"How's the draft going?" In Cining Palace, after Zhu Houwei asked for peace, Empress Dowager Zhang immediately threw out a sentence.

The virtuous concubine Zhang on the side muttered a little dissatisfied, if she is satisfied, she will have a ghost, as a woman, she naturally wishes that she could be like her aunt, her emperor husband has only one woman in her life.

More women in the harem means more right and wrong for the emperor, but for women, it means to compete for favor!

How cruel it is for harem women to compete for favor, Zhang Shaohua knows better than anyone else!

Now Emperor Jiajing only has eight women, and the rain and dew are even, and she can also be blessed for a long time, so there is nothing to complain about, but if there are dozens or even hundreds of more women in the harem at once......

With the lustful nature of a man, who also likes the new and hates the old, when will she be able to conceive a son!

Now Zhang Shaohua is most dissatisfied that he only gave birth to a daughter, in the harem, even if you give birth to a princess, but as long as you don't have a prince, you won't have a sense of security, to put it mildly, after a hundred years of Jiajing, if the concubine has a son, she can go to the prince's mansion to be the queen mother, but if you give birth to a daughter, is it difficult to go to live in your son-in-law's house?

As for the worse of having no children and no daughters, fortunately, Emperor Yingzong abolished the funeral, otherwise there is a chance that no children and no daughters will be buried, but even if they are not martyred, they can only live in the bleak harem for the rest of their lives, chanting scriptures and worshipping Buddha every day until the end of their lives......

Zhang Shaohua knows that the ultimate goal of this draft is to let the emperor be a stallion and have more sons, how many chances do they have in the future if they don't have sons, they don't have a chance for seven years, and they will have a chance in the future?

Not becoming a queen has already made her aggrieved enough, originally counting on giving birth to a son, she can become a concubine or even an imperial concubine, but now it seems that the chances are getting slimmer and slimmer......

So now Zhang Shaohua is indignant, aggrieved, and helpless, but she knows what kind of character Emperor Jiajing is, even if she is dissatisfied, she can only force a smile, otherwise her aunt may not be on her side......

Now that my aunt is talking about the draft, Zhang Shaohua wants to turn around and leave, but she is still a little unwilling, so it is like having a nail under her feet, where can she move......

Empress Dowager Zhang glanced at her niece and knew that her niece was dissatisfied and uncomfortable at the moment, but she could only sigh in her heart.

If you want to blame, you can only blame fate, blame your two younger brothers for creating too many sins, so that God refuses to reward a boy to Shaohua......

"After returning to my mother, the Ministry of Rites and Entertainment has completed the preliminary screening, and the Ministry of Finance has also allocated funds to arrange for the return of women who do not meet the criteria of the royal draft."

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded slightly and said, "How many women are running?"

Zhu Houwei was stunned, a little curious why the queen mother asked such a boring question, maybe it was a common problem of women, this gossip fire was already burning......

"After returning to my mother, according to incomplete statistics, more than 100,000 show girls were sent to the capital by local governments to participate in the election......"

"One hundred thousand!" Empress Dowager Zhang exclaimed, and then glanced at her son thoughtfully, she knew too well what was represented behind the 100,000 show girls.

People's hearts! The real hearts of the people!

Of course, these girls who let their own girls enter Beijing have more or less some purposes, but this also means how popular Emperor Jiajing is, and it also declares how strong the Ming Dynasty is now!

At this time, Empress Dowager Zhang remembered what her eldest son had said to her, the eldest son said that his younger brother was born to be the emperor's material!

She was very dismissive of this sentence, in her opinion, what kind of natural emperor is expected, it is simply ridiculous, the foundation of the ancestors is passed into your hands, you are the emperor, you are the natural emperor, you will not govern the country? With the assistance of ministers, the worst can be ruled by the arch!

So in her eyes, the eldest son said such things completely because he didn't like restraint, and he was also evading the responsibility that the first emperor handed over to him!

But Empress Dowager Zhang has now changed her mind, because in seven years, in just seven years, Daming has completely changed, and has become strong, extremely strong!

Even if Empress Dowager Zhang is from a low background, she has been in the palace for more than 20 years, even if she is exposed to it, she cannot be a political idiot, on the contrary, she understands it very well!

She knew that after the Ming Dynasty experienced the change of Tumubao, the power of the nobles was weakened to the extreme, and with the weakening of the power of the nobles, the civil power rose, and after these decades, the power of the foreign dynasty has been able to suppress the imperial power!

The emperor does have the supreme authority in the world, but it is undeniable that it is only nominal, in fact, the governance power of the Ming Dynasty, the right to speak in the court, and even the financial power and military power have been controlled by the collusion of civil and military officials.

Even the power of civil officials has long infiltrated the inner court into a sieve, and the emperor's every move cannot be hidden from the eyes of the outer court, and the emperor's will can be arbitrarily dismissed!

The eldest son, who felt depressed and restricted, finally hid in the leopard room, and then released Liu Jin, a loyal dog, but Liu Jin also died, she knew that the eldest son who came to her senses must regret that she killed Liu Jin, because Liu Jin was alive, this vicious dog could bite indiscriminately, and the officials of the foreign dynasty who bit were in danger, and the vicious dog died, and before anyone could become a replacement, the eldest son felt that everything was back to before.

The eldest son was tired and exhausted, so he fled and threw out the throne that his ancestors had given him like garbage......

The second son took over the throne, and she was dazzled, and still makes her feel unbelievable in retrospect, directly snatching back the rights of the Ming Emperor from the hands of the officials little by little, and then promoting a series of reforms with the absolute will of the emperor, what is the final result?

The whole dynasty was up and down, and all the officials of the whole world were subdued, unlike Emperor Hongwu who set off a big case and slaughtered the world to deter officials, the second son did not kill many people, but he did better than Emperor Hongwu I don't know how many times.

He was really a natural emperor!

The Ming Dynasty, which has been inherited for more than a hundred years, under the governance of the second son, has moved from the original decline to Zhongxing, to the strong, and the clouds shrouded in the sky of the Ming Dynasty have also dispersed once, if she wants to describe it, it is only eight words!

Eloquent and strategic, the emperor of the world!

Fortunately, this human emperor since Di Xin is her son......

"There will be more and more women in my harem, and the queen mother is also a woman, knowing that there are more women, there are more rights and wrongs, and I want the harem to be peaceful......

The queen mother knows that my son has a very close relationship with the queen, but the queen mother still wants to say that Zhilei, her temperament is too weak, and it is the queen who loses it, otherwise she will be bullied to death, but it is difficult to expect Zhilei to take care of the harem for my son.

As the queen of the world, as the master of the harem, she must have the dignity of the world, and she must have a strong wrist and a ruthless temperament, but Zhilei doesn't have it, so she ......"

Zhu Houwei glanced at Zhang Shaohua meaningfully......

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