During Zhu Houzhao's reign, he basically didn't go to the court much, and occasionally went to the court, but he also wanted to go to the court to play, and Zhu Houzhao's time was basically spent in the leopard room and outside to be happy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The affairs of the court are basically handled by the cabinet ministers after consultation, and the cabinet chief assistant, but now that Lewen is the emperor, the first thing is to firmly control the military power in his own hands.

As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world, he is afraid that if one day, his affairs are revealed, as long as he has outstanding achievements, has military power in his hands, and the generals in charge of the army are the people he trusts the most, then he will still do the throne steadily, at most it is just a change of dynasty.

Then there are the three thousand harem beauties of Zhu Houzhao, as well as those women from all over the country and even different races in the leopard room, Zhu Houzhao's queen is Empress Xiaojing Xia, and Ming Wuzong has lived outside the palace for many years, so Empress Xia has no children and may still be a virgin.

In addition to Empress Xia, Zhu Houzhao also had two officially canonized concubines, namely Shuhui Defei Wu and Rong Shuxian Concubine Shen.

The harem of the Ming Dynasty was set up as six bureaus and one division.

The six bureaus are: Shanggong, Shangyi, Shangfu, Shangshi, Shangyu, and Shanggong. Shanggong is in charge of the affairs of the Sixth Bureau.

The first division is: Gong Zheng. In charge of precepts and punishments.

The grades are all positive six grades.

There were 75 female officials in the palace and 18 female historians, a decrease of more than 140 compared with the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to the queen as the highest, the concubine is second only to the queen, and then there are concubines Xian, concubines, concubines, concubines, etc.

Later, in the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the titles of Duan Concubine and Gong Concubine appeared respectively.

However, after having Lewen, there will be no share of the above two emperors.

The harem decree stipulates that it is a capital crime for a palace maid to write a letter to outsiders without permission.

Also, below the palace concubines, if they are sick, the male doctors outside are not allowed to enter the inner palace, in this case, the eunuchs can only report to the imperial doctors based on their illness, and then take the medicine. The harem formulated this series of inner palace family laws, which were not only meticulous, but also strict.

Therefore, it is difficult for ordinary people to see the concubines in the harem, and they don't have to think about it, but tonight they have to give it to Lewen cheaply.

Which concubine does the emperor want to accompany him at night, the eunuch in the respectful room will bring a silver plate, and the name plate of the concubines is placed in the silver plate, and the emperor only needs to turn over the name plate of this concubine and put it back on the silver plate, which is chosen.

After the eunuch of Jingshifang stepped down, he handed over the name tag to his little eunuch, and the little eunuch informed the selected concubine to bathe in fragrant soup and make all necessary preparations.

When it was time for the emperor to go to bed, the little eunuch took off the concubine's full clothes, wrapped her body in a sweater made of feathers, and carried her into the emperor's bedroom.

This was a security measure to prevent anyone from sneaking weapons into the emperor's bedchamber.

Then, the eunuchs and several other eunuchs waited outside the emperor's dormitory, waiting for the emperor to live an apricot life, and if the prescribed time was up, the eunuchs would shout "the time is up", and if the emperor was in high spirits and pretended to be deaf and dumb, he would shout again.

"If this is the third", the emperor can no longer delay, but has to "stop the courtesy" and beckon the eunuch into the room.

After the eunuch entered, the concubine had to face the emperor and climb out of the quilt upside down. When the monarch and the ministers meet each other in the court, and the courtiers retreat, they can't turn their backs and face the emperor with their backbones, but they have to face the emperor and move back, which is called "but".

The "concubine" can't even take the backbone to face the emperor, so she can only climb out of bed like this. The eunuch wrapped her cloak again and carried her out of the door.

The chief eunuch of the Jingshifang then came in and asked, "Do you want to stay?" "The emperor said to stay, so he took out a small notebook and recorded the emperor's concubine at a certain time in a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, and a certain time; If he said that he would not stay, the chief manager would come out, find a certain acupuncture point between the concubine's waist and thighs, and rub it slightly, "then it will flow out" and implement artificial contraception.

At the same time, the eunuchs of the Jingshifang were to record the year, month, and day as evidence of future conceptions. Whether to have a child or not has a great impact on the status of the concubine in the future, and the affairs of the harem are basically these, and Lewen, a graduate student of ancient literature, knows all about these.

Forbidden city

Inside the Qianqing Palace

"Your Majesty, are you going to flop tonight?"

The chief eunuch of the respectful room, Mr. An, held a silver plate in his hand, and respectfully waited for His Majesty to flop the cards, because he also felt strange, why didn't His Majesty go to the leopard room today, but came to the Qianqing Palace.

Le Wen waved his hand and said, "No need, I will go to the queen's Kunning Palace to rest tonight, you go and report first." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the slave obeys." The eunuchs and palace maids of the Ming Dynasty called themselves slaves and maids, and they called themselves emperors, concubines, etc., and did not call themselves slaves like the Qing Dynasty.

Lewen heard that Queen Xia was beautiful and fragrant, but he really hadn't seen it, and now that he has the opportunity to be lucky, he naturally wants to see if this Queen Xia is really so good-looking.

Kunning Palace

It belongs to one of the three palaces and is located behind the Jiaotai Palace

The emperor is the sky, the queen is the earth, the emperor is Qian, and the queen is Kun.

There are 9 wide corridors, 3 deep rooms, and the top of the palace is heavy, which is luxurious and extravagant.

I saw a beautiful woman dressed in a light red water and thin smoke veil, her shoulders were shaved into a waist, and her muscles were like condensed fat and her breath was like a quiet orchid. Coquettish and boneless, the eyes are full of spring water and clear waves, the head is obliquely inserted into the jasper dragon and phoenix hairpin, the fragrant jade is tender and beautiful than the flower, the finger is like cutting the root of the onion and the mouth is like containing Zhu Dan, and the smile is touching the soul.

This beautiful woman is the Empress Xia, she learned that the emperor was going to sleep with her, and her heart was a deer, although she was the queen, and she had been trained before entering the palace, but she had never had sex with Zhu Houzhao, thinking that she was the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, and had the capital to captivate the country and the city, His Majesty the Emperor had never spoiled her, which made her live in this huge Kunning Palace, it was really like a year.

But she didn't expect the emperor to let her sleep tonight, so she bathed and changed her clothes under the service of the palace maid, and then half-snuggled on the soft collapse, waiting for the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty is finally going to spoil you tonight, the slave is really happy for you."

The palace maid Xiaoqian is only fourteen or fifteen years old, dressed in a pale pink palace dress, blinking two bright eyes, very envious in her heart, but her face is happy that Empress Xia can be favored by the emperor.

Xiao Qian, as the palace maid next to the queen, naturally has an official position, she is called Fengyi female official, set up one person, the official position is from the fourth grade, see the nobles below the position of the dependents, can be exempted.

Since this Kunning Palace has always been very deserted, this palace maid named Xiaoqian and Queen Xia chatted quite a lot, so the two of them are sometimes like sisters in private, and they don't think much about it.

Queen Xia was half-leaning on the soft collapse, her face was a little shy, she stretched out her Qianqianyu hand and stroked her slightly hot face, and said with a smile: What do you know......

"Queen Mother, don't look at the young age of the slave, but ......"

Before the palace maid Xiaoqian entered the palace, the palace maid was also trained by the female official to enter the palace, and naturally she knew a lot about the harem.

But as soon as the palace maid Xiaoqian was halfway through her words, she heard a voice outside the hall, "The emperor has arrived!" ”

(To be continued.) )