“I already know your thoughts, dear friends!”
“Then the Ministry of Household Affairs will start the preparations, and Nangong Zheng will leave it to you!”
Jiang Yuan nodded when he heard this, then looked at Nangong Zheng, the Minister of Household Affairs, and said.
"I obey the decree!"
"May I ask if your Majesty has any requirements regarding the selection of a concubine?"
Nangong Zheng asked.
"Those with outstanding martial arts skills or spiritual roots, and clean family backgrounds are preferred."
"The standards for selecting concubines for future kings of the Great Zhou Dynasty should also be based on this selection, which is written into the ancestral precepts of the Great Zhou Dynasty and must not be violated!"
"We, the Great Zhou Dynasty, established our country by force. Both military generals and civil servants are equipped with martial arts. I also hope that my descendants will have a few people with outstanding martial arts skills or top spiritual roots."
"Imperial power in the world is like a flower in the water, and the moon in the mirror. Only immortality is the eternal pursuit!"
"Even this is the eternal pursuit!" You can't live forever, but practicing martial arts and immortality can also prolong your life. "
"But dear friends, please remember that whether you are practicing martial arts or immortality, you must follow the right path and not follow the evil ways, otherwise the court will punish you!"
Jiang Yuan looked at the civil and military officials of Shenwu Palace without anger and said.
"I, my ministers, please remember your Majesty's teachings!"
Hence the words, all the civil and military officials bowed their hands and said in unison.
Soon, the news came out that His Majesty the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty was going to publicly select his concubine all over the world. Nangong, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, joined hands with the Zhenwu Division and the Jingxian Division to start the audition process.
The Jingxian Division auditioned women with spiritual roots, and then selected thirty-six immortal concubine candidates based on a series of strict conditions such as the grade of the spiritual roots, whether they have special physiques, whether they are of suitable age, whether their family background is innocent, whether they are married, whether they have heirs, and their appearance.
Zhenwu Sihai selected women with outstanding martial arts skills, and then selected seventy-two candidates for military concubines based on a series of very demanding conditions such as martial arts qualifications, age, family background, and appearance.
Comparatively, the Jingxian Division's conditions for selecting immortal concubines are really too loose. After all, there are too few women of the right age with spiritual roots.
At the beginning of the audition, Taoist priest Bai Ye of the Jingxian Division was worried that there were not enough people, including the yellow-flowered girls in their forties, the pretty young women in their thirties, and the beautiful ladies who had given birth to three or four sons.
After many rounds of selection, thirty-six young ladies of the right age were finally selected, and all of them were of good looks. They were not comparable to ordinary or vulgar girls, which was a blessing.
The Lingxu Dongtian Martial Arts is prevalent, and there are many people with outstanding martial arts skills, especially those who have many daughters and granddaughters of military commanders.
· Add in some female disciples from disbanded martial arts sects, women from martial arts families, and women from ordinary families, and the total number is simply dazzling.
Therefore, the requirements were raised again and again. Even so, in the end, 72 candidates with different characteristics were selected.
Hence, thirty-six immortal concubine candidates and seventy-two military concubine candidates were selected, and a total of one hundred and eight characters were filled into Jiang Yuan's harem.
But not all of these people can become imperial concubines. They need to enter the imperial court to learn etiquette first. The Imperial Court Internal Affairs Office will observe their diet, daily life, every move, and become familiar with their temperament, and then hand it over to Jiang Yuan to watch.
In the end, Jiang Yuan selected a queen, four imperial concubines, nine imperial concubines, and thirty-six concubines. The others were named nobles or female officials in the palace. If they performed too poorly, they might be expelled from the imperial court directly.
It all depends on what Jiang Yuan means.
Anyway, he will probably choose about fifty people in his harem!
With these most outstanding group of age-appropriate women in Lingxu Cave Heaven, Jiang Yuan believes that the quality of his descendants will be good. In the future, the Great Zhou Dynasty may become a pure martial arts or cultivation dynasty, and his descendants will all be powerful warriors and monks!
