Huang Laosi was quite surprised to see Chu Qing sitting there like a gentleman and not wanting anyone to accompany him.
According to his understanding of Chu Qing, this boy could be said to be the most powerful Chu Qing in the past. Many prostitutes did not spend as long as this boy on the Liuhe River.
However, Huang Laosi, who knew that he had to pay the bill today, felt that money must be spent wisely, and the true nature of Lao Sepi could be seen at a glance, so he took action.
It has to be said that Huang Laosi, the new king who just ascended the throne, has not built a good harem at all.
The emperor usually found a wife through two methods, one was formal and the other was informal.
The formal one is naturally an audition, which can be called a large-scale variety show audition.
At that time, the Dachang Dynasty had a relatively strong overall strength. The emperor held this kind of talent show once every three to five years. The program was organized by the Chamber of Commerce, the judges were the emperor and the queen mother, and the public judges were concubines. At least 80 people were selected from each state, and they were over ten years old. Four to sixteen years old, female, alive, not sick, disabled, or ugly.
For this set of auditions, when the number of contestants was the largest in the history of Chang Dynasty, there were as many as four to five thousand contestants. It was normal for three to four hundred people to be selected at one time.
The most beautiful ones will stay, and those who are very beautiful but not the top ones will stay in the palace to raise them and see if they can transform into women.
The question is, what should I do if there are so many girls who are not selected? It is easy to handle. The palace will directly reward the nobles, such as princes, dukes, marquises, etc. In short, try not to let the girls go to waste. Come on, if the thief doesn't get away, he has to find a good home for the girls.
As for the nobles, they are also happy to see the takeover, and it will be given to anyone who doesn't want it.
But there is a prerequisite for the Changchao Draft Ceremony, and that is that you must have money. If you don't have money, Haiyizhi will not give you even one, let alone the audition.
By the generation of Grandpa Huang Laosi, the Chang Dynasty was basically in decline. Not to mention the internal treasury allocating money and food for the draft, even the national treasury did not have spare money.
This also led to the loss of the repertoire passed down to the ancestors by the generation of the Supreme Emperor. However, the old man found a new way. He was not afraid of auditions if he had no money. Isn’t it okay for me to take the initiative to go to the auditions?
Just take a look at the concubines of the Supreme Emperor. There are female bodyguards who are former escorts, Shanni from remote areas, eldest girls from rural areas, and unpopular young ladies from aristocratic families. Anyway, they are just picking up the slack, fishing for fish with a big net, and fishing for nothing. One, focus on quantity rather than quality.
In Huang Laosi's generation, the internal treasury has run out of money, so we can no longer follow the normal procedures and have to solve the problem according to another set of solutions.
That is to let the ministers pay for it without spending any money.
The courtiers will send good-looking girls to the palace. If you like them, keep them. If you don't like them, they can be put in the palace as maids. Don't be afraid if you don't have money. They bring their own dry food and so on. Anyway, they are giving them to you. Once inside, you can do whatever you want.
Just like Zhang Songling's adopted daughter, she gave money to the palace, and it was like a monthly payment, giving money every month.
Therefore, there was basically no one in Huang Laosi's harem. There were only a few concubines coming and going, which could be counted on both hands. Most of them were sent in by the ministers and they barely made do.
Just because it was okay, Huang Laosi was quite unhappy.
As for concubines, they don’t enter the palace to fall in love. They all have lofty goals and work hard to pursue the queen.
What is a queen? A queen is only called a queen when her mother is honored by the world.
So this group of concubines is very pretentious. Just talking about the entertainment activity of Lao Si, a group of concubines were called to the Taowu Palace. The bed was heart-shaped, quite big, and pink. The problem was that the concubines did not cooperate at all.
These concubines are all holding it. After all, they are working hard for the queen, so they must be dignified. It is impossible to come up and take off their clothes directly. Just come to the trampoline and watch me do the splits for you.
Forget it if you don’t do the splits, they all act like they grew up drinking pure water and pure milk. Huang Laosi touched his forehead, and he covered his face and turned red and shy.
Now that the flower boat was on, and they were spending their own money, the two girls were very proactive. Huang Laosi was so excited that he almost felt sparks on his thighs.
In fact, I can't blame Lao Si, he just feels that money should be spent wisely.
The fourth child was actually happy, and the smiles of the two girls next to him gradually weakened.
After all, Huang Laosi was a general and was proficient in all kinds of martial arts, but his hands were covered with calluses.
The two girls usually met either scholars or old men.
Scholars, your hands are slender than theirs.
Old man, how strong can you be?
So these two girls were so nervous about scratching each other, it felt like they were being scratched by a steel ball, but they didn't dare to say anything. After all, they were friends of "Hongye".
Chu Qing couldn't stand it anymore: "Fourth brother, please be gentle. I'm grinning and gnashing my teeth."
Huang Laosi rubbed his neck: "I spent money."
"Then why don't you go to the west of the city tomorrow and buy two cows and take them back?"
Huang Laosi: "..."
In fact, the fourth child was either playing hooligan or trying to be novel. When he saw Chu Qing and Fu San showing contempt on their faces, he had no choice but to pull back his two calloused paws.
Yan Yu on the left looked down and trembled with anger.
Her father had been doing farm work for thirty years and was not as thick as the calluses on Huang Laosi's hands.
Fu San asked strangely: "Fourth Brother, is this your first time in this place? Why do you act like you have never seen a woman before?"
The fourth child smiled arrogantly: "If I want to, I can take any girl I like home with me."
"Kidnapping?"
Fu San looked at Chu Qing: "Master, this kid has never been so good at boasting before."
"Who says it isn't?"
Chu Qing rolled his eyes and waved: "You all go down and do your work. I don't need your company. Let's just have something to eat and drink."
The two girls didn't hesitate at all, they stood up and ran.
Huang Laosi frowned and asked, "Do you still need to give me money?"
"What do you think? The old cow didn't work as hard as you, and I almost got pinched to death. Damn it." Chu Qing poured a glass of wine for Huang Laosi: "Just go out and drink and chat. We don't want to be embarrassed. "
Huang Laosi smiled and scolded: "I didn't expect you to be a gentleman. As the eldest young master of the Chu family, didn't you always hang out in this land of fireworks?"
"It's different. In the past, I didn't meet Bai Yueguang's cinnabar mole. Now that I've met the woman I like, I can't leave a bad impression on others."
Huang Laosi suddenly became interested: "Have you found a girl you like? Who is it? Let me know. Brother, I may be able to secure a matchmaker for you."
Chu Qing chuckled and lowered his voice: "The Prince's Young Master's Mansion, you know."
Huang Laosi frowned: "Miss Tao Zhongyuan?"
"Whoever falls in love with her, she has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, but she is not good enough. I am talking about the eldest lady."
Huang Laosi's expression changed drastically: "Tao Ruolin?!"
"You know her too."
"You..." Mr. Huang took a breath, and then shouted with worry on his face: "Brother, you still have a long life, don't make such a mistake!"
Chu Qing had a question mark on his head, and Huang Laosi became anxious: "Why do you still fall in love with such a monster? It's wrong, it's very wrong."
"Monster?" Chu Qing asked in confusion: "Are you like other people who don't know what Tao Ruolin actually looks like?"
"How could I not know, how could I not know, I look like a fairy, but..."
"But what?"
"But you can't control her."
"What's the meaning?"
Huang Laosi looked like he was hesitant to speak. He was silent for a long time, and then suddenly picked up the wine glass: "Come on, brother, let me toast you a glass. You are so brave, brother."
"What do you mean?"
"act recklessly!"
Chu Qing: "..."
