For his first child, now this Emperor Chongzhen, of course, is very loved, not only broke the rules that lasted for more than 200 years in the past, and was raised by the biological mother of Yifei Ulan Tuya, who breastfed herself, and often took it upon himself as the emperor to give his eldest daughter the feces to urine, milk and water, hum children's songs, and coax her to sleep.

And because of her love for the eldest daughter of the emperor, she also loves this Korqin herdsman, Concubine Ulan Tuya, who was born as a herdsman.

Not only did he often stay in the renovated Yongshou Palace, and constantly rewarded Concubine Yi and the maids around her, but he also arranged for the pedestrians of the Lifan Yuan to practice the ceremony, and sent two retinues who were detained together to rush back to Horqin to find Concubine Yi's family.

Emperor Chongzhen's affection for Princess Zhaoren was like a pearl in his palm, which made the other concubines in the harem envious.

This is just the eldest daughter of the emperor, if Concubine Yi gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, then according to such a favorite method, I am afraid that I will inherit the throne in the future?

Although Queen Zhou is famous for being virtuous, such a psychology cannot be avoided.

Now, in addition to the queen herself, the other concubines are also pregnant, and looking at the current trend, Concubine Yi, who has already given birth to a daughter, and the daughters of the clan sent by the Korean state, I am afraid that it will not be long before there will be good news.

This made Queen Zhou's heart unclear what it was like.

Today's emperor seems to have a heart after returning from the victory, and he has been frowning and worried for two or three years, and in addition to reading various notes every day, and summoning ministers to the palace from time to time to discuss matters, the rest of the time is to enjoy life in the palace.

Either take the imperial attendants to exercise, or lead the concubines and palace maids and some cronies and ministers to plant flowers and vegetables in the palace garden and even under Jingshan, or linger in the Yongshou Palace, Chuxiu Palace and the palaces where Concubine Li and Concubine Jing live, such a life is very happy.

Although the emperor still loves him as much as ever, he has repeatedly comforted himself, saying that it is the same for boys and girls, but he knows in his heart that as a queen, giving birth to boys and girls is different.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen finally lived an imperial life and lived happily, the pressure of giving birth to a son or a daughter was ubiquitous in Kunning Palace.

Now that the due date is approaching, the more uneasy Queen Zhou's heart becomes.

If this time, he also gave birth to a princess like Concubine Yi, then whether it is Concubine Lan, Concubine Li, or Concubine An, as long as one of these three people gives birth to a son, the title of the emperor's eldest son will fall to someone else.

Emperor Chongzhen took him in Kunning Palace for more than an hour, accompanied Queen Zhou to say all kinds of things to make her happy, and when she saw that she was happy, her face always showed a sad look from time to time, and she was helpless.

Originally, in history, it was the Empress Zhou who gave birth to Emperor Chongzhen's undisputed eldest son, Zhu Cihong.

Because Zhu Cihong is the undisputed eldest son, he was officially canonized as the crown prince by Emperor Chongzhen when he was one year old.

Now that the queen Zhou is pregnant, and she has given birth before several other concubines, according to historical experience, there is a chance that it will be a boy.

But this situation, the current Emperor Chongzhen can't talk to anyone, so although he knows it in his heart and is not in a hurry, he can't comfort the queen Zhou herself, and of course he can't prohibit private discussions inside and outside the palace.

When he accompanied the queen to have dinner in Kunning Palace, and when he was leaving, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the depressed queen and said to Wang Chengen:

"Wang Chengen, now that you are in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, if there are any new and valuable things inside and outside the Dafan Palace, you must come first from the Kunning Palace!

"In addition, you also asked someone to give Zhang Yixian a message, and let Nanyang Company get more good bird's nests from Borneo and Java!

"At the same time, I also asked someone to give Wang Dehua a message, and let Dongying Company get some of the best Korean ginseng from North Korea first!"

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said to Empress Zhou:

"Now that the palace is rich, my husband and wife are also different from the past, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the palace are now in charge of all the royal properties outside the palace, such as the World Bank, Nanyang Company, Dongying Company, the Four Hengs, and the major commercial houses under the Baohe Company, restaurants and mines, it is really everything!

"Although not everyone is making a lot of money at the moment, my vision can't be wrong, and it will definitely be a lot of money in the future! The queen must not be like in the past, eat and wear frugally, and in the end treat herself badly! ”

Others don't know what the emperor means by this, but now this Emperor Chongzhen himself is clear.

