Soon, neither Zhao Xu nor Empress Dowager Gao had the intention to pay attention to Wang Gui's affairs anymore.

Because, the condition of the officials in Funing Palace deteriorated rapidly.

In Yiwei (the second day of junior high school), I could no longer feed him any soup or rice.

His body fell into complete paralysis.

Except for breathing, he was almost dead.

Someone began to suggest whether they could try the so-called 'elixir' that was presented to them by a monk named Dao Qin in the fifth year of Yuanfeng.

It was also on this day that Zhao Xu completed all the procedures for establishing a crown prince - according to tradition, when a prince establishes a crown prince, he needs to express his humility with seven expressions of thanks (five for the emperor, one for the queen mother, and one for the empress). Of course, all the expressions of thanks

, all written by Deng Runfu on his behalf.

Therefore, on this day, the Prime Minister of the capital promulgated a general amnesty, in the name of establishing a prince and praying for the emperor, to grant amnesty to the whole world.

On Bingshen (the third day of the Lunar New Year), all the methods used by the Chinese doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau to stimulate the emperor, who was bedridden with illness, were ineffective.

After discussion, the two palaces could only do the last thing they could do for Zhao Xu's father.

They informed the officials about the "elixir" offered by Taoist monks in the fifth year of Yuanfeng.

The governors then went to the table and asked the two palaces to use the 'elixir'.

Although, everyone knows that this will not help.

Everyone also knows that all elixirs and elixirs of longevity are fake.

Even the emperor who was sick in bed knew about it - otherwise the 'elixir' would not have been kept in the imperial medicine hospital.

But at this time, the manpower has been exhausted, and we can only act as a living doctor, so we have to do this thing.

Otherwise, how will future generations evaluate it in terms of national history?

There is clearly an 'elixir' but it is not used by the emperor?

How would the prince feel if he knew this when he grew up?

Therefore, the two palaces issued an edict, agreed to the Prime Minister's request, and ordered Liang Congzheng to retrieve the 'elixir' that was stored in the imperial medicine courtyard.

Hopefully it will work.

It's a pity that even though I tried my best, I couldn't get the emperor to take the 'elixir'.

No one dared to risk "damaging the dragon's body" by forcefully opening the emperor's mouth.

No one dares to use those folk remedies.

The prince is watching from the side!

Zhao Xu shed tears and looked at the anxious and sweaty doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau, as well as Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang who were crying like him.

He sighed.

"Mother...mother..." Zhao Xu cried and said, "You can order the Chinese doctors to withdraw!"

"Father, the dragon body must not be damaged at all!"

Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang both nodded with tears in their eyes.

They know in their hearts that the so-called 'elixir' is just a gimmick.

It is used to silence others.

Now that the prince has agreed, there is no need to risk damaging the dragon's body and do something that is bound to fail.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu closed his eyes and knelt down in front of his father's bed again.

He knows that the palace carriage Yan Jia is right in front of him!

But at least he allowed his father to die in peace before his death.

There is no need for someone to force open your mouth and force a heavy metal elixir the size of an egg into your stomach.

Let it go away with pain in the end.

Outside the curtain, the governors all prostrated themselves.

Inside the curtain, the Chinese doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau also apologized and exited.

And at the moment when the Chinese doctors came out of the curtain.

Zhao Xu saw the prostrate Prime Minister in the palace.

He counted only six people.

In other words, Left Prime Minister Wang Gui is still staying at home.

The next day, on the fourth day of March, Chen Yijian from the Imperial Medical Bureau reported that Guan Jia's pulse could no longer be felt, and he could only hear Guan Jia's weak heartbeat and short breathing.

On this night, senior monks from the entire Bianjing City gathered in the Vajra Dojo of Daqing Hall.

The chanting continued all night long.

As the crown prince, Zhao Xu, accompanied by Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang, personally attended this Vajra Dojo.

However, gods and Buddhas did not perform miracles after all.

The next day, Wuxu Day (the fifth day of the Lunar New Year), Chen hour.

As the bell tower on the Xuandemen Gate was rung, the entire imperial city became deserted.

The emperor who had been ruling the world for nineteen years finally passed away!

In the Funing Hall, the emperor's body has been carried out and placed on the west steps of the hall.

Zhao Xu knelt in front of the soul, crying extremely sadly.

Both emotionally and objectively.

He must cry, and he must cry sadly!

Beside him, the queen cried with him.

Empress Dowager Gao was sitting among the curtains in the palace, also weeping.

The ministers filed in from outside the palace.

When all the ministers arrived in front of the imperial court, they all cried, and then prostrated on the ground: "I would like to extend my condolences to Her Majesty the Empress Dowager, Her Majesty the Queen, and Her Majesty the Prince!"

"The country and the country still need the support of Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother, Her Royal Highness the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince!"

"I wait for ten thousand deaths, but I dare to invite His Highness the Crown Prince to ascend the throne in front of the late Emperor's spirit, so as to stabilize the country and stabilize the world!"

So, immediately some ministers came forward on their knees, then lifted up Zhao Xu without hesitation, put a yellow robe that had been sewn long ago on him, and then placed him in the east corner of Funing Hall.

On a prepared throne.

The ministers rushed forward, prostrated on the ground, held up the imperial hut, bowed three times and kowtowed: "I respectfully wish to express my sincere wishes to His Majesty the Emperor!"

Then, outside the Funing Hall, the civil and military ministers who had gathered outside the hall also knelt down and bowed three times and kowtowed: "I respectfully wish that His Majesty the Emperor will bow down and pray for all blessings!"

Zhao Xu, who was sitting on the throne, was sobbing and crying.

His eyes were just looking at the late emperor's body which was placed on the west steps of the hall.

He knew that this was the ancestral system of the Song Dynasty.

When the late emperor ascended to his throne, he was no longer a king, but a spirit of his ancestors.

The ancestral gods of Shengxia only have the function of offering sacrifices.

This is the characteristic of the Song Dynasty.

Since Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan advocated the ancient prose movement and launched the Qingli Xue Xue.

The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty no longer believed in the influence of heaven and man, nor in the divine right of kings.

Now that the scholar-bureaucrats have even thrown aside Dong Zhongshu’s sense of heaven and man.

How could they be expected to be loyal to an emperor sitting on the throne of Bianjing?

joke!

Since the Xining Reform, what have the old party ministers done?

I won’t serve you anymore! Goodbye!

I went to Luoyang!

Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Sima Guang and others were all like this.

This is called "If you don't follow the road, you will float in the sea on a raft"!

It's not just the old party ministers who are like this.

The same goes for the new party!

What happened to Aoxianggong Wang Anshi?

People in Jiangning said: Don’t cue, just plant flowers and recite sutras.

This is why Han Qi was respected by all the emperors of the Song Dynasty.
To be continued...