The emperor passed away, and the imperial concubine and others were present. The imperial concubine knew the emperor was thinking of the late empress, who had died young, and the emperor couldn't forget her. If it weren't for the emperor's lingering thoughts about the late empress, how could Miss Qin Si be allowed to return home?
A woman like Miss Qin Si is a disaster. Even if she marries into another family, she will not be able to take good care of her husband and children.
The imperial concubine did not say much about Miss Qin Si. Fortunately, Miss Qin Si did not have to stay in the palace anymore, nor did she have to continue to harm her son.
The emperor had already appointed a crown prince, and his ascension to the throne was a legitimate matter. No one else could criticize the crown prince or accuse him of usurping the throne.
At the Marquis of Jingning's mansion, when Liu Yulian learned of the emperor's death, she lost her grip on the plate of pastries, causing it to fall to the ground. The plate shattered, and the pastries fell with it.
"The emperor has passed away." The servant repeated again.
"I understand." Liu Yulian said.
Two days ago, the emperor met with Liu Yulian and asked her to study those things carefully and not to worry about other things. Liu Yulian also wanted to study those things carefully and did not want to get involved in other matters in the court.
All Liu Yulian could do was to do her job well, and the emperor treated her well. Even if the emperor had raided the Liu family before, it was because someone in the Liu family had made a mistake, so the emperor was not to blame.
The emperor did not conceal Liu Yulian's achievements from the world, and he even made her a princess and the director of the academy. This was already remarkable. Others might not do the same, and the emperor was still very open-minded.
After Master Qin learned of the Emperor's passing, he knew the Qin family would no longer receive such preferential treatment. Just because the Emperor treated the Qin family well didn't mean the Crown Prince would do the same. Fortunately, he hadn't followed Master Qin's lead in those actions before; otherwise, he would have faced retribution from the Crown Prince.
"Master." Seeing Master Qin's hurried manner, Madam Qin asked, "Are you going to the palace?"
"We have to wait for orders from the palace." said Master Qin.
In order to prevent people from taking advantage of the emperor's death to cause trouble, the Daliang Dynasty had a rule. After the emperor's death, these court officials were not allowed to enter the palace without being summoned. This meant that they had to wait for the instructions of the crown prince and others.
When the emperor dies, the crown prince takes charge.
There are certain rules and precedents to follow for the emperor's funeral.
People from the Ministry of Rites and other relevant departments have already started making preparations, and they had already prepared some things in advance.
The Liang Dynasty's Emperor Gaozu decreed that it was unnecessary to have so many court officials attend the casket, nor should they be required to kneel and kowtow excessively. Instead, they should be allowed to attend to other matters, so that the court could maintain order, and not have them constantly kneeling and kowtow instead of attending to other important matters.
It can be said that the Emperor of Daliang was a very intelligent emperor. In some dynasties, after the emperor's death, there were so many rules that people didn't have much time to deal with them. There was even a case of a minister kneeling to death. This was mainly because some ministers were old.
Even if those ministers did not guard the emperor's coffin all day long, it would delay things if they knelt for too long.
The Crown Prince invited He Xichen, the prince of the Chengguo Mansion, and some other people to the palace. The Crown Prince arranged everything properly, so there was no panic.
The country couldn't be without a ruler for a day, and those people still had to discuss when the crown prince would ascend the throne. They had to arrange things properly and not give foreign enemies any opportunity. Some foreign enemies liked to take advantage of the change of emperors to launch attacks, so the court had to successfully navigate this period.
When the emperor's coffin was laid to rest, Liu Yulian and the others had also entered the palace and wept there. When the emperor passed away, these people had to cry. Fortunately, the Daliang Dynasty had good rules, so Liu Yulian didn't have to kneel and cry all the time.
Liu Yulian didn't want to pinch herself all the time, nor did she want to use pepper spray or anything like that. She thought the Daliang Dynasty could prosper, which was normal because these emperors dared to break some old rules.
On February 23rd, the prince ascended the throne.
The late emperor was quickly buried in the imperial mausoleum. This was also the rule of the Liang Dynasty. There was no need to keep the late emperor's coffin in a palace for a long time. If it was kept there for a long time, the court would have to spend a lot of money.
Burying the late emperor early can also save the court a lot of unnecessary expenses.
Liu Yulian had never known about these things before. She had originally thought that the emperor's coffin would stay in a palace for a long time. When she had searched online before, she had seen that the coffins of some emperors or empresses stayed in a palace for a long time, for months or even years.
