[Comprehensive classics] I build a dynasty in the book

Emperor Jialong's death was very disgraceful. First, the eldest prince colluded with the Tatars to force the palace, then Prince Zhongshun rebelled and revealed in public that Emperor Jialong had murdered the former prince, and then the third prince colluded with the Japanese to force the palace, and Emperor Jialong made a promise Adding to the drug addiction, three things broke out one after another, and they were all royal scandals, which completely wiped out the majesty of the royal family.

All the officials in the hall that day, except those who supported the prince, were all in fear, fearing that Ji Shengyan would silence them witnesses in order to protect the face of the royal family, so when these people returned to the room, they all became trembling.

Ji Shengyan ignored these people. When Emperor Jialong died, he sent someone to notify the admiral of the Nine Gates to close the gates of the capital.They wanted to return to the capital with Emperor Jialong's body as quickly as possible.

In fact, the death of Emperor Jialong was not planned by Ji Shengyan and Lin Yuzhou. Their original plan was to help Emperor Jialong get rid of his drug/addiction and let him abdicate automatically, but he did not expect Zhen to do it suddenly.

"Your Majesty, Lord Lin, your lords have returned to your room, and the imperial physician has also gone to check." Lu Shengrong trotted to Ji Shengyan to report with small steps.

"En." Ji Shengyan nodded, although the enthronement ceremony was not held, he was already the emperor of the Ji Dynasty.

"When the servant came, I met Master Lin and Master Fu. The servant overstepped the rules and persuaded the two adults to go back." Lu Shengrong said cautiously.

Lin Ruhai and Fu Chengguang?Ji Shengyan looked at Lin Yuzhou: "You go and have a look?"

Lin Yuzhou nodded, "Tonight will definitely last all night, take a rest after you've finished your work here."

"Well, so do you."

White flags were hung in the hunting ground palace, and Emperor Jialong's remains were tidied up and parked in the main hall to the east of the palace. Outside the hall, the accompanying officials knelt and wept.

Ji Shengyan changed into his filial attire and burned paper in front of Emperor Jialong's coffin. After a while, Ji Geng and Ji Zhao also came.

"Second...Your Majesty." Ji Geng changed his words in time.

Ji Shengyan put another piece of yellow paper behind the brazier, and said, "Just call me second brother."

Ji Geng didn't dare to agree, and followed Ji Zhao to kneel slightly behind Ji Shengyan.

Ji Zhao's mood is very complicated. Everything that happened tonight was too sudden. The father guarded against the elder brother and Prince Zhongshun, but ignored the child he once loved the most. Even he himself died at the hands of the woman he loved the most. It's such a disgrace to die.

The cries outside the hall became louder and louder. Ji Shengyan vaguely heard Lin Yuzhou's voice. He turned slightly sideways, just in time to see Lu Shengrong rushing over in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, the Xiling Palace is on fire!"

The hunting ground, Xiling Palace, is the queen's residence. Ji Shengyan got up and walked towards the direction of Xiling Palace. Ji Geng and Ji Zhao looked at each other and followed behind him.

In Xiling Palace, Empress Hou pulled out the dagger that had been inserted into the chest of Duke Xiu, and looked at the frightened concubine and her biological mother.

The Duke's wife trembled: "You... what are you doing? You are killing your brother, you...you..."

"Hehe..." The queen shook the blood on the dagger and said with a smile, "Yes, not only do I want to kill my brother, but I also want to kill my mother, hahahaha..."

"You're crazy, you're crazy!" The Duke's wife ran out of the palace crying and howling. Just as she was out of the palace gate, she was pushed back by the Queen's people.

"What are you running for? No one can run away." The queen laughed bitterly: "Father committed treason and punished the nine clans for death. Now that he has been arrested, where else can he go? The ridiculous thing is, to prevent me To sabotage his plan, he came to see me early, and now that he failed, he came to plead with me again and asked the prince to spare you, hehehehe..."

"We are your relatives. Without us, how would you be where you are today?" Seeing that she couldn't run away, the wife of the Duke also gave it up. She said angrily, "You are the queen of a country, but you can't protect the Duke's mansion." For the benefit of the prince, and let the prince openly humiliate your father, how useless are you as a queen? Four princes and eight princes, among the eight princes, Xiu Guogong is the last, our family is the mother of a country, what is better than this Is there something ironic?"

