On the twenty-sixth day of the tenth month of the fifty-fifth year of Yuanfeng, Jiang Wuqi's funeral was held.
The funeral was unprecedented in scale.
Court Consultant Wen Yanyu, head of the Ministry of Rites, presided over the rites.
The Son of Heaven decreed:
Ninety attendants and guards belonging to Changsheng Palace, along with six hundred officials and palace guards belonging to the Imperial Clan Court, would wear mourning clothes for twenty-seven days.
All civil and military officials of the court would remove their hats and wear plain clothes for seven days.
Even the Son of Heaven would remove his hat for three days in mourning.
A ceremonial procession was set up in the main hall of Changsheng Palace. Princes, dukes, and ministers gathered to pay their respects according to custom.
Fifteen mourning banquets were laid out outside the hall.
Officials, soldiers, and civilians in Linzi were forbidden from making music or marrying for thirteen days. Throughout All-Under-Heaven, officials, soldiers, and civilians were forbidden from making music or marrying for three days...
The funeral rites far surpassed what a prince ought to have received.
In an instant, the entire three-hundred-li Linzi City was draped in frost.
Several brothels, taverns, and gambling dens—including the Four Great Famous Pavilions of Linzi—all hung up signs and shut their doors.
The Son of Heaven still seemed to think this was not enough. He ordered twenty-three Equality State spies, including Rain Cutter Army commander Yan Tu and third-rank Green Badge Constable Li Youjiu, to be publicly sliced to death at the execution grounds, to comfort the Eleventh Imperial Prince's spirit.
When a True Person died, Heaven and Earth mourned. To honor the Master of Changsheng Palace in this way was truly a grand funeral.
They said the commoners waiting to watch the execution had packed