Chapter 65 Zhao Mu returns to Beijing
Wake up early in the morning, walk to the small courtyard, and play with the Xuanyuan Sword in your hand.
In this inner courtyard, only the four of them live, and they are not pampered people, and there are maidservants to clean up the room on weekdays. Even Min Min has been running around in the army and around since he was a child, and he doesn't want to be served.
Therefore, I don't have to worry about anything, I can directly run the Xuanyuan Sword and carefully observe the wonders of this sword.
"Hey, what kind of sword is this?" Min Min walked over with Yishang and Xuan'er, and asked in surprise.
Hearing her question, Zhou Yi turned his head, handed over the long sword in his hand, and said, "Xuanyuan Sword!"
"Xuanyuan Sword!?Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor!" Min Min was shocked, this is a divine weapon in myths and legends!
Taking the Xuanyuan sword with both hands, turning the sword back and forth, she carefully looked at the sword body, and muttered in her mouth: "The sword body is the sun, moon and stars on one side, and the mountains, rivers and plants on the other;
She looked at Zhou Yi in surprise, waiting for him to explain.
"Sister Zhao, what is Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, what does Xuanyuan Sword mean?" Xuan'er asked inexplicably, seeing Zhao Min's reaction so much, she suddenly became curious about this sword.
"Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is an ancient emperor in my hometown and Brother Zhou's hometown, and he is the ancestor of the Human Emperor! We are called the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the Huang of them is the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, so you know what kind of person he is! And this sword is the divine sword he wore back then, it is the sword of the Human Emperor!" Min Min turned around and explained.
Hearing this, Yishang was also curious to take the long sword from her hand and looked at it carefully.
However, in addition to the carved patterns on it and the embossed handwriting on the hilt, it is an ordinary copper sword! Oh, by the way, when I saw Brother Zhou holding it just now, bursts of golden light appeared on this sword!
"It's the same place as the heirloom jade seal!" Zhou Yi didn't know how to explain it, so she had to explain it to Min Min, and only by saying this would she understand.
Min Min glanced back at him with complicated eyes, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, who was that mysterious old man?
First detained himself, then arrested his father and brother, and sent the heirloom jade seal and the legendary human emperor sword to Brother Zhou!
"Brother Zhou, what are you going to do with the heirloom jade seal and this human emperor sword?" Suddenly thinking of Zhao Mu's identity and the meaning of these two treasures, she stared at Zhou Yi and asked abruptly.
"Huh!?" Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment by the question, and then saw her inquiring eyes, and immediately understood what she was thinking.
Now that he is in the Qinling Empire, his power can be said to be unmatched, and all the holy courtyards bow down in front of him. If he had the intention to usurp the throne, with Zhao Mu's ability, he couldn't stop it at all. Moreover, when Ziyi drew the jade seal of the country by himself, he also said that if he intended to ascend to the throne of the emperor, he would take it himself.
However, how could he care about the position of this human emperor, thinking of Zhao Mu's trust in him, brotherhood is much more important than the throne of this Laoshizi.
"Hehe, I will hand over the heirloom jade seal and the human emperor sword to Brother Zhao Mu! However, this heirloom jade seal can be handed over to him in front of the Manchu Dynasty when he returns to Beijing to ascend the throne, so that he will be more confident when facing the Holy Courtyard, but this human emperor sword cannot be handed over for the time being!" The bottom line in his heart does not allow him to get involved in his brother's rights, of course, he must act according to his heart. So, he smiled and told the plan half-covered.
Here, Zhao Min and Yishang are both smart women, and when they heard him say this, they first admired his broad-mindedness, and at the same time understood what he wanted to do.
Zhao Minqiao said with a smile: "Brother Zhou is really insidious!"
Seeing her say this, Yishang also laughed along with eating, only Xuan'er didn't understand what dumb riddles they were playing.
