In the palace of the capital, the outer hall of the Qianqing Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Less than a month after the end of the New Year, it was still very cold.

Chen Baoding's words in the outer hall not only made Tian Heng's neck thick. also made the Queen Mother, who was sitting at the bottom of the seat, so angry that she couldn't slap this Chen Baoding out of the Forbidden City.

The Ministry of Rites has always been the weakest of the six, and the previous Queen Mother never thought of taking down this department, but she didn't want to ignore one of them, but she made things into such a situation.

Arrange her own people into the harem, control the entire harem, and then master the emperor, and finally master the entire court situation, so that the Great Zhou world is in her pocket. This is the most perfect ending that the Queen Mother has ever envisioned. She even thought that since the current emperor can't guarantee to become a puppet and can't guarantee that it is his own person, then he can't let his own people come in, and after giving birth to a prince, she will get rid of this unguaranteed emperor to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

But the idea had just begun to be implemented, and such a person who seemed to her to be irrelevant at all was forcibly blocked back.

Mo Xunshen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is a good gentleman, and the creed of being an official is to be good, and never offend any of his colleagues. Even if this colleague is only a seven-pin county order, he still believes in this good creed. And Sun Yan, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, is even more of a book, and it is good for him to endorse the book, but if he wants to say something, it will really be difficult for him. And the reason why this Sun Yan can become the post of a third-grade waiter will not be his ability to endorse, as far as his ability is concerned, being an eight-grade clerk of the Hanlin Academy is a top. Fortunately, this Sun Yan himself can't do it, but he has a sweet-looking sister, who was elected to the harem and sealed Zhaoyi, although the position is not very high, and he is not much favored by the first emperor, but after all, he has been on the emperor's dragon bed, and occasionally flattered the queen at that time, that is, the current queen mother, so that he was able to pull the current position of the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

But now the Queen Mother really regrets it, and she has installed the Ministry of Rites as a waiter for such an unscrupulous person. Looking at the current Ministry of Rites, Shangshu only thinks about being a good person and doesn't take care of anything. Zuo Shilang is another person who can't speak. The only person in charge of the entire Ministry of Rites is this right waiter, Chen Baoding, who is working against her.

The queen mother seemed to see that most of the officials below were secretly laughing, because no one in the palace could refute Chen Baoding's words now.

In the great hall, there was silence for a while.

After Chen Baoding finished speaking, he bowed and made a big salute and returned to his position.

For a long time, looking at this draft girl, I want to get stuck with this. At this moment, a person suddenly stood up in the main hall.

Everyone looked, ha, okay, this time the one who came out was really soaked in the book.

The bachelor of the Hanlin Academy of the fifth grade, Zhang Xiaojie Zhang.

It is said that all the people who came today are the cabinet, the Taishi and the young master or the officials of the sixth department and above the third grade, this bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who is only the fifth grade should not be included, but Zhang Xiaojie is different, because he also has a special identity, he is the cousin of the Queen Mother.

Speaking of this chapter filial piety, when Zaochengzong had not yet attained the unification, he had already stayed in the Hanlin Academy, and he was just a six-grade attendant at that time. After the unification of Chengzong, Queen Wang wanted to transfer him out of the Hanlin Academy, but she didn't want her uncle to reply that she was used to the tranquility of the Hanlin Academy and didn't want him to move. The queen tried several times to persuade her, but she was unmoved and could only give up.

Seeing Zhang Xiaojie suddenly stand up, the Queen Mother's brows moved, although she knew that her aunt would not really go against her, but what to do, even she dared to guarantee it.

"What does Master Zhang say?" Before Zhang Xiaojie could speak, the Queen Mother asked out loud first, secretly meaning to suppress it, if it is not good for yourself, you will say less.

Zhang Xiaojie bowed and bowed, and replied loudly: "Back to the emperor, back to the queen mother." The great virtue of the ministers and saints, although they have no retribution, but they are loyal to their duties and dare not say anything else. Today, the saint has ascended to the great treasure for the first time, and everything is coming, and the king's will is difficult to decide, which is really the fault of the ministers who do not pray for their responsibilities. The minister's fear, only to redouble his conscientiousness, for the holy one-two, in order to illustrate the holy sorrow, and then treat the minister, the minister's thoughts. After saying that, when the others looked down at each other, he finally stopped his beautiful words and started again, "The minister listened to Lord Shicaitian and Lord Chen discuss the matter of selecting draft girls today, and the point of dispute is nothing more than the scope of selection. Lord Tian thought that there was no one in the holy harem today, and only the daughter of the family could show the virtue and virtue of the harem Fengluan, while Lord Chen thought that the ancestors had virtue first, and the daughters of the common people were good at knowing the bitterness and happiness of the people, and they could not indulge in luxury, and they could ensure the virtue of the harem. Now the two sides are still arguing, and any further struggle will only delay the matter. Therefore, in the opinion of the old minister, if Lord Tian also does not set the limit of the five grades or more in Beijing, Lord Chen no longer only follows the law of the ancestors, but only asks for the daughters of the people. Both sides might as well take a step back and choose what to choose between?"

