Early the next morning, just after the rooster crowed, I dressed up and waited for Jiang Zhuo to send a palace attendant to lead me to the court. Left and right, but she knocked on my door herself.

This tiara is not the one I am used to wearing in my house, it is rare that the size is just right, and even the texture of wearing it on my body is not half a point - if it weren't for the smell of new rosin on the fabric, and the hidden embroidered pattern with my name in the dark of the cuffs, I would almost think that Jiang Zhuo specially sent someone to Lingwang's mansion to get it.

She was dressed in a dark piping Ming Yellow Emperor dress, and the crown of twelve crowns covered most of her face, even if she stared at me deeply for a long time, I couldn't understand her expression at all, and I couldn't guess her thoughts.

Or maybe I just don't want to guess, I don't want to understand.

"Let's go." Before I could get closer, she turned around and walked first towards the Chaolu Temple, as if she had just happened to pass by my door, and called me lightly, rather than picking me up—which made me feel a little relieved by attending the court meeting.

With Jiang Zhuo's footsteps, Shi Shiran stepped into the main hall of the court, and obviously felt the attention of the officials standing with their hands down when they saw me, and they were shocked and understood, but they all forced themselves to suppress it, but there was an unusual depression surging in the originally quiet atmosphere.

I sat down in the seat that had been vacant for a long time, and with my chin propped up, I looked at the crowd as if nothing had happened—as far as I could see, most of them looked away or lowered their heads, but no one would look at me, and I don't know whether they were more frightened or more disdainful.

Withdrawing his gaze boringly, he heard Jiang Zhuo say lightly: "King Ling's body is no longer in serious trouble, and he will participate in the court meeting together in the future, can the ministers have any objections?" ”

It's ridiculous, even if you borrow a hundred dares from these people, they don't dare to say a word "no".

-- Even if you oppose it in your heart, you will resist it again.

This is the imperial power.

The Most High, and therefore the ...... that has made me repudiated Imperial power.

Listening carefully, her voice is half a point lower than Kuang Xihan, and her temperament is more cold, but she sits far away on the throne, not to mention the trembling officials below, even the palace attendants who are a little closer to her can hardly find this subtle difference, and who dares to doubt the true identity of this "Majesty"?

Fang just swept around roughly, there were a few familiar faces, and there were many fresh faces that had never been seen before and had no impression, but they were not Kuang Xiqing's most powerful henchmen, no wonder no one recognized them.

…… But how did she end up here?

The head of the military attache is naturally the auxiliary general of the Mu family, but the head of the civil official is no longer Lu Xiuzhu's mother, Lu Heng, but there is my nominal mother-in-law, the emperor's master Yunchong.

I can't help but wonder: although her prestige is high, her official position is only from the third grade, and she is in charge of the emperor's lecture banquets on weekdays, so there should be no need to participate in the court meeting...... In other words, they are not eligible to participate.

So, what does her appearance at the court meeting at this moment represent?

Thinking of this, I turned my head to look at Jiang Zhuo, who was high above, I don't know if it was my illusion, as if she also happened to look at me, the eyes hidden behind the twelve beads were not real, but the thin light lips were slightly hooked, as if with a bit of comfort.

Sighing, I retracted my gaze, and reluctantly focused my attention on the official who was out of the ranks, only to hear her say aloud: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has a book to play." ”

"Exactly." Jiang Zhuo raised his hand and said in a steady voice--I always felt that she inadvertently revealed a bit of boring casualness, as if she was very impatient with this step-by-step performance.

"The day of the triennial general election is approaching, please recruit the king, enrich the harem, open up branches and leaves for the royal family, and extend my great cause." The official of the Ministry of Rites bowed and said leisurely.

I was stunned for a moment, but the next moment I felt that the person on the high seat reacted more than me, although I didn't say a word, the breath on my body suddenly cooled, and I couldn't help but feel a chill on my face.

The official of the Ministry of Rites continued as if unconscious: "Your Majesty has only one eldest daughter of the emperor under her knees, and there are only a few servants in the harem, which is related to the national Zuo, and the general election cannot be delayed - six years ago, His Majesty refused on the grounds that the filial piety period has not passed, and three years ago it was canceled on the grounds that the treasury was not abundant. ”

"Heh, whether my harem is full or not is my private matter, and I can't help but be too lenient!" The suffocating silence lasted for a moment, and Jiang Zhuo changed Kuang Xiqing's usual indifferent and calm attitude, and sneered and mocked.

"Your Majesty's forgiveness of sins, it's just that the Heavenly Family has no selfish affairs, and Your Majesty's every move is related to the people of Limin, and you must not be capricious." The official persuaded bitterly.

-- As the supreme in the world, it is not a sorrow that he can't even be the master of how many servants he has to pay.

is such an involuntary position, is it really worth breaking your head to fight and grab?

