"Sir, there is a guard in the palace who has sent an order for you to enter the palace immediately."
Outside the study, the voice of the old housekeeper in the mansion was full of fatigue and fear. The old man, who had been working as a professional for more than ten years, clearly noticed that tonight was unusual.
The study door opened, and Li Changshou walked out slowly.
This paper Taoist is dressed in a dark red robe, with long pale hair tied up in a crane crown. He is still as energetic, as calm and energetic as when he first moved here many years ago.
Li Changshou took out a letter from his sleeve, handed it to the old housekeeper, and said with a smile:
"After I go to the palace tonight, you lock the door and let the people in the palace Soldiers, don't go out casually. If anyone asks you, just tell me that I have gone to the palace.
When everything is safe tomorrow, you can open this letter. There is a way to open the cabinet in my study. You can divide the money inside among the people in the house.
It’s a fate between you and me.”
The old housekeeper’s hand was shaking a little. Sir, what are you doing... There are a lot of rumors in the city right now. They are saying that the king is seriously ill in the past few days. Don't let anything happen to you!"
"It's not that something happened, but it's time to leave! ," Li Changshou raised his hand and patted the old housekeeper on the shoulder, "Don't think too much." After saying that, a wisp of smoke came out from Li Changshou's feet, and he slowly lifted himself half a foot up. He suddenly appeared in the deserted front yard and walked towards the entrance hall unhurriedly.
The housekeeper opened his mouth, but just bowed his head and knelt down in front of the back of Taoist Li Changshou, leaving a soft sigh in the night, as if he was grateful for his care over the years.
When Li Changshou came out of the mansion, a large group of soldiers swarmed up and surrounded the mansion. A middle-aged general clasped his fists forward, lowered his head, and shouted loudly:
"Sir, sir, Dazai invites you to enter the palace immediately. The general has prepared a carriage for you."
"Isn't it an ox cart?" Li Changshou frowned and said in an old-fashioned way: "I have old arms and legs. I don’t know if I can withstand the bumps.”
The general smiled awkwardly and said in a low voice: “The situation is urgent, please be accommodating. If I bump you, I will chop off the head of the driver! "
The two guards who were leading the carriage could not help but tremble.
"No, not so."
Li Changshou waved his hand and stepped onto the carriage with vigorous steps, making the group of soldiers next to him stare straight in the eyes.
If this were the hometown of Li Changshou Blue Star, the group of young people next to him would probably all praise him:
[Fuck, this old man, ouch, shit...]
To put it in the world of Nanzhou, I can only say: This old man has a really strong body.
The shafts of the carriage turned gurglingly, and Li Changshou was swaying in the carriage as he galloped towards the palace.
At the same time, outside the residences of the ministers around the Grand Palace, oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages rushed to the palace under the protection of soldiers and guards.
A few days ago, ChaogeThere was a roar in the city.
Lao Wang's health is deteriorating and he is almost out of gas; the three princes are waiting in the palace, and the government is temporarily in charge of the government.
At this time, Dazai summoned all the ministers late at night for just one thing.
The king is no longer alive.
Li Changshou knew that Emperor Yi had died two hours ago. There was a blue dragon manifesting the emperor's luck in the sky above Chaoge City, and then it dispersed on its own.
At this time, when observing Chaoge City using the method of looking at the air, one can see the steaming clouds above Chaoge City, with a purple-red cloud and mist constantly billowing.
That is the fate of the Human Emperor who has not yet been reunited, which means that the position of the Human Emperor is pending at this time.
Although Zi Shou is the heir, something must have happened in the palace, otherwise it would not have been delayed for two hours.
Common world, throne, greed, selfishness...
This night is really suitable for Senior Brother Yuding to come here to enlightenment.
Not long after...
"Master Shi, we have arrived."
"Yes," Li Changshou responded, opened the curtain, and was Heiwei helped the frame down.
Around him, carriages and horses were parked in random directions. One after another, old ministers were helped down and hurried to the king's palace.
Those hurried footsteps were like rain sweeping over the plantains, or like the surging of a defeated army.
Li Changshou mingled among the veterans. People kept coming over to say something, but he stopped them with gestures.
Soon, these ministers rushed to the palace.
Hundreds of civil servants and generals have gathered here, but there are very few who are qualified to enter.
"Master Shi!"
An old minister shouted, and the ministers surrounding him tried to make way. Li Changshou walked forward quickly, frowning and entering the hidden room. palace gate.
A strong medicinal smell came to my face.
The palace is a bit dark, as if to deliberately highlight the depressing atmosphere at this time.
