The emperor's heart alone

Early in the morning of the pilgrimage ceremony, Shi Junji packed everything up, and Zhang Dequan, Xu Sa, and a group of eunuchs and court ladies waited on him for breakfast. After the queen arrived at Changping Palace from Zhiyang Palace, Shi Junji and the queen arrived at the palace under the service of a large group of palace officials Kunyuan Palace, located in front of Changping Palace, is used to go to court and receive foreign envoys, etc. Today, the pilgrimage ceremony is naturally held in Kunyuan Palace.

The officials are dressed in court clothes, arranged in order according to their grades, and lined up on both sides of the Kunyuan Palace with their heads bowed.In the middle of the Kunyuan Palace, there are envoys from all over the world who come to worship from all over the world. The order of arrangement is according to the strength of each country. Each envoy can bring one or two subordinates to attend the pilgrimage. ceremony.When the pilgrimage ceremony officially begins, the envoys will pay tribute to Shi Junji and the queen in turn from front to back.

The Daping Dynasty called the tribute a pilgrimage, which has its roots.As we all know, pilgrimage generally refers to admiration and respect for the gods. The Daping Dynasty used pilgrimage to pay tribute to various countries every year. Respected and irresistible.Therefore, the tribute of various countries was also called pilgrimage in the Daping Dynasty.

After all the officials and envoys were seated, a moment later, Shi Junji and the queen entered through the gate. Shi Junji was at the front, the queen was half a step behind Shi Junji, Zhang Dequan was two steps behind the queen, and the others followed closely behind. Eunuch and maid.

The entire Kunyuan Palace was silent, and the footsteps of the people following Shi Junji were extremely light. Even the queen did not dare to make any noise on this occasion, but Shi Junji's every step would cause memories in the entire hall, Step by step on the hearts of everyone.After Shi Junji and the queen were seated, Zhang Dequan shouted "All ministers and envoys salute", and then everyone in the court hall kowtowed and shouted "Long live the Holy One, long live, long live".Everyone knelt and listened to Zhang Dequan read out the steps of the pilgrimage ceremony, and then Shi Junji personally said, "Get up." Everyone stood up, and the pilgrimage began.

First, the envoy who is the first in the list of envoys performs the pilgrimage.The envoy and two subordinates behind him stepped forward. The envoy took the scroll in the hands of one of the subordinates behind him and unfolded it. Then the three of them knelt down and the envoy read the contents of the scroll aloud. When singing the praises of the emperor, the country where the first envoy was located was a vassal state of Daping, so the king of the country expressed his submission to Daping on the scroll.After reading aloud, the envoy and his subordinates stood up, and the envoy took another scroll from another subordinate, indicating that the scroll contained items that were donated this year. Xu Sa took the scroll and handed it to Zhang Dequan, who then opened the scroll and presented it to Zhang Dequan. In front of Shi Junji, after Shi Junji glanced at it, Zhang Dequan put away the scroll and put it in the hands of the eunuch who was holding the tray.These two steps are required by every envoy. If you have nothing to say after presenting the tribute scroll, you can step back and let the next envoy worship.

The whole process can be said to be boring and tight, but it is related to the future relationship between the Daping Dynasty and other surrounding countries or dependent countries. Of course, it cannot be ignored. glance.

The dragon chair is very big, and Shi Junji is slender. There is still a lot of space on the dragon chair, and there is more than enough room for another person to sit on it. But even so, no one would dare to sit with Shi Junji on the dragon chair.Even the empress has no chance to sit on the dragon chair on this occasion.Therefore, the queen's position is on the right side of Shi Junji's dragon chair, and another chair is added.

Shi Junji just lowered his eyes a little bit, and then tilted a little bit to the right, so he naturally caught the queen in his eyes.After just one glance, Shi Junji looked back again.

Shi Junji suddenly thought of Xu Yunjin. It would be great if Xu Yunjin was the one sitting under him now. Those envoys no longer said "Emperor, Empress", but "Emperor, Xu Ershao", inexplicably Yes, Shi Junji wanted to laugh.Just smiling in his heart, Shi Junji's mood slowly darkened again.

He knew that this idea was absurd, so absurd that most of the officials below could not accept it.Shi Junji counted the obstacles in front of him in his heart, the Chu family, the Jiang family... He thought that the court had been dealt with very cleanly by him, and no one should go against his wishes, but when he wanted to release Xu Yunjin When I was by my side, I realized that there are still many people standing in front of me. They will use the so-called morality, the so-called rules and even more reasons to stop me. In this battle, The one who will suffer the most is obviously not himself, but Xu Yunjin.

He won't allow this to happen.

For the first time, Shi Junji rejoiced in his heart that he was not an absolute Mingjun.He tried his best to be a good emperor, but he was definitely not a good emperor in the hearts of his officials, and he was definitely not the kind of emperor who would give up his most important person for the sake of the common people in order to stop Youyou's mouth. It's normal, but now I feel happy.

