I want to be emperor

Chapter 307 Women in the Harem
Not only Guo Quanshu and Huang Chengxuan have opinions on the military’s extravagance, but Chen Xingkai, the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, also has opinions. In late June, when the military and the civil service system held a meeting to discuss military expenditures, Chen Xingkai said: “My subordinates The tax officials work hard all day long to get you money, but you are good. You don’t need money to shoot shells. I heard that during the Battle of Changsha, a small mound was forced to destroy more than a dozen cannons. It’s really money. It's the wind blowing!"

Regarding this, the military did not show any weakness. Xu Zhixian almost spat on Chen Xingkai's face on the spot: "I have given you a few faces in the past six months, and you really think of yourself as a character. I... what the hell!"

"Without my hundreds of thousands of soldiers, you, Chen Xingkai, were still looking for hunters to collect taxes in the ravines. Now that you feel that you are powerful, you dare to turn your face and deny it."

"Don't think we don't know, at least 800 million floating fortunes were confiscated in this Chunan campaign. According to what we said before, we will take the big ones, and you will take the small ones!"

"Five million taels, one copper plate less, I will stuff you into the barrel and shoot you out!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Zhixian walked away, leaving Chen Xingkai with saliva still on his face, his hands were trembling in anger, and his expression was extremely distorted.

Guo Quanshu came over with a gloomy face: "These warriors are deceiving too much!"

The first negotiation between the military and civilian officials on military expenditure broke up unhappy!

Luo Zhixue had expected this, and he still did not choose to intervene too much.

As the emperor of a country, he naturally knew the actual financial situation, and also knew that spending another 500 million taels of silver would not have much impact on the current financial situation.

But it is also clear that according to the way the military spends money, if it continues like this, the military expenditure may skyrocket to more than 3000 million by next year, and the huge military expenditure may completely delay the finances of the Great Chu Empire in a few years.

Therefore, the control of military expenditure is necessary.

However, Luo Zhixue would not choose to do it himself!

As the emperor of the empire, what he has to do is to play the role of strategic decision-making. When there are conflicts of interest or other conflicts among his subjects, factions, what he has to do is not to end the game himself, but to be a guide and a referee. .

Let things go according to your own ideas, but you can't end it yourself, reducing yourself to the same status as your courtiers.

He wants to maintain a detached position.

The emperor is different from his courtiers.

On the surface, Luo Zhixue did not intervene too much in this military dispute, but without his acquiescence, or even a hint, it would be impossible for the civil servants to criticize the military.

Therefore, when Luo Zhixue learned that the meeting between the military and the civilian officials broke up unhappy, he just smiled slightly, then skipped over the matter and continued to bury his head in processing a large pile of documents.

Anyway, this battle over military expenses will not affect the preparations for the Eastward Campaign for a while. Although the military seems to be short of money, it is not to the extent that they cannot even prepare for the Eastern Campaign.

After finishing the day's government affairs, Luo Zhixue returned to the harem in the evening, and first went to meet the queen!
Looking at the slightly swollen abdomen of Queen Wang, Luo Zhixue also put aside all the government affairs outside, and stepped forward with a smile on his face.

Queen Wang was diagnosed as pregnant by the imperial physician in March, and now it has been four months, and her abdomen has begun to bulge.

In fact, before Queen Wang, there were already two pregnant women. The first one was Wang Qiaoer, Wang Lipin, who was pregnant in December last year, and the second was Chen Depin, who was found pregnant in February this year.

Queen Wang is the third!
It's just that these three women are currently pregnant, and even Wang Lipin, who is the first to conceive, is still about three months away from her due date.

The successive pregnancies of these three women reduced the voices within the empire to continue asking Luo Zhixue for the draft.

Before they got pregnant, whether it was civil officials like Guo Quanshu or generals like Xu Zhixian, they were all rushing to find women for Luo Zhixue.

Their purpose is simple and pure, which is to consolidate the foundation of the country, so that Luo Zhixue can give birth to a prince as soon as possible, so as to prevent the foundation of the country.

An empire cannot live without an heir.

Especially when Luo Zhixue was a loner, and he didn't even have any alternatives such as relatives and nephews.

The early birth of a son by Luo Zhixue is directly related to the stability of the foundation of the empire.

Luo Zhixue didn't care much about these things before, and he was too free to pursue anything. In addition, he had been leading troops to fight before, so he didn't have much time and energy to do these things.

Well, in the end, Luo Zhixue always felt that he was still young...

His body is only 17 years old this year... This is still a false age.

Although he has rebelled and became the emperor, he always feels that he is still young, and things like getting married and having children have to wait for a while, so many times he even deliberately takes some contraceptive measures.

This is also the reason why Wang Qiaoer and Hou Yunmeng were not pregnant for a long time in the early days.

At that time, Luo Zhixue thought that he was only sixteen years old, and his first year was only 15 years old, so he gave birth to a child and called him father...he felt awkward.

But later the country was formally established and proclaimed emperor. Considering the political influence, he gradually changed his mind. He felt that it is not unacceptable to have children now, so he let nature take its course.

This went with the flow, and after taking contraceptive measures deliberately, the three daughters became pregnant one after another.

After having dinner with Queen Wang and talking, Luo Zhixue got up and returned to his bedroom.

Although he and Queen Wang are husband and wife, they do not live together on weekdays. Luo Zhixue has his own bedroom, and Queen Wang also has his own bedroom.

