Guangxu walked out of the curtain, and did not hear the usual voice of asking for long live, but saw that all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked at him, and Guangxu understood that there was no one behind him. On the way to Shangchao, Guangxu has been holding Zao'er's hand, but he didn't follow without leading anyone.

Guangxu turned his head and turned into the curtain, took Yang Zao'er's hand affectionately and said, "When it comes to the matter, you need to be bold." Since it is inevitable to go through this experience, what is there to fear? As a husband, you should block all the wind and rain for your wife, and you can just follow me. You are already the Empress of the Qing Dynasty, you have to believe in yourself". ”

Yang Zao'er broke free of Guangxu's hand, blushed and said, "I'll just follow." ”

Guangxu smiled, but still stepped forward to take Yang Zao'er's hand and said, "What's so embarrassing." I'm holding my wife's hand and getting in someone's way. Whoever dares to gossip, I'll beat him in a fart suit. ”

Guangxu just took Yang Zao'er with one hand and turned out from behind the curtain. There are not many people who have seen Yang Zao'er, but the emperor holding a woman's hand is already very telling.

"Long live the ministers, long live my emperor, long live, long live." did not say to knock on the queen, because according to the procedure, it was necessary to wait for the emperor to announce the future in person.

"It's all excused." After Guangxu finished speaking, he waited for the ministers to stand up and said, "There are also many people around me who know each other. I'm here to reintroduce you to you. She, Yang Zao'er, a Han Chinese, is currently a teacher in the Department of Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University. But from this moment on, she Yang Zao'er has one more identity, that is, she is still the queen of the Qing Kingdom. Don't raise the flag, don't wear full clothes, and honor the world as a Han girl. ”

"The ministers knocked on the queen's mother Chitose, Chitose. Chichitose. Ministers congratulate the emperor and queen on their 100 years of good ......"

In a congratulatory voice, the discordant words came: "The minister has to play." ”

"Shiduo, do you want to talk about the ancestral system? That's not to say. I dared to take the Han Empress to the court, but I didn't take the ancestral system seriously. The Queen Mother has no opinions, do you have any opinions. If it is government affairs, it will be slowed down today. After a while, I will take the queen to the Summer Palace to greet the queen mother of the two palaces. ”

"Your Majesty—" Shi Duo said with a whimper, "Has the Emperor forgotten the Seven Hatreds of Grandpa?" The non-intermarriage between the Manchus and the Han is the ancestral system set by the great grandfather......"

"Shut up!" You mention the seven hatreds in front of eighty percent of the Han ministers, this is to provoke the dispute between the Manchus and the Hans, and you Shiduo are going to make my court fall apart. Guangxu was furious: "I not only want to set up the Han girl Zao'er as the queen, but also the queen's ceremony at the big wedding will be carried out according to the former Ming queen's ceremony." In the future, she will give birth to a son, and I will be the crown prince in order to inherit the throne. Tell you that my crown prince will only marry a Han girl as the crown princess. If you're not satisfied, then hand in your resignation and get out. ”

Guangxu is really in a hurry, if he lets Shiduo continue to make trouble like this, the world will have to be in chaos. was forced to this one, and he could only appease Han Chen's heart first. Li Hongzhang and other Hanchen heard the emperor say this, but their eyes lit up. Although the Qing Dynasty at this time was still a Manchu emperor, in fact. The members of the imperial court and the army were mainly Han Chinese. As a Han Chinese, Li Hongzhang has been working to let Han people set foot in the court since the Beiyang period, but he can only proceed slowly under the pressure of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Since Guangxu came to power, he has begun to reuse Hanchen since the emperor, and even made him, a Han man, the prime minister, and the actual status of ordinary Han people has been on an equal footing with the Manchurians. Now that the emperor is saying that he wants to make the son of the Han girl the crown prince, and the princess is also a Han girl, if the prince's prince makes the Han girl the queen again, then the imperial bloodline has little to do with the Manchus. Since the emperor agreed to marry the queen according to the former Ming and Han rites. Teaching the crown prince Han etiquette is also a natural thing, and if it continues to be taught for a few more generations, plus the queen will add fuel to the fire, as long as he thinks about the selection of the prince's master. If the crown prince can only learn Han etiquette, will the future emperor completely become a Han Chinese?

