Chen Zhuo waited outside the palace gate for a while, and then the palace gate opened from the inside, and out came an old eunuch and a few trembling little palace maids.

At this time, the most loyal are the people who usually seem the most useless.

"General, the Queen Mother and Her Majesty are waiting for you in the Mingde Palace." The old eunuch was also quite generous, he saw that Chen Zhuo was neither humble nor arrogant, and he also showed great respect for Chen Zhuo.

Chen Zhuo thought about it for a while when he heard this, but he was not worried about ambushing some sword and axe hand or something, Liang Ji was dead, and it was theoretically impossible for the entire Chang'an to pose a threat to him.

It's just that this Mingde Hall is not the main hall of the palace, but only a place where the emperor usually summons individual courtiers to discuss things, which belongs to the category of side halls.

"Lead the way ahead, I heard that a large number of forbidden troops in the palace have escaped, for the safety of Your Majesty and the Queen Mother, my people will be in charge of the palace garrison." Chen Zhuo said as he walked, and the soldiers under his command also began to take over the guards of the palace.

In fact, it was good for Chen Zhuo to take over the palace at this time, because before he came, some people in the palace began to abscond and took away a lot of good things in the palace.

Soon Chen Zhuo came to the Mingde Palace, he asked Chen Yuwei and others to wait outside, and followed the old eunuch into the hall alone.

The furnishings of the hall are simple, it looks a little empty, with hanging drapery on both sides, and the floor is wooden, which is slightly reflective when rubbed.

Facing the door of the temple is a very wide table, on which there are pen holders, inkstones and other things, behind the table is a chair carved with a dragon, at this moment there is a child of eight or nine years old sitting on the chair, he is wearing a well-fitting bright yellow dragon robe.

The little emperor sat behind the table, his eyes were very frightened, and he felt like he was about to cry again, obviously he had just cried a lot not long ago.

Next to the little emperor stood a noble woman dressed in a phoenix robe, standing upright, looking less than thirty, and she knew that this was the queen mother of the dynasty without being introduced.

"The minister has seen His Majesty the Emperor and the Queen Mother." Chen Zhuo walked to a place in front of the table and stopped, bowed slightly to the orphan and widow.

"Woo...... Don't kill me...... Please don't kill me......" Chen Zhuo just bowed down, the little emperor on the dragon chair really couldn't hold on, huddled on the chair with his head in his hands, and looked at Chen Zhuo begging for mercy with a look of fear.

"Don't cry, sit down for me, you are the emperor, even if you want to die, you can't lose the dignity of the emperor." Before Chen Zhuo could speak, the Queen Mother grabbed the little emperor and forcibly pressed the little emperor on the chair, she trembled in order to hold the phoenix crown on the little emperor's head, but she still tried to maintain her demeanor.

"Why didn't the Queen Mother and the Emperor see me in the Jinluan Palace? Wouldn't it be more dignified to die on the Golden Luan Palace? Chen Zhuo stood up straight, but asked an inexplicable question.

"Before you entered the city, the mourning family had already summoned hundreds of civil and military officials to the Jinluan Palace, but unfortunately none of them came. There is no place for mourning in the Jinluan Palace, but it is better to have this Mingde Palace, so I often come here to teach the emperor to watch the folds. The Queen Mother replied to Chen Zhuo with a cold face, looking more sad than dead.

The little emperor has been on the throne for a few years, but there has not been a situation where the queen mother has listened to the government, because the general is in charge alone, although the queen mother is his sister, but Liang Ji did not let the queen mother have much power.

"It seems that the Queen Mother's life is not very good, I am not here to kill you today, there are two things that require the cooperation of the Queen Mother and the Emperor." Chen Zhuo did not show aggressiveness, he knew in his heart that in fact, the culprit of the chaos in the world was not this orphan and widow.

As soon as she heard that Chen Zhuo would not kill them today, the Queen Mother's eyes also showed a look of hope, having the consciousness of death and wanting to die are two different things, unless you really can't live, otherwise no one really wants to die.

"What do you want us to do? Mourning Jiaguan, you are not the kind of brutal person, I advise you not to covet the throne, you start from the end of the micro even if you control Chang'an at this time, that position is not something you can sit on, and assist King Wu can also get a dragon head, once you have a non-dividing thought, you will be attacked by the world. The Queen Mother actually persuaded Chen Zhuo.

Chen Zhuo smiled, the Queen Mother's careful thinking he naturally saw it, if the world was obtained by King Wu, there would be no talk of changing the dynasty, and he and the little emperor would not be considered to be ruined, and if he was lucky, King Wu did not necessarily have to kill them, King Wu's ascension to the throne was better for the Queen Mother and the emperor than for others to be emperors.

