Chapter 104: This is your throne
The first sunny day after the rain, Luoyang.
More than 1,000 honor guards in red official clothes held the thin line, and the Han generals marched on both sides and came to the outside of the city.
Zhu Youxiao was dressed in fine armor, with the imperial sword at his waist, riding on a horse, squinting at Luoyang Wenwu who had already lined up outside the city to greet him.
It was not only the civil officials and military generals in Luoyang who came, but also the hundreds of people who watched from the road, and they were all curious about what this young son of heaven looked like.
Zhu Youxiao looked down at the civil officials of Luoyang who were trembling slightly, snorted coldly, and rode in from the Changxia Gate.
"Long live the emperor! Long live the Emperor! β
The people spontaneously shouted, most of the people present have been up and down for several lifetimes, and this is also the first time to see the Ming Emperor who has the power to rule the world, and they are not excited, which is false.
This young man with a sword on his shoulder and a resolute look in his eyes is our emperor!
Where is he as mediocre as rumored, come to think of it, it's those rumors again, it's just nothing to add to the chaos.
With countless whimsical ideas, the people raised their heads and watched with admiration and awe as Zhu Youxiao and the neat and tidy Yongwei battalion behind him entered the city.
With the clanging sound of the intersecting iron armor leaves, and the sound of horses' hooves slowly stepping on the stone path, many people's hearts settled down.
"King Fu, King Luoyang, etc., and all the emperors bow four timesββ"
Step by step, his boots stepped on the white jade bricks of the inner palace hall of King Fu's mansion, and Zhu Youxiao saw that there was a large wall carved with two dragons playing with pearls in front of him.
That is, with a tsk, he turned his head:
"Uncle Huang, your palace is much more luxurious than that of me, who is the emperor."
The first sentence of the uncle and nephew when they met was such a playful tone, and the obese Zhu Changxun was helped up by his subordinates, looking a little helpless.
After a moment, he looked past the Emperor who had walked in with his negative hand, and he was clearly a little angry.
"Uncle Huang has already heard about the rebellion in the southwest?"
Zhu Youxiao lowered his head and touched Zhu Changxun's exquisite utensils for drinking tea on weekdays, sighed, and then asked.
Zhu Changxun stood for a while, and he began to pant heavily, and without waiting for Zhu Youxiao's orders, he just sat on the main seat with his butt and gasped:
"I heard that, didn't the emperor hurry up and put down the rebellion?"
"Uncle Huang, the objects in your palace must be worth a lot of money, right?" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao glanced at him and said with a smile:
"It costs a lot of silver for the imperial court to send troops, and the inner treasury is exhausted year after year, and the imperial uncle is so rich, don't you consider lending me a little bit in case of emergency?"
"Borrow money?" When Zhu Changxun heard this, he suddenly looked like a hypocritical little lady, and said: "I'm so poor, how can I borrow silver..."
Zhu Youxiao smiled: "No matter how poor you are, can you still be poor?" β
"I heard that the entire acre of land in Henan is almost occupied by you alone, and you don't have to pay taxes.
"The country of the Ming Dynasty, but our Zhu family, they are so noisy, you don't care."
Zhu Youxiao still smiled and spoke, saving enough face for King Fu.
After that, he picked up a cup of tea as if it was nothing, blew it slightly, and was about to take a sip.
At this time, Zhu Changxun snorted coldly, slapped the table, and said, "Is the emperor here to expose my bottom line, or is he going to the southwest to quell the rebellion?" β
When the words landed, several little emperors on the side also pursed the corners of their mouths, their faces were mocking, they didn't look at it, they did enough etiquette without leaking, and then stood sideways to Zhu Changxun's side.
Before the tea entered his mouth, Zhu Youxiao's smile froze on his face, like hot coals falling into cold water, and his heart suddenly soared, and then passed away suddenly.
"I want to give you face, but you don't have a face..."
Zhu Youxiao thought so in his heart, quietly put the tea back on the table, and walked towards Zhu Changxun, causing the latter to be nervous.
What does he want to do!?
But I saw that Zhu Youxiao attached his mouth to Zhu Changxun's ear, and his soft voice contained a cold that was comparable to that of the frontier.
"If you had become an emperor a few decades ago, you would still have the capital to fight with me. But now, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is me, not you. β
Hearing this, Zhu Changxun's eyes widened, and he immediately fell silent, intending to make a silent protest.
"Huh." Zhu Youxiao sneered and said, "Tell Qi Jin that I want to clean up the portal here!" β
"The emperors of Luoyang City are almost more than the people."
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"King Luoyang, I ask you, are you guilty?"
After a short time, thousands of brave guard battalions surrounded the Fu Wangfu, and the Luoyang Net, which was often flying in Luoyang, and several Zhenguo generals were tied to the wooden pillars in the courtyard of the palace.
Zhu Youxiao raised the chin of the king of Luoyang with the tip of his knife and said jokingly:
"Insulting the gentry, beating the military ministers, encroaching on the school palace, bullying the people's daughters, forcibly occupying the people's houses, can you bear it!"
Hearing that the emperor investigated these things so clearly, the king of Luoyang no longer had the arrogance of the people on weekdays.
The onlookers were applauding, but one by one they smelled a fishy smell, and soon someone found out that it was the king of Luoyang who faced the muzzle of the black hole hole of the Yongwei camp firecracker, and was scared to pee on the spot.
"Look at your virtue, I am ashamed of Taizu for having a junior like you." Zhu Youxiao sneered, and said while moving away:
"Robbed more than 400 other people's wives, forcibly occupied more than 3,000 private houses, and privately elected more than 700 women over the age of 12, you are much more comfortable than I have ever been."
Zhu Youxiao retreated to the side and glanced to the side.
Qi Jin took a few steps forward, raised his hand, and shouted: "Release!" β
Immediately, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and after the explosion like fried beans, the king of Luoyang and several other royal relatives were all tilted their heads and were beaten into a sieve.
The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the smell of blood hit immediately, and when King Fu heard it, he frowned and held on for a long time, and spit it out.
He really didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen in his palace.
"Long live the emperor!"
"The Emperor Shengming!"
"Well played, well played!!"
There was silence for a moment, and suddenly a fierce shout burst out, and hundreds of people knelt on the ground one after another, convinced by the emperor in front of him who dared to make decisions for the people.
The soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion also put down their swords and guns and half-knelt on the ground, such a scene made Zhu Changxun's jaw drop in shock.
The king of Luoyang is the county prince of the Yi family, and the king of Yi was stripped of his title by the Jiajing emperor for oppressing the people during the Jiajing period, and he was abolished as a concubine.
Is this little emperor declaring military power to himself!?
The army and the people waited solemnly, Zhu Youxiao turned to look at Zhu Changxun, chuckled narrowly, and asked:
"I ask again, the imperial court is conquest of the southwest, will you give this silver emperor uncle or not?"
Break the wealth and avoid disaster!
These four words appeared in Zhu Changxun's mind in an instant, his face was black, and he repeatedly picked his nails in his sleeves.
When the emperor's words landed, there was silence around him, and all the soldiers who went out looked at him silently, which made Zhu Changxun even more nervous.
After a long time, he said softly.
"Isn't it just a few million taels? Take it, take it! β
Zhu Youxiao immediately laughed a few times, stood in front of everyone, and said: "The houses forcibly occupied by the King of Luoyang and other emperors, I don't want to keep any of them, they will all belong to the people!" β
"Qi Jin, take the Yongwei Battalion to Luoyang Palace, rescue the captive girls, and reunite with their families!"
"As for the property of the palace, all of them are used to comfort the army and the people, and I will have fun with the army and the people!"