Tyrant Whitewashing Plan [Transmigration Book]

The end of the year and the end of the year are called New Year's Eve.

This is the last night of the year and the most important day at the end of the year.

On this day, no matter how far away the wanderers are, they must go home to have a reunion dinner with their relatives, and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new amidst the sound of firecrackers; Crying until the end of the year, Emperor Xiao especially believed in this, so in previous years he had to hold a big New Year's Eve banquet, not allowing palace concubines and emperors to cry on New Year's Eve.

However, at this year's New Year's Eve banquet, although his concubines and princes did not cry, they did not smile either. They lined up in a long queue, heading from the main hall of the New Year's Eve banquet to the Golden Dragon Hall. No one spoke on the way, and there was silence silent.

Xiao Jining walked at the end, keeping his head down and thinking about things.

He had a vague guess in his mind, but he couldn't confirm it yet.

After arriving at Emperor Xiao's Golden Dragon Palace, the guess in Xiao Jining's mind instantly had a definite answer - Emperor Xiao might really be dying, and he might not even be able to make it through tonight. If Emperor Xiao could make it through, he would He wouldn't rush all the princes to his bed in such a hurry, not to mention that besides the princes and concubines, there are several high-ranking princes and ministers in the court outside the Golden Dragon Palace.

For example, Xie Xiang, Jiang Taifu, the head of civil servants in the court, Ruan Jiaren's father Fu Guogong, and the three generals who control the military power in Xiao Guo: Xu Junhui, the father-in-law of the second prince, Old General Ji, the father-in-law of the fifth prince, and Jingyuan's Father Jingyue, and these others were all waiting outside the Golden Dragon Hall with solemn expressions.

The Empress Dowager led Concubine Gao to the front and asked the little eunuch waiting outside: "How is your Majesty doing now?"

The little eunuch didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he avoided the seriousness and said lightly: "Report to the Empress Dowager, the imperial doctors are watching inside, the emperor said to let everyone in."

The queen mother has already experienced the death of an emperor. When the late emperor left, she stayed by his side. At that time, the late emperor had several princes under his knees, but the late emperor only summoned her son Emperor Xiao and several senior officials. After passing the throne to Emperor Xiao under the witness of several ministers, the former emperor summoned her to his side and died in her arms.

Hearing this, the Empress Dowager understood that Emperor Xiao was really going to leave - walking ahead of her old empress.

So the queen mother shook her body twice, closed her eyes and passed out. Fortunately, there were court ladies behind her. Seeing this, Gao Guifei hurriedly asked the court ladies to help the queen mother to the side hall, then frowned, and asked the little eunuch in a low voice Said: "All go in?"

The little eunuch nodded: "Yes, the imperial concubine."

Concubine Gao knew immediately after hearing the words that Emperor Xiao probably wanted to establish a new crown prince in front of everyone because he was afraid that someone would pass on a false edict, so that he would ascend the throne smoothly after his death, but he didn't know who the prince would be.

"The emperor called us into the palace." Concubine Gao took a deep breath, turned around and let everyone in.

As soon as Xiao Jining stepped into the Golden Dragon Palace bedroom, he smelled a bitter smell of medicine. It seems that the imperial physician used these medicines to hang Emperor Xiao's last breath.

But when he saw the current appearance of Emperor Xiao with his own eyes, Xiao Jining couldn't believe it. During the few days he hadn't seen Emperor Xiao, Emperor Xiao had aged rapidly. When the first winter snow fell, he only had gray hair on his temples. But now his head is gray all over, his face is blue-gray, and he is at the end of his battle.

"Father Emperor..." Xiao Emperor usually dotes on the Seventh Prince the most, so the Seventh Prince couldn't help crying when he saw Xiao Emperor's appearance like this, and said in a sobbing voice.

The father's voice seemed to be an omen. After the Seventh Prince's voice fell, there was a low cry in the hall immediately, but he didn't dare to cry too much.

And although Xiao Jining didn't have particularly deep feelings for Emperor Xiao, they had been father and son for more than ten years. No matter what, Emperor Xiao was also his biological father. Seeing his father pass away, Xiao Jining was also a little sad, and his eyes gradually turned red.

