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The royal selection of concubines requires that there must be more than two generations of officials in the family, and the father must be an official of more than seven grades, and must be the daughter of the concubine, which is not counted in the name of the mother-in-law, these requirements effectively ensure the quality of the concubine.

Since the 47th Zhuluo ascended the throne, except for the triennial selection of palace maids, there has been no public selection of concubines. This time, the number of women participating in the selection of the crown prince was unprecedented, and there were 360 women.

These women come to run, even if they are not selected, they have been specially trained by the palace mothers, and they will return home with royal rewards. Not to mention that it is very likely to be favored by the Zhongdu family, even if you can't enter the inner courtyard of the palace, you can jump into the upper class of Zhongdu society. These temptations are sufficient.

The registration for the crown prince's concubine began last year, and I didn't expect this time to be so enthusiastic. It was suitable, and there were more than 1,000 women who had signed up, but the royal family felt that the scale was too large and too wasteful of energy, so the queen first sent her henchmen to various places to screen it first, and the remaining more than 300 people had the opportunity to enter Beijing and live in the south palace of the royal garden.

Empress Jiang attaches great importance to this selection of concubines, in order to prevent the women to be selected from using the strange things brought from their hometowns to enter the Central Capital, or even flow into the palace. All women to be selected outside the city gate must be inspected by the palace grandmother. The inspection is very strict, everyone needs to strip naked, there can be no ornaments on their heads, all of them are naked and covered with hair to be inspected, and then put on the clothes prepared by the palace, with the jewelry prepared by the palace, and then they are allowed to enter the capital.

Before entering the South Palace, the same process of inspection is also required, and there are many more, all women need to be washed in the bath, and then put on the clothes prepared for them by the South Palace, and then live in the South Palace, and receive training in palace etiquette.

After such two inspections, it has been prevented from all the women to be selected from bringing in some shady poisons, and the same clothing and the same outfit can also ensure that the starting point of their competition is the same.

On the 15th day of August in the 13th year of the 47th year of Zhuluo, at the beginning of Yin, the women to be selected in the Nangong had already gotten up, bathed and changed their clothes, dressed up, and began to board the ship at the beginning of the morning, and waited to enter the palace at the entrance of the Chaofeng Hall in the middle of the sea. By the time they arrived, they had already disembarked and lined up in the huge square of the Chaofeng Palace, waiting to be summoned.

Chaofeng Hall is one of the most magnificent palaces in the imperial city, facing the sea is a wharf, down from the wharf, it is a very large square, there are ten acres of size, the square is in front of two hundred steps, straight to the main hall of the Chaofeng Palace. The entrance to the main hall is very large, and sometimes members of the royal family would hold banquets here and watch the performances in the square. Of course, today, the queen mother and the queen will bring the concubines to meet the women to be selected from all over the palace in the palace.

At the right time, the queen, wearing a red embroidered phoenix dress, a dark blue floor-length skirt, and a golden phoenix crown on her head, led the two little princesses to the Chaofeng Palace. The concubines were already waiting outside the Chaofeng Palace, and after the queen walked into the Chaofeng Hall with great grace, they followed into the palace and sat down in order according to their ranks.

The two little princesses were already eager to try, sitting beside the queen, stretching their necks and looking out of the palace. In the afternoon, the queen mother and the crown prince will attend, and the emperor will only attend the dinner, so the banquet at noon in the morning is mainly presided over by the queen.

The fifth princess's chubby little hand shook the queen, and the queen knew that she was anxious, so she reached out to hold the fifth princess's little hand. The fifth princess remembered the usual teaching of the queen mother, and finally quieted down, lowered her eyebrows, and looked a little ladylike. The second princess watched interestingly from the sidelines.

The queen cleared her throat and said slowly, "Xuan." Aunt Gao beside her shouted loudly, "Xuanzhou selects women from all over the country to enter the temple." The voice of the summons came out layer by layer, and the selected women, who had been waiting in the square in front of the hall, walked up the high steps in a row of twenty people and came to the door of the main hall.

There are already palace mothers who are in charge of order arrangement, and they have successively brought each row of selected women into the palace, and asked them to introduce their family backgrounds in one sentence. It was a long but necessary ceremony, and it took nearly two hours to meet each other. At first, the two little princesses could still watch the selection girls introduce themselves with great interest, but later, they were crooked on the queen, although the queen held the two princesses crooked on her, but her posture has always been upright, maintaining the queen's demeanor. The concubines sitting at the bottom were also miserable, but they didn't dare to move, so they had to try to see if there was any beauty in the selected women, which would threaten their status.

Looking at it like this, everyone really found several stunning, Huangfu Xueru from the Huangfu family counted one, Ji Wenrong from the Ji family counted one, Fu Lingyi from Yangzhou counted one, Zhuge You from Qingzhou counted one, and the others were all charming, and they looked at the concubines with silver teeth secretly, worried that during the dinner, the emperor would also pick a few to put in **.

