Qianlong died before his feet, and then the Qing Dynasty entered the national mourning period.

In ancient times, the emperor's funeral was called "bad ritual", and this statement originated from the "Book of Zhou".

The reason why it is called "bad" is because it belongs to the national level; if a king dies, it will be a disaster for the country, so there is "worry for the country to be mourned with evil etiquette."

The same goes for the same sentence: the Emperor's funeral was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, but some old Manchu customs were added.

For example, the successor emperor, princes, princes, officials, royal families, and Jueluo all had to dress up in clothes - wear mourning clothes and cut their hair; the concubines of the Daxing emperor and the concubines of the princes and concubines, and the wife of the destiny also had to change mourning clothes and cut her forehead before her hair, and she would not be allowed to cut her hair within a hundred days.

In addition, there is a soul-summoning banner that weaves gold and nine dragon florals. This evolved from the inscriptions of the Han people's mourning ceremony. If the people in the capital in the Qing Dynasty held funerals, they could distinguish between Manchu and Han dynasties by looking at whether there were red soul-summoning banners in their yard.

According to the Qing system, after the emperor passed away, civil and military officials must mourn for 27 days. During this period, the successors cannot use red pens to approve memorials, and they will use blue pens, which is called "blue comments". All departments and yamen must also use blue seals to write, and temples and temples in the capital must be ringed 30,000 times.

1111 times a day, 46 times a hour, and never stops from morning to night, which makes my mind sound so loud.

During this period, if a folk woman gets married, she will be called "stolen marriage". The red sedan chair must be replaced with a blue sedan chair. A few of her relatives can just close the door and have a meal. She will definitely not dare to do it in a big deal, otherwise she will wait for Shuntian Mansion or the Wucheng Military and Ma Si to come to arrest people.

Maybe some people say why not postpone it? There is no way, the date that was set early cannot be changed easily, and the ancients believed this.

Where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the effect of the imperial ban is naturally greatly reduced. What is really painful is that the people in the capital are under the eyes of the court and dare not make any moves that violate the ban.

It is said that the most unlucky person during the Qing Dynasty's national mourning period was not ordinary people, but the princes and nobles who held high positions and enjoyed privileges. In addition to not being allowed to marry or listen to operas and music to hold banquets within twenty-seven months, they also had to endure an extremely harsh rule, called "national mourning stop pregnancy", that is, they were not allowed to get pregnant or even give birth during the national mourning period.

This is a turtle who is exhausted - the dead rule has no room for maneuver; if there is any violation, the title will be seized at the least, and the worst will be imprisoned.

Someone said again, "Will I hide from my life early?" Haha, I really think that the people in the Imperial Hospital are eating a good meal?" Besides, there is no airtight wall in the world.

If some royal princes and princes cannot bear the abortion and give birth during the national mourning period, the child must be sent away quietly as soon as it lands, find an ordinary family to adopt it, and will not be able to enter the royal jade certificate in the future, and will not be able to enter the ancestral grave even if it dies.

If you want to have an abortion, the Imperial Hospital will serve a bowl of green-headed fly soup to treat new life... This is really nonsense, cow flies are just Chinese medicine.

Although the Qing Dynasty has been around for a few days now, Jiaqing is determined to do a grand ceremony. He tried to announce the world with this move. Although the Beihai pirates were fighting with Jiaodong outside the pass, the Qing Dynasty is still the truth of the world. The court and the country are very clear that Qianlong's funeral was probably the last "grand ceremony" of the Qing Dynasty in the pass.

Due to the huge military expenditures over the years and the financial waste caused by Qianlong's excessive spending, the Ministry of Revenue did not have much spare grain in its hands. Of course, there was another important reason here, which was that Heshen took out a large amount of stolen money and ran away.

There was no choice but to allocate two million taels of silver from the treasury of the inner government, let the Ministry of Rites, Luanyiwei and the Ministry of Internal Affairs jointly organize the funeral matters, and then issued a secret order for the Governor of Liangjiang and Guangdong Customs to raise a sum of silver quickly. The source was naturally the salt merchants and the Thirteenth Party. Two million was really unstoppable. Two million was used for white cloth making mourning clothes and cloth tents. 20,000 pieces were used in a day.

According to the system, after the emperor's funeral, the coffin must be parked in the Zhengda Guangming Hall of the Ganqing Palace for 20 days, and then it must be sent to the temporary guard office for storage.

