156 The Great Demon King's personal expedition
The concubines guarding outside the hall watched the eight concubines who went in first come out together, and they were very curious.
Although I don't know what they have experienced inside, they must not have received any benefits, because the looks on the faces of these eight concubines are very unsightly, and among them, Concubine Hu, who is the most powerful in her mother's family, is the most.
You must know that these 'women' usually walk sideways in the palace.
Their mother's family is powerful, and their appearance and figure are also first-class, and they are usually quite popular with Yue Rebellion, and when ordinary concubines see them, they are scared in their hearts. Today's appearance, could it be that the new queen is more powerful than them?
As soon as they thought of this, those concubines felt both relieved and frightened, afraid that the queen would not be able to enjoy these 'women' after the fight, and it would be miserable to burn the fire on them.
It's just that no matter what intentions they had in mind when they entered Yihua Palace, the last one came out with a suspicious face.
The remaining dozens of concubines went in batches to meet them, and when they went in, they saw the emperor and the rumored mysterious queen sitting side by side in the chief, the queen was dressed in regular clothes, her hair was casually pulled into a loose bun, she didn't wear jewelry phoenix crowns, and even her face was not covered with fat powder, the most terrible thing was that face, which looked really shocking ugly!
The concubines were very clever to suppress the surprise in their hearts, and honestly knelt down and saluted, and the great eunuch and prince beside the emperor issued a decree on the side ordering them to get up.
From beginning to end, the emperor just casually said a few words to them that were not salty or light, and did not look at them a few times, most of the time he looked at the queen inexplicably.
The queen ignored them very completely, and only bowed her head to eat.
After the more than fifty concubines had met, Xuanji had also finished lunch, and Yue Yi did not provoke her again during the whole lunch time.
took the handkerchief given by Mama Rong and wiped her mouth, rinsed her mouth with tea, and looked up just to see the last concubine walking out of the hall.
"Done praying?" Xuanji breathed a long sigh of relief. She has changed her mind now, it is not that the Great Demon King sacrificed the entire 'flower' garden for her, but that she saved the Great Demon King. Save him from being ravaged by dozens, if not hundreds, of 'women'.
Yue Wei let out a "hmm", but his eyes still didn't leave Xuanji.
"I suddenly thought of a good way to subsidize the treasury, which can greatly save the treasury expenditure." Xuanji ate and drank to her heart's content, and with a touch of inspiration, she began to want to destroy the stability and unity of the enemy's family. Create family conflicts.
"Oh?" Yue Yi was interested as soon as he heard it.
"I see that the jewelry and clothing of these concubines are very exquisite, and I don't know that the state treasury allocates funds to pay for their costumes. Or is it the money they brought from their parents' homes? ”
"Do you want to reduce their money?" Yue Wei didn't answer Xuanji's question, and Xuanji's strange eyes made him suddenly feel that it was a little inappropriate to say the two answers.
If it is the expenditure of the treasury, I am afraid that I will become the culprit of the treasury that cannot make ends meet, and if it is the expenditure of the concubines' mother's family, it will shave the face of the royal family. Simply answer questions with questions.
Xuanji's mind is not so crooked, but she also knows that it may not be easy to start with those 'female' people at once, so she decided to change her way, and said with a smile: "I don't know how much the monthly money is, let's not mention the reduction or not, but the manpower of the palace 'female' eunuch and grandmother can definitely be reduced, you might as well start with this Yihua Palace first, I am afraid that there are dozens of people waiting here." ”
"Seventy-six." Yue reversed. The queen and the queen mother have the same regulations.
"Leave ten, that's enough for everything. As for the other palaces, depending on the situation, there are up to ten, at least two, and I think it's about the same. "At least there won't be so many followers when you go out.
As soon as Xuanji's words came out, Mama Rong and the princess who were waiting on the side were shocked, and the 'women' of the small palace secretly rejoiced.
The rules of the Yue country, the palace 'woman' enters the palace. If you are not favored by the emperor and become a palace concubine. and did not become a 'female' official, and was generally not released from the palace until she was twenty-five years old. has become a super old girl in this year, and it is very difficult to get married.
According to Xuanji, many of these small palace 'women' can be released from the palace without staying up to the age of twenty-five. For the little girl who is bullied and lonely in the palace, what a big 'temptation' and 'bewilderment'.
But Mama Rong and the princess are different, the palace is their root, the family's money and power depend on them, out of the palace, although Mama has no possibility of marrying and starting a family, and her father-in-law is an outlier in the eyes of ordinary people, even if he has money, it is not easy to live.
Yue Wei is not a fool, he naturally knows that doing this may cause an uproar, these slaves and maids can ignore their thoughts, but the concubines in the palace who are used to being hugged by people are afraid that they will not come to trouble themselves with a sad face?
But I also want to know that if you do this, you can indeed save a lot of money every year.
Xuanji saw that Yue was silent, knowing that he was not so easily deceived, so he continued to push the 'wave' and said: "When I was in Ji Guo, I heard that the new emperor not only has very few slaves and maids in the harem, but also has few concubines. ”
Great Demon King, you see I've taken you as an example, hehe! Xuanji smiled in her heart.
In fact, Ji Guo's harem has become similar to an old people's home under Xuanji's efforts, and the land left behind are all elderly concubines who are old and have no children to rely on, basically Ji Jianshen's mother's generation, 'milk' and 'milk' generation, and Xuanji arranges some elderly 'women' officials, palace 'women' and eunuchs who are also helpless to serve them.
Other relatively young 'female' officials and palace 'women' were released from the palace, and the palace needed young 'females' to serve, so they selected widowed 'women' from the eunuch's house to be hired into the palace. At the same time, the recruitment of eunuchs was no longer continued.
