female concubine

Chapter 316 Afterword

"Miss!"

"grandmother!"

The cries inside and outside the capital were like when Emperor Xianzong passed away, tens of thousands of people knelt down to send off their spirits.

In the spring of the 23rd year of Xuanhua, the Empress Dowager collapsed and was buried together with Emperor Xianzong in Yongxing Mausoleum.

When the palace officials entered the coffin, they found that the Empress Dowager was holding an old copper furnace all the time. The two female historians carefully opened it and found that the copper furnace was held very tightly. poem.

"Decline, decline, Hu not return?"

"The humble gentleman's bow is in the mud."

The emperor respected the Empress Dowager's will, and only buried a copper furnace, a concentric knot made of green silk, and thousands of paintings donated by Emperor Xianzong as burials with Empress Ren Xiaozhangde.

In the 23rd year of Xuanhua, the second son of the winter emperor was born, amnesty to the world. In the 24th year of Xuanhua, the emperor personally marched to the southwest to fulfill the last wish of Empress Ren Xiaozhangde. In the 25th year of Xuanhua, due to the emperor's suspicion, he missed the opportunity and retreated to Hexi. The generals were rewarded. In Changxia of the same year, Empress Xiao died of illness, and the emperor was mourned and posthumously named Empress Xianci.

In the 28th year of Xuanhua, the imperial court set off a storm of easy storage. The emperor wanted to make the favorite concubine the queen, and also wanted to abolish the emperor's daughter and replace the concubine born to the favorite concubine as the crown prince. As a result, party disputes resumed. In the autumn of the 29th year of Xuanhua, the emperor died of illness in Funing Palace and was buried in Yongxin Mausoleum. Qingming, later generations called it the rule of Xuanhua, and it was called the prosperous age of Qianxuan together with its grandfather, Emperor Xianzong.

Emperor Xuanzong had four sons and seven daughters, and the imperial edict said: respect the Empress Dowager Cao as the Empress Dowager, and the noble concubine as the Empress Dowager, and the empress dowager is responsible for the military and state affairs.

After the death of Emperor Xuanzong, Princess Wei and Empress Dowager Cao supported Xuanzong's eldest daughter to succeed her, and changed her name to Chengxi. Conferred the title of King of Wei, Ting Kui, who opened the women's department in the sixth year of Xuanhua and ranked No. 1 in the undergraduate Jinshi list, became the assistant minister and entered the capital to serve as the ruling prime minister. She was raised by the emperor's heir, and later established as the empress dowager. Since Empress Renxiao Zhangde and Empress Dowager Cao came to power successively, the nobility of the Xiaocao family was almost as prosperous and declining as that of the Wei and Song Dynasties.

In the seventh year of Chengxi, with the support of Empress Dowager Cao, King Wei and a group of civil and military ministers, he recalled the achievements of Xianzong and opened a precedent for female subjects. He built canals, compiled classics, and expanded the territory for thousands of miles. Taizong and Wuzong summed up the old system and pursued Emperor Xianzong as the emperor of the holy ancestor, and ordered the academicians of the Hanlin and the scholars of the cabinet to lead the secretary province to recompile the Benji of Xianzong as the Benji of the Holy Ancestor.