I painted skin in the cemetery for 15 years

During the whole process, Ning Daoyi never looked at them.

Except for the winning and missing factions, there are only 30 people left.

I don't know whether it should be said that there are only 30 people, or that there are actually 30 people.

Among them, Duke Xia Yan was very embarrassed.

He wants to stay and wants to leave.

He is a staunch royalist, but he also deeply feels that women should not be called emperors.

Just now when King Ying and King Mi wanted to attack the emperor, Duke Xia Yan rushed forward without hesitation and stood by the emperor's side to protect her safety.

But now let him stand on the emperor's side and support her, the empress, he can't do it.

The emperor said: "Duke Xia Yan, you don't have to force yourself, just follow your heart. You stay in Beijing, maintain order, and assist the Queen Mother. You don't need to follow me to Tianshui Province."

Immediately, Duke Xia Yan bowed to the queen and walked out.

Ying Que remained silent, with a sigh in his eyes.

Sigh, but not sorry.

In the final analysis, this is still a person who is not smart enough.

On the surface, you chose to be neutral, but now is the most difficult time for the emperor. If you choose to be neutral, this is tantamount to giving Xia Jie additional support.

Are you not a royalist?Can you not know that behind Xia Jie is the conspiracy of Sky Book City?

Which faction of the royal family are you protecting?

Whether the emperor is a man or a woman is not very important now.But whether the emperor belongs to the Xia family is very important. This is an essential issue.

So, this is actually a confused person.

Others make choices for their own family interests, and that's what they should be.

But Xia Yan didn't have any selfish desires, and made this choice with all his heart for the empire and the Xia clan's lineage.

Li Ruhai, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was very anxious. Of course he wanted to stay and support the emperor.

He represents King Zhenbei at the center of the court. He is absolutely smart and fully upholds the position of the family.

Ying Que stared at him, which meant very clearly, you should leave quickly.

The emperor needed the Li family to maintain a neutral attitude on the surface, and the Li family to stabilize the northern border.

Duke Xia Yan is not a smart person, he is just a sharp sword, so the capital needs a real person of his own, and Li Ruhai is the best choice.

So, Li Ruhai bowed his hands to the emperor, then turned and left.

In the end, it was Prince Lian who made the difficult choice. He is also a very traditional and conservative person.

He also can't accept a woman proclaiming emperor at all, really can't accept it at all.

However, he knew that behind Xia Jie was Sky Bookstore.

He didn't really want either, but if he had to choose one, he would choose a woman to proclaim himself emperor. At least her will to defend Xia's imperial lineage was extremely firm, and no one could change it.

The emperor said: "Prince Lian, you don't have to force it, you stay to assist the queen mother?"

But Prince Lian did not leave, but asked: "When the little prince is 16 years old, can he succeed to the throne?"

The emperor smiled and said: "Actually, I can let my son take over the throne now. But that would be deceitful, and it would appear that I am very hypocritical. And I really don't like the word queen mother, which makes me look very old. But the sooner he takes the throne, the sooner I It will only make me happier, I don't have much interest in power, it's just my responsibility."

In fact, the reason why she is so open-minded is also in a sense.

Her will and determination to guard the imperial lineage of the Great Xia Empire are unparalleled.

But she is also a lazy person who knows everything about politics, but she doesn't like to play tricks.

Prince Lian immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "I am willing to follow Your Majesty to hunt south."

The emperor said: "Okay, thank you, uncle."

Next, the emperor said: "Come here!"

Several eunuchs stepped forward, and one of the big eunuchs handed over a thick stack of papers.

The emperor took a copy, opened it and took a look.

This is the "Tianxia Zhao" written by her personally, with more than 1000 words.But there are no gorgeous rhetoric, not because she can't, but because this imperial edict is for ordinary people all over the world to read.

In very simple and clear words, she explained to the world the fact that she is a woman, the reason why she succeeded to the throne as a woman, and that she and Ying Que became husband and wife and gave birth to a prince.

There is no sensationalism or high-profile in this edict, it is completely objective, even pale.

It's just that at the end of the imperial edict, she wrote down a paragraph, if she couldn't save the country, if it wasn't for the invitation of the people, she would never return to Beijing.

The meaning is very clear, unless her great achievements surpass the emperors of all dynasties, unless her achievements completely offset the negative effect of being a woman, unless all the people in the world ask her to return to Beijing, she will never return to Beijing. Xia Jing's throne.

What kind of achievements can surpass the emperors of all dynasties? !

Moreover, she didn't attack anyone in the whole imperial edict, and she didn't use any conspiracy theory to explain Xia Jie.

Not to mention calling on the people of the world to defeat Xia Jie and support her Xia Yi, not a single word.

After checking it once, the emperor said: "Take it out and distribute it to the scholars outside."

Several eunuchs kowtowed: "Yes."

Then, dozens of eunuchs rushed outside holding thousands of copies of the "Tianxia Zhao".