"All the choices?" all the adults present were shocked, and then laughed.

Okay, it is said that Mo Xunshen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is a good man, and now it seems that this Zhang Xiaojie is more worthy of the title of Mr. Good. Both parties choose what they want, and no one can be offended.

But some people laughed, and some people still cried.

Both parties choose, that doesn't mean that their daughters and granddaughters are still within the range, then the results are not the same, but the number and scope are added, and the ones who should be chosen still have to be chosen.

Hearing this, the Queen Mother smiled, and nodded at her uncle with satisfaction, she didn't expect that she, an uncle who looked sour and rotten, could help herself at the end of the day, not bad.

The only master that everyone is vying for, Emperor Qin Siyang, hung his head and didn't say a word about it.

That is, this seemingly complete consensus has been reached, so the next thing to discuss can only be what size beauty to choose, how to choose, and when to choose this detail.

At this time, they all stood up and said that they wanted to recommend beauties from all over the world, and five officials also brought portraits, and they all hurriedly presented them.

Qin Siyang took the dozens of portraits from the eunuch's hands, and only looked at them one by one at random, that is, handed them to the little eunuch standing behind him, and asked him to transfer them to the Queen Mother to see.

The Queen Mother took the portraits, looked at them one by one, nodded again and again, and said: "Yes, looking at all of them are first-class beauties, I don't know where the ministers got these portrait albums?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, the ministers dare not be greedy, these portraits are all obtained by the water-bearer. The minister who presented the painting replied.

"Well, good, you guys did a good job, and so did the water bearers. The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction, "This selection has enriched the harem, and the ministers must be indispensable." Come, take out eight hundred taels of silver from the palace of the mourning family, and each of the five ministers will be rewarded with one hundred taels, and the other three hundred taels will be equally divided among those who have worked hard to monitor the water. ”

When the minister who presented the painting heard it, he didn't want to get a hundred taels for a few portraits of beauties, which was comparable to their year's salary, and in surprise, he was busy kneeling down to the ground with tears in his eyes, and kept kowtowing and thanking him. Then he put on a bunch of loyal words that he would definitely be on an errand and work hard for the country and the court, and he said it dry, and then he returned to his position one by one.

The Queen Mother turned around to Qin Siyang and asked with a smile: "Among these portraits of beauties, the emperor has also seen them, but there are some eye-catching?"

Hearing this, Qin Siyang came to his senses as if he had woken up, and shook his head in shock: "The child's eyes are born, I don't know what kind of beauty is the best, everything is up to the Queen Mother." ”

After hearing this, the queen mother smiled lightly and said: "Okay, the emperor is still young, of course I don't understand the things on this face, this time the matter of the draft girl, the mourning family will work hard, and take the idea for the emperor." ”

Qin Siyang thanked him again in a busy and humble manner, and seeing the queen mother's happy appearance, he could only endure it again in his heart.

After several discussions, 500 women were selected for this draft, and the palace first sent people to various places to investigate and screen, and then sent the selected people to the palace to be screened by the chief eunuchs one by one, and finally handed over to the queen mother for decision.

The matter of picking draft girls was decided, and the Queen Mother looked at the fact that although it was not smooth at the beginning, it was a reversal in the end, and she developed in the best direction, and she was extremely happy. I was about to say something to let everyone disperse, but I saw that more than half of the ministers standing below had no intention of leaving.

"All the ministers are tired and hungry in the morning, so let's go home and rest. The Queen Mother spoke.

Of the twenty-one ministers, eight or nine were ordered to retreat, but ten of them did not speak and stood still, and two or three of them, after moving, saw that some of them did not move and stood again, and watched from the sidelines.

The ministers who stood still were headed by Zhong Xuanchong, the deputy assistant of the cabinet. Seeing that everyone was about to retreat, but he didn't say a word about what he wanted to say, he gritted his teeth, and finally couldn't help but 'pounce' and knelt down, shouting loudly: "Your Majesty!" The courtiers standing behind him also knelt down when they saw this, shouting to the emperor.

When the Queen Mother saw it, her brows furrowed instantly, and she looked at Qin Siyang, but saw that he was just stunned to look at the group of ministers who were kneeling down together, and she was completely panicked. At this time, he also turned to look at her with a very embarrassed god color, with a look of help.

When the queen mother saw this, she immediately became proud again, thinking about her worries before the death of the first emperor, it seemed that she was really worried. This little emperor's ability is no more than that, and his heart must be terrified at this moment. Hmph, such a cowardly temperament, if he wanted to release it with Su Fang before he came, he would only get freedom and fun, and he was anxious to become the emperor. Now that I'm really in it, I find that those courtiers who run to the East Palace every day to talk to him about things are difficult, embarrassed, afraid, I know that I can't have everything if I don't become the emperor! Hmph, this is good, really good. Let her come to the town to make trouble with these troublesome courtiers, so that the emperor can understand who can really help him in this world.

Thinking of this, the Queen Mother sneered in her heart, stood up, glanced contemptuously at the ministers kneeling on the ground, held her head high, and deliberately raised her voice and asked, "Lord Zhong, and the ministers, what else is going on?" )