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Dong Su's pregnancy is not obvious in the early stages, but the second child is even more torturous than the first. She has morning vomiting every day and often feels dizzy and anxious.

But because of the flood in the south of the Yangtze River, she still forced herself to hold a charity auction to raise supplies for the people to rebuild their homes after the disaster.

Ling Moxiao was worried about her health, but she wouldn't listen. Now he understood how painful it was to meet a stubborn person who wouldn't listen.

Dong Su kept saying that she was a doctor and she knew her body condition very well. She wasn't at the stage where she needed to stay in bed and she didn't need to do any heavy work. She just needed to show up and say a few words.

Ling Moxiao had no choice but to accompany them. It would have been fine if he hadn't accompanied them, but now that he had accompanied them, he attended the auction which was full of noble ladies, and with the Queen being pregnant, some people's thoughts that had already been put to rest were disturbed again.

That is, it’s time for the emperor to take a concubine.

The auction was concluded smoothly, and the money raised was used by the female official and the Ministry of Revenue official as imperial envoys to go to the south of the Yangtze River. Half of the money was used for disaster relief, and the other half was used to control floods.

Once this big event was over, the next thing to come was the lively special examination. Dong Su didn't have to worry about anything because Mr. Pang was back and with Mo Xiujing, with the two of them in charge of the special examination and the civil service examination, nothing would go wrong.

Dong Su started to rest assured and take care of her pregnancy. Her only workload every day was to meet with female officials in the flower hall and listen to the progress of various institutions. She also acted as a living god of wealth and distributed money to various institutions.

When I feel like it, I teach Dabao and Xiaobao to recognize the world map and some knowledge about future generations so that they can get used to listening to it from an early age. Even if they don't learn much, at least they have some knowledge and understand a little bit about everything.

No matter how busy Ling Moxiao is, he will always have lunch and dinner with his wife and children, unless he is going to the military camp and not going home, in which case he will specifically tell Dong Su about it.

Ling Moxiao discovered that recently, whenever he left the palace, no matter which institution he went to, he would occasionally run into a lady, the granddaughter of the Left Prime Minister, or the youngest daughter of a certain duke.

These ladies either came to bring snacks to their father or to pay their respects to their grandfather. It just so happened that he would run into them whenever he left the palace.

At first Ling Moxiao really thought it was a coincidence, but when these ladies were brought by their mothers to the palace to pay their respects to the Queen, he would still occasionally run into them.

Ren Lingmoxiao no longer paid attention to this and realized that something was wrong.

He didn't even need to send anyone to investigate, as people from the Supervisory Office would soon report which families had secretly planned to send their daughters into the palace as concubines.

As long as the court officials knew the emperor's travel route, they would immediately arrange for the ladies to meet him by chance.

The officials did not dare to directly submit memorials to persuade the emperor to take a concubine, so they used this method to make the emperor want to take a concubine.

Ling Moxiao narrowed his eyes, and the official who was reporting felt his scalp tingling instantly. Only people who were familiar with His Majesty knew how angry he was at this moment.

Countless soldiers went on expeditions to Japan, their fate uncertain. Floods in the south of the Yangtze River displaced countless people.

The imperial examination was opened, and students all over the country wrote furiously. The queen was unwell during her pregnancy, and she had to worry about state affairs while taking care of the baby.

And you guys are actually obsessed with forcing women into my harem!

What Ling Moxiao was more worried about was, did Dong Su know all this?

She has to take care of the twins, handle official business, and nurture the fetus. She has lost a lot of weight recently. If she knew what the powerful and wealthy were thinking, she would be so sad!

Well, Dong Su certainly knew about it. The female officials knew about it before the Inspection Office could verify it.

Chen Luoxue said angrily that all these people should be expelled from the capital.

Dong Su didn't care. There were too many women who wanted to enter the harem, not to mention that the emperor was in his prime and handsome.

Even if the emperor is in his seventies or eighties, there will still be a lot of women who want to enter the harem.

If you drive away one batch, a new batch will come and you won’t be able to manage them all.

