The Ministry of Rites proposed the posthumous title of the Empress Dowager as Empress Dowager Sheng'an, and the funeral is scheduled for the third day of September.
Because the Supreme Emperor was still there, the coffin of the Empress Dowager Sheng'an had to be temporarily parked in the Shinto Road outside the East Emperor's Mausoleum, waiting for the death of the Emperor to be buried together in the future.
On the day of the funeral, Emperor Ming Yuan was going to go to the funeral himself, but he did not know that the Supreme Emperor fell in the hall and fell very badly. He was afraid of something wrong and did not go to the funeral himself.
There was a sound of mourning in the middle of Beijing, and more than a thousand royal descendants and officials were buried in the funeral. They were dressed in filial piety and went all the way out of the city.
There were a total of 64 people in Yinan, and 64 people carried the coffin. The coffin was carried out by a group of filial sons and grandchildren. In the mighty procession, in addition to the funeral party, there was also a car and dragon, which were all used to transport the funeral品的.
Yu Wenhao and the princes were responsible for delivering the spirits. In the carriage in front were thirty-two monks chanting all the way.
After arriving at the imperial mausoleum, the mourners have to return, leaving the princes and burial personnel to wait until the auspicious hour, and then they will be sent to the shinto inside the imperial mausoleum underground palace.
The funeral stuff must be put down first, so Yu Wenhao, Wang An and others stayed outside.
After waiting for a stick of incense, someone quickly ran out of the tomb passage and ran so fast. When they were about to arrive, they almost fell in front of Yu Wenhao, lowering their voice and trembling: " Humble duty has urgent matters to report."
"Say!" Seeing his panic, Yu Wenhao's heart sank.
"Please report to Rongbei!" The man was obviously frightened.
With Yu Wenhao's permission, the man trembled forward and said in Yu Wenhao's ear: "The tomb gate of the Western Emperor's Mausoleum has been deliberately damaged. I don't know if there is damage inside."
Yu Wenhao picked up the man's collar, furious, "What?"
"His Royal Highness, please see for yourself!" The man was so frightened, his legs trembling all the time.
Yu Wenhao glanced back, and the funeral procession was ten steps away. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said to the person who reported it: "Without this king's order, you can't divulge a word."
"Yes!" The man was already limp on the ground.
He immediately talked to a few brothers about this matter. The princes' expressions changed drastically when they heard this, and they hurriedly rode their horses to Xiling. After arriving at Xiling, several people turned their horses on their backs and walked in quickly.
Xiling is the mausoleum of Emperor Hui Zong. The door to the tomb was closed and sealed. Originally, the queen mother did not need to go through the tomb. It was only because of the need to come to worship the incense when the queen mother was buried.
Yuwenhao went in fiercely, and saw the marble tomb door had been hit by a knife and an axe, and there was a gap between the two doors. Although it is still far away from the underground palace, it may not be damaged inside, but it is not ruled out. Someone has been in.
"Is it a tomb thief?" Wang Qi asked fearfully.
"It's not like!" Yu Wenhao carefully looked at the traces of the swords and axes, and said solemnly: "The tomb thief will not make such a big movement, and there are special guards around the tomb. "
"Then why destroy the tomb door? Also, how did this person get in?" Wang An asked.
Yu Wenhao felt strange that destroying the imperial mausoleum would be a crime of ransacking the family and annihilating the clan. Who would dare to do that? Why do you do this again
King Sun also said suspiciously: "Since this person has come here, it is easy to get in. This tomb door can be opened. It is not a sealed door in the underground palace. Why should it be destroyed? Is it impossible to open the door directly?"
Yu Wenhao's face changed, "This person may have been in."
King Qi was taken aback, "God, wouldn't the underground palace be destroyed, right?"
Everyone looked at Yu Wenhao, their expressions were very solemn.
Yu Wenhao thought for a while. The guards of the imperial mausoleum came in and told them to open the door of the tomb and go in and take a look at the Shinto. If the gate of the underground palace is not destroyed, then this person should have never entered. The door of the underground palace cannot be opened. , Unless destruction enters.
Opening the tomb door, it was completely dark inside. After the air dispersed for a while, the guard of the tomb entered with a torch.
Not long after, the guard ran out panting and knelt on the ground to report: "Going back to your Royal Highness, the triple gate of the underground palace has been destroyed. The villain dare not look inside. Please make your decision."
Yu Wenhao was furious. As a descendant of the royal family, the tomb was destroyed. What a shame
Everyone exited the tomb, and Yu Wenhao was furious, and the commander who guarded the imperial tomb came to be accountable.
He knelt down in darkness in front of him, all in a panic.
The guard commander of the imperial tomb is called Zhang Tian, a general who was relegated to fight with personal grievances in the army, and he came here to guard the imperial tomb for the second year.
Zhang Tian was frightened. He was irritated by Yu Wenhao for a few words before he came back to his senses. He knelt on the ground and trembled, crying bitterly, and reported: "Going back to your Royal Highness, the ministers have been here for three years and dare not slacken the slightest. There are people visiting during the day and night, and apart from the annual worship, no outsiders have ever been allowed to come in, nor have anyone stolen into the imperial tomb."
Yu Wenhao said angrily: "No one has ever entered, so why are the doors of the tomb and underground palace destroyed? If someone enters the underground palace and disturbs the peace of Emperor Huizong, you will not have enough heads to drop."
Zhang Tian was limp on the ground, his face was full of despair. The triple doors of the underground palace were all destroyed, can the underground palace not be destroyed
Everyone retired first, and sent Wang Wei back to Beijing to report the matter. Whether he wanted to enter the underground palace to investigate, the father had to make an order.
The coffin of the empress dowager entered the East Tomb and placed it in a secret room in the Shinto. After the ceremony was completed, the officials responsible for the burial retreated, leaving only a few princes here.
The destruction of Xiling must not be made public, lest it cause an uproar.
The brothers did not dare to go away, and they waited in the Xiangen Hall outside Xiling. The dusk had arrived, and Zhang Tian asked someone to bring food, but the brothers had no appetite to eat.
Everyone was furious in their hearts, but they didn't dare to lose their temper here.
Wang An simply sat on the ground, looking at the moon gradually rising outside, and said, "Fifth, how likely is it to be a tomb thief?"
Yu Wenhao's face was tense, and his eyes were extremely cold and sharp, "The possibility is very low. As I said earlier, if it is a tomb thief, it is impossible to use a knife to hack the door of the tomb. Isn't this deliberately attracting attention?"
"What if those tomb robbers don't know that the door of the tomb can be opened? Maybe they thought they had fallen into the dead door and they wanted to open it in the middle. This possibility is also possible." Sun Wang said.
Yu Wenhao shook his head, "It's even more impossible. How can you be an ignorant person if you dare to steal the imperial tomb? It must be someone who has advanced methods of stealing the tomb."
A flaming glow came out of Wang Huai's white face, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Who is so bold that even the door of the imperial palace dared to destroy it."
Yu Wenhao's eyes sinked, "I'm afraid it's not just destroying the door of the underground palace. It may have entered the tomb, and the guards went in to investigate, but it has not yet reached the martyrdom road. Therefore, no one can predict what kind of damage it will become. "
There is a worst possible possibility. No one dared to say it. Everyone looked very solemn and worried that it might happen.
"Can you go first to see the martyrdom road? If the items in the martyrdom road are gone, at least it can be proved to be stolen." Wang An suggested.
After listening to Wang's proposal, both Sun Wang and Wang Huai looked at Yu Wenhao.
Yu Wenhao didn't make a decision for a while, and entered the martyrdom, which meant he was close to the coffin of Emperor Huizong.