As for the selection of the crown prince Jiang Yuan, he will not follow the eldest son inheritance system. If the eldest son born to the queen is an ignorant fool, a waste who is neither martial arts nor immortal, should he inherit the throne?
He will never allow such a thing to happen.
Hence, he decided to follow the method he used in his previous life in Fanlong Tiandi to select successors for the Daye Dynasty in his later years.
The emperor, the Military Department, the Yizheng Palace, the Sixth Ministry, the Zhenwu Division, the Jingxian Division, and the Zong Renfu will be the judges to select the appropriate crown prince.
After the age of sixteen, each heir will remain anonymous, take root at the grassroots level, climb up step by step, and choose the one with the most outstanding civil and military skills to be the crown prince!
If they never meet the requirements, then they can only resume their status as princes after they are forty years old and lose the qualification to compete for the crown prince.
In addition, the princes of the Zhou Dynasty inherited the throne, but they were not allowed to surrender, nor were they allowed to own fiefs, and were uniformly supported by the clan government.
And the title was reduced to hereditary status, prince, county prince, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron. After seven generations, he was demoted to a commoner, and the clan government was not allowed to support him, so he had to find his own way out.
Moreover, the total amount of money provided by the clan for each generation is fixed. If a certain prince or county prince has many heirs, he will be blessed.
Jiang Yuan came up with many strategies in order to ensure the long-term stability of the Zhou Dynasty and the Zhou royal family's eternal rule of the mountains and rivers. He didn't know whether his plans would work or not, so he should do his best to obey fate.
Without immortality, no one can predict what will happen in the future.
In the harem.
One hundred and eight concubine candidates competed for beauty, each using their own methods.
Bathroom.
A woman in a red palace dress with a graceful figure and a naturally charming figure came to a woman in a plain blue palace dress with a cold face and beautiful appearance who was washing clothes, and said in a teasing tone.
"Slutty fox, didn't you also urinate yourself this morning?"
Zhou Ying glanced coldly at the woman in red in front of her and said directly.
"I saw you two during the audition. It seems that everyone has the same idea!"
At this moment, another quirky woman wearing dark red clothes walked towards Zhou Ying and Su Mei with a smile.
"Heavenly Demon Sect, Yan Pei?"
"You are still alive, I thought you were killed by Jiang Zhuliu of the Holy Sect!"
Another voice sounded, and a woman with water snake waist, oval face, slender figure and evil facial features walked towards her. She was none other than the snake demon Liu Ruyan!
The Heavenly Demon Sect and the Holy Sect are both demons, but the two major forces dislike each other. The Holy Sect feels that the Heavenly Demon Sect is willing to degenerate and is discrediting itself.
The Tianmo Sect felt that the Holy Sect was sanctimonious, a beast among beasts, and a complete hypocrite.
This is a dispute between a real villain and a hypocrite. From the perspective of outsiders, it is a real dog-eat-dog battle!
"On the contrary, that day I saw Jiang Zhuliu being injured by Emperor Wu, so I followed him quietly, and then killed him. It was really a relief!"
Yan Pei, the little witch of the Heavenly Demon Sect, winked at Liu Ruyan and smiled slyly.
"It's a pity that Youhua from the Ghost King Sect didn't come, otherwise, we would have gathered all the demons and ghosts!"
Su Mei chuckled and charmed all living beings, but Yan Pei, Zhou Ying, and Liu Ruyan had no effect.
"If Ghost King Zong Lengdai comes, it's not that bad. With Youhua's ghostly appearance, she will probably be eliminated in the primary election."
Liu Ruyan said with a teasing smile.
"Sister is right, maybe Youhua really wants to sneak into the imperial court, monitor Emperor Wu's every move, and see if he can use his hands to find the inheritance of the True Lord Lingxu."
"But she might have been eliminated in the audition!"
"Giggle!"
Su Mei and Liu Ruyan looked at each other and smiled, while Zhou Ying finished washing her clothes and left without paying attention to the two witches.
Little witch Yan Pei also turned around and left without interest.