On this day, Zhu Wen discussed the funeral of Zhaozong with the ministers of the DPRK and China.
All the ministers were Zhu Wen's subordinates, and they suggested that the funeral of Zhaozong should be handled hastily. However, Zhu Wen said: "No, it needs to be solemn and special." Then he ordered the ministers to prepare the funeral etiquette.
At this time, the governor Wang Yanzhang came to report that Jin Wang Li Keyong, Qi Wang Li Maozhen, Wu Wang Yang Xingmi, and Shu Wang Wangjian heard that Zhaozong had died. They each mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and went straight to Luoyang, threatening to attack Luoyang in the near future.
As soon as Zhaozong died, the vassal kings took the opportunity to conquer. Such a result had long been expected by Zhu Wen, but at this time, he heard Wang Yanzhang's report, but his whole body was shocked.
A minister in the hall said: "Now that the emperor is dying, Li Tang has no queen. As the saying goes, the country cannot have no emperor for a day. It is a good time for the king to become an official. Each fan thinks about it."
Another minister said: "No, at this time, proclaiming the emperor has become a target of public criticism. Never!"
For a while in the hall, you and I talked, yelling, for or against, insisting on each other's words.
Zhu Wen has coveted the throne for many years, so why don't you want to become emperor right away
But he thought to himself: "Now that the four-party separatism has been established, his military power is not solid, and the people's mind is not stable. At this time, he must speak up and say that I am planning to usurp the throne. The princes of the Quartet will take the opportunity to crusade. How to do the archery target?"
He originally wanted Li Ye to renounce the throne with a paper edict, and then hold a renunciation ceremony under the eyes of everyone, so that he can sit back and relax and be the emperor of the world.
After Li Ye died, the edict could have been forged, but without Li Ye's personal words in the remittance ceremony, the Sifang vassal king was already very suspicious and would definitely not accept it.
Secretly: "Now that I have killed all the people in the Tang family, it is impossible to find a puppet emperor!" He pondered for a long time, and suddenly said, "Quick-pass military master Jingxiang is here to see this king!"
Not long after, Jing Xiang came over, and Zhu Wen talked about the fact that soldiers forced the border.
Jingxiang said: "The King of Liang can never be the emperor now. Li Keyong and other kings stationed on the border at this time seem to be Zhaozong's death. In fact, they are all pregnant with ghosts and want to sit on the mountain and watch. Tiger fights, think of that fisherman. As long as King Liang does not claim to be the emperor, they will not act rashly."
Zhu Wen said: "Now that the Tang room has no queen, what about it?"
Jingxiang said: "Although the Tang family has no queen, it is not worried about no emperor. There are more than thousands of descendants of the Tang family. How can the kings know everything? The king of Liang only needs to find a good-looking person to control the group with fake and real. You can stabilize the situation."
Zhu Wenxi said: "See you, military teacher!" His face was refreshed, and he laughed.
After laughing, he ordered "Yin and Yang Shuangsha" to go out of the palace to look for the "fake emperor".
Ge Ying stepped forward and bowed and said, "You don't need to worry about it, there is one ready-made!" He said the matter of capturing Xiao Ying at the moment.
Zhu Wen was overjoyed and said: "Quickly mention that he came to see this king. If his face is too mundane, it won't work. This must be done without leaking, so that others will not be suspicious!"
Not long after, Xiao Ying was brought to the front of Zhu Wen's Hall.
Zhu Wen said to him: "The emperor is falling, and no one is ascending to the throne of this king. It is just right now, and you will be the emperor." He was smiling but not smiling.
Xiao Ying was startled when she heard this, and thought to herself: "This old thief is in control, why don't you become the emperor yourself, why should I be? This is terrible. Old thief Zhu met me before, if he recognizes it. , Am I still alive?" Thinking of this, just bowed his head, how dare I answer a word
Fortunately, Zhu Wen didn't seem to recognize himself, and he thought to himself: "In Deyang Hall that night, Zhu Wen couldn't recognize me. On the small bridge that day, he only stared at his mother with thief eyes. It’s not surprising to remember my appearance. Then I was caught by the big-headed ghost again, and they thought I must be dead. Now he asked me to be the fake emperor. What kind of heart? When you catch the opportunity, your parents can get revenge!"
How could Zhu Wen have a good intention to let Xiao Ying be the emperor? He had calculated in his heart: "Let this Mao boy be the emperor for a while, so that the Sifang princes will not rise up in rebellion. Let him pass on the throne to me, and forgive him that he has to be obedient. At that time, I was very powerful, and there were dissatisfied with those bullshit lords. See you in battle, so why be afraid of him!"
At the moment, Zhu Wen asked people to forge Zhaozong's edict. The edict said: "I am in a bad health, and I will return to the west soon, lest I will fall by the rivers and mountains of Li's family. Fortunately, King Liang has done his best to assist the government and help the society. I am very relieved. In the future, when I return to the west, I can make King Liang an auxiliary minister and support the young lord Li Zong to ascend the throne as emperor."
In addition, he wrote an essay in Zhu Wen's tone, saying: "Wow, my emperor is dying, and the whole country is in grief! Every time the little king thinks about the grace of our emperor, he is all grateful. I only hope that the brothers will stop fighting and come to Zi The palace bowed his head to watch the funeral ceremonies, in order to fulfill the loyalty of his subjects. The first emperor had an edict and ordered Wen to assist the young master Li Zong to ascend the throne. Wen did not dare to violate the edict. It is important for Wen to support the young masters."