On the way back to the bedroom, Luo Zhixue casually ordered the female officer who accompanied him: "Let Concubine Hua come over to attend the bedroom!"

Concubine Hua, that is, Hou Yunmeng, the day after Luo Zhixue made the queen queen, he formally canonized all the women in the palace. Hou Yunmeng, who had always been loved by Luo Zhixue, was also canonized as Concubine Hua.

Concubine Hua is currently the only three concubines in the palace, and the others, including Wang Qiaoer and Wang Lipin, are just concubines.

It can be seen that Luo Zhixue still loves this girl very much.

In normal times, if there is no concubine that he particularly wants to see, Luo Zhixue will often let the maid go to bed, and the frequency is a little more than that of the queen.

But I don't know why, the two kings, Queen Wang and Wang Lipin, are pregnant one after another. Even Chen Depin, who has not been with Luo Zhixue for a long time, is also pregnant, but the concubine Hou Hua who has stayed with Luo Zhixue the longest is late Not pregnant.

In the past six months, Luo Zhixue didn't take any contraceptive measures on her, but she just couldn't get pregnant.

Concubine Hua herself was a little anxious about this.

After finishing the work at night, she took a very weird position, lying on her back with her buttocks and feet elevated, and she asked Xiu Nu, who was helping her, to help her...

Seeing Luo Zhixue's puzzled expression, Concubine Hua said, "Nurse Li said, it's easy to get pregnant like this!"

Seeing this scene and hearing this, Luo Zhixue lost interest in talking immediately.

Ever since Wang Qiaoer got pregnant first, Concubine Hua has become different from before. She always thinks about getting pregnant, and even seeks medical treatment from the imperial physician by herself, taking medicine all day long...

Luo Zhixue can understand her thoughts and actions...

But, seeing her in such a weird pose after finishing the work, Luo Zhixue still looked away.

On the second night, Luo Zhixue didn't invite any concubines to sleep with him, but slept alone.

After this person fell asleep, he found that it was quite refreshing.

You don't need to toss your body, and you don't need to do anything else. When you go there, you feel extremely relaxed...

The next day, Luo Zhixue got up refreshed and finished his breakfast. Just when he was about to lament that sleeping alone is the best, he suddenly found that there was an extra lady in the palace today.

His dozen or so personal maids looked at him every day, so they were naturally familiar, even if they couldn't pronounce their names, they still looked familiar.

But one of them had never been seen before.

Well, these are not important, the important thing is that this woman is very beautiful...

Well, this is not important, what is important is that this woman looks very similar to Wang Qiaoer!

Whether it is facial features or body shape, it is at least [-]% similar to Wang Qiaoer.

The face is also relatively immature and childlike, slightly shorter than Wang Qiaoer, but more bumpy, with a big chest, this is basically a shrunken version of Wang Qiaoer with a more prominent figure.

Luo Zhixue is not a fool, just looking at this woman's appearance, and then thinking that this woman can suddenly appear here, he basically guessed the matter [-] to [-]%.

In all likelihood, this woman is Wang Qiaoer's younger sister or cousin, and she was also called into the palace by Wang Qiaoer.

The purpose can be roughly guessed, it is nothing more than Wang Qiaoer is pregnant now, and she wants to use her sister to continue to tie Luo Zhixiang's heart.

Thinking of this, Luo Zhixue showed a kind smile: "New here? What's your name? Come forward."

There was a trace of panic in the woman's expression after hearing this, but she still stepped forward obediently: "My concubine bows to Your Majesty!"

concubine?
This self-proclaim is not the self-proclaim of an ordinary court lady, but a self-proclaim that a woman who has obtained a title will use when talking to Luo Zhixue.

Ordinary palace maids usually use slaves, slaves, little ones and other servants to call themselves servants.

In the harem of the Great Chu Empire, there are three major groups, and they are clearly separated.

Ordinary palace ladies are all recruited from the private sector to come from good families. This is to be paid, and the salary is not low.

In addition, if the palace maid is unwilling to do it, and still maintains the status of a yellow flower girl, that is, if she has not had sex with the emperor, she can directly resign and leave the palace to resume the life of an ordinary person...

Luo Zhixue didn't want a group of resentful maids by his side, if he was poisoned that day, wouldn't it be the end of him.

Ordinary court ladies pay attention to strict recruitment and freedom of resignation.

It's not easy for ordinary maids to come in, but if you want to leave, you are always welcome...

At the same time, some court ladies who can do things will be selected from among the senior court ladies who have given up marriage, and promoted to female officials to take up various management positions in the harem. This is often a lifelong system.

And even a female officer cannot call herself a concubine in front of Luo Zhixue.

That is exclusive to the concubines in the harem!
If you want to call yourself a concubine in front of Luo Zhixue, at least you have to have the lowest title of show girl!

Obviously, this woman has a title, and belongs to the series of concubines in the harem, a woman of Luo Zhixue.

But Luo Zhixue thought about it for a while, but he still couldn't remember when he saw her.

If he had seen her before, with her similar appearance to Wang Qiaoer, he would have discussed the philosophy of life with their sisters long ago.

Threesome, there must be my teacher!
So Luo Zhixue was very sure that he had never met her, or he didn't notice her when he saw her, that's why the current situation of not knowing her happened.

And don't think it's strange that Luo Zhixue doesn't know his own woman.

If you have hundreds of women, you can't recognize them all...

(End of this chapter)