In just a quarter of an hour!

Suddenly, a loud noise from outside was heard.

Obviously, countless people were shocked by this "Tianxiazhao", and even overturned it.

There was a stormy sea, and I couldn't even believe my eyes at all.

"How can a woman succeed to the throne? Isn't this messing up the order of the world?"

"The empress descends, the empress descends."

"When a woman succeeds to the throne, the hen and the hen come into the morning. This will cause chaos in the world, and the calamity of the country's subjugation."

"We rushed in and let the empress leave the sacred palace."

And at this moment, someone beside said: "Don't rush, she herself said that she is going to leave the palace, and she will never come back unless Wan Min asks."

"Prince Xia Jie is back, he is the orthodox heir to the throne, let's support Xia Jie."

"Yes, let's support His Royal Highness Xia Jie."

The tens of thousands of scholars outside were full of voices.

It was completely fried into a pot of porridge.

This boiling, this shock, will soon spread to the entire capital and the entire empire.

It happened so suddenly.

It is even completely unacceptable to all people in the world.

For thousands of years, there has been no such precedent, or even unheard of.

Isn't the world turned upside down when a woman becomes the emperor?Isn't that a portent of doom?

When a country is about to perish, will evildoers come out?

And it's an instant unveiling with no buffer.

Ministers and nobles couldn't accept it, let alone ordinary people.

People in high positions are well-informed, calm, and consider issues in their own interests.

But ordinary people, most of them only have emotions left.

Moreover, in this "Great Edict", the emperor did not beautify himself in any way.

Too real, even a kind of indifferent and arrogant truth.

It even completely ignores the fact that ordinary people can accept it.

She is so proud!

So proud that even most of the time, she is probably not suitable to be an emperor.

But now is not most of the time, now is the most special moment, and all logic has changed.

If now is an ordinary time, then the throne will be surrendered.But now, as long as he gives way, the thousand-year imperial lineage of the Great Xia Empire will be completely destroyed.

At this most special moment, the most important quality of the emperor is not power, but will.

As for this point, Ying Que and the Emperor are almost the most resolute couple in the world.

In the minds of both of them, they are full of determination to smash their bones to pieces.

I would rather fail and die, and absolutely not be perfect.

Moreover, the male and female are equally arrogant, and they are also full of pessimism and even indifference towards human nature in a certain sense.

The same is full of bottom-line thinking.

Prepare for the worst in everything and never have any illusions.

So in the vast crowd, once two people found each other, they walked together immediately.

The two are not only lovers, but also confidants.

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The emperor turned a deaf ear to the noise and shouts outside the palace.

Instead, he quietly accompanied the Queen Mother to eat.

This is a bit like the last supper. The emperor will never return to the imperial palace in the capital for a short time.

She was driven away by Prince Ying and King Mi, but in the final analysis, she was also driven away by all the ministers and people of the world.

Therefore, unless the people of the world knelt down to ask her to come back again, she would never come back for the rest of her life.

If she can't conquer the people of the world, it will be her failure.

Of course, it is also the failure of the Great Xia Empire's thousand-year imperial lineage.

At this time, the queen also woke up, and sat quietly on the table to eat.

Did she just raise her head to take a look, but what she looked at was not Win and Que, but the emperor.

After being married for so long, it was the first time she saw the emperor who looked like a woman.

The more I look at it, the weirder my heart becomes, and the more I look at it, the faster my heart beats.

"Empress Dowager, I'm done eating and I'm leaving." She didn't have the courage to speak to the emperor.

The emperor said: "You make some preparations and follow me to the south tomorrow."

The queen wondered, she, why did she want to go south?

The emperor said: "If you don't follow me to the south, you will not be able to survive. Those remarks outside will force you to death."

The queen trembled: "Yes."

Then, she fled quickly.

After the queen left, there were only the queen mother, Ying Que, and the emperor left at the dinner table.

At this time, the Queen Mother finally couldn't bear it any longer, held the emperor's hand and cried, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

She was apologizing for today's behavior. If she hadn't admitted Xia Jie's identity so directly, and hadn't acted so affectionately between mother and child, maybe the emperor wouldn't have been so passive.

If she stood firmly on the emperor's side, would the situation improve?

The emperor said softly: "Mother, you did nothing wrong. You are not a cold empress dowager, you are a qualified mother. When you see your own son, you can't pretend not to see it, or deny it."

The queen mother cried: "But, he must be related to the sky bookstore. My attitude is to encourage the conspiracy of the sky bookstore. I know that they want to destroy the Xia family's thousand-year imperial lineage, but I still indirectly help them."

The emperor was silent.

The queen mother is not a cold-blooded political figure, if she is, she will be even more disappointed.

Compared to being cold-blooded, it is better for her mother to be an ordinary person with warmth.

It must be full of emotion, warmth, foresight, wisdom, and decisiveness.

This is too hard.