Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

In the winter of the sixth year of Shenghe.

The imperial capital Luojing.

Ziji City, Taiji Hall.

morning.

"Minister, Lu Chen is in the middle of the engineering department, I implore the Queen Mother to return the government to Your Majesty!"

In the resplendent Tai Chi Hall, a sonorous and powerful voice resounded through the entire hall, instantly causing waves in the hearts of everyone present.

The voice just fell.

The faces of all the ministers and officials all showed astonishment in unison, as if they had heard something from the Arabian Nights.

Even the maids serving the emperor and the empress dowager hanging behind the dragon chair, the eunuchs around, and the inner guards standing on both sides all showed unbelievable shock at the same time.

They couldn't help being surprised.

Six years ago, when the late emperor and a group of royal families died bizarrely and violently in a sudden vision of heaven and earth, after the then empress Zhao quickly stabilized the situation with extraordinary means and extremely bloody means, she took the honor of the empress dowager. Lin Dynasty called the system, and has been in charge of the dynasty alone, ruling the world.

Six years have passed, and now the queen mother's cliques are all over the government and the public, and the 800,000 forbidden troops in the imperial capital are also under her control.

It can be said that as long as she wants to, she can abolish the establishment at any time.

And the empress sitting on the dragon chair is not actually the Queen Mother Zhao herself.

It's just that only the royal family over ten years old can inherit the most sacred thing of the Great Xia Empire [Jade Seal], and the last direct prince of her and the first emperor was not yet four years old at that time, so she had to support a puppet emperor until her The emperor's son can inherit the most holy things of the empire.

The empress was the one she had chosen from among the surviving royal families who were over ten years old, an empress who had no foundation and was the easiest to control.

Now, she and the late emperor's last direct son, the king of Qin who was already "famous" at the age of nine, will be ten years old in ten years, and it is self-evident what will happen then.

Everything is a foregone conclusion, just waiting for the moment when it will happen.

As for the fate of the empress who has been like a puppet for the past six years after being deposed, almost everyone knows it well.

Therefore, they never imagined that now that King Qin's accession to the throne was a foregone conclusion, there would still be someone who would be loyal to such an emperor who was destined to be abolished, and would challenge the supreme authority of the Empress Dowager Zhao who now holds the highest power in the Great Xia Empire.

Due to the shock, for a long time, there was no sound from the hall, and the needle could be heard.

Sitting on the dragon chair, the young girl emperor who was only 28 years old and who had been in charge of the universe for six years in name, suddenly tightened her little hands hidden under the dragon robe, her timid little face, and the eyes that were originally full of timidity flickered quietly. Live a splendor.

At this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded beside him:

"oh?"

It was the Queen Mother Zhao who was under the bead curtain who spoke.

At this time, she looked at Lu Chen with endless coldness, as if she was looking at a dead person.

"I'm old, my ears are not very good, I didn't hear clearly just now, so I asked this Qing family to repeat it to me."

At the same time as he spoke, a terrifying aura surged out, instantly covering every corner of the Tai Chi Hall.

Lu Chen felt his body suddenly sink, and the surrounding air solidified, and his body was like a mountain, which made him a little out of breath.

If it was an ordinary Daxia official, facing the terrifying aura of the Queen Mother, he would have been scared out of his wits on the spot and knelt down to beg for mercy.

But Lu Chen gritted his teeth and carried it so abruptly.

Although his slightly thin body was trembling, he looked like he would fall to the ground at any time.

However, his knees and waist did not bend a single point!

Even though it flickered like a candle in the wind, it never fell down.

His face was full of determination, without a trace of wavering.

Under the pressure of that invisible terrifying momentum, he raised his head with difficulty, then opened his mouth with great difficulty, and said word by word:

"Chen...Engineering Department...Lu Chen..."

Hearing these extremely strenuous but unwilling to yield words, all the courtiers who reacted couldn't help but feel their scalps go numb.

Is this young man crazy?

As the saying goes, "I have studied hard for more than ten years in the cold window, and I don't know how many rounds of autumn". What about the chance of enlightenment?

And with the Queen Mother's control and power over the court, not to mention a small seventh-rank officer, even the cabinet's bachelors, they can just say what they say, and say what they say.

What's more, the emperor is still a puppet with no hope of turning over...not worthy of allegiance at all.

Just because she personally nominated Jinshi for you during the palace examination, and said a few words of encouragement, are you going to feel sorry for her?

How stupid does this have to be to do such a stupid thing that takes one's own future as a joke? !

Doesn't he want this great official status?

In fact, they guessed right!

Now Lu Chen doesn't want to be an official at all.

The reason for emphasizing the word "now" is because he is actually not the talented Confucian scholar who graduated from high school at a young age, but a time traveler from Blue Star.

Yes, time traveler.

He is working so hard now, not because he is loyal to the Empress, but because he accidentally activated a system called "The Way of Being an Official" after digesting the memories of his predecessor.

From the name, it seems to be a system where one can become stronger as long as one is promoted.

But the truth is just the opposite!

This system seems to have a bug. Not only does it not have artificial mental retardation, it cannot speak, it cannot communicate, and its functional mechanism is also very strange.

Simply put, the reward mechanism is the reverse of the promotion system.

As long as he doesn't get promoted and maintains his status quo, he can keep getting stronger.

