Facts have proved that Shangguan Yuan's decision was extremely correct.
The first time he took command, he made great achievements and returned triumphantly. The degree of attention he received was extraordinary.
There are more than a hundred maidservants in the Hou Mansion, either as gifts from the emperor or from princes and ministers.
It was clean and tidy inside and outside, just waiting for the couple to move in.
No worries at all.
As for the expenses of the banquet, just a dime from the gift is enough to cover it.
The money that was lost really came back!
After achieving such great military exploits, others would have been so arrogant and forgetful about it, but Shangguan Yuan seemed to be very normal.
Although the bandit leader Xu Huaishan was brought to justice, his eldest son Xu Youxiong's whereabouts are unknown.
This made him feel very sorry.
Xu Youxiong was a famous general who guarded Xiguan for twenty years and never allowed a single Western soldier to cross the border.
The late emperor once wrote a personal inscription: One man can guard against ten thousand men, and he gave it to Xu Youxiong.
However, Shangguan Yuan fought all the way and packed up several baskets of small fish and shrimps, but did not get to fight Xu Youxiong.
Some people say that Xu Youxiong knew that the situation was over and surrendered to Xirong.
If this is true, it will definitely become a disaster for the Great Xuan Dynasty in the future.
Worrying about the country and its people, alas!
His worries were also the emperor's worries.
In recent years, the court has undergone a major change. Although the emperor has become more and more powerful, the price paid is not small.
In particular, who to send to take over the position left by Xu Youxiong gave him the biggest headache.
What bothered him even more was that his sister, Princess Nandu, always pointed fingers at him on the pretext of caring about him.
When he gets impatient, his sister brings out his dead parents to teach him a lesson.
Taking advantage of Master Wang's triumphant return, Princess Nandu brought up the matter of "moving the tomb" again.
When the Queen Mother died, the Xuan Dynasty was just being built, and there were not even decent palaces, let alone imperial mausoleums.
He remembered from afar that the burial was very hasty at that time, that is, a piece of geomantic treasure land was occupied, the soil was mounded higher, and no complicated repairs were carried out.
Nine years ago, the late emperor passed away and the imperial mausoleum was only half completed.
Counting the days, it should be completed within the next two years.
Taking advantage of the completion of the project, the coffin of the former Empress Dowager was moved here, and the emperor and empress were buried together, which seemed to be a sign of filial piety.
However, relocating the tomb requires a lot of labor and money and is really not suitable to be done just after the civil strife has subsided.
He thought about taking it slow for a while and then think about it carefully after the end of the year.
Princess Nandu didn't understand and kept scolding him for being unfilial.
"After the New Year, the courtiers should advise you to get a new queen. Isn't a big wedding extravagant and wasteful? The queen mother's mausoleum is simple, that is, a coffin is replaced and transported to the imperial mausoleum and buried again. If you are afraid of spending money on the treasury
I'm willing to use my own money to pay for the money. Anyway, I've already told you beforehand, just don't punish me when you turn around!"
Princess Nandu's tough attitude forced the emperor to understand the matter seriously.
So he called King Zhang and King Luo to one place for discussion.
The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Accounts will then calculate the corresponding expenses.
Everyone's face is full of sorrow and mist. They all say that the treasury is empty and they can't squeeze out the money to move the grave.
Princess Nandu didn't want her plan to go to waste, so she spent all her private money, and then dragged her brother King Luo into the water. She wanted to use a penny from the treasury to move her mother's grave.
If this thing is done, it will definitely gain a good reputation.
King Luo was just trying to repair his reputation, so he hit it off with his sister.
Fucheng is southeast of the capital, and the imperial mausoleum is to the west of the capital.
The distance between the two places is more than 80 miles, which is not very far away.
Most of the roads in the middle are flat, and there are no rebels or bandits around, making it peaceful and safe.
But the relocation of the tomb did not go smoothly at all.
Because the tomb was damaged by large and small holes, it collapsed not long after the soil was excavated.
The only good thing is that the Queen Mother's coffin is still intact.
However, when the coffin was being lifted, the seemingly intact coffin shattered.
King Luo thought that he had not chosen the right day to move the tomb and disturbed his mother's deceased soul, so he kept kowtow to her.
When Princess Nandu saw this, she kept kowtow.
At this moment, the soldiers lifting the coffin discovered something unusual: there were words on the inside of the coffin lid.
King Luo stepped forward and shook his head, his legs were weak from fear, and he knelt on the ground crying.
Princess Nandu was a little frightened and did not dare to go forward to see. She kept grabbing her brother and asking questions.
"What's wrong? What's the word?"
King Luo also couldn't say anything, so he asked the soldiers on the side to answer for him.
"Back to princess, it's 'Liu Songmei kill me'."
"Who is Liu Songmei?" Princess Nandu has been away from the country for sixteen years, and her impression of the people back then has been blurred, and she couldn't remember it after thinking about it for a long time.
King Luo couldn't remember either.
After the siblings moved the tomb, they brought the remains of the coffin and coffin back to the capital and handed them over to the emperor for burial.
Who is Liu Songmei?
Few people among the younger generation of officials know about it, they only know about Shangguan Liu family.
When I returned home and reported it, I found out that she was Shangguan Yuan's mother.
Why are there words on the inner wall of the coffin?
Was the Queen Mother buried alive?
What happened in Fucheng twenty years ago?
On one side is the revenge of killing one's mother, on the other side is the minister of humiliation.
The emperor had a terrible headache.
I had to issue an order to temporarily block the news.
However, Princess Nandu refused to comply and had a sworn hatred for killing her mother. Before the emperor could give the order, she had already killed Liu Songmei at the Miaofa Temple and tied her up with five flowers and threw her at the emperor's feet.
They even took a preemptive strike and lured Shangguan Yuan and his wife into the palace under the pretext of imperial orders, tied them up with chains, and planned to dispose of them together.
Such a style of work cannot be said to be unruly.
The emperor and King Luo were both frightened by his sister's thunderous tactics.
Especially King Luo, who quickly drew a clear line with his sister and personally went to loosen the bonds of Shangguan Yuan and his wife.
Seeing that the window paper had been pierced, the emperor had no choice but to invite his uncle, Prince Zhang, to secretly review the case.
Liu Songmei refused to admit that she buried the late Queen Mother alive, "Back then, the emperor, princess, and princes all saw the Queen Mother being buried with their own eyes. Whether she was buried dead or alive, couldn't your eyes tell the difference? It depends on what was in the coffin twenty years later."
A word?"
"If you hadn't killed my mother, why would she have carved those words in the coffin? It was you, you are the murderer!"
"A tomb full of holes for thieves. Who knows whether the Queen Mother lying inside twenty years later? What if the words are forged? As we all know, the Queen Mother was a foreign woman. The old woman did not remember that she could write about the Central Plains
Word!"
"I don't seem to remember that the Queen Mother can write Chinese characters." King Zhang discovered the doubt and asked the emperor to hand over the coffin fragments to Dali Temple for careful examination.
After this investigation, we found clues.
The coffin had been tampered with beforehand, so it happened that it shattered when the coffin was lifted.
But, who could be behind it?
The coffin and coffin have been replaced, can the bones inside still belong to the Queen Mother?
The emperor did not dare to question, and the rest of the people even less dared to speak.