Finally, after a long, long time, the old emperor suddenly sighed, with a hint of complexity and difficulty in his voice:

"You are here to ask me to abdicate, right?"

Prince Chen did not answer.

Suddenly a sickly blush flashed across the old emperor's face. He sat up with difficulty, still pressing the hilt of the sword in his arms with one hand. He looked at his son carefully and said slowly: "What happened this time was your fault."

Calm down. Now everything in the imperial capital is under your control. You are young and courageous. You are meticulous in your thoughts, secretive in your actions, and perseverant by nature... You are mostly able to get to where you are today. Moreover,

According to the current situation, it seems that I should announce my abdication and pass the throne to you, right?"

Prince Chen still didn't answer.

Du Wei sighed in his heart, there is no family affection in the Di family!

Although the old emperor liked his younger son and had always been inclined to regard him as his successor, there was a prerequisite.

If I pass the throne to you, I must wait until I am willing to pass it on!

Faced with the throne, who is willing to give up the throne? The old emperor's original intention was to sit on the throne for a few more years, sit until death, and then give up the throne! No one is willing to watch the hand of the emperor.

Give up the authority of the earth.

Even if it is his own son! Even if it is his own heir!

If you want to inherit, you must wait until I die!

At this moment, Du Wei clearly grasped Augustine VI's thoughts.

Prince Chen still didn't speak. The gloom in the old emperor's eyes was revealed bit by bit. His breathing became faster bit by bit, and he seemed to be gritting his teeth: "You... want to be like him and want me to abdicate now.

?"

Finally, Prince Chen raised his head. At this moment, the prince had a gentle smile on his face: "Father, you are too worried."

After saying that, the prince stood up easily and walked towards the bed with a gentle smile on his face. But the old emperor suddenly became nervous like an old lion being approached by an enemy.

Veins popped out on the hand with the sword hilt. But Prince Chen walked to the bedside, only stretched out his hand, gently helped his father straighten his robe, then lowered his eyelids, looked at his father, and said softly: "Father

,My brother and I are different."

The decline and embarrassment of Augustine VI all fell in Du Wei's eyes. At this moment, a sentence suddenly flashed in Du Wei's heart:

This is politics!

"Father, you are still the emperor. It was my brother who made the coup, not me." Prince Chen smiled, his eyes were bright, half confident and half cold: "But, father, you are indeed the old man."

The state affairs are complicated and you are low on energy. This time Count Raymond helped his brother mobilize the troops, but you didn't notice at all... In the future, my father may need to spend more time on this. As a son, I can keep it.

You may not be able to help you get through this every time."

Although the voice is soft, the meaning behind the words is indescribably hard!

After finishing speaking, Prince Chen took a step back and bowed to say goodbye: "Your illness has not healed yet, so leave the outside matters to me for now."

After finishing speaking, Prince Chen walked to Du Wei, gently pulled him up, seemed to smile at Du Wei, and left with Du Wei.

Before leaving, Du Wei looked back and saw the complex expression on the old emperor's face, and his muddy old eyes were full of decline and emptiness...

After walking out of the palace, Prince Chen did not leave immediately. He just pulled Du Wei and stood waiting at the door of the palace. His eyes were full of confidence and there was a determined smile on his lips.

Sure enough, in less than a moment, a chamberlain came out of the palace. The inner chamber looked frightened, holding something in his hand. He trotted all the way to Prince Chen, knelt on the ground with a plop, and held the thing over his head with both hands.

.

Prince Chen gently took it and opened it.

"Establish Prince Chen as regent, and then all state affairs will be decided by the regent, who will act as emperor!"

This sentence was scrawled on this square of white cloth, and the handwriting was a little skewed. It was obvious that the old emperor was extremely weak when he wrote it himself. The signature below was even more scrawled, and the seal stamped on it was also because of

Not strong enough and a bit blurry.

Prince Chen showed a satisfied smile on his face, then called over one of the inner court guards and handed over the square white cloth.

"Spread it throughout all departments and distribute it."

Du Wei looked at Prince Chen, smiled, and said lightly: "Should I call you Your Majesty now? Or Your Highness?"

"Your Highness." Prince Chen glanced at Du Wei: "I am the regent, not the emperor yet. This cannot be confused."

The news of the regent's initial establishment was immediately spread along with Augustine VI's personal order. Various departments in the imperial capital were not too surprised by the news. This coup. The old emperor's old attitude was undoubtedly revealed. The eldest prince

He died in defeat. Prince Chen ascended the throne, which was a matter of course for everyone. The only thing that was slightly surprising was that the old emperor did not abdicate immediately, and Prince Chen did not immediately ask to succeed, but became a regent.

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Prince Chen acted decisively and immediately dispatched a thousand-strong imperial army to guard the palace of the old emperor. The original subordinates of the imperial army were also changed beyond recognition under his deliberate arrangement.