Moving forward, more than a dozen civil and military ministers gathered in front of the bed in the middle of the hall. Li Changshou took a closer look and saw that they were all people who were on the list of gods and had secretly marked them in his notebook.
Bigan, who is young and powerful, has an exquisite heart, and is responsible for the punishment of great merchants.
Du Yuanxian, the Minister of Tianjian, studied astronomy and stars, knew the changes in solar terms, and determined the months for farming in Dashang every year.
Uncle Mei, I would like to advise you how to deal with the king.
Shang Rong, Wai Yin, was originally the minister in charge of internal affairs, and was in charge of internal and external affairs with Da Zai. However, due to the taboo of Lord Shang, his duties were only empty at this time.
There is also Wen Zhong, who is showing his old age, the prince's young master, assisting the prince...
And so on.
Li Changshou made secret calculations, but found that Huang Feihu, who was qualified to enter, was not in the palace at the moment.
Before these ministers, there were three princes kneeling beside the bed, each bowing his head and saying nothing.
Zi Shou is the eldest son, kneeling at the front. Behind him are two middle-aged scribes, his eldest brother and second brother.Zi Qi, Wei Zhongyan.
Li Changshou’s footsteps attracted everyone’s attention. Wei Ziqi and Wei Zhongyan both cast friendly glances at him.
Only Zi Shou knelt down in front of the bed, not moving at all.
The white-haired Dazai came quickly and said in a low voice: "Da Shi, you are finally here. The king has already ascended to immortality. Please write down the historical words and pass them on to future generations. "
Li Changshou coughed weakly and took out a piece of gorgeous cloth from his sleeve.
"It's written."
"Write!" Dazai glared at Li Changshou, and several veterans looked over with frowns.
Li Changshou whispered: "It's foolproof, you're prepared."
The Dazai opened the cloth, leaned against the lampstand, read it carefully, and then nodded slowly.
"In this case, the old minister went to announce to the ministers that the king was promoted to immortality, and also asked the three princes not to forget to perform the ceremony."
After saying this, the chief minister held the cloth. , ordered the palace servants to open the palace door, and shouted loudly with a unique emphasis:
"Your Majesty! Collapse!"
All the ministers outside the palace fell silent. The boy beside the bed choked and shouted:
"Father!"
Wei Ziqi and Wei Zhongyan shouted in unison, Bigan lowered his head and shed tears, and all the ministers bowed. Sobbing, the sound of female relatives crying in pain came from the corner of the hall.
The sound of crying spread from the king's palace to everywhere, and soon the palace was filled with sobbing sounds.
This is a courtesy and must be respected. If you don't cry, you will be punished.
After an hour, the crying stopped.
Dazai shouted loudly and ordered the female priest to pray and recite sutras. This process would last for a day and a night.
Then, the chief minister said:
"Please also invite the three princes and ministers to move to the palace.
Shang cannot live without a king for a day. The king's final decree is in the hands of the old minister, and everyone has just witnessed it with your own eyes.
Everything is determined by this decree!"
Li Changshou couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart.
Di Yi died two hours ago when he came here, and this decree came one and a half hours ago when he came here.
At that time, Emperor Yi seemed to be having a flashback, but it was actually just some magic tricks.
The rule set by the heaven is not to touch the human emperor, but when Emperor Yi died, the human emperor's destiny had collapsed and he was nothing more than a corpse.
This trick may seem superficial, but it is quite useful.
The three princes stood up, each bowed his head and retreated, heading out of the palace without saying a word, followed by the veterans.
Wen Zhong took the opportunity to come to Li Changshou's side and hesitated for a while. In the end, he just sighed softly and said nothing more.
Soon, the courtiers who were crying just now receded like the tide, and only a few female priests left in the entire hall began to jump around, looking quite lonely.
Emperors and ministers come from generation to generation, and it is nothing more than this.
Half an hour later, in the King’s Palace.
EmptyIn front of the throne, Dazai slowly unfolded the cloth in his hand, and the sound of a somewhat breathless reading began to float back and forth in the hall.
The three princes below are standing in a posture, with Zi Shou in front, bowing his head to listen to the announcement.
Wei Ziqi and Wei Zhongyan stood at the back, looking at each other with a meaningful smile on their lips.
Just listen to Da Zai’s words:
“Although I have conquered foreign countries, expanded my country’s territory, captured millions of enemies, and promoted the power of my ancestors throughout my life, I have achieved neither success nor fault.
Nowadays, the great Shang Dynasty is facing difficult internal and external troubles.
I think carefully, but I still feel that my son is too young and too sharp. If the throne is passed to another hand, I am afraid that I will not be able to make enough progress. The country is falling apart.
