Chapter 174: The New Emperor Ascends the Throne

When Taishi Li saw Li He come in, he glanced at Xiao Fang, who immediately understood, respectfully retreated, and closed the door of the study when he went out.

"Do you know that female assassin?" Taishi Li asked after motioning for Li He to sit down.

"Hmm." Li He responded.

"Oh?" Taishi Li frowned slightly: "So, she didn't come to our mansion to assassinate, but to find you?" ”

"Yes."

"Is she one of the assassins who assassinated the emperor this time?"

Li He hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes." He knew that with his grandfather's ability, it was only a matter of time before he found out Mo Lian's identity.

"Is she from the Southwest Cult?"

The only answer is "Yes." ”

"And how do you know her?"

"This ......" Li He blinked, and his brain turned around: "That's the case, when my grandson was chasing those assassins the night before, she had her help, and it was only with her hints and help that I discovered the authentic ...... of the assassins."

Mrs. Li looked at him suspiciously: "Why did she help you?" ”

Li He straightened his clothes and said, "Well, because I know it with reason and move it with affection, I let her abandon the darkness and turn to the light......"

"Okay, okay, you just said that you are handsome and chic, and you are amorous, so don't you end up seducing her?" Master Li interrupted him.

Li He smiled dryly: "Grandpa, don't say it so ugly." ”

Taishi Li said solemnly: "You can be Fengliu, and I won't say anything if you look for a woman, but the object this time is too mysterious, right?" Even the assassins of the Southwest Cult are enough to hook up! ”

"Grandpa, she can be regarded as lost. Without her help, Sun would not have been able to find the Assassins' tunnels, let alone capture the Assassin leader alive and annihilate most of the Assassins. So...... Is it possible to be accommodating? Anyway, she is in our hands, and she has not been handed over to the imperial court, and they don't know ......" In order to save Mo Lian, Li He also tried his best to put his credit on her.

"Who told you they didn't know? Do you think that the people of the court and other families are blind and deaf? How can an assassin be captured alive when he broke into the Taishi's Mansion without permission? Now that she is being held as a prisoner in the Taishi's Mansion, others dare not offend us, and it is not good to ask for people, but if that assassin becomes our 'own man', what do you think others will say? You know, it's just the time when the emperor has just died! ”

Li He muttered in a low voice: "Others don't know her true appearance, just take a corpse for her, just say that she wanted to escape and was killed, isn't it?" Anyway, I also captured a living mouth, plus those corpses outside the city, and handed them over to the imperial court, which is enough. ”

Taishi Li was suffocated, it is indeed as Li He said, now that people are in their hands, in fact, as long as they are willing, with the power of the Li family, it is really not a big problem to hide Mo Lian. But the key point is that Taishi Li does not want his grandson to have an affair with the people of the southwest cult.

After being silent for a long time, Taishi Li said in a consultative tone: "Women, you are not lacking, not to mention the fiancée and two maids in the capital, even the women in the family, there are a lot, right?" It is said that all of them are first-class peerless beauties. If you don't have enough, grandpa can also find some beautiful women with both talent and beauty for you. As for the female assassin, you only met the night before, how deep can you feel? Just be a woman who has played, forget it. ”

Li He narrowed his eyes, with his strong desire to zhan , a stunning beauty like Mo Lian, since he had already handed over his body to him, he regarded it as his own woman, how could he tolerate his woman being imprisoned as an assassin or even executed by Ling Chi? "Grandpa, what are you going to do with her?" Li He asked.

Taishi Li said: "First interrogate her identity, the plan and process of this assassination, and then ask the high-level list of the Southwest Cult to come out......

Li He immediately said: "I have a way to ask about these." And they all have a kind of secret technique of self-violence dantian, if you use torture to interrogate, Mo Lian will definitely commit suicide. ”

"Oh? Her name is Mo Lian? ”

"Yes, her father Mo Ping was still the prefect of the Plains. is a Qing official, but he was only harmed by traitors in the court, so he ended up being beheaded all over the house. She lost her father and mother at a young age, so she went astray and entered the cult, but she has always been clean and has never done anything illegal and undisciplined, even this time she was forced to go to Beijing by the people in their sect, and it was definitely not voluntary. In fact, speaking of which, Mo Lian has a pure nature, and she is really a rare good girl...... "Li He blew his skin and lied, which was a non-verbal draft, and directly said that Mo Lian, the female leader of the cult who killed people without blinking, was an innocent girl who was forced into the sect.

