Chapter 317: Being Born Selfish
The guards in the palace have been replaced by Meng Jun's soldiers and horses, all of them with solemn expressions, and their clothes and armor still bear the traces of fighting with the defenders.
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
In the distance, I saw a palace man dressed in the clothes of an inner prison walking quickly, his steps were messy and he fell, and he hurriedly got up and greeted the general: "Ladies and gentlemen! General Meng is waiting for you in the Zhengji Hall!"
"He's waiting for us? We're looking for him!"
"Yes! The old man wants to see what this thief wants!"
"Rebels and thieves, everyone will be punished!"
"Let's go! Check it out!"
A group of people rushed straight to the Zhengji Palace.
The Zhengji Hall was originally used by the emperor to sit in the Ming Hall and ascend to the court, but because the Emperor Tongde was faint and did not do anything about the government, these ministers had not set foot here for a long time, and they couldn't help but feel embarrassed when they entered it at this moment.
The dome of this positive pole hall is towering, empty and wide, and as soon as you enter, you only feel that the wind is coming from all sides, and the temperature is much colder than outside.
At this moment, on the throne that originally belonged to the emperor, there was a tall man in silver armor, and his posture with a golden sword and a broad horse almost made the first few old people mistakenly think that it was the great general Meng Chaodu!
It wasn't until he saw that it was Meng Jun who was sitting there, and an old man scolded angrily, "You, you! You! You, you!"
"Lord Xu! Why do you still stutter? I remember when you left Beijing, you were almost as good as you were!" Meng Jun laughed loudly, and said, "Everyone, I haven't seen you for many years, can you still have a good time in Beijing?"
"Meng Jun! You!"
"What? Lord Wang, you stutter too?"
The king was slapped by the person behind him, and he stomped his foot anxiously: "Why don't you say it?"
The officials hesitated again and again, but finally came to a consensus: "Why don't you say one thing?"
"Good!"
"Meng Jun!"
"It's you!"
"Where to sit!"
"What?"
"Don't hurry yet!"
"Get out, get down!"
Mo said this sentence Meng Jun heard awkwardly, and many indignant people in the crowd couldn't stand it: "What are we doing today, we are here to crusade against this chaotic minister and thief!" Outside the palace, how can you be so unbearable in front of this thief!"
The person who spoke stood up from the crowd, and Meng Jun looked at it, heh, he was still an old acquaintance.
He bowed his hand and greeted: "Lord Liu, you are my second brother's father-in-law, and the younger generation is so polite!"
Taifu Liu Zhu is Liu Chang's father, as the emperor ignores the government, his position as a taifu is more like an idle job, so that he is often depressed because the country will not be a country.
But even so, he is also a minister of the Zhao family, and no one will be allowed to seek to seize the imperial power!
"Phew! Do you still know me, a thief? Back then, your father seized power and went to the north! It's good now, you unfilial and disloyal person, you dare to sit in this position after killing your father and betraying the king? You are not afraid of going to the eighteenth layer of hell after death, and you will never be able to be reborn!"
"Shut up!"
If Meng Jun still has the energy to deal with these people, then he can't bear it anymore when he hears Liu Zhu expose his sore spots.
He slapped the dragon chair and said angrily, "What do you know, what do you know! Have you seen it with your own eyes, and say that I killed my father! My father died at the hands of a female cadre! My father died to protect the crown prince of the first emperor and to support the orthodoxy of the royal family! You don't know anything!"
Liu Zhu was shocked: "What are you talking about! What a prince!"
Meng Jun stood up violently and said loudly, "Don't you know Taifu Liu, when the first emperor fled to Jiangnan, he took the prince with him! When Emperor Xian died in Jiangnan, the crown prince was living in the wilderness, and he was the rightful successor to the throne! Zhao Ying is a thief who steals the country!"
Meng Jun's words were loud, echoing in the empty Zhengji Hall, and dozens of officials in the hall looked at each other in disbelief.
"The first emperor died in Jiangnan, and the crown prince also died in Jiangnan!" Liu Zhu said: "You don't want to talk nonsense here, what excuse is there for you to usurp the throne and seize power!"
"That's right!" Others chimed in: "Speaking of which, the first emperor and the crown prince were still forced to a dead end by your Meng family!"
"It's ridiculous that a murderer can bring the dead back to life?"
"What's even more ridiculous is that his identity has changed, and he has changed from a murderer to a minister of King Qin! It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous!"
"You're ridiculous!" Meng Jun roared angrily: "Look at each other, the most ridiculous thing is you! When my father assisted Zhao Ying to enter Beijing, it was you who wanted to live and die with the capital, and it was you who swore to die and were unwilling to be loyal to the new emperor! But in the blink of an eye, you knelt in front of Zhao Ying and shouted long live! In the blink of an eye, you have completely forgotten about the first emperor and the crown prince!"
As soon as these words fell, the ministers of the palace were speechless.
Meng Jun said: "Back then, if I remember correctly, when the first emperor died in Jiangnan, in order to please Zhao Ying, you said that the first emperor died of illness, yes and no!"
Several old men looked pained, they were in the prime of life twenty years ago, and they had personally experienced such a palace change, but what could they do? Under this general trend, all they can do is to protect themselves.
