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    "The Empress Dowager is unconscious." She knelt down behind the emperor. The emperor was lying on the couch, his head resting on the queen's lap. The palace was silent, surrounded by flickering candlelight and heavy shadows. Even so, Li Liyi  Still keeping his voice very low.  "Dean Sun carefully diagnosed the saint and prescribed a lot of medicine. However, dean Sun told me that the Queen Mother has reached the end of her life, and this time there is no medicine." "How is the saint feeling now?"  "The saint was very open-minded. She had already guessed her situation, and she was not sad at all. She also said that she was very happy to go see Emperor Gaozu soon. She also said that she had lived more than half a year longer than Emperor Gaozu, and she could see it with her own eyes.  The Sui Dynasty was successfully inherited by your majesty and prospered again. I am very happy to see Gao Zu and explain it." Li Liyi said.  "Oh." Yi Feng has also been paying attention to the physical condition of Empress Dowager Dugu. Ever since Emperor Wen was killed by his son, this powerful woman has been defeated. If the civil strife had not been quickly put down, the Sui Dynasty would have been back on track.  , I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on until now.  But even after watching the civil strife end, after losing two sons and her husband one after another, this once-proud woman was deeply injured. At the end of last year, the imperial doctor reported to Yi Feng that the body of Empress Dowager Dugu had collapsed.  There is a flashback phenomenon, and it is difficult to survive the end of the year.  Yi Feng had even asked people to prepare for the funeral, but she managed to survive the New Year, but only for a few more days, until the arrival of the first year of Kaiyuan and the victory of Liaodong.  "The saint is a very remarkable woman. Women are not inferior to men. She is half of the credit for the founding of the Sui Empire." The emperor's evaluation of the Empress Dowager surprised the queen slightly. This evaluation was quite high.  "You and I will accompany the Empress Dowager these two days." Yi Feng said.  "Yeah." Li Liyi nodded, put her hands on the emperor's temples, and pressed them gently.  Neither of them spoke anymore. Yi Feng lamented that an old era had ended and a new era had arrived.  After a while, Yi Feng changed his clothes and took the queen to the palace where the empress dowager lived in Houyuan to accompany the empress dowager. But at this time, the empress dowager Dugu was completely comatose, without even the slightest bit of consciousness, she was just silent.  He lay there quietly, panting heavily, panting like a cow, his hands and feet were swollen to the point of his knees and elbows, and his body was extremely hot.  Sun Simiao whispered to Yi Feng about his condition and said that the Empress Dowager was about to pass away.  Yi Feng nodded. He also knew that there was also a folk saying that swollen hands and feet of old people, especially if they only swell a little bit from the ends of the hands and feet, are generally regarded as a precursor to death. They all say that swollen hands and feet are swollen.  However, once the joints are swollen to the knees and elbows, death is basically certain.  Yi Feng walked to the couch, and the unconscious Empress Dowager was panting like an ox and whirring like a mountain. This reminded Yi Feng of his grandmother in later generations.  At that time, my grandmother looked like this before she died. All the forgotten things from that life came to mind, which made Yi Feng's eyes wet. The Queen Mother and her grandmother overlapped. For the first time, Yi Feng felt sorry for this.  He felt an inexplicable feeling of closeness to the strong woman of the Sui Dynasty who once made him a little awed. At this moment, she was no longer the queen, the emperor, or the empress dowager, she was his grandmother.  Unable to hold back her tears, Yi Feng sat on the couch, lifted the Empress Dowager up, and leaned in her arms so that she could breathe a little more easily, although at this time, she could no longer feel this.  "Bring the comb." Yi Feng said.  The queen brought a comb over with her own hands. It was just an ordinary wooden comb in the palace of the Empress Dowager. This extraordinary woman owned the world, but she was always frugal and never wanted to be extravagant. The biggest luxury in her life was later Yang  It has always been the Palace of Renshou built by Emperor Wen and his wife.  But the luxurious Renshou Palace was not her wish, but Yang Su had already built it, and the emperor was furious, so she allowed the emperor to accept it in order to improve the relationship between her and the king.  Yi Feng couldn¡¯t help but shed tears as he combed the Empress Dowager¡¯s hair full of silver strands with a wooden comb.  "The Empress Dowager is in tears." Among the eldest princesses standing aside, Princess Lanling Yang Awu suddenly said. Only then did everyone realize that the emperor was in tears as he combed the Empress Dowager's hair, while she was already in a coma.  Unconsciously, the Empress Dowager also shed two lines of hot tears.  Yi Feng reached out to help her wipe away her tears, and then suddenly couldn't hear her heavy breathing.  Sun Simiao was experienced. As soon as he saw the Empress Dowager crying, he already knew that the saint had collapsed.  Carefully stepping forward, and after checking carefully, Sun Simiao knelt in front of the emperor and reported sadly, "Your Majesty, the empress dowager saint has passed away." In the political hall, the nine prime ministers and the subordinates of the fifth house were nervously  They were discussing how to establish Liaodong and Liaobei provinces in the newly recovered Liaodong land, how to divide prefectures and counties, and how to select candidates.Suitable officials, and how to deal with and arrange the Goguryeo people in Liaodong, etc. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of Eastern Expedition soldiers. Although 200,000 have to be withdrawn, only 100,000 are left to garrison, but food supplies, winter clothes supplies, etc.  There can be no carelessness.  