In the later stage of the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the queen took advantage of An Lingrong's pregnancy and wanted to promote her from a noble to a concubine to increase the power of the queen's party in the harem. didn't expect Zhen Huan to make a plan, and directly begged the emperor to promote Concubine Duan to the position of imperial concubine, and she was also promoted to the position of concubine. What's more, she even asked for a position for the deceased Shen Meizhuang, and directly let An Lingrong be promoted, but in fact, not only was the position of the harem inflationary, but the position was not only equivalent to not being promoted, but her big belly couldn't beat a person who was already dead. But that's not the point. The point is that Zhen Huan didn't leave herself a position as an imperial concubine.
According to the harem system of the Qing Dynasty, the harem allowed 1 queen, 2 imperial concubines, the same deputy queen, 4 concubines, and several concubines. In the case that the queen cannot be abolished, the concubine is almost the concubine with the highest position in the harem. Why didn't Zhen Huan leave herself a position as an imperial concubine?
Of course, the emperor thinks the same way as us.
Zhen Huan's official explanation is: It is enough for the concubine to have the emperor's favor.
But in fact, the reason why Zhen Huan did this was because she understood when she entered the palace that in the harem, it was overflowing.
Xia Dongchun bullied people arrogantly and domineeringly during the draft, and found the queen to be a big tree, but was directly dealt with by Nian Shilan.
Shen Meizhuang was the first to accept the favor of that show girl, and was personally instructed by the emperor to ask her to learn the assistant six palaces, Shen Meizhuang was directly framed by Nian Shilan for "fake pregnancy and favor", and since then he has lost the opportunity to pay his true feelings to the emperor.
Nian Shilan was favored, but she couldn't stop the emperor from calculating her children.
The queen is high and powerful, but she also ends up with the emperor never to see each other again.
Therefore, Zhen Huan knows best, inside and face, Zhen Huan can only ask for one. If you want to be in a position, you may lose your Sacred Heart, and if you want grace, you need to know how to be low and small, and avoid the edge. Therefore, she would rather push the two women who did not have the sacred heart in her camp to a high position than become the calculating woman in the emperor's mind.
What's more, since Zhen Huan entered the palace, she has relied on the same trick to strengthen herself: to intersect with Israel.
Before Zhen Huan entered the palace, Nian Shilan also understood this truth. Her practice is to give silver to the eunuchs and palace maids to buy people's hearts. But the silver does not come from the wind. In order to maintain such a relationship of interest, Nian Shilan had to let her brother sell her official position, and let Huang Guiquan of the Internal Affairs Office loot other people to maintain this dignity. In the end, it was himself and his brother Nian Qianyao who rebelled.
The queen is good to everyone on the surface, but in fact, she never gives any benefits to the queen party. This kind of superficial harmony and extreme selfishness on the inside can control a silly white sweet like Gua 6, but it can't control a truly smart person. Because people are selfish, if a smart person finds that he has no interests to share under the queen, he will hardly be subdued by the queen, and even if he is accepted, he will find a way to leave. This is the biggest reason why there are so many concubines in the harem, even if Nian Shilan is so bullying, old people like Duan Concubine and Concubine Jing choose to go alone and will not stand in line with the queen.
And since Zhen Huan entered the palace, she has known how to send Princess Haoyue to Concubine Jing and Princess Wenyi to Concubine Duan to buy people's hearts. Later, Zhen Huan fought for the position of everyone in Zhen Huan's party, although there was sincerity in the starting point and there was an exchange of interests, but in the end, it was always allowed to benefit people, and it would not harm others. This is Zhen Huan's core "art of controlling people".
What's more, at that time, Zhen Huan already had five children, including the fourth elder brother, Princess Haoyue, Princess Jinghe, Princess Lingxi, and the sixth elder brother, and the future emperor was likely to come from among his two sons, and the position of the queen mother was almost nine out of ten. Therefore, Zhen Huan thinks that no matter what her position is in the palace, it will not affect her actual right to speak in the palace. And Concubine Duan, who was pushed to a high position by her, is not the kind of person who doesn't know current affairs, so there is no need for Zhen Huan to be that up-and-coming bird.
Zhen Huan didn't seem to think about herself for the rise in the position of the palace concubines this time, but in fact, she was determined to give face to the rest of Zhen Huan's party to balance the mentality of the harem women, so as to better buy people's hearts and be convincing.
As expected, even if the emperor returns to heaven and the world changes dynasties, Zhen Huan becomes the emperor's biological mother, her power is still not weakened.
Zhen Huan is a smart woman in the harem who really knows how to "take half a step back no more, no less" in order to get more benefits.
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