The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 598
December 25, 25th year of Tai'an, Beijing.

There is a grand court meeting in the imperial city at the moment, and today will be the last great court meeting in the Tai'an era.

In a few days, the yuan will be changed, and the new emperor Zhao Weilong will start his Jingping era.

There are two agendas for today's Great Court Meeting, one is to read the edict of the Empress Dowager, and the other is to announce the edict of the vassal kings.

These two major events are done according to the ancestral system, so no one can criticize them.

It can be said that Zhao Weilong and the former empress Li Shi each took what they needed and eliminated each other's hidden dangers.

The imperial court was reading out the imperial edict, but at this moment, an unexpected guest was ushered in Li's Longevity Palace.

"Empress Dowager, Wei Heng is young after all, and now he has to go out of Beijing to become a vassal, and he is going to Nanyang County, which is more or less ominous!"

It was a woman who was speaking, gray was already visible between her temples, and she was over fifty years old.

But seeing that she was wearing a first-grade boa robe, she obviously had an imperial order, but she was cautious in front of Mrs. Li.

The woman leaned her body halfway, and prayed: "Please have mercy on the Empress Dowager, and save Wei Heng's life!"

While the woman was talking, the Empress Dowager Li did not raise her eyes, watching the heat rising slowly from the teacup.

"One mouthful of Weiheng, one mouthful of a child... You must know that he is now the Spirit King of my Great Jin!"

It has to be said that Zhao Weilong was very malicious towards his younger brother, and even gave him the title of "Spirit King", so he almost scolded Zhao Weiheng for nothing.

"Since you are a child of the clan, the ancestors have their own system, and it is the proper meaning to be enfeoffed as a vassal. Why did you come to tell the Ai family this?"

"Furthermore, the emperor has ordered that the ancestral harem should not be involved in government affairs. Are you going to tell the Ai family to disobey their ancestors?" At this point, Li's tone was interrogative.

"Empress Dowager, this Spirit King is Suxin's child after all..."

Before the woman finished speaking, she heard a "pop", and Li Shi put the teacup on the coffee table.

The woman trembled in fright, and held back her next words.

I only heard Li's tone sternly said: "What Suxin's child? King Ling is the blood of my Dajin royal family. If it weren't for the Ai family, I should call you sister-in-law. According to your nonsense today, the Ai family must punish you!"

It turned out that this woman was Li's sister-in-law Wu, who was also Li Suxin's biological mother, and today she was specifically interceding for her grandson Zhao Weiheng.

The woman raised her head and prayed all over her face: "The empress dowager...is she really so decisive?"

But her behavior can be regarded as a coercion of Li Shi, which is a crime of "disrespect".

"Presumptuous..." the eunuchs in the hall shouted loudly, this is their duty.

"Take her out!" Shi Li stood up and left without looking back.

"According to the order!"

After Mrs. Li left, several court ladies came to Mrs. Wu, and one of them bowed her head and said, "Madam... please!"

It is useless to continue to stay here, Wu Shi had no choice but to leave.

When her daughter asked for help, Mrs. Wu had done her best, and she had to comfort her daughter next.

On the other side, the grand court meeting in the Huangji Hall has ended.

The courtiers withdrew one after another and went to the yamen, without discussing today's court meeting.

The fact of today's court meeting is too sensitive, discussing it in private is easy to cause disaster, so everyone naturally keeps silent about it.

After the courtiers dispersed, several vassal kings who thanked En came out from the palace gate at the moment.

Guangwang Zhao Yanyuan was 15 years old, Hengwang Zhao Yansong was 14 years old, Suiwang Zhao Yanxiao was 13 years old, and Lingwang Zhao Weiheng was 15 years old.

None of these four vassal kings had reached the age of enfeoffment, but now they are about to go out and become vassals.

"Nephew, you dear brother...you are really cruel!" King Guang Zhao Yanyuan sneered.

