After finally agreeing on the comic column, Feng Ming remembered that he had come to talk to the Queen about Feng Yuyun. This was a major event that involved whether the harem could unite and work together to create the first harmonious family in Daqing. It could not be delayed!
However, Fengming did not tell the Queen about Feng Yuyun's "suspected soul travel, with two souls in one body". After all, the Queen had a young heart and had never experienced the baptism of time-travel novels, so Fengming only roughly said that Feng Yuyun's mental condition was not very stable and the Queen needed to send more people to take care of her.
In addition, it is also necessary to appease the second sister Feng Yuxiao. Although Yuxiao has always been a generous and easy-going person, Fengming likes this sister very much and does not want her to be bullied by a "lonely ghost" who came from nowhere and have nowhere to complain.
Because of her long-held expectations for children, the Empress treated the harem children with at least eighty percent as much care as her own children, though not as well as she would have treated her own. So, upon hearing that Feng Yuyun wasn't feeling well and wanted to visit her in Yuming Palace, Feng Ming didn't dare let her go. He persuaded her to go to Yumao Palace to comfort Feng Yuxiao, since she had her own eyes on Feng Yuyun anyway. The Empress finally gave up and hurriedly led her men to Yumao Palace.
Fengming is really... okay, anyway, the only person in the harem who has a bad relationship with the queen is eating vegetables in the temple.
In fact, there are more than 20 concubines in the entire harem, and the only one who has a bad relationship with the queen is Feng Yuyun’s mother Yang Qingning.
This Yang Guifei was the daughter of the then Prime Minister Yang Quan. She was as beautiful as a flaming rose and gave birth to the eldest prince, Feng Heng, and the third princess, Feng Yuyun. If it weren't for the Empress, who was a close childhood friend of the Emperor, she would have been a natural empress. Therefore, she always disliked the Empress, believing that she was usurping her position.
Having said that, we have to go off topic and talk about the hierarchy of the Daqing harem.
The Daqing Dynasty in which Fengming was reborn was a fictional dynasty that did not exist in the history of her original Celestial Empire. If one had to describe it, it was probably similar to the Song Dynasty, with a highly developed economy, leading technology, clear politics, and the people were generally wealthy.
The hierarchy of the Daqing imperial harem was somewhat similar to that of the Song Dynasty. Besides the empress at the top of the pyramid, there were five ranks: first-ranked Consort Guishu, Ningxian, and Chenxian; second-ranked Consort Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Xiuyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Chongyuan, Wanrong, Wanyi, Shunrong, and Guiyi; third-ranked Consort Jieyu; fourth-ranked Meiren; and fifth-ranked Cairen. While the first and second ranks had a limited number of titles, the number of Consort Jieyu, Meiren, and Cairen was unlimited; anyone could have as many as they wanted, and as long as it wasn't too outrageous, the pedantic censors didn't really care.
The current situation in Fengming's father's harem is that the first-tier five concubines are full: Imperial Concubine Yang Qingning, Concubine Wen Mengyun, Concubine Ning Pei Xingxi, Concubine Xian Yan, and Concubine Qin Sihe. The second-tier currently has two concubines: Yin Zhaoyi and Jiang Xiuyuan. The third-tier Concubine has six concubines, the fourth-tier Concubines also have six, and the fifth-tier Concubines still have eight.
Fengming had always believed that his father was in good health. Even though he was in his forties, he was still adding concubines to the harem year after year. Although they were all low-ranking beauties and talented women who couldn't threaten the status of the upper-class concubines, every additional person meant a tangible share of the emperor's favor, so the women in the harem were naturally bound to fight for favor openly and covertly.
Anyway, judging from the results of Fengming's gossip investigation, these twenty-seven women except the queen were divided into seven or eight small groups, and there was even an undercover spy. If I were to write about it in detail, it would probably take dozens of chapters and become a palace fighting novel.
Fortunately, Fengming was not interested in these harem struggles. After all, her mother, the queen, had a sweet and lovable physique, and no matter how these women in the harem fought, it would not harm her.
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