It has been fifty or sixty years since Emperor Sejong's coffin was hung up with ropes. Logically speaking, since Li Mu is now in charge of this matter, the most important thing is to give it to the emperor who never closed his eyes until his death. Build the imperial mausoleum as soon as possible and send the hanging coffin to the north for burial, thus ending this regret that has lasted for decades.
But the truth is the truth, and the reality is the reality.
The actual situation is that once there was an emperor, there were ministers, and the current emperor is Emperor Hongde.
Moreover, Emperor Hongde made it clear that he would be buried in the north, so the priority of King Li Mu of Jin was very clear.
After all, Emperor Sejong would not stand up from his coffin and scold Li Mu, a future descendant, for being unworthy. But if Emperor Hongde is unhappy, it will really affect the future of the Jin Palace.
The reason why Li Mu is still working conscientiously for the imperial court, is he looking forward to adding the words hereditary and hereditary to the words "king of Jin" in his lifetime?
Li Mu immediately understood and nodded: "Fortunately, Zi Heng reminded me, otherwise I might have made a mistake in this matter."
After a pause, he looked at Shen Yi and whispered: "However, the matter of moving the imperial capital has not been settled or finalized yet, and His Majesty has not explicitly asked me to search for the imperial mausoleum near Yandu. I If we do this now, I’m afraid I’ll be scolded by those civil servants who don’t agree to move the capital.”
Prince Jin paused for a moment before continuing: "You scolded me for flattering the Holy One."
Shen Yi smiled and said: "If it were me, I might still have scruples in this regard. After all, I came from an academic background and can be regarded as a civil servant. However, Your Majesty belongs to the clan, and only His Majesty can give you a hereditary replacement. How can you still What’s there to worry about?”
"It's not that I'm worried, I just mentioned it casually."
Prince Jin lowered his head and took a sip of tea, then looked at Shen Yi and said with emotion: "Now that Yandu has been surrounded by Zi Heng, recovery is in sight. After Yandu recovers, the remaining important matters for the court are to move the capital and establish a prince. Already."
He lowered his voice and said: "Your Majesty is already on his way back to Jiankang. I heard that the ministers in the imperial court have written many times, requesting your Majesty to establish a crown prince. This time, your Majesty granted the title of Zen to Mount Tai and brought two princes with him. , many people speculate that the crown prince will be chosen from these two princes."
Mr. Shen looked at Prince Jin suspiciously, and then said with a smile: "Is the prince here to test my tone?"
"Nothing."
Li Mu shook his head and said: "I just want to remind Ju Heng that the Crown Prince matter is very important. If you can help it, don't get involved."
Shen Yi took a sip of tea and sighed: "If I can avoid participating, then I will naturally not participate. However, no one can tell what the future will look like."
When working in the imperial court, many things are complicated and complicated, and you cannot control them.
For example, because the ownership of the crown prince has not yet been decided, there are already undercurrents in the Jiankang court in private.
The Sun family has produced two generations of emperors and empresses, and now they naturally want to help the third son of the emperor, Li Rong, to take the position in the East Palace to ensure that the Sun family's status will not be lost in the future.
On the other side, Concubine Hui's family, namely the family of Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, also spared no effort in their activities, relying on the emperor's favor to send Li Wang to the throne.
It is worth mentioning here that the "originality" that the emperor arranged for Empress Hui was now forcibly bound to Empress Hui. They did not want to contribute, but they had no choice but to contribute.
From this point of view, Concubine Hui is not considered weak alone, because although the descendants have a very high status, the whole family is tied together, and they are far less powerful than a Dajiu Qing.
With the two forces fighting overtly and covertly, Shen Yi has become the target they must win over. In fact, not only the people in the palace want to marry Shen Yi's children, but now many officials from the court want to follow Shen Heng's path. I want to marry Mr. Shen’s nephew and niece, thereby binding me to the Shen family.
This is just the situation in Shen Yi's family.
The generals of the Huai'an Army are all closely related to Shen Yi. If someone finds them and gets married to them, they will be more or less related to Shen Yi.
