Chapter 43: The New King is Crowned
Early the next morning, in front of the Taihe Hall of the Palace of the King of Luoqiu.
Different from yesterday's killing scene, today's Taihe Hall is solemn in front of it, and there is a huge coffin in front of the wide Taihe Palace, which is the coffin spirit of King Luoqiu, and all the civil and military ministers are dressed in sackcloth to show the memory of the previous king.
In front of the first king's spirit, General Cai stood solemnly in a memorial dress.
"The first king is unfortunate, the middle way collapsed, and the culprit is the sixth prince! Today, the first king will be punished in front of the spirit, in order to thank the first king!" In front of the ministers, General Cai said awe-inspiringly.
After finishing speaking, the four sergeants dragged out two people from one side to Lingqian, the two were the sixth prince of the first royal family, and Mr. Liao, the strategist who planned this political turmoil under the sixth prince, and the two were dragged to Lingqian at the same time.
When the sixth prince saw the coffin of the first king, he was not afraid to stand on his own, but Mr. Liao, who was thin and weak, was already so frightened that his legs were paralyzed and he knelt on the ground.
"Sixth Prince, this is the poison found in the former king's death from your mansion, as a clan brother, kill the first king, what do you have to say?" The sixth prince took out a bottle of poison from his sleeve and threw it in front of the sixth prince, the medicine bottle shattered, and the colorless potion rolled on the ground making a corrosive sound.
"This king carefully planned to destroy the hands of a piano master, I have nothing to say, but this mediocre lord, lose the face of my clan, and it is not a pity to die!"
"In that case, drag the two of them to the noon gate and behead them!" Seeing that the sixth prince did not quibble, General Cai did not talk nonsense, and with an order, the four soldiers immediately dragged the two out.
"General Cai spares his life, General Cai spares his life!" Mr. Xiao heard General Cai's order, and was so frightened that he kowtowed and begged for mercy.
The two soldiers saw that General Cai waved his hand resolutely, and forcibly dragged Mr. Liao out.
Seeing that Mr. Liao, who was usually personable, was so greedy for life and afraid of death, the sixth prince snorted coldly and stopped looking at him.
After the two were dragged down, General Cai ordered the soldiers to bring Luo Wenjin out.
Luo Wenjin is tall and tall, and his shackles are extremely heavy, and his face is quite tired, obviously he has suffered a lot of blows.
Luo Wenjin was taken to the spirit, and General Cai said with an awe-inspiring face: "Luo Wenjin threatens to cause chaos in the government from the top party, are you guilty?"
When Luo Wenjin heard General Cai's words, he seemed to wake up from a dream, and immediately knelt down and said: "What Luo did was all instructed by the prince, and the villain's crimes were really out of helplessness.
"Hmph! If you commit a crime, you want to atone for your crimes, where do you put the law of the King of Luoqiu! Come on, pull it down and behead it!" General Cai waved his right hand and said categorically.
"The villain is the only son in the family, and the old mother is all dependent on the villain to support him, I hope the general will have mercy and let the villain go!" Luo Wenjin heard General Cai's order, and immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy.
"Your mother, I can be supported, your crimes are unforgivable!" Facing Luo Wenjin's plea for mercy, General Cai's expression remained unchanged.
Seeing Luo Wenjin's desperate eyes when he was dragged down, Ye Xianglun's heart inexplicably welled up with a trace of pity.
Perhaps, this is the way of heaven, perhaps, this is the way of king.
After the trial, General Cai promoted Ye Xianglun as the Dazai of Luoqiu Country in front of the ministers, and the position of Dazai is responsible for the management of the palace classics, although there is no real power, but it is a noble status, and the position of Dazai has always been held by the piano master, and Ye Xianglun as a Luoqiu qinist, it is well deserved to hold this position, and Ye Xianglun has saved everyone in danger, so General Cai's proposal was unanimously approved by the ministers.
At this point, Ye Xianglun entered the ranks of important ministers in the palace.
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After the rebellious party was punished, it was the grand funeral of the first king.
