Chapter 159 - His Majesty's Bloodline
After a fierce argument, Joey was completely defeated, and the ministers ignored Joey's opinion at all, and called all the clansmen in Luoyang City over on the spot, ready to select suitable clan children and ascend the throne as emperor.
After the original purge of the Emperor, there are few children and children of the royal family, but if you want to count the clan relatives, there are many people, since Zhao Fan became the emperor, countless royal relatives from all over the Tang Dynasty came to take refuge, and also made Luoyang City gather countless royal relatives for a while.
Except for those who are not suitable for age, the number of male relatives who came to the hall still reached nearly two hundred, these people came to Luoyang later, Zhao Fan also had a headache for how to settle these relatives who were incapable of being idle, and causing trouble every day, and finally simply raised them in captivity, and gave a certain amount of money every month, and then no longer cared about it, which made these relatives complain about Zhao Fan.
"Niangniang, my lords, all the clansmen in Luoyang have arrived, let's choose one person to ascend the throne today, we really can't afford to wait." Kong Wei looked up at everyone and said slowly.
"That's great!" King Ji nodded. said with a twinkle in his eyes.
Joey looked at everyone expressionlessly, with a straight face and did not speak.
"Fellow clansmen, you all know that a few days ago, His Majesty was unfortunately killed by thieves in Shaanzhou City, and today I asked you to wait here in order to select a suitable person among you and inherit the throne of the Tang Emperor, do you understand what I said?" Du Rangneng walked in front of everyone, cleared his throat and shouted.
When the clan relatives below heard this, they immediately boiled, they were actually asked to inherit the throne, is it really fake?
"Quiet, all quiet!" Du Rangneng raised his hand and said in a deep voice, "Since the person has expired, let's officially start, now it is recommended by the ministers, and finally the official and the adults and the queen will jointly decide, who will inherit the throne!" ”
The clansmen who were originally bright-eyed were stunned, and couldn't help but hang their heads in frustration, although they were still the clansmen of the royal family, they had long been far away from the political center, and they were all powerless and powerless, where would anyone support them to be emperors? Some smart people have instantly understood that they and others are probably being used as guns, and they are just coming here to make up the numbers...
The people in King Ji's camp were overjoyed, this election of the emperor can still play like this, and the ministers will elect it, so the position of the emperor, isn't King Ji decided?
"The minister recommended His Royal Highness King Ji, His Royal Highness King Ji was known for his talent when he was young, and he was brave and resourceful, and he could inherit the throne!"
"The minister recommends His Royal Highness King Ji, His Royal Highness King Ji has a gentle temperament and a resolute mind, if His Royal Highness King Ji ascends the throne, he will definitely be able to re-enact the Tang Dynasty!"
"The minister recommends His Royal Highness King Ji, His Royal Highness King Ji is sympathetic to the people, His Majesty is well-groomed, and his blood is pure, and he is the best candidate to inherit the throne!"
"The minister recommends His Royal Highness King Ji..."
"Recommended by the minister..."
Without any surprise, all the people who recommended him recommended King Ji, and some of the neutral officials and royalists also lowered their hands and half-squinted their eyes to recuperate, as if what had happened had nothing to do with them.
And those clan relatives who were pulled over to make up the number also turned from hope to disappointment, and finally turned into annoyance, glaring at everyone in the hall with dissatisfaction, and hating Kong Wei who brought them even more.
Since the candidates for the succession have already been decided, why bother to pull them over and go through this formality, don't they want to save face?
"It seems that this king is also deeply popular, since all the adults have recommended it, then this king will be disrespectful!" Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, King Ji couldn't help but laugh arrogantly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any other opinions?" Du Rangneng didn't have a chance to be King Ji, so he just turned around lightly and said in a deep voice to the ministers.
The ministers looked up, you look at me, and I look at you, but they all say no more.
"That being the case, then I declare..."
"Wait a minute, this palace opposes King Ji's succession!"
Just as Du Rangneng was about to announce King Ji as the successor, Joey suddenly sat up and said coldly.
"Oh, I don't know what the mother means?" Du Rangneng glanced at Joey in surprise and said with some puzzlement.
"In the belly of this palace, there are still His Majesty's children, even if he wants to succeed to the throne, he should be succeeded by His Majesty's children, when will it be the turn of these cats and dogs?" Joey gently stroked his stomach and said in a deep voice.
"What?" King Ji's face turned all over and shouted in disbelief.
The ministers below whispered about those royalist officials who had been personally cultivated by Zhao Fan. In their eyes, if Zhao Fan did not leave a bloodline, they didn't care who was the emperor, but since Zhao Fan had a bloodline, it should be Zhao Fan's flesh and blood to inherit the throne.
"Jokes, it's just jokes, in the three hundred years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, I haven't heard of anyone letting an unborn child inherit the throne, let alone whether the child in your belly is male or female!" Zhang Jun, who had been standing in the crowd, suddenly stood up and said indifferently.
"What if this kid is a girl? Is it impossible to let a woman be the emperor? King Ji on the side also reacted and nodded again and again.
"This... It seems really unreasonable to let an unborn child take the throne, and this is also against the ancestral system, which is quite inappropriate! Du Rangneng sighed, shook his head, and said.
When the royalists saw that Du Rangneng could speak, they immediately stopped speaking, but quietly watched the development of things, waiting for the results to appear, after all, Du Rangneng was their head, and this little face still existed.
"You... Lord Du, you..."Joey glanced at Du Rangneng with some surprise, as if he didn't expect him to suddenly run out and dismantle the stage, pointing at him for a long time but couldn't say anything, and finally had to sit down a little depressed and stop talking.
"On behalf of the 100,000 soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army and the Pro-Guard Army, I don't care what you nerds think, anyway, I only support His Majesty's flesh and blood!"
Just when Joey felt a little helpless, a sudden sound of cutting iron was heard in the midst of all his thoughts, which interrupted the ministers who were talking about it again.
"The general's words are wrong, how can this new monarch's canonization be such a child's play!" Du Rangneng also stood up and said coldly.
"If you have no opinions, then I will officially announce that His Royal Highness King Ji will inherit the throne!"
"Master Du, do you know what you're doing?" Joey shook his head, glared at Du Rangneng with murderous aura, and said coldly.
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