Bi Zhuwen ordered his subordinates to be quickly delivered to the hands of the vassals.
Xiao Ying was put on a filial attire and was taken to Zhaozong’s Zi Palace to perform the honor of a filial son. At first he refused to kneel down and kowtow to death, but then he thought: "Zhaozong is also a shrewd and capable master, but it is a pity that he died in embarrassment at a miserable time. Anyway, he is also an emperor, so I sighed. It doesn't matter, let alone he is still the husband of the master. If Zhu Wen died today, he would have killed me and would not knock this head!" Thinking of this, he knelt down and banged his head three times.
At this time, the Chinese military officials also came to worship and salute one after another, all of them squeezed tears and looked sad.
The eunuch in front of the hall said aloud the list of officials who came to perform the funeral ceremony. At this time, I just heard the preaching in front of the temple: "Wu Yue King is here... The Min King is here... The Chu King is here..."
When Zhu Wen heard this, he held the coffin with both hands and cried, crying while crying mournfully: "The emperor... You have died so miserably... The minister never expected that Concubine Mei would take this evil hand on you, the emperor..."
When the three kings of Wuyue, Min, and Chu saw this, although they did not dislike Zhu Wen as a person, they did not feel ashamed at this moment.
Ma Yin, the king of Chu, hurriedly helped Zhu Wen and said, "My emperor returns to the west. It is by fate. Why does King Liang need to do this?"
Zhu Wen received his tears and said: "The king of Chu didn't know anything. After the emperor died, King Jin, King Shu, and King Wu all regarded me as a thorn in my eye. Now the king is embarrassed on all sides. I may not follow the emperor's wish to support the young lord..." Feel relieved to cry.
The King of Fujian said: "King Liang doesn't need to worry about it. Since the emperor has a will, I will definitely support the young master to ascend the throne with all my strength."
Wu Yue Wang Qianyu said: "Exactly, then please give me a will and let everyone see it?"
Zhu Wen said: "It should be so, please submit the will soon!"
An eunuch hurriedly presented a small golden box from the side, knelt down on his knees, opened the box, and took out the "Will".
Zhu Wen bowed down to the ground with serious thoughts, bowed his head and accepted the edict, and all the kings followed and bowed to the ground. When looking at the edict, the kings looked strange, as if they were suspicious, but they had no evidence.
After reading the edict, Zhu Wen respectfully walked to Xiao Ying and introduced to the kings: "This is the young lord Li Song."
As the kings bowed and saluted, they looked at this "Li Zong", and saw that although he was young, he was handsome and handsome, and his demeanor was truly extraordinary. At this moment, he was wearing filial obedience again, and he was about the same age as the Li Jong he had heard, so he no longer doubted it in his heart.
Xiao Ying wanted to expose Zhu Wen's conspiracy on the spot, and then he thought about it. This tells the truth, not only his own life is not guaranteed, but with Zhu Wen's cruel personality, the three vassals present are afraid that their lives will not be saved. No reply. Although these three vassals have no virtue in themselves, how can they bear to cause them to lose their lives
When the words came to my lips, I took them back, and my heart was very miserable.
The kings looked at him with a sad expression, and only said that his father was new to death, and he was sad for a while, but he was also reasonable, and there was no suspicion in his heart.
The funeral of Zhaozong is the same as that of the emperors of the past. The coffin was carried by the chariots, and the officials swarmed afterwards, sorrowing and screaming, and surging out of Deyang Hall.
Xiao Ying walked alone in front of the coffin. He felt unspeakably uncomfortable in his heart. He thought to himself: "A generation of emperors, after death, there is no family member to be buried. Only me, a fake prince, will replace it, alas! "
The next day, Xiao Ying was caught out of prison. After some washing and dressing, she put on a dragon robe and advanced to the Golden Luang Hall. She sat on the golden dragon chair in the middle, with two eunuchs standing beside her.
Then the officials swarmed and stood in the middle of the hall. Standing in front of the officials, Zhu Wen said with his back to Xiao Ying: "The first emperor died, and the whole country grieves! In this troubled country, all complicated etiquette should be kept simple."
At the end of the speech, drums played, and the ceremonial officer read the ascension. After the reading, the officials knelt three times and knocked nine times, shouting long live. The great momentum, Xiao Ying has never seen, unheard of.
But seeing the officials kneeling on the ground for a long while, an eunuch next to him whispered: "The emperor, you have to ask them to flatten."
Xiao Ying didn't know the court etiquette. Seeing that the kneeling people were all dozens of years old, some of them were more than seventy or eighty years old, she hurriedly called out, "Grandpa, please!"
After hearing this, the officials were all stunned, got up and stood, each with their own thoughts. Those in the know sneered secretly in their hearts; those who did not know what they were inside, only shook their heads and sighed in their hearts, thinking that this little emperor had an extraordinary appearance, but he was a stupid emperor, who was the opponent of the old thief Zhu
The king of Chu, Ma Yin, King of Min, Shenzhi, and King of Wu Yue, after performing the rituals of monarchs and ministers, thought in their hearts: "Look at this situation, the Tang family has no hope of resurrecting the dead. The separatist rule is a foregone conclusion. Plan to strengthen the army and consolidate the soil so that Fang will not be annexed by other vassals!" He resigned immediately and returned to his respective fiefs without stopping.
After the play, Zhu Wen had no scruples and soon became the emperor.