Jiangshan Yingqiluo

Things did develop as Jiang Qing had expected. King De announced that he would ascend the throne soon after the late emperor was buried.

Although the emperor's list had already mentioned this matter before, when the news came out, it was still disapproved by many ministers in the court.

In their view, King De is not a legitimate heir.Although the first emperor had few heirs, it did not mean that he could surpass those princes and allow the prince to inherit the throne.

The ministers began to oppose King De's decision, but now the entire palace is controlled by him alone, even if those ministers have other thoughts, they have no way to face King De directly.

After asking King De to discuss this matter was rejected, the ministers who had more and more opinions on King De met secretly.

The meeting place was decided on the spur of the moment so no one else knew.

Most of the ministers who participated in this meeting were from the middle school, neither sided with King De, nor had a good relationship with General Jiang.

"King De is too ambitious. Even if the late emperor didn't do anything good, it's not his turn to sit on the throne!"

Zuo Xiang, who was very dissatisfied with King De, patted the table resentfully, and continued in a low voice: "The late emperor just died, and he did this. Going up as a puppet, it is better to be a regent than to be a king on your own."

"Even if you are dissatisfied with him, please keep your voice down, for fear that the walls have ears..."

The minister of the Ministry of punishment is very old, although his position is not as high as that of the cabinet prime minister, his words are still very prestigious.As soon as he opened his mouth, several other people nodded one after another, holding back their irritability and saying no more.

The left minister at the side calmed down a little, and asked again: "Mr. Zhang, what do you think we should do now? The princes and daughters are young and have nothing to rely on, and he... unexpectedly... did such a thing." about..." He really had no choice.When the former emperor was still there, he sneered at King De's actions, which led to the current situation where they, middle-class ministers who did not stand in line, could not speak at all.

A series of memorials were sent to the palace one after another, and everyone also brought up the rules of the ancestors, but King De remained unmoved.

"The words of us people are useless."

"You can't say that." At this time, Prime Minister Zuo had calmed down, and his thinking about King De's ascension to the throne had become much calmer. "He can ignore the memorial, and he can't ignore the voice of the people. What's more, everyone is in court. With so many officials, don’t they have any influence? As long as we are united, are we afraid that he will be able to make money?”

These words are very reasonable, and they also speak to everyone's hearts.One of the old ministers kept nodding and clapping his hands for him: "Mr. Zuo is right. Since he is not benevolent, let's not be polite to him. The reputation of the royal family cannot be lost in his hands."

......

Everyone was planning and talking for a long time, and it seemed that they had found a solution to this matter.

However, walls have ears, and none of them realized that all the words they said here today had already been presented to King De.

For the sake of profit, it is not surprising to get sidelined.

The previous emperor was arrested, and King De learned many things from him, including the nails he planted among the various factions in the court.

These messages are very useful, at least essential in the game of power struggle.King De had always wanted to replace his elder brother as emperor, so he naturally cared very much about the opinions of the court ministers.

Originally thought it would take more time to convince everyone, but now an opportunity appeared, which made De Wang ecstatic.

At the beginning, he deliberately suppressed the memorial to arouse the dissatisfaction of the opponents, and then incited everyone's emotions, all of which were inspired step by step by De Wang behind his back.The former emperor and empress dowagers have all gone, and all those left behind are useless children. Moreover, now that he has great military power, the most threatened Jiang Qing has also disappeared. Another company with military power is far away in the frontier, and there is no obstacle in the way forward.

Dewang will not give up the right to inherit the great rule.Before, he was still worrying about how to get rid of those ministers who were not afraid of death, but unexpectedly, Prime Minister Zuo took the lead in giving the blame.

"Do those old people think I'm as weak and incompetent as him?" De Wang sneered, and the teacup in his hand fell to pieces, "Hehe, since I like the previous one so much, why doesn't anyone follow him?" Into the imperial mausoleum?"

"My lord, don't be too angry, it's not worth it to hurt yourself too much." Seeing him like this, Liu Chang, who was standing aside, hurried forward to comfort him.Liu Chang is his confidant, originally the housekeeper of the palace.When De Wang entered the palace to replace the previous emperor, he also entered the palace to serve, and was just promoted to be the head of the palace.And because Jin Yi never came back, Liu Chang also took care of the dirty things in private.

