"Your Majesty, the morning court is almost here. Would you like to get up and attend the court?"
The eunuch kept an eye on the time, and when he saw that the time had come, he would ask quietly outside the curtain.
"Stand up."
Several palace maids came forward and drew aside the curtains. Originally, those serving in the bedroom were His Majesty's maids and ministers, but His Majesty had never married a maid, let alone other ministers. Previously, the court officials thought it was because of Young Master Yan. After the servants who served him personally yesterday, they finally understood how favored Young Master Yan was. The real favorite of His Majesty was someone else.
In short, the harem has been empty until now, so the people serving him are all palace maids and servants.
The palace maids came up and down to help the emperor put on the dragon robe. The empress in front of the mirror was tall. These days, the servants felt that the empress's eyes became sharper. Just by looking at the emperor's face in the mirror, the palace servants felt a sense of awe-inspiring pressure and could not bear to look directly at him.
The court officials felt this most deeply when it was time to go to court.
"I heard that a few days ago, a fire broke out in the east of the capital, burning down more than a dozen shops. Why didn't anyone report this to me?"
Standing to the left of the chief of officials was a group of aristocratic families represented by women. They held their heads high, walked with their heads held high, and talked eloquently. Their leader was the second princess.
Standing on the right were the lower-class nobles. At first glance, most of them were men wearing low-ranking official uniforms. They all hunched their chests and lowered their heads, creating a depressing atmosphere.
He served as an official in the Council Hall, but did not dare to look up.
Qingdai calmly took in everything in the court and sighed in her heart.
In a world where women are dominant, most men consider it unethical to show their faces in public. Although the gender discrimination in this dynasty is not that strict, it still remains to be seen that the road to achieving gender equality is long and arduous.
However, among these two clearly divided factions, there is only one person who is incompatible, and that is the Prime Minister in front who also comes from a prominent family.
Upon hearing the emperor's words of accountability, the left-wing faction, which had been so arrogant, suddenly fell silent.
The emperor is in decline, and the second princess is on the rise. The reason why the emperor is kept out of the spotlight is, of course, because of the second princess's secret operations.
Of course, the memorial was not not passed to the emperor for reading, but it was written very inconspicuously and was only mentioned briefly.
For the incompetent emperor in the past, he would not have noticed these insignificant words at a glance, and the ministers also tacitly let the matter go.
After leaving the court, the ministers casually mentioned the matter to the empress, and according to the emperor's usual style of doing things, he would leave it to his ministers to handle.
After this operation, the initiative fell into the hands of the second princess. The second princess then found an excuse to remove the governor of the Five Cities Army and replace him with her own man. The harvest of power was completed quietly.
Qingdai watched the adults exchange glances with each other. She certainly knew what was going on, including the little tricks the Second Princess had secretly used. She had known all of them since the first day she came to this world.
This was when the Second Princess was just starting out, and she didn't dare to do anything too extreme. In the later stages of the world's development, her direct and unconcealed style was what was called rubbing the emperor's face on the ground.
Qingdai looked calmly at the person in front of her. Seeing that he didn't come up to talk to her even though she had been talking for a long time, she couldn't help but feel puzzled.
What's wrong with Lord Yan? Does he not recognize me as soon as he gets out of bed?
Qingdai couldn't understand what was going on in the mind of Lord Yan, who was tough on the outside but soft on the inside. Seeing that he had no reaction, she winked at a certain place, and immediately someone stood up.
"Your Majesty, while sorting through the memorials a few days ago, I discovered several omissions. I have specially sorted them out before attending court today. Perhaps Your Majesty can find the answers from them."
The ministers all looked at the woman who showed up with strange eyes. She looked very unfamiliar, and they didn't even remember that there was such a person among the officials above the third rank.
The second princess' heart skipped a beat, and she exchanged glances with the person next to her without saying a word.
If someone other than his own side showed up at this moment, then there was only one possibility... it was arranged by the Empress.
Qingdai asked someone to present the prepared memorial in a proper manner.
Of course, this tacit agreement was just a formality, and she had no intention of hiding her connections from the Second Princess.
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"Bang—"
The memorial was thrown onto the floor of the Council Hall.
"This matter ends here today. If it happens again, I will conduct a thorough investigation and all relevant officials will be dismissed!"
At this moment, a group of ministers were kneeling on the ground trembling with fear. They never thought that it was just a memorial and the content was nothing special, but after the empress finished reading it, she asked the eunuchs to bring all the memorials that had been approved in the past few days. In every word, she accurately found their mistakes.
The second princess was even directly criticized for "making hasty decisions and doing things ineffectively."
The emperor was furious. They thought the matter was over, but they didn't expect that the real culprit of the fire was caught that afternoon. The governor of the Five Cities Army was immediately dismissed and replaced by fresh blood.
If the palace servants were short-sighted and didn't understand where the faint pressure came from, the ministers who were also carefully trained by the famous clans felt that the empress seemed to have been reborn and become a different person.
The empress has an extremely beautiful face. In the past, her political achievements were mediocre. Ever since Young Master Yan gained the emperor's favor, His Majesty's behavior has become more and more absurd. It seems that he has ignored the country and state affairs for the sake of beauty. The way he looks at people is frivolous and meaningless.
It was nowhere near as mysterious and unfathomable as it is today, making it impossible to tell its depth.
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This world is full of my own personalities. I'll write about how I got pregnant in my essay later (*?▽?*)
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