mtl008 Chapter 214: The Empress Deposed in the Cold Palace (4)
Chapter 214: The Empress Deposed in the Cold Palace (4)
"Really? You really won't confer the title?" the Queen Mother confirmed.
"No need to confer the title on her. We'll talk about it if she is lucky enough to have my child!" The Dog Emperor shook his head and replied in a low voice.
"Well, that's good!" The Queen Mother nodded in satisfaction. "If the prince insists on conferring the title, it will definitely cause unrest in the former court and the harem, and will be the subject of gossip! It's better not to confer the title!"
"Then I'll take my leave first!" The dog emperor was still thinking about the thefts from the national treasury and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he didn't have time to stay in the harem.
At this moment, he no longer has the mind to care about the affairs of the harem. The important thing is to find a way to recover the stolen property, otherwise the whole Daqian will be in turmoil!
In Changle Palace.
Su Li was playing with the little glutinous rice dumpling, "Rui'er, come here!"
The little dumpling was learning to walk, and he tottered towards Su Li with his arms outstretched, and fell steadily into her arms.
"So awesome!" Su Li gently tapped his nose and picked him up.
The little guy immediately started giggling and was very happy that his mother was so intimate with him.
"Your Majesty, the meals you ordered are ready!" The palace maid who served the food brought the food to the round table in the hall.
Su Li was quite satisfied with the whole chicken feast on the table. "Not bad, you guys can go down and eat too!"
"My queen, luckily you were smart and asked someone to buy food from outside the palace!"
Qingyu whispered, "I heard that all the ingredients in the imperial kitchen were stolen, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs won't give any money! Now everyone in the harem is starving!"
"Well, from now on, let's arrange for someone to bring our meal ingredients back from outside the palace!" Su Li ordered.
"Yes!"
At this moment, Su Li has not been deposed and is still the master of the harem.
As long as she has her Changle Palace badge, she can enter and leave the palace at will.
Qingyu carried the little prince Ruier downstairs, allowing Su Li to eat in peace.
Su Li couldn't help but laugh when she saw the pitiful look of the little guy being taken away.
In the entire palace, except for the little prince born to the original body, all the others are princesses.
The former queen, Xia Yingyue, who has now been resurrected, could not bear to see others giving birth to princes before her, so the dog emperor had very few offspring.
In the past, any concubine who became pregnant with a prince or gave birth to a prince would either suffer an accidental miscarriage or the prince would die young.
Later, perhaps as a result of karma, the three princes she gave birth to also died young, and she herself died of depression.
So, after she came back to life and became a royal concubine, the first person she attacked was her original body Rui'er!
She just couldn't bear to see her original body take her position as queen and give birth to a healthy prince!
In this life, Xia Yingyue will never be able to give birth to the dog emperor's child!
Soon, the news of the theft in the Imperial Household Department and the National Treasury could no longer be concealed throughout the entire harem!
After all, the concubines couldn’t even get meals, and that was a big deal!
In order to have enough food and clothing, those concubines could only make arrangements like Su Li did, using their own personal money to buy ingredients from outside the palace and cook their own meals!
Su Li did not confiscate the property of these concubines because these people had never harmed the original body in the past.
Instead, they were suppressed and murdered by Xia Yingyue, and some of them died alone in the deep palace all their lives!
The Queen Mother then sent someone to tell Su Li that she was not feeling well and was not fit to work.
The hot potato of managing the six palaces was returned to Su Li.
In that case, Su Li won’t be polite!
She made drastic changes and laid off half of the palace maids and eunuchs, allowing them to leave the palace and reunite with their families.
He also listed the concubines who had never served the emperor and arranged for them to leave the palace and get married, so that they would not die of old age in the palace.
In the name of saving money!
The palace maids, eunuchs and concubines who were able to leave the palace were grateful to Su Li. After all, this palace was a cannibalistic place.
You have to be careful in your behavior, or you will be killed without a complete body!
In Chuxiu Palace.
Xia Yingyue looked at the food brought by the palace maid, which was all vegetables and tofu, and said angrily, "What's going on? Are these meals for feeding pigs? I'm afraid pigs won't eat them!"
"My lady! Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no money and the treasury is empty. All these foods were bought by the Empress by selling items in the harem!" said the little maid with her head down.
"How can Shen Langhuan be the queen? She can't even let the harem eat well!"
Xia Yingyue didn't want to hear what the maid said. She waved her hand and overturned the food on the table. "Tell the imperial kitchen that I want to eat human food!"
"My lady, you have not been canonized yet, so you cannot call yourself this palace!" The little palace maid stepped back and reminded in a low voice.
"Get out, all of you!" Xia Yingyue screamed, "Go find His Majesty and tell him I'm not feeling well, hurry up!"
The little palace maid was frightened by her hideous and crazy look, and quickly backed away and ran out of the hall.
At this moment, the dog emperor was discussing with his trusted ministers how to get silver.
Otherwise, the entire palace would not even have enough food to eat, so how could they have time to care about Xia Yingyue!
After being rejected several times, the young palace maid became less diligent in her work.
When she heard that Xia Yingyue was going to be made a royal concubine, she thought she had found a good master!
Unfortunately, ever since Xia Yingyue's hair fell off, His Majesty has never been to Chuxiu Palace again, and the matter of enthroning her has never been heard of again.
Now that Xia Yingyue has no legitimate position in the palace, she is no different from them, the palace maids. Why should she be so dedicated?
Xia Yingyue was angry because she didn't get the food she wanted and was about to go to Changle Palace where Su Li was to make a scene.
Unfortunately, she had no rank and was stopped outside Changle Palace by the guards. She didn’t even get to see Su Li!
She could only return to her Chuxiu Palace in disappointment and eat what she called pig food.
Finally, in order to raise money, the dog emperor and his trusted ministers came up with the idea of selling official positions!
As long as you have money, you can become an official! Below the third rank, all positions are clearly marked with prices!
Even if you are an illiterate peddler, as long as you have money, you can become an official!
Soon, the national treasury was finally full of silver, and the expenses in the harem were not so tight anymore!
Su Li did not touch the silver in the national treasury again. If he did, the damn emperor would increase taxes, and then the innocent people would suffer.
After solving the problem of silver and money, the Dog Emperor began to frequently go in and out of Chuxiu Palace under the charm of Xia Yingyue.
After Xia Yingyue lost her hair, she asked someone to find other people's hair to make a wig and wore it with her own hair, so that the Dog Emperor would not see her and be extremely disgusted.
After Su Li learned about it, he decided to start the second part of the plan!
That night, the Dog Emperor was making love with Xia Yingyue!
I just felt the ground begin to shake, and a deafening sound resounded through the sky!
"What's going on?" The Dog Emperor stumbled off the bed to the door of the Chuxiu Palace's bedroom and asked the eunuch guarding outside.
The chief eunuch had just recovered and hurried out to check.