Civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty, begging me to ascend the throne

"Father..."

The old emperor who was screaming bitterly looked at his daughter kneeling in the hall with a calm expression.

Jiang Mingchan smiled wryly, but raised her head resolutely, and looked straight into her father's eyes. The longing in her eyes made the old emperor no longer able to ignore.

"Get up..." The old emperor sat high on his seat, as if everything had happened for nothing.

"Daughter, I'm sorry..." Jiang Mingchan shook her head, biting her lower lip tightly, her black hair was scattered on her shoulders, looking very pitiful.

"My daughter is unfilial, embarrassing my father..." As he spoke, a teardrop fell to the ground with a 'tick'.

Jiang Mingchan walked to the side of the old emperor on his knees, holding the hem of his dragon robe tightly with his hands, hiding the indifference in his eyes.

"Wang Su, I have already killed him..." This seemed to be an explanation to Jiang Mingchan.It is really expensive to use the lives of third-rank officials as an explanation.

The old emperor lowered his eyes, suppressed the murderous intent in his eyes, and looked at his daughter prostrate at his feet lightly.

Ming Chan is already 20 years old... After he sent the eldest daughter out of the palace at the age of 17, he rarely met her in private again.Unknowingly, Ming Chan, who used to play on his lap, was married.

The old emperor involuntarily caressed his daughter's black hair as he did many years ago.

"What are you afraid of...Father will never harm you."

Jiang Mingchan evoked a hint of sarcasm, but quickly disappeared.She raised her head, and when she touched her eyes, she found that the white hair on the old emperor's forehead had thickened again.

Tears suddenly flowed down like a fountain, looking at the eldest daughter who suddenly burst into tears, the old emperor felt a little different.

Could it be that Zhen is such a good father, and Ming Chan really admires me so much?
This made the old emperor hesitate a bit, whether to continue to speak forcefully.

Jiang Mingchan keenly noticed this opportunity, cried even harder, prostrated herself at the old emperor's knee, choked up and said, "My daughter may never be able to be filial by your side again..."

"Good daughter, good daughter." The old emperor thought that Jiang Mingchan had acquiesced in this marriage, and his attitude was very kind, like a kind old man.

"But... but... my daughter is afraid that people in the world will laugh at my father!" Seeing that the situation had improved, Jiang Mingchan seized the opportunity to apply eye drops.

"What are you talking about?" The old emperor felt extremely angry. He planned everything, even claiming that he would not recover from illness, not all because of his reputation as a virtuous monarch!
The old emperor couldn't help but feel complacent when he thought that he was a head taller than the late emperor.

He was keenly aware of the discrepancy in his daughter's words, but he couldn't help asking.

"Daughter...Daughter's shallow opinion, I dare not speak!" Jiang Mingchan turned her head away, deliberately not looking at the emperor.

The old emperor hesitated in his heart, but this was his main hall, and there was no one else in the hall, which made the old emperor feel relieved.In the final analysis, it was An Le's eloquence that made him stumble.In the same place, he will not fall again.

"But it doesn't matter..."

Jiang Mingchan grabbed the corner of the dragon robe, and slowly raised her head: "Father Huang Mingjian, Qing Yi is above the banquet, and at the beginning it was An Le who asked for marriage. The affair between Princess Anle and Qingyi Shanyu..."

And this matter... The old emperor was in a state of confusion, and he doubted whether he was doing the right thing now.

Shouldn't you listen to what Ji Taifu and Wang Ge said?

Jiang Mingchan continued: "Father doesn't know, there are rumors among the people after An He's death. Say yes... say yes..." Jiang Mingchan wanted to open his mouth several times, but he still wanted to say nothing.

"You can be blunt."

"It's said that the father broke up the fateful mandarin ducks, Yuan'er and Wang Gongzi, is... a villain, like the queen mother who separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and like the ruthless river god, breaking up a pair of lovers!"

"Nonsense! I'm doing this for the sake of the country, the courtiers begging for orders, I -- I have no choice but to do it!"

"My daughter understands the painstaking efforts of the emperor, but... I am afraid that the common people will not understand!"

"A group of unscrupulous people, investigate! Let me investigate! Call the commander of the Jingwei to thoroughly investigate the rumors!" The old emperor was furious. He was also asked to enter the palace to inquire.

These things have never happened in Kyoto before.

In the eyes of the old emperor, it must be the negligence of the commander of the Jingwei that caused such a catastrophe.

"Father, you can't..."

"Don't stop me from dealing with the government"

"Daughter is for the sake of the father. The more you clear up the rumors, the more rumors will boil! Could it be that the father doesn't know about Meng Jiangnu's allusion? Didn't Qin Shihuang send cruel officials to clear up the rumors? But until now, such stories have not been cut off— —”

Jiang Mingchan wiped her tears with one hand, half crying, half admonishing.

But the effect was very significant, allowing the old emperor to return to his sanity a little bit.

The old emperor stared at Jiang Mingchan with a questioning look in his eyes, "My daughter is a great talent...why don't you usually show your ability?"

Said the voice with hostility.

"Could it be that you have been lying to me?"

"Father, Chan'er, Chan'er... Chan'er grew up at your lap, Father is the daughter's most respected and beloved father—Chan'er is incompetent, and has never been liked by Father. But Chan'er never thought I have lied to my father."

The voice was sad and desolate, not fake, and it made the old emperor's frown relax.

"Then what should I do?"

Facing this question, Jiang Mingchan pondered for a long time before saying: "Why does the father need to change people again... Yuan'er's memorial day has not yet passed, and the father still remembers what Anle said in the court that day to travel all over the fief and then go to the Qing Dynasty. Yi..."

The old emperor realized Jiang Mingchan's purpose, which was to make Anle get married, so that she could stay out of the matter again.

He snorted coldly, "How about the food price?"

This problem is also the most troublesome for the old emperor. You must know that now the whole Great Xia knows that Princess An Le is married, and the price of food will drop.

The Zhizhou Shangzuo of Huguang said that some grain merchants have sold grain in a panic, and some people have compiled rumors and spread them everywhere.

Now even the beggars in Qiaodu can sing proverbs and small songs, and they can't be sealed.

Even the Kingdom of Shu, which surrendered to Daxia, knew about it, and the King of Shu specially sent envoys, who were already on their way to Daxia.But Honglu Temple received news in advance that the King of Shu came to sell and borrow grain.

If this problem is not dealt with, Daxia is more than just breaking his promise to a princess?
That is a dishonesty to the people of the world!