Chapter 648: The Empress Dies Suddenly
"Your Majesty, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue wants to see you. He wants to discuss the issue of the Black Cavalry's military pay with Your Majesty..."
"not see!"
"Your Majesty, the Minister of Justice said that he has an important matter for your Majesty to decide, and it concerns..."
"Get out!"
"Your Majesty, Dongchang, Dayue, and Huihe have sent envoys to visit Dongzhou. The Ministry of Rites asked Your Majesty whether the return gift this year will be the same as in previous years or..."
"Why do you bother me with such a small matter? What is the Ministry of Rites for?"
"Your Majesty, the girl from Lord Liu's family flirted with the son of General Li and had one of his arms broken. The two families are in a big fight, and Lord Liu is kneeling outside begging Your Majesty to make a decision..."
"You come to me with all kinds of trivial matters, but I'm not the Jingzhao Yin!"
"Your Majesty, you haven't attended court for several days. Several ministers are outside the palace begging..."
"Let them go!——"
For two consecutive months, the court officials didn't even see the empress, and were kicked out every time they asked for an audience.
The ministers were confused: What is going on?
There are many things waiting for His Majesty to deal with. They are very anxious when they hear that His Majesty neither approves memorials nor attends court.
They thought that it was the Emperor who was pestering His Majesty again, and were about to find His Majesty to persuade him, but after some inquiries, they found out that His Majesty had not been to the Yaochi Palace for a long time.
What is a strange incident?
The courtiers were curious.
So several important officials of the court came together to see the empress.
The empress naturally refused to see him, but some simple-minded generals intruded on the grounds that the empress might be in danger as she had not attended court for many days.
The court officials followed closely, but even though they went in, they came out with gloomy faces.
"absurd!"
"That's ridiculous!"
"A dignified empress actually did such... such... in a place like the Imperial Study..."
"Grandmaster, you can't just ignore this matter." "We were careless. We thought that since the Demon King had fallen out of favor, no one could seduce His Majesty anymore. We didn't expect..."
"Oh! Who says it's not true?"
Thinking of the scene they saw in the imperial study, the faces of several ministers looked extremely ugly.
Failed!
Unexpectedly, when Lord Yao fell out of favor, a pair of noble servants named Xiao came. Looking at their posture, it might be another royal noble, or two of them.
It was already hard enough for the emperor to deal with just one of them, and now two more came at once. The ministers were so depressed.
The Xiao brothers bewitched the empress so much that they even stopped attending court. They spent their days indulging in wine and women, indulging in pleasure. Their degree of disturbing the empress's mind was even worse than that of the Demon Noble King. After the Demon Emperor and Noble King, the two of them became thorns in the eyes of court officials and thorns in the flesh of all the concubines in the harem.
Just when the ministers were planning to submit a joint petition to the empress, kneeling and asking her to execute the evil concubine, shocking news came from the harem!
The empress died suddenly!
She was too greedy for pleasure and died in a man's bed.
The ministers vomited blood: Absurd! Too absurd!
Ji Yao is probably the first empress in the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to die in a man's bed. How shameful! She has no face to see her ancestors!
The sudden death of the empress shocked the court and the public, and there was panic.
I don’t know if it was instigated by someone with ulterior motives, but this royal scandal spread quickly, causing the people to talk about it and the royal family lost all their reputation.
As the murderers who seduced the empress and killed her, the Xiao brothers were naturally sentenced to death, and Ji Nanyue, the prince who presented the beauty, could not escape the charge of murdering the empress and was arrested.
When the wall falls, everyone pushes it. Those who had been won over all distanced themselves from him and some even wanted to step on him. In the end, Ji Nanyue was sentenced to immediate execution.
Normally, when an empress passes away, the will should be announced to designate a new emperor, and then a period of mourning should be observed before the coronation ceremony is held.
However, the Crown Princess had died, and the Empress did not appoint another Crown Princess before her death, so naturally there was no such edict.
But a country cannot be without a king for a day, so selecting a new king is naturally the top priority.
In the court these days, the ministers argued and quarreled over the new emperor they had in their minds, causing chaos in the entire court.
(End of this chapter)
