Chapter 174: The Regent
"Here, I wish General Liu's wish come true." With that, the man walked out of the study, and no one knew where he went.
"Dad, what does he mean?" Yanagizu didn't quite understand what they were talking about.
"Jin'er, our big plan is in the past two days, there is Yang'er in the palace, as long as we can quickly hold Huajing, then the world of Huaguo is our Liu family!" Liu Shiyuan is in a very good mood now, and what he has been planning for many years is about to come true, how can he not be excited?
"Dad, what do you mean......" Liu Jin naturally knew what he meant when he heard him say this, after all, he also saw what Liu Shiyuan had done over the years. He was reassured that it was about to end, and Yanagizu had a strange smile on his face.
Liu Shiyuan only thought that he was too happy, so he ignored his changes. As everyone knows, this small negligence made him fall short.
The day after Li Yiqian fell into a coma, Hua Jing fell into chaos. For an army of 10,000 men had appeared out of nowhere after nightfall the day before, and the people who had never fought had heard this suddenly panicked. The most important thing is that even so, the imperial court has not sent anyone to deal with this matter, which makes them have a strong sense of crisis.
And the imperial court, which they pinned their hopes on, was in a big drama of forcing the palace at this time.
Originally, Li Yiqian was in a coma, and the hundred officials did not need to go to the court, but they received such news early in the morning, and they had to dress and enter the palace to discuss the major affairs of the country, and at the same time to confirm the news in their hands.
Seeing that those important officials had arrived, Liu Shiyuan couldn't help but show a victor's smile.
Li Yiqian is not here, so the position of these people is still somewhat interesting, and most of them are standing beside the people they follow, so although there are a lot of people, they have only formed a few circles. General Liu Shiyuan, Prime Minister Wang Song, and the number two people of Zhao Jing's faction each have some people around them, and the royalists gathered around Yong'an Hou Sun Ze are not very numerous, but they are all elderly people, and most of them are literati. There are also some people standing there in groups of three or five, but there is no core figure among them, most of them are wall grass.
"Since all of you are here, General Ben doesn't talk a lot of nonsense, and I think you all received that letter. General Ben has already asked the imperial doctor, and what the letter says is true, and there is a good chance that the emperor will not wake up again. This must be a conspiracy of the other two countries, so we must not let their treacherous scheme succeed! Liu Shiyuan stood up and said the purpose of their standing together today.
"The emperor has just been poisoned, and General Liu said such things, don't you feel that you have lost your trust in the emperor?" Wang Song was the first to stand up and refute it, and their official positions were the same, so he said it.
"Hmph, if you let the iron cavalry of those two countries invade Huajing, you will really be ashamed of your trust in the emperor! There must be spies in Huajing now, and this letter is the best proof of this. As he spoke, Liu Shiyuan took out the letter that appeared on the door of his house this morning.
"Then what should we do according to General Liu's meaning?" Zhao Jing's second-in-command is a general surnamed Chen, and this time Zhao Jing went out and didn't bring all the capable people under him, after all, the court also needs to be watched.
"General Ben thinks that the top priority is to settle the matter of reunification, so as not to give those with bad intentions an opportunity to take advantage of it."
"Unification? Does General Ryu mean to set up a new king? General Chen asked with a frown.
Now that Zhao Jing is not in Huajing, their faction does not have any advantage at all, plus the Queen Mother is Liu Shiyuan's sister, if he really does what he says, I am afraid that the power of his faction will be suppressed a lot.
"Naturally, the imperial doctor also said that the emperor is now just hanging his life with ginseng soup, and he doesn't know when he will go. Now that you haven't established a new king, do you have any other ideas? If it is for the good of my country, we should let the new emperor ascend the throne as soon as possible! Liu Shiyuan said in a high-sounding voice.
After pondering for a moment, Wang Song said, "What General Liu said also has a certain amount of truth. Although the emperor did not appoint a prince, only Concubine Chen gave birth to a prince in the harem, and she should be crowned a prince in both affection and reason. ”
Wang Song was relieved and agreed to the idea of setting up a new king, and now he found the only candidate who is right. It's just that the eldest prince was born to Concubine Chen, and she went out of the civil official family, if the eldest prince is allowed to ascend the throne, then the civil official line is likely to overpower the military generals, and this old thing can't be seen.
"What the prime minister said is very true. It's just that the child is too young to take on the heavy responsibility. "General Chen raised a new question, as we all know, the eldest prince is not yet a year old, and it is simply a joke to let him take on the heavy responsibility. Looking at the current situation, most of them want to set up a puppet emperor to come out.
"That's the second thing General Ben wants to say today. The eldest prince was young, and he was elected as the regent of a man who had experienced a hundred battles to protect the stability of our country. ”
As soon as the words "Man of a Hundred Battles" and "Regent" came out, the people in this hall instantly understood the meaning of Liu Shiyuan. He was afraid that others would say that he was plotting to usurp the throne, so he thought of such a move to take power, so that the people of the Li family who nominally sat on the throne were just auxiliary ministers.
