In the early Qing Dynasty, Fu's official position was promoted from Si Gui to Internal Secretary Sheren. Although everyone had objections, Internal History was nothing more than recording the emperor's words and deeds, managing ceremonials and daily life, so they didn't care much about it. This time, Situ Ce changed Fu Qingchu's internal history minister to Zhongshu Sheren and participated in the affairs of Zhongshu Province, which immediately caused an uproar in the court.
How can a woman participate in government affairs?
The first person from Yushitai disagreed.
"Your Majesty, it is unheard of and unheard of for a woman to be an official. If the affairs of the court are left in the hands of a woman, if word gets out, the world will laugh at her. How can we find no man to hold this position in our vast country?"
Fu Qingchu looked at the old minister at the Yushitai with a calm smile on his face.
Wu Changqin, the censor Zhongcheng, and the Fu family can be regarded as old enemies.
When Fu Qingchu's grandfather was awarded the title of Duke of Lu for building the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Wu Changqin blocked him on the grounds that his merits were not enough to make him a Duke of Lu. But at that time, due to Situ Li's meritorious service in patrolling the border, he was already the king and had no title to be promoted, so he had to be promoted to his grandfather Fu Zhonghua.
The Wu family was the hero who accompanied the late emperor to start his own business, so they naturally looked down upon the Fu family, who relied on nepotism to rise to power.
He could not accept a woman as an official, let alone a woman from the Fu family.
Fu Qingchu didn't feel angry or frustrated because she knew that this was just the beginning of her game with this group of people.
"What Wu Zhongcheng said is indeed for the sake of the imperial court's reputation." Fu Qingchu said with a calm smile, "I just have something unclear, so I would like to ask Zhongcheng to enlighten me."
Wu Changqin snorted coldly: "I dare not teach you."
"You are the censor Zhongcheng, and you have acted in response to rumors. However, you did not mention the Su family's corruption case last year. I would like to ask the reason for this?" Fu Qingchu said with a smile.
Hearing this, Wu Changqin was shocked. He couldn't answer this.
He is a dignified censor, Zhongcheng, and it is his duty to report rumors, but corruption in the inner palace does not happen overnight. He didn't mention anything about such a big matter. Is it because he was covering up or because he was incompetent?
No matter how you answer, it's all wrong.
One word stirred up a thousand waves. Fu Qingchu's words made all the officials in the court unable to sit still, and there was a lot of discussion.
Wu Changqin's face turned red from holding back, and he glared at Fu Qingchu angrily, "I, the Wu family, were born and died with Emperor Gaozu. I am a Jinshi appointed by the late emperor. Where did you come from? How dare you question me!"
Fu Qingchu was not angry, and smiled and said: "Wu Zhongcheng said something serious. I don't dare to question Zhongcheng. I'm just curious. When I first entered the East Palace, I could hear that the Su family's corruption involved the previous dynasty. I followed the clues and found out the bad apple. Zhongcheng himself I am in an important position and yet I have never heard of or seen anything. I am really curious."
Hear things that are unheard, see things that are unseen, use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son.
As soon as Fu Qingchu said these words, an explosion broke out in the court hall. Wu Changqin became angry and said: "The case of the Su family is a foregone conclusion. The late emperor has not held me accountable. Do you want to overturn the late emperor's judgment?"
If there is no reason to argue, then you will make trouble unreasonably. This is what officials say.
Fu Qingchu sneered: "Wu Zhongcheng, don't you understand yet? The late emperor sympathized with the Wu family for their contribution to the founding of the country, so he didn't accuse you. Unexpectedly, you can just rest on the merits of your ancestors with peace of mind. You don't want to make progress, and you still dare to do it in front of His Majesty. Gabby! Are you not as capable as a woman like me?"
"You...you..." Wu Changqin trembled with anger and cursed, "When I impeached King Qin, you were still there. You Fu family are all bitches who relied on their appearance to rise to power. How dare you bark here? !”
Hearing this, Fu Qingchu sneered. This person was probably crazy. He just scolded her and even scolded Situ Ce.
After Wu Changqin scolded everyone, they remembered that Fu Qingchu was a woman. How could he win Situ Ce's favor without selling his body?
