Professional Ethics of a Concubine

When the queen heard what she said, she thought it made sense.

Sending two beauties over there would add some new vitality to Prince Jing's harem and stir up some stagnant water.

Regardless of whether Prince Jing is asleep or not, it would be good to keep her in his backyard and act as a troublemaker or spy.

If the Crown Princess hadn't reminded her, she would have forgotten that she could do this.

The truth is that all she thought about every day was how to kill Prince Jing, and she subconsciously didn't want to provoke that weird Princess Jing, so she never thought of using such a small trick to disgust them.

"Okay, I'll take care of this matter." The Queen nodded, "If you don't like the two slaves favored by the Crown Prince, just sell them."

"Aunt, if I sell it on my own initiative, the prince will definitely be angry. I dare not do that." The Crown Princess continued to complain.

"Just say that I asked you to deal with it." The queen knew that this was what she wanted to hear, and said unhappily.

"Yes, aunt. The prince is the most filial and listens to you the most. As long as you give the order, the prince will do it even if he is unhappy."

The Crown Princess immediately laughed and said the Queen's favorite words.

What the aunt likes most is to make the prince listen to her and follow her arrangements in everything. She has a strong desire to control the prince.

The queen was indeed happy to hear this.

She cannot be the master of her husband and can only bow her head and be submissive to him. How can she not be the master of the prince?

She is the prince's mother!

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Prince Jing's Mansion.

Zhang Jingyi looked at the two charming women in front of her, then looked at Eunuch Yuan who had brought them here, and cursed the Queen a thousand times in her heart.

However, she still remembered the innocent and naive character she had established in front of the Queen, and followed Qingzhi's advice, not to ruin her character, and to act seriously if necessary.

So, Zhang Jingyi suppressed the nausea in her heart, sighed slowly, and said with a look of touching and self-blame,

"Thank you, Eunuch Yuan. Please tell my mother when you go back that this matter has troubled her. I am deeply touched and grateful!

Originally, it was my responsibility to find a concubine for the prince, but because I was not competent enough, my mother had to intervene. This is my fault. Tomorrow I will go to the palace to apologize to my mother. "

"…Princess, you don't have to do this. The Queen said that you don't have to go to the palace to thank her. Just train these two beauties well and let them serve Prince Jing well!"

Eunuch Yuan said quickly.

As the chief steward of the Queen's palace and the Queen's trusted confidant, Eunuch Yuan certainly knew that the person the Queen hated to see the most was Princess Jing.

Every time the queen heard her calling her "mother" affectionately, she would be so annoyed that she would lose her appetite for the whole day.

"Okay then." Zhang Jingyi looked a little regretful when she heard that she didn't need to go to the palace to thank him. She then continued,

"Please rest assured, mother. This person was sent by you. I will definitely train them well and strive to make them win the favor of the prince, gain his favor as soon as possible, and give birth to a son or daughter for him."

After hearing this, the two beauties blushed and looked shy, looking really charming and lovely.

Zhang Jingyi glanced at them, then smiled and looked away. She once again praised her mother to Eunuch Yuan for having good taste and for sending beauties who were picked out from thousands.

Eunuch Yuan felt a little numb after hearing her say this. He felt that if he continued to listen, he would really believe what Princess Jing said and think that she was extremely happy because of these two beauties.

But, how is this possible!

He didn't believe that Princess Jing would not pretend to obey but actually disobey. Perhaps within a few days, these two beauties would be dealt with.

By then, the Queen will have a new excuse to clean up Princess Jing and King Jing's house.

These two beauties are just chess pieces thrown to test the waters. The queen doesn't care whether they are dead or alive. In fact, they may be more valuable dead than alive.

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Zhang Jingyi first arranged accommodation for the two beauties and asked them to stay there. She also told them not to leave the yard without being summoned, and all their daily necessities were taken care of by the maids and old women.

The two beauties had just arrived and were not favored by the emperor yet. Without the support of Prince Jing, of course they had to obey whatever the princess said. They were very obedient and did not dare to be disrespectful to the princess in any way.

Zhang Jingyi arranged accommodation and asked the two beauties to leave. Then she asked Nanny Zhou to personally invite Ye Qingzhi over and ask her how to properly deal with the matter of the Queen sending beauties.

When Ye Qingzhi came over and heard about this, she smiled and said,

“Princess, you just need to do what you are supposed to do. What the Queen sent here is a slave, not a noble lady from an aristocratic family.

All the slaves in our house should receive whatever training they need before they take up their posts.

First, find out their family relationships and backgrounds, let them tell it one by one, keep it for record, and then send someone to verify.