At the end of the first small period before, he directly obtained a yellow-rank sixth-rank elixir from the system, five top-grade great return pills, and a tendon-washing pill, and his spiritual veins were expanded, and the spiritual power in his body also increased. A little bit of refinement directly made him, an ordinary person, instantly stronger than the original owner who had practiced hard for many years.

And if you are demoted, you will be rewarded a hundred times directly!

If he is deposed, the system can even directly transform into a Dao, allowing him to become an immortal immediately, and the immortal world will become the king!

Moreover, if one dies while serving as an official, one can immediately ascend to immortality, but the cause of death must be related to being an official.

But if it is not a last resort, who would want to die? If there is a choice, then of course it would be more comfortable to be dismissed from office.

In the current situation, it is not difficult to be dismissed from office.

Of course, the system also lists many restrictions such as not being able to resign, not being able to rebel, and not being able to do irrational or illogical actions.

For example, you can't yell at the emperor and officials for no reason, or seek death for no reason.

But as long as he is dismissed in a reasonable manner, he can still become an immortal!

If that's the case, then be a fart official!

Wouldn't it be nice to just look for a chance to die and get rid of this official skin, and instantly become an immortal king?

It's not easy to be promoted, but not easy to be demoted?

As the saying goes, when the leader sings, I cut the song, when the leader picks up food, I turn the table, when the leader drinks water, I brake... In short, just follow the promotion method and do it the other way around!

Even if the empress dowager didn't want to face him, if she killed him directly, that would be blood money!

Therefore, it is his best choice to openly write a letter to the queen mother to return to power, support the empress, and directly offend the queen mother to death.

Anyway, the original owner was a person of incomparable integrity, so foolish loyalty was taken for granted.

Otherwise, why would he mess with the Queen Mother when he was full?

Don't talk about loyalty, he is not the original owner, but a serious modern person, who can be loyal to the empress.

So, under the strong longing for the future, he directly withstood the terrifying aura of the queen mother, and said with great difficulty:

"Chen... I implore the Queen Mother...don't be greedy for power..."

Seeing that he was so tenacious, as if he had put life and death aside, and devoted his allegiance to the empress, some of the originally expressionless courtiers' poker faces quietly flashed a touch of emotion.

Although the empress still looked timid, her little hands hidden under her sleeves were tightly clenched, as if she was holding back something, and she didn't even notice that her nails were deeply buried in her flesh.

"Ah……"

A familiar sneer sounded from the side, and the empress's heart tightened suddenly.

Sure enough, in the next second, the air around Lu Chen suddenly froze violently again, and the invisible force suppressing him instantly increased by several percent.

"Hmm!!"

Lu Chen couldn't help but groaned in pain. A moment later, a bright red blood trickled down from the corner of his mouth.

Even the courtiers who watched coldly from the side could clearly feel the majesty of the queen mother, and the official uniform on her body was windless and automatic. One can imagine how furious the queen mother was at this time.

All the courtiers couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, thinking, this kid might be unable to hold on any longer and fall to his knees.

In their view, facing the extremely domineering coercion of the Queen Mother alone, let alone a small seventh-rank official who has just entered the court, even the big bosses such as the six ministers may not be able to resist.

Looking at Lu Chen, who was struggling to support under the power of the Queen Mother, the Empress couldn't help breathing slightly, her teeth clenched under her lips, but she still had the same timid look on her face as before. Emotions are hidden in the deepest part of the heart.

However, even though the back is like being pressed down by Mount Tai, the skin on the body does not break under this huge force, the intense pain spreads all over the body, the breathing becomes more and more difficult, and the scene in front of the eyes becomes more and more blurred, but...

Lu Chen never fell down!

The shaking of the body is getting bigger and bigger, and the ups and downs of the chest are getting more and more violent.

The bun fell while shaking, and the long black hair broke free from the restraints and fell in a mess, covering his face.

But he still held on to the body that had gradually lost consciousness.

He raised his head stiffly, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked miserable, but his blood-red eyes were still staring at the Queen Mother Zhao under the bead curtain with all his strength, slowly Speak words that seem to be stained with blood:

"Please Queen Mother...return the government to Your Majesty...to rest...the hearts of all the people..."

In the end, before the weak voice fell, it stopped abruptly, and there was no more sound. No matter how much pressure the queen mother exerted, his body did not move at all, as if it was completely frozen.

Seeing that he didn't respond for a while, the Queen Mother asked a courtier who was closer to him to check.

The courtier stepped forward, yelled a few times in front of Lu Chen, and waved his hand again. Seeing that he still didn't respond, he stretched out his hand to part his loose black long hair.

When he showed Lu Chen's appearance in front of everyone, all the courtiers couldn't help but gasped, and were stunned for a moment.

I saw Lu Chen's eyes widening, his bloodshot eyes tightly locked on the bead curtain beside the dragon chair, and he never deviated from it, as if it was his only persistence in this life, never wavering.

"The Queen Mother..."

There was a tremor in the courtier's voice: "The queen mother...he...he fainted..."

Even though he completely lost consciousness, his body was still obeying his incomparably powerful will, without yielding at all, just standing in place tenaciously.

For the sake of the empress, he was able to look at the ruler next to the dragon chair who truly held the supreme power of the Great Xia Empire without fear. No hesitation!

What kind of loyalty is this!

Some courtiers were completely moved.

The empress's eyes were slightly red, but she quickly returned to her original timid look. Then, when the empress dowager stood up with an ugly face, she gave Lu Chen a very deep look, and silently took a deep look at Lu Chen's figure at this time. burned into the bottom of my heart.