For example, a first-class concubine, with a monthly share of silver, various rewards from the emperor from time to time, plus the daily subsidy of the mother's family, can donate 1,800 taels is relatively high. And although the grade of a third-class Jieyu is not much different, it is always much worse than a serious concubine in terms of monthly rules and rewards, unless the mother behind her is strong, otherwise three or five hundred taels is already the limit.

The most embarrassing are the ordinary concubines in the second class, they have more chances to be favored by the saints, but there is also a high probability that they will be demoted or even directly into the cold palace for various reasons, and they are often suppressed by the concubines who are higher than themselves.

Like the previously mentioned Concubine Yun is currently at this stage, the harem is actually a bit like today's entertainment industry, but the audience is different. The harem concubines fought every day, just to please the emperor, the only audience. In order to achieve this goal, the concubines are racking their brains every day to perform every scene, and even those who can sit in the back seat are not necessarily the best acting skills, and almost every concubine who can enter His Majesty's vision has their own special personality.

Coincidentally, the character of this Yun Concubine is what people often call silly Bai Tian today. Obviously a vicious, insatiable master, but in front of people is always an ignorant of the world, cute and cute image of an innocent girl, if you can have such a free personality and acting skills in modern times, it is simply easy to win a trophy or something after a movie queen?

It is precisely because he knows Concubine Yun's character that Chang Jinbai dares to implement his plan boldly and confidently. He calculated very certainly, Concubine Yun's mind was no less than that of ordinary courtiers, although she was greedy for money, she was more life-sparing, and she knew very well what she could do and when she couldn't. Like this fundraiser, Concubine Yun very shrewdly handed over all the 50,000 taels of silver that Liu Sheng entrusted to the Xu family's hand to the Internal Affairs Department, and she didn't leave a penny here, and told the Xu family that they couldn't leave even a penny of money sent by the Liu family no matter what. She had a hunch that it might not be a good thing to suddenly have such a large sum of money in her account. After thinking about it carefully, Concubine Yun suddenly understood seven or eight points in her heart. Although the knife used as a killing knife made her self-esteem a little difficult to accept for a while, the thought that she might be able to win His Majesty's favor in this way suddenly made her heart feel a lot more happy. As for how things will develop next, it depends on how far she can play the good acting skills she has honed over the years in the palace.

The progress of the situation is also as Chang Jinbai and Concubine Yun figured out, on the night when the Internal Affairs Department reported the silver taels donated by the harem concubines to the imperial court, he has been busy with official business recently, and he always slept in the imperial study.

No one knows what kind of communication the two had that night, but the next morning, His Majesty directly ordered to raid the home of Liu Sheng, the left attendant of the military department, especially to arrest Liu Sheng himself. For a while, there were different opinions in the DPRK and China, after all, the matter of Liu Sheng's empty salary has not yet been verified, and it is only at the stage of being suspended at home and waiting for investigation. Concubine Yun's pillow wind can make His Majesty make up his mind to take people at this time, but this woman's ability really did not disappoint Chang Jinbai.

What Chang Jinbai didn't know was that in fact, that night, Concubine Yun also revealed another fact to His Majesty, that is, she actually did not hand over all the donations she raised here, in addition to the 50,000 taels of silver sent by the Xu family, Concubine Yun also privately accepted some of the silver sent by the Xu family. As for the amount... Well, it's embarrassing to say, it's only a mere twenty taels.

This is actually Concubine Yun's calculation, now that the ministers in the court and the central government are donating, it is not good for the Xu family to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, so they naturally have to contribute a sum of money. Therefore, Concubine Yun specially told the Xu family to give a hundred taels on the bright side, and give herself another twenty taels in private, all so that she would have something to say on His Majesty's side in the future.

Sure enough, after her clever words, His Majesty did not forget to vigorously praise the courtiers while arresting Liu Sheng's family, especially Xu Zhiqiang, who was not high in money but donated a hundred taels of "huge money", not only won praise in front of the emperor, but was also appointed to deal with the affairs of the Liu family's house, and cooperated with the two public officials of the criminal department, so as to do this matter beautifully.

Until now, Xu Zhiqiang finally had to admire his eldest aunt's long-term vision, a dirty affair of protecting officials and officials and establishing relationships has become a stepping stone for his promotion and fortune in the blink of an eye, although this is also indispensable to Concubine Yun's best efforts to mediate, but the idea was given to their family by the Jiang family after all. With this kindness, don't say that it caused his two children to suffer a little injury, but he really beat them both and was happy! is greedy for money and power to the point where he is at this point, and the fetus of the Xu family sisters and brothers is really wrong.

