This statement hit like a thunderbolt.
All the ministers turned to look.
The twenty-year-old secretary Wang Jin, his gentle and handsome face full of passion, shouted loudly, "Let the Commandery Princess ascend the throne as Empress!"
In terms of official rank, Wang Jin was merely a seventh-rank scholar.
But he also held another identity. He was the beloved son carefully nurtured by Prime Minister Wang, the future head of the Wang Family, and the acknowledged future leader of the Prime Minister Faction.
Wang Jin's sudden and explicit support for Jiang Shaohua left the officials of the Prime Minister Faction utterly dumbfounded.
Minister Zhang, unable to tolerate further, stood up and said, "Ridiculous! Nonsense! In all of history, there has never been a precedent for a woman to become Emperor! It's already breaking precedent and national law for the Nanyang County Princess to enter the court as a regent. How can she sit on the Dragon Throne? I am the first to oppose!"
