On November 15, Cui Yi ascended the throne as emperor and established the name Chengguang.

After a series of complicated ceremonies such as worshipping the heavens and ancestors, the holy car returned to the palace and announced the first edict in front of the golden hall of Wansheng Palace.

The civil and military officials in front of the palace knelt on the ground, and Du Zhenquan unfolded the holy decree to read, posthumously crowning Cui Yi's biological mother Empress Xiaolian Zhong as the Empress Dowager of Dezhao Filial Piety, Concubine Heqing as Concubine Heqinggui, and the eldest son Cui Hao as the prince, and the eldest daughter Cui Xian as the princess of Changning.

Restore the title of the seventh brother King Jing, return the confiscated property in the past, and his wife Rong remarried without a letter of resignation, stripped him of the position of the wife of the three grades, and was demoted to the common people, and his parents and brothers sat together, and the Rong family was never allowed to enter the court as an official.

Zhong Yuanshan's father and son supported meritorious service, and named Zhong Yuanshan as the Marquis of Jiangzhou, hereditary first-class duke, the second son Feng Viscount, and his daughter Zhong Luhuan Feng Yan and the county lord.

The text is headed by Bailizan, and all the people in the former martial king camp led by Cao Qian have been rewarded to varying degrees, and even the late Cheng Hu has been posthumously awarded the title of Wenxin Hou because of his "meritorious service", and his daughter Cheng Fengyi went to the princess as a princess, and now she has completed the mission and returned to her homeland, and she was crowned as the eldest princess of Yuanhui, and gave a number of gold, silver, jewelry, and good land mansions.

No one has any objections to everything up to this point, but when Du Zhenquan finished reading the holy decree and Cui Yi stood up and said a word, the whole scene boiled in an instant.

Cui Yi asked: "If I insist on establishing the eldest grandson as the queen, what is the intention of the Qing family?" ”

The more than 100 civil and military generals who knelt down—except for Bailizan and others—shouted almost in unison: "The ministers implore the emperor to think twice!" ”

Cui Yi rolled his eyes at the sky.

Zhongshu Provincial Shangshu straightened up, held the wat board with both hands and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the emperor is the eldest son of Emperor Jingzong, the eldest son of Emperor Jingzong, and he is a true dragon son who deserves his name. But the eldest grandson is the daughter of the criminal minister Changsun Tai, although he and the emperor are a husband and wife in distress, and they are deeply gracious, but the eldest grandson Tai and the first emperor conspired to kill the emperor's heirs, kill their siblings, and deceive the king, which is a capital crime! If the emperor wants to make the daughter of a criminal minister the queen, how can he not forgive the eldest grandson? And once the eldest grandson Tai is spared, it is equivalent to opening a precedent for bullying the king and being innocent and honorable because of the woman, not only in the emperor's name, but also in case future generations scramble to follow suit, there is no fear, at that time, the monarch and the ministers are different, the country is turbulent, and the great Chu Jiangshan society is in danger! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the kneeling ministers shouted in unison: "Please think twice, the emperor!" "It's as neat as it has been rehearsed.

Cui Yi didn't say a word for a long time, and Cao Qian couldn't help but whisper to Bailizan on the other side: "Sir, why doesn't the emperor speak?" ”

Bailizan couldn't help but smile and endure the internal injury, and replied with a sigh of relief: "The emperor didn't understand it too much...... but it's okay, anyway, he has already written what to say in advance, and he memorized it seriously for Cui Yi.

It is unknown whether Cui Yi completely understood Lao Shangshu's words, but he must have understood the core meaning.

"So what Lord Zhao means is that if I make the Changsun clan the queen, you will lead everyone to rebel, right?" Cui Yi asked slowly.

