Chapter Seventy-Three: A Carefully Planned Forced Palace
Forcing the palace!
Wu Xukuan forced the palace very suddenly! Taking advantage of the great dynasty once a month, he drove the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the officials of the capital to force the Empress Shenzhao to abdicate together, and he did so, the probability of direct success was very low, because the Empress was not psychologically prepared at all, although she was caught off guard, but since she was not mentally prepared, there was no possibility of direct abdication!
Wu Xukuan's move today is obviously just the beginning, if the empress doesn't comply, he will naturally have a trick!
The empress stood on the high platform, at a loss, she didn't know how to deal with such a situation!
Kang Longji didn't teach her, and he wouldn't teach her these things at all, because even Kang Longji didn't expect Wu Xukuan to act like this, he didn't say that he transferred troops into the city to besiege the palace, and he didn't say that he directly coerced the empress by force to abdicate.
He said that the throne was passed to the Empress Shenzhao, starting from the previous Empress Shendu, it was unreasonable and illegal, and the succession of the Empress Shenzhao was even more contrary to the ancestral system, but he did not use this reason to let the empress abdicate, but from the perspective of "worrying about the country and the people".
This is the death hole of the Empress Shenzhao!
Indeed, the Empress Shenzhao is too young, she has knowledge but no experience, she has only been on the throne for a few months, naturally she cannot be called a sage and a famous monarch, the current natural and man-made disasters in Dongqian, internal and external troubles, she is not unable to solve, but it takes time, and she also needs the full support of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.
But the problem is that no one believes in the Empress Shenzhao! After all, he was only seventeen years old.
Wu Xukuan not only didn't help her, but also pushed her down!
She is alone, and naturally she is not capable of solving these problems.
Wu Xukuan not only coerced the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but also kidnapped the general trend of the world and put pressure on the empress together...... Very shameless!
It's not so shameless!
At present, the chaos in the world, whether it is disaster relief or corruption, the reason why it cannot be effectively solved is because of Wu Xukuan! Those corrupt people are inextricably linked with Wu Xukuan, and it can even be said that they are Wu Xukuan's people!
Because, if it weren't for Wu Xukuan's people, if he didn't take refuge in Wu Xukuan, he would have dared to be corrupt, and Wu Xukuan would have killed him a long time ago!
Those who oppose Wu Xukuan are also corrupt, which is equivalent to sending a handle to Wu Xukuan!
Only the people of Wu Xukuan's faction can be greedy without scruples!
Therefore, Wu Xukuan is the most responsible for internal troubles, and he is the biggest corrupt official! Up and down, his people, naturally there are few clean, disaster relief is not good, the cause is also corruption, or Wu Xukuan's responsibility!
As for external troubles, there has always been a problem, the rebellion in the north has existed since the founding of the Dongqian Empire, and the Beirong Empire, composed of nomads, has always been a major problem in the minds of Dongqian, and it has not been a day or two.
The small countries in the southwest are restless, not because there is chaos in the eastern Qian, the court is unstable, the country is unstable, and these Wu Xukuan also have a lot of responsibility.
This is where Wu Xukuan is shameless today, it is he who does not let the empress solve various problems, or rather, in addition to natural disasters, other problems are caused by him, but he uses these problems to accuse the empress of incompetence, so as to force the empress to abdicate and make way for Xian.
Seriously, Zhou An admires Wu Xukuan very much.
It's so convincing!
is worthy of being the first assistant of the cabinet, this skillful tongue, ordinary people really can't learn it, if you don't know Wu Xukuan's resume, it's really hard to imagine that he is actually from the military.
Inside and outside the Fengtian Palace, there was silence.
The empress stood on the high platform, her face was bloodless, and she couldn't say a word.
Kang Longji had walked down the steps before, and now he was standing halfway up the steps, his face was very gloomy, and his eyes were fixed on Wu Xukuan, but he didn't say anything, or rather, he was waiting for the empress to speak first.
A lot of words, even at this time, Kang Longji is not easy to say.
For example, he can't jump out and spray Wu Xukuan's face, scold him for being a traitor, and count Wu Xukuan's crimes, because this is tantamount to tearing his face, Kang Longji's status is too high, and his words and deeds are enough to represent the empress!
