Chapter 173 Plum Blossoms and the Old House
Li Xin carefully prepared the arrangements of the court.
With his "recommendation" today, after Zhao Jia entered Beijing, he would naturally enter the Shangshu Desk. Even if it was not convenient for him to directly reach the position of Zuo Pushe on the Shangshu Desk, as he was the "Southwest General Strategy Envoy", no matter where he was at the Shangshu Desk, the scholars in the Shangshu Desk would be very sensible and entrusted with the power to the Shangshu Desk's hand in the hands of this Shangshu Desk who was less than 40 years old.
With Zhao Jia taking charge of the Shangshu Detachment, Li Xin himself took charge of the Grand Governor's Office. In addition, some military generals and officials from the southwest will enter the court and will divide a large part of the power from the court. If everything goes well, the key position in the court will be controlled by Li Xin. In addition, the Southwest Army will suppress the capital for a few years, and at most three years, the entire Jin court will be completely controlled by Li Xin from the inside out.
By then, Li Xin and others will truly "occupate" the capital.
At the court meeting, Li Xin told the new emperor about military affairs in northern Xinjiang, but this emperor who had just ascended the throne had nothing to the northern Xinjiang. He could not express any opinions, so he could only hand over the affairs of northern Xinjiang to Li Xin for handling.
Then after the officials worshipped the new emperor again, this rather simple "Ascendance ceremony" came to an end.
All civil and military officials left Weiyang Palace one after another.
Li Xin also followed these ministers out of Weiyang Palace, but he did not leave the palace, but walked to Changle Palace.
Changle Palace was the residence of the Emperor of the Great Jin for a long time and was also the place where the emperor accepted worship from all officials. However, because the Renchen Palace had killed too many people, he did not dare to live in the Changle Palace after ascending the throne, for fear that his father or ancestors would seek trouble for him in the middle of the night. So after ascending the throne, Emperor Taikang's residence was moved to the Weiyang Palace. After that, Emperor Yuanzhao also lived in the Weiyang Palace, which became a common practice.
At this time, Changle Palace had been vacant for more than ten years without anyone living there.
However, now, Changle Palace, which has been idle for many years, has welcomed another resident. After Li Xin stepped in, Xiao Zheng, dressed in red, immediately came out to greet him and bowed to Li Xin. "I have seen the Grand Governor."
Li Xin was slightly surprised, and then smiled in silence: "Eunuch Xiao is in Changle Palace, and the news is so well-informed. I was just granted the title today, so Eunuch Xiao knew."
Xiao Zheng looked calm and lowered his head and said, "It was my servant who guessed it."
He glanced quietly and said softly: "This is not difficult to guess. Marquis, you are a general..."
The inner court in the palace has Tianmujian and Meihua Guard, which is a strong force. However, after the Southwest Army entered the imperial city, Xiao Zheng has left the matter without paying attention. Now Xiao Huai is in charge, but Xiao Huai is also considered a former servant of Yuan Zhao. When the new dynasty is a little more stable in the future, Xiao Huai will have to be replaced by someone else.
As for Xiao Zheng...
It is already amazing to be able to be with the two emperors.
This eunuch who has been in charge of the inner court for more than ten years looked up at Li Xin, then lowered his head, and said in a quiet tone: "Even if the Grand Governor wants to kill His Majesty, he will not be so anxious. He will always leave some decent for His Majesty to yourself..."
If it was a serious plan to usurp the throne, then the emperor of the previous dynasty would kill him. However, now the Southwest Army can be regarded as a "rebellion", and can only be regarded as a purging the monarch and abolishing the emperor.
This kind of thing is generally not too ugly. Even if you want to kill the deposed emperor, you will wait for a year or two, and then claim that the deposed emperor "dead died of sudden illness."
Even if Dong Zhuo killed Liu Bian, it was one year after he deposed the emperor.
