400, Enthronement Ceremony
400, Enthronement Ceremony
Under his mother's angry and disbelieving gaze, Zhao Lang took Lu Mingfei's hand and walked out of the box.
Coming out of the back door of the teahouse, the two got on the carriage that was waiting there.
The two of them did not let go of each other's hands until they sat in the carriage.
To be more precise, it was Zhao Lang who held onto his wrist, and Lu Mingfei had no intention of pulling his hand back. Looking at Zhao Lang's tense face, he knew that Zhao Lang was still a little sad about his mother favoring his younger brother.
Lu Mingfei moved his butt a little closer, leaned over and hugged the person next to him, saying, "Don't be sad, I will always be by your side."
Zhao Lang raised his hand and touched the back of the young man's neck twice. He tilted his head and kissed the young man on the ear, saying, "I'm not sad. I don't care anymore."
Lu Mingfei listened to Zhao Lang's stubborn words, saying he didn't care and wasn't sad. However, he knew in his heart that Zhao Lang did care.
If Zhao Lang didn't care, he wouldn't be sad at this moment because his mother favored his younger brother.
Of course, he would not say such words in front of the proud Regent Prince, which would embarrass him. Since his Regent Prince said he didn't care, then he didn't care.
In this world, not all parents love their children. They can't change their parents' minds except to learn to accept it. So why bother to continue to dwell on this matter?
Since Prince Ding and Princess Ding didn't love such an outstanding son, he could only accept it with a smile. From now on, he would love the proud Regent Prince!
"Zhao Lang." He turned his head to look at his Royal Highness the Regent.
The two people looked at each other closely. Lu Mingfei looked at Zhao Lang's enlarged handsome face, but the three words on the tip of his tongue didn't come out.
Moving forward, he kissed His Royal Highness the Regent on the lips.
Zhao Lang lowered his eyes and looked at Lord Lu who took the initiative to kiss him. He put one hand around Lord Lu's waist, pulled him in front of him and hugged him, allowing Lord Lu to kiss him as much as he wanted.
Outside, there was the sound of turning wheels and the voices of people talking on the street.
At the same time, the temperature in their carriage continued to rise.
After the kiss, the two people's breath intertwined.
Zhao Lang kissed the young man who had fallen limply in his arms and said, "If they come looking for you again, don't go see them."
"Yeah." Lu Mingfei responded softly.
"Where would you like to eat?"
"...Let's go to Xingchun Garden."
Finally, their carriage arrived at Xingchun Garden and went straight into the courtyard.
The two men tidied their clothes in the carriage before getting out and going into the house to have dinner.
This was their own territory, and they were served by their own people, so they didn't worry about any danger. Even if there was any danger, with so many of their guards around, it wouldn't be easy for assassins to get close to them.
The waiter brought the dishes to the gate of the yard, and then the guards on their side brought them in.
After they had served the wine and the delicious food, everyone left.
Lu Mingfei didn't like drinking before dinner, so he served them soup. After taking a sip of the soup, he talked about the prince's visit to Beijing.
Of the thirteen princes, only eight came, and the remaining five were still absent. Among these five was the Prince of Zhennan.
They had not received any news of the Prince of Zhennan's arrival.
However, the Prince of Qi has been detained in Beijing by them until now.
On the day the young emperor "passed away", Lu Mingfei led his troops into the capital and sent people to control the Prince of Qi who was about to escape. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise it would have been difficult for them to catch the Prince of Qi if he had escaped from Kyoto Prefecture.
He thought that Prince Zhennan would come to Beijing to rescue his son this time, but he didn't expect that until now, they have not received any news of Prince Zhennan coming to Beijing.
"Doesn't the Prince of Zhennan want a son anymore?"
"They are sure that I won't do anything to Qi Jun." Zhao Lang said as he picked up a piece of meat from Lu Mingfei's bowl with his chopsticks.
Lu Mingfei thought about the relationship between Zhao Lang and Prince Qi. If it were him, he probably wouldn't be able to do anything cruel to his friend. "Then how do you plan to deal with him?"
"We'll release him after the ceremony." Zhao Lang didn't plan to lock up his friend for life.
"Are you sure?" Lu Mingfei looked at Zhao Lang, suspecting that this man was joking with him.
But Zhao Lang looked at their Lord Lu seriously, and he didn't seem to be joking.
On this day, when the two were having dinner at Xingchun Garden, they heard a noisy sound next door.
After Zhao Lang called someone to ask what was going on, he directly ordered the Xingchun Garden thugs to throw the drunk troublemaker out. Then, in a good mood, he took their Master Lu back home in a carriage.
The place he returned to was the house where Lu Mingfei was currently living, not Prince Ding's Mansion.
Ever since his family returned to Kyoto, Zhao Lang no longer lived in the palace. On weekdays, if there was nothing to do, he would not even set foot inside the palace.
During the day, Princess Ding returned to the palace with a lot of anger.