If you can get their indentures from the Queen, then do it. If not, forget it. It's not that important.

Secondly, they receive training on loyalty and sense of belonging to the palace, and their loyalty to the palace is constantly tested until they pass.

Finally, once you have memorized and mastered the palace rules, those who can read will be qualified if they write a copy of the palace rules from memory and hand it in, while those who cannot read will recite it. "

When Zhang Jingyi heard Ye Qingzhi say this, she understood that she wanted to classify them as slaves in the mansion.

This really made it impossible for the Queen to find fault with the matter. Beauties were also servants, and they had to follow the rules of Prince Jing's Mansion when they came.

Moreover, the servants in Prince Jing's Mansion all received this training system before they started working.

Zhang Jingyi could only say that the set of rules and regulations designed by Ye Qingzhi had been tried out for three months and was very effective and useful.

“Princess, after these basic pre-job trainings are completed, since they will serve the prince as concubines, they will naturally need professional skills training.

For example, they have to be familiar with the rules that concubines should know, the prince's preferences, and teach them how to survive in the harem, so as to avoid making the master unhappy and being punished.

Our prince likes reading, reciting scriptures, and observing women's precepts and virtues, so he arranged relevant courses for the two beauties.

Then take them to see for themselves how those concubines who made mistakes were treated, so as to increase their sense of awe.

After such a series of combined punches, these two beauties will probably be much more obedient. They study during the day and have no time to act up.

Moreover, what the princess did was completely in compliance with the palace rules, there was no deliberate negotiation, and the queen could not find any fault with it.

As for whether these two beauties can be favored, the prince has said that their legs are on his body, so he can favor them if he wants to, and we have no right to interfere."

Zhang Jingyi smiled when she heard this and said to Ye Qingzhi,

"When it comes to the method of dealing with people, it has to be you! Everything is within the rules, there is no corporal punishment or beatings, but if all you said were arranged, their lives would not be easy."

"...I just thought it was the princess praising me." Ye Qingzhi held her forehead and said with a wry smile.

How should I put it? These methods she used were all learned in the workplace when she was a corporate slave. The essence remains the same.

In the workplace, most companies, starting from the moment of the interview, rely on rounds of screening questions and various tests to put pressure on you.

They say they want to test your professionalism, your ability to withstand pressure, etc., but in fact they want you to obey, recognize their company, and do your job obediently (at least on the surface).

If you are looking for a job and are overwhelmed by various interview questions, please try to adjust your mindset and view the interview as an exam or a show.

Many of the questions asked by the recruiting interviewers are standard. Although there are no standard answers to some questions, there are routines.

Learn these routines systematically, and then perform them sincerely to the interviewer, and your interview will go much more smoothly.

Once you enter the company, some so-called training that consumes your energy but cannot bring you growth is actually another form of torture and oppression.

When first entering the workplace, many people have the mindset of a student, are full of motivation, want to learn from the company's seniors, work hard, have a humble and positive attitude, and have a strong sense of responsibility.

But after working for half a year or a year, most people are exhausted by the company's various weird colleagues or leaders, the garbage rules and regulations, and the inefficient and lengthy meetings.

Going to work every day, I feel like I’m stuck in a vicious circle. I want to learn, but I don’t have the energy. Gradually, I give up on self-growth and start to muddle through each day.

Then when you reach middle age, you still don’t have your own core competitiveness. If the company lays off employees, they will lay you off first, and it will be even more difficult to find a job afterwards.

What Ye Qingzhi did to these two beauties was to wear down their 'ambition' and 'energy'.

Filling their time with all kinds of trivial rules, business processes and so-called learning, and putting psychological pressure on them, leaving them no time to do what they really need to do.

When faced with trivial disappointments in the workplace, at any time, only you can save yourself.

If you want to grow quickly in the workplace, you must create a strong self from within, strive to break out of the daily vicious circle, break out of those daily trivial affairs, and find and set your growth goals.

You say that you really don't have time and are exhausted by various daily affairs. Then please start taking action. The first step is to learn to establish your own standard operating procedure (SOP). I won't say more about this for now.

Back to the incident with the two beauties, Ye Qingzhi didn't take them seriously at all. Without King Jing's intervention, she could use all kinds of seemingly clean means to attack them and prevent them from showing their heads.

This is determined by the location.

Of course, if King Jing is a sex-hungry ghost who likes beautiful women, he will definitely favor them, which is another matter.

For a big leader like King Jing, any rules can be broken.