At this time, if you can't get through it openly, you will be angered by the officials in the capital, and if you can't get through it, you will be unable to get through it, which may cause rebellion in various places.
This is the rules in the court. When there is no absolute power to break these rules, you have to follow these rules, otherwise you will definitely be backfired.
If the Southwest Army now has more than 300,000 troops and is all loyal to Li Xin, then General Li should be able to do whatever he wants in the capital, do whatever he wants, and become emperor if he wants to be emperor if he wants to be emperor if he wants to be killed.
But unfortunately, the number of Southwest Army now is less than 100,000, which is not as large as the number of the two battalions of imperial guards. In this case, they can only make a big move, first occupy the magpie's nest, and then control the overall situation bit by bit.
"Don't worry, if I want to kill someone, he won't live today."
Li Xin's face was calm and said, "The court has issued an edict to demote the deposed emperor to King Huai. The Huai Mansion in the capital has been arranged. Since Your Highness Huai is no longer the emperor, you should move out of the palace. Today I am here to pick up Your Highness Huai out of the palace and move into the Huai Mansion."
Xiao Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief and bowed to Li Xin, "I beg you to move to Prince Huai's Mansion with Your Highness... Your Highness Huai."
“This is nature.”
Li Xin smiled and said, "Your Highness Huai's daily life in the future will require Eunuch Xiao to take care of you."
"But there is a little requirement."
Li Xin looked calm and said, "Before this, Eunuch Xiao will hand over the intelligence agencies of the court with one of my subordinates, such as Plum Blossom Guards."
"The Great Jin Dynasty has been established for more than a hundred years. I believe that in the dark, there should be more than one plum blossom guard. The documents in the palace have been collected by me now. Eunuch Xiao takes the initiative to hand them over. Everyone can be safe and sound. If I turn them out in the documents, it may not be so easy."
The great Jin court had a very powerful force in the darkness. The plum blossom guard alone was extremely powerful, and even far superior to Li Xin's Ancient Tribe. In recent years, Li Xin was assassinated by the plum blossom guards many times in Yongzhou and in the southwest. Among them, his life was at least three times. The Ancient Tribe under his command was no match for the plum blossom guards at all.
Finally, a group of elite veterans were allocated from the Southwest Army to act as personal guards around Li Xin. He patrolled day and night for twelve hours a day, so that Li Xin could escape the assassination again and again.
This institution made Li Xin quite jealous. If he could take over the Meihua Guard and the rest of the secret forces in the court, his secret troops would become the most powerful intelligence agency in the world after digesting the secret.
Xiao Zheng quietly lowered his head: "I will hand over all my servants to the Grand Governor."
As the two of them spoke, Xiao Zheng had already brought Li Xin into Changle Palace. At this time, the deposed emperor... It should be said that His Highness Huai was kneeling in front of the portrait of the emperors of the side hall of Changle Palace, closing his eyes to repent.
After Xiao Zheng went in and reported, he stood up from the cushion. Because he had been kneeling for too long, he turned around and saw Li Xin, and walked towards Li Xin with a staggering pace.
He was much calmer than yesterday and said quietly to Li Xin: "The teacher is here."
Li Xin nodded: "I'll pick up His Highness King Huai out of the palace."
"The Prince Huai Mansion outside the palace is ready. In Yonglefang, Your Highness is very familiar with this house and should be a habit of living."
Hearing Li Xin's words, King Huai's face changed and he already knew where he was going to live.
He looked up at Li Xin, his voice trembling slightly: "Is it... the Prince of Wei's Mansion?"
Li Xin nodded silently.
"It's the Wei Palace."
The Wei Palace is the Qiandi Mansion of Emperor Taikang. He also grew up in the Wei Palace. After Emperor Taikang ascended the throne, the Wei Palace was put on hold as a Qiandi Mansion and no one lived there. Unexpectedly, after more than ten years, the former prince of the Wei Palace lived back again.
He was silent for a long time, and finally nodded slowly.
Chapter completed!