"Maupin's daughter? It turned out to be Mo Ping, and he was indeed a good official. Master Li muttered.

Li He asked cautiously: "If you want to know, I can ask it." Then, will you be able to hand her over to me? ”

Taishi Li immediately turned his face: "No, she has to be sent to the imperial court for disposal with the assassin you captured, and when the emperor enters the imperial tomb, Ling Chi will be executed." ”

Li He's eyes widened, but Taishi Li narrowed his eyes, and the two men of the Li family, one old and one young, stared at each other in the study.

"I don't agree." Li He said resolutely: "No matter what, I want to protect her." ”

"You don't listen to grandpa? Don't forget, you are a child of the Li family, and you must think about the Li family in everything! Although Taishi Li's voice was not high, he had a momentum that was not angry but powerful.

Li He refused to back down at all, and looked at his grandfather and said, "If I can't even protect my own woman, what kind of Li family is I?" ”

"You ......"

Li He lowered his head: "Grandpa, I beg you for this matter, let Mo Pian go." ”

Taishi Li looked at his grandson, he knew that Li He's temper was much more stubborn than he was back then, and he had hardly suffered any setbacks since he was a child, and his ability was not small, his courage was higher than the sky, and the things he believed would never change, and there was nothing he couldn't do.

Sighing, Taishi Li finally softened first: "That's it." ”

Li He was overjoyed: "Grandpa, you finally agreed?" ”

"I agreed to spare her life, but she can't stay in the capital anymore. After the emperor's body entered the imperial tomb and the ban was lifted in the whole city, she was sent out of the capital, and she was not allowed to be brought back to Huyang to find a place to settle down. You are also not allowed to have contact with her for one year. Later, we will see if she is included in the Li family as a concubine. ”

"Okay, okay, no problem." Li He immediately agreed, since he was sent out of the capital, how could his grandfather be able to control whether to contact her or not?

Taishi Li glanced at him and said, "But when she was in the mansion, the internal force restraints on her body could not be removed. ”

"No problem." Li He naturally agreed to these small problems.

In fact, the next day, the city's street cleaning order was lifted. The capital also opened the west gate and began to allow entry and exit, but the inspection was still much stricter than usual, and the entry and exit had to be checked by the documents issued by the government to prove identity.

The news of the emperor's death has not yet been officially released, but it has already been rumored in the city, and the palace has not ordered it not to be discussed.

Sure enough, on the third day, the official official list of the palace was posted. Soon, this public list was spread throughout the entire Great Xia Kingdom, including the bordering countries. Everyone knows that Emperor Xuanhe drove the crane to the west, and the new emperor was about to ascend the throne.

A new era is about to begin.

On April 11, the 28th year of Xuanhe, Emperor Xuanhe of the Great Xia State was assassinated by a cult demon. The crown prince was fasted for three days according to the royal code and succeeded to the throne. Next is the emperor's funeral into the imperial mausoleum, it is said that this time, including the emperor's favorite concubine Shufei and Concubine Zhen, 27 concubines who did not have a big backstage will be buried together. Including some eunuchs who served the marquis, there were more than 1,000 people buried with them. It is said that before the emperor's departure, he did say to the chief eunuch Fan Jian that he wanted someone to accompany him to the funeral. But this list of funeral companions, anyone with a discerning eye in the court can see that it was drawn up by the queen. Basically, none of the concubines who have a gap with her and have no tough backstage are spared, and none of them are included in her on weekdays. Can you know that the queen is about to become the queen mother, with the support of the new emperor, the support of several powerful ministers, and what dare others say? Even the masters of the Great Interior arranged by several great families by the emperor's side were executed by the queen for dereliction of duty. Now in the palace, it can be said that the queen, that is, the future queen mother, covers the sky with one hand.

