On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, a blizzard fell from the sky.

Everyone in the front and back halls of the entire Wanshou Palace had solemn faces.

The palace ladies shuttled through it, and they were very busy.

In the palace, Emperor Zhizheng was speechless, and the prince, cabinet ministers, and nobles in Beijing, such as Lu Heng and others all came here.

Several imperial physicians took turns frowning and asking for pulse.

After coming out, facing everyone's eyes, they all shook their heads and sighed, with a solemn expression.

Everyone understands that the time of the Emperor is approaching.

In fact, in the past two days, both inside and outside the palace have been in full swing to prepare for Emperor Zhizheng's murderous ceremony.

At this moment, suddenly, a group of people heard that Queen Neili Xie and a group of concubines were crying in unison.

Zhang Can's face changed, and he suddenly fell to his knees and cried.

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly knelt down and cried bitterly.

Soon, Jiuqing entered the palace, and all the officials in Beijing wept outside the noon gate.

On the second day, the Ministry of Rites decided that from this day on, officials in Beijing would go to the inner government to listen to the edict in plain clothes, black gauze hats, and black horn belts.

Then he stayed in this office and cried for a few feasts.

Such early and late mourning will not be until the burial of Emperor Daxing.

Outside the palace, the edict was promulgated by the pedestrians to the place, and hundreds of officials outside, the day the edict arrived, plain clothes, black gauze hats, black horn belts, after four bows, listen to the recitation, mourn, and then bow four times.

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At this time, in the palace, since Zhang Can, everyone was covered with a fine linen cover in plain clothes, and a black horn belt was also tied on the black gauze hat, and they were bowing four times to the god.

After the ceremony, Yang Bo and the others were helped to get up by Zhang Can, who had been mourning for several deaths.

Yang Bo said: "Emperor Daxing has gone, I really don't worry about His Royal Highness the Prince's mourning, His Royal Highness still needs to take care of his body!" In a few days, Vientiane will begin, and when the time comes, it will take a lot of energy for His Highness to ascend to the Great Treasure! You should take a break and recharge your spirits! ”

It turned out that since before the Wei Dynasty, the Daxing emperors of all dynasties died, and the imperial court needed to arrange the enthronement ceremony before the new emperor could ascend the throne.

But the Great Wei Dynasty was different.

After the death of the old emperor, the new emperor could only choose the auspicious day of the first month of the second year when he ascended the throne.

But Emperor Zhizheng's death was already the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, that is to say, the imperial court needed to be busy with the emperor's funeral on the one hand, and the new emperor's enthronement ceremony on the other.

Zhang Can's red and swollen eyes said to Yang Bo: "It's really uncomfortable in my lonely heart, the six gods have no master, and Yang Ge has to worry a lot about this time!" ”

"The old minister will live up to the prince's trust!"

Zhang Can nodded, and was about to go to the side hall to drink some tea and rest for a while, but who knew that he had just taken two steps and suddenly stood still and said to Yang Bo: "The King of Shu is not far from Beijing, his father is a great deal, as a son of man, it is better to come back and pay tribute!" ”

When Yang Bo heard this, his eyelids jumped, and his face was embarrassed: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the King of Shu is the will of the first emperor, and the first emperor is a great deal, which makes it seem inappropriate to go against the will of the emperor of Daxing!" ”

Zhang Can looked at Yang Bo with pouting eyes and said: "It's all the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Family, the King of Shu is young, and he is in pain, if I can't see the last face of Emperor Daxing, he will be annoyed with me in the future!" ”

Yang Bo still shook his head and said: "Since the king of Shu has become a vassal, he should be treated with courtesy from foreign ministers." The pedestrian division caught up with the king of Shu and read out the edict of the emperor of Daxing, and ordered the king of Shu and the officials of the royal palace to cry in the local post house! ”

Zhang Can was annoyed when he heard this, and he snorted coldly and threw his sleeves and went to the side hall.

Yang Bo sneered in his heart, not to mention what Zhang Can wanted to recall the King of Shu, this was the first time he had called the cabinet after the emperor's great trip.

Yang Bo didn't care what his purpose was, and he didn't care what Zhang Can ordered the cabinet to do.

