Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

In the days that followed, the sixth prince finished his mourning period but still did not hold a selection of concubines. The ministers had always wanted to take advantage of the sixth prince, hoping to send their own daughters into the palace to give birth to princes, hoping to drive away the Zhou family's daughter and make her son no longer the legitimate heir, so that their own bloodline would have a chance to become emperor. However, they never succeeded in doing so.

You see, ever since Master Zhou "retired due to illness," these people felt that the Zhou family had declined. They thought that as long as their daughters entered the palace, they could easily remove Linlang from the position of Empress. So they tried every means to get the Sixth Prince to participate in the imperial concubine selection so that they could send their daughters into the palace and give birth to princes.

As a result, they made all sorts of plans, always thinking that everything was foolproof. Their grandson had a chance to become emperor, but he failed at the first step—the sixth prince was unwilling to select concubines, so they couldn't send their daughter into the palace at all.

Seeing that the matter was unsolvable, the ministers eventually stopped dwelling on it.

Of course, this only meant that they stopped pursuing the matter openly. In secret, however, they would take advantage of opportunities such as palace banquets to try to get their daughter into the palace so that she could have something happen with the emperor, or control some beautiful palace maids to do something.

Unfortunately, none of them succeeded.

Even if the emperor did fall for their tricks, he would ignore them and might even intervene to deal with them out of displeasure.

After the Sixth Prince dealt with one or two people in this way, the noble ladies or palace maids who wanted to climb into his bed restrained themselves, since no one wanted to lose their life.

Especially for noble ladies, if they didn't marry the new emperor, they could marry someone else; they didn't want to lose their lives.

Palace maids, on the other hand, have low sunk costs, but once they succeed, they gain huge rewards. In addition, they have the support of court officials. They always feel that as long as they rise to power and have the support of court officials, they will become empress dowagers in the future. So one or two of them are not afraid of death, and some people even dare to do such things. The Sixth Prince also dealt with many people severely before stopping this bad trend.

The Sixth Prince never wanted to take concubines, and besides, he found out that most of these women who climbed into his bed were backed by important officials in the court. How could he possibly fall for their tricks?

Before they even entered his harem, they had already garnered a lot of support. Once they actually gave birth to princes, who knows how chaotic things would become? It might even be more chaotic than during the previous emperor's reign. It would be strange if the Sixth Prince were willing to take these troublemakers into his harem.

The palace maids were unaware that the reason the Sixth Prince was unwilling to take them as concubines was because he knew they had powerful backers and were being manipulated. Therefore, they disliked them and only assumed that the Sixth Prince was infatuated with Linlang. As a result, some of them were jealous and envious of Linlang and even tried to harm her, thinking that as long as Linlang was killed, the emperor would have no one to love and would definitely have to reopen the harem.

Needless to say, those palace maids who attacked Linlang are definitely dead.

The Sixth Prince knew that some palace maids were plotting against the Empress in order to rise in rank. He thought these women were crazy. He then released the palace maids to marry and selected new ones. He specifically instructed the selection committee not to choose overly beautiful maids, but only those with regular features, to prevent them from becoming too beautiful and forgetting who they were, thinking they were guaranteed to rise in rank. He believed that the Empress was in their way and that eliminating the Empress would allow him to take the throne.

Palace maids with ordinary features, seeing that they were much less attractive than the Empress, would understand that they had nothing to do in the harem and would behave themselves.

Sure enough, the Sixth Prince was right. After the palace maids who came in were downgraded in appearance, they became much more obedient. After all, concubines are chosen for their beauty, but if their beauty is not as good as that of the principal wife, who would take them in? Naturally, they would not have any extra thoughts.

Seeing that things had calmed down in the palace, the Sixth Prince finally breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing how much infighting there was even in the harem, he completely abandoned the idea of ​​taking a concubine. After all, if even something like this was fought for so fiercely, he couldn't imagine what the future would hold if his sons were born. He truly didn't want to see the tragedy of his generation repeated in his sons.

In fact, he knew that the reason why his five elder brothers had fallen was because someone had done something to them; otherwise, they wouldn't have fallen for no reason.

He only managed to hold on thanks to the support of the Zhou family; otherwise, he might have suffered the same fate as the previous five. After all, who could withstand being attacked by everyone else when they had a chance to rise to power? It's normal for something to go wrong. After all, if others are willing, they can find fault even in the smallest things. No matter what you do right, they can still find fault. How can you possibly escape it?

Like Third Brother, he hardly did anything wrong. Others saw that ordinary methods couldn't get rid of him, so they went straight for assassination, but in the end, something still happened.

The power struggles of their generation were so intense that he took many concubines, who would have children with different mothers. This would inevitably happen again, and he didn't want to see that happen.

After the atmosphere in the harem was rectified, it also affected the court. Afterwards, when the ministers saw that the new emperor really did not intend to take concubines, they quieted down a lot. But the sixth prince knew that they had only quieted down temporarily. Who knew what kind of trouble his son would cause when he grew up? After all, even children born to the same mother could fight for the throne.

Surprisingly, things turned out quite well. The atmosphere in the court gradually improved. He didn't know it was because of Linlang's intervention; he only thought that the atmosphere had improved because he hadn't taken any concubines and only had children born to the Empress. So he insisted on this idea even more and didn't take any other women.

In fact, if anyone tries to get close to the princes, manipulate them, or incite them to fight each other, Linlang will find evidence of that person's crimes and eliminate them.

Ambitious people are usually not clean-handed; their actions are easily cleaned up.

After the three princes grew up, their relationship was still okay. The eldest prince was decent enough; while not outstanding, he was certainly capable of maintaining the status quo, so the emperor made him the crown prince.

After the emperor's lifespan ended and he passed away, the eldest prince smoothly ascended to the throne.

Because he had a decent relationship with his other brothers and never really fought them, it was completely different from the previous generation who fought to the death.

Linlang also tried her best to protect the dynasty. If she saw any bad people in the court, she would find evidence of their crimes and eliminate them. The atmosphere in the court was clean and the new emperor was also acceptable, so the government was getting better and better.

In fact, there are usually precedents for handling major affairs in the court, and as long as there are no incompetent rulers or treacherous officials, they will not cause too much trouble.

Because Linlang lived a life of luxury in this world, she lived a relatively long time. With her around, it was like having a guardian deity. Therefore, until her death, this world functioned smoothly without any major chaos. The people lived in much more peace and prosperity than when Linlang arrived. Back then, the princes' power struggles caused a lot of messy and chaotic events. After all, some people would harm ordinary people and then frame another prince, causing great misfortune for the common people. (End of Chapter)