Chapter 895: Succession
The Imperial City of Luojing is already a piece of vegetarian.
The national teacher's car drove to the palace gate surrounded by a large group of guards, the chamberlain carefully lifted the curtain, and Qin Feng's figure appeared, which immediately became the focus of many eyes.
For this national teacher who has incredible power, turned things around, assisted Taizu Zhao Yuan, and created the foundation of the Great Chu Dynasty, the thoughts of civil and military officials can be described as quite complicated. There are fears, fears, hatreds, and contempt, and so on.
However, no matter what the forces of all parties had in their hearts, Qin Feng's existence was like an ancient beast, always a terrifying shadow that they could not ignore or avoid, and they had to take into account Qin Feng's attitude and possible reactions before making any decisions.
Dare not be convinced? Thousands of officials and children of great families have long proved the consequences of this with their heads and blood.
Therefore, even if he was reluctant, after learning the news that the national teacher had left the customs and visited the imperial city in person, the civil and military officials, the clan and the harem concubines all arrived near the palace gate to greet them.
Qin Feng glanced at the audience, looking at the crown prince Zhao Xinlu and the queen Lu Qingyao kneeling at the front, as well as the first assistant Sun Xiangqing and other cabinet ministers, Zhao Yuanjin's other more than a dozen princes and princesses, whether they were adults or not, were all present, their eyes were slightly red, and there were tears in the corners of their eyes.
He stepped down from the stepping stool, went over and helped the prince and queen with his own hands, and then said to everyone: "That's it, let's be free of courtesy!" ”
Zhao Xinlu breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and the eyes of some people in the ranks of the hundred officials below changed a little, the meaning of this move of the national teacher is self-evident, is it determined that the prince is qualified to take over the throne? So what's next?
Especially those adult princes and their mothers, their faces instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, Qin Feng did not appear, they might have a chance to fight, and now that this is the case, the overall situation is basically decided.
Queen Lu Qingyao glanced at him faintly, and stopped talking.
"This is not the place to speak, and I invite the national teacher to enter the hall to discuss the aftermath of my father." Zhao Xinlu said respectfully.
"Very good."
Qin Feng nodded, turned around with him and walked along the wide imperial road towards the main hall, and the civil and military officials followed behind.
When he arrived in the hall where Taizu's coffin was placed, Qin Feng simply put on a stick of incense, and the chamberlain next to him moved over the seat for him to sit down, and then the prince and the queen took their seats one after another, and the ministers greeted him again.
Then, the first assistant Sun Xiangqing came out of the class and said: "The national teacher, as well as the ministers, the first emperor unfortunately died, and the whole country is sad, but the country cannot be without a king for a day, for the sake of today, it is advisable to support the new monarch to succeed to the throne as soon as possible, and then arrange to deal with the aftermath of the emperor." ”
Qin Feng bowed his head and said: "The first emperor has already established a prince, and the edict of succession has already been prepared, and I ask the queen to show the edict and settle this matter." ”
It stands to reason that after being canonized as the crown prince, he is the rightful heir of the empire, and when the emperor dies, he can ascend the throne without an edict.
However, Zhao Yuanjin still wrote this edict early, and after giving it to Qin Feng for approval, he handed it over to the queen for safekeeping, in order to add another layer of insurance to the legitimacy of the prince.
Queen Lu Qingyao hurriedly took out the jade box in her arms, opened the box in front of the ministers, and placed a roll of Ming Huang Jinya in it.
So, the first assistant grandson Xiangqing took the edict and read it out in public, the content is nothing more than the emperor's eldest son, Zhao Xinlu, who has a noble character and a deep bow, and will be able to overcome the unification.
After reading it out, Qin Feng said: "Since this is the case, please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to succeed to the throne, from now on, you will be the new emperor of the Great Chu Imperial Court." ”
"Erchen is edicted!"
The stone in Zhao Xinlu's heart really fell to the ground, thanked him respectfully, and after kowtowing to Qin Feng, he got up with the support of Su Mu, the head of the household department.
Several chamberlains immediately brought the gilded dragon chair over, invited Zhao Xinlu to take a seat, and then asked the civil and military ministers to kneel three times and bow nine times to establish the status of monarchs and ministers.
"Wait, I'...... I have something to say! ”
In the ranks of the clan's disciples, a dignified-looking and burly young man jumped up suddenly, and shouted loudly with a blue face.
