Chapter 1509: Empress Dowager Mo's Transformation (4)

Before Caiwei appeared this morning, she was desperate and thought that the country of Dajin would be destroyed by Li Kaifeng.   However, she was shocked when the powerful enemy she regarded as unbeatable was easily defeated by Caiwei.

Caiwei was too powerful. Not only could she summon indestructible beasts, but she could also appear or disappear at will. These were just her abilities that she could see with her naked eyes. Who knew what other unknown and extraordinary abilities she had?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel scared for the things she had done. Thinking about how stupid she was in the past, she didn't hesitate to put a curse on her son just because she didn't like her; forced a woman on her son; and humiliated her in public...

Now recalling it, Caiwei was really generous. She did so many excessive things, but she didn't even bother with her. Otherwise, as long as she moved her fingers casually, she would have died many times. If she was unhappy, it would be easy for her to destroy the entire Dajin.

After the fear, she regretted it again. A month ago, she realized that the queen was not in the palace at all, and had not been in the palace for a while, so she deliberately asked the emperor about this, but the emperor evaded the question.

Later, she sent two beauties to test them, and they were beaten to death by the emperor.

The emperor's rage surprised her and she realized that there must be something wrong between them. So, she issued an imperial decree as the queen mother, ordering all states, prefectures, and counties to select concubines on a large scale.

In the past, the selection was generally done like this. Most of the concubines were good girls with a clean family background aged 10 to 13. They were not doctors, witches, merchants, or craftsmen. Five thousand people were selected from all over the world. After strict screening, only one thousand people could enter the palace to be maids. After the maids entered the palace, the female officials ordered the midwives in the palace to lead them into the secret room to explore their breasts, smell their armpits, and touch their skin, and then select three hundred people as the leaders of the maids. After living in the palace for more than a month, fifty people were selected as ladies according to their temperament, words and deeds, and the emperor's preferences. They belonged to the lowest-ranking concubines. If they were favored by His Majesty, their status would naturally rise.

In addition to women from good families, some palace maids came from bureaucratic aristocratic families. Some bureaucratic aristocrats tried every means to send their daughters to the palace to seek the emperor's favor, so that the entire family could climb up by relying on nepotism. Such women were more likely to attract the emperor's attention than ordinary palace maids, and they were promoted faster because their families were behind them. At that time, there were indeed several favorite concubines among the fifty ladies, such as Concubine Huo Xian, the mother of King Jing, who was selected into the palace in this way.

However, these are all old imperial calendars in the past. Today, Queen Mu has made new regulations for the selection of concubines. The selected women only need to be healthy and of excellent quality. The rest of their origins and appearance can be completely ignored.

Empress Dowager Mo disagreed, because the selection of concubines was not only for serving as servants in the palace, but also for becoming the emperor's concubine. When issuing the imperial decree, she particularly emphasized the appearance of the concubines, who must be beautiful and charming, and be happy or angry.

To the outside world, her explanation for this selection was that most of the palace maids had been released by the queen. After this year, many palace maids will be 18 years old and have reached the age of being released from the palace, so another batch will be released. Although there is only the queen in the palace, those empty palaces and gardens still need someone to take care of them so that they will not be deserted.

But her actual idea was to take advantage of Empress Mu's absence to select a few gentle and beautiful girls to keep by the emperor's side. Although the emperor only favored the empress, he would get tired of any good thing if he ate it too much. The emperor would get tired of her sooner or later if he was with her all day long. And those palace maids were all young and beautiful, swaying in front of the emperor all day long. She didn't believe that the emperor could control himself and stay with her forever.