Linlang couldn't help but be satisfied when she saw that after she was promoted, the princess no longer dared to target her.
The people in Uncle Zhongyong's Mansion were also surprised that Linlang could be promoted to Concubine Shu.
You know, the higher you go, the harder it is to get promoted, and the status of a concubine is much higher than that of a concubine, so it is very difficult to get promoted.
Previously, there were only three families of Chen, Ding, and Cui. Because of their background, the girls in the family were granted the title of concubine.
Later, Concubine Yue was favored and made a concubine.
And now Concubine Cai is pregnant. She will probably be named a concubine after giving birth.
There are only five concubines in total, and the others are concubines and below.
The reason for this is that the contemporary emperors have learned the lessons of the previous emperors.
The previous emperor, who was the grandfather of the current Holy Emperor, was also a romantic and lustful king. During his reign, he held a large-scale talent show and concubines. There were hundreds of concubines in the harem. Anyone who liked it would be granted the title of concubine, concubine, or noble concubine. , imperial concubine.
Obviously there are quotas for these positions, but he exceeded the quotas and was completely free to do whatever he wanted.
If there wasn't only one queen, it would be wrong to have two or three queens, otherwise he might have to have several queens.
Although he didn't do a few, it was almost the same - he even replaced four queens. Empress Dowager Cui was lucky. In the end, the previous emperor was about to die, so she didn't replace them. Otherwise, she would have lived longer. Yes, maybe it will be changed again.
There are so many concubines in the harem, and the number of high-ranking concubines has exceeded the quota. You can imagine the cost of the harem.
The final outcome was that the previous emperors not only spent all the royal private treasury saved by previous generations, but also kept reaching out to the national treasury, asking the treasury to allocate more money every year to meet the expenses of the harem.
By the time the late emperor ascended the throne, the royal family's private treasury was completely depleted, and even the national treasury was almost completely defeated by his father.
Fortunately, the late emperor learned his lesson and did not have many concubines in the harem. He slowly saved some money in his private treasury and left it to the current emperor.
The current emperor has inherited the character of the late emperor, and he still has memories of the turmoil in the palace when his grandfather granted concubines to concubines. Therefore, although he likes beauty, he has not married many people, let alone promoted many people to high positions.
Therefore, it was not an easy task for the former emperor and the current emperor to be granted concubines. Unlike the previous emperors, concubines were very cheap and given wholesale. In this generation, concubines are very valuable. Not easy to fool.
Because it is not easy to become a concubine, everyone is surprised that Linlang is not very favored and becomes a concubine.
At the same time, this is also the reason why the Queen Dowager restrained herself, because she knew that in the past few decades, in order to be able to become a concubine, in addition to her background, she must have someone the emperor liked, otherwise she would not be able to be granted the title.
Considering that Linlang was older, the emperor often went to her palace. Even if she was not lucky, he was still willing to sit and watch. Obviously, the emperor did like Linlang better, so naturally she did not dare to fall in love with Linlang. This reached Linlang's level. purpose.
The young concubines in the palace also expressed their sincere congratulations to Linlang for becoming a concubine. They were not jealous because they knew that when the emperor came to Linlang, he would sometimes just sit there and not be lucky. Besides, Linlang was much older than them. Well, the emperor won't like her, he just treats her as a relative, so they don't need to be jealous at all, just think of her as having another elder.
This is the benefit of the age difference.
Now that Linlang is a concubine, the newcomers will no longer feel threatened, because they know that Linlang will not threaten them even if she is promoted.
The real threat to them is the favored concubine Cai.
Concubine Cai was so favored that she had nothing to do without them, so no one else in the palace reacted to Linlang's promotion. Maybe Cai Concubine was a little unhappy.
It wasn't jealousy, after all, Linlang was so old that he couldn't threaten her at all, but... She originally thought that she would be the one who would be granted the title of concubine next, and she would be favored and granted the title of concubine. It would be very prestigious, but in the end, Linlang was granted the title of concubine first. Cai Bin was naturally unhappy about stealing her own limelight.
It's just that she is pregnant with the child now and has no energy because she is unhappy. What does she think of Linlang?
Linlang wanted to know that she had become a concubine, which made Cai Bin unhappy. If she gave birth to a child in the future, she might cause trouble for her, and she would probably feel speechless.
However, she was not very afraid of Cai Concubine, because Cai Concubine would give birth to a princess in the future, and her child would not be able to inherit the throne. So after Cai Concubine was born, if he really wanted to do anything to her, then the emperor would also stand by her side. To cause trouble for herself, all she had to do was not save Emperor Fenghan when he died. By then the Emperor was dead, and there would be nothing to do with Concubine Cai, and she would not be able to jump up and down.
——The reality is so cruel. Even if a person was the most favored in the world during the era of the previous emperor, he will still be nothing like Mao in the era of the new emperor.
This point was strongly reflected in the previous emperors.
At that time, Empress Dowager Cui had several favored concubines who were named noble concubines and imperial concubines, and she was very famous at that time.
But after the late emperor ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Cui remembered the arrogance of the imperial concubine, imperial concubine and others, and hated those women in her heart, so one or two of those women died of illness.
Not to mention their noble status, they are the concubines of the new emperor. The new emperor cannot do anything to them. The emperor does not care. If they are left to the care of Empress Dowager Cui, she will confine these people and deny them food or drink. They will soon die of illness. Well, outsiders don't know what's going on.
So don't look at some concubines who are favored. Once the emperor is gone, life will be difficult immediately. That is, the queen mother, as the emperor's biological mother, can live a good life.
This is also the reason why Linlang is not afraid of Cai Concubine at all, because today's Holy Emperor will die soon. The key depends on future development. If the emperor is sensible and Cai Concubine troubles her, and the emperor does not follow her, then he can still do more. Live for a while; if the emperor follows the booing, then I'm sorry, I can only let him die, and then I will see that Cai Bin will still be in a bad mood.
I just hope Cai Bin can be wiser and stop causing trouble for her.
However...some people tend to become more ambitious after being favored, and they are obviously incapable of understanding.
Therefore, after Cai Bin gave birth to a child, she would definitely cause trouble for her.
No, Concubine Cai was in a bad mood after giving birth to a princess. After all, she wanted to give birth to a prince and have the opportunity to be the queen mother in the future. Although the emperor liked her and made her a concubine, it didn't matter because the child she gave birth to was not a prince. Scenery, Concubine Cai, oh no, Concubine Cai thought of the lively scene in the palace when Linlang became a concubine, and then thought that she was not giving birth to a prince. The two sides of her unhappiness were superimposed, and she wanted to cause trouble for Linlang and make her Can't be happy.
So after her confinement, Concubine Cai blew a pillow in front of the emperor, saying that Linlang's sister had killed the emperor's heir. Although Linlang was not involved, such a major matter used to implicate the nine tribes, but now His Majesty is kind and does not implicate the nine tribes. , but he did not deal with Uncle Zhongyong and Li Linlang at all, which was too merciful. He was afraid that it would not be able to deter those people with ulterior motives, and they would try to plot against the emperor's heirs in the future, which would be bad.
