From ancient times to the present, whether you are a small private family or a wealthy family, the vast majority of them are relatives of the next generation, and this is no exception in the palace.

Xue Zhilei is the nominal master of the harem as the queen, but in fact, the Empress Dowager Zhang is the real master of the harem, but it is a pity that no matter how noble she is, she is also a woman, her husband has died for many years, and her two sons are not close to her.

Empress Dowager Zhang thought that her grandson was about to have hysteria, but she hated her eldest son Zhu Houzhao countless royal daughters, but none of them could conceive a dragon fetus, and finally the ridiculous son even got a pregnant woman into the palace, which not only shocked the ministers half to death, but also scared her a lot.

Sister Yu entered Beijing, and finally arrived in the capital in late December, the ancestors and grandchildren looked at each other, and the joy of family life, Empress Dowager Zhang finally dissipated most of the unhappiness in her stomach, as if she had found spiritual sustenance all of a sudden, and she was no longer willing to ask about the broken things between the harem concubines.

Having said that, the first emperor only had one queen, and Empress Dowager Zhang had never experienced a cruel harem struggle, she didn't understand and couldn't tell the difference, so it was better to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

It's a pity that Zhu Zaikun is still too young, and the child who has not yet been weaned can have much fun, so every day Empress Dowager Zhang just asked Sister Yu to take the little guy to Cining Palace for a trip, and she was satisfied to see the little guy's childish little face.

Zhu Houwei is sure that as long as the little guy reaches the age where he even hates a dog, it is estimated that the Queen Mother will forget about him.

There is no way, Empress Dowager Zhang is the queen mother, but she is just a folk woman from an ordinary background, for the sake of her niece, she gave Zhu Houwei a lot of faces, as for the affairs of the clan......

Most of the traditional and conservative women have not hard ears, and when they were cried by several vassal kings who were older than themselves, their hearts suddenly softened.

seems to think that her son treats the clan so harshly, and she will not have the face to meet the kings of the past after a hundred years.

Thereupon......

However, Zhu Houwei's determination to manage the clan has never wavered, and he was unmoved by whether he cried, persuaded or scolded his mother, and the Empress Dowager Zhang, who had no choice but to give up.

"I told the queen mother that I would canonize you as a concubine in a few days."

Now Sister Yu is Concubine Zhuang, although it is said that the title of the ninth concubine is not distinguished, but this is just a high-sounding statement, the harem concubine is respected by the imperial concubine, and the concubine is second, which is simply a matter of convention.

And the convention is more than this, there are also no heirs and no concubines, and the imperial concubine is also one of them, otherwise Zhang Shaohua enters the palace, even if he does not become a queen, at least he has to be a concubine.

Sister Yu smiled when she heard this, once upon a time she was just a lowly woman who had fallen into the dust and had a life as low as mustard, after being taken captive into the Yongwang Mansion, she was lucky to jump out of the fire pit in her heart, and her only wish was to become the concubine of the Yongwang, and her greater wish was to be able to conceive a child, even if the child born was only called her aunt.

But the prince promised to give her the position of side concubine, and then the prince broke her trust, she did not become a side concubine, but became a concubine after the prince became the emperor......

She never dreamed that she would have the opportunity to enter the Forbidden City in this life, and she would be able to become the owner of a palace in this palace city.

And she even gave birth to the emperor's eldest son!

As a woman, Sister Yu feels that even if she dies now, she has no regrets.

So......

"As long as Your Majesty can go to the Yongshou Palace from time to time to sit, the concubines will be satisfied."

"Is this a competition for favor?" Zhu Houwei held back a laugh twice, for fear of disturbing his son's good dreams.

There is no woman who is not jealous, but Sister Yu is more happy.

Think about it, Zhu Houwei became the emperor, the emperor's harem has never been short of women, and now the emperor looks like five or six women, but don't forget that there are women who have not been elected as queens after the queen mother was elected, and now they are also concubines to be elected, and it is only a matter of time before they become the emperor's women.

There are more women, there will be no less, this is the eternal truth, there is only one man in the palace, the emperor is a man, which concubine does not want to be favored, who does not want to give birth to the emperor's heir, so that the mother is more expensive than the son.

So Sister Yu won't compete for favor, she will just go with the flow, otherwise she will inevitably suffer the hostility of all concubines, including the queen, you have a son and still compete for favor, can you still be considered a person?

What's more, Sister Yu knows that she is a woman in the Son of Heaven's Hidden Mansion, and she is also the first woman, as long as she does not commit unforgivable mistakes, the glory of her life is enough to guarantee.

A wise woman will make her husband inseparable from her, instead of tying her husband to the waistband of his trousers, which will only make her man disgusted from the bottom of his heart, and even if he once loved him, he will one day abandon him like a shoe.

Even more so Royal.

What she said was not deliberate, so Zhu Houwei replied with a joke, this is a tacit understanding.

"The hour is almost up." Zhu Houwei glanced at the hourglass on the table, the hourglass is made of glass, and it is not small, there is a whole row of thin lines engraved on it, and every few thin lines will be marked with numbers, and the time displayed now is five o'clock in the afternoon.

Very primitive but very effective timekeeping method, no way, the clock this thing Zhu Houwei was included in the schedule more than ten years ago, but unfortunately he doesn't know anything about the structure of the clock, so there is no way to provide effective ideas for the craftsman, and the structure of the clock is very complicated, and it is too difficult to make it at the current level.

Therefore, Zhu Houwei only let two craftsmen study slowly, and he needs to use his limited human resources to unlimited productivity.

Zhu Houwei said that the time was almost up because of the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

When he was in Huzhou, the royal palace also gave a banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, but that was because Zhu Houwei was sympathetic to the hard work of the people for a year, and he also wanted to comfort the officials of the royal palace and the generals of the guard, but the royal family gave a banquet differently.

It's tradition.

Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor will bring harem concubines and above, including harem women, as well as princes and grandchildren, including princes and grandchildren in Beijing, and sometimes some princes and cabinet ministers in Beijing to give a banquet, which is also considered a royal grace.

For example, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in the sixth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao returned to the Forbidden City with great reluctance and summoned two people for dinner, these two people were naturally Shou Ninghou and Jianchang Hou......

Waiting for Zhu Houzhao to finish eating in an extremely depressed mood, after returning to the leopard room, even the royal number of girls was hilarious until dawn......

Zhu Houwei is not as ridiculous as his brother, even if he is no longer willing to give a banquet to the two uncles, but for the sake of the queen mother's face, he can't help but give it, in addition to the two uncles, there are seven elders in the cabinet, King Xing and other seven vassal kings, as for the harem is Queen Xia, Queen Xue and several concubines.

But the summer queen politely refused......

Winter nights always come quickly, and when Zhu Houwei's Luan arrived at the Jinshen Palace, the sky was already dark, but the Jinshen Hall was already brightly lit.