Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

"Is there such a brazen person in the world?"

Ziji City, Zichen Palace.

The empress frowned slightly, looking at Fang Yu who was half kneeling on the ground in front of her and reporting to her what happened in Lu's small courtyard today, her face was full of disgust.

"When Huaiyu's future was not guaranteed, he resolutely regretted the marriage. Now that Huaiyu has a promising future, he shamelessly comes to the door to beg for remarriage. Even doing such a thing, businessmen are really shameless."

Jiang Chengdao shrugged.

"Businessmen, this has been the case since ancient times, nothing surprising."

As he said that, he waved his hand to let Fang Yu go back, then pointed to the official documents piled up like a hill on the empress's desk, and said slowly:

"Compared to such insignificant and trivial matters, Your Majesty, you should focus on the urgent business affairs that need to be dealt with right now."

After pausing for a moment, he continued to speak:

"All the party members of the Queen Mother's family have been inspected. Now the rebellious party in Beijing has almost been cleaned up, and the arrest warrants for the remnants of the party in various places have basically been issued. It is estimated that they will be escorted to Beijing one after another in the next few days."

Hearing this, the empress opened an official document absently for some reason, and at the same time responded casually:

"There is nothing to worry about civil servants. Otherwise, the past dynasties would not have given civil servants such a high status. The focus is on military officials. The Empress Dowager has been in power for six years, but she can control the world steadily. It must be inseparable from the support of military officials. The three major Battalions and Custodians are prime examples."

The Forbidden Army is the Son of Heaven's pro-army, responsible for guarding the Sili and stabilizing the world. Logically speaking, it should be the emperor's greatest reliance.

But in the Shenghe Dynasty it was the complete opposite.

The middle and high-level generals of the Forbidden Army were all controlled by the Empress Dowager, making the entire Forbidden Army's 800,000 soldiers and horses completely reduced to the Empress Dowager's minions. Even though the Empress Dowager was identified as a demon queen who was controlled by evil spirits and controlled the court, they still spared no effort to support the Empress Dowager's counterattack against Luo Jing , did not take into account the life and death of her emperor at all.

Although the queen mother is not capable of governing, she has an extraordinary talent for power struggles, and she understands the importance of the army better than anyone else.

Therefore, in addition to the Forbidden Army, other armies must have many followers of the Queen Mother.

In this regard, the empress is not very worried about the chaos in the world.

After all, she holds the power of the most powerful saint in the world. No matter how powerful the army is, it cannot be the opponent of the Cangming Army led by Jiang Chengdao.

Although due to the limitation of the distance and the responsibilities of the Holy King, the Empress can only ensure the absolute rule of the Sili generation, but it is enough for her.

As long as you stand in an invincible position, you are not afraid of someone making trouble.

What's more, righteousness is still in her hands.

After all, there are only a few who dare to rebel, and only the heinous and the remnant party who are very close to the Queen Mother will go to extremes when there is no way out.

They are also the hidden dangers that the empress is most concerned about solving now.

Jiang Chengdao replied: "The imperial edict of the New Yuan Ceremony has been issued, and anyone who does not take off his armor to go to Beijing or send his son-in-law to Beijing to pay homage, without any valid reason, can be regarded as rebellious."

"Um."

The empress nodded slightly, then turned her head inexplicably, looking towards the northwest direction of the map of the world hanging on the wall not far away, her face gradually revealed a trace of solemnity.

Jiang Chengdao also looked over, and then said in a deep voice as if he had seen through the empress' thoughts:

"The biggest problem right now is without a doubt the general of Zhu Kingdom guarding Motian City, who was born in a family of generals, and at the age of only 23, commanded 700,000 Cangling troops to beat the alien race of the Cangwu Icefield to the point of being unable to hold his head up. In just two years, a peerless hero who has made great military exploits for the imperial court, a famous general in the world, - Gu Simiao."

Hearing this name, the empress finally calmed down completely.

"The youngest general of the Zhu Kingdom in Great Xia's history..."

Jiang Chengdao nodded slightly: "The most important thing is that she is the fiancée of Zhao Feifan, the younger generation helm of the Zhao family, whom the Queen Mother Zhao trusts the most."

