What is a group wedding? It is the wedding between His Majesty the Emperor and 632 concubines. So many concubines were selected at one time, and they were all His Majesty the Emperor's women in name, so naturally an explanation had to be given. But there was only one Emperor, and he couldn't marry all the concubines one by one, and they didn't have the qualifications. So they could only hold this group wedding, of course, it was called "appreciating the concubines", which meant that the concubines were officially conferred titles. The first was Guiyi, who was a fourth-rank concubine, the second was Yuerong, who was a fourth-rank concubine, the third was Yuehua, who was a fourth-rank concubine... The fourth was Liu Yanfei, who was conferred the sixth-rank concubine; the fifth was Liu Rushi, who was conferred the sixth-rank concubine... Even the concubine with the lowest ranking was conferred the tenth-rank concubine, and had a considerable monthly salary and various benefits. This matter was carried out by Lu Changjing. After the grand appreciation of the concubines, it was time to send the betrothal gifts and the bride price, which was done in one step without so many procedures. There were enough procedures during the selection process, which lasted for about two years. There were no more rules. For Lu Changjing, the betrothal gifts and betrothal gifts were nothing. In order to make many father-in-law and mother-in-law happy, Lu Changjing took out a year's treasury income and gave generous betrothal gifts and betrothal gifts. He used his own small treasury instead of the resources and treasures in the treasury, which shocked many father-in-law and mother-in-law speechless.
Lu Changjing also knew that many of his father-in-law and mother-in-law were not wealthy. Some even spent their family wealth for the selection, just to win a fortune. For this reason, Lu Changjing would naturally not treat them unfairly. After all, their daughter, who they had worked hard to cultivate, was so outstanding. After paying so much, there must be some return. Besides, this was not a problem for Lu Changjing. The value of a few random magic pills far exceeded these betrothal gifts and betrothal gifts. It was just a drop in the bucket for him. Why should he be so stingy? He is not like Ning Tianbao and Ning Zhongyu, two turtle father and son, who are stingy and selfish and cannot be on the stage. It is said that when marrying the concubines, this father and son often did not spend money. Later, in order to obtain more resources and treasures, they even sold official positions and titles, without any dignity of an emperor. It is really difficult to get Lu Changjing to do this. He is not so shameless. This selection ceremony can be said to be a happy one for both the host and the guests. Even those who were eliminated received compensation of varying amounts. Although travel expenses and food expenses are reimbursed, no one reimburses the training of the girls and the preparation of various treasures for nourishing the skin. Lu Changjing also helped them make up for the loss and received additional gifts, and he used his own money. For a while, the court and the public praised him. There are even many people who are clamoring when the second round of selection will start. Although only about two years have passed, a group of girls of the right age have grown up and are waiting for Lu Changjing's favor. Lu Changjing was speechless. This batch had just ended. If the second round started immediately, he would be scolded as a tyrant. And in his current situation, he couldn't consummate his marriage, so why delay more girls. He directly rejected this matter and said that he would wait a few years to start the second round of the selection. Even if it was not for filling the harem, it was worth it for Lu Changjing to do so just to select good seedlings from the show girls. It has been said before that talent and qualifications will be examined during the selection, and in the Daning Dynasty, there is a general situation of favoring boys over girls. Many girls with good talents and qualifications do not even have the qualifications to check their talents and qualifications, let alone the qualifications for cultivation. This also led to the loss of many good seedlings. Many were found in this selection. Although many were eliminated, their information has been recorded. For example, Guli'er, not only has a top appearance, but also has very good talents and qualifications, so she was recorded as a key point, and then Ning Yuwan was asked to recruit her into the Pink Clothes Palace. There are many other girls who have similar situations, and they are all quietly concerned about the Pink Clothes Palace and recruited.
It is not good to worship foreigners and fawn on foreigners. Even in the Pink Clothes Palace, after all, this is Lu Changjing's imperial servant, and it can't be that all of them are tribute girls from other countries. In addition to these eliminated concubines, Ning Yuwan also recruited many talented girls from various sects, and treated these girls from her own country better, which steadily overwhelmed the tribute girls from other countries. Unless the tribute girls from other countries perform particularly well, it is difficult to surpass the girls from her own country. This can also be regarded as a kind of check and balance, otherwise there will be some hidden dangers when the Pink Clothes Palace becomes bigger. After the one-to-many group wedding, Lu Changjing was ready to return to the imperial study. There were still some things to do tonight, so he practiced for a while and recuperated. To a certain extent, tonight was the wedding night of Lu Changjing and the 632 concubines, but in his current situation, it was obviously impossible to consummate the marriage. Even if he could consummate the marriage, he would only choose one or several concubines to consummate the marriage, and he could not take care of so many concubines at all. So tonight is not a very good wedding night for the brides. For this, Lu Changjing can only compensate in other ways, such as various resources, such as delicious food and wine, such as welfare benefits... It can also be regarded as Lu Changjing's apology to these brides. And the previous concubines in the harem also received corresponding care, and their welfare and treatment were all improved a lot, at least several times higher than when Ning Zhongyu was in power. This made the concubines in the harem more and more fond of Lu Changjing, and invisibly reduced a lot of trouble. Ning Zhongyu used to be too stingy, and Ning Tianbao was almost the same. For their own interests, they deducted benefits everywhere, even their own women. Lu Changjing also saw the stinginess and cowardice of this father and son. No wonder Daning has been declining day by day in recent years, even with many famous ministers and generals. If it weren't for these famous ministers and generals struggling to hold on, I'm afraid Daning would not be too far from destruction. Looking at the Chuxiu Palace not far away, thinking of the girls who were alone in the empty rooms, Lu Changjing also sighed. He secretly thought that the emperors in ancient times were really nothing. They knew that many girls were not useful to them at all, but they still kept them. I thought it was too much when I watched TV in my previous life, but I didn't expect that one day I would become an emperor and face a similar situation. In this case, how should I treat so many girls next, as well as the many concubines and girls that Ning Zhongyu married before? Lu Changjing was silent for a while and began to think about what to do in the future. Could he make a conscientious choice and let go of those useless girls?