Since Guangxu completely abolished the daily kneeling ceremony on the grounds that "the knee bend is used for walking", but the big gift at this court meeting was persuaded by the ministers. Ministers all believed that kneeling to the emperor since ancient times was a sign of loyalty. The emperor is benevolent, but he still follows this etiquette in this court.

Li Hongzhang was naturally the first to kneel again. This time it was a great gift to the queen: "The ministers wish the queen the mother to give birth to a dragon heir as soon as possible, so as to determine the hearts of the people of the country." Li Hongzhang finished speaking. The other ministers also knelt down and saluted. Only the Manchu ministers led by Shi Duo were still crying and shouting, and Guangxu was angry and let the guards drag him down.

Yang Zao'er had never seen the Great Dynasty Meeting, and she never imagined that the Great Dynasty Meeting would have such a change. Frightened, he hid behind Guangxu with a white face, trembling all over, holding one of Guangxu's hands tightly, not daring to let go.

After Guangxu waited for Shiduo and the others to be dragged out, he gently patted Yang Zao'er's hand and said softly: "Don't be afraid, even if the sky falls, I, a tall man, will also help you carry it." You have to believe your husband, not to mention that he is still an emperor of his word. Guangxu pulled Yang Zao'er in front of him, pointed to the ministers kneeling under the stage and said: "These ministers are saluting you, the queen, and it is time for you, the queen, to show favor to them and let them be exempted." Don't be afraid, as long as you remember that you are the queen. ”

Yang Zao'er must have been born in a small family, where has she ever seen such a world. Although the ministers in the audience have not yet reached the point where the rise and fall of the world can be determined in one word, they are all characters who stomp their feet and tremble in the world. Although Yang Zaoer is the queen's honor, she has no insight to match. Even if he was pulled in front of him by Guangxu, he still hesitated and didn't dare to speak. Guangxu could only: "Don't be afraid, follow me." Zhongqing is flat. ”

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Tossed back and forth a few times, Yang Zao'er still couldn't say the panicked voice. Her still trembling words indicated that she could not adjust to the scene for a moment.

Guangxu smiled: "Okay, when the queen first arrived in the court, she didn't learn the relevant etiquette, so forgive me." The Ministry of Rites immediately started the wedding ceremony, and the queen's side drafted it according to the ceremony before and after the Ming Dynasty. That's it for today. Let's retreat. ”

"Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the queen-" Li Hongzhang stood up, stretched out one hand behind him and shook it gently. Signaled the ministers to have this and not to play at today's court meeting.

The emperor and queen went out of Zhonghai and got into the official car of the State Council and went straight to the Summer Palace. When the emperor was far away, Wang Shizhen came to Li Hongzhang: "My lord." The Japanese fleet has been assembled, when will this matter be reported to Your Majesty? ”

"Even if the Japanese fleet returns home. Isn't there already a countermeasure for the imperial court? Li Hongzhang looked at the back of the distant emperor and queen, and said with a meaningful smile: "Since this is the case." And why rush for a while. Let's go back first. ”

Guangxu personally drove Yang Zao'er to the Summer Palace, and the car drove unfast. But before the two of them entered the Summer Palace, they heard someone crying from a distance, and the voice was really sad.

"Say hello to the two queen mothers." The emperor and queen saluted the queen mother of the two palaces when they entered the palace. After Li Bi Guangxu's words were cold, he said to Shi Duo, who was kneeling and crying: "Shi Duo, you told the ministers in front of all the Han ministers in the court about the seven hatreds of Taizu, do you think the life of the Qing Dynasty is too long. ”

Shi Duo relied on this in front of the queen mother of the two palaces, so he didn't care: "Since the emperor was in power, the government has been changeable. First, he was appointed as the prime minister with the power of prime minister, and then abolished the six Manchu and Han ministers. Does the ancestor become the emperor still in his eyes? Now the emperor is even more married to the Han girl. He also abandoned the ancestral law like a clog. The emperor acted so arbitrarily, how could he face the ancestors and ancestors. ”

