In 968, the mourning period of Empress Dowager Zhong expired. Li Yu decreed that the queen of Zhou's Rou Guifei was crowned, and all the wedding ceremonies were held with the highest royal specifications.

Since then, I have officially become the Empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of November, the Jiang family, the mother of Concubine Shugui, joined forces with the courtiers to ask the harem to reopen the draft ceremony and let the newcomers enter the palace to make up for the scarcity of concubines in the harem.

"Doesn't he just want to send his youngest daughter to the palace to replace his dead eldest daughter?" When I announced the news, Qingnu was the first to say what was in his heart, and for a while, the sisters present also nodded in agreement.

"Having said that, it's true that we haven't had a new sister in our harem for a long time, and now it's human nature to play up." Baoyi Huang has always taken the overall situation into account, and he got to the point in one sentence.

"Let's see what the queen says." The words of the lady made everyone's attention return to me.

"The harem really needs some new sisters to come in and motivate the ladies of the palace, otherwise you will sleep on your beds sooner or later." I pretended to be joking about my decision.

"Yes."

"What the Queen said is that we do need some new sisters to keep us company." Hearing my statement, all the palace ladies echoed it.

Whether it is out of sincerity or on the scene, the harem draft is imperative.

First, today's harem is indeed too deserted, and second, there is a more important point, that is, the Jiang family. Since the death of Concubine Shugui, Lord Jiang has repeatedly stirred up trouble in the previous dynasty, either impeaching this or that, just to prove that his status as a general will not be asided by the death of Concubine Shu.

On the other hand, although we gave Concubine Shu the last dignity, in addition to the crime of murdering the imperial heir, even the funeral specifications were much higher than all the concubines of the previous dynasty, but Lord Jiang still relied on his identity as a general to secretly form a party and provoke the relationship between ministers, which also made the originally turbulent court even more uneasy.

Li Yu once discussed with me privately, hoping to find an opportunity to cut off the Jiang family's military power, but I stopped it, now there are frequent wars in the north, and in addition to the old Jiang family, there are also the eldest sons of the Jiang family, if they attack the Jiang family at this time, they will inevitably make the border army dissatisfied, and then they will unite with the Southern Han, then my Tang State will not have to wait for the day when the Song State sends troops, and it will kill itself.

Therefore, in the end, we decided to keep the supreme glory of the Jiang family for the time being, and secretly train our own generals, and when the time is ripe, we will take back the military power step by step, and I offered to hand over this matter to Huang Yuan, the brother of the Baoyi Huang family. Huang Yuan has followed the army on the battlefield since he was a child, and is familiar with the art of war and the key points of various military departments, and the most important thing is that Huang Yuan is currently working as a deputy general under Lord Jiang.

Coupled with my knowledge of the Huang clan in my previous life, the Huang clan is credible and usable.

The draft was quickly put on the agenda, as soon as the draft began, Li Yu hid in the Chengqian Hall under the pretext of being busy with government affairs, and the palace ladies were also lazy on the grounds of physical discomfort.

That's it, I asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to bring the draft girl over, and after a while, a group of people stood in front of me, looking at so many people, I suddenly felt an inexplicable headache.

"How many people are there!" The lady leaned over and whispered to me, and her face was just like mine, full of reluctance.

"The report from the Internal Affairs Office is 88 people, and we only need to select a dozen or so people with good family backgrounds later." I helped my forehead, no matter what, at least there was a lady with me, didn't I?

"Let's get started." I said to the manager.

"Yes."

The first to come up was Jiang Zhizhi, the youngest daughter of Master Jiang's family, who only saw her bending her waist to take a slight step, showing her wrist in a light yarn. The eyes are full of spring water, and the jasper plum blossom hairpin is obliquely inserted on the head. The fragrant jade is delicate and delicate, and the fingers are like cutting the root of the onion, such as containing Zhu Dan. Although she is similar to Shuguifei's eyebrows and eyes, she has a little more charm, and her smile is simply moving. No wonder the Jiang family wants to be sent to the palace, with this appearance, it is difficult to be unfavored.

