After the three yuan and the third, the ministers angered the ceremony and the music collapsed

Chapter 50 The tornado and sandstorm set off in the palace
If the palace attendant dare not commit the crime of deceiving the emperor, it means that what he said is true.

The emperor didn't know how to react for a moment. He sat on the dragon chair and couldn't recover for a long time.

It's not easy to meet a talented and talented kid from a poor family who can be reused, but now she is found to be a woman.

The emperor couldn't help laughing wryly, is it true that no one can use him?
The aristocratic family has always controlled the government, which is the heart disease of the emperors of all dynasties.

If you want to get rid of the aristocratic family, you can only reuse the poor family, but the money of the whole country is in the hands of a few people, and the disciples of the poor family need to save a long time to buy a book.

Moreover, above the court, various aristocratic families form cliques, and even if a poor family is able to become an official, they will be suppressed by the aristocratic families.

There are very few people from poor families who can be reused.

Now that Jiang Zhao finally came out, the emperor was overjoyed.

This military merit system is a strategy to suppress aristocratic families and promote poor ones.

Who knew that Jiang Zhao was a woman, so Jiang Zhao could not be an official in the court.

But when he thought of the military merit system, the emperor hesitated a little.

After a long time, the emperor waved his hand and asked the palace servant to go down. He had to think about it.

After the servant went down, within a quarter of an hour, the news spread that this year's palace examination champion was a woman.

But in half a day, it has already spread throughout the palace.

The maids and guards in the palace are much more boring than the common people outside. Apart from doing chores, they have no other fun to look for all day long.

In addition to this palace empress, she made a new skirt today, which means another empress was rewarded by the emperor today.

Maybe something happened in the previous court today, and some minister contradicted the emperor again.

But their emperor had not been selected for a long time since he ascended the throne. There was only the emperor and the empress dowager in the palace, and they had nothing to gossip about.

Above the court, the foundation of the emperor is not stable, the emperor does what the ministers say, and there is nothing to contradict.

Now in this palace, a little gossip can set off a hurricane in the palace, not to mention the news that this year's new champion is a woman, it will be a tornado and a sandstorm.

After the news spread, the whole palace exploded, and there was a turbulent wave in the palace, all the maids, guards and eunuchs were running to tell each other.

All the gossip in the palace turned into Jiang Zhao.

The news soon reached the ears of the Empress Dowager who lived in the Compassionate Ning Palace.

Today, the Empress Dowager is wearing a plain white palace dress, with dark brown silk threads embroidered with ingenious and strong branches on the clothes.

The red silk thread embroidered plum blossoms, either budding or in full bloom, extending from the hem of the skirt to the waist.

A jadeite pendant was tied around her waist, adding a bit of extravagance to the plain white palace attire.

At this time, the Empress Dowager was pruning flower branches in the Palace of Compassion and Ning.

A pot of graceful and luxurious peonies became more neat and tidy under the empress dowager's pruning.

Originally, the peonies in autumn are withered, and it is still rare to see such blooming peonies in autumn.

This is cultivated by burning charcoal in the greenhouse to control the temperature in the room.

The cultivation of this peony is hard work, not only to control the temperature, but also to pay attention to opening the windows frequently to ventilate the greenhouse, otherwise the peony will wither.

In this era, everyone does not have the awareness of oxygen.

Aunt Qing, the queen mother's close maid, praised: "The craftsmanship of the queen mother is a thousand times better than that of the servants in the greenhouse. This potted flower looks even better under the pruning of the queen mother."

The queen mother smiled, and before she had time to speak, she heard a loud noise outside.

"The palace servants who went out to release the rankings just now are back. I heard from them that this year's new champion is actually a woman disguised as a man."

"I've heard that too. The palace attendant said that the new champion is even more beautiful than all the empresses in the palace before."

"Tomorrow, the top three before the palace examination will enter the palace to face the saint. What do you think the emperor will do with her?"

"I think the emperor might accept her as his empress."

"Ha ha ha ha--"

……

Everyone laughed and made a ball.

Aunt Qing in the palace frowned, went out, and scolded them a few times.

"What are you doing? You don't go to work and chat here. What should you do if you disturb the empress dowager?"

Immediately, the maids and eunuchs in the palace knelt together.

"Auntie, forgive me—"

Just as Aunt Qing was about to punish them, she heard the Queen Mother's voice from inside.

"Qing Ruo, bring them in."

Aunt Qing replied to the inside: "Yes."

Then he winked at everyone.

The maids and eunuchs were suddenly a little uneasy, and they felt annoyed in their hearts. They should have kept their voices down when they spoke just now.

It's all right now, the empress dowager was so alarmed, and I don't know how the empress dowager will punish them later.

But the empress dowager has always been kind-hearted, so the punishment should not be too harsh.

Everyone walked towards the palace lightly, for fear of disturbing the queen mother again.

"I have seen the empress dowager—"

Everyone saluted the Queen Mother.

The queen mother asked while pruning the flower branches: "What were you talking about just now?"

Everyone replied: "No, nothing was discussed."

The movements of the queen mother's hands did not stop, and she looked at everyone with sharp eyes: "Mmm——"

A timid eunuch among the crowd stood up and said: "Hui...Hui Queen Mother, we just heard that this year's new champion...the number one scholar is a woman."

Hearing the eunuch's answer, the Empress Dowager's pruning hands trembled, and she cut off a well-opened flower bud.

Afterwards, the Empress Dowager put down the sight in her hand, waved her hand, and motioned for everyone to go down.

After everyone went down, the queen mother sat there for a long time, and Aunt Qingruo stayed by her side with some worries.

The queen mother asked her to go down too, she wanted to be quiet.

Aunt Qing Ruo had no choice but to salute and go down.

The queen mother sighed, she never expected that Jiang Zhao was still a woman.

As a result, the implementation of the military merit system will become very difficult.

But the best promoter of the military merit system is Jiang Zhao. If the identity of Jiang Zhao's woman has not been exposed, then they can still give Jiang Zhao a high-ranking official under pressure.

But now that her identity has been exposed, those ministers will definitely take this opportunity to make trouble at the court meeting tomorrow.

The queen mother couldn't help but feel a headache, the emperor probably won't be able to sleep today.

Tonight, half of the people in the city may not be able to sleep, and they are all waiting for the results of tomorrow's facial.

Immediately, the Empress Dowager ordered the imperial dining room to stew a bowl of soup, and she was going to see the emperor.

(End of this chapter)