Chapter 370 Queen: Don't Try to Hide This From Ben Gong!

The matter of Xiuzhuo Palace is actually not small. The reason why it has not attracted attention so far, apart from the empress deliberately concealing it, is that the two empress dowagers of Fuyang County had a quarrel at this time.

Compared with the two empress dowagers, the mere first batch of female pickers is naturally insignificant.

Don't talk about being more noisy, even if this group of people is gone, the worst thing is to choose again.

The left and right emperors now have many heirs, and the emperor himself is not very old, so he is not in a hurry to wait for people to enter the palace to extend the royal heirs.

So Gu Zhen ordered that the person in charge didn't spread the word, and the others didn't pay much attention.

But as the emperor's close servant, Yan Yin still has concerns.

Now that I heard the emperor's words, I didn't need to inquire, so I bowed slightly and told the emperor in detail:

In fact, if you talk about it carefully, it has something to do with the ten poor families who were presented to the emperor by foreign ministers during the time of smallpox.

The big and small Xu family came from a humble background, but the timing of entering the palace was coincidental, just as the six palaces were all detained in the harem and it was inconvenient to go out. There are ten people in total, all of equal background, but they are also very impressive.

After the smallpox passed and the harem was reopened, the concubines made some inquiries and had a bad impression of them first, and then rushed to An Concubine to vent, so this group of people, apart from Da Xu's mother, who was valued by her son, was taken away by Concubine Mu , Others basically did not end well.

In view of this, the queen thought that to recruit newcomers, it is better to train and select them before they are formally registered, so as not to cause trouble to the palace.

Therefore, I specially instructed the steward in charge of the selection, to point out the rules and etiquette, especially the tacit understanding of the palace that is inconvenient to announce, one by one when the female pickers are still in the Xiuzhuo Palace.

In order not to rush the newcomers in tomorrow, it doesn't matter if you don't know the heights of the sky and the earth, it doesn't matter if you hurt yourself, wouldn't it be a waste of the royal quota?

The steward took the queen's order, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect.

This is why these newcomers received extremely strict instructions, but!

Among the newcomers, although most of them were girls from humble backgrounds and no background, there were also some who were stuffed in by concubines. These people were not outstanding in the world, but those who beat around the bush had connections with high court positions. Not to mention this group, including relatives of Concubine Min Yunfenghuang.

For this part, even the manager is polite.

After all, no matter what other people said, Concubine Min was recognized as not easy to mess with.

This has resulted in the fact that although the newcomers are all female adopters in name, they are on an equal footing, but in fact there is a gap in status from the beginning: how can the female recruiters who are in charge treat each other with courtesy, and the female recruiters who need to watch the steward's face, have the same status?

Some families have warned, for example, the girls of the Xie family and the Jiang family, although they are quite proud of being concubines, they dare not rashly do things that dictate to their companions.

Some of them either didn't tell them, or they were told but they were not taken seriously. After such conflicts, bullying is unavoidable.

In fact, there have been many such incidents in history, such as Yi Xingen's group, there must have been similar conflicts. It's just that being held down didn't alarm the superiors, and the superiors didn't bother to bother about these people, so they let it go.

But this time, the few girls who were related to the queen and concubine De were extraordinarily domineering and domineering, but they met two girls from poor backgrounds who were innocent and very temperamental.

After the two sides had an accidental dispute, they were at a stalemate for a while.

Of course, the steward was partial to the former, but in the latter's rage, one of them committed suicide. After being rescued, he followed by swallowing gold, throwing himself into a lake, hitting a wall... He really wanted to die!

Originally, a girl with no background would die if she died.

No one cares about the person in charge turning around and declaring his illness to die.

But the other one was amazing. On the second day after the previous one voted, it incited most of the girls with no background to besiege the manager to be fair.

It is said that if they don't give an answer, they would rather commit suicide, and they will never be a stepping stone for the concubines!

Now the person in charge doesn't dare to suppress it!

After all, Chunjia is not stupid, he agreed to recruit newcomers this time, just to increase the number of princes from the humble sect.

If in the end all the concubines are selected to have relations with concubines, but there are not many concubines who belong to the humble family, the concubines must either be born high, or be favored, and that’s fine. The responsible steward will have to be pushed out to bear the wrath of thunder!

The person in charge originally wanted to be perfunctory, but the one who incited the girls from poor families to form a group was extremely sensitive, and he was unmoved at all, and insisted on severely punishing the culprit. Where would the steward dare to attack the empress and Concubine De? There is no other way, but to report to Gu Zhen.

Gu Zhen was so angry that she came from a noble family, and she lived in the palace. Of course, she did not do it herself, but her natal brothers presided over such things as mixing her own people with the newcomers.

The queen understands that her brothers are not capable, otherwise the Gu family would not even know that there are no successors to the outside world.

But they didn't expect them to be such trash, they made so many embarrassing things, and they haven't officially become Chunjia's concubines, but they have caused trouble for her official palace first!

Especially under the premise that the girls from the Xie family and the Jiang family didn't cause any trouble, the people from the Gu family were the first to cause trouble, which showed the incompetence of the Gu family's children.

But things have already happened, no matter how much Gu Zhen beat his chest and scolded his brother, he must deal with the aftermath.

The empress definitely didn't want people to know about such a shameful thing, so she ordered it to be suppressed at that time, and no rumors were allowed.

Afterwards, the steward was allowed to deal with the few girls on his side, and he could even drive away one or two girls as a beating, lest this guy think that he has a backer like a queen in his family and can do whatever he wants... as long as there are one or two who want to do so , After officially becoming a concubine, it is enough to kill Yanfu Palace.

