Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Seizure of the Imperial Throne
Saying goodbye to Shangguan Zitong, Lu Qingfeng returned to the manor the same way, it was almost noon, he ate something hastily in the big dining room, and returned to the living room alone.
Leng Rubing is a sensible girl, since she came to the manor, she has never bothered Lu Qingfeng, because she knows very well in her heart that Lu Qingfeng has important things to do when he comes to the imperial capital.
A girl in love, who doesn't want to fight with her beloved, Leng Rubing didn't do it, but silently supported Lu Qingfeng, praying for the safety and happiness of her beloved every day.
According to the plan, today should be the day when the 10,000 elite soldiers of the Prince of Freedom arrive, and Lu Qingfeng has already asked Situ Xiaoyang to send someone to wait outside the manor according to the predetermined contact method.
Each soldier had a special mark on his body, which was easy to recognize, and by the end of the day, 10,000 tents had been set up in the manor for temporary residence, and as for the tents of the followers, they were set up by the first 10,000 people, and one hundred and eighty brothers patrolled around the manor day and night to prevent being spied on by the prince's spies.
In the middle of the night, all 10,000 people had arrived, and sure enough, they were soldiers who had undergone strict training, and 10,000 people gathered together, and the whole square was silent, almost reaching the point where a pin could be heard.
In order to keep it strictly secret, there is no cooking pot in the manor, and there will be smoke in the sky, which will definitely arouse the vigilance of the eldest prince, before these troops arrived, Lu Qingfeng had already arranged for people to book the diet of these soldiers in many restaurants in the imperial capital.
At the same time, Ling'er and Dahu are also secretly tracking the target's person, figuring out this person's every move at any time, and now they have imitated it vividly, but Ling'er is still a little dissatisfied, she will never allow the whole plan to go wrong in her body.
Nan Ronglin also told Duanmu Xiaoyun, He Tianyun, and Zhu Youcai that they should be the same as before, and there should be no abnormalities.
As soon as the qiΔ was in full swing, Lu Qingfeng met with the general of 10,000 people and explained to him some matters that needed attention.
In the next three days, the army of the prince of Xiaoyao came to the manor 30,000 every day, plus 10,000 on the first day, and now there are 100,000 elite soldiers in ambush in the manor.
On the fifth day, 40,000 soldiers came, on the sixth day 40,000 soldiers also stayed in the manor, and on the seventh day, 20,000 soldiers came, so far, 200,000 elite soldiers have all arrived secretly, and the prince of freedom came to the manor with the last 20,000 soldiers.
The plan to seize the throne is proceeding step by step, just waiting for tomorrow dawn, and Ling'er will kick off the prelude to a royal family in the history of Nanrong.
On the morning of the eighth day, when the eldest prince Nan Rongyan and his guards were still asleep, Ling'er had already turned into his guards, and Dahu followed aside, and the two quietly sneaked into the palace. Ling'er and Dahu had already received the map provided by Nan Ronglin beforehand, and the two of them were already familiar with the layout of the palace.
At this time, Lu Qingfeng's 180 brothers also pretended to be Marshal Duanmu Zhantian's guards, and entered the palace with Marshal Duanmu.
After these 180 people entered, they were immediately divided into two parts, one part to protect the safety of the minister of Nan Ronglin's side, and the other part, the other part came to the back door of the palace, and when they heard the signal, they quickly opened the door of the queen's palace.
More than a dozen Ouchi guards patrolled around the Emperor's dormitory, and in a hidden place farther away, a dozen brothers disguised as guards lay in ambush there, waiting for Ling'er to assassinate him, and play a good show of catching the assassin.
The dozen or so people patrolling around the dormitory are all henchmen of the eldest prince, Ling'er and Dahu moved their hands without mercy, killing one person with one punch, Ling'er used a little soul attack, and these people's heads would explode like fireworks.
When the two of them killed these guards, they deliberately made some noise, and the last guard remained, and the big tiger deliberately did not punch him to death, and the guard let out a miserable scream.
At this moment, several brothers hiding in the shadows, pretending to be guards, rushed forward and shouted, "There are assassins, arrest them." β
It should also be the great prince's bad luck, the old emperor may have returned to the light, and suddenly opened his eyes, just in time to see the eldest prince's guards dressed as Ling'er, only to hear the old emperor shout loudly: "You rebel son who killed the king and usurped the throne." β
The old emperor only said this sentence, and then fainted again, with the old emperor's words, Ling'er's task has been successfully completed.
Ling'er and Dahu saw that their goal had been achieved, and the arrows shot towards the palace wall, and they jumped out of the palace in an instant, and ran directly to the place where the eldest prince lived.
At this time, all the courtiers also came to the front door of the emperor's dormitory, and Marshal Duanmu Zhantian stepped forward and asked the few people who were pretending to be guards: "Can you see what the assassin looks like?"
One of the guards said, "Marshal Qiyu, we have all seen that the black veil on the assassin's face was torn off by me. β
Then the guard continued: "That assassin is the personal guard of the Great Prince, and when we chased him out, we watched him enter the Grand Prince's mansion. β
"What? The personal guard of the eldest prince," all the ministers were taken aback, the ministers on the side of the second prince Nan Ronglin gloated, and the ministers on the side of the eldest prince secretly cursed the eldest prince for being stupid.
The guard of the great prince who had just killed let out a miserable scream, which was a code sent to the brothers who were ambushed at the back door of the palace, and the brothers who pretended to be guards immediately pounced on the back door of the palace, and in the blink of an eye, they killed the guards of the prince guarding the back door of the palace.
