Your Majesty Cheng Huan

That night, he didn't wait for Wang Wuguo to come back, only at noon the next day, she came back in a hurry, and when she saw him, she asked, "Did you wait at the Huxin Pavilion last night?"

"I would like to ask you, why did you tell me to go to the half-moon corridor, but you didn't come by yourself. I waited for a while and then came back."

"You—" Wang Wuguo seemed to be out of breath, sat down on the chair, and managed to calm down.When he looked up, he saw a lantern on the table, he was taken aback for a moment, and asked him, "Where did you get this lantern?"

Li Chenghuan said indifferently: "Oh, this, I met someone when I came back last night. He gave me a little while, and finally left this lantern to me. That person didn't leave his identity and name. I don’t know how to return it to him, so I have to put it here.”

Wang Wuguo gathered herself together, lowered her eyebrows and said, "Forget it, it's my fault that I was delayed by something yesterday and went late. You must have left with that person at that time." She paused, changed the subject, and said, "However, this palace is so big, who knows which palace he is from or a servant who came with the madam. You don't have to think about returning it for a mere lantern."

Li Chenghuan nodded, and asked again: "What did you want to say to me yesterday?"

At this time, Wang Wuguo stood up, turned around in front of him as she did yesterday morning, and said triumphantly, "Do you see any difference in me today?"

Li Chenghuan looked up for a while, and then said lightly: "The clothes have been changed."

Wang Wuguo didn't hear him say what she wanted to hear, so she had to confess herself, saying, "I can't even see this. Let me tell you, I've become a female officer."

"What?" Li Chenghuan raised his head to look at her, and took a closer look. She was indeed wearing the clothes of a court lady.

"At the Lotus Appreciation Banquet yesterday, the emperor and I recommended myself to be a female official in the four divisions and six workshops, and the emperor accepted. I am now the official of the etiquette and law department, and the third rank of the official. Just watch, I will soon Be a first-class female officer. Anyway, we share the same room, and when the time comes, you and I will support each other..."

Li Chenghuan secretly thought her words were funny, where did he and she support each other?

Three days later, Wang Wuguo came to Chu Xiuyuan with Li Chenghuan, the head of the Department of Rites and Law, to announce the decree. Li Chenghuan knelt down and greeted his fate calmly.

At the end of June in the second year of Emperor Jing, the selection of concubines, which lasted for more than a year, was officially over.In this selection of concubines, there were 210 seven good women who entered the palace. The emperor granted five concubines, three concubines, and one noble concubine. This selection of concubines was also the only one during Emperor Jing's reign.

Among the nine concubines, except for one concubine Shu who was the daughter of a businessman in Yuluzhou and one concubine Jing who was the daughter of a commoner in the capital, the other seven were all daughters of officials from various places, famous families, wealthy businessmen and celebrities.One person became the emperor's woman, and those in the family were conferred with titles and officials, and the court promoted a large number of civil servants.

From the Great Xia Dynasty to the first emperor's reign, military officials had always been more important than civil servants, and civil officials of the same rank always had a slightly lower status than military officials of the same rank.Later, Prime Minister Zuo presided over the government, and this situation gradually improved.But since Prime Minister Zuo retired, the civil servants in the imperial court were once again in a weak position compared to the military officials. Seeing that Great Xia entered the era of peace, the civil servants were caused by the military officials.

But after this "tide of sealing officials", the power of the military attache has faintly lost the wind.Many young talents began to enter the political center and participate in government affairs.And it is conceivable that a large number of young civil servants will be produced in the civil service examinations held in various state capitals and capitals in the following July. People of insight in the world faintly feel that in a few years, the Great Xia may be about to We are truly ushering in a "prosperous age of civil governance"!

However, ordinary people are not very concerned about these twists and turns in the officialdom, but they are particularly sensitive to the anecdotes that happened during the election of concubines.For example, this time "selecting concubines" has become "selecting female officials", for example, whether Emperor Jing is beautiful or ugly, for example, the three concubines who are in charge of the three palaces of "Spring, Summer, and Winter" in the famous imperial court of Great Xia, and for example, the capital city The reopening of the royal hunting ground in Luming Mountain outside the north gate.

For some reason, Emperor Jing thought of the royal hunting ground that had been abandoned for many years. In early July, he mobilized a group of strong soldiers from the southwest military camp to rebuild the hunting ground. , was left in the capital and incorporated into the imperial army.

Li Chenghuan, who hadn't worked in the palace for a few days, was "cared for" by Wang Sili and sent to Luming Mountain to take care of the hunting ground.Before leaving the palace, Wang Wuguo sent him several large boxes of clothes, jewelry, pens and inks, and said: "My family sent them to the palace for me. There are so many things that I don't think I have a place to put them." , since you are going to Luming Mountain, then take it with you. Keep it if it is useful, and throw it away if it is not, anyway, there will be more of this kind of thing in the future.”

Wang Wuguo treated him so "sincerely", which made Li Chenghuan feel a little fearful.But he didn't refuse at all, although he thought that after arriving at Luming Mountain, no one would control or watch him, he would no longer have to put on makeup and hold his voice to talk every day, and the attire of these women would no longer be needed, But since it was "gifted" to him by Wang Wuguo, it is natural to accept it with a little flattery.

The author has something to say:

Poor little Chenghuan has been kept in the dark, I haven't written many "behind the scenes", but I believe that the eyes of the masses are discerning!