"It's ridiculous! Why don't you just say that you want to ascend to the ninety-five position, and be the regent? The old man is ashamed of you! An old man in good spirits stood up indignantly, looking at his posture, if he couldn't beat Liu Shiyuan, he would really come forward to fight him.
This person is the oldest in the imperial history, and he is also an old minister who has gone through three dynasties. has always been the most upright, and when he sees something unpleasant, he will say it directly, without hiding it at all. When Li Yiqian broke the rules to seal Lin Yaxin, the old man knelt outside the Qiangong for a long time, and was not sent back home by Li Yiqian until he fainted, but even when he was sick, he still wrote to persuade Li Yiqian not to ignore etiquette. He was not even afraid of the emperor at the beginning, not to mention that there was only a general standing here.
Hearing this sudden "angry scolding", those people standing in front were stunned. Immediately, my heart bloomed with laughter. How can you forget this old imperial history, he is famous for his stinky temper, because he has taught the former emperor homework, he is half a prince, so even when the former emperor was there, he didn't treat him well. Now that they see Liu Shiyuan deflated in this hard bone, they are naturally happy to see it.
"Hmph, General Ben didn't say anything. Fang Yushi can say these words, which shows what you are thinking in your heart, if you don't have something in your heart, how can you guess General Ben's mind so much? Liu Shiyuan's mind was broken by him, and he unceremoniously gave him the usurping hat at the moment.
"You reckless man, old man Qingming I, I will never allow you to slander like this!" Saying that, Fang Yushi wanted to rush over to fight Liu Shiyuan, but how could he, an elderly Wenchen, be the opponent of Liu Shiyuan, who had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, so the people around him hurriedly stopped him as soon as they saw that the situation was not good.
"The boss is angry, this is above the main hall, don't be reckless."
"Humph!" Fang Yushi was stopped, and listening to the people around him find the steps for him, he stopped making trouble, after all, if he really wanted her to fight with Liu Shiyuan, I was afraid that he would be thrown out before he got close. Alas, for the first time, he felt that it was so bad for him to be a civil servant.
Liu Shiyuan naturally didn't want to confront this old stubbornness, and he was relieved to see him ignore him. Although there are many military generals in the DPRK and China, these imperial histories are not fuel-efficient lamps, and their mouths can make people want to die.
"I wonder what the adults think of General Ben's proposal?" Liu Shiyuan talked about the question of the regent again.
"I wonder who the general wants to nominate as regent?" Sun Ze didn't say anything, but just asked about the candidate for regent. Obviously, he also agreed with the idea of letting the eldest prince ascend the throne.
At this time, Liu Shiyuan said with a smile on his face: "General Ben also said just now that I need a person who has experienced a hundred battles to help my country. General Ben thinks there is no better candidate than me. Before going out this morning, I heard from the porter that there were enemy troops stationed outside the city, and the general saw the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, so I could still drag this body and bones into battle to resist the enemy. ”
Listening to his words, many people nodded in approval, and the highest degree of recognition was the grass on the wall. They can see it very clearly, now that the emperor is in a poisoned coma, I am afraid that it will be difficult to wake up, and these are the only people who can call the shots. At the beginning of the year, Anguo Gong was ordered to go to the border to deal with the affairs of the Hualan border, but he has not returned yet, and he is out of the game in this battle.
General Liu held the army closest to Huajing in his hands, and there were the Queen Mother and Yu Guifei in the harem, so the odds of victory were very great. The prime minister is a civil official, and although there is Yun Guifei in the harem, she has an obvious advantage over the generals. Although Sun Ze is a marquis, he has the military power of the Jingwei Battalion in his hands, and he has a virtuous concubine, but he has the strength to compete with General Liu.
In addition, the most important thing at the moment is to find people to guard the city gates, so that those stationed outside the city do not take advantage. And so many people quietly arrived outside Huajing, I am afraid that there are still their internal responses above this hall. So these people pinned their hopes on Liu Shiyuan, who was experienced in the enemy.
Wang Song looked at Sun Ze and wondered what his attitude was. thought that he would oppose Liu Shiyuan as the regent as he did, but he didn't expect Sun Ze to ask a question that was a little confusing.
"Does the general know the duties of the regent?"
Hearing his question, Liu Shiyuan was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Of course, the regent has to handle the government affairs for the Son of Heaven. ”
What people didn't expect was that after hearing this, Sun Ze directly agreed with what Liu Shiyuan said. I only heard him say: "In this case, the people outside the city will be dealt with by General Liu." As for the matter of the regent, Benhou has no opinion. However, the general must also know that there is an emperor above the regent, and you must not mess with your dignity. After that, Sun Ze closed his eyes and said that the royalists behind him would not participate in this matter, as long as they ensured that the eldest prince was the new emperor.