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Hua Wuyue doesn't like to participate in this kind of annual festival. For her, this kind of festival is meaningless. It's better to practice. Zhou An didn't force her to do as she likes.
After drinking for three rounds, one of the leading ministers stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have prepared a small gift to celebrate the New Year."
"Well, okay, present it here, let everyone appreciate it together, and be happy."
Zhou An knew that these people were starting to please her now, and didn't care much about their gifts. They were nothing more than rare treasures in the eyes of mortals, and the space in her system had piled up like a mountain.
Outside the gate, a woman in a goose-yellow gorgeous dress came in, holding an exquisite wooden box in her hand.
This woman has a ruddy face, snow-white skin, and an excellent temperament. Under her eyebrows are beautiful eyes full of affection, and black and thick shawl hair. She walks slowly step by step, with a face that is three points shy, three points spring, and three points nervous.
Seeing Zhou An and Shangguan Rong look at each other, Zhou An is helpless, but for such a beautiful woman, there is love, but it's just a liking for beauty. Now he is no longer a boy who just crossed over. His face was red, his neck was thick, his heart was beating like numbness, and he was out of control.
The woman walked to the front, saluted and said: "See the emperor and empress, may my emperor have great blessings."
Zhou An asked plainly: "What is it that you offer? Open it and let all the ministers have a look."
"Yes." The woman held the box with one hand and opened it with the other. Inside was a jade slab placed on top of the golden brocade.
"This is one of the treasures in the Heavenly Book of Jade and Silk. It records the location of a fairy palace. You's family accidentally auctioned off this treasure. Thinking that the emperor is already gifted with great power, he dedicated it to the emperor."
The woman's voice was soft and beautiful, and it was very pleasant to hear. Many ministers around listened to it and were distracted. They all lowered their heads and dared not look at the woman directly.
The queen smiled and asked, "Is it the jade and silk scriptures that Master You presented, or this beauty?"
Master You immediately stood up and bowed: "This woman is You Yunzhi, the fifth daughter of the You family. If the Emperor takes a fancy to her, it will be her blessing and the You family's blessing."
Zhou An frowned, these ministers really regarded themselves as the original emperors, and they liked beauty.
At this time, offering a daughter is either to arrange eyeliner, or to compete for favor like Shangguan Rong. Now he likes the stability of the harem very much. When it comes to a woman, I lose my mind.
He was just about to decline, when Shangguan Rong suddenly said: "You Yunzhi, the fourth in the Qianjing flower list, not to mention both talent and appearance, is said to be the disciple of the elders of the Qixia Sect, Master You is willing to let her enter the palace as a concubine? "
"It's her blessing to be favored by the emperor and the empress. It's too late for the You family to be happy, and this time her master also agreed." Master You said.
Zhou An looked at Shangguan Rong and didn't understand what she wanted to do. This woman must have another purpose.
Shangguan Rong smiled and said: "Your Majesty, since the last harem rebellion, the concubines in each palace have died, and those who have been dismissed have been dismissed. Now there are only concubines in the palace, such as the concubines, Empress Baihua, Ziyan, Ziqiong, and Zixuan." , just this time, you adults have the heart, you can add concubines to the harem, so that people in the world will not ridicule that the palace is not as good as a rich man in a small town."
Zhou An didn't know what the queen's purpose was, but with her heart, she wouldn't mess around, so she didn't ask any more questions on the spot, nodded and said, "The queen said, then stay."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, Empress." You Yunzhi saluted, and handed over the wooden box to the female official who came over, and gave it to the emperor.
"Today is the New Year's Day, let's celebrate together, and give me a seat." The queen said, and the maid immediately brought tables and chairs and placed them next to the queen.
After You Yunzhi took his seat, the queen glanced at the other ministers and said, "All those who offer gifts come up at once, and let the emperor see how the treasures collected by the major families of the Qianyuan Empire are."
The adults present glanced at each other and asked the people outside to bring up gifts.
Sure enough, nearly half of the families sent rare beauties. The beauties sent this time were completely different from when Zhou An was a puppet in the hands of the queen mother.
The women in front of them can be said to be half monks, and they are all core trainers of their family. This time, for the future of the family, they also want to learn from the great benefits brought by the Shangguan family's sending to Shangguan Rong, and they all send the best of the family.
Otherwise, if we only choose the beautiful ones now, it will definitely be difficult for the emperor to catch them. The families behind these ministers have to try their best to please them.
