I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 658 King Chenliu ascends the throne

"Your Majesty, please abdicate!"

Liu Bian did not expect that the people who came to ask him to abdicate today were not those members of the Han clan.

It's the ministers of the DPRK and China who have assisted him over the years.

These people are not even the Qingliu lineage such as Xun You, Liu Biao, Ma Rixi, etc., but the vassal nobles, ministers and courtiers of the past headed by Wang Yun and Yang Biao.

Moreover, it was Huang Wan who brought everyone here today, which made Liu Bian's heart feel like it was falling into an ice cellar.

Huang Wan's influence among the ministers is also very large.

After all, his great-grandfather was the famous minister Huang Xiang.

The Huang family of Jiangxia is famous and has great appeal in the court.

Logically speaking, this person was originally a loyal supporter of Wang Yun, Yang Biao and others. How come he has now turned against the Liu clan to force him to abdicate?

Liu Bian couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.

"Your Majesty, all the things you have done since you came to the throne can be said to have caused the world to fall apart and the people to suffer. Your Majesty is no longer suitable to occupy this throne. I also ask your Majesty to abdicate in favor of worthy people and hand over the Han Dynasty to virtuous people."

"fart!"

Liu Bian had completely lost his imperial demeanor at this moment, and even spoke dirty words.

"What did I do wrong? How dare you force me to abdicate!? I am the king appointed by the late emperor. You traitors don't help me properly, but you dare to threaten me! Aren't you afraid that I will kill you all?"

Obviously, these ministers were not afraid that Liu Bian could kill them.

Liu Bian, except himself, is afraid that no one can give orders now.

"Your Majesty, if you continue to be on the throne, it will only increase the resentment of the people, destabilize the Liu family, bring shame to the late emperor, and shame to the ancestors. If your majesty can abdicate in time to make way for others, you will be able to meet the late emperor in the future. There is still family love that can be continued, but if you insist on it, I'm afraid you won't be able to enter the Liu family's ancestral tomb after death."

As soon as he said these words, Liu Bian almost fainted out of breath.

"How dare you guys... I'm going to kill you, all of you!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Qi striding forward.

He even came to Liu Bian's side without any scruples, raised his hands to him and said, "Your Majesty, please write the abdication edict with your own hands! For the sake of the whole world!"

"What?! You want to depose me, but you actually want me to handwrite an edict of abdication. If I don't do it, what do you dare to do to me?"

Wu Zun, the general's great craftsman, also came to Liu Bian. He reached out without haste and took out a piece of silk from his sleeve. On it was the abdication letter written by them after careful discussion and signed on it. with Liu Bian's name and date.

After Liu Bian glanced at the edict, his expression suddenly changed.

"How dare you write an edict of abdication in my name?! How dare you risk the great power of the world and annihilate your clan for this! You, none of you will end well!"

Wu Zun said very righteously: "For the sake of the Han Dynasty and the thousands of people, we can only do this. Please put your seal on this edict!"

Liu Bian's hands were shaking with anger.

Obviously, it was impossible for him to have his seal stamped on this edict.

This throne is his lifeblood, how could he give it up?
Unless you let him die!
But Wu Zun didn't take Liu Bian seriously. In their eyes, this emperor was just a piece of shit!
He looked around and then shouted loudly.

"Where is Fu Baolang? Where is he?!"

"Quickly take out the emperor's jade seal and cover it!"

When he finished speaking, he saw a person coming up from behind the crowd in the main hall, it was Liu Bian's personal Fu Baolang Li Zi.

Liu Bian looked at Fu Baolang, who was in charge of his jade seal, with a rare look of pleading in his eyes.

But it is a pity that no one around him supports him, including Fu Baolang Li Zi, who is now in charge of the jade seal for him.

Fu Baolang quickly took out the jade seal Liu Bian carried with him, held it in both hands, and walked quickly upward.

Then, he opened the wooden box containing the jade seal in front of Wu Zun, and revealed the seal and ribbon inside in front of Wu Zun.

When Liu Bian saw this, he was trembling with anger.

"Fu Baolang, are you the official who guards the seal and ribbon for me? Now you have presented the seal and ribbon in front of these traitors and allowed these traitors to do whatever they want!"

"Can you live up to my trust in you?"

Facing Liu Bian's questioning, Li Zi was not embarrassed at all. He said:
"Your Majesty behaves improperly, handles things improperly, is ignorant of state affairs, and is arrogant, and has lost the hearts of the world... Although I am your Majesty's minister, I am also a minister of the Han Dynasty. I can be sorry for your Majesty, but I cannot be sorry for the Han Dynasty, let alone the Han Dynasty. All the former emperors."

