1909 is in a daze, the world is going crazy
Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. The Ninth Prince has completely blocked Madam Min's way. Madam Min never expected that her canonization ceremony would be so simple and held directly in the temple...
"Is this the enthronement ceremony for this palace?" Madam Min looked at the robe on the table and finally couldn't help but spoke sharply.
When did Dong Ling become so poor? Or, how little did the people of Dong Ling value her, the biological mother of the Ninth Emperor Bo?
"To reply to Your Majesty, the war situation on the front line is tense and the treasury is short of money. Your Majesty advocates frugality and takes the palace as an example. All civil and military officials and the people of the world follow suit. The Regent knows that Your Majesty keeps everything simple on weekdays, but the Regent has ordered that the enthronement ceremony does not have to be luxurious, but it must be grand. Your Majesty must not be wronged." This is the power of the palace people. It is obvious that they do not take Madam Min seriously, but when he says it, it becomes that he is thinking about Madam Min everywhere.
In fact, in order to show the importance of Madam Min, today's ceremony was indeed grand. Not only did Empress Dowager Xie lead all the concubines in the harem, but the little emperor also came in person, giving Madam Min enough face.
But these are not what Madam Min wants. What she wants is to return to the palace and become a real Grand Empress Dowager, a Grand Empress Dowager with real power, rather than an old woman locked up in a temple chanting scriptures.
If that's the case, why would she go back to Dongling?
Madam Min was trembling all over, and the expression on her face was slightly distorted. Just when the eunuch thought that Madam Min would refuse to attend, Madam Min suddenly calmed down, as if nothing had happened. She gently stood up and asked the palace maid to help her dress up so as not to delay the auspicious time.
She can endure things that ordinary people cannot endure. What a scary woman.
The eunuchs felt a chill in their hearts. They often dealt with women in the harem, and they were most afraid of women who looked harmless but had strong wills. Such women would eventually reach heights that ordinary people could not reach...
When Wang Jinling learned about this outside, he just laughed and asked someone to reveal the news to Empress Dowager Xie.
The harem is a battlefield for women, so just let the women fight among themselves. He has no interest in playing such low-class tricks with a woman.
Mrs. Min wouldn't be so naive as to think that she could make a beautiful comeback at the enthronement ceremony, right?
Being so naive, he would doubt whether Madam Min was the biological mother of the Ninth Prince.
It's not that Madam Min is naive, but she has no choice. In order to maintain a perfect image, she can't use cruel means in Dongling and in front of the Ninth Prince, and can only pretend to be harmless and pure.
The enthronement ceremony is Madam Min's only chance. Even if she is not sure, she must try her best, otherwise she doesn't know how long she will be trapped in the temple by the Ninth Prince.
While the palace maid was dressing her, Madam Min was already thinking about how to convince the court ministers to welcome her back to the palace.
One plan after another formed in her mind. She even thought about what to say and what expressions to use when facing the concubines in the harem, the ladies in the court, and the ministers. But what Mrs. Min didn't expect was that there was no stage to perform all these preparations.
When Madam Min came out in gorgeous clothes, when the Imperial Observatory announced that the auspicious time had arrived, and when Wang Jinling took out the imperial edict and read it, the sound of horse hooves was heard, and the solemn and dignified Main Hall suddenly became noisy.
"What happened?"
"Why are there horse hoof sounds? How do the guards do things?"
…
Mrs. Min's face changed, and she thought to herself that something was wrong. When she looked up, she met Wang Jinling's smiling eyes. Mrs. Min was stunned. Although she quickly calmed down, she had finally lost the opportunity.
"Report... 800 miles, urgent."
"Beiling, Beiling has broken the city..."
The messenger who came on horseback, not caring that this was a Buddhist holy land, choked up and said, "Report... hurry up, eight hundred miles away. My army was defeated. Beiling has broken through Yumen Pass and is about to reach the imperial city..."
As soon as these words were spoken, the hall exploded.
"What? Beiling is invading? Isn't Lord Yuwen in Beiling?"
"Our army was defeated? What happened? How could this happen? Beiling, where did the Beiling people fight to?"