Today is the day of the new emperor's accession to the throne, and the palace is full of solemn and majestic scenes. The late Emperor Xuanhe, all the princes and princesses in Beijing, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, gathered in the Weiwu Hall to witness the succession of the crown prince.

Li He, who is the general of Zhengerpin Pingyu and the Marquis of Wuwei, is naturally among them, but he is still wearing the ceremonial armor that wraps his whole body, and he also wears a "chicken tail helmet" on his head, in order to avoid being recognized by the crown prince, the future new emperor.

Today, not only are all the sons and brothers of Emperor Xuanhe in the capital present, but even the princesses who have never seen them before are also on the stage. These princesses are really fat and thin, some are as unsightly as white sows, and some look dignified and noble and have some proud capital. However, Li He naturally wouldn't take a fancy to these ordinary-looking, but all of them have a big temper.

And in the princely column, all of them have solemn faces, and they can't see joy. Especially the princes who were crowned kings such as King Tengling, they are even more standard "dead fathers", with sad faces, and they are really "filial" enough.

The roof of the Hall of Mighty Warriors has long been renovated, and it is completely impossible to see that a large hole has been dug at all. However, as soon as Li He saw the dragon chair on the jade steps behind the main hall, he remembered that he had booed on it that night, and the king of a country in the Great Xia Kingdom would soon sit on it, sitting in the place where he used to pee, and the king of the world, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

After a bell, the new emperor and the queen mother stepped into the mighty hall under the escort of several imperial guards, and the ministers immediately bowed down, and the mountain shouted: "Ten thousand pieces!" ～”

The Queen Mother sat on a newly erected soft chair behind the throne, and as soon as she sat down, she put down a layer of bead curtains, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was the Queen Mother's preparation to listen to the government.

The former crown prince, the new emperor, stood under the dragon chair and stood with his hands down. The chief eunuch Fan Jian walked up the jade steps, looked arrogant, opened the golden holy decree, and began to recite it.

Li He listened drowsy below, automatically filtering the voice of the duck's throat, when others shouted Wan Sha, he followed Wan to sleep, and after listening for a long time, he only roughly knew that the new emperor ascended the throne, the year name is Yongde, and next year is the first year of Yongde.

After the ceremony, the new emperor stepped onto the throne and officially became the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, Emperor Yongde, and the ministers naturally performed another big ceremony.

Almost like the new leader Li He saw in his previous life, Emperor Yongde, who had just sat on the throne, inevitably made an impassioned speech, which was nothing more than exalting his contempt for the enemy, praising the past and looking forward to the future, and it was all difficult to understand the formal writing, which made Li He admire the literary brilliance of this waste wood emperor.

was deserting, and suddenly heard a shout from above: "Wu Weihou." ”

Li He's body shook, reacted, and hurriedly came out and said, "The minister is here!" ”

Emperor Yongde said with a smile to Fan next to him: "Decree." ”

Fan Jian took a holy decree and read it, Li He listened for a while, and finally understood that the emperor was rewarding him for discovering the assassins hiding in the tunnels, robbing and killing the assassin gang who wanted to escape, and capturing Gu Xiaocen, the leader of the assassins who assassinated the emperor. Not only did he give him a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, but he also promoted him from the general of the second rank of the Ping Yu to the general of the first rank of the pillar country.

What made him a little strange was how the court knew that the Cen Tou he captured was the assassin who killed the emperor? He couldn't have known who this emperor was seriously injured. But think about it, it was enough to lose face if the king of a country was assassinated in the palace, if the new emperor ascended the throne and the assassin hadn't been obtained, wouldn't it be a loss of face? Hehe, this Cen Tou has become a waste use, and he helped him carry a big black pot before he died.

After thanking him, Li He returned to the train with a grateful look. But he cursed in his heart, this waste wood emperor is a pig's head like his old waste wood emperor, and the name of the general is just as ugly. In the past, he was a "flat breast" general, but now he has become a "pig pot" general.

