Monument Yangmen

Chapter 759 Zhao Defang ascends the throne

"You have no choice..."

Yang Da sighed beside Yang Qi.

Yang Qi sat alone on the chair with deep eyes and looked at Yang Da, "Can we still be the same as before, regardless of each other, no distinction between high and low?"

Yang laughed, a bright smile.

"We will always be brothers..."

Yang Qi also laughed, "That's good..."

In many cases, the status is different, and the identity is naturally different.

When you're on top, above everyone else, when you're the only one calling the shots.

Even if you don't intend to show yourself noble, everyone will still show you respect and put you in the most noble position.

This is everyone's expectation and everyone's hope.

If you are not willing to take the most noble position, then a battle for fame and profit is inevitable.

Yang Qi is unwilling to give up the power in his hands, nor is he willing to override others.

If this happened in later generations, Yang Qi would definitely be a leader close to the people, but in this feudal dynasty, Yang Qi was an outlier.

There is no way for a heterogeneous person to truly integrate into a group.

There is no way for a heterogeneous person to stay on the highest throne for a long time.

Over time, someone will always regard your kindness as weakness, and then become malicious, and finally unite with other people to push you down from the highest throne in one fell swoop.

Then the most prestigious among them will step on your dead body and become the one who stays on the highest throne.

And he will also cater to the opinions of the public and be above everyone.

In this way, his throne will last longer than Yang Qi.

Yang Qi has no way to change this kind of thinking, nor can he change the feudal dynasty system for a while.

So he can only choose to change himself and try to make himself the one who is above others.

Only in this way can the long-term peace and stability of the place under his rule be guaranteed.

And in Bianjing City, which is thousands of miles away.

Someone can do better than Yang Qi.

The vertical arch hall, which is arranged as the hall of spirits, is still majestic.

In the middle of the main hall is a huge coffin, shaped like a small palace. It is made of mahogany wood, painted with gold lacquer, painted with dragon patterns, inlaid with various gemstones, and covered with a blanket of Buddhist ten thousand characters. It has a scientific name It is called Zigong, and it is the coffin specially used for the burial of emperors and empresses.

Although its shape is quite different from that of folk coffins, its function is the same.

In the Song Dynasty, the only person who was qualified to lie in this Zi Palace was Zhao Guangyi.

At this moment, Zhao Guangyi was wearing a dragon robe and a double-winged dragon crown, lying quietly inside.

All around the Zi Palace, civil and military officials were kneeling, all of them buried their heads between their legs like quails.

In the middle of the Spirit Hall, there were more than a dozen corpses lying here and there, with blood flowing all over the floor along the cracks in the floor tiles of the hall.

Zhao Defang was standing at the front of the corpse, holding a sword in his hand, trembling all over.

Cao Bin stood beside Zhao Defang, holding a horizontal knife in his hand, while wiping the blood from the horizontal knife, he glanced around, and said coldly: "Rebellious ministers and thieves, everyone must be punished.

Who else wants to be like them and be a traitor? "

All the civil and military officials trembled, their heads lowered even lower.

Shocking all the officials, Cao Bin looked at the Ouchi guard at the gate of the palace again, and shook the knife in his hand, "Are you going to disarm and surrender, or will you all be killed?"

The voice fell.

Teams of knives and axes who had already ambushed, armed with knives and axes, surrounded the guards at the gate of the palace.

"Pfft~"

"Clang~"

Some loyalists stared at Cao Bin and Zhao Defang viciously, and wiped their necks with a knife.

Those who are afraid of death directly disarm and surrender.

After a while, the Ouchi guards at the gate of the palace were cleaned up.

Cao Bin finished his work and took a look at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Puqing coughed, and said in a serious voice: "When the first emperor passed away, he left a decree to return the government to Zhao Defang, and Zhao Defang succeeded the throne. The edict is in the hands of the old man. After the first emperor's Zi Palace is buried, the new At the grand ceremony of your enthronement, the old man will announce it himself."

After a pause, Zhao Pu raised his voice and said coldly: "Of course, the first prince, the second prince, the fifth prince, the eighth prince, and a group of traitors, knowing that the late emperor had left an edict, but still secretly colluded with each other in order to usurp the throne, their crimes When punished.

Cao Bin, the privy envoy, has now rectified the law on the spot. You should take it as a warning.

After the late emperor is buried, we must do our best to assist the new emperor together.

Xinjun is benevolent, not to neglect you. "

Cao Bin secretly tugged Zhao Defang, who was still in a daze, and Zhao Defang was shocked, and then he woke up from the shock.

Hearing the end of Zhao Pu's words, he hastened to say: "As long as you all work together to help me, I will definitely not neglect you."