Shidor is talking about righteous indignation, a picture of justice and justice in the world. Guangxu waved his hand to let all the attendants retreat, but suddenly laughed: "Since Prince Li wants to tell me about this ancestral law, then okay, I will talk to you." In the final analysis, I am not the first to violate the laws of our ancestors, the first one who does not abide by the laws of our ancestors is Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Qing Dynasty. If you think about it, Emperor Taizu's father was originally the commander of the left guard of Jianzhou in the former Ming Dynasty. This was personally sealed by the former Ming court. Why don't you ask Emperor Taizu why he abandoned his ancestors and betrayed the former Ming court? ”

"Presumptuous." It was not Cixi who started the case, but Cihui: "The emperor slandered the ancestors like this, but did it for the son of man?" ”

"It's not on Erchen, what Erchen said is true. If you want to blame it, blame our Prince Li, who has to talk to me about this ancestral law. I can't say that Grandpa Tai jumped out of the crack in the stone. I made it very clear to the two empress dowagers whether the Manchus could continue to rule the world. It depends on whether the Manchurian himself has any potential. If the Manchurians were all fools like Shiduo, it would be strange that the Qing Dynasty would not die. ”

"Hey-" Cixi, who was sitting on the side, sighed and said faintly, "Now is not the time for Taizu. The times are different, and it's time for this ancestral law to change. But Your Majesty, will it really work to change like this? ”

"I don't know. But what is certain is that if you don't change, you must die. Do your best and obey the destiny of God. ”

"The queen mother can't-" Shi Duo still knelt on the ground and cried and begged: "The emperor really likes this Han girl and makes her a favorite concubine." But the queen mother didn't know that this morning the emperor set up this Han girl as the queen in front of all the ministers, and also made an order on the spot to make the son of the Han girl the prince, and wanted the prince to marry the Han girl as the queen. The emperor so wantonly changed the law of the ancestors, in the long run, can this Qing Dynasty still be my Manchurian Qing Dynasty? The slave asks the Queen Mother to call the shots-"

In front of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, Guangxu spread his hands and made it clear for the Queen Mother to look at it. Cixi did not speak, she knew that what the emperor said was the truth. When she was in power, the strength of the Han people was already overwhelming, and she had to maintain a stable situation through multiple checks and balances. If there are no foreigners to commit, then her set is feasible. But a Sino-Japanese battle made the decline of the Qing Dynasty immediately apparent. If it weren't for the emperor's efforts to turn the tide, the current early morning would have been divided by foreigners. And the emperor's use of Hanchen is just a plan to revitalize the country. Otherwise, just like when Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty did not have military salaries, he asked his father-in-law and ministers to borrow money, but none of those people borrowed. They forget that their wealth was built on the basis of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, after the Qing Dynasty entered the city, the Ming Dynasty was gone, and no matter how much wealth these people had, they were exterminated and became the Qing Dynasty. He Cixi understood that, as the emperor said, if you want to keep this Manchurian world, you must first keep this world. Cixi hesitated and didn't know what to say.

Cihui was angry, and really asked the emperor to appoint the son of the Han girl to pay back the prince. But she couldn't say it head-on, so she could only turn a corner and say: "The emperor agreed to marry a Han girl as a mourning family, what Shi Duo said is not completely unreasonable, the emperor can't marry only one queen." This royal family is talking about having many sons and blessings. This matter is still up to the mourning family, and the mourning family chose to be the emperor's concubine. ”

"Then I can only let her go, I will kill the concubine on the first night she enters the palace. In this way, I don't know if Eniang can still choose a concubine. Don't doubt it, I can't count the people I've killed myself, and I don't care if there are one or two more. "Guangxu said very ruthlessly. But the moment he turned his head, his face changed again: "Don't pull my clothes anymore, if they are torn, they will be replaced with new ones." It's very expensive, and we have to pay for it ourselves. ”

"Don't quarrel with E-Niang anymore. I...... I'd better go—" Yang Zao'er lowered her head and cried in a low voice.

