After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 907: The New King's Side
The palace has been stable since then. The ministers outside the palace have been relatively well-behaved. The streets where the Sun family lived were cordoned off, the unstable elements among the royal family were imprisoned, and the rest of the people became obedient.

Everything was peaceful inside and outside the palace, and the funeral of the late Emperor Deguang could finally proceed normally. That's why the Ministry of Revenue started the shift mode, and Hai Xiya was able to take a leave and go home.

Everyone was filled with sighs. They had heard all sorts of rumors these days, but they had never expected this to happen.

Ma sighed, "Prince Ji is really too stubborn. The crown prince has been decided and everyone supports him. Why is he still making a fuss? He wants to be a prisoner instead of living a good life. Does he dream of the throne? Prince An used to be as famous as him, but now it seems that Prince An is much smarter than him. As long as he is honest and obedient, he can continue to be a prince of the royal family. Unlike him, his whole family has been imprisoned and detained in Fengxian Hall to confess to their ancestors. It is only because the palace is busy with the national mourning and has no time to pay attention to them that they are temporarily safe. When the nobles in the palace are free, the new monarch will hold the coronation ceremony, and we don’t know how to deal with his family! Prince Ji wants to die himself, and he also takes his children and grandchildren to do it together. He really doesn’t know how to live or die!"

Haitang declined to comment. Among Prince Ji's children and grandchildren, there is also Prince Ji, the biological son of Emperor Deguang. God knows what is going on with this rebellion? Anyway, this family, whether they are biological or not, are all ambitious. Winners and losers, no one is wronged.

She was more concerned about another thing: "Grandpa, you didn't see my brother in the palace, so have you seen Brother Jin? Do you know what he has been doing these days?"

Hai Xiya had certainly seen Jin Jiashu: "He has always been with the new emperor. I have also seen him from a distance a few times, and he seems to be doing well." His official position was too low, and he was too far away from the coffin of the late emperor, so he could only vaguely see a familiar figure beside the new emperor. Judging from his figure and walking posture, it seemed to be Jin Jiashu. The new emperor often brought him with him, and it seemed that he valued him very much. He should have a good life in the palace, and the palace servants and eunuchs all respected him.

If there was unrest in the palace, he would still worry about Jin Jiashu's safety, fearing that he would face threats from ambitious people by the side of the new monarch. But now the unrest has subsided, the palace is in order, and the new monarch is well protected. It is safest for Jin Jiashu to follow the new monarch. He doesn't even have to worry about his life. At least he will live better than the people in the Ministry of Revenue.

However, Hai Xiya only knew this much about Jin Jiashu, and no other information was known. Other officials in the Ministry of Revenue had discussed privately that the young man who often followed the new emperor seemed to be favored by him and was taken with him wherever he went. Could he be a companion to the new emperor?
But the new emperor had just entered the Eastern Palace, and the eight companions were not yet full. All of them were newly selected and had only been classmates with the new emperor for a month or so. There was no news that any of them was particularly favored by the new emperor.

Some people speculated that he might be the nephew of the legendary Consort Xu and the cousin of the new emperor. However, this newly promoted relative of the emperor was quite low-key. People outside the emperor only heard about his tragic experience of losing his father and mother. Both of his parents were killed by the Sun family, and his clansmen colluded with the Sun family to commit murder and money. The civil officials may have heard about his study in the attached hall of Tao Ge Lao's family, but because he was not ostentatious and was not keen on making friends with the powerful, he just studied behind closed doors, so he did not attract attention. Many people did not even know that he had brought back the coffins of his family members from Chang'an before, and thought that he had been staying in the East Palace to accompany his cousin.

No one in the Ministry of Revenue knew about the relationship between Jin Jiashu and the Hai family, so Hai Xiya would not spread the news. However, since he had always been an outsider in the government office and did not participate in gossip and discussion, the information he could learn from others was very limited.

Hearing this, Xie Wenzai narrowed his eyes: "Cousin knows Jiashu, so he can naturally guess who he is. But outsiders who don't know the truth see that there is a young man accompanying the new monarch, and the palace people are very respectful to him. Didn't they think that it might be the Seventh Prince?" Isn't it said that the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince are always inseparable in the palace?
Hai Xiya smiled and said, "Of course it can't be His Highness the Seventh Prince. His Highness the Seventh Prince is leading the sacrifice in the royal family! Now that the new monarch has ascended the throne, the new monarch's brothers are the most distinguished among the royal family. Therefore, His Highness the Seventh Prince is at the front of the royal family queue, and no one dares to say anything, not even the most senior old princes in the royal family."

The seventh prince took the initiative to stand in the ranks of the royal family. On the one hand, it was to suppress the royal family and show the world that the royal family supported the new monarch. On the other hand, it was also to show his attitude. He had no dissatisfaction with his younger brother's succession to the throne and was very supportive. In this way, those ministers who had supported him in the fight for the throne had nothing to say.

The Ji Wangfu family was the only one in the royal family, and they were about to be in trouble. The old princes who were close to Ji Wang were implicated. The other royal family members were afraid of getting into trouble, so they would never jump out to cause trouble at this time, questioning the eighth prince's age, seniority, and title, and questioning whether he should be in the first place. In this way, the royal family, royal relatives, civil officials, military generals... all supported the new monarch to succeed to the throne. Who would dare to jump out and question the new monarch's qualifications?
The Seventh Prince held such an important position. Although he was physically weak, he would appear in the royal family every day. It was only because of the Queen Mother's care that he left earlier than others. The conditions for eating, drinking and resting were also better. There was also an imperial physician who followed him every day to check his pulse and make tonic medicine. Not to mention the civil and military officials, even the grassroots officials of the six ministries and five temples could always see him. How could they suspect that he was the one accompanying the new emperor?

Since he is not the Seventh Prince, and no one among the new emperor's study companions is so favored by the new emperor, then who else could it be except the nephew of Imperial Noble Consort Xu?
Haitang glanced at Xie Wenzai secretly, knowing that her cousin wanted to take the opportunity to find out about the Seventh Prince's situation. She was not very concerned about the gossip of the lower-level officials.

She thought about it and showed a curious expression: "Speaking of which, there was a commotion in the palace, but Grandpa didn't know about it in the Ministry of Revenue, and only heard about it afterwards. How did Yingchuan Hou in the suburbs of Beijing get the news and lead his troops into the palace?"

When Yingchuan Hou left the city, the emperor was still alive and well, so he would not order this confidant to lead troops into the palace. After the incident in the palace, all the ambitious forces were afraid of the troops under Yingchuan Hou, so they did not send people to the suburbs of Beijing to inform him to return to the city for the funeral. Therefore, someone must have tipped off Yingchuan Hou, telling him about the crisis in the palace and asking him to lead troops into the palace to suppress the unrest.

Who will this person be?
General Zhou Si and his son Zhou Yijun rushed to the Imperial Guard Yamen and rescued Tu Rong, the commander of the Imperial Guard, who was under house arrest. The two generals entered the palace together. Could it be the letter they sent to Yingchuan Hou?

But General Zhou Si didn't know that something happened in the palace! Could it be that the Marquis Cheng'en and his wife had spread the news from the palace?
However, Haitang remembered that Chunyu and Eunuch Pu suddenly appeared in the temple outside Beijing where the coffin of the Jin family was kept. They claimed that they were sent by Jin Jiashu to look after the coffin of the Jin family and sent the servants of the Hai and Xie families away...

Why does she feel that Jin Jiashu is very likely to be this person?