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Chapter 775 Mysterious Gift
On August 18th, Li Chengji ascended the throne with a grand ceremony.

The autumn weather was crisp and the sunshine was bright, illuminating the road leading to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The magnificent palace was filled with courtiers, nobles and envoys from various countries.

Bells and drums rang, and vocal music began.

"Crown Prince Li Chengji is benevolent, filial, wise, and virtuous. He is destined to succeed the throne. The civil and military officials at home and abroad should work together to assist him and make the world prosperous."

Li Chengji was wearing a dragon robe, with his back straight, his expression solemn and his steps firm. Although he was only six years old, he had already shown a calmness and majesty beyond his age. It seemed that he was ready to shoulder the burden of the country.

When he sat on the throne, he officially became the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Jiang Yuebai looked at him from afar, tears in her eyes, but they were not sadness, but pride and relief.

"Jiuru, as you wish. Our child ascends the throne."

At the ceremony, Jiang Yuebai was officially enshrined as the Empress Dowager Cining and ruled the country from behind the curtain. Jiang Yuebai was 22 years old that year.

There is no assessment goal of becoming the Queen Mother in the system tasks, but Jiang Yuebai achieved the advanced reward of [Ruling from Behind the Curtain] and immediately received a big gift package with very generous prizes, covering three aspects: longevity, beauty and skin care, and sexual happiness.

In addition to small pills and various aphrodisiac tools for sexual happiness, as well as small toys for single and double play, there are even two internal and external use sets that can make eunuchs grow a penis temporarily or permanently, so that they can secretly engage in happy things.

It's really weird.

However, looking at the system page, the Magic Tintin Regeneration Set is still a best-seller for the host of all worlds, and has received rave reviews. This shows that many queens still cannot stand the long night and endless loneliness.

Jiang Yuebai thought of someone.

Maybe when he is old, I can give it to him. Let him find a place to live in seclusion, marry a few young wives, use this product, and make up for the regrets of the first half of his life. But before that, it is impossible. The reputation of the royal family must be preserved to avoid rumors of debauchery in the palace.

Li Beichen's imperial mausoleum was not completed until the eighth year of Jingchang. Xie Kewei's coffin had been in the palace. They were buried together this time.

Seven days after the death of the late emperor, the coffins of the late emperor and the late empress were placed in the imperial mausoleum. Jiang Yuebai was extremely sad and almost fainted from crying.

All the civil and military officials spoke highly of the deep love between the emperor and empress.

Jiang Yuebai assigned Luo Shan to manage the prince's residence, and Susu to manage the concubines of the previous emperor outside the palace.

Jiang Yuebai moved the concubines of the previous emperor from Ci'an Palace to a palace outside the palace. He arranged eunuchs and palace maids to serve them. He also arranged guards to guard outside.

Arrange Susu to compile the management manual for imperial concubines, organize the imperial concubines to study the management manual and write their thoughts and experiences. Every day, train the concubines of the previous emperor according to the initial training procedures of Taorui Palace.

For example, they would do morning exercises, chant slogans for daily training, and organize recitation of the contents of the management code. Those who recited well would receive verbal and material rewards, and those who were passive and lazy would be punished, such as being forced to run or copy palace rules.

The only difference is that the slogan is "Peace, Friendship, Health and Longevity".

At the same time, a variety of learning and entertainment activities are carried out, such as poetry recitation, poetry writing, painting, playing the piano, flower arranging, running, tug-of-war and other rich activities.

For those who do not comply with the management regulations, the first thing is to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, and severely punish the first incident. Secondly, according to the degree of violation and attitude, three measures are taken: confinement, fines, and beatings. In more serious cases, they are sent to the clan house, and in more serious cases, they are executed or their families are implicated.

Among them, those who do not observe the code of conduct for women and commit adultery will be beaten to death with sticks, and their five clans will also be exterminated.

The heads of Concubine Guo and her parents, who had faked their death and escaped from Meng Zhao, were brought over and placed on a plate for display to the concubines.

It turned out that Li Beichen had never stopped investigating the Guo family. At first, the Guo family kept it a secret and failed to find out. Two years later, the Guo family thought that the storm had passed, so they let Concubine Guo and the illegitimate son come out to do things in a disguised manner. But Li Beichen did not arrest them immediately, but played a long game to catch a big fish in order to find the adulterer.

As expected, the truth was revealed later.

