"Please take the edict from His Royal Highness the Prince!" At this time, it was the critical moment to choose a side between the prince and the king of Han, and Zhou Zheng, the Marquis of Zhongyong, glanced at the civil officials kneeling in the main hall, and then knelt on the ground with the corners of the official robes, clearly indicating his attitude. The update is the fastest, the most stable, the fastest update, and the fastest eye-to-eye

"Please take the edict from His Royal Highness the Prince!" Zhang Hao, the governor of the right military capital, and Niu Shihao, the right governor of the former military governor's office, knelt on the ground after him.

"Please take the edict from His Royal Highness the Prince!" Under the leadership of Zhou Zheng, Zhang Hao and Niu Shihao, the military attache standing on the right knelt down by a third, and many of them were people who had a neutral attitude.

Lu Zhongqian and the others obviously did not expect that so many military attachés would choose to support the crown prince, and they showed a look of surprise on their faces for a while, and they seemed a little caught off guard.

"Weichen, I implore His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to accept the edict!" The next moment, an even bigger blow appeared, and Zhao Shanhe, the left governor of the Chinese Army's Governor's Mansion, who had been silent, also knelt on the ground and said loudly.

"Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take the edict." Led by Zhao Shanhe, a centrist, those military attachés who were hesitant to wait and see followed him to their knees, and the number was close to one-third of the total number of military attachés.

"Minister, I respectfully ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to accept the edict." Without waiting for Lu Zhongqian and the others to react, the Zongren Mansion Zong Ling also knelt down and said loudly.

"Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take the edict." Under the leadership of the Zongren Mansion Sect Order, the members of the royal family standing in front of the queue on the right all knelt down.

As a result, there were only dozens of Wenchen such as Qin Yongxiang and nearly one-third of the military attachés such as Lu Zhongqian left in the main hall, and there was no doubt that they were supporters of the Han Dynasty.

The faces of Lu Zhongqian, Qin Yongxiang and the others became very ugly, and the shape in front of them had clearly indicated that they had failed in this Ming orthodoxy.

Not only the ministers and members of the imperial family in the main hall, but even the vast majority of the noble generals present, also regarded the crown prince as the legitimate heir of the Ming Dynasty because of the edict of Emperor Yongle brought by Li Yuntian.

After all, it was only a part of the noble generals who were loyal to the Han king, and the noble generals like Zhao Shanhe, who were in a neutral posture, valued the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty more, so they wisely chose the crown prince who had the upper hand in this battle for orthodoxy.

This is the reason why the king of Han wants to get the edict in the hands of Yang Rong, he and the crown prince are now in equilibrium, and with the edict of Emperor Yongle will break this balance, whoever has the edict will be invincible.

King Han calculated thousands of calculations, and missed the existence of Li Yuntian's uncertain factor, never expected that Li Yuntian would be able to avoid the obstacles he set up along the way, and unknowingly sneaked into the palace on the day of the great dynasty in the capital, and then gave him a fatal blow.

Zhu Gaochi looked at the kneeling ministers in the hall, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, he not only won the support of the ministers and the imperial family, but also unexpectedly won the support of nearly two-thirds of the noble generals, so the overall situation has been decided.

Then, Zhu Gaochi's eyes flashed coldly, and he looked coldly at Qin Yongxiang, Wu Tong, Fan Bin, and the dozens of civil officials standing there.

Compared with Lu Zhongqian and other nobles who have always supported the King of Han, Zhu Gaochi especially hates these traitors who support him on the surface but have actually taken refuge in the King of Han.

Facing Zhu Gaochi's sharp and indifferent eyes, the dozens of civil officials standing in the main hall couldn't help but tremble, their faces turned pale, and they knelt on the ground one after another, touching their heads to the ground and not daring to look at Zhu Gaochi.

Qin Yongxiang, Wu Tong and Fan Bin were sweating profusely, and the three of them knew that they could really offend Zhu Gaochi at this time, so they involuntarily knelt down, supported the ground with both hands, and kept wiping the cold sweat on their foreheads.

