Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1285, Empress Zhang's arrangement

In the palace, the empress is carefully examining the beauties in front of her.

The beauties in front of me were all beautiful in appearance, graceful in figure, with spring breeze in their eyes, and they were delicious. Even Queen Zhang couldn't help but nod her head to express her satisfaction after watching it.

"Well, not bad~"

"I heard that the beauties who came here as a tribute from North Korea have undergone strict training and are particularly good at serving people. The first time I saw them today, they really lived up to their reputation."

Queen Zhang nodded slightly.

North Korea often pays tribute to Daejeon, including Korean ginseng, East Sea pearls, mink fur, tiger skin, BMW and other rare treasures. At the same time, every tribute must be accompanied by a few beauties.

This practice has not been broken since the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were full of praise for the beauties who paid tribute to the Korean country. Even Zhu Yuanzhang even named several Korean beauties as concubines.

In the Hongzhi Dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi did not love beauties, but every time the North Korean country paid tribute, beauties were still indispensable. For these beauties who came to pay tribute, their fate was tragic, and they could only live in this palace until they died.

But this is their fate and cannot be changed.

Empress Zhang had heard of the power of North Korea's tribute beauties before, so she had always guarded against it, for fear that Emperor Hongzhi would fall in love with her daughter.

Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi has always been very dedicated, and he never looked at any other women from the beginning to the end, which is considered a strange thing among emperors.

"Listen up, you guys~"

"You will be the prince's people in the future, you must serve the prince well, especially this first time, you must satisfy the prince, this first time for the prince of Ming Dynasty is very important."

Empress Zhang said to the beauties in front of her with a straight face.

For her husband, Emperor Hongzhi, she is very strict, but for her son, she has a different face. This is the first time for Zhu Houzhao's classmate, and she directly arranged for Zhu Houzhao.

Because Emperor Hongzhi has always had only Empress Zhang, so even the regular beauty pageants for the emperor in the past dynasties have stopped, and the only suitable young and beautiful women in the palace are the beauties who came from Korea and Japan as tribute.

Arranging such matters for the prince was not uncommon in the ancient royal family. Even before the princess got married, there were queens or noble concubines who specially sent court ladies to try out the fighting power of the son-in-law.

Of course, the general children who grew up in the royal family do not need to try this, because usually very early on, the maids around these princes would secretly climb onto the prince's bed first, hoping to soar into the sky and become a phoenix.

But Zhu Houzhao was even more miserable. Ever since he stole unsuitable things for children, Emperor Hongzhi believed Liu Jin's words, and felt that being exposed to things unsuitable for children too early was very harmful.

So the strictest order was issued, and all the maids around Zhu Houzhao were replaced with eunuchs, and there was no chance of contact at all.

Later, they were mixed with military camps and research institutes, and there were no maids around them, and they had little contact with things that were not suitable for children, so they naturally didn't understand anything.

Seeing that she is going to be eighteen soon, beauty pageants are already in full swing in various parts of Ming Dynasty, and the princess is being auditioned, and she will marry the princess next year.

This Zhu Houzhao has grown up, and there are some things that he should learn and know, not to mention that the royal family is related to the country's rivers and mountains, and it is related to the generations of this old Zhu family.

Naturally, this matter fell on Queen Zhang. She is the queen and Zhu Houzhao's biological mother, so the responsibility cannot be shirked.

What's more, seeing his belly getting bigger day by day, he had to hurry up and arrange Zhu Houzhao's affairs while he still had the energy, so there was this scene in front of him.

Empress Zhang is picking a beauty for Zhu Houzhao.

"Yes, empress~"

The beauties replied in unison, each of them a little excited.

Originally thought that he would die of old age in the Daming Palace and be widowed for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Daming now.

Although they are Koreans, not Daming, Daming and North Korea have a good relationship. Many Korean beauties who have paid tribute to Daming in the past have been named concubines, and some have given birth to many princes and princesses. During the Chengzu period, Zhu Di loved one very much. The Korean beauty, conferred the title of Concubine Quan Xian, intended her to be in charge of the Six Palaces even after the Queen's death.

Even in unofficial history, there are rumors that Zhu Di was not actually born to Empress Ma, but was born to a tribute girl who was attacked by the Korean state to Zhu Yuanzhang, and there are many evidences.

Zhu Di was afraid that his rule would be affected because of his bloodline, so he repeatedly emphasized that he was born of Queen Ma.

Of course, this is unofficial history. According to official history, he is the fourth son of Empress Ma.

From this, we can know that there are a large number of court ladies from North Korea in Daming's harem, and many of them have been made noble concubines. As for Cairen, Zhaoyi, Jieyu, etc., I don't know how many there are.