"King Shu, what are you going to do?"
Sun Xiangqing was shocked, and the cabinet ministers looked sideways, now that the overall situation has been decided, is this King of Shu crazy? Dare to come out and blow up the thorns?
Qin Feng glanced at him coldly, and waved his hand carelessly: "Drag it out!" ”
For this kind of hot-blooded second stunned, he didn't bother to ask, and just let people deal with it.
Suddenly, more than a dozen wolf-like guards rushed over, restrained the young man without saying anything, ignored his roaring and curses, and dragged him out like a dead dog.
In the ranks of the harem concubines, a concubine with a round face and charming facial features trembled slightly, biting her pink lips and not daring to make a sound, her eyes were afraid of unwillingness.
After this little turmoil, Zhao Xinlu succeeded to the throne smoothly, which can be regarded as completing the smooth replacement of the highest power in the empire and becoming the second generation of the Son of Heaven of the Great Chu Empire.
Subsequently, he canonized his crown princess as the queen as the new emperor, and his biological mother Lu Qingyao as the queen mother, and discussed the title of the former emperor Zhao Yuanjin, as the founding hero of this dynasty, of course, the title is Taizu, which is nothing to dispute.
Next, there will be a reward and disposal of the other concubines of the former emperor, civil and military ministers and children of the clan, Qin Feng sat for a while, and then found a reason to leave.
He came back this time mainly to make sure that no blind guy jumped out to do things, and now that the new emperor has decided, there is no need to stay here anymore.
When he returned to the National Teacher's Mansion, Zhu Yuntai, the chief strategist, rushed over, holding a thick stack of account books in his hand to report on the income and expenditure operations of the mansion, especially the output of those large resource mines located around the world.
With the gradual improvement of his cultivation, the importance of these resources produced by the Great Chu World is not as important as before, but it is still of some use to the main world and the doomsday world, after all, it is a planet, and the total amount of resources is still considerable.
The Chu Dynasty is now the only regime on this planet, and the aborigines of the other continents have basically come under the effective control and rule of the imperial court, with Qin Feng's help, it can be said that there will be no more worries about external troubles in the future.
And as long as the policies he promoted and formulated are maintained, and future generations do not deliberately die, it is not too much of a problem for the country to continue for thousands of years.
In the evening, Zhao Xinlu returned home from the imperial city, and by the way, brought a rich reward from the imperial brother.
Since Qin Feng's official status could not be promoted, Zhao Xinlu, as the new emperor, transferred 100,000 taels of gold, 3,000 boxes of jewelry and jade, 20,000 brocades, and 1 million silk cloth from the treasury of the Internal Affairs Office to reward the national teacher, plus 30,000 hectares of fertile land, 2,000 young beauties, and 10,000 good horses from the Western Regions.
Although Qin Feng didn't care much about these goods, this was Zhao Xinlu's intention, and he accepted it all.
"By the way, Concubine Qi is still waiting outside the mansion gate,"
Yun Qijun said: "She wants to intercede for her son King Shu, how are you going to deal with it, husband?" To see or not to see? ”
Qin Feng frowned: "What did the new emperor say?" ”
Zhao Xinyue said: "What the imperial brother means is to deprive the prince of his title and demote him to the king of Heyang County, as for his mother Qi Guifei, for the sake of his father, he can still enter the position of concubine." ”
This kind of treatment is already quite lenient and generous, and if it is replaced by a meaner king, it is possible to directly deprive the prince of death, and he will almost be imprisoned for life after the abolition of the lord.
"Well, that's fine."
Qin Feng waved his hand: "Let that woman go back, abide by her duties in the future, and enjoy her old age in peace, otherwise no one will be able to save their mother and son." ”
Zhao Xinyue agreed to come down and hurriedly ordered someone to go out to spread the word.
By now, Qin Feng felt that his relationship with Zhao Yuanjin was almost over, saving him from a desperate situation, protecting him to raise troops and win the world, and promoting reforms to suppress the Haoqiang clan, opening the sea and trade to enrich the treasury, pacifying the barbarians in all directions, and laying the thousand-year-old foundation of the Chu Dynasty.
Now there are only Zhang Qiuyun and Zhao Xinyue and Yun Qijun who still care about him, they will all follow him to the other world in the future, as for how Lu Qingyao arranges it, it depends on her own ideas.