After a day of rest in the Yuezhou Palace, the tomb sacrifice team abandoned their car and boarded the boat and went to the tomb area from the waterway. On the way, Zhao Bing ordered several ministers who followed him to talk to the boat and discuss the transfer of the Jingyan Emperor's coffin to the tomb area. In fact, this matter has been discussed long ago, and people have been sent to the former spiritual place in Weizhou to prepare for the preparations, but there are still many details that need to be discussed, such as how to welcome the spirit, how to pay tribute, and what standards to build the tomb.

The court still agreed and supported the matter of moving the tomb. After all, this matter not only concerns the orthodox issue of the young emperor, but also concerns themselves. After all, the current court is completely born of the dynasty of the past, and Emperor Jingyan was also supported by them. If he was a pseudo-emperor, then they were also a pseudo-dynasty and were regarded as traitors. Therefore, burying Emperor Jingyan into the imperial tomb was also to "correct the name" of the dynasty.

There is nothing to say about what kind of funeral system to adopt, and there is a rule to follow. Zhao Bing is still confused. After all, he has never experienced such a thing. When Emperor Jing Yan died, he was on his way to escape. In front of him, the enemy was intercepted and then pursued troops in a large group, so it was impossible to bury him with a grand glory. In order to prevent the destruction of the Mongol Yuan, he also used a secret burial, and everything was carried out in secret.

Seeing that Zhao Bing was not clear, Ying Jieyan explained it to him. The Song Dynasty adopted the system of "burial in July", which started with Taizu's funeral and left rules for the "death" of the emperor of the Song Dynasty.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, emperors often began to build tombs for themselves as soon as they ascended the throne. Many imperial tombs were built for decades. After the founding of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the Yong'an Tomb of Zhao Kuangyin, the father of Zhao Hongyin, who was moved from Kaifeng to Gongyi, the first imperial tomb that settled in Gongyi Mausoleum was the Yongchang Tomb of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin reigned for 17 years, but Zhao Kuangyin, who was in his prime, only chose Gongyi as the tomb of the Song Dynasty, but never mentioned the establishment of the tomb.

But Zhao Kuangyin suddenly drove away, and the Gongyi Imperial Tomb had to start construction in a hurry. After the Yongchang Tomb was built, Zhao Kuangyin's coffin was escorted from Kaifeng to Gongyi for funeral. It often took about half a month from Kaifeng to Gongyi. When the funeral team arrived at the mausoleum area, it was exactly seven months before Zhao Kuangyin died. Therefore, this rule was continued:

Emperors of the Song Dynasty did not build tombs during their lifetime. After their death, they built the tombs within seven months and then went to bury them, forming the custom of "burying in July". Moreover, the scale and system of each imperial tomb are basically the same as that of Zhao Kuangyin's Yongchang Tomb. They all face north and south. Each tomb area is composed of the upper palace where the coffin is buried, the lower palace where the daily sacrifice is performed, and the tombs of the queen and royal descendants who are buried.

But according to several people, this form of "simple burial" is actually quite cruel. Because the construction period of the imperial tomb was very short, to complete such a huge project, a large number of craftsmen needed to mobilize a large number of craftsmen to construct and use the tactics of people to strive to complete it on time. The craftsmen were very miserable, without drinking water and no place to live, and lived in the wilderness, so many people died.

However, Zhao Bing did not have to worry too much about the trouble of the people. Because Emperor Jingyan was relocated to the burial, the road was long and it took a lot of time to consume on the way, so there was no need to hurry and leave enough time to build the tombs. There is also an unchangeable objective fact, that is, the imperial tombs built after the migration south were all palaces, and the project volume was much smaller.

In order to express his determination to recover the Central Plains to his subjects, the royal family called the Southern Song Palace "Xingzai" and the Song Mausoleum of Shaoxing "Zangong". The palace was temporarily occupied and the tomb was also temporary. Although several emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty soon lost their determination to recover the Central Plains, as a necessary political attitude, the name Xingzai and Zangong never changed. When the emperor was buried, he also required a "small burial" so that one day he would return to the Central Plains.

In order to reflect the "thin burial", the palace would show deliberate "simplicity" in the local layout, but this is only "simplicity" expressed under a very luxurious scale. In the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to reflect the royal honor, after the emperor was buried, a gorgeous tomb platform would be built on the tomb. In the Southern Song Dynasty, because it was a palace and a temporary building, the imperial tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty was relatively simple. Although there were also "upper palace" and "lower palace", the regulations could not be compared with the imperial tomb of Gongyi.

Zhao Bing's battle to regain Jiangnan began with the defense of the imperial tombs. When they arrived at the tomb area, the tombs had been dug up by Yang Lianzhenjia, so he was able to see the truth. It was convenient for future generations to "remove coffins" and only build a slightly simple "imperial hall" on the shallow soil. The emperor's coffin would be placed very shallow from the ground, and there was no core building that must be installed in ancient imperial tombs - the underground palace.

In fact, the imperial hall, also known as the underground palace, is not luxurious at all. It is just a stone tomb. The coffin is placed in it, which is the so-called stone storage. In fact, it is a large "stone coffin cover". Correspondingly, there will be no tomb passage without the underground palace. Therefore, there is no difference between the palaces in the Southern Song Dynasty and the wealthy people in the folk tombs, and it is even less than that, so the project volume will be much smaller.

