After traveling through time, I became Han Zhang’s grandson?

"Your Majesty is wrong. This world belongs to all people, not just one family..."

Han Ming, dressed in pitch-black armor, strode into the Funing Palace, his left hand on the long sword at his waist and his right hand on the belt of his armor. The fiery red cloak behind him fluttered in the wind, carrying a burst of iron-blooded aura.

It was rare to see Han Ming dressed like this, and everyone in the bedroom was amazed at how well he matched the military uniform.

"Traitor! How dare you enter the palace alone—!"

On Zhao Zonghao's chubby cheeks, his small eyes were opened as wide as possible, giving people the feeling of glaring at people.

"Your Majesty knows why I came here, and there is no need to repeatedly emphasize my actions."

Han Ming slowly walked towards Princess Jiacheng who was kneeling in the hall and helped her up.

"Thank you for your concern, Princess." Han Ming bowed.

"Marquis Han..." Princess Jiacheng looked at the other party in panic.

"Princess and Empress, please step aside for now. I have a few words of advice for Your Majesty."

As soon as Han Ming finished speaking, Han Zhang and others who followed him in, as well as the Queen and Princess Jiacheng, all looked nervous.

"Lord Han, please don't act so foolishly—!"

Princess Jiacheng looked at the other person nervously.

"Princess, you worry too much. With me and the other ministers here, we will definitely not harm Your Majesty in the slightest."

Han Ming's statement made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the fact that Han Zhang and others were allowed to watch proved that the matter was not that serious.

"I haven't spoken yet?!"

When Zhao Zonghao saw that Han Ming ignored him, his angry voice spread throughout the bedroom.

"Your Majesty, please save some dignity for yourself!"

Han Ming turned his head and shouted coldly, shaking the beams of the house and making everyone tremble and dare not say a word.

"Your Majesty, you should know what my confidence is."

Han Ming looked at Zhao Zonghao with cold eyes, took out a bright yellow silk paper from his breastplate and slapped it on the table beside him.

Seeing the edict that symbolized the end, Zhao Zonghao's breathing became heavier.

"Please rest in the side hall for a while, my two nobles. I will handle everything soon."

Han Ming's courtesy towards the Queen and Princess Jiacheng made Zhao Zonghao even more unbearable, and he could not help but clench his fists.

The Queen and Princess Jiacheng looked at each other, and with the assurance of General Zheng and Duke Ying, they left the bedroom and stayed in the side hall waiting.

After screening out all the palace maids and eunuchs, only the new emperor Zhao Zonghao, Anyang Hou Han Ming, Yiguo Duke Han Zhang, Yingguo Duke Zhang Wenbi, General Zheng, Prime Minister Zeng Mingzhong, Vice Minister Ouyang Wenzhong, Privy Councilor Zhang Sheng, and former Three Departments Minister and Prince of Pu Zhao Zongquan were left in the Funing Palace.

"You want to kill me?" The new emperor Zhao Zonghao looked at the silent Han Ming and asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean? I am following your orders to purge the emperor's entourage, expel the traitors, and support the Song Dynasty, not to rebel and regicide!"

Han Ming untied the long sword from his waist and threw it to Yong Zeng, who lowered his head without saying a word.

"Humph! Your words sound nice, but what's the difference between your actions and treason?!"

The new emperor Zhao Zonghao was not polite at all. After all, this was the final madness.

"It seems that Your Majesty has a strong opinion of me. I would like to ask, why does Your Majesty hate me so much and want to kill me so badly?!"

"Don't you know that our Han ancestors made great contributions to the founding of the Song Dynasty? My grandfather and my father devotedly assisted the late emperor for decades."

"Since I entered the officialdom, I have compiled classics in the Hanlin Academy, led the army to pacify Jiangxi, and single-handedly guarded Shaanxi. I have not dared to slack off for a moment."

"During the Yanwang Palace Incident, he was even more busy, paving the way for Your Majesty and eliminating powerful enemies."

"Why is Your Majesty so intolerant of me?!"