"Well, there must still be quite a few people in the Holy Courtyard who are not convinced by my assumption of power. They were only afraid of the power of the jade seal in my hand, so they bowed down to me. Hmph, then I will tell them the effect of the heirloom jade seal in front of them, and then hand it over to Brother Zhao Mu to carry with me. When the time comes, some people who have no scruples in their hearts will definitely make a move on me!Then, I will use this man's imperial sword to cut off these wolf claws that dare to reach out!"
"That's exactly how it should be! If you don't kill them, they won't know how many eyes Lord Ma has!" Min Min said with his head bowed in agreement. In her opinion, in fact, Lin Bo should have been used in the first place, and some people should have been involved on a small scale to come out and make an example.
Yishang was a little unbearable, but thinking of these people playing Brother Zhou's idea all the time, his heart couldn't help but chill.
Then, a few people talked and laughed for a while, and then they went to breakfast together.
"Lord Taifu, Lord Taifu! His Royal Highness the Grand Prince is about to arrive in the capital!" was eating, and a head of the Ministry of Rites hurriedly entered the house, and then the guards immediately ran into the small dining room to return.
Hearing this, he immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks, instructed the girls to eat by themselves, and then immediately strode to the front yard.
"Where is Your Highness?" asked the principal straight to the point.
"Returning to Lord Taifu, as soon as the city gate was opened today, the messenger of His Royal Highness the Great Prince hurried into the city, and reported that the brigade had gone to rest forty miles outside the city last night. The subordinate didn't dare to delay, and immediately ran to report to the lord, and asked the lord to show it!" said the chief flatteringly, in order to win such an opportunity to show his face in front of Lord Shangshu, he promised countless benefits to his colleagues!
Glancing at him lightly, although this person is sycophant, he is indeed a manufacturable material.
"Well, you're doing a good job, go and leave a name at the butler in a moment. As soon as these words came out, the principal was overjoyed, and this is the meaning of accepting himself! This name sticker is the meaning of the effect, and the master's family accepts it, which means that the acceptance is effective.
"Xiaguan has thanked my lord, thank my lord!" In his excitement, he didn't know how to speak, so he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.
"Well, get up! You go back immediately, let the Ministry of Rites come forward, and summon the civil and military officials, honorable relatives and nobles in my name, put on a guard of honor, and follow me out of the city for ten miles to greet His Royal Highness the Great Prince!" After a little thought in his heart, he said directly.
Since Zhao Mu is back, he must greet the new emperor with the specifications of welcoming him, and express his support for him in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces!
The principal hurriedly left to give the order, Zhou Yi turned around and went back to the room, changed into court clothes, and rushed towards the outer city with two guards.
Just waiting for a while, Meng Hongye, Zha Gaoyang, Zhang Ji, Gao Jun and other Shangshu hurriedly arrived with nearly a thousand officials and nobles, and Zuoqiu also followed with 10,000 imperial city guards with a full set of honor guards.
"His Royal Highness the Great Prince has already set off, let's all follow this official to greet him!" Time was tight, and there was no time to say more, so Zhou Yi simply said that he would stride out of the city first.
The team followed closely, but it was only an hour or so that they arrived at the welcome pavilion ten miles outside Luojing City.
The guards of the imperial city dispersed the surrounding idlers, and then patrolled the surroundings and set up sentry posts, holding the royal flag, which hunted in the wind.
Zhou Yi held the Xuanyuan Sword in one hand and carried it on his back in the other, standing quietly at the front of the team, and nearly a thousand officials and nobles behind him stood in the order of official positions and titles, silent.
"Boom ......" had just arrived here for a while, and the sound of earth-shattering iron horses was heard in the distance, and then it seemed that the scouts who were in the lead saw the crowd here and hurried back to the brigade.
Then, the brigade stopped, and dozens of horsemen rushed towards this side.
"It's coming, it's coming!" a whisper came from behind him.
Zhang Ji turned his head and scolded: "Silence!"
Immediately, the voice disappeared, Zhou Yi praised Zhang Ji in his heart, and looked at the distance to ride closer and closer, and he could clearly see that the first person was Zhao Mu.
