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Chapter 877 The Best Family 4
The reason why she didn't make a high-profile appearance was naturally intentional on Linlang's part.

Firstly, she wanted to give the Second House an illusion that she would not make a name for herself in the palace, and then slowly promote her to higher positions, slowly slap them in the face and make them feel afraid. If this process was prolonged, she could torture them repeatedly, which would be more effective in messing with people's mentality than if she were in a high position from the beginning.

Secondly, Mu Cang was the first to stand out, which was too high-profile and would definitely cause trouble. Even though those three people were now in front of the emperor's eyes, if they did not have the corresponding abilities, they would most likely be beaten down by various forces.

This is also normal. They are so glorious today. It goes without saying how jealous their colleagues who were selected together with them are. The concubines in the palace who are gradually losing favor will be. I'm afraid they will hate them to death and make trouble for them openly or secretly. They have just entered the palace and haven't established a firm foothold yet, but they are being targeted by so many people. It's hard to say how far they can go.

Thirdly, Linlang also wanted to bring more money to the original family.

During this month, Linlang carefully studied the palace rules of this dynasty and found out that as long as one was promoted to a higher level, the palace would send a promotion gift to the concubine's family. But if one skipped some levels, the gifts for the skipped levels would not be made up. So Linlang planned to be promoted from the lowest level, one level at a time. She wanted to get all the promotion gifts so that the eldest branch of the Sun family would have some money to use. Otherwise, according to what they had agreed before, they would only get a few dollars by doing hard labor in Beijing, and all of it would be used up on rent and expenses.

The promotion gifts in the palace are given according to the rank. Although those in lower positions don’t get much, a small gift is still meat, so you have to take it.

Moreover, this low-ranking position did not pay much compared to others, but for the Sun family's impoverished eldest branch, this amount of money was not small, so Linlang naturally had to take her time and bring them money one sum at a time.

In this way, although her position was not high at the beginning, the eldest wife of the Sun family could benefit from her repeated promotions, and gradually have more money to use and improve their lives. That was enough.

Because she thought so, when the female official later assessed her rank, she did not give any gifts, and thus she got the lowest rank as she wished.

Yes, the emperor did not make other people queens, saying that he would let the empress dowager decide their ranks. But the empress dowager did not have the patience to do such a thing. At most, she would manage the positions of officials' daughters. She would not care about common people entering the palace, so naturally she let the female officials around her do it.

This would naturally bring a lot of income to the female officials around her.

There is no queen in the palace for the time being.

There was a queen before, but she died two years ago, and the emperor has not yet appointed a queen.

I have to say that the struggle in the palace is very fierce now. Everyone wants to be the queen.

Because Linlang did not give any money to the female officials around the empress dowager, she was given the lowest rank, Cheng'en, just like the other concubines who did not give any money.

For those stuffed with money, the quality of the seal will vary depending on the amount of money.

However, Linlang discovered that the female officials around the empress dowager were really corrupt. If she was given 100 taels, she could be appointed as a ninth-rank dressmaker. 200 taels could be appointed as an eighth-rank palace maid. 500 taels could be appointed as an eighth-rank palace maid. 1,000 taels could be appointed as a seventh-rank court lady. 2,000 taels could be appointed as a seventh-rank concubine. And so on. According to her corrupt way of collecting money, it seemed that she would need 50,000 taels to be appointed as a noble lady.

Therefore, the grades that the emperor gave to those three people were quite valuable.

However, who would have 50,000 taels of silver and spend the money on their daughter entering the palace? They are not stupid.

If a family had money, it would be considered good if they could give their daughter 1,800 taels to enter the palace. With so much money, those concubines could take out 500 taels and become an eighth-rank palace maid, which was considered good.

And there are more people who have no money and can only be given the lowest rank of Cheng'en like Linlang.

After all, most families are at best well-off. How much money can they bring into the palace? If they bring too much, their families will be heartbroken.

Although she was only given the lowest title of Cheng'en, Linlang was very satisfied. After all, she now had a place to live alone and did not have to worry about privacy issues.

Naturally, Sun's father and mother knew the news that Linlang had become a concubine immediately.

Because they knew that there would be news coming out of the palace today, the two of them went straight to the palace gate and waited.

Soon the names and ranks of the selected concubines were posted at the palace gate, among which was Linlang's name. Although she had the lowest rank, just Cheng'en, it also made the Sun family happy. After all, being able to enter the palace meant that they had taken the first step. Not to mention that it was just the lowest rank, what if there was a chance to move up? In any case, it was good. At least one could tell others that his daughter was a concubine in the palace. That sounded much better than going back and still being a dirt-digger.

At that moment, Sun's father and mother hurried back to their residence.

After renting the house, they told the office in the palace that was in charge of concubine affairs where they were staying. When the time came, whether their daughter failed the selection and they would send her back, or if she was selected and they would notify her family, they would all come here to find them.

That was the poorest place in the capital, dirty and messy. The place where the eldest branch of the Sun family lived was also dilapidated and cramped. It was the cheapest place they could find in the capital, and even such a place cost five hundred coins a month. So, if their daughter was not selected, they would definitely have to go back immediately.

Fortunately, even if they failed to be selected, the government would give each family travel expenses and send them back smoothly. So since their daughter passed the fifth level and entered the palace, they were not worried about not having money to return.

Soon, eunuchs came to congratulate him.

In fact, according to the system, the palace would hand over the promotion gifts of the elected concubines to government offices at all levels, and then the government offices at all levels would hand them over to the concubines' families.

However, if the concubine's parents' home is in the capital, eunuchs will generally take on this job and make a trip there.

After all, for such matters, as long as the concubines' families are not stupid, they will give rewards.

The eunuchs were right. Even though the Sun family was probably the poorest family he had ever seen, he thought he would not get much money from this trip. However, the Sun family was surprisingly generous. They took out a small silver ingot from the one hundred taels of gift money given by the palace and gave it to him. This small silver ingot weighed five taels.

He immediately congratulated the Sun family with joy and left.

In fact, the Sun family was even more confused than he was. They had not expected that their daughter would not get much gift money as she was given the lowest rank, but they were given a hundred taels of money. There were so many people in their family, and they worked hard for a year, and after deducting food and drink, they could only earn twenty or thirty taels of money. As soon as their daughter entered the palace and was given the lowest rank of concubine, her family could get a hundred taels of money as a gift. Naturally, they were confused, wondering how could there be so much.

They would be even more surprised if they knew that for concubines and above, even if they did not take the imperial examination, the male members of the concubine's family could get an idle job. So this little money was nothing. If a commoner bought a concubine, he would have to give some money to the concubine's family. What's more, the emperor selected such a beautiful woman from all over the country to enter the palace. How could he not give some money to the concubine's family? After all, such a beautiful girl could marry very well among the common people and get a lot of gifts.