The Marquis Is Innocent - 164.2

Chapter 164.2

This group of successful candidates, all of them talented, thoughtful, and active. After being appointed to an official position, they became ministers of the imperial court.

A few years later, the imperial examination system completely replaced the previous system and became the only way to select talents for the imperial dynasty.

Legend has it that Empress Qiao proposed the system and persuaded the Emperor and ministers to accept it. Hence, for a long time after that, Empress Qiao became a legend in the minds of scholars, and many people competed to compose poems and fugues for her. To be able to list in the top ten and to be awarded a wine by Empress Qiao at the banquet given by the imperial palace became the aim of the scholars.

Everyone knew Empress Qiao’s beautiful name, inside and outside of Luoyang. Not long after, the most controversial discussion among the Luoyang people was not about how virtuous Empress Qiao was but rather the Emperor’s fear of his wife.

Allegedly, before the Emperor ascended the throne and was still the Marquis of Yan in Youzhou, he had feared his wife. Because of the Qiao Queen’s restriction, the Emperor didn’t dare to take any beauty. Now the harem was empty, only the Empress one person. Even though there was no Crown Prince, the Emperor still didn’t expand the harem. All probability, perhaps, the Emperor was terrified of his wife, and it wasn’t light.

If this rumor was true, then the founding Emperor of Yan was the first Emperor who feared his wife.

The people enjoyed this kind of gossip about the Emperor and the Queen but not harbored any malicious minds, only out of curiosity.

How can’t they be uninterested? Gradually, the rumors flow back into the palace. Even the courtiers were also curious.

Those old generals who had followed the Emperor over the world those years divided into two factions. Gongsun Yang thought the reason why the Emperor didn’t accept the harem was out of love with the Empress. On the other hand, Wei Quan secretly thought that the Emperor was really afraid of his wife. Now even the citizens knew, leading the Emperor to lose his dignity. These people had different thoughts but only in their minds. No one will be stupid enough to go to the Emperor and mention this matter to seek a bad omen.

A few former ministers who didn’t know that the tiger’s ass was untouchable and wanted to send their daughters into the harem seriously wrote memorials about ‘the son of God married twelve women’ and about the Queen had only given birth to one princess, please the Emperor to set up a consort, filling the harem.

On the second day, the memorials were returned to the imperial desk with only a sentence: did you curse me can not give birth to a son?

The ministers was horrified, panicked, and then begged for punishment. Since then, no one dared to mention the harem.

According to gossip, the Emperor took credit in front of the Qiao Queen for how he disposed of this matter. When Qiao Queen learned that, she only laughed.

The Emperor and the Queen have deep feelings for Xindu. For them, Xindu was a unique place. The Emperor ordered the Xin Palace Tantai Terrace to be repaired and renamed ‘Jiaxin Palace.’

When the Emperor and the Queen toured the nine states, they passed through the Xindu residence.

From the establishment of the first day, Great Yan Dynasty entered a harmonious era. ‘Wise ruler and virtuous queen,’ such words of praise to describe the founding Emperor of the Great Yan empire.

For the people in the community, the founding Emperor was young and handsome. According to the people honored to have a close audience with Qiao Queen, the Queen was beautiful as a goddess.

Such a pair of lovers became legendary, coupled with the widely circulated ‘the Emperor fear of his wife’ rumor.

T/N: The main story ends here. There are still extra stories, and I will update them slowly. Thank you.