Just one day after the death of the late emperor, the queen... that is, the current queen... was impatient to be buried in the coffin...
The ceremonial guards, tombs, nine tripods, and eulogies were prepared almost overnight. The prosecutors of the new emperor followed closely...
According to the practice of national mourning, the prince must hold the coffin and keep the soul for 16 days before he can be buried...
However, the empress dowager now didn't care about such etiquette and did not even choose auspicious days, so she ordered people to carry the coffin of Emperor Xuan Si to the imperial tomb.
There were no lists, no notices, and no prose. Just relying on the people living at the foot of the imperial city, they heard the elegies from the imperial city, and then ran around to tell each other. In this short hour, from Donghua Gate to the imperial tomb outside the city, the people in plain clothes were crowded with the scene of sending each other for ten miles...
The people... although stupid...
But they... are not fools...
Whoever is really good to them and who is worthy of their love, their hearts... have a scale... very clear...
When the guard of honor who was sent out of the palace saw the crowds of people in front of him, they were also confused. But soon, the crying and shouting of hundreds of thousands of people infected them. Every time they passed by, they would be kneeling down and bowed by the people along the way, which shocked them. Zheng Zifeng, the Minister of Rites in charge, wiped the tears at the corners of his eyes, waved his hand, and slowed down the guard of honor. In order to allow more people who came to hear the news, they could see His Majesty for the last time...
"Inheriting the importance of heaven, open the great way of heaven to the great power of the Holy Martial God and Pure Benevolence to Emperor Xiaowen, and return to the heaven and to devote himself to diligence and good politics forever, collect Liaodong, clean up officials, destroy Varo, light taxes and labor, comply with all the people in the world, recruit and appease the nations in the sea, govern the world in the world, and replenish the people in the world, and revitalize the people in the world, and revitalize the people in the world and enrich the people. Wu pacify the world and return to the world. All the people regard the ancestors of the ancestors. Now let's go back, please walk slowly. You can see the people's tides crying and whistling like the sea, and you can see that all the rich country will be peaceful..."
"Stop it!!! Zheng Shangshu! The eulogy should be read in the imperial tomb! You act like this! Wouldn't it be a violation of etiquette?!"
Zheng Zifeng slowly put away the mourning edict in his hand, chuckled at Eunuch Ma who was roaring at him, and explained in a low voice: "My father-in-law forgives the crime. I am not seeing the people's emotions stirred up, and I am afraid of chaos, so I read it out to show comfort. Although Yu Li is a little unscrupulous, I am also trying to safeguard the royal country and help the emperor restrain the people's hearts..."
Ma Yaomin... This is a celebrity who follows the current Empress Dowager... He can't afford to be guilty...
Thinking of this, Zheng Zifeng's smile became even more flattering, and he nodded and bowed repeatedly...
Upon hearing this, Eunuch Ma lowered his head and thought for a while, turned around and looked at the people around him, then frowned and waved his hand, "Read it, read it!"
"Oh! Okay! My father-in-law walked slowly..." Zheng Zifeng smiled and bowed his hands until Ma Yaomin walked away. He put away the smile on his face and spat softly: "A castrated man! If the emperor is here, you will not dare to fart with you if you have 10,000 courage!! What... Haha!"
After scolding, Zheng Zifeng turned around and hurriedly chased the front of the team, launched a mourning edict, and continued to read aloud as the team progressed...
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The next day
Courtyard
All civil and military officials were mourned in court...
He knelt down and worshiped, and there were two people sitting on the high imperial platform...
One is the new emperor who succeeded the throne at the age of 16, Wang Wenzheng.
The other one is Empress Dowager Li, who is sitting behind the roller shutters...
"My emperor has been for thousands of years!!!!"
With the shout of Left Prime Minister Li Yuanzhao, all officials knelt down and shouted for thousands of years...
Wang Wen was smiling on his face, turned his head slightly, and whispered to the empress dowager beside him: "Mother, if you want to stay in this position forever... you must be careful of your 'brother'..."