"Your Majesty, you are indeed unfit to be emperor. Please abdicate."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Zun picked up Liu Bian's jade seal in front of Liu Bian and stamped it heavily on the abdication edict.

Then he turned around and handed the edict to a minister below: "Hurry and send it to the Chancellor, who will announce the news of His Majesty's abdication to the world!"

"You, you traitors! How dare you insult me ​​like this...I, I want to kill..."

Before they could finish speaking, they saw these people, led by Huang Wan, kneel down to Liu Bian one after another and loudly said: "Your Majesty is really wise to abdicate the throne and make way for someone worthy of his position. Your Majesty is wise!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"..."

Listening to the harsh "Your Majesty is wise", Liu Bian's heart suddenly began to hurt violently. He gasped and reached out to cover his chest hard.

"You, you..."

But now no one was willing to pay attention to Liu Bian. Everyone was looking at the edict, and then saw them getting up one after another, hugging the edict and running out of the palace in a crowd.

Liu Bian clutched his chest and fell to the ground. The eunuch next to him hurriedly helped him up, then sent him to the palace and found a doctor to see him.

In fact, Liu Bian is just out of breath and has no serious illness.

But now, he had lost all hope, and the huge ups and downs caused a sudden uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

He really couldn't understand why he couldn't even find a single loyal minister to support him after being the emperor for ten years.

Why don't you even have a loyal minister? !
Is it really that the people in this world are too bad, or is there something wrong with the way he is the emperor?

At this moment, Liu Bian suddenly thought of another person in his mind.

That person is Lu Qiang.

"I will kill the only person who is loyal to me..."

When he thought of this, the emperor finally cried loudly.

He now deeply regrets killing Lu Qiang.

He realized that he was really too conceited.

He thought he could become the hero of the world.

But in fact, he is just a mediocre person.

……

At this moment, Lu Qiang's friend, Liu Jian, is also looking for justice for his good friend.

A man who had quietly left before Liu Jian's army arrived in Chang'an, disguised himself as an ordinary citizen, and mingled in the countryside near Chang'an, looking for opportunities to escape toward Liangzhou, was brought back by personnel from the school affairs office.

This person is Li Ru.

Liu Jian looked at Li Ru in front of him, his eyes slowly narrowed, and he showed a bit of murderous intent.

But soon, the murderous intent on his face gradually disappeared.

He turned to look at Jia Xu beside him, and saw Jia Xu nodding to him respectfully.

"Wen He, is this person Li Ru?"

Jia Xu said: "Yes." Liu Jian turned to look at Li Ru.

"Li Wenyou, we and other members of the Liu clan went to Chang'an to meet the emperor. As an official of the imperial court, why did you secretly disguise yourself and sneak out of Chang'an? Is there something wrong with you? Or are you sorry for what you did? I am afraid that the affairs of the Han Dynasty will be discovered by me and other clan members."

Now that Li Ru has fallen into Liu Jian's hands, he knows in his heart that he will definitely die.

He bowed to Liu Jian and said, "Reporting to the general, Ru ran away out of fear, not because I have done anything wrong to the Han Dynasty... but because I have a human life in my hands, and this human life is determined by the general." Revenge is absolutely necessary."

"So you also know that yes, Gong Lu and I do have a relationship, or we can be considered good friends."

"When I was serving as the captain of the Yue Cavalry School in Beijing, I received care from Duke Lu. He was kind to me, so I must avenge him."

When Li Ru heard this, he couldn't help but feel sad.

"What the general said is true. I have heard for a long time that the people in the border counties of Youzhou are very chivalrous. What they pay attention to is a person who repays kindness and revenge."

"Dachangqiu committed suicide for me personally."

"The general took my life today, and it was natural."

"Please, General, grant me the death penalty."

Liu Jian stood up slowly.

"Of course I know that you killed the person of Great Changqiu, but killing you does not count as revenge for Great Changqiu."

Li Ru looked at Liu Jian in surprise.

He suddenly felt as if he could still live...

"It's hard to disobey the emperor's order. You just acted on the emperor's order. The emperor is immoral, but you ministers are not immoral. The emperor asked you to kill people. From your position, you can't disobey the emperor's order, right? You are also trying to protect yourself, not maliciously harming others."

"Just for this reason, I won't kill you."

"And when Duke Ju took Yuan Chong out of Luoyang, you also deliberately let Yuan Chong out. In the end, my friendship with Yuan Shiji was fulfilled."

"The merits and demerits are equal to each other, I will spare your life."

When Li Ru heard this, he felt an overwhelming respect for Liu Jian in his heart.

