Once a thing that has not yet come true, countless people have determined that it will happen and often mentioned it, it may be not far from the day it becomes true.

Nowadays, such a thing is happening everywhere in the Song Dynasty. From high-ranking officials to peddlers and pawns, countless people are talking about whether the powerful Sun Taiwei, who has taken the lead and powerful, will take that step and take the foolish king Zhao Ji and replace him.

At the beginning, such statements only appeared in private occasions, and no one dared to speak out in public. However, as time went by, especially after November and February, when the Northern Expedition was victorious and Liao and Xia fought each other, causing great damage to both sides' vitality and the news that the Song Dynasty had truly controlled a large area of ​​land and cities in Liao, the argument could no longer be stopped.

It's better to be in Tokyo. Once the capital is out of the capital, whether in the streets or in the taverns and teahouses, you can always hear some people talking loudly. Using various facts and history, it is inferred that Taiwei Sun will depose the emperor and become independent within one or two years, thus completely replacing the Song Dynasty.

What is particularly surprising is that when this statement is rampant, the people of the world have no intention of being disgusted. Perhaps some conservative so-called loyal ministers will privately scold Sun Tu for his ambitions, but most people are happy to see it. It seems that in their opinion, Sun Tu's proclaimed emperor is a natural thing, and it only benefits but not harms for everyone.

This is a tragedy for Zhao Ji and the Song Dynasty court, because at this time, even the general public no longer stood with them. But after all, this was the bitter wine brewed by Zhao Ji himself. His greed and selfishness and reckless desperation made the people of the Song Dynasty suffer a lot in the past few years, which made the people despair and disloyal about him. Therefore, when a better candidate appears, everyone naturally would rather let Sun Tu, a good official who is a country and the people, be the lord of the world.

When this trend began to spread within the court, many officials began to think about it. After the twelfth lunar month, officials even connected with each other in private, intending to find an opportunity to persuade Sun Tu to enter. Some people even began to put their ideas on Prime Minister Tong Mu, hoping that he would take the lead in persuading him.

In this regard, Tong Mu, as Sun Tu's most solid ally, never nodded. Instead, he had the intention of being out of the matter. Could it be that he wanted to avoid suspicion? Or did Sun Tu want to be Cao Cao and not want to bear the reputation of usurping the throne with his subordinates?

But that's not right. Cao Cao didn't take the last step. After all, it was because there were still two powerful enemies in the world at that time. He was afraid that once he usurped the throne, he would give the two sides a warning to join forces to send troops, so he chose to endure.

But the overall situation in the world is completely different from the late Han Dynasty. Under the leadership of Sun Taiwei, the Song Dynasty was unprecedentedly powerful. Even foreign enemies such as Liao, Jin and Xixia had lost their threats and could only survive. What else should he have to worry about? He is not the kind of person who really values ​​reputation more than anything else. Nowadays, people's hearts are in a position to follow the situation and take the Zhao family and replace it?

When all kinds of speculations come, time comes again on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the last day of the grand dynasty this year.

In the early morning, countless officials gathered in the palace and lined up in an orderly manner to enter the Daqing Hall to meet the emperor.

Since Zhao Ji was half-stuck in the palace by Sun Tu and had almost no real power, the two monthly court meetings no longer reported the responses to each of the officials of different identities as before. Instead, hundreds of officials in the capital gathered together in the same hall, and then each told all the major issues that needed to be handled in the past half month.

In fact, this is just a formality after all, but it only made Emperor Zhao Ji, the emperor, show his face in front of the ministers. As for decision-making power, he had no choice. All military and political affairs had been handled by the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council one by one. He just arranged it at this moment, even the puppet was not as good as that.

When the ministers were worshiping the ceremony, Zhao Ji, who was sitting high above the imperial throne, was a little confused and strange in his eyes. After staring at everything in the hall for a long time, he then set off and said, "You are all eligible to be a good gift. What should I report to you today?"

This has happened more than ten or twenty times this year, and the ministers are familiar with it. Now, officials and officials come out of the class, express some of their ideas in public, and then the ministers discuss and make a final decision.

It seemed that everything in this cemetery was no different from before. The only thing that was strange was that the emperor above seemed a little abnormal, always lost his mind, and sometimes he needed his subordinates to shout a few times before he came back to his senses, and then nodded like a puppet: "You are so very saying, so let's do it as you do."

This kind of behavior naturally makes people feel a little strange, but when you think about Zhao Ji's situation in the past few years, everyone will feel relieved. If anyone else, he will always be such a puppet emperor who can't do anything, and he will feel disappointed and powerless, so he will not keep his mind.

