Chapter 123
Concubine Zheng was reprimanded by His Majesty in Kunning Palace, and she came out crying. [Full text reading. ใ
The news is moving faster than the wind, and the concubine who went to Kunning Palace in front of the concubine is still wondering how Concubine Zheng was reprimanded by His Majesty, and after a while, Zhang Chengcheng came with His Majesty's holy message.
Concubine He looked at the Kunning Palace's schedule that had been arguing for a long time before it had a prototype, and sighed, "This is useless work." โ
"Why is Your Majesty so angry?" Some people are puzzled.
"The queen doesn't like the smell of spices, especially strong fragrance, and the fragrance on Concubine Zheng today, Your Majesty is strange if she smells it and doesn't lose her temper." Concubine Liu and Concubine Yang left early if they didn't participate in this kind of discussion, and here they can figure out the trick in a blink of an eye.
"The queen doesn't like spices?" Concubine He said that the concubines who entered the palace this year listened carefully, and they were new to the palace, and they still couldn't figure out the queen's preferences.
Lan Concubine got up and said, "Since Your Majesty has made a will, let's disperse." In the future, it is good to ask for peace every day, even Concubine Zheng was reprimanded by His Majesty, I don't dare to go to Kunning Palace to touch His Majesty's brows. โ
Lan Concubine took the lead and left, and the rest of the people dispersed, still playing all kinds of drums in their hearts, and when they returned to the palace, they sent the palace people out to inquire. All kinds of inquiries, including the queen's preferences, disgust.
Concubine Zheng returned to the palace, the whole person was still distracted, and the palace people waited for her to change her clothes, extremely worried, "Niangniang." โ
"Go, call the jade nobleman." Zheng Concubine said.
Zhou Yuting hurriedly came, "Why did Niangniang come to me?" โ
"You don't know what happened to me?" Concubine Zheng asked.
Zhou Yuting paused slightly, "I only know that Niangniang didn't stay in Kunning Palace for long before returning to the palace." โ
"The queen doesn't like incense, you know?" Concubine Zheng asked.
Zhou Yuting still nodded hesitantly, "But Niangniang never cares whether we smoke incense or not." Sometimes Niangniang also praised which concubine had a good fragrance. โ
"Could it be that the queen said the incense on the mother's body today?" Zhou Yuting asked as if she didn't know.
Concubine Zheng shook her head, "Your Majesty is here, and if you want to get along with the queen, I'll come back first." โ
"Niangniang, how long will Your Majesty stay in Kunning Palace?" Zhou Yuting asked tentatively.
"How do I know that Your Majesty can still tell me in front of the queen." Concubine Zheng said, "If the queen mother still likes and dislikes, you can tell me about it." โ
"The queen is a very good person to get along with." Zhou Yuting said, "We have never imposed her personal likes and dislikes on us, so we don't have a lot of scruples about the queen's mother, and we are not sensitive to the queen's likes and dislikes, but the bottom line of the queen can not be taken, but there is only one, in the harem to compete for favor can not be used as a means, can not do anything to the heirs, these mothers are not allowed at a time." โ
"The preferences of the rest of the mothers can be understood depending on the sensitivity of the individual."
"Speaking of which, we don't have any chance to get along with the queen mother, that is, to ask for a little time every day, because the queen mother has to rush to Cining Palace and Ci'an Palace to say goodbye, and it is impossible to say a few more words."