"Sarcasm? Many people say that I dragged you into the vortex of the imperial power struggle for my own selfishness, and became a knife in the emperor's hands. Is this really the case?" The queen walked towards the duke's wife, "Mother, it's time now! Are you still not telling the truth? The one who saved me back then was not the emperor at all, you lied to me, you lied to me with your father and the emperor!"

"It's no wonder that no matter what I do, His Majesty doesn't like it. Which man would like a woman who has someone else in his heart? But this was designed by you, why should I bear the consequences? After so many years, I have lived like a joke!"

"You...how did you know?" Mrs. Guo's face turned pale instantly, she had already forgotten these old things.

The queen smiled miserably: "I didn't expect that I would know. Before coming to the hunting ground, His Majesty said it himself. He also said that he would give me a chance to take revenge. See, Your Majesty encouraged me to kill you all with my own hands, hehehe..."

"Mother, we are all selfish people, you are, and I am too, and now we are all retribution." The queen threw the dagger on the ground, and ordered the people outside to close the palace door. She walked to a corner of the palace and put the candles on the candlestick Pick it up, "We are a family, let's go together, this life, that's it..."

She threw the candle on the white gauze in the temple, and the fire burned along the white gauze, burning bigger and bigger.

When Ji Shengyan arrived at Xiling Palace, the fire here was out of control. He used his spiritual power to mobilize the Qi of heaven and earth, and it rained heavily to suppress the fire and prevent it from spreading to the nearby palace.

When the fire was completely extinguished, the Xiling Palace had been burned down, leaving only a frame in place.

"Your Majesty." Lu Shengrong trotted up to Ji Shengyan, knelt down and reported: "There are more than a dozen charred corpses in the hall, seven female corpses and three male corpses. According to their belongings, there are...the empress. "After finishing speaking, Lu Shengrong slammed on the ground, not daring to look at Ji Shengyan's face.

Lin Yuzhou followed behind Ji Zhao, and frowned after hearing Lu Shengrong's words.

According to the rules of the harem of the Ji Dynasty, concubines are not allowed to commit suicide, the offenders are deprived of their titles, cannot be buried in the royal mausoleum, and even have their corpses exposed in the wilderness. The consequences of Hou's suicide are even more serious.

She really doesn't feel sorry for her son at all. Knowing that Ji Shengyan is about to ascend the throne, she made a fuss here, how would she want the world to evaluate Ji Shengyan?There was a traitorous grandfather, an ugly dead father, and a mother who committed suicide. Historians dare not directly record this period of history.

The more he thought about it, the more angry Lin Yuzhou wished he could break into the underworld and throw the souls of Emperor Jialong and the Empress into the [-]th hell.

"Gather her bones and make a tomb." Ji Shengyan didn't get angry. To him, whether it's the empress or Emperor Jialong, they are irrelevant people. He doesn't care about them at all.

"Have you figured out the origin of the other corpses?" Lin Yuzhou stepped forward and asked.

Lu Shengrong replied: "According to the little eunuch who was sweeping in the hall, the son of Duke Xiu, the concubine and his wife have not come out since they came to Xiling Palace in the evening. There are two females and one male in the corpses. Judging by the accessories, it should be these three people."

"No wonder, I didn't see Duke Xiu's son at the banquet, and Hou Xiaoming's second son, Hou Jinan, was with Hou Xiaoming." Ji Geng interjected, and said, "But why did these three people come to the Queen's side today? Is the queen not here for the night banquet at the female family's side?"

The night banquet in the palace is divided into two places, one is the main hall, where the emperor and courtiers have a banquet, and the other is the side hall, where the empress and female relatives have a banquet. Ji Geng and the others are all in the main hall, so they don't know what happened in the side hall.

"His Majesty Tenth, the empress is not feeling well, so she handed over the night banquet in the side hall to Empress Qin."

Lu Shengrong's words moved Ji Geng's mind. Mrs. Xiu Guogong and the eldest son went to see the queen, lest she disturb Xiu Guogong's plan. Thinking about it this way, the queen may not have set the fire on her own, or it may be the queen. Seeing that the matter was exposed, the lady-in-law wanted to die with the queen and let her go.