Zhang Jingyi felt that she had learned a lot from Ye Qingzhi. She smiled and said,

"Qingzhi, I really admire you. I still have a lot to learn from you. Come to me when you have nothing to do and tell me more about these annoying methods. I will learn more from you.

In the future, when there are more beauties in the harem, I will be able to use more methods to control them."

"...Okay." Ye Qingzhi agreed with a smile.

When Prince Jing sits on the throne and a large number of beauties enter the palace, the princess who has successfully cultivated will be able to show her skills.

Ye Qingzhi looked at the princess and felt that she was already very excited and eager to try.

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After the Ding Niu incident, Prince Jing would go to the princess's courtyard first when he returned home from outside.

Firstly, doing so would give face to the princess. At the same time, he would listen to what the princess said about the affairs of the mansion, and if there were any matters that required his decision, he would give his opinions directly.

After finishing his business, Prince Jing had meals with the children and showed concern for their daily lives and growth.

After finishing all this, Prince Jing went to Lanyueju to enjoy his time alone with Ye Qingzhi. If there were no special circumstances, he would stay at Lanyueju.

When Prince Jing returned home that day, he went to the princess's courtyard as usual, and was told that the queen had sent two beauties.

"How was it arranged?" Prince Jing was not surprised and asked the princess calmly.

Zhang Jingyi told her about her arrangements and Ye Qingzhi's suggestions.

King Jing was very happy to hear this, his lips curled up slightly, and he said in a gentle voice, "Well, let's do it this way."

When Zhang Jingyi heard this, she knew that he was not going to favor those two beauties.

No surprise at all.

Zhang Jingyi had long seen that the prince had fallen in love with Qingzhi. Unless there were special circumstances, the prince would be very self-disciplined and would not favor other women.

Zhang Jingyi was no longer jealous of this. After all, Qingzhi was such a good girl, it was normal for the prince to really like her.

She also likes Qingzhi.

Moreover, she was also in a mood to enjoy the show, because she could see that Qingzhi was not sincere to the prince at all.

Because no matter whether it was the other women in the back house or the two new beauties today, Qingzhi didn't feel jealous.

As for whether the prince favors them or not, she doesn't care.

Zhang Jingyi watched the prince give his true heart but not receive true heart in return, and she felt secretly happy about it.

Zhang Jingyi felt that thinking this way was somewhat disrespectful to the prince, and she was taking too much pleasure in his misfortune.

Therefore, she restrained herself from thinking too much about it and never said anything like that in front of King Jing.

She was afraid that her gloating would be seen by the prince, and then he would get angry and punish her, which would be a waste of time.

-

Prince Jing had dinner with the princess and the children as usual, and then came to Lanyueju.

Hearing from the servants that Ye Qingzhi was in the study, Prince Jing did not ask the servants to inform her to come out to greet her, but went to the study to find her himself.

"Your Highness is here." Ye Qingzhi heard the sound of the door being pushed open, looked up and saw it was him, then smiled and waved at him.

"Your Highness, come and see how my painting is doing."

King Jing approached and saw that she was painting a freehand landscape painting. He carefully examined it and nodded in approval.

"Not bad, the brushwork is a little immature, but the artistic conception is quite good. Your leisurely and lazy mentality is indeed suitable for this kind of landscape painting, which has a calm and leisurely feeling."

Ye Qingzhi heard that he was praising her sincerely, so she smiled and stood on tiptoe to kiss him on the face, "When I have this painting framed, Your Highness, do you think I can sell it for some silver?"

"Are you short of silver?" King Jing asked in confusion, "If you want silver, I will give it to you."

"Although I am not short of money, this does not conflict with my desire to make money. I am free anyway." Ye Qingzhi said.

"I've finished drawing it. I can sell it for some money. It's better than just letting it gather dust in a corner."

"...Then how about I spend one thousand taels of silver to buy your paintings?" King Jing asked her speechlessly.

He discovered that Ye Qingzhi was a pragmatist and had no literary sentiments at all.

With him, she was absolutely practical.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness. Once it's mounted, I'll give it to Your Highness for one thousand taels of silver. I'll also put it in a camphorwood box to keep it out of moisture and insects for a long time."

Ye Qingzhi rolled up the painting with a smile. When she talked about this, she remembered many plots of the novel and said with a smile,

"If I die early in the future, Your Highness may still think of me occasionally, and then he will have something to remind him of me."

"...What nonsense are you talking about? Why are you talking about death? Seeing things reminds me of the person." King Jing looked at her and asked tentatively,

"Could it be that you are jealous of the two beauties who came into the mansion today, and you are saying this on purpose to vent your anger?"