Originally, it was just a small episode to go to the capital to claim relatives and receive food, but no one expected that this small episode would become the fuse that changed the fate of Gong Huaiming's life.

A few months ago, Gong Huaiming's house suddenly broke into several imperial messengers who claimed to be from the capital, these people were dressed in brocade and angry, led by a eunuch, holding a holy decree, and asked Gong Huaiming to go to the capital with them. Gong Huaiming's parents had the intention of not letting their son follow them, but they were just a group of ordinary people, and there was no way to compete with these emperors who held the power of life and death, so they had no choice but to compromise.

Those emperors didn't let Gong Huaiming's parents go with them, Gong Huaiming's parents were reluctant and unwilling, and in the end they couldn't hold their arms and thighs, and watched the emperor take Gong Huaiming away.

After arriving in the capital, when the prime minister of the dynasty announced to him on behalf of the royal family of the Dagong Dynasty and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, the old emperor Bintian, before his death, left an edict to pass on the throne, and decided to make him the emperor, and he would inherit the throne and manage the Jiangshan Sheji and the people of the Dagong Dynasty.

Gong Huaiming has never seen anything in the world, in addition to his own small mountain village, the farthest is to the town more than 30 miles away, it can be said that Gong Huaiming's knowledge is very shallow, but even so, he also feels that what the prime minister said is extremely absurd, the emperor of the Great Gong Dynasty and the civil and military officials are not collectively delirious, how can he be the emperor.

Gong Huaiming didn't know how many members of the royal family were, but the old emperor had several sons, and when he was alive, he also set up four sons as the crown prince, even if the old emperor didn't like the prince, there were still a lot of sons for him to choose from, and one of them would inherit his throne.

Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, the sons of the old emperor are all disobedient and unfilial, and do not please the old emperor, and the old emperor does not want to make any of them emperors, so he still has a brother of his own mother, and a large number of nephews waiting to be emperors? No matter what the turn is, it will not be his turn to inherit the throne Gong Huaiming, a person who has been removed from the royal family for hundreds of years. To put it bluntly, Gong Huaiming and the old emperor are the same ancestor, but the two are relatives who can't beat the eight poles, and it is simply a big joke for him to inherit the throne.

Intuition told Gong Huaiming that once he ascended the throne, he would jump into the fire pit, but no matter how he explained it and questioned the decision of the royal family and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, there was no way to change the decision of the civil and military officials. He has no relatives in the palace, no one to rely on, and he is only sixteen years old, although he is young and strong, and his brain is quite smart, but there is no way to compete with the power of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces.

At the same time, there were several ministers loyal to the old emperor, and according to the old emperor's edict, they were appointed as ministers to assist Gong Huaiming in governing the country.

Since he became the emperor, Gong Huaiming, who had nothing to do, accepted his fate and decided to be a good emperor, and he followed the ministers to learn the law and discipline of the imperial court, learn how to deal with important military and political affairs, learn how to manage the treasury, and maintain the balance of the treasury......

Since ascending the throne, Gong Huaiming has forgotten to sleep and eat, only sleeping for two hours a day, and the rest of the time, except for necessary meals, toilets and other things, the rest is spent on studying. Gong Huaiming is a person who is willing to work hard and can concentrate on one thing, and it only took a month to enter the state.

In the blink of an eye, three months have passed, and the careful Gong Huaiming has found a lot of things that make him wonder.

He is called the emperor, but he does not have any real power, no matter what decision is made, it needs to be discussed by the ministers of civil and military affairs, even if he takes a tael of silver from the treasury, he does not have that power.

In government affairs, if his opinion is contrary to that of the ministers, and he insists on his own opinion, then the ministers will remain silent and refuse to implement it. This point can also be accepted by Gong Huaiming, after all, he became the emperor in a hurry, without any experience in governing the country, and he should be assisted by hundreds of civil and military officials.

What makes Gong Huaiming suspicious is other aspects, for example, in the inner palace, there are some eunuchs who serve him, not a single mother, let alone concubines, not even the old and decrepit palace laves. Within a hundred paces of him, not even a single animal with a female surname had appeared. In addition, the imperial palace, which covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, is not even a hundred acres where he can move freely, and the rest of the places are all forbidden areas, and once he wants to set foot in it, the eunuchs and Ouchi guards around him will block it.