Zi Qi is the eldest son, he is academically motivated, and he is humble and can be entrusted with the throne."
Da Zai paused and looked down at the three princes.
You could hear needles dropping in the hall, and there was an unspeakable sense of oppression that made many civil servants and military generals hold their breath.
Da Zai said in a deep voice: "Prince Zishou, do you have any objections?"
Zishou remained silent, but straightened his back and closed his eyes.
Wei Ziqi frowned slightly, but Wei Zhongyan sighed and said slowly: "I didn't expect that my father would change his mind at the last moment."
Brother Ziqi faced each other Zishou and I are indeed more calm and have the demeanor of a king."
At this moment, a burly general stepped out from the military array and said loudly:
< p>"Dare I ask you, Dazai! When was the king's decree made? Why haven't you heard of it before?"Another general said: "Is this decree really written by the king? Since today Before, the king was full of praise for Prince Zishou, why did he suddenly change the choice of heir?"
"General Lu Xiong!"
A civil servant angrily said: "You are teaching the king. Doing something?"
The general named Lu Xiong scolded: "I will always be loyal to the king, and the sun and the moon can tell me! But this matter is really strange, and we need to find out!"
p>"General Lu Xiong," the chieftain sighed, "when the king was dying, he ordered us to open the secret box beside his pillow and took out this decree.
This is Five of the six ministers have seen it, and the two uncles have also seen it with their own eyes."
Bigan, the leader of the civil servants, nodded slowly, and Xu Yu, who was beside the ministers and had no specific position. , also nodded slowly.
Most of the generals frowned in confusion, but half of the civil servants had a faint smile in their eyes.
Li Changshou watched quietly from the side. He actually wanted to know how Zishou would ascend to the throne and whether he would reveal his cruel and unkind side tonight.
Quite looking forward to it.
"Third brother."
Weizi opened his mouth to call and sighed: "Don't be sad about this, this throne should be shared between you and me."
Zi Shou was completely silent, standing there quietly, but there was an indescribable majesty in his back.
This is not a spiritual pathnot the pressure generated by the environment, but pure majesty.
Like mountains, like the sky, like the blue waves of the sea!
"Third brother," Wei Zhongyan took half a step forward and said seriously: "Before the ministers, don't embarrass your eldest brother. I know that you don't want to give up the throne, but this is also the father of the king." The will of..."
"Have you had enough trouble?"
Zi Shou murmured in a low voice, which made Wei Zhongyan a little puzzled.
Wei Zhongyan was about to continue speaking, but Zi Shou said calmly: "All ministers retreat, and those who do not retreat will be killed."
"This..."
"Prince, how do you give orders?"
"We are ministers appointed by the late king, why can't we be here?"
Qiang!
Clang!
In the array of generals, a large number of generals actually pulled out daggers from their leg armors and held the swords to force the civil servants beside them with murderous intent.
The ministers quickly retreated, and Zishou said again: "Everyone who was in front of my father's bed before, please stay."
The Weizi raised his arms and shouted:
"Wait a minute! You are going to rebel!"
The generals did not answer, they just drove the civil servants away, walked out of the hall with the civil servants, and closed the door tightly.
Bang!
The Wei Ziqi's face turned red and he turned around to glare at Zi Shou.
"Zi Shou! Don't you even respect your father's will?!"
Zi Shou had turned around at this moment, staring at his brother with cold eyes. , causing the latter to take half a step back subconsciously, causing wrinkles in his exquisite robe.
"Whether that is my father's will, you and I know very well.
I have always respected you as my brother, but you actually used my father's body to make such a plan!
Is it true that I don’t know the magic of that outsider?”
The great master hurriedly said: “Third Prince…”
“Shut up! ”
Zi Shou turned around and glared. There happened to be thunder shining outside the palace, which frightened the Dazai so much that he raised his hands to cover his chest and almost fainted.
At this moment, there was a sound of scraping armor from outside the palace, as if a large number of soldiers were swarming in.
The Wei Ziqi suddenly became more confident, held his head high, held his chest high, and said with his fingers:
"Third brother, don't be brave, or you will frighten me and all of you." Minister! You can’t make the decision tonight in Chaoge City!”
“Really?” Zishou curled his lips and walked towards the throne on the high platform, then turned around on the steps. Come, sit on your own in the middle of the steps, with a bit of pity in your eyes.
“Brother...Brother, for so many years, you seem to have never discovered one thing.
When I was young, you and your in-laws used various means to target For me, poisoning, assassination, accidents, all possible means, have my life been in danger?"
Wei Ziqi's face turned gloomy, and he said coldly: "This matter is for my brother's sake. I don’t know.”