"When the rebel army was defeated, the Empress Dowager Zhao and Xia Houyan led the remnant army to flee to the northwest. Presumably, they wanted to find her good nephew and daughter-in-law, and wanted to make a comeback with the help of the Cangling Army and compete with His Majesty for the world."

Hearing this, the empress suddenly tensed up.

"Will the 700,000 frontier troops turn against them like the Forbidden Army?"

"Who knows?"

Jiang Chengdao shrugged.

"Although the Badazhu Kingdom has always guarded the frontiers and has no involvement in the court, it is another matter if there is a shocking change in the court. In any case, everything should be cautious and be prepared for the worst at any time."

The Empress lowered her eyes.

"Is there any news over there?"

"No."

Jiang Chengdao said indifferently: "Even the imperial edict issued before has not received any response. In this case, no news is the worst news."

After the words were finished, a gust of breeze blew in through the window sill, and the candlelight in the candlestick flickered accordingly, making the empress's beautiful little face appear to flicker in the flickering candlelight.

After a while, she quietly clenched her fists.

"It seems that we have to prepare early."

Jiang Chengdao took out an official document from his arms in due course and handed it to the empress.

"Ten days ago, there were frequent changes in the Gu family in Pingcheng, and there were suspicious signs of his children serving in the army. At this juncture, it always feels a little subtle."

Hearing this, the female emperor's eyes turned cold.

…………

Of course, Lu Chen didn't know about the affairs in the palace.

Early the next morning, he went to the Sixth Section Corridor to clock in and go to work as usual.

After all, the character setting has been set up, if it goes too far against the character setting, the ghost knows whether he will be invited to drink tea by Zhu Xiesi.

There is no grand meeting today, so there is no need to go to the Tai Chi Hall, just slowly figure out how to use the power of your position to make trouble for yourself in the Sixth Section Gallery.

However, as soon as he sat down, his buttocks were still warm, when he saw a young eunuch walking over with a lot of official documents.

Seeing the pile of official documents, Lu Chen inexplicably had an ominous premonition.

"Master Lu, my maidservant greets you~"

While greeting Lu Chen with a flattering face, he carefully placed the official document on the table in front of Lu Chen.

Lu Chen looked at him with a black question mark on his face: "Elder-in-law, this is..."

"Ouch!"

Hearing that Lu Chen actually called him by an honorific title, the eunuch exclaimed flatteredly, and then hurriedly said, "Your servant is just an ordinary servant, but you can't be called 'father-in-law' by Mr. Lu. Master Lu, please call your servant 'Xiao Li ', it is a great honor for this slave~"

Lu Chen: "..."

He had forgotten that although this world was similar to the ancient society before time travel, there were still many differences.

Here, although there are fewer female emperors, it is not unacceptable. Therefore, the status of women in this world is not as low as in the feudal society of his previous life. Women are more prominent in government and business.

In the palace, since the emperor is not necessarily a man, in order to prevent the palace people from obscenity in the court, both eunuchs and court ladies are barren eunuchs.

Among the eunuchs, only eunuchs with higher power status, such as eunuchs with palm seals, are eligible to be called father-in-law.

His "Elder-in-law" was indeed a bit frustrating.

Shaking his head, Lu Chen was about to ask again, when the eunuch who called himself Xiao Li hurriedly said: "Lord Lu, these are all official affairs handled by His Majesty last night, and most of them are related to the Ministry of Officials. Your Majesty has something to say, Sir Lu With outstanding talents and learning, he can be called a unparalleled national scholar in this dynasty, and sooner or later he will be in charge of the Ministry of Officials, so he should familiarize himself with the government affairs of the Ministry of Officials as soon as possible, and make preparations early, so as to relieve His Majesty's worries as soon as possible."

Pausing for a while, and taking a breath, Xiao Li immediately added: "And Your Majesty said that these official documents need to be approved by Mr. Lu before they can take effect, otherwise they will be rejected and redone."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

What the hell?

Official documents from the Ministry of Officials need to be approved by my engineering department before they can take effect?

What is the official's job?

He is doing his job well, has always been conscientious, and has never provoked anyone, why do you want to target him like this?

Pooh! Faint king!