006 Father, keep working hard
The three armies worked together and it took a year to conquer Beiling. The Ninth Prince and Feng Qingchen spent nearly another year to deal with the aftermath. The damage caused by the war was slowly recovered...
Of course, one year was far from enough, but the Ninth Prince was impatient. After suppressing the riots caused by the war, he forced the new policy to be implemented. As soon as the new policy was on track, the Ninth Prince announced his abdication and passed the throne to His Highness Dongling Rongrui.
Of course all the officials refused to agree, and they said with tears in their eyes that the young master was young and Your Majesty was in his prime, so there was no need for him to abdicate.
In order to make the emperor take back his decision, all the civil and military officials knelt outside the Wu Gate for three days and three nights. However, the Ninth Prince had made up his mind and forced the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the succession ceremony.
The officials had already seen the emperor's toughness, so they had to prepare with tears in their eyes...
Naibao is already ten years old. He is no longer the chubby boy he was, and is gradually showing the grace and demeanor of a teenager.
After repeatedly resigning together with the other ministers, Naibao also resisted privately countless times, but was violently suppressed by the Ninth Prince every time. Naibao had no choice but to let the palace maid try on a new dragon robe for him with tears in his eyes.
"Your Highness, ascending the throne is a happy event, why are you not happy?" Dong Qing came in and saw that Naibao looked listless and had no energy, so she couldn't help but make a joke.
Chun Hui tapped Dong Qing on the head and said, "You are so disrespectful. Why don't you apologize to His Highness?"
Dong Qing immediately wilted and went forward to apologize, but was interrupted by Naibao: "Sister Chunhui, don't blame Sister Dong Qing. I was unhappy in the first place."
"Your Highness, you can't say that. If the censors hear it, they will report you again." Chun Hui persuaded with a smile, but Nai Bao became even angrier and gritted his teeth and said, "That group of useless censors kept whispering in my ears when I didn't need them. Now I want them to persuade my father, but none of them said a word."
"No one can change what the emperor has decided." Qiu Hua half-knelt at Naibao's feet and adjusted his dragon robe for him.
"Who said that? If the Queen Mother wants the Father to change, the Father will definitely change." Don't think he doesn't know who has the final say in the family affairs.
"That's a small matter. The big matters still need to be decided by the emperor." Qiu Hua lowered her head and laughed, trying hard to establish the prestige of her male master.
But the baby didn't give his father face and complained: "Big things? The world's big things are small things in the eyes of the emperor and the queen. What big things in the family need the emperor to make the decision?"
"This..." Qiu Hua was speechless. Xia Wan was packing up. Hearing this, she couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, letting you succeed to the throne at the age of ten is a big deal." In other words, this was the emperor's decision and had nothing to do with the queen.
"I know..." Naibao responded weakly, "Mom doesn't help me either, how annoying."
"The queen wants to go to Xuanyi Valley, but the emperor won't let her go." Qiu Hua was closest to Naibao, so if she lowered her voice, only Naibao would hear her.
Naibao doesn't want to talk anymore at this time...
Qiu Hua and Chun Hui did not dare to bring it up again. Qiu Hua carefully checked whether the dragon robe fit her body and then saw what needed to be modified so that she could ask the embroiderer to make the changes as soon as possible to avoid delaying the ceremony...
The entire ceremony of Naibao's succession to the throne was personally followed up by the Ninth Prince. Everything went on in an orderly manner, and the security and protection were flawless. If Naibao wanted to escape, he could not do it alone and he must have help.
To be on the safe side, the Ninth Prince had already sent Wang Jinling to Jiangnan. At the same time, he took advantage of the ceremony of Naibao's succession to summon the Prince of Qing and the Prince of Jiangnan back to the capital to report on their work, and gave them warnings and warnings to assist Naibao well.
Everything is ready, just waiting for the auspicious day so that the Ninth Prince can retire after completing his mission. But can things go as smoothly as the Ninth Prince wishes?
Definitely not!
