When the new emperor came to the throne, the ministers vented their resentment over the recent searches by the imperial guards and their dissatisfaction with the previous emperor on the new emperor. Some powerful ministers even demanded an explanation from him in court, as if they would not give up until the new emperor apologized and compensated them.
Zhao Yun knew that he would encounter such things when he first came to power, so he always maintained a very good and gentle attitude. He said a few soft words to those ministers who asked for an explanation and rewarded them with some gold and silver. Finally, he advised everyone to let it go. After all, the late emperor had passed away, and it would be disrespectful to discuss right and wrong.
Since the new emperor came to the throne, Marquis Wu'an has been claiming illness and staying at home and not attending court. After Zhao Yun learned about this, he sent an imperial physician to visit him at the Marquis's mansion. At that time, Marquis Wu'an was indeed not in good health. He fell while walking in his own yard and bruised his calf.
After seeing this, the imperial physician even told Marquis Wu'an to rest more and walk less. After all, Marquis Wu'an was not young anymore, and if he kept stumbling around like this, he would probably get cold legs when he got older.
Two days after the imperial physician left, Zhao Yun asked the eunuchs in the palace to deliver the best medicine, saying that it was specially sent out of concern for Marquis Wu'an.
Li Mofu pursed his lips when he found out. He didn't know whether Marquis Wu'an really threw him down, but he was sure that Zhao Yun was not sincere.
After Zhao Yun became emperor, he gradually eliminated the prejudice of his ministers against him. Although he could not do everything perfectly, he could do 70% or 80% of it. Even if you wanted to dwell on Zhao Yun's mistakes, he could simply say, "I'm still young, I don't understand, I'll be more careful next time."
The lake seemed to be calming down.
But Li Mofu knew that it was impossible to remain calm, because Zhao Yun had never given up looking for the ghost immortal, otherwise the city gates of the capital would have been opened long ago.
What made Li Mofu even more puzzled was that the third prince just watched Zhao Yun ascend the throne?
In mid-April, a piece of news suddenly broke out in the capital: the third prince had been secretly killed in Jiangnan by the new emperor a long time ago, and the previous emperor did not die of illness. The deaths of the previous emperor and the third prince were both related to the new emperor.
This news spread throughout the capital in an instant and became a hot topic. The new emperor was once again attacked by the Third Prince's party. They demanded an explanation from Zhao Yun and asked the new emperor to open the city gates and let them out. They wanted to send people to check the authenticity of the news.
Zhao Yun seemed to want to be a benevolent emperor. He did not punish those ministers who spoke without restraint, but he also ignored them and adopted the approach of the previous emperor: deal with them coldly.
Well, I just don’t want to listen. You can say whatever you want. I won’t bother with you. Anyway, the Imperial Guard only listens to me now. What can you do to me?
Li Mofu imitated some of the prince's inner thoughts, that's about it.
However, the powerful people in the capital have had enough of this disguised imprisonment. They are nobles who are superior to the common people, but now they have fallen to the point where they are not even qualified to leave the city gate. They also suffer the sympathy of some common people, who look at them as if they were a group of lambs to be slaughtered.
How can the powerful and wealthy bear this?
Their dignity had already been completely lost when the Imperial Guards searched their residence last time, and now they were even more aggrieved. Some of them submitted petitions to the emperor, some went on strike, and several ministers even gathered together to discuss how to question the new emperor and embarrass him.
Finally, after discussions among several powerful families, they sent five old ministers in their seventies and eighties to the court to ask the new emperor to thoroughly investigate the cause of the previous emperor's death, because they believed that the previous emperor's death was man-made.
Zhao Yun was furious after being tormented for so many days. Every time he went to court, someone would try to stop him. When he wanted to do something, his subordinates would say that they couldn't proceed because a certain minister was not cooperating. When he asked the reason, it was either that the minister was sick or that the minister said it was against the rules.
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