Just when everyone thought that Lin Zhe's appointment of Concubine Li Hui as a concubine was a prelude to wanting to establish a prince, Lin Zhe successively named Concubine Fang De as a concubine in the next two days.

Then the second son of the emperor, Lin Xuan's mother, An Zhuang Concubine, was also named a concubine!

It's not just these two people, in addition, Qian Kangfei, who gave birth to Lin Zhe's fourth daughter, was also named a concubine.

In this way, four daughters have been named concubines, and these four daughters are all concubines who gave birth to princes or princesses for the emperor.

Originally, Lin Zhe didn't plan to seal so many people at the beginning, his original intention was to only seal the Li family as a concubine, but because of the factors of Fang Deconcubine later, he also wanted to give this woman his favorite woman some higher status in the palace, but since they were all given to Fang Defei, then Concubine An Zhuang and Qian Kang Concubine naturally couldn't be left behind, after all, they were also people who gave birth to children for Lin Zhe, and it was not a good thing to be kind to each other, especially in this harem.

These women usually behave like good sisters in front of Lin Zhe, but if Lin Zhe can't see it on the surface, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know that there is no struggle in this harem.

Although Lin Zhe is not a philanthropic person, these women are his own women anyway, and he has the obligation to give them a stable life.

It's a little ridiculous to say, in order to give these women some hope, in addition to spending most of his time here with Fang Deconcubine, Lin Zhe will also take time out to go to the other concubines, although he won't say it too often, but he won't let them lose sight of themselves all year round.

In addition, there are events held in the palace, such as watching the Royal Dance Company perform, or attending the opening ceremony of the train as we did last year. Lin Zhe will basically bring them all.

These actions do not mean that Lin Zhe likes them, but is just doing his duty as a husband!

Speaking of which. These women who were locked in the deep palace by the royal rules were also extremely desolate, and Queen Chen Jing was better. As the queen, she is the master of the harem, and this is naturally very comfortable as a hostess.

And Fang Deconcubine is barely okay, although there are many rules that restrict her, but with Lin Zhe's favor, she often follows Lin Zhe out of the palace, but even so, Fang Deconcubine still can't adapt to the life of the deep palace.

In addition to the above two women, the other women are even more tragic, basically unable to leave the palace several times a year. The biggest comfort on weekdays is that their parents and sisters came into the palace to talk to them.

These women locked in the deep palace are not as happy and happy as outsiders imagine!

And this is also the reason why Qi Lin has always refused to enter the palace, she is willing to be Lin Zhe's woman, and even would rather not have the status of a concubine, but she is not willing to enter the palace to become a resentful woman in the deep palace.

Lin Zhe has sealed four concubines this time, which can be regarded as some comfort to these women!

And at this time, those ministers outside are also a little unclear, some time ago, if only one Concubine Li Hui was crowned, then these ministers can also think that this is a prelude to Lin Zhe to establish Lin Xuan as a prince.

But now four concubines have been sealed at once. This makes many people a little confused, could it be that this is just a routine, and anyone who gives birth to a prince or a princess can be crowned?

They were right!

When Lin Zhe made Li a concubine alone, it was really because Lin Zhen's learning expression made him more satisfied. That's why the words 'educational' were specially used as the reason to make Li a concubine.

Therefore, although Lin Zhe himself is unwilling to admit it, this is already a manifestation of Lin Xuan as a candidate for the prince.

Later, it was a common act to make four women concubines at the same time. It is even intended to become a law that any concubine who gives birth to a prince or daughter can be named a 'concubine'.

However, a higher-level concubine is not so casual!

The harem system of the empire was based on the ancient rites. At the same time, it also refers to some systems in the Ming Dynasty, and the hierarchy in this harem is also obvious. There are queens, imperial concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, Zhaoyi, talents, nobles and other ranks, of which the queen is naturally a person, and the next four grades have strict regulations, among which the imperial concubine as the title second only to the queen, clearly stipulates that the mother of the non-prince is not granted, if the prince is the queen's concubine, it is vacant.

The two levels of concubine and concubine are not awarded to the mother of a non-prince or a princess.

And there are not many hard conditions for the level of concubines, but it is stipulated that there can only be nine concubines at the same time, which is no way, the ancient Zhou rites are so stipulated, there can only be nine, only less can not more, in addition, because the title of the concubine is determined from the beginning of the concubine, such as Fang De Concubine, after the concubine is the concubine, and later it is the concubine De, the emperor concubine, this 'de' word is her only number, at least before her death can not be granted to other concubines.

Therefore, although the title of the nine concubines was imitated by the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, there was no provision for a clear title, only the rank of concubine.

The last Zhaoyi below, including talented people and nobles, is unlimited and indefinite.

However, so far, Lin Zhe's harem is still relatively simple and pure, except for Queen Chen Jing, his concubines are only the nine concubines who were elected to the palace together, and now four of the nine concubines have been named concubines, and there are only five concubines left.

As for the three levels of Zhaoyi, talent, and noble, there are not many people, and most of them are not women who Lin Zhe officially married or draft girls, for example, there was a female official who was favored by Lin Zhe because of her beauty, and then officially entered the palace and was awarded the title of talent, and any woman who has an overnight relationship with Lin Zhe, as long as she is personally willing, can basically get a title.

Although the matter of sealing the concubine caused a lot of waves at the beginning, it failed to cause any big fluctuations in the end, because although this matter is related to the dispute between the crown prince to a certain extent, it is not strictly speaking, it is not of great significance, and at the same time, this is still Lin Zhe's family affairs, and the ministers can't manage it if they want to.

So this matter is at best a matter of those who are concerned about the battle for the crown prince, and for ordinary ministers, the matter is not as important as the recent imperial tax reform.

In October, the Empire's agricultural tax reform was in its second year, and when it was first implemented last year, it caused a great stir, and even there were small rebellions, although these rebellions quickly disappeared without a trace under the strong suppression of the military, but the incident still brought great shock to the imperial officials.

This time, although the Ministry of Finance has learned the lessons of the agricultural tax reform, it has not been implemented in the whole country at once, but has selected a province in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces to carry out the industrial and commercial tax reform on a pilot basis.

A year after its implementation, the Ministry of Finance reported that the new industrial and commercial tax system was more perfect, not only to effectively increase the tax revenue of the empire, but also to better distinguish between industries and the size of enterprises for taxation, rather than the previous one-size-fits-all, with lucrative industries paying the same taxes as low-profit industries.

To this end, the Ministry of Finance has formally submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers to request the promotion of the new industrial and commercial tax system to the whole country.

However, while some people supported the move, many people expressed caution, fearing that the same thing would happen last year, and that the new tax reform would lead to large-scale resistance and even unrest in the empire.

Of course, they did not say that the tax reform should be issued directly, but said that it is necessary to be cautious and cautious, and it is best to pilot it for a few more years, gradually expand the pilot area, from one prefecture, then to one province, and then to the province, and then promote it to the whole country if the results of the trial are good. (To be continued.) )

PS: Regarding the chapter name, the previous chapter was supposed to be 516, but it was written as 517 by mistake, and I couldn't modify the chapter name in the author's background on a rainy day, so I could only make the mistake wrong! Because although the chapter name is missing a 516, it does not mean that the chapter is missing.