And Concubine Yun's side naturally has a lot of benefits, seeing that a dignified concubine actually has to hide twenty taels of silver for daily use, His Majesty is distressed and funny in his heart, not only spent the night at Concubine Yun's side for many days in a row, but also made financial compensation for the first time after the disaster relief subsided, and for a time Concubine Yun's limelight overwhelmed several concubines and queens, and became a figure who everyone in the palace had to tie up one or two.

Of course, these afterwords also brought certain benefits to their Chang family. Although Jiang's move is hard to guarantee that it will not be maliciously interpreted, saying that they often frame their colleagues and have evil intentions or something. But as long as he leaves a good impression on His Majesty, a few rumors from the outside world will not be taken to heart.

As everyone knows, not long after, because of this incident, the unlucky Chang Yuning was also implicated. Although in the end, she didn't suffer any big losses, and even from the results, it was a blessing in disguise. However, after all, this incident caused a lot of trouble, and it also had a certain impact on her reputation for a period of time after that.

The cause of the incident was more than two months after the fundraising campaign ended and Liu's house was raided. During this time, the children's lives were very stable and calm, Chang Yujiao gradually learned to speak for herself, and Chang Jin Yang also began to devote himself to studying the art of war and the world pattern under the intentional or unintentional "prodding" of his third brother. Everyone's life is developing in a better and better direction, and at this time, the biennial Shangyuan School Ceremony is also coming as scheduled.

The so-called Shangyuan school began about 30 years ago, when with the joint efforts of many travelers and people of insight in the current dynasty, reading and learning characters has become one of the daily activities that the people of the Northern Han Dynasty need to pay attention to in addition to eating, drinking, lazing and sleeping. As mentioned before, in line with the idea of learning opportunities for nothing, under the vigorous promotion of the country and outstanding talents, all kinds of private school books have spread all over the country, although it is still impossible to change the basic concept of the people at the bottom to take food as the first priority, but there are also a large number of young talents who may not be able to get ahead in the past because of family reasons, but now they can display their ambitions and talents because of good policies.

Especially in recent years, the young generation of outstanding officials has emerged frequently, and outstanding talents from all over the country have emerged in an endless stream, coupled with the fact that the imperial court does not have very strict regulations and norms, so that today's Northern Han literary circle presents a lively scene similar to the familiar Warring States Period.

The imperial court is naturally happy to see such changes, but in order to prevent people from taking the opportunity to get into chaos, the imperial court has also carried out a lot of reform plans in private, among which the more representative is the emergence of state-owned book clubs, which are now called public schools.

The children of the Chang family basically study in state-owned book clubs, and only the eldest sister Chang Yu'an is a girl from another family. Of course, the current financial situation of the Northern Han Dynasty is absolutely unable to support large-scale reforms such as nine-year compulsory education for the benefit of the people, so the state-owned bookstore has always implemented three-year compulsory education, and if students want to study again, they will have to pay the tuition fees of the academy obediently.

At this stage, almost 80 percent of the families in the country will choose to give up their lives to continue their studies and go elsewhere, and those who can stay are basically middle-class families with relatively good family conditions and enough to afford their children's school fees.

Especially those families who make a fortune by means of business, although the status of businessmen has been significantly improved, but they can't stand the general trend and will not allow business to dominate the country after all, and it is the only goal of all students except for indifferent people like Chang Jinbai. Therefore, whether it is to improve the status of the family or to be able to integrate into the upper circle and improve the taste, in short, eight or nine out of ten children in the peddler's house will choose to continue to study in the academy.

However, because the state-owned bookstore is supported by the state, the internal admission conditions are high, and there are not so many manpower enough to cope with a large number of school-age students, so the annual enrollment quota is very limited.

The imperial court has also been paying much attention to the issue of private schools, after all, they are privately run occasions for the dissemination of cultural ideas, and compared with state-owned bookstores where teachers and staff have been screened at various levels, private schools will receive more attention and restrictions from the authorities. Moreover, private schools generally only have one or two gentlemen sitting in the library to teach, and the personal strength and teaching methods are uneven, the better ones can be compared with the state-owned book clubs, and the worse ones may even be inferior to the after-school tutoring classes that can be seen everywhere today. Therefore, in people's subconscious, the ability of students from private schools is often much worse than that of students from state-owned book clubs, which directly leads to the fact that students from private schools will be treated differently because of the school they attend even if they go to the field. Therefore, in order to ensure that talents will not be easily lost, the imperial court has set a selection method of a unified examination every three years.