Chapter 54: Enthronement

The sky will be bright and the night will be gone. At this time, the gate of the capital was opened, and General Chen led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to enter the city one after another to change defenses.

The east, south, west, and north gates were replaced by his men. Then he led a team of thousands of personal guards to the door of the prince's mansion and informed His Royal Highness the prince that he could enter the palace to worship the spirit.

The crown prince Liu Qi had already bathed and changed his clothes, changed into a white filial piety suit, wore a white filial piety hat, pedaled a pair of white official boots, and was escorted by Wei Dong and Hong Xiaoyun, waiting in front of the gate for a long time.

After General Chen dismounted and knelt down to worship the prince, he and the pair of people and horses who came changed into a white filial piety dress prepared for them by the prince's mansion on the street, and then the cavalry opened the way, the infantry followed, and the prince Liu Qi turned over and got on the horse, and was escorted by General Chen, Wei Dong, and Hong Xiaoyun to march to the palace together.

After coming to the palace of the old emperor Liu Jue's death, the crown prince Liu Jue fell forward step by step and crawled forward to his father's bedside, and cried bitterly, "Father, it's the son-in-law who is late, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly die and leave us!" Then he suddenly stopped crying and asked the old eunuch next to him how his father died?

The old eunuch pondered for a moment and then said, "Holy Lord, it was still fine during the evening meal, but after taking the decoction to nourish the body, he suddenly vomited blood and died!"

"Has the imperial doctor been diagnosed, and what is the reason?" asked the crown prince Liu Qi eagerly beside him.

"The diagnosis has been made, and according to the Imperial Physician, he died of poisoning!" replied the old eunuch, shaking his body.

"Then tell Imperial Doctor Wang to come in quickly, I want to inquire in detail!" Liu Qi turned to the little eunuch outside and said.

After a while, the imperial physician rushed in in a hurry, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to the prince, "Minister, Wang Bin has seen His Royal Highness the prince!"

The Imperial Physician stood up and spoke. The prince politely pulled Wang Bin up.

"Yes, Your Highness Xie!" Wang Bin shook again after getting up.

"Has the cause of my father's death been diagnosed?" the prince asked with great concern.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Weichen has been diagnosed, and he has been poisoned!" said to the prince in a low voice.

"What kind of poison is it?" asked the prince very carefully.

"It's the Western Regions Strange Poison Shameful Clover, it's fine on the spot after taking it, but it will die within two hours!" Wang Bin replied.

The crown prince Liu Qi turned his head to the old eunuch and asked, "Has it been investigated?"

"If you catch two suspects, just wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to fall out!" the old eunuch replied anxiously.

"Bring the suspect up!" exclaimed the crown prince Liu Qi.

"With a suspect..." The little eunuch outside the door immediately shouted loudly.

After a while, the two suspects were carried in by the guards. One was already dying, and the other was still breathing. The crown prince Liu Qi ran forward, bent down, lowered his head and asked, "Who sent you to poison?"

The man, who still had a breath, spat at the mouth and said loudly, "Prince Rui sent us, and when Prince Rui comes, I want you to look good!"

"Hmph, I already knew that Prince Rui was plotting to poison my father, and he was already killed before me, but I came one step later, not my son's, it's too late! The crown prince Liu Qi rushed to the bedside of the old emperor Liu Jue again, and cried loudly.

Wei Dong and Hong Xiaoyun were standing next to General Chen at this time, and they felt a burst of nausea in their hearts, "This prince's acting level is too high!" 'Yes, yes!'

The next thing is to bury the body of Emperor Liu Jue and put it in a coffin. In the morning, the prince is responsible for the memorial, and in the evening, the hundred officials take turns to keep the spirit, the whole country mourns, and the filial piety is kept for ten days, and political affairs are not discussed during the wake.

Ten days later, Zhang Huiling, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, asked the heir emperor Liu Qi to ascend the throne, Liu Qi first saluted with the ministers of the court, and after the ceremony was completed, the ministers were in place, and the Ministry of Rites asked Liu Qi to be the emperor again. Liu Qi ascended to the throne and became emperor.

After ascending the throne, the steps were whipped three times, the official command was praised, and the ministers knelt three times and bowed nine times.

Finally, the edict was promulgated, and Ouyang Ting, a scholar, took out the edict and handed it over to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites held the edict to the bottom of the stairs, and handed it over to the officials of the Ministry of Rites to store it in the cloud disk.

The next thing is to discuss political affairs, the first thing is the traitor Liu Wei plotting to kill the emperor Liu Jue, for the sake of the royal family, and Liu Wei has been sent by His Majesty to kill, his children and wives will be exiled to Yanzhou and will not return for life.

The second thing is to divide the meritorious ministers, and General Chen was named the general of the barbarian hussars······

At this time, Wei Dong, Hong Xiaoyun, Elder Chen and others were already drinking tea and resting in the mansion in the capital.

"Elder Chen, did you already know about the assassination of Prince Rui this time?" Wei Dong asked very curiously.

