From late June to mid-July of the first year of the Holy Yuan Dynasty, the political system of the Daughter Kingdom underwent subversive changes.
Under pressure from both the emperor and the regent, they announced the abolition of the Sacrificial Chamber and the Elders' Pavilion, announcing that the two chambers that had dominated for hundreds of years began to officially withdraw from the political stage of the daughter country.
As we all know, both houses have extremely high prestige both in the political arena and among the people, second only to the royal family. The daughter country is also a country that believes in gods. Sacrifice and worship have become part of their daily lives. In the minds of the people, the Sacrifice House
The God-like existence of Heshangge uses prayers, sacrifices and other rituals to obtain wishes, such as sowing food, harvesting, falling rain, weather predictions, marriage, and seeking children. It has formed a pattern for hundreds of years.
an inherent pattern.
For hundreds of years, this has been their belief and the place they have looked up to. Now that this belief is suddenly being taken away, the people will naturally rise up to resist.
The first to bear the brunt is Huadu.
In addition, both the Sacrifice Court and the Elder Pavilion have great power in China. This is their sphere of influence. As long as they send people to instigate the people in an organized and regular manner, the consequences will be very terrible for the already impulsive people.
After the instigation of their well-intentioned people, their angry blood was aroused.
The temple was destroyed and the statues of gods were insulted. Thousands of ordinary people gathered in front of the palace. They protested to the royal family and demanded the restoration of the two houses. Some people even held high flags and demanded that the queen be deposed and a new queen be established in the name of her stupidity and immorality.
In order to better rule the daughter country.
Not only did the royal family face the crisis of common people rioting, but Xiaobai also faced the crisis of being deposed.
The imperial guards in front of the palace were on full alert and did not dare to relax in the slightest, fearing that the people would not be able to withstand the commotion in the Elder Pavilion and the Sacrifice Court and attack the palace. This was the biggest chaos and riot in Huadu in recent years.
After careful consideration, Xiaobai announced that the court would be suspended for three days. Crowds gathered at the four palace gates to cause trouble, and the officials were unable to enter the palace to discuss matters. Some officials were beaten and seriously injured by the angry people when they entered the palace. It was horrific. Under such circumstances, a normal morning court could not be carried out at all.
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Long Xueli had expected that there would be such a sensation in Huadu. She stayed put in her mansion and waited to see what would happen. She had outstanding political achievements and had been quite prestigious over the years. If the royal family could not withstand this storm and Xiaobai was deposed, she would
To be able to ascend the throne naturally. This wishful thinking started when she was sure that she would abolish the two chambers, and she was waiting for the moment of harvest.
On the second day after the suspension of the court, Xiaobai ordered people to post notices in all corners of the city, reorganize the sacrificial hall and the elders' pavilion, and set up a special sacrificial elders' hall. According to the five rites of good luck, good luck, military, guest, and bad luck
This is the original sacrificial hall and elders' pavilion responsible for the most basic internal affairs, conducting auspicious rituals, conducting sacrifices, conducting posthumous funerals, giving posthumous titles to ministers, and managing monks, wizards, and engaging in yin and yang, divination, medicine, etc. The new sacrificial ritual
The Council of Elders deprived the Council of Priests and the Council of Elders of their original power to participate in the highest state decision-making, and assigned them positions that originally belonged to them.
Only when all officials perform their duties and fulfill their responsibilities can a country develop in an all-round way, and only those at the top can better control the direction.
After the notice came out, the anger of the people was well suppressed. Originally they were just dissatisfied with the Queen's sudden abolition of the Sacrifice Court and the Elders' Pavilion. Now that they saw that she had reorganized the Sacrifice Court and the Elders' Pavilion, they naturally thought that the Queen could not withstand them.
Riots and chaos, and compromise began.
A person falls from heaven to the bottom of the valley. When he thinks that all hope is lost, the person who suddenly pushed you down pulls you up again. This hope of rebirth is extremely precious. If it is lost and recovered, their sense of satisfaction is far higher than before.
many.
As a result, the turmoil slowly subsided on the third day after the announcement was made. Two of the people from the four palace gates dispersed, and the riots in Huadu also decreased significantly, which was completely beyond Long Xueli's expectation.
"Feng Nanjin is indeed a master of playing politics. If you are good at it, let's try it again!" Long Xueli smiled unwaveringly. He would use her, so she wouldn't.
She understands the situation of the Daughter Kingdom better than he does. How can those ambitious guys from the Elder Pavilion and the Sacrificial Hall just give up!
If you are a chess piece, you must obey the rules like a chess piece. This is the secret of success.
However, they all disdain being pawns.
If there are policies from above, there will be countermeasures from below.
After Xiaobai made the announcement, the public's anger was relieved. However, it turned out that the people in the Sacrifice Court and the Elders' Pavilion knew very well that not only did the Queen not compromise at all, but, once she accepted the reorganized system, the Sacrifice Court and the Elders' Pavilion would
You can never stand up again.