Until the dynasty meeting was about to end, everyone thought so. But as a result, just when everyone thought that this year's dynasty meeting had ended, Zhao Ji spoke at the end: "Dear friends, please leave slowly, I... I also want to announce something."

"Huh?" The court officials were stunned, and then many people looked at Sun Tu and Tong Mu. The emperor suddenly made this move, would you two stop him?

As a result, Sun Tu and the others really didn't react at all, and they still stood quietly in front of them without even blinking their eyes. As a result, the others understood that they were instructing them behind the scenes. If this is the case, this matter would be...

Just as everyone was looking at Zhao Ji in surprise and nervously, he had already stood up and said, "Since I ascended the throne, I have done many wrong things, which have caused the people of our Song Dynasty to suffer, the people's livelihoods are declining, and the national strength is declining, so that I was almost invaded by foreign enemies such as the Liao and Jin Dynasties, causing thousands of common people to suffer great disasters. These are my faults, which make me feel ashamed and regretful.

"Fortunately, the heavens have never stopped me. There are both ministers like Sun Tutongmu, and countless soldiers who are fighting for the front, turning the tide and helping the building fall, thus protecting the world of the Song Dynasty and allowing the people to live and work in peace.

"Even so, it will not eliminate all the mistakes I have made as a monarch, especially the mistakes of treacherous villains such as Cai Jing and Gao Qiu. Even if they are written into history in the future, they will be laughed at by the people of the world. I am really ashamed of this king of the world. I am sorry for the ancestors of heaven and earth, and I have no face to treat the ministers and the people, and I have no ability to make my Song Dynasty go further. Therefore, after careful consideration, I decided to abdicate and give up the wise, and let those with virtue and talent be the king..."

Listening to Zhao Ji slowly expressing his intention to give up the position of emperor, even though the ministers were quite prepared, everyone was still shocked. In an instant, the entire Daqing Palace had fallen into absolute silence, and everyone's expressions changed. I wonder what to react. Several people even trembled, as if they had a cold and fever disease and suddenly started to sway.

No one expected that such a major event would come so suddenly, and the emperor did not even discuss with his ministers, so he directly declared that he was about to abdicate. After a while, many people turned their eyes to Sun Tu again. Some people smiled on their faces, some looked complicated, and some couldn't hide their grief and anger. Are they going to get to this point after all?

Zhao Ji was not very spirited. After saying that he was about to give way, his throat tightened and he did not fully express the words to whom he gave way. There was still deep sadness in his eyes. As the king of a country, he finally needed to abdicate himself. This was not only a complete loss of power for him, but also the biggest insult rare since ancient times. He really felt ashamed of the ancestors of the Zhao family...

The emperor's sad expression made the ministers feel even more excited. Even those who were happy to see Sun Tu replace Zhao Ji as the emperor, they felt sad and not happy at all. After all, it was not easy to give up after years of status as a monarch and minister, even if this king really did not have the behavior of a wise monarch or a wise monarch.

As for those officials who were still loyal to Zhao Song in their hearts, they were even more sad and angry. Finally, after a silence, one of them suddenly stood up and looked at Sun Tu and shouted: "Master Sun, you are so brave. Do you really want to force Your Majesty to give way to you? Do you know what such behavior means? This is a plot to rebel, and it is to be despised by people all over the world and despised by people of all ages. Since ancient times, no usurper has ever gained a good reputation. As a minister, do you really want to do such a traitor?"

When this person was excited, his hair and beard were even wide open, and his fingers kept pointing at Sun Tu, without any fear at all. Everyone did not feel respectful when they saw this, but thought that perhaps the old ministers like him in the court now dared to directly denounce Sun Taiwei, who was the solemn power. Because he was Zhang Jian, the Minister of Rites, and an old minister who was about the same age as Cai Jing and had been in three dynasties.

Faced with such accusation and even insults, Sun Tu seemed quite calm and did not show any sign of anger. He just said, "Shangshu Zhang, why did you say this? I have never said that you would usurp the throne of the emperor. Isn't it too casual to say that?"

"Isn't your Majesty forced to give up the throne by you, and isn't this throne the one you belong to?" Zhang Jianhan said loudly with his old face.

"Old Secretary Zhang, you are too anxious. You have not figured out the matter and call me an enemy. It's not like you used to be." Sun Tu still shook his head and said calmly: "Let me listen to what Your Majesty said, and it's time to make a judgment in the end."

At this time, everyone, including Zhang Jian, showed a stranger appearance, and then looked at Zhao Ji. If the throne had not been abdicated to Sun Tu, who else could it be given? There was a prince in the beginning, but wasn't it deposed later? Could there be other better candidates? But even if there were, would Sun Tu allow such a thing to happen?

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