Zhao Weiheng didn't say a word. At this moment, he was still holding on to hope that his grandmother could get the imperial edict from the Empress Dowager.

Eleventh stood aside and said, "Brother Ten, you are not kind as an uncle, and your eldest nephew is not uncommonly bullied. If you really are your own brother, you will give him a soul king?"

They were still rivals when they elected the crown prince, but Zhao Weilong, who was a prince but had never done anything to his grandchildren.

After all, they are brothers who have played since they were young. After there is no conflict of interest, Zhao Yanyuan and Zhao Yansong are back together again.

Running against Zhao Weiheng now is one of the only pleasures they have.

At this moment, Zhao Weiheng was not in the mood to argue, and of course he couldn't compete with these two, so he hurried away.

Zhao Yansong immediately sent out his concern: "Nephew, walk slowly, be careful not to reach the fief, you will fall and die first..."

Hearing the laughter coming from behind, Zhao Weiheng's face turned livid, but he left without looking back.

"Brother Ten and Brother Eleven, I think Heng'er is quite pitiful, so please stop bullying him..." Sui Wang Zhao Yanxiao said, who had been silent all this time.

He is the youngest, and has never been actively involved in power struggles from beginning to end, so he is still a child at heart.

Zhao Yanyuan scolded immediately: "You idiot, people have killed us... You still have the heart to pity others!"

No time to pay attention to Zhao Yanxiao, just listen to Zhao Yansong say: "Brother Ten, our fief is in Hexi County, he clearly wants us to die..."

Hearing this, Zhao Yanyuan lost the desire to curse.

His gaze turned to the west, which was the direction they were about to conquer, and there were endless zombies there.

"Eleventh brother, sometimes I envy ordinary people's homes, there won't be such nonsense things, say it's a family, but they all think about how to put their loved ones to death..."

Nodding his head, Zhao Yansong took over the words and said: "Those officials in the imperial court are also some people who forget their righteousness for profit. They keep talking about the imperial court's system of ancestral family law, but they made these things now..."

"They? Hahaha... just a bunch of whores!"

Speaking of this, both of them laughed out loud, but Zhao Yanxiao who was at the side didn't understand why.

Sighing, Zhao Yanyuan looked back at the imperial city behind him, and murmured: "Eleventh Brother... I really want to fly a kite with Ninth Brother in front of the Emperor's Palace again like when I was a child!"

The Emperor's Hall is the place where the Grand Court Meeting is held. The square in front of the hall is extremely wide, but it is not a place where you can fly kites. However, the three of them did it once when they were young under the leadership of Zhao Yanxun.

Of course, they were punished that time and were sent to the ancestral temple by Emperor Tai'an to kneel for a whole day, and this was the result of Concubine Duan's intercession.

The carefree days of youth are really nostalgic.

Zhao Yansong nodded, and said: "Ninth brother... Ninth brother is luckier than us. He died earlier without being humiliated like this, and he even earned the title of prince!"

But Zhao Yanyuan turned around and said in a low voice: "If brother Jiu is not dead, I'm afraid it won't be his turn to be emperor!"

After the two were silent for a while, it was Zhao Yanyuan who spoke first: "Let's go... Go back and pack up, find more things for self-defense, if you go to the fief, you can survive for a few more days!"

Glancing at the ignorant Zhao Yanxiao, Zhao Yanyuan couldn't bear the fact that the little brother died in vain, and then asked: "Old Twelve, do you want to come with me?"

The three of their fiefs are all in Hexi County, only seventy or eighty miles apart, and they can go on the road together.

At this time Zhao Yanxiao interjected: "It's really stingy, we won't let us pass the year..."

The three troubled brothers walked out of the imperial city together. They still have two days to prepare, when the imperial army will send them to Hexi.

On the other side, Zhao Weiheng, after returning to the mansion, also learned the bad news from his servants.

This made him fall straight to the ground.

(End of this chapter)