in the sound of swallows

Chapter 125
On that day, Empress Wen and the then empress dowager personally issued a decree: "Today we found the lost prince Gu Chaobei, whose family name is Ming Ye, and who is the son of the imperial concubine Nian. The emperor passed away, and the prince passed away. This person is the only blood of the royal family. Established as the crown prince, once the mourning period is over, he can ascend the throne."

It wasn't a slip of the tongue, but a Ming Huang scroll, and the imperial decree is still kept by Gu Chaobei.If it is an ordinary person, if you say "Oh, I said something wrong at the time", it may not matter, but this is the royal family, and the decree is not a joke, let alone the decree of helping the emperor to the throne.

Empress Dowager Wen hesitated for a moment, and Prime Minister Gu stood up next to her and said, "It's about the lineage of the clan. Please be careful, Empress Dowager. If the emperor is really not born of the late emperor, those who supported the emperor on the throne that day will also be guilty of confusing the lineage of the royal family." Discussion."

She, Wen Xiuli, was the one who most supported Gu Chaobei's ascension to the throne.

Empress Dowager Wen tensed her face and looked at the emperor sitting on the seat.Gu Chaobei still looked very relaxed, as if he had predicted that she would not say that, she was confident, and it made people angry just looking at it.

"Aijia... Aijia is not clear either." Empress Dowager Wen flicked her sleeves, pursed her lips and said, "But the late emperor's order was for the former Crown Prince Ming Xun to ascend the throne. As for Ming Ye, he came from a lowly background, but he was only accepted by the Empress Dowager Nian." Adoption is actually the son of a court lady. The Ai family thinks that Ming Yu, the son of a filial prince, is more suitable to inherit the Datong."

When the Wen family was in the world, the Empress Dowager Wen really said what she said, and the first emperor did not dare to be too disobedient.On a whim, she will establish whoever she wants to establish, and whoever she wants to abolish will be abolished.With a wave of the phoenix robe, everyone in the court listened to her.

But now...

Gu Chaobei on the seat chuckled: "The empress dowager thinks that the will of the first emperor is respected and the background is noble. I am not satisfied with these two points, so it is not enough to secure the dragon seat?"

"Exactly." Empress Dowager Wen had thought about what to do if Gu Chaobei was disobedient, then the last emperor's will would make his title as emperor unjust, and his background made Gu Chaobei even more unconvincing.Once the support of himself and the empress dowager is lost, Gu Chaobei, the emperor, will definitely not be able to continue.

The emperor and the queen mother faced each other, smiling foolishly while holding a golden phoenix.

Looking at the old lady, Gu Chaobei suddenly felt a little sympathy for her, got up and got off the dragon seat, walked down the steps step by step, looked in the direction of Empress Dowager Wen and shouted: "Mother Queen."

Empress Dowager Wen frowned. This man has nowhere to go. Could it be that he still wants to use tenderness to attack?

"Emperor." A voice came from behind her, and everyone turned their heads, only to see the Nian Empress Dowager standing at the entrance of the court hall.

The Empress Dowager Nian was wearing her favorite breast-length underskirt palace attire back then. She walked in and looked at Gu Chaobei with kindness in her eyes.

The palace attire was large, and when he walked up to Empress Dowager Wen and stood beside her, he was able to squeeze Empress Dowager Wen away a bit.The Empress Dowager put away her usual sarcasm smile, her face was calm and gentle: "The Ai family has always disliked going to court, women should guard their own place, why bother to meddle in men's affairs."

Empress Dowager Wen looked at her with a sullen face.

"But I heard that Empress Dowager Wen today questioned the emperor's background, and even said that what she said when she established the emperor was not true. Then the Ai family has something to say."

Empress Dowager Nian turned her head to look at Empress Dowager Wen, smiling like she was in the past: "Sister, do you still remember that when my sister was pregnant and had a miscarriage, she always liked to wear this style of palace attire?"

Empress Dowager Wen frowned, wondering what kind of medicine the Empress Dowager was selling in her gourd this year, she nodded after thinking about it: "The Ai family remembers that there were many of these clothes in the harem."

"Sister knows that the first emperor always loved thin waists, so why did he suddenly fall in love with this palace dress with no waist and no belly?" The Empress Dowager Nian smiled meaningfully: "Sister thinks that when my sister fell that year, she really has already lost her waist." Miscarriage?"

Empress Dowager Wen was startled, and suddenly her face turned pale: "You..."

No, it's impossible. Back then, she planned so hard to get rid of the child in the Empress Dowager's stomach. She couldn't possibly still be pregnant, let alone give birth under her nose without letting her know!

"When the first emperor was in power, he loved Aijia very much. When he learned that someone was going to kill Aijia Longer, he asked Aijia to pretend to have a miscarriage. Afterwards, he made a palace dress of this style and gave it to Aijia, so that Aijia would become pregnant for eight months. It is well known. During the last month of delivery, the first emperor took Ai's family out of the palace for a tour, and happened to give birth to a prince, and then sent him to Gu's residence."

Empress Dowager Nian's eyes were a little red: "The late Emperor's great kindness, the Ai family will never forget."

He tried his best to protect her and the child in her womb.

The courtiers were in an uproar, and those who were a little shaken at first now had confidence in their hearts.The emperor is not the son of a court lady, but the biological son of the Empress Dowager Nian!
Gu Chaobei originally only had a [-]% chance of winning, but because of what the Empress Dowager Nian said, it instantly became [-]% chance.

Behind the Empress Dowager Nian is the Nian family.

