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After everyone in the room had vented their emotions, Lu Changqing finally spoke of Qi Yu's will.

Lu Changqing pointed to the wooden box on the desk and said to everyone, "Before His Majesty passed away, he told me that he left a secret edict in the palace. This is the secret edict that Chen Zhongguan found from His Majesty's bedroom. From the time it was found until now, the edict has never left our sight. I have never opened the edict to read it, and there is no possibility of secretly changing it. The ministers can verify this with Chen Zhongguan."

After Lu Changqing finished speaking, everyone in the room looked at Chen Huaizhong.

Chen Huaizhong had never felt so much attention in his life. Everyone in the room turned to look at him. He straightened his hunched back and nodded seriously, "I can testify that the imperial concubine never opened the imperial edict, let alone changed it."

The ministers' gaze shifted back to Lu Changqing's face. They were still skeptical about Chen Huaizhong's words.

Good birds choose good trees to roost in. For the sake of his own future, it is not impossible for Chen Huaizhong, a rootless man, to betray his master. What's more, the emperor is dead now, so he can't even be considered as betraying his master.

Lu Changqing didn't care what these ministers thought. She said those words just to show off.

Some things are just like this. It’s hard to say what happens in private, but the face-saving work still needs to be done.

It is not too easy for Lu Changqing to imitate other people's handwriting. As for seals, it is even easier. She only needs to look at what the jade seal looks like and then she can carve out an identical one.

The secret decree that Lu Changqing sent back only stated two things: one was to appoint the child of Queen Cao Ruqiong as the crown prince, and the other was to depose the queen and appoint someone else. The person appointed was someone the ministers could never have imagined - Qiao Luoluo.

Ministers:…

Lu Changqing did it on purpose. It was obvious that Qi Yu wanted to get rid of Prime Minister Cao and take back the right to speak in the court. If he killed Prime Minister Cao but kept Cao Ruqiong as the queen, it would be a bit unreasonable. But if he deposed Cao Ruqiong and replaced him with Lu Changqing, it seemed even more inappropriate, as if the secret decree was too fake.

So Lu Changqing chose someone no one would have dreamed of, someone who had no ability to compete with her for power.

The ministers still had an impression of Qiao Luoluo. After all, it was because of her pregnancy that the rumor that Qi Yu was a castrated chicken was broken. But how could this unknown concubine named Qiao have the ability to be the queen?

Some people looked at Yan Shan. After all the trouble, his daughter ended up being a concubine. However, Prime Minister Cao was dead, and now this person really had the power to himself. He quietly lit a candle for the future powerless Queen Qiao.

Qiao Luoluo was invited by Lu Changqing. After all, she was the future empress dowager, so naturally she needed to come and meet the ministers and get acquainted with them.

When Qiao Luoluo learned that Qi Yu's will wanted to appoint her as the queen, she was confused. When she realized what was happening, she quickly declined, "I am dull and incompetent, and I cannot bear the responsibility of being the mother of a country. Please ask the concubine and the ministers to choose someone else."

Qiao Luoluo was not just pretending, she really felt that she was not qualified for the position of queen.

Now that the emperor is dead, if the current queen can give birth to a prince, the prince will immediately become the emperor, and the queen will immediately become the empress dowager. The little emperor is still a baby, and the empress dowager will have to act as regent. She can't even play with the harem, let alone those courtiers in the court whose minds are as dark as honeycomb coals.

The most important thing is that she doesn't think Yan Weixiu will give up power to her. Her fellow villager even dared to kill the emperor. Wasn't it all for the word power?

Yes, although Qiao Luoluo did not attend the temple prayer event in person, she felt that the emperor was killed by Lu Changqing. After all, for someone who could deal with such a magical thing as the system, killing an emperor should be easy.

Qiao Luoluo refused straightforwardly, but someone got anxious.

Prime Minister Cao committed treason and treason, so Cao Ruqiong would definitely not be able to be the queen. If Qiao Luoluo refuses to be the queen, then wouldn't Concubine Yan be the only one who can be the queen?

This is absolutely not allowed! In the past, all the people in the harem were surnamed Yan. Whose kingdom has this become?

Naturally, the Cao Party and the Royalists tried their best to persuade Qiao Luoluo to take up this heavy burden. They talked till their mouths were dry, but Qiao Luoluo said that she didn't want to be the queen at all.

Until the queen's carriage entered the palace, the two sides had not yet reached a conclusion.

When the guards came to inform that the queen had been carried into Yanchun Palace to give birth, Lu Changqing asked Yan Shan and the ministers to stay in the imperial study for the time being, and she took Qiao Luoluo to Cao Ruqiong's palace.

As soon as Cao Ruqiong saw Lu Changqing, he grabbed her hand tightly. His face was pale and it was obvious that he had something to tell Lu Changqing.

"I have arranged everything. It can only be a prince, or twins."

"Where is the child?" Lu Changqing asked about the baby boy that Cao Ruqiong brought back.

Cao Ruqiong looked at Qiao Luoluo who was following Lu Changqing with fear, and Nanny Li also stood there at a loss.

Lu Changqing said: "His Majesty left a secret decree before going to the Huguo Temple. One is to make your child the crown prince, and the other is to depose the queen and make Qiao Shuyi the queen. You have no choice now."

Hearing that he was deposed, Cao Ruqiong was not surprised at all, "You did it?"

"I was afraid that you couldn't train the crown prince I wanted, so I brought her into the group." This was a disguised admission by Lu Changqing.

Cao Ruqiong was amused by Lu Changqing's words, "I can't teach her? How can a woman who uses her beauty to please men teach her?"

"Why do you have to say it so harshly? Aren't you and I both using our beauty to please others? We can pursue power because we both have a powerful father. If we were like Qiao Shuyi, with no power in our family, and wanted to live well in the palace, what else could we do except vying for favor?"

Cao Ruqiong's eyes were somewhat evasive and he turned his face away awkwardly, not daring to look at Qiao Luoluo who looked somewhat depressed.

Lu Changqing continued, "Why do these women in the palace fight? Because everyone depends on men to survive. If they want to live a better life, they can only compete with other women for the emperor's favor. For the resources that flow from the fingers of men, we women are fighting to the death."

What are the men doing at this time? They are enjoying themselves, enjoying the women fighting over them. They are obviously very proud of themselves, but they still curse them as "jealous women".

Lu Changqing said earnestly, "Queen, you are really smart. You are more insightful than many people in this era. I also understand your concerns about wanting to have a son, because the rule of this society is to respect men. If you want to live a good life, you can only follow this rule."

In a patriarchal society, women do not need to be successful, they only need to be virtuous. They are not taught to change history or the world. If they can be taught or can independently come up with ideas to change themselves, it would be an amazing awakening.

Lu Changqing had no reason and no right to despise Cao Ruqiong for failing to fully awaken, because if she had continued to live in the feudal era, she might not even have thought of changing herself.

"But the makers of the rules are often the beneficiaries of the rules. Men have enjoyed it for long enough, and it's time for us women to be the dealers." Lu Changqing looked at Cao Ruqiong and said in a resolute voice: "I am not afraid to tell you clearly that the baby in your belly can only be a girl."