If Naibao accepts his fate so easily, he is no longer the son of Dong Lingjiu and Feng Qingchen, nor is he the adopted son taught by Wang Jinling himself.
On the day of the succession ceremony, the Ninth Prince watched Naibao put on the dragon robe, but when he arrived at the ceremony, he found...
Everything is ready, only the new emperor is missing!
"Send someone to check." The Ninth Prince waited for a long time but the baby didn't show up. He felt uneasy and immediately sent someone to check. Soon the eunuch came back and reported, "Your Majesty, His Highness is missing!"
"Ah..." All the ministers in the court cried out in surprise, which seemed to be reasonable, but it was undeniable that they were happy to know that the new emperor had run away...
The Ninth Prince's expression remained calm, and he showed no anger at all when he heard the eunuch's words, as if things were supposed to be that way.
Indeed, Naibao has been behaving too well recently. He has not given up on escaping, but he has also revealed his flaws at just the right time and has not succeeded once.
Feng Qingchen once said that Naibao would not give up easily, but what he didn't expect was that Naibao would abandon all the ministers and run away just before the ceremony. Such behavior...
So irresponsible.
"The ceremony is cancelled." After saying this, the Ninth Prince hurried to Naibao's palace.
The ministers in the court smiled bitterly at each other. No matter how they looked at it, they felt that this was a farce, but a farce was better than His Highness taking the throne now. Although the world had been unified, the current Kyushu Continent was not something that a young lord could govern well. It would be good for the country and the people if the emperor sat on the throne for another two years.
"Everyone should go home." Fu Lin resigned himself to taking on the aftermath work. When all the civil and military officials had left, Fu Lin walked to Cui Haoting's side unnoticed.
"Did you help?" Wang Jinling's absence did not mean that Wang Jinling would not have a backup plan. Fu Lin guessed that Wang Jinling's backup plan was Cui Haoting.
Who made Wang Jinling's biological sister marry Cui Haoting?
"If the king wants his subject to die, the subject must die." Cui Haoting did not give a positive answer, but these two sentences were enough.
The future honor and disgrace of the Cui family depended on the new emperor, so he would naturally obey the new emperor's orders...
Fu Lin smiled and walked out of the hall with Cui Haoting.
When the Ninth Prince returned to the palace, Feng Qingchen had already arrived and was rescuing the guards, palace maids and secret guards who were knocked down by Naibao.
"Mengbao succeeded?" The Ninth Prince guessed who Naibao's helper was at a glance.
Feng Qingchen smiled bitterly: "Yes, she has learned very well." Even she had to admit that Mengbao was better than her master, especially in the use of poison. Guo Baoji said that Mengbao was talented.
"Evil and twisted magic." The Ninth Prince criticized him, but his face showed a hint of satisfaction.
Her daughter is naturally good.
The Ninth Prince glanced around the hall, not only did he not see Naibao and Mengbao, even Chunhui and Qiuhua were gone. The Ninth Prince frowned and asked, "Are they all gone?"
He could even abduct the four maids around Feng Qingchen. His son is becoming more and more promising.
"Yes, they're all gone." Feng Qingchen gave medicine to the last secret guard and asked someone to carry them away.
Although Mengbao was careful in his attack, it was a little too much. The secret guard would not be able to recover without lying down for two days.
"Did you abandon all the secret guards?" The secret guards of Naibao and Mengbao were all selected by the Ninth Prince himself. With just one look, the Ninth Prince knew who these secret guards were protecting.
"Yeah." Feng Qingchen lowered his head, not daring to look at the Ninth Uncle. This guilty behavior made the Ninth Uncle so angry that he gritted his teeth: "Even you are involved?" Is he going to be deserted by everyone?
"I... I'm just worried about my baby." Feng Qingchen moved in front of the Ninth Uncle and stroked his fur, "You are still young. There is no need to abdicate now."
“Hehe…”
The Ninth Prince would never admit that Feng Qingchen flattered him by praising his youth...