Chapter 51: Ascending to the throne
Outside the imperial city, the prisoners of the forbidden army who rebelled were soon brutally suppressed by the border army, and the unarmed forbidden army gradually lost their opponents and was about to fail.
Fortunately, at this time, Chu Xuan arrived in time with the unconscious Chu Dan, and the border soldiers saw that the master they were serving had been controlled, and they were immediately at a loss and had no intention of fighting, and the morale of the forbidden army was immediately boosted, and they finally turned defeat into victory.
In the next few days, Chu Xuan naturally ascended to the throne of the Great Zhou Emperor. Because of the meritorious support of the forbidden army, the big and small soldiers were rewarded with coins, and several generals were relied on by Chu Xuan, and they all paid homage to the prime minister.
The old ministers of the Chu Mo era originally had a disdain for Chu Xuan's accession to the throne, but when everyone saw that Chu Xuan not only had the jade seal of the country in his hand, but also a blood book left by Chu Mo himself, they had to comply with the will of heaven and admit his identity as the new son of heaven.
The most typical example is Su Haochen, this old man originally supported Chu Dan, the other party was his son-in-law, if he could be the emperor, he could also follow Zhanguang to become a national abbot. Now that he found that Chu Dan was no longer good, Su Haochen immediately took the lead in writing a crusade article, spraying Chu Dan's murder of his brother and forcing his father and perverse behavior to the blood, and declared to the public that the child born to the eldest daughter would change his surname to Su in the future and no longer have the surname Chu, in order to show that he would cut off the relationship with the other party.
After Chu Xuan learned about Old Man Su's various measures, he didn't know what to say. This old fox is also too sensitive, for fear that he will carry out a big purge in the court and kill the remnants of the previous dynasty like Chu Mo at the beginning, so he deliberately showed favor to himself. But if you don't talk about anything else, even if it is for Su Xintang's face, Chu Xuan will not embarrass him.
Not only did Chu Xuan, the courtier left by Chu Mo, not feel much trouble, but Chu Dan, who had been controlled at this time, Chu Xuan did not intend to kill him, but issued an edict in the name of the emperor, depriving the other party of his royal status, demoting him to a commoner, imprisoning him in Su Haochen's house in Kyoto, and sending a large number of people to monitor him.
Seeing that Chu Xuan didn't even kill Chu Dan, the hanging hearts of everyone in the court finally relaxed, and they praised him for his tolerance and generosity. As for restricting Chu Dan's freedom, no one would have to do this, so no one would run out to accuse Chu Xuan, unless he was tired of it.
After ascending to the emperor's throne and living in the imperial city of the Great Zhou, Chu Xuan remembered his greatest hero, Zhen Rumeng. I don't know where she went, since that night, Chu Xuan hadn't seen each other for several days.
Because he was anxious to see her, Chu Xuan immediately sent a large number of forbidden troops out to look for her. Considering that this was a task personally assigned by the new emperor, the forbidden army did not dare to slack off, and almost turned half of Kyoto upside down, but unfortunately there was still no whereabouts of Zhen Rumeng. In the end, Leng Er entered the palace and handed over a letter left by Zhen Rumeng to Chu Xuan, and Chu Xuan knew that she had left the Zhou Kingdom.
"Young Master Chu, see the words as faces.
If the dream is wished, it is inconvenient to stay longer.
I wish Gongzi eternal stability.
Hail Blessed. ”
After reading Zhen Rumeng's letter, Chu Xuan sighed slightly, only to feel that he owed her a lot. But Chu Xuan asked himself, putting aside his previous prejudice against her, in fact, what he had been thinking about was Liu Xuan from Nanjianmen. If he hadn't met Liu Xuan first, he might have been unable to help but fall in love with Zhen Rumeng, or Su Xintang...... Wait a minute, thinking of this, Chu Xuan patted his head, and said in his heart what he was thinking nonsense, how did he bring Su Xintang with him.
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The situation in Kyoto was established, and soon the entire Zhou state knew that the emperor had changed. Under the persuasion of hundreds of civil and military officials, Chu Xuan chose an auspicious day, wearing a Pingtian crown and the emperor's crown clothes, and held a large-scale enthronement ceremony in front of the Taimiao.
