Bureau of Anomalous Biological Countermeasures Chapter 61: Thundering

After having a meal in the palace, the vassal kings originally thought of going back to the palace to rest, and they would come back early the next morning to pay their respects to the late emperor. However, the little emperor suddenly changed his mind. He asked these uncles to go to the mourning hall to guard the spirit of the late emperor, and set off from the palace tomorrow morning to see the late emperor off.

Many of these vassal kings just arrived in the capital today, and they also stayed in the mourning hall a few days in advance. Everyone is exhausted at this time, and they can't violate the emperor's decree. At the moment, Cui Tou had to walk towards the mourning hall dejectedly. With the example of King Xiang before, he never dared to speak ill of Zhu Yunwen in private.

Shortly after all the vassal kings arrived at the mourning hall, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was also brought to the mourning hall by the eunuchs in the palace. I didn't see Zhu Di during the meal just now. Everyone was a little puzzled by the fact that King Yan was left alone just now. What did he say to the little emperor?

"Fourth brother, come here..." After seeing Zhu Di entering the mourning hall, King Ning Zhu Quan gave up the futon beside him. After watching King Yan knelt down to the coffin, he continued: "Fourth brother, you didn't even eat, and was left alone in the hall by His Majesty. Are you discussing the reduction of the clan?"

Ning Wang was not even polite, and went straight to the topic as soon as he opened his mouth. After the surrounding vassal kings heard it, they came over one after another. Just now, the little emperor said that he was going to cut the clan, and everyone was panicking. When we were eating just now, we were inquiring about each other, but no one could say why.

Now, Zhu Di is the biggest here. Seeing his younger brothers come over, he smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that your majesty left this king, it's that this king has something to play to your majesty. It's all trivial matters on my fief. , it has nothing to do with cutting the fan or something."

Hearing what King Yan said, the vassal kings seemed to lose interest. They returned to their respective positions one after another, chatting with their acquainted brothers, guessing how the matter of cutting Fan would start. But everyone didn't know what the little emperor was thinking, and he was just guessing for a long time.

After a while, I suddenly saw the **** of Supervisor Si Li came to the mourning hall to deliver an edict. Everyone hurriedly turned around and saluted, and only after hearing the **** read out the edict, did they understand that the imperial edict was only for Zhu Di, the king of Yan. The imperial decree stated that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was the most favored son of the late emperor except the crown prince. After the new king ascended the throne, he also made good suggestions to the new king. In order to recognize King Yan, the two kings of Zhu Di were awarded the emoluments and doubled the guard of honor. What made the other kings jealous most was the addition of a dongzhu to the crown.

After reading the imperial edict, the **** personally added a thumb-sized Dongzhu to Zhu Di's crown. When the other princes saw it, they all sneered in their hearts. Now that I heard the imperial decree, I understand what you, the monarch, the ministers, and the ministers, were discussing just now.

After seeing the **** leaving the mourning hall, Sovereign, who was sitting next to King Yan, lowered his head and laughed strangely, then got up and changed positions with his futon and knelt down. He said indifferently: "No wonder...I just said why the relationship between you monarchs and ministers is so good, it turns out that fourth brother, you played for the emperor. In the hall just now, brothers and sisters are all there. Talking about cutting down the vassal. Even if someone didn't mention a word, I was thinking about it at that time... Cut the vassal is the vassal of everyone, why does it seem to only cut us and not you. Now I understand it, I really don't know. Cut down your vassal. Use the fiefs of your brothers to pay back your salaries, guards of honor and Dongzhu. Can you sleep well at night? Aren’t you afraid that the late emperor will entrust you with dreams and call you an unfilial son...”

With these few words from King Ning, the other vassal kings also spoke up one after another: "I just said why everyone went to eat just now, so you stayed in the palace and talked to the emperor. Please ask the emperor for credit, are all the fiefs we cut off on you? Do you have such a big appetite to swallow so many fiefs?"

"When I was a child, I thought he was not authentic. Everyone followed the father and emperor to fight the Mongolian Tartars. We fought hard at the front, and you led your men and horses to grab people's heads in the back. In the end, he was the first to be crowned king... everyone is surnamed Zhu, why is he like this?"

