Schönbrunn Palace.

A small tea party was being held in the Imperial Garden of King Qi.

Queen Qi lazily leaned and half leaned on the big new velvet sofa on the top of the table. There were sweet money, dried fruits and other small snacks, as well as sweet fruit wine and tea on the small table next to her.

Several palace maids were serving behind their backs. As long as the queen looked at her, someone immediately took what the queen wanted to her mouth very considerately.

On both sides of the queen, eight duck down sofas with smaller sizes are placed side by side. The owners sitting on these sofas are the princesses who are newly accused by His Royal Highness of Qi in recent years. There are also palace maids around them who serve them.

His Highness of the King of Qi was busy with the government, so his harem would naturally appear too leisurely. Therefore, when he was free, the Queen would summon the sisters in the harem to hold such tea party in the imperial garden.

Originally, there were some soothing music from the opera team from the south playing this kind of tea party, but today is the day when the army goes out. People's cheers and majestic military music are everywhere inside and outside the Spring City, and even the high palace walls of Schonbrunn Palace cannot be stopped.

At this time, it would be too out of place for the music troupe to play the soft tones. Therefore, today the Queen did not call the palace music troupe in a special case, so the sisters had to listen to the military song and say something about women's personal words.

"You said you should go to the battle, just leave quietly like before. What's going on? It seems that you have to let everyone in the world hear it."

A woman in her early twenties and outstandingly polite said dissatisfiedly:

"The Empress invites us to have tea. When we women talk, it's so loud..."

"Concubine Wei Hui, be careful of his words."

The queen glanced at the talking woman and said lightly:

"My Great Qi established the country with martial arts. The king has repeatedly emphasized the status of a warrior. Sisters must not say something unpleasant just because they don't like it. It will be unpleasant to blame the king at that time."

According to the harem system formulated by the King of Qi, the queens were set up with the titles of Xian, Shu, Zhuang, Jing, Hui, Shun, Kang, and Ning Bafei, from the concubines below the concubines, including Jieyu, Zhaoyi, Guiren and Beauty.

Originally, the King of Qi planned to allow concubines in the harem to enjoy the treatment of aristocrats at all levels, such as: the queen enjoys the treatment of a prince, the concubine enjoys the treatment of a duke, and then the concubine Jiehou, the marquis, Zhaoyi went down to enjoy the corresponding treatment of an earl, a baron, and a viscount.

This idea was not easily rejected by Xu Shiyang as his famous national weapon.

At that time, Xu Shiyang even completely separated the property and expenses of the King of Qi from the treasury. The treasury was no longer responsible for the expenses of the King of Qi, so naturally he did not have to pay the King of Qi's harem and corresponding benefits.

Since then, all income and expenses of all staff of Schonbrunn Palace, including all concubines, are entirely responsible for the income of the inner-domestic industry.

As for the harem enjoying the treatment of aristocrats, there was no shadow.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang's reputation in the harem of King Qi was actually quite tragic. Everyone was secretly complaining that the prince was not "filial" enough and was too harsh to his father's concubine.

Corresponding to this emotion, Schönbrunn Palace also had some complaints about the Qi army established by Xu Shiyang, and it was a bit of a pity that the house and the slap.

Therefore, the queen hinted that Concubine Hui should not say bad things about the army, but Concubine Wei continued to say as if she hadn't heard it:

"Why do the king value those martial artists so much? I heard that those martial artists only listen to the prince and do not listen at all..."

"Shut up!" the queen shouted angrily: "You can also provoke the relationship between father and son of the King's family? Go back and think about your mistakes behind closed doors!"

Xu Muhe's harem had no ladies at all. The first queen, the eight concubines, were either the legitimate daughter of the Fortress Master's family or the palace maids given to the Tartars by the Great Zhou Dynasty, and some were beautiful women who were favored by the King of Qi. The problem with their background was that they were not well educated, and they were just entertaining people with sex.

In contrast, the queen, who was born in a down-and-out scholarly family, seemed particularly well-educated - although she was often not polite to her husband's concubines.

Concubine Wei Hui was born in a opera troupe in Jiangnan. After being attracted by the King of Qi, she was taken into the room and was named the princess because she gave birth to six princes.

But the improvement of status does not mean that her performance can match her new identity. The woman with a rather fierce personality even wanted to refute the queen, but was pulled hard by another young woman next to her, so she did not quarrel with the queen on the spot.

Wei Huifei sat back on the sofa angrily, not saying anything more, but she did not go back to think about her mistakes behind closed doors as the queen said.

"Sisters, please try not to bring the outside atmosphere into the palace."

The queen looked at Wei Huifei and said coldly:

"Do you know that the heavenly family is ruthless!"

"Empress also knows that the heavenly family is ruthless?" Wei Huifei couldn't help but say, "I don't know where the prince's biological mother is? Now the prince is powerful, and even the king's title for his sisters has been refuted by him. I don't know that the queen is protecting him so much. When His Highness ascends the throne, will he fulfill his filial piety for you?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the other concubines present looked at Wei Hui with shocked eyes. A few who knew something had begun to restlessly.

The queen also trembled all over, and a very complicated feeling surged in her heart.

In fact, based on her understanding ability, what Wei Huifei said is not wrong.

After all, Xu Shiyang is not her biological son, and she is not particularly favored in front of the King of Qi now.

She was able to be this queen just because after Xu Shiyang's biological mother passed away, she became Xu Muhe's wife.

In addition, she has an outstanding son like Xu Shiliu.

Unfortunately, Xu Muhe has been in Jiangnan since the owner of the second house of Xu family to the head of the family to the governor and then to the King of Qi.

Therefore, there is no dispute over the inheritance rights of King Qi's throne - it can only be Xu Shiyang.

The queen also followed Xu Muhe from the wife of the Yiwu Fortress to her current position. It seems that it will not take long for her title to become the queen and the real mother of the world.

She knew that at this critical moment, the harem must not drag the King of Qi down, let alone provoke the father-son relationship between the King of Qi and the prince.

But the queen always couldn't help thinking that it would be great if her biological son could replace Xu Shiyang's position and become the undisputed prince of Qi.

In this mood, she sometimes even felt that when Xu Shiyang proposed to let Xu Shiliu go to Jiangnan to study, it was a hidden conspiracy. He wanted to send Xu Shiliu away so that he could inherit the family business by himself.

But reason told her that when Xu Shiliu went to Jiangnan, the Xu family was just a fortress owner group in the countryside of Juzhou, and her husband was not even the head of the family.

At that time, the Xu family, if a Tartars had a Muke, they would be frightened and shrank into the wall and dare not come out. If a Meng'an came, they would feel like the sky was about to collapse.
Chapter completed!