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The fact that the new empress was going to choose a harem for the emperor quickly spread throughout the harem, and even those well-informed people, even people outside the palace, knew about it.

So, that evening, when the emperor and Jia Yan were together late, they talked about this matter: "Queen, I know you have been wronged. But that is the mother queen, and you should be more courteous to the mother queen."

Jia Yan laughed immediately, and said: "Look at what Long Live said, am I the kind who doesn't know the importance? This is the case with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the world. Not only my mother and queen mother follow me, but also my natal family. Just like our old lady, young It was like this when I was in Beijing, I hope my grandfather will only guard her, and when my son grows up, I hope that my son will have many children and grandchildren. It is not my natal family. Is this like this? When the empress saw the emptiness under your knees, she felt anxious. Even I, seeing that you are only a few princes, know that I have a heavy responsibility on my shoulders. Even if my heart is sour, I can only be sour. If it hadn’t been long ago With this plan, how can I handle it freely with my mother and empress. It's just that I have only been in the palace for half a month, and I have to prepare for this, so I feel very uncomfortable. I am young, and I was raised by my family , after all, can’t be like my sister, coping with it freely.”

The sister Jia Yan is talking about here is the late Empress Meng.

When the emperor heard this, he couldn't bear to continue talking.

You know, Jia Yan, who was only 13 years old, told him that she was unwilling to share only her husband and children with others.

The emperor kept these words firmly in his heart.Now Jia Yan would consider the issue of his scarce heirs, and would also think about choosing a concubine for him. It would be a bit cruel for the emperor to say that Jia Yan, who has only been newly married for half a month, is making such preparations now.

The emperor thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, you don't need to think about this matter for half a year. I will talk about it with the empress."

Jia Yan immediately smiled like a flower: "The concubine first thanked Long Live for his compassion."

In fact, even the Empress Dowager said to the people around her, "Tell me, is this palace too harsh on the empress?"

Fang Shanggong, who was beside the Empress Dowager, said, "Your Majesty, I want this servant to tell you that you are worried about the Second Prince, that's why you lost your temper at the Empress. Where is your fault?"

After all, the second prince is the emperor's eldest son. If the emperor doesn't have a son, it is very likely that the second prince will take the throne in the end.This is also the reason why the Empress Dowager spoke.

The Empress Dowager shook her head and said: "Even if the royal family is different from ordinary people, it is unreasonable for the empress to handle the selection of concubines for the emperor only half a month after entering the palace. Someone, please go to Qingliang Hall to inform about this matter Put it aside."

The Supreme Empress did not say when she mentioned this matter, but everyone knows that after the Supreme Empress said so, the harem should live in peace for a while.

Yes, the Empress Dowager will confront the Empress. It is not to support a certain concubine. The Empress Dowager is the empress who was conferred before the Empress Dowager abdicated.And she doesn't have her own flesh and blood, so naturally she doesn't need to stand in line.

However, the royal family is different from ordinary families. In ordinary families, no matter what the elders do, the juniors must be honest and honest.The most typical example is the Jia family.

Royal is different.Even if the Supreme Empress has a noble status, but if one day, the second prince came to power, and he hated his mother for being punished and angered the Supreme Empress and her natal family, what would the Supreme Empress do?After all, she is nothing more than a deep palace woman.

Therefore, between the grown-up second prince and the new queen who had just entered the palace, the Empress Dowager chose the second prince.

Not only because she watched the second prince grow up, she has more affection for the second prince, but also because she is worried that if she acts improperly, she will arouse the second prince's resentment.

As for the queen, before she gave birth to the prince and raised her own prince, everything was false.

However, even if she favored the second prince, the Empress Dowager would not have any ill relations with the empress, so it was enough to disrespect the empress in front of noble Zhu and Concubine Zhou De and Concubine Zhao Jing.She won't do the extra.

Just like this time, the Empress Dowager directly said to shelve this proposal but did not mention when to restart it. This was her attitude.

This is the court, any matter, any sentence, has to make nine twists and eighteen turns.

There are no secrets in this palace. As for whether all the concubines have heard the last news, I don't know what these concubines think, but this matter has passed like this.Even if the Empress Dowager punished the Empress for copying the precepts for training women, the Empress Dowager did not set a time limit, so it was left alone.

As for the second prince and the fourth prince, knowing the cause, process and result of this incident, and their reaction, this is not something that a palace tycoon like Jia Yan needs to spend time understanding.

Compared with guessing the thoughts of the concubine below, for a mother of a country like Jia Yan, it is more important to participate in various sacrifices and ceremonies with the emperor.

That's right, this is the privilege of the queen. Apart from giving birth to the emperor, the queen has great power in many things. The concubines in the harem are not eligible to participate in various sacrifices and sacrifices. They can only stay in the harem. Looking up at the sky at the four corners of the courtyard.But the queen has different interests, most of them are ceremonies, and the queen must participate. This is the queen's right and the queen's obligation.

Because the queen is "same as the king of heaven", these four words are clearly written in the book that canonize the queen.

Therefore, in the first month, when the queen followed the emperor to visit the Taimiao again, it was not surprising that she felt unwell and was found to be pregnant.

Not to mention the reaction from the Jia family, even the emperor himself was overjoyed.

The emperor personally ran to the Supreme Emperor's Ningshou Palace. No one knew what the two kings said, but after the emperor came out of Ningshou Palace, he issued an edict to the world to take millions of acres of land around Shangqiu as the empress' fief .

With this edict, the government and the public were in an uproar.

Of course, the wise man kept silent.For example, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the officials related to these two departments did not say a word.

If others don't know, will they not know?The Shangqiu area in the emperor's decree is actually a vast plain area in the lower reaches of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Gorge.This section of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Gorge has a relatively large drop, and the only waterfall on the main trunk of the Yellow River is also located at this location.Therefore, the millions of mu of land in the lower reaches of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Gorge, that is, the Shangqiu area, has a large amount of sediment deposited here.The Yellow River here is not only a wandering river, not to mention that the river course is not fixed, and a large amount of sediment is directly exposed. Therefore, this is also a hotbed of locust plagues.

Because the river course is not fixed, crops are planted here, and a flood is gone.

Similarly, because it is a hotbed of locust plagues, even if the crops last until the harvest season, the harvest will not be very high.

In short, the fief is the place where the nobles enjoyed taxes in ancient times, but the emperor gave this land to the queen. The queen could not enjoy the huge benefits brought by the fief's taxation, and might spend a lot of time, energy and money on governance , and if it is not governed and left to be abandoned, it will definitely attract the impeachment of hundreds of officials, but if it is governed and there is no effect in a short time, it will definitely be impeached.

This decree is no different from putting the queen on the stove.

Yushitai immediately expressed his objection to the memorial: Although there was a precedent for this in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was also a matter of 700 years ago.Not to mention that there has never been a precedent for granting fiefdoms to queens in this dynasty, and even if there were, there was no direct grant of millions of acres.

All the censors in Yushitai jointly played the petition, asking the emperor to take back his order.