A sedan chair carrying eight carried along the royal road to Chengtianmen, where it passed, pedestrians avoided, and no one dared to block it slightly.

Since Da Zheng, civil officials prefer sedan chairs, and gradually give up the carriage, the so-called sedan chair, two people carry the shoulder, four people carry the soft sedan chair, the so-called eight sedan chairs, strictly speaking, refers to the first four and four after the eight people carry the sedan chair. However, after the Great Qi, there were extremely clear restrictions on the use of sedan chairs, and the seven-year order of Chengping, "civil and military officials should take the sedan chair for four people." Those who illegally ride in a sedan chair and those who use eight people without permission will be heard. ”

According to this system, this eight-person sedan chair must exceed the system, and the light will be played by the imperial envoy, and the heavy will be questioned by the imperial court, but the people who come are still like this, and they are still going directly to the direction of the imperial city, which is probably not uncourteous, and eighty percent is the special grace of the emperor who took the eight-person sedan chair in Beijing.

In fact, it is true that the person in the sedan chair is the teacher of the current prince, the head of the cabinet, and he went to the imperial city this time because of a major event that is enough to affect the general trend of the world - His Majesty the emperor of the thirteenth year of the imperial universe is seriously ill and dying.

Just when the sedan chair came to the royal road in front of the Chengtian Gate, there happened to be a person who also went to the Chengtian Gate, at this time the gate of the Chengtian Gate had not yet been opened, but the person passed through the tall city gate, neither knocked a big hole in the city gate, but also unharmed, and even the surrounding guards also turned a blind eye to this person, so he let him enter the imperial city.

Only the Great Array of the Imperial City seemed to sense something, and a circle of invisible qi ripples rippled, but it was fleeting.

After this person entered the city, he walked all the way without hindrance, passing through the Weiyang Palace, which symbolizes the highest power center of the empire, until he came to the Ganquan Palace, where the emperor's dormitory was located, he stopped at the entrance of the Ganquan Palace, and saw a famous armor soldier like a great enemy, and then there was a shoulder surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs, and he could vaguely see that there was a woman in her thirties, holding a child less than ten years old in her arms.

The young man stood right in front of the door, his white hair piercing so gleaking that no one looked at him from beginning to end, as if he didn't exist.

Strictly speaking, he really doesn't exist.

He wasn't the man at this time.

But after he had seen many places, he already knew a thing or two.

This is still the world of Great Qi, the imperial capital, and the imperial city, but the people in it have changed a lot.

In today's Ganquan Palace, there is no Xiao Yu, no Xiao Xuan, no Xiao Bai, no Xiao Zhinan, and there is no royal family surnamed Xiao that he knows.

At this time, the old man who was dying in the Ganquan Palace, called Xiao Zaihou, took the meaning of virtue, and was the emperor of today's Great Qi, with the year name Tianhong.

This year is the thirteenth year of Tianhong.

However, the general trend of the world at this time is even worse than that of the twenty-three years of Great Qi Chengping. Although in the twenty-third year of Chengping, the rebellion of the three feudatories broke out in the Wei king Xiao Jin, the king of Zhenbei Lin Han, and the Liao king Mu Tangzhi, but at that time, the Great Qi court was also at its peak and had the capital to quell the rebellion, but now the Great Qi court is rotten from the root. At this time, the trend of extravagance and corruption is becoming more and more prevalent, prosperous and arrogant, rich and extravagant, arrogant and lazy, extravagant and greedy, greedy and corrupt, and the trend of decline is beginning to take shape, and it has reached the point where it has to be rectified.

But at this time, the sea bandits frequently attacked the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River, the civil unrest in the southeast intensified, and there were constant uprisings in various places.

Take this year as an example, in the first month, the grassland cavalry crossed the glacier from the Hexi Corridor to invade Shaanzhou. In February, millions of soldiers and civilians in Dayi Province ran out of food. In March, there was a famine in Lanling Mansion in Qizhou. In April, there was another famine in Zhili Prefecture. In May, there was another famine in Shaanxi. In June, there was civil unrest in the Tusi Division of Southern Xinjiang. In leap June, the Xiangzhou exiles rebelled north to attack Jiangzhou, and the southern Xinjiang barbarian rebellion invaded the Huzhou border. In July, the Qinghe River burst its embankment in Qizhou, killing and wounding people everywhere.

The state affairs are so difficult, the emperor of Daqi Xiao Zaihou, who is already in poor health, finally fell ill, and he couldn't afford to get sick.

Under such circumstances, if there is another change in the imperial capital, involving the six ministries and nine divisions of the cabinet and the Metropolitan Governor's Office, then the world will be in chaos immediately.

At this time, the new emperor succeeded to the throne, which became the top priority.

The woman who went in just now is the current queen, but not the queen of the Yuan, but the second queen. Empress Yuan was her sister, childless and died young, after her sister's death, she also married the emperor under the arrangement of the family, became Xiao Zaihou's second empress, and successfully gave birth to a prince, that is, the current crown prince.

The reason why this is so is because she was born in the Xu family. Because most of the queens of the Great Qi Dynasty were from the Xu family, most of the queen dowagers of the previous dynasties were women of the Xu family, so an unwritten rule was born that the emperor could marry other concubines, but the queen's candidate must be from the Xu family, so she could become the second queen after her sister.

The young white-headed man sighed softly, walked again, passed through the door, and walked in the direction of Mingguang Palace.

Xiao Yu, the Taizu Emperor of Daqi, has the name Mingguang, and this palace is named after Mingguang, which is naturally the residence of the emperors of Daqi in the past dynasties.

At this time, the Mingguang Palace was full of gloomy and gloomy atmosphere, which was so oppressive that it made people breathless.

Daqi advocates black, so the layout here is mainly black, supplemented by gold and crimson, and under the black curtain is a large black bed, coiled around the pillars, solemn and solemn.

At this time, on the bed was an old man who looked no more than the age of a sixtieth birthday, his face was very gray, and he could no longer get up from the bed. And guarding in front of the bed, it is not the first assistant of the cabinet, not the queen's mother, not the chief eunuch of the Great Interior, nor the concubines and ministers, but a Taoist with white hair and white beard, wearing a Taoist robe, holding a dust, fairy wind and bones.

However, the Taoist was tired at this time, his face was pale, and he was also sighing deeply.

Obviously, the Taoist has been using Tongtian cultivation to hang the emperor's last breath, but after all, it is difficult to disobey the destiny of heaven, and he is powerless to return to heaven at this time.

Soon after the white-haired young man came here first, the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and Lord Shoufu all came here one after another.

There are many people, and the popularity in the palace is a little more, and the old emperor seems to be excited by this popularity, as if he has returned to the light, he has a little energy, and tries his best to cheer up and start to explain things.

When he arrived here, the young man's eyes suddenly blurred, and he couldn't really hear or see clearly. He knew in his heart that this should be the key to the general trend of the world in the future, and Heavenly Dao would not let him watch it anymore, nor would it let him listen to it anymore.

He simply turned back and walked out of the Mingguang Palace, and came to the front hall of the Ganquan Palace, where there were many officials of the six departments and nine kings, since the emperor was seriously ill, the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed in an instant, and they have been waiting here in turn, for a long time.

When the young man came in, a cold wind mixed with a lot of snowflakes blew in, and the ministers were all blown and shivered, and looked out of the dimly lit door—at some point, it was snowing heavily.

The wind blew harder and harder, and the snow fell heavier and heavier.

I don't know how long later, the desolate bell sounded in the howling north wind.

All the people in the hall stood up and rushed out the door.

There was only that young man left in the hall, and he knew that this was the death of the old emperor.