The Ling family members nearby echoed. Many ministers also helped to plead. Long Yi ignored him and said in a deep voice: "Depose Empress Dowager Ling Li and demote her to a commoner. The case will be handed over to the three courts for trial." Old Master Ling's eyes turned fierce, and he lowered his head and shouted, "Your Majesty, please have mercy!" "Your Majesty, please show mercy!" the Ling family requested loudly. When their voices fell silent, Long Yi said loudly: "Concubine Yun is my biological mother. I specially appoint her as the Empress Dowager. From now on, there will only be one Empress Dowager, and that is my biological mother." The Ling family was very angry. "Your Majesty, how can you depose one Empress Dowager and then enthrone another one?" Old Master Ling stood up and said indignantly. "I am the Emperor Dajing. Do I need your consent to enthrone my biological mother as the Empress Dowager?" Long Yi is majestic and dignified, and his dragon face is full of power.

"We dare not." The ministers said one after another. "Dismiss the court." Long Yi stood up, put his hand on Eunuch Han's arm, and walked away. The ministers were talking about it. As there were still many princes in the hall at the moment, some people looked at them warily and left the hall one after another. Fu Ciyi looked around and took a step forward. In the Empress Dowager's palace at this moment. Yan Funing had already taken out the snacks: "These are the snacks I like to eat. Grandma and Grandma Ling can eat them, but the Royal Grandmother needs to eat something soft and sticky." She passed them one by one. The Queen Mother laughed and said, "I won't eat it. My teeth are not good. I can't eat it." "The girl understands me and knows that I love to eat." Concubine Yun smiled. Soon a young eunuch ran in and bowed to Qiao Wanyou first: "Your Majesty, the Emperor ordered me to deliver a message." "Go on." Qiao Wanyou said. The young eunuch greeted the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ling, then knelt before Concubine Yun and said, "Congratulations, Empress Dowager. The Emperor has appointed you as the Empress Dowager during the morning court session." "Okay, okay." The Queen Mother smiled, "The Emperor is really quick." "It's really fast." Ling Taipin was surprised, turned around and congratulated, "Sister Yun, you are in a high position now, I don't want to go back to the cold palace again." "No, no." Concubine Yun smiled, "It's just that the title of Empress Dowager..." I always feel like I'm calling Ling Li. She didn't like it very much. Long Yi strode over and said, "If you don't like it, then you can call me Empress Dowager Yun. The title will still be that of Empress Dowager Emperor."

Hearing this, Queen Mother Yun nodded and looked at the people around her with a smile: "What do you think?" "Your Majesty is right, Grandmother, your granddaughter-in-law thinks it's great." Yan Funing said. In this way, the deposed Emperor and Empress Dowager can be distinguished from the current Emperor and Empress Dowager. "Of course you can." The Queen Mother also said, "The title is one thing, the address is another, just do whatever makes you feel comfortable." As they were talking, Long Yi had just sat down when Fu Ciyi arrived. He greeted them one by one, and then said to Long Yi: "Father, I have a few words to say." As he spoke, he raised his hand to signal that he wanted to borrow a step to talk to his father. Long Yi glanced at him, finally stood up and went out with his son. The father and son stood in the corridor. "what you want to say?" "The Ling and Lou families are relatives by marriage, and usually they are just one family. I think the most urgent thing now is that Father must be on guard against the Ling family causing trouble." On this side, the father and son discussed the Ling family’s subsequent response. On the other side, Old Master Ling and his sons angrily left the palace. Halfway through the journey, he called out to Cai Tingzhou. Cai Tingzhou looked around warily. Old Master Ling snorted, "Prime Minister Cai was able to sit in the position of Prime Minister. I'm afraid he has forgotten my support." "I dare not." Cai Tingzhou approached him and lowered his voice, "Old Master, I am just thinking about what to do about the current dilemma." Old Master Ling asked back, "What about your two daughters?" Cai Tingzhou grabbed Old Master Ling's arm and said, "Let's find a place to talk." The group left the palace. When they arrived outside the palace, Cai Tingzhou got on the Ling family's carriage and sat down face to face with Old Master Ling. "You supported Long Yaodong originally. Now the new emperor has not held your Cai family accountable because he has not yet secured the throne. Once he secures the throne, do you think you will still be the prime minister?" Old Master Ling asked in a cold voice, "Have you forgotten how Minister Dong was driven out of the capital?" The maid kneeling beside them poured hot tea for both of them. Cai Tingzhou sighed deeply: "How could I not know?" He was just testing to see where Long Yi and Fu Ciyi's bottom line was. These days, he becomes more and more worried. As for Shangshu Dong, he was originally the Minister of Rites. Because his son Dong Kuang had been married to the fifth princess and there was some unhappiness during their marriage, the new emperor took his anger out on the entire Dong family. Now that the new Minister of Rites is the confidant of the new emperor, the abolition of the Empress Dowager and the enthronement of the new Empress Dowager will surely be announced to the world soon. "Good to know." Old Master Ling snorted, "When the late emperor was alive, he still had to give my Ling family some face."

I thought the new emperor would place more reliance on the Ling family. I never expected so many scandals to crop up. But given the current situation, the Ling family really couldn't swallow this humiliation. Cai Tingzhou said softly: "Old Master, to be honest, the previous emperor handed over the throne to the new emperor because the new emperor had the support of your Ling family behind him." "That's right. The late emperor thought that this would secure the new emperor's throne." Old Master Ling smiled contemptuously, "Now my Ling family and your Cai family have become a thorn in the new emperor's side. Prime Minister Cai, what do you think we should do?" The two looked at each other. "We might as well..." Cai Tingzhou did not continue his words. He just looked at Old Master Ling. Old Master Ling laughed: "It doesn't matter..." His words did not explain. The two smiled at each other. Cai Tingzhou asked: "I wonder what the old man is thinking?" "What is Prime Minister Cai thinking about?" Old Master Ling also asked. They each dipped their fingers into the teacup, and then wrote a word on the table with their fingertips - stone. "Great minds think alike!" Cai Tingzhou laughed out loud. Old Master Ling nodded and said, "Since the new emperor wants to go against us, let's choose someone else to support. Shi Yu's son Long Chi'an was the person the previous emperor wanted to entrust the throne to." "Yes, but I don't know why the late emperor changed his mind when he passed away." Cai Tingzhou frowned, "Could it be that the late emperor was forced by the new emperor?" "It's possible." Old Master Ling said softly, "We must contact the Shi family as soon as possible without delay." If Ling Li was really tried by the three courts, not only would she suffer, but the entire Ling family would probably be implicated by her. From another perspective, without the Empress Dowager's support, the Ling family's future status would be worrying. Now, to solve this problem, we can only choose someone else to sit on the throne. By then, even if the Ling family lost their empress dowager, the Ling family would be the backbone of the new emperor. Cai Tingzhou frowned and expressed his worries: "I just don't know what the Shi family's attitude is. Is Long Chi'an willing to cooperate with us?" (End of this chapter)