Amid laughter, Han Zhao strode out of the palace gate and walked away.
And it is estimated that it won't be long before the Gu family and the Zuo family will be completely wiped out.
Of course, the heirs of these two families must still remain outside the capital, and they will definitely fight against the Wei family in the future.
But none of that matters now.
The important thing is that Wei Xianzhi killed two people in a row in just a few dozen breaths, and the two people didn't even finish talking...
Looking at the two bloody corpses lying in the center of the hall, no one made a sound, whether they were standing or kneeling.
As for Nguyen Thien Phu in the corner...
While he was glad that he knelt down in time, he was also extremely surprised.
It was not that he had never thought that Wei Xianzhi would kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, but he did not expect that the latter would be so decisive.
You must know that it is unrealistic to kill everyone who opposes.
After all, if more than twenty court officials died at once, then the forces behind these people would definitely not let it go, and once the matter was spread, it would have a very bad impact on Ning Wenjun's "style evaluation".
Everyone agrees that this is what everyone wants.
Killing everyone who disagrees is a complete attempt to usurp power.
So under normal circumstances, it is definitely possible to kill as little as possible.
However, after all, Wei Xianzhi was a lunatic who led people to surround the palace...
For a moment, Ruan Tianfu was not sure whether the commander of the Xuanjing Division would continue his killing spree.
The latter quickly gave the answer with practical actions.
"Master Sun, do you also want to disobey His Highness?"
"You just have to answer yes and no."
"Wei, Wei Xianzhi, don't push people too much..."
"boom!!"
With a sharp palm, he turned to look at the other person.
"Master Mei, what about you?"
"I......"
"boom!!"
He closed his palms and turned his head again, there was another person.
"Master He, you..."
"ah!!"
"I, I am willing to assist His Highness in ascending the throne!!"
"..."
When the number of corpses in the palace changed from two to four, and the Minister of Punishment named He Zhang screamed and fell to his knees, Wei Xianzhi finally stopped his crazy behavior.
His gaze calmly swept over the other people who were still standing. His eyes didn't seem to be looking at living things, but more like looking at the meat on the chopping board.
Although he didn't ask another question, wherever he looked, within three breaths, the people he looked at would all tremble and kneel down without exception.
Everyone understood that Wei Xianzhi could not kill them all, but they also knew that there was not much difference between killing four and killing five.
Obviously, no one wants to be the fifth body...
Just like that, when the last person knelt down tremblingly and shouted "I am willing to assist His Highness in ascending the throne" with a trembling mouth, no one was left standing in the hall except Wei Xianzhi and Ning Wenjun.
Turning to look at Ning Wenjun, who looked a little pale but a little excited, Wei Xianzhi took a step forward, turned around, and knelt down facing the former as well.
He shook his sleeves, then raised his hands to his forehead and shouted in a deep voice:
"Use force to quell chaos, use virtue to bring peace!"
"We sincerely request His Highness to ascend the throne of Emperor immediately!"
"Please, Your Highness, please never refuse!"
...
...
For an emperor who conquers the world through "abnormal" means, he usually has to go through a process of "three resignations and three concessions" before ascending the throne.
He had to be persuaded three times by ministers, refused three times, and then "reluctantly" agreed at the last time and ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
Obviously, this process is to save some face for these emperors who have "unjustified reputations".
To put it more bluntly, that’s——
If he is decent, you make him decent; if he is not decent, you help him be decent.
For Ning Wenjun, he must be in an "undignified" situation. After all, his father is not dead yet.
But the current situation no longer allowed him to go through the "whitewashing" process of "three resignations and three concessions", so Ning Wenjun immediately accepted the request of the "ministers" and transformed from a prince to an emperor.
Of course, the change of identity still requires an enthronement ceremony.
The ancients attached great importance to rituals, so no matter how you say this ceremony, it is essential.
Although the preparation for the ceremony will take a few days at the earliest, the "publicity" work can be started first.
Therefore, the Beijing News, which has been established for one year and has almost monopolized public opinion, began to play its real role.
...
The morning session ended only half an hour later.
The warehouse of Chunshen Bookstore's Beijing headquarters was opened, and newspapers stacked inside were delivered to every household for free like snowflakes.
The semicolons in each state were doing the same thing at almost the same time, immediately spreading everything that happened in the capital to the thirty-six states of Daning.
