Chapter 177 The decree
After hearing this, the Empress Dowager was silent again.
Cao Xuan couldn't figure out what the Empress Dowager was thinking at this time, so he could only hold his breath and hold his back, but he was extremely anxious.
Jiang Lu is a young general, and he is very good at riding and shooting. He has already walked with Wang Zan for a long time before him. The Empress Dowager will delay the place. He is afraid that even if he asks for the imperial edict, he will not be able to arrive in time.
His expression inevitably showed some anxiety.
The Empress Dowager sat upright quietly and reached out to Cao Xuan, looking like she was about to get into a pit.
Cao Xuan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to help the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager stood on the foot in front of the kang, and was a little taller than Cao Xuan. The Empress Dowager said, "Cao Xuan, please leave the imperial decree given to me by your aunt to me with me!"
Didn't say what to do?
Cao Xuan hesitated for a few breaths and gave the imperial edict to the Empress Dowager.
He felt that no one in this world loved Jiang Xian more than the Empress Dowager. She would definitely not be willing to let Jiang Xian be sad, just like when Prince Yong'an married Jiang Zhenying back then, the Empress Dowager disagreed, but in the end she still followed Princess Yong'an.
The Empress Dowager received the imperial edict with the phoenix seal and called Meng Fangling in, then handed the imperial edict to Meng Fangling and said, "You go and prepare the four treasures of the study, and I and Chenggong will use it."
Cao Xuan was stunned.
The Empress Dowager said, "Since you want to issue an imperial edict, there must be someone who will draw an edict. I think it's up to you."
In other words, the Empress Dowager agreed.
Cao Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and felt that his person had calmed down again.
He was busy with the Empress Dowager going to the study of the side palace, and then wrote two imperial edicts in the format of an official article.
The Empress Dowager looked at her and nodded.
Meng Fangling walked in, took three blank imperial edicts, and smiled and said, "Criminal, I am afraid that you will write it badly, so I brought one more picture."
Cao Xuan looked at the colorful gold-woven back and felt a little complicated.
A blank imperial edict shouldn't be that easy to get, right?
Thinking of this, he sat down and carefully, neatly copied the edict approved by the Empress Dowager on the imperial edict in the Pavilion. When the moji was dry, he asked the empress dowager who had been waiting for him to write the imperial edict and said, "Do you want to go to the pedestrian department to find out who is on duty today?"
There is more than one jade seal, each of which has a different purpose. Occasionally, the emperor will use a new seal. But no matter what, there are at least seven jade seals. In addition to the imperial seal engraved with the imperial seal "According to heaven, one will live forever", there are also the emperor's seals used by the emperor to engrave the three dukes of the orders of the princes and the three dukes, the emperor's seals used by the emperor when they wrote letters to the princes and the three dukes, the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor to send troops to the domestic soldiers, the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the vassal states, and the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the emperor's seals used by the vassal states to engrave the vassal states.
The imperial seal was kept by the emperor, and the other seals were supervised by Shangbao. When using seals, the pedestrian department usually sends seal documents to Shangbao Department. Shangbao Department sends donated posts to Shangbao Department, and the eunuch from Shangbao Department takes the seal from the female official who is in charge of the jade seal.
The program is very complicated and cumbersome.
But since Emperor Xiao used the imperial seal when Concubine Jing gave birth to her and promoted her to the throne after Concubine Jing gave birth to the late emperor, and the late emperor was a person who liked to make trouble more than Emperor Xiao, Zhao Yi and Empress Dowager Cao were also in charge of the affairs behind the curtain... The use of various jade seals was a bit messy.
But no matter how messed up, if you want to put a valid jade seal on this blank imperial edict, you have to come forward by the pedestrian department. If the pedestrian department comes forward, it may alarm Zhao Yi. Shocking Zhao Yi means that everyone will know this matter, and if you are not careful, it will become out of control.
Who knew that the Empress Dowager did not frown and stood up and ordered Cao Xuan to say "Come with the imperial edict." She didn't even change her clothes. She just wore the half-new and old autumn-scented reed crane pattern that she had just seen him, and took Meng Fangling directly out.
Cao Xuan hurriedly followed, but because he didn't know what the Empress Dowager was like, he couldn't help but remind the Empress Dowager in a low voice: "I asked before I came that today the person on duty in the pedestrian department was Wu Fucheng, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy..."
Wu Fucheng was born in a humble background. When he went to Beijing for the exam in his early years, he lived in Changchun Temple in the suburbs of Beijing. The old Duke's wife, who died in Zhenguo's mansion, saved Wu Fucheng's life who was ill in bed when he went to the temple to fulfill his wish. Wu Fucheng was very grateful and would always visit the old Duke's wife during the Chinese New Year. The two families had some contacts.
The Empress Dowager glanced at Cao Xuan.
Cao Xuan's heart trembled, and he always felt that the Empress Dowager's eyes seemed to be pointing, and he couldn't help feeling guilty and dared not say anything else.
Soon, the Empress Dowager left Cining Palace and went to the Interior Office.
Cao Xuan was stunned.
The twelve yamen in the inner court are located in the inner court.
Could it be that the Empress Dowager wants to go to Shangbao Supervisory directly?
But without Shang Baosi’s donation, Shang Baojian would not dare to use seals.
The Empress Dowager should be very clear about it.
What is she doing?
In a place as big as a slap in the Internal Affairs Office, all the eunuchs from the twelve yamen work in the Internal Affairs Office. Even when Empress Dowager Cao was there, they were polite to them. The Empress Dowager could not hide it at all. This is a trivial matter, I am afraid that the contents of the imperial edict would be leaked.
Cao Xuan couldn't help but say again: "Empress Dowager, do you think we should find a way to get a document from the pedestrian department first..."
The Empress Dowager ignored him, but just urged him to raise his shoulder and an eunuch: "Hurry up!"
The eunuchs dared not delay and trotted.
Cao Xuan had no choice but to keep up.
Soon, they entered the Interior Office.
The eunuchs coming and going were stunned.
The Empress Dowager signaled to the eunuch who was accompanying him: "Close the door!"
The eunuchs accompanying her immediately brought back a few eunuchs and young prisoners who had not yet walked away and closed the door.
The Empress Dowager asked the young prisoners who were brought in: "Where is Shangbao Prison?"
There was no stupid person who could walk here. The young prison immediately looked like a quail and hurriedly said, "I will take you there now."
The Empress Dowager nodded and was supported by Meng Fangling to the west.
Cao Xuan hesitated.
The Empress Dowager, the eunuch who stayed there, took out the Gentile stick from somewhere, and shouted to the eunuchs in the yard: "I'll stand up to the wall for me."
Not only did they scold the eunuchs, but the eunuchs who were originally watching the fun behind the window also quickly retracted their heads.
The entire Internal Affairs Council was quiet and there was no sound.
Cao Xuan smiled bitterly.
The Empress Dowager obviously had an arrangement. He could neither stop him nor come up with a better way to stay here. It would be better to follow the Empress Dowager.
He rushed to Shangbaojian.
Seeing the eunuch of Shangbaojian leading twenty and thirty eunuchs kneeling in the yard, the Empress Dowager stood on the steps, looking coldly at the sky in the distance. Her originally kind face was cold and cold. An eunuch in a sixth-rank costume was pressed to the ground by the eunuch who came with the Empress Dowager, with wet mulberry paper on her face, and she struggled desperately because of her suffocation.
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