When I was busy and exhausted, I heard someone outside the door shouting, "Ms. sir, gentlemen, the Queen Mother has passed away." The capital hall was discussing the list of nine recommended provincial and state-level officials in the two provinces of Liaodong and North Liaoning.  The prime minister couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then everyone was silent for a moment when he realized what he said.  With the death of the Empress Dowager, from now on, no one in the Sui Dynasty could exert influence on the emperor.  I don¡¯t know whether this is good or bad. Everyone thought of one thing invariably. This was the end of an old era and the beginning of a new era.  Especially Yang Su, one of his sisters was married to the Empress Dowager's brother, so he had always been close to the Empress Dowager, and it was through this relationship that he was able to step into the core of the imperial court.  After the new emperor ascended the throne, he clearly showed his dominance and unconventional style of acting, and his actions were extremely bold, which made even reformists like Yang Su unable to keep up.  Now that there is no longer even the Empress Dowager who can pour some cold water on the emperor at the right time and help him brake, I am afraid that the emperor will be even more unrestrained in his actions in the future.  As for Guanlong people like him who have been suppressed by the new emperor, I am afraid that the situation will become more and more worrying in the future.  Yang Su only felt that another huge boulder was pressing on his heart, as if it weighed tens of millions of pounds, making him a little breathless.  In the city of Luoyang, the bells of the temples and Taoist temples rang in unison, ringing the death knell for the Empress Dowager and announcing to all people in the world that the Empress Dowager Dugu died in Ziwei Palace in Luoyang.  The bells rang throughout the world, and the soldiers and civilians in Zhongjing City came out of their houses one after another, counting the number of bells.  Soon, Zhi Jinwu, dressed in plain clothes, appeared in the streets and alleys of Zhongjing and formally announced the sad news to the soldiers and civilians of the capital.  When the Empress Dowager died, the emperor and the Empress Dowager were ordered to leave the court and ban music. No marriages were allowed within three months. Drinking and entertainment were prohibited. The whole country mourned the Empress Dowager.  The emperor decreed that Taifu, Shangshu Zuo Pushe and Chu State Duke Yang Su should be responsible for leading the department to organize the funeral of the Empress Dowager.  Luoyang Ziwei Palace, Kaiyuan Palace.  Although he quit the imperial court, he only quit the outer imperial court. The regulations of Kaiyuan Hall are like the Manlu Hall in Xijing, which is also the emperor's palace.  The foreign court has stopped, but the country is complicated and various affairs cannot stop. Yi Feng no longer goes to the foreign court to attend the court, but summons important ministers to discuss matters in the Ganlu Palace.  The emperor, the prime ministers of the two governments, and the important subordinate officials of the two governments all wore mourning clothes. The things that should be done cannot be delayed, the etiquette cannot be violated, but the things cannot be canceled.  The newly recovered Liaodong, the emperor had already issued an edict to newly establish Liaodong Province and Liaobei Province. The boundary between Liaoxi and Liaodong and Liaobei Province is the Liaohe River, while the boundary between Liaodong and Liaobei Province is the Xiaoliao River.  Originally, according to the opinions of some officials, there should be only one Liaodong Province, and the plains on the west bank of the Liao River should also be included in Liaodong Province, while Western Liaoning should be included in the mountainous areas, and even parts of Xi and Khitan should be included in Western Liaoning.  Part of the area was incorporated into Saishang Province, thus canceling Saibei Province, forming a pattern of three provinces, Saishang, Liaoxi and Liaodong, outside the Hebei Pass.  However, after Yi Feng thought about it, although he felt that the area outside Guan Guan had a large population and few people, it was okay to establish three provinces, but the area was too big, and the area outside Guan Guan was not a grassland and could be developed. He divided it into Fortress, Fortress, Liaoxi, and Liaodong.  , the five provinces in northern Liaoning also increased their attention to the areas outside the customs, strengthened development efforts, and strengthened jurisdiction. Therefore, it was finally decided to set the areas outside the customs into five provinces, and slightly adjust the jurisdiction of the original three provinces.  Two new provinces were established, and Liaoxi Province had not appointed provincial-level officials before. Therefore, this time provincial and state officials from three provinces were appointed at once. Although it is just outside the customs, provincial-level officials are third- and fourth-level officials, as well as state-level officials.  Fourth- and fifth-grade officials, in the Sui Dynasty when even the chief ministers were only second- and third-grade officials, they were already extremely high-level officials. Many people wanted to go outside the customs.  What's more, a war has just been fought outside the customs. As long as nothing goes wrong next, serving as an official will definitely be more rewarding than serving in the mainland.  In addition to the selection of officials, the newly recovered areas also need to be managed and resettled, reclaimed wasteland and built cities, the old people of Goguryeo need to be appeased, and thieves and rebellions need to be suppressed. All this means that a large amount of financial, material and manpower are needed.  There are also many important things on the Privy Council side.  Regarding the strategic deployment of troops against Goguryeo in the next stage, as well as the withdrawal and garrison matters, as well as the evaluation and rewards of meritorious service after the war, there is also the most important issue.  , and now the deputy envoy Li Jing, who made unparalleled contributions in the Battle of Liaodong, has been promoted, and now another deputy envoy position is vacant.
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