"Now, my Meng family has returned with the first emperor and the crown prince, and you are going to accuse me in turn, right? How? Have you forgotten the old master as his lackeys Zhao Ying? You say that after I die, I will go to the eighteenth layer of hell and have no face to see my ancestors, but I want to ask you, do you have the face to see the first emperor!"
"You, don't mess around!" Liu Zhu hurriedly said: "If you have a heart of disobedience, heaven and earth will not tolerate it!"
"That's because heaven and earth can't tolerate Zhao Ying first!" Meng Jun simply strode down the imperial steps, and he said loudly, "Zhao Ying is not worthy of being the emperor at all, it was my Meng family back then, and it was my father who looked away! He originally thought that Zhao Ying would be a good emperor and a great talent for governing the country and leveling the world! But in fact, you have all seen it, he is a dou who can't be helped! Selfish, he just wants to indulge in pleasure, the world is uneasy, he doesn't think about how to calm the world, he just blindly wants my Meng family to kill all the restless people! How tyrannical he is!"
He walked towards Liu Zhu, his armor and combat boots clashing heavily on the gold brick floor: "You are loyal to such a faint king?"
Liu Zhu and the others trembled with the bloody killing aura of his body, and staggered back.
Meng Jun sighed: "Besides, who said that the surname must be Zhao in this world? How did the Zhao royal family win the world, can you forget? They are just from a reckless background, they are not even a scholar clan, they are not as good as all of you here, and they are not even comparable to my Meng family, are they? Although I, Meng Jun, have no other merits, but the rebellion in the northeast of Junbeiping in the past few years can be said to have protected the peace of one party, and for this alone, I have the right to sit in that position!"
"You, you, you!" The old man stammered, and his hands trembled as he pointed at him.
Meng Jun glanced at him helplessly: "Lord Xu, I know what you have to say, don't worry, Zhao Ying is not dead, he is being served by me in the back!"
Hearing this, Lord Liu and all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief.
They are really afraid that Meng Jun will kill the emperor, and no matter whether the emperor is faint or bright, if he really kills, the world will not be in chaos!
"I really didn't think about usurping the throne and seizing power, I just wanted to set things right, Zhao Ying has been sitting in the world for twenty years in vain, it's enough, today, I want him to return the world in the name of justice!"
"What are you going to do!" Liu Zhu couldn't help but panic: "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean? Of course, please ask the first crown prince to ascend the throne!"
With that, he clapped his hands and looked at the door of the main hall.
Everyone also followed his gaze, and saw that under the dazzling sunlight, a group of people were walking towards the Zhengji Hall with the sun on their backs.
Liu Zhu squinted his eyes and looked carefully before he saw that the person who was in front of him was wearing a turmeric brocade dress, and the embroidered on his chest was the dragon pattern that the prince should match.
There was a "buzz" in his ears first, and then he looked at Meng Jun in disbelief.
Meng Jun snorted coldly, "What? Don't you dare to admit it?"
The silence in the hall was terrifying, and everyone looked at the person who came first, and even unconsciously made a way for him to walk to Meng Jun's side.
This is a young man in his twenties
Zi, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, looks dignified, probably because of the perennial wind and sun, his complexion is slightly dark, and he is a little rough, and he looks a little uneasy and nervous when he is surrounded by several generals and stands beside Meng Jun at this moment.
Meng Jun smiled, "What? Why don't you kneel down to meet His Royal Highness the Prince?"
The courtiers all looked at each other, and I don't know who said, "Ridiculous!" The crowd rang out one after another: "It's ridiculous!"
"You say it's the crown prince, it's the prince? Is there any evidence?"
"Don't think we don't know, you're just trying to find a puppet to use it!"
"It was your Meng family who killed the first emperor and the crown prince, and now it is your Meng family who has found the crown prince, how can your Meng family be so capable? If you have such great ability, why don't you become an emperor yourself!"
Everyone looked at the person who spoke, and the man quickly covered his mouth: "Everyone, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Meng Jun was not annoyed, but only said to the young man next to him, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, they don't believe it, you see......
"It's not that they don't believe it, but they don't dare to believe it," the young man said, "Back then, my father and I were forced to flee the capital, and the loyal ministers and good generals accompanied us all the way, and all of them died in vain, as for them, ......."
They are the group of people who abandoned the first emperor, so they have survived until now.
At this moment, the young man's eyes were full of resentment and sorrow, and he couldn't help but want to cry, whether it was true or not, at least what he said made everyone very ashamed.
Liu Zhu was also silent, and he recalled that twenty years ago, Meng Chaodu's soldiers and horses were proudly shouting outside the capital, just like Meng Jun now.
Late at night, he followed his father up the city wall, and at a glance, there was a camp outside the city, and the bonfires seemed to stretch to the sky. ap.
His father asked him, "If the city is broken, how should my Liu family deal with themselves?"
He said, "Of course, it's a fight to the death against the traitor!"
He still remembered the disappointment in his father's sunken eyes that day: "You can't see this as thoroughly as Chang'er, you fought to the death to lose the good reputation of a loyal minister and martyr, behind you? Aren't the thousands of people in the Liu family innocent? You and I are ministers, and we are loyal to the imperial power, not to those who hold it."
That night, my father's eyes were fierce and his words were earnest, as if he had foreseen the future.