What Gong Huaiming couldn't understand the most was where did the old emperor's crown prince go? It stands to reason that the throne of the Great Gong Dynasty was originally in his pocket, but now that Gong Huaiming is sitting on it, the prince should stand up, find some old ministers, and snatch the throne, why has he refused to show up?

Just when Gong Huaiming was puzzled, the prince who had disappeared for several months suddenly appeared in the palace, and the procedures of the royal family and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military legato to invite Gong Huaiming to the Zen throne were omitted, and it was directly announced that Gong Huaiming would be deposed and the prince would be enthroned as the emperor, which was for the Chenghua Emperor.

Gong Huaiming was first imprisoned in the cold palace, and after only a few days, he probably understood that Gong Huaiming had no foundation in the palace at all, and he couldn't make a little waves, so Emperor Chenghua simply kicked Gong Huaiming out of the cold palace and sent him to the corner of the palace, and let Gong Huaiming be a miscellaneous coolie, dig out Gong Huaiming's residual value, and let him mix with those weak little yellow doors. Gonggong Li was the only person sent by Emperor Chenghua to monitor his every move.

The palace is heavily guarded, the palace personnel enter and exit the palace to inspect extremely strictly, Gong Huaiming has no identity waist card, there is no way to leave the palace, if there is no accident, the best ending of his life is to die of old age in the palace, and then like those little yellow doors that died of illness or explosion, with a broken mat roll, thrown to the mass grave outside the capital, the mat is covered with some soil, even if it is buried. And the most likely outcome is that Emperor Chenghua suddenly remembered him that day, and made a holy decree to get him a white silk, or give him a cup of poisonous wine or something.

Gong Huaiming didn't even have a confidant in the palace, and every day he was chopping wood, chopping wood, and chopping firewood. Only by torturing his own ** can he temporarily forget his unknown fate.

After thinking about all this, Gong Huaiming sighed, he knew that he would be such a fate, he should not have followed those emperors into Beijing anyway, the carefree life of the small mountain village was the environment where he was like a fish in water, and there was a cage like this lifeless palace, a cage that could not be escaped.

At dawn the next day, Gong Huaiming got up from the bed early, holding a broken wooden basin, ready to fetch water to wash his face, and just opened the door, he heard someone shouting: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving your life." ”

Gong Huaiming looked closely, and saw Gonggong Li kneeling straight at the door, with heavy dew on his sideburns and clothes, obviously he had been kneeling for a long time. Gong Huaiming hurriedly stepped forward and helped Gonggong Li up, "Gonggong Li, you are still sick, get up quickly." ”

Gonggong Li said: "Thanks to Your Majesty's Hongfu, the minions are already much better. Your Majesty, if it weren't for you, the slave's life would not be saved, you would be the slave's reborn parents, and the slave's life would be yours in the future, and the slave would do whatever you asked the slave to do. ”

Gong Huaiming wanted to excuse himself, he was a person who didn't even know when his surname would be lost, and he didn't want to drag others down. When the words of rejection had slipped into his mouth and was about to exit, his heart suddenly moved, he thought of his bizarre experience in the past few months, until now, he was still confused, all along, he wanted to find someone who understood and asked what was going on, but he never had the opportunity. Gonggong Li has been in the palace since he was a child and has lived in the palace for nearly forty years, maybe he can solve his doubts and let him be a ghost.

Thinking of this, Gong Huaiming said: "Gonggong Li, I don't want your life, it's useless if I want it, I just want to understand one question, a few months ago, Emperor Chenghua was on the throne, so many brothers and uncles didn't choose, but let me inherit his throne, what kind of play did he sing? Didn't he say that he wanted to bow wholeheartedly? Why did he come back again?"

Gonggong Li hesitated slightly, and then made up his mind. He looked left and right, and whispered: "Your Majesty, this is not the place to talk, let's go inside the house and say, the slave is out today, I must let you understand what is going on?"

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