The palace where the spirits are paused has a different name, called "Funting Palace". There is no unified place for the funeral palace. Shunzhi and Kangxi's funeral palace are in the Shouhuang Hall of Jingshan, Yongzheng's funeral palace is in the Yongyou Hall of Yonghe Palace, while Qianlong's one was chosen in the Guande Hall of Jingshan. This place comes from Shenwu Gate to the east, walks east street of Jingshan, and then turns right after entering from Shanzuoli Gate. It takes a lot less road than the Shouhuang Hall. Moreover, the Empress Xiaoxianchun of Qianlong, who was the aunt of Fu Kang'an, stopped here after her death.

There is no fixed period for coffin to stay in the funeral palace, mainly based on the time when the tomb is completed, from a few months to a few years to a few years. A lot of preparations are required before burial, such as renovating the roads and bridges from the capital to Zunhua, and setting up Mancheng and Lu Hall to stay overnight during funerals. Dongling Tomb is more than 200 miles away from the capital, which usually takes six or seven days. On such a long distance, huge coffins cannot be transported by car and must be carried by people. The coffin carryrs usually have thousands of people, with a total of 60 shifts, with 128 people per shift. In addition, 4 people are required for each shift as a stand-alone.

Of course, there are no professional lords. Except for the first and last ranks of school lieutenants, the rest are all selected from the young and strong counties in the suburbs of Beijing. Before burial, they should be concentrated on the open ground outside Desheng Gate and practiced, which is called "playing bars". There are many rules for playing bars. The lords should use many cross-section wooden bars to carry out wooden boards with the same weight as the coffin; a bowl filled with water should be placed in the center of the wooden board, and the water should not splash out of the bowl when walking to be considered qualified.

In addition, foreign envoys, Mongolian princes, and Xinjiang Burke all have to form groups to Beijing. With this gap, it is also convenient to pay condolences.

In another time and space history, Qianlong's coffin was parked in Guande Hall for six months before being buried and the Feng'an ceremony was held.

However, just as the court was busy working hard, the Minister of the Lifan Academy Liu Baozhuo said that more than half of the eighteen vassal states could not go to Beijing to pay their respects to the emperor. Jiaqing suddenly became anxious. Even the foreign missions were not all here, so what kind of Tian Dynasty is called?

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, after he summoned Liu Guan, he quickly understood what was going on. It was so fucking embarrassing!

Let’s not talk about Ryukyu. The king and his ministers only follow the heads of the Beihai Town. The sea trade in the North and South Oceans is booming, saying that they will never go west. The Li Dynasty just signed the city alliance not long ago, and suffered heavy losses. He gave Li Xu ten courage to climb to the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the Northern Navy was attacking the Liaodong Peninsula, and the road to the Li Dynasty was blocked, and the envoy could not pass. There was no problem with Myanmar, but if he raised the flag and fought against the court, the tribute route would be broken.

There are six vassal states in the west of Xinjiang, including Aiwuhan, Bukhara, Kokhan, Badakh Mountain, Brut and the Kazakh Khanate. Now that Kokhan invades, the southern Xinjiang has become a mess, and the Northern Navy has occupied Xinjiang East Road and Wulumuqi, cutting off the road to Yumen Pass, which is probably a big deal.

There was no chance in the east and west, and in the end, the eight vassal states in the south were left. Because Gurkha was annexed by the Qing Dynasty, those who could come were the Xishan Chao, Nanzhang, Siam, Sulu, Zhemengxiong, Kanjuti, Brookba and Ladakh in Annan.

In addition, except for a few big lamas living in the capital for a long time in Khalkha, the other princes and kings Taiji are "visiting" in Beihai Town, and there is definitely a surplus in gathering two tables of mahjong; the Burkes in Xinjiang can't come, let alone Hami King Erdesir who was under house arrest in Beihai Town.

The Qing court did not know that Beihai Town was going to send troops to Guangdong and Guangxi to capture Nanning Prefecture. At that time, the Xishan Dynasty, Nanzhang and Siam were probably not coming. Although they could take a boat to get ashore from Guangzhou, the momentum of the Central Plains Dynasty changing its owner was so obvious, who would be rushing to hold the thigh of a dying dynasty?!

The bad news is much more than that. In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, four regiments of the Northern Navy from Shandong captured the city of Laizhou and Pingduzhou, crossed the Jiaolai River to the west, and surrounded Changyi on the west bank of the Wei River like a pair of giant stents. As for the 40,000 regiments led by Liu Yong, who had just arrived in Changle due to food and grass problems, and had just arrived in Changle and held troops on the west bank of the river.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, a messenger sent by General Shu Liang of Shengjing arrived in Guangning after a dangerous situation. Because the post road to Fengtian had been cut off by the Beihai Army, he was walking through Xinmin, and then passing through Xiaosanjiazi and Wuliang Hall, and bypassing the blockade of the Beihai Army. Late two days later, the messenger arrived in the capital, bringing a shock to the government and the people. Tens of thousands of Beihai generals surrounded Fengtian Mansion and were trapped in Fuling and Zhaoling.

