After a brief period of chaos, Weiyang Palace returned to solemnity and tranquility.

On the contrary, the Changle Palace, which seemed to have been sealed in the past period of time, ushered in an unprecedented 'prosperous' scene today.

——Han system, after the court, the courtiers and officials, without exception, all need to walk out from the east gate of Weiyang Palace and enter the Changle Palace to worship the Empress Dowager, in order to show the national policy of "governing the country with filial piety" of the Han Dynasty.

This is also the most fundamental reason for the Han two-palace system - through the invitation to say goodbye after the court meeting, the courtiers will make a brief summary report to the queen mother on the content of the court ceremony.

Based on this, the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty was able to 'see six ways and listen to all directions', maintain a basic understanding and control of the court situation, and ensure that the country's major policies would not be too out of the normal track.

For Zhang Yan, today is undoubtedly a day of special significance - after becoming the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Yan will usher in the official visit of courtiers and ministers for the first time.

As early as before dawn, before the courtiers and nobles entered the Weiyang Palace, and before the court meeting began, Zhang Yan had already gotten up from the couch and washed and changed clothes under the service of the palace maids and eunuchs.

At the age of twenty-two, accepting the worship of courtiers and hundreds of officials as the queen mother made Zhang Yan feel extremely nervous.

Naturally, Zhang Yan, who didn't like to dress up and decorate very much, didn't like to be lively very much, in order not to make a mistake on this day of great significance, she also packed up her clothes repeatedly - just the hairstyle, Zhang Yan repeatedly dismantled it four times!

Regardless of the folk, the hairstyle of Han women is generally loosely 'women's sideburns' tied at the back, with a hair curtain covering both ears and a small half of the cheeks.

In later parlance, it is to tie the hair near the ends of the hair with a thin rope, and comb the top of the head from the center to the sides.

Zhang Yan, who is married to a wife, should naturally also use this kind of 'women's sideburns' with the characteristics of the times as her daily hairstyle.

However, the identity of the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty made Zhang Yan unable to tie a simple woman's sideburns, but to coil her hair on the top of her head and decorate it with a hairpin.

And this hairstyle is commonly used in the folk to dress up as a grandmother...

Zhang Yan is twenty-two years old, although she is not too young before the Western Era, but at most she has just passed the most gorgeous years, and she is more than a little bit worse than the level of 'being a grandmother'.

How to choose between her immature age and the 'old dress' that the Empress Dowager Han should follow undoubtedly made Zhang Yan very sad.

In the end, it was Zhang Yan's favored eunuch, the new Changle Palace Dachangqiu Li Xin, who pointed out Zhang Yan's tangled mood in one sentence.

——The lord is now the queen mother of the Han Dynasty, and she should be the first queen mother to be the first to respect the etiquette of the queen mother.

With Li Xin's 'guidance and maze', Zhang Yan appeared on the high steps in front of the Yongshou Hall of Changle Palace in the current full set of queen mother clothes.

It stands to reason that Zhang Yangui is the queen mother, and there is no need to condescend to the dignity and walk out of the Yongshou Hall in person - Zhang Yan only needs to sit in the main hall and wait for the courtiers to come to pay respects.

But today, I'm afraid that no matter what, the courtiers and officials will not dare to step into the Yongshou Palace...

——The Son of Heaven was angry and attacked, and fainted when the court fainted!

This alone will make one of the courtiers and officials count as one, and they will all bear the infamy!

And the Queen Mother, as the mother of the Son of Heaven, no matter what means she uses to punish the vain ministers who make her precious son so angry that she faints, no one can find fault with it!

In the original history, Emperor Jing Liu Qi was critically ill, so he summoned Su Ji, the biological mother of the crown prince Liu Rong, to the sickbed, and explained bitterly: I'm afraid I can't do it, after I leave, the throne will be left to Rong'er, and the mother of the concubine will become the queen mother by virtue of her son, and she will become the queen mother, remember to be lenient with other princes and concubines...

After that, everyone knows: Su Ji is an old dog, and he forcibly extended the life of Emperor Jing Liu Qi for seven years!

After surviving the night and barely crawling off the sickbed on the second day, Emperor Jing Liu Qi ordered as soon as possible: Catch all the relatives of the Su family and go down to the court!

When the maternal relatives of the crown prince Liu Rong had not been arrested back to Tingwei, Emperor Jing ordered again: The concubine Su is sane and deaf, and she lives in a violent room!

The violent room is actually the synonym of the cold palace in the Han Dynasty.

The prince's biological mother was confined to a violent room, and just a few days later, she 'suddenly fell ill' and then died violently, which is undoubtedly a very obvious political signal.

Sure enough, but a few days later, Emperor Jing Liu Qi officially issued an edict: the prince has no virtue and cannot serve the temple, so he will remove the prince from the throne and be demoted to the king of Linjiang; Summoning the king of Jiaodong into the court!

When it was, the Empress Dowager Dou watched all this coldly, and watched Prince Liu Rong fall from the throne of the prince, roll out of Chang'an, and go to Linjiang to be the prince and king.