The back door of the palace was opened, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the prince poured into the palace like a tide, and soon, all the royal forest troops on the side of the great prince were charged.
In front of the emperor's dormitory, Prime Minister He Weixiong, Marshal Duanmu Zhantian stood in front of all the ministers, the two glanced at each other, Duanmu Zhantian ordered to pretend to be a guard and said: "Go to the mansion of the eldest prince quickly, and all of them, including the eldest prince, be arrested and tried." β
Among the pretended guards, Liu Qiang was mixed in, and he only heard him say, "Yes." After saying that, he ran outside the palace with dozens of disguised guards.
All the ministers stood in front of the door of the emperor's dormitory, these ministers, who were usually pampered figures, stood here for several hours, their legs trembled, and some people did not dare to urinate, so they had to pee in their pants, their faces were sallow, and there was no blood.
After more than three hours, Liu Qiang took more than 100 pretending guards to escort the eldest prince and his subordinates to the door of the emperor's bedroom.
All of them were tied up with five flowers, tied like a zongzi, they were pulled out in their sleep, their clothes were not neatly dressed, in this cold winter season, the whole body was frozen and turned purple, more than 300 people knelt in front of the dormitory door, and all they heard was the sound of chattering teeth.
Duanmu Zhantian and He Weixiong stood in front of the eldest prince, their faces showed a look of distress, pointing at the eldest prince, their hands were trembling: "The eldest prince, you are really confused, how could you do such a stupid thing, you have committed the crime of killing the king, originally we were going to recommend you as the prince, but I didn't expect you to be, you, you ,...... Alas, what a disappointment for me to wait. β
The ministers on the eldest prince's side, when they heard He Weixiong's words, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts: "He Weixiong, you old fox, cat crying rat, you fake mercy, who doesn't know what you think in your heart, your old boy is happy when we all die." β
The eldest prince stood there alone, and all the others knelt on the ground, and the eldest prince listened to He Weixiong's words, and couldn't help but feel more and more sad and angry in his heart, knowing that he was framed, but he had a hard time arguing, turned around and faced the direction of the dormitory, and shouted bitterly: "Father, the son is wronged, this is not what the son did it, it is really not!"
After the eldest prince finished speaking, he fell to his knees with a pop, his head hit the stone slab heavily, and his forehead was already stained with blood after a while, and the blood flowed down his forehead to his face.
At this moment, the old emperor was rescued again, and shouted outside through the window of the dormitory: "You rebel, you dare to do the act of killing the monarch and usurping the throne, everyone has seen it with their own eyes, you still dare to quibble, where is Duanmu Aiqing?"
Duanmu Zhantian took two quick steps forward, knelt down on his knees, and said loudly: "The old minister is here." I only heard the old emperor say hoarsely: "Quickly send someone to take this rebel and his subordinates to the noon gate to be killed." β
"Obey the order," Duanmu Zhantian bowed again, then stood up, turned back to Liu Qiang and gave a look, Liu Qiang understood, waved to the one hundred and eighty brothers around, this group of brothers quickly stepped forward, each hand carried a person, and walked outside the noon gate, an hour later, more than three hundred heads were brought back, Duanmu Zhantian faced the door of the dormitory, and recited loudly: "Your Majesty, the eldest prince and his subordinates, a total of three hundred and sixty-two people, have all been beheaded, and the old minister handed over the decree." β
The old emperor coughed a few times, his mood stabilized, and after a while, he only heard the old emperor say: "The widow has passed on the oral message, the second prince Nan Ronglin, who is virtuous, erudite, and talented, will be crowned the crown prince from today, and will succeed to the emperor's throne in January." β
All the ministers knelt down together, bowed three times and bowed nine times, and the mountain shouted long live, and then slowly retreated. All that remains is to quickly eliminate the traitorous ministers, so as not to leave any hidden danger for Nan Ronglin's succession in the future.
Prince Xiaoyao was in charge of the security and security of the palace and the entire imperial capital, and from this day on, the entire imperial palace was preparing for the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor.
Three days after the change of the palace, the old emperor died, the preparations for the enthronement ceremony were suspended, and the old emperor was fully prepared for the funeral, the imperial capital fell into a sad atmosphere, and a week later, the old emperor's funeral was solemnly held, the royal mausoleum was one hundred miles north of the palace, here by the mountain and the water, the scenery is pleasant, from a distance, the whole royal mausoleum is like a giant dragon entrenched at the foot of the mountain, the cemetery is splendid, solemn sΓΉ mu.
The funeral procession is more than ten miles long, and there are millions of people along the way to see each other off, and the scene is so grand that it is a precedent for ancient and modern times.
Nan Ronglin personally escorted the coffin to the cemetery for burial, and behind Nan Ronglin, Lu Qingfeng sent 180 brothers to protect Nan Ronglin's safety.
Now is an extraordinary period, no one dares to guarantee that there will be the remnants of the Great Prince hidden in the shadows, and unless Nan Ronglin appears, the entire Nanrong Empire will fall into chaos.
On the day of the old emperor's death, the monthly auction of the Shenzhou Auction House was also held as scheduled, and Lu Qingfeng was also idle in the manor.
The 200,000 troops also withdrew from the manor, and one hundred and eighty brothers were also escorted by Nan Ronglin's side, and only the Situ brothers and sisters, Leng Rubing, Ling'er, Lan Yin, and Dahu were left in the entire manor. Lu Qingfeng didn't take anyone with him, he left the manor alone and went to the Shenzhou Auction House.