It's just that if you don't get married directly with the Shen family, you can just do it directly.
After sighing with emotion, Mr. Shen looked at Li Mu and said with a smile: "Where are you, Your Majesty? What do you think?"
"If you want me to see it, it's natural to be a direct descendant."
Prince Jin did not shy away and said in a low voice: "But I have been in contact with those two nephews. In terms of personality, the eldest son of the emperor is more suitable."
"After all, after the Hong De Dynasty, what Da Chen needs is a lord who maintains the status quo."
Shen Yi smiled and said nothing.
Prince Jin also had a tacit understanding and did not continue. Instead, he changed the subject and said with a smile: "In the next few days, I am going to pay homage to the emperor's tomb. After I finish paying homage to the emperor's tomb, I will bring a group of Feng Shui masters with me. Went to explore the ley lines."
"If we find a good place and build the imperial mausoleum, I'm afraid we will need Zi Hengqin's help here."
"This is easy."
Mr. Shen said with a smile: "After Yandu breaks the city, there will definitely be a large number of prisoners. Then they will be punished to work in the imperial mausoleum to atone for their sins."
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "With Ziheng's words, I feel more relieved."
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The next day, Shen Yi took Prince Jin to look around Yandu. Prince Jin was very excited when he looked at the Yandu City in front of him, and sometimes he even danced.
He is the grandson of Emperor Xianzong and the great-grandson of Emperor Sejong. Yandu is also his ancestral home.
On the ninth day of September, Prince Jin led a group of people to leave Shen Yi's military tent and began to clean and repair Chen Yi's imperial mausoleum near Yandu.
And this day was also the day when the Huai'an army officially attacked Yandu.
In the past ten days, the Huai'an Army has never stopped calling for Yan Du to surrender.
But this morning, the Huai'an army did not shout any more to persuade them to surrender.
Shen Yi, who had not worn armor for a long time, also put on a suit of armor and rode on a tall horse to visit the military formation in person.
Because he is in the south at the moment, on the side where the vanguard army is responsible, so behind him are Xue Wei and Wan Zhong.
On the mount, Old Shen raised his head and looked at Yandu in front of him. As the bleak autumn wind blew by, the Shen flag behind him was blown loudly.
Shen Yi raised his head and looked at the city. After being silent for a while, he waved his hand and said expressionlessly: "Attack the city!"
General Xue looked back at Wan Zhong, and Wan Zhong also turned around and shouted loudly to the general behind him: "Gong Shen has given orders to start attacking the city!"
"The gunners are in position. After ten breaths, they will bombard Yandu City!"
What's left in the vanguard army now are all those who have survived a hundred battles. They can all be said to be elites tempered by blood and blood. Following the order from Wan Zhong, all the gunners in the vanguard army immediately stood at their respective artillery positions. , some familiar old gunners are already using their thumbs to estimate the specific location from the tower to the position.
And just when the vanguard army was about to prepare to fire the artillery, the sound of artillery was faintly heard from the east and west sides.
Xue Wei followed Shen Yi on horseback, looked to the south thoughtfully, and said, "Mr. Shen, General Su and the others have taken action."
Mr. Shen smiled hoarsely: "Ling Su obviously took action, how did you learn to be partial?"
General Xue grinned and did not argue.
On this day, Marquis Shen kept his word, and the Huai'an army surrounded the city on all sides and began to attack Yandu.
At almost the same time as agreed upon, hundreds of Huai'an army cannons roared together to vent their firepower on the city wall.
Of course, although this attack was very powerful, it was only a tentative attack. Shen Yi needed to rely on this attack to determine the combat effectiveness of the Yandu defenders, so as to decide whether to encircle or attack in the future.
As the soldiers began to rush back towards Yandu, at the south city gate, Master Shen looked up at the Yandu city wall and said in a loud voice: "Pass my general's order!"
"Whoever reaches this city first will be given gold and a title!"
"Give me thousands of gold and be granted the title of World Lord!"