The funeral of the old emperor and the succession of King Ming were carried out together.

On the day of his death, all civil and military officials unanimously supported King Ming as the new ruler.

But before that, some accounts still need to be settled, such as that Zhao Shilang.

In the morning sacrifice ceremony, the other party was in charge of guarding the periphery. As early as the time when the old emperor was still awake, King Ming had already ordered people to be surrounded secretly.

After changing into the filial piety clothes in the main hall, someone around him came to ask how to deal with the second prince who had been demoted as a commoner, and whether he should be executed the next day?

Regarding this, King Ming just said: "Put it in the dungeon first, and don't let anyone die."

After hearing this, the servants knew that King Ming had other arrangements, so they took orders to go down.

After changing his clothes, King Ming came to the Qianqing Palace where the coffin was parked, because the funeral expenses had already been arranged before he was alive, so he only needed to let the people follow the procedure, and he could keep watch for a while.

In addition, it is necessary to announce to the world that for three years of national mourning, the whole country mourns, and all entertainment activities are prohibited.

After guarding the spirit, the things to be prepared for the enthronement ceremony are basically complete, and then there will be the Minister of Rites and the first assistant secretary to succeed to the throne.

The previous funerals were suspended, and the new emperor began to take the throne. After the officials at all levels were in place, everyone invited them again, and then they officially came to the Palace of Preserving Harmony to climb the steps and sit on the dragon chair.

After the completion of the ceremony, King Ming officially became the new emperor, established a queen, and sent all the people in the original harem to guard the tomb of the old emperor, and the division of power in the court began again.

The old Chief Assistant took the initiative to resign very wisely. Since the previous poisoning, the other party’s body has been worse than before. It was because the First Prince was worried that he insisted on it. Now that he is in charge, he, the old man, should naturally retire. A new cabinet has been resigned.

It's just that King Ming didn't agree, and ordered to appease the old Shoufu, so that he can rest assured and continue to do his work.

Could it be that the old Shoufu just left?Although it is said that there is one emperor and one courtier, you can't change all the officials, right?Self-aware people like the old Shoufu still need to be reassuring.

The previous royalist official positions were changed to unimportant positions, and important positions were assigned to their own confidants.

As for Lu Xiuyuan, the original sixth-rank compilation was directly promoted to a level by the Ming Emperor because of his meritorious service in saving the old emperor, and now he is a bachelor of the fifth rank.

Don't look at just from the sixth rank to the fifth rank. After all, the official position of the Imperial Academy is noble, and the leader of the academy is only the fifth rank.

Hearing this reward, the people below had different thoughts.

Although the official position of the bachelor's degree is not high, the main task of the servant is to explain the scriptures and history to the emperor and the prince. He can face the saint every day, and he is equivalent to the emperor's adviser.

In other words, although the opponent is from the fifth rank, according to the current situation, officials of the third and fourth ranks dare not underestimate him.

Some more daring officials even speculated that Lu Xiuyuan made such a great contribution to saving him. Emperor Ming did not promote him to be a third- and fourth-rank Beijing official, but continued to stay in the Imperial Academy. Did he have the intention of letting him enter the cabinet in the future? ...

After all, this meritorious service is called "rescue him", but it is actually the contribution of Conglong...

But this is all guesswork from the underbelly, and the two people who were guessed didn't care about it, they just started to deal with the follow-up issues after ascension to the throne.

After the court officials settled down, Emperor Ming received bad news.

That day he was correcting the memorial in the imperial study, and the secret guard came to report the letter.

Zhao Shilang fled.

When the words fell to the ground, Emperor Ming slapped the table and stood up: "How can I escape after the reward order has been issued?"

The dark guard knelt down and remained silent.

These people had already surrounded Patriarch Zhao outside as early as the day of offering sacrifices to heaven, but they were not as deep as the opponent's city, and fell into the opponent's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain and let the old fox run away.

After that, they followed the trail for dozens of days, and even searched all the way but couldn't find patriarch Zhao.

Emperor Ming also knew the cunning of Patriarch Zhao, so he calmed down and asked the dark guards to continue searching.

Just looking at the idea of ​​that surnamed Zhao before, he knew that this old thief would cause endless troubles, so cutting the weeds must eradicate the roots!

He had sat on the throne safely for a month, and even though he had not suffered bloodshed and the court had not undergone a great baptism, the civil and military officials still did not understand Emperor Ming's character, and could only guess what King Ming's true temperament was through his daily words and deeds.

Not only the court ministers were worried, but the common people were also very concerned about whether the new emperor was a tyrant.

To this day, Lu Xiuyuan's Yan Ruyu doesn't have to worry about the venue being smashed. After communicating with Emperor Ming, the story column and advertisement column of the newspaper have placed an advertisement for Emperor Ming.

People like to gossip, especially some people that they don't usually get in touch with, so it is inevitable that they will have some curiosity.

