A drizzle began to fall in the inky sky, and the rain continued for three days. The imperial city was silent, and mournful wails could be heard everywhere. The palace people walked with their heads down, not knowing whether they had no intention of looking at it, or they were afraid of being seen with their dry eyes. The Ministry of Internal Affairs ordered that the first emperor died, and the palaces must mourn and mourn. If one of them is caught by the ceremonial supervisor and can't cry sincerely, that person can only die in the dark court. However, after three days of crying, who can squeeze out a single tear?

Behind the seemingly orderly national funeral, there are treacherous clouds inside and outside the government and the opposition.

Since the death of Prince Jingqi, Emperor Jianzhao has not been willing to set up a new prince. First, there was no middle palace, and the first emperor had no sons-in-law; Second, among the remaining princes, the eldest second son, Jing Huan, has blunt qualifications, cowardly temperament, and is quite unrefreshed. After the death of his biological mother Concubine Xian, in order to appease the hearts of his mother's family, the second son of the emperor was crowned Prince Duan after marriage, and he also went to the fief with the princess early. Emperor Jianzhao did not have a suitable choice.

Among the harem concubines, Mu Guifei's status is second only to the queen. During the favored years, she gave birth to three sons and one daughter in a row. In addition to the death of the sixth son Jing Zhe at an early age, the fifth son of the emperor Jing Zhan was only 18 years old when he was awarded the title of Prince Zhuang, and the ninth son of the emperor Jing Ye was awarded the title of King Rui County at the age of 16. In addition, Mu Guifei's father was a great general of Zhenyuan, and his brother held the power of military affairs in Gyeonggi, and the Mu family was prosperous for a while, and most people in the court were also optimistic that Prince Zhuang would inherit the unification.

As for Concubine Yu, who was quite favored by Emperor Jianzhao in the second half of his life, she also gave birth to three princes and two princesses. However, the tenth son of the emperor Jingchun and the eleventh son of the emperor Jingwei both died early, and only the eighth son of the emperor Jingyi still existed. Because Concubine Yu came from a mediocre background, Jing Yi was also named the king of Xunjun, and her power could not be the same as that of Prince Zhuang.

Although the Empress Zhang never had children, she also raised two princes under her knees. Among them, the fourth son of the emperor's biological mother, Concubine Jin, died early and was raised by the queen. However, when the prince died in the twentieth year of Jianzhao, he was demoted to a concubine because of his inconsequential speech. The seventh son of the emperor, Jingzhen's biological mother, Li Concubine, was only a palace maid before giving birth to the prince, and she had no right to raise the prince, so she had to raise her under the knees of the middle palace. Jingzhen was young and intelligent, and after the fourth son of the emperor lost power, he was supported by the prominent Zhang family. Especially after the death of Concubine Li, Jingzhen was even more diligent and respectful - he was only fifteen years old and was awarded the title of county king, and at the age of seventeen, he made a contribution to controlling the water and was crowned Prince Su, and since then he has also been pushed to the forefront of the struggle for the crown.

Now in the battle for reunification, Prince Zhuang Jingzhan is bound to win, but Prince Su Jingzhen may not be willing. After the death of Emperor Jianzhao, the Mu family quickly led the Gyeonggi military guards into the capital in the name of funeral and surrounded the palace. The former queen and the current empress dowager Zhang were not to be outdone, and ordered her army not to enter the imperial city as the lord of the six palaces, and at the same time gathered the old ministers of the court to discuss the new monarch in the Xihe Palace. The two sides are tense, and the final battle for the heir is about to break out.

Ruan Jia is fortunate that the palace has become a pot of porridge in the past few days, and no one will think of a low-ranking palace lady who has failed to accept her kindness. Her days, as usual, got up every morning and began to sprinkle and sweep every room in the Luan Qing Palace. And the flowers and plants in the courtyard were all destroyed with the sudden death of Emperor Jianzhao.

She and Shi Quan guarded this small palace, but they didn't know that outside the palace gate, there was already a river of blood.

