causes and social causes that occurred in the Tang Dynasty. Compared with the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had a deeper understanding of disasters and differences and more objective.

"In other words, has the understanding deepened in the Tang Dynasty improved?" The emperor asked slowly indifferently as he heard the puzzled expression.

"Yes. Son, let's do it, look for Gao Gu to discuss it, Gao Gu analyzes things thoroughly. You have little knowledge. If you understand this, then talk about martyrdom?" When Empress Dowager Sun heard the emperor's words, she knew that the emperor was still a child. What the emperor didn't understand made him angry, and Empress Dowager Sun was afraid of hurting the emperor's self-esteem and causing a counterproductive situation. Empress Dowager Sun once told several teachers that she specifically told Gao Gu and other teachers to follow the teaching of Confucius' four teachings: "License and Trustworthiness" Teach the emperor in a way to improve the emperor's ability and level of governance. "Literary and faithfulness" explains: First, literature, that is, well-known studies. Research on how to improve visibility. Second, practice, regulate people's behavior, and make people's words and deeds have rules to follow. Third, loyal learning, rest and recuperation, is to cultivate people's conscious and voluntary things to do. Fourth, faith learning, is to learn to know people and distinguish things, and cultivate people's judgment. Empress Dowager Sun said with thoughts on the tasks assigned to the emperor's teacher.

"I listen to my mother and I need to figure out this matter." The emperor smiled and said with a sincere expression that was afraid that Empress Dowager Sun would be angry.

"You go!" When Empress Dowager Sun heard the emperor's words, she said happily. The emperor smiled and waved at Empress Dowager Sun's bedroom.

"Report! Fan Shun visits the Queen Mother." Huai'en said loudly outside the bedroom.

"Please come in!" Empress Dowager Sun sat up, wearing underwear, covering her lower body with a quilt, and said to the door.

"Fan Shun pays homage to the Empress Dowager, it's auspicious!" Fan Shun came in and said politely.

"Flat! Fan Shun sits here." Looking at Fan Shun who came in, Empress Dowager Sun slapped the bed and said with a smile.

"The Empress Dowager is lying down, don't be cold!" Fan Shun looked at the Empress Dowager Sun sitting and said with concern.

"I've been lying for a long time and want to sit for a while." Queen Mother Sun lies for a long time, so she said with a smile.

"Put on your coat." Fan Shun took a coat without the consent of Empress Dowager Sun and put it on her body and said.

He also covered the corner of the quilt for Queen Mother Sun and stood beside the bed.

"Maid of Yanxi Palace, have you arranged it?" The Empress Dowager was gone, and the maids had to arrange a place. Empress Dowager Sun asked Fan Shun to arrange it. Fan Shun put on a coat for Empress Dowager Sun, and Empress Dowager Sun asked with gratitude and smile.

"There are six bureaus of the palace maids (Shanggong, Shangyi, Shangshi, Shangyi, Shanggong, etc.), and they all go back to their respective bureaus, and only I am left. It turns out that I will follow you. I will return here?" Fan Shun thought about something and looked around the living room with a smile on his face.

"You are still here with me, managing the palace maids and serving the emperor well!" Empress Dowager Sun liked to speak and do things in line with her wishes, and said with appreciation.

"Thank you Queen Mother!" Fan Shun said with excitement on his face and politely.

"Report! Huang Xiaoya asks to see the Queen Mother!" Huai'en shouted outside.

"You let her in!" said Empress Dowager Sun.

"Huang Xiaoya pays homage to the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is lucky!" Huang Xiaoya came in and said with a polite look.

"Flat!" said Empress Dowager Sun.

"Thank you, Empress Dowager!" Huang Xiaoya said, standing upright and smiling at Fan Shun. Fan Shun also greeted Huang Xiao. The two of them said hello.

"Where has Sister Huang been?" Fan Shun looked at Empress Dowager Sun and asked casually at Huang Xiaoya with a smile.

"Empress Dowager! The four concubines of the Lu family were hung to the door, attracting street people, and onlookers were talking about it." Huang Xiaoya said with confusion, looking at Fan Shun, which could be considered as answering Fan Shun's question.

"The guardian sect is for the ghost and the charm! Queen Mother Sun thought and looked at Huang Xiaoya and said.

"What does the idiom mean?" Fan Shun asked with a smile

"Idiom definition: for, as. Mei: the legendary ghost. It refers to a person who is as sinister and cruel as a ghost, who harms people in secret. Source: "The Book of Songs? Xiaoya? Who is this?" I was hung to death, and who is at the door of my house?" Queen Mother Sun asked in surprise as she said.

"The palace maids went out to the street and saw with their own eyes that there were concubines hanging at Lu Si's door. The common people watched. They said that the dynasty should be intercepted or abolished the sacrificial system as soon as possible!" Fan Shun also looked at Huang Xiaoya and said with a smile.

"Yes! The horseshoe-carrying wooden frame in front of the door of the road mansion was hung with four concubines. There are large white paper on the wall. The names of the four concubines were named and red seals were pressed." Huang Xiaoya thought.

"Tell me, what's going on?" asked Queen Mother Sun.

"Before the funeral, I was arranged by you to contact the Jiehehe Gang and the Wanshi Gang. You were very busy in those days. I didn't dare to disturb Gong Shunya, and in Tanjuan's living room, I studied the rescue plan with Wannian, Li Haohong, Miaoyin Gang leader, and Tanjuan. The bandits named Xiaojiu in the Wanshi Gang sneaked into the Lushi Mansion to inquire about the information of the concubine. The two bandits and gangs joined forces and wanted to rescue the concubine, but before there was a chance, I was hanged first." Huang Xiaoya said.

"How did Xiaojiu get into Lu Mansion?" Fan Shun asked.

"The Lu family is looking for a chef, and the second chef is the one who is helping him. Xiaojiu got in. Lu Haocai and Butler Chai often study together, and the four concubines are buried with him. Xiaojiu said." Huang Xiaoya said.

"Butler Chai is released and you don't want to repent?" Wanshi helped the housekeeper to take care of the housekeeper and released the housekeeper, warning the housekeeper not to do harm to people. Li Haohong said that Shunya said that when she told Empress Dowager Sun. Empress Dowager Sun asked angrily when she heard the Lu family affairs.

"Yes! Xiaojiu felt it was okay last night, so she didn't listen to it after sleeping. I heard this morning that the Lu family was afraid that there would be more dreams at night, so they went to Northeast China and could not get their concubines, so they killed the four concubines first. It was late last night. The servant went to Zhu's mansion and took the concubine into Lu's mansion and forced them to press their fingerprints. Get up early today, the servants took the concubine and hung them there, and stickers were on the wall. The Lu family was a demonstration to fight against the death penalty." Huang Xiaoya said.

Yes! The Lu family is too arrogant!" Queen Mother Sun said angrily as she thought about Lu family affairs.

"The Empress Dowager wants to send someone to investigate the cause of death of the concubine and to pursue the murder!" Huang Xiaoya looked at the angry Queen Mother Sun and said angrily.
Chapter completed!