Han Ming looked at Zhao Zonghao with a puzzled expression, and the gloom in his tone was not concealed at all.

When the Duke of England and others heard Han Ming's words, they fell into silence and said nothing.

After all, it wasn't just the Han family. Most of these former emperor's old ministers were demoted, transferred, or laid off by the new emperor Zhao Zonghao, and all of them became "unemployed."

"Haven't you heard that the monarch of this world cannot be controlled by others?!"

The new emperor Zhao Zonghao jumped up, walked up to Han Ming aggressively, and stared into his eyes.

In his eyes, the monarch's words are law, he holds the power of life and death, and he can do whatever he wants. His subjects should accept and listen, and not resist.

"Your Majesty, do you think I've overstepped my authority?!"

Han Ming looked at the new emperor Zhao Zonghao with a smile, and there was no trace of remorse in the other's eyes.

"What do you think?"

"Zhongshu Menxia, ​​Privy Council, Sansi, Yushitai, Jianyuan, Six Ministries and Nine Temples, Three Yamen of the Imperial Guards..."

"One by one, Han Ming, do you want to see how long your hands can stretch out—?!"

The roar of the new emperor Zhao Zonghao spread throughout the Funing Palace, and Han Ming just listened quietly.

"Duke Yi (Han Zhang), Duke Fan Wenzheng, Duke Ouyang, Duke of Henan (Fu Yanguo), Duke Yu Jing, Duke Wang Su, Duke Cai Xiang..."

Han Ming recited countless names one by one, causing the faces of the people behind him to darken.

The new emperor Zhao Zonghao in front of him was having difficulty breathing and pinching his dragon robe.

These people were all members of the Qingli New Deal faction, including the leader Fan Wencheng, Fu Yanguo, Han Zhang, and Ouyang Wenzhong.

As for the term "faction", it appeared when the former prime minister Zhang Dexiang joined forces with the censors to attack Fan Han and others, saying that they were "deceitful and abused their power" and "treacherous and disloyal".

It was also from that time that new policy factions and conservative factions began to emerge in the ruling class of the Song Dynasty.

The Han Party is nothing more than a group of seeds left behind by the New Deal faction, and it is just a label given to it by others.

If we take Han Ming's "Han Party" as an example, then the new policy faction and conservative faction that remain in the court are even more unscrupulous people who "form cliques for personal gain."

"There's no such thing as a 'Han Party' in this world... It's just a group of people who want to do their bit for this country and do something practical, Your Majesty!"

Han Ming reached out and took off the military token from his waist, and gently placed it on the bright yellow silk paper.

Seeing Han Ming's actions, the new emperor Zhao Zonghao and everyone else couldn't help but feel relieved, knowing that the other party had no intention of killing them.

Then Han Ming walked to the corner of Funing Hall without saying a word, and sat facing the wall to reflect on his mistakes, without saying anything else.

In this silent atmosphere, everyone felt the time slowly passing by.

"So, you guys are going to destroy me now?!"

Zhao Zonghao looked at everyone with a gloomy expression, and the coldness in his eyes was not concealed at all.

"Your Majesty is wrong. We are not qualified to 'depose the emperor'."

Han Ming slowly turned his head, the calmness in his eyes made it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"In that case, you..."

Zhao Zonghao was about to sneer at Han Ming when a voice came from outside the hall.

"Han Hou is right, they have no right to destroy you!"

Empress Dowager Cao, dressed in a dignified phoenix robe, walked step by step into the Funing Palace with the support of eunuchs and palace maids. She entered the bedroom where she and the late emperor had lived for more than 40 years.

"What does this mean, Madam?!"

Zhao Zonghao never expected that he would blow up the widow of the late emperor. It seemed that things were going to be troublesome.

"It means exactly what it says. You were appointed by the late emperor, and no one in this world can dethrone you..."

Cao's words made Zhao Zonghao's heart skip a beat. Could it be that there was a turning point and the Empress Dowager was on his side?

"Except the late emperor, of course—!"

Empress Dowager Cao's tone suddenly became high, which frightened Zhao Zonghao and made him feel a little at a loss.