When the new emperor ascends the throne, there will be rewards and punishments.
Liu Yulian was promoted from the Rongning County Master to the Rongning Princess. Although Liu Yulian's seniority was the same as the emperor's, princesses like Liu Yulian were different, so there was no need to say who was the eldest princess or not.
Princess Zhaoyang became Princess Zhaoyang, but Princess Zhaoyang was not too sad after all. She had prepared herself mentally long ago, knowing that the emperor could not live that long.
It would be a lie to say Princess Zhaoyang wasn't sad at all. With her father gone, there would be no one to support her anymore.
Even if the emperor was not that good to Princess Zhaoyang, there was a huge difference between having a father and not having one.
"Just like that, I became the eldest princess." Princess Zhaoyang sighed.
"It's nothing." Liu Yulian said, "Everyone has to go through this kind of thing."
"That's right," Princess Zhaoyang said. She didn't say what would happen if Liu Yulian experienced something like this in the future. There was no need to talk about it now; that was a matter for the future.
The family affection among the royal family is not that strong, the family affection between ordinary families is strong.
Princess Zhaoyang was thinking that she would have to interact more with the Empress Dowager in the future. The Empress Dowager was her adoptive mother. If she wanted to live a better life in the future, she would have to interact more with the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.
It's just that the emperor has to deal with state affairs, so Princess Zhaoyang is unlikely to always run to the emperor. Princess Zhaoyang also didn't think about sending women to the emperor, that would be boring.
Throughout history, many princesses have given women to the emperor. Princess Zhaoyang thought that there was no need to do so. The emperor was not a man who liked beauty, and after the incident with Concubine Qin, there was no need for Princess Zhaoyang to do so at this time.
When the emperor was in mourning, Princess Zhaoyang would not be able to do that.
"Are you going to Zhuangzi?" Princess Zhaoyang asked. Liu Yulian had planned to go to Zhuangzi before, but was delayed because of the late emperor's affairs.
"Yes," Liu Yulian said, "but it will take a few days. Before that, I told some people in the Hanlin Academy about the phonetic and rhyme alphabets, and they said they might ask me about it."
Liu Yulian thought that what she knew were the letters of later generations. Of course, she did not say that she invented the letters, but said that they were letters from foreign countries.
They also need to make use of these letters and make them better serve the dynasty. They need to take the essence and discard the dross. If they do not learn from foreign knowledge, it will be difficult for them to make progress.
Liu Yulian wasn't afraid of people accusing her of being pro-Western. Many people from foreign countries came to the capital to study. The dynasty also organized some people to study in other countries, and some went on tours to study.
"You're just so busy." Princess Zhaoyang sighed, "I'm afraid it's hard to make you new clothes these days, so forget about the brightly colored ones. I'll make you a few more sets of clothes after a while."
"It doesn't matter." Liu Yulian said, "When you go to the farm, you can wear whatever you want. The important thing is to be able to work. Recently, many people have been building greenhouses. They have tasted the sweetness and want to give it a try."
It was mainly those businessmen who discovered the business opportunities of greenhouses, and some of them planned to build greenhouses and then hire people to grow vegetables.
Ordinary people cannot afford so much glass, so they do not build more greenhouses.
Ordinary people at most want to build houses with cement and glass. Houses built with these materials are also good because wind cannot easily blow in.
"It's really nice after we replaced the glass in the windows at home." Princess Zhaoyang said. They used to feel the wind whistling, but now it's different. The house is not that cold.
"Yes." Liu Yulian nodded, "It's just that the price of glass is still not very cheap. Many people still can't afford glass, and cement."
Although the imperial court produced a lot of cement, it had to use it to build military buildings, dams and roads.
In this way, there will not be so much cement available in the market and the price will not be so high.
Liu Yulian thought that after a while, perhaps more cement would be available among the people. This kind of thing couldn't be banned from leaving the country just because the Daliang Dynasty wanted to. Some people secretly took some away, and that was hard to prevent.
The Daliang Dynasty had to build those fortresses as quickly as possible before other foreign countries developed cement so as to better protect the people.
"Cement has only been out for a short time, so the price won't drop that quickly," Princess Zhaoyang said. "Your brother has been busy lately and has been nowhere to be seen. I don't know where he's gone."
"You've been busy lately." Liu Yulian said.
"Of course we are busy. Since our father passed away, these people have a lot of things to do." Princess Zhaoyang didn't really want to see Liu Yanjing, she just thought about him occasionally.