The civil and military officials slowly raised their heads, looked at each other familiarly, and each saw the decision in each other's eyes.

Immediately, the civil and military officials bowed their heads again and shouted in unison, "I respectfully obey His Majesty's will."

Li Hang raised his head and chest, strode up to Zhao Defang, bowed and said: "Minister Li Hang, please tell your Majesty, what should be done with the corpses of these rebellious officials and their families, please Your Majesty."

Zhao Defang was stunned for a moment, and pondered: "Yuan Zuo and the other four are my cousins. Now that they are dead, the past sins will be wiped out. Give them princes and let them go underground to guard the spirit of the late emperor.

His heirs were freed from the crime of being implicated and sent to Taiyuan Mansion.

Among the female relatives, all the daughters of the courtiers can receive confinement in the home, and the rest will be assigned to the Jiaofang.

All the servants, servants, maidservants, etc. in his family were dispatched to Yongzhou, and they were not allowed to enter Bianjing City for life. "

Zhao Defang spoke louder and louder. At the end, he finally found a little bit of the majesty of the emperor in front of all the officials. He continued loudly: "As for those rebels who accompanied Yuan Zuo and others in the rebellion, according to the law, punish the nine clans!"

"Cough cough..."

Suddenly, Zhao Pu coughed twice, bowed his hands slightly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, during this Northern Expedition, our Great Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses. Of course those rebels deserve to die, but there are many innocent people in the nine clans.

The old minister thinks that it is better to punish the whole family of the evil head and dispatch all the rest to Yongzhou. What does your majesty think? "

Zhao Defang was taken aback when he heard the words, and a trace of unwillingness suddenly appeared in his heart.

Zhao Pu's words seemed to be fighting for the lives of those innocent people, but they were actually admonishing him, the new emperor, after he took control of power.

The scholar-bureaucrats share the world with the emperor.

How glorious, how domineering, and how honorable it is to hold the authority of the world.

Now that this power is in hand, but half of it has to be divided, Zhao Defang is really not reconciled.

That's exactly what people are.

Before getting something, he will appear generous and promise many benefits to those around him.

But when he really got the long-awaited thing, he was unwilling to share it with others.

However, unwillingness is unwillingness.

Zhao Defang still had to bow his head in front of Zhao Pu, and the scholar-officials shared the world with the emperor. This was the condition for Zhao Pu and others to support him.

Moreover, his position is not yet stable, and he still has to rely on the support of Zhao Pu and others.

Zhao Defang pretended to think about it seriously, then nodded and said: "Zhao Aiqing's words are reasonable, then follow Zhao Aiqing's instructions."

Zhao Pu nodded in satisfaction.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace cleaned the Chuigong Hall as quickly as possible.

From a killing field, the Chuigong Palace has become a solemn place again.

Zhao Defang put on a yellow robe symbolizing the crown prince, and stood in front of Zhao Guangyi's Zi Palace.

Chen Lin shook her whisk and shouted loudly: "Holy edict, the spirit will wake up at three o'clock tomorrow, and be buried at five o'clock..."

After a month of fighting for the throne, the curtain came to an end with Chen Lin's edict.

Since Zhao Defang and his party escorted Zhao Guangyi's spirit out of Yanyun Sixteen States, they stopped and stopped along the way to prevent the news of Zhao Guangyi's death from spreading to Bianjing City.

It took them more than two months to travel for more than a month.

And along the way, news of the defeat was spread, trying to attract everyone's attention.

However, even though they took strict precautions, the news of Zhao Guangyi's death finally spread back to Bianjing City.

In Bianjing City, courtiers immediately supported the prince as emperor.

And also summoned the forbidden army guarding outside the city of Bianjing to enter the city of Bianjing to guard the holy driver.

After Zhao Defang and his party arrived outside the city of Bianjing, they were abruptly blocked from the city gate.

Fortunately, the upright eldest prince and the weak second prince refused to take over the throne after they negotiated.

They explicitly told those courtiers who supported them.

They had to wait until Zhao Defang came back to find out everything before deciding on the ownership of the throne.

At the same time, they also ordered the courtiers that the ownership of the throne shall be subject to their father's will, and they must not instigate the relationship between their brothers.

Many courtiers did not understand what the two of them did, and some even threatened each other with death.

But the two of them have such temperaments that once they decide something, the nine bulls can't pull it back.

In the end, after Zhao Defang and his party arrived in Bianjing City, they were blocked from the door.

After negotiation between the two parties, Zhao Guangyi's coffin, Zhao Defang, Zhao Pu, Cao Bin, Li Hang, and Chen Lin were allowed to escort Zhao Guangyi's coffin into Bianjing.

After entering Bianjing City.