Concubine Zhen's face was full of tears, she knelt in front of Emperor Xiao's bed and mourned, "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Xiao patted her hand, sat up reluctantly with the support of the palace servants, and then raised his hand to signal the princes to come to him: "You all come here..."

After the princes went up and down, Emperor Xiao glanced at their faces one by one, and asked suddenly: "Why doesn't the third son..." Halfway through speaking, Emperor Xiao realized that the third prince was far away in the imperial tomb, and he didn't come down to the emperor's tomb. Therefore, the third prince cannot return to Beijing.

He was silent for a moment, shook his head with a sneer, and looked towards the window: "Tonight is New Year's Eve, right?"

"Yes... Your Majesty." Concubine Zhen was not sure what Emperor Xiao meant by asking, so she could only follow his words.

"At this time last year, everyone was here." Emperor Xiao's voice was a little soft, and his eyes were empty, as if he had passed through this year's moonlight and saw the lively scene of last year's New Year's Eve again. After speaking, he coughed twice and muttered He muttered, "I thought it wasn't that fast..."

Emperor Xiao reigned for 27 years, which is already a long time, but Emperor Xiao thought he was healthy and could live for many years, but he didn't want to die so soon.

He looked at the still young concubine Zhen beside him, feeling a little pity in his heart, but he also thought of the deceased concubine Chen.

When Concubine Chen vomited blood, she kept muttering in her mouth: "It is better to have a confidant than to have all the beauties in the world."

And the last sentence of this sentence is: What's more, all the beauties in the world are not as beautiful as Zhi'er alone.

However, the most beautiful person is Concubine Chen, while his confidant is Concubine Zhen, so he has to choose between the Crown Prince and the Seventh Prince.

"What's more, all the beauties in the world are not as beautiful as Zhi'er alone..." Emperor Xiao also said this out of his mouth without realizing it. Everyone's attention was on Emperor Xiao, not Concubine Zhen's appearance.

"Xiao Mo...Xiao Mo!" Emperor Xiao said a few words to himself, and suddenly began to call his personal eunuch to step forward.

Xiao Mo hurried forward and approached Emperor Xiao: "Your Majesty, the servant is here."

Emperor Xiao said again: "Several lovers also came forward..."

So Xiao Jining and all the princes dispersed one after another to make room for the ministers, but Concubine Zhen held Xiao Emperor's hand tightly and refused to leave the bed.

"Zhen, I want to issue a will." Emperor Xiao propped up the bed and wanted to sit up straight, but after struggling for a few times, he only shook his body a few times, and the hearts of all the people present were also shaken by these words of Emperor Xiao.

Xiao Mo and the ministers immediately knelt down upon hearing the words: "Your Majesty..."

Generally speaking, if the emperor did not die suddenly, he would usually explain his affairs before his death. Among them, entrusting the new emperor to Minister Tuogu was a very important matter.

And the choice of Minister Tuogu is also extremely cautious. The emperor will either choose a minister who is close to the prince who likes the prince, so that the minister can support the new emperor, or he will choose himself to be absolutely trusted, absolutely neutral, impartial to any prince, and only loyal to the country. His confidant ministers, to ensure that after his death, the throne will not fall into the hands of others.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Xiao mentioned it first, but it was the father and son of the Jing family: "General Jingyue has been fighting with me for several years, devoted himself to death, and died. Young General Jingyuan has also gone to the border for several years to protect my great Xiao community for thousands of years." All generations...Xie Xiang has devoted his heart and soul to hard work. For 27 years, he has worked hard to protect the stability of the Great Xiao, and the people live and work in peace and contentment...Since I succeeded to the throne, Xiao Mo has served as the admiral of the East Factory. , decades are like a day..."

All the princes, concubines, and even the ministers widened their eyes when they heard the first person mentioned by Emperor Xiao, because no one in the court and harem knew that General Jing Yuan was the companion of the Ninth Prince Xiao Jining. Could it be that Emperor Xiao wanted to Make the Nine Princes the Emperor?

