Queen, go for hegemony

Chapter 46 The Empress's Diary
breakfast.

His Majesty and Bengong, who were lying in bed, were woken up by Tian Bingqing and Ehuang. After washing, they sat down and had breakfast.

——They have been here for half an hour before.

Ehuang said, I must call myself Ben Gong, although I really don't like this title.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was not in court, was very leisurely, and his breakfast was very slow. I swallowed three crystal shrimp dumplings, and one of his crab roe soup dumplings still looked complete.

I couldn't see it, so I picked up a shrimp dumpling and brought it to his mouth. His Majesty was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth, bit the shrimp dumpling and chewed it lightly, looking very contented.

Ehuang and Tian Bingqing looked at each other and smiled strangely.

I think His Majesty's manner of eating is elegant and dignified, beautiful and delicious, so I am also very satisfied, and can't bear to urge His Majesty to eat quickly.

Rather than wronging His Majesty's stomach and spoiling the beauty of eating, it is better to wrong the feet of the concubines outside the palace gate.

I have always been very clear about the inside and the outside.

The breakfast time took about an hour, so when those delicate concubines came in to kowtow under the leadership of Concubine De and Concubine Yu, all their jade faces were pale and panting.

After they knelt down with singing and singing, they greeted His Majesty the Emperor and the palace, and Ehuang presented the meeting gifts one by one. I looked at them with some interest, but seeing His Majesty's concubines were fat, swallows and thin, They are all different, but their constitutions are a little weak, so they warmly suggested to His Majesty the Emperor: "Your Majesty, I see that these concubines are not strong enough, which is not a sign of longevity. When I was in the countryside, I saw those peasant women. We are all in good health, why not send the concubine to live in the countryside for a while, maybe all of them will be healthy."

When the concubines heard this, their faces were as pale as paper.Concubine De and Concubine Yu stared at me like fire.

All my painstaking efforts, they don't know what is good or bad, I am very sorry!

His Majesty the Emperor smiled and nodded: "Everything is according to what the Queen said." There was a sound of weeping and panic.

Concubine De stared at me, and finally couldn't help scolding: "Bitch—"

Before I got angry, His Majesty's expression changed suddenly: "Come here, Concubine De is disrespectful to Empress Empress, slap her face twenty times!"

Concubine De struggled desperately, and first called "Your Majesty", seeing that His Majesty was unmoved, she dragged her tone and begged: "Cousin...cousin... Shu'er didn't mean to offend the empress..."

Ben Gong was very displeased.

In the common people's house, those who elope or get married, six out of ten are cousins ​​and cousins, and cousins ​​and cousins ​​are a group of people with a high incidence of adultery.

I leaned against the phoenix seat, looked directly at Concubine De who was crying on the ground, and then turned to stare at His Majesty the Emperor: "Your Majesty, actually, I don't think the palace is fun at all, and now my younger brother is back, actually. It’s a good time for family reunion…”

If you dare to make me unhappy, Your Majesty, I will definitely throw up my sleeves and quit this troublesome empress.

The forehead of His Majesty the Emperor twitched violently, angrily: "Are you all deaf?"

Four palace servants rushed up from behind, two of them held Concubine De, two of them slapped their mouths, and within a quarter of an hour, Concubine De's cheeks were swollen into a steamed bun.

I stood up and straightened my back, and couldn't help complaining: "What kind of cousins ​​do I hate the most!"

His Majesty the Emperor smiled slightly: "There has never been a cousin like that in my palace!"

No one can match the ability to tell lies with eyes open!

Concubine De collapsed on the ground and cried into a ball.

It took less than half an hour to meet the concubine, so when he arrived at the Empress Dowager's palace, it was almost in the middle of the corner.

The Empress Dowager saw me coming hand in hand with His Majesty the Emperor, her face was full of joy, and she was very kind to each "emperor", and she asked me to go forward, took my hand and touched it again and again, she was very sorry, if she didn't know that she was not Feng Chao Wen's mother, I really think this is a mother and son family.

Relatively speaking, Feng Chaowen was much colder. After paying his respects according to the etiquette, he sat down with less than a cup of tea and said: "Now the mother and queen are getting old, and the son and minister have married a new wife. It's time for the bride to be in charge of the harem." The queen mother has taken care of her for the rest of her life. All these years, the sons and ministers have been wayward, and they refused to marry the queen, and dragged down the queen mother. I am really ashamed!"

Those beautiful creases on the Empress Dowager's face immediately gave off a sense of tension.

But for a moment, she darkened her face and wept bitterly: "The queen mother is old, how can she manage all these things. It's just that the great general who protects the country only has one daughter, Shu'er, and I hope the emperor and the queen will take care of her more, the emperor Go to accompany Shu'er if you have time, that child is about the same age as the queen, if you have time, let her go to Chonghua Palace to serve the queen more."

The Great General Protecting the Nation is the biological father of Concubine De and the younger brother of the Empress Dowager.

I think that Feng Chaowen brought me to the Empress Dowager's palace today, clearly wanting to capture the power of the harem.But the harem and the court have always been inextricably linked. Otherwise, with a childless queen mother, how much trouble could there be in the palace?

