Chapter 83: The Imperial Edict Conferring the Title of King of Jin

The first year of Lingwu in Daxin, the 22nd day of the 10th lunar month.

It was the time of light snow.

In the fiefdom of Longcheng, the residence of the Prince of Jin.

Chen Huaian summoned his civil and military officials to the palace to discuss matters, and ordered the kitchen to prepare copper pot mutton hot pot and aged daughter red wine, and the king and his officials drank and talked happily.

During the dinner, it was inevitable that they would talk about the recent uproar in the Daxin Dynasty, the two kings of Guangxin and Pingxi who were crowned emperors in their fiefdoms.

Fan Wuji, the commander of the Dragon City Iron Buddha Heavy Cavalry, was drunk and mocked in the noisy banquet: "Li Zongmin, the King of Guangxin, and Mu Rongfu, the King of Pingxi, are simply clowns who are trying to win favor!"

As he spoke, Fan Wuji also gestured: "Li Zongmin, the King of Guangxin, has only 80,000 troops under his command; Mu Rongfu, the King of Pingxi, has only 150,000 rattan armor soldiers under his command."

"These two people, who think they occupy the two Guangdongs and Yunnans and Guizhous, where the emperor is far away, dare to be so ridiculous as to crown themselves emperors. It's ridiculous!"

At this point, Fan Wuji gulped down a few big mouthfuls of the aged girl's red wine.

Then he blushed and said with his neck stiff: "We Fan Wuji are a rough man, we don't have so many tricks, and we dare to petition His Highness under the influence of alcohol-"

Swish!

As soon as these words came out, everyone present stopped what they were doing and looked at Fan Wuji with different expressions.

The brave general Pang Xianchu probably guessed what Fan Wuji was going to say, but somehow he didn't stand up to stop him. Instead, there was a little more expectation in his worried eyes.

Sure enough, Fan Wuji paused and raised his voice, "Three months ago, His Highness raised an army in Longcheng to quell the rebellion!"

"Now, the tyrant Zhao Gan committed suicide; the treacherous minister Qin Ruhui continues to control the government; the princes of different surnames have been crowned emperors in their territories; the Daxin Empire is about to fall apart!"

"Since His Highness led the Longcheng generals to the south to fight against the rebellion, his civil and military achievements have been well-known. Now the world is in chaos, and the disaster of war has arisen, and the people have suffered a great disaster;"

"I dare to petition on behalf of the people of the world, the common people, that His Highness the Prince of Jin will be crowned in his fiefdom Longcheng and establish his own country!"

"I, Fan Wuji, am willing to join more than 600,000 soldiers of the Longcheng Jingnan Army to fight for His Highness, unify the Central Plains, and create a prosperous era!"

Plop!

As soon as the voice fell, Fan Wuji knelt straight in front of Chen Huaian, looking at the young His Highness the Prince of Jin in front of him with sincere and warm eyes.

In an instant, the originally noisy banquet scene also became silent.

Only the occasional beeping sound of the burning charcoal fire, the gurgling sound of the mutton soup constantly boiling in the copper pot, and the cautious breathing of the Dragon City generals and the civil servants of the fiefdom.

Everyone's eyes involuntarily looked at Jin Wang Chen Huaian, who was sitting in the middle with a glass of wine in his hand.

Obviously, Fan Wuji's words not only expressed his own thoughts, but also expressed the voices of most Dragon City generals.

In the battle of Tumubao, Chen Huaian led his troops to attack thousands of miles away, and in one battle, he wiped out the 20,000 imperial guards and 200,000 Japanese soldiers of the court, and directly led to the suicide of the tyrant Zhao Gan.

Since then, Chen Huaian's personal reputation in the hearts of the Dragon City generals has completely surpassed the former king Chen Polu and reached the peak.

In addition, Anxi General Guo Dingfang defected at the last minute, and the 300,000 Anxi frontier troops changed their ways and became part of the Longcheng Jingnan Army.

It also made the strength of Jin Wang Chen Huaian soar, and the army he directly commanded exceeded 600,000 troops.