"Niangniang likes to set up a small banquet every now and then, but at the banquet, Niangniang only cares about watching singing and dancing, and doesn't chat with us much." Zhou Yuting said, "If you want to say that you know the likes and dislikes of the queen's mother, in addition to Concubine Liu and Concubine Lan, there is only Wang Meiren in this palace, she is the queen's mรจi mรจi." โ
"Wang Meiren?" Concubine Zheng asked, "It's strange to say, Wang Meiren is much better looking than the queen's mother, and in the same draft, why did His Majesty choose Niang Niang as the queen in the first place, and Wang Meiren is just a beauty?" โ
"What is in Your Majesty's mind is something we can guess." Zhou Yuting said, "In the early stage of the draft, Wang Meiren was much more popular than the queen, but Wang Meiren listened to the fake news spread by Concubine Guo and danced at the banquet, but she dressed up as a Persian, which provoked His Majesty's reprimand, and then she collapsed." โ
"In that issue of the show girl, Wang Meiren was the first to sleep, in the palace back garden, His Majesty took her back to Chuxiu Palace and set up Wang Meiren. At that time, everyone guessed that His Majesty liked Wang Meiren. โ
"But after that, Your Majesty no longer favored Wang Meiren, and everyone came back to their senses, I'm afraid that Wang Meiren took some measures to make Your Majesty favor her when she was in the palace back garden, so she was disgusted by Your Majesty." Zhou Yuting said.
"This lady is in the middle palace, and she didn't say that she would give mรจi mรจi a promotion?" Concubine Zheng asked, "A beauty, it's a little lower." โ
"This Wang beauty is a mother, but she is a half-brother." Zhou Yuting said, "So Niangniang doesn't mention the position of Wang Meiren, and everyone understands that Niangniang's biological mother died early, and she has had a stepmother since she was an infancy. Just like the rumors in Andingfang that Wang Meiren is as beautiful as a fairy, the queen is more beautiful than no salt, and the queen's mother is not as beautiful as Wang Meiren, so why not to the point of no salt, there may be a stepmother, Wang Meiren's role. โ
"I see." Concubine Zheng said, "How can this Concubine Liu and Concubine Yang be so good with the queen?" โ
"Concubine Liu and Concubine Yang are people who live in a dormitory with their mothers during the draft, and their relationship will be good and normal." Zhou Yuting said, "The queen is a person who cares about the old love, and Concubine Liu and Concubine Yang are also very blessed." If it weren't for the good relationship between them and the queen, they would not have entered the final selection of the third and were first named concubines. โ
"Just a concubine?" Concubine Zheng said disdainfully.
"Your Majesty's position card was very tight before, it was Concubine Guo, Your Majesty's favorite concubine before, the queen entered the palace, and she was only promoted to a level, becoming Concubine Guo, and she didn't even have a title." Zhou Yuting said, "This time, Your Majesty sealed nine concubines in one day, and there are titles for your concubine and Concubine Lan in this concubine, your concubine is Your Majesty's first woman, Concubine Lan once gave birth to His Majesty's heir, but she accidentally flowed away, otherwise, she is also a concubine, and she has a title, especially above Concubine Guo." โ
"I don't know any of that." Concubine Zheng twisted the veil and said, she was still careless in the past, and her mind was on Your Majesty's favor, as long as there is Your Majesty's favor, what does the twists and turns in the harem have to do with her, she doesn't know and doesn't want to know. But today, His Majesty's anger frightened her, and His Majesty's favor was not immutable. What should she do if Her Majesty doesn't favor her one day. She looked at Zhou Yuting, "You can talk to me more." โ
When he asked for peace the next day, Wang Ronghe said warmly to Concubine Zheng. "This palace really didn't know that His Majesty would have such a big reaction, Concubine Zheng was wronged."
"Concubines are not wronged." Concubine Zheng said, "Your Majesty is reasonable, the mother doesn't like incense, and the concubine is still smoking such a heavy incense to serve in front of her, which shows that she is not sincere." โ
"But Niangniang, the concubine didn't mean it, if the concubine knew that the concubine didn't like incense, she would wash the lead and then come to serve the mother."
"It's not that this palace doesn't like incense." Wang Ronghe said. "I just don't like the strong aroma, and I don't like the mixed taste of multiple scents intertwined."
"If you all taboo the use of incense in this palace, then Your Majesty's harem has no fragrance at all, isn't it boring." Wang Ronghe said with a smile.
