Forgive me for being a career-minded person [Quick Wear]

The Princess of the Royal Palace Disguised as a Man (16)

Ye Lin was not afraid to show her dirty deeds with the late emperor. The late emperor's funeral was all carried out according to the procedures of the Ministry of Rites.

As the saying goes: the dead are the greatest.

Following the procedures was enough to show Ye Lin's attitude.

The new emperor was indifferent, and the court officials were not easy to show their grief.

Moreover, these shrewd court officials could not guess that the new emperor had a conspiracy. When the late emperor was alive, he kept calling Jiangnan a "rebel king". How could he be kind enough to leave a will?

Although the third prince's wife gave birth to a son prematurely, the court officials were not naive enough to protect a newborn baby.

The new emperor's troops in Jiangnan were not allowed.

The handwriting on the imperial edict was fine, and the late emperor's jade seal was also fine. Even the empress did not raise any objections.

It was obvious that the prince of Rui had won the long-lasting game.

The courtiers who used to jump happily wanted to shrink into the cracks of the ground, fearing that the new emperor would notice them.

In such an awkward atmosphere, the coffin of the previous emperor was placed in the imperial mausoleum.

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For the emperor and the ministers, it is either the east wind that overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind that overwhelms the east wind.

The emperor that the ministers like most is not the heroic ruler with great talent and strategy, but the benevolent ruler who rules the country with ease.

Before the new emperor ascended the throne, he was a tough guy who could run to Jiangnan and start from scratch, and swept away the Jiangnan families, salt merchants, and officials in one fell swoop. Obviously, he was not the latter.

The courtiers did not dare to think about competing for power with the new emperor, but it did not prevent them from testing.

Test the bottom line of the new emperor.

The first test started with a bang. The new emperor wanted to inherit the throne instead of the heir.

The court officials stood on the same front and asked the new emperor to inherit the throne as the heir on the grounds that the previous emperor was the eldest son.

In this way, the swordplay of Ye Lin's succession to the throne in the future would be hidden behind the history books, and the succession to the throne would be "legitimate".

This seemed to be a hundred benefits and no harm to the new emperor.

However, Ye Lin insisted on inheriting the throne instead of the heir.

The heir is passed down from emperor to emperor.

The heir is passed down from father to son.

Ye Lin believed that the throne was taken from the previous emperor, but he did not recognize the previous emperor as his father.

The court and the people were in an uproar.

Although the new emperor's lineage of Prince Rui is close to that of the previous emperor, when the previous emperor ascended the throne, Prince Rui's lineage was classified as a minor branch of the side branch.

The previous emperor was the eldest branch, and had sons but no descendants. The reasonable patriarchal order for the royal family to succeed is that the minor branch first succeeds to the eldest branch, and then succeeds as the heir of the eldest branch.