It turned out that the child in Concubine Guo's belly was the illegitimate offspring of the Prince of Pingxi. The two had been having an affair for a long time. During the days of the Queen Mother's funeral, the Prince of Pingxi actually went into the city early, entered the palace through an insider, and hid in Concubine Guo's room.

Because the palace where Concubine Guo lived was remote, she was usually aloof and cold, rarely interacting with others, and did not like to be served by palace servants, so the two of them made love every night without anyone noticing.

Later, under the instruction of his father Meng Xin, Meng Zhao helped Concubine Guo escape from the prison by faking her death. The so-called abortion medicine that was forced into her mouth was not an abortion medicine but a pregnancy-preserving medicine. The jailers did not conduct a thorough examination because they did not know medical skills and were afraid of the power of the Meng family.

Concubine Guo and her family were interrogated separately and tortured, and the confession obtained was that Concubine Guo had completely concealed her affair with the Prince of Pingxi, and when she was rescued, no one else knew that she was the Prince of Pingxi's illegitimate child, and they only thought that she had an affair with the guards. Concubine Guo's family still does not know the true identity of the child.

Jiang Yuebai killed Concubine Guo's entire family on the charge of deceiving the emperor by faking her own death and escaping from the palace. The rest of the nine clans were exiled to the frontier, and both men and women were sent to serve as soldiers. All those who had assisted Concubine Guo in escaping were found out and executed.

The heads of Concubine Guo and her family gave the concubines a great visual impact and psychological trauma.

Not only that, Susu also asked them to write their viewing experience and a letter of guarantee.

This kind of powerful method had a great deterrent effect on this group of women between their twenties and forties.

In fact, this is Jiang Yuebai's purpose. By showing off his power, he can reduce the difficulty of subsequent management.

Jiang Yuebai also felt helpless about this practice. She thought it was the feudal system's destruction of women. She was only 20 years old and became a widow, without personal freedom, and could not remarry and have children. As modern women, they should be given the freedom to start their lives anew.

But there was no way, as the queen mother she couldn't do that.

This must be done to maintain the dignity and absolute authority of the royal family.

What's more, these women were sent into the palace by their families. They now live a comfortable retirement life. They don't have to work, don't have to worry about money, have status, have people to take care of them, and have guaranteed medical care. It's much better than those who live with green lamps and ancient Buddhas.

The emperor, herself, the princes and princesses, civil officials and military officers, who was not imprisoned by their status and responsibilities? Just like the two princesses who were married to Yesizha before, Jiang Yuebai had to follow the tradition of the grassland and remarry them to two Mongolian tribal nobles in the northeast, and peacefully unified the northeastern region of Tatar. The five-year-old son of Yesizha and Princess Taiping Li Qiushi was ordained as a little monk and fostered in a temple.

No one can break away from his or her social position, and no one has real freedom.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuebai felt relieved.

Susu was originally a very capable person with her own dignity. After this operation, the management of the concubine quickly got on the right track, with rich activities and orderly management.

Xiao Luozi was promoted to the Sanbao eunuch, and he independently formulated a management plan to manage the prince's residence in an orderly manner.

There are currently five princes in the Prince's House. Among them, Li Chenghe and Li Chenghai, born to two concubines of the Oirat, were born not long ago.

Xiao Luozi, like Susu, has deeply understood Jiang Yuebai's management essence and gives priority to ideological and political work. However, the object of daily supervision and training is not the concubine, but the eunuchs, palace maids, maids, and wet nurses of the prince's residence. Everyone is divided into two groups for training, repeatedly emphasizing the management system of the prince's residence. Slogans are also formulated for the staff of the prince's residence, and training is carried out every day.

Provide clear appraisal, promotion and exit plans from the beginning.

Divide everyone into several groups, appoint group leaders, and have the group leaders supervise the work of group members.

Every day, those who did well were praised, and those who did well for a month were rewarded with spiritual and material rewards. Spiritual rewards included a letter of praise written by the Queen Mother herself and a small gift from the Queen Mother. Material rewards were silver. Those who performed well were promoted to team leaders. Those who performed particularly well were promoted to the level of palace maids or eunuchs.

For those who do not do well enough, we will talk to them individually, give them encouragement and guidance on methods. If they continue to do poorly, have a bad personality, or are in a bad mood, they will be directly transferred out of the prince's office.

The group and individual assessment results for each ten-day period, as well as the dismissal lists are hung on the wall.

