The Imperial Hall has been emptied, and the obstruction is gone.

Liu Huangshang completed the task that he regarded as Xiao Ruxun's final test.

He sent Zhu Yijun back to Yuxi Palace, and then ignored it and handed over the management power to the young man named Zhou Yao.

This young man should be Xiao Ruxun's close minister, always helping him with errands, thinking about the relationship with Xiao Ruxun is very deep, Liu Huangshang doesn't know how Xiao Ruxun found this young man, and when he was on the same page, Liu Huangshang felt a kind of scrutiny and suspicion.

This young man doesn't seem to be easy to deal with.

Liu Huangshang didn't dare to speculate about what this young man was responsible for, for fear of offending Xiao Ruxun's taboo, and he didn't dare to ask, he now just wanted Xiao Ruxun to get closer, so that he could get more and better benefits at the future spoils sharing conference.

Of course, there are more things that need to be done before this, such as controlling Zhu Changluo and Empress Dowager Li, preparing for the Zen throne ceremony, and announcing to the public that Zhu Yijun is dead, or died in the hands of Shen Yijun and others, so Xiao Ruxun has to comply with heaven and earth and is forced to be the emperor, etc.

Although even Liu Huangshang himself doesn't believe in this kind of nonsense, everyone has done this since ancient times, and when the strength is reached, you can't help but believe it.

I'm the emperor, what can you do with me?

I'm just domineering, what can you do with me?

I'm just reversing black and white, a serious nonsense, what can you do with me?

The weak can only passively accept it.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun still has a lot of things to do.

The day before yesterday, on the night of the emperor's proclamation, Xiao Ruxun sent a letter to the Kong family in Qufu, Shandong, he wanted to see if the Kong family would be interested in persuading the upper table, and the Kong family persuaded the upper table to persuade this work for many years, and they have long been familiar with the road, as long as they are willing to cooperate, then the next thing will be much smoother.

Of course, the more critical point is that he sent Luo Rong to lead a cavalry of 5,000 people to the south that night, and arranged a team of men and horses before him in Qufu, led by the incognito Ma Gui, Mei Guozhen was also among them, he entrusted Ma Gui to monitor the Kong clan for him, and entrusted Mei Guozhen to liaise between him and the Kong clan.

And the reason why Xiao Ruxun sent troops south was not just to target the Kong family, the Kong family had no force, it was actually very easy to deal with the Kong family, and it was not easy to kill them, Xiao Ruxun did this because of Ma Gui.

He doesn't care about Mei Guozhen, Mei Guozhen is nothing at all, and it is estimated that he will not support him, but Ma Gui is a bit important, this can be regarded as a test for Ma Gui, if Ma Gui supports himself as the emperor and has a showdown with Mei Guozhen, then Ma Gui can be officially accepted.

If Ma Gui had any objections, Luo Rong's five thousand cavalry could strangle the hidden danger in the cradle.

Anyway, Kong is very knowledgeable about current affairs.

Anyone who may threaten to become emperor, Xiao Ruxun will not let go, no matter who it is.

In addition, if there are still dissatisfied people in the local area who want to rebel, it is very simple, those sent to spread the word to the world are the army, Xiao Ruxun arranged the army in various places, what is the army, the bandits generated in the process of pacifying the world must be eliminated first, and then the civilian officials will resume administration.

And then little by little the stability of the world will be restored.

In this way, there is no problem with the three southeastern provinces, there is no problem with Sichuan and Guangzhou, Yunnan may have a slight problem, Beizhili Liaodong and Shandong may also have a little problem, and there is basically no problem with the nine sides, and it is not a difficult thing to win the whole world.

Therefore, it is better to fight it yourself than to talk about it, you can make your own decisions, and you have the final say, if you talk about it, then you have more scruples.

Xiao Ruxun doesn't plan to negotiate with anyone, you only have the qualifications to accept, you have no right to resist, if you dare to resist, that is death.

Nothing to say.

The capital was completely defenseless after Shen was killed, the core of the palace city was taken, and there was no need for the entire capital division to continue to defend, of course, at that time, the remaining three armies had already entered the inner city.

Xiao Ruxun sent people to contact the three troops, so that all their main generals went outside the Imperial Palace, and he himself entered the Imperial Palace alone.

The Imperial Palace is the main hall of the Forbidden City, and it is an important palace for the Ming monarchs and ministers to discuss important military matters, and many decisions are made here and then announced to the world, and similarly, the new emperor's accession to the throne must be completed here, so that it can be regarded as orthodox.

Walking in this majestic palace, Xiao Ruxun can vaguely feel the majesty of the Ming Dynasty, when he woke up in the Pingyu City on the northwest border, he never thought that one day he would personally draw a rest for the Ming Dynasty.

But now, he is standing in the Imperial Palace, standing in this palace that already belongs to him, looking at the high throne in the palace.

He strolled forward, up the steps, and stood in front of the throne, examining the dragon chair.

From ancient times to the present, how many people with lofty ideals and careerists have been fighting around this dragon chair, how many people have died, and how many people have successfully climbed the dragon chair to call for wind and rain.

He knows very well that the emperor is the most dangerous profession in the world, once he becomes the emperor, he is destined to face the end of being alone, he has no friends in the real sense, he only faces enemies in some sense.

Once he ascends the throne and changes his identity, he is destined to embark on a path where he can't see the future and doesn't know the end, he has to start playing power, he has to start playing balance, he has to fight for the stability of the throne, he will do a lot of things that he couldn't have thought of at all.

He may kill people, kill some people who were very close to him, and even former comrades-in-arms, if not for anything else, but because these people did not change their mentality in time and did not understand the word emperor more thoroughly.

He may deliberately promote some terrible guys to the throne and let them set off a bloody storm just to restore the balance of the court.

He will have no allies, no friends.

He will also embark on a path that no one has ever walked, a path that is destined to affect future generations for thousands of years.

He didn't know if he would be able to sit in the world.

But he has no way back, the trend of the times, the desire of the people, cannot be changed by man, he can only continue to move forward, overcome obstacles, towards his own future, open up a path to light instead of destruction, he must do this, he has no other choice.

He had forced himself and his subordinates down this path, and now, he really had no choice.

Perhaps he himself didn't want that so-called choice at all.

Today's Xiao Ruxun is a person who can only move forward and cannot stop.

All those who followed him were the same, and they couldn't stop.

Generals, literati, none of them can stop.

So they all chose to kneel outside the Imperial Palace, shouting "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live" to the emperor to express their submission and follow, and they firmly believed that only by following Xiao Ruxun could they get what they wanted.

On December 26, the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, there were five days left before the end of the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty.