Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1137 Palace Change

Seeing Lu Yuqing, Zhu Yuqing's attitude was the same as usual, bowing his head respectfully to him.Not seeing Wang Haijiang, Lu Yuqing frowned, and couldn't help thinking: "This thief must know that Li Mingxuan doesn't need to enter the palace at this time, so he didn't wait here in person."

Now Wang Haijiang only has His Majesty and Li Mingxuan in his eyes, and he doesn't pay attention to Lu Yuqing and Lu Yuqing. Lu Yuqing has long been dissatisfied with him.

Nearly a thousand civil and military officials gathered in front of Chongzheng Hall.

It's just... where is Li Mingxuan?Many people, including Lu Yuqing, found that Prime Minister Li Mingxuan still hadn't arrived.

It was still early morning, without sunlight, and under the candlelight in the Chongzheng Hall, it looked a bit dark.

The courtiers stood listlessly in the hall according to the usual arrangement, and began to wait for His Majesty the Emperor to appear. Seeing that Prime Minister Li Mingxuan had not yet appeared, some people even maliciously speculated whether His Majesty would be unwell. It's over, Mr. Prime Minister got the news in advance, so he hasn't appeared yet.

Not long after, the net whip sounded, and four people entered the front hall from the back door, and walked to the throne.

The courtiers bowed their heads as usual, waiting for His Majesty to be seated, but Lu Yuqing took a look up before bowing his head, as if struck by lightning, he thought there was an illusion in front of him, so he blinked vigorously, but when he looked carefully, his whole body felt cold, like falling ice cave.

The person sitting on the imperial couch was not Zhao Dezhao, who was getting worse and worse and couldn't walk steadily, but Zhao Dezhao's eldest son, Zhao Mu, who was only eight years old. Standing next to the eldest son of the emperor were Cao Bin and Zhang Dong. I saw Ye Chen, a person who absolutely shouldn't be here.

Lu Yuqing really suspected that he was dreaming, but why the dream was so real, or that everything in front of him was an illusion, an illusion caused by his lack of sleep.But why did Ye Chen reappear here in the hallucination.That's right, I once thought in the bottom of my heart that if Ye Chen hadn't betrayed back then, Da Song would never have such a tragic situation today, maybe even the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun would have been taken back from the Liao people.

No, this is not a dream, this is real!
Lu Yuqing was dumbfounded, and after a long pause, he remembered that Li Mingxuan was not there today, and Wang Haiyang was also missing.He jumped up suddenly, pointed at the dragon chair, and shouted tremblingly: "You you...Ye Chen, why did you appear here."

When the courtiers heard Ye Chen's name, their bodies shook, but they were only puzzled, and they all looked up.Except for some lieutenant generals whom Cao Bin secretly summoned last night, everyone else was stunned as if struck by lightning. thigh.

"Cao Bin, Zhang Dong! Where is Your Majesty? But you were killed by a rebel like you? Why did Ye Chen, a rebel, appear here?" Lu Yuqing yelled hysterically in the hall, and the expressions of the other officials changed. There was horror, fear, anger, complex expressions, and many people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The eight-year-old child on the dragon chair, Ye Chen and others did not know what tricks they used, and sat there, neither happy nor sad, motionless.

"Tell him to shut up." Ye Chen said suddenly, his tone was indifferent, but it was taken for granted, as if this place was not in the Chongzheng Hall of the Song Dynasty Palace, but in the Xiajing Government Affairs Hall of Xiangfu Kingdom.

As soon as Ye Chen finished speaking, Zhu Yuqing, who was standing in a corner at some point, agreed, waved his hand, and ran in from the door with two soldiers from the imperial army. One covered Lu Yuqing's mouth, and the other knocked on Lu Yuqing's neck casually. Fainted to the ground, some civil servants exclaimed in the hall, and then fell into dead silence again.

Cao Bin walked to the front at this moment, took out an imperial edict from his bosom, and said, "This is the last edict of the late emperor, you will not kneel down to receive the edict."

Last night, more than a dozen military generals who had been secretly received by Cao Bin knelt down with excitement on their faces. Seeing this, the expressions of the others changed drastically. They looked at Lu Yuqing, who was lying on the ground, and his life and death were unknown. After a crash, he fell to his knees again. people.

Cao Wei breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that most of the courtiers would not approve of this edict, and then there would be no choice but to kill.

Cao Bin said again: "You are still standing and not kneeling. Could it be that you want to resist the order, and you will be convicted of deceiving the emperor, and you will not be beheaded if you ask the crime."

After a clatter, some people knelt down again, and there were still about a third of them left.

Ye Chen said: "Come here, take them down and lock them up first."

Zhu Yuqing respectfully agreed, and led someone to forcibly twist the people who were still standing down.

Next, Cao Bin read out the late emperor's last edict, which said that the late emperor was murdered by Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Dezhao's conspiracy, and before his death, it was passed on to Zhao Defang, who ordered Ye Chen to be the regent.As for whether these contents are reasonable and can stand scrutiny, neither Ye Chen nor Cao Bin will care. Anyway, this is just a superficial article of justifiably seeking to win the world.

Next, Cao Bin explained that because Zhao Defang was killed by Zhao Dezhao and had no blood left behind, he planned for the royal family's bloodline and assisted Zhao Dezhao's eldest son, Zhao Mei, to become the emperor.

