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Two young widows, relatively gloomy, share a sense of dependence. "Lan'er!" The Queen Mother said unreservedly: "From now on, you and my sister will be destined for each other!" Sui is two years younger than you, but I entered the palace earlier than you, even if I am the elder. ”

"You and I will be the same tomorrow." The Queen Mother said.

"I brought Su Liu over this afternoon and asked him: What do you say about your title? When he replied to me, he had to ask the emperor to seal it himself. At that time, I was going to do this, and Su Liu said again, before Ming'er's funeral, the princes and ministers had arrived, and then let the emperor say it himself, so that it would be solemn. I think his words are not bad either! ”

When the Empress Dowager summoned the minister, according to the emperor's routine of summoning military aircraft, no eunuch was allowed to be present, so in this situation, Concubine Yigui was not able to get Li Lianying's report.

"Sister, we have to discuss. Now, Su Liu, they are talking to me, and they almost don't understand. I'm so anxious! ”

"This is Su Liu's treacherous place!" Concubine Yigui burst out of her teeth.

"He deliberately wanted his sister not to understand, so that he could be blinded by his thoughts."

"I'll show my sister a piece of evidence!"

Concubine Yigui said again: "For example, don't you pay attention to the funeral, isn't it the affairs of the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites?" Why do you pay tribute to the funeral minister, the official of the Ministry of Rites, there is no one? Isn't this a prestige and a deliberate exclusion? ”

Her words were really eloquent, so the Queen Mother kept nodding her head, thinking deeply. This metaphor made the Queen Mother shudder.

She hurriedly said: "I'm just here to discuss this with you, if you have any ideas, just say it!" ”

"I'll ask my sister to sue me first, what do you mean by the two seals given by Emperor Daxing?"

The Queen Mother thought for a while and said, "Your identity will be the same as mine, so only you and I will each have a seal."

"My sister saw it very much. However, give me the seal of 'Tongdaotang', I dare to say that Emperor Daxing's intention is to let my sister and sister govern the government together. ”

The Queen Mother nodded deeply: "That's right!" Younger sister. ”

Concubine Yigui further stipulated: "My sister's 'Imperial Reward' seal is stamped at the beginning, and my 'Tongdaotang' seal is stamped at the end. Two seals and one less will not work. Sister, do you think this can be done? ”

The Queen Mother thought for a while and asked, "What if Su Shun doesn't agree?" ”

Concubine Yigui thought of it a long time ago and said, "Sister, you just say that this is the will of Lord Xianfeng's deathbed, see which of them dares to disobey." ”

The Queen Mother thought about it, and there was no better way, and said, "Then let's take my sister's way." "The Queen Mother's intention has been fully achieved, and the hope of Concubine Yigui has also been fully achieved at this moment!

Bidding farewell to the Queen Mother, she had an indescribable excitement in her heart, trembling with excitement, she whispered to herself: "Queen Mother, I am only twenty-seven years old!" Alas, the days to come! ”

The richer you are, the more lonely you are! In the days to come, may the empty days be filled with power? She was thinking blankly.

The two palaces are respected, but they are not the same day, after all, Concubine Yigui was one day late before she was crowned the queen mother. Because she lives in the Xinuan Pavilion of Yanbo Zhishuang Palace, she is naturally called "Queen Mother of the West", sometimes referred to as "West", or "Xi'er Noodles". In this way, the other Queen Mother should be the East Queen Mother.

However, Su Shun could only belittle the "Queen Mother of the West" in terms of name, and could not bargain for a bargain in the actual handling of government affairs.

Sure enough, as the Empress Dowager of the West expected, when the two palaces proposed to use the seal as an edict and a method of passing the purpose. Su Shun strongly said that the two empress dowagers could only make seals and could not change the content of the edict.

Emperor Xianfeng's edict on the final arrangement of imperial power can be described as well-intentioned. However, Emperor Xianfeng did not leave any arrangement opinions on a series of issues such as the drafting, presentation, revision, and issuance of the edict.

When the names of the empress dowager of the two palaces and the eight ministers of state of Zanxiang were successively determined, the first thing to solve was how to determine the rights and responsibilities of the two sides and how to divide labor and cooperate. The Empress Dowager knew very well that the edict was a symbol of imperial power.

Whoever holds the power to formulate and promulgate the edict has the supreme power, the imperial power. She knows that Su Shun, who knows everything about the operation of the government, will not give up the ** and attempts to manipulate, and she must deal with it calmly.

On the third day after the death of Emperor Xianfeng, in order to restore the normal operation of the imperial court's administrative affairs, the two empress dowagers jointly summoned eight auxiliary ministers to discuss the formulation and issuance of edicts, the performance of sparse seals, and the appointment and dismissal of officials, and other most important matters. The eight ministers, headed by Su Shun, put forward the articles that had been prepared for a long time:

1. The Emperor's edict shall be drawn up by the Minister of Care; Second, the Queen Mother only cares about the seal and cannot change it; 3. The recitals of the ministers will not be submitted to the Queen Mother for reading. Fourth, the two palaces cannot be presented first.

It is necessary to do it in this way, and the two palaces listen to the government, which is not in name only.

Since the entry of the Qing Dynasty, edicts must be drafted or dictated by the emperor himself; After the recitals from all over the country arrived in Beijing, they were drafted by the cabinet and submitted to the emperor. The emperor will hand it over after approving each piece of Zhu, and the relevant departments will handle it.

This is the sacred and inviolable power of the emperor, and if his subordinates forge edicts or use the red pen to give instructions, they will be punished with the crime of raiding the house and destroying the door. Regarding the opinions of Su Shun and others, the Empress Dowager Xi saw at a glance that this was an extremely strict "infringement".