"It's not the most outrageous to choose so many show girls to enter the palace, the most outrageous thing is that until now, the emperor has not come out, you say that the palace is so big, one after another show girls are stuffed into it like they don't want money, can they be stuffed?"

The storyteller is right, the palace says that big is big, but no matter how big it is, there is a limit. According to the emperor's draft in recent years, more than 100 people have entered this deep palace. Even if the palace can stuff them, but the daily food and clothing is a lot of expenses, even if the treasury is abundant and the emperor can afford to support so many people, but the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace may not be able to serve so many people.

Zhong Shao frowned and asked, "The palace maids and eunuchs, have they increased a lot in recent years?" ”

The storyteller shook his head and said: "The strange thing is here, there are not many palace maids and eunuchs, and even a wave of old palace maids and eunuchs returned to their hometowns last year." ”

"It's weird to have no more." Zhong Shaoyu turned his head to Jiang Yu, who was sitting like an outsider on the side, "That's right." ”

Jiang Yu was surprised that she would ask her thoughts, in the past, when he and her subdued demons together, every time she encountered such a situation, she always subconsciously went to Yuan Jingce and asked Yuan Jingce what he thought, this was the first time she asked him......

Jiang Yu moved his lips, tried hard to suppress the fluctuations in his heart, and let out a calm "um".

Although this was not for the storyteller, the storyteller was very cooperative: "Who said it wasn't, just take the dishes in the palace, there are special people to send them fresh every day, and the quantity has never increased, and for such a long time, it has basically been maintained at about the same catty." There are also rich daughters who were elected to the palace, although it is as deep as the sea when they enter the palace, it is difficult to meet in this life, but it is always possible to pass on a message, the palace is martial law, and there may be a lot of people in and out, what guards, what procurement personnel will always have to do things for the silver, but do you know, those people entered the palace, and after a long time, there were slowly rumors in the market, saying that there was a demon in the palace who could eat people, specializing in young women, and there were also rumors that the emperor had a serious illness, Relying on the fresh blood of these young women to survive by eating every day, as for the demon who can eat people, some people say that it is the queen mother, some people say that it is the eldest princess, and some people say that it is the concubine, in short, it is very terrible. ”

Regarding the current empress dowager, Zhong Shaoyu knows something.

She is not the grandmother of the emperor today, she is a girl sent by the general who laid down the country for the emperor when the emperor was in power, the general was a guard at home when the emperor was the prince, and the martial arts were strong, and later with the emperor to fight on the battlefield for many years, it can be said that without this general, there would be no queen to ascend the throne as the emperor.

It's just that people will always change, the general's achievements are high, and they are no longer willing to be a slave to please the emperor, and they become arrogant. The reason why he sent this girl to the emperor was also to hope that the girl could give birth to a child, so that he could hold it, support the upper position, and coerce the son of heaven to order the princes.

At that time, the foundation of the Emperor was unstable, and there were border wars, and under the internal and external troubles, he still had to rely on the general, although the girl was less than ten years old at the time, but the Emperor still accepted the general's gift.

You know, that girl was more than ten years younger than the son of the Emperor Taishang at that time.

The year the girl entered the palace, the son of the emperor died violently, but fortunately, he left a posthumous son, who is the current emperor.

When the girl was sixteen years old, the Emperor Taishang, who had endured humiliation for many years, finally got rid of the general, but he also died in the same year because of the illness left behind by many years of fighting on the battlefield.

The current emperor was only six years old when he ascended the throne, and the emperor had many concubines, among which one of the concubines gave birth to a daughter to him, and after the daughter got married, he gave birth to a daughter, although she was a granddaughter, but she was taken into the palace by the emperor as a granddaughter and raised by her side, that is, the eldest princess today, the emperor's nominal sister, and the actual cousin.

Each of the concubines of the Emperor Taishang is not bad, no matter who becomes the Empress Dowager to listen to the government and assist the little emperor, they can get a strong family or financial support, but surprisingly, the Emperor Taishang left a holy decree before he died, he asked those concubines to either accompany the burial, or move to the imperial tomb to mourn, or go to the royal courtyard to become a monk, leaving only the girl that the general gave to him.

And that girl, just like that, when she was only sixteen years old and the same age as the eldest princess, was forced to become the current empress dowager, accompanying the little emperor to deal with state affairs.

The year when the little emperor ascended the throne was also the year when Zhong Shaoyu was wiped out.

After all, the little emperor is now twenty-six years old, and the empress dowager is only thirty-six years old.

Zhong Shaoyu remembered that in the year when the little emperor ascended the throne, everyone felt that the country was unstable and the world was going to be in chaos.

But twenty years have passed, and the sixteen-year-old girl and the ignorant six-year-old child who were not favored that year have stabilized the country in this way, and even let the country be calm in their hands for so many years.