Volume 2: Soaring! The Overlord of the Region Chapter 239: Choosing a Concubine is Not Easy (Part 4)
"Are you Liu Yun?"
"I, the humble girl Liu Yun, pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
"No need to be polite. Um... are you Yui?"
"I, a commoner, am here to meet your Highness."
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"Okay, everyone, please take your seats. Today we are just going to have a simple chat, so don't be nervous."
In the historical plane, the selection of the empress by Emperor Tianqi took more than a year, and there were as many as 5,000 girls participating in the selection. In Zhu Youdong's case, since he was only selecting the Crown Prince's Consort, and he had stated from the beginning that only women with natural feet could be selected, there were only more than 2,000 girls participating in the selection this time, and the time for review and selection by departments at all levels was also significantly reduced.
However, even so, Wanli issued the imperial edict in March, and various places started to move forward in April. More than 2,000 girls went through five rounds of fierce competition. In the end, six girls finally stood in front of Zhu Youdong. It was already the first day of October 1614.
This was because Zhu Youdong kept urging him.
His Royal Highness personally came forward to urge the "Concubine Selection Office" to speed up the progress of the work, which really made some people who didn't know the truth secretly laugh: What? Is Your Highness also very anxious about women? If you are really anxious, there are many palace maids in Xinghua Palace, can't you just grab one to relieve the pressure?
However, Li Guozhu and others understood very well the real reason why His Highness was anxious.
As a fan of the game Anrong before traveling through time, Zhu Youdong knew all about the Japanese history of this period: In one month, the Winter Campaign of Osaka, where the Tokugawa family will destroy the Toyotomi family, will begin, and his work focus will soon shift to other places. MD, why don't you guys hurry up and finish the selection of concubines? By then, I will have to make decisions on military and national affairs over there, and I will have to attend all kinds of cumbersome ceremonies here. I don't know how to clone myself !
After all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was more majestic than the Emperor at this moment. The Emperor had been on the throne for so many years, but he had never exterminated the three clans of others! So under Zhu Youdong's strict order, these guys hurried and finally sent the top six candidates for this selection of concubines to Zhu Youdong.
Originally, according to Zhu Youdong's idea, this selection of concubines was just a ritual that had to be completed: the time travelers who could not expose themselves were destined to be lonely in spirit, and even if they were husband and wife, their spiritual communication was extremely limited. Besides, even if he had traveled through time for more than ten years, Zhu Youdong asked himself if he was homogeneous enough to attack a 13 or 14-year-old girl. Therefore, he initially thought that this so-called selection of three from six was just a formality.
However, when he really faced these six beautiful girls, his original loser nature kicked in again: Mmm, they smell so good! Uh, no, they are so beautiful!
Actually, there are only two people who attracted him. One is a real lady from a noble family, slender and well-proportioned, with eyes like autumn waves, mouth like red cherry, nose like hanging gallbladder, white and clean teeth. And her whole body naturally exudes a kind of warm and comfortable smell that makes people feel like bathing in the spring breeze.
The other one exudes a heroic spirit and has some mixed-race features: a high nose bridge, big eyes and thick lips. Although she is only thirteen years old, it can be seen that she will definitely be a tall woman in the future.
The former, of course, was Liu Yun, who was sent in by the remnant forces of Donglin and the Huaiyang Merchants. The latter was from the Datong military. No, after the representatives of other military towns were eliminated, this was the only one left by the military.
Facing six beautiful girls, His Royal Highness only confirmed the names of two. Fang Zhenghua, who replaced Wang Chengen as Zhu Youdong's personal eunuch, understood immediately: His Royal Highness only liked these two.
Then Fang Zhenghua quietly withdrew: If nothing unexpected happens, these two people will definitely be selected. Before that, we must find out the details of these two people again.
"Let me ask you, if you become the Crown Prince's Consort, how should you interact with me? Well, you go first."
He only asked two people their names, and asked the others to answer first. This loser's tendency is very obvious - as expected, all men are the same, visual creatures!
However, since they have passed the selection process and come here, they are not stupid. Therefore, even the girl that Zhu Youdong casually pointed at only thought for a while and answered loudly: "I believe that men are Qian and women are Kun. Therefore, the husband is the wife's heaven. As the Crown Prince's Consort, of course I must serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with the attitude of the earth looking up to the sky."
"Hmm..." Zhu Youdong had been here for so long, and to be honest, he didn't have any special requirements for food and clothing. For more than a decade, he just felt tired!
But today, I finally got to experience the benefits of that evil ancient society.
"Well said, is there anything else you want to add? Oh, well, next one."
When many candidates answer the same question together, the advantage of the latter answerer is that they have more time to think and have more reference opinions. The disadvantage is that it becomes extremely difficult to answer with new ideas: many opinions have been said by the previous people, and if you say them again, the examiner will think you are plagiarizing.
Of course, Zhu Youdong did this on purpose. He just wanted to see whether these two women, whose looks alone had touched his heart, were also more talented.
"Um, Liu Yun."
"Yes, Your Highness. I believe that Your Highness is the Crown Prince and the Regent. He will be the ruler of the world in the future. In addition to serving her husband as a wife, the Crown Prince's Consort should also be kind. When her husband rules the world with force, she should use her natural gentleness to appropriately reconcile. The combination of force and gentleness, the mutual generation of yin and yang, is the foundation for the stability of the world and the endless prosperity of all people."
"Um... Youyi, what about you?"
"Yes, Your Highness. I think that in addition to what the sisters have just said, as the Crown Prince's Consort, you must always pay attention to the changes in the national policies of our Ming Dynasty at every stage. After all, as the Art of War says, there is no constant situation for soldiers, and there is no constant . Every different period of the country must face different problems. Of course, the harem cannot interfere in politics, but if the Crown Prince's Consort is not clear about the national situation, she will not know what the Crown Prince is worried about recently. She will not know how to comfort and relieve the Crown Prince..."
“Hahaha~~”
After laughing for a while, Zhu Youdong stood up and bowed slightly to the six girls: "You have come all the way here, thank you for your hard work. No matter what the result is, I will give you 1,000 silver coins and a set of all the products of Fangshan and Honghe. Please accept them."
After the six beauties returned the greeting and left, Fang Zhenghua stepped out from the thick curtains and said, "Young Master, I have already found out everything. Miss Liu was recommended by the Prime Minister to the Queen Mother, and she was ranked first when the Queen Mother was selecting candidates. Miss You is related to Marshal Ma. In the fourth round, Elder Wen tried his best to ensure that Miss You passed. After the fifth round, Miss You received unanimous support from the warriors. In the end, Elder Wen personally came forward and asked your mother to ensure that she passed the fifth round."
As expected! I knew that even though I used the ultimate killer move of Tianzu to restrict them, none of the women who could walk in front of me were easy to deal with!
But it doesn't matter, these two people are indeed impressive in appearance. And whether it is a military general or a civil official, they really can't just deal with it with a tough and fierce approach.
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On November 1, 1614, the Ming court issued a report clearly announcing that after six rounds of selection, Liu Yun was chosen as the Crown Princess and You Yi as the Consort. At the same time, the Ministry of Rites was instructed to make every effort to arrange the Crown Prince's wedding, which was expected to be completed in the middle of next year.
Zhu Youdong, who had just solved his lifelong event, quickly raised his head and looked to the east!
