Chapter 2412 Takeover
This process will take at least two or three months.
She and Shao Yunduan didn't want to move in so quickly, so they planned to live in the east side hall of the Qianqing Palace for the time being.
There were also countless storehouses in the palace that needed to be counted, and all kinds of jewels and curios needed to be re-arranged and registered.
The palace maids, eunuchs, and imperial guards who had already escaped from the palace with the treasures could not be held accountable. Any palace maids or eunuchs who stole treasures had to hand them over. If they hid them and were discovered or exposed, they would be severely punished.
As the new masters who took over the imperial palace, Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan naturally couldn't let them feel too relaxed or easy to talk to at the beginning, otherwise who knows how many things of deceiving their superiors and hiding the truth from their subordinates would happen!
Especially since Shao Yunduan was the top scholar chosen by the late emperor and had been to the palace before. Basically all the palace maids and eunuchs had heard of him, and many of them had seen him. They might not have taken him seriously in the past - after all, even if they were servants, they were servants in the palace, serving the emperor, empress, princes and other ladies!
How many of the servants of the royal family take the court officials seriously?
On the contrary, if it is the favored eunuchs, palace maids, or aunts in charge, the court officials have to speak to them politely and secretly give them benefits to curry their favor!
Once a stereotype is formed, it is not easy to change it.
At times like this, Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan must take a tougher stance.
Qiao Xuan actually hoped that someone would hide the money and not report it in an attempt to embezzle it so that she could catch him and make an example of him!
In short, there are countless things in the palace that need to be sorted out, and Qiao Xuan has no free time at all, and Ding Xiang is also very busy.
This situation will have to last for at least a few days before things can gradually get back on track.
This palace is so huge!
They had too few people, so it was bound to be difficult at the beginning.
Fortunately, the siege was very quick, so the palace was not in too much chaos and there was almost no damage. Otherwise, rebuilding it would have been a huge project.
What Qiao Xuan didn't expect was that when Yang Mu led people to search the palace, they actually found He Zhiqing.
All of the Fourth Prince's concubines, regardless of their status, as well as the concubines dowager left behind by the previous emperor, the previous emperor's queen who is now the empress dowager, the Fourth Prince's biological mother, and so on, all found a place to go at the first opportunity.
The vast majority of people were sent to the Beiyuan Palace for house arrest, especially the concubines of the Fourth Prince. It was impossible to allow them to continue staying in the palace.
Qiao Xuan had made up her mind. After one or two years, when the situation was completely stable, those concubines who were willing to go home would be sent back home, while those who were unwilling would stay in the palace to retire.
Unexpectedly, He Zhiqing was missed.
When sending people out before, He Zhiqing should have hidden herself, and her position was just that of a minor noble - this was an empty title given to her for the sake of the Xie family's face, but in fact, she, the noble, had long fallen out of favor.
The Fourth Prince took her in at first in order to win over the Xie family and later deal with Qiao Xuan, but she failed to accomplish either of these two things. Naturally, the Fourth Prince would not treat her well.
When the Fourth Prince ascended the throne, he awarded He Zhiqing the status of a noble lady for the sake of the Xie family, but never summoned her to sleep with him.
He Zhiqing is no different from a transparent person in this palace.
Do you regret it? Actually, I do regret it a little.
If she had not taken the initiative to go to Beijing to seek wealth and fame under the banner of the Xie family, and had not followed the Fourth Prince, she would have married gloriously in the provincial capital of Yuzhang and become the mistress of a certain family.
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(End of this chapter)
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