Chapter 492: Embarrassed princes

In the end, Zhou returned to the Hou Mansion to raise a baby without having to stay in the palace and cry for spirits.
Pei's first confrontation with Concubine Xiao Shu was slightly better.
Concubine Xiao Shu thought of it later, very upset.
She knew that since the emperor passed away, the palace will change sooner or later, but her heart is still stuck in the past.
This time she suffered a small loss in Pei's hands, only to truly realize that the harem had changed. Rather than waiting for King Ning to ascend to the throne as she had previously thought, slowly trying to do it.
Concubine Xiao Shu always has more advantages than Pei's.
Since then, Concubine Xiao Shu began to deliberately win over palace people and cultivate confidants.
Didn't Bae want to fight her?
Humph!
Pei's doesn't even have a useful person in the palace, but Concubine Xiao Shu wants to see how Pei's fight against her.
Concubine Xiao Shu is not in a hurry now.
When Pei lives in the harem, she will slowly clean up each other.
Pei didn't know yet, because she was taking the lead for Gu Jiu, she was hated by Concubine Xiao Shu.
Crying spirits is a chore, especially crying spirits over and over all day long.
Fortunately, although time flies slowly, it finally passes by day by day.
King Ning ascended the throne as scheduled.
Year number Wende.
This year is the 38th year of Kaiyao. Until next year, it will be the first year of Wende.
The Ministry of Rites handed over the selected posthumous name to King Ning, no, now it is called Emperor Wen De.
Emperor Wen De selected some, and finally set the posthumous title of Kai Yao Emperor Wu Zong.
"Father's emperor regarded himself as a warrior throughout his life, acted decisively and decisively, so he was named Wuzong."
The corners of his mouth twitched when he heard this.
How could he not know that Emperor Kai Yao considered himself a warrior, and was Emperor Wen De burying the first emperor?
"Your Majesty, do you think about it again?" The Book of Rites reminded him very implicitly.
Emperor Wende shook his head, "You don't need to think about it, just choose Wuzong. I believe that the emperor's spirit in the sky will be very pleased."
Book of Rites: Your Majesty, are you sure?
Emperor Wen De waved his hand, "Go back, I'm tired."
Just ascended to the throne and proclaimed the emperor, there are so many things and complicated things.
Emperor Wen De first made an order and promoted a few confidantes. Several counsellors who were originally raised in the palace also became officials.
The generals under his hand also arranged important errands.
After finishing the personnel transfer, it is the harem's turn next.
Emperor Wende has not decreed to canonize Concubine Xiao Shu as the mother empress dowager, nor canonize Pei as the queen.
Obviously it was an important matter, but he kept dragging it off.
Concubine Xiao Shu and Pei were a little disturbed.
What does the emperor mean if he drags it out?
Especially Pei's, his heart was flustered. Does Emperor Wen De want to pass her and make another woman the queen?
She felt uneasy and could only seek help from her mother's family.
The eldest brother Luhou Peiren is not there, but fortunately, the nephew Pei Meng is still staying in the capital, and recently he is also guarding the spirit in the palace.
During the lunch break, Pei sent someone to invite Pei Meng to speak in a quiet side hall.
"My aunt called my nephew, but something?"
Pei was straightforward, "I won't go in circles with you. Your Majesty will not set up a queen or deal with the harem. The women of the first emperor still live in the palace. You feel that your Majesty is dragging it, why?"
Pei Meng understood, "Is the aunt in a hurry?"
Pei stomped, "How can we not be in a hurry. What if your Majesty crosses me and makes another woman the queen?"
Pei Meng shook his head, "Auntie, don’t worry, your majesty is only delaying one or two, and it is impossible to make another woman the queen. Even if your majesty does not consider your aunt, you should also consider the two cousins. Just say Liu Zhao’s cousin has outstanding talents. How can your majesty make your prostitute become a bastard?"
Pei's heart was settled, but he still asked: "What you said is true?"