The imperial physician would conduct a physical examination every half a month to ensure the health of all the princes.

In order to further win people's hearts, enhance their sense of belonging and responsibility, and make them cherish their job opportunities, Jiang Yuebai raised the salary of all staff members of the Prince's Office. He also provided a public travel once a year for team building. Every six months, the team leader organized a dinner party.

From then on, being able to work for the prince became a good job that everyone envied.

In addition to physical care, Jiang Yuebai also asked Concubine Lu to organize Concubine Xuan and Huan Wanyi, who had previous experience in the "kindergarten", to come to the prince's residence and play games with the little princes.

In addition, Concubine Xuan was responsible for singing nursery rhymes and playing the piano for the little princes; Concubine Huan led the princes in painting and calligraphy.

Concubine Lu read "The Rules of Being a Good Pupil and Child" to the princes and told them historical stories.

The princess has more activities on her side.

Jiang Yuebai specially cleared out a large room in Ci'an Palace and arranged it to look like a kindergarten, putting tables, chairs, benches, books, paintbrushes, clay, puppets, etc. on it.

Children's entertainment facilities such as slides, see-saws, and wooden horses were built in the yard.

In six years, a total of fourteen princesses were born, but only eight survived, and six died without any palace fighting.

The unpredictable fate made the mothers and concubines unprecedentedly united. They cherished the little princesses who were alive even more. Every day, they dressed up the little cuties beautifully, gathered them together for classes, and then played freely. They often played tag, eagle catching chickens, hopscotch, and throwing sandbags together.
The second princess is now six years old and needs to go to Chongwen Hall to study. The fifth princess studies in Kunning Palace in the morning and goes to Ci'an Palace to play in the afternoon. After school, the second princess will also go to Ci'an Palace to watch her younger brothers and sisters play.

Jiang Yuebai arranged for Shen Ximo to be a third-rank female official, responsible for managing the palace maids in Ci'an Palace and taking care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation. Concubine Lu was in charge of the overall management.

The five-year contract signed by Shen Ximo had expired. According to the agreement, she could leave freely, but she chose to stay and knelt down to ask Jiang Yuebai to tell her family that she was living well in the palace and they didn't need to worry about her.

In addition to lavishly rewarding the Shen family, Jiang Yuebai also recruited Shen Ximo's brother into the Imperial Hospital.

Shen Ximo did this because she had long been deeply in love with the emperor and did not want to leave the palace and marry.

It was a disaster to have met someone too outstanding when I was young. From then on, I could not compromise or force myself.

She witnessed the emperor and the queen's intimate affection in private, caught a glimpse of the emperor and the queen's passionate correspondence three times a day, heard the intense joyous sounds coming from the middle of the night several times, and listened to the live broadcast in the fake cave.
She knew clearly that the emperor had always held her mistress in his heart.

Shen Ximo envied Jiang Yuebai and admired him, but felt that she was inferior to him and could not receive such a passionate and strong love from the emperor. She was also unwilling to be like other concubines and wait humbly in an empty room just to be favored once in a while. She would rather bury this strong love deep in her heart and guard it silently, just to see him more every day.

During these five years, she had seen the emperor almost every day, and she was content to prepare calming sachets for him.

She also thought about risking her life to be with him, and she had the chance, but she finally gave up. If he didn't love her, what's the point of promising him? It would just be wishful thinking. He might even push her away, beat her to death, and humiliate her.

The emperor passed away, and she thought about committing suicide to follow him. But she finally decided to live well and protect the emperor's beloved.

During those five years, her love was so strong that even though she tried to restrain herself, it was overflowing from her eyes. How could she hide it from others?

Jiang Yuebai silently observed her for a long time and found her modesty and self-love. Instead, he wanted to help her. But Li Beichen refused without hesitation.

Li Beichen supported himself on his elbows and whispered in Jiang Yuebai's ear, "Don't push me to other women. I only want you."

Because of this incident, Li Beichen severely punished Jiang Yuebai and whipped him all night.

He lifted her chin and bit her lips, "Will you dare to do it next time?"

"I don't dare anymore," Jiang Yuebai said pitifully, "I am being tolerant and generous. Why is it not okay?"

"No," Li Beichen kissed her lips, "Because all I want from the beginning to the end is you."

What a scumbag, he used sweet words to deceive my feelings.

Jiang Yuebai thought so, but soon he could no longer think or speak.