The officials in the hall panicked, their faces uglier than each other, and they started asking questions all at once. A few of the timid ones were so scared that they fell to the ground.
"What happened?" Empress Dowager Xie was in the back hall. When she heard the noise, she immediately sent a young eunuch to inquire. After getting the answer, Empress Dowager Xie's face changed and she stood up suddenly. At this moment, she fully displayed the majesty and composure of the mother of a country.
"Shut up, the people from Beiling haven't broken in yet, what are you afraid of." Empress Dowager Xie's eyes were sharp and her demeanor was majestic. The ladies all turned pale, but miraculously they didn't dare to make trouble.
Empress Dowager Xie nodded with satisfaction: "Stay quietly for me. I will call the ministers to discuss and arrange for you to go down the mountain."
Empress Dowager Xie had Wang Jinling summoned. Wang Jinling was more than happy to come and bowed to Madam Min apologetically: "Your Majesty, this happened suddenly. Please forgive me. Someone, come... Your Majesty is tired. Please send her back." He meant go back, not go back to the palace. It was obvious that he wanted to keep Madam Min here.
“No, I…” Madam Min was just trying to take this opportunity to find a way for herself, but a monk with a compassionate look walked up to the crowd at this moment, and his rich and mellow voice completely suppressed Madam Min’s gentle voice.
The old monk had a compassionate face and a sad tone, "Old Na once told the Regent that the Queen has an extraordinary fate, but... the Queen is too blessed for ordinary people to bear. The Queen is copying scriptures in the temple, which is good for both herself and the country. Once she leaves the temple, it will hurt her body at best, and affect the country's destiny at worst. Old Na once told the prince that it would be best not to hold the enthronement ceremony. The Queen is too blessed, and it is not appropriate to add more blessings to the Queen. But the Regent was filial and came up with a way to have the best of both worlds, holding it in the temple, but he didn't expect... it still couldn't suppress the Queen's blessings."
The old monk seemed to be talking to himself. After he finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed twice, then walked out alone, leaving the ministers and Madam Min standing there, dumbfounded...
Master, what you mean is that Madam Min can only stay in the temple to avoid affecting the country's destiny?
"The resurrection of the queen is indeed a great blessing."
"Master, what you said is absolutely correct. When the queen appeared, Chu Cheng, who was about to lose, got help again, and the fight with us was evenly matched."
"It seems to be true. As soon as the Empress Dowager appeared, Jiangnan rebelled."
"Now we are conferring the title, Beiling has been breached again..."
The Ninth Prince was not around, so the ministers had nothing to worry about. They started discussing it one by one, and the more they talked, the more it seemed to be the case...
Madam Min was so angry that she almost went crazy: "You are talking nonsense, this is a conspiracy, someone is plotting against me."
No matter how calm Madam Min was, she couldn't help herself at this moment. She had finally found an opportunity to turn things around, but it was ruined. If the world knew that her appearance would affect the fate of Dongling, who among these Dongling officials would support her?
"Shut up, Ben..."
Puff... Madam Min became angrier and angrier the more she thought about it. She couldn't help but spat out a mouthful of blood. She staggered a step, and before she could fall down, she was supported by a palace maid beside her.
"Oh no, oh no, the Empress Dowager is vomiting blood." The palace maid seemed to be supporting her, but in fact she was holding Madam Min down tightly, making her unable to move.
"Quick, quick, call the imperial physician, call the imperial physician..."
"Someone come, someone come, someone come quickly..."
The scene was in chaos. Wang Jinling stayed out of it completely and had no intention of taking charge of the situation. He took Empress Dowager Xie and the little emperor back to the palace first, under the pretext of discussing state affairs.
As for the Empress Dowager in the temple?
I guess anyone with a little bit of common sense knows that she is useless. Even if the Ninth Prince comes back and has his support, it will be difficult for her to turn things around.
There is no way, because she will affect the national destiny of Dongling.
Although this kind of thing is very mysterious and may not be accurate, it is better to believe it than not to believe it. If the Eastern Tomb is really destroyed because of the Empress Dowager, it will be too late for them to regret it...
A word to the readers: I am always working on the final chapter and will not end it in a hurry, so please rest assured.