Chapter 23 The Book of Ink: Funerals, the Way of Peace!
In the first year of Xiande, on the first month of Renchen (17th) of 954 AD, Guo Wei was seriously ill. The imperial doctors prescribed prescriptions and applied medicine day and night, and tried all their best, but they were unable to turn the world back.
Under the collapse of the imperial destruction, the imperial doctors knelt down and kowtowed to apologize.
"You all go down, I will die. I will not do your business." As he died, Guo Wei's voice was extremely low.
The imperial doctors cried and bowed.
Guo Wei held the hand of King Jin weakly and explained his funeral: "Son of the Emperor, remember that after my death, the tomb must be kept simple and do not disturb the people! Don't send palace servants to guard the tomb, nor do you have to erect stone people and beasts in front of the tomb. You only need to be buried in paper clothes and use tile coffins as a coffin... The words on the stone tablet say that I am frugal by nature..."
The King of Jin cried, "Father...will you feel wronged?"
Guo Wei gasped with difficulty and whispered: "When I was expeditioning the West, I saw that all the eighteen emperors of the Tang Dynasty were excavated. This is because there were gold, silver and treasures hidden inside! Emperor Wen of Han was buried in Balingyuan, and the tomb is still intact... Emperor, every year, cold food, you can send someone to visit my tombs. If you don't send someone to come, you can also worship in the capital... However, you have to ask someone to bury a pair of sword armor in He Mansion, each of Wei Mansion, a crimson robe in Chanzhou, and a flat crown and dragon robe in Tokyo... You must not forget these things."
King Jin nodded and agreed.
Then, Guo Wei forced himself to be sick and enfeoffed all the ministers. In order to prevent the royal relatives from coveting the throne, he ordered his nephew, General Li Chongjin, to bow to the King of Jin, and to clarify the etiquette of the king and his ministers.
That night, Guo Wei died in Zide Hall at the age of 51. He was posthumously named Shengshen Gongsu Wenwu Xiao Emperor, and the temple name was Taizu.
On Bingshen (21st), King Jin ascended the throne in front of the coffin by the order of Emperor Taizu, and was known in history as Zhou Shizong.
This historian recognized the most wise ruler of the Five Dynasties period, has since appeared on the stage of history.
After becoming emperor, he restored Chai Rong's real name (formerly Guo Rong). He enthroned his biological father Chai Shouli as the Jinzi Guanglu Dafu and the procurator of Sikong. These official positions are honorary titles. Although they are large salaries, they have no real power.
Chai Rong did not grant his biological father the title of Supreme Emperor, because according to the etiquette, Chai Rong's throne came from his uncle and adoptive father Guo Wei. Although he changed his surname back to his original surname, he must also follow the Guo family's ancestors, inherit the incense of the Guo family, and regard himself as the heir of the Guo family.
No matter how respectful he is in his heart, he cannot violate the etiquette system. He can only treat Chai Shouli as his uncle.
Therefore, when the imperial envoy brought the emperor's edict to announce the edict, Chai Shouli had no complaints and accepted the edict respectfully.
From then on, Chai Rong and Chai Shouli never met again. The son handled state affairs in the imperial capital, and the father enjoyed peace and prosperity in Luoyang.
Even if you are unwilling to do so, you can only do this.
Because according to the Confucian etiquette system, Chai Shouli, even the old uncle, would kneel down when he saw the emperor. But from the perspective of Confucian human ethics and filial piety, as the emperor's biological father, he asked his own father to kneel down to his son, which was a disagreement between Li.
Therefore, the father and son had to keep their own politeness and never meet again.
But this did not affect Mr. Chai's later life.
When Guo Wei just became emperor, Chai Shouli was named Yinqing Guanglu Dafu, the Minister of Personnel, the Censor of the Censorate, and other official positions because of his sister Empress Chai. Regarding the political achievements of Mr. Chai during his tenure, history books in later generations were almost blank. In other words, Mr. Chai was busy eating, drinking and having fun all day, and ignored political affairs at all, so he did not even have any political achievements.
