Linghu Changqing was in a trance for a while, oh, and he didn't seem to have come back to his senses, but said: "What started?" ”

Tong Guinu said respectfully: "Add palace maids to the palace this year, who to choose, who not to choose, and you have to make up your mind!" ”

Linghu Changqing sighed again, and then he came back to his senses and said, "I know!" ”

He looked at the young women in the courtyard below, his eyes beckoned over the women's faces, and he said, "Order the roster, call the names, come to me!" ”

A small eunuch immediately stepped forward, opened the roster, and began to read the name, and every time a name was read, a young woman came forward and stood in front of Linghu Changqing, waiting to listen to Linghu Changqing's dispatch.

This is no longer a primary election, there are more than 2,000 young women in the primary election, first eliminated by the female officials in the palace, young women with a peculiar body smell, defective appearance, or some other small problems, are eliminated, and then there are three or four hundred young women left.

The young women standing in the courtyard now are all girls strictly speaking, and even one of them is still underage, these women have actually been selected, but it is up to Linghu Changqing to decide which palace to be sent to.

Now the Linghu chief liquidation is to have the power of life and death for these girls, unless these girls gain power in the future, they have to listen to him in the palace, and which palace they send to is up to him, if you see which girl is not pleasing to the eye, and assign her to the deserted palace, then the girl will have to survive, maybe until middle age, before being sent out of the palace, at that time it is difficult for them to marry and start a family.

Every girl knows Linghu Changqing's identity, so when she walks in front of him, she tries her best to show her best side, and she has as much respect for Linghu Changqing as she wants!

Linghu Changqing only divided people by appearance, every time he came over, he looked at it a few times, and then said a palace name, and the girl was assigned to that palace, he said about fifty or sixty, but Tong Guinu had a little opinion.

Linghu Changqing was promoted by the emperor because he entered the eyes of the current emperor, the emperor thought he was good, let him be the chief manager, he was able to become the chief, not by others, and after he became the chief manager, Empress Wu treated him well.

But Empress Wu treats him well because the emperor likes him, but this does not mean that Empress Wu will treat him as her own, and he will not do exactly what Empress Wu wants!

But Tong Guinu is not necessarily, he was born as a scholar, after entering the palace, the route he took was the path of Queen Wu, he was promoted by Queen Wu, so he is Queen Wu's real own person, and when he does things, he does things according to the way that is beneficial to Queen Wu!

As a result, Linghu Changqing and Tong Guinu inevitably had contradictions.

This contradiction is actually very simple, that is, the emperor's bedroom also needs to be supplemented with palace maids, and Linghu Changqing specially added a slightly older and extremely beautiful woman to the emperor's bedroom.

But Tong Guinu didn't want to let beautiful girls add to the emperor's bedroom, he was afraid that these beautiful girls would seduce the emperor, wouldn't that be causing trouble for Empress Wu!

In the palace, the emperor and Empress Wu do not live together, each has its own bedroom, if you live together, it will be nothing, under the nose of Empress Wu, no beautiful girl will succeed, but the problem is that they do not live in a palace, then they have to take some precautions.

Tong Guinu said: "Chief Administrator, Your Majesty's palace doesn't seem to need so many palace maids to serve, and looking at their appearance, it seems, well, it doesn't seem to be the kind of appearance that the queen likes!" ”

He told Linghu Changqing very obviously, you kid be careful for me, if you send a beautiful girl to the emperor's bedroom, be careful that Empress Wu is not polite to you!

Linghu Changqing hesitated slightly, but shook his head and said, "But their appearance is what Your Majesty likes, we are all Your Majesty's courtiers, of course, we must focus on Your Majesty's preferences!" ”

Of course, Linghu Changqing didn't want to offend Empress Wu, how strong Empress Wu was in the palace, how could he not know the reason, and he took good care of him, and even outsiders thought that he was Empress Wu's henchman.

However, before the emperor chose the palace maid this time, he privately told him that he wanted to add some beautiful girls to the palace, so that Hu Changqing could not do it, after all, the emperor was the one who really appreciated him.

Tong Guinu was still standing behind Linghu Changqing, Linghu Changqing didn't even turn around to talk to him, Tong Guinu was extremely angry in his heart, but he had no choice but to be silent, but he thought in his heart: "Linghu mongrel, you wait, you are not far from bad luck!" ”

It took a full hour for Linghu Changqing to assign all the young girls, and he added twenty young girls to the emperor's bedroom, all of whom were extremely beautiful women, tall and fair-skinned, and two of them were of mixed Hu and Han blood, and their appearance was very different from that of the Central Plains women, with a unique exotic style.

After assigning the palace maids, Linghu Changqing was a little tired, looking at the sky, it was almost time for him to be on duty, he turned to Tong Guinu and said: "Let these women learn the rules of the palace first, and find the old palace maids to teach them, and they must be assessed, and only after passing the assessment can they be officially added to the various palaces." ”

Tong Guinu hurriedly agreed, he saw Linghu Changqing turn to leave, and was busy bending down behind to salute, sending the chief manager away, and the rest of the big eunuchs did the same, all saluting at Linghu Changqing's back.

But as soon as Linghu Changqing left this big courtyard, several big eunuchs got together, they were all with Tong Guinu, in terms of position, they were all deputy managers, and they were the deputy chief managers headed by Tong Guinu, thinking about how to squeeze Linghu Changqing away every day.