No matter how Gu Zhen's city mansion is not deep, it's not that he doesn't even have such a little sense of propriety.

Besides, she was able to suppress her own sisters back then, let alone these people she didn't know at all?

But the affair didn't end there.

It may be because the struggle was won this time, but the girl from the poor family made another request, which is to be a concubine.

What they said also made sense from their standpoint: "It is an honor for concubines to serve His Majesty, but according to what the palace people said, there have been many concubines who have given birth to imperial heirs in the palace over the years, but the ending is good. But there are only a handful of them! I heard that His Royal Highness King Qin, His Highness King Chu, His Highness Sixth Prince, His Highness Ninth Prince, His Royal Highness Twelfth Prince, and His Highness Second Princess were all concubines! When Princess Zhaoqing was born, her biological mother was also Palace concubine. But looking at his biological mother, apart from the biological mothers of King Qin and Princess Zhaoqing who are still alive and have a carefree life, where are the biological mothers of the other Highnesses?"

"The concubine and others have heard that the King of Qin and Princess Zhaoqing are both raised under the knees of the imperial concubine, and the imperial concubine is not from a noble family either!"

"For high positions such as empresses and empresses, the children under their knees, unless they are born by themselves, the biological mother is not alive!"

"The only exception is His Royal Highness the Tenth Prince's birth mother. But is that an old man who has been with the Empress for many years? Other Highnesses, even His Royal Highness the Twelfth Prince, where is the birth mother?"

"The concubines have traveled all the way to the imperial capital, is it just to use their own lives to fulfill the high positions?"

"The concubines, these people, are they here to be loyal to His Majesty, or are they here to sacrifice their lives for the high positions?!"

Hearing these words, Gu Zhen's face turned pale, and he was unable to make a sound for a long time.

Everyone feels that these newcomers are really rebellious: "You have no rules like this before you officially enter the palace, so you can pay back in the future? Madam, now is not the time to be soft-hearted, it's time to give them a long memory! There are too many good families from poor families in the world. , the less one batch is a lot, the more one batch is not much!"

"...If it's just a good family from a poor family, how can you be intimidated if you talk about me slowly, even if you are the steward of Xiuzhuo Palace?" Gu Zhen was expressionless, and then said slowly after a moment of silence, "But have you thought about it? This kind of momentum, this kind of insight, this kind of courage, is something that ordinary poor and good families can have?!"

Seeing the servants looking at each other, she sighed, "Your Majesty is not a person who is greedy for beauty, especially the noble concubine who has not fallen out of favor so far. Your Majesty doesn't even mean to be obsessed with Yi Shi's stunning beauty, let alone a newcomer? This time, the reason why I agreed with the palace Adding people is mainly because of the previous smallpox. Although there are not many heirs who died in the palace, His Majesty still wants to plan for a rainy day. But...Since His Majesty prefers to choose from poor families instead of recruiting from high-ranking families, he has obviously shown his attitude , I just don’t want more noble girls in the harem.”

"Then now, is it because the servants just happened to choose Concubine Min to come in second, or is it His Majesty's intention?"

If Concubine Min is the second, it's simple. I guess Concubine Min herself doesn't want such a master to appear, so she must work together to get rid of her before she can achieve success.

But if it is the emperor's arrangement...

this……

"Looking at the current palace, except for Concubine Min, the Yi family and Qu family promoted by Concubine Min, and the Ping family promoted by the palace, all of them are from high families." Gu Zhen sighed, "Nine concubines Those of Jieyu and Jieyu are from lower backgrounds, but His Majesty doesn't know that they don't even have the right to intervene, not to mention making decisions in the imperial court."

"Your Majesty, if you don't say anything, how can you have no idea about such a situation in your heart?"

"After all, look at the former dynasty. After the Ji family was destroyed, a group of people changed, and after the regent left, it was cleaned up again... The civil and military personnel of the previous dynasty have been replaced in sevens and eighties now, and they are all devoted to His Majesty."

"Then the master of the harem is still the person selected by the Ji family at that time, can His Majesty be satisfied?"

Everyone who said this was terrified and couldn't help but said: "Then what should we do now?"

"Give some concubines to the newcomers." Gu Zhen made a decisive decision, "If this is His Majesty's hint behind the scenes, this move can also dispel His Majesty's suspicion and fear of this palace; if this is not His Majesty's intention...the end will last forever You can see the flaws, when the time comes, people like this palace will not be able to deal with a few poor and good families with no background?"

Saying this, I immediately thought of Yun Fenghuang.

This person's background is not considered poor, but for someone like Gu Zhen, isn't he also considered a poor family with no background?

The queen's face hurt a little, and she quickly added, "Even if the palace can accommodate them, the imperial concubine will not be able to accommodate them either!"

The fighting power of Concubine Min Gui is believed by the Queen anyway!

... Gu Zhen's thoughts and arrangements can't be hidden from the Imperial City Secretary at all, so Yan Yin knows it all.

Now that she has reported to Chunjia carefully, Chunjia is quite speechless, it is rare for the queen to think about it again, but she is still wrong.

He is as busy as anything these days, but he has no time to pay attention to the girls in Xiuzhuo Palace area.

Besides, as far as the imperial power is now stable, does he still need to be so euphemistic?

If the chosen person is dissatisfied, it’s just a matter of getting angry right away, isn’t it?

At this moment, he sighed, and didn't bother to criticize the queen's actions, so he only said: "Then, did someone instigate the poor family and good family who took the lead in making trouble?"