Because Luo Zhixue had not yet married, in order to avoid trouble in the future, Luo Zhixue simply postponed the canonization of high-level titles for Hou Yunmeng and this group of women until the queens were enthroned.
But, after Luo Zhixue became the emperor, he couldn't let the women around him still use the title of palace maid, at least give them a title, even if they were only given a low-level title for the time being.
As a result, there was a group of women with low-level titles in the Great Chu Palace, none of whom were even concubines or above!
At present, apart from Hou Yunmeng, only Wang Qiaoer has been awarded the title of talented person. In addition, there are more than 30 women who have been awarded the title of lower noble, selected servant, and lady.
Somewhat strange!
However, this matter will not drag on for too long. When he was still in Xiangyang City, Guo Quanshu and other civil and military officials were thinking about letting Luo Zhixue draft. Later, they failed to intervene in the matter and left it to the Internal Affairs Department. , that is, the current Palace Affairs Department has full authority to accept and be responsible.
Two batches were selected one after another, with a total of more than a hundred women entering the harem. These women were basically selected according to Luo Zhixue's aesthetics, and all of them were extremely beautiful.
Moreover, their identities have also been strictly limited, that is, they are all the daughters of civilians in the areas controlled by the Da Chu Empire or the daughters of middle and low-level officials in the Da Chu Empire.
No female dependents of high-ranking imperial officials were selected.
The reason why the selection of the daughters of high-ranking officials was limited was purely to prevent the later harem from interfering in politics, causing relatives to become powerful and even affecting the subsequent battle for the reserve position.
Because if nothing unexpected happens, the queen of the Chu Empire will be selected from more than a hundred women.
As for the specific candidates, Luo Zhixue already has preliminary candidates in mind.
Your Majesty the King!
Wang Guiren, whose maiden name is Xiaoliu, is the legitimate daughter of the Wang family from a scholarly family in Xiangyang Prefecture. This girl's appearance is considered to be among the top ten among more than a hundred beautiful girls.
However, the reason why she became the first candidate for queen in Luo Zhixue's mind was naturally not because of her appearance.
When it comes to looks, or the attractiveness of a woman, Hou Yunmeng can beat her...
Hou Yunmeng not only has a beautiful appearance and a great figure, but also looks very innocent. However, every time the girl bites her red lips slightly and wants to refuse, she always makes Luo Zhi angry.
The so-called pure desire refers to such a woman.
Otherwise, how could Hou Yunmeng become one of the only two talented people in the harem now!
Wang Qiaoer, who is also a talented person, is not much less beautiful than Hou Yunmeng. However, Wang Qiaoer takes more of a sexy route. She is bold, dares to act and scream, and can be very open-minded.
Staying with her is like being under the hot summer sun, making people unable to help but take off their clothes...
In terms of pure beauty and attractiveness, Wang Guiren is actually far inferior to Hou Yunmeng and Wang Qiaoer, and not as good as the other top beauties among the more than one hundred beauties.
But why did Luo Zhixue regard this woman as a candidate for queen?
Naturally, it’s because of the unexpected appearance!
Beauty can make a woman favored in front of Luo Zhixue, and even be awarded the title of concubine in the future, but if you want to be the queen, relying solely on beauty is far from enough.
Among Luo Zhixue's many requirements for the queen, beauty was not among the top five...
Family background, personality, and abilities are more important.
Family background determines whether the queen will have any potential troubles, such as relatives intervening in politics.
And the Wang family is a traditional scholarly family in Xiangyang Prefecture, well, the kind that has declined!
The Wang family was quite prestigious a few decades ago and had produced Jinshi, but now there is only one Juren in their family, who is still in his sixties and has only a few years left to live.
At the same time, the Wang family is very small. Wang Guiren's brother, father, and grandfather are all single-generation descendants. This small number means that it is easy to manage and there will not be too many troubles.
If anything happens, just lock these three people up and that's it.
At the same time, according to a lot of information collected, the Wang family is relatively decent. They did not bully the market and do anything illegal. At most, they evaded taxes under the pseudo-Meiji rule.
But the gentry's tax evasion under the pseudo-Meiji rule was a routine operation and nothing serious.
In Luo Zhixue's opinion, her family background is quite consistent. If she makes this woman his queen, there will be a lot less trouble in the future.
The second point is that Wang Guiren, who comes from a scholarly family, is good at playing music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and articles. He is also gentle-tempered and flexible at the same time. He is not like many scholars or talented women who become stupid in reading...
When chatting with Wang Guiren, she can make Luo Zhixue feel very comfortable. She has a good knowledge reserve and high emotional intelligence.
Luo Zhixue has not yet experienced this comfortable feeling with other women in the harem.
Because other women either don’t have that emotional intelligence or don’t have that IQ.
Or neither, a typical big-breasted but brainless person...
Thirdly, the royal nobleman also has the good education of a daughter from a large family. When this daughter gets along with other women in the harem, she gives people a feeling of spring breeze and is very popular.