After the throne of Emperor Jiaqing, Jiaqing issued an order that he would wake him up no matter how late he was. When he saw Shu Liang's blood letter, he was so heartbroken that he immediately asked the eunuchs to send several military ministers to the Yangxin Palace. Because Qianlong's spiritual suspension period had not yet ended, several military ministers could not return home and stayed in the hut in the Longzong Gate at night. Although the conditions were worse, they were spared the pain of trekking in and out of the Forbidden City.

After a while, when the exhausted Wang Jie, Qinggui and Dong Gao followed the eunuch to the west warm pavilion of Yangxin Palace, they saw Jiaqing with a flushed face standing in front of the desk, holding up a pen and writing something.

The three of them wiping their horse's hooves and were about to kneel down and kowtow to greet them, but they heard Jiaqing say, "Don't give me a seat. You can read the memorial first, and I will finish writing it before speaking."

"Yeah!"

Several people bowed, took the note handed by the eunuch, and sat tremblingly on the carved porcelain pier to watch. Among the three, Wang Jie was the oldest, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, the Prince Taibao, and the highest status, so he looked first.

All those who can be military ministers are deep-minded. After reading the memorials, the three of them pondered and kept silent. From time to time, they stared at the emperor who was concentrating on writing. The hall was so quiet that there was only the monotonous sound of the pendulum ringing.

After a while, Jiaqing put down his pen, took the towel handed by the eunuch and wiped his hands, and asked, "Wang Jie, have your foot disease improved?"

"Back to the emperor!" Wang Jie cleared his throat and said, "I am old and old, so I will be cured in an instant! I asked the emperor to be like the blessing of heaven, and I have used the frankincense given by the emperor, which is much better."

To put it simply, the "foot disease" that the ancients often talked about actually refers to the difficulty of walking caused by gout. In the medicine for treating gout, frankincense is a very important stinct.

Jiaqing nodded and said to Qinggui again: "Your complexion is not very good. Don't be reluctant to let go of the ginseng I sent someone to deliver yesterday. There are still some in the Imperial Pharmacy."

Qinggui coughed a few times and replied: "I am still worried about this little illness from the emperor. I really feel ashamed of you! I have no other thoughts, but I just devote myself to it."

Jiaqing sighed: "Don't say that. In the final analysis, your illness fell into the battle with Zhao Ni back then."

After saying that, he asked the eunuch to hold the piece of paper he had just written to show to the three of them, and said, "After reading the memorial, I felt something in my heart, so I wrote this poem. You three are all great scholars of the dynasty. See what I wrote is reasonable?"

The three of them looked at it carefully and saw that the paper read: "The civil and military officials in the court wore brocade robes, and the neighborhoods and the people were indifferent to me; a cup of fine wine, a thousand people's blood, and several bowls of fat soup and pasture for thousands of people. When people's tears fell, the sky fell, and the laughter was loud and the crying was loud. Cattle and sheep were given to the jackals and wolves, and they were given to you as the emperor."

I'm sorry! This poem is definitely more embarrassing than a slander. Every sentence is full of vicious and fierce rebukes and sarcasm, and it sucks people's hearts like a whip, with blood scars. Before the three ministers could finish reading it, they all turned red and could no longer sit still. "Papa" hit the horse's hooves and knelt down on their sleeves, and said in unison: "My (slave) is guilty! Please punish the emperor!"

Jiaqing waved his hand and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you three. It's better that I don't have enough moral character, so get up!"

Having said that, Wang Jie and the other two dared to get up! They were also wearing brocade robes and were military ministers who assisted in Yin and Yang. At present, the court could not even protect Fengtian Prefecture, and no one could get rid of this responsibility.

"Our Qing Dynasty has been established for more than 150 years. Since the Central Plains, our ancestors have been deeply benevolent and kind, loved the people as their sons, and were wise and kind. How could the wise and benevolent in the Ming Dynasty be able to match it? Huang Kao has been entrusted by the Holy Ancestor Shizong and worked diligently for decades and dared not hesitate. Although Heshen and others were arrogant and illegal, greedy and indulged in the military and national affairs, there has never been any abuse of the emperor harming the people. Why is it that even the ancestors are in danger of prosperity now?!"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jiaqing said, tears flowing down his face, and his words contain helplessness, grievances, and sadness. Can the Qing Dynasty, which lost Shengjing, still be considered the "Qing Dynasty"?