Empress Dowager Li nodded quietly and replied in a low voice: "Why don't the mother know the reason why the mother is noble by her son... Let's see..."
After thousands of years of calling out to the officials, Wang Wenzheng said loudly: "All my beloved ministers——! I have a flat body——!"
After accepting the congratulations from all officials, his throne has become a fact of etiquette and law...
But his ambition was far more than what these false gifts in front of him could satisfy.
After the ministers and officials slowly returned to their posts, Wang Wenzheng held the Dragon Case and looked around at the imperial stage. He spoke directly and asked his first question after he succeeded to the throne: "Where is Wu'an Hou...?"
No one in the hall responded...
Wang Wenzheng stopped asking, but sat up straight, smiling without saying a word.
The hall was surprisingly quiet until one person couldn't help it and stood up to break the embarrassing situation...
"Report to Your Majesty! Marquis Wu'an, because of Princess Kaiyuan's murder, was ill. He heard that the death of the previous emperor was even worse. He had already handed a memorial to the Imperial Palace before and took a leave!" Xu Hui bowed his hand and replied loudly, with a hint of anger on his face!
How stupid are you and I pretending to be stupid!??
Xu Hui's bad temper was so happy, but what he didn't know was that Wang Wenzheng... was waiting for this sentence...
"Oh? I'm seriously ill...? Who is in charge of the big and small matters of the Ministry of War now?" Wang Wenzheng's face was filled with deliberate "sorrowful look" and asked in a deep voice.
When Li Yuanqi heard this, he immediately walked out of the queue and bowed and replied: "These days... are all the officials who are taking care of them..."
"That's how..." Wang Wenzheng nodded, and then said loudly: "Wu'an Hou worked hard for the country and had half his life. Now that he is already in high spirits this year, it is time to live his life. Li Yuanqi will take over his position and let Wu'an Hou'an Hou'an support him in his mansion!"
"What!??" Xu Hui's face suddenly changed when he heard this! Before he could say anything, he heard Li Yuanzhao shouting loudly: "Your Majesty is wise! He is kind-hearted and sympathetic to all officials. No one dares to disrespect it-!"
"Your Majesty's wiseness--!"
As they spoke, the civil officials fell to their knees in an instant, and the military officers also knelt in scattered ways, but none of the generals promoted by Mr. He was willing to kneel down!
"Bold! Your decree is coming! How dare you not kneel down! Could it be that you want to rebel!???"
Everyone looked at it and said that they were not civil officials, but a military general. And everyone in the court knew about this military general...
He is... Cao Yuanzhao...
"Why don't you kneel down quickly! Get the order!!!" Cao Yuanzhao walked directly to Xu Hui without saying a word, bent his knee and kicked it, pressed his shoulder down and pressed it down!
"Tolerate……"
Cao Yuanzhao leaned into Xu Hui's ear, said this word softly, and then knelt beside him, shouting at the new emperor for thousands of years!!
The other military officers were also forced by this situation and slowly knelt down, with unwillingness and anger on their faces...
However, Wang Wenzheng's order did not end here... He slowly stood up, walked to the imperial platform, overlooking the officials who were kneeling and worshiping in groups, and continued to smile and said, "But... the position of the minister should be filled. Someone should make up for the vacancies. Come, Xuan Li Chengyu enters the palace..."
"Li Chengyu? Who is this?"
"The surname is Li, and he is probably a distant relative of the Prime Minister's family...?"
While everyone was talking, a young man dressed in a scholar stepped into the hall. He walked openly and generously along the way, and these steps were neither humble nor arrogant...
If Yan Bing was also in the hall, when he saw this young man, he would definitely cover his mouth and exclaim: "Isn't this the boy who lived next to me that day, eavesdropped on my poems, and even came to the door to flatter him!??"
But if it were King Goryeo here, he would definitely exclaim: "Isn't this the messenger who recited the list of Tongshun Military Academy officials in the palace that day......??"