Zi Shou leaned back, resting his elbows on the steps, with a bit of mockery in his eyes.
He said slowly:
“For tonight, you spent three years secretly subduing the commander of the city guard and the twelve generals of the palace guard. , the more you throw, the bigger the promise.
If you become king tonight, you will have more than ten kingdoms.
Brother, have you ever thought about the shortcomings of our Shang country. "
Wei Ziqi said calmly: "The shortcomings of the Shang country are due to the slaves and the marquis."
"I used to think so, but not anymore.
The problem with the Shang Kingdom is that you, me, and my father are all standing on this iceberg, but we want to melt the iceberg into living water. The first to fall is you and me."
Zishou raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, "I used to think that I was the only one who could see the sickness of our Shang Kingdom.
It wasn't until I had a conversation with Da Shiye that I realized that I was not the prince of all generations.
Everyone can see these illnesses, and there must be many people who want to innovate, but in the end they just end up with a bloody head.
>Shang has eight hundred princes, but Shang is the largest prince. When the great Shang gets old and weak, there will always be ambitious people who stand up.
The real shortcoming of Shang is... …
The king is not king enough.”
Rumble——
Thunder flashed outside the palace, and then heavy rain poured down.
Along with the thunder, a killing cry suddenly came from the direction of the palace gate.
Wei Ziqi's expression changed, and he walked quickly towards the palace gate for ten steps, but immediately stopped, turned around and glared at Zi Shou on the steps.
"Third brother, what have you done!"
"Clean up the rebels."
Zi Shou answered calmly, shook his head slightly, and said calmly : "You only know how to plot and want to hold Feihu back, but you don't know that Feihu has made preparations in advance and secretly built a tunnel from the city gate to the palace gate.
Among the personal guards generals you have recruited, Half of them are my people."
Wei Ziqi's eyes widened and he cursed: "You, you! You are plotting against me!"
"I don't want to be guilty. Fight, but you have gone too far."
Zi Shou said: "Young Master, please show me your father's will."
"Yes!"
p>Wen Zhong agreed angrily, stepped forward quickly, put a cloth scroll in Da Zai's hand, raised his hand and patted the back of Da Zai's hand gently.
Da Zai’s breathing was somewhat disordered. He opened the cloth tremblingly and read as hard as he could:
“I, I know that my time is short. King, you will do your best to protect our great Shangshan River.
I will bury the widow beside my ancestors and not have a big funeral."
Wei Zhongyan said in a low voice: "That's all. ?"
"That's it..."
Da Zai looked down at the few words on the cloth, "Indeed, that's it, and it's the king's own handwriting."
Wei Zhongyan's face suddenly turned pale.
At this moment, the palaceThe shouts of killing have stopped, the palace door opened a gap, and a figure rushed in, wearing golden armor, his body was wet with rain, his face was majestic and his breath was long.
It is Huang Feihu, Huang Gun’s son!
Huang Feihu knelt down on one knee, holding his sword and reported: "Your Majesty! The rebels have been wiped out!"
Wei Ziqi said in a low voice: "No, it's impossible! I have armor One hundred thousand soldiers!"
Zi Shou said: "Feihu, how many enemy troops are there tonight?"
Huang Feihu said firmly: "Thousands of stragglers gathered at the palace gate to fight with relatives. Wei Ziqi's face turned pale and he roared: "Come on!"
"No, you lied to me!" p>
It was quiet outside the palace gate, as if even the breath of the ministers had been hidden.
The bell rang, but Wei Ziqi collapsed to the ground helplessly.
Zi Shou said no more, turned around, looked up at the throne at the end of the steps, lifted up the hem of his robe, and climbed up the stairs.
The steps are steady and the eyes are firm.
‘From today onwards, the glory of the great merchants and the inheritance of the ancestors will be carried by a few people.
The shortcomings of big business and the danger of raising tigers can be innovated by a few people.
The eight hundred princes who refused to obey were destroyed one by one.
Those who do not pay tribute from all over the world will be swept away by thunder.
I don’t believe in destiny! ’
In front of the throne, Zishou suddenly turned around, the palace door opened wide, and the civil servants and generals bowed their heads and quickly walked in. The dozen or so ministers who had been left in the palace remained silent.
Not long after, Bigan ranked first among the civil servants, and Huang Feihu ranked first among the generals.
Zi Shou raised his hands and slowly sat on the throne.
Above Chaoge City, golden light bloomed in the purple-red aura, and then a golden blue dragon rose into the sky, quickly absorbing the fortune of the great merchants and the country, roaring silently at the heavenly palace.
‘I am a man of destiny! ’