Chapter Eighty-Three: Busy
The news of the change of the emperor quickly traveled all over the capital, and the bounty list sent to various places was also called back, and for a time there was a lot of discussion in the capital, and there were different opinions about the legendary story of the madness turning the situation around in one day, almost mythical.
The wounded madness strictly ordered the people who saw thousands of rivers and thousands of times to shut up their mouths, and after the injuries and frenzyes injured Su Yufeng, almost all of the Praetorian Guards were afraid, not to mention whether the other party was the emperor or not, his personal strength alone was enough to make him unable to turn over, everyone pretended to be deaf and dumb, and turned a deaf ear to the existence of thousands of rivers.
According to Ji Kang's customs, the emperor's funeral was to cry for seven days before moving the coffin to the emperor's mausoleum, and hundreds of officials served filial piety in the emperor's mausoleum for three days, and then it was a three-year life of linen and vegetarian food......
During the first seven years, the madman had only been to the coffin once, but no one dared to talk about him, because the one who had officially ascended the throne had already pushed two wheelchairs up. One is the second prince Su Yuzhe pushing the third prince Su Yuhe, and the other is the seventh prince Su Yucheng pushing the fourth prince Su Yufeng.
Su Yuhe's natural disability is well known to everyone, but Su Yufeng was still a majestic king with sound limbs the day before, but he looked like this in one day's kung fu, and even said in person that his behavior the day before was just to continue to supervise the country and wait for the enthronement of the eleventh emperor's brother, and he never thought of occupying the throne at all.
Everyone could see that Su Yufeng was reluctant, but he didn't even have the courage to look at the emperor, he seemed to be extremely frightened, everyone didn't know what the truth was, but looking at Su Yufeng's appearance, it must have been something the emperor had done.
It was the first time that Su Yuhe and Su Yuzhe had the same faces in front of Baiguan at the same time, but both of them looked at Su Yufeng with fierce eyes, as if they would rush up and throw him out of the wheelchair if they didn't agree.
The hundred officials took all of this in and guessed how the second prince would support the fourth prince to ascend the throne? Yesterday, the third prince was not there...... Today, the third prince appeared, and the second prince supported the eleventh prince, and the truth is self-evident.
The most surprising thing for the hundred officials was that Su Yucheng, who was the most arrogant and domineering in the past, didn't know if he was frightened by the words of the madman, and became silent, and he didn't raise his head during the entire court meeting.
Coupled with the five princes, Su Yuxu, the five brothers all bowed down to the injury.
What's more, even the 120-year-old minister Yi Ziyu, who was not even invited by the emperor, actually came to the court meeting in person, and stood under the side steps of the side of the dragon chair with the dragon staff from beginning to end, very respectful, and even read out the emperor's edict at the beginning.
No one dares to say that it is fake, because everyone has heard of the last days of the emperor's life, coupled with the authority of Yi Lao, even if it is fake? Now the people who are expected to be the emperor are kneeling in the first row, this matter is already a foregone conclusion, right?
Will there be a dark horse coming out?
When the officials were undecided, they were mad and gave them a dose of fierce medicine, saying that after the first seven days of filial piety, they would rectify the dynasty, what did they mean?
Releasing such cruel words in advance has not happened since the founding of Ji Kang. Because the new emperor succeeded to the throne at the beginning of the year, the foundation was unstable, and no one would risk making the officials panic and shake the country's foundation, so they were angry in addition to shock when they were crazy.
As the saying goes, the law does not blame the people, and they talked about it at that time, saying that this trip was not reasonable.
There were so many discussions that even Yi Lao wanted to persuade the madman, but the madman unexpectedly stood up and asked three questions.
Wounded madness asked: Why does the country need officials?
Baiguan answered: Manage the country, share worries for the country, govern the people, and solve problems for the people.
The madman asked, "Who is so fit to be an official?"
Hundred officials answered: loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety, honesty and integrity, good governance.
Hurt and ask again: Who is loyal to?
Baiguan hesitated, as if he had fallen into the trap of a madman. But it was too late, and they all had to answer "to the king and the country".
After listening to the answer, the madness was ready to go to court, but there were obsessed people, but in fact, they were not obsessed, but they stood in the wrong camp in advance, and now they were afraid of retaliation in the future, so they stood up at that time to question the madness and speak disrespectfully.
Yi Lao was about to use the Xuanlong Staff to solve it, but the madness smiled slightly, and asked the man why he was angry, how could he not meet the conditions for being an official, and the man sneered and said that in addition to being loyal to you, everything else is naturally achieved.
All the officials sweated for the man, but he asked him who he was loyal to, and he looked around the prince who was present, with a look of disdain, saying that the person he was loyal to was no longer in the court.
Everyone knew that he was talking about the abolished prince Su Yulong, who was the prince they were loyal to at the beginning, but some people changed sides in the changing situation, and some people were still silently sticking to it, and some people who insisted on it chose to be silent for a while, and some chose to defend their beliefs at the last moment, just like this person.
The so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, all the officials felt sorry for that man's foolishness, thinking that he would definitely die. Who knew that the wound madness looked at him with a smile and said, you can stay, and the official will be promoted to the fourth grade.
Immediately, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and they all didn't understand the intention of being mad. There was a villain who was greedy for profit who stood up to learn from that person's behavior, but unexpectedly, the madman dismissed several people from their official positions without saying a word.
The crowd was puzzled, and the madness explained that a truly faithful person would stand up and speak for those he was loyal to even at the risk of losing his life, while the person who stood up when he saw profit was a villain who coveted profit. Now there is nothing in the body that is not loyal to him, because all good relationships between kings and ministers are based on mutual understanding, and then mutual trust.
