As Yang Wenguang knelt down, all the soldiers and officials attending the banquet turned their attention to the carriage.
When they saw that white-clad figure, the air in the Xu family seemed to freeze, and the entire banquet paused for a moment.
Then came a deafening roar of shouts. Countless soldiers and officials erupted with unimaginable enthusiasm, kneeling on the ground and shouting that soared into the sky.
"Long live the Prince! Long live the Prince!"
"Long live the Prince! Long live the Prince!"
"Long live the Prince! Long live the Prince!"
The overwhelming shouts came like a landslide and a tsunami. When Luo Yang saw how these people worshipped their husband, their eyes were shining like stars. She wished she could drag Li Chang'an into the room right now.
She lowered her head and whispered in Lin Youchu's ear, "Sister Youchu, this is the empire our husband built for our family."
The other civilians, however, were stunned for a moment as they looked at the excited soldiers around them.
Li Chang'an's arrival was so sudden that they didn't have time to react. Only when the soldiers shouted "Long live the Emperor!" did they kneel down.
Many young children secretly raised their heads to peek at the man in the sun.
To these children, the soldiers who won a great victory were heroes.
Li Chang'an, who led those soldiers to victory, was the greatest hero of all.
Who wouldn't want to be the greatest hero? When they play games, they all compete to be the prince, commanding the other kids and becoming the supreme king.
Mr. and Mrs. Xu were trembling with excitement.
Xu Kun invited many high-ranking officials to his wedding dinner.
These people represent the Xu family's influence and are also Xu Kun's connections.
From then on, whenever anyone in the village talked about the Xu family, they would mention how many high-ranking officials attended his son's wedding.
All these high-ranking officials combined did not match Li Chang'an's prestige.
The fact that the Xu family could get Regent Li Chang'an to attend the wedding banquet with his wife was something they could brag about for a lifetime.
Xia Yan was so excited that his whole body trembled.
He now wishes he could put his little daughter on the altar in his home and worship her on the spot.
Forget about the God of Wealth and the Kitchen God; they can't compare to my little girl.
If it weren't for his own little daughter, how could he have gotten such a powerful patron?
That was the regent of the Ming Dynasty, universally acknowledged as a deity who descended to earth to save all living beings.
With just one sentence, the entire officialdom in Fujian was thoroughly cleaned up from top to bottom.
The high-ranking governor of Fujian was directly captured and sent to the market to be beheaded.
If he can have some connection with this kind of person, Xia Yan's position as the magistrate of Changle County is secure.
He now felt that Xu Kun was not just a son-in-law, but a truly golden catch.
Just as Xia Yan and the others were overwhelmed with happiness.
A man dressed in yellow led a woman in a phoenix robe out.
As soon as Yang Wenguang looked up, he saw Zhou Chao walking out wearing a dragon robe.
When he saw the dragon robe, he was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage. How dare he wear the prince's clothes!
When he saw Zhou Chao's face clearly, he remembered that there was an emperor in the Ming Dynasty.
The appearance of Emperor Jianyuan brought a moment of calm to the Xu family, followed by an even greater surge of enthusiasm.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
Mr. and Mrs. Xu collapsed to the ground, their bodies trembling uncontrollably. They had never imagined in their lives that they would meet the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Throughout the entire Xu family's eighteen generations, no one had ever seen what the emperor looked like.
Their son even managed to get the emperor to attend their family's wedding banquet.
At that moment, Mr. Xu felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life.
He felt that the coffin lids of his ancestors were about to burst open, and he really wanted to go to the ancestral graves to see if any smoke was rising from them.
Xu's mother felt that giving birth to Xu Kun was the proudest thing she had ever done in her life.
Her one son is worth more than dozens of generations of the Xu family.
In the entire Fujian region, no other family's child is as promising as her son, Xu Kun.
She now really wanted to grab those members of the Xu family and ask them if they had any objections to her, a woman and an outsider, being included in the Xu family genealogy.
Mr. and Mrs. Xu slumped on the ground, their hands and feet trembling wildly, but the people around them did not find it inappropriate.
They were currently scrambling around Xia Yan, who was rolling his eyes.
When Master Xia saw Emperor Jianyuan, he was so excited that he stood up abruptly, trembling all over. He made a few hoarse noises, then his eyes rolled back and he collapsed.
Seeing his expression, some villagers couldn't help but whisper among themselves, "Is it really necessary for this old Master Xia to get so agitated?"
"Ha, it's easy for you to say that when you're not in the situation. If you were your own daughter, and you married a high-ranking official, and the emperor himself came to the wedding, wouldn't you be excited?"
"If that were really the case, I could jump up and hang myself from the beam that very night, and immediately go down to report the good news to my ancestors."
Seeing the chaotic crowd, Li Chang'an instructed Yang Wenguang, "Don't rush to bow. Get up quickly and tell the brothers to maintain order."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Yang Wenguang acted quickly, separating the people and making way for Li Chang'an and Emperor Jianyuan to pass.
"Your Majesty, please!"
"What 'Your Majesty'? I don't know how to save people. You go first, I'll follow you."
When Li Chang'an made way for him, Zhou Chao waved his hand with a smile and took a few steps back.
The source of power is not status, but one's own strength.
Li Chang'an's current strength is simply beyond his ability to resist.
With hundreds of thousands of well-equipped troops in Tai'an City, coupled with Li Chang'an's own abilities, it was no longer something that an emperor could control.
Furthermore, in the Ming Dynasty, many ordinary people only recognize the Regent and have no recollection of the Emperor.
The people who most want to rebel right now are not Li Chang'an himself, but his subordinates.
Zhou Chao knew very well that what he needed to guard against now was not Li Chang'an, but how to get along with him in order to protect the safety of his family.
Only by maintaining a relationship between the two people can those people refrain from harming you.
If his relationship with Li Chang'an were to deteriorate even slightly, without Li Chang'an even having to say a word, the military officers of Tai'an City would immediately pull out the Ministry of Revenue's roster, randomly select an official, and then, under the pretext of "purging the court of corrupt officials," storm into the Forbidden City and drag him off the dragon throne.
Then, when the common people in the capital heard the news, they would applaud and cheer.
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