The great general who protects the country must not be underestimated.

I glanced at him worriedly, but he blinked at me quietly, and said slowly: "As long as Concubine De abides by her duties, this harem will naturally have a bowl of stable food for her."

... As long as she is dishonest, she can starve to death?

His Majesty the Emperor is really cunning, this promise is almost like no promise.

The Empress Dowager smiled reluctantly, summoned her personal nuns, summoned the female officials and eunuchs who were in charge of all affairs, and made a clear settlement in front of His Majesty the Emperor.

The delivery was hectic and took another hour.

It is not easy for me to be able to sit in the Chonghua Hall for lunch during the day and midday.

Feng Chaowen had a good appetite and was very fast. When he put down the silver-headed ivory chopsticks, I was still holding a half-bowl of Bisami and refused to let go.

He enthusiastically scooped up a pearl fish ball and fed it, I ate it with his hands, wondering: "Your Majesty, why is breakfast so slow today?"

His Majesty the Emperor smiled slightly and pinched my nose: "How stupid!"

Tian Bingqing, who was standing on the side, smiled and joked: "Your Majesty doesn't know something, Your Majesty will let the masters of these palaces hang out, and teach them who is the real master in the harem."

Bengong was very pleased and ate half a bowl of rice.

His Majesty the Emperor was also very helpful. He was flattered by me and fed a lot of pearl fish balls and various side dishes. As a result, both of them were overwhelmed. They lay on the dragon bed in the Chonghua Palace and hummed together. Each of them drank a bowl of Xiaoshi Tea makes me feel better.

In the middle of the day, His Majesty the Emperor summoned the eunuchs and female officials in charge of harem affairs to gather in the Chonghua Hall, and also summoned a large number of imperial guards, led by Yan Ping, to search the residences of these people in various palaces, and the palace was suddenly in a state of chaos.

His Majesty the Emperor dragged me to sit in the Chonghua Palace together, according to the head book, one by one, except for the stewards of the empress dowager's palace, the stewards of the other palaces and the 24 ministers of the six ministers took out radishes and mud, and replaced them all.

Taking advantage of my laziness while drinking tea, Ehuang secretly told me that the group of eunuchs in charge and female officials in charge that His Majesty replaced today are all newcomers to each department. He trained these people under his nose, and today he cut off the Queen Mother's wings neatly.

Even if he didn't impress anyone in the Empress Dowager's Palace today, the Empress Dowager's Palace still seemed to be isolated, and it was difficult to spread news or influence the affairs of the Palace.

At this moment, E Huang looked at me with respectful eyes: "Your Majesty personally sits in town today and grooms these palace people for the empress. In the future, the empress will be in charge of the harem, and no one will be dissatisfied. No one dares to trip up and make trouble behind my back."

My scalp was numb, and I stared blankly at E Huang: "These things are originally the empress's duties?"

Ehuang nodded: "Your Majesty is in charge of the government, and there are many opportunities every day, so the harem is naturally presided over by the empress..."

I feel like I've been tricked by Feng Chaowen!
I thought that becoming a queen is just to see who is not pleasing to the eye and who is surprised. Apart from building a good relationship with His Majesty the emperor and living in harmony, life will be good, but I don't know that there is such a big mess to take care of.

It is true that I stayed in the Grand Chen Palace before, but I never had the opportunity to be an apprentice next to the empress at that time...

So I think... I, the empress, probably won't last too long!
His Majesty the Emperor took two hours to clear up the affairs of the harem, and sent out a group of corrupt people, including the confidantes of the Empress Dowager. The confession was put out, and he returned in dismay.

I heard that the empress dowager got very angry this afternoon and almost smashed all the porcelain in the dormitory... His Majesty the emperor heard that, but he just sent someone to summon the imperial doctor from the imperial hospital to go to the dormitory of the empress dowager to check her pulse...

The palace was in turmoil, the empress dowager was fighting with the emperor's stepmother and stepson, and I really had nothing to do in the middle. If I hadn't been detained by Feng Chaochan's side to recognize the female officials and eunuchs of various divisions, I would have gone back to the dragon bed to sleep.

I think...the empress's responsibilities are really a headache to think about. After the emperor's dinner, I boldly proposed to resign and quit. Such words are even more outrageous than when my father scolded me in the study back then, and I almost swung it down with a stick in my hand.

At first I kept my head down and confessed my mistakes honestly, but when I saw him getting more and more scolded, I became more and more angry, and my heart was full of anger, and I retorted with a stiff neck: "Your Majesty, are you going to be a father or a husband?"

He stared at me angrily, with his chest heaving, he stood up from behind the imperial case, stretched out his big palm and pulled me into his arms, gnashing his teeth: "You don't know what to do, you white-eyed wolf..."

I had a premonition that the situation was not good, so I hurriedly begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, I must work hard and take charge of the harem, and I will not mention resignation or quitting..."

Tian Bing disappeared early in the morning dragging E Huang, and he and I were the only two in the Chonghua Palace.

His Majesty the Emperor gritted his teeth and whispered in my ear: "It's late!" He bit my ear heavily.

... I think, as a queen empress, this day is the saddest at this moment!

(End of this chapter)