When I arrived at the Cining Hall, many people had gathered there. Empress Dowager Zhu, Empress, Shu Concubine, and Xian Concubine were already here, and were constantly wiping tears. I walked to the bed of the Empress Dowager and sat down and looked at her. The Empress Dowager seemed to feel my arrival and slowly opened her eyes. She held my hand, so weak, like the rootless floating duckweed

"Emperor, you are here."

"Yes, Grandmother, I'm here"

After seeing my new dragon robe, she said to me, "Emperor, your dragon robe?"

"My mother, please take them out first. I will have a conversation with the Empress Dowager." I turned to the Empress Dowager and said to the Empress Dowager.

"Then the prince, please accompany the Empress Dowager." Empress Dowager Zhu wiped her tears and told me to take good care of the Empress Dowager, while taking the Queen and others out of the Cining Palace.

"Emperor, the dragon robe of the court is the place where my royal power is. Why do you change it easily?"

"Grandma, your body is already like this. Don't let these mundane things get plagued by it anymore. Your important task now is to have a good rest."

"Emperor, you!!" The Empress Dowager began to get angry after hearing my words, "Also, Emperor, you have abolished those old ministers in the Pillar Kingdom, who will protect you in the future? And you have appointed those ministers, except those martial artists who don't know anything, just like Liu Shihai, who is full of money-stealing people. This makes my Song Dynasty like the setting sun, and it's not long before."

"Grandmother, you are old. Whether the Song Dynasty is prosperous or the setting sun is not what you say, but what I, the emperor, have. The old ministers you used to hire were all guys who only understand the majesty of the court but do not understand the court's kindness. They seem to be loyal to the emperor, but actually they are misleading the country and the people. Since the empress dowager likes them so much, I will let them bury you with you after you return to heaven." I pushed back the empress dowager's words without hesitation, and the empress dowager's face turned red and kept breathing heavily. I wonder if he was getting angry the more he thought about it. He squirted out blood and was still coughing out blood, but I did not ask anyone to come in, but continued to say to her.

"Is this right to blindly observe the rules left by our ancestors without knowing how to adapt? The rules set by our ancestors at that time were determined according to the national conditions at that time, and the current national conditions are different from those at that time. However, the ministers you rely on have always used things from which era to ask me, do you think they are harming the country and the people?"

"Cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough you!" The Empress Dowager's face was covered with blood from her cough. She stretched out her hand weakly, and her eyes became unfocused. I knew that her last fire of life had been extinguished. Although she was guarding the rules of the ancestors she thought were right at the last moment of his life. Although she was so stubborn and conservative, she was still an old man who was reluctant to leave the world but had to be taken away by fate. I took two steps back, knelt down slowly, and kowtowed to her respectfully three times.

I walked out of the Cining Hall, looked at the people who were watching me, and said to them

"The Empress Dowager is burying the heavens, and he is dressed as the Empress Dowager. He also passes on the imperial edict of the Empress Dowager. The palace servants of the Cining Palace are buried with the Empress Dowager. The imperial court is burying the empress dowager during the Imperial Heaven. The Ministry of Rites arranges the funeral of the Empress Dowager and bury it together with Emperor Yingzong. Fang Kong, guarding here, and no palace servants of the Cining Palace are allowed to leave." After saying that, I left without looking back, only the crying sounds came from behind.

The Empress Dowager's funeral was held for five days. On the first day, all civil and military officials in the capital, and all imperial relatives came to pay their respects. On the second day, all officials in the capital and other border generals came to pay their respects. On the fifth day, the funeral was held from the imperial city to the outer city, and the entire capital was covered with mourning. As the emperor, I need to keep the souls for the Empress Dowager for three days, one day as a year, and then carry the coffin to the imperial tomb and bury the Emperor Yingzong. Within fifteen days after the empress dowager was buried, I wear vegetarian food, and ward off all the encouragement and entertainment. I need to go to the Empress Dowager's spiritual position three times a day a day to worship incense. In short, I have to do what ordinary people and grandchildren should do. However, since I am the emperor and cannot delay the government affairs, many etiquettes have been reduced accordingly. In the words of later generations, it is enough to be as long as it is.

At this time, the Liao Kingdom and the Jurchens were probably the Jin Kingdom. Since Yelu Qinghou returned to the capital of Liao Kingdom, Shangjing (now the left banner of Balin, Mongolia), he told their great emperor Yelu Hongji that he had heard about the Jurchens in my Song Dynasty, and he also said a lot of bad things about the Jurchens. He also gave him the letter of national improvement that I had given to him to increase trade between the two countries to Yelu Hongji. The Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji was overjoyed after seeing this, and he really rewarded Yelu Qinghou, and immediately sent someone to contact our country to discuss the trade issues, and then sent generals Arandal and Yelu
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