The wives of the concubines are empresses

Shangguan Wanjun suddenly couldn't laugh anymore. She turned around stiffly and glared at her eldest son.

"Shangguan Mucang, come here."

Mrs. Liu was a little worried about her grandson and quickly said, "Your Majesty, the eldest prince is a child and speaks without restraint. Please forgive me."

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to him." She said the last few words with gritted teeth. Shangguan Mucang knew that he had said something wrong. Although he didn't know which sentence was wrong, he knew it was wrong anyway.

Concubine Wu - Zhu Wu felt his arms empty. He looked at Shangguan Mucang's small body with a nervous expression, and walked towards the empress with a little fear.

"Mother Queen."

"Sit down. Both of your Wu fathers and concubines will accompany you. Also, find three more teammates."

"Yes, Queen Mother." He was so scared that he thought the Queen Mother was going to say something to him.

Baipin Jiang Ruobai quickly said, "Cang'er, does Bai's father want to come?"

It's fun to tease a child. While he's still young, tease him more. I'm afraid it won't work in a few years.

Shangguan Mucang nodded happily when he heard it: "Okay, okay, it's easy to get it."

Shangguan Wanjun slapped him on the back of the head and said, "You have culture, but it's a pity that you use the wrong words."

"Mother." Seeing that he looked aggrieved, Concubine Wu held him in her arms and gently coaxed him.

"Okay, okay, it's okay."

Shangguan Wanjun didn't want to look at her silly son, so she turned her gaze directly to the people below.

"Let's continue with the topic we started with."

Everyone started discussing again, and Lu Yan'er began to record the reward items.

Gong Huifang, who came to register, looked carefully at the rewards on the notice, and Chunyu Chunfeng couldn't help but look at her.

"My Lord, this reward is quite good."

"So, do you two want to participate? If we're lucky enough to get the reward, we'll split it equally, and you can also use it as a dowry."

The two were very excited when they heard it.

"Haruyu, let's join in too."

"Okay, since we have to stay with the princess anyway, it's a good thing to kill two birds with one stone."

Ning Moer looked at her former master, smiled politely and nodded at her.

"My Lord, do you want to join us?"

"Yes, I will. The other two will go too."

Ning Moer glanced at the two of them, then nodded, picked up the pen and began to write their names in the book.

"Okay, but you're still two people short of a team."

Chunfeng was stunned. "A team? Sir Ning, is it five people per team?"

Ning Moer smiled gently and nodded: "Yes, this is what the emperor said, you guys decide who else you want to invite to participate."

Chunyu Chunfeng looked at her master, and Gong Huifang fell into deep thought.

"How about writing your mother's name?"

Chunfeng was startled: "Ah, kill first and ask for permission later?"

Gong Huifang nodded seriously, and Chunyu was a little nervous and scared.

"This is not good. Will the lady blame us if she finds out?" Although the princess is favored and her mother-in-law dotes on her, but...

When Lady Protector of the Country learned that her name was registered, she was stunned for a long time.

"Huifang, why don't you come back and tell me?"

Gong Huifang pulled up her sleeves and acted coquettishly.

"Mother, your daughter-in-law wants to fight alongside you."

"Stop trying to fool me. Okay, now that things have come to this, there's no point in saying more. What preparations should we make?"

"Mother, don't worry, we are still missing one teammate."

Lady Huguo suddenly looked at her personal nanny, Nanny Jiang. Gong Huifang followed her gaze and suddenly understood what her mother-in-law meant.

"Madam, you don't want me to go, do you?"

"Yes."

"Madam, I'm afraid I'll just give up. I'm already old."

"That's wrong. At our age, it's time to strive and fight."

Nanny Jiang, who has always been steady, felt that her wife had gone crazy, and she was crazy along with her daughter-in-law. It was really terrible.

The next day, twenty teams gathered in an open field, with a total of one hundred contestants, including eleven men's teams, totaling one hundred and ten people, and nine women's teams, totaling ninety people.

Shangguan Wanjun, who was sitting in the main seat, was stunned when she saw Lady Protector of the Country in a tight red dress.

"Am I mistaken? The Lady Protector of the Nation is here too."

Minglan looked up carefully and found that there was more than just Lady Protector of the Nation.

"Your Majesty, Madam Jiang, who is beside Madam Protector of the Nation, is also here. She is also wearing a red dress. I'm afraid she is also a candidate."

Shangguan Wanjun looked at Ning Moer: "Are they all participating in the competition?"

Ning Moer cupped her hands and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, the Princess's team includes Madam Protector of the Nation and Nanny Jiang, as well as the two maids Chunyu and Chunfeng who are by the Princess' side."

"Amazing! They even managed to get the mother-in-law to join them. Maybe they'll be in the top ten."

Ning Moer also admires Princess Jiahe.

"By the way, please show me the registration list of both male and female contestants."

Ning Moer and Qu Huaner quickly turned around to get the registration book.

"Your Majesty, please look."

"Your Majesty, please take a look."

In the women's team, in addition to the Princess' team, there are four of her personal female officials, one of whom is a palace maid named Yue Xin. Their team is called the Palace Female Officials Team, which is an interesting name.

There was another team that attracted her attention, that was the team of the female official Murong Xuelan. She seemed to have never heard of the four names of the people with her. One was Xie Suyu, one was Manyuyue, one was Jiang Xialan, and one was Ou Meizi. The names were all very nice. The person who named them seemed to have some culture and aesthetic taste.

Shangguan Wanjun read carefully the document of the eighty people below, then nodded with satisfaction.

"I'm looking forward to their performance." Since she has become the empress of this era, she will do her best to allow women and men to participate in various competitions together, so that people will begin to subtly support gender equality. This is the most effective way without exacerbating the conflicts between men and women. Everything is going smoothly under her control.

All the teams left the hunting grounds. In order to facilitate hunting today, Gong Huifang changed into a light blue outfit, and her hair was tied up high, looking very heroic.

At this moment, she was very grateful to her husband for teaching her horse riding and archery, so that she could also experience the charm of the royal hunting ground and show the heroic posture of women.

"Mother, have you ever hunted before?"

"Of course I haven't. At least your mother and I accompanied the general into battle. But after your elder brother and your husband were born, I gradually withdrew from the battlefield and started to take care of my husband and children at home." This is still a big regret for her. After so many years, she has actually become accustomed to and numb to the days in the backyard.

If her daughter-in-law had not secretly signed her up, she would have been afraid that she would have lost her true self in this life. In the eyes of outsiders, she was the wife of General Xuanwei and the mother of Concubine Wu.

Thinking of this, she not only thanked her younger daughter-in-law, but also her older daughter-in-law. If it weren't for the empress, she probably wouldn't have been able to become the Protector of the Nation, not to mention that she could now participate in hunting as a woman, and in the royal hunting grounds.

Gong Huifang seldom heard her mother-in-law talk about the past, so she was shocked when she heard it suddenly.

"Mother has ever fought in battle?"

"Yes, it happened many years ago, during the reign of Emperor Taizu." Thinking of the brave, decisive, and final-minded Emperor Taizu, Lady Huguo felt that the current empress was very similar to Emperor Taizu, and even better than him.

If the empress were to go into battle and kill the enemy now, I'm afraid she would not be inferior to Emperor Taizu who once conquered the world.

However, a good emperor is not defined by his ability to fight wars. Governing the country is the first priority, and having generals is enough to fight wars.