Chapter 877 The Best Family 4
The reason why he didn’t make a high-profile appearance was naturally Linlang’s intention.
First of all, I want to give the second wife an illusion that she will not be famous in the palace, and then she will be promoted slowly and slapped in the face slowly to make them feel scared. If this time is extended, she can torture them repeatedly. , it can mess with people's mentality better than being in a high position from the beginning.
Secondly, if Mucang takes the lead and is too high-profile, something will definitely happen. Even if those three people have the emperor's eyes on them now, if they don't have the corresponding abilities, they are very likely to be beaten by all parties. The forces fought it down.
This is normal. They are so prosperous today. They have chosen to travel together. The concubines are gradually not favored in the palace. Needless to say, how jealous they will be. I am afraid they will hate them to death and look for them overtly and secretly. They had just entered the palace, had not established a firm foothold, and were targeted by so many people. It was hard to say how far they could go.
Thirdly, Linlang also wanted to bring more money to the original family.
This month, Linlang carefully studied the rules of the palace of this dynasty and found that as long as she was promoted to a level, the palace would give a promotion gift to the concubine’s natal family, but if she skipped some of the levels, The skipped level gifts will not be made up. So Linlang planned to advance from the lowest level, level by level. She wanted to get all the promotion gifts so that the Sun family could have some money. Otherwise, as they had agreed before, she would work as a coolie in the capital. , whatever money I could get, it would all be spent on rent and expenses.
The promotion gifts in the palace are given according to the rank. Although the lower ranks are not given much, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are, so they have to take it.
Furthermore, this low-level position does not give much, which is relative to others, but for the poor Sun family's big house, this money is not a lot, so Linlang naturally has to take his time. Come and bring them money after money.
In this way, although her status was not high at the beginning, the eldest family member of the Sun family could gradually have money and improve her life because of her promotion time and time again. That would be fine.
Because she thought this way, when the female officer graded her later, she didn't give her any gifts, so she got the lowest level of Cheng'en as she wished.
Yes, the other emperors did not designate the queen, saying that they asked the queen mother to determine the rank, but the queen mother could not bear to do such a thing. She could only control the status of the daughters of officials, such common people entering the palace. , she wouldn't care about it, and naturally let the female officer around her do it.
This will naturally bring a lot of income to the female officials around her.
There is currently no queen in the palace.
There used to be a queen, but the queen passed away two years ago, and the emperor has not yet established a queen.
I have to say that the struggle in the palace is fierce now, everyone wants to be the queen.
Because Linlang didn't give any money to the female officials around the Queen Mother, she was granted the lowest status of Cheng'en, just like other show girls who didn't give any money.
Those who stuffed money have different grades of seals depending on how much money they have.
However, Linlang discovered that the female officials next to the Queen Mother were really bad. For one hundred taels, she could order a person of the ninth rank to change clothes. For two hundred taels, she could order a palace servant of the eighth rank. For five hundred taels, she could order a person of the eighth rank. For a palace man, one thousand taels, for a seventh-grade good man, two thousand taels, for a seventh-grade girl, and so on. According to her dark hands in collecting money, it seems that she can become a noble person for fifty thousand taels.
So the grades the emperor assigned to those three people are quite valuable.
However, who wants to have fifty thousand taels, and whose family will spend this money on their daughter's entry into the palace? They are not stupid.
In general, if a family has money and their daughter enters the palace, it would be considered good to give her a thousand or eight hundred yuan. With so much money, those beautiful girls can spend five hundred taels and become a member of the eighth-grade palace, which is pretty good.
And more of them have no money, so they can only be like Linlang and get the lowest status of Cheng'en.
After all, most families are well-off at best. How much money can they bring to the palace? If they bring too much, the family will be heartbroken.
Although only Cheng'en, who was at the bottom of the list, was granted a seal, Linlang was very satisfied. After all, she now had a place to live alone and no longer had to worry about privacy issues.
As for the news that Linlang had become a concubine, her grandson's father and grandma naturally knew about it immediately.
Because they knew there would be news in the palace today, the two of them went directly to the palace gate to wait.
Soon, the names and ranks of the selected concubines were posted at the gate of the palace. Among them was Linlang's name. Although the rank was the lowest, just Cheng En, it also made the Sun family happy. After all, being able to enter the palace meant that , has taken the first step, let alone the lowest level, if there is a chance to rise, no matter what, it is good, at least one can tell people that his daughter is a concubine in the palace, that is better than When I go back in the future, I will still be digging in the dirt, which sounds much better.
At that moment, the grandson's father and grandson's mother hurried back to their residence.
After renting a house at that time, they told the yamen in charge of concubine affairs in the palace where they were staying. At that time, whether their daughter was unsuccessful and the daughter was sent back, or if the daughter was selected and the family was notified, everyone would come here to find them. .
It was the poorest place in the capital, dirty and messy, and the place where the Sun family lived was dilapidated and cramped - this was the cheapest place they found in the capital, that's all The place where they live costs 500 yuan a month, so if their daughter loses the election, they must go back immediately.
Fortunately, even if they lose the election, the official family will pay each family travel expenses and send her back smoothly, so since their daughter passed the fifth level and entered the palace, they actually didn't worry about having no money to go back.
Soon a eunuch came to congratulate me.
In fact, the press system is a promotion ceremony for the selected concubines from the palace, which is handed over to the officials at all levels, and then handed over to the family members of the concubines.
However, if the concubine's natal family is in the capital, the eunuch will usually take the job and make a trip.
After all, for this kind of thing, as long as the concubine’s family is not stupid, they will reward her with money.
These eunuchs had the right idea. Even though the Sun family might be the poorest family he had ever seen, he thought he would not get much money for this trip, but it turned out that the Sun family was generous. From the one hundred taels of money given by the palace, I took out a small silver ingot and gave it to him - this small silver ingot had five taels.
I was overjoyed at that moment, congratulated the Sun family, and then left.
Actually, Sun's family was even more confused than he was. They didn't expect that their daughter would be given the lowest status and wouldn't receive many gifts and money, but in the end she was given a hundred taels. The whole family was like this With a large family, they work hard for a year, and after deducting food and drink, they can only earn twenty or thirty taels. Once the daughter enters the palace and is made the lowest-ranking concubine, her family will receive one hundred taels of money. , which naturally made them feel confused, wondering how there could be so many.
They would be even more surprised if they knew that when they got to the concubine level or above, even if they did not take the imperial examination, the male members of the concubine's family could get some work. So this small amount of money is nothing. When the people buy a concubine, they have to give it to the concubine's family. Some money, not to mention the emperor, who selected such a beautiful beauty from all over the country to enter the palace, how could he not give some money to the concubine’s family? After all, such a beautiful girl can marry very well among the people, and she can get a lot of money. Less gift money.