The departure of the Empress Dowager seemed to make the Emperor suddenly wake up. He said that the brothers had been fighting for a lifetime, and no one had a good ending.
Even though she should have been rich and prosperous and enjoying her old age in the palace, she ended up with such a miserable end.
He immediately announced that he would not make things difficult for Gu Huai and would allow him to directly ascend the throne as the emperor of Jiuzhou.
Gu Huai looked at the emperor and sneered, "You gave it to me?"
The emperor saw murderous intent in Gu Huai's eyes and couldn't help but tremble all over.
Although Gu Huai looks very much like the third brother, he is more ruthless than the third brother and is not an easy person to get along with.
He hurriedly said to Gu Huai: "I'm not giving it to you, I'm returning it to you."
Gu Huai added, "Remember, you never gave in. You don't even have the qualifications to be emperor because you've never held the real imperial seal."
The emperor's expression changed, and there was a look of loneliness in his eyes.
Yes, that's right.
He did not have the real imperial seal in his hand because his mother had always refused to give it to him and wanted to have someone secretly give it to the third son.
He ordered his men to intercept the imperial seal halfway, and was quite happy at first, thinking that he had won. However, he did not expect that the imperial seal he got was a fake, and he could not investigate further.
He had no choice but to try his best to get away with it.
Thanks to the help of Prince Duan at that time, who helped him to the throne, but he knew that Prince Duan thought he was stupid and that he was the easiest to control among all his brothers, so he pushed him to the throne.
But he was not so easy to bully. After he came to power, he killed all the other brothers and drove Prince Duan to Nanyue City, a place full of miasma and poor people.
He thought that by doing this, Prince Duan would find it difficult to make a comeback.
But he underestimated Prince Duan's ability, just as Prince Duan underestimated him.
On the day when Prince Duan came back to kill him, he told him that he had missed the mark and that he was the one who was best at pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
He said that Prince Duan was no exception. He was able to fight his way back from a place like Nanyue City, which was quite capable.
But they didn't expect that while the snipe and the clam quarreled, the fisherman would benefit, and in the end the entire Kyushu Kingdom fell back into the hands of the third brother's faction.
When the Empress Dowager passed away, the whole country mourned for a month.
One month had passed, and Gu Huai still showed no sign of ascending the throne to inherit the ceremony, and all the officials became anxious.
All the officials begged Gu Huai to take office, saying that the country cannot be without a king for a day.
But not everyone wants Gu Huai to ascend the throne. For example, the former queen's faction keeps clamoring that Gu Huai is just the son of the deceased prince and cannot take on such an important responsibility.
In terms of legitimacy, he should be the crown prince appointed by the former emperor, the eldest son of the empress, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
In order to prove that this incident really happened, the former queen's faction also produced the edict issued by the former emperor.
However, many officials did not believe that this edict was true.
Because the former emperor was afraid that his descendants would fight with each other like his brothers and kill their father, he ignored the advice of all officials and delayed in appointing a crown prince.
The edict in the hands of the former queen's party must not be true.
But they kept jumping around and shouting in the court, especially the uncle of the emperor, who shouted the loudest.
Gu Huai ignored him. After all, he was not the emperor yet, so he could just see who could do the best job for him.
Not long after, someone found out that the imperial edict in the former queen's hand was fake, and they also found the handwriting imitation master hired by the former queen's party.
After interrogation, the man confessed everything.
The former queen's party had no hope of success and was arrested on the charge of forging an imperial edict. The uncle of the king, who had the most trouble, suffered the worst fate.
After much persuasion from all the officials, Gu Huai finally agreed to ascend the throne.
The ceremonial dress he wore for the coronation ceremony was designed by Xie Yunjiao and people from the Ministry of Rites. The crown and phoenix coronet were modified.
Gu Huai said that we should save costs and reduce unnecessary expenses.
Some officials immediately said that Gu Huai was a good emperor, who used the saved money to fill the national treasury and benefit the people.
Although Gu Huai had not yet officially ascended the throne, he had been forced by all officials to attend court to discuss state affairs.
After finally leaving court, he had to deal with state affairs in the imperial study.
It was clearly a good time of year with spring flowers blooming, and he wanted to go for a walk with his wife, no matter what they did.
Now he is busy until late at night every day, and he doesn't even have time to stop for meals, let alone see Xie Yunjiao.
When he finished his work, Xie Yunjiao had already gone to bed.
He wanted to find Xie Yunjiao but was afraid of disturbing her rest, so he could only endure the pain of missing her silently.
"Your Majesty, the Queen is here to bring you some snacks. May I come in?" the eunuch suddenly knocked on the door and asked.
Gu Huai dropped the pen he was using to review the memorials and was about to stand up to greet Xie Yunjiao, but a little person reading a book next to him coughed softly, "Father, business is more important."
Gu Huai glanced at Doudou unhappily. This kid was staring at him really closely.
"Hanging yourself will give people a break," Gu Huai said unhappily, "Please invite the queen in."
As soon as Xie Yunjiao brought in the snacks, she saw Gu Huai and Doudou, father and son, staring at each other, which was very funny.
"I say, I haven't seen you two for a few days. What are you two doing?"
Gu Huai finally shifted his gaze to Xie Yunjiao. He complained to her, "You know your son."
He was afraid that he would pass the throne directly to him. It was he who sent people to give advice to the former queen's party, which led to the fake edict incident.
Later, he sent people to find the person who imitated the former emperor's handwriting and brought him to the court to confess.
Doudou sang the entire play!
He finally got to see Xie Yunjiao, so why didn't he rush to complain?
"You'd better save your energy, eat something quickly, and then continue reviewing the memorials. Don't you think you have a lot to do?" Xie Yunjiao asked.
"You know me. I get scared when I see these things..." Well, don't say it too clearly in front of the eunuchs, although they already know his character.
There is clearly a capable person right in front of us, but he is unwilling to succeed to the throne so early.
"I'm good at fighting, but doing these things..." Gu Huai looked at Doudou pitifully, "I haven't seen your mother for a long time."
The eunuchs couldn't help laughing when they saw Gu Huai's pitiful appearance.
But to be honest, Lord Ye is not as strict as the young prince.
I don’t even know who is the father and who is the son.
"Let's have some sweetness before we suffer. Let's have some sesame cakes that I made for you first." Xie Yunjiao said as she was about to feed the sesame cakes into Gu Huai's mouth.
At this time, the eunuch coughed lightly and said nothing.
Gu Huai immediately understood what he meant, and his expression suddenly turned ugly: "This is something my wife made for me, how could it be poisonous? If you keep talking nonsense, get out of here."
The eunuch shuddered all over.
It was common for Gu Huai to get angry, but he did not get angry for no reason. Every time he got angry, he was angry and blamed the previous court's ability to do things.
But this time he got angry over such a small matter, and he was scared because he was angrier than usual.
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