But a few years later, Liu Rong was summoned to Chang'an by Emperor Jing because of 'resentment', and was strangely 'scared to death' by the lieutenant General Zhidu, the originally gentle and rabbit-like Empress Dowager Dou suddenly burst into a rage, and Zhi was killed no matter what!

And the determination of Empress Dowager Dou to strongly request the execution of Zhidu, Emperor Jing Liu Qigui as the Son of Heaven is also helpless...

In the end, Liu Qi, the powerful son of heaven who brought the great contribution to quelling the Wu Chu Rebellion, failed to save Zhidu's life - even if Emperor Jing gave in to the extreme, deposed all official positions in Zhidu, and demoted him to a commoner, he could not make the angry Empress Dowager Dou dispel the resentment in her heart.

From this alone, we can see what kind of transcendent position the queen mother has in the political system of the Han dynasty - the monarch wants the minister to die, and the minister does not necessarily die; But if the Queen Mother wants you to die, you must die!

Not strictly speaking, even Zhang Yan, who is now 'alone' and has no power at all, if he insists on executing someone in the form of the Empress Dowager's decree, then Liu Hong and the Manchu Dynasty will have no choice.

- The edict of the Son of Heaven and the preparation of books, which may also need to be approved by the prime minister with a seal; But the Queen Mother's decree does not need anyone's approval at all!

For such a monstrous power, Zhang Yan can be described as trembling and restless.

At this time, there was another farce of 'the courtiers fainting the emperor', which made Zhang Yan, who had finally adapted to the identity of the queen mother, fall into an embarrassing situation of being at a loss again.

At this moment, the courtiers and ministers headed by the imperial historian Zhang Cang, without exception, all knelt on the square outside the Yongshou Palace; Zhang Yan stood at the high level with a pale face, not knowing how to deal with this matter.

- In the past, not to mention the gathering of courtiers and hundreds of officials, Zhang Yan had never even seen the scene of this number of ordinary people gathering.

Speaking of which, the last time Zhang Yan saw the ministers and officials gathered together was about ten years ago, when her husband Emperor Hui Liu Ying was there, Zhang Yan attended the grand ceremony at the beginning of the year as the queen.

For Zhang Yan, who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, is idle and indifferent, and has almost no knowledge of politics, this is undoubtedly a major challenge at this time.

Because the result of this matter is not only related to Zhang Yan's personal majesty of the queen mother, but also to the situation between the Han family and the ministers, and even the majesty of the Han family in the hearts of the courtiers and ministers!

Looking at the hundreds of kneeling figures in front of him, as well as the gorgeous hair of several important ministers who took off their hats to apologize, Zhang Yan secretly calmed down and let out a little breath, and a layer of anger slowly surged on her face.

"Where is the Prime Minister?"

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"Your Majesty's fainting this time is due to a rush of fire, and he has worked too hard before, and he has eaten irregularly, so the yin and yang are out of harmony..."

After saying a long list of professional terms that Liu Hong couldn't quite understand, and leaving a prescription, the medical officer withdrew from the greenhouse hall under the guidance of Wang Zhong, leaving Liu Hong alone on the couch, looking at the roof in a daze.

"It's time to recuperate..."

Sighing helplessly, Liu Hong recalled everything that happened in the court before he fainted.

- This time it's really not pretending, Liu Hong did faint!

Originally, Liu Hong really thought that relying on this hand to cry rats, Chen Ping's little remaining political prestige would be lost, and he would use 'fainting in anger' as the end of this Chang Dynasty.

But crying and crying, Liu Hong felt dizzy for no reason, and immediately fainted under the imperial steps.

This is no joke!

——In the feudal era when inheritance was determined by blood, Liu Hong, as the emperor, conveyed the message of 'not being healthy enough' several times when he had no heirs, which would have a very serious negative impact on the court situation!

Because once Liu Hong had an accident and did not leave an heir who was qualified to inherit, then according to the inheritance rules stipulated in the Zhou ceremony, the next emperor would be elected from among the existing Han princes and kings according to the principle of closest blood relationship under the public discussion of the court.

If Liu Hong has no heirs when he dies, then according to the inheritance rule of 'father dies and son replaces, brother dies and brother dies', the selection of the heir to the throne will be produced among the remaining heirs of Liu Hong's father, Emperor Hui Liu Yingshang.

This is also the reason why when Empress Lu died, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo did not hesitate to put a big hat on the heads of all Liu Ying's heirs, including Liu Hong.

If not, the throne will not be the turn of Liu Heng, the acting king who is the 'son of Liu Bang'.

Now, Liu Hong naturally let the conspiracy of 'not Emperor Hui' be shattered, if Liu Hong dies without a queen, the throne will be inherited by Liu Hong's half-brothers.

But even so, Liu Hong's body has repeatedly gone out of order, which will make the opportunists among the courtiers think that they should not move.

In history, when Emperor Wu ascended the throne and had no heirs for a long time, not to mention the courtiers and officials, even Tian Wei, the uncle of the pig master, reached the point where he hooked up with the princes and kings everywhere, and every time the princes said, 'As soon as the palace car is driven, the one who stands is not the king'!

