Linlang couldn't help but be satisfied when she saw that after she was promoted, the princess no longer dared to target her.
The people in Zhongyongbo's Mansion were also surprised that Linlang could be promoted to Concubine Shu.
You know, the higher you go, the harder it is to get promoted, and the status of a concubine is much higher than that of a concubine, so it is very difficult to get promoted.
Before, there were only three families, Chen, Ding, and Cui. Relying on their background, the girls in the family were granted the title of concubine.
Later, Concubine Yue was favored and made a concubine.
And now Concubine Cai is pregnant. She will probably be named a concubine after giving birth.
There are only five concubines in total, and the others are concubines and below.
The reason for this is that the contemporary emperors have learned the lessons of the previous emperors.
The previous emperor, the grandfather of the current Holy Emperor, was also a lustful and lustful king. During his reign, he held a large-scale talent show and granted a large number of concubines. There were hundreds of concubines in the harem. Concubine, concubine, imperial concubine, imperial concubine.
Obviously there are quotas for these positions, but he exceeded the quotas in all of them and was completely free to do whatever he wanted.
If there wasn't only one queen, it would be wrong to have two or three queens, otherwise he might have to have several queens.
Although he didn't do a few, it was almost enough - he even replaced four queens. Empress Dowager Cui was lucky. In the end, the previous emperor was about to die, so she didn't replace them. Otherwise, if you live for a long time, it may change again.
There are so many concubines in the harem, and the number of high-ranking concubines has exceeded the quota, you can imagine the cost of the harem.
The final outcome is that the previous emperors not only spent all the royal private treasury saved by previous generations, but also kept reaching out to the national treasury, asking the national treasury to allocate more money every year to meet the expenses of the harem. .
When the late emperor ascended the throne, the royal family’s private treasury was completely exhausted, and even the national treasury was almost completely defeated by my father.
Fortunately, the late emperor learned his lesson and did not have many concubines in the harem. He slowly saved some money in his private treasury and left it to the current emperor.
The current Holy Emperor has inherited the character of the late Emperor. He still has memories of the turbulent things that happened in the palace when his grandfather granted concubines to concubines. Therefore, although he likes beauty, he did not seduce many people, let alone conquer many people. People are promoted to high positions.
So it was not an easy task for the former emperor and the current emperor to be granted the title of concubine. Unlike the previous emperors, concubines were very cheap and given wholesale. However, concubines of this generation are not the same. , is very valuable and not easy to be fooled into.
Because it is not easy to become a concubine, everyone is surprised that Linlang is not very favored and becomes a concubine.
At the same time, this is also the reason why the Queen Dowager restrained herself, because she knew that in the past few decades, in order to be able to be granted the title of concubine, in addition to her background, she must have someone the emperor liked, otherwise she would not be able to make her a concubine.
Considering that Linlang was older, the emperor often went to her palace. Even if she was not lucky, he was still willing to sit and watch. Obviously, the emperor did like Linlang better, so naturally she did not dare to fall in love with Linlang. This reached Linlang's level. purpose.
The young concubines in the palace also expressed their sincere congratulations to Linlang for being made a concubine. They were not jealous because they knew that when the emperor came to Linlang, he would sometimes just sit there and not be lucky. , Linlang is much older than them, the emperor will not like her, he just treats her as a relative, so they don't need to be jealous at all, just treat her as an elder. This is the benefit of the age difference.
Now that Linlang is a concubine, the newcomers will not feel threatened, because they know that even if Linlang is promoted, he will not threaten them.
The real threat to them is the favored concubine Cai.
Concubine Cai was so favored that she had nothing to do without them, so no one else in the palace reacted to Linlang's promotion. Maybe Cai Concubine was a little unhappy.
It's not jealousy, after all, Linlang is so old that he can't threaten her at all, but... She thought that she would be the one who would be granted the title of concubine next. When the time came, she would be favored and given the title of concubine, which would be very prestigious. But in the end Linlang made her a concubine first and stole her limelight, which naturally made Cai Bin unhappy.
It’s just that she is pregnant with the child now and has no energy because she is unhappy. What does she think of Linlang?
Linlang wants to know that her concubine status has made Cai Bin unhappy. If she gives birth to a child in the future, she may cause trouble for her, and she will probably feel speechless.
However, she is not very afraid of Cai Bin, because Cai Bin will give birth to a princess in the future, and her child will not be able to inherit the throne. So after Cai Bin is born, if he really does something to her, then the emperor will also On her side, looking for trouble for herself, all she had to do was not save the emperor when Fenghan died. By then, the emperor was dead, and there would be nothing left for Cai Bin, and she would not be able to jump up and down.
——The reality is so cruel. Even if a person was the most favored in the world during the era of the previous emperor, he will still be nothing like Mao in the era of the new emperor.
This was strongly reflected in the previous emperors.
At that time, Empress Dowager Cui had several favored concubines who were named noble concubines and imperial concubines. They were very famous at that time.
But after the late emperor ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Cui remembered the arrogance of the imperial concubine, imperial concubine and others, and hated those women in her heart, so one or two of those women died of illness.
Not to mention their noble status, they are the concubines of the new emperor. The new emperor cannot do anything to them. The emperor does not care. If they are left to the care of Empress Dowager Cui, she will confine these people and deny them food or drink. , he will die of illness soon. How can outsiders know what is going on?
So don't look at some concubines who are favored. Once the emperor is gone, life will be difficult immediately. That is, the queen mother, as the emperor's biological mother, can live a good life.
This is also the reason why Linlang is not afraid of Cai Concubine at all, because today's Holy Emperor will die soon. The key depends on future development. If the emperor is sensible and Cai Concubine troubles her, the emperor will not follow her. , then he can live for a while longer; if the emperor follows the booing, then I'm sorry, I can only let him die, and then I will see that Cai Concubine will still be embarrassed.
I just hope Cai Bin can be more sensible and stop causing trouble for her.
However...some people tend to become ambitious after being favored, and they are obviously incapable of understanding.
So after Cai Bin gave birth to a child, she would definitely cause trouble for her.
No, Concubine Cai was in a bad mood after giving birth to a princess. After all, she wanted to give birth to a prince and have the opportunity to be the queen mother in the future. Although the emperor liked her and made her a concubine, it didn't matter because the child she gave birth to was not a prince. Scenery, Concubine Cai, oh no, Concubine Cai thought of the lively scene in the palace when Linlang became a concubine, and then thought that she was not giving birth to a prince. The two sides of her unhappiness were superimposed, and she wanted to cause trouble for Linlang and make her Can't be happy.
So after confinement, Concubine Cai blew a pillow in front of the emperor, saying that Linlang's sister had killed the emperor's heir. Although Linlang was not involved, such a major matter used to implicate the nine tribes, but now Your Majesty I am merciful and did not implicate the nine clans, but I did not deal with Uncle Zhongyong and Li Linlang at all. It was too merciful, and I was afraid that it would not be able to deter those people with ulterior motives, and they would plot against the emperor's heirs in the future, which would be bad. .