I saw that Fan Jian was called by the queen mother after the throne, and after whispering a few words, he walked to the emperor and whispered a few words. The emperor seemed a little surprised, and his eyes looked at Li He again, but the latter was thinking about his new rank at this time and did not pay attention.

"Wu Wei Hou." The Emperor spoke again.

"Huh?" Li He was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "The minister is here." "I thought to myself, it won't be that the reward is too much, and I want to marry a princess, right? That's a big deal, these princesses are ugly one by one, and they are dragged to 2580,000 yuan, and they marry back with a bird?

"Wu Weihou devoted himself to the public, regardless of his personal safety, and pursued the assassins to comfort the emperor's spirit in the sky. In the front, there is the merit of leveling the capture of the land, and in the back, there is the loyalty of escorting and capturing thieves. As a token of merit and loyalty, I hereby grant him a gold medal for exemption from death, and in the future, no matter how big or small he has sinned, he will be pardoned three times. Wangwu Weihou will continue to set an example for the ministers and generals, and make further contributions to my Great Xia. Emperor Yongde said with a squeezing voice.

Li He and all the ministers in the palace were stunned when they heard it, and they avoided dying gold medal?

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is the first time that the gold medal for avoiding death has appeared. Although there have been examples in previous dynasties, there have never been examples in this dynasty. The gold medal for avoiding death is tantamount to a gold-letter talisman, and as soon as the new emperor ascended the throne, he gave such a favor to the Li family, which attracted the eyes of many people.

A former imperial eunuch walked out from behind the beaded curtain where the Queen Mother was and walked to the emperor's side with a golden silk cloth cover.

Emperor Yongde lifted the corner of his silk cloth and looked at it, nodded, and the eunuch brought it to Li He.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this death-free gold medal seems to have been prepared by the Queen Mother.

Li He unveiled the silk cloth after thanking him, and the ministers, princes, and princesses next to him looked sideways, wanting to see the appearance of the first death-free gold medal of the founding of our dynasty.

I saw that this gold medal was golden all over, it should be made of pure gold, made of two small circles and put together, it looked like a gourd, and there were two big characters written on it - avoid death. The following is engraved with the year, month and day of the casting and the words "Emperor Yongde of Great Xia bestows Wuwei Hou Li He".

Li He picked up the gold medal, and he inevitably thanked him again, and after expressing his incomparable loyalty and passion to Emperor Yongde, he put away the gold medal and returned to the train.

After Li He, Emperor Yongde rewarded a few more people and punished a few people, but in general, the power structure of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs has not changed greatly, and the three dukes still control the government, and the Li family leads the ministers. In addition, Li He may vaguely become a celebrity in front of the new emperor and the queen mother, and the ministers are becoming more and more dependent on the Li family.

On the way home, the three men of the Li family were all sitting in a carriage, next to the car were the masters of the Li family, and in front of the car and behind the car were dozens of guards of the Yulin Army cavalry. After the assassination in the capital, the main ministers were on their way home from the court, and their precautions were strengthened several times. The patrols on Suzaku Street are also more dense than before.

"What does this mean, old woman?" Li Ming played with the death-free gold medal in his hand, and his eyes narrowed into a slit.

Li He touched his chin and smiled: "It is estimated that I killed too many people during the Northern Expedition, and the Queen Mother Lafayette took this opportunity to tell me that God has the virtue of a good life, and it is necessary to 'avoid death' for people." ”

The two brothers said that they actually tried the purity of this gold medal.

Master Li coughed lightly twice, and the two of them sat down again.

"The Queen Mother's move is supposed to be to show favor to us and show grace. In fact, this brand has no real use. With our current power in Great Xia, whether there is this brand or not, it is all the same. As long as we are in power, no one will dare to touch us easily. And if we wait until our power is gone, even ten gold medals for avoiding death will not save our lives. Master Li squinted his eyes and said, this expression seems to have become the signature of the Li family's men.

The three men of the Li family discussed the "gold medal for avoiding death" in the carriage, and the royal mother and son also started a dispute in the palace about this sign.