Li Shimin's harem now has a queen, four concubines, four concubines, plus a Jieyu, and two beauties.

Needless to say, among the four concubines, in addition to Wei Zhaorong and Yang Zhaoyi, Empress Changsun raised two of the Tongfang, who had served her husband in the Qin Palace, but had no official title and had children, and gave them the positions of Chongrong and Chongyuan respectively.

Jieyu is Zheng Jieyu, who was just hired into the palace last year, and at the beginning of the year, she made the two palace maids who had been favored by her husband beauties, that is to say, there are now a total of eleven people in Li Shimin's harem.

These people have, high-ranking concubines, such as the fourth concubine, except for Wei Guifei, who has a daughter, everyone else has no daughters.

Among the four concubines, except for Yang Zhaoyi, everyone else has daughters, and the two who were just brought up last year gave birth to two.

The concubines, plus the princess and the little prince, the number of people in the palace is not small now, and the number of people is large, and there will naturally be more things.

In recent years, the eldest grandson no longer monopolizes the affairs of the harem, and a lot of palace affairs have been distributed to the four concubines, so that they can help take care of the harem.

"Niangniang has an overreputation, in the final analysis, the harem is still managed by Niangniang well, these things we are in charge of, but they are all in accordance with precedents, just a little care, I really didn't do anything." Concubine Yan Xian and Concubine Wei said at the same time.

Empress Eldest Sun talked to them, and when they retreated, they felt a little sleepy, so they went to take a nap, and when they woke up, they sent someone to the imperial study to let the emperor come over in the evening.

After all these things, she already understood that it was impossible to let all the princesses learn from Xiangcheng.

Today, Wei, Yan and the others came over, and although they didn't mention half a word related to this matter, the eldest grandson understood that they were actually very concerned about it in their hearts.

Needless to say, Da Wei and Xiao Wei have daughters, although Xiao Wei'er's daughter is an adopted daughter, but the child was raised in her palace all the time, and she herself has no heirs, this daughter is no different from her own biological one.

As for the Yan family, although she has no daughters now, who can guarantee that she will not give birth in the future, to put it bluntly, everyone can't accept the matter advocated by the emperor and queen that they hope that the princesses will marry in the future and don't want the princess's mansion.

"Your Majesty is here, you haven't had dinner yet, the concubine specially boiled mulberry branch fresh chicken soup for Your Majesty, you can taste it." By the time Li Shimin was done, it was already completely dark, and Empress Changsun saw him come in, walked over and helped him take off his coat, and spoke.

"Well, as long as I come to you, I never have to worry about food, bring me a bowl and taste it, I've been busy all afternoon, and I'm just hungry." Li Shimin took off his robe and handed it to her while talking.

Empress Changsun first ordered someone to serve soup to Li Shimin, and after hanging up his clothes, she brought a basin of water and a face towel for him to clean his hands and face.

When Li Shimin came to her, except for the confinement and the time when the belly was big, at other times, these close care things, the eldest grandson queen basically did it herself.

Li Shimin has long been accustomed to all this, very naturally clean the basin, and when he cleans his wrist, the soup is served in the bowl, Li Shimin tasted it, felt very appetizing, and drank the bowl quickly.

The eldest grandson knew that he was coming over in the evening, and he didn't use dinner, but when the pheasant slave was eating, he drank half a bowl of soup with him, and when she saw that her husband had drunk the soup, she ordered someone to bring the meal up, and she accompanied him to use another half bowl of rice.

The couple ate and drank enough, and went out of the temple to eat, this fashion was early April, and the moon outside came up and went down for a while, but there were lanterns everywhere outside the hall, and they didn't worry about seeing the road.

The two didn't go far, they turned around the garden in front of the palace twice, Li Shimin took his wife's hand, and said as he walked: "You specially sent someone to call me here because you have something to say, right?" ”

His wife, if he didn't have a serious discussion, he would never send someone to invite him, even if he didn't come to her, the initiative was completely handed over to him to lead, and Li Shimin couldn't say what it was like in his heart.

"Well, the concubines do have some things they want to discuss with Your Majesty, it is about Xiangcheng, and your Majesty must know everyone's reaction, the ministers and the people are almost all one-sidedly praised, but the royal family and the harem have a lot of dissatisfaction, including the father." Not long after Li Shimin's words fell, the voice of the eldest grandson rang out.

"What do they say?" Li Shimin did not answer the rhetorical question.

"Everyone thinks that if all the princesses learn from Xiangcheng, they don't want the princess's mansion when they marry in the future, and they all serve their in-laws like ordinary little ladies, and they will have the majesty of the royal family." The eldest grandson queen said.

"Is royal majesty displayed by pomp and superiority?" Li Shimin's face was slightly gloomy.

Empress Changsun smiled and did not answer, after Li Shimin said this, he was also silent, in fact, he understood the hearts of the royal family, if he was not the emperor, he might have the same thoughts as them.

But he is the emperor, the people are the most important, the society is secondary, the monarch's light speech is not a joke, the person sitting on the throne, if you want to be a real famous monarch, you must have such an awareness.

Otherwise, if you always want the imperial power to override everything and ignore the interests of the people of the world, such a dynasty will not last long.

If the emperor doesn't want the boat to overturn people, he needs to put down his body and mingle with the people.

Now that he finally has a daughter, he has entered the lower body by himself, so that he is like ordinary people, and does not engage in specialization, but the people in his own family are the first to stand up against it, which makes Li Shimin quite annoyed.

With his temperament, he was eager to immediately order the full implementation of Xiangcheng's way of doing things, and anyone who dared to resist would be severely punished, but this thought was only a flash.

He is not the hairy boy of the year, many things will no longer be rash, calm down and think about it, Xiangcheng's actions do have advantages and disadvantages, in the era of the supremacy of imperial power, the royal family can not be close to the people, but it cannot be too close to the people.

Otherwise, over time, the people's reverence for the royal family will gradually weaken, and to put it bluntly, human nature is already very complicated.

"That's it, let's think about this matter in the long run, Xiangcheng doesn't want the princess's mansion, you don't have to force other princesses to follow suit, but you must not bargain for the sake of respecting your in-laws."

"If the married princess hears that anyone is domineering in her in-laws' house and does not respect her in-laws, she will be severely punished." Li Shimin was silent for a long time before he said this.

Saying this sentence means that he has made concessions, which is not easy for Li Shimin, who has been sitting on the throne for five years and is growing in popularity.

Empress Eldest Sun, who knew her husband well, stretched out her hand and squeezed her husband's hand: "The concubine knows, leave the rest to the concubine to do." ”

Their husband and wife have already given in a step, if the others still don't give up, she, the queen, can't say it, and has to have some means.

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