In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

The Queen could not accept the fact that Zhen Huan was promoted to Consort even more than Consort Qi and Consort Jing were promoted to Noble Consorts because of her childlessness. She did not expect that her plan to use Zhen Huan to defeat Nian Shilan had not only failed, but had also invisibly put her own position under attack.

The power distribution in the palace now can be roughly divided into three categories. The first category, which is also the largest force on the surface, is the unfavored camp headed by the Queen, including Concubine Qi, Noble Lady An Lingrong Wen (spy), Noble Lady Qi, Noble Lady Rou, Li Changzai, Wang Changzai and others. The second category is the new favorite camp headed by Concubine Zhen Huan, assisted by Concubine Shen Meizhuang and Concubine Hui, Noble Lady Ye Lanyining (spy), plus Concubine Chun and Noble Lady Xin and others. The third category is the neutral camp headed by Concubine Jing, including Concubine Jin, Concubine Li, Madam Miaoyin and others who are neither favored nor vying for favor.

Leaving aside the neutral camp, the entire harem is divided into three forces: the Queen (famous), Zhen Huan (favored), and Nian Shilan (powerful). The Imperial Concubine Nian Shilan is apparently alone, but she means more to the Emperor than the people from the other two forces combined. In addition, the palace power has always been in the hands of Nian Shilan, so she is the most stable and powerful force in the harem.

Fortunately, Nian Shilan never actively competed for favor and rarely left Yikun Palace, which invisibly reduced her own threat, causing the Queen and Zhen Huan to unanimously put this enemy last.

February 2, the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign, was a good day for the Dragon to raise its head, and also a good day for the canonization ceremony for Concubine Qi, Concubine Jing, Zhen Huan and others. Early in the morning, Zhen Huan got up and washed herself with the help of Huanbi Liuzhu. After breakfast, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to Chengqian Palace and delivered Zhen Huan's concubine's auspicious clothes.

"Your Highness, please try it on quickly. There is still time. If there is anything that doesn't fit, you can ask the embroiderer to make some changes."

Concubine Qi and Concubine Jing were promoted to noble concubines, so naturally they had to go through the enthronement ceremony before Zhen Huan. Little Yunzi had been sent to the front of Jingren Palace to gather information and had not returned yet. Liu Zhu looked at the sky and found that it was still early, so she smiled and told Zhen Huan to try on the auspicious dress for the concubine first.

"Nonsense! How can you modify the wedding attire at will? You don't know the rules."

Zhen Huan scolded Liu Zhu for giving such a stupid idea, but she still cooperated very well and showed a happy and proud expression, "Huanbi, bring the wedding dress here, I will put it on and see."

Huanbi, who was standing by, was gently stroking the auspicious dress sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, imagining how magnificent she would be if she wore it. The more she thought about it, the more proud she became. It took Zhen Huan several calls to wake Huanbi up from her fantasy.

"Huanbi, Huanbi?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I'll be right there!" Huanbi returned to reality, the envy and jealousy in her eyes becoming more and more obvious. She took a deep breath, suppressed these emotions, forced a smile, took the wedding dress into the inner room and helped Zhen Huan change into it.

After putting it on, Zhen Huan looked at herself from front to back in the bronze mirror. When she turned around, she heard a "swish" sound and the sleeve of the dress split open at the seam.

"this......"

"My lady, this wedding dress is torn!"

"I will go find Huang Guiquan and ask him what happened. How could something go wrong with the ceremonial dress for the Empress's enthronement ceremony?" Huanbi was impatient and immediately planned to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find Huang Guiquan for an explanation.

It was really unlucky that she was crowned as a concubine but her auspicious dress was torn. Zhen Huan was very angry about this but did not try to stop Huanbi. Not long after, Uyadzhu, deputy general manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, came to Chengqian Palace with Huanbi, bringing an old auspicious dress.

"Your servant pays respects to Concubine Wan."

