latelenovela Chapter 576 The New King
Chapter 576 The New King
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the death knell in the palace rang.
This day was a good day for everyone to get rid of the old and welcome the new. When the funeral bell rang, everyone in the capital thought they had heard it wrong.
However, when an emperor mourns, the sound must continue for 9981 times.
In the previous dynasty, the emperor's funeral bell was tolled tens of thousands of times, symbolizing the eternal inheritance of the foundation. The current dynasty has established a new rule, which is to ring only 9981 times.
When the death knell rang, all the civil and military officials who were on vacation immediately changed into court robes and rushed to the palace.
Song Ruize gathered Qin Huiyin's cloak and said, "You may not be able to come back tonight, so go to bed early."
Qin Huiyin hugged his waist and said coquettishly in his arms: "Thank you for your hard work."
Song Ruize kissed her forehead: "With you waiting for me, it's not hard."
"Wait a minute..." Qin Huiyin ran into the room and gave him two bags of cakes. "One for you and one for me. You can secretly fill your stomach."
"Okay." Song Ruize put it in his sleeve. "Go to the Tang Mansion later and celebrate the New Year with mother and the others!"
After Song Ruize left, Qin Huiyin took a carriage to the Tang Mansion. Suddenly, the carriage stopped.
Qin Huiyin bumped into the wall of the carriage next to her and rubbed her forehead. She raised the curtain and looked outside, only to see the people from the Mingfasi passing through the street in a mighty procession.
When the Mingfasi team passed by the carriage, Jiang Yunzhou lifted the curtain and looked over.
Qin Huiyin quickly lowered the curtain.
Song Ruize and Tang Yichen returned home on the second day. Song Ruize knew that Qin Huiyin was in the Tang residence, so he returned with Tang Yichen.
All the members of the Tang family gathered in the lobby.
"What's the situation now?" Tang Dafu asked, "Is the emperor really dead?"
"The previous emperor has passed away, and the new emperor is about to ascend the throne." Song Ruize said, "We are about to enter a new history."
"The emperor seemed quite energetic on the day of the palace banquet. How come he suddenly..." Li Taohua looked at Tang Yi and smiled, "The Imperial Hospital should know something about this. What exactly is going on?"
Tang Yi smiled with red cheeks: "The emperor has been on leave recently and has been quite free, so he has been spending more time in the harem..."
Li Taohua understood.
The emperor died from a woman's belly because he was too idle.
Tang Dafu didn't understand and kept asking what it meant, but Li Taohua glared at him. He immediately became obedient and asked if it would affect Tang Yichen and Song Ruize's official positions. When he heard that it wouldn't, he acted like it was nothing.
"This happened during Chinese New Year. We should have been resting, but now we're even busier than usual," Li Taohua said. "You've been working hard lately. Let's eat more today to replenish our bodies."
A vacation was wasted just like that.
First the funeral of the previous emperor was held, followed by the enthronement of the new emperor.
Afterwards, the capital began to fall into unrest.
At the palace gate, Vice Minister Wang of the Ministry of Revenue muttered to the officials nearby, "This Ming Fashi is truly too arrogant. He rushes into officials' residences to arrest them at the drop of a hat. And yet, the new emperor particularly favors him."
"Master Wang, stop talking." Someone reminded him.
"You are afraid of him, but I am not..." After Lord Wang finished speaking, he noticed something strange behind him and turned around to look over.
When he saw Jiang Yunzhou sitting in a wheelchair, his face changed.
"Master Wang, you're doing very well." Jiang Yunzhou raised his lips. "I'm investigating you right now. I hope you can withstand my investigation."
"I am upright and honest. No matter how you investigate, there is nothing wrong with me. Don't try to turn white into black."
Jiang Yunzhou chuckled and waved to the person next to him.
The person next to him immediately took out a booklet, stepped forward, and handed it to Lord Wang.
Lord Wang took it and looked at it. When he saw the content, his face changed.
"You...you...this happened twenty years ago. How can you use it to slander me?"
"Twenty years ago, Lord Wang wrote anti-government poetry. Doesn't that mean he's colluding with the rebels now? Come, take him away and investigate thoroughly."
"You can't do this... You're just making up a false accusation..."
The people from the Mingfasi dragged Lord Wang away, and the other officials dared not say a word.
"Prime Minister, the Ministry of Justice has done so..." the official next to him said cautiously.
"As long as you haven't done anything wrong, no matter how arrogant they are, they can't do anything to you. These stinking rats from the gutter will get you into trouble if you get involved. I advise you all to stay away from them to avoid getting into trouble."
Only after the people from the Mingfasi left did the other officials dare to leave.
Song Ruize and Tang Yichen looked at each other.
"The two families he wants to deal with the most are ours. He hasn't made a move yet. There must be someone stopping him. That person can only be that person." The new king who relied on their ability to defeat the eldest princess, but was afraid of their ability and promoted Jiang Yunzhou.
"I can still spend money." Song Ruize said calmly, "What about you?"
"Arms factory." Tang Yichen straightened his official uniform. "We can still delay it now, but sooner or later they'll be targeted. We need to speed up."
"Only when the new emperor loses the support of the people can we advance what we are going to do."
Jiang Yunzhou looked at the booklet in his hand and said coldly, "I don't believe that Tang and Song can't find any problems."
The subordinate said, "Every time we investigate these two, we lose a lot of brothers. Our Mingfa Division is already short-staffed. If this continues, His Majesty will surely be dissatisfied. Sir, why don't we put the matter of those two people aside for now and complete the tasks assigned by the Emperor?"
"Is there any progress on the Wuxiang League's side?"
"Not long ago, news came back that he had infiltrated the Wuxiang League, but there has been no news in the past two days. By the way, sir, this is the portrait of the leader of the Wuxiang League that we obtained after losing dozens of brothers."
Jiang Yunzhou unfolded the portrait.
When he saw the person in the portrait, he always felt that he had seen him somewhere.
"The person in the portrait..." Jiang Yunzhou said excitedly, "I remember now. The person in the painting has been in and out of the Tang family."
He had been watching Qin Huiyin for so long that he knew a little about the Tang family. Once, he saw the person in the painting and Qin Huiyin having dinner in a restaurant.
"Sir, even if he has been in and out of the Tang family, if the Tang family doesn't acknowledge it, I'm afraid..."
"I don't believe there's no loophole in the Tang family. If there is, I can find a way to exploit it." Jiang Yunzhou said, "With such a big secret, I wonder how the Tang family can escape from my grasp this time."
The Tang family's connection to the rebels was a charge that could lead to their entire family's demise. As for evidence, wouldn't that be easy to find? Even if we couldn't find it, we had to create it for them.
Tang Mansion. Tang Yichen pushed open the door of the study and walked in, only to see Song Ruize sitting in his usual seat.
"Drinking so much is a sign of getting used to the beheading wine?"
Tang Yichen: “…”
He walked over, pulled Song Ruize up, and sat back on his throne.
"Yinyin is not here, no one will tolerate your bad habits."