Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 957 The Best Family 84
Just imagine, Empress Dowager Wu had to be busy with these things every day, and she was old and her energy was not as good as before. How could she have the energy to take care of the affairs of the palace? So the emperor conferred titles of noble concubine and imperial concubine on Linlang. Although she didn't want to see it, she was in no mood to take care of these things at the moment, so she could only let it go.

Therefore, although Linlang was able to be promoted repeatedly after becoming the master of a palace, she was not further harassed by Empress Dowager Wu, which can be regarded as a cause for celebration.

Of course, if Empress Dowager Wu is really not in her right mind and hasn't learned her lesson after being dealt with last time, and still wants to continue to make trouble for Linlang, Linlang doesn't mind continuing to find things for Empress Dowager Wu to do. So now that Empress Dowager Wu has stopped making things difficult for Linlang, it is actually a good thing for Empress Dowager Wu, after all, she doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

After Linlang took office, the first thing Concubine Li gave her was a troublesome matter.

Concubine Li asked her to be in charge of the distribution of rouge and powder.

Although all kinds of things in the palace are actually purchased and distributed by various institutions, the harem managers naturally have to review them as well. It's like a family, although the manager will be responsible for various purchasing matters, the hostess will definitely review them.

This is what Concubine Li and her colleagues do. They are responsible for keeping an eye on the distribution of various things, to see whether they have been distributed in place, what the quality is like, etc.

The reason why what Concubine Li gave to Linlang was a troublesome matter was that the distributing agencies often gave different kinds of rouge and powder to each palace based on the individual's condition.

Needless to say, those who are favored receive only good things and will not and dare not send bad things.

But for those who are not favored, those who give gifts will deduct their gifts.

It was obvious that they had made enough profit when buying things. After all, as mentioned earlier, the prices of things inside and outside the palace could differ by thousands or even tens of thousands of times, which naturally made those who bought things make enough profit.

However, they were still not satisfied. In order to earn a little more money, they even replaced the concubines' rouge and powder with inferior ones.

In fact, the price difference between inside and outside the palace is the most profitable. That little bit of rouge and powder is worth a few dollars, but people still want to embezzle it. But these people are so greedy that they even want this little money.

And now, with Linlang in charge of this matter, trouble arises.

If Linlang dared to ask those who distributed the gifts not to withhold the gifts from the less favored concubines, she would definitely offend those who distributed the gifts; but if she ignored them and allowed them to distribute bad gifts, Concubine Li would definitely instruct those concubines to complain about the matter to the higher-ups.

Those concubines did not dare to mention this matter before because they were out of favor, but now, if Concubine Li supports them, they will definitely dare to complain.

After all, firstly, they were given bad rouge and powder, and they were already furious with those female officials and eunuchs and wanted to punish them, but they were not favored before and did not dare to mention this matter. Now that they can punish them, how can they not be willing to do it? Secondly, if Concubine Li supports them in doing this, they can curry favor with Concubine Li by doing it.

They could not only punish the eunuchs and court ladies they had wanted to punish, but also win the favor of Concubine Li, killing two birds with one stone. How great was that, there was no way they would not do it. If the emperor, especially Empress Dowager Wu, knew that Linlang had made such a mistake in the matter of rouge and powder, they would definitely punish her.

Especially Empress Dowager Wu. Even if she knew that the palace had always done things this way, she would not miss such an opportunity to deal with Linlang. She would definitely ask the emperor to send Linlang to the cold palace, or even give her a white silk ribbon.

Linlang could even imagine what Empress Dowager Wu would say. She would definitely say to the emperor, "See, I told you that people with such a bad background should not be given a high position. See, you are so short-sighted that you dare to do such a thing for such a small amount of money."

Even if Linlang didn't take a penny, Empress Dowager Wu would still say this, thinking that she was withholding the rouge and powder of the unfavored concubines because she was greedy for money.

In other words, if she handled the matter impartially, she would offend the eunuchs and female officials in the palace; if she did not handle it impartially, she would offend those concubines who were not favored, and Concubine Li would support these people in complaining, making her unpopular.

Linlang naturally didn't want to take this job, but even if she changed her job, it wouldn't be better than this one, because Concubine Li would definitely assign her such a job, which would cause her trouble.

Since Linlang has received such an assignment, she is naturally not afraid.

Sure enough, after seeing Linlang getting this assignment, Concubine Li contacted those unfavored concubines who were treated unfairly, and asked them to pay attention to the quality of the rouge and powder they received this time. If they were not good, they should complain about the matter to their superiors, and she supported their complaints.

Those unfavored concubines naturally knew what Concubine Li was planning, but, just as Linlang thought, they had long been angry at the eunuchs and female officials who withheld their rouge and powder. In addition, they also wanted to curry favor with Concubine Li, so when Concubine Li sent people to incite them, they naturally planned to take action.

Although they had heard that Linlang was in charge of this matter, and that their complaints might be detrimental to Linlang, they would not think whether Linlang would be unlucky because of this matter. After all, was it not wrong for Concubine Sun to let them receive bad rouge and powder? Since she was wrong, what was wrong with their complaints? If they had the ability, they should have given them good rouge and powder instead of rotten ones, and then they would not have complained.

Since what they do is aboveboard, what are they afraid of?

Theoretically speaking, there was nothing wrong with what they did. After all, it was right to complain when they were given bad rouge and powder. Linlang had long been fed up with this group of greedy eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting in the palace.

So Linlang decided to lend them a helping hand and help them deal with these eunuchs and female officials.

Linlang immediately compiled the evidence of what the eunuchs and female officials in the palace had done into flyers, and distributed them throughout the palace before rouge and powder were distributed this month, that is, before she took on any responsibilities. Of course, she also did not forget to send one to the emperor and the Ministry of Punishment.

In fact, everyone in the palace knew what these eunuchs and female officials in the palace had done, but no one intended to deal with it. After all, too many people were involved, and almost everyone was involved, so how could they be dealt with? So when Empress Dowager Wu received the leaflet, she couldn't help but laugh at the person who sent it out. She thought that in her era, the eunuchs and female officials in the palace had done this, and everyone would know about it. And they sent out this leaflet. Even if the emperor knew about it, so what? There were too many people involved, and it would be difficult for the emperor to deal with it.

In fact, what Empress Dowager Wu did not think about was that Linlang would not care about this matter, and whether the emperor would care about it. She just wanted to detonate this matter in advance. When the Empress Dowager and the Emperor knew about this matter, they did not deal with the eunuchs and female officials. Then, those unfavored concubines, after receiving this month's rouge and powder, found that they were not good, and complained about this matter again. When they wanted to make trouble for Linlang, the matter had been spread in the palace for a long time, and the complaints of these unfavored concubines were not Linlang's business. After all, the emperor and the empress dowager had known about this matter for a long time and did not deal with it. If they complained again, the emperor could not blame Linlang again, after all, didn't he know about this matter a long time ago and did not deal with it at all?