After a long and chaotic night, many things have changed, including the imperial palace, the imperial capital, and Cathay. Perhaps the world outside Cathay has also become different.
The only thing that hasn't changed is probably the "big source" that people really want to change.
Struggle, rebellion, trial, suppression... In just a few days, the entire country turned into a pot of boiling water, with violent materials being thrown in one after another until no one could smell the soup that would be stewed inside. .
Immediately afterwards, the chaos was settled overnight.
On the first day after Bai Heng's death, the gates of the capital city were opened wide, and the allied forces of the princes entered the capital. All rebellions were forcibly suppressed, and the inside and outside of the palace were sealed off. Everyone was speculating whether the next drama would involve the yellow robe.
But then, the day after Bai Heng died, the new emperor succeeded to the throne.
But the only winner surprised everyone.
Not the Yuan family, not the Liu family, not the indignant Changsun family, nor the Ye family who was known as the wolf's ambition... The ones who had the last laugh were the Bai family who had a new head of the family, and the Yun family who died with only the last single seedling left. Lou's.
Anyway, the last one left in these two families is the same person.
—Yunlou Bai Xi.
In fact, you can also remove the word "Yunlou"...
The first person to bow her head was the Yuan family. The Yuan family was the least ambitious and the least concerned about external things. Although a family leader died for this, the Yuan family herself was not sad at all. Instead, she felt relieved that she had died well and wonderfully. .
This group of lunatics have always used people as swords and enemies to sharpen the edge of the sword. Under the pressure of Mr. Hu, Yuan Changqing broke through the limit and reached areas that previous family heads could not reach. The last remaining sword is proof of this.
At Bai Heng's invitation, Mrs. Yuan came down the mountain to seek death. Now that she had found him, she naturally had no intention of staying to celebrate the New Year. Bai Xi wrote a letter in the name of the Bai family head, and reiterated the agreement between Bai Heng and them. Yuan simply threw away his military power, turned around and left, and went back to the mountains.
The Liu family is more difficult to deal with, but it's not impossible to talk about.
What is reassuring is that no matter who becomes emperor, it is impossible for someone from the Liu family to be appointed.
Without him, the image really cannot be described as "bad".
For hundreds of years, the Liu family has focused on ghosts and beasts, making themselves half-human and not ghosts. Most of the elders in the family are like zombies, and the young people are also ghostly and sinister, and they are definitely not good people.
Even if he puts on a dragon robe and sits on the throne, he will only be regarded as the remains of the late emperor. However, animal nature seems invisible, but researching it requires a frightening amount of resources.
Especially the way of ghosts, gold and silver can be burned away even if you try hard.
Therefore, it depends on what price is required to satisfy the appetite of these guys.
Facts have proved that one cloud building is enough.
It doesn't feel bad to sell Ye Tian, not to mention that what he is selling is Yunlou Qingshu's things. If Ye Qingxuan hadn't reminded him, Bai Xi would have forgotten that ghost place in Yunlou City long ago, and now it can be used as waste. , naturally there is no reason to be reluctant to part with it.
After the three families convinced the two, the remaining Changsun family was naturally helpless.
After all, it was difficult to fulfill the long-cherished wish of a thousand years. After talking and talking and calculating again and again, in the end, I still couldn't bring myself to do it. With enough benefits to make me fat, I handed over the military power and returned to the fiefdom.
If so, the new emperor's position is stable.
Although there are still too many problems to count...
For example, what is His Majesty’s last name
It's true to be the head of two families, but one family must be at the front.
So which one is in front, "Yunlou's" or "Bai's"
It's true that Bai Xi is Bai Heng's adopted daughter, but there is also the word "Yunlou" in front of it, but it's true that Bai Xi is the daughter of Yunlou Qingshu, but this daughter killed her biological father by herself. I don't want to admit this surname and say something else.
And there is also the original letter written by the late emperor, canonizing Bai Xi as a princess and changing her surname to Zhao...
Okay, now I have to consider whether to give my surname Zhao.