At noon, when she finally met the selected women from all over the country one by one, the queen stood up and ordered a feast. The luncheon is held in the east side hall of the Chaofeng Palace. The side of the hall facing the middle sea can watch the sea, and the other side is connected with the small garden of the Chaofeng Palace, the scenery is pleasant, and the cool breeze is blowing. The selection of women or twenty people kneel down in a row, and the queen and others sit on the side of the sea, looking up to the side to see the sea view outside the railing, and can also look sideways at the etiquette of the selection of women to dine.

There are palace grandmothers who specially observe the performance of each selected girl throughout the whole process, and after today's end, she will report to the queen on the basis of merit. Each selection girl did not dare to talk to each other, and quietly ate the lunch in front of her with her eyebrows lowered. Seeing that every woman was familiar with the etiquette in the palace, the queen couldn't help but nodded, the palace grandmother in charge of training this time was still quite conscientious.

After the meal, there was a two-hour break, and the queen, princess, and other concubines returned to the main hall to rest for a while. The selected women can also rest or play in the garden during these two hours, but they are not allowed to leave the Chaofeng Hall.

At the beginning of the afternoon, everyone will be regrouped, the Queen Mother and the Prince will attend the talent show in the afternoon, due to the large number of people, so there will be no individual performances, the palace grandmother has already randomly arranged a group of ten people, each group to perform a program. The Queen Mother, the Queen, the Crown Prince, the Princess, and other concubines will select outstanding candidates to participate in the performance of the dinner. That's why the afternoon performance will be very important.

In the morning, each selected girl is dressed exactly the same, even in the afternoon, it is also wearing the same costume to perform talents, only in the evening, in addition to the selected women who participate in the performance can choose the clothes needed for the performance to wear, other selected women can also choose other styles of clothes to wear, these clothes are all after they arrived in the South Palace, there were palaces and mothers immediately brought cloth and styles for them to choose, and then let the embroidery girls in the palace rush to make them.

These are strictly supervised by special palace mothers and palace maids.

The crown prince was absent-minded at first, and he didn't care very much about his choice of concubine, because the queen mother had already told him in advance that the crown princess would choose from Huangfu Xueyi and Huangfu Xueru, and the other two Liangdi also needed to choose a woman with a rich family background as much as possible. The emperor and the empress told him that it was best for the crown princess to choose a girl from the palace family, and the girl from the imperial family could be selected as the crown prince Liangdi.

The crown prince was very upset about this, he respected the imperial grandmother, but he no longer rejected his father and mother so much, so naturally he still didn't want to disappoint the three elders. Although he understood the truths that the emperor and empress told him, as the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, he himself felt that even if he really chose the Huangfu family as the crown princess, he was confident that he could control the power of the Huangfu family.

Just as he was looking around boredly, the fifth princess ran over and whispered to the prince, "Brother prince, which one do you like to be my imperial sister-in-law?" Since the second prince disappeared, the relationship between the prince and the second princess and the fifth princess has become closer. The fifth princess is still young, she will not hold grudges at all, and she has become very fond of taking the initiative to talk to the prince's brother.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hugged the fat Fifth Princess on his knees, and pointed down casually, "Which one do you like?"

The fifth princess was really entangled and looked at the selected girl who was performing below, and after watching it for a long time, she pointed at a girl with her fat finger and said, "This sister is very beautiful." ”

The prince looked at the fingers of the fifth princess, and saw that this woman was really a rare beauty because she was tall, well-proportioned, plump skin, piled hair like clouds, and snow-skinned and red lips. But the prince didn't like it and thought she was too tall. He estimated that it was because the fifth princess disliked that she was too short and fat, so she was easy to envy tall women.

The prince smiled and said, "I think she is average, not as good as the one next to her." He originally wanted to deliberately tease the fifth princess to play, so he casually pointed at the other nine people, who knew that at a glance, the woman who was randomly pointed at the middle turned out to be a stunning color, I didn't look carefully before, and I didn't feel it, but now I looked at it, and I saw what was special about her, and I only felt that her eyes were shining, and the other women around her suddenly became dark and colorless.

The fifth princess looked curiously, "Which one?" She followed the direction that the prince was pointing at random just now, looked carefully, and looked at it for a while before she called out, "This sister is really different." "The fifth princess doesn't know how to use words to describe a person's beauty, but she just thinks that she looks very different from her usual appearance.

The focus of the women in the audience is the prince, his finger has aroused the interest of the queen mother, the queen, and the concubines, everyone will follow the direction he pointed to, and at the same time have the same emotion as the five princesses in their hearts, this is really a unique beauty, although her whole person does not conform to the traditional aesthetics of the Zhuluo Continent, but every time she sees her stretched beauty, two words come to mind "Peerless, charming".