Lu Xiuyuan took advantage of this, wrote a story about the time when Emperor Ming was still King Ming overnight, and then put it in newspapers and spread it widely.

The weather in April in the north is getting warmer, but the cold spring on Qingming Festival makes people feel cold hands and feet.

It was night, and the eunuch below was ordered to add another pot of charcoal to the imperial study. Lu Xiuyuan put down the writing brush in his hand, stretched out his hand and roasted his hands on top of the charcoal pot.

The temperature emitted by the fiery red charcoal gradually warmed his cold fingers, and he couldn't help sighing, it was so warm and comfortable.

Seeing him like this, Emperor Ming who was dressed in black on the opposite side of the desk stretched out his hand to test the temperature, and asked with a puzzled expression: "Is it so cold?"

Lu Xiuyuan rubbed his hands on the charcoal basin, and said helplessly: "Recently, the temperature has risen higher and higher, so I changed into unlined clothes. Unexpectedly, the weather will change in the afternoon."

After hearing this explanation, Emperor Ming said with emotion: "I can't bear to see you so cold, why don't you let Xiao Linzi send Mrs. Tang over?"

Lu Xiuyuan smiled: "If your majesty really can't bear it, you should let the minister go home and rest earlier, instead of sitting here and writing handwriting."

Hahaha!Emperor Ming laughed.

"It's a lot of work for those who are capable, and this matter can only be troublesome."

Although the other party called him kindly, Lu Xiuyuan knew exactly how much he weighed, how much he was, and where he was, so he would not be confused by these titles.

Even if Emperor Ming likes him now, there will definitely be better courtiers in the future, and he will be gone by then.

So he only jokes with each other occasionally, and doesn't do anything excessive.

After being roasted by the charcoal fire, his fingers were no longer stiff from the cold. Lu Xiuyuan took the writing brush next to him and continued to write the story under the supervision of the other party.

Before, they blindly explained the good things about the emperor. The people outside could at most say that the emperor was good, but they couldn't tell the specific good things.

The good deeds that King Ming did are not clear before. What Lu Xiuyuan remembers is that when the two first met, the river collapsed and the flood flooded.

Forget it, this kind of disaster relief can't be written.

In addition to this, I can also write about the repair of the Yellow River last year. After all, the flood was under control after the completion of the repair.

Lu Xiuyuan sat cross-legged at the table and asked, "Did your Majesty have any heart-warming things happen when he built the river?"

"A heart-warming thing?" The Ming Emperor on the opposite side thought about it seriously.

"When the river was being built and it was inconvenient to cook because of the weather, did the people around come over and deliver food?"

"Calculate."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded, then picked up a pen and wrote the title in ten large characters on the paper.

"Military and civilian family, deep love for fish and water"

Immediately below, it is written that the conditions for building the river are difficult, and the common people volunteered to bring water and food to the hard-working militiamen on the front line...etc.

In the middle of writing, the movement of his hands suddenly stopped.

It seems that in the propaganda, it only focuses on showing the harmony between the army and the people, showing the unity of the people, and it cannot highlight the personal charm of King Ming.

"Is there anything else besides these?" Lu Xiuyuan asked.

Seeing him asking himself, Emperor Ming thought about the situation at that time: "Actually, those who deliver water are only a minority, and most of them are people who come to make trouble..."

"Troublemaking?" He was a little puzzled: "Building rivers is not a great thing that benefits the people and the country, so why would anyone come to hold back."

After all, those militiamen were not recruited for free.

Emperor Ming was not too clear: "Perhaps those people were bribed by the First Prince. At that time, there were too many people and the situation was chaotic. Those troublemakers came to dig the river, and I couldn't find out who was behind them, so I killed them all."

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiuyuan held the brush and thought for a while, then picked up the pen and wrote.

"Extremely Touching!Lost people stayed by the Yellow River, and were kindly sent back to their hometown by King Ming"

Originally, Emperor Ming just wanted to glance at what Lu Xiuyuan was going to write, but he didn't expect to see such a title.

"Can this work too?"

The other party said in surprise.

He smiled tacitly at the other party: "On a certain level, these are indeed facts."

Seeing the sly eyes of Lu Xiuyuan in front of him, full of intelligence and alertness, this made Emperor Ming feel an uncontrollable pain in his heart.

"Yes, you are right."

Emperor Ming withdrew his body, sat up straight again, closed his eyes and rested his mind, and began to wait for him to finish writing the article.

At this time, Lu Xiuyuan's mind was full of how to make up stories, so naturally he didn't notice the abnormality of the other party.

After changing his posture and relieving his numb legs, he continued to write on the title just now.

With many years of rich experience in writing story books, it didn't take long for him to write the content of the new newspaper, and then take it back and let Yan Ruyu's staff print it out, and print more, like this kind of propaganda with the court's back Advertisement, he wouldn't worry about not being able to sell it.

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