I wanted to ask her in person, but in front of everyone's eyes, I still held back.

"Presumptuous." She still refused to compromise, and even her deep voice was stained with irrepressible anger, "Are you teaching me what to do?" How about you being the emperor? ”

"Wechen is terrified." The official of the Ministry of Rites unhurriedly lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down, bowed down and bowed deeply, with the meaning of kneeling for a long time and not being able to speak bluntly.

"Where is the Book of Rites?" Seeing that this stubborn official had a posture of "not hitting the south wall and not looking back", Jiang Zhuo rubbed his eyebrows helplessly, and called the highest chief of the Ministry of Rites to come out of the ranks, probably to teach her to persuade and restrain her subordinates - Unexpectedly, after the Ministry of Rites was listed, he knelt beside the man without saying a word, and showed his intention to protect himself with his actions, and immediately choked Jiang Zhuo and slapped the armrest fiercely.

"Officials!" I looked worriedly, but saw Jiang Zhuo's gaze gently sweeping over my face, and instead stared at the silent crowd, and shouted.

"Your Majesty is angry," a middle-aged woman in a scarlet official uniform slowly paced to the kneeling two, and when I thought she would say something constructive, I saw that she also knelt down neatly, bowing her head and not daring to look directly at Tianyan, and said, "Weichen...... Seconded. ”

"Tobe! Bingbu! The Ministry of Industry ...... "Every time Jiang Zhuo mentioned a department, several people knelt down in turn, and in the end, they knelt down for a whole piece," ...... Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Zongzheng Temple! ”

――There is a way that the law does not blame the people, does it seem that this idea of recruiting the king is actually expected by the people?

I don't believe it if no one tells me, but I don't know who is secretly pushing this qiē, and who will be the winner who will benefit from it?

So far, there are only a cadre of military generals in the army headed by the Mu family, Lu Heng and Fu Yunchong, who has fluttering sleeves and a faction of Taoist immortals.

The Mu family has a transcendent status in Dawu, only responsible for guarding the gate, guarding the chaos, and never getting involved in the disputes between these temples; The Zhongshu Order is the foundation of the emperor's relatives, so he will naturally not support it, so as not to shake the throne of the emperor; The rest of Fu Yunchong, who should have been watching impartially, took an unexpected step forward, knelt in front of all the officials, and faintly took the lead: "Your Majesty thinks twice." ”

If the statement of the first six departments and nine temples was only to teach Jiang Zhuo to be displeased and disgusted, then Fu Yunchong's defection was a cluster of flames thrown into the haystack, which completely ignited Jiang Zhuo's anger, even after a distance, I could clearly feel the cold evil aura on that person's body - if the eyes could kill, then the group of people kneeling below would have been a corpse full of holes.

The scene fell into embarrassment, the two sides were deadlocked, no one spoke, and no one retreated.

The kneeling side is not afraid of angering the people in power—you know, when the king is angry, and the corpses are millions, and the blood is flowing, and the world is vegetarian, what basis do they have to be so presumptuous?

I vaguely saw that the green tendons on the back of Jiang Zhuo's hand holding the handrail were exposed, obviously he was extremely patient, and he couldn't help but sweat for the kneeling officials - Kuang Xiqing would not kill him, it did not mean that Jiang Zhuo would not.

"King Ling, I want to hear your opinion." When I heard her call my name, I chuckled in my heart, and involuntarily stood up, looking up to meet her eyes.

My heart was pounding, as if it was about to pop out of my chest, and I could no longer hear any other sound in my ears or in my eyes, except for the earth-shattering heartbeat, only the faint amber halo in the pool of black ink, as if it was lamenting, and as if it was just staring at me.

How many times have I been intoxicated by such a focused gaze, as if I have the whole world, as if I am the whole world of the other person...... The weeping twelve beads finally cut me off from her and pulled me out of my inextricable intoxication, and then I was poured a basin of cold water on the head of reason, mercilessly warning the objective and cruel reality that she no longer belonged to me.

Besides, it was her choice.

All I can do is accept this qiē and stay away from her, even ...... Banished myself.

"Ben Wang...... Seconded. I heard my own calm voice sound, and as my words fell, the man's face suddenly changed, and there was a little pain in disbelief, even through the crown I could feel her instantly dim eyes - I felt a sudden pain in my heart, accompanied by a hint of revenge pleasure, after that pleasure, but ushered in a deeper pain, between a drink and a peck, the speed was doubled, the pain was doubled, the repeated torture almost taught me to breathe, I don't know if her injured eyes hurt a little more, It's still more painful to go against your will to agree with this decision.

After a long time, she snorted, and didn't care about the official who knelt on the ground, got up and shook her sleeves, and walked away: "That's it, this matter will be discussed later." ”

But he didn't look at me again.