The Ling family members nearby echoed.
Many ministers also helped to plead.
Long Yi ignored him and said in a deep voice, "Depose Empress Dowager Ling Li and demote her to a commoner. The case will be handed over to the three courts for trial."
Old Master Ling's eyes turned fierce, and he lowered his head and shouted, "Your Majesty, please have mercy!"
"Your Majesty, please show mercy!" the Ling family members requested loudly.
When their voices fell silent, Long Yi spoke loudly, "Concubine Yun is my biological mother. I hereby appoint her as Empress Dowager. From now on, there will only be one Empress Dowager, and that is my biological mother."
The Ling family was very angry.
"Your Majesty, how can you depose one Empress Dowager and then enthrone another?" Old Master Ling stood up and said indignantly.
"I am the Emperor Dajing. Do I need your consent to appoint my biological mother as Empress Dowager?"
Long Yi is majestic and dignified, and his face is full of power.
"We dare not." The ministers said one after another.
"Dismiss the court." Long Yi stood up, put his hand on Eunuch Han's arm, and walked away.
The ministers were discussing this matter.
Because there were still many princes in the hall at the moment, some people looked at them warily and left the hall one after another.
Fu Ciyi looked around and also took a step forward.
In the Empress Dowager's palace at this moment.
Yan Funing had already taken out the snacks: "These are the snacks I like to eat. Grandma and Ling's grandmother can have them, and the Royal Grandmother needs to eat something soft and sticky."
She passed them one by one.
The Empress Dowager laughed and said, "I won't eat it. My teeth are not good. I can't eat it."
"The girl understands me and knows that I love to eat." Concubine Yun smiled.
Soon a young eunuch ran in and bowed to Qiao Wanyou first: "Your Majesty, the Emperor has sent me here to deliver a message."
"Go on." Qiao Wanyou said.
The young eunuch saluted the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ling, then knelt before Concubine Yun and said, "Congratulations, Empress Dowager! The Emperor has appointed you Empress Dowager during the morning court session."
"Good, good, good." The Empress Dowager smiled. "The Emperor is really quick."
"It's really fast." Concubine Ling was surprised and turned to congratulate her. "Sister Yun, with your current status, I don't want to go back to the cold palace."
"No, no." Concubine Yun smiled, "It's just the title of Empress Dowager..."
I always feel like I'm calling Ling Li.
She doesn't like it very much.
Long Yi strode forward and said, "If you don't like it, then you can call me Empress Dowager Yun. The title will still be that of the Empress Dowager."
Hearing this, Empress Dowager Yun nodded and looked at the people around her with a smile: "What do you think?"
"Your Majesty is right, Grandmother, and your granddaughter-in-law think it's great." Yan Funing said.
In this way, the deposed Emperor and Empress Dowager can be distinguished from the current Emperor and Empress Dowager.
"Of course you can," the Empress Dowager also said, "A title is one thing, a name is another. Just do whatever makes you feel comfortable."
As they were talking, Long Yi had just sat down when Fu Ciyi arrived.
He greeted them one by one, and then said to Long Yi, "Father, I have a few words to say."
As he spoke, he raised his hand to indicate that he wanted to speak to his father for a moment.
Long Yi glanced at him, finally stood up and went out with his son.
The father and son stood in the corridor.
"What do you want to say?"
"The Ling and Lou families are relatives by marriage, and normally they are on the same page. I believe the most urgent task now is for Father to be on guard against any trouble caused by the Ling family."
On this side, the father and son discussed the Ling family's subsequent response.
On the other side, Old Master Ling and his sons angrily left the palace. Halfway through the journey, he called out to Cai Tingzhou.
Cai Tingzhou looked around vigilantly.
Old Master Ling snorted, "Since Prime Minister Cai has been able to sit in the position of Prime Minister, I'm afraid he has forgotten my support."
"I dare not." Cai Tingzhou approached him and lowered his voice, "Old Master, I'm just wondering what to do about this dilemma."
Old Master Ling asked in return: "What about your two daughters?"
Cai Tingzhou grabbed Old Master Ling's arm and said, "Let's find a place to talk."
The group left the palace.
After arriving outside the palace, Cai Tingzhou got on the Ling family's carriage and sat down face to face with Old Master Ling.
"You've always supported Long Yaodong, but the new emperor hasn't held your Cai family accountable yet because he hasn't secured the throne yet. Once he does, do you think you'll still be able to hold the position of Prime Minister?" Old Master Ling asked coldly, "Have you forgotten how Minister Dong was driven out of the capital?"
The maid kneeling beside them poured hot tea for them both.
Cai Tingzhou sighed deeply: "How could I not know?"
He was just testing to see where Long Yi and Fu Ciyi's bottom line was.
These days, he is getting more and more worried.
As for Minister Dong, he was originally the Minister of Rites.
Because his son Dong Kuang had been married to the fifth princess and there were some unhappiness during their marriage, the new emperor took his anger out on the entire Dong family.
Now that the new Minister of Rites is the confidant of the new emperor, the abolition of the Empress Dowager and the enthronement of the new Empress Dowager will surely be announced to the world soon.
"That's good to know." Old Master Ling snorted, "When the late emperor was still alive, he would still give my Ling family some face."
I thought the new emperor would place more importance on the Ling family.
I never thought so many scandals would emerge.
But given the current situation, the Ling family really couldn't swallow this humiliation.
Cai Tingzhou said softly, "Old Master, to be honest, the previous emperor handed the throne to the new emperor because the new emperor had the support of your Ling family."
"That's exactly what the late emperor thought. He thought this would secure the new emperor's throne." Old Master Ling sneered. "Now, my Ling family, like your Cai family, has become a thorn in the new emperor's side. Prime Minister Cai, what do you think we should do?"
The two looked at each other.
"We might as well..." Cai Tingzhou did not continue his words.
He only looked at Old Master Ling.
Old Master Ling laughed heartily: "Maybe..."
His words didn't explain.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Cai Tingzhou asked, "I wonder what the old man is thinking?"
"What is Prime Minister Cai thinking about?" Old Master Ling also asked.
They each dipped their fingers into the teacup, and then wrote a word on the table with their fingertips -
stone.
"Great minds think alike!"
Cai Tingzhou laughed out loud.
Old Master Ling nodded and said, "Since the new emperor wants to go against us, then we should choose someone else to support. Shi Yu's son, Long Chi'an, was the one the late emperor wanted to entrust with the throne."
"Yes, but for some reason, the late emperor suddenly changed his mind when he passed away." Cai Tingzhou frowned. "Could it be that the late emperor was forced by the new emperor?"
"It's possible." Old Master Ling said softly, "We must contact the Shi family as soon as possible without delay."
If Ling Li was really tried by the three courts, not only would she suffer, but the entire Ling family would probably be implicated by her.
From another perspective, without the Empress Dowager's support, the Ling family's future status is also worrying.
Now, to solve this problem, we can only choose someone else to sit on the throne.
By then, even if the Ling family lost its empress dowager, it would not matter because the Ling family would be the backbone of the new emperor.
Cai Tingzhou frowned and expressed his concerns, "I just don't know what the Shi family's attitude is. Is Long Chi'an interested in cooperating with us?"
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