Chapter 178: The Emperor's Dignity is ruthless
The dawn breaks and the sun rises.
The overall situation of Liu Ce and Wang Chen's appearance has been decided, and tens of thousands of troops have gathered on the Taihedian Square. The blood-stained prince sat dying in front of the Taihe Palace, a fight was extremely dangerous, first with Zheng Shuixin's flying eagle by his side, and then with the Royal Forest Army General Wu desperately fighting each other, and then there were two royal guests to kill the enemy.
Holding a can of hot soup with joy on his face, Liu Ce dismounted and walked to Xiao Yin's side and said, "Your Highness, the rebels have all been wiped out, what should the living rebels do." ”
Prince Xiao Yin looked at Liu Ce, hurriedly got up and helped him up, and said, "General Liu has worked hard, and the matter of the rebels will be discussed later." There is no rest for a day, and it is still important to be physical. Commander Liu is still in the Taihe Palace, General Liu should go and have a look! Just leave it to General Wang here. ”
Looking at the prince's gentle expression, Liu Ce hugged his fists and said, "Weichen obeys the order." As he spoke, he stepped over Xiao Yin and stepped on the steps, looking at Liu Zhiming, who was supported by a soldier and walked out of the Taihe Palace. The armor was removed from multiple knife wounds, a gunshot wound, and a broken arrow on the calf.
Liu Zhiming looked at his father with a wry smile, Liu Ce showed a relieved smile, and his expression froze in an instant. Seeing that his son Liu Zhiming was still alive, Liu Ce asked, "Are you okay?" ”
He replied, "It's all right, father." Liu Ce glared at his son affectionately and said, "I have known that my mouth is hard since I was a child, and your mother is still waiting for you to go back at home." They are all fathers, and they are still hairy. Your son is still waiting for his father to go back, Xiaojin is crying into tears, you are still laughing here, go back quickly. He rebuked.
Lord Shangshu's rebuke, the soldiers did not dare to refute, what kind of father is this, the son is still angry when he is injured like this. Liu Zhiming knew in his heart that his father Liu Ce had never wanted to participate in it, and if he hadn't been on an errand in the palace yesterday, he probably wouldn't have led troops into the palace.
Sending Liu Zhi away and Liu Ce returned to the prince's side, looking at Xiao Yin, who was full of energy, he didn't want to experience a life-and-death battle at all, how similar he was to the previous emperor. said: "Your Highness can have an edict of succession. ”
glanced at Liu Ce fiercely, and said with a smile: "General Liu's edict is in the Taihe Palace, so let people take it." ”
Liu Ce's reply made Xiao Yin extremely angry, and he could only swallow his stomach. "Please inform the world with an edict and announce the entry of hundreds of officials into the court. Please ask the Ministry of Rites to agree on the funeral of His Majesty and the enthronement ceremony of His Highness. "What kind of edict of succession, the overall situation has been decided, there is no edict or not, it is actually nothing.
After thinking about it, what Liu Ce wanted was an orthodox emperor, not an emperor who got the throne due to the palace change. Xiao Yin was so happy that he forgot a lot and replied: "General Liu didn't say that the palace had forgotten, so he made an order." ”
The military generals in cloth clothes in the palace walked into the prison, and the old man saw the middle-aged military generals in their hands and the military generals to a prison where the emperor's relatives were held. A generation of heroes with shackles looked expressionlessly at the commander of the forbidden army who had never appeared from beginning to end.
With regret, he said, "You're here." ”
Xu Dian looked at the loneliness of King Qi, who was once above 10,000 people under one person, with a hint of pity in his eyes. Approaching the prison cell, he said, "His Royal Highness King Qi." ”
"Commander Xu came to see the joke of this king, and now that this king is powerless, I am afraid that he is in the wrong place if he wants benefits. Commander Xu should now immediately enter the palace to meet the new emperor, or take the opportunity to catch a few traitors who are outcast, and the new emperor may see that Commander Xu is loyal and reinstated as the commander of the forbidden army. Say whatever you want.
