The System Forces Me to Be the Emperor

Another five days passed.

Yesterday, Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan went to Yingtian Mansion and met Wei Tai.

Wei Tai wept with a mournful old face.

Please god get my eyes wet...

freeze my heart...

Let me stop begging for the truth and come to me.

The detectives sent to Luzhou Prefecture failed to find out. Luzhou Prefecture did not receive any reports of missing persons. The Luzhou prefect also sent people to investigate in the various counties below, but there were no useful clues.

Sure enough, the clue was broken again.

Emperor Xia had already asked about this in the early court, and ordered him to solve the case as soon as possible at any cost. There were a lot of discussions in the capital, and Wei Tai felt that the pressure was too great.

A reward of 12,000 taels was useless, and no one provided clues.

As Xiao Rui guessed, things are not that simple.

But Xiao Rui also believes that the system cannot let him solve the headless case, there must be some clues that he has not discovered yet.

...

"Seventh Brother, are you free tonight?" Xiao Yan ran over and asked.

At this time, Xiao Rui had just finished practicing riding and archery, and when he heard Xiao Yan's question, he said cautiously: "What do you want to do again? I'm very busy, and I don't have time to fool around with you."

Xiao Yan resentfully said: "Seventh Brother, am I this kind of person in your mind? Tonight is a big event. Mr. Xu's young master is getting married today. There is a dinner party tonight. Father and Emperor will go, won't you go?"

Xiao Rui was taken aback, and read: "Master Xu? Which Master Xu?"

Xiao Yan said contemptuously: "Seventh brother, you are so low-key that you don't even know Mr. Xu? Who else can have such a face that Mr. Xu can let the emperor himself go out?"

"Xu Xianyang!" Xiao Rui suddenly reacted.

The political system of the Great Xia Kingdom is a six-part cabinet system. The emperor forms a cabinet to manage the court for him. Then the eunuch, who was in charge of the Ministry of Rites and Superintendents, approved the red, and passed on to the emperor to ensure that the six ministries were directly responsible to the emperor, realizing the emperor's centralization system.

Today's Emperor Xia attaches great importance to the cabinet, so the cabinet has great power and naturally has a high status.

Xu Xianyang is one of the five cabinet elders. He is a scholar of the Wenhua Palace and Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

As a prince, he naturally had to express his feelings.

Xiao Rui didn't want to go at first, he never participated in the weddings and funerals of civil and military ministers, but this time Emperor Xia would go, instead of rewarding him, if he didn't go, he would be too withdrawn.

"Let's go together after class." Xiao Rui said.

Xiao Yan smiled and said: "Okay, I have prepared your congratulatory gift for you too. The Emperor Father has issued an order to strictly order officials to accept bribes for the purpose of congratulatory gifts, so I have prepared two sets of calligraphy and paintings of celebrities. Seventh brother, you Don't give up."

Xiao Yan knew that he had no money, so he prepared congratulatory gifts in advance. Xiao Rui felt heartwarming, and said with a smile: "Then I will take advantage of Ninth Brother."

"Hey, which one of us is with whom, the brother and sister have a good relationship, and the younger brother and sister are sister-in-law." Before Xiao Yan finished speaking happily, Xiao Rui slapped him. Quickly swallowed the last sentence back to his stomach.

After class, Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan went to Xu Mansion in a carriage.

Three streets away, before approaching the Xu Mansion, it was blocked by heavy carriages. There were too many people, all civil and military officials had to come to congratulate, even if they didn't come, they had to send gifts.

The steward of the Xu Mansion was coordinating the road conditions. He found the Ninth Prince's carriage and immediately sent people to maintain the passage.

Hearing that the Ninth Prince's carriage was coming, the carriage that was blocking the road immediately pulled over to make way.

When they came to the gate of Xu Mansion, Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan got out of the car.

Xu Xianyang's younger brother, Xu Xianda, stepped forward and said: "Your Highnesses are sorry to welcome you, and I hope you will forgive me."

Xiao Rui smiled and said: "Today is the big day of the Xu family, we came to bother you. Where is Mr. Xu?"

Xu Xianda said: "Brother is entertaining guests in the mansion. Your highnesses, please follow me in. The seven highnesses have arrived and are chatting in the mansion. The dinner will not start until more than an hour later."

Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan entered the Xu Mansion and met Xu Xianyang and his son Xu Haoran. After chatting for a few words, it was all congratulatory words, and then under Xu Xianda's guidance, they came to the main hall of the house next door.