Pei Meng nodded his head, "Even if your Majesty doesn't care about Brother Liu Zhao and Liu Yi, he should give us the Pei family's face. The palace change a year ago, if we hadn't helped Pei family, the result would be unpredictable."
Pei nodded again and again, "You are right, don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha. But why does your Majesty keep dragging and not dealing with the harem?"
"This nephew doesn't know. My aunt might as well ask others."
When Pei Meng left, after thinking about it, Pei sent someone to call Gu Jiu.
"Mother concubine is looking for me?"
Gu Jiu accepts love. Last time Pei helped her, she had to pay back one or two.
"Sit down and talk, are you tired these days."
Gu Jiu said, "I can hold it. How is the mother and concubine?"
"Older, no younger than you. Recently, there is a mess in this palace, but there is not even a serious person in charge. If this mess continues, how can I get it."
Gu Jiu heard the song and understood the elegant meaning, "The mother concubine said that there is no one in charge in the palace now. The daughter-in-law thinks that the mother concubine should take up the burden of taking care of the harem as soon as possible."
"Do you really think so?"
Gu Jiu nodded again and again, especially sincerely.
Pei sighed, "My palace wants to share the worries for your majesty, but my name is not right. My palace is not qualified to intervene in the harem."
Gu Jiu knew it well, thought it over and said: "The first emperor left many women, and many of these people were unborn. According to the rules, these unborn people will be sent to the Ganye Temple.
But a fire burned the Ganye Temple a year ago, and it has not been repaired yet. For a time, there was no place to house the first emperor's woman.
To avoid suspicion, your Majesty is naturally inconvenient to go to the harem. The affairs of the harem are not handled properly, and the things that the mother and concubine worry about before those women go there are afraid that it will be difficult to make progress. "
Gu Jiu is reminding Pei in a subtle way that he wants to share the worries for Emperor Wende, and quickly send the first emperor's woman to the palace, and the queen position is naturally yours.
To be a queen, you have to make a concubine.
There are so many women in the backyard of the palace. How can those women be housed without first making room in the harem?
How can Emperor Wen De go to the harem without making room?
You can't let your own woman live under the same roof with the first emperor's woman to avoid suspicion.
When Gu Jiu dialed so little, Pei suddenly realized.
Yes!
Canonization of the queen, followed by the concubine, and then moved into the harem to live.
However, many palaces in the harem still live in people.
Without first arranging the first emperor's woman, Emperor Wen De can't arrange his own woman.
After finally knowing why, Pei was happy, but he still had to be serious on his face. Now it is filial piety.
"You are right, the harem has to be dealt with one by one. The main palace will find a way to handle this matter."
"Then daughter-in-law retire first."
"Go ahead."
Gu Jiu bowed, got up and left. When she reached the door, she turned around and said, "The Luo family and the Shen family, I heard that they are quite rich."
Luo family, Luo Fang's family.
Shen's family, Shen's concubine's family.
Gu Jiu mentioned such a sentence without beginning and end, and Pei's thoughts for a while before it suddenly dawned on him.
It is not an easy task to place the woman of Emperor Xian. It's better to work together with a few people instead of one person.
After making up his mind, Pei began to get busy.
She called Concubine Shang Luo, Concubine Shen Bian, and other women of Emperor Wen De, who had money to give money and worked hard.
First, you have to choose a place, the size of the Ganye Temple, and it's quiet.
The Ganye Temple was still in ashes, and the young man was rich and refused to take the money to rebuild the Ganye Temple. It can be seen that Shaofu is very stingy.
In the end, they chose a nun's nunnery that had been abandoned for several years, which was large enough and secluded enough.
Everyone worked together to contribute money and sent someone to repair the nun's nunnery. Then Pei went to see Emperor Wen De to share his worries for Emperor Wen De.
Gu Jiu's guess is correct.
The reason why Emperor Wen De dragged his time and didn't deal with the harem was because he couldn't find a place to house the first emperor's woman.
The emergence of Pei's, solved this problem for Emperor Wen De.
Emperor Wen De was very happy and laughed.
"Zi Tongguo is really my wise helper."