"You're lying!" Empress Dowager Wen took two steps back, her face was pale, and she glared at Empress Dowager Nian angrily: "Impossible, you must have colluded with the emperor, lying to deceive all civil and military officials!"

"The Ai family can lie, but the first emperor can't." The Empress Dowager Nian turned and stood forward, and took out the imperial decree from her sleeve.

The imperial decree of the dragon and phoenix pattern is a little crumpled.The moment it unfolded, everyone in the hall knelt down.

Gu Chaobei also knelt in front of the Empress Dowager Nian, and the only one standing was the Empress Dowager Wen.

"The first emperor's edict: I have been in power for 26 years, but I have not been able to revitalize my dynasty. I have not been able to make the world a public. I am ashamed of my ancestors and of the common people. Now I am going away. The country is unfavorable, and I thought again and again, and decided to appoint Gu Chaobei, the son of the homeless people, that is, the seventh prince Ming Ye, as the new emperor. I wish to see my son as if I saw my face, assist him, and fulfill my unfinished wish. .”

Everyone gasped in their hearts, and shouted together: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Empress Dowager Wen squinted her eyes, looked at Empress Dowager Nian and said, "Do you know what crime you should be guilty of for false inheritance?"

Nian Chanjuan held the imperial decree respectfully, and turned it over: "The original decree was dictated by the late emperor, written by the prime minister himself, and there is also the jade seal of the late emperor on it. Why does my sister say that it is fake?"

It was Prime Minister Gu who wrote the will. Of course, Prime Minister Gu knew what he wrote, and only he knew.

Empress Dowager Wen's face turned blue, she glanced sideways at the courtiers beside her, and even Bachelor Fu lowered her head.Once the decree came out, no one could shake Gu Chaobei's throne.

Gu Chaobei is the child of the late emperor and Nian Chanjuan?Empress Dowager Wen stared blankly at Empress Nian for a long time, and finally realized that she was smart all her life, but in the end she made wedding dresses for others.

Nian Chanjuan, the woman who had fought her all her life, finally won her.She even had a son, and he was helped to the throne by himself!

"Hahaha." Empress Dowager Wen laughed three times, stepped back, and almost fell: "So it is like this, so it is like this."

No wonder Nian came to surrender when the first emperor was in critical condition, put away all his arrogance for so many years, and willingly saluted her.

It was all because of Gu Chaobei.

He said that the first emperor made love with the palace maid Mu Zan, and said that she hated Prime Minister Gu, but the prince was still in his hands.Everything is a lie to her.

She didn't doubt it at all, she believed everything!

Nian Chanjuan in front of her showed a smug smile, and Gu Chaobei seemed to be smiling at her too.All the civil and military men in the court looked at her, like looking at a fool, laughing that she had made the wedding dress for so many months without knowing it, but now that she knew the truth, there was no longer any place for her in the court.

Empress Dowager Wen reached out to grab something, but she couldn't grab anything. Her eyes went dark, and the world collapsed.

Yuwen Changqing caught the empress dowager's fallen body, and Gu Chaobei said with a sad face: "The empress dowager Wen is worried about the government and has already become sick from overwork. After today, I will issue a decree to allow the empress dowager to live in the East Palace for the elderly without having to go to court. Spend your old age."

"My emperor is wise." The person facing up knelt halfway down.

The other half did not dare to kneel, Gu Chaobei smiled and supported the Empress Dowager Nian, he was not in a hurry, after taking this step, everything after that would gradually get better.

The screen, which the late emperor had troubled for many years, was finally removed from the court hall.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Gu Chaobei only felt that his field of vision was wide and there was no more shackles.

"It is my will that starting today, the capital will implement the New Deal first, and if it is effective, it will be pushed to the rest of the states and counties. Those who actively implement the New Deal will be recorded in the book and rewarded together in the future!"

"The minister waits to obey the order." Prime Minister Gu cupped his hands, and the ministers behind him bowed down together.

A person like Empress Dowager Wen will not easily obey the order and fail to go to court. Gu Chaobei decided to go to the East Palace to make up for two more swords. Empress Dowager.

Wen Xiuli was lying on the bed, tears never stopped.

"He didn't do anything in his whole life. He used it all to love Nian Chanjuan." Empress Dowager Wen pulled Fanghua's sleeves, opened her eyes and asked softly, "Is Aijia really not worthy of his liking at all?"

Sister Fanghua opened her mouth, not knowing how to answer.Empress Dowager Wen's temperament is too strong, so it is reasonable for her not to be liked by the first emperor.

"The Ai family always felt that when he died, he would die, and finally he would not block my eyes with Nian Chanjuan. In the end, he gave the Ai family such a trick after he died. The Ai family really wanted to dig his grave. Get him out and ask, in this lifetime, don't he plan to pay back what he owes to Ai's family?" Wen Xiuli cried more and more as she talked.

Fanghua hugged her and comforted her and said, "Madam, if the late emperor is gone, he has already gone. You don't have to worry too much about today's court affairs. Even if you don't go to court to listen to politics in the future, the status of the Wen family will not be shaken by the emperor at all." No way."

Empress Dowager Wen sobbed for a while, then clenched her hands tightly.That's right, she still has the Wen family, but she misjudged the tiger and raised it as a rabbit.But the tiger wants to come out and bite her, doesn't she still have the Wen family?
In this east palace, there are hundreds of imperial guards, whoever comes in can't hurt her in the slightest.When she recovers from this breath, there will definitely be a day when she can make a comeback!
(End of this chapter)