Zhao Shangshu was shocked, and hurriedly fell to the ground: "The old minister doesn't dare!" ”

Cui Yi sneered and asked rhetorically: "Don't dare?" What are you literati not afraid to do? When the first emperor was still the crown prince, if you hadn't colluded with him and deceived my father, how could I be easily exiled to Yanzhou? Until last year, when I went to war with the first emperor in Xuanzhou, you still aided and abetted the abuse, and used all the good literary talents to write the essays against me! When the country changes hands and the dynasty changes, you will rush to criticize and ask the emperor for his crimes. One by one, swaying with the wind like grass on the wall, seeing the wind making the rudder, only his own high-ranking officials in his eyes are Houlu, have they ever made a serious contribution to the Jiangshan Sheji of Dachu? ”

His voice was extremely loud, with an erection of anger, and it was transmitted dozens of feet away, echoing in the sky above the Golden Palace.

The ministers fell to the ground in panic: "The ministers are waiting for ten thousand deaths!" ”

"And the eldest grandson, when I was in trouble, she never gave up, Yandi was bitterly cold, she led 20,000 Yanzhou soldiers to produce, farm, work hard, and recuperate, which is why I have the glory of today's dragon robe and the ninth five!"

Cui Yi coldly glanced at the group of people kneeling in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "When I first entered the capital, the eldest grandson admonished me to be tolerant and generous to you, meritocracy is useful, but what about you?!" But you are aggressive and unforgiving! You are all dignified seven-foot men, shouldering the major affairs of the court, the safety of the society, you should be broad-minded and tolerant of all rivers, but you are all small-bellied chicken intestines, and there is no room for elegance! ”

The civil and military ministers represented by Zhao Shangshu were all sweating profusely, and they were so ashamed that they couldn't raise their heads.

"Even people like you who can't understand the ancients can be forgiven, and the energy is applicable, the eldest grandson is the first hero of my ascension to the throne, my wife, but why can't even the queen do it!"

At this time, a person in front of the hall raised his head and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the eldest grandson was not the emperor's wife in the past, but a concubine. ”

Cui Yi was instantly furious: "You are so bold! ”

The man raised his head and said without humility or arrogance: "The minister is the head of the officials, the upper can talk about the family affairs of the Son of Heaven, and the lower can blame the hundred officials for failing to perform their duties, stand firm, act rightly, fearless, if the emperor wants to condemn the crime, it is not a pity for the minister to die, but I am afraid that future generations will pass on the emperor's stubbornness and self-use, not listening to people's words, and it will be too late to regret it at that time." ”

Cui Yi was so angry that he couldn't order this person to be dragged out and cut down, otherwise this saint would kill the official as soon as he ascended the throne, and he was afraid that it would become a handle for Cui Jie's comeback, and it would be a big loss.

Fortunately, another official spoke: "Although the Xie family is the concubine, the Xie family is also a supporter of the first emperor, and there are no heirs. ”

Unexpectedly, the speaker immediately said: "Since the Xie family died early, and the emperor favored the eldest grandson family, why didn't he appoint the eldest grandson family as the concubine in the first place?" ”

Now the official had nothing to say. It is true, if the wife dies early, and there is a well-behaved concubine in the room, it stands to reason that it can be corrected, but Cui Yi did not do this, and at this moment was pointed out by the official, and no one could argue for him anymore.

Cui Yi puffed out a pair of buffalo eyes, and was stunned for a long time without holding back a word. He admitted that this was indeed his own negligence for a long time, after Xie Yuchan's death, Zhiying was the master of the palace alone, although she was a concubine, but everyone regarded her as the main mother, and did not dare to be disrespectful, and Zhiying didn't seem to care about the name, and never mentioned it......

Well, this kind of thing shouldn't have been mentioned by a woman, Cui Yi really wanted to slap herself.

There was a dead silence in front of the Golden Palace, Cui Yi wanted to strangle the people below, and also wanted to strangle himself, when he thought that the matter in front of the Golden Palace would be transmitted to Yaohua Palace later, and he was heard by Zhiying, maybe he would be too careful, thinking that he really never wanted her to be his wife and queen, then it was over!

Regarding the matter of making him the queen, Cui Yi didn't expect to be so stumbling at first, in his tenacious head, he thought that no one would oppose him to establish Zhiying as the queen, or Bailizan had the foresight, and persuaded him to reveal this meaning to the ministers in the court first, and see what everyone meant, and sure enough, everyone disagreed, for various reasons, but they couldn't jump out of the starting point of "Changsun Zhiying is the daughter of Changsun Tai, how can the daughter of the criminal minister be the queen".

