Steel Dynasty - Chapter 631

[Chapter 630 King Yong surrenders]

“In this case, I will start arranging this matter when I get back.”

There was a smile in Fiji’s eyes. This smile was the satisfaction that his suggestion was taken seriously.

His suggestion on the matter of wealthy families was recognized by Xiao Ming, which must be a recognition of ability for Xiao Ming.

From Xiao Wenxuan to Xiao Ming, the people he serves have changed. Naturally, he has to prove his outstanding talents to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard this, and said: “The enthronement ceremony will be in one month. This month is enough time for you to pass the news of my enthronement to other vassal kings, and you can test their reactions while he is enthroned.”

” Yes, Your Highness.” Pang Yukun and Fiji nodded at the same time. They still had many things to deal with before the enthronement ceremony.

After saying this, the two were about to leave. At this moment, Fiji suddenly remembered what happened to King Chu. He said to Xiao Ming: “Your Highness, something strange happened before I came to Qingzhou.”

“Tell me about it.” “Xiao Ming has been in a good mood these past two days.

“The fleet of King Chu once appeared outside Jinling City, and we also saw missionaries from the West on board.” Fiji said.

“Western missionaries?” Xiao Ming showed an interested look and said: “Wang Xuan said that the King of Chu had contact with the French. Now it seems that the contact is not shallow.”

“The army of the King of Chu has captured Guangzhou , It is said that there are many Western businessmen and missionaries living in Guangzhou, maybe they are not French.” Fiji pondered for a moment.

“No matter where the missionaries are, this is not a good thing for us.” Xiao Ming frowned. In Xiao Ming’s opinion, King Chu recognized firearms more than other vassal kings.

Just as the Western powers taught him a lesson in the late Qing Dynasty, the King of Chu was also taught a lesson by the Dutch. Now that he was stimulated, the King of Chu did not know what would happen to his psychology.

In other words, the current King of Chu may be more willing to accept change. This is also his habit of dealing with the Dutch. It is precisely because of this habit that he is estimated to be able to establish contacts with the French at such a speed instead of showing off. The mentality of the Heavenly Kingdom calls barbarians.

Now that the north is undecided, the feudal kingdom has no time to look south. Fiji frowned and said, “Your Highness, I thought that King Zhao was a threat. Now it seems that King Chu is not simple either.”

Xiao Ming looked towards the south, his eyes Deep, he was not worried about how much trouble King Chu could make.

Because now even if the French help the King of Chu, Chu State cannot catch up with Qingzhou’s level of industrialization, and the essence of war in the Age of Discovery is just a competition of industrial capabilities.

Moreover, if the French participated in the civil strife in Dayu, he would then have reason to deal with Annan.

“The King of Southern Chu, the King of Northern Zhao, and their mother-in-law said that the father has always been wary of them. It seems to be true now. But now, even if the King of Chu cooperates with the French, he will not break the alliance rashly. He still has a lot of goods. If you don’t get it, I will take advantage of this period to unify the north as soon as possible,” Xiao Ming said calmly.

“As long as Your Highness follows Wei’s decree on the wealthy families, once the armies of King Yan and King Liang are defeated, the wealthy families of Yan and Liang will rush to show their loyalty to Your Highness,” Fiji said confidently.

Xiao Ming nodded. Fiji’s idea was tantamount to lowering the difficulty of unification from high level to low level. Of course, everything has to pay a price. In this way, the problem of the wealthy family still remains.

After talking about the situation in Wei, Xiao Ming began to discuss the details of the enthronement ceremony with the two. One of the more prominent issues now is that there is no imperial palace in Qingzhou.

One month was obviously too late to build the palace, so the three of them discussed and decided to hold the enthronement ceremony at the Qingzhou government office.

Compared with Qi Prince’s Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion is very large and divided into front and back halls. The back hall can be used as a temporary court hall.

In addition to the court where political affairs were discussed, there were also complicated issues such as the arrangement of the late emperor’s concubines. Xiao Ming was also at a loss to deal with this and simply left the matter to Concubine Zhen.

These concubines may be a little dissatisfied with his arrangements because of their seniority, but Concubine Zhen personally handles it. Even if they have objections, they have to endure it. After all, Concubine Zhen will be the Empress Dowager after he ascends the throne.

After settling these details, the two left the palace.

Because Fiji is proficient in the process of the enthronement ceremony, he will be responsible for arranging the entire enthronement sequence during this month, while Pang Yukun can only be responsible for delivering the news of Xiao Ming’s enthronement to other vassal kings.

…

Five days later, Jizhou.

King Yong fell into silence after seeing off the envoy from Qingzhou.

Princess Yong saw King Yong like this and asked in confusion: “Your Highness, what happened?”

“Xiao Ming is ready to ascend the throne. The emperor really gave him the imperial edict.” King Yong sighed slowly.

Princess Yong shook her head slightly and said, “During the Chang’an Rebellion, I said that the emperor would definitely pass the throne to Xiao Ming. Which prince in the world can turn the tide now?”

“The princess has always been smart. I guessed it right again. If it hadn’t been for the help of the princess over the years, I would have lost my life due to my reckless temper.” King Yong looked at Princess Yong with affection in his eyes.

Princess Yong showed a faint smile. Everyone in the world knew that King Yong had a bad temper, but they didn’t know that King Yong only loved her.

“Then what are you going to do, Your Highness?” Princess Yong asked.

Thinking of this, King Yong’s face showed a trace of panic, “The Third Emperor Brother is dead. He is not Xiao Ming’s opponent. How can I be Xiao Ming’s opponent? And I promised the Emperor Brother that no matter who takes the throne, I will Be loyal to the royal family.”

“Your Highness is right.” Princess Yong took Prince Yong’s hand, “In that case, we might go to express our feelings this time Xiao Ming takes the throne.”

Prince Yong nodded. Now Xiao Ming already owns the land of Wei, and with the addition of this king’s fiefdom, he occupies half of the country in the north, which makes it much easier to stabilize the north. “

“Your Highness is wrong. Isn’t Prince Kang’s kingdom also in the hands of Xiao Ming? Now Xiao Ming has the power of the Four Kingdoms.” Princess Yong said with a smile.

At the same time, the envoys from Qingzhou were driven out by King Yan from Bozhou City.

In Prince Yan’s palace, Prince Yan was furious.

“Xiao Ming, my son, do you really think that today’s world is still the world of Great Chongqing? Do you think that your Xiao family will always have the final say in this country?” King Yan roared.

The officials and generals in the palace were all silent, and no one dared to get into trouble at this time.

After venting his anger, King Yan sneered: “Isn’t he going to ascend the throne? I will give him a surprise. Generals, listen to the order. You must summon the army immediately. Now Xiao Ming has made it clear that he is not prepared to conquer Wei.” If you spit it out, I will not believe that he can stop the coalition forces of Yan, Zhao and Liang.”

(End of this chapter)