Before the sky was dark, Hongling, Qingque and others held a complete set of queen services and waited respectfully at the door of the apse. Shen Ninghua didn't sleep much peacefully all night, and opened his eyes when he heard the footsteps at the door.

"Queen Mother, it's time to get up."

"Come in."

A group of palace maids rushed in under the leadership of Hongling and Qingque. Shen Ninghua was served to wash her face and finish her makeup, and put the tedious queen service on her body one by one.

Hongling helped Shen Ninghua tidy up her skirt and cuffs, and Qingque brought porridge over: "Niangniang, you can use some porridge, it will take a long time to go to the early court later." ”

Shen Ninghua nodded, and quietly used most of the bowl of porridge. There was silence in the apse, and Qingque and Hongling were even more nervous, as if the nerves in their whole body were tensed. Shen Ninghua put down the bowl, glanced at the two of them, smiled slightly, and did not speak. When an attendant came to the door to spread the word that it was time, she got up and walked to the Chengqian Palace.

In the Chengqian Palace, the civil and military officials stand on both sides, and the noisy and noisy in the hall is very noisy, and many people look in the direction of the palace gate from time to time, just waiting for the newly appointed queen mother to appear. Many people even began to speculate maliciously about what the queen would be like in the face of them later, and they obeyed Baili Junyi's instructions well, but in the face of a queen, they really didn't pay attention to it.

The officials who were newly promoted by Baili Junyi are different, they are all loyal to the emperor's party, although they do not agree with the queen's actions to supervise the country, but since it is Baili Junyi's will, they will resolutely implement it, and if the queen can't hold it later, they will definitely do their best to protect the queen's face and not let the situation in the court get out of control.

"The Queen Mother has arrived!" The long-awaited voice finally sounded, and the originally noisy hall was instantly silent, and a pressure spread silently, making the new officials stare at the old courtiers with more and more unkind faces for a while, they were deliberately embarrassing the queen.

Shen Ninghua, who was dressed as the queen's orthodox service, appeared on the main hall, she walked up the high steps step by step through the emperor's special royal road, and the gorgeous phoenix robe was dragged on the ground charmingly, rolling with her brilliance as she walked, and then she slowly sat on the dragon chair.

"See the queen's mother, the mother is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old."

Shen Ninghua swept over the ministers in the hall, in fact, she had been standing next to her for a while just now, and naturally knew that the momentary change from noise to silence in the hall was even more transparent to the minds of some courtiers. ”

"Thank you, Queen Mother."

Many ministers secretly looked at Shen Ninghua and found that she sat directly on the throne belonging to the emperor, and they were immediately dissatisfied. The official Qiu Ming immediately stood up: "Queen Mother, the emperor has decreed that you should supervise the country, but you are the queen, even if you have the right to supervise the country, you should not sit on the emperor's dragon chair, this move is really disrespectful to the emperor." ”

As soon as these words came out, the following immediately echoed: "Yes, what Master Qiu said is reasonable." ”

"The queen's actions are inappropriate."

Shen Ninghua continued to sit indifferently, coldly watching the courtiers below arguing.

The newly promoted officials saw that the old ministers were arguing excessively, so they naturally couldn't sit idly by, and many people immediately joined the battle group:

"Lord Qiu's words are not right, the emperor personally issued a holy decree to hand over the power of supervising the country to the queen's mother, not to mention, the queen's mother is the emperor's wife, and when she is in charge of supervising the country, she is naturally qualified to sit on the dragon chair, even if the emperor is present, he will not care, is Lord Qiu too lenient?"

"Yes, Niangniang has a different identity now, and it is understandable to sit on the dragon chair."

After about a quarter of an hour, the scene below became more and more noisy, and many courtiers waited for Shen Ninghua's reaction to see how she would end.

The hall was boiling, and the faces of the new courtiers became more and more embarrassed, and it was only at this time that they suddenly realized that Lord Qiu had picked a big and small question, in order to make them quarrel, and now no one has stopped talking, and the queen mother is afraid that no one can hear it, if this scene cannot be suppressed, then the situation will be more difficult to control in the future.

Shen Ninghua listened to their quarrel and quarrel enough, and raised her hand slightly: "Someone!" ”

Her voice was not loud, and many people did not hear it because the temple was so noisy. Naturally, Lord Qiu and the others, who were the first to make trouble, always paid attention to Shen Ninghua, and naturally heard and saw her movements, but they pretended not to hear it with malice in their hearts, and continued to speak loudly, waiting for the moment when she would lose face.

"In!"

Suddenly, a loud echo sounded suddenly, the sound was thick and powerful, and the footsteps that entered the door were particularly amazing. The arguing officials in the hall were startled, subconsciously looked at the door, their eyes widened in disbelief, and the neatly equipped dragon scale army rushed in from the entrance of the hall, occupying the entire back of the hall.

The queen actually transferred the dragon scale army into the main hall! The current Dragon Scale Army has been cleaned and sorted out by Baili Junyi, which is very different from the previous Baili Qingcang's pro-army, and Shen Ninghua is particularly handy.

"Detain Qiu Ming, take off the flower feather on his head, and put him in the prison to await disposal." Shen Ninghua's voice was cold, and he didn't even increase the volume in order to make people hear it clearly, but when it reached everyone's ears, it made people's minds confused.