"Right now, Chief Steward Huang is still delivering the wedding dress to Concubine Jin in the Yanxi Palace, so he can't come right away. I've heard from Aunt Huanbi that the Concubine's wedding dress was torn, and I don't want to delay the Concubine's enthronement ceremony, so I've dared to bring an old wedding dress from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I wonder if the Concubine is willing to put up with it."

Wu Yadezhu was appointed by the Empress Dowager as the new deputy chief steward of the Imperial Household Department after the former deputy chief steward of the Imperial Household Department, Jiang Zhongmin, passed away.

Everyone in the palace knew that he was a relative of the Queen Mother, and they were willing to give him some face for the Queen Mother's sake. However, after the Queen Mother's death, Wu Yadezhu's prestige in the Ministry of Internal Affairs suffered a great blow, and he was completely unable to compete with the General Manager Huang Guiquan.

Therefore, he had tried to please the favored concubines in the harem, just to gain a backer. Zhen Huan also thought that Wu Yadezhu wanted to please her, so he found the auspicious clothes so appropriately. After checking and confirming that the old auspicious clothes were in good condition and well maintained, Zhen Huan nodded modestly, accepting Wu Yadezhu's kindness.

"Thank you for taking care of the auspicious robes. After the enthronement ceremony, I will certainly speak well of you in front of the emperor."

As for whether he would report the Ministry of Internal Affairs' General Manager Huang Guiquan, of course he would.

The Zhen family made many contributions in collecting evidence of Longkodo's crimes. Zhen Huan also helped the emperor resolve the follow-up of Prince Dun's beating of Han officials. Several proposals involving political issues were adopted by the emperor, which made Zhen Huan lose her caution. She even became so inflated that she thought she had become a threat to the Imperial Concubine.

Everyone knows that Huang Guiquan is a distant relative of the Imperial Noble Consort. What happened today might not be the result of the Imperial Noble Consort instructing Huang Guiquan to suppress her.

Thinking of this, although Zhen Huan was angry, she was more proud. She felt that this meant that her current favor and status were enough to make the Imperial Concubine unable to maintain her condescending attitude and started to take action.

"Above the concubine is the noble concubine, and above the noble concubine is the imperial concubine. Now I am only two steps away from her. She can't have children, but I can. Compared with the imperial concubine who has no children, the noble concubine who has children is better."

The more Zhen Huan thought about it, the prouder she felt. Now that she had been crowned a concubine because of the emperor's favor and the fact that she had no children, when she became pregnant again, the emperor would surely crown her as a noble concubine.

"My lady, the time has come."

Xiao Yunzi came back from outside and brought news that the enthronement ceremony of Concubine Qi and Concubine Jing had ended, and it was Zhen Huan's turn next.

Zhen Huan changed into auspicious clothes and went to Jingren Palace with a heart full of joy and pride. Just like in the plot, she finally returned to the palace with a heart full of humiliation. Only this time, Zhen Huan did not cry. Instead, she felt hatred in her humiliation.

"Royal Concubine, Nian Shilan! I will not admit defeat. I will return all the humiliation I suffered today to you!"

Obviously, Zhen Huan had already determined that the matter of "Chun Yuan's old clothes" was all Nian Shilan's calculation. Although Liu Zhu and Huan Bi were puzzled as to how the Imperial Noble Consort could have Queen Chun Yuan's old auspicious clothes, they did not think much about it when they saw that Zhen Huan had already determined it.

"The Imperial Concubine is so abominable that she actually resorted to such means to ruin the Empress's enthronement ceremony."

The emperor was indeed angry because Zhen Huan was confined to Chengqian Palace and her promotion to Concubine Wan was shattered, but fortunately, in this life, the appearance of Nian Shilan occupied too much of the emperor's affection, so although the emperor still missed Chun Yuan, he was not as crazy as in his previous life.

As a result, the Emperor did not order Zhen Huan to take off her clothes and return to the palace wearing only her inner garments, but she still could not escape the charge of disrespecting the Empress.