"Brother Wang! Brother Wang!"
Ji Shishi threw herself onto Ji Xi's corpse and wailed loudly.
Ji Bochang, who had followed behind, also knelt on the ground and obediently joined in the weeping...
"Cough cough!"
Jiang Ming coughed lightly twice and helped Ji Bochang, whose face was covered in snot and tears, to his feet.
These past two days, he has endured immense mental stress and various threats, but he has finally made it through.
"Your Majesty...please accept my condolences!"
Upon hearing Jiang Ming address him as "Your Majesty," Ji Bochang was initially taken aback, then became flustered and at a loss for what to do.
"A country cannot be without a ruler for a single day! Please, Your Majesty, take charge of the overall situation!" Jiang Ming respectfully bowed to Ji Bochang.
"Mr. Jiang..."
At this moment, Ji Bochang was filled with complex emotions. He held Jiang Ming's hand tightly, his eyes filled with tears, and said, "Mr. Jiang, you must protect me. Without you by my side, I cannot be safe even for a moment!"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured!"
Jiang Ming smiled and reassured him, "I will definitely serve Your Majesty wholeheartedly, uphold the state, achieve hegemony, and make the Yan Kingdom bigger and stronger!"
"Very well! Mr. Jiang, I hereby appoint you as Prime Minister, in charge of all political affairs!"
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty!"
......
To be fair, Ji Bochang was also quite worldly-wise. Seeing Ji Shishi crying sadly there, he bent down and helped her up.
"My sister!"
Ji Bochang said compassionately, "Although we weren't born of the same mother, we have the same father. In my heart, you are no different from me and my own flesh and blood. From now on, I will listen to you in everything. If I say east, I won't say west; if you point at a dog, I won't point at a chicken, okay?"
Ji Shishi actually harbored deep disgust and contempt for Ji Bochang...
But since they had already said all that, and things had come to this point, she had no choice but to accept reality.
Besides, Jiang Ming was her pillar of support, and since her husbands all supported Ji Bochang, she had no choice but to follow suit. Moreover, this seemed to be the best outcome at the moment...
"Brother Wang, I..."
"Good sister!"
Ji Bochang held Ji Shishi's hand and said, "Brother Wang knows that I am not very capable and that others look down on me, but Brother Wang is not foolish. I am incompetent, but I know who is capable, and that is enough... From now on, the fate of the Yan Kingdom will depend on you and Mr. Jiang's help..."
The details of the family pouring out their hearts to each other and getting closer are self-evident.
The cunning, cruel, superstitious, and absurd tyrant Ji Xi has finally met his end.
With his demise, nearly a third of the civil and military officials in the court were executed along with their entire families. The number of heads chopped off was as high as seven or eight thousand, enough to clog the river!
Jiang Ming was still being quite lenient with her.
After all, many ministers were 'forced' to take sides. In the previous deplorable political environment, it was impossible to be a peacemaker or a fence-sitter!
If the entire family of the ministers were executed according to the list provided by Eunuch Li, almost four-fifths of the ministers would lose their heads!
After this incident, no one in the Yan court dared to oppose Jiang Ming anymore.
With a single word from him, all the officials, including King Ji Bochang of Yan, obediently nodded in agreement, and Jiang Ming became the true leader of the Yan Kingdom!
As for He Wu, the Empress's cousin, he was guilty of murdering the emperor and was extremely wicked. Jiang Ming simply set him on fire!
The funeral of Prince Ji Xi of Yan was naturally a grand affair.
But Jiang Ming didn't indulge him...
He wants all the concubines to be buried with him? He's dreaming!
At Jiang Ming's "suggestion," these concubines either remained widows if they wished to, or returned to their parents' homes to remarry if they did not. All of them ended up in Ji Bochang's harem.
The women selected for the imperial harem generally came from powerful families, each with their own family interests at stake.
Therefore, of the more than two hundred women, except for a few who were "divide" and left, the rest basically benefited Ji Bochang.
Jiang Ming's actions not only satisfied the interests of the families behind these women, but also greatly enriched Ji Bochang's daily entertainment life.
This made Ji Bochang feel like he was in paradise, indulging in pleasure in the harem every day.
Within a month of ascending the throne, he only attended court for five days.
As for things like etiquette and law, they're all nonsense in the face of pure self-interest!
Only a few sour grapes ministers uttered a few words, and were subsequently punished with twenty strokes of the cane by Jiang Ming's order; the rest of them remained silent.
As for Jin, Jiang Ming also kept his promise and directly had Ji Bochang appoint her as Queen Dowager, so that she could continue to enjoy wealth and honor!
Jiang Ming himself was directly appointed as the prime minister, granted the title of Lord Anguo, and given a fief of 30,000 households in Dukang County!
Princess Ji Shishi officially married Jiang Ming and became the Lady of Anguo.
In Jicheng, the capital of Yan, Jiang Ming and Ji Shishi held a grand wedding, and the news also reached Dukang County.
Chen Damei, Qiaohong, and her younger sister Nanxiu all received the news.
The younger sister was a little confused for a moment!
It's not that she can't accept this reality, it's just that... she can't understand why, since her husband has decided to remarry, he didn't divorce her beforehand.
This husband left for more than a month, and then became someone else's husband.
Although Jiang Ming's private soldiers still called Chen Damei "Madam", Damei cried every day and was heartbroken!
In addition, I've been suffering from severe morning sickness lately, and I can't eat. I've become very haggard!
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