"The general has a clear sense of grudges and does not use punishment for personal gain. I really admire him."

Liu Jian said: "However, Da Changqiu will still die in your hands after all, so I still have to punish you. Even if I don't want to take your life, I still have to give you some punishment."

Li Ru said: "It should be so, but I don't know how the general will punish Li?"

"You want to tell the world the true cause of Changqiu's death, and what the emperor ordered you to do? Make the assassination of virtuous people public."

Li Ru is a smart person.

He naturally thought about Liu Jian's real purpose in letting him make the cause of Lu Qiang's death public.

But he will naturally follow Liu Jian's arrangements.

Because the relationship between today's emperor and him is originally a cooperative one.

He, Li Ru, did not really want to defect to the emperor at the beginning. It was just because Dong Zhuo was seriously ill at that time and Li Ru lost his support, so he wanted to temporarily attach himself to the emperor.

There was no real friendship between him and the emperor, they were just using each other.

Now the emperor has fallen, and although there are rumors that Dong Zhuo in Xiliang has recovered, with Li Ru's wisdom, he naturally knows that even if Dong Zhuo's condition improves, it will not last long.

Now Liu Jian has entered Chang'an.

The ownership of the highest political power of this dynasty has been determined.

Soon, Liu Jian will become the top executor of world politics.

Only by following Liu Jian could Li Ru save his life, and be more likely to do something outstanding and make full use of his ingenuity and ability.

"The general is so kind to Ru Ru, how dare I disobey the general's order?"

"From now on, Ru is willing to do his best for the general."

Li Ru's surrender was expected by Liu Jian.

After all, this man took refuge in Dong Zhuo not because of how much he admired Dong Zhuo, but because Dong Zhuo could indeed give him a good platform for development.

Compared to Dong Zhuo, I am obviously more in line with Li Ru's taste now.

Of course, although Li Ru is smart, he is cunning and ruthless.

But Liu Jian is not worried about this. His schemes and viciousness are not forgotten. After all, he is also a person who understands current affairs.

Liu Jian had already figured out who to use to control Li Ru.

"Li Wenyou, from today on, you will be in the school affairs office, and Jia Wenhe will be your superior officer. If anything happens in the future, you will follow Jia Wenhe's arrangements."

Although Jia Xu, who served under Dong Zhuo at that time, had a high status, he was not as important as Li Ru.

But now the tide has turned, and it's Li Ru's turn to take action against Jia Xu.

Li Ru didn't take it seriously.

He understood that Liu Jian wanted to look at him with Jia Xu.

But he also knew that Jia Xu was not strict.

He will look at himself, but as long as he does not cross the line, Jia Xu will still treat him very gently.

Li Ru saluted Jia Xu and said.

"Jia Gong, from now on, I will obey the orders of Jia Gong and serve the general!"

Jia Xu naturally knew what Liu Jian's purpose was in handing Li Ru over to him.

"In that case, I will ask Wen Youduo to help me from now on."

……

In the first month of the seventh year of Xingping, after the crimes of Wang Yun and others were confirmed, the important ministers of the imperial court discussed Liu Bian's ten major faults to the world through the Chancery.

At the same time, Li Ru took the initiative to confess how Liu Bian had instigated him to assassinate Lu Qiang.

At this point, the current emperor Liu Bian was no longer suitable to continue to rule the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Emperor Liu Bian of the Han Dynasty personally wrote an edict and stamped it with a jade seal, announcing his abdication and vacating the emperor's position to a worthy person.

The emperor's position was vacant, so naturally a new king had to be established.

Therefore, under the joint discussion of hundreds of officials and all the Liu family members, King Chenliu, the son of the late emperor, was recommended as the new king.

Chang'an immediately began to prepare for a grand enthronement ceremony.

Chenliu King Liu Xie took over the Yuxi and became the new emperor under the recommendation of hundreds of officials.

It was in this year, 197 AD, that the Han Dynasty changed its name to Jian'an.

The late emperor Liu Bian was demoted to King Hongnong and temporarily lived in the suburbs of Chang'an.

Wang Yun, Yang Biao and others, who had been convicted of rebellion, were sentenced to execution.

At the same time, all the people related to them were sentenced and convicted.

Chun Yujia, one of the three princes, was given a lighter sentence and demoted to a commoner because he was able to confess and explain the crimes of Wang Yun, Yang Biao and others in time.

The rest of the civil and military officials re-drawn their official positions.

Among all the civil and military officials.

The official position and title of Fuyuan General Liu Jian were also put on the agenda and began to be re-drafted.

(End of this chapter)