These newspapers had been printed two days ago. They not only published the original text of Ning Wenjun's "speech" today, but also included a "judgment document" issued by Dali Temple against Ning Yongnian.
Um......
Strictly speaking, although the first page of the "Da Ning Code" states that "the emperor's crimes are the same as those of the common people," but in the system, the only person who can judge the emperor is the emperor himself, not even the "Supreme Law" Dali Temple.
But newspapers are for the common people after all, and no one cares about whether they comply with the system or not.
The common people only know that Dali Temple is the place where all major and important cases are judged. With this "official endorsement", the content in the newspaper naturally becomes a lot more credible.
so......
Is Ning Yongnian the real culprit in the Yuanzhou City incident?
The Xu family rebelled, and Ning Yuke rebelled because they were forced to do so?
Also, it was Ning Wenjun who instigated the Wei family to rebel?
In the narrative tone of "Beijing News", Ning Yongnian is naturally portrayed as a sinister and cunning tyrant who has no regard for the people.
Ning Wenjun, on the other hand, is a good prince who hates evil as much as he hates hatred and kills his relatives for justice.
As for the Wei family... they are of course a powerful helper in helping Ning Wenjun do justice for heaven.
Except for the above three points, except that Ning Yongnian's statement is basically consistent with the facts, the other two points are undoubtedly very outrageous.
However, ordinary people have no ability to distinguish these.
In their view, the "Beijing News", which has brought them all kinds of latest news in the past year, is the most reliable information channel, at least it is much more credible than those rumors.
Therefore, in less than half a day, the whole Daning was completely boiling.
After all, the fact that the emperor was changed overnight was so impactful that most people would not believe it was true unless they heard it from the newspaper reader himself...
"Sir! We have just arrived! I didn't hear what you just said!"
"Read it again!"
"Yes sir! Read it again!"
"..."
Far east, Qingzhou Prefecture.
A teahouse called "Sanrunju" is located in a small town not far from the seaside, and most of the people who come and go are fishermen living nearby.
Hearing that something big happened, these fishermen stopped going out to fish today. They all ran to the town, wanting to hear what kind of big thing happened.
Some people come early and some come late.
Therefore, the few "newspaper readers" in the town are very busy today, and have read the newspapers in their hands countless times from morning to night.
But it doesn’t matter, as long as there is money to be made.
"Be calm and don't be impatient! Fellow township party members, be impatient and impatient! Allow me to take a sip of tea to moisten my throat!"
While drinking tea, he quietly observed the increasing number of copper coins in the copper furnace in front of him.
When the copper coins reached a high level, the old man in Confucian robes raised the newspaper and read it slowly again.
"cough!"
"On the fourth day of November in the fifteenth year of Tianji, there was heavy snowfall."
"First issue of Beijing News, great changes in the DPRK situation..."
"..."
The moon is on the branches, the cold wind is blowing outside, but it is very hot inside.
The small teahouse was crowded with people inside and outside, and the crowd would exclaim every few dozen breaths.
Today's newspaper has seven or eight pages, and it takes almost an hour just to read it through.
What's more, the old man often waited for the crowd to finish talking before continuing to recite, so by the end of the recitation, he was already in his prime.
"Dear rural party members, the newspaper said that the new emperor promised to stabilize food prices in various states within ten days."
"There is also the south, saying that there will be no more wars..."
There is no doubt that when these two sentences were finished, the crowd inevitably made another noise.
These fishermen didn't care whether there was a war in the south or not, but Ning Wenjun's promise to solve the food price problem within ten days made them extremely excited.
The night was churning, and the heated discussion lasted for almost another incense before slowly stopping.
Someone saw that the old man who read the newspaper had folded the newspaper, and they quickly asked loudly:
"Sir! Have you finished reading them all?"
"Is there anything else you haven't read?"
"..."
"One more thing."
He looked at the copper leak in the corner through the gap in the crowd, and then turned to look at the night sky outside the house.
Under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes, the old man who read the newspaper sighed softly with some emotion.
"Hey, fellow villagers."
"It won't be an auspicious year in less than an hour."
"The new emperor has changed his reign name. From tomorrow it will be the year of Taichu..."
In the beginning.
Upon hearing this new era name, the fishermen looked at each other in shock, obviously not understanding its meaning.
However, the old newspaper reader understood the ambition implied in the year title.
In the beginning, it was very small, rare and detailed.
People have no destiny, and countries have no destiny.
So domineering...
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