Ji Geng thought so, and expressed his speculation.

Lin Yuzhou glanced at him, then turned his head to look at Ji Shengyan. The truth cannot be hidden from him and Ji Shengyan, but what Ji Geng provided may be regarded as a fig leaf for this matter. The queen died at the hands of others than by suicide. Much better.

"Hang up the white flag, and we will handle the funeral of the emperor and empress together." Ji Shengyan made a final decision, deciding that the empress' death was a homicide.

On September [-]th, Prince Ji Shengyan returned to Beijing to help the spirit. The whole capital was completely deserted, with white lanterns hung in front of every house, and the bells of the temples on the outskirts of the city also rang, one after another, continuously.

Concubine Ning waited at the gate of Jiqing with her concubines, and when the prince appeared, they all burst into tears.

The wind swirls above the palace, and the paper flowers blowing "squeak", and the paper figurines outside the Qianqing Palace are also swaying left and right with the wind. Everything in front of them seems to tell that the old dynasty has left and the new one is coming. The emperor has returned.

The funeral of Emperor Jialong and the empress lasted for nearly a month, and it was not until the coffins of the two were buried in the imperial mausoleum that all this came to an end. The next thing the courtiers had to prepare was Ji Shengyan's enthronement ceremony.

Even if it was just a show, they knelt outside the Qianqing Palace for a long time. Lin Yuzhou and Lin Ruhai could really rest after the empress was buried. But before they had enough sleep, they heard from the servants in the mansion that the old lady Jia was seriously ill. .

Lin Yuzhou pinched his brows. Since the defeat of Ji Cong, all the three princes related to him have been arrested, all the men have been thrown into prison, and the women are all imprisoned in their respective houses. When Ji Shengyan ascended the throne, the punishment of these people will also be on the agenda.

Rebellion has been a major crime against the nine clans in all dynasties, and the heads of Rongning and Ningfu were all involved in the case. Even if Jia Jing joined Ji Shengyan and lurked beside Emperor Jialong to collect evidence of the collusion between the third prince and the Japanese, it would not be able to offset the crimes committed by the two prefectures. crime.

The matter of Qiushou involved a lot, let go of the killing, and could kill half of the dignitaries of the Ji Dynasty.Lin Yuzhou knocked on the table, and the main people involved in the case would definitely not survive, but the crime of punishing the nine clans, which harms relatives, must be abolished, and this time it can be regarded as a chance to abolish this crime.

"Lin Cong." Lin Yuzhou, who had thought about a lot of things, called Lin Cong to his side: "Go to the imperial doctor to see the old lady. There are complicated things recently, and my mother may not have time to go to Rongguo Mansion. Tell the old lady to take good care of her." Body."

As long as Jia Min doesn't show up, Mother Jia won't torment herself, after all, she has to live to force Jia Min, right?

Two days later, on October 25th, Ji Shengyan's enthronement ceremony began.

Lin Yuzhou entered the palace early in the morning, and accompanied Ji Shengyan, who had changed into a dragon robe, for a while.First pray to the heavens from the Circular Hill, then go to the Sheji Altar to worship the heaven and the earth, then go to the ancestral temple to worship the ancestors, and finally return to the Fengtian Hall after worshiping the first emperor and the sequence.After this lap, those who are not physically strong will definitely be exhausted and paralyzed. Lin Yuzhou found that one of the accompanying officials secretly beat his leg.

When Ji Shengyan walked up the steps of Fengtian Hall, every step was echoed by the sound of drum music. After he finished walking the steps and sat on the dragon chair, the sound of drum music stopped, and the officials announced the enthronement edict. The officials all knelt down and began to bow three times and bow nine times.

Outside the Fengtian Palace, the banners were flying, the sound of drums and music reappeared, a ray of light streaked across the clear sky, and the palace seemed to be covered with a layer of golden veil.

Lin Yuzhou raised his head, and the seal that imprisoned him was undone in vain, and the heavenly dao of this world let go of its restraint on him. He turned to look at Ji Shengyan and found that he was the same.