"Your Majesty is right to say that we will go to Kunning Palace to serve Niangniang, but let Niangniang bother." Concubine Zheng said, "Wait until the concubine goes to learn singing and dancing, and then go to Kunning Palace to relieve the boredom of the mother." โ
"Of course it's good." Wang Ronghe smiled and said, "But I'm afraid it has to be when Your Majesty is away, otherwise the palace won't even have time to defend you, and Your Majesty will be angry." โ
"Your Majesty misunderstands that you are not coming to Kunning Palace for me, but for Your Majesty." Wang Ronghe said with a smile, "Your Majesty doesn't like this. โ
"If the queen is bored, she will summon the concubine to chat and relieve her boredom, the concubine is incompetent and can't do anything for the mother." Yang Concubine said.
"There's so much you can do for this palace." Wang Ronghe said, "The palace wants to go and suggest to the queen mother, and when the belly is big, the palace is not energetic and cannot manage the palace affairs, so a few concubines will be selected to come up to assist the queen mother to take charge of palace affairs for the palace." โ
"Mother." Concubine Liu was surprised.
Wang Ronghe nodded, she is not a person who thinks about power, pregnancy is already hard, and she has to be in charge of all kinds of trivial matters in the palace, she doesn't like it, and His Majesty said that he would take her to Yingtai to escape the summer, so someone must manage her when she is not in the harem. Since the queen mother handed over the palace power, there is no reason to return it, at most, a few concubines from the harem will come out to take care of things, and then let the queen mother supervise and assist from the side.
The concubine suddenly warmed up again and took charge of the palace power, which has many benefits. The head of the palace must be a high-level concubine, there is only one concubine, and there are more than a dozen concubines, among which the mother chooses whomever can be operated.
When Wang Ronghe went to Ci'an Palace to say this, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces was also very surprised, and the Empress Dowager Chen said, "It's too early, and you can think about it after you are five months pregnant." โ
"It's not easy to be in charge of the palace, and the sons have been in charge of the palace for two years and are trembling, for fear that they will not do anything good. Now I want to choose someone to take charge of the palace affairs for me, if I don't choose to teach them earlier, can I expect them to be able to do it as soon as they get started? Wang Ronghe said, "Although there is a queen mother and concubine on the side to supervise and assist, but they learn faster, the queen mother and the mother concubine work a little less, and I don't want to go a little bit." โ
Empress Dowager Li said, "It's good for you to take precautions, but now that the rank of the harem concubine is not high, who are you going to choose?" โ
"According to the grade, of course Concubine Guo has to be counted as one." Wang Ronghe said, "Among the rest of the concubines, the noble concubine has been in the palace for the longest time, and she is also the most familiar with the affairs of the palace, there should be one of her, Yang Concubine is talented, meticulous, and a good seedling in charge of affairs, and there is one, the son can't make up his mind between Zheng Concubine and Lan Concubine, Zheng Concubine is His Majesty's new favorite, Lan Concubine once conceived His Majesty's heir, why don't you let the queen mother and the mother concubine help the son get an idea?" โ
"Lan Concubine." Empress Dowager Li said, "She has experience, people should be calm, Concubine Zheng is too public, and the queen needs to press her." โ
"It's all up to the concubine." Wang Ronghe said. Such an answer made Empress Dowager Li feel comfortable.
Zhu Yijun was not surprised when he heard that Wang Ronghe wanted to bring up a few concubines to help her take charge of palace affairs, but just said to Wang Ronghe, "You are really not greedy for power, and you regard power as dung." โ
"I'm greedy for power." Wang Ronghe said, "If I am not the queen now, I will hold on to anything in my hand." Just because I'm the queen, I'm just looking for a few people to help me take charge of palace affairs, and the master of this harem is still me. Could it be that Your Majesty will reduce his control over the government because of the increase in the number of officials working under him? โ
"Why do you have to compare yourself to me everywhere?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile. "Is it really more difficult for you, the queen, than me?"
"Take Your Majesty as an analogy, and Your Majesty will understand what I have done." Wang Ronghe said. "The queen is only in charge of a small harem, and of course it can't be compared with Your Majesty's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. But if there are problems in the government, there will always be similar problems in the harem. The harem is a shrunken river and lake, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are disputes. โ
"Your Majesty is very good at managing the country, I am far inferior to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty will also help me manage the harem." Wang Ronghe said, "The harem is also Your Majesty's country." โ