Fortunately, His Majesty now caught someone with royal Zhao bloodline from somewhere and passed his family line back again. This is equivalent to turning a corner on himself, and those with the surname Zhao will continue to have the surname Zhao.
What is your Majesty's last name now
I don’t know how many people were so anxious that their brains ached.
At a small scale, this problem is just a title, but at a big scale, it is a matter of taking sides...
Yunlou clan and Bai clan, your majesty can be the head of the family, how can you still have two boats? Are you Zhongyu Yunlou or Zhongyu Bai
Are you a friend of the Bai family or a friend of the Yunlou family
In other words, whose enemy do you want to be
Besides, this is not a question of whether His Majesty’s current surname is Yunlou or Bai. Taking a longer-term view, there is also a question of what His Majesty’s surname will be in the future!
Is your surname Yunlou? Or is your surname Bai
Or are you ready... Surnamed Ye Na
And what exactly is Ye’s whereabouts? Should we be redressed or should we continue to cover up this issue? Should we restore the original fiefdom or merge it into the royal domain
For a time, everything was complicated and chaotic, but some issues were too sensitive, and it was impossible to leave them alone. I don’t know how many people were worried about this.
Fortunately, His Majesty has thrown in a new trouble in his busy schedule, and all the troubles are no longer troubles.
—State funeral for Bai Heng.
This is a big problem.
Let's not mention how the regent who had dominated Cathay for fifteen years and covered the sky with one hand died, nor how the late emperor died. Anyway, in the future history books, both of them can only die of illness. .
And they have to avoid the important and ignore the trivial, erasing this period of history in which no one knows what happened.
Regardless of how many hairs the historian had to pull off to get this done, just giving him a posthumous title was enough to make the doctors at Shiqu Pavilion lose their minds.
Moreover, His Majesty insisted on burying Bai Heng in the mausoleum built for him by the late emperor. No matter how many people's brains were smashed under the steps, it would not work.
Bai Heng was buried with such splendor on the fifth day after his death.
Generally speaking, at times like this, the emperor would bestow some title to show his favor and reluctance. Anyway, the dead cannot jump out of their graves, so they can write bad checks at will. But the current His Majesty doesn't know this. Why do you dig so hard and don't continue to show any favor? It seems a bit unkind and ungrateful, but you still treat me with a state funeral.
So contradictory.
However, to the tortured minds of the ministers, this no longer mattered...
They only hope that after His Majesty ascends the throne and these three fires are burned out, the situation will calm down a little.
If so, the funeral proceeds.
Although it was a funeral, the popular folk scene of five sons crying at the grave was not shown. Everyone just remembered it symbolically - in fact, I was afraid that there was no sadness at all, and there were a lot of relaxed and happy ones.
Finally died.
This traitor has controlled the government for so many years.
I don’t know how many people felt relieved.
No one knows how much sincerity there is in the pretentious tears.
The mourning ceremony was solemn, presided over by the head of the Ye family in person, and His Majesty was present to pay homage to him, accompanied by the "former royal family" of unknown origin, the current head of the Zhao family.
A woman who looks a little dull and dull, her eyes always seem to be sleepwalking, and her reactions are always slow when others talk to her.
He always seems to be awake.
After the funeral was over and everyone was preparing to leave, in the deserted silence, she seemed to still be stuck in the past, silent.
"Are you sad?"
Ye Qingxuan asked her.
"have no idea."
The former emperor suddenly shook his head, "In the past few days, I have seen a lot of things about him, but they are all different from the him I saw. I am forgetting many things. Even if I try hard to recall them now, I can't remember him clearly. Only the eyes are clear on his face."
Ye Qingxuan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this.
I'm afraid this is what Bai Heng wants to see, right
However, even though he insisted that she not remember him, if she really forgot, the old guy would probably be a little sad, right
What an irony, Bai Heng.
"But one thing I'm sure of-"
Ye Qingxuan suddenly heard her voice.
When he turned around in confusion, he saw her serious expression.
"I really like him."
As if recalling the remaining memories and seeing those remaining eyes again, she seemed to wake up from a dream and opened her eyes:
"Because that look is very strong."
"I want to be like him," she said.
