After the death of the emperor, the queen summoned the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and in front of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, she took out the holy decree left by the emperor in public. ”

As soon as this edict appeared, it immediately caused a dramatic shock to the government and the opposition, and after careful screening by Zhang Huaji and Zhuge Yiyan and others, the holy decree of the succession was indeed written by the emperor himself, and the jade seal of the country sealed on it was also genuine.

As a result, the Manchu Dynasty was in a dilemma, and no one thought that the emperor would choose a neutral prince to inherit the throne, although this result was unexpected, but it echoed the emperor's consistent style.

The emperor was worried about the battle between the crown prince and the second prince before, worried that their power struggle would collapse the dynasty, no matter which of the two inherited the throne, the forces under the other side would not be reconciled, because the two sides had a long-standing grudge and had reached the point where it could not be resolved.

If it comes to that point, there will only be two outcomes for the imperial court, either the people of the prince's faction will kill all the ministers, or the people of the second prince's faction will destroy all the generals, and the new emperor will never forgive the courtiers of the opposing camp.

This price is really unbearable for the imperial court at this time, and at the moment of internal and external troubles, it is understandable that the emperor chose the four princes of the neutral camp to inherit the throne, because only the four princes succeed to the throne can accommodate these civil servants and military generals.

The fourth prince, Xia Yuanyou, also thought of the pros and cons, on the way back to the imperial capital, he sent someone to pass on the queen, promoted the queen to the queen mother, and asked the queen mother to make a promise on his behalf, as long as the ministers are dedicated to the court, he promises to reuse everyone as always.

At the same time, Nangong Hongru dispatched all the war guards of the three territories under his command to assemble, and led three million soldiers to the forbidden city that night.

Hearing the promise of the queen mother and the father-in-law, looking at the content of the holy decree, the ministers on the scene fell into hesitation for a while, and at this moment, Nangong Xiongba surrounded the Jinxiao Hall with more than a thousand female guards from the harem.

Just when the queen mother and Nangong Xiongba coerced the ministers to support the new monarch from the Jinxiao Palace, Xia Yuanxiao, the secretary of the military department, and several other princes took the opportunity to escape from the mansion.

Hearing that the emperor's edict canonized the fourth prince Xia Yuanyou as the new emperor, the crown prince and the second prince all disagreed, and the two claimed that the edict was forged, and the prince called on the military generals to resist, and the second prince launched a civil boycott.

Although he was concerned about the situation in the imperial capital, he was not in the forbidden city, and they were all in a very awkward position at the moment, that is, they were about to enter the disaster area but had not yet entered the disaster area.

When they came, these princes were different from Ling Xia's day and night journeys, and they led their respective entourages, hurrying during the day, resting at night, and occasionally drinking a little wine, so they delayed some trips.

So although four months have passed, the four princes in charge of disaster relief are still on the way to disaster relief, as long as there is another month or so, the four disaster relief messengers can enter the disaster area, but no one thought that the emperor would die at this juncture.

After hearing the news of the emperor's death, the four princes immediately panicked, they all didn't care about the will of disaster relief and the people, and they were bent on the emperor's throne, so several princes who were on a mission outside quickly returned to the imperial capital.

In the hearts of those princes, compared with the throne of the imperial capital, it doesn't matter if the victims in the disaster area die, so they sent a letter from the post station to the governors of the affected territories, asking them to relieve the disaster on their own, be self-sufficient, and be self-reliant, and everyone will not care.

I walked for four months when I came, and it is estimated that it will take four months to go back, and if I wait until then, no one knows what will happen? Fortunately, this time the four princes also came out, otherwise, the imperial capital would have held an enthronement ceremony for the new monarch.

The crown prince and the second prince want to rush to the imperial capital to turn things around before the fourth prince ascends the throne, while the fourth prince is in a hurry to return to the imperial capital to ascend the throne and claim the throne, so the three groups are racing against time, whoever returns to the imperial capital first and quickly will be able to turn the situation around.

Although the princes were impatient in their hearts, they did not dare to blindly return to the imperial capital, for fear that the imperial capital would be controlled.

In order to protect their personal safety, all the princes showed their hole cards, showing all the powers that they usually hide and are reluctant to use, and they want to snatch the throne of the emperor at all costs and let themselves ascend to the throne of the dragon chair.

The four princes were the first to strike, and on the way back to the imperial capital, he announced the first royal decree, ordering the former Praetorian Guard Governor Nangong Xiongba to reinstate and immediately take charge of the security of the imperial capital Forbidden City.

Although Yu Xiajiang's 3.4 million Praetorian Guards were reorganized and transferred to the prince's command, most of their leading generals were still from the Nangong family.

Hearing that Nangong Xiongba's official was reinstated, the prince felt bad and wanted to send someone to control those senior generals of the Praetorian Guard, but he was one step late, and when Nangong Xiongba's order was transmitted to the military camp, more than three million Praetorian Guards were taken away by the generals of the Nangong clan.

After learning that the Praetorian Guard was abducted by the generals of the Nangong family, the prince gritted his teeth angrily, he had just been stationed not long ago, and he had sent people to call for battle under the city gate occupied by Peng Tiangang, but Peng Tiangang had been avoiding.

At this moment, the crown prince could not care about continuing to exterminate the rebels, and after gathering his troops and horses, he led the remaining seven million soldiers under his command to go straight to the imperial capital to kill, to snatch back his enemy position, and at the same time he also called on the territory where the military generals were sitting to prepare to resist the rebel king.

The crown prince led his troops back to the imperial capital to compete for the throne, and the second prince was not far behind, he also sent a letter to the governors of the territories controlled by the ministers, so that everyone was ready, and at the critical moment, he would lead everyone to resist the four princes who usurped the throne of the emperor.

Then, the second prince sent a letter to Peng Tiangang who was far away on the border, and received the letter, Peng Tiangang, who had previously announced that he would support the army and stand on his own, expressed his support for the second prince, and he led 10 million soldiers to join the second prince and escort the second prince back to the imperial capital.

The crown prince Xia Yuanwei, the sixth prince Xia Yuantu, and the seventh prince Xia Yuanxiao are in one camp, the second prince Xia Yuanwen, the third prince Xia Yuanran, and the ninth prince Xia Yuanming are in one camp, and the fourth prince Xia Yuanyou is in one camp.

For a time, the imperial capital was surging, and the armies from all walks of life went straight to the forbidden city, and the three camps were about to stage a big drama of "seven kings seizing the throne".