During this process, no one had any objections, but under Ye Chen's instruction, Zhang Dong took out a list on the spot, and read the names of more than 30 officials in one breath, and then heard the voices of these people shouting grievances or cursing. In the process, they were all pulled down and locked up.These people have been Li Mingxuan since he became the prime minister, and they have placed his Li family and the subordinates in the holy hall into the imperial court, and all of them are in key positions. The army's compartments are all commanders.These people reacted very quickly. Seeing that the situation was not right just now, they didn't make a sound. They thought about running away or resisting after today, but unexpectedly, Zhang Dong had already checked their details thoroughly.

Next, Ye Chen announced on the spot that Xiangfu Kingdom would belong to the Song Dynasty, and then he made some new appointments in the name of the regent. Nearly half of the officials' positions remained unchanged, and some key positions, especially the military power, were appointed from the commanding envoy to the generals. According to the list provided by Cao Bin, major adjustments were made again.What I want to say is that Li Jixun, who resisted the Liao Dynasty in the Daming Mansion, is still a privy envoy, and Ye Chen has rewarded him, and there is no embarrassment for his family in Kaifeng. Of course, Zhang Dong will send someone to protect them .

And all the officials of Xiangfu Kingdom naturally rose and became the officials of Song Dynasty today.Just considering the current situation that the Liao people have not been driven out, in order to avoid unnecessary troubles in the next battle with the Liao Kingdom, the official system of the Song Dynasty has not been changed for the time being. Deputy envoy of the Privy Council.However, the establishment of the Nine Legions remained unchanged.

In addition, there was a small accident in this palace change. Li Siyan, the pregnant Queen of Song Dynasty, mysteriously disappeared.

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In the Great Song Dynasty, Kaifeng City changed without a sound...

The sudden change in Kaifeng, the Great Song Dynasty announced to the world, which immediately caused an uproar, but except for a small number of local officials who remained foolishly loyal to the Zhao royal family and issued a document accusing Cao Bin, Zhang Dong and others of colluding with Ye Chen to rebel and usurp the throne, most of them The local officials expressed their loyalty to Ye Chen in Kaifeng immediately by expediting eight hundred miles.For those foolish and loyal officials, Ye Chen ordered to pay attention to them first, neither remove their official positions, nor take them down, let them continue to be officials.

But for the common people, it is joyful and encouraging, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a national celebration.After Yang Jiye got the news, after he disrupted and reorganized the 13 surrendered troops on Yongxing Army Road and Qinfeng Road in Jingzhao Mansion, he asked Han Tao to lead the White Tiger Army and [-] surrendered troops to the northwest, while he led the Qinglong and Suzaku armies with [-] troops. Wan Dajun and the [-] Song Army reorganized and strengthened for these two legions, with a total of [-] horses, rushed to Kaifeng in five days and completely stabilized the situation in Kaifeng.

After Yang Jiye arrived, with Cao Bin's strong support, Ye Chen announced that the 5 forbidden troops outside Kaifeng City would be completely disrupted, and [-] of them would be organized into the Tianwei Army, Xuanwu Army, and White Wolf Army that were seriously damaged a few days ago. .The other [-] people formed the tenth legion, the Huaxia Legion, which was the same level as the Tianwei Legion and half a level higher than the other eight legions. It was organized into ten brigades, with Cao Wei as the leader and Luo Yaoshun as the deputy head.

Li Jixun, who was in the Daming Mansion, thought about it for half a month, no matter how unwilling he was or what other thoughts he had, for the lives of his hundreds of family members in Kaifeng, and for the well-being of tens of millions of people in the Song Dynasty, Finally recognized Ye Chen's identity as regent.

During this period, under the arrangement of Zhang Dong and others, the Liao envoy Yu Jianye took advantage of the chaos and escaped from Kaifeng City, disguised himself, crossed the Yellow River, and led his people back to Shifa's army in Hebei.In just one month, the Song Kingdom was taken by Ye Chen's soldiers without bloodshed, which really surprised all Liao people including Shi Fatty, Xiao Wanda, and Empress Dowager Xiao who was far away in Shangjing.

Now that the Song Kingdom has changed and Ye Chen is in charge, the Song Kingdom and the Xiangfu Kingdom are about to merge into one. The improvement of national power and military power is unimaginable. The unequal treaties proposed by the Liao Kingdom before have naturally become a joke.Out of fear of Ye Chen and Yuanxiang Fuguo's army, Empress Dowager Xiao ordered Shi Fatty and Xiao Wanda to shrink their troops, and while continuing to strengthen their forces to attack Zhending Mansion, they began to deploy their defenses to prepare for the attack of Ye Chen's army. Be sure to hold on to the states and counties that have already been seized.For this reason, Empress Dowager Xiao mobilized another [-] tribal troops to go south and entered the Hebei Lianglu territory that the Liao Kingdom had already occupied.

When Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, Zhang Bo, Xu Xuan, Zeng Shangfei and other civil and military officials of the Xiangfu Kingdom arrived in Kaifeng and took up their new posts one after another, and gradually controlled the imperial court, the imperial court announced to the world again.

(End of this chapter)