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Qiu

Che was about to speak, but the door of the hall opened at this moment.

Fuzi smiled and gestured: "Your Highness, Prince Consort, His Majesty invites you two to come in."

Overall, this meeting was quite pleasant.

In front of Qiu Che, Li Shi was as kind and caring as he could be to Li Qingwu.

And Li Qingwu had a perfect smile on his face from beginning to end, answering and responding obediently.

When sitting next to Li Shi, he was like a piece of overly perfect porcelain.

It stands to reason that after paying respects to the emperor, he would have to meet the empress and the queen mother, but Li Shi waved his hand when the two of them left: "Qiu Aiqing, you stay, I still have something to talk to you about."

Qiu Che and Li Qingwu looked at each other, and Li Qingwu gave her a subtle soothing look, and then quietly left.

Li Shi looked at their interaction thoughtfully. After Li Qingwu left, he smiled and said, "Why do I see that you two don't seem to be very affectionate on the first day of your marriage? My dear Qiu, you said you were happy and harmonious, are you kidding me?"

Qiu Che's heart skipped a beat.

She cupped her hands and said calmly, "Your Majesty has wronged me. Don't you know what kind of personality your Highness has?"

Li Shi immediately said, "Oh?"

Qiu Che smiled, "Qingwu is well-behaved and polite. He doesn't like to get too close to others, not to mention that he is even more shy in front of his father, your Majesty."

Li Shi nodded, and seemed to be satisfied with her reason.

In addition, he finally put his mind at ease when the nanny brought the handkerchief back to the palace in the morning.

Seeing that this hurdle had passed, Qiu Che sat back leisurely and asked, "I wonder why your Majesty asked me to stay just now?"

"The memorial you submitted," Li Shi mentioned this and frowned slightly, "is it too complicated?" There

are 500 laws and regulations in Daxia, and Qiu Che's memorial alone revised more than 300 of them.

Some time ago, he urged Qiu Che to submit the draft quickly, but when the draft was really submitted, he was overwhelmed.

He only asked Qiu Che to weaken the power of the prime minister and the aristocratic families, so why did he revise so many laws in a scattered manner?

Once the memorial was opened, it rolled six or seven times without stopping.

Recently, the old ministers' memorials of advice and remonstrance due to the content of the draft almost swallowed up the desk in his imperial study.

Fearing that the emperor would be angry and unable to deal with the issues of weakening the aristocratic families and the power of the prime minister, these people focused their attention on other laws revised by Qiu Che.

Although it is an indisputable fact that the law needs to be amended, Qiu Che amended it so thoroughly. If he could do it so easily, wouldn't it show that they, the old ministers, are incompetent?

So everyone formed a unified tacit agreement and decided to put as many obstacles in the way as possible.

Lest Qiu Che become too powerful by then, it would be really difficult to suppress him.

Li Shi was annoyed by the old ministers' snot and tears, and he himself felt that Qiu Che's draft was a bit too complicated, so he reluctantly came to discuss it with Qiu Che in detail.