When his biological son became emperor, Mr. Chai lived even more moisturized. He ate delicacies every day, and kept collecting gold and silver. The smile on his wrinkled old face never stopped.
A small official of the county magistrate's level is not qualified to talk to Mr. Chai at all. When the governor sees Mr. Chai, he has to take the initiative to say hello. As for whether Mr. Chai is willing to pay attention to you, it depends on the old man's mood.
One day I was in a good mood, Mr. Chai wandered on the street. When he passed by the home of a high-ranking official, he was hungry, so the high-ranking official had to take care of his meal. These Luoyang officials wished that there was such a good opportunity to flatter the old man. As the saying goes, the moon will be the first to get close to the water.
These days Chai Xing also met other brothers and sisters respectively. The brothers relied on their father's power to become rich people, and the sisters all married into the powerful.
Fortunately, the brothers were not as good as their father, but relatively speaking, they were more rules and had only one mind to live a peaceful and prosperous life, neither bullying nor proactively causing trouble.
Both brothers and sisters got married, only Chai Xing was as old as that of Chai Xing. Old Master Chai felt sorry for his son and immediately married him five beautiful wives.
The oldest of these girls is only twenty years old, and the youngest is only sixteen years old.
The people in the Mo family thought that Mr. Chai must have taken advantage of the trick, and the strong media forced the protection of marrying these girls. But after inquiring, good guy, although these five families are different from the rich and the poor, they are all willing! When their parents heard that they could cling to the Chai family, they were all very happy. A girl's father also said, "This time, our family will have a lifelong dependence!"
Chai Xing's original intention was to marry a wife, but he couldn't resist his father. As soon as he argued, the old man blew his beard and stared at him and refused to eat. Chai Xing had no choice but to agree.
Mr. Chai was very happy to do things. Two days later, it was auspicious day. Each family gave 100 taels of gold as a betrothal gift. Five girls got married on the same day with Chai Xing! The magnificent welcome team was far beyond the marriage of the governor's son. The news of Chai Dalang's marriage spread throughout the place like the wind.
"Dalang, Dad will give you 8,000 taels of silver, you can spend it first. After spending it, Dad will give it to you! In a few days, let your five wives accompany you to Beijing." On the second day of the wedding, Mr. Chai asked someone to carry twenty big boxes and walked in.
Chai Xing was shocked and said, "Dad, don't give me so much! How long will it take to spend it?"
"Well, Dalang, it's only eight thousand taels of silver, it's just a bunch of bullshits, so don't take it seriously!" Mr. Chai smiled.
Chai Xing said: "Dad, when we were young, you were so frugal. You spent a penny in half. Good guy, now you are all bullshit!"
The old man looked at the eldest son with deep love: "Isn't our family rich now? I have so many sons, but you haven't enjoyed the blessing. Dad wants to compensate you?"
The people in the Momen were silent.
The common people worked hard for a year, and a family of four could earn up to twenty taels of silver. Chai Shouli gave his son eight thousand taels at once!
Chai Xing refused: "Dad, my third brother has become emperor and is preparing to promote me to general. Can I still lack money? Otherwise, I'd better keep this money for you."
Chai Shouli obviously just heard the previous half of the sentence and said, "Let the third brother promote you hard, and your family should rest assured. Damn, if I don't give birth to him, I would not have the power he has today!"
On the day of returning to Beijing, the old man and his brothers sent him far away, and then reluctantly said goodbye to Chai Xing.
As he was far away from waiting, Chai Xing whispered to Hua Qingshuang: "Miss, you are really the most calculator in the world. You have calculated the date of my third brother's ascendance to the throne so accurately."
"Don't reveal it, otherwise we will all cause trouble. No emperor wants to see others calculate accurately." Hua Qingshuang also whispered.
Chai Xing nodded: "Just follow the girl. Don't worry, I know the right way."
Chapter completed!