Xiangmen black-bellied woman

Chapter 459 Are you worthy too?
Before the sky was bright, Hong Ling, Qing Que and others brought a whole set of Queen's servants and waited respectfully at the entrance of the apse.Shen Ninghua didn't sleep well all night, and opened her eyes when she heard footsteps at the door.

"Empress, it's time to get up."

"come in."

A group of maids, led by Hong Ling and Qing Que, filed in.Shen Ninghua was waited on after washing her face and putting on makeup, and put on the complicated queen's clothes one by one.

Hong Ling helped Shen Ninghua tidy up her skirt and cuffs, and Qing Que brought over the porridge: "Your Majesty, please use some porridge, it will take a long time for the morning court."

Shen Ninghua nodded, and quietly ate half of the bowl of porridge.There was silence in the apse, and Qing Que and Hong Ling were even more tense, as if they had tensed up all the nerves in their bodies.Shen Ninghua put down the bowl, glanced at the two of them, smiled slightly, and did not speak.She didn't get up until a servant at the door came to say that it was time, and then she got up and walked towards Chengqian Palace.

In Chengqian Hall, civil and military officials were separated on both sides, and the hall was very noisy. Many people looked towards the door of the hall from time to time, just waiting for the newly appointed empress to appear.Many people even began to maliciously speculate about what the queen would be like in a hurry when facing them. It was good for them to obey Baili Junyi's orders, but they really didn't pay attention to a queen.

The newly promoted officials by Baili Junyi are different. They are all loyal to the emperor's party. Execution, if the queen can't hold on later, they will definitely do their best to save the queen's face and prevent the situation in the court from getting out of control.

"The empress is here!" The long-awaited voice finally rang out, and the originally noisy hall was instantly silent, and a pressure spread silently. For a while, the newly promoted officials stared at the old courtiers with even more unkind expressions. It was deliberately embarrassing the empress.

Shen Ninghua, dressed in the orthodox service of the queen, appeared above the main hall. She walked up the high steps step by step through the royal road dedicated to the emperor. Slowly sit on the dragon chair.

"See empress empress, empress, thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand years old."

Shen Ninghua swept across the courtiers in the hall. In fact, she had been standing by the side for a while just now, so she naturally knew the momentary change from noisy to silent in the hall, and even understood the minds of some courtiers. At this moment, she sat upright At the top, raised his hand slightly: "Everyone loves you."

"Thank you, Empress."

Many ministers looked at Shen Ninghua secretly, and found that she was sitting directly on the throne that belonged to the emperor, and they were immediately dissatisfied.The speech officer Qiu Ming stood up immediately: "My lady, the emperor ordered you to supervise the country, but you are the queen, even if you have the power to supervise the country, you should not sit on the emperor's dragon chair. This is really disrespectful to the emperor. .”

As soon as this remark was made, the following immediately echoed: "Yes, Mr. Qiu is right."

"The empress's actions this time are inappropriate."

Shen Ninghua continued to sit indifferently, watching the courtiers quarreling below with cold eyes.

The newly promoted officials saw that the veterans were arguing too much, so naturally they couldn't just sit idly by, and many people immediately joined the battle group:

"Your Majesty Qiu's words are wrong. The emperor personally issued an imperial decree to hand over the power of supervising the country to the empress. What's more, the empress is the emperor's official wife. When she is in charge of supervising the country, she is naturally qualified to sit on the dragon chair." , even if the emperor is present, he won't care, is Mr. Qiu being too lenient?"

"That's right, your empress has a different status now, so there's nothing wrong with sitting on the dragon chair."

After about a quarter of an hour, the scene below became more and more noisy, and many courtiers were waiting for Shen Ninghua's reaction to see how she would end up.

There was an uproar in the hall, and the expressions of the newly promoted officials became more and more embarrassing. At this time, they suddenly realized that Mr. Qiu picked a small question to speak up, just to make them quarrel, and now no one accepts it. No one would be able to hear the empress's opening. If this scene cannot be suppressed, it will be even more difficult to control the situation in the future.

Shen Ninghua heard that they were arguing enough, and slightly raised her hand: "Come here!"

Her voice was not loud, and even because the hall was too noisy, many people didn't hear it.Naturally, Lord Qiu and the others who took the lead in making troubles were always paying attention to Shen Ninghua, and naturally they heard and saw her movements, but they pretended not to hear them full of malice in their hearts, and continued to speak loudly, waiting for her to lose face moment.

"exist!"

Suddenly, a loud echo sounded suddenly, the voice was thick and powerful, and it was especially astonishing to match the footsteps entering the door.The officials who were quarreling in the hall were startled, they subconsciously looked towards the door, their eyes widened in disbelief, and the well-equipped Dragon Scale Army quickly rushed in from the door of the hall, occupying the entire back section of the hall. .

The queen actually transferred the Dragon Scale Army into the main hall!The current Dragon Scale Army has been cleaned and organized by Baili Junyi, which is very different from Baili Qingcang's pro-army before, and Shen Ninghua is very smooth.

