Everyone in my harem is talented

Chapter 1 Qin Zhi

In the winter of the third year of Jingzheng in the Dayong Dynasty.

It was still dark, the biting cold wind was howling outside the window, snowflakes were flying everywhere, and the fire in the hall was burning brightly.

"Your Majesty, wake up, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" The eunuch chief Zhang Deli called softly to Qin Zhi who was still sleeping soundly beside the dragon bed.

"Zhang Deli, what time is it?" Qin Zhi asked with his eyes closed.

"Your Majesty, it's Yin time, and there are about two quarters of an hour left until Mao time." Seeing Qin Zhi woke up, Zhang Deli waved his hand to signal two palace maids and eunuchs to pull up the bed curtains.

The Yong Dynasty held court every five days, and the court would start at the hour of Mao.

"Come here, change your clothes."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The four palace maids answered in unison, and helped Qin Zhi put on the dark robe in an orderly manner. After washing, he put on the Jiuyu crown.

It was a bitterly cold winter with bone-chilling wind. Qin Zhi, holding a black sleeve stove with a dragon pattern and cloud emblem in his hand, rode on a dragon chariot to the main hall to attend court.

Qin Zhi was the third emperor of the Dayong Dynasty.

His great-grandfather Qin He was the first emperor of Dayong, also known as Emperor Taizu of Dayong.

The monarch of the previous dynasty was incompetent and favored treacherous ministers, which led to the destruction of the country and the overthrow of the society, and the rise of heroes all over the world.

Taizu worked hard to conquer the country and founded the glorious Yong Dynasty. He and his first wife, Empress Chen, knew each other and were deeply in love. They gave birth to a son and a daughter, the eldest son, Emperor Qin Yi, and the eldest daughter, Princess Qin Man of Jin.

Taizu placed high hopes on his eldest son Qin Yi, who was kind and compassionate but also resolute and decisive.

However, the late emperor had a fatal flaw as the crown prince.

He is almost forty years old, but he has only four daughters.

Although Emperor Taizu expressed his firm determination to choose him and would not allow anyone to shake his position as the crown prince, he launched a series of bloody storms and vigorously calmed the people's hearts inside and outside the court who were quietly wavering because the crown prince had no offspring.

However, it could not change the dilemma that the late Emperor Qin Yi had always faced, namely, having no successor.

This dilemma was not broken until Qin Zhi was born.

When he was still in his infancy, he was made the Crown Prince by his grandfather Qin He, and his biological mother, who was a concubine, was also promoted to the Crown Prince's principal wife.

As the new sweetheart of his grandfather, Qin Zhi served smoothly as the Crown Prince for nineteen years and spent another nine months as the Crown Prince.

At the age of twenty, he officially ascended the throne as emperor.

Three years ago, his father, Emperor Qin Yi, who had been on the throne for nine months, suddenly passed away, and Qin Zhi ascended the throne in front of the coffin.

He encountered his first test - the rebellion of King Wu.

King Qin Mu of Wu was the second son of his grandfather Qin He. Qin He disliked this second son born to a palace maid very much. Muo means "miao" and means mistake.

Taizu gave this second son a name and threw him into the harem, where he was raised by eunuchs and palace maids. He never saw him, even when his eldest son Qin Yi had been childless for a long time.

Only after Qin Zhi's father, Emperor Qin Yi, ascended the throne did he confer the title of King of Wu on his illegitimate brother.

After Qin Zhi ascended the throne, he took advantage of the rebellion of his uncle, the King of Wu, to kill many people in the previous dynasty, seize power, and become a monarch who truly had the final say.

In the winter of the third year after the reign of Emperor Jingzheng, the Empress had not yet been decided, and there were only Concubine Yi, Concubine Rou, and Concubine Ying in the harem.

This was because the wife chosen by Qin Zhi when Taizu was alive had to observe filial piety for her father, which resulted in her not being able to enter the palace at that time.

I don’t have a legal wife, but I can’t delay.

Taizu first assigned Qin Zhi a Liangdi and two Fengyi, namely Meng, Liu and Li, a total of three concubines.

As for Qin Zhi's fiancée, after she finished mourning for her father, she encountered the death of Emperor Taizu. She later caught a cold and died at the same time as the late Emperor Qin Yi.

When the previous emperor Qin Yi passed away, Qin Zhi ascended the throne as the new emperor. According to custom, the emperor should have replaced months with days in mourning.

Qin Zhi ascended the throne unwillingly, and was pushed to become the queen when he was still in mourning for the previous emperor and the government was unsettled. She observed the mourning period for the full three years, a total of twenty-seven months, on the grounds that the Great Yong ruled the world with filial piety and that the king should set an example.

Now that the mourning period has passed, there are only three concubines left in the harem. Both the government and the people are eager to try. They can finally legitimately advise the emperor on the selection of concubines.