The Golden Palace.
"Your Majesty, the country cannot be without a ruler for a day, and similarly, the harem cannot be without a queen for a day. Your servants know that the emperor is still in mourning, so it is not appropriate to organize a beauty pageant. Your Majesty can first select the queen from among the young ladies of the noble families and decide on the queen of the central palace. In the future, the queen will also organize beauty pageants for the emperor."
"Mr. Pei is right. I second your proposal."
"I second this motion."
"I also second this motion."
………
In the hall, a minister spoke, and all the civil and military officials spoke up one after another.
Dongfang Xunyi glanced expressionlessly at the civil and military officials kneeling in an orderly manner in the hall.
His slender fingers were slightly bent, and his knuckles tapped lightly on the armrests of the dragon throne.
The dragon throne made of pure gold made a dull, low sound.
He extremely disliked civil and military officials interfering excessively in his private affairs.
Although he is the king of a country, all his affairs are state affairs.
But for the wife who will spend his life with him in the future.
Dongfang Xunyi has his own ideas.
"My dear ministers, do you have anything else to say? If not, please adjourn the court." Dongfang Xunyi's voice was low and faint, and one could not tell whether he was happy or sad.
"emperor……"
"Sir Pei, I heard that your beloved daughter announced that she will be my future empress. I wonder if Miss Pei's confidence comes from Sir Pei? Sir Pei's beloved daughter knows things that even I don't know, but she knows them better than I do. How about giving my throne to your Pei family?"
Dongfang Xunyi's tone suddenly changed, and his voice was filled with coldness.
These people, serving the old emperor, only knew how to flatter and curry favor with him.
Do you really think that he is as easy to fool as the old emperor?
It is true that he is young.
If they didn't go too far, he could turn a blind eye and pretend not to know.
The minister who was the first to speak out and whose name was called out was so frightened when he heard what Dongfang Xunyi said that his legs went weak and his body trembled uncontrollably.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I dare not do this. I failed to teach my rebellious daughter well and let her say such treasonous words. Your Majesty, rest assured. I will teach her a lesson when I return home."
Lord Pei knocked his head so hard that it made loud bangs.
Even if he had the intention to commit a crime, he wouldn't have the guts to do it.
The Dongfang family's world can only be ruled by the Dongfang family. He doesn't have the courage to usurp the throne and change the country's surname.
At most, he wanted to send his daughter to the palace.
When his daughter gives birth to an imperial heir in the future, he can support his grandson to become the crown prince.
In this way, the bloodline of the next emperor will contain the blood of the Pei family.
"Your Majesty is very clear. Lord Pei is loyal and devoted. Someone must have framed him behind the scenes to alienate the emperor and his subjects. Your Majesty, please do not fall for the evil schemes of the villains."
The civil and military officials in the court had long formed small groups behind the scenes.
The officials who were in the same faction as Lord Pei came forward to plead for him.
Dongfang Xunyi curled his lower lips slightly.
"Lord Li, I recently received a letter of complaint regarding the recent disaster relief."
He hadn't intended to operate on him.
Since he wanted to run into the knife, don't blame him.
"Your Majesty, I have an old illness." Lord Li pretended to be in pain and raised his hand to cover his chest, panting and saying, "This is a heart disease. If I am not careful, my life will be in danger. Your Majesty, please be merciful. I have to take my leave and return home first."
As soon as he heard the fire was burning him, he quickly found an excuse to run away.
Dongfang Xunyi raised his lips slightly and smiled contemptuously: "Oh, did Lord Li's heart disease come at such a coincidence?"
"Your Majesty, this is the condition of my heart. It is unpredictable."
Lord Li's body was shaking like a sieve.
They all looked down on the young emperor, thinking that he could be easily fooled because of his young age.
I didn’t expect that the new emperor was much more thoughtful than the previous one.
It seems that they will not have a comfortable life in the future.
Nowadays, few of the civil and military officials in the court are truly clean.
The emperor won't do anything to them for the time being.
But as he takes back power in the future, what awaits them is at best the loss of their official positions, and at worst their lives.
Dongfang Xunyi glanced at the ministers in the court, and a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes.
"Does anyone else have anything to say?" He raised his eyebrows slightly.
All the civil and military officials bowed their heads respectfully, and no one dared to raise any objections.
Dongfang Xunyi stood up from the dragon chair and waved his wide sleeves, "If there is nothing else, I will leave the court."
He knew very well that most of these people were parasites of the country.
But the interests involved behind them are huge, the situation is complicated, and many people will be implicated.
Now is not the time to move them.
He would let them jump around for a while longer, and wait until the day came to close the net and catch them all.
"Your Majesty, I respectfully bid you farewell. Long live Your Majesty."
The ministers knelt on the ground.
Only after they saw Dongfang Xunyi's figure disappear in the hall did they dare to breathe deeply.
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"Your Majesty, you have just ascended the throne, your foundation is not stable, and you are still young. I think the ministers' proposal is feasible, but the daughter of Lord Pei does not have the demeanor of a mother of a country. However, Your Majesty can choose a young lady from a noble family who you think is feasible and make her the Empress of the Central Palace.
If the emperor gets married, his image in the hearts of the people will also make them more trusting, which can not only stop the gossips, but also stabilize the people's hearts. It is a good way to kill two birds with one stone."
The young eunuch who had been with Dongfang Xunyi since he was still the crown prince, spoke up bravely.
He usually doesn't talk much.
Especially when it came to discussions of state affairs in the court, he would be selectively deaf, not listening, not speaking, and not talking about it.
But today, the emperor has already alerted the enemy in order to make the people give up the idea.
One or two court officials are not afraid, as they cannot cause any trouble.
The fear is that they will get wind of the news and unite, which will make them difficult to deal with in the future.
The emperor had secretly ordered people to go to the people to collect evidence of the officials' crimes.
There are many crimes, both big and small.
"Xiao Luzi, you forgot that the harem and eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in government affairs."
Dongfang Xunyi glanced at the young eunuch dimly.
The young eunuch felt a chill all over his body. He lowered his eyelids and quickly explained, "Your Majesty, I dare not."
Eunuchs interfering in politics is a big deal. If he had the courage to do so, he wouldn't have been a mediocre eunuch for so many years.
Every rule is the result of experience condensed from blood and tears.
There was a precedent in the previous dynasty where the country and the world changed hands because of eunuchs interfering in politics.
Later, our ancestors established this rule that eunuchs were not allowed to be present when the emperor was in court or discussing military secrets.
What they wanted to prevent was the eunuchs from leaking military secrets.
"What's going on in Fengyi Palace?" Dongfang Xunyi asked with his thin lips slightly opened.
He no longer suffers from nightmares or sleepless nights.
I sleep until dawn every night and have no dreams.
From that day on, Dongfang Xunyi never dreamed of Li Xia again.
Xiao Luzi blinked his eyes. "The Queen Mother got up at noon. She watched the fish for a while in the morning and ate a small plate of exquisite cakes while sitting in the pavilion..."
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