Chapter 158: Palace fighting is a circle, and they haven't entered it yet

Lin Mo's suggestion immediately opened up new ideas for the harem ladies.

Lord Xiaolin is right! Why didn't they think of this!

Moreover, they are naturally gifted to write about this subject matter in the harem. As for the fear of the harem secrets being spread, they don't have to worry about it at all.

They really have no secrets in this harem now. The only secret is poverty. However, if the harem ladies and the emperor are poor, I guess no one will believe it.

After all, before Lord Xiaolin went to court, the emperor and the ministers cried about poverty. The ministers all thought that the emperor was deliberately deceiving them.

After returning to the imperial palace from the temporary palace, the empress and the ladies in the harem began to write the storybook.

But the problem is that there is still one thing that needs to be solved.

"Empress, how should we write about competing for favor? It seems that we have never done such a thing."

Defei had a pen in her hand and had no idea where to start. It seemed that they had never competed for favor for the emperor.

The empress was also stumped by this problem. She didn't know how to write about this matter.

The main reason is that there are not many concubines in the harem now. Everyone is busy doing their own things and has no time to compete for favor.

You say that if competing for favor can improve your treatment, then go for it, but the problem is that the emperor is also poor. When the emperor comes to their palace, he has to take one or two things with him. They even hope that the emperor will come less often.

At this moment, Emperor Xuande, who was reviewing memorials in the study, sneezed loudly.

Eunuch Li quickly handed him a handkerchief and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you take a break? You have been busy all day today, so you can rest for a while."

Emperor Xuande wiped his nose and said irritably, "It is true that you can rest for a while, but it is because they are urging me. I am only one person, and there are so many things for me to deal with and review. Those ministers are so good, urging me every day, which is really annoying."

The main thing is that his three sons are running out every day for some reason.

They don't know how to help their old father share the official duties. The same is true for the prince. Since he came back, no one knows what he is busy with.

The emperor is very upset, and the harem is not much better.

In order to gather material, the queen even asked the concubines to ask the concubines how they fought for the emperor's favor when the previous emperor was alive.

The concubines who were suddenly asked: "

No, are you asking this question to humiliate us?"

The concubines refused to answer, which made the other concubines very anxious.

"Empress Dowager, this matter concerns the survival of our harem. Please help with this. Don't you want to live a better life in the future?"

"Yes, yes, the harem is in financial difficulty now, and the emperor is also poor. Although the national treasury is abundant, we can't use the money in the national treasury. The late emperor had his own private treasury, but the emperor doesn't even have his own private treasury. If he wants to reward anything, he has to save from his own teeth. You have watched the emperor grow up, don't you think the emperor is pitiful?"

Concubines: ...How come you say that the emperor is even worse than a beggar on the street? He is not that miserable.

In fact, the emperor had a private treasury in the early days, but later on, when the national treasury was empty, he invested all these things into it little by little, and in the end, he had nothing left.

Now that the national treasury finally has money, his private treasury is still poor, not as rich as these concubines, otherwise why would the emperor always take things from them.

And every year on the empress's birthday, she can receive a lot of rare treasures. The empress is good to them, and they can't do without good things.

It's just that the emperor will also say that there are so many good things on his birthday every year, but before that, they were all converted into money to subsidize the national treasury. Even the gifts from the empress had to be divided into half to subsidize the national treasury, and the remaining half was left for living.

It was true that they had never seen such a poor imperial family in all their lives. Before entering the palace, they had never thought that they would live such a life in the future.

After a day of persuasion, they finally persuaded the concubines.

A concubine sighed and said seriously: "In fact, it's not that we don't want to tell you, it's mainly because we don't understand. The more fiercely fighting concubines of the late emperor died, and the slightly more powerful ones also left the palace when the emperor ascended the throne. We are just some small flowers and grasses. To put it simply, we have never been involved."

Another concubine also said: "That's right, we have neither family background nor wealth, and we are not that outstanding. For example, I only saw the late emperor once, and that was in the palace. At the banquet."

Others also echoed, "Yes, if you really want to know, you can go to Duke Chen's house and ask Concubine Chen. She was once favored, and now she is the only concubine who has participated in the more intense palace struggles. But I heard that her mind has become increasingly unclear recently, and you probably won't get anything out of her if you ask her."

Those of them who stayed in the palace were really nothing, so when they heard these concubines coming to ask about the palace struggles of the late emperor, they thought that these people came to humiliate them deliberately.

If palace struggles are a circle, they probably haven't even entered this circle.

The expressions on the faces of the concubines who heard these words were extremely complicated.

Is this the truth? So no one can really solve their problem, right?

The queen was also stunned when she learned about this.

However, she still said with emotion: "I have heard that the struggles in the harem of the previous emperor were fierce, and there were many cases of harming people and children, but I didn't expect it to be so fierce that there were only a few who survived."

It turned out that the few concubines left in the harem had never participated in the palace struggles, which was indeed quite surprising.

In fact, it was quite ridiculous to say that those who participated in the palace struggles died, and those who did not participate in the palace struggles are now enjoying the treatment of ancestors in the palace. Isn't this ridiculous?

"My queen, what should we do? I really can't write this!"

This opportunity to make money is about to fly away, and they really don't want to give up this opportunity to make money!

At this moment, Lin Mo was lying on the bed and snoring, completely unaware that her casual words had kept the harem awake for the past few days.

Bai Xiao slept soundly on her forehead, and those who didn't know would think he was a human fever-reducing patch.

The maid who came to help them cover the quilt shook her head helplessly when she saw this scene.

These two are really becoming more and more outrageous. They are really not afraid of being discovered at all.