We just need to grasp the key point and make sure that the emperor himself does not want to take a concubine. Let those people jump around as they please, it won't have much impact anyway.

Therefore, Dong Su did not tell Ling Moxiao about this, and even hid it from Xiaobao, so as to prevent this cunning little girl from finding out anything.

Just like her uncle, she is young but loves to worry about adults.

Whenever a noblewoman brought her daughter to the palace to pay her respects, she would send Xiaobao away and summon them again.

She didn't expect Ling Moxiao to be so angry. The next day, she heard that the emperor suddenly investigated the old case in Chang'an and said that there were still doubts about the case of Duke Su's treason.

Then two powerful people were implicated. The emperor conducted a quick investigation and after finding conclusive evidence, he exiled both families to Lingnan.

In the past, criminals were exiled to the north. But now that the imperial court was fully focused on the north, it was no longer suitable as a place for exile, so they were exiled to Lingnan.

All of a sudden, all the dignitaries in Youzhou were worried, thinking that the emperor wanted to settle old scores. He had clearly said before that as long as the capital was moved, he would not pursue the matter, so why was he pursuing it again a year later?

To be honest, the powerful and wealthy in Chang'an are intertwined and any family they pick can be said to be related to the deposed emperor and the deposed prince.

Is the Emperor going to use this old case as an excuse to round them all up?

Unexpectedly, after the emperor exiled these two families, he did not implicate other powerful people, but instead suppressed several important officials.

At times like this, we should ask the emperor's confidants. Lord Mo has a weird temper and is crazy, so no one is willing to get close to him.

But when encountering such a thing, everyone would come to Mo Xiujing, wanting him to find out why the emperor suddenly punished important officials and powerful people?

Then they found out that because these people wanted to put people into the harem, they violated the emperor's taboo, so they were not given a chance to admit their mistakes and were severely punished.

Now, not to mention filling the harem, the whole family went to Lingnan to grow sugarcane.

Upon hearing this inside story, a group of powerful people were sweating profusely and went home to arrange marriages for their daughters of marriageable age.

The wife was still unwilling: "The Queen is pregnant, the Emperor might want to take a concubine, and our daughter should become a noble lady..."

Before she could finish her sentence, her husband was so frightened that he quickly stepped forward and covered her mouth: "How dare you say that! Do you know why the Anguo family was exiled to Lingnan?"

"It was because Madam An brought her daughter into the palace and blocked the entrance to the garden to pay respect to the emperor."

"Your Majesty does not value women and respects the Queen. If you dare to put someone in the harem, you will end up like the Anguo family!"

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Such conversations took place in many powerful and wealthy families. It so happened that a special imperial examination was held this year. The examination was completed in May and the results were announced in June, and a group of talented people emerged.

Then throughout the entire month of June, the marriage certificates sent to Dongsu's case were as tall as a person.

She asked Chen Luoxue curiously, "Is there any explanation for this? The rich and powerful in Chang'an are getting together to marry off their daughters?"

Chen Luoxue suppressed a smile and said, "Every year after the Spring Examination, there is a wave of marrying off daughters. This year, the En Examination was held, and this wave also came from Chang'an."

Dong Su had heard of the saying of catching a son-in-law from under the list, and it seemed to be true. Passing the imperial examination in this era was more glorious than passing Qingbei in the previous life.

These Jinshi have already been confirmed to be the future pillars of the country, so unmarried ones are naturally in high demand.

It’s good this way, as there are so many young talents for the noble ladies to compete with, so they don’t have to keep their eyes on the harem.

How could she know that in May, Ling Moxiao exiled two powerful families, and no one dared to bring their daughters near the emperor.

As for the palace, no matter whether they are palace maids or female officials, they have all been screened by Yue Jian and Chen Luoxue, and there would be no possibility of climbing onto the emperor's dragon bed.

Even though Dong Su is pregnant now, Ling Moxiao still goes back to the main room to sleep every night. It's just that sometimes he finishes reviewing memorials too late and sleeps in the study, but the people serving there are all Ling Moxiao's personal guards.