This time, he had already rehearsed it countless times in his mind - refusal.

Don't underestimate this refusal, this is related to whose hands the initiative is in the hands of the monarch and the ministers in the future relationship.

This is also Yang Bo's bottom line to test this prince.

At this moment, a little eunuch hurriedly walked in, saying that someone in Zhongshu had a big event outside and asked Yang Ge Lao to move.

Yang Bo frowned, he didn't know what was going on, and as soon as he came to the outside of the hall, he saw Fan Tang kneeling in front of the hall and looking anxiously into the hall.

Seeing Yang Bo come out, Fan Dang hurriedly got up and trotted to Yang Bo's ear and said, "Old Ge, it's not good!" ”

Yang Bo said sharply: "What are you panicking about? What happened? ”

Fan Dang said: "Qin Yan - Elder Ge just hanged himself in his mansion!" Left a suicide note, saying that he accompanied the Emperor Daxing! ”

Yang Bo's face changed, he really didn't expect that Qin Yan, who had been staying in the cabinet with a dead face in his eyes, would actually make this plan.

Yang Bo sighed and said, "I know, let his family make good arrangements for Qin Ge Lao's afterlife!" In a while, you will take two hundred taels in my name and go to the Qin family to pay respects! ”

Fan Yan swallowed his saliva and wanted to stop talking.

Yang Bo frowned: "What else is going on?" ”

Fan Dang said: "According to the report from Shuntianfu, Qin Shixian, the deputy chief soldier of Jizhen Town, personally went out of the city with five hundred people. ”

Yang Bo was shocked: "What is he doing out of the city?" Why didn't you stop him? ”

Fan Dang glanced at the hall and whispered: "He is holding the prince's edict, no one dares to stop him!" ”

"What?"

Yang Bo suddenly had a bad premonition, could it be ......

However, in the next second, Li Tiaoyuan, the director of the Jiangxi Department of the Criminal Department, hurriedly walked in, and Yang Bo saw that his face was extremely bad, so he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Tiaoyuan said with a dark face: "Pavilion Elder, Xue Zongkai has surrounded your mansion with the crown prince's edict!" ”

Yang Bo suddenly felt cold in his hands and feet.

Just when he was still thinking about the future with the prince, who knew that Zhang Can had already made a move, and directly tore his face, leaving him with no mercy at all.

At this time, in front of the window of the side hall, Zhang Can, who was standing with his hands in his hands, looked at Yang Bo, who was surrounded by Li Tiaoyuan and Fan Dang in the courtyard, smiled coldly, turned around and returned to his seat and sat down.

Sure enough, after a while, Yang Bo angrily stepped into the side hall and arched his hand: "Your Highness, I don't know what you mean by ordering Xue Zongkai to lead people to surround my mansion?" ”

Zhang Can pretended to be stunned when he heard this: "Oh, I misunderstood, Yang Ge Lao, Wu Ge Lao was stabbed to death in the street a while ago, and recently held the emperor's funeral, I am afraid that the traitor will take the opportunity to commit murder again, so I will send someone to protect your mansion!" ”

Yang Bo sneered in his heart, Wu Xingbang's death, Zhang Can can hide it from others, but he can't hide it from himself, and he is still acting coy here.

"Then why did His Highness let Qin Shixian lead his troops out of the city?"

When Zhang Can heard this, his face suddenly turned pale: "I said, the King of Shu, as the youngest son of Emperor Daxing, has just left Beijing, and Emperor Daxing is funeral, if he doesn't come, he is not filial!" I'm sending Qin Shixian to pick him up! ”

Yang Bo had a bad temperament, and he was immediately furious when he heard this, but because there was the body of Emperor Daxing next to him, he naturally had a bad seizure, so he could only swallow this breath.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Can said: "By the way, from tomorrow, according to the will given to Gu by Emperor Daxing, Li Xiyan will enter the cabinet to look at things!" ”

Yang Bo's heart suddenly turned dead when he heard this, it turned out that whether it was the Emperor Daxing or the current crown prince, in their hearts, he was not a candidate for the first assistant or even a minister.