The Fu family was like this in the previous dynasty, and it is also like this in this dynasty. How could they allow such a villain to rise to power? If such villains are in power, how can they, gentlemen like them, still have a place to stand? They all cursed:
"How can this court allow you, the daughter of a second minister, to act so arrogantly and still not retreat?"
"Your Majesty, Mrs. Fu is the daughter of a guilty minister. It was His Majesty's great grace that made her forgive her sin. Now she is humiliating the ministers in the court. She is really contemptuous of your Majesty and has no royal laws! Please punish her. Sin!" Cui Ju said loudly, knelt down and bowed his head.
"I beg your Majesty to punish him!"
Cui, the official doctor, raised his head, and most of the people immediately followed suit and knelt down to let Situ Ce punish Fu Qingchu.
Situ Ce looked at everyone and couldn't help but sneer. He turned to look at Lu Dingyue who was standing and asked with a smile: "What do you think, General?"
Lu Dingyue glanced at Situ Ce, stepped out of the queue and saluted: "I don't have much education, but I know about Empress Zhao Wei, Empress Xuan of Qin, and Empress Dowager Feng. Although they are women, they pay attention to people's livelihood and care for the people when they are in charge. He opened up territory and expanded the territory to support the country, and he was a person who made great contributions to the country and his family. The people from Fushe were able to outsmart the king of Jin and stand up during the chaos of the Jin Dynasty. I think that the people from Fushe can take on this responsibility."
"It seems that the general values Fu Sheren very much." Situ Ce smiled and turned to Cui Ju, "Mr. Cui just said that Fu Sheren humiliated Wu Zhongcheng in public. I am stupid and don't know where to start talking about this humiliation?"
Situ Ce looked at Cui Ju and his expression slowly turned cold.
"Your Majesty, calm down!" Cui Qi hurriedly knelt down to beg for mercy, "Mr. Cui was just speaking out of curiosity and had no other intention."
Seeing Cui Qi begging for mercy, Situ Ce couldn't get angry even if he got angry again. He had no choice but to sigh helplessly and then said after a while: "Shang Shu Ling Ping Shen."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Situ Ce turned to look at Wu Changqin, "Someone is vindicating Wu Zhongcheng's grievance, but I would like to ask. Fu Sheren just asked you, why did you get so angry? They moved all the ancestors out. The Wu family was born and died with Taizu. , Fu Sheren has followed me through life and death, are you satisfied?"
"I know the crime, I know the crime." Wu Changqin kowtowed as if pounding garlic.
Situ Ce glanced at Wu Changqin, then turned to look at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "Fu Sheren humiliated the courtiers? Is it humiliation for her to tell Wu Zhongcheng about Wu Zhongcheng's inaction in the Su case? I am a dignified Jingchao. Are the pillars so fragile?"
"I am aware of my guilt."
Seeing that Situ Ce was really angry, everyone hurriedly admitted their mistake.
"The corruption case of the Su family was investigated by Fu Sheren; the rebellion of the Jin Dynasty was led by Fu Sheren to put down the rebellion. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was not an exaggeration for Fu Sheren to eliminate moths internally, suppress rebellious ministers externally, and create marquises. Now it is just a matter of enfeoffment. A low-ranking official of the fifth rank has made you jealous like this. How can any of you here be considered a man? If anyone is dissatisfied, immediately lead the troops and destroy the northern Turks. I will immediately grant you and others the title of marquis and the prime minister. Who is going?"
Everyone knelt on the ground in disbelief, not daring to answer.
Before he ascended the throne, Situ Ce was in poor health and left all matters to Cheng An to handle. Cheng An came from a poor family and was modest and prudent. He had been in the officialdom for more than ten or twenty years without offending anyone.
During this period of time, the emperor paid little attention to them, and Zhongshu Ling was a good old man, so they forgot for a moment that their majesty, when he was the prince, dared to kill officials below the fifth rank first and then punish them, which was a violation of the law. No one in his hands ended well.
The terrifying memory hit, the ministers did not dare to express their anger, and the hall was completely silent.
Situ Ce sneered, stood up, walked to Wu Changqin, looked down at him, and asked coldly: "Fu Sheren relies on his appearance to get to the position? Do you mean that I am stupid and incompetent and am tempted by women?"
"Your Majesty, I have no such intention! No such intention!" Wu Changqin was so frightened that he stared at him and kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic.
