Chapter 439: Marriage Proposal
Author: Skyrim Drive
Since He Yue dared to settle accounts with herself, she naturally would not let go of the ministers in the court. The Queen Mother knew that if she wanted to pardon the court ministers and examiners for the crime of rebellion, she could only count on He Yue's amnesty.
However, amnesty for the world is not something that can be obtained by the emperor's decree. Amnesty will only be granted to the world when there is a major event in the royal family or court. The great events of the royal family are generally the new emperor's accession to the throne, the emperor's wedding and the establishment of the prince. The happy events in the court are not necessarily, but often celebrate very important victories, such as the complete expulsion of the foggy black and the recovery of the lost territory of the Feng Kingdom. However, who knows when and when the fog can be expelled and the lost territory can be recovered? At present, the only amnesty that can be counted on is the emperor's wedding.
He Yue listened to the Queen Mother's words, as if she was afraid that the Queen Mother would regret it, so she quickly leaned over and kowtowed, and said, "Thank you to the Queen Mother for her success." He pulled at his wind-dyed garment. Feng Ran was a little reluctant to kneel down and kowtow side by side with He Yue: "Thank you, son, for the success of the queen mother." β
The Queen Mother would never agree to such a ridiculous thing as Fengyue's wedding, but in order for He Yue to forgive the ministers and officials who were dragged into the water by her, she couldn't help but let go. The Queen Mother waved her hand tired and helpless: "Go out! β
Exited the Xiangrui Palace, left the Queen Mother's palace, on the way back to the Sining Palace, Feng Ran was silent all the way, He Yue was very keenly aware of Feng Ran's emotions, and asked, "Feng Ran, are you unwilling to marry me?"
Feng Ran replied lightly: "If you like it, I will marry." He has never prayed for fame, and in his heart, he is quite reluctant to use a fame to put his relationship with He Yue in broad daylight, after all, the relationship between two men is abnormal, and there is nothing worth publicizing.
He Yue caught up with two steps, grabbed Feng Ran, stood on the road, stared at Feng Ran's eyes, and said, "If you don't like it, just leave it." β
Feng Ran smiled lightly, brushed away He Yue's hand, and said lightly at the side: "I like it." "Feng Ran is also as clear as the Queen Mother, in the court, an amnesty is needed to forgive the crimes of rebellion of the ministers and officials, otherwise, it is really necessary to be held accountable, there are too many officials involved, and all of them are important ministers in the court, I am afraid that it will cause turmoil in the Feng Kingdom and greatly damage the national strength. At present, the only celebratory event that is worthy of amnesty in the world is the emperor's wedding. What's more, He Yue married him as the imperial husband, not the queen, and has done his best to save his face.
"Tomorrow, you will go to court with me. β
"Good. β
However, He Yue could clearly feel that Feng Ran didn't have much liking for the wedding, and it was far from being compared with his liking and anticipation for the wedding. Back in Sining Palace, He Yue went back to the imperial study to review the folds, and Feng Ran stayed in the Sining Hall to practice. After washing up at night, they lay on the dragon bed and talked together, and He Yuedu could still feel the depression on Feng Ran's body.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and yesterday afternoon, the emperor took General Feng to the Empress Dowager's palace to plead for marriage and blessings, which has spread throughout Chenghua City overnight. The next day, the emperor took General Feng and openly came out of the side door of the Jinluan Palace, and without waiting for He Yue to speak, the ministers who knelt on the ground in the court brushed and begged the emperor to think twice, and never make ugly things that will be laughed at for thousands of years. The exhortations of the ministers came and went, some were filled with righteous indignation, and some were affectionate and mournful...... Many ministers, persuaded and admonished, and wept bitterly, and the emperor's wedding was not only not a little festive in the court, but it was like a disaster that the sky was about to fall, and there was a kind of sadness that a catastrophe was coming.
He Yue listened at first, and argued a few words with the ministers, and then the ministers were exhorting endlessly, advancing step by step, persuading He Yue to dispel such a ridiculous and ugly idea as marrying the imperial husband for the sake of the fame of the future generations before and after him...... He Yue had a calm face, threw the "Book of Persuasion" from the Kowloon Imperial Case to the Seal Road, and said coldly: "The harem is forbidden to interfere in politics because it has been banned by our dynasty and the queen mother seeks regent, why don't the adults beg so bitterly? When you sign the signature, why don't you see the adults think twice? Don't you know that the crime of rebellion is a capital crime, and it will harm the whole family?"
He Yue roared like this, and all the ministers in the court immediately shut up and silenced, only a few old ministers were crying on Xing's head, and they couldn't stop sobbing for a while. All the ministers hung their heads, not daring to look at the emperor.
It has been three days since the failure of the Queen Mother's regent, and in the past three days, He Yue has been gentle to the ministers, as always, discussing political affairs with the ministers, and did not specifically mention the matter of the ministers supporting the Queen Mother's regent.
The ministers couldn't help but feel lucky in their eyes, and felt that on that day, the Queen Mother coerced so many ministers and officials into the water, this trick was really ruthless.