Qiu Ming, who took the lead in speaking, immediately shouted loudly after coming back to his senses: "Queen Mother, Weichen just did his duty as a speech official, you can't treat Weichen like this, doesn't your behavior make all the speech officials in the court cold, who will dare to enter the words of loyalty and advice in the future?" ”

"Official? This palace respects the speaker, and naturally it will not chill the loyal and admonishing people, but, are you worthy of being a speaker? ”

Qiu Ming's face turned red: "Weichen has been an official for decades, and he has risked death many times to admonish him, how can he not be worthy of being an official?" Queen Mother, if you don't give Weichen an explanation, Weichen doesn't need to deal with it today, and he will die headfirst in this Chengqian Palace, and he will be famous as a righteous official! ”

As soon as he said this, the officials below also glared at Shen Ninghua angrily. Yanguan is the most iron-clad group of officials in the court, and they are stubborn, and even the emperor is helpless. As soon as Shen Ninghua came up, he attacked the official, and it was like a punch on the hornet's nest.

Shen Ninghua slowly stood up, embroidered with a phoenix robe of a hundred birds and a phoenix, and spread it at her feet, she stood straight, like a proud phoenix, with indescribable nobility and coldness: "You are still not convinced, then you come to tell this palace, what kind of person should the official be?" ”

Qiu Ming shook off the guards who wanted to come forward to detain him, tidied up his clothes, and said righteously: "Official, you must supervise injustice, advise the emperor, even if you sacrifice your life, you must dare to speak out!" ”

Shen Ninghua sneered: "It seems that you also know this thing." ”

Qiu Ming's face flushed: "Queen Mother, what you said is a great insult to the courtiers, then Weichen will ask me, what do you think is a speech official?" ”

Shen Ninghua raised his voice slightly, and his cold voice echoed in the hall like broken jade: "Whoever chooses an official should put three things first: the first is not to love wealth and nobility, the second is to cherish the name and integrity, and the second is to know how to govern the body." In the eyes of many people, this is already the standard of speech officials, but this palace believes that this is not enough! ”

Don't love wealth and nobility, cherish the name and festival, and know how to govern the body. These three points were raised, which immediately made the officials above the hall tremble, and they raised their heads to look at the queen who was high above, and the unruliness in their eyes gradually disappeared. An old courtier walked out, he was wearing a first-class official uniform, his figure was thin and even a little stiff, but as he walked, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

He is the former court official Zhu Zheng, once because the emperor of the previous dynasty was mediocre, many times risked death to admonish, was tortured by the emperor in prison, and his family was also ordered by the emperor to be killed, and later the former dynasty was broken, but this courtier wanted to die for the country, although he was rescued, he also realized that the emperor of Da'an could give the people a better life, so although he no longer sought death, but he hung a name as an official, and did not say a word in the court for many years. Seriously calculated, he is a veteran-level official and courtier.

Zhu Zheng walked to the center of the main hall, knelt down respectfully in front of Shen Ninghua, leaned on the ground, and saluted her with the most regular etiquette, and then said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Please re-establish the standard for the queen." The queen said that she thought that it was not enough to do the three points of the book, so it meant that she had higher requirements.

With Zhu Zheng taking the lead, the other speech officials hurriedly knelt down: "Please ask the queen mother to re-establish the standard for the speech officials." ”

Shen Ninghua said coldly: "Okay, with Lord Zhu's words, this palace will say it." First of all, the official must choose the country and forget the home, and the loyal and forget the person; secondly, we must be upright and upright, straightforward and outspoken, without suffering from gains and losses, and love and solidity; Thirdly, he has outstanding knowledge and ability, not only is he familiar with all aspects of the government affairs of the imperial court, he has insight into the dynamics of advantages and disadvantages, but also can be knowledgeable about the past and the present, and draw on prehistory. ”

"Good!" Zhu Zheng shouted, bowed deeply to Shen Ninghua, and his old figure trembled slightly, this is the standard that a speech official should have, this is the realm he is pursuing!

Shen Ninghua walked down the steps slowly and came to Zhu Zheng, she leaned over and helped Zhu Zheng up: "Lord Zhu, when you were an official in the previous dynasty, you were able to be impartial and truthful, good at distinguishing between right and wrong, daring to argue right and wrong, diligent and honest, and being an example for the official, although I don't know why you didn't speak after the founding of my country, but today you can speak, and this palace is grateful." ”

"Weichen's heart was not opened before, so the queen mother smiled, and in the future, please don't dislike the old minister's noise."

Shen Ninghua smiled: "Lord Zhu has an iron mouth, if there is anything wrong with what this palace does, please be merciful to Lord Zhu." ”

"How is that possible?" Zhu Zheng shook his head solemnly, in exchange for a laugh from the newly promoted officials. Looking at Shen Ninghua's eyes, the admiration became more and more great, if it weren't for knowing that Master Zhu couldn't be bought, they would all suspect that this was a scene that Shen Ninghua and Zhu Zheng had rehearsed in advance. No wonder the emperor can rest assured that the country will be handed over to the queen's mother, this lady is really not an ordinary person!