Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1506: Legend of the Hidden Sea 26

Even though Cang Hai is extremely intelligent, he can't escape the clichés of the common people in feudal society. Since the current emperor is immoral and incompetent, he should overthrow the current emperor and replace him with a virtuous and capable emperor to uphold justice. The person chosen by Cang Hai is his fiancée Xiao Jinyue.

Zang Hai was no longer in a hurry to deal with Zhao Bingwen. He could also ignore the fact that Emperor Zhenshun was eager to use him to get back the Gui Seal and find the three bronze fish, and even that he had betrayed the loyalty of him and his wife, Kuai Duo, in his early years.

Pushing Xiao Jinyue to the throne is not even easier than remaking the world. In Zang Hai's opinion, ever since there was an example of a female ruler ascending the throne in the Tang Dynasty, later dynasties have been restricting the power of the harem and even royal women layer by layer. Even though the current emperor has only Xiao Jinyue as his only flesh and blood, not only court officials but even clan members would only want the current emperor to adopt from a side branch.

In other words, Emperor Zhenshun and his two brothers, Prince Yongrong and Prince Linzi, were still alive. Otherwise, the candidates for adoption would not be limited to these two royal palaces. All relatives within the five degrees of mourning would want to get involved. After all, this is the throne!

However, Zang Hai was not the kind of person who would impose his ideas on others, especially when that person was Xiao Jinyue, so he took the time to put on the pink shirt sent by the Qinghe Palace and went to the Qinghe Palace leisurely.

Now, if Zang Hai wants to enter the Qinghe Palace, no one will stop him. He will always be taken to the private flower hall where Xiao Jinyue entertains guests first.

Originally, this pink shirt was Xiao Jinyue's evil taste, but she didn't expect Cang Hai to actually wear it. Xiao Jinyue felt her eyes brightened as soon as she came in, and immediately smiled and praised: "What a handsome man who walked out of poetry!"

Zang Hai's pretty face turned red, but she couldn't help feeling a little proud. Since he was so handsome, shouldn't she love him more?

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Zang Hai couldn't help but sigh with worry: "Now that the court is in chaos, what plans does the prince have?"

Xiao Jinyue would not hide it from Cang Hai, and said directly: "It seems that the court now has a certain rule that is strictly enforced. If you want to fundamentally break this iron-clad rule, there are only two ways: one is to let them disintegrate from the inside; the second is to use absolute violence to completely crush it."

Cang Hai immediately understood that Xiao Jinyue would only choose the second option because she had no patience for some people and some things, and for her, completely destroying them would only make it easier for her to rebuild the world.

And today Zang Hai came to test Xiao Jinyue's determination.

Zang Hai could even put aside his own revenge for the extermination of his family temporarily. He believed that this was a manifestation of his responsibility to the people, but secretly he was worried that Xiao Jinyue would sacrifice public interest for personal gain, or would be soft-hearted for a moment and leave endless troubles.

Of course, he also had the idea of using this matter to meet Xiao Jinyue, but I won’t go into details here.

The Prince of Linzi's Mansion was no longer a major concern for Emperor Zhenshun. In fact, because it was suddenly revealed that Prince of Linzi had killed many civilians in his pursuit of immortality, his reputation had become almost infamous. The interior of Prince of Linzi's Mansion was also in turmoil, and it was even on the verge of falling apart.

In such a big palace, it is impossible that there is not a single sober person. It's a pity that such people are rare after all. Prince Linzi was desperate and did not even think of leaving a way out. Instead, he was determined to drag the entire palace down with him. This also opened Xiao Jinyue's eyes.

However, this move just happened to allow those who had followed the Queen Mother and Prince Linzi in the past to see clearly what kind of people they had been trying to support all these years.

Among the lineage of the Empress Dowager and Prince of Linzi, Zhao Bingwen, who was the last to board the ship, achieved the greatest and best results. He originally wanted to become a powerful official by secretly following the emperor, and it was even possible that in the future he might use the power of the Gui Seal to depose the emperor and take the throne himself.

