"You don't have to choose ......"

Yang Da sighed beside Yang Qi.

Yang Qi sat alone on the chair with deep eyes and looked at Yang Da, "In the future, can we still be the same as before, regardless of each other, regardless of high or low?" ”

Yang laughed, and his smile was bright.

"We will always be brothers......"

Yang Qi also laughed, "That's good......"

Many times, different statuses naturally follow different.

When you are high above everyone and you are the only one who calls the shots.

Even if you don't want to show yourself as noble, everyone will still show respect to you and put you in the most noble position.

This is everyone's expectation and everyone's hope.

If you don't want to sit in that most noble position, then a big battle for profit is inevitable.

Yang Qi was unwilling to give up the authority in his hands, nor was he willing to be above others.

If this is placed in the future generations, Yang Qi will definitely be a leader close to the people, but in this feudal dynasty, Yang Qi is an outlier.

An outlier can't really fit into a group.

An outlier can't stay on the highest throne for long.

After a long time, there will always be someone who will weaken your good intentions on the spot, and then have bad intentions, and finally unite with others to push you off the highest throne in one fell swoop.

Then the most prestigious of them all, will step on your corpse and become the one waiting on the highest throne.

And he will also cater to the public opinion and be above everyone.

In this way, his throne will last longer than Yang Qi.

Yang Qi had no way to change this kind of thinking, and there was no way to change the system of the feudal dynasty for a while.

So he can only choose to change himself and try to become the one who is above others.

In this way, the long-term peace and stability of the places under his rule can be guaranteed.

And in Bianjing, which is thousands of miles away.

Someone does it better than Yang Qi.

The vertical arch hall arranged into the spiritual hall is still majestic.

In the middle of the main hall is placed a huge coffin, the shape resembles a small palace, mahogany, painted with gold lacquer, painted with dragon patterns, inlaid with various colored gems, covered with a layer of Buddhist 10,000-character splendid carpet, it has a scientific name called Zigong, it is the coffin dedicated to the burial of the emperor and queen.

Although its shape is very different from that of the coffin used by the people, the function is the same.

The only person in the Great Song Dynasty who is qualified to lie in this Zi Palace is Zhao Guangyi.

At this moment, Zhao Guangyi was wearing a dragon robe and a two-winged dragon crown, lying quietly inside.

Around the Azusa Palace, there were hundreds of civil and military officials kneeling, one by one burying their heads between their legs like quails.

In the middle of the spiritual hall, there were more than a dozen corpses lying horizontally, and blood flowed all over the ground along the brick cracks of the floor tiles of the main hall.

Zhao Defang was standing at the front of the corpse at this moment, holding a sword in his hand, trembling all over.

Cao Bin was standing beside Zhao Defang, holding a horizontal knife in his hand, wiping the blood on the horizontal knife, while sweeping his tiger eyes, and said coldly: "Chaotic ministers and thieves, everyone has to be punished."

Who else wants to be like them, a rebel and a thief? ”

The civil and military officials trembled, and their heads were lowered.

Shocked the hundred officials, Cao Bin looked at the inner guards at the gate of the palace again, and shook the knife in his hand, "Are you disarming and surrendering, or are you all killed?" ”

The voice landed.

A group of sword and axe men who had already been ambushed, armed with knives and axes, besieged the Ouchi guards at the gate of the palace.

"Puff~"

"Bang~"

There are die-hard people who stared at Cao Bin and Zhao Defang viciously, and directly wiped their necks with knives.

There are those who are shot to death and surrender directly.

After a while, the Ouchi guards at the gate of the palace were cleaned up.

Cao Bin finished his business and glanced at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Puqing coughed, and said loudly: "When the first emperor died, he left a will, returned to Zhao Defang, and Zhao Defang succeeded to the throne. The edict is in the hands of the old man, and after the burial of the first emperor Zi Palace, the new monarch will announce it at the enthronement ceremony. ”

After a pause, Zhao Pu raised his voice and said coldly: "However, the eldest prince, the second prince, the fifth prince, the eighth prince, and a group of traitors, knowing that the first emperor had an edict left, but they still secretly colluded with the intention of usurping the throne, and their crimes should be punished."

Now he has been corrected by the privy envoy Cao Bin on the spot, and you should take it as a warning.

After the burial of the first emperor, we must do our best to jointly assist the new monarch.

The new monarch is benevolent and does not neglect you. ”

Cao Bin secretly dragged Zhao Defang, who was still in a daze, and Zhao Defang was shocked, and then he woke up from his shock.

Hearing the end of Zhao Pu's words, he hurriedly said, "As long as you work together to assist me, I will definitely not neglect you." ”

The civil and military officials slowly raised their heads and glanced at each other familiarly, each seeing the decision in the eyes of the other.

