"I have a queen candidate in my heart, and the Ministry of Rites can start preparing for the wedding." Ling Li nodded.

"Big wedding?" Huang Kun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, looked surprised.

"I want to marry Shu Xiang's granddaughter Shu Mei, please ask Lord Huang to start preparing."

As soon as Ling Li said this, several people in the imperial study looked at each other. Immediately, Shu Shi'an was the first to kneel on the ground and report: "Your Majesty, this move is very inappropriate!" ”

"Why did Shu Xiang say something inappropriate?" Ling Li didn't expect that he was already the king of a country, and this old old man still rejected himself.

"Your Majesty has already had the princess Dong, and according to the ancestral system of Nanyue, Your Majesty should canonize the Dong family as the queen."

"The Dong family was forced by my father to marry me, and she has been separated from me all these years, how can she be the queen? Shu Xiang's granddaughter has experienced hardships with me, saved me from fire and water, and has been kind to South Vietnam, I just want to marry her as my queen. ”

"Your Majesty, Shu Xiang's granddaughter is certainly kind to Nanyue, but after all, she has a reputation and is not suitable for the future." Huang Kun admonished.

"Presumptuous! Shu Xiang's family is strict, how can the girl of the Shu family have a loss? ”

Huang Kun immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty is angry, and the minister naturally knows that Shu Xiang's family is strict. It's just that on the day of the prince's ceremony, everyone saw that the criminal minister Ling Zhao was holding his watch, and because she was willing to give up the position of prince, he also sent someone to rob his relatives...... Besides, Shu Xiang's granddaughter was originally the lord of the county, she has given up the royal marriage twice, and now she is married as the queen of Nanyue, I am afraid that it will be difficult to block the mouths of the people......"

"Your Majesty, what Lord Huang said is reasonable, for the sake of the great plan of South Vietnam, I implore Your Majesty to think twice." Shu Shi'an bowed his head.

"You guys, all of them are really pedantic!" Ling Li was so angry that he kicked them out of the door, and after enduring it for a long time, he finally spoke again: "That's it, let's discuss the matter later." You go down first. ”

"The ministers are leaving." Seeing that Ling Li was displeased, the ministers cautiously got up and left.

"Stay for a while, I still have important things to discuss." Ling Li stopped Shu Shi'an.

After the ministers left, Ling Li stepped down from the throne and led Shu Shi'an to the guest seat next to him, "Shu Xiang, please take a seat." ”

"Your Majesty, ...... are you?" Shu Shi'an was a little flattered and didn't dare to take a seat.

"Shu Xiang, at this moment, I am not a monarch with you, you sit down." Ling Li pressed Shu Shi'an's shoulder, pushed him to sit on the top of the guest seat, and then sat down on the chair next to him, "The matter between me and Ah Mei should have been told the truth when I returned to Beijing, but many changes have happened during this period, and it has been delayed until ......today."

Ling Li suddenly changed "I" to "I", and Shu Shi'an knew that he still had to talk about the matter after the establishment, so he secretly composed words in his heart, thinking about how to reject this matter and avoid pushing Ah Mei to the forefront of the future.

"Ah Mei and I have long been husband and wife. Therefore, whether Shu Xiang agrees with it or not, she must marry me. ”

Shu Shi'an was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Ling Li to say these words, the chiseled words about the righteousness of the family and country in his heart couldn't speak for a while.

"It's all my impulse." Ling Li was silent for a moment, then looked at Shu Shi'an and said sincerely: "Ah Mei's affection for me, Shu Xiang must know." And I am also sincere to Ah Mei. I also hope that Shu Xiang will fulfill us. ”

"The minister can promise to let Ah Mei marry into the royal family, but the minister is resolutely opposed to the future." After pondering for a long time, Shu Shi'an said loosely.

"Why is Shu Xiang so stubborn?"

"Your Majesty, the establishment of the future is a matter of national capital, and it needs to be prudent and prudent. Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and the forces of the DPRK and China have not yet been completely stabilized, and the matter of the immediate situation will affect the whole body, and the slightest carelessness will lead to a bloody storm......"

"Shu Xiang is worried that I can't control this situation now?" Ling Li interrupted him.

Shu Shi'an shook his head, "There is one more thing, Your Majesty has forgotten?" ”

"What?"