These beauties from North Korea made extremely important contributions to the friendship between North Korea and Ming Dynasty, especially in the early Ming Dynasty, both Zhu Di and Zhu Yuanzhang intended to win over North Korea, so they recruited North Korean beauties to North Korea many times , Conferred as concubine concubine, consolidated the relationship between North Korea and Ming Dynasty.

This is also one of the important reasons why the relationship between Ming and North Korea has always been extremely strong. In ancient times, the marriage between countries was an important means to consolidate the relationship between the two countries.

Of course, for these Korean beauties who were paid tribute to Daming, their happiness or not, even life and death, became unimportant. When they arrived in Daming, their fate was already connected with the emperor, and the emperor was happy and liked it. , I fell in love with you, your good day is coming.

But if you have not been favored by the emperor, your fate will be miserable. If you meet the emperor, you may be able to return to North Korea. If not, you may die alone in the palace.

Emperor Hongzhi only liked Empress Zhang. This was something everyone knew. Originally, they were all desperate, and they were all waiting for the day when they would be lucky enough to be sent back to North Korea by the Son of Heaven.

Who knew that now, the Crown Prince was sent by Queen Zhang to serve Daming's Highness, this opportunity has come.

These women who came to Ming Dynasty as tribute were not women from common people’s families, they were all women from Korean official families, big merchants, and big landlords, and each of them had received training and education in various aspects. We still know this.

"Well, let's all go down~"

Queen Zhang nodded in satisfaction.

She spoiled Zhu Houzhao very much, and Zhu Houzhao in history was also spoiled because of this.

But there is no way, who let her have only this one son, and he is the future successor of Daming Jiangshan. The key is that Emperor Hongzhi dotes on her very much, and she is the only woman in the harem. It was just a reprimand from Emperor Hongzhi.

"Your Majesty is here~"

At this moment, Emperor Hongzhi walked over with a smile on his face.

"See Your Majesty~"

The crowd hurriedly bowed.

"Free ~ free ~"

Emperor Hongzhi smiled all over his face, especially when he saw Empress Zhang's bulging belly, he was even more happy. He quickly helped Empress Zhang and said, "Be careful, be careful~"

"It's okay, it's only been a few months~"

Queen Zhang said indifferently.

"Are you satisfied with the vegetables and fruits from Ryukyu?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the fruits on the table beside him and asked.

"Satisfied, especially this kiwi fruit, which is sweet and sour. I like it the most. You should try it too."

"I heard from the imperial physicians and the professors of the medical school that this kiwi fruit contains a lot of nutrition, and eating more kiwi fruit can also be used in a beauty salon."

Empress Zhang personally picked up a piece of kiwi fruit and fed it to Emperor Hongzhi.

"Hmm~"

"Don't say it, it's really good."

Emperor Hongzhi took a bite, nodded, and then noticed several Korean beauties standing beside him.

"What are these court ladies doing?"

Emperor Hongzhi was naturally a little strange. In the past, Emperor Hongzhi seldom saw beautiful court ladies. On the one hand, it was because Emperor Hongzhi didn’t like women. Petting that is naturally the best.

"Your Majesty, I arranged this for the prince."

"The prince will soon be eighteen years old, and there are some things that should be known. What's more, it's all about choosing the princess, who will marry the princess next year, so I'll make arrangements in advance."

Queen Zhang didn't hide anything, she said everything, and then she didn't forget to ask: "Your Majesty, what do you think of these beauties?"

"These are all tributes from North Korea, and I have people choose them again and again."

"Well, not bad~"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at it carefully, and said little by little: "Just do it according to your arrangement. The prince has grown up too. It's time to start a family and start a business, and it's time to spread branches and leaves for our old Zhu family."

"Your Majesty, the concubine is pregnant now and has no way to serve His Majesty. Do you want the concubine to choose some beauties for His Majesty to serve His Majesty?"

Empress Zhang looked carefully at Emperor Hongzhi's eyes, and asked tentatively after thinking about it.

Regarding this matter, she didn't bring it up once or twice. She is the only one in this harem. Although she is favored, she is often scolded by others, saying that she is jealous and monopolizes the favor of the emperor, so that the royal heirs wither, etc. some type of.

So she also proposed to Emperor Hongzhi many times to let Emperor Hongzhi open up the harem to spread more branches and leaves for the royal family, but Emperor Hongzhi refused every time.

"No need~"

"I only love you alone."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Queen Zhang, smiled and shook his head.

After witnessing the battles in the harem of the previous dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi made up his mind very early on that he would never let the same thing happen in his harem, so he only loved Empress Zhang, so that the harem would be extremely clean. In the end, it never bothered me about it.

　The wonderful Emperor Hongzhi~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)