But isn't Emperor Xiao most interested in the seventh prince?What's more, since ancient times, the throne has been established by the heir, the fifth heir has established the elder, and the eldest son has no virtue, the virtuous. Neither of these nine princes will occupy it?

Fortunately, the two Tuogu ministers that Emperor Xiao pointed out in the last two sentences were not ministers close to the Ninth Prince.

Xie Xiang's loyalty is needless to say, the crown prince is dead, he has nothing else to support the prince, he will only try his best to assist the new emperor, and Xiao Mo needless to say, is the chief eunuch Xiao Emperor has used for more than 20 years, only listening to the emperor It is impossible for any prince or concubine to use her life.

Or is it that although Jing Yuan is the companion of the Ninth Prince, the Jing family does not favor the Ninth Prince and still only listens to the new emperor's orders?

After Emperor Xiao pointed out several ministers who were in charge of the Gu, he began to talk about the new emperor: "I hope that after I leave, the lovers will do their best to assist the prince Xiao Ji...uh!"

Everyone concentrated and held their breath, waiting for Emperor Xiao to say which prince would succeed him.

As a result, no one expected that when Emperor Xiao was about to say the prince's name, his eyes widened suddenly, his eyes almost fell out, he vomited a mouthful of blood, and then died of breathlessness.

Concubine Zhen stared blankly at Emperor Xiao, and said softly: "... Your Majesty?"

Xiao Mo stepped forward to check Emperor Xiao's breath, and said sadly: "The emperor has passed away—!"

The eunuch's high-pitched voice was very ear-piercing, pulling everyone's sanity back.

The first bell of Yunhong's 28th New Year is the death knell.

Outside the Golden Dragon Hall, the night is clear and bright, the moonlight is like hail, just like the night scene when Emperor Xiao ascended the throne, decades has passed, people have changed and the scene has not changed.

Emperor Xiao passed away. After his death, the palace was busy for a while, but the most troublesome thing was that he didn't say the name of the new emperor before his death, and he didn't even say the order of the princes.

He had a total of nine sons, one prince died, and the third prince stayed in the imperial mausoleum, but there are still seven left.

Even though he favored the Seventh Prince during his lifetime, one of his Tuogu ministers was Jing Yuan, who was accompanied by the Ninth Prince, and he never explained which prince was enthroned until his death. They all have followers, so there was an uproar in the court over the new emperor.

But in general, the people who support the second prince and the ministers of the seventh prince are the most.

But behind the second prince besides the empress dowager stood Xu Junhui who held the military power, while the seventh prince had nothing on his side. Even if he had the most supporters among all officials in the imperial court, he still had to be cautious in front of the military power.

Fortunately, the most important thing right now is to deal with the affairs of Emperor Xiao's death. Who is the new emperor will have to wait until Emperor Xiao is buried.

So Xiao Jining had a few days to breathe, but these few days were not enough for him to calm down. On the way back to Shun Palace from the Golden Dragon Palace, his fingers were cold, his eyes were dull, and his whole body was empty.

It wasn't until the carriage stopped at Prince Shun's Mansion and Mu Kui greeted him to get off the carriage that Xiao Jining suddenly let out a breath.

He looked up at the moon in the sky, and murmured softly in a daze: "I'm going to die, I'm going to die..."

Maybe he can't even wait for Jingyuan to ascend the throne, and Jiulong seizes the throne, and he is probably the first prince to die.

After hearing his murmur, Xiaodan said directly to Xiao Jining: "I told you a long time ago, if you don't fight or fight, you will definitely die."

The author has something to say: This chapter is a bit difficult to write _(:з」∠)_, so the update is a bit late, but who died at the hands of Emperor Xiao?

"Guidelines for Correct Reading of This Article" - Chapter 37

Xie Xiang & Xiao Mo: False Tuogu ministers, loyal to the emperor, methods are okay, but ability is limited, there is not much they can do for the new emperor, the emperor abused me thousands of times, I treat the emperor like first love.

Jing Yuan: The real Tuogu Minister, the means are too superb, not only can stabilize the throne, but also seize the throne, I am loyal, I respect, I shed my blood for the Great Xiao, but what does this have to do with my rebellion?

Identifying the real orphan minister will help you become a real orphan! (?)