The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The prosperous imperial capital.

Xie Wei actually tried on the dress she wore on the day she was crowned queen.

The long skirt, which is mainly black and red and embroidered with dragon and phoenix patterns, is not feminine, but makes the woman wearing it look more majestic and solemn.

"It fits very well." The emperor standing by couldn't help but praise it out loud.

In his eyes, Xie Yuzhen dressed like this had a different kind of beauty than before. Her long black hair made him want to play with it. But what the emperor wanted more at this moment was to put the crown on the head of his beloved woman with his own hands and give her the honor and power that no "emperor" had ever dared to give to his wife.

What a beauty.

The emperor looked at this flower of flesh and blood that he had personally cultivated with almost obsession, and stepped forward, opened his arms and embraced Xie Yuzhen into his arms: "The southern expedition is going very smoothly. The daughter of the Jun family that you recommended is also a capable general who is no less capable than her father and brother."

Da Sheng's southern expeditionary army defeated the New South Kingdom, which had violated the border and disturbed the people. The most outstanding among them was the female mountain soldiers led by Jun Yuexin. Although they were small in number and their equipment was not as complete as that of the regular army, they far exceeded other troops in terms of the accuracy of their intelligence gathering and the number of heads of important local figures they captured.

Jun Yuexin even dared to take those hundreds of people and rush deep into the capital of Xinnan Kingdom, capturing the entire family of King Xinnan alive, and completely ending the war.

This achievement was enough to make Jun Yuexin and the female soldiers under her command shock the whole country. However, Jun Yuexin was never a humble person who followed the doctrine of the mean. Each of her achievements was praised by someone special. She also acted arrogantly, frequently clashed with those who were not on her side, and was never willing to suffer losses easily.

She was a notoriously difficult thorn in the army, and also a female general who was admired by the people.

Her talents and military exploits were real and could not be easily covered up, and Xie Yuzhen would not allow anyone to try to seize them.

"No matter how capable a person is, he or she has to sell this talent to the emperor's family and get the permission of His Majesty before he or she can display it." Xie Yuzhen never hesitated to use her sweet words to the emperor, and her words were as sweet as honey. "It is only because Your Majesty is broad-minded that I have the opportunity to recommend her to join the army, and she has the opportunity to display what she has learned."

"Isn't this all for us..." The emperor was content to feel the closeness of the person in his arms. "How about asking her to present this extraordinary achievement at your coronation ceremony?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time." Xie Weizhen's coronation ceremony for the queen will be held in three days, but the news that Jun Yuexin had captured all the members of the Xinnan King's royal family alive only came a quarter of an hour ago.

Xie Yuzhen glared at the emperor and said, "Yue Niang is not only your majesty's meritorious official, but also my close friend. I can't bear to see her travel thousands of miles for me just for a ceremony to crown her as queen, after defeating the enemy army."

"How could I be the kind of person who doesn't care about my subjects? It's just that she is the one who made you famous. You should also have a share of the glory for this military achievement." The emperor stopped his lover and whispered his plan in her ear.

Xie Yuzhen couldn't help but show surprise, and asked the emperor in disbelief: "Your Majesty, are you really willing to grant official titles to Yue Niang and those mountain women in the palace of conferring titles on the Empress?"

Moreover, they were not special female officials who were only appointed in the vassal counties and the inner palace, but they were to be truly employed like male officials.

"I keep my word, what do you think, my dear?"

"That would be great. I would like to thank Your Majesty for your magnanimity on their behalf." Xie Yuzhen buried her head in the emperor's very broad chest, snuggling up to him intimately and relaxedly.

The emperor hugged her tighter: "Xianming, I see your efforts and it hurts my heart. What they did did move me, but more importantly, I was moved for Xianming!"

Over the years, Xie Yuzhen has become completely accustomed to, and even immune to, the emperor's occasional confessions of love. At the same time, no matter whether the emperor can see that her flattery is false or not, she can always give the most loving and heartwarming response to the emperor.

This man and woman are inseparable and as happy as fish and water.

The ceremony of establishing a queen in the Great Sheng Dynasty began with the first ray of morning light.

Xie Yuzhen rejected the proposal to move to Kunning Palace and continued to live in Shouning Palace, but the decorations in the palace were replaced with ones that suited his status.

She got up from the familiar bed in Shouning Palace and let the palace servants help her burn incense and bathe, and then put on the queen's dress for the grand ceremony layer by layer.

Xia Zhi combed all her long hair up, but did not add any hairpins. It was a simple round bun, but it did not detract from the woman's beautiful face and her majestic demeanor that made people dare not look directly at her.

After finishing her makeup, Xie Yuzhen calculated the time and saw her daughter, who looked hazy, being brought over - Lu Weiyuan was also dressed. As the emperor's favorite child, what she wore today was a smaller version of the dress specially made by the Shanggong Bureau according to the dress that princesses could wear after their coming-of-age ceremony and receiving a formal title.

Now, among the princes and princesses in the palace, the eldest prince and the second prince have already been granted the title of king. According to ancestral rules, several princesses have not yet been given titles. However, the emperor had long chosen a prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River for Lu Weiyuan to be her hometown. Since she was born, the taxes from that land have been used to provide for the little princess' daily expenses. In addition to the monthly festival gifts that the princesses have and the occasional rewards from the emperor, although Lu Weiyuan is still young, her worth is already considerable.

"Mom's clothes are so beautiful, they look just like father's... father's!" Lu Weiyuan learned things very quickly. Before Jun Yuexin went to the battle, she spoke in halting sentences, one word at a time, but now she could speak long sentences effortlessly.

Lu Weiyuan jumped down from the maid's arms and ran to Xie Yuzhen. He first asked his mother for a hug, and then looked at the dragon and phoenix patterns on the queen's dress: "It's really beautiful, so golden."

"Does Yuanjun like it?" Xie Yuzhen asked while hugging her.

Lu Weiyuan nodded vigorously: "I like it, Yuanjun wants this too!"

"This is the queen's dress. Yuanjun is a princess and cannot wear this." Xie Yuzhen said half jokingly and half guiding his daughter.

Lu Weiyuan tilted her head slightly: "Yes, Yuanjun can't be the queen, but Yuanjun still wants clothes like this..."

The formal dresses of the Emperor and Empress of the Great Sheng Dynasty were mainly black, red and gold, decorated with special dragon and phoenix patterns. Apart from the Emperor and Empress' formal dresses, the only other dress that had these three colors and dragon and phoenix patterns was the Crown Prince's formal dress.

Xie Zhenyuan wanted to guide his daughter to think about the direction of the crown prince, but he saw Lu Weiyuan put his hands on his hips and said, "I can't wear the same clothes as my mother, so I'll go ask my father if I can wear the same clothes as him!"

That one she liked too!