Chapter 549: Concubine Yuan Gui Who Favors the Harem (4)
The establishment of six bureaus and twenty-four divisions in the Daxi Palace was actually based on the establishment of the previous dynasty. This system limited the rights in the hands of the queen to a certain extent. To put it bluntly, the queen is in charge of the entire harem, but it is the sixth bureau to implement the various orders of the middle palace.
At the beginning, Emperor Jing took the place of Concubine Jing's Xiao family, not because he was ingenious, but because he used the rules of the palace to apply in King Jing's mansion.
Of course, everyone has their own means. When the former queen was the queen, she took charge of the harem by replacing the Shang Palace Bureau with her own people. This person is the current Chen Shanggong. There was another Shanggong who was Empress Xianshun before. After Empress Xianshun passed away, she was replaced by Qi Shanggong.
When the queen was angry, she once used her identity to overwhelm Qi Shanggong, and also clamored to replace her.
Qi Shanggong remained calm and informed the queen that His Majesty's consent is required to replace the fifth-rank Shang Palace. Qi Shanggong's attitude and tone are very submissive, but the meaning in the words is very obvious, you should stop joking, the servants are His Majesty's people.
Helpless, the queen can only suppress Qi Shanggong with Chen Shanggong, who is her own.
It's a pity that Aunt Qi started to act as early as when she was still in the East Palace, and the eunuch head eunuch Fushun gave her convenience, and with the mountain of Emperor Jing behind her, there were not many female officials in the twenty-four miles of the Sixth Bureau. Blind man, naturally knows the stakes.
In fact, in this deep palace, if the people below want to live comfortably, they all depend on the direction of the wind.
The direction of the wind is His Majesty the current Emperor. Wherever His Majesty's wind blows, the people below will follow. Just like when the first emperor back then, the first emperor loved to make peace between the empress and the noble concubine, so the people below naturally divided into two groups.
But now, His Majesty's chariots and horses are clearly facing the one in the Chenxi Palace, so naturally no one dares to make trouble for that one. It's also like His Majesty obviously wants to evade the queen, so naturally no one dares to block the way.
Even Concubine Xiao felt this invisible restraint, because many of the people she held in her hands before are either useless or have been transferred from key positions.
This situation made Empress Dowager Xiao very angry, and once again felt that Emperor Jing was not a simple person.
Generally, men who can turn salty fish into a big treasure for the first time are all focused on government affairs, and rarely pay attention to some small details.
Including the late emperor back then, the affairs of the harem were all given to her. Although there was a Concubine Xu who always opposed her, but as the emperor, the late emperor never interfered in the harem affairs.
Only this Emperor Jing is different from other people, a man still likes to take care of trivial matters.
The imperial concubine had cursed in her heart countless times that Emperor Jing, a son of heaven, was too petty and unrefined. But curses are curses, she knows better than anyone why King Jing is like this.