The Supreme Emperor temporarily moved to Shoukang Palace, and all the concubines in the inner palace were promoted to concubines and moved into Shoukang Palace with the Supreme Emperor.

Crown Princess Cui was conferred the title of Queen and moved into Fengyi Palace.In the coming year, there will be a draft to enrich the harem.

The new emperor ascended the throne and pardoned the world.

Princess Jingyang brought Chu Yin into the palace to congratulate her as her married woman.

Empress Cui was wearing a brand-new phoenix robe and a phoenix crown, and she was beaming with joy. This added a bit of dignity and majesty to her originally ordinary appearance.

The ladies inside and outside the house paid homage to the queen together. Empress Cui personally helped Concubine Xie to stand up, and ordered others to help all the concubines to stand up first. "You are all concubines of this palace, so you cannot perform this grand ceremony."

He turned around and ordered someone to give him a seat, and then went to help Princess Jingyang and other royal elders to stand up. He also ordered his confidant maid to help Chu Yin and other respected wives to stand up, and arranged seats for them all.

Then Queen Cui took the throne, high-spirited, and said to everyone with a smile: "I have neither talent nor virtue. Now I am in the back position, assisting the new emperor. If there is anything wrong in the future, please feel free to point it out. .”

All the women were busy saying they didn't dare.

The queen then explained the new emperor's ideas: "Your Majesty said that the national treasury is not very full now and cannot bear to increase taxes, so he must promote frugality.

"The expenses in the harem will be reduced by [-]%. Now that the harem is empty, we can save a lot of money. However, the concubines have served the Supreme Emperor with merit and now they have moved to Shoukang Palace. They have already been wronged. I really can't bear to reduce it any more.

"So once Shoukang Palace is used, it will still be the same as before."

The queen had said this, and the royal family members naturally wanted to express their support, so they all said that they should be strict in frugality and offered to cut their salaries by [-]%.

Queen Cui pretended to decline and then agreed.

Seeing this, other married women naturally could not lag behind and expressed their intention to reduce their salaries.

Empress Cui looked touched and praised everyone again and again, saying that it was really a blessing for Zhou Dynasty that everyone knew the general situation and took the overall situation into consideration.

Later, there will be a banquet. Since we talked about frugality, this time the palace banquet was not as extravagant as before, and several dishes were missing.

The Supreme Emperor frowned when he saw it, but this was the first imperial edict issued by the new emperor after he ascended the throne. There was no need for him to sing the opposite. Since he had said that he would delegate power, he should not point fingers.

Anyway, even if it is reduced, the dishes are still rich.

For the ministers and wives, these changes did not have any impact on them. In the past, when receiving banquets in the palace, they only moved their chopsticks slightly. The dishes looked exquisite and delicious, but because there were a series of procedures for receiving banquets in the palace, it was difficult to wait until the actual banquet. By the time it was ready to eat, all the dishes were cold.

The palace banquet was over and it was already dusk. The ministers and wives received the oracle before bowing down and bowing out.

The eldest princess Jingyang and his wife took Chu Yin directly back to the eldest princess's mansion - now it has also been changed to the eldest princess's mansion. They have to wait for Rong An to change duties before they can pick her up.

The mansion of the eldest princess also has a courtyard for Rong An and Chu Yin, and it is very convenient to change clothes and freshen up. After she packed up, she went to have dinner with the eldest princess and his wife in Jingyang.

When the three of them were sitting and chatting together, Juncker said: "Since His Majesty advocates frugality, why not hand over the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion to the court, and I won't live there anyway."

The eldest princess of Jingyang felt a little guilty. In fact, they could live in the eldest princess's mansion or the Zhenbei Hou's mansion. However, after so many years of marriage, the Zhenbei Hou's mansion has been vacant. Only people from the Rong family will be arranged to live there. .

Juncker was very tolerant, "We won't stay here for long, so don't think too much about anything else."

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