In the original history, since she followed King Xin into the palace and became the queen, she has almost never had a good day.

In order to use the remaining silver for military expenses, Empress Zhou followed Emperor Chongzhen to reduce the amount of money in the palace again and again, not only spinning and weaving cloth and making clothes for the emperor, but also often cooking for several children by herself so that they could be fed.

In this way, it did not end well, and in the end, he hanged himself and died in this Kunning Palace.

Every time I come to Kunning Palace, in the depths of Emperor Chongzhen's mind, there will always be a lingering horror scene, on the carved beams and paintings of Kunning Palace, the corpse of a woman in palace costume is hung.

One of them is the queen herself, and the rest are the bodies of those female officials in the palace who died after the martyrdom of Empress Daming.

After Emperor Chongzhen said this, he shook his head with a smile to dispel the scene that appeared again in his mind, but he heard Empress Zhou laugh and said:

"What did Your Majesty say! Your Majesty's rewards are continuous, and the concubines just want to treat themselves badly, and they don't have a chance! Your Majesty relaxes, even if you treat anyone badly, the concubine can't treat the child in your belly badly!

"Besides, the Internal Affairs Office has just been established, and all the things have not been straightened out yet, where can I go to Nanyang all at once, go to Dongying all at once, and go everywhere to draw things for my concubines?! Don't be difficult for Wang Chengen! ”

After Queen Zhou finished saying this with a smile, Wang Chengen hurriedly bowed to the ground and said, "Don't be embarrassed!" Don't be embarrassed! Mother's words are serious! This is what slaves and maidservants do! ”

The Internal Affairs Office is a new institution set up in the palace by order of the emperor not long ago, and the chief eunuch is Wang Chengen.

This internal affairs office, of course, was established by Emperor Chongzhen with reference to the system known to later generations, and it has the same places and differences with the internal affairs office of later generations.

The similarity is that he is directly under the control and management of the emperor and the emperor's inner palace, and can be regarded as one of the offices of the inner court.

But the difference is that this internal affairs office is not one of the 24 yamen of the inner court, and the functions of the 24 yamen, it does not bother to inquire, but only cares about the emperor himself and the various new industries of the royal family outside the palace.

In the past, all the commercial houses, restaurants, factories and mines under the name of Baohe Company, which evolved from Baohe Sandian, were all under the management of the East Factory.

Now the East Factory has been separated from it and no longer interferes, and at the same time, there are more and more royal industries.

In addition to the industries controlled by the original Baohe Company, there are Jingshi Bank, Nanyang Company, Si Si Heng, Dongying Company, Dagukou Shipyard and so on, and there will be more and more in the future.

Originally, the 24 yamen of the inner court had their own functions, and the palace was dominated by female officials, and there was no institution in the entire palace that specialized in managing this kind of emerging royal industry.

It was in such a situation that the Ministry of Internal Affairs came into being.

In addition to Wang Chengen, the high-ranking chief eunuch, those who did not have much property at home, Empress Yi'an's father Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji, Concubine Yuan's father Guozhang Yuan You, and Xinle Marquis Liu Xiaozu's second son Liu Wenzhi and other imperial relatives were all arranged by Emperor Chongzhen to the internal affairs office, serving as supervisors, governors, and directors, and specially serving the royal affairs in the palace.

According to Emperor Chongzhen's assumption, in the future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will use various imperial relatives or the children of meritorious officials and other people who are not appointed officials of the imperial court to join the company, on the one hand, so that these people have something to do, and on the other hand, they will also tie these people together.

The affairs handled by these people are purely imperial errands, not official duties of the imperial court.

Now that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been established for two months, in addition to directly controlling the operation of the Four Hengs, it is successively accepting all the new industries of the royal family outside the palace.

And Wang Chengen's status inside and outside the palace has once again been greatly improved invisibly because of the establishment of this internal affairs office.

Although in terms of dignity, especially in terms of the resounding name, the eunuch in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, for a while, is definitely not as good as the so-called internal minister of the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant eunuch, but his real status is much more important than that of the celebrant today.

Because, since the development of the celebrant to the present, all the affairs undertaken by the imperial court are official affairs of the imperial court, and this newly established internal affairs office is dedicated to private affairs for the royal family, and they are all private affairs to make money.