Magic world

After the invitation that day, Ji Yanran's attitude towards Ito Cheng has obviously changed, and she has become more proactive than before. Either she invites Ito Cheng out to discuss the topic of governing the country in the name of traveling together, or she just likes Julu Academy. For this reason, he went to Julu Academy from time to time, mingling with Zhao Ya, Zhao Ni, Zhao Qian, Wu Tingfang and Guo Xiuer, and gossiping about Ito Cheng.

Ito Cheng and Zhao Ya were naturally aware of this, but they didn't care and continued to treat her normally until five days later.

On this day, Ito Cheng woke up Zhao Ni, Zhao Ya, Zhao Qian, Wu Tingfang and Guo Xiuer early, changed into the maid's clothes together, had a simple breakfast, and then left the mansion together and took the The carriage drove towards the palace in the center of Handan City.

Along the way, Zhao Ya and others all looked solemn and sat upright without saying a word, as if what they were going to on this trip was not the familiar palace of King Zhao, but some solemn ceremony venue.

After driving like this for a while, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the palace gate.

Then Ito Chengdu stood up first and lifted the curtain of the carriage, leading Zhao Ya and others out of the carriage.

"I have seen Marquis Julu, Mrs. Ya, Mrs. Ni, the third princess, Mrs. Tingfang, and Mrs. Xiu'er." The guard in front of the palace knelt down on one knee and bowed his head in salute.

Ito Cheng ignored them, silently led Zhao Ya and the other five people into the palace, and walked straight to the political hall in the center of the palace.

In just a few minutes, the group arrived in front of the main hall.

Without stopping, he walked straight into the hall.

As for the actions of Ito and others, the soldiers guarding on both sides seemed not to notice. He ignored it completely and still stood on both sides of the palace with a solemn expression. Guarded palace.

At this time, in the main hall.

Except for Ito Cheng and Zhao Ya, the other six people. Zhao Wang Dan, Queen Han Jing, Shao Junyan, members of the royal family, as well as ministers and nobles from all over the Zhao Kingdom, as well as big businessmen who controlled an industry in the Zhao Kingdom such as the Guo family, the Wushi family, and the Zhuo family all appeared. In the main hall, they sat down according to their status.

It's just that everyone's face has more or less confusion, and they don't understand what happened.

"Everyone is here." Seeing Ito Cheng's arrival, King Zhao sighed in his heart. He spoke.

"Your Majesty, I don't know why you summoned me and the nobles here." An old man with gray hair and an old-fashioned face asked with trembling arms.

Laogui refers to the general name of the old ministers and nobles of the country, as well as the old people of Zhao State who were dismissed from their posts due to old age but still have great influence on Zhao State.

I heard the old man ask. King Zhao's eyes slowly swept over the faces of the people present one by one. Finally, his eyes turned red and he said in a low voice, "I have decided to abdicate."

"What!?" Queen Han Jing exclaimed in disbelief.

As a dignified queen, she may be the person in the entire court who least wants to see King Zhao abdicate! After all, abdication sounds nice. It is for him to step down and let virtuous people take charge of the country on his behalf, but why not tell others. You can't suppress someone and have to abdicate and give up your authority? This way. How could she, a woman who was valued because of her husband, use her power to make things happen and show her dignity?

"Ah!?" followed immediately. The nobles of Zhao State present also let out shocked exclamations.

"Your Majesty, why do you have such thoughts?" After the initial shock, Han Jing asked quickly.

"In recent years, my health has become worse and worse. Especially in the past few days, I have become very easily tired and lethargic, which has greatly affected my governance. Therefore, for the sake of the entire Zhao Kingdom, I decided to abdicate and let You A capable person will inherit the throne and take charge of the Kingdom of Zhao." King Zhao explained.

"Then who is the king planning to choose as his successor?" the elders in the royal family asked.

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of many strong men in the royal family lit up and they puffed up their chests. Shaojunyan's face was even more excited, and his whole body began to tremble slightly involuntarily.

Obviously, in Shaojunyan's understanding, this successor is none other than himself. After all, King Zhao is his father, and he has no reason to give up his position to those guys in the royal family.

On the contrary, the ministers in the court became thoughtful, and from time to time they secretly glanced at Juluhou, who was carrying his family and looking like an old god.

"The successor chosen by this king is..." King Zhao's eyes once again swept over everyone in the palace, and finally stopped on Ito Cheng, who was below his right hand, and announced, "Julu Marquis Chen Yi! "

"What!?"

As soon as this statement came out, both the Zhao royal family and the great merchants of Zhao who were not controlled by Ito Cheng were stunned and exclaimed in disbelief, and involuntarily cast their eyes on Ito Cheng.

In the midst of all the attention, Ito Cheng slowly stood up from his seat, walked to the center of the hall, folded his hands and bowed, "I accept my order."

"No!" Queen Han Jing, who came to her senses when Ito Cheng said, "I accept my order," stood up suddenly and screamed.

