The other ministers all echoed, "We will obey the Queen's order!"
Rong Yue took Tan Taiyu's hand and stood up, solemnly placing the jade seal in his hand.
"The late emperor passed away, and the crown prince succeeded to the throne, which is legitimate. Now I..."
Prime Minister Li Mao was the first to jump out and object:
"Her Majesty, have you forgotten that the late emperor left a will stating that the throne should be passed on to the eldest prince?"
Immediately afterwards, most of the court officials echoed the prime minister and forced the queen to make the eldest prince the new emperor.
The Queen took out an imperial edict from her sleeve slowly and solemnly held it in both hands and said:
"I don't know whether the Emperor has issued a will to appoint the eldest prince as the new emperor, but before the late Emperor passed away, he gave me an edict that clearly stated that the crown prince would be the new emperor."
When two wills came out at once, the ministers began to whisper.
The eldest prince's face looked very ugly. He knew very well that the Immortal Emperor's death was a plot set by him in order to cover up the truth that would destroy him and catch the empress off guard. The late emperor passed away so suddenly that he had no time to issue any edict. The edict in his hand was forged by him, and the one in the empress's hand naturally could not be real - the jade seal was in the empress's hands, so she could issue any edict she wanted, right?
When the late emperor passed away, the empress did not produce this will, but she produced it now. Everyone knows that this so-called will was forged by the empress. However, knowing it is one thing, but as long as the imperial seal is stamped on the edict, even if it is fake, it is real, and no one can refute it!
But this is not a big deal. Since the Queen is so ignorant, don't blame him! The eldest prince looked at Sikong Zhan and the other three, and finally pointed at Gu Chuan and said:
"I heard that my mother married this man yesterday. Is this true?"
Rongyue was not panicked at all.
"This is the second thing I want to tell you. After the late emperor passed away, he received guidance from heaven, stating that if only one person could assist our Northern Jiang as the new emperor's father, our northern border would prosper and dominate the nations. The late emperor told me this in a dream, so I took the crown prince out of the palace to search for this person. Heaven will not let down those who work hard. With the late emperor's guidance, I finally found this person. He is the Martial Saint Gu Chuan!"
Since all the court officials chose to turn a blind eye and kept silent about the eldest prince's assassination of the queen, she took advantage of the situation and turned the incident of her being forced to flee the palace into an incident of her leaving the palace to find a noble lady in compliance with the late emperor's will, and at the same time gave her husband an identity that allowed him to stay by her side with justification.
This idea was proposed by Lin Jinghan to the Queen, saying that it was to congratulate Rongyue and Guchuan on their wedding.
"Ridiculous!" The Minister of Rites was the first to be filled with shame and indignation. Throughout the history of their Northern Jiang, no queen had ever remarried and appeared in court so openly! And their queen actually tried to fool them! Shameful!
Lin Jinghan was really bored watching the show, but when she saw their conversation was finally getting better, she immediately perked up.
"This gentleman said it was absurd, but I don't know what's absurd about it."
The Minister of Rites had long been dissatisfied with the four people sitting here, and upon hearing this, he immediately criticized them harshly:
"How dare this little girl interfere in the political affairs of Beijiang!"
Lin Jinghan carefully took a bunch of her hair, looked at it carefully, and asked her prince,
"My Lord, my hair isn't yellow, is it?"
"Jinghan, you have black, shiny hair, very beautiful. The person who said your hair is yellow probably has poor eyesight. I think this gentleman is quite old, and his eyesight must be blurry. Jinghan, please bear with him."
"Oh, that's right, we should respect the old and love the young." Lin Jinghan nodded, expressing her strong agreement, and said,
"By the way, this old minister with dim eyesight just asked me where I came from, so I'll introduce myself.
"This princess is from Donglin. I am the disciple-in-law of your queen's husband. I can barely be considered half a royal relative of your Beijiang."
Then he looked at the Minister of Rites,
"My old, dim-sighted sir, I've answered your question, but you haven't answered mine yet. Tell me what's wrong with me!"
"You, you, you!" The Minister of Rites had been in charge of the Ministry of Rites for so many years, but he had never seen such a rude person. He was so angry that he couldn't even breathe and fainted on the ground...
"Oh my, my lord, even if you know you are in the wrong and dare not answer, you don't have to pretend to be unconscious to escape! You are clearly trying to frame me!" Lin Jinghan immediately stood up from her seat and asked Sikong Zhan to bring Lin Jinghan to the Minister of Rites like a gust of wind. She took out a huge golden needle and stabbed him.
"Considering your age, if you don't wake up after I give you this shot, I'll assume you're not pretending to be unconscious."
Lin Jinghan's golden needle technique was naturally impeccable. After one injection, the Minister of Rites woke up immediately. When he opened his eyes, he saw Lin Jinghan gesturing at him with the golden needle. He thought he was going to kill him and stumbled to the general to seek protection.
"General, help!"
Among the court officials, the general was the best at martial arts. It was really wise and clear-headed of the Minister of Rites to ask him for help! The ministers on the side were dumbfounded. It was obvious that he was just pretending to be unconscious!
Lin Jinghan stopped playing around, looked coldly at the Minister of Rites, and glanced at the ministers.
"This gentleman would rather pretend to be unconscious than answer my question. In that case, let me tell you the answer!
"I would like to ask everyone present here, what is absurd about a woman remarrying after her husband's death? What is absurd about the Empress remarrying for the sake of Beijiang's foundation, following the late emperor's instructions?"
"If the queen remarries, where will the late emperor be placed?!" The prime minister immediately retorted. If they didn't speak up, they would be led by the nose by others!
"Where should the late emperor be placed? The late emperor's body will naturally be placed in the imperial mausoleum, and the soul of the Immortal Emperor will naturally go to the fairyland and ascend to paradise. Does your Excellency have a better place to place the late emperor?" Lin Jinghan pretended to be surprised.
"You are simply making excuses!" The Minister of Rites stood behind the general and was very confident. He had been in charge of the Ministry of Rites for decades, so how could he tolerate such behavior that disrupted etiquette!
"You say I'm making unreasonable arguments? Then please tell me, everyone here, what I said was wrong?" Lin Jinghan despised those who had no real skills and only knew how to talk. What she hated most was those who were completely unreasonable and only criticized others from a moral high ground.
Thinking carefully, it seemed like nothing she said was wrong. But her statement was clearly wrong, so why couldn't they find any fault with it?
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