"Well, I know, but I'm old, so I can't be the main general, I'm just responsible for receiving you in a dangerous situation!" Elder Chen replied humbly.

Wei Dong took advantage of the ease and comfort at this moment, and simply asked all the questions you were holding back, "Elder Chen, there are a few things I have wanted to ask for a long time, but I have never had a chance to ask, with today's happiness, I will ask." ”

"Xiao Weizi, what's the matter? I'm still choking, this is not like you!" Elder Chen said jokingly.

Wei Dong straightened his emotions and said, "It's Elder Wang's death, what did everyone say, why didn't you talk about it?"

Hearing this, Elder Chen's expression was a little solemn, and he said, "Our disciples of the Giant Spirit Sect seem to be very beautiful, but in fact, their fate is very tragic, most of them died violently in the prime of life, which is related to the exercises we cultivate. We are all cultivating the exercises left over from the 'Giant Spirit Clan', which are powerful, but we are human races, and this exercise is not suitable for us!"

Elder Chen said this, looked at Wei Dong and continued, "Although some of us have inherited the bloodline of the 'Giant Spirit Clan', they may be more powerful and live a little longer, but they can't escape their fate! Elder Wang, he has already injured his bone marrow, and this violent death is also very normal, but this is our taboo, so everyone doesn't talk about it!"

"Oh, I see!" Wei Dong pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and secretly thought in his heart, 'It turns out that my master didn't tell them the truth either!'

Elder Chen suddenly thought of something and said, "This time, the Sect Master came back and told me that he seemed to have found a solution to the violent death, and it can be solved once and for all!

"Is it?" Wei Dong was shocked, could it be that his father Dongfang Jing and Shizun had reached some kind of agreement to make the 'Peacock Ming King Secret' public? Thinking about it, it is also possible that these disciples of the 'Giant Spirit Sect' are too pitiful!

Next, Wei Dong asked the most puzzling question about the inheritance of the elders. "Elder Chen, one last thing for you, are you elders also hereditary? I see that the sect masters of all dynasties are surnamed Hong, so are you also inherited!"

"Hehe, no! Although the sect masters of the past dynasties are all surnamed Hong, they are not necessarily all from the Hong family. Because even if you don't have the surname Hong, as long as you become the sect master, you have to be surnamed Hong. Elder Chen laughed.

"Why is that? I thought the sect master was inherited?" Wei Dong scratched his head and asked very puzzled.

"This specific rule, which I don't know, is said to have been passed down from my ancestors, and it has always been like this, it has been a tradition!" Elder Chen replied uncertainly.

"Okay, boy, do you have any questions? If you don't ask, I'm going to go to sleep, I'm getting old and my spirit is not good!" Elder Chen stood up and prepared to go back to his room.

"No, Elder Chen, you go slowly!" Wei Dong and Hong Xiaoyun also got up to send Elder Chen out.

"I know all of this, can you just ask me?" After sending Elder Chen, Hong Xiaoyun said very strangely.

"Ask you, forget it, you always avoid answering!" Wei Dong replied very dissatisfied.

"Hehe, that's deliberately making things difficult for you, in fact, these are not secret things, most of the disciples of the 'Giant Spirit Sect' know it!" Hong Xiaoyun made a grimace and said with a smile.

On the second day, the team of the 'Giant Spirit Sect' began to return to the sect headquarters, without any farewell scenes, and silently left the capital where the imperial power had been replaced.

After returning, everyone also silently disbanded and returned to their original positions, Wei Dong and Hong Xiaoyun came, and the house of the sect master Hong was coquettish with his mother, and the two came to the sect master's study.

In two days, His Majesty's reward will come down, and this time the reward will be extremely rich, and there will be fiefs. Sect Master Hong said happily.

"This is what a disciple should do. Master, disciple has another question to ask here, that is, 'Who is the mastermind of this plan, and what is his purpose?'" Wei Dong once again raised a question about this operation.

"Well, now I can tell you that the mastermind behind this plan is the prime minister of your Jin country, called 'Ma Lin', who single-handedly planned this mission!" Sect Master Hong's words made Wei Dong stunned.

"Hehe, in fact, I don't know what he wants to do, but General Chen is definitely his man, and now he has taken control of Kyoto!"

"But, Master, our 'Giant Spirit Sect' is a barbarian, how can we contact foreign countries to seek our own interests, what is the difference between this and that Liu Wei?" Wei Dong said his thoughts indignantly.

"Well, this difference is big, it's as big as grandma's house!" Sect Master Hong said loudly.

"Disciple, I would like to hear about it!" Wei Dong also replied loudly.

"The difference is that we won and are still alive, then Liu Wei lost and is already dead!

"I'm going, Master, you're too domineering!" Wei Dong almost fell after hearing this.

"Haha, it's a little meaning!" Sect Master Hong looked very happy.

Three days later, the emperor's reward came down, and he gave a lot of gold and silver, which was thin, and even gave the nearby 'Qingyang Town' to the 'Giant Spirit Sect'. The result was a great joy for all.