"Tell me, he is the prince, and I am also the prince. Why can't I be the emperor?"

Liu Chang rolled his eyes around, and said with a flattering smile on his face, "My lord, you don't have to be so concerned. Now that you are in power, what can you do even if those people don't agree? When they show their feet again, I will take people to catch them all. When the time comes, your lord Ascend to the throne, open Enke, and worry about not being able to find other talents to replace them."

"That's right." King De smiled coldly, "You just keep an eye on them, and wait until the next time..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but Liu Chang understood what he meant and nodded hastily.

A few days later, there was a rumor in Youzhou City, saying that King De's conduct was not upright and he could not take on great tasks.At the beginning, the rumors were only spread among a small number of people, and not many people knew about it.

Liu Chang told King De about this, but King De laughed it off and didn't take it seriously.He is well versed in the principle of "talking is worse than doing", and he quickly countered with actions.

Amnesty for the world, opening of granaries, construction of schools... King De did all the good things he could do, and the rumors among the people gradually changed, and all the original accusations became praises.

No wonder.For the common people, whoever becomes the emperor doesn't care much, as long as the emperor can make everyone live a good life.

Things have gone very smoothly up to this point, King De has become more and more proficient at winning over the hearts of the people.Except that Jin Yi was still outside and did not come back, he really wasn't unhappy at all.

The Zuoxiang and the others did not expect that this game would be broken so easily by De Wang, which overturned their previous views on De Wang.In their eyes, King De was a man who was ignorant and ignorant, but they didn't expect that after several years of dormancy, he would become a lot more resourceful.

That night, the middle school secretly arranged a second gathering.Because the last trap was unsuccessful, several people headed by Zuo Xiang and Mr. He beat their chests and stamped their feet, feeling very unhappy.

"We underestimated him." Prime Minister Zuo said with emotion, "We have always thought he was an idiot, but we didn't expect him to have some tricks. This time he was really careless."

The other half, Master He, took a sip from the teacup on the table, lowered his eyes and said, "It's too late to change the public opinion now, we have to think of another way."

"What's your opinion, Elder He?"

Master He smiled lightly, stood up and patted Prime Minister Zuo on the shoulder, looked at the other people, and then began to talk after thinking for a while: "Since softness is not enough, we can only come hard. If King De is willing Give up the throne, even if he is a regent, we will recognize it. But now he is obviously unwilling to give in, so we can't blame us."

Hearing what he said, Prime Minister Zuo gradually began to think about it, and whispered: "He Lao means..." He raised his hand and gestured on his neck while speaking.

When everyone saw this action, they all understood it, or marveled, or nodded.

Zuo Xiang squinted his eyes and nodded slightly.

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However, halfway through the party, there was suddenly the sound of hurried footsteps outside.

"Who, who's outside?" Zuo Xiang shouted anxiously, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Liu Chang with a gloomy face rushed in with someone.

"You, what do you want to do?" Prime Minister Zuo had seen Liu Chang and knew that he was King De's confidant. When he saw him rushing in with someone, his eyelids twitched violently a few times.

"My lords must be very clear about what I'm here for." Liu Chang laughed dryly for a few times, and then shouted in a cold voice: "My lords, talking about the royal family and interfering in internal affairs are really the following crimes. Now that the late emperor has passed away, our prince Stabilizing the country's fortunes and lifting heavy burdens with one person's strength, all the adults not only do not help, but instead want to get rid of our prince in this secret meeting, it is too cruel and merciless."

"Cruel and merciless?" As expected of an old man of the two dynasties, He Lao was not at all cowardly in the face of Liu Chang's arrogance. "The ruthless and merciless one is King De. Who knows how the late emperor died, maybe he killed him!"

"Presumptuous." Liu Chang interrupted the other party, and ordered the leader Zuo Xiang, Mr. Zhang and several other adults to be arrested.

The rest of those who managed to escape from prison could only tightly cover their mouths, never daring to utter a single word of no.

"My lord, everything is done." Liu Chang, who escorted the prisoner into the sky prison, returned to the palace and couldn't wait to tell King De about it.King De nodded, with a faint smile on his lips, "Good job, now you know what to do."

"Please rest assured, my lord, I will definitely handle everything beautifully."