Among the people who were dismissed, there was a military attache of the second grade, who was red-eyed at that time, and rushed straight up the stairs with his fists and feet, and everyone exclaimed for the thin body of the madman, but several princes who had seen the methods of the madness sighed for that person.
I saw that the military attaché's feet had just stepped on the first step of the steps, and with a wave of his hand, the true qi directly knocked the man out and landed in front of the temple gate.
What a power this is!
The officials were shocked.
In the first seven days, some officials couldn't stand it because they couldn't even cry for the emperor, so they went to admonish, but who knew that several waves of people who admonished went and never came back. Everyone was panicked, silently crying in front of the coffin, not daring to disturb the madman anymore.
It's not unfilial that he doesn't go, it's just that he just ascended the throne and wanted to cultivate his own power, take the opportunity to test the quality of the hundred officials, and pick out those who can be used for him.
He did not kill those who came to admonish, but asked them to weep and worship with him in front of the temporary shrine in the upper study. He told them about his good intentions, and was convinced by many people.
During this period, he also had a general understanding of Ji Kang's entire political situation, and initially set up many new policies to benefit the people. He learned this from the emperor when he was in the North.
The first seven days finally passed, and the injured man "released" back the officials who were "detained" by him, and went to the emperor's tomb to guard the spirit, and for three days, the officials who did not go to admonish saw those officials who were released but were full of sadness, and they were more determined to their thoughts, feeling that the new emperor was a freewheeling person, and he could survive in the officialdom as long as he did not touch his scales.
However, the meeting three days later was not what they had hoped.
In the early morning after returning from the imperial mausoleum, the madman held a court meeting, and the officials who had been acting for three days were finally relieved, and smiled at the madman, and the madman also smiled at the officials. I don't know why those officials who are comfortable with it.
It wasn't until the edict was issued that they were sent home that they suddenly came to their senses.
The huge reduction in the number of officials in Beijing gave the local officials hope of entering Beijing, and everyone rushed to show their achievements, so that Ji Kang had a brief period of prosperity.
It's just that Ji Kang made such a big change not long after the border pass was subdued, I am afraid that those Yi tribes who had just returned to Shun would take the opportunity to make trouble, so the madman gave the soldier talisman to Su Yuzhe and asked him to lead the troops to the border pass, and handed over the border control strategy that he had sorted out for many days to Su Yuzhe, giving him full power to execute.
The unstable foundation of the injury was so busy that he didn't have the slightest time to breathe, and some people just wanted to make it difficult for him to mention many unjust, false and wrongful cases, and even more than ten years of headless unjust cases, saying that someone sued the royal court, which made him cry and laugh, but he didn't dare to make any big moves.
The death-like silence on the side of the Heart Cultivation Hall made him even more worried.
What's wrong with Chishita? Why hasn't there been any movement for so many days?
Turning to the recital of a headless unjust case, he threw it aside helplessly, moved, felt the pain in his cervical spine, leaned on the chair and relieved for a long time, and used the pranayama method handed to him by Qianxia to breathe for a while, and his concern for the side of the Heart Cultivation Hall became more and more serious.
I opened my eyes and called the eunuch bean bag.
Doubao is his chosen close attendant, castrated in the palace since childhood, and now seventeen, with a bit of naivety, but he is very refined and skillful in doing things, and he is deeply liked by the madman.
"What does the emperor command?" asked Doubao Fuchen on his arm.
The frenzy rubbed the corners of his eyes, "Tired." I want to go to the Heart Cultivation Palace. ”
"Hmm, didn't the emperor say that there was a divine doctor there to save the thirteen princes, and it was inconvenient to bother?" Doubao reminded.
The madness shook his head, "He said three days, but now it's been ten days." There was no movement at all, and I couldn't rest assured. ”
When Doubao heard the "three days", he was also a little panicked, this is too far from the day that the divine doctor said, right? Even if it doesn't work, the ward should be called, right?
"Yes, the minion will go and prepare for the ride. ”
The madness nodded, and the bean bag went out.
He leaned back in his chair alone, in a trance, and always felt that this was not like the style of a thousand times. Could it be that he couldn't save his thirteenth brother? No, he had been revived by a more serious injury than that, and he had that ability.
Could it be that he didn't want to save him and left Ji Kang?
No, Senxia has never broken his promise to do so.
Is it a thousand waters? He pulled a thousand strokes?
The madness sat up straight in shock, and immediately thought that it was impossible, if Qianxia refused, no one would have the ability to force him.
But if it's not these, what could it be?
I remember the first seven days when I was in the bookstore to worship the emperor, there was a palace maid from the heart hall to report the situation, there were too many people at that time, I heard the palace maid say that the three days had arrived, but there was no movement in the hall, and I didn't care, I just thought that a thousand times needed more time, so I let the palace maid go back.
Now that I think about it, it's a little wrong.
I trusted Qianxia too much, and I didn't think about whether he couldn't save or didn't save him. That's why I dare to be busy with political affairs all the time and don't ask about it. But now that I think about it, I'm really afraid that if something goes wrong, he will lose the Pu'er he cares about the most in this world.
Finally, the emperor came.
The frenzy urged all the way to the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, but there was not a single guard outside the hall. He was shocked, hurriedly got off the imperial chariot, and the bean bag pushed open the palace door for him, "The emperor has arrived-"
It only stopped for a moment, but no palace person came out to reply.