As the Son of Heaven, the pig master was even more panicked, and he looked forward to God giving a son all day long, so as to appease the hearts of the courtiers and the political situation of the government and the opposition.

When Wei Zifu gave birth to the prince, the pig master was overjoyed, and since then he has revered the gods very much.

This is also the reason why Liu Ju was made the crown prince as soon as he was born, and the reason why the pig master was addicted to the way of ghosts and gods, which led to the scourge of witches and immortals, and why he was obsessed with immortality for ten thousand years.

This is enough to prove that in the feudal era with bloodline as the reference for the succession to the throne, the emperor has no queen, how much shock will the court situation fall into.

Especially at this point in time when Liu Hong was in, the princes and kings had not been cut off by Emperor Jing's strategy to cut off their claws, nor had they been completely dismembered by Emperor Wu's Tui'en order.

After a long time, it was inevitable that the princes and kings would pee on their stomachs, and they felt that they had won the mandate of heaven, and shouted that they wanted to get rid of the emperor's addiction, so they rebelled.

But as a later generation, whether it is out of objective cognition or subjective will, Liu Hong does not quite agree with the values of early marriage and early childbearing at this time.

——The negative impact of premature ejaculation on the body is almost a well-known 'secret' in later generations.

In his previous life, Liu Hong was just a university monk buried in the annals of history all day long, and he was not a person who had been in the bush for a long time, and he thought that he was not as good as Liu Shitahui.

Now that he is the emperor, Liu Hong almost has the absolute 'right of first choice'!

Under such circumstances, it was definitely not a good thing for Liu Hong to let this young body taste the forbidden fruit too early.

- Once Pandora's treasure box is opened, it can't be closed over there...

For emperors, especially those who are determined to make a difference, it is better to pass on the lineage as much as possible after adulthood, at least after the age of eighteen.

Only in this era of poor materials and backward medical care can we prolong our already short political life as much as possible, calmly fulfill our historical mission, and make arrangements and preparations for a smooth transition of political power in advance.

This makes Liu Hongdi's personal health, at least the health transmitted to the outside world, particularly important.

Even putting aside this political factor, Liu Hong did not want to be plagued by complicated diseases at the age of thirty or forty, which would affect the future political situation and the future plan tailored for the Han family.

Most of the toxins left in the body during the crossing have been removed under Zhang Cang's strict 'precautions', and he entered the palace almost every day to monitor Liu Hong and drink the bowl of black decoction.

Fainting unexpectedly today, there is a high probability that it is indeed as the doctor said: irregular diet and rest, reversal of day and night, and excessive use of the brain.

Well, maybe some hypoglycemia.

But it can't be helped, being an emperor is really tiring...

Just now, what Liu Hong has to think about is far more than the preparation of future generations of students for the college entrance examination!

- Mao Dun is idle and Liu Hongbiao's acting skills, Liu Hong has to think about the reasons, the stakes, plan armaments, and solve the problem of military food shortage in the border areas, right?

——The affairs of the princes, Liu Xin, the Marquis of Tangjie, who was named the King of Yan, is about to enter the country, Liu Hong should take into account the factors of border defense, and equip Liu Xin with the right king, Wang Taifu, Neishi, and lieutenant, right?

——The princes of King Hui said 'dare not be sealed', and secretly stared at the court about 'mourning the sons of King Hui as kings', Liu Hong also had to plan and weigh it, right?

Coupled with factors such as the poverty of the country, the hardship of the people, and the backwardness of armaments, Liu Hong is waiting to plan the layout one by one and try to solve it in the shortest possible time.

While doing all this, Liu Hong must always guard against Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others, and will not reap the benefits from his own measures, so as to reverse the pattern of struggle between the two sides...

If there is a chance to return to the next generation, Liu Hong really wants to scold: Who said that being an emperor is very cool?!!

Obviously tired, okay!!

Secretly sneering to himself, he saw that Wang Zhong had returned to the greenhouse hall, and when he saw Liu Hong trying to get up, he hurriedly trotted over and helped Liu Hong sit up.

"Courtiers and officials, but they all went to worship the Empress Dowager?"

Listening to Liu Hong's non-morbid tone, Wang Zhong's worry retreated slightly, and he replied in a low voice: "However, after Your Majesty suddenly fainted, Wei Wei Insect Gong personally took His Majesty back to the back hall, and the Imperial Historian Zhang Gong took the pulse of His Majesty, and after knowing that His Majesty was fine, they all went to Changle..."

"The prime minister, the captain, and the internal history are also there?"

Liu Hong asked abruptly, causing Wang Zhong to be stunned for a moment, and his eyes immediately surged with clarity.

"Your Majesty fainted for a moment, and the prime minister also vomited blood and fell to the ground, and at this time he was taken back to the mansion."

"The queen doctor returned: the prime minister is so angry that he is afraid that he will lie on the couch for dozens of days..."

Hearing this, Liu Hong nodded slightly, and stood up from the couch with an indifferent face.

"Changing clothes."

"Drive Changle Palace!"

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