Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 2242

The pie for the retired emperor was very big, and Emperor Wenxuan and his wife definitely couldn’t finish it in one bite.

But as long as there was bread, life could go on. At least she wouldn't have to drown herself in the spit of "not giving birth to a prince".

Wei Pingting saw from the cake that the emperor had no complaints about her giving birth to four princesses, so she felt relieved and stopped making a fuss.

She was not the kind of woman who cried and acted pretentiously.

Moreover, Emperor Wenxuan had been truly good to her over the years. For ten years, he had remained the same, gentle, considerate, and loyal. He was definitely a rare and wonderful husband.

What's more, this is an emperor.

He has always been her pig-headed fool, and she has always been his little Pingting.

When he was young, he was a raging fire that was known to everyone; now he is a lamp in the palm of his hand, warming only her on a cold night.

Wei Pingting grabbed Emperor Wenxuan's sleeve and followed him back to the palace obediently.

She decided that she had to do something to get the court officials to stop interfering in her family affairs.

From then on, the court officials and nobles who had openly submitted memorials to "persuade" the empress to take a virtuous concubine in the name of "succession to the ancestral temple" and secretly spread rumors to ridicule her for "monopolizing the emperor's favor and ruining the country's destiny" suddenly felt that an invisible sword was hanging over their heads.

Wei Pingting did not resort to military action or issue an imperial decree, but instead set off a huge wave in the name of "rectifying family traditions and upholding women's virtues."

The son of Imperial Censor Cheng Hong rode his horse and trampled a vegetable vendor to death in the street, and the case was hastily settled with only ten taels of silver as compensation.

The case was uncovered by the Queen, who ordered the three courts to jointly try and impose a heavy sentence.

Shen Xian, an official in the Ministry of Personnel, favored his concubine, killed his first wife, and seized her dowry and property. Not only did he suppress his legitimate son, he also gave his concubine's son a leisurely and idle position in the Guanglu Temple.

The hundred acres of fertile land and several shops that the original wife brought as a dowry all fell into the name of the concubine Liu.

Suppressing the legitimate son and promoting the illegitimate son, turning moral principles upside down!

The Queen wrote with a flourish, "Investigate! We must set things right.

In the mansion of Qinlinbo, the prince abused the maids and took pleasure in humiliating women.

The Empress did not touch the Crown Prince, but instead issued an imperial decree to have the maidservant brought into the good household and released from bondage. She also ordered the Lady of Qinlinbo to enter the palace every day and copy the "Instructions for Women" for the Empress for a hundred days.

The old lady was so ashamed and angry that she broke the prince's leg when she returned home.

For a time, the houses of the high-ranking families in Beijing were in chaos.

The Queen of Beiyi holds a red pen and judges yin and yang.

She demolished people's ancestral halls, took away people's imperial decrees, cut off people's financial resources, and even tore off the most filthy and respectable things from those seemingly righteous gentlemen and spread them out to dry in the scorching sun.

No cuts were made without blood, but they cut into the heart.

Those who once spitted and called her "jealous" now only dared to swallow their anger in the middle of the night.

With this operation, the Northern Wing court would be quiet for a while. The officials were now most afraid that the Empress would suddenly enter the court and say, "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

All officials are busy taking care of themselves.

At the same time, the northern wing and Western Liang began to jointly formulate a common currency and unify the writing system.

Merchants can use it to travel between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait without the trouble of exchanging currency.

The great scholars of the Hanlin Academies of the two countries spent three years and wore out hundreds of wolf-hair brushes, and finally brought together the complex and diverse character shapes in a book called "Yiliang Zhengyun".

When a boy starts to learn, no matter whether he is born in Beiyi or Xiliang, he will recite aloud with the same square voice.

A few years later, intermarriage between the two countries was not limited to ordinary people, but also included officials and nobles.

The imperial court was delighted to see this happen, and even bestowed a golden plaque with the words "Match Made in Heaven" to be hung above the gates of the mansions of these noble marriages.

Those scholars who exchanged poems, the zither players who worked together on music scores, the craftsmen who carved cliff carvings together...it was just through years of interactions that "you" and "us" were transformed into an indistinguishable "we".

Later, the Western Liang emperor changed, and Emperor Ren Cen Ce ascended the throne. His first decree after taking control of the Liang Seal was to weld the iron rule of "wing and beam as one" into the backbone of national policy.

Because Cen Ce himself was a true half-Beiyi man. To this day, Beiyi people still talk about him with relish, "The Emperor of Liang is our Beiyi's Young Marquis of Weibei!"