But as the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, Zhao Bingwen did not expect that he was just a chess piece. So when he died under Canghai's sword, he was really devastated when he saw Canghai throwing the Gui Seal away like a worn-out shoe.

It’s a pity that Zang Hai hated Zhao Bingwen so much that he was unable to help him solve his doubts. Zhao Bingwen could only return to the underworld with endless questions and reluctance.

It was at this time that Zang Hai realized that the Eighth Young Master, who was famous in the capital, was actually Zhao Bingwen's biological daughter.

The Eighth Young Master looked at Zang Hai, who was covered in blood and the blade was dripping with her father's blood. She smiled bleakly and said reluctantly, "Congratulations on getting your revenge..."

Facing the Eighth Young Master, Zang Hai had nothing to apologize for, but they could no longer be friends from now on.

The real Guixi had been completely destroyed in front of Mingyu Suti and Mingxiang Antu. Zang Hai took the three copper fish and the "Guixi" to report to Emperor Zhenshun. Emperor Zhenshun said bluntly: "In this dynasty, the emperor's son-in-law does not enter the court or serve as an official. Although you are the Princess of Qinghe in name and are not bound by this law, you did not enter the officialdom through the imperial examination. It is already very good that you can be promoted to the fifth rank now."

There is indeed an implicit rule in this dynasty that the highest official rank one can hold without passing the imperial examination is the fourth rank, otherwise Zhuang Zhifu would not have had to work so hard to pass the examination and become a scholar.

Because of what Emperor Zhenshun was thinking, he even wanted to remove Zang Hai's current fifth-rank official position and just give him an honorary title.

But Zang Hai is really useful. Although he is out of control, it doesn’t matter because Xiao Jinyue can completely control him.

Therefore, after repeated consideration, Emperor Zhenshun only used the marriage between Zang Hai and Xiao Jinyue as an excuse to confer the honorary title of Ping'an County Baron on Zang Hai.

The titles of meritorious officials of Dayong were divided into five ranks: duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron. However, in practice, viscounts were often not conferred because of the need to avoid the titles of sages, so there were actually only four ranks.

The Zhuang Luyin family is a hereditary marquisate, while Zang Hai, a man from Ping'an County, is of course only a baron of the lowest rank. In fact, since he has no fiefdom, only a salary, it cannot be inherited and can only be used by the original person.

But even so, Zang Hai had broken the tradition of the dynasty that only military merit could be conferred a title, so the court officials were very dissatisfied with this and many of them opposed it, which further destroyed Zang Hai's possibility of contacting the court officials.

It's not that Zang Hai is blind to these realities, but he has high expectations for Xiao Jinyue, so he is content with these unfair treatments.

Time passed quickly, the Qinghe Palace and the six departments and twenty-four bureaus in the palace were so busy that they finally arrived at the wedding moment of Xiao Jinyue and Zang Hai.

Nowadays, most weddings take place at dusk. Even if Xiao Jinyue needed to go out to pick up the bride in the afternoon, he would be called up to get ready before dawn.

Normally, for a wedding as a solemn ceremony, Xiao Jinyue needs to wear a prince's ceremonial attire, but the prince's ceremonial attire in Dayong is mostly golden in color, which is quite different from the bright red formal attire commonly used by the people.

Moreover, this was the first time that a woman was canonized as a prince. When Emperor Zhenshun was arguing with the previous dynasty, he had not yet decided on all the clothing for Xiao Jinyue. Therefore, Emperor Zhenshun also wanted to use Xiao Jinyue's wedding to make it official. Therefore, the auspicious clothes used a golden base with apricot-yellow dragon and phoenix patterns, and the top hat on the head was bright red, decorated with apricot-yellow nine dragons and nine phoenixes.

As for Zang Hai's auspicious attire, it is bright red in color and decorated with golden dragons and phoenixes. Even the number is the same as the one Xiao Jinyue used, five.