Princess Zhaoyang found that she cared more and more about Liu Yanjing, and Liu Yanjing did not take a concubine. Princess Zhaoyang did not foolishly arrange a woman for Liu Yanjing, and the wife of Marquis Jingning did not say anything, so Princess Zhaoyang did not do it.
We have to wait at least a few years. After a few years, if Princess Zhaoyang still hasn't conceived a child, she might let Liu Yanjing take a concubine.
"They are just busy, that's right." Liu Yulian suddenly thought of something, and she asked someone to bring the double-sided embroidery in her room. One side was a parrot, and the other side was a kitten.
When Princess Zhaoyang saw this double-sided embroidery, she thought the pattern on it was extremely lively.
"For my sister-in-law." Liu Yulian said.
Liu Yulian knew that Princess Zhaoyang was more or less sad inside, and she couldn't say many words of comfort, so she gave this thing to Princess Zhaoyang.
Recently, Liu Yuqin didn't dare to make a fuss outside. She thought that since the emperor had passed away, Liu Yulian would not be able to get so much attention.
When Liu Yuqin learned that Liu Yulian was named princess, she was stunned.
"How could it be?" Liu Yuqin couldn't believe it. "She's not a royal daughter, so why is the emperor so kind to her?"
"She... once indirectly saved the current emperor." Aunt Qing knew a little bit, it was all because of the invulnerable armor.
Aunt Qing heard that Liu Yulian spent a lot of money to make some silk threads, and Liu Yulian later gave the armor she made to the emperor, who was then the Prince of Su.
Before Liu Yulian came to Beijing, she already knew how to please Prince Su.
Aunt Qing looked at her daughter and thought about her miserable life. Why did the ancestors bless Liu Yulian but not Liu Yuqin?
If Liu Yuqin had such great ability, they would not be like this now.
"Saved the emperor?" Liu Yuqin really didn't know about this.
"Yes, now that she's a princess, things are even more different." Aunt Qing said, "I heard there's also Princess Rongning's Mansion. This mansion is hers, and she can give it to her children in the future."
This was written in the imperial edict by the royal family, showing the royal family's importance to Liu Yulian.
After Qing Yi Niang learned about this, she sincerely felt that the emperor had given Liu Yulian too many things. The emperor shouldn't have given Liu Yulian so many things. Perhaps Liu Yulian had run out of ideas.
"How can she be so lucky?" Liu Yuqin gritted her teeth.
Liu Yuqin wondered how she could compare to Liu Yulian unless she became the emperor's woman, but how could the emperor possibly let her enter the palace?
The fate of Miss Qin Si is a tragic example. Liu Yuqin cannot become the next Miss Qin Si.
Besides, Liu Yuqin is not a daughter of the Marquis's Mansion yet, so how can she enter the palace?
"You can't talk about marriage in the near future. You have to wait." Aunt Qing said.
In fact, during this period, some people still proposed marriage privately. They would agree first, and then after three months, they would start the formal process.
It’s just that Liu Yuqin has a bad reputation and not many people like her.
Aunt Qing thought it would be better to wait for a while to prevent Liu Yuqin from being naive.
It would take quite a while for the news of the emperor's death to reach the northwest.
In the northwest, Miss Lin San was still pregnant and about to give birth. The Lin family hadn't come to see Miss Lin San recently. Perhaps it was because the death of Miss Lin Da had taught them that Miss Lin San wouldn't care about them, or perhaps it was because of her mother's illness that she realized how cruel Miss Lin San was.
After Miss Lin's mother fell ill, she gave her two taels of silver and never gave her any more.
After taking the money, the younger brother of the Lin family looked for Miss Lin San several times, but Miss Lin San just didn't give any more money to the Lin family.
That's a bottomless pit!
There was no way Miss Lin San would always use the silver to fill this hole. She was about to give birth, so of course she had to leave the silver for her child.
Don't wait until your child is born and you don't have that much money. It will be useless to regret it then.
If the child has a headache or fever, they cannot afford to hire a doctor without money.
Mother Lin was ill. It was not known whether it was because of the shock of Miss Lin's death or because her body was so weak that she could no longer support herself, but Mother Lin's health had not improved.
Lin's mother has been ill for three or four months, and her health is still the same.
The younger brother of the Lin family did not want to have his mother go to the doctor all the time, as it would cost a lot of money. The younger brother of the Lin family thought it would be better for his mother to stay at home and recuperate.
But it was impossible for Lin's mother to really take care of him. She still had to do a lot of things. No matter how weak she was, she would cook. If her cooking was not delicious, she would be scolded by her son and daughter-in-law.