Immediately, the civil and military officials bowed their heads again and shouted in unison, "The ministers will obey Your Majesty's will." ”

Li Xin raised his head and straightened his chest, strode in front of Zhao Defang, bowed and said: "Minister Li Xin, please play Your Majesty, how the bodies of these chaotic ministers and thieves, as well as their families, should be disposed of, please ask Your Majesty to decide." ”

Zhao Defang was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "Yuan Zuo and the other four are all my cousins, and now they are dead, and the past sins will be written off. Give them princes and lords, and let them go down to the earth to guard the spirits of the first emperor.

His heirs, exempted from the sin of Zhulian, were sent to Taiyuan Mansion.

Among his daughters, all the daughters of courtiers can receive the solitary confinement of returning to the house, and the rest of the people will be assigned to the teaching workshop.

The housekeepers, servants, maids, etc., all of them were sent to Yongzhou, and they were not allowed to enter Bianjing for the rest of their lives. ”

The more Zhao Defang spoke, the louder he became, and in the end, he finally found a little bit of the emperor's majesty in front of the hundred officials, and he continued loudly: "As for those traitors who rebelled with Yuan Zuo and others, according to the law, punish the nine clans!" ”

"Ahem......"

Suddenly, Zhao Pu coughed twice, bowed slightly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, in this Northern Expedition, my Great Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses. Those traitors naturally deserve to die, but there are many innocent people in their nine clans.

The old minister thinks that it is better to only punish the whole family of the evil chief, and the rest of the people will be sent to Yongzhou, what does Your Majesty think? ”

Zhao Defang was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly felt a trace of unwillingness in his heart.

Zhao Pu's words seemed to be fighting for the survival of those innocent people, but in fact, after he, the new emperor, took control of power, he was admonishing him.

Scholars and emperors share the world.

How glorious, how domineering, and how noble it is to hold the authority of the world.

Now that this power is in hand, but half of it has to be divided, Zhao Defang is really a little unwilling.

That's exactly what people are.

Before getting something, you will appear to be very generous, and you will promise many benefits to those around you.

But when he really got the long-awaited thing, he didn't want to share it with others.

However, unwillingness is unwillingness.

Zhao Defang still had to bow his head in front of Zhao Pu, and the scholars shared the world with the emperor, which was the condition for Zhao Pu and others to support him.

And his position is not stable, and he still has to rely on the support of Zhao Pu and others.

Zhao Defang pretended to think very seriously for a while, then nodded and said: "Zhao Aiqing is reasonable, then follow Zhao Aiqing's instructions." ”

Zhao Pu nodded with satisfaction.

The eunuchs and ladies in the palace cleaned the vertical arch hall as quickly as possible.

The Vertical Arch Hall has changed from a killing field to a solemn place again.

Zhao Defang changed into a yellow robe that symbolized the prince and stood in front of Zhao Guangyizi Palace.

Chen Lin shook off the dust and shouted loudly: "Holy oracle, tomorrow the third watch will be the spirit, and the fifth watch will be buried......"

After a month-long struggle for the throne, it came to an end with Chen Lin's holy message.

Since Zhao Defang and his entourage escorted this Zhao Guangyi's spirit out of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, they stopped and stopped along the way to prevent the news of Zhao Guangyi's death from reaching Bianjing City.

The trip took more than a month, and they were stunned that it took more than two months.

And along the way, there is also the news of the defeat, trying to attract everyone's attention.

However, even though they were strictly guarded, the news of Zhao Guangyi's death finally spread back to Bianjing.

In Bianjing City, there were courtiers immediately, supporting the crown prince as the emperor.

And also summoned the forbidden army guarding outside Bianjing City to enter Bianjing City to protect the holy car.

After Zhao Defang and his entourage arrived outside Bianjing City, they were forcibly blocked out of the city gate.

Fortunately, the eldest prince with an upright temperament and the second prince with a weak temperament refused to take over the throne after consultation.

They told the courtiers who supported them explicitly.

They must wait until Zhao Defang comes back to figure out everything before deciding on the throne.

At the same time, they also ordered the courtiers that the ownership of the throne should be subject to the edict of their father, and that they must not instigate relations between their brothers.

Many courtiers did not understand what the two of them did, and some even forced each other to die.

But the two of them have such a temperament that once they decide something, the nine cows can't pull it back.

In the end, after Zhao Defang and his entourage arrived in Bianjing City, they were blocked out.

After negotiation between the two sides, Zhao Guangyi's coffin, Zhao Defang, Zhao Pu, Cao Bin, Li Xin, and Chen Lin were allowed to escort Zhao Guangyi's coffin into Bianjing.