On March 16, Emperor Jianzhao died.

On March 19, Prince Duan, who was far away in the Hexi fiefdom, returned to the palace. Prince Duan did not come alone to mourn, he also brought a secret edict from the Daxing Emperor to keep the Zài Shaohe Palace, and the secret edict called Jing Zhan, the prince of Lizhuang, the crown prince. There was an uproar in the government and the opposition.

On March 20, Prince Duan was arrested in the inner court on charges of "colluding with the emperor's fifth son, forging a holy edict, and plotting to seize the heir." Empress Dowager Zhang began to read the real edict in the Rende Palace, which was passed on to Prince Jingzhen of Su. That night, Prince Zhuang led 30,000 elite soldiers of the Gyeonggi army to break through the defenders of the imperial city and approach the inner palace.

On March 23, three days after the siege of Miyagi, the generals of the two supreme armies of Jiangnan Province and Longxi Province arrived at the Imperial City with 100,000 troops under the banner of "King Qin". Prince Zhuang and the generals of the Mu clan were killed on the spot for the crime of treason, Mu Guifei hanged herself, and her youngest son, King Ruijun, fled the capital and disappeared.

On March 24, the first seven days of Emperor Jianzhao had passed, and a large funeral was held, which was nicknamed "Emperor Shengzhaoren". Jingzhen, the prince of Yuansu, announced the heaven and earth in the Rende Palace, inherited the unification, and set the year name as "Yuan Feng", respected the Empress Dowager Zhang as the queen mother, and posthumously sealed the biological mother Li Concubine as the queen of Gongshun Ren, and respected the queen mother.

At this point, the heir turmoil has subsided for the time being.

Someone finally mentioned the tyranny of Emperor Jianzhao.

On the day of Emperor Jianzhao's death, everyone in the Tai Hospital was helpless in the face of sudden emergencies, and they also left suspicions about the cause of his death. Later, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple were ordered to thoroughly investigate the matter, and the final result was embarrassing: Emperor Jianzhao took Jindan for a long time in his later years, and erysipelas were deposited in his body. But he didn't know it, and under the temptation of the eunuchs and monks around him, he forcibly "tonic" with the medicine of gold and stone, and indulged in excessive desires until his essence was exhausted. And his "butterfly luck" before his death was to completely destroy the foundation of Emperor Jianzhao's life that was about to collapse. Overwork while chasing butterflies, coupled with pollen-induced wheezing, caused the emperor to die of a violent illness at the age of fifty.

Dali Temple for days to torture before the trial of the chief of the inner chamberlain Zhou Liang and the relevant monks, just a few days, many palace people and low-level concubines have been implicated, up to dozens of people.

What is shocking is that behind this is the careful layout that the Mu family and Prince Zhuang and his party have been planning for many years. They first selected a large number of beauties to enter the palace in the name of the scarcity of the first emperor's heirs, and then took advantage of the new palace concubines' desire to compete for favor, instigated the eunuchs to collude with the palace concubines, and introduced Fang Shi to the first emperor, trying to compete for favor with pills and evil arts. At the same time, Prince Zhuang united with Prince Duan, who was far away in the fiefdom and seemed to have no quarrel with the world, forged an edict, and secretly cultivated the power of his mother clan to firmly control the military power of the capital.

When the new emperor learned of the twists and turns, Long Yan was furious, and ordered the relevant offenders, a total of eighty-nine people, to be executed immediately. At the same time, he listened to the advice of the Empress Dowager Zhang - "when you first ascend to the throne, you should win the hearts of the people with benevolent government", except for the Mu party and its leaders, the rest of the scholars, eunuchs and palace concubines, etc., did not connect with their clansmen.

Reward and punish with an iron fist, punish and measure, and blame the head and lenient. The aristocratic courtiers who had supported Prince Zhuang in the past also surrendered to Emperor Yuan Feng. The new emperor is generous, and he clearly said that he is not to blame these people in the past. The crowd became more and more convinced of him and grateful.