The wives of the concubines are empresses

Ranpin - Wang Ran smiled gently and said: "I was not used to it at first, but I gradually got used to it."

People are not born to adapt to anything, they have to learn step by step.

Shangguan Wanjun pursed her lips and smiled: "How do you feel?"

"Fortunately, there are many things that my husband has never come into contact with."

Shangguan Wanjun smiled softly: "It seems that my beloved concubine is very satisfied with this trip."

Ranpin-Wang Ran smiled.

The two figures looked well-matched and beautiful in the moonlight.

The two returned to the Dragon's Bedroom and took a shower and changed their clothes.

Shangguan Wanjun returned to her bedroom smelling fragrant and smiled when she saw the young man who had already washed and changed his clothes.

"They say beauties are more beautiful when seen under the light, and the same applies to male beauties."

Hearing the emperor's joke, Concubine Ran - Wang Ran lowered her head and smiled, then reached out and pulled Shangguan Wanjun, who was wearing a lavender nightgown, into her arms.

"Your Majesty, I haven't seen you for a few months. You seem to be getting more talkative."

He stretched out his thumb and rubbed the girl's delicate lips. Shangguan Wanjun was a little shy at first, and was stunned when she felt the calluses between his fingertips.

"My dear, have you gone to the countryside to do farm work? Why have your fingers become rough?" She took the boy's hand and played with it.

Ranpin - Wang Ran's face looked a little embarrassed and a little worried.

"Did my husband hurt you?"

Shangguan Wanjun raised her eyes and smiled gently: "I am not that fragile. I will break if touched."

Hearing her coquettish words, Concubine Ran - Wang Ran calmed down his slight panic. He thought that the emperor disliked him.

"It was my husband who made the mistake. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Shangguan Wanjun chuckled softly: "How should I punish you? If the punishment is too heavy, what should I do if you refuse to obey?"

Shangguan Wanjun stretched out her slender jade fingers to touch his lips, and Ranpin - Wang Ran couldn't help but roll his Adam's apple.

"How does the Emperor wish to punish me?"

Shangguan Wanjun lowered her head and thought seriously before saying, "How about punishing my beloved concubine by carrying me to bed?"

She put her hands around the boy's neck and looked straight into his eyes.

Concubine Ran - Wang Ran couldn't help but nodded, carefully picked her up and walked towards the dragon bed.

His movements were gentle and his embrace was warm. Shangguan Wanjun looked at him with a faint smile on her face.

"My beloved concubine, tell me about your time in Anren County." As an emperor, she was interested in these things and had to be interested in them.

As a normal person, she enjoys listening to stories (including gossip).

Seeing the emperor's curious look, Concubine Ran - Wang Ran became interested.

"Okay, I'll tell you about it."

Shangguan Wanjun lay on her side, looking at him with bright eyes.

"When I first went there, I never imagined there could be a place so poor. It was beyond my knowledge and what I had seen and heard in more than ten years.

Later, we opened official vehicles, tea stalls, etc., set up fixed stalls, encouraged people to set up stalls, and waived one month’s rent…”

Shangguan Wanjun was listening attentively, and Ranpin - Wang Ran was also telling the story seriously, but after two quarters of an hour, the person next to her fell asleep.

Listening to the light snoring beside him, Concubine Ran - Wang Ran quietly looked at the girl's peaceful sleeping face. He reached out and stroked her delicate face, and kept looking at her until fatigue came over him.

As the temperature dropped in late autumn, Aunt Cheng added a thicker coat for Shangguan Wanjun.

Fortunately, Shangguan Wanjun was tall, straight and slender, so she could hold up the outfit without looking bloated.

In the Golden Palace, hundreds of officials were paying homage to the emperor. Some of the officials were shivering, and Shangguan Wanjun frowned slightly when she saw this.

Liu Cheng received the look from his master and leaned forward to listen to his instructions.

"Go and have someone prepare a few pots of charcoal fire and place them around the main hall. Each official outside will have a hand warmer."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Liu Cheng turned and gave instructions to Su Yude, who left.

The ministers didn't know what the emperor had just said, but they felt that the emperor's eyes were incomprehensible.

"My dear ministers, do you have anything to report today?" Her voice suddenly appeared, which scared some ministers.

Everyone looked at each other, and Shangguan Wanjun frowned.

Why are these people so silent all of a sudden?

During the entire court meeting, more than a hundred officials had nothing to report?

"You have nothing to report today. If any department is missing one thing, I think the entire department will not need to receive its salary."

Upon hearing this, the ministers were shocked, thinking that the emperor was angry.

How could the emperor not be angry when he thought that there were more than a hundred officials but no one came to report.

As the emperor's teacher, Taifu Yun was the first to step forward.

"I have something to report, Your Majesty. Many people die every winter, especially the elderly. Most of them freeze to death. How should this problem be resolved?"

Concubine Wu - Propaganda Style bowed: "Your Majesty, what Master Yun said is true. Every winter many elderly people freeze to death, and there is no better solution so far."

"Freezing to death?" Shangguan Wanjun narrowed her eyes and looked at the ministers below.

Master Yun bowed and said, "Yes."

Shangguan Wanjun stood up and walked around. "It's just too cold. The people don't have money to build better houses, buy better clothes, or have more firewood, so they're freezing to death."

Upon hearing this, the ministers were too embarrassed to respond, as Shangguan Wanjun had already walked down the stairs.

"There are over a hundred officials in the Golden Palace. Which of you, my dear ministers, can give me a way to reduce the occurrence of such incidents?"

Shangguan Wanjun, who is 1.64 meters tall, is not inferior to the group of ministers and men, and her imperial aura is fully revealed.

She walked among the rows of ministers, but no one stepped out. The ministers were puzzled by the emperor's sudden action. The emperor had walked down the stage before, but he had never walked among the ministers.

Shangguan Wanjun stood in front of a civil servant.

"You speak." Humph, you two are silent, right? Then I'll ask.

The civil servant who was asked was stunned. How did he get the emperor's attention?

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Shangguan Wanjun frowned again.

"Why, as a scholar who passed the imperial examination, I ask you to answer a question. Is this a problem for you?"

Shangguan Wanjun asked the civil servant with sarcasm, which made him panic.

"I am terrified."

Shangguan Wanjun closed her eyes slightly and said, "I will count to three. If you still don't say a few words, half of your monthly salary will be deducted.

three

two

one. "

The civil servant fell to his knees and said, "Your Majesty, I really don't know."

Defei-Mu Wennian was stunned: Why is the emperor so angry today?

Shangguan Wanjun sighed in disappointment, "I've studied hard for years, served as an official for many years, and this is how you treat my once virtuous self? I've been an official for many years, and now you treat me like I'm going to die when I say a few words to you.

What’s the matter? Have you been in office for nothing all these years?

Or have you become an official who is indifferent to worldly affairs, or an official who is oblivious to the world outside?

The weather was getting cooler in late autumn, but the civil servants were already sweating profusely.

What's wrong with the emperor today? Why is he being so mean to others?

"Hmph, have I spent my money to support a bunch of useless people? Or do you think I'm young and easy to fool?"

The ministers knelt down with a thud: "We dare not."

"You dare not? Then you can tell me some solutions. What's the matter? I have a bunch of officials, and I have to think of solutions myself? Then what use do I have to you?

Thinking of the hard work you all have put into handling official duties day after day, I was still considering raising your salaries, but now it seems that it is not necessary. I am so disappointed."