After the three of them knelt on the ground, Zhu Gaochi looked at Lu Zhongqian and the others again, and he didn't speak, but just silently looked at Lu Zhongqian and the others, his eyes were a little indifferent.

Li Yuntian has already made it very clear just now that if Lu Zhongqian and others do not support Zhu Gaochi in receiving the edict, then they will be resisting the decree and not complying with it, and failing to comply with the decree is a serious crime that will not be forgiven, and the person will be beheaded at least and his family will be confiscated at worst.

Zhu Gaochi can have the last laugh after the battle with the King of Han for the heir, and can easily deal with the third brother Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, who is eyeing him from the side, how can he really be a cowardly and incompetent person?

Once Lu Zhongqian and others are stubborn, then Zhu Gaochi will definitely kill Lu Zhongqian and others in the name of disobeying the order, anyway, there are noble generals such as Zhou Zheng and Zhao Shanhe, and he is not worried that he will not be able to control the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies at all.

"Weichen respectfully asks His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to accept the edict."

For the first time, Lu Zhongqian found that the cowardly and humble Zhu Gaochi had such a fierce look, which made him feel a chill in his heart, and glanced at the kneeling officials in the hall, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, knowing that the general trend had gone, and then lifted the corner of the official robe and knelt down, and said loudly.

"I respectfully ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to accept the edict." Driven by him, the noble generals who were standing knelt down one after another.

Seeing this, a sneer flashed at the corner of Zhu Gaochi's mouth, even if Lu Zhongqian was self-aware, otherwise he wouldn't mind learning from Emperor Hongwu's grandfather and getting rid of those tricky meritorious dignitaries.

"Son-in-law Zhu Gaochi, respectfully ask for the holy edict!" Then, Zhu Gaochi took a deep breath, got up and walked off the high platform, knelt down in the direction of the dragon chair, and said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Li Yuntian hurriedly stood up from the ground, and due to the numbness of his legs, he limped over, picked up the edict from the hand of an attendant, and came to Zhu Gaochi with a stern expression.

Not everyone is qualified to read the edict, and generally speaking, only the officials who send the edict can enjoy this "honor", so it can only be summoned by Li Yuntian.

Of course, the so-called edict could not have been written by the emperor, but by close officials imitating the emperor's tone after the emperor's death.

And only when the edict is announced, then the death of the emperor can be officially confirmed, and the emperor will be promoted to the "first emperor", and the queen will be promoted to the queen mother and become a "mourner".

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: I will be difficult to enter the unification with Jing, and I will be awarded the Fengzong Temple for 22 years......"

After taking a deep breath, Li Yuntian opened the edict in his hand and read it out in a stern tone, "The crown prince Zhu Gaochi is filial piety and filial piety, wise and long-awaited, it is advisable to follow the ancestral teachings and obey the feelings of the group, that is, the emperor's throne, and he is reluctant to cultivate his virtue, but he was accidentally destroyed." The funeral is still systematic, with the sun changing the month, the 27th is released, the sacrifice is vegetarian, and folk music is not forbidden to marry. ”

"The clan relatives, the county king, the feudal screen is important, and you can't leave the domain without permission. On the day of the funeral, each of them will stop crying in the day and night, and the three days will enter the incense and send the official on his behalf. The state capital and county of Weisuo and the local officials are exempt from incense. The suburban community and other ceremonies and funerals are enjoyed, and the old classics of the ancestors are corrected at their discretion. ”

After reading the content of the edict to let the crown prince succeed to the throne, Li Yuntian's tone quietly changed, and he sounded a little subdued, "...... Yu play! The son is filial piety to follow the chronicle and be good, and the minister is loyal to Shun Kuang to save both. The body is still in the heart, and the Qin is not killed, and the world is announced, and the salty envoy hears it. Chin this. ”

After the words "Qin this" were read, Li Yuntian knelt in front of Zhu Gaochi with his legs bent, holding the edict high with both hands, and his expression was extremely respectful.

"The son's order will live up to his father's high expectations." Zhu Gaochi took the edict from Li Yuntian and said loudly.

"Your Majesty, why did you leave the courtiers?" At this time, there was a sudden cry in the hall, and the voice sounded quite miserable, and I didn't know who it was.

