Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty Nine: The Empress Dowager Wants to Abolish the Emperor
Zichen Hall, inside the front hall of the government hall.
There is a dragon throne standing high in the middle, a phoenix seat with a curtain on the side, and a top left, and below are all officials. Among all the officials, the lowest status is also a third-rank official, and those who are lower than the third-rank official will not be qualified to come in unless the emperor specially invites him to come in.
Of course, the palace examinations are excluded.
For many literati who have never been able to reach the third rank in their lifetime, the palace examination is the first time they have entered this place, and it may be the only time.
"The Empress Dowager is a thousand years old. I impeach the general Wenren to support his troops. This matter involves your parents' family. Please leave the position of governing the country behind the curtain and avoid taboos."
The meaning of the Censor is very obvious.
That is, I want to impeach your father to support his troops and want to rebel. You and your father are relatives, so you have to avoid suspicion. You can no longer rule the country behind the curtain, and you have to go back to the harem to stay.
This principle is common in many places.
For example, if the son and grandson of a first- and second-rank official want to be in the imperial examination, even if the imperial examinations were held by this first- and second-rank official in the past, he could not participate this time, which is to avoid suspicion.
It was really hard for them to find such a bad reason and want to get Wen Renlian away.
They thought clearly.
In their eyes, the reason why Wen Renlian has the power today is that Wen Renlian herself does not have much ability, mainly because she is supported by her father and her two brothers. As long as she finds a way to get her father and her two brothers off, whether it is to kill them or get rid of their military power, even if Wen Renlian turns back to rule the country from behind the curtain again, it is useless and has no ability.
So, it started.
"Oh, why didn't the Ai family know that the Ai family's father is self-reliant, what kind of soldiers are they holding?
What's the heavy thing?"
Wen Renlian sat behind the curtain without feeling panic at all. Instead, she calmed down and even held the victory with a smile on her face.
"Empress Dowager, your father has already owned more than 300,000 troops, and your two brothers also owned 100,000 troops and 200,000 troops. Together, it is a total of 600,000 troops. Isn't this considered self-respecting?
I hope the Empress will not mislead herself.
Leave quickly.”
Shoufu Zhang was worried that the censor would not dare to directly follow the empress dowager, so he hurriedly stood up and said.
The other ministers also agreed.
Even many military generals were persuaded by some civil officials. Although they did not have any attachments, they remained silent. The dominance of a family is not a good thing for all civil and military officials, and will affect their future expansion of their own power and connections.
"Oh, are you sure?"
Wen Renlian is still smiling.
The tone is relaxed and comfortable.
This relaxed and comfortable feeling made the civil servants below feel a little worried, worried that their behavior had been known by Wen Renlian long ago, and even had a solution to it.
But now that things have come to this point, retreating is not their nature, so naturally it continues.
Wen Renlian was not in the mood to continue playing text games with them at this time, so she clapped her hands on the spot. Then, a female official walked out from the side with a wooden box in her hand.
"Open the wooden box and show them."
Following Wen Renlian's instructions, the female official who had just walked out immediately opened the box and stood up slightly, so that all the civil and military officials below could see the things in the box.
The stuff in the box is simple.
It's not a terrifying thing, nor a human head, it's just three simple bronze medals.
But these three bronze medals are military talismans.
That's right, Wen Renlian had already known the movements of the civil and military officials below, so the day after she learned the news, she immediately sent someone to communicate with her father and her two brothers, and asked them to hand over all the military talismans in their hands to her.
To be honest, Wen Renlian even wants to thank these civil and military officials now. If these civil and military officials had not suddenly attacked, how could she have the chance to get the three military talismans in her father and her brother? In the past, if she wanted to ascend the throne and want military power, she would have to try every means to convince her father and brother. Now, as long as she holds the military talisman, she can completely grasp it, then she may become a real power empress dowager, a real power empress dowager with military power, and even a real power emperor.
Such a great benefit was suddenly obtained.
I have no choice but to thank these officials.
However, at this time, the civil and military officials below did not know Wen Renlian's inner thoughts. They only felt that Wen Renlian was too thief. What is the difference between putting things in the hands of her father and her brother and putting them in her hands? It is not all in the hands of you Wen Renren's family. However, doing so did completely break the previous impeachment of their censors.
What they impeach is to have a strong army and respect themselves.
Now they don’t even have military talismans.
I'll weigh myself!
Wen Renlian won the battle in this battle.
However, Wen Renlian knew that the officials were beginning to fear her, and she knew more that the officials must be even more afraid of her holding the military talisman at this time.
Therefore, she must now come up with something that will benefit the present and the future, which will not only increase her fame but also increase her people's hearts.
To deter all officials.
Let them not dare to act rashly.
Give yourself more time too.
Therefore, when all the civil and military officials began to stop and were about to think of other ways to impeach, Wen Renlian clapped her hands again, and another female official came out and also held a box.
The officials below were almost shadying the box. When they saw the Queen Mother making another box, they couldn't help looking at each other, wondering what the Queen Mother was doing?
"Open it."
As the order was given, the second wooden box was also opened. As long as the ministers were not myopic, they could see that the box contained a few rice ears, which made them even more strange.
If you are not in the New Year or the Festival, even if you show that the world has a good harvest, you don’t need to just put rice ears.
"Li Qing, bring it down and show it to them."
Wen Renlian ordered again.
Then, the female official who had just held the wooden box quickly walked down the stairs and displayed the rice ears one by one in front of the ministers.
When showing some aristocratic families and some officials who were born in poor families but had basically never planted farmland, the officials were basically confused and didn't know what was good about rice ears. They were displayed until the back, and in front of an official who was born in a farmhouse and had personally planted the fields and worked. The official was shocked and said excitedly:
"Is this...is this true?"
As he said that, his hands were even trembling with excitement, and he wanted to pick up the rice ears to see if they are true or not. The female official wanted to stop him, but Wen Renlian, who was sitting on it, immediately said: "Let him see."
After giving the order, the official took out a rice ear from the box with trembling hands.
Count one by one.
Count the number of rice on the ears.
After a long time, my voice trembled and screamed in surprise: "125, 125!
This is really a divine valley from heaven, Empress!"
Chapter completed!