Zhao Xun's heart knot was untied, and his whole expression suddenly relaxed a lot. During this period, he took the initiative to find Li Yi and said that he was preparing to open a selection this year to expand his harem.

"It should have been like this long ago."

Li Yi smiled on her face, took Zhao Xun's hand, and said softly: "You are the emperor, the foundation and hope of the entire Jin Dynasty. If the offspring is thin, it will be very unfavorable to you. The last emperor is good at political affairs and is less close to women, but he also gave birth to eight princes. Although you are still very young, you only have one prince now. The huge palace is the last and one concubine. There are too few concubines and the offspring are not prosperous, which will have a certain impact on the court."

"What the mother taught her is that the child has a memory."

Zhao Xun said: "It is better to leave the matter of selection to my mother and take care of it later. What do you think?"

Li Yi glanced at Zhao Xun and said, "Caixuan is the queen's responsibility. If I intervene, I am afraid the queen will not be happy."

Zhao Xun said in a low voice: "How can you not listen to your mother-in-law as a daughter-in-law?"

Hearing Zhao Xun say this, Li Yi raised her hand and touched her son's face, her expression softened a lot.

The relationship between Empress Yuwen Huashang and Empress Dowager Li Yi was very cold. Before she made a marriage with Zhao Xun, she had come to the palace to pay homage to Li Yi several times. This woman left a bad impression on her. Although she was very beautiful, she was mean and had a strong personality. Li Yi made several suggestions from Zhao Zhi, hoping to change someone. However, for political reasons, Zhao Zhi finally chose Yuwen Huashang. After all, Yuwen Zhen was in charge of the entire imperial guards and was a strong general of the military. Zhao Xun became his son-in-law, which was equivalent to having the protection and protection of the entire imperial guards, so that he could ascend the throne to the greatest extent possible.

Yu Wen Huashang has a narrow-minded nature and a strong personality, and is even more jealous. After becoming the Crown Princess, she drove out all the pretty palace maids in the Crown Prince's uterus, leaving only those mediocre people and watching Zhao Xun very tightly. Once there is any disturbance, she will secretly attack her. Such women are really unbearable for ordinary men, but it is precisely because Zhao Xun is concerned about politics and devotes himself to the government. He is not very interested in women, or he has no time to be interested. The couple advances and retreats, just to make up for this contradiction.

Therefore, the couple's relationship has been pretty good since Yu Wen Huashang and Zhao Xun got married for several years.

However, the murder of the palace maid made Zhao Xun feel extremely dissatisfied with the queen Yu Wen Huashang. That palace maid is nothing. Zhao Xun would not care whether it is dead or alive. However, since the palace maid is pregnant, it is completely different. The palace maid is nothing, but she is pregnant with a dragon seed in her belly. The queen acted recklessly and secretly took the poison. She killed not only the palace maid, but also the emperor's descendants. This is a great sin. Since Zhao Xun knew the details, how could he not be angry?

And this is only part of the reason. Zhao Xun has seen some strangeness. Since the death of the late emperor, his mother has been depressed and is not interested in many things. He spends most of his time in Changle Palace and does not go anywhere. He has rarely taken care of things in the palace. This situation makes Empress Yu Wen Huashang feel that this is an opportunity, so he makes a lot of things and controls the six palaces. He does not follow the Queen Mother Li Yi in one sentence, and does not take Li Yi seriously at all.

The mother-son relationship between Zhao Xun and Li Yi is very deep. Can Zhao Xun feel comfortable when Queen Yu Wen Huashang treats her mother like this?

Zhao Xun said to Li Changle beside him: "Let Lu Bojiang pass the imperial edict to the Ministry of Rites and start the selection. Before October, the preliminary preparations must be completed."

"Yes, your Majesty."

Li Changle bowed to accept the order.

Li Xun held his daughter Mingyue and looked at Zhao Xun's side.

Draft girl?

I remember that world, a certain dynasty, was very strict and strict about the matter of selecting girls.

Any woman who is aged thirteen to sixteen must participate in the emperor's selection of women every three years. The selected woman stays in the palace to serve the emperor as a concubine, or is given a wife to the royal family. She is not allowed to marry without participating in the selection of women.

This is a great insult to women, and it is compulsory. You can't do it without participating, because if you don't come, you don't even have the qualifications to get married.

The Jin Dynasty was different. The system in the early and mid-term was to order local officials to select women from good families to enter the palace every year.

The process is generally in the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year. Women selected from all over the country will be concentrated in Fengjing. At this time, the court sent a special person to lead personnel who were proficient in physiognomy to view.

The selection criteria are women over thirteen years old and under 20 years old, with beautiful appearance, dignified appearance, and a "auspicious" face in line with the physiognomy.

The selected person immediately got into the car, loaded into the harem, and then selected the best from it, so that the emperor could ascend to the imperial court.

Anyone who is fortunate to be favored by the emperor may be made a concubine.

This process is also mandatory. As long as it is chosen by the government, no matter whether you want it or not, you must go to Fengjing. If you don’t go, the whole family will suffer.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, this was improved. If a woman who was chosen was betrothed by others, she would not come and the local government would not force recruitment.

During the reign of Emperor Wuzong, it was no longer compulsory. Although it was still selected by local governments, it was further improved and more humanized. Various means became much more gentle. The selected families would pay travel expenses, including food and accommodation. Regardless of whether they were selected or not, this family would be exempted from all labor and taxes in the coming year.

Moreover, from this period, palace maids and eunuchs began to have fixed salary every month, not small, and made clear fixed. Eunuchs over fifty years old, palace maids over ten years old, or thirty years old, can apply to return to their hometown. The family is exempted from all labor and taxes for five years, and the court will also give money, which is considered a dowry.

Various superior policies have led to private families no longer resisting the imperial court's selection, but actively participating.

At the same time, Wuzong also set rules that all emperors, princesses, concubines, palace concubines, concubines, and concubines should be carefully selected as good girls. Therefore, the generations of emperors, empresses and main concubines after Wuzong were recruited by the people, which greatly reduced the entry of women from major families into the palace. Finally, as the empress dowager, he used the power of his parents to interfere in the government affairs, greatly avoided the interference of foreign relatives and undermined the imperial power, and minimized the possibility.

However, after Zhao Zhi succeeded to the throne, in order to save the crisis, he used the power of aristocratic families to stabilize the situation and began to marry various major families. Many women from aristocratic families entered the harem, being domineering inside and outside, colluding with their own forces, intending to interfere in the government affairs. However, Zhao Zhi's political methods were very powerful and the prevention measures were done well, but in the end, he did not cause any major harm.

Everyone had lunch in the Imperial Garden. Li Yi was sick and seemed a little tired, so Li Xun and others said goodbye and left.
Chapter completed!