Because the Royal Guards Army lost 3,000 people in the coup, Prince Chen even added 5,000 people from the Imperial Capital Public Security Bureau's garrison to the Imperial Guards Army.

Afterwards, the regent's orders were passed down one by one like a stream of water.

Marquis Solomon cut off his title, cut off all the royal merchant houses originally controlled by his name, took back the territory, and disbanded the family's private army on the spot.

General Juncker (who died in battle) was stripped of his baronetcy and military rank, and was buried as a civilian.

The rest of the nobles and officials involved in the coup were all imprisoned in the prisons of the Imperial Supervisory Office pending trial. At the same time, three thousand security forces were deployed to supervise the prisoners' residences and were not allowed to enter or exit.

All soldiers and warriors who participated in the mutiny were dismissed from military service on the spot. Those who died were buried with civilian rites. The survivors were imprisoned pending trial.

To everyone's relief, Prince Chen, the new regent, seemed to have no intention of going on a killing spree for the time being. Among all the orders, he did not order anyone to be imprisoned. Not even the dead ones were ordered to be killed.

Rebel leader-level figures like General Juncker were only revoked from their titles and were buried as civilians...

This is already extremely tolerant. Just think of the royal coups in the history of the empire. In every case, the winner wielded a butcher knife and killed the losers. The scene of the imperial capital flowing into rivers of blood is vividly visible!

It is rare for Prince Chen to be kind enough to confine him without killing him. However, everyone is still not sure of the victor's current intentions. Except for a few nobles who were anxious to take advantage of the horse, they wrote a letter proposing severe punishment for the rebels, but in the end, they were all rejected by Prince Chen.

I ignored it, and then I realized that I had slapped the horse's leg.

Three more days later, the magic circle in the imperial capital had long been eliminated. Prince Chen mobilized two divisions of guards loyal to the royal family from the guards around the imperial capital to enter the city and take control of the city defense. Originally, Junker's city guards

The rebels in the Second Division have canceled their designation, and thousands of rebel prisoners of war are being held in the camp outside the city.

Prince Chen once again issued a series of orders, but this time it was a reward. After all, a coup was like a bandit convention.

After it's over, it's naturally time for the winners to divide the spoils.

To everyone's surprise, the name at the top of this commendation order was actually the name of Du Wei, the eldest son of the Luo Lin family!

Du Wei, given the surname "Rudolph" (it is said to be the surname of a knight in the Knights of Saint Laurent around Aragon in history.), was awarded the title of Duke, the title of Palace Magic Advisor, the title of Palace Scholar, and the Palace Astrology

The title of master and the prince's magic tutor.

What made all the wealthy nobles almost stare blankly was that the title of "Duke" that Du Wei received was actually clearly written on the regent's order...

hereditary!!!

This news almost immediately blew up a storm in the aristocratic circle of the imperial capital!

When Prince Chen was in the coup, many people heard his promise of a dukedom to Du Wei. However, everyone naturally believed that the dukedom that Prince Chen promised must be something similar to a palace title.

There are two types of titles in the Roland Empire, hereditary titles and lifetime titles. Lifetime titles are only awarded to the person, and are not hereditary. They have no territory and cannot form a private army. Once the person dies, the title will naturally be cancelled.

Generally speaking, such titles are often awarded by the royal family because they cost little money and although they are glorious, they do not have much real power.

But a hereditary title cannot be awarded easily! A hereditary title means that the person who is granted the title can get his own territory, collect taxes on his own in the territory, and form his own private army, which can be passed down from generation to generation!

It is equivalent to adding another country within a country in the empire. The emperors of the past are not stupid. Of course, they understand that the fewer these hereditary titles, the more stable their empire will be. Therefore, unless they have made great contributions, they will never grant them

What a hereditary title!

Otherwise, more and more hereditary titles will be granted, and more and more territories will be rewarded. No matter how vast the territory of the empire is, there will always be a day when it is completed!

At that time, the ancestor of the Luo Lin family, General Luo Lin, who assisted the Augustin family to rise and unify the continent, had great military exploits, but only got a hereditary earl. And Du Wei, although he sided with Prince Chen in the coup...

But it’s hard to say what the merit is. It can be considered big or small, but it’s hard to evaluate. Just being able to be a duke in this way, or hereditary, would be a big shock to these nobles!

And an even more shocking scene that no one knew about happened in the palace, the original residence of Prince Chen, and now the palace of the regent.

In front of several close subordinates, including the guy named Camisillo who had been undercover for ten years and played a key role in the coup, Baron Sac, the former commander of the Public Security Bureau, and several subordinates of Prince Chen

of direct relatives.

The regent casually threw a map of the empire in front of Du Wei with a smile on his face:

"My Lord Duke, look at the map! Wherever you want to be your territory, just pick it out on the map!"
Chapter completed!