The defeat is still a generation of heroes, but his eyes are full of disappointment. This Xu commander has been solicited many times, and has been wavering. After Xu Dian was dismissed, King Qi even asked directly: "Commander Xu is finally Your Majesty, if Your Majesty dies, will Commander Xu be loyal to the king or the crown prince." Xu Dian only said: "Be loyal to the beam." ”
Xiao Kun, the king of Qi, knew very well that Xu Dian was the commander of the forbidden army, a hereditary first-class military candidate, and the first person in the Great Liang. The only great master of the court longed for the vast battlefield, not the important place of the palace. When he was young, he practiced martial arts and practiced the art of war, hoping that one day he would be able to make contributions in the army. From the beginning of entering the forbidden army, he rose step by step with his superb martial arts. When he was thirty years old, he had the opportunity to follow Liu Ce to pacify the North Mirror, and before he was determined to go to the generals, he challenged the Jianghu master Lu Zhaoming, and became famous in a battle.
Xu Dianjiang, who returned victoriously, established the title of great master, and when he returned to Taiping City, his father passed away to inherit the title, and missed the Northern Expedition. has never been on the battlefield, and with the reputation of a great grandmaster, it has only taken two years to become the commander of the forbidden army from a small captain. The commander of the forbidden army, who everyone in the army admires, is actually a master of the rivers and lakes who has never been on the battlefield. was rumored by the generals in the army, Xu Dian relied on his ancestral shadow to rise step by step, but he did not gain an inch of success, and relied on hereditary replacement. Unparalleled marksmanship, the first in the world, how can he always be a great commander who has never appeared in the frontier.
Xu Dian glanced at the prison servants, and the young prison guards left in a hurry. Xu Diancai said: "Since yesterday morning, Lu Jiao has appeared in the house. His Royal Highness has seen this person, the old shopkeeper of Lu's Restaurant. ”
Hearing Lu Jiao's name, Xiao Kun, the king of Qi, was stunned, the Huangqu Lu clan was famous in the rivers and lakes twenty years ago, and vaguely had the status of the overlord of the rivers and lakes. Liuhe Sword Lu Zhaoming once single-handedly challenged the entire rivers and lakes, leaving a legend to lose a move. But there is also a Lu Jiao in the Lu family who is not a descendant, who is unknown in the rivers and lakes. Ordinary people in the rivers and lakes only know Lu Zhaoming but don't know Lu Jiao, how can King Qi not know Lu Jiao with the red sleeves in his hands.
Lu Jiao is like Lu Zhaoming's shadow, and his skills are far above those of ordinary grandmasters. Quietly appeared in Xu Dian's Mansion that morning, and it turned out that the master of the Yipin Military Waiting Mansion was like a cloud, and he didn't find such an old shopkeeper who laughed when he saw people in Taiping City. Although Xu Dian never put on armor, he never fell asleep, and sat with the old shopkeeper Lu Jiao for a whole day drinking tea.
is also a master of the rivers and lakes, Xu Dian has just one more big character, which was sent by Lu Zhaoming himself. Before the two competed, Xu Dian had fought with his predecessor Lu Jiao, and Xu Dian at that time was extremely confident that he had never been favored by Lu Jiao, but won a move against Lu Zhaoming. When Lu Jiao appeared, how could Xu Dian not know in his heart that Huangqu Lu was the prince's person. There is Lu Jiao, Xu Dian knows that I am afraid that I will not be able to get out of the mansion today, at least before the end of the event, Lu Jiao will not let Xu Dian walk out of the mansion door half a step.
Xiao Kun asked, "How is the old shopkeeper?" ”
Xu Dian replied as usual: "I was exhausted in the first battle, and I have half a life left." The flat tone was full of domineering. It can be seen from Xu Dian's face that Xu Dian paid a lot in which battle. At this time, Xiao Kun stared at Xu Dian, whose face was pale, his injuries were not serious, and if he wanted to recover his peak, he would not be able to fight with the Great Grandmaster without several months of cultivation.
Suddenly sat down and said, "Commander Xu came to the will of Prince Feng. ”
Xu Dian said without any hesitation: "No, Weichen just came to see His Highness for the last time." Then he asked, "Don't Your Highness want to know who the name is written in Your Majesty's edict?" ”
Xiao Kun's expression changed, and then he sighed and said, "Does it matter whose name is written in my father's edict now?" Xu Dian looked at the prince who was bent on the southern expedition, and it was with the southern expedition that Xu Dian compromised. Now the biggest enemy of Daliang is in the south, and he wants to become famous in a fight, telling the world that Xu Dian is not only a great master, but also a generation of famous generals.
