At other times, maybe the Empress Dowager is a mascot, but in this dynasty, the Empress Dowager's natal family is in charge of the military and is very powerful. No one dares to offend her.
For the sake of the family's future wealth, these three powers each sent a girl from the family into the palace after the new emperor came to the throne.
In fact, this was a bad start for Xintei’s biological mother.
As soon as the new emperor came to power, the new emperor's biological mother asked the new emperor to take a girl from his maternal family as his concubine. The new emperor could not refuse the biological mother's request, so he had to accept it.
Oh, this is serious. Her aunt, the Empress Dowager Chen, followed quickly and sent a daughter of the Chen family to the palace. Then the Empress Dowager also sent a daughter of the Cui family to the palace.
The four most powerful people in the palace sent three girls from their families into the palace. These three girls were obviously the most transcendent beings in the palace, and no one dared to offend them.
These three people are now the three concubines in the palace.
In other words, there are not only four mothers-in-law in the palace, but also three high-ranking concubines with backers. It is really difficult for others to get ahead.
Fortunately, these families are facing each other tit for tat, allowing others to get through the fight between the three families and pick up some soup to drink.
Now, the three families are trying to see who will become the concubine first.
It turns out that although the new emperor allowed the three of them to enter the palace, he also asked them to rely on their family background. As soon as they entered the palace, they were granted the title of concubine. Their status was much higher than others, but the emperor was not allowed to leave the higher-up noble concubines and imperial concubines. Obviously, this is what the emperor intends to leave to the people he likes.
Is there anyone you like today? How could it not be? If you are still a young man and admire Ai at a young age, you will definitely have someone you like. After all, when you are young, there are not many people you like. The emperor is also a human being and will also like people.
The person the emperor likes is his current favorite concubine Han Concubine.
In fact, the emperor wanted to seal the concubine Han as the concubine of Han, but wasn't it because the harem had too much resistance and the emperor failed to seal her?
As for the queen position higher up, more people are grabbing it.
In fact, the new emperor had a queen before him. Before he was the crown prince, he married a princess. However, after he came to the throne, the queen had not been in the position for a year before it was discovered that she wanted to harm the niece of Queen Mother Ding. Concubine Ding finally made Empress Dowager Ding so angry that she asked the emperor to depose her as queen.
I don’t know if she really harmed Concubine Ding, or if she was not harmed and was framed. Anyway, the queen was dethroned and put into the cold palace.
No way, the emperor didn't have much affection for her, so he gave the queen a chance to defend herself. After she couldn't prove her innocence, the emperor sent her to the cold palace. It was normal. He could give her a If you have the opportunity to prove your innocence, you will be considered an emperor.
Look, the queen couldn't sit still and was knocked down. It can be seen that the situation in the palace is quite complicated. If one person is not good, she will go to the cold palace to eat bad food.
And the emperor obviously has someone he likes, and several forces in the palace are already fighting each other. It stands to reason that they will not hold another draft. After all, they themselves will fight to the death. If there is another draft, It is unreasonable to attract more people to share the cake.
So there must be a reason.
The original person does not know this reason.
The original person is not too stupid, but the complexity of the palace is far beyond her imagination. When she first entered the palace, she was confused. After all, she was only a fourteen-year-old girl, who His brain works so well, he knows everything.
That is to say, I was severely beaten by reality in the palace. I relied on being low-key and cautious, and then I was not favored, so nothing happened.
But she has always been confused about matters in the palace. The memories in her mind are all what she heard from others, which may not necessarily be correct. After all, what she heard from her original body may not necessarily be correct. It's the truth. She can only use it as a reference, not a complete reference, otherwise she will definitely be deceived and suffer a loss. As for later, when the emperor passed away and the new emperor passed away shortly after he ascended the throne, he could say a word or two about who to appoint as the new emperor. It was because the people who were fighting now were replaced by the new emperor after he came to the throne. The mother-in-law and concubines all suppressed her, and then because of her caution and low profile, the original body made the new emperor's biological mother look at her a few times, and was able to say a few words in front of the new emperor's biological mother.
Because she has a good relationship with the new emperor’s biological mother, when the original person said that she would welcome her sister’s son into the palace, the new emperor’s biological mother agreed. After all, instead of welcoming the sons of other people who have nothing to do with her, It's better to welcome the son of someone with whom she has some relationship, and at least there will still be some love.
Of course, the original person was mistaken, and the new emperor’s biological mother was also mistaken. Later, when Li Fangrui entered the palace, the first one she wanted to beat was the Queen Mother. After all, Li Fangrui only wanted to be the only Queen Mother. Get out of here and dare to divide her power, which is a shame.
And because her son was on her side, the new emperor's biological mother was no match at all, so she was naturally suppressed.
Let’s not talk about the future, just talk about the present. From this, we can see that the original person is not the kind of smart person. She can survive to the end by being cautious and low-key and not being favored, otherwise she will definitely Something will happen.
Linlang plans to implement this policy for the time being and will see the situation first.
When I thought of this, it was already bright outside. The maid Lixia, who was brought into the palace from outside the palace, walked in gently and asked her to get up, saying: "Miss, we have to get up. After dinner, I have to go to pay my respects to the Queen Mother and the others.”
That’s the bad thing about the fact that there are too many elders in this palace, and they have to go to many places to pay their respects every day.
Fortunately there is no queen in the palace, otherwise we would have to invite one more person.
However, this is still the treatment given to high-ranking concubines, while low-ranking concubines are not even qualified to pay respects to those queen mothers.
In fact, Linlang didn't want this treatment at all, and was wondering when to think of a way to avoid this matter, so that she could sleep more in the morning.
Although the greeting system of this dynasty is quite humane, it requires the concubines to have dinner in the morning before going to greet anyone, instead of asking everyone to greet anyone on an empty stomach, but it still requires so much time to be wasted every day. For this kind of thing, wouldn't it be better to let her lie down at home during this time? So she still wanted to think of a way to escape and live an easier life.
After listening to Li Xia's words, Linlang had to get up, wash up and eat. After eating, Linlang headed towards Ci'en Palace.
Under normal circumstances, every morning, the queen should take her concubines to greet the queen mother and the queen mother.
But now, the queen has been deposed, so to greet the concubines of each palace, they will bring their concubines with talents and above in their own palaces - talents below are not qualified to greet the top leaders - to the two Greetings from the Queen Mother.
Then the Queen Mothers of the two palaces took them to pay their respects to the Queen Mother.
At the moment, Linlang first went to the Empress Dowager Chen, who was the emperor's biological mother, to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager Chen, and then to the Empress Dowager Ding, the biological mother of the emperor.
This order cannot be wrong, because the aunt must come before the biological mother, and there is no difference between aunt and uncle.
After greeting the two of them, Queen Mother Ding will take them to meet Queen Mother Chen and go to the Queen Mother to greet them together.
The palaces of these people are together. They all belong to the residence of the previous emperor and the concubines of the previous emperor, so as long as you get to this area, you don't have to walk too far.
Soon everyone gathered in the palace of the Empress Dowager, chatting and talking.