The Great Jin Kingdom, established by the Jurchens, was destroyed in Mongolia in the north for 119 years. Now, the Qing Dynasty was founded in 158 years, and it was actually destroyed in Beihai Town in the north. Could this be the curse of the Jurchen tribe?

On August 9, 1794, Shengjing City was besieged for the eighth day.

Since the Northern Navy conquered Tieling and controlled the Juliuhe Post Station, the Qing army repeatedly fought with the Northern Navy in the Puhe area under the leadership of General Shu Liang of Shengjing. Their purpose was to fight the Guangning Post Road, otherwise even if they wanted to stick to it, the food, grass and military supplies could not keep up sooner or later.

The Northern Navy was responsible for blocking only more than 2,000 troops, while the Qing army had 15,000 soldiers. However, facing the hedgehog-like circular positions and airtight guns and bullets, Shu Liang straightened his teeth and decided to fight the night battle.

Although he had heard of the North Navy that the North Navy had a "magic weapon" that could make the night brighter as bright as daytime, he had never seen it with his own eyes and was always unwilling to give up. Moreover, according to the report of the Detective, although there was light at night, the brightness could not be seen for miles.

So like the Qing generals who had fought against the Northern Navy in the past, Shu Liang selected more than 2,000 fearless men from his men, each of whom was carrying a horse, and touched them from the southeast. At the same time, he sent more than 3,000 people to launch feint attacks on the north and northeast sides of the position, trust cannons, two general cannons, muskets, and raised guns to greet each other, and beat gongs and drums, which was the ultimate.

However, when the sneak attack troops entered three or four hundred meters away from the position, more than a dozen dazzling white lights immediately appeared on the North Navy, followed by a rain of bullets. It was too late for the Qing army to get on the horse and attack. In the end, more than 2,000 people fled back and more than 400 people.

The Eight Banners brave men who were the most capable and dared to fight were almost dead, and Shu Liang no longer had the courage to fight against the North Navy. He simply withdrew to the city, blocking all other gates except a small south gate, trying to pull the lives of more than 100,000 Han and Banners in the city and bury them with him.

One hundred and fifty years ago, when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the population of Shengjing decreased sharply. At the lowest point, there were only more than 1,000 households and more than 4,000 people in the city. In the following days, with the implementation of the policy of Han people leaving the country to escape famine, exile, and resettlement of bannermen to return to their hometowns to farm, by 1771, the population of Shengjing exceeded 100,000. Now, in this 18th-century city with an area of ​​nearly 12 square kilometers, the total number of military and civilians exceeded 160,000.

Shu Liang's abacus was to make the Northern Hai army throw rats and avoid weapons. If you can delay it every day, don't you promote the care of the people? Don't you brag about not taking a needle or a thread? OK! Then I will let the elderly, weak, women and children stay on the city wall, and if you have the ability, you can shoot and fire.

In addition, he also asked his subordinates to lead the Han people in the city to leave the city from Xiaonanmen every day, demolish the residential shops outside the city, transport the wood and bricks and stones back to the city, and even take the grass on the roofs back as horse materials.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Xin and Deng Fei decided to temporarily encircle and not attack after discussion. Even if the city walls of 160,000 people were blown up and the troops rushed in, they might become a one-stove meal. There are two key nodes at present, first take down Jinzhou and cut off the retreat of the Qing army outside the pass; the other is to wait for the subsequent troops and more than 2,000 political teams to arrive, and then launch a general attack on Fengtian City, so that the city's takeover will be much smoother.

There are three post roads connecting Shengjing City and the outside world, namely Shengjing to Shanhaiguan, Shengjing to Xingjing-thatusa, and Shengjing to Jilin. So the Northern Navy set up clips on these three post roads and extended along the clips to the wings, building trenches that stretched fortifications nearly twenty miles.

In the middle of the fortifications and moats, there is an irregular vacuum zone with an average depth of three or four miles. Except for two water grids more than ten meters wide at the southeast gate wall, it directly connects to the Hunhe River. In the vacuum area, there are eight gates of the city gates, residences, shops, temples, vegetable fields, groves, sorghum fields, etc. Among them, there are some intact houses, many ordinary people who fled to the city and could not enter the city can only live in houses without roofs.

During this period, the Northern Navy outside the city used loudspeakers to repeatedly play notices urging the Qing army to surrender every day, including the Manchu and the Mandarin version three times in the morning, noon and evening. The most important thing is that the Northern Navy did not put the speakers on the position, but pulled the wires four or five hundred meters away from the Shengjing city wall, and then put the speakers on trees or on the roofs, which made the Qing army in the city very annoyed.
Chapter completed!