"I've always heard that the daughter of Lord Jiang's family is beautiful and fragrant, but now I see that this is the case, how old is this year?" Of course, I know her age, but I still need to ask for official compliments.

"Queen Xie's praise, the little girl just turned 14 this year."

"The sound is also excellent."

"The little girl doesn't dare."

I followed up with a few polite words, nothing more than that my parents are well, and my education is appropriate.

"The little daughter of the Jiang family is gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable, keeps cards, seals the nobles, and gives the pepper room hall to live. There is no main seat over there for the time being, so you can live in the main hall. "After the process was over, I told her the original arrangement, which was originally her sister's dormitory, and now I told her about the past.

"Yes, Queen Xie."

Since Jiang knew that he had stayed, then the rest of the people were easy to say, and I relied on the memories of my previous life to compare them one by one, and left some of the daughters of loyal ministers who remembered their names, and as for those who didn't know, they were all sent away.

When I was bored, suddenly, a woman in front of me attracted my attention, if Jiang knew the beauty of the country, this person would be shocked, and even I, a famous beauty, couldn't help but sigh.

"Who's this?" Thinking about it, I accidentally said what was in my heart.

"The Queen." The lady felt a tug at my sleeve and brought me back from the shock.

Fortunately, I am the queen, and no one dares to say anything about me even if I lose my temper.

I looked at the woman in front of me, wearing a pink tight-fitting silk skirt, with a conservative wrap and vaguely revealing her plump breasts, her face was like a hibiscus, her eyebrows were like willows, and her eyes were more charming than peach blossoms.

"Which girl are you waiting for?" I cleared my throat and asked in a whisper.

"Back to the queen, I am the youngest daughter of the Shang Shu family, Shang Wan'er."

It turned out to be the daughter of the Shang Shujia, no wonder she was so beautiful, I suddenly remembered the first time I saw Shang Wen, and he was like a star in my eyes at that time.

"The little girl of the Shang family is gentle and demure, beautiful, left a card, sealed a graceful beauty, and gave Haitang Pavilion to live." In fact, with the identity of the Shang family, it is completely fine to seal a nobleman, but I always feel that it is a pity that such a beautiful beauty is not a beauty.

"Empress Xie."

I went on to look at the rest of the show girls one by one, the original two-day process, I was stunned to hold on to the day, the draft ended, I left a total of seven, less than I originally expected.

In addition to Xiaogui and Wanmei, I also left Li Cairen, Xinmeiren, Liu Changzai, Chuncairen, Yu agreed, and arranged to live in the side halls of each palace.

The draft finally came to an end, and I also took the opportunity to mention to the emperor that the identity of the old people in the palace had risen by one level, Huang's Baoyi was promoted to Concubine Yuan, and the lady was promoted to Concubine Jin, followed by Qiao's promotion to Qiao Noble, Qingnu to Xiao Baoyi, Xue Jiu's promotion to Xue Baoyi, Qiushui's promotion to Jing Noble, Yi Ai's promotion to Yimei, and Xiaohua's promotion to Noble Stamen......

It can be regarded as making up for the debt to them in the previous life, after all, except for the Huang family Baoyi in the previous life, everyone else was in a low position under my suppression, ranking among the palace people.

After the newcomers came in, the harem really began to be lively, and the daily greetings became a large-scale quarrel scene, and there were not a few sneers, and since then, my daily pastime has also been replaced by a small gossip with the lady, and we always secretly talk about the source of the conflict between the palaces after the morning ceremony.

However, the harem has always been an ally of iron and vinegar, and I often turn a blind eye and treat all the competition for favor as a joke.

A month later, almost all the new show girls were lucky, and the most favored of them was undoubtedly Jiang Zhixiao and Shang Wan'er, who were both promoted to the top in just one month.

Sure enough, it's the kind of person I treat differently......