He lifted his robe, strode forward, and walked towards the comer.
Zhao Mu also saw Zhou Yi, who was wearing a Taifu official uniform, and the sad face on his face couldn't help but be relieved, turned over and dismounted, and strode towards Zhou Yi.
"Brother Zhou, my father ...... him" Before he finished speaking, his throat was dry, and he couldn't say the rest of his words. He stepped forward and hugged Zhou Yi, who gently patted him on the back a few times and said, "Let's not talk about this now, the civil and military officials and the nobles are all here, take out the posture of the new emperor! Don't embarrass your father!"
"Hmm!" letting go of Zhou Yi, Zhao Mu quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and looked at the people behind Zhou Yi with a solemn face.
"Minister Zhou Yi, welcome His Royal Highness the Great Prince back to Beijing!" Seeing that his feelings had eased, Zhou Yi took the lead and knelt down with the sleeves of his robe and saluted.
The head of the Rite Academy, the first assistant minister, the imperial prince, and the great master of the Holy Dao have all knelt on the ground to greet them, and no matter how reluctant everyone behind them is, they can only kneel down. As for what Meng Hongye and the others think in their hearts, Zhou Yi can't control it, anyway, you all have to kneel with me to take over today.
"Everyone, please get up, thank you for it!" Zhao Mu stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Yi's arm, and then said to everyone. At the same time, he was moved in his heart, he understood that many of these people in front of him were the heads of the Holy Academy, and even if they weren't, they were also high-level Holy Dao cultivators. These people never knelt down to salute when they saw their father on weekdays, but today they made such a big salute to themselves, all because Brother Zhou took the lead in setting an example, so they had to do so. This is to build momentum for his ascension to the throne!
"Luan is coming!" Zhou Yi stood up and shouted towards Zuoqiu, who immediately stepped forward with Emperor Luan driving personally holding eight white horses.
Zhou Yi arched his hand towards Zhao Muyi, and said first: "Minister Zhou Yi led thousands of civil and military officials, honorable relatives and nobles, and respectfully invited His Highness to board Luan!"
Meng Hongye and the others were stunned for a moment, and they were represented again, so they had to helplessly shout: "The ministers respectfully ask His Highness to board Luan!"
Brother Zhou is in charge, he is always good for himself, Zhao Mu thought in his heart, so he followed Zhou Yi's arrangement and boarded Luan.
"Play music and go!" Without waiting for Zhou Yi's order, Zuoqiu quickly gave the order.
"Wait!" Zhao Mu sat in the carriage and suddenly spoke, then looked at Zhou Yi and said, "Lonely invites the first assistant minister to ride into Beijing with Luan!"
Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard this, and the ministers were also stunned, which one is this singing by the eldest prince!
"Lonely, please ask the Minister of the First Auxiliary and the Lord Taifu to ride into Beijing together!" Zhao Mu looked at Zhou Yi with a firm look in his eyes and said again.
Is this to show the new emperor's trust in him in front of the ministers? If he refuses, he will be able to save his face in public! Thinking of this, Zhou Yi had no choice but to harden his head and board the Luan car.
Then Luan drove off, and in the midst of the triumphal music, the ministers gathered around the emperor's guard of honor to enter Beijing, behind the imperial city guards waved the royal flag, and then behind them were the 100,000 guards army iron cavalry.
As soon as they entered the city gate, the people of the capital, who had already learned that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had returned to Beijing, knelt down on both sides of the street to watch.
As soon as he saw the people on the road, Zhao Mu suddenly grabbed Zhou Yi's wrist, got up, and strode to the guardrail in front of Luan's car, and the two stood side by side on top of Luanjia in front of the people of the city.
Why he did this, Zhou Yi also knew it, and it was precisely because he understood it in his heart that he was moved. If there are brothers like this, what can they ask for? The decision to sacrifice the jade seal of the country in my heart is even firmer.