Uncle, this palace is not going to sleep tonight

Chapter 238

Seeing Liu Ruling's objection, Situ Wang argued again: "The prime minister's words are wrong. When your majesty was the prince, the imperial concubine was already a concubine. Now that your majesty is enthroned, it is natural that the concubine should be canonized as a queen. Besides, the imperial concubine is not pregnant yet. , doesn’t mean there won’t be any in the future.”

"Then it won't be too late to confer after you have a pregnancy!" Liu Ruling bowed, holding an ivory wat, and said: "The old minister suggests that the draft be drafted first, and your majesty must not be without heirs. If any empress in the palace can give birth to a prince in the future, the natural mother will use the ivory wat to give birth to a prince." Zigui, be promoted to the position of empress."

"Even if it's a draft, it should be presided over by the empress. The harem cannot be left alone for a day, otherwise there will be chaos in the future!"

"The empress dowager also has no children. After the death of the first emperor, the empress dowager had no choice but to move to Yongling. Does Master Situ think that an empress without heirs can rule the Six Palaces?"

"But the imperial concubine is His Majesty's official wife after all! Besides, General Murong assists His Majesty, the imperial concubine should be the empress!"

"General Murong assisting His Majesty is the duty of a courtier. This has nothing to do with whether the imperial concubine can be the empress. Or does Lord Situ think that General Murong traded his loyalty to His Majesty in exchange for the imperial concubine's succession?"

"Of course I don't mean that! I just..." "Okay!"

Chu Jinyu raised his voice to interrupt the quarrel between Liu Ruling and Situ Wang. One was the prime minister without royal backing, and the other was the censor relying on Murong Duan's power. What he wanted was this kind of check and balance. It is this delicate balance that is required.

Turning to look at Murong Duan who was silent, Chu Jinyu asked, "What did General Murong say?"

Murong Duan, who was named, stood up, took a deep breath, and sighed in his heart: His Majesty obviously does not want to make Rongyan the queen, otherwise he would not ask Liu Ruling's opinion.Everyone in the court knew that he was the head of the military officials, and Liu Ruling was the civil servant and prime minister. They belonged to two different forces in the court, and the open and secret struggles between them never stopped.This is especially true after Chu Jinyu ascended the throne. His daughter became the imperial concubine, while Liu Ruling's daughter was stripped of her position and kept in the imperial mausoleum forever... I thought His Majesty was planning to take away Liu Ruling's power, after all, Liu Mei The fate of my son was so miserable.But it never occurred to him that His Majesty not only did not target Liu Ruling, but allowed him to cultivate his party members and compete with him everywhere!Now that it's even more of a rivalry, Liu Ruling naturally doesn't want Rong Yan to be the queen, otherwise his party members will be completely wiped out.

Sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, the former His Royal Highness Qing, and now the emperor, is really unfathomable—"Your Majesty, although the imperial concubine is a minister's daughter, she has now married into the royal family. Your Majesty is wise, and the minister will never be partial Concubine Yu. It's just that there are very few princes at the moment, and for the sake of the Great Zhou royal family, I think there should indeed be a lady in the harem who can preside over the draft for His Majesty."

(End of this chapter)