The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 87
The whole body of the nine-story pagoda is pure white, covered with a gentle warm halo in the light golden morning light. The pines and cypresses on both sides are emerald and firm. If the adults in the square were not walking and rubbing their hands, at first glance they would think it was spring. .

The ministers came one after another, found their own positions and stood still, whispering to each other, but their eyes always seemed to fall in the direction of the entrance.

Standing in front, Duke Ding put his hands together, turned his head and glanced at Duke Rong and Duke Ning who were calm and relaxed, with a dark look in his eyes.

"You two look pretty good today. It looks like you slept very well last night."

Duke Rong raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "It's a great event for the new emperor to ascend the throne, so I naturally slept well. Could it be that Duke Ding didn't sleep well?"

Duke Ding twitched the corners of his lips, and nodded with a half-smile: "I didn't sleep well, my eyelids kept twitching, I always feel that today is not peaceful."

Ning Guogong sneered, and stroked his beard: "Where did Ding Guogong come from?"

Seeing him pretending to be ignorant, Duke Ding was furious, but fortunately, he had learned a lot of forbearance through years of ups and downs in the officialdom, so he just smiled and sighed inscrutablely: "Who You know? Maybe it's going to snow."

The three of them looked at each other, and there was a silent confrontation between the undercurrents.

"Hey—the princes are here!"

The eunuch at the door raised his voice and shouted: "The second prince, the third prince, the fourth prince, and the sixth prince—"

The square fell silent for a moment, and then there was another whisper, "Third prince? Wasn't he locked in the sky prison? When was he released?"

"I don't know, I haven't heard the news before."

"No matter when it was released, at least it was released. After all, that matter is big or small. Now that the new emperor is on the throne, in order to show his benevolence, he must release the third prince."

The four princes entered the room one by one in order, all dressed in court clothes, it would be difficult to tell who was who if they stood in front without looking at their faces.

They walked up to the officials and stood still, the four of them looked at each other, no one said a word, they stood together with different thoughts, not knowing what they were thinking.

Originally the one who stood at the first place should be the abolished prince, but unfortunately he was demoted to a commoner and was not qualified to participate in such a grand ceremony, so the second prince became the first.

The second prince's name is Junzong, the son of Concubine Shu, he is fifteen years old, with delicate features and elegant demeanor, just standing there like this makes the third prince with earthy complexion beside him look like a savage.

Although the third prince didn't suffer in the dungeon during this time, compared with the days when he was pampered and pampered in the past, it was a heaven and earth, and the food was rough. He made himself into such a ghost, and even his eyes dimmed.

At this moment, he was in low spirits, and seemed to fall on the fourth prince next to him at any time. Seeing this, the fourth prince pursed his lips, a look of disgust flashed across his eyes, and quietly moved half a step aside.

The fourth prince was born by Hefei, named Juncheng, 13 years old, about the same age as Xiao Yu, usually spoiled by Hefei, who doesn't know what it means to be happy and angry, showing all emotions on his face .

The sixth prince had a panoramic view of all these small movements, and silently looked away, pretending to look at the scenery as if nothing had happened.He is only 12 years old this year. He is the son of a concubine. He looks very heroic, and his temperament does not match his age.

Not long after they stood still, the concubines from the harem also came. Of course, only a few with children came, and the others stayed in the harem.

Although the Empress and Concubine Lian had no children, they were in the forefront, and the remaining two concubines and one concubine followed closely behind.

All the ministers looked at the empress who was dressed in a phoenix robe and knelt down and shouted: "I have seen the empress, the empress is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old—"

The grand ceremony has not yet been completed, and the empress has not yet become the empress dowager, so the officials did not change their words. The empress and all the concubines stood still in front of the princes, and slightly raised their hands: "My lords, please forgive me."

"Thank you queen—"

As soon as the words were finished, there was another movement at the door, and the bright yellow chariot stopped at the entrance. The Imperial Forest Army opened the way in front, and now spread out to both sides, revealing the chariot in the middle, and the maids stretched out their hands to lift the curtain of the chariot. Standing in front, Xiao Yu in a python robe, leaned slightly towards the chariot, stretched out his hand, and said respectfully, "Your Highness, we're here."

"Ah."

Jun Rong stretched out his hand and put his hand on Xiao Yu's palm. As soon as Xiao Yu clenched it tightly, he stood up with his strength and walked out of the chariot. Xiao Yu let go of his hand and took a step back.

Jun Rong stepped forward, followed immediately by a large group of people.

Zhou Xi flicked his fly whisk and raised his voice, "Your Highness is here—"

All the ministers came to their senses and knelt down one after another, "I pay my respects to Your Highness, Your Highness is a thousand years old——"

Jun Rong didn't pay attention to it immediately, and walked forward step by step with firm steps, Xiao Yu was at the side, his eyes quickly scanned the square, and he went through what he had planned yesterday in his mind.

There was no sound in the square, and a gust of wind blew from nowhere, which made Jun Rong Yuzhu shake slightly. He squinted his eyes and looked at the high platform directly in front of him. His face remained unchanged, but his heart was agitated.

When he stepped up the stone steps of white marble, he pursed his lips, paused for a moment before continuing to go up, there were five steps in total, he walked extremely slowly, as if he was confirming something, but also seemed to be afraid of something.

Xiao Yu noticed it, followed behind him and said softly: "Don't be afraid."

Jun Rong's body shook, was the prince noticed it?
He curled up his fingertips, and subconsciously wanted to turn his head to talk to Xiao Yu, but thinking that the current situation was inconvenient, he endured it and went up to the high platform without looking sideways.

Seeing him walking to the middle of the high platform, Xiao Yu stepped back and stood under the steps.

Nine-story pagoda, five-step terrace, this is the place of the Ninth Five-Year Lord, she can't get her hands on it, otherwise it will be difficult for Jun Rong to gain authority in the court in the future.

Everyone was a little surprised to see that Xiao Yu didn't go up, but Xiao Yu didn't care, and stood calmly at the head of the officials.

Zhou Xi took a step up to the high platform, stood beside the three-legged tripod, and raised his voice to read the last emperor's last edict: "The emperor's edict is carried forward by the heavens: "The eighth son of the emperor is a gentleman, with a noble character, hardworking and pure filial piety, deeply like me, and will be able to do it." Conquer the great order, and succeed me to the throne, that is, the emperor's throne.' (Here we borrow from Baidu's Qing Dynasty edict)"

Jun Rong knelt down when he started to read, and when Zhou Xi finished reading, he received the order with both hands, and said in a deep voice: "I obey the order—"

After receiving the imperial decree, he kowtowed three times, then put the imperial decree on the tray carried by Wenfeng who came up, took the three sticks of incense that Fuyue had prepared to light, stood up and bowed three times to the three-legged tripod Worship, and then insert the incense into the three-legged tripod.

While the green smoke was curling up, Jun Rong turned around with a calm face, "From now on, I will ascend the throne as the new emperor and change my reign name to Sheng'an."

(End of this chapter)