Chapter 957 The Best Family 84
Just imagine, Empress Dowager Wu has to be busy with these things every day. In addition, she is old and her energy is not as good as before. How can she still have the energy to take care of the affairs in the palace? So the emperor Although she didn't want to see Linlang being concubine or concubine, she was in no mood to care about it at the moment, so she could only let it go.
So although Linlang was promoted continuously after becoming the Lord of the First Palace, it was gratifying that Empress Dowager Wu did not continue to make things difficult for her.
Of course, Queen Mother Wu is really not clear-headed. She hasn’t learned her lesson after being punished last time, and she still wants to continue to cause trouble for Linlang. Linlang doesn’t mind continuing to find something for Queen Mother Wu to do. So now that Empress Dowager Wu does not continue to embarrass Linlang, it is actually a gratifying thing for Empress Dowager Wu. After all, she no longer has to worry about it.
After Linlang took office, the first thing Concubine Li gave her was a troublesome matter.
Concubine Li asked her to take charge of the distribution of rouge and gouache.
Although various institutions are actually responsible for purchasing and distributing various things in the palace, the harem manager naturally has to fulfill his purpose, just like a family. Although the manager will be responsible for various purchases It's a matter of course, but the hostess must have a purpose.
This is what Li Guifei and the others do. They are responsible for keeping an eye on the distribution of various things to see if they are delivered in place and how the quality is.
The reason why Concubine Li gave Linlang a troublesome task is because the institutions that distribute the rouge and gouache to various palaces often rely on the person to decide.
It goes without saying that if you are favored, all the things are good, and you don’t know how to give them away and don’t dare to give them away.
But those who are not favored will be deducted from those who distribute things.
Obviously they have made enough profits when buying things. After all, as mentioned earlier, the prices of things inside and outside the palace can vary thousands of times, which makes these people who buy things, Of course I have earned enough.
However, they were not satisfied. In order to make a little more money, they had to replace the rouge and gouache of the concubines with inferior ones.
In fact, the price difference between inside and outside the palace is the most profitable. How much is the rouge and gouache worth? You have to be greedy, but these people are so greedy that they even want this small amount of money.
And now, after leaving Linlang in charge of this, the trouble is coming.
If Linlang dares to ask those who give out things not to withhold things from concubines who cannot be pampered, then she will definitely offend those who give out things; but if she ignores them and lets them give out bad things, Concubine Li will definitely instruct those concubines to follow her. Complain about this.
Those concubines did not dare to mention this matter before because they were not favored, but now, if Concubine Li supports them, they will definitely dare to complain.
After all, they were given bad rouge and gouache. They were already angry with those female officials and eunuchs and wanted to deal with them. However, they were not favored before and did not dare to mention this matter. Now they can deal with it. Well, how could they not want to do it? Secondly, if Concubine Li supported them in doing this, if they did it, they would be able to fall in love with Concubine Li.
Being able to take care of the eunuchs and female officials that they have long wanted to take care of, and also being able to befriend Concubine Li, kill two birds with one stone. This is so great, there is no way they will not do it. If the emperor, especially the Empress Dowager Wu, knew that such a mistake had been made regarding Linlang's rouge and gouache, he would definitely deal with her.
Especially Empress Dowager Wu, even if she knew that this was how things were done in the palace, she would not let go of such an opportunity to deal with Linlang. She would definitely ask the emperor to send Linlang to the cold palace, or even a white silk.
Linlang could even imagine Empress Dowager Wu's speaking skills. She would definitely say to the emperor: "Look, the Ai family has said it. People with such bad backgrounds cannot be given high positions at all. Look, eyelids Zi Qian, you dare to do this kind of thing for this little money."
Even if Linlang didn't get a penny, she would still be said like this by the Empress Dowager Wu, thinking that she was deprived of favor because of her greed for money. The concubine's rouge and gouache.
In other words, if she handles this matter impartially, she will offend the eunuchs and female officials in the palace; if she does not handle it impartially, she will offend the concubines who are not favored. Concubine Li supports these people to complain, and the left and right are not human beings. .
Linlang naturally did not want to take this job, but even if she changed the job, it would not be better than this one, because Concubine Li would definitely assign her such a job, which would cause her trouble.
Since Linlang received such an errand, she was naturally not afraid.
Sure enough, after Concubine Li saw that Linlang had accepted this errand, she contacted the concubines who had been mistreated and asked them to pay attention to the rouge and gouache they received this time. If it was not good, they would complain to the superiors. In this matter, she supported their complaint.
Those unfavorable concubines naturally knew what Concubine Li was planning, but just as Linlang thought, they had long been angry with the eunuchs and female officials who deducted their rouge and gouache. They also wanted to seduce Concubine Li, so as soon as Concubine Li sent people to encourage them, they naturally planned to take action.
Although they have heard that Linlang is in charge of this matter, and complaining like this may be detrimental to Linlang, they will not think about whether Linlang will be unlucky because of this matter. After all, let them After receiving bad rouge and gouache, is Concubine Sun right? Since they made a mistake, what's wrong with them complaining? If you can, give them good rouge and gouache, don't give them rotten ones, then they won't complain.
Since what they do is aboveboard, what are they afraid of?
Theoretically speaking, there is indeed nothing to criticize about what they did. After all, they were given bad rouge and gouache, so it is right to complain. Linlang has long been dissatisfied with this group of greedy eunuchs and female officials in the palace. .
So Linlang planned to help them deal with these female eunuchs.
At that moment, Linlang compiled the evidence of what these eunuchs and female officials in the palace had done into leaflets. Before the rouge and gouache were distributed this month, that is, before she had any responsibility, they distributed them all over the palace. Of course, naturally I didn't forget to send one to the emperor and the Division of Punishment.
What these eunuchs and female officials in the palace do is actually known to everyone in the palace, but no one intends to deal with it. After all, there are too many people involved, and almost everyone is involved. How can it be dealt with? So when Empress Dowager Wu received this leaflet, she couldn't help but laugh at the person who sent it. She thought that in her time, the eunuchs and female officials in the palace did this. Who didn't know? If she still distributed this leaflet, even if the emperor knew about it, So what, there were too many people involved, and it would be difficult for the emperor to handle it.
In fact, what Empress Dowager Wu never thought about was that Linlang would not care about this matter, and whether the emperor would care about it. She just wanted to detonate this matter in advance. When the Empress Dowager and the emperor knew about it, they did not After dealing with those eunuchs, female officials, and those concubines who were not favored, after receiving this month's rouge and gouache, if they found it was not good, then they would When he complained about this matter and wanted to cause trouble for Linlang, because the matter had been spread in the palace for a long time, it was none of Linlang's business if these unfavored concubines complained again. After all, the emperor and the queen mother had known about this matter for a long time and had not dealt with it. If they complained again, the emperor couldn't blame Linlang anymore. After all, hadn't he already known about this matter and not dealt with it at all?