Want to win the palace fight? Better to be crazy than to be idiotic!

Qin Fengan nodded affirmatively: "You should also know that person."

"It's Empress Xian, right?" Su Feiran guessed the answer immediately.

Since he was from the empress dowager's mother's family and had an inseparable relationship with important officials in the court, he must be of a high position. The only person in the harem who matched the name and whom Su Feiran knew was Concubine Xian.

On the day of the selection of concubines, Su Feiran stood at the end of the line, only focused on watching the concubines perform, and did not take a close look at Empress Xian who was sitting in the middle of the hall. But just from a quick glance, Su Feiran also remembered that Empress Xian was as beautiful as a fairy.

During the selection in Zichen Palace, Su Feiran kept her head down, not because she was afraid of offending the higher-ranking concubines, but because Concubine Xian was so beautiful that she dared not look directly at her.

"Yes, it is Concubine Xian. Her real name is Lin Xiuqing, a direct descendant of the Lin family. Her father, who is also the Queen Mother's brother, Lin Qiliang, was once the Minister of Works. Although he has now accepted a sinecure and returned to his hometown to retire, most of the officials in the Ministry of Works are his disciples. For example, Luo, the Minister who succeeded him, was cultivated and promoted by him. He can be said to be his confidant. I am afraid that the two of them are in close contact now."

Qin Feng'an kept tapping his fingers on the table, recalling what he had read in the Dali Garden books.

"Lin Qiliang's younger brother, Lin Qisheng, was also promoted to Dali Temple Shaoqing last year. Although his official position is not as high as his brother's, it is also a fourth-rank official position. Although there are many powerful people in the court, Dali Temple is definitely a special position. As long as the people working in Dali Temple are a little more attentive, they will not have to worry about not being able to win over people."

After recounting the ancestors of Concubine Xian, Qin Feng'an concluded: "Concubine Xian has such a wealthy family background. If she wants, she can stir up trouble in the back garden."

"But Concubine Xian... doesn't look like a petty person. Although we need to be on guard against the Queen Mother, Concubine Xian may not be angry with me because of her relationship with the Queen Mother." Su Feiran muttered softly, "In my opinion, their relationship is not very close. When the Queen Mother said she would punish Concubine Xian this afternoon, she didn't treat her as her niece."

"It's hard to say. I think the Queen Mother deliberately pretended to be loyal to her family in front of everyone." Qin Feng'an said in a deep voice, "The Queen Mother doesn't like you so much. If she really wants to punish Concubine Xian for this, she can deal with her separately after the selection. But I haven't heard any movement from the Purple Palace until now."

Su Feiran couldn't help but smack her lips. She thought Qin Fengan was just an ordinary college student who traveled through time by accident, but it turned out that he was eight hundred more cunning than her.

Given her tendency to think the best of others, it won't be long before she gives away her vast territory to others and then happily find a village to farm.

"But even a Concubine Xian with such wealth is not the head of the Back Garden. Now that the positions of Empress and Imperial Noble Concubine are undecided, Noble Concubine is the highest position in the Back Garden."

Qin Fengan's mouth was dry after talking for a while, so he stood up and poured a cup of tea for himself and Su Feiran. After taking a sip, he continued,

"Although Concubine Xian has many duties, they are also very trivial. They are just small matters such as selecting concubines and deploying palace maids. The real important matters such as managing the harem, communicating with the families of the princes, organizing palace banquets and sacrifices are all coordinated by the imperial concubine. Although the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics and should not have close ties with the previous dynasty, the matters that the imperial concubine should handle are inevitably related to the officials of the previous dynasty."

"I do know this. When the sleeping halls were assigned today, Yu Liu, the maidservant beside Concubine Xian, explained the general situation of the harem. She said that all the concubines in the harem should respect Concubine Jia, and the other three concubines are just assisting Concubine Jia in managing the harem."

Su Feiran held up a teacup and sat cross-legged on a wooden chair, as if chatting with a friend.

