The triennial draft was held as scheduled in the early spring. The draft is to select excellent unmarried women of appropriate age under the whole world, and select the show girls to prepare for the throne of the inner court, or to marry the prince and grandson, or to marry the son of the prince, the prince of the county and the prince of the county.

The draft process of the Dayin Dynasty is very strict and complicated. Three months in advance, 24 households will register unmarried women who meet the requirements in the country, and once registered, these women will not be allowed to marry again until they are interviewed.

Half a month before the interview, the show girls who were registered in various places gathered in the capital by car and boat accompanied by their family servants and wives, and generally stayed in an inn near the palace temporarily.

There are three steps in the interview. The first step is the primary selection, the show girls are arranged in order of age, and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs sends people to look at each other, and the tall, short, fat, thin, and poor-looking ones are eliminated, and then listen to the speech, check the language ability and expression state, and those who speak are distracted, panicked, and have a difficult voice are eliminated.

After three days, the second selection will be performed. The women who were selected for the primary selection were examined by the aunt in charge of the palace by themselves, such as eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands, hands, feet, neck, skin, back, etc., including private parts, and those with flaws were eliminated. Then the selected show girls will be examined, and those who can't read and write will be eliminated. Then there is the display of talent, and the clumsy ones are also eliminated. At this point, there are very few that can be left.

Finally, the palace selection, that is, to go to the Zhaoqing Palace, by the queen mother, the emperor, the queen to see the choice in person, the picture can be retained, and the person who does not fit can only go out of the palace and go home.

In this draft, after this selection, a total of 30 people were retained, of which five could enter the palace as concubines, and the rest were given to the prince, county prince and other royal personnel.

In the Kunyi Palace, the queen was wearing a lotus-colored dark embroidered brocade robe, holding her pregnant belly for more than six months, and was carefully selecting all kinds of baby bedding, clothes, belly pockets and other items made by the Internal Affairs Office.

Concubine Xian held the booklet on the side and told the queen one by one about the show girls in the palace: "A total of five people in this draft rushed to the inner court, namely Lin Yiyun, the daughter of Lin Xiaoyi, the left deputy capital of the Zhengsanpin Metropolitan Inspectorate, Lin Yiyun, who was seventeen years old, was named a jade nobleman and lived in Bixiu Palace; Fang Qiong, the daughter of Fang Siyao of Sanpin Guanglu Temple, was sixteen years old, and was named a noble person and lived in Changchun Palace; Ling Suying, the daughter of Ling Changshan, the Shaoqing of the Siupin Taifu Temple, was seventeen years old, and was named Ling Changzai, and was given the residence in the Xia Palace; From the fourth grade of the country to supervise the wine Jing Hong's daughter Jing Zhen, fifteen years old, named Jing Chang Zai, given to live in Changchun Palace; An Lingyue, the daughter of An Shan, was sentenced from Wupin Jingzhou, at the age of sixteen, and was awarded the title of An Promise and given to live in Bixiu Palace. ”

The movement of the queen's hand stopped, and said with a smile: "Why is it that even the daughter who was judged from the five grades was selected this time?" ”

Concubine Xian also smiled: "In this draft, the emperor means to choose more women with weak family backgrounds, so the family background of the little master selected this time is not very prominent, and the position of the seal is not high. ”

The queen said meaningfully: "The emperor is afraid that someone will follow the path of the car and rely on his family background to be arrogant. ”

Concubine Xian knew that the queen was referring to Concubine Rong in the past, and now Zheng agreed, so she didn't care, and said, "There is another one with a special identity." ”

The queen continued: "You mean the princess Fuya of the Dangxiang clan?" ”

Concubine Xian nodded and continued: "Princess Fuya is from a foreign land, and in order to commend the surrender of the party and the Xiang clan and express the friendship of my Dayin, the emperor hereby decrees to canonize Princess Fuya as a concubine and give her the title of Zhen. ”

The queen groaned: "Concubine Zhen? As soon as he entered the palace, he was crowned a concubine, which was the first time in my dynasty. ”

Concubine Xian smiled and said, "It is the first time for a woman from a foreign land to enter the harem. Speaking of this princess, it is really strange, from the party to the capital, a distance of more than 1,000 miles, neither by car, nor by sedan chair, but all the way on horseback, the emperor also praised her as a woman who did not let her eyebrows. ”

The queen stood up, stroked her stomach gently, and said slowly: "When the newcomer enters the palace, the palace will be lively again." The body of this palace is becoming more and more inconvenient, and it will be a baby soon, and the responsibility of teaching the newcomer will fall on your sister. Leniency is slack, strictness is crippled, to be lenient and severe, grace and power, fair and just, in order to make the harem harmonious. ”

Concubine Xian bowed her head respectfully and said: "Concubine remember the teachings of the queen!" ”

After gossiping for a while, Concubine Xian got up and left.

Three days later, the five selected little masters entered the palace, lived separately in the palace, and taught their aunts to teach etiquette in each palace every day.

Three days later, Princess Fuya, who was canonized as a concubine, also entered the palace, and it became a hot topic for a while.

Princess Fuya is seventeen years old, born tall, because she has practiced riding and archery since childhood, her physique is strong, and her complexion is a healthy wheat color, which is different from the single-minded whiteness of the women in the palace, her long eyebrows are lightly raised into her temples, her eyes are cool, and a heroic spirit can be seen between her eyebrows.

She was dressed in party attire, did not wear a golden hairpin and jade, only a pair of silver hairpins inlaid with tiger's eye stones obliquely on her temples, a pair of cat's eye earrings on her ears, a string of blue and gold chains on her chest, and an amber the size of a thumb in the center of the chain.

The emperor remembered that she grew up on the grassland since she was a child, lived nomadically, and had a free temperament, so he allowed her not to learn the cumbersome rules of the palace, but also to wear her own national clothes, and even found two cooks from the party to make meals for her.

Because she has a bold temperament, speaks straightforwardly, and likes to ride horses and hunt, she is very different from ordinary women in the palace, and she is greatly favored for a while. The palace people often saw her hunting with Yu Lin in the forest garden, or racing horses on the long road.

Among the newcomers, the second most favored ones are the Yu nobles and the Fang nobles, followed by Ling Changzai and Jing Changzai, and the last one is An agreed.

Ann promised An Lingyue that she was quite handsome, but the most important thing in the harem was beauty, compared to those warblers and Yanyan, Huan Fei Yan was thin, her appearance was not very eye-catching, plus the door was low, her temperament was quiet, and she had not aroused the interest of Yu Lin, she had never been favored since she entered the palace, and she didn't care much.