"Fu Qingchu." Situ Ce looked ahead indifferently and shouted in a deep voice.
"I'm here."
"Immediately draw up a decree, the imperial censor Zhongcheng Wu Changqin, slander the emperor, demote the ninth grade county magistrate, exile..." He thought for a while, "Lingnan."
"His Majesty……"
"If you want to plead for him, just go together." Situ Ce said coldly.
Hearing this, Cui Ju did not dare to say anything more. Wu Changqin was so frightened that he was paralyzed and kowtowed numbly to thank him.
Situ Ce turned back to his seat, looked at the ministers in the audience, and said coldly: "The Su family case involves many things, but this world cannot be without ministers, and I also rely on them. I originally wanted to write it off, but I have to Some people are talking about Fu Qingchu's family background and throwing dirty water on me, so what's the point?"
"I don't dare."
"Shun was born among his parents, and Fu Yue was raised among the buildings. Family background is just a stepping stone. In terms of birth, you and I are both made of clay by Empress Nuwa. No one is more noble than the other. You and I are both As a monarch and a minister, you must go to Kuangsheji and care for the people. You are worthy of the ancestors who shed their lives and blood for the founding of the country, and worthy of the people who support you and me.
"From now on, I don't want to hear such words about my ancestors anymore. The court is not a battlefield where we divide the enemy and ourselves based on their surnames, nor is it a market for grabbing profits. I hope that while you care about the glory of your ancestors, you should also care about the people. Don't be like this Like Su, he has become a silverfish that eats away at the country."
Situ Ce's words severely slapped those who used their family background to suppress Fu Qingchu in the face today, and left people unable to find a single fault. If you act as a king or a minister without thinking about the people of the world, you will be ashamed of your ancestors and the people, and you will become a silverfish.
"I will obey the instructions carefully," all the ministers said in unison.
"Retreat from the court."
"Retreat from the court -" Li Ping shouted loudly.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
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"After today, no one will dare to make irresponsible remarks against the Fu family." Situ Ce held Fu Qingchu's hand and smiled.
"I don't dare to do it on the face, but I probably scolded him even more harshly behind my back." Fu Qingchu smiled nonchalantly.
"If you don't dare to scold someone in front of your face, what's the use? You have to let people know that you are scolding them."
Speaking of this, Fu Qingchu couldn't help laughing, walked up to him, looked at him and smiled: "When I was in the East Palace, the palace people were scared to death when they mentioned you in private. I thought to myself, Your Majesty is so gentle and kind, What’s so scary?”
"Yeah, what's so scary?" Situ Ce stretched out his hand to brush away the broken hair from her forehead and said with a smile.
Fu Qingchu shook his head, "It's majesty, it's the majesty of being upright and upright. Because His Majesty is too upright and too clean, they are afraid of being found out by His Majesty, so they are afraid of you.
"Today in the court, they originally wanted to use the ancestral laws to object to my becoming the scholar, but His Majesty blocked their mouths based on his personal ability and the perspective of the people of Li. In addition, he also expressed his disapproval of Wu Changqin. The handling is so heavy, and the ancestral family tradition seems to be in vain in an instant."
Situ Ce smiled nonchalantly, "You can't be free if you are waiting for something. Who among these people dares to remonstrate with death? They are all very good at scrutinizing things, and they have not reached the point of remonstrating with death."
"What if they retaliate with death in the future?" Fu Qingchu asked with a frown.
"Then we'll have to see what's going on."
"The position of the middle palace in the future."
Speaking of this, Situ Ce became even less concerned, "They can now accept being an official in the same court with you, but they can't accept you as the head of the middle palace? What's more, it's a game, who can stop it in one move? "
Fu Qingchu thought about it and thought so, "Have Cui Shangshu and Zhang Shizhong read the New Deal?"
"After reading it, I have a great opinion." Situ Ce said calmly.
"What are your Majesty's plans?"
Situ Ce sighed and looked towards the horizon, "It is based on reason and moved by emotion. If it still doesn't work, Shangshu Sheng will not need it, but only six parts."
With the Shangshu Province withdrawn and power divided into six departments, the resistance will naturally be much smaller.
Fu Qingchu thought about it and realized that this was indeed a good way to gather power.
