Chapter 576 New King
On the first day of the New Year, the death knell rang in the palace.
This day was a good day for everyone to get rid of the old and welcome the new. When the funeral bell rang, everyone in the capital thought they had heard it wrong.
However, when an emperor dies, the sound must continue for 9981 times.
In the previous dynasty, the emperor's funeral bell had to be rung tens of thousands of times, implying the reincarnation of the foundation for eternity. The current dynasty has formulated a new rule, which is that it only needs to be rung 9981 times.
When the death knell rang, all the civil and military officials who were on vacation immediately changed into court robes and rushed to the palace.
Song Ruize gathered Qin Huiyin's cloak and said, "You may not be able to come back tonight, so go to bed early."
Qin Huiyin hugged his waist and said coquettishly in his arms: "Thank you for your hard work."
Song Ruize kissed her forehead: "It's not hard with you waiting for me."
"Wait a minute..." Qin Huiyin ran into the room and gave him two bags of cakes. "One for you and one for me. You can secretly fill your stomach."
"Okay." Song Ruize put it in his sleeve. "Go to the Tang Mansion later and celebrate the New Year with mother and the others!"
After Song Ruize left, Qin Huiyin took a carriage to Tang Mansion. Suddenly, the carriage stopped.
Qin Huiyin bumped into the wall of the carriage next to her and rubbed her forehead. She opened the curtain and looked outside, only to see the people from the Mingfa Division passing through the street in a mighty procession.
When the Mingfasi team passed by the carriage, Jiang Yunzhou lifted the curtain and looked over.
Qin Huiyin quickly lowered the curtain.
Song Ruize and Tang Yichen returned home on the second day. Song Ruize knew that Qin Huiyin was in Tang's house, so he returned with Tang Yichen.
All the members of the Tang family gathered in the lobby.
"What's the situation now?" Tang Dafu asked, "Is the emperor really dead?"
"The previous emperor has passed away, and the new emperor is about to ascend the throne." Song Ruize said, "We are about to enter a new history."
"The emperor seemed quite energetic on the day of the palace banquet. How come he suddenly..." Li Taohua looked at Tang Yi and smiled, "The Imperial Hospital should know some news. What's going on?"
Tang Yi smiled with red cheeks: "The emperor has been on leave recently and is quite free, so he has been spending more time in the harem..."
Li Taohua understood.
The emperor died in a woman's belly because he was too idle.
Tang Dafu didn't understand and asked what it meant, but Li Taohua glared at him. He immediately became honest and asked if it would affect Tang Yichen and Song Ruize's official positions. When he heard that it would not affect them, he said, "It's nothing."
"This happened during the Chinese New Year. We should have been resting, but now we are even busier than usual." Li Taohua said, "You have been working hard recently. Let's eat more today to replenish our bodies."
A vacation was wasted just like that.
First the funeral of the previous emperor was held, followed by the enthronement of the new emperor.
Afterwards, the capital city began to fall into unrest.
At the palace gate, the Minister of Revenue, Lord Wang, was talking to the officials beside him: "This Ming Fashi is so arrogant. He rushes into officials' residences to arrest people at any time, and the new emperor particularly favors him."
"Master Wang, stop talking." Someone reminded him.
"You are afraid of him, but I am not..." After Lord Wang finished speaking, he noticed something strange behind him and turned around to look.
When he saw Jiang Yunzhou sitting in a wheelchair, his face changed.
"Master Wang, you are very good." Jiang Yunzhou raised his lips. "I am investigating you. I hope you can stand up to my investigation."
"I am upright and honest. No matter how you investigate, there is nothing wrong with me. Don't try to turn white into black."
Jiang Yunzhou chuckled and waved to the person next to him.
The person next to him immediately took out a booklet, stepped forward, and handed it to Lord Wang.
Lord Wang took it and looked at it. When he saw the content, his face changed.
"You...you...this happened twenty years ago. How can you use it to slander me?"
"Twenty years ago, Lord Wang wrote anti-government poems. Doesn't that mean he is colluding with the rebels now? Someone, take him away and investigate thoroughly."
"You can't do this... You are accusing me of something..."
The people from the Mingfasi dragged Lord Wang away, and the other officials dared not say a word.
"Your Excellency, the Mingfasiji is like this..." the official next to him said cautiously.
"As long as you haven't done anything wrong, they can't do anything to you no matter how arrogant they are. Anyone who gets involved with these stinky rats in the gutter will get into trouble. I advise you to stay away from them to avoid getting into trouble."
Only after the people from the Mingfasi left did the other officials dare to leave.
Song Ruize and Tang Yichen looked at each other.
"The two families he wants to deal with the most are ours. He hasn't made a move yet. There must be someone stopping him from doing so. That person can only be that person." The new king who relied on their ability to defeat the eldest princess, but was afraid of their ability and promoted Jiang Yunzhou to the throne.
"I can still spend money." Song Ruize said calmly, "What about you?"
"Military factory." Tang Yichen pulled his official uniform closer. "We can still delay it now, but sooner or later we will be targeted. We need to speed up the process."
"Only when the new emperor loses the support of the people can we move forward with what we are going to do."
Jiang Yunzhou looked at the book in his hand and said coldly, "I don't believe that Tang and Song can't find any problems."
The subordinate said, "Every time we investigate these two people, we lose a lot of brothers. Our Mingfa Division is already short of people. If this continues, His Majesty will be dissatisfied. Sir, why don't we put the matter of those two people aside and do what the emperor has arranged?"
"Is there any progress on the Wuxiang League's side?"
"Not long ago, there was news that he had infiltrated the Wuxiang League, but there has been no news in the past two days. By the way, sir, this is the portrait of the leader of the Wuxiang League that we obtained after losing dozens of brothers."
Jiang Yunzhou unfolded the portrait.
When he saw the person in the portrait, he always felt that he had seen him somewhere.
"The person in the portrait..." Jiang Yunzhou said excitedly, "I remember now that the person in the painting has been in and out of the Tang family."
He had been watching Qin Huiyin for so long that he had some understanding of the Tang family's affairs. One time, he saw the person in the painting and Qin Huiyin having dinner in a restaurant.
"Sir, even if he has been in and out of the Tang family, if the Tang family does not admit it, I'm afraid..."
"I don't believe that there is no loophole in the Tang family. As long as there is a loophole, I can find a way to find it." Jiang Yunzhou said, "Such a big secret, I wonder how the Tang family can escape from my grasp this time."
The Tang family had connections with the rebels, and this one charge could kill their entire family. As for evidence, wouldn't it be easy to find? Even if we couldn't find it, we had to create one for them.
Tang Mansion. Tang Yichen pushed open the door of the study and walked in, only to see Song Ruize sitting in the seat where he usually sat.
"You drank so much, are you trying to get used to the beheading wine in advance?"
Tang Yichen: “…”
He walked over, pulled Song Ruize up, and sat back on his throne.
"Yinyin is not here, no one will tolerate your bad habits."
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