Extra 094 I am Rong Rui, the Emperor of the Empire
When I was eighteen, my father and mother held a coming-of-age ceremony for me. At the ceremony, my father returned the crown to me and announced his abdication, passing the throne to me!
This time, I did not act on my own will. I accepted everything my father gave me and took on the responsibilities that belonged to me.
I have already grown up, and I am confident that I can be a good emperor and shoulder the heavy responsibility of inheriting the empire. I am confident that I will not let my father and mother down, and I will be their pride!
At the age of eighteen, I succeeded to the throne and became the second emperor of the empire, and changed the reign title to Qingfeng!
After I ascended the throne, I did not continue the previous dynasty's practice of granting amnesty to the entire country. Those who were imprisoned by my father and mother were all extremely evil and treacherous. So what if they were wrongly accused?
I will only defend and never refute the decisions made by my father and mother, no matter they are right or wrong.
I will never pardon anyone my father has sentenced.
I rejected the ministers' advice and refused to grant amnesty to the whole nation. This was my way of defending my father, the Emperor. It was also my first confrontation with the court officials...
My father is right. Although I am an adult and mentally mature, in the eyes of those old foxes, I am still as immature as a child. They don't take me seriously at all.
My mother said that there was a period of adjustment between the new emperor and the old ministers, and the result was either the east wind prevailed over the west wind, or the west wind prevailed over the east wind...
I smiled and said, "Whether it's the east wind or the west wind, I will be the winner in the end."
As my mother expected, I refused to grant amnesty to the world, so these annoying guys seized on this incident and bombarded me every morning at the court, saying that I was wrong in this way and that way, and that I violated the ancestral etiquette and laws...
wrong?
As an emperor, the decisions I make affect the lives of all people in the world, so I cannot be willful. But I refuse to pardon guilty prisoners. What's wrong with that?
They broke the law and deserved it. Why should I forgive them?
Just because I succeeded to the throne? So these criminals can be pardoned?
What a joke! What does my succession to the throne have to do with them? Have they ever contributed anything? Why should I pardon them?
As for violating the ancestral etiquette and laws?
Which one is my ancestor?
The etiquette and laws of the Lan family of the previous dynasty?
What is that and why should I comply?
My royal grandfather’s rules?
My royal grandfather was born in a poor family and rose from humble beginnings. You used the ancestral etiquette and laws to ask my royal grandfather to follow the previous dynasty's practices. My royal grandfather was easy to talk to and didn't argue with you. You really think you are a big deal...
As the emperor of the empire, why should I follow the etiquette and laws of the previous dynasty, the Lan family?
Why should I, the emperor of the empire, be bound by the rules of the Lan family of the previous dynasty?
Ancestral etiquette?
The rules I set are etiquette!
I said there will be no pardon and that means there will be no pardon. Who dares to release him?
This group of ministers are holding on to this matter, not really speaking for the prisoners, but just testing my bottom line to see how I, the new emperor, will act. In the future...
If they encounter the same thing, they can use the same method to force me, so I will never take a step back or compromise.
Like my father, I am a strong emperor. We are arbitrary but not despotic. It is simply wishful thinking for court officials to want to influence me!
Whether to pardon the prisoner or not was the first battle between me and the court officials, and it ended with my temporary victory.
The reason why I say temporarily is because this group of stubborn ministers did not give up, but went to another palace to complain to my father, saying that I was willful and reckless and did not have the heart of an emperor...
The emperor’s benevolence?
What is that?
If someone hits me on the left cheek, should I also offer my right cheek to others?
You are a saint when you are the emperor, you have such a good temperament.
I, Dongling Rongrui, tell you, if anyone dares to hit me on the left cheek, I will kill his entire family!
Whoever dares to hit me on the right cheek, I will destroy his entire clan.
The authority of the emperor of the empire cannot be challenged!
These court officials have served under my father for more than ten years, but they still don't understand my father. My father is strong, overbearing, and he is the only one who is respected by me, but...
He has never been attached to power, nor is he someone who clings to it.
This group of people thought that our father took over the throne step by step and unified the four kingdoms in order to satisfy his own selfish desires. They were all wrong...
My father has come to this point because he was forced into it.
If he doesn't succeed, he will die.
As I thought, my father ignored these court officials and was indifferent to their kneeling in the courtyard. If it weren't for my mother's kindness, she would have sent someone to tell those adults, "The emperor has abdicated and will not interfere in government affairs. Unless the country is overthrown, no matter how big the event is, the emperor will not show up. You all should go back."
Those people might have to kneel for two days and two nights...
They often do this kind of thing. Back then, they used kneeling to force my father to take a concubine. Unfortunately, my father is a cold-faced man with an even colder heart. Not to mention kneeling, even if all these people were killed in front of the prince, my father would not frown.
"Mother, you are so kind. You should have made them kneel for three days and three nights. This group of people is just like that. They kneel there and beg for orders at any time. They used to force father, and now they force me." After leaving the court, Naibao ran to the other courtyard to find the Ninth Uncle and Feng Qingchen. This was his favorite place to come, but he couldn't come every day...
The villa where the Ninth Prince and Feng Qingchen lived was outside the city. This was also to avoid suspicion and tell the people of the world that the Ninth Prince had abdicated and would not return to the city easily, let alone care about the affairs of the court.
A new emperor appoints new ministers. If those so-called old ministers do not please the new emperor, the Ninth Prince will not come out to plead for them.
Before Feng Qingchen opened his mouth, Xiaobao, who had just turned four, stepped on his thick little legs and ran to his brother. He tilted his little head and looked at his brother with admiration. Then he complained in a childish voice, "Brother Emperor, mother is not kind. Mother said those people were too noisy. They made so much noise that the birds didn't come here. As a result, mother was despised by father again... despised by what?"
As Xiaobao was speaking, he forgot the words. He tilted his head and tried hard to think of them, but he couldn't think of any words. He looked like he was about to cry...
"Brother Emperor, what are you talking about?" Xiao Bao drew with his hand and looked at Nai Bao for help, his big eyes looked innocent...
I don't know who this child Xiaobao is. He is not as smart as Naibao or as mischievous as Mengbao. Xiaobao is chubby and simple, and he doesn't have the shrewdness and precocity of Naibao and Mengbao.
The Ninth Prince and Feng Qingchen were afraid that the child would be sold, so they had no choice but to teach him more and love him more, even for Naibao...
"Stupid little brother, I really despise you. I teach you many times but you still won't do it. How can your emperor brother trust you when you are so stupid?" Naibao picked up Xiaobao. He was very skilled in holding a child now.
Xiao Bao immediately laughed out loud, his face beaming: "Brother Emperor is really amazing."
With a smack, a saliva mark was left on the baby's face. The clean-loving baby didn't dislike it at all. He held the little baby and began to ask him what he had done in the past few days...
Feng Qingchen looked at Naibao and Xiaobao lovingly, her heart filled with happiness. The pain of Mengbao's departure was also diluted a lot because of Xiaobao's presence...
I only wish that the years will be peaceful and the world will be stable; I only wish that brothers will live in harmony year after year...
Nothing wrong today!