They sent people to disguise themselves as ordinary people, causing greater chaos and riots in the city. A large number of "common people" gathered in front of the palace gate in a dramatic manner.
The slogan this time is very clear, depose the Queen!
At this most critical moment, Xiao Yang, the former head of the sacrificial courtyard, was the first to accept the reorganization. Xiaobai appointed him as the sacrificial official, with an official rank of first rank and the same salary as before.
In fact, all of Xiaobai's actions were planned by Nan Jin behind the scenes. Before he decided to use Long Xueli's hand to abolish the Sacrificial Hall and the Elder Pavilion, Nan Jin told Liusu to make Xiaoyang agree no matter what he did.
To this end, Liusu visited him three times and even lowered his dignity to beg him to accept the change for the sake of the overall situation.
In the first two times, Xiaoyang didn't talk much with Liusu. As soon as she finished speaking, Xiaoyang asked people to see her off. She had no intention of staying any longer, and she had no intention of accepting it. She would let anyone go, and she was not willing to step down from the peak of power.
Come down.
The third time, Liusu and Xiaoyang had a brief conversation. Xiaoyang once asked her why she was so eager to change and wouldn't it be good to maintain the status quo?
Liusu replied that a country is like the growth of a person. No one will always be in the youthful state of eighteen years old.
Xiaoyang personally sent her and Qingfeng away. Liusu tested his tone and showed no willingness to compromise. She thought it was a failure, but she didn't expect that he would suddenly accept the change and be the first.
Xiaoyang has absolute leadership and persuasiveness in the Sacrifice Court. After he obeyed the Queen, he stepped in to persuade. More than half of the officials in the Sacrifice Court also obeyed the Queen one after another. When they saw someone compromising, it was like a herd effect, and there were many people in the Elder Pavilion.
The young officials were loyal to the royal family and slowly approached the royal family along the steps of Xiaoyang, and the remaining extremists joined in.
Xiaobai entered the Fengyi Palace with an expressionless face. Along the way, the air-conditioning spread endlessly, and the palace maids and eunuchs on the side retreated. When Liusu saw the smile on Qingfeng's face behind him, she immediately understood that her daughter had hit a bump in the road and returned.
"Mom, I want to change my tutor!" Xiaobai stood coldly in front of Liusu, her eyes that looked like Nan Jin's were cold and piercing, fully expressing her determination.
Liusu chuckled, rubbed her tense little face, and Xiaobai said gloomily, "Mom, I'm very serious!"
"I know, go ahead and talk to daddy, I can't make the decision!" Liusu smiled with crooked eyebrows. She was happy that someone could control Xiaobai, lest she become lawless in the future.
"Did you provoke Zhou Fan again?" Liusu asked with a smile. With Zhou Fan's temperament, he would not take the initiative to provoke her. It was probably Xiaobai who provoked others, only to come back full of anger.
Prime Minister Zhou has already intended to give up his throne to Zhou Fan. When everything is stable, the imperial examination will begin. Zhou Fan will be the prime minister and face each other day by day. I am afraid that the two enemies will become even more incompatible.
"I didn't mess with him, mother, do you know what he said about me? He said that it was my parents who were helping me behind the scenes, otherwise I would have accomplished nothing and only played in the mud!"
"...Um...this is a bit too much..." Liusu laughed dryly, Zhou Fan always spoke sharply, this little girl has a strong self-esteem, is arrogant and awkward, she must not be able to stand being criticized like this.
Qingfeng couldn't help laughing, "Princess, the emperor put a plate of ink on the second young master!"
Thinking of the handsome young man's embarrassed appearance, Qingfeng couldn't help but chuckle. Before Liusu could say anything to her, Xiaobai hummed: "He deserves it!"
In front of Zhou Fan, Xiaobai fully displayed the willfulness and unruliness that she had lacked since childhood.
Liusu shook his head and couldn't help but scolded, "Do you know how to respect your master?"
"Mom, I didn't think he was the Taifu!" Xiaobai said coolly, with a lot of resentment. Liusu frowned. Just as he was about to say something, the guard came to report, with a panicked tone, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there is chaos at the Beigong Gate.
Got it!"
Liusu's face tightened, "Take one-third of the imperial troops in the palace and send them to the North Palace Gate to stop them!"
"yes!"
"Mom, I'm tired, let's go down and take a rest!" Xiaobai turned back angrily and went out. Liusu smiled and shook his head, asking Qingfeng to take care of him.
"Your Majesty, don't you want to rest? Why did you leave Fengyi Palace?" Qingfeng hurriedly followed Xiaobai, and the little girl walked straight towards the North Palace Gate with short legs.
Qingfeng knew something was wrong at the first glance. Just when he was about to stop him, Xiaobai said coldly: "Shut your mouth and follow me!"
There was a chaos at the Beigong Gate. The people and the guards were fighting for unknown reasons, and it was chaos. Nan Jin had ordered not to act rashly to avoid hurting innocent people and affecting the reputation of the royal family. The imperial guards only defended but did not attack, and were obviously in a position to be beaten.