For a while, none of the vassal kings were chanting scriptures and keeping the spirits, and everyone went to King Yan. At the moment, the chatter was endless, and Zhu Di seemed to have not heard it, and still knelt in front of the coffin, playing with the jade ring in his hand.

It stayed up until late at night, when the little emperor Zhu Yunwen arrived at the mourning hall, and the Minister of Rites began to preside over the funeral ceremony. Everyone put on new filial piety clothes. When he was awakened, Zhu Yunwen, who was walking at the front, turned his head and waved to Zhu Di, and said, "Fourth uncle, now you are the most senior here. Come and accompany me, our uncle. The nephews walked ahead."

The emperor's words are the imperial edict, although Zhu Di understood that this was a plan to alienate himself and other vassals. However, he did not have the courage to openly resist the decree, and he walked beside the little emperor with his head down. After half a step away from Zhu Yunwen, they walked towards the location of the imperial tomb outside the city.

When he woke up, Zhu Di could already hear the discussions of the vassal kings behind him. They are all mocking themselves for hurting other vassal kings and enriching their own fiefs. If Zhu Di can hear it, so can the little emperor. It's just that the uncle and nephew didn't seem to hear it, and with sadness on their faces, they walked step by step in the direction of the imperial mausoleum.

All the way to the imperial mausoleum, after burying the coffin of the late emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the whole funeral ceremony ended. It's evening again. According to the rules at the time, the emperor, all the vassals and officials had to walk back to the palace. At the moment, Zhu Yunwen took Zhu Di to the front, followed by the kings.

Walking to the gate of the imperial city and looking at the people kneeling on both sides of the street, Zhu Yunwen sighed softly and said to Zhu Di: "King Yan, originally I only wanted to be a king of the unfettered domain, but it is a pity to first The prince left early. The late emperor pushed me to this position, in fact, I still feel that I was happier when I was the grandson of the emperor."

"Your Majesty is destined to be the ruler of the world from birth, otherwise, when the late emperor had twenty-six sons, why did you only make His Majesty the Crown Prince?" Zhu Di smiled and continued: "Now Your Majesty is rich in the world and commands the people of all peoples. , although the time of the great grandson was good, it is a thing of the past. Now your Majesty should still be the emperor, expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and be the king of all generations..."

Zhu Yunwen glanced at Zhu Di, then chuckled and said, "After King Yan told me about my heart and returned to the palace, I still have national affairs to ask for advice from King Yan."

Zhu Di didn't dare to take it hard when he said these words, and he hurriedly staggered his position with the emperor. He bowed and said, "Your Majesty cannot say the word "please ask for advice". Your Majesty is the master of the world. How can others speak more under the dictatorship of the Holy Bow? If your Majesty has sent you, you must try your best to do it..."

The vassal kings behind were separated by guards and could not hear what the emperor and King Yan were saying. But looking at the appearance of their monarchs and ministers, it looks like King Yan is showing merit to the little emperor. In addition to the previous right and wrong, the vassal kings couldn't help but think of the matter of cutting the vassal. If it was wrong, it was Zhu Laosi's advice to the little emperor. Everyone's surname is Zhu, but you're going too far...

After returning to the palace, Zhu Yunwen asked the officials who came to deliver the funeral to return to the palace to rest. The vassal kings followed him into the palace, and the vassal kings followed Zhu Yunwen into the Xihua Palace. The emperor ordered people to put down the prepared banquet, and then said to the vassal kings: "Today is our family banquet, but we can't use meat and wine on the day of filial piety. After this meal, the uncles also Go back to the manor to rest, the uncles have worked hard today."

After a few polite words from the emperor, the vassal kings hurriedly rose to thank them. Seeing that Zhu Yunwen was the first to pick up the chopsticks, all the vassal kings started eating. These vassal kings just drank some water all day today, and they were all very hungry people. Even if they only had these vegetables and tofu in front of them, they still ate it with relish.

Just as everyone was eating and drinking, a flash of lightning suddenly hit the sky outside the palace. Then there was a burst of screams outside, and Zhu Yunwen frowned when he was about to ask a question, when he saw Yang Jun in plain armor walking into his side, and said in a low voice, "Just now, there was a thunderbolt outside the palace, splitting The **** who delivered the vegetables died..."