Without further ado, Guo Yuan answered:
"Your Majesty, according to the Zhou rituals and the teachings of our ancestors, if the late emperor has no children, a successor should be chosen from among the late emperor's royal family to ensure the continuity of the royal ancestral temple and the legitimacy of the new emperor's succession to the throne..."
Xiao Ling looked at him coldly, without giving him any good look.
"Mr. Guo, my succession to the throne is based on the will of the late emperor!"
Guo Yuan snorted coldly, "Everything should be based on the teachings of our ancestors! The laws of our ancestors must not be violated!"
He thought it was completely reasonable when he brought up the Taizu ancestral precepts, but he never expected that Xiao Ling would find a flaw in it right away.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Ling laughed when he heard it, and directly brought up what happened last year to refute it.
"Really? Ancestral precepts cannot be violated. Then why didn't Minister Guo mention this when he recommended Minister Chu to join the cabinet, saying that officials from the Ministry of Personnel are not allowed to join the cabinet?"
After saying this, Xiao Ling had a smile on his face.
That smile was full of warning when he looked at Guo Yuan, and it was also full of warning when he looked at Chu Yi.
Chu Yi raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
As for Guo Yuan's action of shooting himself in the foot, he didn't bother to care.
He did not tell the people in other departments in advance about what the empress confessed today, just to test her.
Of course, as the Minister of Personnel, he had already notified the Ministry of Personnel and other relevant military generals.
No one in the Ministry of Personnel would come out to oppose the young empress for doing something that was unreasonable or inconsistent with the ancestral system.
As for how many people will openly sing a different tune today, we'll have to wait and see how things develop.
Chu Yi also wanted to witness the courage of his own empress and see whether Xiao Ling would panic in such a situation.
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