On the day of the ceremony, Su Haochen inexplicably brought Su Xintang to participate in it, and the intention was self-evident. I don't know what Su Xintang, who bowed to Chu Xuan three times with everyone, would feel in his heart at that time.
After the ceremony, Chu Xuan issued an edict on the throne, and then granted amnesty to the world and exempted him from payment for three years. This move would strengthen his position in the Zhou state.
Considering that he had a great grudge with Longyang Palace and Zixuguan before, and the power of these two Xiuzhen sects was very strong in the Southern Yuan Continent, and they could not fight against it at all with the current national strength of the Zhou State, Chu Xuan did not announce his real name to the public this time, but changed his name to Chu Xuan.
Everything is safe, and Chu Xuan's career as emperor begins.
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Time is very fast, more than half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and Chu Xuan's freshness as an emperor has also decreased by half.
Before he ascended the throne and became the emperor, he thought that it was a very interesting thing to be the emperor and rule by hanging the arch and calling for wind and rain, but after he really became the son of heaven, he realized how naïve his previous ideas were. Not to mention that he lived in the courtyard of the deep palace, and he had to face those mountains of music every day, and when he thought of listening to a group of civil ministers and military generals chattering and attacking each other in the early dynasty, Chu Xuan was confused and wanted to doze off.
Fortunately, there were two old men by his side at this time. One is the former Imperial Doctor, Su Haochen, who has now been promoted to Prime Minister, and the other is the old man who was rescued in the dungeon that night, the former Captain of the Forbidden Army, and now the Generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses. These two old men, one helped him lead the affairs of the court and control the civil and military officials, and the other helped him take charge of the world's soldiers and horses and suppress the rebellious ministers and thieves.
On the other hand, Chu Xuan, he didn't know anything about governing the country, and he was used to being lazy, so he pushed almost all the military and political affairs of the imperial court to the two old men to do it for him, and he was happy to have nothing to do. Every day, in addition to the routine morning court, the rest of the time he took off his dragon robe, changed into the clothes of a rich child, wandered the streets and alleys of Kyoto, paid private visits, and fought unevenly.
As for the matter of the palace to be approved, Chu Xuan handed it over to Leng Er to deal with, his principle was that if Su Haochen and Shi Fan agreed to anything, let Leng Er agree on his behalf, and if the two had different opinions, they would stay and wait for him to return to the palace for a ruling.
Let's talk about Leng Er, since Chu Xuan became the Son of Heaven, Leng Er has also risen with the tide and become the female chief manager of the palace. It can be said that all the affairs in the palace, from the expenses for repairing the palace and recruiting temple people, to the small ones that Chu Xuan wears every day and what dishes he eats, she will personally ask about it.
It can be said that since Chu Xuan came to Kyoto, Leng Er has been taking care of him, but so far, he has not felt that the other party is important to him.
On this day, Chu Xuan, accompanied by several guards, played for a whole day, and did not remember to return to the palace until twilight. The group came to the gate of the imperial city and pushed open the gate of the front hall, and Leng Er had already arrived early with a group of maidservants to greet him as usual.
However, today's Leng Er seemed to be dressed up more beautiful than usual, jeweled and ornamented, beautiful and vulgar, when Chu Xuan passed by her, she couldn't help but take a few more looks, which made her blush unconsciously.
When Chu Xuan went to the apse for dinner, Leng Er suddenly took out a few copies of the recitals that he had not reviewed and handed them to him for judgment.
Chu Xuan put down the jade bowl toothbrush in his hand, took the fold and looked at it carefully. It turned out that Su Haochen, Shi Fan, and a group of ministers of the Zhou State who didn't know each other had several tables with similar contents, and these people persuaded him to quickly choose a beautiful woman with a good temperament to be the queen on the grounds that Chu Xuan was not young, so as to set the harem.
Chu Xuan's head is getting bigger, good guy, these bad old men are too much to manage, right? But if you think about it carefully, you don't have a single hostess in your huge harem.
He secretly planned in his heart, it was time to go back to Nanjianmen and meet his Xuan'er.