One day, Lin's mother fell in the yard. This fall forced her to lie on the bed and she could no longer continue to do those things.
Lin's younger brother and his wife were very angry. They were unwilling to feed Lin's mother more food and she only had occasional meals.
Miss Lin San was still pregnant, so of course she couldn't go to see Lin's mother. It was Miss Lin Er who went to see Lin's mother, but when Miss Lin Er went to see Lin's mother, Lin's mother was already emaciated and had no strength left.
"Mother." Miss Lin Er was of course very angry when she saw this. She couldn't blame the younger brother of the Lin family, so she wondered why Miss Lin San didn't come to see her mother.
Miss Lin Er thought she was a concubine, and how could a concubine come out at will? But Miss Lin San was different. After all, she was the principal wife, and she could even let her husband come and see her.
But Miss Lin San didn't do that. After Miss Lin Er saw Lin's mother, she rushed to find Miss Lin San.
The Lin family's affairs are a mess. Miss Lin Er is similar to Miss Lin Da, and Miss Lin Er also likes to look for Miss Lin San.
At the door of Widow Zhang's house, Miss Lin San saw Miss Lin Er.
"Why don't you go see your mother? She's almost dying, don't you know?" said Miss Lin Er.
"Isn't he still alive?" Miss Lin San asked, "Why are you in such a hurry? If someone didn't know, they would think you were here to attend my funeral."
It’s not that Miss Lin San wants to say it so harshly, but the younger brother of the Lin family has come to her to ask for money several times.
She couldn't always give money to the younger brother of the Lin family. Miss Lin San didn't like Miss Lin Er's attitude.
"I haven't been there from time to time, but have you?" Miss Lin San asked. "I even gave him two taels of silver. What about you?"
"..." Of course, Miss Lin Er did not give two taels of silver to her brother from her natal family. She did not care about her natal family as much as Miss Lin Da did. She did take some things back from her husband's family, but she still had concerns about her husband's family.
Miss Lin Er was still secretly hiding some private money, and she just didn't take it out.
"When the eldest sister passed away, you should have expected that something bad would happen again." Miss Lin San thought that without her and her fourth sister, how could those people do any work?
Since my younger brother and sister-in-law are afraid to live, then only our parents can work.
Miss Lin San had seen Lin's father and mother working from a distance, but she couldn't rush over to help them. Even at that stage in the field, they still didn't let their son work.
What should Miss Lin San do? She couldn't let her husband go to the Lin family and do all those things. She didn't want those people to suck her husband's blood. She still wanted to live a good life.
"If you are still filial, buy some delicious food for your parents." Miss Lin San said, "I guess that's all."
Miss Lin San thought that since her mother's health was so poor, their brother could not care about her so much, so her mother might not live long.
It wasn't that Miss Lin San didn't want to save her biological mother, but she couldn't. She had asked her parents to stop pampering her younger brother, but they would always criticize her and sometimes even beat her.
Should these older sisters serve their younger brothers like slaves?
Miss Lin San was unwilling to do so. If she softened her heart now, she would never have a good life. She had to be ruthless, no matter what others might say about her.
Besides, she was sold, so she has no relationship with the Lin family. She returned things to the Lin family, which shows that she is kind.
"What are you doing standing there?" Just at this moment, Widow Zhang came back.
Widow Zhang said with a cold face, "Why, your in-laws let you out again? You are a concubine, but you are so free and easy."
“…” When Miss Lin Er saw Widow Zhang, she didn’t say anything else and left quickly.
Miss Lin Er was a little afraid of Widow Zhang. She was afraid that Widow Zhang would say that she had hurt Miss Lin San and that Widow Zhang would ask her for compensation.
In Miss Lin Er's eyes, Widow Zhang was a fierce old woman and a villain who was unreasonable and only knew how to take advantage of others.
"I didn't give her any money." said Miss Lin San.
"It's your own savings, and who you give it to is your business." Widow Zhang still said this. She didn't care where Miss Lin San spent the money, and she didn't care about these people's private money.
If Miss Lin San wanted to use the public funds, then Widow Zhang would say a few words, and the nature of the matter would be different.
When Liu Yanqing learned that the emperor had passed away and Princess Rongning had become Princess Rongning, he couldn't help but sigh.
"My little sister is really amazing." Liu Yanqing sighed. He himself was not that amazing. He really envied his little sister. Why didn't he study hard in the past? "If I had worked harder..."
"Even if you try hard and still can't achieve anything, you may still be a fool." Lin Xiaowan said.
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