"Emperor, the truth and falsehood of some matters are clearly revealed in the human heart."

"You don't need to bring up Marquis Han or the great ministers of the court. Even if you feel they are restricting you, what about Prince Pu? General Zheng? Duke Yingguo, and other members of the royal family or senior officials?"

"They are the regents appointed by the late emperor to protect you? You don't even trust them!"

"Emperor, don't you know what's going on?"

"When he was Prince Yong, he relied on his close relationship with the late emperor to act recklessly and lawlessly."

"I thought you would be more restrained after ascending the throne, stick to your original intentions, and be a wise ruler like the late emperor."

"But what did you do?"

"He excluded meritorious officials and virtuous men, sold official positions and titles, promoted his cronies, and re-initiated the 'Flower and Stone Gang' that the previous emperor had explicitly banned, causing great suffering to the people and a great waste of money."

"To protect you and your men, he even disregarded the interests of the country and secretly assassinated the supervising minister, obstructing the court's investigation into the salt tax!"

"Is this how you act like an emperor—!"

"You are destroying the country and people that the late emperor painstakingly built for over forty years!"

Empress Dowager Cao became more and more angry as she spoke, and she slapped Zhao Zonghao in the face. This scared everyone in the hall.

Only Han Ming watched all this with indifference, without any reaction.

"Come to think of it, aren't you just reluctant to give up this imperial power? You don't want anyone to restrain you, so you can do whatever you want, right?"

"But do you know that the late emperor worked diligently for over forty years and chose a day like this to be restricted?"

"Didn't the late emperor want to indulge his human desires?"

"But after this indulgence, can this country and this society still survive?!"

Empress Dowager Cao's words of disappointment made Zhao Zonghao blush, but it was gone in a flash. After all, no one who could reach this position was thin-skinned.

"None of us are qualified to discuss the matter of dethroning and enthroning. Only the late emperor has the qualification."

"Handed by Marquis Han are the imperial edict and military tokens, which are about 'clearing the imperial court'."

"This is the will of the deposed emperor—!"

Queen Mother Cao took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and took the sandalwood box from Duke Ying.

"Of course, Emperor, you don't have to be afraid. This is also an order to preserve your lineage."

After hearing these words, Zhao Zonghao could no longer bear it. His legs went weak and he fell to his knees.

"No... Madam... You can't be so cruel and heartless!"

"I...I am the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace appointed by the late emperor, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty—!"

The heart-wrenching cries echoed throughout the Funing Palace, making people cry.

"You can forgive the evil you do by God, but you can't live if you do your own evil!"

"The Emperor should save some dignity for himself..."

Empress Dowager Cao's dull words completely made Zhao Zonghao lose all his thoughts. He knelt sideways and laughed like a walking corpse.

"Ha ha ha ha...."

"You, you are all traitors! You are all traitors who are committing rebellion—!"

"I was made emperor by you, and now, just because I don't meet your wishes, you want to depose me—!"

"Hahahaha! You guys are so disgusting! Ridiculous! So ridiculous—!"

"Hahahaha-!"

Zhao Zonghao sat on the ground and rolled around like a madman, which made Han Ming and others frown.

"Come here, the emperor has gone insane. Take good care of him, the queen, and the others."

"Wait until the new emperor ascends the throne, and then make the decision—!"

Since Empress Dowager Cao had made up her mind, she carried it out with great vigor and determination.

This method made Prince Pu Zhao Zongquan feel panicked and frightened.

Han Ming couldn't help but curl his lips and felt funny when he saw Zhao Zonghao being dragged out.

He ascended the throne in May and abdicated in October.

It's less than half a year, which should be on the same level as the deposed emperor of Han (King of Changyi) Liu He.

No, the deposed emperor of the Han Dynasty reigned for only twenty-seven days. It is estimated that only the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty in later generations can be compared with him. After all, it is said that the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Chenglin, reigned for only a short hour.

Looking at the empty Funing Palace, Han Ming couldn't help but sneer: "Things in the world are unpredictable..."