back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 231 Nagging
Seeing Zhou Zhiruo walking slowly in the tin hairpin gown, Lu Chengqi's serious look disappeared within a second, replaced by a kind of joy from the heart, and a flattering smile , said: "Zitong, are you here? Come on, show the queen a seat!"

The maid following behind Zhou Zhiruo, after hearing this, hurriedly ran over in small steps, brought a chair and placed it behind Zhou Zhiruo.However, Lu Chengqi's flattery did not bring him the desired benefits.His queen, Zhou Zhiruo, said as usual: "Your Majesty, my concubine has said it countless times. Political affairs are important, but your dragon body is even more important! Seeing that it's past noon, you still don't see you setting up the imperial dining room. You call Zi Tong the queen, how do you persuade me? You are the emperor, and your concubine is the queen, and you should not say some things. But if this continues, your majesty's dragon body will be worrying..."

After rambling on for a while, Lu Chengqi accepted it with a smile.All of this was seen by the maids behind her, and they all covered their mouths and started laughing.It can be seen in Lu Chengqi's usual aura, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, it's very hard to hold back.

These maids of honor are all selected to enter the palace through the selection of ministers, officials and women from good families, in order to be selected as imperial attendants or concubines, and they are commonly called palace servants.In fact, these court ladies are equivalent to the backup candidates for the emperor's harem, and all of them are not bad in appearance.But after seeing the beauties of later generations, Lu Chengqi still looks down on the "beauties" in the eyes of the ancients.It's just that the self-cultivation of these women is much better than those beauties in later generations, most of them are gentle and elegant, even if they are impatient with you, they just say some serious words.

After all, these are the daughters of officials and officials. They have studied piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since they were young.According to the regulations at the beginning of the Dashun Dynasty, only daughters of good families or daughters of officials under the age of twelve or three could enter the palace after strict selection and medical examination.

After all, women in ancient times reached the age of 15. In other words, they could marry and have children, which is very different from later generations.It is not too early to enter the palace at the age of twelve or thirteen.

After entering the palace, you can choose whether to be "appearance selection" or "talent selection". With all the knowledge she has learned, she can be a female official.

In Dashun's palace, there are many kinds of maids.Of course, it is the empress who holds the power to command all the court ladies.If Lu Chengqi started to wantonly choose concubines, there would be five concubines: Guifei, Shufei, Defei, Xianfei, and Chenfei, Guiyi, Guirong, Shuyi, Shurong, Shunyi, Shunrong, Wanyi, Wanrong and others, these are inferior to concubines, and they are still the emperor's concubines. People in later generations think that concubine is a word, but in fact this is a misunderstanding; concubines who are lower than these concubines include Zhaoyi, Zhaoyi Rong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, etc., these are also the emperor's concubines; then there are Jieyu, beauty, talented person, nobleman, Baolin, Yunu, Cainu wait.

These can be regarded as female officials, and they are paid.Lu Chengqi never halved the salaries of these female officials, and now their salaries are even more than the salaries of first-rank officials in Dashun!
With so many court ladies, it doesn't really matter if Lu Chengqi chooses a concubine or not.In the imperial palace, there are no less than three thousand people in the palace.According to the views of ordinary Dashun people, these palace people are all his concubines.

Of course, Lu Chengqi, who is not yet focused on this aspect, will definitely not understand it so thoroughly.Even the names of the female officials' official offices, such as Shangshu Introspection, Palace in the Palace, Internal Servant, and Inner Servant, etc., he knew everything.

After all, these people are not under his control, so naturally they don't have the heart to ask.Since Zhou Zhiruo, the queen, manages these palace people in an orderly manner, let her manage them.

Lu Chengqi is already very content to have such a queen.Zhou Zhiruo's temperament is mild and gentle, she has a lot of knowledge, and her Go game has turned Lu Chengqi around so badly that he, a beginner of Go, dare not seek trouble.The only bad thing is that she is like an old woman, nagging too much. If it is a grumpy person, I am afraid that she will have the idea of ​​​​letting go of it without saying a few words.

Lu Chengqi, who was reborn, has the most beautiful virtue of future generations, that is, respect for women.What's more, this woman in front of you is destined to be with you for the rest of your life, so you must know how to cherish it.In any case, Zhou Zhiruo's nagging was also for her own good.

Lu Chengqi who understands this, no matter how troubled the state affairs are, as soon as he sees Zhou Zhiruo, his troubles seem to be thrown out of the sky. He just wants to be gentle with her for a while, temporarily throw away the lonely identity of the emperor, and calm down like an ordinary person Talk about housework.

Hearing Zhou Zhiruo's nagging at this moment, Lu Chengqi felt that it was a kind of happiness instead, and after waving his hand to let the palace servants who couldn't bear to watch the jokes go down, Lu Chengqi said: "Zi Tong's criticism is right, I will definitely correct it in the future! It's also because of the servant's inaction, I have ordered me more than once to remind me to eat at noon, but every time I miss the time, I really need to change..."

Hearing Lu Chengqi's "complaint", Zhou Zhiruo chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to make excuses. Didn't you make a decree that no one should disturb you when dealing with political affairs in the Chui Gong Palace? What about these servants?" Dare to remind you rashly? If Long Wei offends you, I am afraid they will be the ones who are unlucky!"

If these servants heard Zhou Zhiruo speak for them like this, they might cry and say that the only one who understands them is the queen.Serving such an emperor is not easy for these servants.The emperor also issued two contradictory imperial edicts, whichever one was violated was destined to offend the emperor.In this case, it can only be regarded as not knowing.In fact, if Zhou Zhiruo didn't bring lunch over, these servants would take care of these things after a while.They didn't dare to disturb the little emperor, so they could only put the lunch in front of the dragon case.If Lu Chengqi doesn't eat, then change a few dishes every once in a while.At this time, the little emperor, who refused to waste, would naturally compromise.

This is the experience that the servants have explored, and it has been tried and tested.It can be said that this is the wisdom of the eunuchs.They may not be highly educated, but they can read their faces and observe others in detail, and they will definitely be able to see something. Let's call this an occupational disease!
Lu Chengqi, who was exposed on the spot, didn't show any displeasure, he just laughed a few times to cover up his embarrassment.After all, there were only the husband and wife in the huge Chuigong Palace, even if it was revealed, it would just add some emotional fun between the husband and wife.

(End of this chapter)