Cining Palace.
At this moment, under the Empress Dowager's decree, thousands of beautiful women had been summoned into the palace. After many rounds of selection, sixteen peerless beauties with their own merits were finally decided, waiting for the Emperor to come and choose.
These beautiful women were all selected from various places and went through layers of screening before they could enter the harem.
Sun Ruowei specially called Zhu Qizhen to the palace to discuss the selection of talents.
"Your son greets mother."
"There's no need to be so polite. Your son is busy with government affairs all day, and these days the harem is filled with your beauties. This group of beautiful women was carefully selected by aijia for you, how about you personally choose them into the palace?”
Zhu Qizhen said in surprise,"You've gathered all the peerless beauties in the world so quickly?"”
"This is just a matter of an imperial decree for our imperial family. What's so difficult about it?”
When Zhu Qizhen had discussed the matter of the Na 'vi in the harem with Sun Ruowei, he had only said it casually.
But he never thought that the Empress Dowager would be so efficient. When he first entered the Cining Palace, he saw a large group of beautiful women waiting for the imperial edict outside the palace.
Most of those beautiful women were carefully selected by the Empress Dowager for Zhu Qizhen. They were all beautiful, virtuous, and dignified.
In Zhu Qizhen's eyes, the selection of concubines was nothing more than an ornamental activity after he was done with government affairs.
But when it came to the Empress Dowager, it was her top priority.
Before the position of empress was chosen, almost all the affairs in the harem were handled by the empress dowager alone. Only when the emperor chose a virtuous and virtuous empress could she truly stay in Ci Ning Palace and enjoy her life.
Therefore, the selection of an empress was a national matter. It was not decided by the empress dowager or the emperor alone. It even alarmed the ministers in the court!
Zhu Qizhen was rather helpless about this matter. Even if he was already the emperor of the Nine and Five Dynasties and had the highest authority in the world, he could not do whatever he wanted.
"Then let's follow Mother's orders and look at this group of beauties.”
Zhu Qizhen did not want to embarrass the Empress Dowager, so he sat beside her and began to summon the beautiful women.
Many matters in the harem were handled by Zhang Shanggong, who was in charge of the sixth bureau.
The Empress Dowager whispered in Zhang Shanggong's ear before she left.
The daughters of the ministers in the court could not be sent to the palace to be the concubines. This was a rule set since Emperor Taizu, in order to prevent the imperial relatives from monopolizing power and disrupting the court.
These 16 beauties were selected from nearly 10,000 beauties in the country. After many tests, they were finally selected. It could be said that they were one in ten thousand.
These beauties came from various provinces, but because the quota was limited, the recommended beauties could be said to be alluring and beautiful.
In order to comply with the Empress Dowager's decree, many places had put in a lot of effort to select talents to enter the palace.
After all, everyone hoped that the province they were in could produce a woman who was the mother of the world. For this reason, the officials in various places could be said to have taken great pains to send a large number of beautiful women they had selected into the palace.
However, who would have known that once they entered the palace gates, they would be locked inside the palace walls and live a life like a prison?
These 10,000 women would go through many tests and a large number of them would be eliminated. Those who were not selected would be sent back to their hometown. As for the remaining group of beautiful women, they were all virtuous and dignified, handsome and beautiful, gentle and charming, and talented.
After the preliminary selection, it was up to Zhang Shanggong, who was in charge of the sixth division, to select nearly a hundred beautiful women to enter the palace.
The beautiful women who entered the palace had to learn the rules of the harem. Only those who learned the rules could be kept by the female officials. The rest were all sent out of the palace.
During this period, half of them were eliminated, leaving only fifty or so people. Zhang Shanggong would bring them to the empress dowager, who would personally select them. Only those who were selected by the empress dowager would have a chance to survive in the harem. The others who were not selected would be placed in the sixth division as palace maids.
It could be said that every step these beautiful women took was shocking. The sixteen beautiful women who were able to stand in the Cining Palace were undoubtedly peerless beauties.
They had impeccable looks and figures, were proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and were well-educated and intelligent.
Not long after, Zhang Shanggong brought those beautiful women to meet him. The sound of footsteps could be heard outside the palace.
The sixteen beautiful women all entered the hall with their heads lowered in excitement, not daring to raise their heads to look at the dragon.
They had all been strictly taught by the palace and would never dare to cross the line.
As long as the Emperor didn't ask them to raise their heads, they couldn't raise their heads to look at the dragon's face. Otherwise, their lives would be in danger of being beaten to death.
These beautiful women knew very well that if they were chosen by the Emperor to serve him, they would have the opportunity to become the masters of this harem in the future. They might even have the opportunity to become the mother of a country and the mother of the world!
With such an excited mood, they did not dare to make any mistakes and followed Zhang Shanggong's strict instructions.
The Emperor…
How many people feared him?
Moreover, it was said that the current emperor was less than 10 years old. There were legends of a prodigy emperor among the people.
Now that the boy who held the power of the world was sitting in front of them, how could they not be excited?
They had gone through layers of selection in the palace to reach their current state, and only they themselves knew the soul-stirring process.
Whether the emperor could choose him, everything depended on fate!
It all depended on the heavens!
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