Zhou An allowed Shangguan Rong to manage the government, making these big families think that even though Zhou An has great power, he still likes beauty. He allowed Shangguan Rong to be an empress, and he was willing to support him behind the scenes. Everyone wanted a share of the benefits.
Zhou An also saw this, and was just wondering why Shangguan Rong wanted to accept these people. No matter how you look at it, it is not good for Shangguan Rong.
Half of the ministers couldn't find a woman comparable to Shangguan Rong, so they could only start with items. The gifts were treasures for monks, some were refining materials, and some were pills for monks.
Seeing the large array of treasures in front of him, Zhou An really lamented that although there are few monks in the big families, they are all big families that dominate one side after all, and they have a lot of resources in their hands. Not as good as these big families.
After all, monks are far behind in business ability of these people, and the speed of collecting materials by commercial means is beyond the reach of monks relying on Fuyuan to search for them personally.
Even Zhou An was moved by these things. Many medicinal materials were refined by Baihua Palace, which can produce very good elixirs. There are even things handed down from ancient times. Everyone knows that they are good things, but no one can decipher them. .
Zhou An took away these treasures, and Shangguan Rong ordered the girls to be taken to the harem. They will settle down first and make arrangements tomorrow.
After all these people were arranged, the banquet continued. The ministers were secretly happy when they saw that the emperor had accepted them. They hoped that one day their women would have the same rights as Shangguan Rong.
At this time, an unremarkable minister stood up, walked to the middle and said with a proud face: "Your Majesty, other ministers sent beauties and treasures, but I don't have their financial resources, so I can only send a message."
Everyone was surprised that this minister was known to everyone. He was a hardworking and quiet official. Of course, this was compared with the senior officials in the court. Compared with the whole country, his official position was not small.
Shangguan Rong was surprised, this person seemed to be called Mei Zimo, he was an honest man, serious in his work, almost never spoke in court, why did he have the guts to present a message to the emperor this time.
While everyone was curious, Mei Zimo took out a mirror from his cuff, projected a light curtain in front of him, and a picture appeared.
In the eye of an earth fire spring, there are two swords, and a woman is hanging on the two swords, bound by the magic lock, and the evil spirit and essence are being drawn out by the formation and sent into the two swords.
Everyone was surprised to see this, but Zhou An could tell at a glance that this woman was Mrs. Taohua, Hua Wuyue's master.
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Zhou An immediately stood up and called coldly, "Where is she?"
"Nanyuan Yanzhou Phoenix Forest." Mei Zimo said.
"You're not Mei Zimo, who are you?" Zhou An asked coldly, four purple-clothed guards jumped out, surrounded the man, and pointed their four swords at him.
"It's only been a few days, and the emperor doesn't recognize me?" Mei Zimo shook her head and looked at Zhou An, and found a curse mark on his forehead.
"Golden robe!" Zhou An called out.
"Haha, that's right. Tomorrow is the day of the battle between good and evil. Which side should you choose? Hahaha..." Mei Zimo laughed, the curse mark on her forehead turned into black air and dissipated, and then she passed out on the ground.
Zhou An frowned and said, "This man is being held in custody for the time being, Empress, you are in charge here."
"Yes." Shangguan Rong stood up and answered.
Zhou An directly set up Dunguang and flew away.
None of the ministers said anything here, as if they hadn't seen it, they remained silent.Shangguan Rong let the singing and dancing continue, but her mind was no longer here.
Zhou An flew directly to Baihua Palace. The construction here has been completed, and all Baihua disciples live here. The construction here is somewhat similar to Baihua Valley, and new changes have been made. There are flowers everywhere, many of which are rare in the world. Treasures.
Zhou An was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery, and flew down on the roof of the Baihua Building in the middle, where Hua Wuyue sat and practiced, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth.
Zhou An's coming here made her wonder, so she stood up and asked, "Today is the annual festival of human beings, why are you here?"
"There is a message from the golden robe that your master was arrested and taken to Fenghuang Forest. It seems that he was used to make swords." Zhou An said it directly without any nonsense.
Hua Wuyue suddenly stood up and asked with a shocked expression: "Really?"
"I'm not sure if the image transmitted by the Xuanguang mirror is an illusion, but Jinpao is so confident that we will go, so it shouldn't be wrong." Zhou An said.
"The situation here is complicated now. You sit here and I will investigate first. If the master is really there, you can come and help me." After Hua Wuyue finished speaking, she couldn't wait to set up the light and fly away.