Reborn to marry the emperor, I just want to confuse the emperor and seize the throne

Qianqing Palace.

The Crown Prince, the Empress and others were all waiting outside the Emperor's bedroom. All the doctors in the Imperial Hospital were treating the Emperor. Everyone was in a heavy mood when the Emperor fainted again.

Several princes have been guarding the palace for a month, but have not received any rewards. Everyone is getting a little impatient and just wants to leave the palace and take care of their own things unless the emperor dies today.

The emperor had no feelings for their mother, so he had no feelings for them either. Apart from caring about their studies, they did not experience any other father-son affection.

In fact, Xie Shang did not feel any father-son affection from the emperor. He didn't know why, when he saw his father's powerless look, his heart was filled with grief, so painful that he found it difficult to breathe. What he always wanted was the throne, but his father gave it to him easily. He didn't know whether his father needed an heir or him, his son.

At this time, Doctor Mei came out, and everyone came forward, "Doctor Mei, how is the emperor?"

"Doctor Mei, how is Father?"

Everyone had tears on their faces and came forward to greet them. Doctor Mei looked towards Jiang Fenghua with a worried look on his face, "Your Majesty, please invite the Crown Princess in."

Everyone saw Jiang Fenghua, their eyes full of disbelief, "Father..."

Doctor Mei added, "The Emperor's instructions to everyone are all written in the imperial edict. The last person the Emperor wants to see is the Crown Princess. Please wait patiently, Empress, Princes, and Princesses."

Xie Shang stepped forward, but before he could say anything, Steward Cao's eyes were red and he said, "Your Majesty asked this old servant to come out and wait, Your Highness the Crown Prince, please don't be anxious." This meant that neither the Crown Prince nor Steward Cao could go in.

Jiang Fenghua walked in slowly, holding up her skirt. Butler Cao personally closed the door for her and stood guard at the door himself. He wanted to stand guard for the emperor for the last time.

Jiang Fenghua entered the bedroom and looked at the aging emperor lying on the bed. The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor that everyone envied, who would have believed that he would look so helpless and sick when he was dying, without any dignity at all.

She bowed sincerely, "Your daughter-in-law pays respect to your father."

The emperor suddenly stretched out his hand to her, "Fenghua."

"Oh!" Jiang Fenghua's eyes were red, full of sadness and grief. In her previous life, she had also been filial to the emperor in front of her, but he didn't know it.

"Father has something to ask of you. Of all my children and grandchildren, I'm afraid you are the only one who can do it for me."

The emperor took out an old tiger-head doll and handed it to Jiang Fenghua, "If there is a chance, give it to her for me."

Jiang Fenghua took it and said, "Okay, if my daughter-in-law can see the Queen Mother, I will definitely pass it on to her and tell her that my father has missed her and Uncle Kang all his life. I believe they will not be angry with my father anymore."

The emperor suddenly raised a smile, "I didn't expect that among all my children, Fenghua is the only one who understands my heart the most."

In the emperor's last days, Jiang Fenghua accompanied him like a daughter, "Go and let the crown prince and the other princes in!"

Xie Shang wiped away the tears from his eyes, tried to calm down, and then calmly walked in front of the emperor. He thought he should show his steady and mature side in front of his father so that his father could rest assured that he had taken over the country with his own hands.

When I arrived at the emperor's bed, I saw such a weak emperor. His majesty and domineering attitude were all gone. Was he still the emperor who was at ease in the Golden Palace? He seemed to be just an old man tortured by illness. Who would have thought that the person in front of him, who once controlled the country and called the wind and rain, would be nothing more than this in the end.

Xie Shang knelt in front of the emperor's bed with a heavy heart. His voice was trembling as he took the emperor's hand and said, "Father, I am here."

Jiang Fenghua knelt respectfully on one side. The princes, princesses, and the queen followed the prince's footsteps and slowly entered the bedroom. Everyone knelt on the ground, crying bitterly.

