It is better to be an emperor than to fight in the palace

Chapter 34 Why didn’t you get promoted?
  The day of the draft came as scheduled, because Yuan Qifeng wanted to watch the draft, so as to see the quality of the opponent that Academician Cai had found for him.

Therefore, everyone in the harem, from Concubine Qi down except for the two in the cold palace, all got the opportunity to watch the draft.

The reason Jiang Simian gave for this was to cultivate the favorability of the concubines in the harem in advance and to get familiar with them first.

Even the Queen Mother is looking forward to this draft. After all, Ruan Lian is already useless and ran away with Jiang Simian, so she must choose a concubine who can do practical things for her.

As for Ruan Lian, who felt good before, I heard that she is now guarding a pot of oranges and singing in the Qingyuan Hall every day. She is afraid that she has been tortured crazy by the irritable Jiang Changzai.

Everyone present had different thoughts, but all their eyes were focused on the beautiful girl in the hall.

It was also the first time for the show girls to see such a scene. Didn't it say that only those with the status of Your Majesty, Queen Mother, and Imperial Concubine could participate in the entry of show girls into the palace?

Why, at a glance, there are twenty or thirty people, all of them are noble people who are not on the stage, always present, and promising.

The eyebrows of some beautiful ladies showed some dissatisfaction. Their status after entering the palace with their own status must be high, but now they actually have to be pointed out by these low-level concubines, which is tantamount to a kind of humiliation for themselves.

At this time, Jiang Simian and the Queen Mother were in the first place, and next to them was Concubine Qi. Sitting next to Concubine Qi was Yuan Qifeng and Ruan Lian standing behind him. As for the other concubines, there were no seats, and they were talking in small groups in low voices. .

The people from the Ministry of Rites announced the start of the draft according to the procedure.

"The first beautiful woman to go to the front of the saint, the daughter of the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Qin Xinhua"

Jiang Simian turned the booklet in her hand to the corresponding page and said without raising her head: "Feng Qin Liangyuan"

"The second beautiful lady comes to the front of the saint, the daughter of Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, Zhang Rong"

Still without even looking at it, she just looked at the note in the book and sealed her title, "Feng Rongbi"

"The third beautiful lady comes to the front, the granddaughter of the cabinet bachelor, Yang Ruolan"

Jiang Simian felt like an emotionless repetition machine, "Feng Lan, your concubine"

"The fourth show girl..."

...

After being canonized for a long time, I finally got to the last one.

"The granddaughter of a bachelor, Cai Mingyi"

Jiang Simian rarely looked up and saw that she was indeed a rare beauty, but the sweet girl with a lolita feel was still a bit inferior to her own appearance.

"Confess Cai Mingyi as Ming Fei"

As soon as Jiang Simian finished speaking, the whole place was in an uproar.

Cai Mingyi is the only one among many beautiful ladies to be directly named a concubine. What kind of honor is this? Everyone seems to have seen how she will be crowned the Sixth Palace in the future.

But what the ladies didn't notice was that the concubines watching from the high platform were not too shocked by this. Instead, they unconsciously turned their attention to Yuan Qifeng, who was sitting firmly like a mountain.

The ladies didn't know Yuan Qifeng's identity. Seeing that he could sit next to Concubine Qi, they just thought that his status must be high. But if they knew that this person was just Chang Zai, their jaws would definitely drop.

Therefore, everyone was very skeptical about whether the newly arrived Ming Fei could bring the emperor from Jiang Chang to stay with them.

After canonizing all the beautiful ladies, the people from the Ministry of Rites summoned the other concubines except Concubine Qi, Jiang Simian and Ruan Lian.

According to their respective origins and the year they entered the palace, and according to the emperor's decree given to them, they were rearranged. Almost all the concubines in the harem were promoted by more than one level. This made everyone extremely happy. When I entered the palace, because the Holy Emperor was not happy about the affairs in the court, he canonized them at will, which caused the ranking of many important ministers' women to be too low.

This time, everyone is back to where they should be, and everyone is full of confidence.

But what puzzles everyone is that Ruan Lian was brought back by the Empress Dowager from the Shangshu Mansion in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Her status is not high, so it’s fine if she is not promoted. Why does Jiang Changzai’s position remain unchanged?

It stands to reason that Jiang Simian is the legitimate daughter of the general, with a distinguished status. Now she is the only one favored by the Holy Emperor, ranking first in the Sixth Palace. With her background and degree of favor, even if she is directly promoted from Chang Zai to concubine this time, everyone will be happy. Not surprising.

But everyone moved, but she didn't. Could this be a sign that she would fall out of favor?

But it's not like that, someone who is about to fall out of favor can sit next to the emperor, and his majesty talks to her and gives him a look from time to time.

On the high platform at this time, Ruan Lian couldn't help but asked quietly, "Why didn't His Majesty promote you?"

"I didn't let it go, please." Yuan Qifeng waved his hand carelessly. When he thought that after his status was high, a lot of people would come to greet him every day, Yuan Qifeng felt a chill.

Uh…

Ruan Lian didn't ask why she wasn't promoted. Firstly, she was far behind in status compared with the ladies from the official families in the capital. Secondly, and most importantly, she, Jiang Simian, was still a constant presence and could not give up her position. Those with higher scores than her should serve her and sing songs for her money oranges every day.

But don’t tell me, that Qianjie is indeed growing well after listening to the music for a few days.

I digress…

Just by looking at Jiang Simian's attitude, she knew that she was still favored, and Ruan Lian felt relieved.

Suddenly, he felt a time staring closely at him. When he looked over, he saw that it was Cai Mingyi, the granddaughter of Academician Cai, who had just been canonized as Mingfei.

"Sister Jiang, Concubine Ming is looking at you, maybe she has some thoughts about you."

Hearing this, Yuan Qifeng looked over. Cai Mingyi could still vaguely see the outline of her childhood on her face, but the deep disgust and disdain for her in her eyes made Yuan Qifeng feel even more unfamiliar.

It seems that the granddaughter of Academician Cai is spoiled.

But luckily, I don't like being used to such people.

He rolled his eyes at Cai Mingyi angrily, and the latter was filled with anger.

He asked the concubine next to him in a low voice if he knew who was next to Concubine Qi.

Before entering the palace, Cai Mingyi had already figured out the situation in the harem. Except for Concubine Qi, she was the concubine who had just been canonized. She didn't know who could sit in that seat and look down on her openly.

At this time, Liu Ying, who had just been promoted to concubine Liu, came over and said in a low voice: "Ming Fei does not know something, but that person is Jiang Si Mianjiang Chang Zai, who is the only one favored in the harem."

Cai Mingyi only heard the words "Dude Shengfeng" in her ears, and she couldn't help but sneered, "Humph, it's just a little constant, how long can it be rampant?"

Liu Ying just smiled and said nothing. Jiang Simian's life would not be easy if she offended the new concubine Ming who entered the palace. She could just wait and see the good show.

At this time, the entire draft ceremony ended, and everyone respectfully sent the emperor and the queen mother off.

Cai Mingyi raised her head after saluting, her eyes quickly searching for the figure she hated.

(End of this chapter)