Chapter 531: Choosing a Concubine
Shi Ke still left the capital after all.
Ordinary days will not change significantly because of his departure, Shi Qingqian continued to recuperate at home happily and lived an extraordinarily comfortable life.
The only thing that made a little wave on this calm day was a few months later, in late autumn.
Shen Mi's biological mother is dead, the queen was killed because of Mo Ruan, there are no concubines and queen mothers in this court, Shen Mi thought, the former emperor's Mrs. Tang was the best for herself, and their biological mother died early, so Mrs. Tang took care of him and the five princesses. And this country is indispensable to have a woman in charge of affairs, so Shen Mi fortunately posthumously named Mrs. Tang as the concubine of Tango and temporarily took charge of the affairs of the six palaces.
said that it was 'temporarily in charge of the affairs of the six palaces', but in fact, there was nothing in these six palaces that needed to be managed by Concubine Tang at all, and it was not because Shen Mi had not married until now, and the harem was empty, and the silence was a little terrifying.
After being clean for a long time, naturally some people can't stand it. Just a few months have passed, and the national funeral has passed, and some ministers began to play, asking Shen Mi to choose a concubine on a certain day. Concubine Tang also felt that this matter was about to be put on the agenda, and as soon as Shen Mi said that, he had no choice but to agree.
As the current emperor, Shen Mi has long cared whether it is true love or not, after all, filling the harem and spreading branches for the royal family is also something he must do as the emperor.
So, with a wave of her hand, Concubine Tang decided to set the major event of choosing a concubine on the auspicious day of the fifth day of the first month of October.
As soon as this news came out, the whole country was in an uproar. After all, the new emperor is young and has never married a wife, but the position of the queen is still vacant, who doesn't want to fight and give it a try? If you win the bet, it will be a lifetime of glory and wealth.
Perhaps it was because the whole country paid too much attention to this matter, which made Shen Mi have a headache, in order to divert the public's attention, Shen Mi decided to 'use' his good brother Shen Shu and his confidant He Yan without thinking about it.
So with a stroke of the pen, he wrote two holy decrees in a sassy manner, and gave marriage to Shi Qingqian and Shen Shu, He Yan and Zuo Shinian.
"Your Majesty, why are you so eager at this time?" When Concubine Tang heard the news, it happened to be the day when Shen Mi went to her Kangshou Palace to ask for peace, she was angry and laughed in her heart, so she grabbed him and chatted a few more words, "Your concubine selection day is just around the corner, and you have married the little prince and General He at such a juncture, don't you have to pull the two of them to 'advance and retreat' with you?" ”
Shen Mi smiled, "I'm so careful, I really can't hide it from the concubine...... To tell the truth, this matter of choosing a concubine caused me a headache, so I simply gave me a marriage to divert the attention of the group of idlers, and the province always ran to me to chew the root of my tongue. ”
Most of the show girls who participated in the selection of concubines were young ladies from official families, and there were also daughters of local officials, but they accounted for a small proportion.
In order for their daughter to have a good name in the harem, these ministers have spared no effort to curry favor with Shen Mi. However, Shen Mi didn't say that what directly contributed to his marriage to Shen Shu and Shi Qingqian was the recent rumors in the palace-
It is said that Prime Minister Shi Yuan made great efforts to maintain the throne at the beginning, and now he has been reused logically, and in the harem, the position of the queen is vacant...... It is right to choose the daughter of the prime minister's family to be the queen.
But Prime Minister Shi Cheng's family has such a suitable concubine - Shi Qingqian.
As for the matter of Shi Qingqian and Shen Shu's marriage, although it was well known back then, but after so much time, who will always remember it? In particular, Shi Qingqian always entered the palace to diagnose the pulse of the emperor and Concubine Tang, and even asked people with a heart to compile a trumped-up story from this.
Shen Mi was afraid that Shen Shu and Shi Qing would misunderstand, so he hurriedly issued a holy decree and gave them a marriage.
"It's not that you haven't listened to what is said in this palace," Shen Mi smiled bitterly, "Of course I'll have to find some way to gag them." ”
Concubine Tang didn't say it, but she also knew the rumors in the palace. After all, Shi Qingqi entered the palace every once in a while during this time, either to go to the Tai Hospital, or to come to Kangshou Palace to diagnose her pulse, Concubine Tang had not had much contact with Shi Qingqi before, but since Shen Mi ascended the throne, she has become familiar with each other.
I have to say that Shi Qingqian is a rare good girl, if she hadn't had a relationship with Shen Shu...... will definitely be the best candidate for the queen of Yu Kingdom.
However, Shen Mi didn't seem to mean that aspect, so she didn't want to pull the red thread at will, so she chuckled and nodded, "Your Majesty, speaking of royal marriage, Xiao Wang Ye Shen is your sibling brother, and General He Yan is the little uncle of the county lord of Baoying, they are all ministers of the imperial court, and this royal reward is absolutely perfunctory." ”
Shen Mi was slightly stunned, "This reward...... Speaking of which...... I just sent someone to bring the decree, and the reward has not yet begun to be prepared......"
He can't be blamed for his negligence in this matter, after all, he has never had the experience of doing such a thing, so naturally he doesn't know what to do and what can't be done.
"Tsk...... The mourning family knows that the emperor can't handle this kind of thing," Concubine Tang smiled, and with her hand with fake nails, she brought a booklet from the hand of the maid next to her and handed it to Shen Mi, "This is what the mourning family wrote casually before the emperor came up, two hundred silk silks in Jinzhou, and one hundred pairs of pearl hairpins and jade bracelets...... In addition, there are 10,000 taels of gold, by the way, General He Yan's side, the objects are to be halved according to the regulations, but they can give him a mansion, and the people in the army don't have much savings if they want to, and if they don't have a place to live and have children, they can't do it. ”
Shen Mi looked at the list in his hand in surprise, a dense string, which was enough to see Concubine Tang's good intentions. What else do you say 'write casually', but I can't list it in such detail.
"Concubine, you are really attentive, you know that I can't handle these things," he closed the booklet and handed it to his chief eunuch Li Dehai, "Go ahead, just follow this list and ask the household department to go and prepare it well!" I'm going to give them the reward before tonight! ”
Li Dehai took it with both hands and retreated in an orderly manner.
At this time, the holy decree should have reached their hands, and I really don't know what kind of reaction it will be to see a few people who have been suddenly 'arranged'......
Thinking so in his heart, Shen Mi smiled slyly, as if he had done something terrible.