After a long silence, Ye Qingxuan laughed at himself, not knowing what to say. After a long time, he patted her shoulder:
"Then work hard to live..."
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After returning to the palace, Ye Qingxuan walked alone on the jade steps, looking around at everything, he couldn't help but be filled with emotion. Just when he was reminiscing about the past, he heard the sound of kowtow coming from the palace. An old man kowtowed in embarrassment, his voice was hoarse and panicked:
"Your Majesty, this old minister is ignorant of the consequences of his death. A sudden wedding after a state funeral is not in accordance with the ancient etiquette. Besides, Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and everything is going well..."
etc!
Wedding
Who wants to get married
Outside the palace, Ye Qingxuan almost rolled down the steps as if struck by lightning.
"So fast?"
After finally picking up his chin from the ground, he poked his head outside the palace and looked in. He only saw the old man who had hit his head and was bleeding at the foot of the steps, and Bai Xi, who was sitting on the throne with cold eyes and no mercy at all.
Hearing his voice, Bai Xi raised his head and looked over, his eyes... became even colder.
"Um?"
She didn't seem to understand what Ye Qingxuan said clearly, so she made a confused sound from her nostrils, but Ye Qingxuan trembled and pretended not to say anything.
Bai Xi's face looked a little better, and he fixed Ye Qingxuan with his eyes, who was about to run away, and then waved his hand to chase them away: "I have my own considerations. If Taichang Qing is okay, just go down."
The old man pretended not to hear and continued to kowtow. He was quickly dragged out by two pumpkin warriors.
Suddenly, only Ye Qingxuan and Bai Xi were left in the hall.
The silence grew increasingly awkward.
No one spoke.
Until Ye Qingxuan couldn't stand Bai Xi's eyes, he pretended to cough twice and then said:
"Ahem, cousin..."
"Huh?" Bai Xi snorted another unpleasant syllable from his nose.
"Bai Xi! Your Majesty Bai Xi!"
Ye Qingxuan hurriedly spoke, with the kind expression he once had as a cousin: "Sometimes you don't have to be too anxious, isn't there an old saying? Take your time, it's faster... I'm not saying I'm not willing, I'm just saying... "
Before Keng Keng Baba finished speaking, he was interrupted by the sharp sound of a bell in the distance.
—Someone collided with Ouchi!
The roar of sonorous armor sounded.
Two lines of imperial guards rushed over and blocked the front of the palace. But Ye Qingxuan's sharp eyes saw the "assassin" running in the distance.
That is clearly the standard armor of the Round Table Division!
Moreover, Ye Qingxuan clearly recognized the height and heartbeat: he was his messenger!
"Step aside!!!"
The knight had his hands empty and was so panicked that he ignored the strict guards of the Forbidden Palace. Holding a box in both hands, he rushed outside the palace and ran wildly:
"Get out of the way, I want to see His Highness! Your Highness! Where is Your Highness?!"
Ye Qingxuan frowned and reached out to stop the guard who was about to execute him on the spot.
"what happened?"
He looked at his panicked bodyguard: "What happened to Angelou?"
The knight knelt on the ground and presented the iron box with both hands: "Your Highness, Avalon sent a message from the wind tunnel for an urgent report! From yesterday to now, there have been nineteen urgent reports! You can't open it in person unless Your Highness, please forgive me for being rude..."
Before he finished speaking, Ye Qingxuan snatched the iron box with his hands. Without caring about comforting him, he tore the iron box open, and a thin piece of letter paper made of ether crystals fell into his hands.
Soon, his face turned livid.
In an instant, everyone in the imperial capital felt panicked.
A biting chill rose into the sky from the entire palace and spread in all directions. In an instant, winter swept over and countless frost flowers spread out.
There is something heavy weighing on everyone's heart, making it difficult to breathe!
The one who was a little weak in spirit almost fainted immediately.
He didn't know how many barriers in the palace were activated by his sudden loss of control. Ye Qingxuan smashed the flying thunder and fire with his hands, and read the emergency report in his hand for the third time.
Clench your palms.
Ashes fell from his hands.
"Char..."