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Chapter 170 Harem

Zhang Yan still stopped and glanced at the Political Affairs Hall, then turned back to Kunning Palace.

Shortly after Zhang Yan returned to Kunning Palace, Fan beside her agreed to come to her and reported: "Empress, Concubine Liu is here."

Zhang Yan, who was playing with plum blossoms, was quite surprised.

Concubine Liu?

Why did you suddenly come to me?

Zhang Yan couldn't help but feel alert because she didn't know Concubine Liu.

But Zhang Yan knew that anyone who called the concubine must be the old man in the palace, and she could not handle it accidentally.

"Let her come in."

Zhang Yan said something.

Soon, Concubine Liu walked in. As soon as she saw Zhang Yan, she held Zhang Yan's hand and said with a smile: "It was His Majesty himself who chose it. This is good."

Zhang Yan raised her eyes and glanced at Concubine Liu, and asked indifferently: "What's wrong with Concubine?"

Concubine Liu sat down and said, "The Empress first entered the palace, but she must not know about the affairs of the palace. It has only been more than a year since His Majesty ascended the position of Dabao. However, rumors that the outside world is not conducive to His Majesty's reputation are rampant. Although we cannot control the affairs of the outer court, the inner court has something to do with His Majesty. I think that Empress, as the chief lord of the Six Palaces, should be in charge. After all, you and Your Majesty are married, and more importantly, this is related to your own reputation."

Concubine Liu hoped that Empress Zhang Yan could lead Zhu Youxiao to the path of a good emperor that meets Confucian standards, so she started to say this after seeing Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan fell silent after hearing this.

This is a very unfamiliar topic for her.

Because she had never thought about whether she was a virtuous or not, nor did she think about the reputation of His Majesty.

What she thought now was still the handsome young man who loved to sleep with her and seemed to have endless energy on her.

Are there many rumors outside that are not conducive to his reputation?

Is there anything wrong with the inner court that hinders his reputation?

I am the queen, I have to take care of it?

How to manage it?

Why did this concubine come to tell me, not His Majesty himself?

Zhang Yan couldn't help but recall carefully what Zhu Youxiao said to her after finishing her job.

"I am the lord of the Six Palaces! No one can teach me how to be a queen except him. Whoever teaches anyone is interfering in politics!"

Zhang Yan silently thought about what Zhu Youxiao said to her.

For a moment, Zhang Yan seemed to be guessing the purpose of Concubine Liu, so she deliberately frowned and asked, "Please ask the Concubine to make it clear, who has influenced His Majesty's reputation in the inner court?"

"Of course, Keshi, who is still living in the Ganqing Palace, is the imperial palace. Queen, you can't live there for a long time. How can a nanny in the Ganqing Palace for a long time? It has been rumored outside that Keshi is a demon woman, charming Your Majesty, making Your Majesty extremely debauchery, not thinking about the government, and favoring the treacherous. Look, what can you do if this continues? Wouldn't the outside world really think that Your Majesty is a foolish monarch?"

Concubine Liu frowned and said, "So, Queen, you have to take care of it and find a way to expel Keshi from the palace."

Zhang Yan pursed her lips, glanced at Concubine Liu, and then said with an expressionless expression on her face: "I understand, please go back first."

Seeing that Zhang Yan did not give a clear answer, Concubine Liu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed and angry: "No, Queen, you have to show an attitude, otherwise Keshi would be afraid that you, the queen, are nothing, and she is becoming more and more powerful in the Qing Palace."

"Your Majesty said that only Your Majesty can teach me how to be the queen of the palace. No one else can do it, and you can't do it. You'd better go back! Your Majesty also said that the concubine is not the queen mother, so the concubines just need to be honest in the Western Six Palaces to support themselves, so you don't have to worry about these things anymore, go back."

Zhang Yan said that, and then looked at Fan and agreed: "Send the guests!"

When Concubine Liu heard Zhang Yan say this, she was stunned for a moment, and finally had to stand up and smile awkwardly: "Then I will go back."

"You have seen it. If the first choice of a concubine could be followed by etiquette and law, and the Majesty would not be elected by His Majesty and the Majesty would be elected temporarily as the Queen Mother. At least we can still teach the Pope, but now the Queen has been taught by His Majesty himself and has become like this. In the future, the harem will be the same as the outside court. There is a master who speaks the same thing, and we old people don't have a single word."

After leaving Kunning Palace, Concubine Liu agreed to Su.

Su agreed: "Your Majesty is very scheming and has plans for everything, even the same is true for the harem. He thought there was an additional queen in the harem and could deal with the emperor with us, but he didn't expect that the emperor would first win the queen's heart. At present, it seems that he was intentional to let the queen take care of us and control us through the queen. Did the empress see the plum blossoms in Kunning Palace? The queen never left much, but I was afraid it was given by the emperor."

Concubine Liu nodded: "Before Your Majesty ascended the throne, no one had time to teach him any imperial skills except for the eunuchs who taught him some words. I don't know who he learned it from. I'm afraid it has something to do with Xu Guangqi, the current lecturer of the imperial lecture. Now he teaches His Majesty so cunningly!"

"It's useless to say this, so it's better to look at him for a long time. The concubine will go and see the fifth prince. I heard from the inner officials of the fifth prince that the fifth prince is very smart and sensible, and I quickly accept the saint's learning."

Su agreed to speak.

"I won't go to see the fifth prince first, but I will go to see Keshi first. Since Your Majesty wants the queen to control the harem for him, then I will let Keshi go to cause trouble. When I saw whether His Majesty abandoned Keshi or the Queen, he was like a mother and son, and he was married to his wife."

Concubine Liu started talking.

"The Empress of the Concubine is wise! At that time, as long as the queen wants to manipulate Your Majesty, Keshi will never allow the emperor who has been young and big breasts to be controlled by a woman. At that time, if the emperor can really abandon Keshi, his diet will have to be handed back to others. In that case, once the benevolent king chooses, he can use some means. If the emperor abandons the queen, it means that the emperor is incompatible with the central palace, which will make him even more obedient to the emperor's name of being stupid, and the hearts of the world will be more change."

Su agreed to speak.

"Let's go and see Keshi!"

Concubine Liu smiled faintly and said to herself: "How can this harem allow the empress and the empress dowager to be harmonious and beautiful? In that case, how can we old guys benefit from it!"

...

Fang Congzhe's second reminder made Zhu Youxiao care more about his harem and his royal family.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao called Liu Ruoyu and asked, "What new situations have been found in the inner factory recently? Who is there often walking around in the harem?"

Liu Ruoyu hurriedly replied: "Go back to the emperor! There has been no obvious adverse events in the harem recently, but Concubine Liu has been traveling quite diligently recently."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao turned cold and said, "Where has she been?"

"She went to see the queen first, then to meet the guest lady, and then to the fifth prince! He hugged the fifth prince and said for a while, saying that the fifth prince was pitiful and had no relatives, and she would come to love her in the future."

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao's face became increasingly ugly, Liu Ruoyu couldn't help but answer more carefully.

"What does it mean to lose relatives? I am not his brother? This old guy looks a little dishonest!"

Zhu Youxiao complained and asked, "What did she do when she went to meet the queen and the guest lady?"

Liu Ruoyu answered truthfully.
Chapter completed!
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