When the Empress heard this, she didn't care much and immediately set off to go to the emperor's bedroom. Before leaving, she looked back at Li Xin, her voice was a little desolate.

"Mr. Li, will you go with me?"

Li Xin nodded silently and stood up and said, "Empress, let's go first, I will arrive later."

Empress Xie carried a long skirt and took steps to leave the side hall, while Li Xin stood there for a while before leaving, walking towards the emperor's bedroom.

When he walked to the gate of the emperor's bedroom, Empress Xie had already gone in. Marquis Jing'an closed his eyes, let out a long breath, and waited at the gate of the bedroom with his hands hanging down.

After a long time, there was no movement in the bedroom.

Then, a group of old men with gray hair appeared at the gate of the emperor's bedroom. They first glanced at Li Xin, and then stood beside Li Xin and waited quietly.

They are the five prime ministers of Shangshutai.

The prime minister of Shangshutai is very different from the prime minister ten years ago. When the emperor first ascended the throne ten years ago, most of the prime ministers of Shangshutai were old ministers of Chengde Dynasty, such as Huan Chu and Zhang Qu. Now the prime ministers of Chengde Dynasty either died of illness or died of old age. Only the five prime ministers of Chengde Dynasty, the Zhongshu Ling Gongyang Shu, were still at Shangshutai, and the other four had already changed things.

During the tenth year of Taikang Dynasty, Li Xin existed as an isolated minister in a sense. Except for the Duke of Chen's mansion, he basically did not interact with any other officials, whether it was a civil servant or a military general. Therefore, he knew each of these five prime ministers, but he was not familiar with any of them.

Although Li Xin could be regarded as a high position in the Taikang Dynasty, he may have a high status if he looked at it carefully. However, in terms of weight, these five prime ministers in charge were the real people of power, because in a sense, Shangshutai jumped from the division of the emperor.

Li Xin only had the authority in the army, at most he was a Minister of War. And if he was a regular Minister of War, he would be subject to the control of these five old men.

In the end, he was an old minister of Chengde Dynasty. The Secretariat ordered Gong Yang Shu to cross the crowd, walked to Li Xin, and bowed slightly: "Marty Li."

Li Xin glanced at the old man and bowed back and said, "You are kind to the Minister of the Central Committee."

In terms of official qualities, Li Xin is a little higher than these five old men, but in terms of power, he is much inferior. Moreover, Gong Yang Shu has a very high seniority in the court, so he can be regarded as Li Xin's elder.

The Secretariat glanced at the bedroom and sighed slightly.

"Marty Li arrived first, can you tell what happened?"

Ten years ago, in the 18th year of Chengde, the five prime ministers of Shangshutai were called into the palace like now, but the emperor at that time lived in Changle Palace, and the emperor now lived in Weiyang Palace.

Now that the scene has reappeared, the Zhongshu Ling has a very bad premonition in his heart.

Li Xin looked around and found that the six ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel were also coming one after another. Among them, the two ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel had arrived. He glanced at Gong Yang Shu and asked silently: "May I ask the Secretary of the Central Committee, who called you into the palace?"

"Go to the inner court Eunuch Xiao."

Gong Yang Shu was already in his seventies, and he said with some difficulty: "Eunuch Xiao sent someone to the Shangshu Deck just now and asked me to wait at the gate of Weiyang Palace. I don't know what the matter is."

The Eunuch Xiao he mentioned naturally refused to be Xiao Huai, but the eunuch Xiao Zheng.

Li Xin nodded, then glanced at Gong Yang Shu.

"I was also from Eunuch Xiao's palace. It was not long before the Secretariat, so I'll wait here together."

The Eunuch Xiao in his mouth and the Eunuch Xiao in his mouth are not the same person.

Gong Yang Shu glanced at Li Xin, then nodded helplessly, turned back to his position, closed his eyes to rest.

Gradually, more and more people were at the gate of Weiyang Palace. In addition to the six ministers and other great nine ministers, there were also six ministers, as well as the little nine ministers, etc., who all arrived at the gate of Weiyang Palace and stood outside the palace gate with their hands down.

As the Minister of War, when Li Xin arrived, all the officials of the Ministry of War naturally stood behind him. Ye Lin, as the Minister of War, stood near Li Xin and quietly lowered his voice.

"What happened in Chang'an...?"

Ye Lin is different from Li Xin. Li Xin is on duty in the Ministry of War, just a fun game, not really doing things in the Ministry of War, but Ye Lin is different. Although he separated from the Ye family and established a new Ningling Marquis Mansion, he was born in the Ye family after all, and this background made him unlikely to be in charge of the army.

As a military general, if you can't take charge of the army, you can only work in the Ministry of War. Therefore, Ye Lin, the Minister of War, is a serious Minister of War. He has to go to the Ministry of War to order Mao every day. If nothing unexpected happens, he will not beg for food for a long time in the future.

Li Xin's face did not change and said in a deep voice: "I don't know either."

Speaking of this, he paused.

"But judging from the current situation, it should be that His Majesty summoned the ministers..."

Ye Lin's face changed.

"So fast..."

Li Xin looked towards Weiyang Palace and sighed deeply.

"Yeah, it's too fast."

In this way, not long after, all the officials of the third rank and above in the capital arrived. They waited for about an hour at the Weiyang Palace gate and it became completely dark. At this time, it was still snowing outside. There were no people standing in the place where the eaves of the palace gate. Therefore, many officials outside now had snow on their hair and clothes.

Finally, the eunuch Xiao Zheng, dressed in red, appeared in front of everyone. His face was heavy, and after looking around at the ministers at the door of the hall, he bowed slightly.

"Your Majesty, please come into the palace."

After saying that, he turned around and walked in.

Several prime ministers looked at each other and then took the lead in.

The head of the Zhong family, Zhong Xuantong, who had already arrived at the scene, and general Hou Jingde, the Imperial Guard Left Camp, also communicated with each other's eyes and walked into Weiyang Palace.

Li Xin had a expressionless face, put his hands in his sleeves, and walked towards Weiyang Palace with officials from the Ministry of War.

The ministers were taken into the main hall of Weiyang Palace and stood according to their usual position of court. Li Xin stood in the position of Minister of War, with a expressionless face.

Xiao Zheng, dressed in red, first glanced at Li Xin, and then led the five prime ministers from Shangshutai to the emperor's bedroom in the back hall of Weiyang Palace.

This is an inevitable thing. If the emperor is intoxicated, then all the things that the emperor will pass on will be paid attention to, including the emperor's funeral and the various etiquette rules of the new emperor's succession, the prime minister and the Ministry of Rites will be handled.

Therefore, at this time, several prime ministers must go to meet you.

As for the others present, they only came to give a testimony, and basically they couldn't see the emperor.

The five prime ministers followed Xiao Zheng to the back hall for about an hour. Eunuch Xiao, dressed in red, returned to the main hall of Weiyang Palace again. He stepped in front of Li Xin and then took a deep breath.

"Mr. Marquis, Your Majesty summons you to come."

Hearing this sentence, Li Xin felt mixed feelings for a while.

To be honest, the emperor passed away at this time was a good thing for him from a political perspective. After all, from then on, the biggest constraint on his head may disappear.

But from his personal emotions, he still couldn't accept it for a while.

Marquis Jing'an nodded silently.
Chapter completed!