On this day, Zhu Wen discussed with the ministers of the DPRK and China about the funeral of Zhaozong.

The ministers were all Zhu Wen's subordinates, and they proposed to hastily handle the affairs of Zhaozong, but Zhu Wen said: "No, it needs to be solemn and special." Then he instructed the ministers to prepare the funeral rites.

At this time, Wang Yanzhang came to report that Li Keyong, King of Jin, Li Maozhen, King of Qi, Yang Xingmi, King of Wu, and Wang Jian, King of Shu, heard that Zhaozong had died, and each mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and went straight to Luoyang, threatening to attack Luoyang in the near future.

As soon as Zhaozong died, the vassal kings had food and took the opportunity to crusade, such a result had long been expected by Zhu Wen, but at this time, after listening to Wang Yanzhang's report, he couldn't help but be shocked.

A minister in the palace said: "Now that the emperor has died, Li Tang has no queen, as the so-called country cannot be without a king for a day, the lower officials are foolish, this is a good time for King Liang to ascend the throne, why not call the emperor as soon as possible, and never think about the vassals." ”

Another minister said: "No, if you are called emperor at this time, you will become the target of everyone, absolutely not!"

For a while, in the main hall, you and I said a word, and there was endless noise, for or against, each insisting on one word.

Zhu Wen has coveted the throne for many years, why don't you want to be the emperor immediately?

But he thought to himself: "Now that the Quartet has been divided, his military authority is not solidified, and the people's hearts are not stable, at this time, the emperor must be self-proclaimed, saying that I am seeking to usurp the throne, and the Quartet vassal kings will take the opportunity to crusade." How do you do this thing that is the target of the arrow?"

He originally wanted Li Ye to give up the throne with an edict, and then hold a ceremony in front of everyone, so that the name is justified, and he can sit back and relax and be the emperor of the world.

Li Ye was dead, and the edict could have been forged, but without Li Ye personally passing on the throne in the Chan Rang ceremony, the king of the Quartet was already suspicious and sick, and he would definitely not accept it.

Secretly: "Now that everyone in the Tang family has been killed by me, if you want to find a puppet emperor, you can't get it!" He pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "Quickly pass on the military master Jingxiang to see this king!"

Not long after, Jing Xiang came belatedly, and Zhu Wen said that the soldiers were forcing the border.

Jing Xiang said: "King Liang can't be called the emperor now, Li Keyong and other vassal kings stationed at the border this time, it seems that Zhaozong died, and he came to crusade against King Liang, but in fact, they all have ghosts, and they all want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and do the fisherman's thoughts." As long as the king of Liang is not the emperor, they will not act rashly. ”

Zhu Wen said: "Now that the Tang family has no queen, what will happen?"

Jing Xiang said: "Although the Tang family has no queen, it is not worried that there is no emperor. There are thousands of descendants of the Tang family, how can the vassal kings know everything? King Liang only needs to find a good-looking person, confuse the real with the false, and use it to restrain the vassals, so as to stabilize the situation. ”

Zhu Wenxi said: "Military advisor Gao Jian!" His face perked up, and then he laughed.

After laughing, he ordered the "Yin and Yang Shuangsha" to go out of the palace to find the "fake emperor".

Ge Ying stepped forward, bowed down and said, "You don't need to worry about the king, there is one ready-made!"

Zhu Wen was overjoyed and said, "Bring him to see this king quickly, if his face is too ordinary, it will not be possible." Do this thing without leakage, lest others become suspicious!"

Not long after, Xiao Ying was brought to the front of Zhu Wen's Palace.

Zhu Wen said to him: "The emperor has just collapsed, and this king is worried that no one will ascend the throne, and now it is just right, you will be the emperor." He smiled but didn't smile when he spoke.

Xiao Ying was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: "This old thief is in power, why don't you become the emperor yourself, why do you want me to be the emperor?" This is terrible, Zhu Lao Thief has seen me in person, if he recognizes me, will I still have a life?"

Fortunately, Zhu Wen didn't seem to recognize himself, and thought in his heart: "That night in the Deyang Palace, Zhu Wen couldn't recognize me." On that day on the bridge, he only stared at my mother with a pair of thief eyes, and it was not surprising that he did not remember my appearance. Then I was caught by the big-headed ghost, and they thought I was going to die. Now he asked me to be this fake emperor, I don't know what kind of heart An's heart is? This is good, when the time comes, my parents' revenge can be avenged!"

Zhu Wen let Xiao Ying be the emperor, how could he have good intentions, he had already calculated in his heart: "Let this hairy boy be the emperor for a while, so that the kings of the Quartet will not rebel, and I can raise troops to accumulate strength." When the time is ripe, let him pass on the throne to me, and forgive him that he has to be obedient. At that time, my Liang soldiers will be powerful, and those bullshit vassal kings will have those who are not convinced, and they will meet each other, so why be afraid of him!"

At that moment, Zhu Wen asked people to forge a posthumous edict of Zhaozong, saying: "I am in great health, and I will not return to the west in the future, lest the Li family will fall next to the country." Fortunately, King Liang did his best to assist the government and support the society, and I was very relieved. He will return to the west in the future, and he can be crowned King Liang as an auxiliary minister, and support the young lord Li Ji to ascend the throne as emperor. ”

In addition, he wrote a poem in the tone of Zhu Wen, which said: "Woo hoo mourn, my emperor has died, and the whole country will mourn together! I only hope to take a break from the brothers' fight, and come to Zigong to kowtow to watch the funeral, in order to fulfill the loyalty of the courtiers. The first emperor had an edict, and ordered Wen to assist the young lord Li Ji to ascend the throne, Wen did not dare to disobey the edict, and soon raised the enthronement ceremony, hoping that the vassal kings of all walks of life would obey the edict of the first emperor and support the young lord with Wen. ”

After writing it, Zhu Wen ordered his subordinates to be delivered to the vassal kings as soon as possible.