"The Queen Mother thought about it a lot, and the first thing was naturally to ask the Queen Mother to issue an edict in the name of the emperor, saying that the general was angry and resentful of the emperor, and now Liang Ji was punished, the emperor was still young, and King Wu was appointed as the regent to supervise the country, as for the rest of the matter, it is the matter of King Wu and your own family." Chen Zhuo has never had the intention of being an emperor, even now that he occupies Chang'an, he has no such thoughts.

"I didn't expect you to be so thoughtful as a general, you want King Wu to ascend the throne step by step, so it's okay, everyone is more decent." The Queen Mother readily agreed to Chen Zhuo, and the process of King Wu's usurpation of the throne should be divided into a few steps, for the sake of the decency in the Queen Mother's mouth.

The process of usurping the throne of the vassal king is actually the simplest, the first step is not to pull the world through again, as long as the national capital is beaten, and then the government is controlled in the name of the supervising country, and then the imperial uncle and the like, and finally the emperor issued an edict to let the new monarch be invited by hundreds of officials, and the transition to the throne was successfully completed.

"The second thing is that the Queen Mother should hand over the state seal." Chen Zhuo stretched his hand forward, and directly asked for the national seal.

"What do you want the national seal for? When King Wu comes, the mourning family will give it to him, and he will never give it to you. This time, the Queen Mother resolutely disagreed.

Chen Zhuo couldn't figure out why this queen mother was so attached to something that only had symbolic meaning? He didn't want to talk nonsense with the Queen Mother, after all, before King Wu arrived in Chang'an, Chen Zhuo still had a lot of things to deal with, and he would inevitably have to use this thing.

So Chen Zhuo took a few steps forward, looked at the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor across the table, and said in a somewhat unkind tone: "I don't worry about such an important thing if I don't hold it in my hands." I didn't plan to kill the Queen Mother and the Emperor, but that doesn't mean I can't do it. Queen Mother, you don't want the emperor to ...... at such a young age."

As he said the last sentence, Chen Zhuo clenched one hand into a fist, and the knuckles of his fingers clicked, and the threat was too obvious.

Chen Zhuo is famous, he is good at talking does not mean that he is a good person, the queen mother was frightened at once, and the little emperor began to cry again.

"Don't, the mourning family will give it to you, but you have to promise the mourning family, don't embarrass our orphans and widows." This time, the Queen Mother obviously softened her momentum, and her words were a little pleading.

Chen Zhuo nodded, he felt that there was too much time wasted on this mother and son.

The next moment, the Queen Mother took out a jade seal wrapped in brocade from her sleeve, which looked smaller than a fist and was not as big as a prop on TV.

Chen Zhuo took the national seal and left, and when he left, he also instructed the entourage to protect the safety of the queen mother and the emperor, as long as they were in the palace, there was no restriction on their freedom.

Then Chen Zhuo began to issue an edict in the name of the emperor, inviting King Wu to supervise the country, which was the first thing, and then raiding Liang Ji's mansion was the second thing, and the third thing was to appease the people and officials of Chang'an.

After these wills, Chang'an City slowly returned to calm, especially those middle and lower-level officials, who were also required to return to work as soon as possible, and if they did not return to work within the time limit, they would never be hired in the future.

Not to mention that this will is the most effective, first of all, those petty officials of six or seven grades and officials without grades returned to the yamen, in their opinion, no matter how the dynasty is changed, this thing still has to be done by people, right? Because their status is too low, they don't have any factional labels, but they don't have any psychological burden.

With these people making proofs, more and more officials soon returned to Chang'an, and many third-grade and second-grade officials also came back, all of whom had struggled all their lives, and no one wanted to give up so easily.

However, when Chang'an City was restored to its previous state, Chen Zhuo suddenly gave a verbal order to Gai Liniang in the evening: "Liniang, tonight, all the officials above the third rank and who have received real positions will be killed." ”

Gai Liniang didn't ask why, Chen Zhuo said she turned around and left.

"Brother, why do you have to kill more than three real jobs?" After Gai Liniang left, Chen Yuwei asked puzzled.

"Because these people have done nothing in the past, not to mention, they did not respond to the will of the Queen Mother before I came to Chang'an, if you want to make a real change in the world, these people's seats must be vacated, otherwise King Wu will come to Chang'an, and these people will hold important positions, so won't we work in vain?" Chen Zhuo didn't want to rebel once, the emperor had changed, but the corrupt officials and mediocre officials were still that group of people, and King Wu might not have the courage to change some things, so it was up to him to change them.

The key is that Gali is really easy to use.

Chen Yuwei nodded suddenly in realization, and the next moment she suddenly remembered something important, so she hurriedly said to Chen Zhuo: "By the way, brother, these two people have read a lot of information in the palace, and you made the 'Lantai' of the investigation have eyebrows last time." ”