Hearing that Emperor Wen De called her Zi Tong, Pei was trembling with joy.
Zitong is the name of the emperor for the queen. Doesn't this prove that the queen candidate in Emperor Wende's heart is her.
"It is the duty of the concubines to share the worries for your majesty."
"Haha..."
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With a place, Emperor Wen De made a decree, choosing a date to allow those unborn women of the first emperor to move to the Thanksgiving Temple.
With a swipe of a pen, Emperor Wende renamed the Nunnery Temple and placed it under the management of the Shaofu.
As for Thanksgiving Temple has not been repaired, Emperor Wende can't manage that much, so the task of repairing the temple was handed over to Shaofu.
Shaofu Jialing: mmp, I'm already very busy, and I have added so many errands to Shaofu.
The women of the first emperor were all driven out of the harem.
Emperor Wen De should also plan for his own harem.
Several decrees were made in succession, first respecting Concubine Xiao Shu as the mother empress dowager, and setting up Pei as the queen.
Concubine Luo is a concubine De, and Concubine Shen is a concubine.
From the backyard women, I picked two favorites, Feng Fei.
For other women, the number is not limited. Anyway, as long as they are beautiful, they are sealed.
Although the women of Emperor Wen De were not as exaggerated as the 72 concubines of the Sixth Court of San Gong, there were still twenty or thirty people.
The other women who were not canonized were all driven out of the palace by Emperor Wen De with a big stroke.
When he was a prince, sometimes he didn't pay much attention to the appearance and identity of women. Now that I am an emperor, I have to pay attention to it.
Those women who were kicked out were crying in the palace, but refused to leave.
Finally hugged a golden thigh, how can I easily give up.
Even if you can't be the emperor's woman, you can be a maid waiting on the emperor anyway.
Wangfu Jialing has been promoted to Shaofu Tongcheng, but he has not yet taken office and is still busy dealing with women in the backyard of the palace.
So many women, one or two of them refused to leave the palace obediently, and insisted on holding Emperor Wen De’s golden thighs, he was also very tired, OK?
They couldn't directly deal with those women, after all, Emperor Wen De had slept. Who knows, will these women turn over someday.
Former Royal Family Order, today's Master Tong Chengshi in Shaofu is forced to enter the palace to see Emperor Wen De
Your Majesty, how do you send your women? Will it be too cruel to drive out directly.
Emperor Wen De stared, "Such simple things can't be done well, what use do you want?"
Master Tong Chengshi from Shaofu was very wronged, "After all, they are your majesty's women."
Emperor Wende snorted, "My women are in the harem. The women in the palace are ordinary in appearance and talented. They are really a hindrance to my body and mind. Let them all drive away. Each person will give them a settlement fee. Go back to your natal home and get married on your own. If not, you will go to the ancient Buddha with a green lantern in the Thanksgiving Temple for a lifetime."
Master Tong Chengshi from the Shaofu took the order, and then he remembered an important matter, "Does this relocation fee come from the Shaofu or the Wangfu? Should the properties of the Wangfu go into the Shaofu?"
Emperor Wende thought for a while, "I don't have to worry about merging the royal palace's property into the Shaofu. I have my own arrangements. Those women's household expenses will be paid out of the Shaofu."
Shaofu is so rich, it's time to use it.
Shaofu Family Order: mmp, Shaofu has no money, no money, no money, and tells important things three times.
Master Tong Chengshi of the Shaofu received a verbal message from Emperor Wende. He no longer shows mercy and drove out all the women stranded in the backyard of the palace. Everyone has a family allowance.
The day when the people were driven out was the day when the first emperor had a funeral.
The women were crying, very sad. It is consistent with the day of the funeral.
The whole capital was filled with a sad atmosphere.
Since Emperor Wende, children and grandchildren, civil and military officials, have to go to the tomb.
Emperor Wende will stay in the Beiman Mountain imperial mausoleum for three days before returning to Beijing.
Gu Jiu, as juniors, are naturally not immune.
Keep it for three days, plus one round of time, and seven days are used up.
The emperor keeps filial piety and replaces 27 months with 27 days.