He is the emperor, what can't he get?Shi Jun thought of his grandfather very much. He was a good emperor, a wise king, praised by all the people in the world, and he did a lot for Daping and sacrificed a lot. Even if the dynasties changed later, his grandfather would be a wise king forever recorded in history.However, Shi Junji knew what was hidden under this glamorous side.

Grandfather also had a beloved woman in his life, but he owed that woman too much.The woman is the favorite concubine of the grandfather. She once gave birth to three sons and a daughter for the grandfather. As a result, these four children all died in infancy, and even had two miscarriages.That woman's concubine position was not high all her life. The biggest reason was that her family background was too low and she was a commoner woman.Even death is wronged to death. Even if the grandfather secretly buried the woman's body back to her hometown, it can't erase the historical records of "the body was transported out of the palace and abandoned", and it can't be erased. , was demoted to a servant girl."

What is the reason for all this?It's just because his grandfather is a wise king, and he can't leave a single flaw in the history books, but Shi Jun will never do it.In Shi Junji's view, being unable to protect the one he loves from harm is a sign of weakness, and Shi Junji will never do it.

So before everything was too late, Shi Junji adjusted his mentality slightly. Now that he and Xu Yunjin are not together, he still has time to clear away the obstacles between himself and Xu Yunjin before the two of them really get together. With Xu Yunjin together, he will not wrong Xu Yunjin for himself.

What he can give, he will naturally give, what he can't give, Shi Junji sneers in his heart, he doesn't think there is anything he can't give.Whatever Xu Yunjin wanted, he could afford it.

But this period of time will not be too long, Shi Junji said to himself, his desire to get Xu Yunjin is growing every day, and the time he can wait will not be too long.

The pilgrimage ceremony was still going on insipidly. No one knew what Shi Junji was looking forward to deep in his heart. Something thrived and crazily grew in this silence until it devoured everyone.

Things changed in the second half of the pilgrimage ceremony.When he saw the envoy of Pingguo appearing in his line of sight with two subordinates, the corners of Shi Junji's mouth curled up.I really can't hold my breath, do you want to make a move during the pilgrimage ceremony?

Things did not go as expected by Shi Junji, when the envoy was reading the tribute letter written by King Pingguo, the subordinate standing behind the envoy rushed towards Shi Junji with lightning speed.The envoys of Pingguo were stunned on the spot, and most of the envoys and ministers were also stunned.

Not only did Shi Junji not panic, he simply stood up from the dragon chair with a sneer on his face. Zhang Dequan, Xu Sa and others were also not nervous at all, as if they had expected this kind of thing to happen. Shi Junji bowed down to the queen, the queen's face was panicked, and her face turned pale, but on this occasion, no one cared about what happened to the queen.

"Dog Emperor! Take your life!" The man shouted loudly, and approached Shi Junji at an extremely fast speed. At first glance, he was a man with profound martial arts, but the man also saw that something was wrong. The emperor was still a member of the palace, and no one panicked. Everyone seemed to be confident and even mocked, waiting to see a joke. , he has no way out, the only thing he can do now is to kill the dog emperor, he has long known that once he steps into this palace, what awaits him is death.

However, just as he was about to rush in front of Shi Junji and the others, a dead man suddenly appeared and stopped him. In an instant, a fight took place in Kunyuan Palace.

At the same time, soldiers who suddenly appeared surrounded the Kunyuan Palace.

Shi Jun's extremely cold voice resounded in the entire palace: "Without my order, everyone in Kunyuan Palace must not leave!" Then he glanced at the queen who was almost fainted from fright, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, "Xu Sa , send someone to take the queen back, take good care of her."

After saying that, Shi Junji left Kunyuan Palace surrounded by Zhang Dequan and other palace officials.

Xu Sa walked to the side of the queen in a few steps, and said in a low voice: "Queen, please go back." Then he turned his head and winked at the palace people standing beside him, "Bring the queen back to Zhiyang Palace, Please ask the imperial doctor to show the empress, suppress the shock, and take good care of the empress."

Xu Sa had already arranged those few palace attendants, so they responded one by one immediately, and helped the queen back to Zhiyang Palace. From today onwards, if there is no accident, the queen will not be able to take a step out of Zhiyang Palace.

From today onwards, only Xu Yunjin can sit beside Shi Junji.

This chamber of Kunyuan Palace was surrounded, and soon, the soldiers and dead men who surrounded or ambushed outside the capital also moved.The news of Kunyuan Palace's failure to assassinate the current emperor quickly spread to the remnants of the Baihe Sect who were waiting outside the palace in a special way. Under such circumstances, they chose to flee, but those waiting for them outside the capital were not born Opportunity, but death, soon, the remnants of the Baihe Sect knew this.

It was also on this day that the remnants of the Baihe Sect scattered all over Daping were also wiped out by Shi Junji. After this day, the Baihe Sect officially became history, and secretly, Shi Junji was still searching for other people who were related to the Baihe Sect. , to prevent them from entering Beijing again.At the same time, the properties related to the Baihe Sect were sealed off, and the blank forces were quickly divided up again.

The efforts made by Shi Junji and Xu Yunjin kicked off the prelude.

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