These things were forced to be completed by Ji Jianshen in the name of the emperor, which caused some turmoil in the court, but in the end they were all quelled by Ji Jianshen in various ways.
In Xuanji's words: "Anyway, you will only have me in the future, and there will be no other concubines, what else do you want eunuchs to do?" Could it be that you don't even worry about me? If you want to find a man, I won't look for it in the palace, there are all over the streets outside, you can't 'make' them all into eunuchs, right?! ”
Although after saying this, the Great Demon King repeatedly repaired it badly, but finally stopped this cruel system that created a large number of poor disabled people.
Yue Wei heard Xuanji mention the nail in his eye, and sneered: "Ji Jianshen is just a new monarch who has ascended the throne and is just selling his reputation and reputation." ”
Xuanji didn't speak, and despised Yue in his heart for the sour grapes. This trick is no problem in Ji Guo's harem, because there is no 'female' master in it, and the resistance from the DPRK and China is limited. But if you do this in the harem of Yueguo, the problem will be big, and the big and small officials and 'doors' connected behind the dozens of concubines will not be a big 'chaos'?
After all, Yue Yi was a little tempted by Xuanji's words. Throwing down the sentence "wait for me to think about it clearly" was about to leave, before leaving the 'door', he caught a glimpse of the strange look of the prince and Rong Mama, and his heart sank, and he turned back and called all the palace 'female' eunuchs in the palace just now, and warned in a cold voice: "The matter I discussed with the queen is extremely confidential. If it is found out by others, it doesn't matter who leaks it. You're all coming with your heads up. ”
Xuanji was ashamed when she heard it, she was so happy that she said it, why did she forget the reactions of these people around her, she really did what she said, it is estimated that many of these people around her hate themselves to the core.
It is easy to block open and difficult to defend against dark arrows. I don't know that I have made enemies everywhere, and before the Great Demon King comes to save him, I was assassinated by these people first. Rong Mama and the princess are not bad people, although they are dissatisfied with Xuanji's suggestion, they also see the emperor's attention to Xuanji, they dare not secretly make funny, and honestly serve with extra care, in order to prove the necessity of their existence, and hope that Xuanji will not cut them even if they really want to lay off employees.
The second day after Xuanji entered the palace. Various rumors about the new queen's land spread throughout the palace, and the news of Yue Yi's canonization of the queen also spread outside the palace.
In a dwelling in the capital of Yue Kingdom, Zhao Zheng, who had been modified by Yi Rong, fell into a huge panic after seeing the secret agents arranged in Yue Guo, and Lan Qing, who came with him, also looked troubled with a sad face.
Zhao Zheng hesitated for half an hour, but he still didn't think of what kind of words to use to write the terrifying news he had just heard into his emperor's secret report.
"Lan Qing, think about it. How should I write this report...... Yue rebels, that dog thief, wants to marry Xuanji as the queen? That's what I'm going to write. The emperor looked at ......" Zhao Zheng thought of Ji Jianshen's terrifying reaction, and his face changed. couldn't help but complain in her heart that Xuanji's ability to provoke Peach 'Flower' was too violent, and she was disguised as an ugly 'girl', and she was also favored by the king of a country.
It's just that Xuanji is the emperor's heart's 'meat', and even her brother hugged her, and the emperor was furious, not to mention that someone is going to rob her as a wife now?
Why was he the one who was sent to the Yue Kingdom? Zhao Zheng only felt that he must have had bad luck this year.
At this time, a secret agent arrived with a letter, Lan Qing took it and opened it, her face changed a few times, although she had not been learning to read for a long time, but she completely understood the above sentence.
Zhao Zheng looked at her face and said with a wry smile: "Is there any worse news than Xuanji being the empress of Yueguo?" Let's hear it. ”
Lan Qing slurred: "Master, you don't have to worry about how to write a secret report to the emperor......
Zhao Zheng's eyes lit up and said, "Yue Reverse Dog Thief has changed his mind?" Or was that just a fake news at all? ”
"No, it's ...... The emperor has already entered the Yue Kingdom, and he will arrive the day after tomorrow ......"
Yue Guo is the biggest enemy of Ji Jianshen's domination of the world, and there are many dark lines in the capital, and the source is naturally not only Zhao Zheng, at this time, he has received at least two secret agents from the news about Yue Zheng's relocation.
That little turtle that should be beaten! Ji Jianshen slapped his palm on the carved 'flower' sandalwood table, and the poor table immediately turned into a pile of slag.
I knew that Xuanji had a strong ability to provoke bees and butterflies, but I didn't expect that Yirong would still provoke the peach 'flower' robbery, what should he do with her? This 'girl' who worries and is helpless for him...... I really wanted to swallow her alive, at least so I wouldn't have to worry about someone stealing her out of him when he wasn't looking.
was kidnapped by Yue Cheng this time, presumably she suffered a lot along the way! It was he who was too big and overconfident in the defense of the capital, which led to this accident, but fortunately, Yuan'er had a very good foundation and had gradually recovered at this time, and Xuanji also had an accurate whereabouts, at least for now, it seems that he is safe.
Ji Jianshen has already decided that after bringing Xuanji back to Ji Guo safely, whether she wants to or not, she will immediately make her the queen and set a name, and she will not let her leave her side and act without permission!
As for Yue Wei, since there is going to be a battle sooner or later, let's come!
Today, I had something to do during the day, but I came back and found that I missed a lot, and there were more than 100 fresh 'flowers', and yesterday it was still more than 90, so I didn't have time to take pictures. Thank you for your fresh 'flowers', one person ah woo!
At the beginning of the new week, everyone gave more recommendation votes and encouraged me to write a total of more than 12,000 on Sunday, which was very diligent.