Jiankang, Taicheng Imperial Palace.

It was late at night, and the crows were crowing vigorously on the branches, and the piercing cry made people restless, so that the maids and attendants in the palace did not dare to drive away or make noise.

In a huge palace room, the light of the butter candle illuminates the entire palace room, as if it were daytime.

The curtain as thin as a cicada's wings has been pulled up to the sides, and on the luxurious dragon bed, a young man with a pale face and a look of anger is lying on this bed, as if he is about to die, if it weren't for the eyes still open, and the chest is still lying together, everyone may think that their emperor has died!

"Big ...... Hasn't the general arrived yet? Sima Yue asked the attendant who was kneeling on one side.

"Your Majesty, the general is still on his way to Taicheng. The king of Huiji and Zhongshu ordered them to wait outside the palace. "New Bayi m.x81zw

"Let them in."

"No."

Immediately, in addition to the general Yu Bing, the four ministers left by the former emperor Sima Yan to Sima Yue, Zhongshu Ling He Chong, Wuling Wang Sima Si, Huiji King Sima Yu, and Shangshu Ling Zhuge Hui entered this palace one after another, and knelt on the edge of the bed.

Sima Yue took out the holy decree hidden under the pillow and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I know that my life is not there, and I feel that the time is running out because of the call of the ancestors. After Sima Dan succeeded to the throne, he hoped that the princes would do their best to assist the new emperor and serve the new emperor as if they were serving me. ”

Several of the ministers present bowed their heads and remained silent.

Among them, in fact, many people are against Sima Dan's succession to the throne, in normal times, there is no worry at home and abroad, if it is peaceful, Sima Dan's succession to the throne is naturally not a problem, after all, with their ability, as long as the emperor is not too mediocre, not too brutal, a babbling emperor is better controlled.

But what is the current situation?

The enemy invaded, and the Zhao army's more than 100,000 troops were still on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the Zhao army could break through the Yangtze River at any time and come to Jiankang City!

At the time of this kind of national disaster, it is not a wonderful idea to set up a toddler as the emperor!

Too bad!

You must know that Sima Yue's elder brother, Emperor Sima Yan of Jincheng, gave up his two sons and made his younger brother the emperor!

However, until now, Sima Yue did not want to follow Sima Yan's approach.

Around this, Sima Yue has already made his own decision, set up his son Sima Dan as the emperor, the edict has been written, and the jade seal has been covered in black and white, and it is inconvenient for everyone to say something.

Don't look at the power of the Sima clan has declined, it is not as good as before, the ruling ministers in the south are singing and I am on the stage, and there is a lot of fun. But the Sima clan still plays a pivotal role in the Jin Kingdom - righteousness!

This righteous name is enough to make many powerful ministers shy away from the throne of the Sima clan!

"Your Majesty, I don't know who will assist you?" He Chong stubbornly asked this question that everyone was more concerned about.

"Auxiliary Minister, you are in the middle of the order He Chong, and you are in the service. Sima Yu, the king of Huiji, and the Taifu. Sima Xi, the king of Wuling, increased the Honglu. General Yu Bing, Captain Jiatai. There are also Situ Cai Mo and Shang Shu Ling Zhuge Hui, the six of you jointly assist the government, the prince is young, and the queen Chu should listen to the government, hoping that the princes will do their best to assist the new emperor. ”

"The ministers must do their best to assist the new emperor!"

When the ministers heard the list of auxiliary ministers left by Sima Yue, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, and hurriedly agreed.

When the ministers retreated, a palace beauty finally walked out from behind the screen.

The beauty in the palace costume looked like a pear blossom with rain at this time, and I saw a pitiful look, and sat straight on the edge of Sima Yue's bed, crying and crying, and talking with choked voices.

That's right, this palace beauty is Sima Yue's queen Chu, Chu Garlic.

When Chu Lianzi heard Sima Yue say this, he couldn't help crying and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty." Dan'er is born from a concubine, and the concubine will definitely teach him carefully. It's just that I don't know if after His Majesty dies, who can really shoulder the great responsibility? ”

When Sima Yue heard this, he said, "Queen, are you wondering in your heart why I didn't use your father Chu Qi as the minister of Tuogu?" ”

"......" Chu Garlic kept silent, which was a tacit acquiescence.

Sima Yue sighed faintly and said, "Empress, you must know that I have only been in power for three years, and I am about to die before I am fledgling, so I have to entrust the ministers left by the first emperor to take care of their lives. Your father, Chu Li, is talented and can be entrusted with important tasks, but he lacks certain qualifications, and your Chu family is not as powerful as the Yu family, the Wang family, and the Xie family, so I can't entrust Chu Li with important responsibilities now. ”

"However, after you have closed the curtain and listened to the government, you can act cheaply. Yu Bing and Yu Yi brothers are all people who can be trusted, He Chong, Zhuge Hui, Sima Xi and Cai Mo are all speculators, as long as they are given certain benefits, they can be wooed. As for Sima Yu, the king of Huiji, his ambitions are not small, but he does not dare to openly oppose the emperor at the risk of the world's disapproval, so after a hundred years, you just need to control the overall situation, and you can't control the dynasty, and leave everything to those ministers who care about their lives. Let them fight for power and profit. ”

"Okay." Chu Garlic didn't have much ambition.

In ancient China, in the era of monarchy, female rulers such as the empress, empress dowager or empress dowager acted as the emperor (i.e., holding the supreme power of the state and exercising the power of the emperor).

According to the traditional Confucian and machismo views, the concubine who is a woman can only stay in the inner palace, and cannot go to the outer court, that is, the so-called "male protagonist outside, female protagonist inside", so if the concubine wants to grasp the highest power of the country, of course, she must "come to the court", that is, "handle the state affairs in the court".

Since Qin Shi Huang, the emperor's orders are called "system" and "edict", and the official documents are called "edict", and the concubine acts as the emperor's duties after taking power, and its orders naturally rise to the level of the emperor, so it is called "system", that is, "exercising the power of the emperor".

The two are collectively called, that is, the Linzhao weighing system, which first appeared in Bangu's "Hanshu Gaohou Ji" in the official history: "Emperor Hui collapsed, the prince became the emperor, young, the queen mother was called the system in the dynasty, and the world was amnesty." ”

The so-called "weighing system" should not only mean the exercise of the emperor's power. Although the heroine is in the court and adjudicates political affairs, when issuing orders, she does not directly use the edict, but still promulgates the world in the form of a book in the name of the young emperor. The intent is twofold.

First, even if the emperor is young, he still cannot be deprived of the fact of his reign. Therefore, the queen mother can only represent the will of the young lord and act on behalf of the power, but cannot replace him and give orders on her own.

Second, in order to avoid the emperor becoming an adult in the future, the empress dowager will interfere in government affairs with a decree. Therefore, the empress dowager can only issue an edict in the name of the emperor to put an end to the disadvantages of the dualization of imperial power in the future.

The heroine "came to the dynasty", but the principle of "weighing the system" in the name of the young emperor was still followed by the Empress Dowager Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

If it is the empress's husband, it is only the permission and connivance of the emperor himself. No matter how powerful the empress is (e.g., Wu Zetian), her status is only that of the emperor's assistant or secretary, and cannot be regarded as replacing the emperor in power, so the edict is still a manifestation of the emperor's own will.

Therefore, even if the queen is "in the court", it cannot be regarded as a "system".

That night, Sima Yue was buried at the age of 23.

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Chapter 0301: Funeral Heaven