At that time, I signed the "Letter of Persuasion" There are more than 14,000 officials, of which more than 400 officials are ministers of the court, all of whom are powerful figures in the nine ministries of the first cabinet, and more than 14,000 are the local audit officials who have been called into Beijingγ
The people who signed the "Persuasion Book" on the same day were all the elites of the important ministers of the Feng Kingdom, if they all wanted to ask for the guilt, this time, it would almost shake the foundation of the court of the Feng Kingdom, not to mention that behind the elites of the important ministers, there was often a force to support it, so that if it was done, it would not be that the earth would shake, but that the sky would fall apart, as long as an order was issued, the Feng Kingdom would inevitably fall into turmoil immediately!
The stakes are clear to He Yue, and the ministers are also clear in their hearts, so the ministers were still nervous at first, but then gradually calmed down, feeling that the emperor had compromised and did not dare to ask them about supporting the queen mother's regent, and everyone did not mention it, and the matter was over.
Last night, they didn't get much news, only that the emperor revealed that he wanted to marry General Feng. Later, the Queen Mother sent all her subordinates out, how the emperor talked to the Queen Mother, whether the Queen Mother agreed, and the specific situation is unknown. Later, after the emperor followed General Feng to leave the Xiangrui Palace, he stopped to talk on the way back to the Sining Palace, and the people did not dare to get close to eavesdrop, but only looked at the face from a distance, and felt that General Feng seemed to be a little depressed, but the emperor was happy, and the corners of his mouth were smiling all the way.
On the Xiangrui Palace, the Queen Mother has been gloomy, she didn't say anything, she was so angry that she didn't eat dinner, she went to bed early, and she was so angry that she couldn't sleep, sighing, phlegm, wheezing, heart disease, all kinds of tossing attacks, called the imperial doctor three times in one night, and the spirit was defeated. Originally, the Queen Mother was very well maintained, and she looked like a middle-aged lady, but after this night, the Queen Mother actually had a little bit of an old woman's condition.
Everyone can only guess from the looks of the queen mother, the emperor, and the general that the queen mother most of them agreed to marry the queen mother.
Of course, everyone deduced that the Queen Mother would never easily agree to such immorality, depravity, violation of etiquette, disobedience, and deviance, and most of the emperors or generals used what means forced the Queen Mother to allow it, right?
What was the reason why the Queen Mother had to agree to the emperor's absurd request to marry the empress?
As soon as He Yue's words of guilt came out, some shrewd courtiers suddenly understood. Yes, the emperor did not dare to blatantly kill more than 10,000 ministers and officials, but the emperor was not willing to suffer this dumb loss, so he used this as a threat to coerce the queen mother to agree to marry the male queen!
Even if he knew that the emperor would not dare to punish them, since the emperor opened his mouth to ask for the crime, the ministers could only kneel on the ground and said respectfully: "The ministers are worried, please ask Your Majesty to condemn their crimes." Another minister argued: "The ministers originally wanted to go to the palace to rescue the driver, but the ministers are foreign ministers, and it is inconvenient to enter the harem, so there can only be General Lao Feng ...... this matter."
He Yue looked at the ministers who had been kneeling down for a while, and felt that in the past few days, the breath in his heart finally came out, and said: "I Zhier and others supported the queen mother's regent, but they made a mistake and thought about it inconsiderately. I also have the heart to forgive, but there are too many people who are rebellious, and only by amnesty can we all be exempted from the sin of disobedience. If you want to give amnesty to the world, now only I can marry again. β
He Yue said this, as if the emperor had to marry in order to forgive the sins of the ministers.
The emperor's concubines are carried directly into the palace, and the emperor's wedding refers to the marriage. The selection of this future queen is very cautious, and most of them are carefully selected by the ministers. However, the ministers knew that the emperor's middle palace had been empty for several years, and no matter how the queen mother or ministers persuaded him, the emperor insisted on not allowing it. The emperor will propose a big wedding at this time, and the candidate for this big wedding, needless to say, must refer specifically to a certain man. The ministers even felt that the emperor could marry any girl from any family, as long as it was a woman, and they were opposed to the emperor marrying a man as the empress! However, what the emperor meant in his words was that he wanted to marry a certain man as the queen in order to forgive the sins of the ministers, and the opposition of the ministers did not seem so reasonable.
According to the rules, the queen candidate is proposed by the ministers after examination, and each person has a small biography portrait, which is selected and determined by the emperor. That's how Queen Mao was elected back then. He Yue didn't have any special feelings about several queen candidates at that time, but she just happened to choose Queen Mao.
All the ministers knew who the emperor wanted to marry, but no one dared to come forward to propose this queen candidate. Literati pay attention to the name before and after the body, whoever wants to open this mouth will become a minister to lure the emperor to marry a man, and he will definitely leave a thousand years of infamy in the history books of later generations, leaving a stench for thousands of years.
There was silence in the court, and no one dared to speak for a long time.