Nowadays, the entire Anxi territory of the Daxin Dynasty, most of the northwest, three of the Sixteen States of Youyun, and even most of the Mobei grassland, are all under the command of Jin Wang Chen Huaian, and its territory has exceeded 2 million square kilometers.

For the generals of Longcheng, His Royal Highness Jin Wang has the strength and conditions to ascend the throne and become emperor.

Therefore, when he was in Shuobei, Fan Wuji, who had proposed to the brave general Pang Xianchu that he wanted to give Jin Wang a yellow robe and support him to become emperor, once again said out his deep thoughts.

This time, it was in front of Longcheng’s generals, the civil officials of the fiefdom, and Jin Wang Chen Huaian.

It was like putting all the things that were previously only discussed behind the scenes on the table.

However, for Chen Huaian, who was in the center of the storm.

Ascending the throne to become an emperor was certainly what he wanted.

However, in his opinion, the time was not right yet.

It was not that he was not strong enough, but that he had not yet obtained the most important thing for ascending the throne to become an emperor.

That was - the imperial seal!

The imperial seal, which was passed down by the First Emperor and carved from the Heshi Bi, had the eight characters "Received the Mandate from Heaven, Long Lived and Prospered" written on it.

From ancient times to the present, throughout history.

The imperial seal was a symbol of the power of the orthodox emperor. Without the imperial seal, it meant that he was not in the right position, and later historians would not recognize his emperor status.

For Chen Huaian, who aspired to become the greatest emperor of all time, he did not care about the empty title of an emperor at all.

What's more, if they do the same as Guangxin Prince Li Zongmin and Pingxi Prince Mu Rongfu, and use a "radish seal" to ascend the throne and be crowned, such behavior will surely be ridiculed by the whole world!

Just as Chen Huaian was thinking about how to postpone the coronation without dampening the enthusiasm of his generals.

A secret edict from Kunning Palace in the imperial city of the capital, thousands of miles away, gave Chen Huaian an opportunity to get off the mountain.

"Report--"

"Your Highness, the Prince of Jin, the secret envoy of the Queen Mother Su of Daxin wants to see you!"

Hmm?

When the servants of the palace spread this shocking news to the banquet where the atmosphere was already a little weird, it immediately aroused the interest of a group of Longcheng military generals and feudal civil officials, including Chen Huaian and Fan Wuji.

They looked outside the palace curiously, secretly guessing the purpose of Queen Mother Su sending a secret envoy to the Jin Palace.

Chen Huaian waved his hand and said, "Announce!"

"Announce, Queen Mother Su's secret envoy to see you!"

Soon, an old eunuch disguised as a country old man walked into the hall.

After all, he was a palace elder who served three emperors. When facing the gaze of dozens of eyes in the hall, the eunuch Cai He's beardless old face still had a calm expression, and there was no fear at all.

Cai He walked straight to Chen Huaian, knelt down and shouted "Long live a thousand years", and said in a shrill voice: "Your Highness, please allow me to change my clothes!"

Oh?

Chen Huaian looked at Cai He with interest, and waved his hand again: "Yes!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

As he spoke, Cai He went to the next room to change clothes under the guidance of the servants of the palace.

In the kitchen, a group of civil officials and military officers looked at each other, guessing the purpose of the old eunuch's visit.

Even, they forgot that just a cup of tea ago, they were still excitedly waiting for the reply of His Highness the Prince of Jin about the coronation and the establishment of a new country.

After a while, the eunuch Cai He, who was wearing a crimson official robe and an eight-beam crown, appeared in front of Chen Huaian and the civil and military officials of Longcheng.

Ahem!

Cai He coughed twice, and then he tore open the sleeve of his official robe in public, took out a decree from it, and said:

"Cai He, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department of the Great Xin Dynasty, is ordered by the Queen Mother to go to Longcheng, the fief of the King of Jin, to announce the decree!"

"Chen Huaian, the crown prince of the King of Jin, accept the decree--"