Chapter 208: A Different Dawn
On this day, it was not yet dawn.
The senior officials above the third rank in Bianjing City have begun to get busy, and they must rush to the Long Live Hall in the palace at the end of the day, because the new emperor's enthronement ceremony will be held on time at the end of the day.
Cai Jing had already put on the dress that the imperial court had just sent him yesterday, and his wife Wang was chattering in front of him about the new emperor. Cai Jing touched the jade belt around his waist, which was given to him by Boss Zhao before, remembering that some of the Zhao bosses who appreciated him had already ridden to the west, Cai Jing was somewhat depressed and unhappy, he looked at the Wang family's interrogation, and his heart was even more irritable, so he reprimanded loudly: "You are a woman, what do you know, this official family has died, of course the prince has ascended the throne!" ”
Cai Jing obviously ignored that his wife was the granddaughter of the former Prime Minister Wang Qi, she was born with political acumen, so she snorted coldly: "Women's family, what's wrong with women's people, this world may be our women's family in the future!"
Like Cai Jing and his wife, most of the officials in Bianjing City believed that Zhao Xu would undoubtedly become the new emperor, and Gao Taotao, as his wife, would control the court from now on.
However, the living room people didn't think much of it, and he thought that it might not be Zhao Xu who sat on the dragon chair today.
Xing Shu had been pretending to be sick at home, last time his younger brother pretended to be sick to frame Gao Yu, and this time Xing Shu pretended to be sick to avoid Li Kang's wedding.
Because Boss Zhao once promised to let Xing Shu participate in Li Kang's wedding on his behalf, Xing Shu didn't care at first, but when he got Li Kang to return to his hometown Wenzhou to hold a wedding, he was "sick", this Bianjing and Wenzhou want to go thousands of miles, Guanshan is dangerous, the road is far away, if you want to participate in Li Kang's wedding, it will take at least half a year.
Where can he imagine that he has left Boss Zhao for so long, he is afraid that he will go for half a year. Those political opponents in the DPRK and China have united to impeach themselves, and they are afraid that they will not be able to eat and walk away. So Xing Shu decided to pretend to be sick and stay in Bianjing, and when Li Dang would go to Wenzhou, he would come back from his illness, and at that time, Zhao Lao Nature would not let him go to Wenzhou again.
What Xing Shu didn't expect was that he hadn't come back yet, and Boss Zhao actually said goodbye to him and went to another world forever. As a living houser, as Boss Zhao's closest minister, the feeling of torture is like a landslide. He knew that Boss Zhao was his biggest backer in the imperial court.
A few months ago, Xing Shu was afraid that he would lose his backer, so when Zhao Boss was seriously ill, he once united with Cai Qu and others to assist Zhao Lao Er as the crown prince, but at that time, because Li Dang cured the opposition of Zhao Boss and Gao Taotao, he finally failed. Therefore, Xing Shu knew that Gao Taotao and Zhao Xu would definitely not give themselves good fruits to eat.
Just when the torture was a little uneasy, Zhao Laosi sent a faint message, saying that today's enthronement ceremony may have something major happening.
What other important things can happen in the enthronement ceremony, the punishment is understood. He knew that Zhao Laosi and Zhao Laoer might be a Jedi counterattack. If Boss Zhao's two younger brothers want to fight back, it is still unknown who will kill this deer. Therefore, he did not think that the person who became the emperor today was the crown prince Zhao Xu.
There are also several ministers who hold the same view as Xingshu, and they are either Zhao Lao'er and Zhao Laosi's henchmen. Either Zhao Laosi thinks that they are all some wall grass, so he starts to do work with them.
Regardless of who they think will become the new emperor, many people know that today's Banzai Hall is not destined to be too peaceful, and they are facing the dawn in Bianjing City. Or sit in a sedan chair, or ride a horse, or walk towards the Banzai Hall. However, none of them knew what kind of story would happen to this Banzai Hall today.
In fact, even the forbidden army in front of the palace commanded Shi Chong, and Chen Yaochuan, the forbidden army in front of the palace, didn't know what would happen today, although Zhao Laosi bribed them with a high-ranking official marquis, but he didn't let them further participate in his own struggle. Right. Snatch. In his plan, he only instructed the two commanders of the forbidden army to strictly guard their posts and prevent all contingencies.
Strictly guarding their posts and guarding against the unexpected is originally the responsibility of Shi and Chen, if it weren't for Zhao Laosi also asking the two of them for five pieces of the waist card of the Royal Forest Army and this morning's password, the two really wouldn't think that Zhao Laosi was plotting against him in the Long Live Palace this morning.
The two commanders of the forbidden army had no complaints about Zhao Laosi's specific plan to hide from him to fight for the throne, he knew that this was some of Zhao Laosi's measures to protect them, and the less they knew, the less likely Zhao Laosi would be implicated if the plan failed. As for the few waist cards, as long as the two of them flatly deny it, who will know where they were obtained.
Shi Chong and Chen Yaochuan followed Zhao Laosi's instructions, in fact, they also followed Gao Taotao's orders, sent more manpower, strengthened the security inside the palace, and did a very good job in the security work inside and outside the Long Live Palace. Although there is no guarantee that a fly will not be able to fly in, it is impossible for a large living person to enter or leave the palace without permission.
The dawn glow became brighter and brighter, reflecting on the sky, reflecting on the upright officers of the Imperial Forest Army, looking like a person was dressed in red.
Shi Chong stood on top of the palace wall, looking up at the direction of the rising sun, and he wondered if today's sun would be the same as yesterday's.
There are no two heavens and no two people, today is the time for a showdown, Shi Chong knows that Zhao Laosi will make a move today, although he doesn't know how Zhao Laosi will make a move.
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A country cannot be without a king for a day!
This sentence is not very accurate in some other dynasties, because the enthronement ceremony of their new emperor is often held a month or even more after the death of the old emperor, because in many dynasties, the enthronement ceremony is a major event, and it is necessary to take sufficient time to prepare properly.
But the Song Dynasty is different, in the Song Dynasty is often the death of the old emperor, the ministers will bow to the crown prince, which is considered to determine the relationship between the monarch and the minister, and the new emperor's enthronement ceremony will often be carried out a few days later. Of course, such an enthronement ceremony cannot be compared with other dynasties, at most it can only be regarded as an enthronement ceremony.
Zhao Xu stood on the stone steps of the East Palace, watching a round of red sun, slowly erupting from the palace wall in the east, slowly illuminating all the buildings, all the people, and even all the trees and flowers in the Forbidden Palace.
Looking at everything bathed in the morning light, although Zhao Xu discussed with Li Kang and Zhao Ying for a long time last night, although he had not slept all night, he still felt that he was full of strength, he heard the sound of the change, he opened his calves and slowly walked towards the direction of the Long Live Palace.
Zhao Xu hadn't walked a few steps before he heard Li Dang, who was dressed as a eunuch behind him, sigh:
"What a different kind of dawn!" (To be continued......)