Xiao Ying was put on filial piety clothes and escorted to Zhaozong's Zigong Palace to perform the gift of filial piety. At first, he refused to bow down and kowtow when he died, but then he thought: "Zhaozong is also a shrewd and capable master, but it is a pity that he was born at the wrong time and died of embarrassment, which is sad and lamentable." Anyway, he is also an emperor, and it is nothing for me to kowtow a few times, not to mention that he is still the husband of the master. If it were Zhu Wen who died today, he would have killed me, and he wouldn't have come to kowtow!" Thinking of this, he knelt down and kowtowed three times.

At this time, the Chinese military officials also came to pay their respects one after another, all of them in a pretentious manner, squeezing out their tears, and looking sad.

The eunuch in front of the palace announced the list of officials who came to perform the funeral ceremony. At this time, I only heard the rumor in front of the palace read: "King Wu Yue has arrived...... Min Wang to ...... The king of Chu arrived at ......"

When Zhu Wen heard this, he held the coffin with both hands and cried, crying and shouting sadly: "Your Majesty...... You died so badly...... The minister never imagined that Concubine Mei would do this to you, the emperor......"

Seeing this, the three kings of Wu Yue, Min and Chu did not despise Zhu Wen's personality on weekdays, but they did not feel sorry at this moment.

Ma Yin, the king of Chu, hurriedly helped Zhu Wen up and said: "My emperor is returning to the west, the mandate of heaven dictates it, why does King Liang have to be like this?"

Zhu Wen put back his tears and said: "The king of Chu doesn't know, after the emperor died, the king of Jin, the king of Shu, and the king of Wu all regarded me as a thorn in the side, and now the little king is embattled, I am afraid that it will be difficult to fulfill the wish of the emperor and support the young lord......" said and cried with confidence.

King Min said: "King Liang doesn't need to worry, the emperor has a testament, and we will definitely do our best to support the young lord to ascend the throne." ”

Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, said: "Exactly, how about this edict and let everyone see it?"

Zhu Wen said: "It should be like this, please submit the edict quickly!"

A eunuch hurriedly presented a small golden box from the side, knelt down on his knees and opened the box and took out the "edict".

Zhu Wenxu bowed to the ground with a pretentious matter, bowed his head and took the edict, and all the kings followed and bowed to the ground. When they looked at the edict, the kings looked strange, as if they were suspicious, but there was no basis for their doubts.

After reading the edict, Zhu Wen respectfully walked up to Xiao Ying and introduced him to the kings: "This is the young master Li Ji." ”

The kings bowed and saluted while looking at this "Li Ji", and saw that although he was young, he was handsome and behaved, and he did have the atmosphere of an emperor. At this moment, he is wearing filial piety clothes, and his age is the same size as Li Ji in the hearing, so he no longer doubts it in his heart.

Xiao Ying wanted to expose Zhu Wen's conspiracy on the spot, and after thinking about it, this telling the truth was not only his own life, but with Zhu Wen's murderous personality, the three vassal kings present were afraid that their lives would not be guaranteed, and there would be no return. Although these three vassal kings have no kindness to themselves, how can they bear to lose their lives in a row?

When the words came to his mouth, he took them back again, and his heart was very miserable.

The kings looked at him with a look of indifference, and only said that his father was newly mourned, and he was sad for a while, but he was also reasonable, and there was no suspicion in his heart.

Zhaozong's funeral is the same as that of the emperors of the past dynasties, and the ceremonies are prepared and grand. Carrying the coffin by the chariot, the ministers flocked behind, mourning and singing in unison, and swept out of the Deyang Palace.

Xiao Ying wore linen and filial piety, walking alone in front of the coffin, he felt unspeakable discomfort in his heart, and secretly thought: "A generation of emperors, but no relatives are buried after death, only me, a fake prince, replace, alas!"

The next day, Xiao Ying was arrested and released from prison, and after some washing, he dressed up, put on a dragon robe, and advanced to the Jinluan Palace, sitting on the golden dragon chair in the center, with two eunuchs standing beside him.

Then the ministers flocked to the middle of the hall, Zhu Wen stood in front of the ministers, turned his back to Xiao Ying and said loudly: "The death of the first emperor is grieving the whole country! ”

As soon as the words were finished, the drum music was played, and the ceremonial officer read out the enthronement message. After the reading, the ministers knelt down three times and bowed nine times, shouting long live. The momentum is so great that Xiao Ying has never seen it or heard of it.

But seeing that the ministers were kneeling on the ground for a long time, a eunuch next to him whispered: "Your Majesty, you have to ask them to be even." ”

Xiao Ying didn't know the etiquette of the palace, and when he saw that the people kneeling on the ground were all adults who were dozens of years old, some of them were about seventy or eighty years old, and he was busy shouting: "Grandfathers, please get up!"

When the ministers heard this, they were all stunned, and they got up and stood, each with something on their minds. Those who know the inside secretly sneered in their hearts, and those who don't know the inside only shake their heads and sigh in their hearts, thinking that this little emperor has an extraordinary appearance, but he is a stupid straw bale emperor, who is the opponent of Zhu Lao Thief?

Ma Yin, the king of Chu, the king of Fujian, and Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, all thought in their hearts: "Look at this situation, the Tang family has no hope of resurrection, and the division of the heroes is a foregone conclusion.

After performing this play, Zhu Wen no longer had any scruples, and soon ascended the throne as emperor.

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