The Heavens: From the Long Moon Ember

Chapter 59

at dawn.

The courtiers got up early as usual, and then came to wait in front of the palace gate, waiting for the palace gate to open.

Slowly, there were more and more officials in front of the palace gate. There were a hundred and ten people, wearing red and purple robes and holding a standard, standing quietly waiting in front of the palace gate.

At six o'clock, there was a sound in the palace. The officials thought it was the opening of the palace gate, and it was time to let them into the palace.

But unexpectedly, the palace gate opened and closed again after letting out one person. The person who came was Erbai Yu who often accompanied His Majesty to wait on him.

All the officials looked at each other with doubts in their eyes.

Finally, he cast his doubts on Erbai Yu who came over.

"Twenty chiefs, who are you?" one of the leading prime ministers asked.

"I have seen Li Xiang, Your Majesty has a decree, I am not feeling well, and I will stop going to court for three days." Erbai Yu first bowed to Li Xiang, and then looked at the officials in front of the palace gate and said.

After reading the oral order, Erbai Yu said to the officials again: "The weather has been getting colder and colder, and the elders are weak. You should go back and rest."

"Thank you, Chief Er, for reminding me." The leading officials returned a slight salute to Er Er Bai Yu.

Erbai Yu nodded, then turned and walked back to the palace.

Baiguan standing in front of the palace gate glanced at Erbai Yu's back, then turned around and invited him to leave.

After a while, the palace gate returned to calm, empty.

All the officials had no doubts about Erbai Yu's words, they only thought that Li Yu was really unwell, so he stopped going for three days.

It's not a big deal to quit court for three days, so they didn't die in front of the palace gate like in the scriptures, saying that they can't quit court, they must open court directors and so on.

People have three urgencies, there are always times when something happens, and if you ignore it for three days, Jing Guo will not perish because of this.

Therefore, these courtiers of Jingguo didn't take this matter seriously at all. At most, they just had some things backlogged, but it didn't matter, just extend the time for the next court meeting.

With Tantai Jin's current prestige, it is impossible for people like Wei Zheng and Hai Rui to appear in Jingguo.

As for Erbai Yu's false preaching of the imperial decree, they didn't even think about that.

Because in their view, Erbai Yu was the bodyguard who had been with His Majesty when he was still in the residence, so how could it be possible to falsely pass on the imperial decree.

In this way, the first day of Li Yu's "death" passed safely.

On the second night, the capital was still quiet and peaceful. Until the morning of the third day, a rumor suddenly spread in the capital.

Rumors said that Tantai Jin was stabbed to death, and now that Jing Kingdom has no king, the world will be in chaos again.

In the beginning, no one in Kyoto took this matter seriously.

But as the subsequent rumors spread, a strange atmosphere began to permeate in Kyoto.

Rumors said that the person who killed Tantai Jin was Xiao Lin, the sixth prince of the original Sheng Kingdom, and it was rumored that someone in the capital actually saw Xiao Lin walking by quickly three nights ago.

Xiao Lin came to Kyoto to avenge the subjugation of the country and save his wife Ye Bingshang.As time goes by, the rumors spread more and more widely, and the more they spread, the more true they became.

Civil and military officials, upon hearing this, first scoffed, but suddenly thought of the decree from the palace three days ago to stop court for three days.

All the officials couldn't help but began to guess in their hearts what was the relationship between the two.

In order to quell the rumors in Beijing, the highest-ranking prime ministers immediately asked the government to investigate the source of the rumors, and immediately sent people to the palace to seek evidence.

Rumors were raging, although they didn't want to believe them, but the two were too coincidental, so they also wanted to find out.

After the memorials of the officials were sent to the palace, they came to Li Yu's study, but Li Yu was not in the palace at the moment.

There are only twenty white feathers in the palace.

Erbai Yu looked at the memorials that the ministers came in one after another, so he had no choice but to keep them.

But his behavior of staying in the middle and not saying anything, neither explaining nor denying, aroused the suspicion of all the officials.

There was no response from the palace, and the officials began to look for answers by themselves.

As the prime ministers of a country, these officials have great influence. In Li Yu's era, they may not be able to buy the eunuchs in Li Yu's bedroom, but in places like Ye Youting where the family members of prisoners are detained, they can still easily get their own wanted news.

After some investigation, they got the news that Ye Youting's chief eunuch, after checking, found that Ye Bingshang had disappeared.

After the news reached the ears of all the officials outside the palace, it exploded immediately.

The disappearance of Ye Bingshang, the concubine of Xiao Lin, the sixth prince of the former Shengguo, means that the rumors may be true.

Then at this time, the palace may be controlled by some ambitious people.

The civil servants who have always regarded loyalty to the emperor and patriotism as their core values, and they could bear to live there, suddenly exploded, and came to the palace gate one after another, asking to open the door to ensure the safety of His Majesty.

But they didn't dare to go too far, because the news of His Majesty's death was just a rumor after all.

Maybe just badly hurt.

Therefore, they will not do anything to break into the palace without determining what Li Yu is like.

Because breaking into the palace is a serious crime of beheading.

With the help of Xiao Lin and others, the news of Tantai Jin's assassination spread to all counties in Gyeonggi Province.

The situation that had just stabilized, unexpectedly followed the spread of rumors, and there was a trend of repetition.

Seeing that the situation in Beijing was getting more and more complicated, several highly respected ministers among the officials first sent troops to stabilize the situation, and then began to report to the palace, asking His Majesty to summon him to dispel the rumors.

But there is no one in the palace, and their request is doomed not to be answered.

At this moment, the eyes of everyone in the capital are focused on the palace.

The faces of civil and military officials are full of sadness, because Li Yu has no descendants. If Li Yu dies, the world will fall into chaos again.

The people in the capital also frowned, worrying about tomorrow.

If Li Yu dies, the world will be in chaos, and the capital will be affected first. At that time, they, the common people, will be the first to be impacted?

A country cannot live without a ruler for a day.

Once Li Yu dies, the order of the world that has been established with great difficulty will be disrupted, and careerists will flock to drag the stable and peaceful world into the quagmire of war. This is a situation that no one wants to see .

Therefore, in the capital at this time, except for careerists, most people are praying to God to let His Majesty be safe and healthy.

Time, just like that, passed by every minute and every second under the tense situation.

Soon it will be evening.

There is still no news from the palace.

Regarding the current situation, the officials have already prepared for the worst.

The officials standing in front of the palace gate returned home, after a absent-minded dinner, they went to bed and fell asleep, waiting for tomorrow's court meeting.

(End of this chapter)