Chapter 271 Shocking Changes in the Capital
The next morning, while Jiang Ting was working hard to do a crying scene for Ye's funeral, Jiang Yong in the capital was on guard against the emperor's questioning.
"Jiang Yong, are you going to rebel?"
"Your Majesty, I will never dare to have this idea." Jiang Yong crawled on the ground and shouted bitterly: "Ask the emperor for a clear view, my greatest wish in this life is to revitalize the court, and I will never dare to have any wrong thoughts!"
The emperor stared sharply at the man who crawled in front of him as if he were aggrieved, and an uncontrollable anger was burning in his heart. He thought that he had paid enough attention to the orphan of the Jiang family, but now he found that he still looked down on him. This usually silent and unoutstanding general actually raised 5,000 private soldiers under his eyes!
If these soldiers hadn't been in the hands of the prince now, the emperor would have sentenced this bold bastard to the crime of rebellion! What makes the emperor more disappointed is that it has been seven or eight years since Jiang Yong entered Beijing, and so many soldiers and horses are definitely not a day and night's work. But for so many years, no one found any clue. It was not until the soldiers and horses were in the hands of the prince that they showed their feet. No, perhaps it should be said that the prince deliberately showed his feet... The prince has grown strong enough.
The emperor took a deep breath and suppressed the anger that had not yet burst into anger in his heart.
"Jiang Yong, do you think that the prince is the master?"
Jiang Yong did not dare to look up and still lie on the ground and replied to the emperor's words: "Your Majesty, I am afraid..."
"Frightened fart! Are you so bold that there is anything you are afraid of in the world? Raise your head and answer me truthfully!" The emperor smashed the faucet on the armrest of the dragon chair, and the anger still surged up, which made his chest fluctuate and gasp.
When Jiang Yong heard the words, he had to slowly get up, and his face was still full of panic. He lowered his eyebrows and replied, "Go back to the emperor, I personally think that the prince is gentle and resolute, and he has great opinions, big hearts, and a bright king."
The emperor fixedly looked at Jiang Yong, who was always frightened, for a while, exhaled the turbid breath of depression in his chest, waved his hand and said, "Go down."
"Thank you Lord Longen!" Jiang Yong thanked the emperor for not killing, and silently got up and withdrew from the noble but cold Qingluan Hall. He did not look back at the old man sitting on the dragon chair.
Out of the palace, Jiang Yong did not go directly to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but returned to the Zhenbeihou Mansion. When Wen, who was full of worries at home, saw him coming back, suddenly aggrieved and sadness surged up in his heart. He rushed up and hugged Jiang Yong and cried bitterly.
Jiang Yong looked down at the woman crying with makeup in his arms, sighed deeply, tightened his arms and hugged her. Although this woman is a little stupid, she treats his wife wholeheartedly. After this level today, he really has some confidence in his heart. Finally, the Jiang family is no longer slaughtered by others.
"Don't worry, it's okay, it's okay..." Jiang Yong comforted Wen, who was shocked and afraid of crying miserably, but the expression on his face was not much relieved by the previous escape from death. The prince deliberately revealed those people to the emperor in order to force the emperor to make a decision as soon as possible. The prince has seen the emperor's hesitant attitude and can't stand it anymore. But if the emperor is angry because of this, it is not a good thing for the prince!
In the afternoon, when the sun went down and the civil and military officials in the government were about to go home, a heavy bell suddenly sounded in the palace.
The emperor passed away.
This matter was so sudden that when they first heard the bell ringing of mourning in the palace, the government and opposition officials thought it was the empress dowager. However, the Empress Dowager only needs to ring the bell eighteen. After the bell rang thirty-six times, everyone panicked.
The emperor died! How could the emperor suddenly died? In the early morning, the emperor was still sitting on the dragon chair. How could he suddenly die in less than a day?
Hundreds of civil and military officials quickly put on official robes and rushed to the palace. At this time, the guards in Beijing had already received the order of the prince to prepare, and the imperial guards in the palace were neatly lined up on both sides of the palace gate. In just half an hour, the prince has taken control of the whole capital. The eldest prince in charge of the military department was transferred to the capital half a month ago to change the southern soldiers and horses to guard the capital. At this time, it was only a hundred miles away from the capital.
In the inner hall of Qingluan Hall, the emperor lay peacefully on the dragon bed, as if he was sleeping peacefully. Several imperial doctors in charge of the Imperial Hospital all knelt on the ground with sad faces and suffered the fierce anger of the eldest prince.
"...a bunch of useless things! My father was still in good spirits in the morning. How could he suddenly fail? Son of a bitch! They are all useless dogs! Killed my father and dragged them all out and killed me! Cut it!" The eldest prince kicked the hospital in front of him with a ferocious face. He had kicked him to spit blood and twitched all over his body.
The prince still had tears in his eyes, rushed forward and hugged the angry prince, and persuaded him with tears, "Brother, calm down, calm down! Your father has just passed away. Calm down and don't lose your honor!"
"Do you want me not to lose my car?" The eldest prince looked angrily but looked at the prince coldly: "Father is gone, and you want me not to lose your ceremony! Prince, do you have a heart? That's my father! He is the father!"
The prince was stunned, slowly loosened his arm and asked painfully, "Brother... What does this mean?"
At this time, the queen, who was kneeling in front of the dragon bed, suddenly cried: "Your Majesty, your Majesty... Why don't you tell your concubine if you have palpitations these days? I haven't even seen you for the last time! Your Majesty... You suddenly left like this, leaving all this behind. What should I do with my concubine and the prince, woo-woo..."
The eldest prince looked at the queen who knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, and the temperature in his eyes was colder. Here, now, only this woman can come to her father's dragon bed and cry. But his mother's concubine was locked in her palace and couldn't get out of it...
The eldest prince turned his head and kicked the imperial hospital, which had fainted to the ground, and snorted coldly and strode out of the inner hall.
When he was about to step out of the gate of the Qingluan Hall, the eldest prince was meeting the six heads of the three provinces that had just arrived. Several ministers saw him kneeling down to salute. The eldest prince looked at several people one by one, but did not stop. However, before he walked out of the temple gate, someone told him to stop. The eldest prince's eyes stabbed like a sword, but he saw that the speaker was Sun Junfeng, the new Shangshu who had always had no communication with him: "Your Highness, the emperor has passed away. You should stay in the palace to guard your filial piety tonight."
"What does Lord Sun mean?" The prince sneered at the corners of his mouth: "Are you afraid that I will run away?"
"I dare not." Sun Junfeng answered faintly, "Your Highness was angry. I only saw Your Highness leave in a hurry, so I made a warning. Your Highness, filial piety is the first.
The eldest prince stared at Sun Junfeng coldly and said slowly, "I know this matter, and I don't need you to remind me. Lord Sun, you'd better worry about your responsibilities.
After saying that, the eldest prince shook his hand out of the Qingluan Hall and walked out of the palace door without looking back.