"Detain Qiu Ming, take off the top-wearing flower feathers, and put him in the dungeon for disposal." Shen Ninghua's voice was cold, and he didn't even increase the volume so that people could hear him clearly, but when it reached everyone's ears, it made people My head is in a daze.

Qiu Ming, who took the lead in speaking, came back to his senses and immediately shouted for grievances: "Empress Empress, I just did my duty as a speech officer, you can't treat me like this, wouldn't your behavior make everyone in the court The words of the officials are chilling, who will dare to speak honestly and remonstrate in the future?"

"Speaker? My palace respects speaker, so naturally I won't chill the hearts of all those who are loyal and admonishing, but, are you worthy to be a speaker?"

Qiu Ming's face was flushed: "I have been an official for decades, and I have risked my life many times to speak out, why am I not worthy of being an official? Empress Empress, if you don't give me an explanation, I don't need my mother to deal with me today, so I will do it myself." Bumped to death on this Chengqian Palace, and earned a reputation as a righteous official!"

As soon as he said this, the officials below also glared at Shen Ninghua.Yanguan is the most steadfast group of officials in the court, and when they become stubborn, even the emperor can't do anything about it.As soon as Shen Ninghua came up, she exploded at the speaker, almost punching a hornet's nest.

Shen Ninghua stood up slowly, and spread the phoenix robe embroidered with a hundred birds towards the phoenix at her feet. She stood upright, like a proud phoenix, with indescribable nobility and coldness: "You are still not convinced, Then you come and tell me what kind of person the speaker should be?"

Qiu Ming shook off the guard who was about to step forward to detain him, straightened his clothes, and said righteously: "Speaker, to supervise injustice, to persuade the emperor, even if you sacrifice your life, you must speak up!"

Shen Ninghua sneered: "It seems that you already know this."

Qiu Ming's face turned red: "Empress, what you said is a great insult to the courtier, so I will ask you, what do you think is a speech officer?"

Shen Ninghua raised her voice slightly, and her cold voice echoed in the hall like broken jade: "Whoever chooses an official, three things should be the first: first, don't love wealth and honor, second, cherish fame and integrity, and second, know how to govern the body .In the eyes of many people, this is already the standard for a speech officer, but this palace believes that this is not enough!"

Don't love wealth and honor, cherish fame and festivals, know how to govern the system.When these three points were brought up, the officials above the hall immediately trembled. They raised their heads to look at the high queen, and the rebelliousness in their eyes gradually disappeared.A courtier who was over seventy years old came out. He was wearing a first-grade official uniform. He was thin and even a little stooped, but as he walked, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

He is Zhu Zheng, the speech officer of the former dynasty. Because of the stupidity of the former emperor, he risked his life to remonstrate many times. He was thrown into prison by the emperor and tortured. However, a courtier wanted to die for the country with his own body. Although he was rescued later, he also realized that the emperor of Da'an Kingdom could give the people a better life, so although he no longer wanted to die, he still had the name of a speech official, and he had not been in court for many years. say a word.Seriously, he is a minister of speech officials at the senior level.

Zhu Zheng walked to the center of the hall, knelt down respectfully in front of Shen Ninghua, fell on the ground, and saluted her with the most formal etiquette, and then said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Please re-establish the standard for the speaker. .” The queen said that she thought it was not enough to meet the three points in the letter, which meant that she had even higher requirements.

With Zhu Zheng taking the lead, the other officials quickly knelt down: "I ask the Empress to set a new standard for the officials."

Shen Ninghua said coldly: "Okay, I will say the words of Master Zhu. Firstly, officials must choose the country and forget their family, and they must be loyal and forget their personalities; secondly, they must be upright and upright, straightforward and outspoken. Don't worry about gains and losses, love your body and keep your fortune; thirdly, have outstanding academic ability, not only familiar with the government affairs of all parties in the court, insight into the pros and cons of trends, but also be able to learn about ancient and modern times, and learn from history."

"Okay!" Zhu Zheng shouted, and bowed deeply to Shen Ninghua, his old body trembling slightly, this is the standard that a speech officer should have, this is the realm he pursues!
Shen Ninghua walked down the steps slowly and came to Zhu Zheng. She leaned over and helped Zhu Zheng up: "Master Zhu, when you were an official in the previous dynasty, you were able to be impartial and truthful, good at distinguishing right from wrong, and dare to speak out. , you are diligent and honest, and you set an example for speech officials, although I don’t know why you didn’t speak up after the founding of our Da’an Kingdom, but today you can speak, I am very grateful.”

"I didn't open my mind before, and the empress laughed at it. From now on, I would like to ask the empress not to dislike the noisy old minister."

Shen Ninghua smiled: "Master Zhu has an iron mouth, if there is anything wrong with what I have done, please be merciful."

"How is that possible?" Zhu Zheng shook his head solemnly, in return for the newly promoted officials to laugh.The eyes looking at Shen Ninghua became more and more admirable. If they didn't know that Mr. Zhu is not to be bought, they would have suspected that this was a scene that Shen Ninghua and Zhu Zheng had rehearsed in advance.No wonder the emperor can safely hand over the country to the empress, this empress is really not an ordinary person!
(End of this chapter)