Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youxiao stood up and stretched, with a relaxed look on his face. There is really nothing going on in the past few days, which makes Zhu Youxiao feel a lot better.

After the election, it also went very smoothly, it seems that the first four rounds have been completed, you must know that more than 5,000 people were selected during the audition. It is estimated that it will not be long before there will be results.

The so-called audition is a draft girl, because the queen of the Ming Dynasty was selected from a civilian family. Of course, the so-called civilians refer to real civilians, and the honors are naturally not good.

The 5,000 people selected were also selected among many people, and it can be said that most of them are also rare beauties.

I don't know if it's to show her status, anyway, Concubine Li, who stayed in Cining Palace, put a lot of effort into the matter after this election.

After entering the fifth round, this Concubine Li ran to stare at it herself. You know, according to the post-election process of Daming, there is no need for this at all.

It is not the first time that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has been elected, and there are fixed rules and processes after each election.

The first step is the "sea selection", when the emperor reaches the wedding age, the palace will send eunuchs to all parts of the country to select girls between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, from which 5,000 are selected by the royal family to pay the travel expenses, and the parents will send them to the capital within the specified time for the second round of selection.

In the second round of selection, the eunuchs chose a large venue, lined up the girls in a row for every 100 people, sorted them by age, and after some inspection, eliminated those who were too tall, short, fat and thin. This round will be about a fifth.

The third round of selection is held on the second day of the primary selection, and the eunuchs use the first day of procession, carefully inspecting each person's facial features, hair, skin, timbre, and demeanor, and if there is any irregularity, they are eliminated. This round will eliminate half of the remaining number.

The remaining about 2,000 people will be selected for the fourth round. In this round, the eunuchs will not only use a ruler to carefully measure the girl's hands and feet, but also examine the girl's gait and charm. This step will eliminate another thousand young girls.

In the end, the 1,000 beauties left behind were summoned to the palace to continue to participate in the selection.

Zhu Youxiao heard that the day before yesterday that a thousand beauties had entered the palace, and he really wanted to go and see it, let alone choose a queen for himself, even if it was a beauty pageant, this scale was amazing!

But it's a little early to go, it's not his turn to play yet, and if Zhu Youxiao wants to go, he can't go until he chooses three.

The so-called selection of three is actually the final round of the selection of the queen. After these thousand beauties enter the palace, they also have to be selected, and after entering the palace, the palace ladies will introduce those palace maids into the secret room to "probe their breasts, smell their armpits, touch their textures, and check their chastity".

There must not be a trace of scars on the body, the skin must be delicate and shiny, and three hundred people from these thousand people will be selected as the head of the palace maids.

The fifth level is for the eunuchs sent by the emperor to observe these 300 beauties in the palace in detail for a month, and judge whether their characters are gentle and generous, wise and virtuous according to their temperament and words.

According to this, another 250 people were screened out, and the remaining 50 people were automatically promoted to concubines.

The penultimate round is the "selection of three", that is, the empress dowager or concubine selects three from fifty people for the emperor's appoint.

In the end, the emperor appoints a queen, and generally the two beauties who accompany the selection after the "selection of three" will be named concubines.

What Zhu Youxiao has to do is to choose three, in addition, he is not qualified to participate in such a big beauty pageant.

"Would you like to check it out?" Zhu Youxiao touched his chin and muttered.

As for whether he will be admonished or something, Zhu Youxiao doesn't care, he will soon become a new faint king, and his reputation will plummet. One more romantic reputation, it doesn't matter, these people are all choreographed anyway. For example, Emperor Zhengde slept with his wife, saying that Zhengde went out to play, and casually walked into a door and slept with someone's wife, so as to highlight his absurdity.

This is not over, and said that in fact, Emperor Zhengde did not do this to really sleep, but to prove that he is not sexually impotent, because he has no children.

It's really literati who don't use knives to kill people. These people also made up arrangements for Zhang Juzheng, what Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li cheated on.

Anyway, an emperor who is defined as a faint monarch, you can't do it without peachy news. In this case, don't think about avoiding it, you can't avoid it anyway, it's better to live according to your own ideas.

"Let's go and see the show girls."

Zhu Youxiao, who was in a good mood, was ready to go to see his future women, and stretched out his hand to beckon Chen Hong to accompany him.

At this time, Chen Hong was in pain, going to see the show girl? How do you say that? It's not in order! Besides, these show girls haven't been selected yet, so let's go and watch them now?

However, Chen Hong did not dare to advise, in such a matter, the emperor was very difficult to advise. If you let the emperor get tired of yourself, you will be finished.

Chen Hong had no choice but to lead the way in front, for fear that Zhu Youxiao would misunderstand him.

In later generations, many people thought that the show girl lived in Chuxiu Palace, but it was not. Although the name Chu Xiu Gong sounds like that, Chu Xiu Palace has nothing to do with Xiu Nu.

Chuxiu Palace, in fact, is one of the six palaces in the west of the Forbidden City, located in the east of Xianfu Palace and north of Yikun Palace, which is where the concubines live, not for the show girls.

Among these show girls, although a queen and two concubines will be born from them in the future, but now they are just show girls, how can they be qualified to live in the Chuxiu Palace, where only concubines can live?

You must know that in the palace, if you can be the master of a palace, that is, live alone in a palace, you must at least be a concubine.

So where does the show girl live?

Lived in the side hall and some side rooms. They want to live in Chuxiu Palace, but it is impossible.

Zhu Youxiao also knew these in this life.

Under the leadership of Chen Hong, Zhu Youxiao wandered around the palace, and naturally walked around to the place where the show girls lived.

Then Zhu Youxiao saw a large group of beautiful girls. Yes, girls, girls between the ages of thirteen and sixteen who are extremely beautiful.

Of course, it is also compatible with Zhu Youxiao, because he is only sixteen years old.

However, Zhu Youxiao was soon dazzled, there were too many people, all of them were a large number of warblers and swallows.

And Zhu Youxiao is not wearing a eunuch uniform.

In the palace, there was not a man wearing a eunuch's uniform, and the result was obvious, that is, Zhu Youxiao almost became a fat meat that was swallowed.

Everyone couldn't wait to fall into Zhu Youxiao's arms, and then be directly put to sleep, so that they could rightfully become His Majesty's concubine.

As for the situation of being unwilling to be a concubine in a hypocritical TV series in later generations, it will not appear at all.

That's the queen's seat! What is the loss of freedom when you enter the palace, this is the Ming Dynasty, you are not the queen, where can you go? If you get married, you'll be free to hang out on the street?

Besides, if you don't want to enter the palace, you can already make some small moves and retreat, and you will keep it until this round?

Under the attack of many peach colors, Zhu Youxiao decisively chose to retreat.