In addition, the most important thing is the location of the tomb. According to convention, the court selects ministers who are proficient in feng shui and geomantics as the command, and they first survey the site of the tomb, report the results to the emperor, and attach a map. After that, the emperor will send officials to submit the counter. If the emperor has no objection to the result of the counter, the location of the tomb construction will be officially established.

Zhao Bing sent people to conduct preliminary investigations two years ago and also selected several places. However, Empress Dowager Yang was not very satisfied. In addition, the situation was not clear, so there was no following. This time he wanted to take a look at the opportunity to sacrifice to the tomb. The choice of Ying Jieyan and other old ministers to accompany him was not only commended for his achievements in restoring the country, but also helped him to be able to get the site.

When he came to this world, Zhao Bing's inherent ideas were much subverted. In his previous life, he thought that those who read Feng Shui were all scammers, but in ancient times it was a profound knowledge. Many Confucians were involved, and some were among them. For example, Jiang Wanzai, who had passed away, was one of them. Ying Jieyan, Xu Zongren, Chen Zhongwei, Liu Fu and others were all Confucian scholars, but they were proficient in geography, history, or etiquette, and involved in miscellaneous studies. They could help them with advice.

The difficulty in selecting the site of the imperial tomb is also due to objective reasons. Shaoxing Mausoleum District is too small. In other words, there was no long-term plan for the selection of the address of the Southern Song Dynasty imperial tomb from the beginning. The first Empress Zhezong Meng, who was buried in the mausoleum area, died in Gengchen, April of the first year of Shaoxing, and was buried in the southern foot of Baoshan Mountain in Kuaiji on June 2018. The whole time was very short. Moreover, there was no pre-choice of the burial place in advance. The choice of the burial place was decided temporarily, mainly considering the convenience of the situation.

Therefore, it is inevitable that we cannot adapt to future needs. In terms of building the Zan Palace, the space on the southern foot of Baoshan is not spacious, which is what Zhao Ruyu said: "The southeastern counties are all mountains, and those who choose the land must be limited by mountains, with a cramped terrain and not similar to the Central Plains." In addition, the choice of Zan Palace should consider Feng Shui principles such as "the national surname is good and the sound is good", so the space that can be used is even more limited.

After the establishment of the Empress Zheng of Huizong, Empress Zheng of Huizong, Empress Xing of Gaozong, Concubine Wei Xian of Huizong, and Emperor Gaozong, the space for the southern foot of Baoshan to establish the Palace in the future was quite small, so the burial system had to be changed. In view of the Northern Song Dynasty imperial tomb burial system, under normal circumstances, all emperors had their own tombs and concentrated in one place. Those who were buried in the imperial tombs were all empresses. Moreover, if the empress died first, they would be buried in the tombs of the emperor in the previous dynasty; if the later died later, they would be buried in the tombs of the emperor after death.

However, there were changes in the Southern Song Dynasty. Starting from Empress Guo of Emperor Xiaozong, Emperor Guangzong, and Emperor Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty, if the empresses of Emperor Xiaozong, Emperor Guangzong and Emperor Ningzong died first, they would not be buried in the tombs of the emperors of the previous dynasty. Instead, a Zaogong was built in a temple in Hangzhou, and the Zaogong Temple was thus created. They enjoyed the same etiquette as their identities and had the same status. The temple was usually responsible for recommending the blessings of the queens buried in the Zaogong. However, the court sent a special person to the court to sacrifice the queens, patrol, guard the temple, and the daily management of the temple.

The main reason for the change in the burial system is that the terrain of the southern foot of Baoshan, Kuaiji, is not as flat and open as the location of the Yong'an Royal Tomb. Therefore, the architectural space of the imperial tomb in the southern foot of Baoshan was forced to compress the building space of the imperial tomb on the southern foot of Baoshan, and some queens were buried in the palace of the temple in Hangzhou. In contrast, Zhao Bing thought that Empress Guo of Emperor Xiaozong and Empress Xia were not buried in the southern foot of Baoshan, because the space was small, he had to reserve space for future burial for Emperor Gaozong Huizong Wei Xianfei.

What gave Zhao Bing a headache was that he not only had to choose a tomb area for Emperor Jingyan in the already very tired and narrow mausoleum area, but also had to consider the issue of Yang later, and even think about whether Emperor Deyou would be buried in the imperial mausoleum. And whether he would have to leave a burial place in the future, he should also think about it? Anyway, the place is just like this, everyone wants to bury it, and whoever dies can occupy one. The problem is that he doesn't want to die sooner to occupy a lucky place!

Thinking about regaining the Central Plains in the future, and sending all these ancestors back to Gongyi Mausoleum District for burial, Zhao Bing's head would be bigger, which would be an extremely huge project. At that time, we could not make do with it as we do now, but to rebuild the cemetery, which would not only consume countless manpower and material resources, but also add countless money.

Sometimes Zhao Bing even thought that it would be better to learn from the Qing Dynasty and divide it into two parts of the north and south. Reform it according to the standards of a long-lasting land, so that these ancestors could stay in the south of the Yangtze River, so as not to move homes that were exhausted and damaged. At worst, he would stay here to accompany them. If you have any dissatisfaction in the underworld, everyone would discuss it. At worst, he would beat them up with such unscrupulous assaults.
Chapter completed!