Before Si Han left the city, the hostages Liu Boxing and Jiang Chenxi, Chen Qibao and Gongsun Lanyue were released.

An Xin and a group of them did not stay long in the northern border of Hebei because of the turmoil in the capital, and after a short rest, they said goodbye to Wei Chiyi and Gao Tai, as well as Zheng Xiaoling, who was reluctant to follow An Xin back to Beijing, and hurried back to the capital.

After several days and nights of hurrying, they finally arrived at the imperial city, but they had just entered the city when they heard a dull bell ringing.

The expressions on everyone's faces when they heard the bell at this time changed, and they couldn't care about anything else, and rode quickly towards the palace.

The guards at the palace gate have been replaced by those royal elite soldiers who have followed Kong Xun, who once fought side by side with An Xin, a female official, in Lingnan.

When he saw her hurriedly leading people into the palace, he didn't stop her.

An Xin passed through the palace gate smoothly, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, of course she knew what the bells that came out of the palace just now represented.

The emperor is gone.

Such a result was expected when Emperor Sheng An lay on the dragon bed with a pale face that day, as if to explain his last words.

When this moment really came true, An Xin couldn't help but have sadness in his eyes.

After all, to be honest, except for using her as a donkey, the old emperor is really good to himself.

not only gave her a golden dragon token no less than the prince's order, but also gave him the jade dragon whip without taking it back.

Although it was used to make her fight against Prime Minister Xiao Cheng and other powerful people who were higher than her official rank.

But An Xin has this whip given by the emperor, and those powerful nobles in the capital who originally looked down on women as officials and wanted to come up and step on her. Seeing herself, she didn't dare to be too presumptuous, otherwise she wouldn't be a soft persimmon and really whip them with a jade dragon.

Thinking about it, thinking about An Xin's eyes reddened.

Jiang Xuan, Liu Boxing, Jiang Chenxi, Chen Qibao and a group of them, whether true or not, followed An Xin into the emperor's bedroom with sad faces.

Kong Xun, who was lying on the side of Sheng'an Dilong's bed, was crying in a low voice, and suddenly felt a warm hand gently pat his shoulder.

The corners of Kong Xun's eyes were moist, and he raised his head to look at the visitor.

At this moment, he suppressed a muffled moan in his throat, as if he had completely collapsed, hugged the long legs of the visitor, pressed his face tightly against her abdomen, and cried out in grief.

"Xiaoshan Chang, my father has passed away, and I have no relatives in this world."

An Xin didn't know how to comfort Kong Xun, who had lost his only relative at the moment, she could only gently pat his back one by one, trying to soothe his out-of-control emotions.

At this moment, An Xin only allowed Kong Xun to grieve for his father at this moment.

After that, he must go into the court, sit in his rightful seat, and play the next power game with the families and ministers who are strong if the king is weak.

The jackals, tigers and leopards in the court will never die out because Prime Minister Xiao Cheng and Concubine An Guogong and his party were eliminated.

If Kong Xun can't stand up quickly in this change of imperial power, other ministers and families will quickly reach out to all positions in the various departments of the court and insert their own people.

By the time Kong Xun reacted from the grief of Emperor Sheng'an's death, even if he ascended to the throne, his control over the imperial court was greatly weakened.

There is never a shortage of people who want to seize power in this world.

An Xin was dressed in mourning clothes and wearing a plain crown, except for Kong Xun, the soon-to-be-succeeded prince, she and some other first-class officials knelt in the front row of the emperor's mourning hall.

She is now not only serving as the prince of the country, but also the prince of the second grade, but also personally entrusted Gu before the death of Emperor Sheng'an, and was personally named the minister of the super-grade auxiliary country in front of those courtiers.

Therefore, this time she was arranged in the front row to lead hundreds of officials to mourn for Emperor Sheng'an.

Since An Xin rushed back to the capital in northern Hebei, he brought people to help Kong Xun to handle Emperor Sheng'an's funeral ceremony, because he had not rested well for a long time, and his face was a little pale at this time.

Although the royal funeral is managed by the Ministry of Etiquette, An Xin does not have to do everything himself, but the cumbersome funeral ceremony of the royal family, if you want not to make mistakes, it is enough to be a headache.

Once there is an accident at the emperor's funeral, someone must put the blame on Kong Xun, the prince who has not yet succeeded to the throne.

In order to prevent these bad things from happening, she and Li Ziyu, a group of their own students, suppressed the group of officials who were ready to move and secretly wanted to take advantage of the chaos to seize power.

On the other hand, there is also vigilance that someone is secretly making trouble at the emperor's funeral, hindering Kong Xun's next road to the top.

Li Ziyu, the successor of the prime minister cultivated by Emperor Sheng An when he was alive, showed his ability in this turbulent period of imperial power change.

led Shan Yushi, Gongsun Hong and Chi Huanong to some real royalists, and did their best to maintain the normal operation of all departments of the imperial court during this time.

Even so, there are those ministers and family magnates who want to take advantage of the opportunity to seize power, and they want to take advantage of the opportunity of this change of imperial power to operate secretly, but they are also severely suppressed.

Those who want to put their own people in the vacant positions vacated by this turmoil and increase their power and voice in the court in the future have also stopped in recent times.

However, the dark tide in the court is surging, and the struggle for power has not disappeared.

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Emperor Sheng'an was successfully buried in the imperial mausoleum.

Kong Xun was immersed in sadness for a while, and treated the next enthronement ceremony negatively.

On this day, An Xin entered the palace and looked coldly at Kong Xun, who was still immersed in sadness, with a decadent face, his eyes were slightly gloomy, he pulled the corners of his mouth, and said unceremoniously: "If you don't want to be this emperor, just speak."

"Anyway, those ministers and magnates can also find their favorite person from the side branches of the royal family to be the emperor.

In this way, they can control the ancestors of the Si royal family more satisfactorily and fight with their lives. With you or without you is actually not that important. ”

After An Xin finished speaking indifferently, he turned around and walked towards the gate of the palace, leaving only one sentence: "The chief of this mountain is also ready to resign and return to his hometown to live a leisurely life. ”

"Don't." Kong Xun, who was sitting there, reacted from his grief and hurriedly shouted, "Don't go, please don't go." ”

Then he stood up and strode over, grabbing An Xin, who was about to cross the threshold of the palace, "I know that this time has disappointed you, don't go, I can't listen to you." ”

The corners of An Xin's mouth twitched.

"......" What kind of tiger and wolf words are these words, the emperor seems to force him to do it himself.

However, seeing the half-dead kid during this time, the expression on his face finally changed, and An Xin didn't say anything more about him.

The enthronement ceremony, the people who have been supervised by Leng Xiangbai have already made full preparations, just waiting for the main master to participate.