Royal family members, civil and military officials, need to keep a hundred days of filial piety.
The people only need one month.
At the end of the funeral, Emperor Wen De began to handle government affairs.
The first decree of the Dachaohui was to reprimand the brothers who were disrespectful during the funeral.
The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs looked at each other.
Unexpectedly, Emperor Wen De would take the lead in operating his brother.
Is this killing chickens and monkeys?
Or the drunkard doesn't mean to drink.
Several members of the royal family who have been reprimanded all have expressions of irreverence.
When they were princes, they were treated like beasts by their father.
Now with great difficulty, I finally hope that he will be crowned, and he will be taken care of by the emperor's brother.
The prince's title was not heated up, and he was demoted to the county king in an instant.
Yes, the Prince's Mansion has not been repaired yet, and it was directly restructured into the Prince's Mansion.
Some people even speculated maliciously whether it was because the household department had no money that Emperor Wende would take his brothers without surgery.
After all, the county prince is much cheaper than the prince, and the annual salary is less than one-third. The amount of funds allocated by the Ministry of Household to the prefectural palace was 100,000 taels less than that of the prince’s palace.
Gee!
It really got into the eyes of money.
If you don't have any money, it's nothing to do with your own family members.
Really have the ability to ask Gu Jiu to make money for the Ministry of Households.
Gu Jiu: This lady recruited you or provoke you, you want to harm this lady like this.
To make money for the household department, she was full and supported.
After earning money, she wouldn't give her an official book from the Ministry of Households, so why would she contribute to it?
A bunch of dumb bastards.
The most embarrassing thing now is that he has just transformed from the Prince of the Palace and became the brothers of the Prince.
The women of Emperor Wende were all moved from the backyard of the palace to the harem. Those who were queens were queens, and those who were concubines were concubines.
Even several younger sisters were taken to live in the harem and were knighted. From the county owner to the county owner, there is no princess.
But these princes were left in the palace and lived as before.
It's just that the father and mother were in charge of the palace in the past.
Today, they are their own home. In response to expenses, he still pays money from Wangfugong.
Can't go on like this.
The prince is not the prince, and the prince is not the prince.
Carrying the prince's name for nothing, but not enjoying the treatment that the prince should have, is very heartbreaking.
The brothers rushed to the eastern courtyard to discuss with Liu Zhao.
At this time, they would work together.
"Brother, tell me, what on earth should we do? Although the father said that we were not allowed to live in the palace, we can't stay in the palace forever."
"That's right. If you don't live in the palace, you should give us a mansion to live in the Prince's Mansion. It's nothing to live in the Prince's Mansion."
"Those civil and military officials seem to be collectively blind, but they all ignored us. It's really deceiving."
"Brother, speak up!"
Liu Zhaohun said nonchalantly: "You are not satisfied with your current situation. Have you ever thought that your father would leave us alone?"
"Why? It can't be to test our xinxing."
Liu Zhao shook his head, "Because the Ministry of Household has no money. You all want to open a mansion, and it will cost three to four hundred thousand taels to open a mansion. Our six brothers add up to two million taels. This is just the money for opening the mansion. .Does not include the annual Jue Lu.
With the virtue of the Ministry of Households being so poor that the treasury runs rats, can we expect the Ministry of Households to settle us two million taels?
The reason why the civil and military officials turned a blind eye to our situation was not because the household department had no money.
If anyone dares to speak for us, it is tantamount to offending the Ministry of Households. The household department holds money and grain, and has its own way to clean them up. "
After hearing the words, everyone suddenly realized.
"Should we always live in the palace?"
"If you want to live in the palace, it's okay. Anyway, it's good for me to live in the palace. It's comfortable and no one is controlling."
The brothers frowned.
Liu Yi said: "It's really comfortable to live in the palace, but it doesn't fit your status."
The other brothers nodded.
Liu Zhao snorted, "Are we not the prince if we live in the palace? Everyone's identity never changes depending on where we live. A dignified prince, even if he lives in a slum in the south of the city, he is also a prince."