"After Ah Mei returned from an injury in Anyuan, His Majesty personally told her ministers that she would not be able to have children. If she is made the queen, can Your Majesty consider the matter of the imperial heir? In all dynasties, the turmoil in the court caused by the issue of the emperor's heir was the most tragic. If Your Majesty really loves Ah Mei, how can you bear to let her face such a danger in the future? ”

Ling Li was completely stunned. Every time he saw the scar on her lower abdomen, he was very fond of her, but he had long forgotten that she was unable to have children. If he was willing to listen to Song You's words at that time, even if he made a move half a minute earlier, how could she experience such pain?!

He won't be able to have children with her! The thought of this made his heart ache.

After talking to Shu Shi'an, Ling Li had already made up his mind that since he couldn't convince the ministers to make Shu Mei the queen, then he would never be the queen.

After the expiration of the national mourning period, Ling Li asked Emperor Chengde's concubines to move to the Shuiyue Palace. After the rooms of the harem were renovated, he ordered someone to go to the Qiudi Pavilion to pick up Dong Yuejiao and Xiao Silkworm into the palace, and arranged for Dou Ji to lead the team back to Lucheng to pick up Ling Juan into the palace.

Dong Yuejiao lived in Yanqing Palace. This palace was originally the residence of Xu Youjia, the concubine of the Chengde Emperor, and the Xu family was deeply favored by the Chengde Emperor, and the architecture of the palace here is exquisite and magnificent, and the interior decoration is also extremely gorgeous. Dong Yuejiao had come to Princess Yuyao's birthday party, she never thought that one day she would become the master here, and she was overjoyed for a while.

On this day, she took Qing Yu to serve the cattery that had just been moved from the Qiu Di Pavilion in the courtyard, and suddenly heard the palace maids behind her shouting "See the emperor", she hurriedly got up to take over, and in a hurry, she ran into the cat climbing frame next to her, and saw that the shelf fell straight towards Ling Li, and she was so anxious that her palms were sweaty. Fortunately, Ling Li reacted quickly and caught the shelf.

"These rough jobs, you arranged for the eunuchs of the Inner Servant Province, why do you still do it yourself?" Ling Li put it back on the shelf and said casually.

"Minister...... The concubine knew that she was wrong. The previous scene made Dong Yuejiao's face pale with fright. She was already a little timid towards Ling Li, and since she saw him sitting on the dragon chair and accepting the worship of hundreds of officials that day, she became more and more frightened when she saw him.

Seeing her like this, Ling Li couldn't bear it, and a smile squeezed out of the corner of his lips: "I'm not blaming you. It's not as comfortable outside as in this house, and it's good that you can have some fun and amusement. Just be careful in everything and don't hurt yourself. ”

"Yes, the concubine knows." Seeing a smile on Ling Li's face, Dong Yuejiao calmed down, "Is the emperor going down to the next court?" ”

Ling Li nodded, "I have something to say to you, you come with me." ”

Dong Yuejiao followed him to the dormitory, she looked at the shoes embroidered with auspicious clouds and dragon patterns on his feet, and felt like a dream in her heart. When I heard that he was not liked by Emperor Chengde, and he was a reckless person with a martial background, she was extremely reluctant to marry him. But who would have expected that it was not Ling Chong, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, nor Ling Zhao, who was famous in South Vietnam, but him.

After entering the dormitory, Ling Li went straight to sit in front of the rose chair, and beckoned to Dong Yuejiao, who was standing beside him, and said, "You can sit too." ”

After Dong Yuejiao sat down on her side, Qing Yu sent the tea tray in time, and she carefully picked up the gold-inlaid white jade pot on the table and poured the tea for him.

Ling Li then spoke: "After Concubine Xu and the others moved to the Shuiyue Palace, the people from the Inner Servant Province asked me for harem chores every day, and I couldn't cope with it, and I urgently needed a helper. ”

Hearing this, Dong Yuejiao's hand pouring tea couldn't help but tremble, and the tea overflowed the rim of the cup, although Ling Li saw it in his eyes, he turned a blind eye to it, and continued: "You used to take care of the Qiu Di Pavilion, everything was proper and reliable, I want to hand over all the things in this harem to you to take care of, do you think it is feasible?" ”

Dong Yuejiao was suddenly overjoyed. She put down the teapot and solemnly admitted: "The emperor trusts the concubine so much, and the concubine will definitely live up to the holy hope." ”