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Chapter 936 The Best Family 63
There is no mention that Concubine Liu was afraid that Linlang would take revenge on her, only that Linlang moved to Qinghe Hall.

Ms. Zhang and others were naturally happy.

Linlang was promoted to the position of concubine, and the female official around her was also promoted to the eighth rank. There were six people serving her, one of whom was promoted to the ninth rank female official, and another was newly promoted to female historian. The other three were still ordinary palace maids for the time being, but as long as Linlang continued to be promoted, these people would also have room for advancement.

In fact, when it comes to the position of concubine, the six palace maids given by the government are sometimes not enough, because there are too many affairs to deal with, and some people will bring people from their parents' homes into the palace to serve as manpower.

Although the number of female officials given to these people by the government is fixed, that is, there is only one eighth-rank female official, one ninth-rank female official, and one female historian, the number of people under these people can be filled. Anyway, as long as it does not consume the official's exceptional salary and female official quota, as long as the concubines can afford it, they can be supported.

Of course, this number cannot continue to increase. Otherwise, for the same rank, the rich will have dozens of palace maids, while the poor will only have a few. Is that reasonable?
Therefore, some sensible people, even if they have money, will not keep too many concubines. Otherwise, it will be too ostentatious and will not only become a target among the concubines, but may also displease the emperor. After all, the emperor will definitely not like such extravagant concubines.

Moreover, the number of palace maids that the emperor keeps needs to be applied for and approved by the empress dowager before they can enter the palace. It is not that one can just hire anyone to enter the palace - if the emperor has a queen, this must be approved by the queen, but the emperor of this dynasty does not have a queen for the time being, so it must be approved by the empress dowager.

If the number of people is small, Concubine Li can also approve it - since Concubine Li became a concubine, the emperor has given her limited management power over the harem, and Concubine Li can make the decision on such small matters.

After Concubine Li became pregnant, although she no longer slept with the emperor and did not take care of the affairs of the harem, she had a trusted nanny by her side, so she handled the affairs. In short, it was impossible for her to hand over the authority to manage the harem just because she was pregnant. This was the power to manage the harem, how could she possibly hand it over?

Of course, if this were someone else, Linlang wouldn't have hired more people. After all, she had a convenience, and that was that other people needed manpower to inquire about information everywhere. She had the Little Bee surveillance, so she didn't need people in this area. She only needed one person to be in charge of the matter and pretend to be in charge, so as to avoid having to explain where she got the information if no one was sent to inquire.

Because it would save the number of people who had to inquire about the news, so these six people could still handle the work as long as they were arranged properly. They were not like other concubines, who had fewer subordinates and the palace maids and nannies were busy all the time.

Of course, Linlang had enough manpower, but on the other hand, even if Linlang was short of staff and applied to hire a few more palace maids or nannies, she would have no choice but to accept Empress Dowager Wu's approval.

Queen Mother Wu did not like that she was born into a commoner family but was promoted to the position of the head of a palace. As a result, if she wanted to apply to have more palace maids, she could not do so without Queen Mother Wu's approval.

What if there were few applicants and she asked Imperial Concubine Li for approval? Since she was promoted to the position of concubine, Imperial Concubine Li would probably be wary of her, and she might not be able to get approval even if she wanted to apply for help.

Because it was difficult to get the application approved, and Linlang actually didn't lack manpower at all, I simply didn't apply, which saved me a lot of trouble.

The emperor was referring to the Qinghe Hall, where the main seat was naturally empty before.

This is also normal. There are twelve main seats in the six palaces of the east and west. In addition, the empress and the imperial concubine are not in the six palaces of the east and west, but have separate palace groups, which is actually equivalent to fourteen main seats.

However, there are less than fourteen people above the rank of concubine, so some palaces are naturally empty. When someone is promoted to the position of the mistress of a palace, there will naturally be a place for her to be accommodated.

Since there is no one in the main palace, naturally the concubines of lower rank will not be arranged to live in those palaces. After all, the concubines of lower rank need to be managed by the concubines of higher rank. Without the concubines of higher rank, it would not work if there is no one to manage the concubines of lower rank. Therefore, the Qinghe Hall was empty before.

Now that Qinghe Hall has an owner, if anyone wants to move to Linlang Palace, they can move in as long as they apply and the lady-in-waiting agrees. However, unless someone is promoted and has more rooms to live in, and other palaces can't accommodate them, they may be arranged to live in Linlang. Under normal circumstances, they will only be arranged to live in Linlang after waiting for three years and selecting new people again. Normally, no one will change palaces to move to Linlang.

The reason why Concubine Liu's palace was full of people was because she had participated in several beauty pageants. Every time there was a beauty pageant, as long as there was vacancy in her palace, people would be crammed in, resulting in a bunch of low-ranking concubines in the palace.

In other words, Linlang could probably dominate the palace alone for nearly three years, which was quite comfortable. After all, who would want to live with others?

Of course, some people may like to have a bunch of low-ranking concubines as their subordinates, but Linlang doesn’t like that. She likes quietness and she doesn’t like others to be her subordinates.

After three years, she would strive to be promoted to the position of Imperial Noble Consort, and then she would be able to dominate the palace alone - unless all other palaces were full, generally no one would be stuffed into the palaces of Imperial Noble Consort and Queen.

So when people talk about the master of a palace, in fact, she still lives with other people. The only ones who can truly dominate a palace are the empress and the imperial concubine.

After Linlang was promoted to the head of the first palace, her status made a qualitative leap.

She is favored and the head of a palace, which naturally makes her different from concubines like Concubine Liu who were promoted based on their seniority and are not favored.

There were countless concubines of lower rank and eunuchs and palace maids who came to curry favor with her, as Linlang was favored and promoted to a position above that of imperial concubine.

Previously, Linlang was promoted to Zhaoyi. Although her status was not low, she was not the master of a palace and was still a little lacking. Therefore, although there were people who came to curry favor with her, they were not that many.

Now there are a constant stream of people visiting every day.

Female officials, eunuch chiefs, lower-ranking concubines, etc., all came to ask for an audience.

It was difficult for ordinary palace maids and eunuchs to see Linlang. It was not because Linlang was promoted and did not want to see them, but because there were too many people seeking to see her, and Linlang could not see all of them in a short time.

This is normal. There are more than 10,000 people in the entire palace, which is almost the same as the population of a small county town in that era.

While people in small county towns live scattered around, people in the imperial palace live so concentratedly together that interpersonal communication is particularly convenient and frequent.

Linlang didn't want to see too many people, so she could only say that she didn't want to be too high-profile, so she closed the door and refused visitors. It became a lot quieter now.

Linlang was promoted to concubine this time. Fortunately, Concubine Li was pregnant and was about to give birth. Everyone paid more attention to Concubine Li, which helped her distract a little. Otherwise, the promotion to concubine would definitely become the focus of the harem. Therefore, Concubine Li's pregnancy helped her a lot.