Can he directly announce war with Wu Xukuan in the court?
He can't!
Because that is equivalent to forcing Wu Xukuan to rebel by force, as long as Wu Xukuan can leave Da Nei today, it will not be long before the army will have to enter Qianjing City.
It is true that Kang Longji is a great grandmaster, and Wu Xukuan is also in the Tiangang realm, and he is forty years younger than him!
Therefore, Kang Longji had to wait for the empress to speak first.
And the empress can't get off the stage.
Because it seems that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all forcing her to abdicate, not Wu Xukuan alone.
Zhou An, who was standing behind the empress's side, glanced at the empress several times, and he noticed that the empress standing in front of the dragon chair, the right hand on the armrest of the dragon chair was trembling slightly.
Not fear, but panic and anger!
Zhou An glanced down again, inside and outside the hall, in fact, not all the courtiers knelt down, in this hall, there were still six or seven people standing, all of them were upright and donkey-tempered old ministers, they didn't kneel, they were also stunned.
Outside the main hall, there were also sporadic people who did not kneel, but most of them knelt, and the black pressure looked far away to see the head.
Is it true that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are forcing the empress to abdicate?
Of course not.
When they began to kneel, Zhou An had already noticed that there were only two or three hundred people who really responded to Wu Xukuan for the first time, but there were many important ministers in the court, and there were many officials above the fourth rank, and more than half of them knelt down in the hall, which was about the same as the number of important ministers who were sick with Wu Xukuan before.
And now, the reason why it seems that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are kneeling is because the gun shoots the first bird!
First of all, in the main hall, most of the officials knelt, and those who were not prepared and didn't know about this matter in advance basically knelt with them, because they were afraid, afraid of Wu Xukuan, and it would be too dazzling if they didn't kneel.
And outside the temple, this is also the case.
The proportion of courtiers who shouted "Please abdicate the saint and make way for the virtuous" is very low outside the main hall, and there are only eight or nine hundred people outside the main hall, and there are more than 100 people who responded to Wu Xukuan at the first time.
But it was more than 100 people, because they shouted at the same time and knelt down at the same time, causing the people around them to kneel.
The herd mentality is one thing, and the fear of Wu Xukuan is also an important influencing factor, more than 100 people, only need to be able to drive two or three hundred people, adding up to four or five hundred people, they will drive more people.
It's a ripple effect.
This reminded Zhou An of his student days in his previous life, when the originally noisy classroom suddenly stopped talking at the same time, most of the others would shut up, and the class would quickly become silent, which is the famous herd effect in psychology.
Moreover, Zhou An also noticed that the more than 100 people outside the main hall who were the first to respond to Wu Xukuan were very evenly scattered in the queue, and their actions at the same time were enough to affect the entire group.
In addition, Zhou An even saw that the courtiers outside the hall were stunned, and they didn't kneel down, but were kicked and knelt down by the people behind.
I don't know if Wu Xukuan has found someone to practice in advance.
Today's ** palace is extremely carefully planned, and every step is in the plan, which makes the last scene look extremely terrifying, as if the Manchu Dynasty civil and military want the empress to step down.
There was still silence in the Fengtian Temple.
"Please think of the saints and the people in the world, and abdicate to make way for the virtuous!" Wu Xukuan suddenly shouted again!
"Please think of the saints and the people in the world, and abdicate to make way for the virtuous!" The shouts sounded like a tidal wave from inside the hall to outside the hall, and this time there were more people shouting together than before, and those courtiers who were just kneeling down in fright before, but now some of them also shouted.
The empress staggered back a step, sat down on the dragon chair with her buttocks, raised her hand violently and pointed at Wu Xukuan tremblingly: "You-"
"Bold traitor! How dare you commit the following crimes! A sharp voice interrupted what the Empress was about to say.
The voice sounded very thin, very tender, as if it came from a small eunuch.
Many of the ministers kneeling below raised their heads.
Because this is not the voice of Kanglongji.
But it's Zhou An!
He had already jumped in front of the empress, raised his hand and pointed at Wu Xukuan, raising his eyebrows.