Entering the room, Xiao Rui saw six older brothers and one younger brother.

His Royal Highness Xiao Lie, 25 years old, gentle and peaceful, bookish.

The Second Highness Xiao Yiheng, 24 years old, has a cold and arrogant personality and an aggressive manner.

Third Highness Xiao Ze, 22 years old, easy-going and lazy.

Fourth Highness Xiao Feng, 21 years old, although he is skilled in martial arts, has a reckless personality.

His Highness Xiao Yuan, 20 years old, has a suspicious personality and likes to speculate.

The Sixth Highness Xiao Ming, 20 years old, has a violent personality and is greedy for beauty.

The Eighth Prince Xiao Jing, 16 years old, has an arrogant and self-righteous personality.

This is Xiao Rui's impression of the seven His Royal Highnesses. He has not had deep contact with them, so he still can't figure out their true character.

Together with Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan, the nine princes of Emperor Xia have arrived.

When they entered, the seven Highnesses looked over one after another.

His Highness Xiao Lie smiled and said, "Xiao Qi and Xiao Jiu are here."

His Highness Xiao Ze jokingly said: "Especially Xiao Qi, it's rare to see you participate in an event in such a busy schedule."

The other princes did not speak.

Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan clasped their hands and called each other brother.

Xiao Rui shyly said: "This is not being forced by Xiao Jiu."

Xiao Yan shouted: "That's right, if I don't tell you, Seventh Brother doesn't even know Master Xu's young master is married."

The two sat down, and the nine princes shared the same room, chatting with each other, and the atmosphere was not to mention depressing.

Xiao Rui didn't sit for a quarter of an hour before finding an excuse to run out.

Of course, the follower Xiao Yan also followed.

The two wandered around in Xu's Mansion. As the residence of the Cabinet Master, the scale of Xu's Mansion was not inferior to Duan Wang's Mansion, and there should be quite a few pavilions. Xiao Yan and Xiao Rui wandered around, and unexpectedly ran into Zhang Lianchuan and Tian Boguang.

The two of them were chatting with a group of teenagers, looking at their clothes, they were all behind the door.

When Zhang Lianchuan saw Xiao Rui, he opened his mouth to call "brother-in-law". Xiao Rui was so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth and said, "Young Master, don't bark, there are too many people talking, please show some face."

Zhang Lianchuan pouted, and called out aggrievedly: "Your Highness!"

Tian Boguang also came to meet, and then introduced others for Xiao Rui.

There is the son of the Marquis of Valor, the son of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, the son of the Marquis of Pingbo, the son of the Marquis of Baizhan...

Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together, ten sons of the Twelfth Army Marquis came.

The young masters bowed their hands to see Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan, they did not disturb the group of young masters chatting awkwardly, said a few words, and left.

Strolling to a house, he saw a group of young talents, and Xiao Rui saw Ding Jian among them.

Xiao Yan said that this group is the descendants of the six ministers.

Continuing to stroll, Xiao Rui saw Qingliu from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

I saw the great Confucianists and Confucian scholars in the capital.

I saw the servants and officials of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Households.

I heard that several bigwigs from the cabinet also came, but they didn't see it.

...

This night, almost all the powers in the capital were present.

Half an hour later, Emperor Xia arrived in person.

This was the first time in the past five years that the Emperor Xia had left the palace in person to attend a happy event held by the important minister's family, which showed the Emperor Xia's favor and trust in Xu Xianyang.

Emperor Xia took his seat, Xiao Rui also took his seat with the other princes, there were only two tables in the main hall, Emperor Xia shared a table with several princes and four cabinet ministers, and nine princes shared a table.

The other civil and military ministers are all in the next room.

Officials below the fifth rank cannot even sit in the house, and can only sit in the courtyard.

At this time, the worship ceremony is also beginning.

Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan couldn't bear the oppression in the main hall, so they sneaked out to watch the worship ceremony. Emperor Xia was a guest, so naturally he would not stop them.

What Xu Menghao married was the princess of Ruyang Wang's family. Among the four kings of the county, Ruyang King was brave and brave, even the current Emperor Xia dared to hate him.

So Xiao Rui suspected that Emperor Xia came to attend the wedding in person, not because he favored Xu Xianyang, but because he was afraid of being scolded by King Ruyang.

Xiao Rui and Xiao Yan stood at the corner watching the worship ceremony. He looked at the groom, Xu Haoran, and always felt that the groom was weird.