Cui Yi insisted on going his own way, and the ministers advised to the death, and the tug-of-war lasted for two months, and even Zhiying bumped into the scene of several ministers waiting outside the imperial study to admonish. Like all men, Cui Yi didn't want Zhiying to be bothered by such a senseless thing, so he wanted to secretly solve the problem by himself and directly named her queen, but who knew that until the day he ascended the throne, the ministers still didn't agree, and he was so angry.

"Your Majesty, the minister has an idea." Bailizan saw that Cui Yi's face was purple, and he would faint at any time, and finally found out with his conscience and came forward to solve the siege.

Cui Yi took a deep breath and ordered: "Say." ”

Bailizan arched his hand and said: "Your colleagues think that the eldest grandson is not suitable to be established as the queen, it is nothing more than because the queen's mother is the world, and the background must be clean, the eldest grandson family and the Xie family are both supporters of the first emperor, and it stands to reason that they cannot be crowned queens, but the emperor is kind-hearted and blesses the world, how can he be harsh on his wife and concubine because of his father and brother's fault?" ”

Cui Yi listened impatiently, grinding his back molars: "What do you want to say?" ”

"The minister thinks that the Xie family is also sincere to the emperor during his lifetime, and now that the person is gone, the emperor may wish to posthumously crown the Xie family as the queen, and then seal the eldest grandson as the imperial concubine, acting for the queen power, and ruling the six palaces, in this way, it not only reflects the emperor's broad mind, but also cares about the old feelings, and no longer needs to worry about the queen's choice, the position of the imperial concubine is equivalent to the deputy queen, and the eldest grandson acts on behalf of the queen, which is the nameless queen, and there is no difference from the past when he was in the palace. What does the emperor think? After Bailizan finished speaking, he bowed to the end.

As early as in the process of his statement, the kneeling civil and military officials were already in an uproar, but until he finished speaking, no one could stand up to refute it.

Bailizan's words are indeed the most suitable arrangement at the moment, if it is said that regardless of the fault of his father's guilt, then Xie Yuchan must also be forgiven. Posthumously sealed Xie Yuchan, and then vacated the posterior position, and Zhiying acted as the queen in the name of the imperial concubine, which not only avoided the embarrassment of the queen's misbirth, but also gave Zhiying the highest status in the harem, and there were no two honors.

Cui Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief, scolded Bailizan thousands of times in his stomach, and was angry that he didn't say it earlier.

"Do you still have any objections?"

"The ministers don't dare."

Cui Yi nodded with satisfaction and sat in the dragon chair: "Just do what the young master wants." ”

An hour later.

"I'm a queen, so it's okay if I don't do it, anyway, I expected it to be like this early on." After listening to Cui Yi's relay, Zhiying said very freely that she didn't mind.

Cui Yi still felt sorry for her, took her hand and said earnestly: "I have wronged you now, but in the future, I will definitely find an opportunity for you to be the queen justifiably." ”

Zhi Yingwan smiled and said, "Grievance? If you really want to talk about grievances, you have been wronged for four or five years, and you are still short of a while and a half? As long as I don't feel wronged, no one can wronged me, the words of the officials are right, no matter how you get rid of the relationship, my father is always my father, he is the arm of the first emperor, the emperor does not have to lose the heart of his subjects for me, and the imperial concubine is also very good. ”

Cui Yi thought for a while, and then said: "Either I abdicate and the emperor asks Hao'er to do it?" In this way, you are the queen mother. ”

Zhiying laughed and laughed, and stuffed a winter date to block his mouth: "Don't talk nonsense, Hao'er is not yet a year old, and he can't stand steadily, what kind of emperor are you, you have this spare time to think about this, it's better to be your emperor, don't run to me if you have nothing to do, and those officials think that you are not diligent in government, and you are going to talk about me again." ”

Cui Yi suddenly felt bored, smacked his lips and sighed: "When I became the emperor, I was not as happy as before, alas! ”