"The Xie family's kingdom is now handed over to the crown prince. I know that my time has come. You must remember my instructions and create a prosperous Xie family." The emperor is most afraid of emotions. Don't let emotions cloud your mind. What the emperor lacks most is also emotion. If you attach too much importance to emotions, you will have too many fetters. With fetters, there will be constraints. It is absolutely unacceptable for an emperor to be tied down by emotions.

"Your son has remembered this." Xie Shang could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes.

The words his father had said to him were still fresh in his mind. He was thinking that what his father meant was that only by not being an emperor could he be completely liberated, get rid of the shackles of the world and be free. Is his father liberated now?

He had asked his father countless times whether he loved his mother, but he never got an accurate answer. Did his father think that as an emperor he should not love any woman?

The emperor slowly closed his eyes, and Doctor Mei came over to feel the emperor's pulse. He said sadly, "Your Highness, the emperor has passed away."

Soon after, all the princes and grandchildren knelt down and cried, and there was wailing everywhere for a while.

Empress Cheng rushed to the emperor's bed and said, "Your Majesty, please open your eyes and look at me. I am your Lang'er!"

The queen cried for a while, and Nanny Xi and others quickly helped her up.

Soon, the palace servants who had been waiting for a long time came to help the emperor prepare his body and other matters.

A group of officials were also kneeling outside the Qianqing Palace. When they heard the news of the emperor's death, they also cried in grief. The officials knew that the emperor had fallen ill again, and they had already come to the Qianqing Palace to wait.

Chief Steward Cao took out the edict of succession and said, "Your Highness, please listen to my order."

Then, the crown prince took the lead and everyone knelt on the ground, "Your sons accept the order."

"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, proclaims that I have received the favor of Heaven and the great blessings of the saints... The Crown Prince thanks you, my fifth son, for your noble character and your close resemblance to me. You will surely be able to inherit the throne and succeed me as Emperor. This is announced to the whole world, so that everyone will know."

After the long will was read, the imperial seal fell into Xie Shang's hands. From then on, the new generation of emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong, took over the throne.

As soon as the edict of succession was read, Censor Zhu, General Qiao and the six ministers took the lead in kowtowing to the new emperor, "Your subjects pay their respects to the new emperor. Long live the emperor..."

At this time, Cao Zongguan knelt in front of Xie Shang again and said, "Your Majesty, the late emperor left a will."

Xie Shang took it, opened it and took a look. His pupils changed color and he glanced in the direction of Jiang Fenghua. His father actually thought so highly of Jiang Fenghua that he issued an edict to confer the title of empress to Crown Princess Jiang and to never depose her. He also conferred the title of empress dowager to Cheng.

In fact, Xie Shang originally wanted to enthrone Jiang Fenghua as his queen, so his father's move was unnecessary.

Xie Shang said in a deep voice, "In accordance with my father's will, Empress Cheng of Emperor Huijing will be honored as the Empress Dowager, and Crown Princess Jiang will be canonized as the new Empress of the Emperor."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked in the direction of Jiang Fenghua. Normally, the new emperor would naturally enthrone the queen after he ascended the throne, and this edict should be issued by the new emperor.

Everyone bowed without thinking, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to the Queen Mother. May Her Highness live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years. Your Highness, I pay my respects to the Queen Mother. May Her Highness live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years."

For a moment, the sounds of this and that resounded throughout the entire palace.

The death of the previous emperor has caused the whole country to mourn, and all entertainment activities are prohibited during the period of national mourning.

According to the ancestral system of the Zhou Dynasty, the remains of the previous emperor would be placed in the imperial palace for a month. The previous emperor also left a will that the imperial tomb should be set up in the Hengyang Palace, so after one month the new emperor would send the previous emperor's body to Hengyang for burial.

Only after the funeral of Emperor Huijing is over, the new emperor will hold a grand coronation ceremony and empress-conferring ceremony.

Jiang Fenghua was more than four months pregnant, so she did not dare to leave easily. She was sent back to Chenxi Palace to rest until dark when her body could no longer bear it.