Gongzi Hou Ying walked out of the Taihe Hall and held a funeral ceremony with the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.
Three days later, the eldest son Mo came from outside the city to pay respects, General Cai went to greet with the civil and military ministers, the eldest son Mo was dressed in mourning clothes, never entered the city, asked where the tomb of the first king was, and rode his horse directly, and the ministers followed.
The eldest son Mo ran to the front of the mausoleum, crying loudly, blaming himself for being the eldest son, failing to keep the spirit in front of the spirit, the eldest son Mo cried from the time to noon, and was finally persuaded by the minister, and the eldest son Mo asked for the tomb of the first king, and all the ministers stood on their sides for the first king to mourn silently.
I saw the eldest son Mo took the shovel from the hands of the guards, first brought a spade of old soil from the side of the mausoleum, and then added new soil to the tomb of the former king from a hundred meters away, and then took three straws, the straw was folded into three sections at equal intervals, and then inserted into the soil at equal intervals, and finally tied the copper coin with a red cloth strip in the middle of the straw in the middle, which was called the pressure money.
When the eldest son Mo returned to the palace with the minister, it was not time, the eldest son returned to the palace, and saw that the first seven kings had not passed, and everything in the palace was as before, and there was no trace of mourning, and the eldest son Mo was furious when he saw this: "My father ruled the country with courtesy, and now he is dead, and there is no trace of mourning in the royal city, what kind of system!"
So the eldest son Mo ordered the whole city to sacrifice, requiring the people of the city to hang white paper lanterns at the door of the house, set up a spiritual plaque in the main hall of the house, burn incense and candles, and offer wine and food to pay tribute.
In the evening, Ye Xianglun accompanied General Cai on the street, General Cai saw that the people in the city were frugal on weekdays, but they had to take out wine and food for memorials, so he sighed and said: "Gongzi Mo is too important to etiquette, and he is not aware of the people's feelings at all, how sad!"
Seeing this, Ye Xianglun said in his heart, General Cai was probably not very satisfied with this son, so he tried to ask: "I heard that General Cai is also a member of the royal family, why don't you set up your own master?"
After hearing this, General Cai immediately said: "Don't have such a big rebellious thought!"
Ye Xianglun thought to himself, General Cai made such a big move in the Luoqiu coup, he must have wanted to do something in Luoqiu, and I am afraid that no one has used the file of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes" in this era, why don't I take this opportunity to mention it?
So Ye Xianglun was silent for a while, and said slowly: "Although Gongzi Mo is the eldest son, he pays too much attention to red tape, if he is the queen in the future, it will be difficult to listen to the advice of the ministers, Gongzi Hou Win, although he is young, but like a blank piece of paper, as long as the ministers teach him more, it is not easy to say if he has something to do, not to mention, General Cai is kind to his mother and son......"
Ye Xianglun stopped talking about it halfway through, Ye Xianglun believed that with General Cai's wisdom, he would definitely be able to understand the key.
Sure enough, along the way, General Cai stopped talking, and seeing General Cai's seemingly enlightened appearance, Ye Xianglun knew that there must be a drama in this matter.
Early the next morning, the seventh day of the king of Rockhu, the eldest son Mo led his ministers to preside over a grand memorial ceremony, the memorial ceremony was orderly, and ten wagons were piled up on the paper used for the memorial alone, and countless cattle and wine, until late at night, the city of Rockhu was still immersed in the mourning of the bells.
After the funeral, early the next morning, General Cai immediately convened the ministers to discuss the establishment of a new king, outside the palace and the palace, the ministers are still divided into two opinions, support the eldest son Mo and support the son Hou Win, because General Cai is in power, this discussion is different from the previous one, most of the ministers support the eldest son Mo, General Cai silently looked at the controversy of the ministers, until noon the ministers agreed on the new king.
Ye Xianglun was not too surprised when he learned the final result, and when the two sides were in dispute in the council, General Cai finally overrode the public opinion and established Gongzi Hou Ying as the king of Luoqiu.