"Your Majesty, how can you let your ministers live alone when you leave." Then another cry rang out.

At this moment, the hall seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest, and no matter whether the ministers and nobles or the royal family were in the royal family, they all howled and cried, beating their chests and feet, looking heartbroken, life is worse than death.

Li Yuntian remembered the time he spent with Emperor Yongle during the Northern Expedition, his eyes couldn't help but be rosy, and tears flowed down his cheeks, he knew that Emperor Yongle not only trusted him and entrusted him with the important task of passing on the edict, but also gave him a bright future.

As the saying goes, the merit is greater than the Savior, which means that among the merits made by the ministers, the greatest is to save the emperor's life, Li Yuntian's sudden appearance today made Zhu Gaochi turn things around in one fell swoop, and he is no different from the Savior, this is a great merit, and Zhu Gaochi and even the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji will be reused for him in the future.

Zhu Gaochi also burst into tears, sitting on the ground with the edict in his hand and crying bitterly, and the whole hall was crying.

Lei Ting looked at the people around her with a blank face, not only the ministers in the palace, but even the chamberlain, palace maids and guards all knelt there and cried.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the top priority now is for you to ascend the throne quickly, Weichen thinks this is also the meaning of the first emperor." Li Yuntian knew that now was not the time to mourn Emperor Yongle, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, knelt a few steps forward, came to Zhu Gaochi's side and whispered, "In addition, choose a reliable person to lead the Nine Gates, and send someone to announce the edict of the first emperor to the world." ”

Zhu Gaochi frowned slightly when he heard this, he knew that the most important thing now was to prevent King Han from leading troops into the city, so he summoned the middle-aged waiter who was kneeling and crying, and whispered some things to the middle-aged waiter, and then continued to sit on the ground and cry bitterly.

The middle-aged servant immediately got up, walked quickly to Zhou Zheng, Zhang Hao and Niu Shihao, and whispered to the three of them for a while, and the three of them immediately led more than a dozen generals in the hall to leave in a hurry.

Then, the middle-aged chamberlain came to the side of the envoy and whispered a few words to him, and the envoy then called out to a few civil officials and walked out of the hall quickly.

The general political envoy is commonly known as Yintai, and the internal and external chapters of the Ming Dynasty are sparse and refuted, and the edict will be transcribed by it, and people will be sent to all parts of the Ming Dynasty to announce it to the Quartet.

Seeing Zhou Zheng and the envoys leaving, Li Yuntian's hanging heart finally let go, as long as he strictly guarded the nine gates of the capital, then the king of Han would be powerless at that time, and could only look at the tall city wall and sigh.

Inadvertently, Li Yuntian's gaze fell on Lei Ting's body not far away, and his brows frowned slightly.

Lei Ting was already sitting on the ground at this time, looking around curiously while beating her sore legs, this was the first time she had seen this kind of scene of hundreds of officials crying and mourning, and they were all important ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel helpless, Lei Ting didn't seem to realize the grim shape in front of her, fortunately, there was a mess in the hall now and no one cared about her, otherwise it would definitely be a big crime of disrespect if she was caught by the imperial historian on duty.

Originally, Li Yuntian wanted to make a look at Lei Ting to make her smarter, but Lei Ting's attention was attracted by the crying ministers around him, and he didn't look in his direction at all, so he had no choice but to kneel down quietly, reach out and quietly tug her sleeve.

"Why are they crying like they're dead?" Lei Ting turned her head and saw that it was Li Yuntian, and asked in a low voice suspiciously.

"Be quiet!" Li Yuntian was startled when he heard this, this was a big disrespectful remark, he turned his head and looked around vigilantly, and found that everyone was crying sadly and no one paid attention to this, so he whispered to Lei Ting, "It's not good to kneel yet!" The death of the first emperor is a national mourning, and it is not allowed to be desecrated. ”

Seeing Li Yuntian's serious appearance, Lei Ting knew that she had almost caused a catastrophe, and couldn't help but feel afraid for a while, and after sticking out her tongue, she lowered her head and knelt there in a proper manner. One