Swords were on the verge of breaking out in the hall, and no one cared about the corpse of Emperor Zhaoyang on the couch. Everyone's focus was on the two completely different imperial edicts. Zhang Nianling was worthy of being the elder of the three dynasties, even though he was so angry that he vomited blood a few times, he still didn't back down, and soon began to curse angrily.
Liang Zhen ignored him, took the two edicts that had been handed down over and over in the hands of the crowd, lowered his eyes, and suddenly spoke, but he said to a woman among the concubines who was sobbing softly with her head bowed: "Empress Zhaoyi, is the book you received when you became Zhaoyi ten days ago still in the bedroom?"
Fang Zhaoyi was taken aback by the roll call, and it took a long time before he muttered: "Yes, yes..."
Liang Zhen nodded: "May I trouble Madam Zhaoyi to ask someone to go to the bedroom to fetch the booklet?"
Fang Zhaoyi timidly said: "Zhao, King Zhao... what are you going to do?"
Zhang Nianling and the others also said impatiently: "What kind of mystery are you playing tricks on! What you are talking about now is His Majesty's will! What are you asking Empress Zhaoyi to bring here?!"
Liang Zhen turned his gaze to those people, and a hint of sneer flashed in his eyes: "Half a month ago, His Majesty's seal was accidentally dropped by His Highness Nine. If you look closely at the text, there are subtle differences in the depth of the missing corners. In the past half month, His Majesty has been seriously ill and has ignored the court affairs. Empress Zhaoyi gave birth to His Highness the Third Highness and she was promoted to her position. The seal on the book should be the same as the one on the edict in my hand. As for the one that the elders took out..."
The whole hall was in an uproar, and Zhang Nianling's eyes were about to burst: "Don't talk nonsense! The jade seal was clearly intact when His Majesty called me into the palace that day! How could it be broken! It's clear that you are talking nonsense!"
"Really?" Liang Zhen repeated lightly, and turned to the noble concubine Chen, "Why don't you tell me, the imperial concubine, did you watch His Royal Highness Ninth Prince playfully break His Majesty's jade seal?"
Concubine Chen pulled her handkerchief and her eyes flickered, she clenched her lips and refused to say anything. Seeing that she did not answer, Liang Zhen ordered people in a cold voice: "Then call all the servants around His Highness Ninth Prince to ask to understand. It’s not just one or two people.”
The eunuchs and eunuchs were brought in, and as soon as they knelt down, they were so frightened that they called for everything. A few days ago, His Royal Highness did accidentally break the jade seal, and Concubine Chen didn't allow them to spread it everywhere, and pushed a little eunuch out to take the blame That's it.
Concubine Chen argued in a panic: "But His Majesty is lying on the couch seriously ill and doesn't know about it! He thought the jade seal was still intact, and it was you who made a fake jade seal for him to deceive him!"
"Ridiculous," Liang Zhen sneered, "How could His Majesty not know that the Yuxi fell? The little eunuch who committed the crime is still being tortured. Doesn't the imperial concubine think that what I said is extremely ridiculous?"
Feng Sheng also said: "At that time, His Majesty lost his temper, and later asked the servant to set the jade seal with gold, and the servant went to fetch the jade seal."
The three pavilion elders finally panicked. Zhang Nianling glared at Liang Zhen with extreme grief and indignation: "This is impossible! How could this be possible... You did it! You, a rebellious minister, obviously planned this a long time ago!"
Liang Zhen ignored them, and the people in Fang Zhaoyi Palace had already sent the booklet, so the comparison was clear at a glance, and it was indeed consistent with the changes in the depth of the seal on the posthumous edict Liang Zhen took out, and Feng Sheng It is true that one corner of the jade seal that was taken was filled with gold.
Everyone's eyes on Zhang Ningling changed. Originally, they believed in the cabinet ministers more than Liang Zhen, but the evidence was in front of them, and there were guards guarding them...
King Xian was the first to jump up: "Well, you Zhang Nianling, you and a few other old men are planning to plot against my family's success?!"
As soon as this remark came out, those clans who were hesitant and weighed their heads lowered their heads one after another. Although they did not express their stance like King Xian, they unconsciously moved a little further away from Zhang Ningling, showing a clear and distinct attitude , Zhang Nianling vomited blood again, and the other elder argued excitedly: "You! You people! Your Majesty has just died and you are going to join hands to force the palace! You rebellious bastards! This imperial edict It was clearly written by His Majesty who called me into the palace that day! If you do this, you will tell His Majesty to die without peace!"
King Xian blew his beard and stared: "Old man, don't be bloody! It's clear that you guys joined forces to correct the imperial edict in order to seek the throne! Now that the evidence is solid, how can you wait to refute it here!"
Feng Sheng added a sentence at the right time: "Your Majesty did pass on the three elders to the palace that day, but he sent all the servants and servants away when he was having a secret conversation with you. Except for the three elders, no one knows what His Majesty was with that day. What did you say... Is there really an edict to pass on the throne to you, that's also... "
"You eunuch! Stop talking nonsense here!"
Zhang Ningling interrupted him angrily, Feng Sheng shrank his neck and stopped talking, King Xian rolled his eyes around, turned around and walked to Zhu Yunxuan's side, and helped him up respectfully.