Elite children trained by big families, even if they are just pretending, their outward education is not too bad.
Even if someone is hostile to you, they won't show it to your face. Instead, they will chat with you with a smile, and then instruct their thugs to quietly kill you if they get the chance.
The so-called domineering people in movies and TV dramas are simply useless people who haven't raised their accounts well. The kind whose parents want to delete their accounts after watching them!
Fourth, Wang Guiren is also good at housework.
This housework is not cooking or mopping the floor. Wang Guiren has never touched Yang Chun Shui since he was a child. Not to mention doing it himself, he has several maids to serve him every time he wears clothes.
The housework mentioned here refers to the management of household affairs.
A direct line woman from such a big family is not a good person. She has been exposed to many things involving housekeepers since she was a child.
Even if you don't specialize in it, you can still know a lot, let alone a royal nobleman who, as your legitimate daughter, has received special education in housekeeping.
Her mother taught her by words and deeds for more than ten years how to manage family affairs.
After all, given the Wang family's family background, if this girl did not enter the palace but married normally, she would marry into a scholarly and well-established family.
In a big family, there are also a lot of household affairs. There are a large group of people, all kinds of house fights and palace fights. Many affairs in these back houses need to be managed by the mistress.
For a queen, the ability to manage the family home is even more important.
After all, the size of Luo Zhixue's harem is not small now, and it will be even bigger in the future. If there is not a queen with enough skills to suppress it, wouldn't Luo Zhixue have to be annoyed by a group of women every day with trivial matters?
The ability shown by Wang Guiren after entering the palace made Luo Zhixue look at her in a new light, so he promoted her as a noble after many contacts.
In fact, the fact that this woman was able to become one of the few nobles among the more than one hundred beautiful ladies who were drafted into the palace is enough to prove her ability.
Regardless of whether she was scheming or pretending, it didn't matter. What was important was that Luo Zhixue needed such a woman to manage the harem.
Other women who are purple are great but have big breasts and no brains, or women with kind hearts and gentle personalities are useless.
Just like Hou Yunmeng and Wang Qiaoer, Luo Zhixue has never considered making them his queen, not even the slightest thought!
Like later generations, some women are only suitable to be girlfriends, but if you ask her to be your wife, that's just out of your mind.
The standards for wives and girlfriends are never the same. Some of them are even completely opposite and cannot be confused.
However, before officially canonizing Wang Gui as queen, Luo Zhixue still had to make some preparations, such as making arrangements for the Wang family first to avoid the Wang family becoming the source of trouble in the future.
As a result, a minister from the Hanlin Academy went to Xiangyang Mansion with a secret edict written by Luo Zhixue himself.
The minister who went over with the secret edict did not know what the content of the secret edict was, but he could tell that the content of the secret edict was very scary, because after Wang Laoju read the secret edict, he first looked ecstatic, and then frightened. Finally, he tilted his head and fainted.
The royal father took it and took a look, his expression was also very strange, and finally he murmured: "I obey the decree!"
Wang's father is now also working in the Yamen of the Xiangyang Prefecture magistrate, serving as the director of a sixth-grade department.
The content of Luo Zhixue's secret decree to the Wang family is very simple, and the words are not profound. It can be understood at a glance. A simple summary is: "I am going to make the daughter of the Wang family my queen, and you will receive the treatment that the Wang family deserves, but in the future you will The Wang family is here to stay, if you dare to make trouble for me and cause trouble for me, I will directly kill the three members of the Wang family!"
In short, Luo Zhixue just wanted to attack the Wang family first to avoid direct trouble in the future.
Some ministers from the Hanlin Academy went to Xiangyang, and many institutions in Wuchang City were notified of preparations for the wedding.
Luo Zhixue wants to be canonized as a queen. This is a wedding, and an emperor's wedding is not something that can be ignored casually. The whole process is extremely complicated and important.
After all, the queen is not an ordinary concubine. It's not like Luo Zhixue can confer a concubine today if he is in a good mood, and remove a concubine if he is in a bad mood tomorrow.
The canonization of a queen requires a complete set of etiquette.
Because the queen is the mother of the country, and the queen's son is the legitimate son, the foundation of the country, the nature of this queen is completely different from that of ordinary concubines.
Once the king is appointed as the queen, even Luo Zhixue cannot depose the queen as he likes, because this will often involve the dethronement of the crown prince and the fight for the crown prince. If not, it may cause a political turmoil or even a civil war. Lay down the inducement!
It is precisely because the position of queen is so important that Luo Zhixue has been choosing carefully. Not only did he not marry one before proclaiming himself emperor, but he also delayed it after proclaiming himself emperor. It was not until Wuchang was captured that the final decision was made.
When Luo Zhixue decided to marry Wang Gui, various institutions in the capital of the Chu Empire also began to operate at high speed to make various preparations for the wedding.