After entering Bianjing City.

Zhao Pu and Li Xin broke away from the escort team under the pretext of leaving the escort team and privately omitted other colleagues.

Cao Bin also broke away from the escort team under the pretext of going to privately contact the generals of the forbidden army guarding Bianjing, as well as the various generals.

In the end, Zhao Defang and Chen Lin, with the help of the internal guards sent by the palace, escorted Zhao Guangyi's coffin into the palace.

As soon as Chen Lin entered the palace, it was like a fish returning to the sea.

With his many years of operation in the palace, coupled with the help of the pacification department, he took control of the palace in one fell swoop.

And when Chen Lin took control of the palace.

The eldest prince and the second prince were still crying in front of Zhao Guangyi's coffin.

They wept silently and almost fainted.

In the end, it was the long history of their subordinates who reminded them to check Zhao Guangyi's body.

After inspection, they found that Zhao Guangyi died of poisoning, so they pointed the finger directly at Zhao Defang.

When Zhao Defang was outside Bianjing City, he got Zhao Pu's guidance in advance.

So when faced with this kind of problem, he pushed three or five or six, calmly pushed all the problems on the Liao people, and finally withdrew Zhao Pu, Cao Bin, Li Xin and other witnesses.

From beginning to end, Zhao Defang did not mention the matter of the throne.

The eldest prince and the second prince were fooled by Zhao Defang's nonsense.

The two of them discussed it and decided to go to the Vertical Arch Hall the next day, in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, to publicly try Zhao Defang and uncover the truth that Zhao Guangyi was blocked.

In this way, the next day, they sent people to invite Zhao Pu, Cao Bin and others.

Both said they were sick.

This delay is more than half a month.

Half a month later, the vertical arch hall that had been sealed for a long time was opened.

The eldest prince and the second prince gathered hundreds of civil and military officials to prepare for the public trial of Zhao Defang.

However, what they didn't expect was that.

After Zhao Pu and others went to court, they confirmed Zhao Defang's statement.

Zhao Guangyi was poisoned when he was allied with the Liao.

At the same time, Zhao Pu immediately took out the edict and announced Zhao Defang's right to succeed to the throne.

All of a sudden, the court fryer.

Loyal and upright, he threatened that Zhao Pu and his gang were chaotic ministers and thieves.

Zhao Pu, who has been preparing for more than half a month, has already won over nearly ninety percent of the court's civil servants, and the remaining one percent is the opponent of these people.

When the eldest prince and the second prince wanted to summon the forbidden army into the palace, they found that Cao Bin had not been idle for more than half a month.

More than half a month is enough for Cao Bin to lobby the various generals.

threw out the truth of the defeat of the Northern Expedition, and then promised high-ranking officials and lords, plus Cao Bin, the privy envoy, as a guarantee, nearly half of the generals all defected.

Some of the remaining diehards have long been turned into fish feed in the water.

In this way, Zhao Defang changed from a suspect pending trial to the heir of the empire.

The eldest prince and the second prince were kicked out of the palace.

Without a suitable excuse, Zhao Defang had no way to go to Zhengda Guangming to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

The eldest prince and the second prince who returned to their respective mansions, under the analysis of the palace strategists, slowly analyzed the truth that Zhao Guangyi was poisoned.

The two of them secretly united the four princes and the eighth princes.

gathered a group of people, and on the day of Zhao Guangyi's funeral, launched an assassination against Zhao Defang.

It turns out.

The assassination they planned was a failure.

Cao Bin, who had already secretly known about their arrangement, made a reverse arrangement in advance.

This leads to the scene of blood pouring on the vertical arch hall.

As soon as the assassination began, he was strangled in the cradle by Cao Bin.

The four eldest princes were also killed on the spot.

The four people who were the most threatening to Zhao Defang's throne were killed by Cao Bin, and Zhao Defang ascended the throne as emperor, which became a matter of nails.

After the vigorous burial.

Zhao Defang, as the prince, guarded the tomb for seven days.

Seven days later.

After Zhao Defang exhausted the ancestral temple in Bianjing City, he officially ascended the throne and became the emperor.

Changed his name to Zhao Chong, and changed his name to Qianyou.

Chasing, Zhao Guangyi's name is the Emperor of Zhiren Yingdao's divine merit and Shengde Ruilie Guangxiao, and the temple name is Taizong.

Posthumously crowned Zhao Dezhao as the king of Jin, and was nicknamed Gongxian.

In addition, the late Empress Song was posthumously crowned as the Queen Mother, the late biological mother Empress Xiaohui, her grandfather, grandmother and many other deceased relatives.

And the official proclamation was announced to the world.