Inside the royal study.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair and looked at the memorials on the table, but he had no intention of dealing with them.

He rubbed his temples. He didn't know how he would pass the test tomorrow. Is Jiang Zhao really going to be executed tomorrow?

If he really wanted to be executed, he was really reluctant to do so.

Not to mention being executed, he would be reluctant to even be exiled.

Being able to write the article "Born in sorrow and dying in happiness" can prove that Jiang Zhao has great talent.

Moreover, that article on military merit and nobility was enough to change the history of the entire Tianyu Dynasty, and he did not want to give up easily.

Just when the emperor had a headache, he heard the eunuch coming to report: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is here."

The emperor knew that the Queen Mother must have come here for Jiang Zhao.

Presumably she also heard the news.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor saw the Queen Mother walking in, stood up from his seat, cupped his hands and saluted: "Mother."

The Queen Mother nodded and asked the palace maid to put down the food box, then waved her hand to make her leave.

"The Queen Mother is here now. She must have heard the news."

The emperor looked at the queen mother who was serving soup for him and asked.

When he asked the palace attendant to go down, he did not order him to strictly keep the news.

The identity of the Jiang Zhao woman was exposed in public. Countless pairs of people's eyes saw it, so there was no need to block the news.

The Queen Mother brought the filled soup to the Emperor, nodded and said: "I heard, I wonder what the Emperor thinks?"

The emperor took the soup from the queen mother's hand and put it on the table instead of drinking it. How could he be in the mood to drink soup now?

He sighed and said: "Jiang Zhao is a great talent. If you look at her book "Born in Worry and Die in Peace" and the military merit system, you will know that this person is extremely talented."

"Furthermore, I have read the two poems she wrote, "Compassion for the Farmers" and "Qin Jie". They are both poems that can be passed down through the ages. This shows that she is compassionate and hates evil as much as she hates it."

"The fact that she can sympathize with farmers and compose poems to remind people not to waste food carelessly shows that if she becomes an official in the future, she will definitely serve the people."

"The song "Qin Ji is gone", although it is just a scolding of Chen Lianghan, the governor of Kyoto, but it is actually a scolding of the officials in the entire city of Huaijing. It scolds them for being officials but not speaking out for the people. They only know how to squeeze the people's fat and anointing every day. What danger will happen if there is any danger?

, they took the lead in fleeing, abandoning the people and ignoring them."

"A person who hates evil so much will definitely stand on the opposite side of the family in the future. If she does not enter the court, it will be a great loss to our Tianyu Dynasty."

The Queen Mother was a little shocked that the emperor was so fond of Jiang Zhao. She didn't expect that the emperor knew Jiang Zhao so well in such a short period of time.

But think about it, Jiang Zhao does have a great talent. If he uses it properly, the heart problems of the emperors of the Tianyu Dynasty may be eliminated by Jiang Zhao's hands.

Even if it can't be eradicated, it can still suppress the severely damaged family, which is also a good thing for the royal family.

The Queen Mother nodded: "In that case, the emperor's thoughts are understood."

"It doesn't matter if Jiang Zhao is a woman, at least she won't become the next aristocratic family."

The Queen Mother said this, which means that she expresses her support. Tomorrow in the court, she will support Jiang Zhao to become an official in the court.

"It's just that the family will be very sad tomorrow," the emperor said.

The Queen Mother naturally understood that there was no precedent in the Tianyu Dynasty for a woman to serve as an official.

At that time, if those ministers relied on ancestral etiquette, they would not be able to say anything. After all, the status of women in the Tianyu Dynasty has always been low.

"Tomorrow, the Ai family will come forward. With the Ai family here, I guess they won't dare to stop it too much."

She is also a woman. If these ministers from aristocratic families use the matter of women to criticize Jiang Zhao, it would be a great disrespect to the Queen Mother.

The emperor stood up, bowed his hands and saluted: "Tomorrow, I will go to the hospital to see my mother."

The Queen Mother smiled: "This is not hard work, but the Ai family has ignored the affairs of the previous dynasty for a long time. I wonder what happened to those old guys now?"

"But to cause the emperor such a headache, he must be becoming more stubborn."

The Queen Mother planned to enter the court tomorrow not only to support Jiang Zhao, but also to take this opportunity to beat those aristocratic families.

Although she had never been involved in court affairs in recent years, every time she saw the emperor getting angry, she could probably tell how rampant these aristocratic families could become.

However, the Queen Mother said: "The aristocratic family is now very powerful, so don't be too stubborn as the emperor tomorrow."

"Jiang Zhao must join the court as an official, but the family should also give some compensation, otherwise they will jump over the wall in a hurry."

"You don't have anyone available now, so it's not appropriate to fight against them. When you have military power in your hands in the future, you can slowly eliminate them."

The emperor nodded. He knew all this. Now he had no power and no one in his hands. Whatever he wanted to do would be hindered.

"Mother, I know."

The Queen Mother nodded: "I just have to think about how to compensate those aristocratic families tomorrow."

The emperor sneered: "All they want is for their descendants to serve as officials in the court and stabilize their family's position in the court."

"Tomorrow we will simply ban the top ten students in the palace examination together. In this way, I believe they will not object too much."

"This is indeed a good idea. Anyway, the court doesn't care about a few more freeloaders," the Queen Mother said.

There are already too many officials in this court who came in through connections but have no talent.

Let alone seven more seals tomorrow, all the students who took the palace examination this year will be sealed, and the court will continue to operate. Anyway, it is just a few more salaries. The salaries of low-level officials are not much, and a few more of them are not much.

After making a plan with the emperor, the Queen Mother returned to Cining Palace.

After the Queen Mother left, the Emperor drank the soup the Queen Mother served him and looked out the window.

I was thinking in my mind, I wonder if Jiang Zhao will wear women's clothes to meet the saint tomorrow, or will he dress as a man to meet the saint as usual?

However, tomorrow he will confer an official position on Jiang Zhao in the court. You don't have to think about it to know that the ministers will oppose it with all their strength.

He insisted on nominating Jiang Zhao as the number one scholar before, which had already made the ministers unhappy, but even if the ministers objected, they could still accept it.

After all, Jiang Zhao did have great talents, but the military merit system only affected their interests.

But now when a woman is appointed as an official in the court, those stubborn old men know what ancestral etiquette is.

But none of them abided by the ancestral etiquette and controlled the government all day long. He, the emperor, was no different from a puppet.

Thinking of this, the emperor became more determined to have Jiang Zhao join the court as an official.

The emperor leaned on the dragon chair and closed his eyes to rest. There will be a tough battle tomorrow.


Chapter completed!