Zhao Pu and Li Hang left the escort team with excuses, and contacted other colleagues in private.

Cao Bin also left the escort team with an excuse, and went to contact the generals of the Forbidden Army guarding Bianjing City in private, as well as various generals.

In the end, Zhao Defang and Chen Lin escorted Zhao Guangyi's coffin into the palace with the help of the inner guards sent by the palace.

Once Chen Lin entered the palace, it was like a fish returned to the sea.

Relying on his own management in the palace for many years, coupled with the help of the Department of Appeasement, he took control of the palace at once.

And when Chen Lin took control of the palace.

The eldest prince and the second prince were still crying in front of Zhao Guangyi's coffin.

They were sobbing and almost fainted.

In the end, it was their subordinate Chang Shi who reminded them to check Zhao Guangyi's body.

After inspection, they found that Zhao Guangyi died of poisoning, so they directly pointed the finger at Zhao Defang.

When Zhao Defang was outside Bianjing, he had received Zhao Pu's advice in advance.

So when faced with this kind of problem, he pushed all the problems on the Liao people with a calm face, and finally withdrew Zhao Pu, Cao Bin, Li Hang and other witnesses.

From the beginning to the end, Zhao Defang didn't mention the throne.

The eldest prince and the second prince were fooled by Zhao Defang's nonsense.

The two of them discussed it, and decided to go to the Chuigong Hall the next day, to have a public trial of Zhao Defang in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and to reveal the truth about Zhao Guangyi's being blocked to death.

In this way, the next day, they sent someone to invite Zhao Pu, Cao Bin and others.

Both said they were sick.

This delay is half a month.

Half a month later, the Hanging Arch Hall, which had been covered in dust for a long time, was opened.

The eldest prince and the second prince summoned civil and military officials to gather together to prepare for the public trial of Zhao Defang.

However, what they didn't expect was that.

After Zhao Pu and others went to court, they confirmed Zhao Defang's statement.

Zhao Guangyi was poisoned to death when he formed an alliance with the Liao people.

At the same time, Zhao Pu immediately took out the will, announcing Zhao Defang's right to succeed to the throne.

All of a sudden, Chaotang was fried.

Loyal and upright, he threatened Zhao Pu's gang to be rebellious officials and thieves.

Zhao Pu, who had been preparing for more than half a month, had already won nearly [-]% of the civil servants in the court, and the remaining [-]% were clamoring, how could they be the opponents of these people.

When the First Prince and the Second Prince wanted to call the imperial army into the palace, they found that Cao Bin had not been idle for half a month.

More than half a month is enough for Cao Bin to lobby the generals.

Throwing out the truth about the defeat of the Northern Expedition, and then promising high-ranking officials and nobles, and Cao Bin, a privy envoy, as a guarantee, nearly half of the generals turned against each other.

The remaining diehards have long since become fish in the water.

Just like that, Zhao Defang transformed from a suspect awaiting trial to an heir to the empire.

The First Prince and Second Prince were kicked out of the palace.

Without a suitable excuse, Zhao Defang couldn't go upright and eradicate the weeds.

The eldest prince and the second prince who returned to their respective mansions, under the analysis of the counselors in the mansion, slowly analyzed the truth about Zhao Guangyi's poisoned death.

The two of them secretly united the fifth and eighth princes.

Gathered a group of people, and launched an assassination against Zhao Defang on the day of Zhao Guangyi's funeral.

It turns out.

Their planned assassination failed.

Cao Bin, who had already secretly known their arrangement, made a counter-arrangement in advance.

This is the scene of bloodshed on the Chui Gong Temple.

As soon as the assassination started, he was strangled in the cradle by Cao Bin.

The four eldest princes were also beheaded on the spot.

The four people who were most threatening to Zhao Defang's throne were beheaded by Cao Bin, and Zhao Defang ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, which became an ironclad matter.

After the vigorous funeral.

As the crown prince, Zhao Defang guarded the mausoleum for seven days.

Seven days later.

After Zhao Defang exhausted the ancestral temple in Bianjing, he officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

The name was changed to Zhao Chong, and the year name was changed to Qianyou.

After chasing, Zhao Guangyi's posthumous title was Emperor Derui Lie Guangxiao, the most benevolent and Taoist god, and his temple name was Taizong.

Zhao Dezhao was posthumously named King of Jin, and his posthumous title was Gongxian.

In addition, the late Empress Song was posthumously named Empress Dowager, her late biological mother, Empress Xiaohui, and her grandfather, grandmother, and many other deceased relatives were posthumously named.

And officially announced the decree to the world.

　Thanks to 'Wei Tianqi' for rewarding five hundred book coins!
　　
　
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