"From what she said, it seems that although she is the head maid of Zichen Palace, she respects Concubine Jia more than Concubine Xian."

"The background of Concubine Jia is more difficult to offend than that of Concubine Xian. It is not impossible to send a maid to the Purple Palace as a spy. However, a few words cannot count. All of this is just our speculation. There is nothing to worry about."

Although Qin Fengan said this verbally, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he didn't look like he didn't care at all.

Su Feiran understood that even though Qin Fengan was the emperor, in charge of all matters in the palace and even the world, a person's energy was limited after all, and it was difficult for him to take care of every detail of the back garden.

Qin Feng'an explained everything to her today not only in order to form a time-travel alliance, but also to let her observe the movements of the people in the back garden for him.

The rise and fall of the power in the harem was certainly affected by the changes in the previous dynasty, but it might not be the other way around. People always say that one can see the big picture from the small, and that one can see the leopard from the tube. Perhaps Su Feiran, who is in the harem, will be able to grasp the movements of the concubines' mothers' families faster than Qin Feng'an in the previous dynasty.

After thinking this through, Su Feiran couldn't help but sigh at how quickly Qin Feng'an got into the role. Before she had fully accepted the fact of time travel, Qin Feng'an was already thinking about how to find out the bottom line of various forces.

But when it comes to getting into character...

Su Feiran tilted her head and asked innocently, "Your Majesty, do you still need me to sleep with you tonight?"

Qin Feng'an was drinking tea without any interest, his mind full of grand plans related to the previous dynasty. When he heard Su Feiran's words, he almost spit out a mouthful of tea.

Qin Fengan was able to get into the role quickly because he himself had a bit of a chuunibyou syndrome.

As early as junior high school, he read all the historical political and political articles on Odian Chinese website, and before going to bed at night, he imagined how he would rule the world if he were to be a certain emperor one day. However, these fantasies only flowed in his mind, so Qin Fengan just thought about it for fun and did not really study it in depth.

When he was in high school, he was no longer satisfied with superficial imagination, but suffered from a deeper high school disease and began to delve into the dark and cruel Thick Black Studies. Therefore, when he was choosing a major in college, he resolutely chose the philosophy department, which was difficult to find a job.

While his classmates in the same department either wanted to explore the truth of the world or to benefit society, Qin Fengan was the only one who wanted to study philosophy and become a more profound and thoughtful man.

He had already thought about it. If one day, he made a choice that others could not understand, and faced the condemnation of thousands of people and the desertion of his friends and relatives, he would passionately say the following lines:

"Mediocre people cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with me, because I will not be shackled by gains and losses in one corner. When mediocre people are worrying about themselves, I am walking alone towards the highest and greatest truth - how do I know that I, who have embarked on such a path, am not the highest and greatest king like the truth!"

"The king admits it, the king allows it, the king carries the whole world on his back!"

Over the years, Qin Feng'an had kept his immature side deep in his heart. Once he traveled through time, he was only concerned with fulfilling his past plans one by one, but forgot the most basic thing -

The emperor needs to pass on his family line to his descendants.

And this fact is often the realistic factor that is eliminated from his second-year fantasy.

When Eunuch Zhang asked him to turn over the cards, he was just thinking of finding a reason to refuse, or asking Su Feiran to deal with the matter, so it didn't feel real.

Facing Su Feiran, whom he had just met, he firmly adhered to the modern moral values ​​- refusing one-night stands! But what about the other concubines? He couldn't summon Su Feiran to his bedroom to chat every night, right?

What’s the difference between sex without emotions and selling hooks!

Moreover, as a man who regards middle school fantasies as more important than women, Qin Fengan doesn’t know how to have sex!

Although he could talk endlessly about state affairs all day long, he had never held a girl's hand, nor had he ever seen a girl without clothes below the neck!

"Why can't humans reproduce asexually!"

Looking at the look in Su Feiran's eyes as he was enjoying himself, Qin Fengan thought indignantly.