After all, he didn't say the name on the edict, Xu Dian turned his head and said: "There will inevitably be a battle between Daliang and Nanchu, and Weichen will make up for His Highness's share." With that, he turned and strode away. King Qi looked in the direction Xu Dian had left and bowed. How could Xiao Kun not know whose name was written in the edict now, and when the news of his uncle Lin Xie's death came, he already knew that his father would eventually pass on the throne to Xiao Yin. Lin Xie chose to die, not to save the entire Lin clan in Shuzhong.
shouted: "Please Commander Xu promise this king one thing." ”
Xu Dian didn't look back and replied directly: "Do your best." ”
At the beginning of the chaos, the streets were full of armored soldiers, and only a few of the people in the city walked on the streets. Watching the soldiers who cleaned up the bones coming and going, the smell of blood on the face made people sick, the blades falling on the road, and the arrows staring at the trees on the eaves, which made people tremble.
Hiding at home and not daring to go out, the streets are full of armored soldiers to arrest rebels. As long as the rebels are all under the sword of the armor, a group of Jianghu people who suddenly appeared broke into the gates of the major mansions, burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil. The ministers of King Qi and his party could only watch this group of Jianghu people who had made great contributions to the prince act recklessly, knowing in their hearts that if the prince Xiao Yin won, everyone under the King of Qi would not have a good ending.
Looking at the ministers who supported the throne in the palace, Xun Sizhan obviously stayed awake all night, and now he is still spiritual. The court was divided into two parts, one was headed by Xun Sizhan and the other was led by Li Chengming. The prince sat there and watched the crowd, and you said that I laughed, and congratulated each other.
Xiao Yin just looked at it, he had not yet ascended the throne, and this group of heroes was already impatient to reward their merits. On the contrary, Zhou Heng, who had made great contributions, did not appear from beginning to end, and Zhang Bai, who fought to the Taihe Palace, changed into an official uniform and stood alone. Liu Ce, who laid the overall situation, was not there, Liu Zhifang, who protected each other, Wu Si, who had been holding out until the end, was not there, and even the leader of the thirteenth battalion of lone wolves who came at the critical moment was not there.
The heroes present who have made the greatest contributions, Lan Shanbo and Li Chengming, are not to be rewarded, and those military generals who have hurriedly appeared after laying the overall situation, as well as the wavering civil ministers, are now the most. It seems that this palace change has made immortal achievements. On the contrary, none of the people who appeared at the important juncture were there, Xiao Yin thought about it, they probably didn't have the energy to look at this group of grimaces now.
Xiao Yin didn't realize what he had done wrong, after all, Gong Chang was a dead-end road, and he really couldn't get used to seeing this group of ugly faces. said: "That's all for today, Lord Xun has nothing to do with the court meeting today." Everyone is tired, go back and rest. Inform the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the funeral, and then select an auspicious day for the zodiac. The rest will be discussed tomorrow, this palace is tired. ”
Saying that, he walked out of the dilapidated Taihe Hall under the edict of a eunuch, and felt disgusted when he thought of the faces of that group of people. He said to the middle-aged eunuch beside him: "Gonggong Yan told General Wang that as long as all those who participated in the palace mutiny were put into the prison and waited to be released, he would rather kill a thousand people than let one go." ”
After speaking, he strode towards the emperor's bedroom, and the entire palace was in a state of silence. Xiao Yin is no longer the crown prince, he is already the king of a country. Approaching the dormitory, looking at the hanging white sails, the royal family has already appeared. The queen looked at her son, who was already the king, and nodded lightly, from today onwards, she was no longer the queen but the queen mother.
Xiao Yan, the king of Zhao, and Xiao Bin, the king of Wu, stepped forward to bow down to the new emperor. Xiao Yin nodded lightly and said, "After the great funeral of my father, the two royal brothers will go to the fiefdom." Without waiting for the two princes to reply, they were already far away. The two brothers looked at the three emperor brothers, and the new Great Liang Emperor snorted coldly. Now there are only three kings left in Taiping City, and the eighth prince is the youngest, and he should go to the fief before he reaches adulthood.