A few days later, the four ladies of the Guo family, the Li family, the Chong family, and the Zhe family, were summoned to the Baoci Palace by the Empress Dowager Xing.

Among them, the origin of the Guo family does not need to be said, the seed family and the Zhen family are also very simple and clear, one of the two is the descendant of the seed family, and the other is the descendant of the folding family.

Although the ancestors of the Zhe family are party members, two hundred years have passed, and the Zhe family has long been sinicized.

After Zhao Xuan was elected this time, the court was able to include the daughter of the folded family, which in itself already shows something.

And the last remaining Li family is Li Ruoshui's daughter and Li Ruoxu's niece. Whether it is family power or itself, the Li family is by no means inferior to the Guo family.

Two liters and two martial arts, the four ladies entered the Baoci Palace, and the still calm palace did not seem to have any waves on the surface. But in essence? There were already dark waves under the calm waters.

At present, when it is the time to choose the Son of Heaven, at this stage, the Queen Mother suddenly summoned four show girls, what is the signal to outsiders? I don't know how many people judged it at the first time, the queen must be among the four women, and the magnitude of the shock can be imagined.

The four show girls were naturally overjoyed.

It is a great joy that they can fight their way out of one of their kind.

The little emperor is young and heroic, and they are all in their prime, just matching.

The reason why these daughters of high-ranking families came to be show girls was not to go to the little emperor?

But people with such family status and faces as them are not just the four of them, this time, the queen mother is invited, and the four daughters naturally know it.

The four of them were all in a hurry to wash and dress, although they were all wearing the same clothes, but the subtleties still had to be carefully dressed.

When the hour came, the four of them went to Baoci Palace together.

Maybe looking at the people around him, one by one has already stuck a villain in his heart. But on the face, the four of them are all harmonious, greet each other, and have the same rules and etiquette.

There is only one queen, and only one of the four can come out, even if the favored concubine in the harem is not inferior to the main palace lady, just like Pan Guifei when the first emperor was there.

But if you can be a wife, who wants to be a concubine?

The four of them are all flower-like women, and their family backgrounds are also good, so they are already more energetic with each other.

And now, the joy came suddenly, which only made the 'competition' between them even more magnified.

When the four of them arrived outside the Baoci Palace, they didn't dare to be unruly at all.

Not to mention that the Queen Mother may be their mother-in-law in the future. Let's just say that the queen mother has a unique position in the Great Song Dynasty, and they don't dare to be unruly.

After all, the Son of Heaven is 'as good as a wife', but there is only one old lady.

Therefore, the four girls were cautious and did not dare to make the slightest mistake.

The chamberlain at the door smiled and invited a few of them in.

The area of the Song Imperial City is not large, and when you enter the gate of Baoci Palace, you will raise your head to be the main hall of Baoci Palace.

An aunt dressed in luxury in front of the hall stepped forward with a smile and saluted: "It's time to greet the girls." ”

"The courtiers don't dare."

This is the female official in front of the Queen Mother, and the four girls hurriedly replied.

Everyone knows that ninety-nine bows are almost a trembling, and no one wants to fall on the threshold of victory. Even if they enter the palace, they are at least a palace concubine, and their status is far higher than that of the aunt in front of them.

As soon as I entered, I smelled a faint aroma, which was not strong, like plum fragrance, and added some refreshing taste.

The four women didn't dare to raise their heads, saluted in a proper manner, and lowered their heads after getting up.

"Lift up their heads and sit down."

Empress Dowager Xing was a rule-abiding person when she was young, and after Zhao Gou's death, she became even more old-fashioned. Although in this day and age, a woman in her forties can also call herself an 'old woman'.

But in fact, as the most noble woman in the Great Song Empire, whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation, or asking for medical advice, it is the top treatment in the world, and the Great Song Empire and her son do not need her to worry about her lungs, and the people are still very well maintained.

But the anger is gone, the heart is dead, and the multi-colored clothes make people even more old-fashioned, which makes people look really like an old woman.

Older people, who consider themselves old, generally have two completely different attitudes towards young people: affection or irritation.

Empress Dowager Xing herself doesn't like 'young' very much, and in this regard she is diametrically opposed to Concubine Pan next door. The latter liked luxury and brightness when he was young, and now it is like this, even the palace maids who serve around him are pretty. But in Baoci Palace, it was those young palace maids who had just entered the palace, and they were all wearing heavy clothes, as if they had aged ten years overnight.

A few people hurriedly thanked them, but they still didn't dare to look up when they got up, but sat down under the guidance of the palace maids.

Empress Dowager Xing's eyes swept over the faces of the four women, as if she was looking at them, but in fact she was thinking about what her son said to her.

Among the women who were sent into the palace by the noble and noble families, the Guo family, the Li family, the seed family, and the Zhe family were all even more unable to give up.

Avoid the important and light. Among these eight ladies, there must be Princess Qi.

The ladies of the appropriate age in the country are good-looking, so they selected so few, but not all of them were given to Zhao Xuan. The King of Qi, who was the same age as him, was going to get married.

Therefore, without anyone's reminder, Zhao Xuan immediately hugged the seed clan and the fold clan.

This kind of family and folded family, now the prestige in the Song army is not as much as that of Han Yueyao and other families, but it does not mean that they can be allowed to marry overseas vassal kings.

Then there are the Guo family and the Li family, who are not light in the court.

It's not that the other families don't have any weight at all, but the weight is relatively light.

For example, the daughter of the Han family.

Which Han family?

Han's family in Xiangzhou, Han Qi's great-granddaughter.

Zhao Gou's original series of policies tossed the Han family a lot, but Han Xiaoxuan, the head of the Han family at that time, was an interesting person. Knowing that his arm couldn't be twisted, he immediately offered his knee.

Although the power and wealth left the Han family, it also allowed the Han family to escape the knife, and Zhao Gou also needed to leave a tolerance for the Han family, so that the children of the Han family hung a few casual jobs in the court.

This left Han with dignity, and at the same time left Han with a chance to return to the political arena.

In the later period of Zhao Gou, some of Han's younger brothers had already entered the officialdom through scientific examinations, and Han Cheng and Han Hao, who were left high in the court by Zhao Gou, were all in active transformation.

Han Cheng is the son of Han Jiayan, the grandson of Yishenzong, and to some extent the cousin of Zhao Gou. Is Zhao Gou the grandson of Shenzong?

And Han Hao is Han Zhongyan's fifth son, and he is still Han Xiaoxuan's uncle in terms of etiquette, but the age difference between the two is not a few years old.

Zhao Gooneng raised his noble hand to him, also because Han Hao actively prepared for war in Weizhou when the Jin soldiers went south, and his attitude towards resisting Jin was firm.

Therefore, compared with Han Cheng, it seems logical for Han Hao to apply for a job in the Western Regions in the last years of Zhao Gou and re-enter the political arena.

Even if it is to reward the Han family for their interest over the years, Zhao Gou will not stop Han Hao, right?

And now that six years have passed, more children of the Han family have entered the officialdom, and the strength and influence of the Han family cannot be said to have recovered as before, but it is not difficult to rely on their old influence to become a banner of the old bureaucratic family in the court.

Zhao Xuan compared the Han family with the Guo family and the Li family, and it was obvious that the former was inferior to the latter.

Not only because the former is not as pure as the latter, but also because the official positions of Han Hao and others of the Han family are far inferior to Guo Yong and Li Ruoxu.