The wives of the concubines are empresses

The virtuous concubine Lin Gongyu, dressed in a light blue brocade robe, walked into the main hall and saluted respectfully.

"Your Majesty, your humble servant."

"Why did my beloved concubine come here suddenly?"

The virtuous concubine, Lord Lin, said with an uneasy look, "Your Highness is just trying to see if there is anything I can do to help. I also want to share the burden with His Majesty."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Wanjun smiled.

"My beloved concubine is thoughtful. By the way, please follow me to the side hall." The main hall was crowded with people and it was not suitable for confidential conversations.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Liu Cheng was guarding the door of the side hall, and Shangguan Wanjun looked at the virtuous concubine - Lin Gong and smiled.

"My beloved concubine, do you really want to help me?"

Faced with the emperor's smile, Concubine Xian - Lin Gongyu felt puzzled, but still nodded seriously.

"There is one thing happening right now."

The virtuous concubine, Lord Lin, was delighted and asked hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, please speak!"

"You haven't gone out for a walk for a long time, right? Take the painter with you and go out of the palace for a while."

The virtuous concubine - Lord Lin was completely stunned. Traveling is also called sharing worries?

In this way, Shangguan Wanjun successfully arranged for another emperor and painter to leave, and the reason was quite consistent with the style of the virtuous concubine - Lin Gongyu.

Imperial Palace

Chen Dajun-Lin Xueyu received a secret letter from the secret guard. He opened it with suspicion and was shocked.

The emperor wants him to leave the palace?

Concubine Wu - After the propaganda storm came back, Shangguan Wanjun was still carefully processing the memorials, which made her brows furrowed.

Concubine Wu - When the propaganda wind saw this scene, he was filled with heartache.

"Your Majesty, your humble servant."

"My beloved concubine is back. How are things going?"

"My husband has Zhengzhou Xing guarding the place. We have several hundred people registered so far, and they are still coming in."

"Hundreds of people? If all of them are added together, there would probably be thousands of them." In such a short time, it is still unknown what the situation will be like tomorrow.

"Maybe more than 2,000." In fact, there were 3,000 to 4,000 people.

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Wanjun was shocked.

"We'll see tomorrow. If the situation is too serious, we'll have to strictly control the number of people entering the city." Otherwise, too many refugees in the capital will cause panic among the people in the city.

By the next day, the number reported in the morning was as high as 10,000. Nearly 2,000 people had poured in when the city gates were opened this morning. That means the number had increased by 4,000 to 5,000 to 6,000 people yesterday afternoon. This number is still very scary.

"I have ordered that refugees are not allowed to enter the city. General Xuanwei, I leave this matter to you."

Gong Huifang didn't expect that she would be urgently summoned into the palace at this critical juncture.

"Jiahe pays homage to His Majesty. May His Majesty remain at peace." She really didn't understand why the Emperor would urgently summon her at this critical moment.

"Please take a seat, Lord Jiahe. I have something I need you to do."

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"Accepting refugees and recruiting embroiderers?" But there are so many refugees that their embroidery workshop cannot accommodate so many people.

"That's right. I'll write you a sealed oral order. You will leave the palace with the palace maids and personally select some of them. This will help reduce the number of refugees, comfort them, and provide them with work."

Gong Huifang was fully aware of the seriousness of the situation and bowed solemnly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Jiahe will definitely live up to your expectations."

After leaving the palace, she immediately rushed to the north gate and found Liu Qingshu from the Hanlin Academy and General Li, the deputy general under General Xuanwei.

"Your servant greets Lord Liu and General Li. The Emperor has issued a written order. Please read it!"

Liu Qingshu from the Hanlin Academy took the look and shared it with General Li, then raised his eyes to look at Jiahe Xiangjun.

"I pay my respects to the Lord of Jiahe Township."

"I am here to pay my respects to the Lord of Jiahe Township." General Li's military rank was sixth, lower than Gong Huifang's.

"No need to formalities, I'll pick someone first."

"please!"

"please!"

Looking at the refugees in tattered clothes, Gong Huifang was a little worried. Are there any of them who can really embroider?

When the refugees saw her beautifully dressed, their eyes were rather numb.

"Everyone, I am the Lady of Jiahe Township, personally appointed by the Emperor, the current empress. I have been ordered by the Emperor to select some embroiderers from among you. Those who can embroider, please raise your hands."

Some people were skeptical, but many still raised their hands in order to survive.

"Huan'er, record this."

"Yes, Mr. Xiang." Huan'er stepped forward and said, "Embroiderers, please step out of the line. Those who want to join our embroidery workshop, please stand over here so I can register them. Thank you."

There were thirty people standing on the other side, registering one by one.

"Surname, first name, age, original address, number of people in the family..."

It took her half an hour to register all thirty people.

Gong Huifang said goodbye to Liu Qingshu and General Li from the Hanlin Academy and left for the next stop, accompanied by the young eunuch arranged by Shangguan Wanjun.

The one hundred and twenty embroiderers felt a little cramped looking at the huge embroidery workshop. They were wearing tattered clothes. Could they really work in embroidery to support their families?

Gong Huifang glanced at them and instructed Mo'er beside her.

"Take them to take a shower, wash up and change clothes." They can't let them work in such a state, which will also damage the image and reputation of their embroidery workshop.

Moer bowed: "Yes, Xiangjun."

The embroiderers went into the bathroom, took a bath and washed their hair according to Mo'er's request, and finally changed into some clean clothes.

Looking at the clothes of various colors and styles, Gong Huifang frowned.

"The first step is to make a batch of clothes, that is, to make uniform embroidery clothes for you." Thinking that they were refugees, Gong Huifang decided to make them in different colors so that they could be distinguished easily.

Shangguan Wanjun received the eunuch's report and smiled faintly: "Yes, if we can solve part of it first, then that's good enough."

Thinking of the families of the refugees, Shangguan Wanjun crossed her arms and pondered.

"Liuli, take him with you to ask Jiahe Xiangjun for a registration list, and bring the families of those embroiderers to my private residence. I believe it can accommodate them." This way it would be more convenient for those embroiderers to find their families. Maybe she could even get them to do something. The more she thought about it, the more reliable this method seemed to her.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will take my leave."

Seeing Liuli, Gong Huifang was stunned.

"Hello, Lord Liuli. May I ask if this is the Emperor's order?"

Liuli bowed respectfully towards her and said, "In reply to Lord Jiahe, the Emperor did instruct me to come to you and get the list of registered embroiderers. The Emperor asked us to bring the families of the embroiderers into the private residence so that they can more easily find their families."

Gong Huifang nodded: "Your Majesty is wise. Lord Liuli, please wait a moment. Huan'er, go get the registration book and hand it to Lord Liuli."

"Yes, Xiangjun."

After registration, 1,200 family members were found and escorted to the empress's private residence by generals.

Liuli thanked the four escorts and said, "Thank you for the escort. Take care."

Everyone greeted each other and left. Looking at the 1,200 family members, Liuli felt a headache. She had something to do next.

"Everyone, I will take care of all your affairs from now on. Please feel free to stay here for the time being. This is our Empress's private property. I will arrange your affairs. Remember to be united and friendly. It would be even better if you can help each other. I do not like those who are cunning and cunning. I hope everyone will be careful about what they say and do that is not conducive to unity."

Under her arrangement, everyone started to get busy.