"Yes, no! How can you hand over the throne to someone with a foreign surname!" The members of the Zhao royal family who also came to their senses echoed loudly.

"I will take your orders!" But like a magic trick, all the ministers and officials in the palace fell down and prostrated, shouting loudly, cutting off the voices of the royal family members and Queen Han Jing.

"How is it possible!?" This time, let alone the members of the royal family, even the big businessmen were dumbfounded.

But while they were staring blankly, all the ministers and officials stood up straight, turned to face Ito Cheng, and bowed again and said, "I will pay my respects to the king!"

However, what is different from before is that there are a few more people in the worship team this time, namely Wushi Barley, the old head of the Wu family who controls half of the animal husbandry in Zhao State, and his son Wu Yingyuan, as well as the controlling Guo Zong, the Guo family who controls two-thirds of the smelting and iron ore business in Zhao.

"No, it's impossible, how could it be possible!?" Shao Junyan, who had been dreaming of becoming a king, looked at everything in the palace in disbelief and shook his head. Then his eyes turned red, and he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his waist. Ito Cheng rushed towards the center of the hall and shouted, "I'll kill you!"

"Husband, be careful!" Even though they knew Ito Cheng's skills, the girls Zhao Ya couldn't help but give a worried warning when they saw the sneak attack.

"Prince, no!" In response, King Zhao also made an anxious stop.

"ah!"

Amid everyone's exclamations, Shao Junyan rushed to Ito Cheng, thrust his arm, and stabbed Ito Cheng's abdomen with the bronze dagger in his hand.

As the person being attacked, Ito Cheng stretched out his arm, grabbed Shao Junyan's wrist first and then raised his foot to kick... Shao Junyan's body immediately flew out like a cannonball, until he was hit hard He stopped awkwardly when the ground hit the wall on one side of the hall.

"boom!"

"Yan'er!" Han Jing shouted urgently.

"It's just once. If you do it next time, you will be killed without mercy." Ito Cheng looked directly at King Zhao and said quietly.

"Yes." King Zhao nodded quickly.

Immediately, Ito Cheng ignored King Zhao and walked towards King Zhao's seat.

Seeing this, King Zhao, who was sitting on the king's seat, quickly stood up from his seat, forced Queen Han Jing to give up the king's seat, and bowed to the side.

"Snapped."

Ito Cheng slowly sat on the throne.

"From now on, I am the King of Zhao!" Ito Cheng's aura erupted, exuding endless majesty and oppressing everyone in the palace, and announced quietly.

"Who has an opinion?"

"Come here, capture this rebellious traitor!" The elders of the royal family couldn't bear it any longer and shouted loudly.

In an instant, weapons rang out, and a group of heavily armed soldiers rushed in from outside the palace.

"You don't overestimate your own capabilities." Ito Cheng, who was sitting on the throne, sneered. With a wave of his arm, several wind blades that could be seen with the naked eye immediately flew out from in front of him. Like real sharp blades, they rushed in instantly. swept over the soldiers.

"puff!"

After hearing a muffled sound, large streams of blood spurted out from the soldiers, and they fell to the ground with their bodies.

"boom."

"ah!"

Screams and women's screams of fear immediately rang out in the hall.

"Who has any opinions?" Ito Cheng asked quietly again, ignoring the dazzling blood and pungent smell of blood in the palace.

"Greetings to the king." The merchants looked at each other and bowed down.

"Greetings to the king." Then, the soldiers who were shocked by Ito Cheng's strange methods and thought they had encountered an immortal also put down their weapons and knelt down on the ground, paying homage.

"Meet the king." Then several ministers who had not been controlled also knelt down and bowed down.

For a time, except for the Zhao royal family, there was no outsider standing in the main hall.

And almost at the moment when these people prostrated themselves, the sky above the entire Zhao Kingdom suddenly became stormy and the clouds surged, and then a large amount of purple airflow invisible to the naked eye flew from Yandi and converged at the main entrance of the Handan City Palace. In the sky above, the purple energy rising from Zhao Kingdom faintly blended and converged, evolving into a divine dragon that began to swim in the sky.

Ito Cheng, who noticed the changes in the spiritual images outside, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and suddenly shouted, "Come here, take down all these Zhao royal family members, and temporarily imprison them in the South Palace Palace, waiting for their execution."

"Yes." The soldiers shouted and immediately got up from the ground. They captured the Zhao royal family like wolves and tigers, escorted them out of the hall and sent them to Nangong.

"Doctor Guo, draft the document and publish it." After the royal family left, Ito Cheng turned to the doctor Guo Kai below and ordered.

"Yes." Guo Kai accepted the order.

Then at noon of that day, the news that the Zhao Kingdom changed its master and Julu Hou Chen Yi succeeded to the throne spread throughout Handan City, and spread unabated to other cities in the Zhao Kingdom, as well as the remaining countries. among. (To be continued...)