"You're my wife. I'll get you back wherever you go. Guangxu only comforted Yang Zao'er softly, turned his head and glared at Shi Duo and said coldly: "Shi Duo, you have one more crime, instigating the relationship between the emperor and the queen and the queen mother. You are in charge of the Criminal Department, tell me what kind of crime this should be and what crime should be sentenced? ”

"The emperor acted recklessly regardless of the laws of his ancestors, and after the emperor was established, he had no great gifts, no sacrifices to heaven and earth and sheji, and no golden books to rely on, how could Yang Zaoer be my queen of the Qing Dynasty. The slave was dragged out of the court meeting by the emperor just according to the truth, what is the crime of the slave? ”

"I just need to think you're instigating. Does this need proof? Shidor, you are the Prince of Iron Hat, but do you know that the soldiers in the army now have hats, or steel hats, which are much more secure than your iron hats. But the steel hat can't stop the bullet from shooting at close range, and it's also a shot and a hole. I really want to kill you in front of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, do you think anyone can really stop you? This time, I don't care about you in front of the Queen Mother of the West, but you think clearly before you speak, I am not a big-hearted person. ”

"Shi Duo - he is the emperor. If you want to make whoever is the queen and who is the crown prince, it is the emperor's business, and you as a slave should not say anything. Cixi interrupted Shi Duo, who was just talking, and this was probably her last confidant. The emperor was right, the emperor really wanted to kill Shiduo in front of her. She couldn't do anything about it. Cixi patted the hand that was still on the table when she was angry: "Sister, don't worry, the emperor is a newlywed Yan'er, where can he listen to so much, and it will be good to wait for the queen to be pregnant in a few days." "Between words. Cixi showed Cihui an expression that you also understand.

The queen is pregnant, and she can't serve people for ten months, and the emperor can't hold back ten months of mercy and doesn't look at it. Although the emperor endured it for four years before. That is also the fall of power, internal and external troubles. Now the emperor is in power. Isn't it because there are no women that they are getting angry? When the queen is pregnant, it will be easy to take a concubine for the emperor at that time.

Of course Cihui understood, so she nodded: "Shiduo, now the situation in the world has reached the point where the ancestors have become the law and not changed, but how to change it, what it will become, this is still up to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces." Yang Zaoer's status as the queen is recognized by both her sister and the mourning family, so don't talk too much. Stand down—"

Shi Duo looked up at Cixi and nodded, but could only retreat helplessly.

"Okay, stop crying. You see that the makeup on your face is spent, and it is not beautiful. Guangxu comforted Yang Zao'er softly, and gently wiped away the tears that flowed for her. After a long time, although Yang Zao'er stopped crying, she still looked aggrieved, no matter how Guangxu persuaded her, she couldn't make Yang Zao'er burst into laughter. Guangxu just kept comforting Yang Zao'er and ignored the two queen mothers sitting on top. The whole room was extremely awkward.

Shi Duo is afraid that he will not be able to keep it, but if he continues like this, he is afraid that there will be no Manchu ministers in the Manchu Dynasty. Cixi knew how to liven up the atmosphere, so she said in an envious tone: "Your Majesty, you are in front of two lonely old women, and you are going to give us two old ladies eye medicine." Look at the emperor's kindness to the queen, it's really enviable. ”

Guangxu turned around and said, "That's necessary." My daughter-in-law, I don't hurt who hurts. That's right, jujube. ”

That's it, Yang Zao'er just showed a little smile. On the stage, Cixi gently patted Cihui's hand and motioned for her to say a few words as well. Cihui glanced at Cixi, then walked down and said, "Zao'er, you are the queen of the mourning family and your sister, and that is decided." We'll make up for it later. Don't care what the ministers say, this ancestral law is still up to the mourning family. Come and come, accompany the mourning family to go out. ”

Cihui took Yang Zao'er's hand and walked out, and Cixi also followed and walked aside. Seeing this, Guangxu could only follow step by step.

"Zao'er, today you have heard about the matter of the early dynasty, the mourning family has heard about it, you can't do it. No matter how much the emperor spoils you, you must already be the queen of the Qing Dynasty, and this etiquette is still indispensable. After a while, the mourning family will find a grandmother to teach you well. ”

"No need." Guangxu, who followed behind, said to stop: "What can you teach, it's not just a straight face all day long, showing the so-called queen majesty with an expressionless face." Zao'er, you are not allowed to learn. ”

Cihui turned her head and glared at Guangxu, and said to Yang Zao'er: "What does the queen mean?" ”

What else can it mean, Yang Zao'er said after giving a squatting salute: "The daughter-in-law is all up to the Queen Mother." ”

"Look, Zao'er looks like a good woman who is reasonable and polite. Come and walk around this garden with the mourning family. (To be continued......)