By evening, it was already dark outside, but she still hadn't heard that her eldest son had returned home. Her anger, which had not yet been suppressed, began to rise again.
"Come..." Princess Ding wanted to call someone to come and find the eldest son, but when she thought of the warning the eldest son gave her during the day, she stopped talking.
The nanny beside them heard their master talking and asked, "Master, do you have any instructions?"
Princess Ding thought for a moment and then changed her tone, "Send someone to ask if the prince has returned home."
"Yes, master." The nanny responded and went out to find someone to inquire about their prince's news.
However, not long after, the nanny came in again and told their master, "Princess, the prince is outside and has not returned yet."
Upon hearing this, Princess Ding gritted her teeth in anger.
***
Before the coronation ceremony, several minor incidents occurred in Kyoto Prefecture. However, these incidents were successfully resolved and suppressed, and did not cause panic among the people.
Even the rumors spreading outside were successfully resolved by them after finding their source.
How could they not know that these princes were trying to make a final stand? Their ultimate goal was simply to prevent someone else from ascending the throne and becoming emperor.
But fortunately, they have an army of 100,000 inside and outside Kyoto Prefecture, and they don't take the few people brought by these feudal lords seriously at all.
This time, Lu Mingfei even transferred the troops they had raised in Tong County to Kyoto Prefecture in advance to guard Kyoto.
However, he did not bring his family back to Beijing. Lu Mingfei planned to wait until everything in Jingdu Prefecture was settled before sending someone to bring his parents and family back to Beijing.
Time passed smoothly and it was June.
The second day of June was the day chosen by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory for the coronation ceremony of the new emperor.
On this day, Zhao Lang left Lu Mingfei's place. Before leaving, he said to Lord Lu who was seeing him off, "See you later."
"good."
Lu Mingfei sent Zhao Lang onto the carriage before turning back into the house to change clothes and go out.
However, on this day, he could only stand below like all the other ministers and watch the new emperor in yellow robes and Prince Ding and his son walk step by step to the high platform to accept the worship of all of them.
"Long live the emperor—"
Everyone below knelt down and kowtowed to their new emperor.
"My dear ministers, please stand up!" Zhao Lang, standing on the high platform, looked at the ministers who were submitting to him below.
On this day, Qi Jun was released from the house where he was imprisoned, and someone led him to attend the coronation ceremony of the new emperor.
At this moment, he was kneeling below, looking at his friend who was wearing a yellow robe and accepting the worship of all of them. What came to his mind were the past times when he and Zhao Lang were hostages in Kyoto Prefecture.
Qi Jun couldn't understand why his good friend became the emperor while he was still a hostage held in Kyoto Prefecture?
He looked through the crowd and saw Lu Mingfei standing at the front of the ministers. He didn't know what role Lu Mingfei played in Zhao Lang's journey to becoming emperor.
Lu Mingfei, who was standing in the front row of ministers, looked up at the man standing on the podium.
Their eyes met and looked at each other.
If possible, Zhao Lang hoped that the person standing next to him at this moment was the one he loved, rather than this father whom he hated.
As if sensing his son's inner thoughts, Prince Ding snorted coldly and asked him, "Do you still want to make him the queen?"
"He refused." When Zhao Lang said this, his tone and facial expression were full of regret.
“…” Prince Ding was speechless for a moment, and his heart was even more troubled.
Zhao Lang didn't even spare his father a glance. He looked straight ahead, but said something that could anger his father to death, "In a few days, take mother back to Beijun and leave Hu'er here with me."
Prince Ding was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He wanted to say, if you want a prince, why don’t you find a woman to give birth to one yourself?
But as soon as the words came to his lips, he took them back.
Because rather than letting his eldest son marry, have children, and then have another son become the crown prince, he would rather have his second son become the crown prince. At least the second son had grown up with them, close to him as his father and mother. Later, when the second son inherited the throne and became emperor, he would also be close to them at the Dingwang Palace.
However, if the eldest son were to find another woman to give birth to a son, it would not necessarily mean that the grandson would be close to him, the emperor's grandfather.
In the end, King Ding chose the most correct approach that was most beneficial to himself and his descendants.
Before the coronation ceremony, all the ministers and people thought that Prince Ding would be the emperor. But it was not until the coronation ceremony that they learned that the emperor was actually the regent.
Prince Ding directly became the emperor.
The Regent Prince's biological mother, Princess Ding, was named Empress Dowager, and Prince Ding's second son, Zhao Hu, was named Crown Prince.
As for Prince Ding's other wives, concubines, sons and daughters of concubines, they only had titles but no real rights.
Even when Prince Ding returned to the capital this time, apart from bringing his wife, two legitimate sons, and his eldest illegitimate son back to the capital, he did not bring back his other wives, concubines, illegitimate sons and daughters.
Therefore, the ministers in the court also understood clearly that the Prince Ding always valued his two legitimate sons. However, there was one question that they did not quite understand: their new emperor was still so young, so why did he appoint his younger brother as the crown prince?
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