Changle Palace, inner hall.
"Mother, how do you think I should respond?"
After analyzing the possible situation, Emperor Jianyuan began to think about how to deal with Chen Ajiao's resignation.
Let’s look at the two situations analyzed so far.
It may just be their ploy to ask themselves to leave the court.
If he didn't want to bear the reputation of being the first emperor in history to have a queen ask herself to step down, then he had to make some compromises so that Chen Ajiao could take back her words.
The Queen Mother thought again and again, gritted her teeth and asked:
"Che'er, I wonder if you can endure the humiliation and bear the burden for once. Since Chen Ajiao wants to ask herself to resign, then you can just let her ask herself to resign. As long as you agree, there is no need to compromise with Chen Ajiao or the Empress Dowager. , if you can show it again, you would rather be wronged than listen to the attitude of the Queen Mother.
The officials and princes will also feel that the Empress Dowager, the eldest princess and others are a little too much, and they will sympathize with you.
You can even go one step further and go to Changxin Palace later to say hello, and then come back and announce that out of consideration for the Empress Dowager, you do not agree with Chen Ajiao to leave the palace on her own, and that you two will just make peace with each other.
Then the officials will most likely feel that it is the Queen Mother who is further forcing you, and you are forced to break your teeth and swallow it in your stomach out of filial piety. I agree.
When the impression brought by the Empress Dowager on the officials becomes worse and worse, the officials will naturally be more inclined to you. "
Although the Queen Mother also felt that her son had been wronged by this idea, but she did not want to be passively beaten, and this was the only way to break the situation.
It's a bit like an official resigning to threaten the emperor.
Then the emperor directly agreed to the operation.
In this way, the Empress Dowager will either have to suffer the loss of silence and then calm down for a while, or even if they don't want to reconcile, they will be the ones in trouble.
The only problem is that the reputation of Emperor Jianyuan is not very good, and he may even become the first emperor to reconcile with the queen, which is a serious loss of face.
At first, Emperor Jianyuan's face did not look good, and it was difficult to accept it, but then he thought about it carefully, weighed the pros and cons, and gritted his teeth and said:
"That's all, let's do this..."
Immediately afterwards, the mother and son discussed some details, made some repairs, and considered how to deal with the repairs if something went wrong in some aspects, and then prepared sufficient plans to start and leave.
The specific plan was mentioned above, which was to go to Changxin Palace first, greet Bai Sheng for a while and then leave after she felt a little confused.
Immediately afterwards, someone was sent to spread the news.
The news spread that His Majesty had just visited the Changxin Palace of the Empress Dowager and had a very bad look on his face when he left.
She also guided others to think about what the Queen Mother had said to His Majesty, or what she had asked His Majesty to do, which made His Majesty leave with an ugly expression. Could it be related to the Queen's invitation to the throne?
Wait until the morning of the next day.
Relevant public opinion has already fermented.
At the same time, there were many speculations among the people during the discussion. Some said that the Empress Dowager might have asked His Majesty to agree, and some said that the Empress Dowager might have arranged for a woman from the Dou family to be the queen for His Majesty.
Others say that the Empress Dowager may have found a new husband for Empress Chen, and she wants to marry into the Dou family, etc.
On this day of the court meeting, Emperor Jianyuan felt a little uncomfortable for the first time. He always felt that the eyes of the officials looking at him were full of inquiry and curiosity, and even snickered.
Fortunately, his condition is quite stable.
It didn't get out of control.
So everything that followed was carried out according to the original plan agreed between him and his mother. After the official discussion was completed, he said a relatively polite and tactful speech, and indirectly expressed that he had no choice but to do so because of the empress dowager's insistence. That's all.
And of course the last sentence is to announce the reconciliation with Empress Chen, and from now on, the man will marry the woman, and they will have nothing to do with each other.
After all, there were no lessons learned from the emperor and empress Heli before, so Emperor Jianyuan mainly learned from folk and Lishu, and even allocated a lot of money to Gillian.
Then, of course, there was an uproar.
All the officials felt a little unbelievable. They couldn't believe that Emperor Jianyuan actually agreed. Not only did he agree, he also went a step further and gave the queen more face. Instead of asking her to come down on her own, he reconciled and divorced her, and also allowed her to marry him in the future. It’s too outrageous that a girl is married and her daughter is married, they have nothing to do with each other!
Who dares to marry the emperor’s woman!
After being shocked, as Emperor Jianyuan expected, they all felt that all this was not voluntary by Emperor Jianyuan, but was forced by the Empress Dowager out of filial piety yesterday, and finally they had no choice but to do it.
Then some remained silent, while others spoke to stop them.
But no matter what, they couldn't honestly say that civil couples could divorce, but emperor couples couldn't. So in the end, although the matter was quite controversial, the decree was still issued smoothly.
Not only did Chen Ajiao succeed in getting divorced.
Also received a large amount of assets.
Before entering the palace to pick up her daughter, the eldest princess Liu Piao made a special trip to Changxin Palace to ask Bai Sheng why he suddenly changed his mind and forced Emperor Jianyuan to reconcile with her daughter, so that her daughter's reputation would appear to be better. , but for simply being evil to Emperor Jianyuan, it would be a little bad for the future, and even being maliciously targeted by him.
It can be seen from this that Emperor Jianyuan's plan was indeed quite successful, and even Liu Prostitute believed those nonsense.
"The matter of reconciliation has nothing to do with the Ai family.
Last night, Cheer just came over to chat with me for a while and then left. It seems that this was his plan to make the world think that he had no choice but to reconcile with Queen Gillian because of my filial piety.
That's all, even though he was tricked once.
But at least the results are good.
If he hadn't been so smart, it would have been quite troublesome for him to reconcile with Gillian, and Gillian's marriage might also be troublesome in the future. Now, with his saying that men and women have nothing to do with each other, it would be much better. "
Although Bai Sheng was a little unhappy about being plotted against, she was quite happy to accept the result now. As for her reputation being affected, it didn't matter.
The original person's reputation was not very good to begin with.
Whether she wanted her youngest son to be the crown prince, to have her brother die to succeed her, or to avenge her eldest grandson and drive her to death, she had already made some officials think that she was a fatuous old woman, so she did not lack this negative influence. .
Moreover, when the relevant news spreads, not everyone may think that she is wrong. Maybe some people who are suffering in their husband's family would really like to have such a grandmother!
An old grandmother who would rather wrong her grandson than save her granddaughter from suffering is not necessarily a bad review.
Compared to Liu Che, Liu Prostitute definitely trusted his own mother more, so he immediately understood and cursed a few words in front of Bai Sheng, and then said to Bai Sheng cautiously:
"This time, I have wronged you, Queen Mother. For no reason, Gillian has to bear the infamy of forcing the emperor out of filial piety."
"Haha, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the Aijia can't hear it. No one dares to say this in front of the Aijia. In the future, don't give Gillian those medicines anymore. Let her go out and have fun. She should have suppressed them all these years in the palace. It's broken.
As for remarriage, it's up to her.
If it doesn't work, or if no one dares to marry her, it would be fine to raise two handsome men, and the Ai family will protect her when the time comes.
Just say that the Ai family agreed..."
Bai Sheng really didn't care, and even made fun of her. Then the mother and daughter had some private conversations, and she sent some people to go to Jiaofang Palace with Liu Prostitute.
Help Chen Ajiao move and leave the palace.