There was a lot of shouting and fighting throughout the Beigong Gate, and some people even shouted slogans, "Depose the Queen, depose the Queen..."
The situation was seriously out of control, Qingfeng followed Xiaobai step by step, "Your Majesty, it's dangerous outside, you still..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiaobai walked out of the palace gate expressionlessly. Qingfeng looked at the young master's back, with a faint smile in his eyes, and followed him up.
Bravo!
"Stop!" Xiaobai shouted coldly, standing in the middle of the palace door with her small body, the breeze protecting her behind her.
"Long live my emperor, long live the emperor!" The Imperial Guards knelt down to greet her. Xiaobai asked them to lay flat on their backs, forming a semi-circle around her, guarding her.
There were more than 400 people gathered in the crowd. They did not expect Xiaobai to appear here. They looked at each other and became extremely quiet for a short period of time. The two sides formed a confrontation and did not make a sound.
"Depose the Queen! Depose the Queen!..." Someone suddenly shouted in the crowd, followed by more than 400 people shouting, "Depose the Queen..."
The sound shook the sky, extremely loud.
The aura was so powerful that even the imperial guard couldn't help but take half a step back. All the nerves in his body were pulled to the highest state of war preparation. Xiaobai turned his head and asked coldly: "Do you see who it is?"
Qingfeng nodded, Xiaobai sneered and ordered: "Catch it out!"
"Yes!" Qingfeng tiptoed the ground, jumped up, and swooped down like an eagle. He accurately picked up a man and brought him to Xiaobai's face. He waved for two forest guards to come forward and escort him.
He returned to Xiaobai without changing his expression.
"Who sent you here?" Xiaobai smiled, showing an angelic and lovely smile, which was like a spring breeze and extremely comfortable.
The man's eyes were ferocious, and Qingfeng said softly: "Your Majesty, Mr. Lin Zheng of the Elder Pavilion, I am an official of the second rank!"
This person has a notorious reputation. He uses the name of Elder Pavilion to exploit the people wantonly, molest good wives, and rob civilian girls. He once sent people to burn down a casino because he lost money in gambling. He is full of evil and is a scum among officials.
During this reorganization of the Elder Pavilion Sacrificial Hall, he was already on the list of people to be eliminated. Even if he was willing to accept the change, the court would no longer appoint him, which aroused his dissatisfaction.
"Depose the queen, depose the queen..." Lin Zheng still shouted, angrily said to Xiaobai: "Your Majesty, you are not qualified to be an emperor at all. Look at you, you have turned a good country into a good country just after you ascended the throne.
What are you like? You are stupid, talentless, immoral, and dare to ignore the gods. You will definitely receive retribution. If you continue to lead the daughter country, this country will be over, completely over... Look at your people, they are not
I would like to see you ascend the throne. Look, this is the consequence of losing your support!"
"Shut up! Lin Zheng..." Qingfeng shouted sharply.
Xiaobai waved her hand to stop Qingfeng from scolding her. She took a few steps forward and said with a smile: "Losing the support of the people? Huh, how many of these people are real ordinary people? You know better than I do where these people were gathered from.
, you know in your heart, have you really lost the support of the people, or do you think you are rebelling? Lin Zheng, do you know that your behavior is rebellion?"
"I am for justice and a dream entrusted by God..."
"Shut up, don't use gods as an excuse, there are no gods in this world!" Xiaobai shouted, her childish voice full of endless majesty, her eyes slowly scanned the angry crowd, and she said word by word
: "The prosperity of a country depends on your own hands. Who will guide you to the future path? It is your own heart, not the gods you believe in. Whether it is evil or good, it is your choice.
, what you want is what you work hard for, no one can make the decision for you. God will not give you blessings, nor will he curse you. If you cause it yourself, you will have to bear its own consequences. If there are gods in the world
, what should that person try to do? If you have nothing to do, go to the temple and beg the gods and everything will be fine. Foolish people will believe that there is vain hope in this world. If you believe in the gods, why don't you go and ask for it, so that I can die early and be reborn?
Come on, do you need to shout slogans to depose me?"
"That's nonsense... The emperor talks nonsense again, she..." Lin Zheng suddenly opened his eyes wide, with a trace of fear in his ferocious eyes. Xiao Bai slowly pulled out the sword from the waist of the imperial guard closest to her. The cold light was bright and cold.
It has to be so compelling...
There was an uproar all around!
Liusu, who had arrived at the palace gate a long time ago, wanted to step forward to stop him, but was pulled by Zhou Fan on the side. The slender and handsome young man smiled and said: "Your Majesty, let him create his own creation, maybe he can break the deadlock."
Xiaobai's face was sullen, and the veins on the back of his hand holding the sword were protruding, but he was surprisingly steady, "I don't need gods!"
The sword was swung down decisively, leaving blood on the ground...