A big eunuch said: "Brother Tong, today the head of Linghu didn't take any medicine, I heard that he wasn't refining any pills recently, it seems that the pill didn't work, or he didn't take it today, he dared to go against the queen, he didn't want to die!" ”

Tong Guinu snorted and said: "Of course he knows, but he doesn't care, which shows that he looks down on the queen mother, thinking that the queen mother doesn't dare to do anything to him, this is not good, we have to let him understand that the queen mother can definitely do anything to him!" ”

Several big eunuchs looked at Tong Guinu together, and said in unison: "Otherwise, please ask Brother Tong to meet the queen mother, please come to the will, let's tie up Linghu Changqing and let him calm down?" ”

Tong Guinu hummed and said, "I'll handle this matter, you can handle the rest of the work here, just wait for my good news!" After speaking, he ran to make a small report to Empress Wu.

The place to choose the palace maid is in the Yeting Palace, which is quite far from the residence of Empress Wu, Tong Guinu trotted all the way, ran a sweat, and then ran to the outside of Empress Wu's bedroom.

The little eunuch guarding the door of the palace saw him, hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and asked: "Deputy Chief Tong, you are not here at the right time, the queen mother is taking a nap, and she has just slept for a while, I am afraid that it is inconvenient to go in and pass the ceremony!" ”

Tong Guinu hummed and said, "Although it is a bit urgent, and the stakes are very important, so I can only run over, I will wait here for the queen mother to wake up!" With that, he wanted to find a place to sit down, rest for a while, and catch his breath.

The little eunuch said, "What is the matter?" It's not a small mouth, but the queen mother ordered, if it's a good thing to report to her, then let the person who reported the news wait here, but if it's not a good thing, then you have to tell her immediately, the queen mother ordered it this way, so deputy director Tong, you see if it's a good thing, or a bad thing? ”

Tong Guinu said: "It's definitely not a good thing, but I'm not in a hurry to take a nap at this time, I'll just wait here!" ”

The little eunuch said again: "Then you are waiting here?" ”

"Well, wait." Tong Guinu found a stool and sat down on the stool, he was very patient, and he would not wait for a long time, so he could still endure it, and he knew very well what Empress Wu was doing at this time, it was best not to disturb, as soon as the hour came, he could go in.

The little eunuch didn't say anything, returned to the door, and then guarded the door, Tong Guinu took advantage of the waiting time to meditate on what happened in his heart, and when he saw the queen mother, what should he say, so as to give Linghu Changqing a little color.

In the queen's bedroom, the crane incense burner is smoking wisps, the palace is very quiet, there is a big case in the palace room in the middle, the case is full of books and chapters, Queen Wu is sitting behind the big case, and is frowning to read a chapter.

She didn't take a nap, Empress Wu has always been an energetic person, she doesn't like to take a nap, but likes to criticize the chapter or something for the emperor who likes to take a nap at this time.

After reading this recital, Empress Wu stood up, slowly walked to the entrance of the hall, and said to the outside: "Come on, change the incense!" ”

Tong Guinu immediately stood up, he knew that Empress Wu had finished the recital, which meant that her "nap" had slept well. Empress Wu doesn't like to be disturbed when she is commenting on the chapter, in the past, when she was solving problems for the emperor, that is, when she was commenting on the chapter, someone would always come to deliberately disturb her, so she pretended to take a nap, so that she didn't have to see those nasty ghosts.

Now, those nasty ghosts who dare to deliberately disturb Empress Wu have been cleaned up by Empress Wu, and Empress Wu can finally solve problems for the emperor openly, but the habit of reviewing the chapter during nap time, Empress Wu has retained.

Empress Wu touched her belly, she is now pregnant, she hopes that this baby is a little princess, if it is really a little princess, then, she will call this child Taiping, I hope that this child can grow up peacefully, not like her first daughter.

Empress Wu once gave birth to a daughter, but, because of the struggle in the court, this daughter was killed by the queen at that time, and now everyone thinks so, thinking that the murderer is the queen at that time, as for those who don't think so, they are all dead!

Empress Wu thought to herself: "What is the emperor doing now, do you want to go over and see him?" ”

Suddenly, I saw a person walking in outside the hall, it was Tong Guinu, Empress Wu's face sank, Tong Guinu was the most sensible, and because he had read before, among the eunuchs, he was almost a very good person, very good at observing words and feelings, so he came at this time, which means that there must be trouble!

Tong Guinu stepped forward, saluted Queen Wu respectfully, and said: "Niangniang, the little slave has something to report, it is about the selection of palace maids to each palace today!" ”

Empress Wu hummed and said, "Say it!" ”

Tong Guinu said: "The first half of this matter is very good, so that the head of the fox is able to do things, and the palace maids selected for each palace are all first-class and good, however, the little slave is a little puzzled, that is, the palace maids he selected for His Majesty later, all of them are as ugly as evil ghosts, so the little slave wants to ask Niangniang to refer to him, and he wants to murder His Majesty!" ”

He is saying the opposite, but he thinks that Empress Wu must understand the meaning!

But Empress Wu waved her hand impatiently and said, "There are no outsiders here, you can just say the truth!" ”

Tong Guinu immediately said: "Linghu Changqing and Niangniang are not the same heart, he actually sent the best-looking palace maids to An into His Majesty's bedroom, those palace maids are all charming and charming, what does he want to do, he wants to harm Niangniang!" ”

Empress Wu heard this and snorted heavily.