Except for Zhang Nianling, who was still annoyed, everyone's eyes had fallen on Zhu Yunxuan. Zhu Yunxuan frowned, and glanced at the people present with a serious expression. King Xian was the first to bow down: "Mr. Kowtow to His Majesty the new emperor, long live long live!"
Kowtowing loudly, everyone's heartbeat instantly rose to their throats. Liang Zhen looked at the other three cabinet ministers except Zhang Nianling. Head, as if staying out of the matter: "Mr. Liu Ge, Mr. Li, Mr. Deng Ge, what do you think?"
The three of them froze, and the leader slowly raised his head, avoiding the cannibalistic eyes of Zhang Ningling and the others, hesitantly, gritted his teeth, turned and knelt down in front of Zhu Yunxuan, and the other two immediately followed, Pay homage to the new king together.
Concubine Chen was completely paralyzed on the ground, knowing that the situation was over.
Except for the three Zhang Nianling who were still standing abruptly in the crowd, everyone, from the clan to the concubine and even the princes, had already knelt in front of Zhu Yunxuan. Liang Zhen gave the commander of the Imperial Guard a look, and Zhang Nianling and the others were taken down in an instant, and they had to argue, but Liang Zhen didn't give them another chance, and said coldly: "Zhang Nianling, Wang Ci, Cao The three of Xinrui harbored evil intentions and tried to plot wrongdoing, so they will be imprisoned immediately and will be adjourned for trial."
Zhang Nianling and the others only had time to cry out "Heaven has no eyes", before they were gagged by the imperial guards and dragged away.
Now everyone in the hall was even more silent. Liang Zhen turned around and faced Zhu Yunxuan, with an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth. Under the complicated eyes of the other party, he knelt down frankly.
Zhu Yunxuan closed her eyes, calmed down her overwhelmed mood, and ordered in a deep voice: "Follow the emperor's will, and the clan ministers will observe the mourning for twenty-seven days. Starting today, don't slack off."
"Follow the holy edict!" Everyone responded in unison.
The imperial edict was passed out of the palace, and all the officials knelt down to worship the new king. So far, the dust has settled.
As the night darkened, the hustle and bustle of the day dissipated, and Zhu Yunxuan was the only one left on the mourning hall after nightfall, kneeling quietly in front of the emperor's palace, his calm face reflected by the flickering dim candlelight.
Footsteps sounded behind him, and he didn't need to turn his head to know that there must be only one person coming.
Liang Zhen walked to Zhu Yunxuan's side, knelt down and said in a low voice, "How many days has Your Majesty been here? You can't sleep for two hours every day. Could it be that you want to exhaust yourself just after taking the throne?"
Zhu Yunxuan's eyes flickered, and after a moment of silence, he asked him, "What's going on outside?"
"What can I do? Those who should be arrested are arrested, and those who should be killed are killed."
Everyone knows about this enthronement turmoil. Even if I wish Yunxuan to get the throne smoothly, there will never be less doubts. Just the imprisonment of Zhang Nianling and others is enough to make all court officials and scholars all over the world treat him as a newcomer. Huang Xin was suspicious, but because of the power in Liang Zhen's hands, no one dared to say anything.
"Zhang Shoufu and the others..."
Liang Zhen said indifferently: "They committed the heinous crime of punishing the nine clans. Your Majesty is merciful. Considering their hard work in the past, they only copied their entire family and did not implicate others."
Zhu Yunxuan's expression darkened slightly, Liang Zhen looked at it, and hooked the corners of his lips: "Why, Your Majesty is reluctant? Do you think it's a pity?"
"Kill, kill."
Liang Zhen smiled but said: "It's a pity, the elders are all rare and well-educated people, the pillars of the country, but they are too pedantic, and they have to make trouble with your Majesty, but now they are lucky, and they will end up in the end , and also implicated the family, Your Majesty, you have just ascended the throne, without these ministers, it seems that no one can be used."
Zhu Yunxuan looked at Liang Zhen indifferently: "Isn't it just what you want?"
He really felt that it was a pity that although Zhang Ningling and the others were pedantic, they were truly loyal to the emperor and a role model for civil servants in the world. If they surrounded him, he would not be too passive and controlled by others everywhere. The person chosen by Emperor Yang, Zhang Nianling and the others were naturally not loyal to him. For this supreme position, he was doomed to have blood on his hands.
The smile in Liang Zhen's eyes deepened: "Your Majesty, you don't trust me so much? I risked the disgrace of the world to help you ascend to the throne, but you turned your face and refused to recognize anyone in the blink of an eye. Thoughts are really chilling."
Zhu Yunxuan didn't want to argue, and said lightly: "Then, King Xian, was you win over too?"
"How is it possible? Your Majesty thinks highly of my ministers. What kind of person is King Xian? No one can win over you." Liang Zhen shook his head with a smile. That's just a fool on the fence. Naturally, there is no need to win over. of.
Zhu Yunxuan looked at the ashes in the brazier that were blown in from nowhere, and his eyes became darker: "Then Yuxi...you already knew that he was interested in Zhu Yunqiong?"
Liang Zhen raised his eyebrows: "What does Your Majesty think?"
"Ah."
In the end, his father still didn't think about him from the beginning to the end, it was just that he didn't give up, he and his elder brother were just stepping stones left by Emperor Zhaoyang, how sad.