Chapter 246 The Emperor is Not a Thing
What is a mass wedding? It is the wedding between His Majesty the Emperor and 632 beauties.

So many beauties were selected at one time, all of whom were nominally the Emperor's women, so naturally an explanation had to be given.

But there is only one Emperor, and he cannot marry so many beauties one by one. They are not qualified to do so.

Therefore, they could only hold this kind of group wedding. Of course, it was euphemistically called rewarding the beauties, which meant officially conferring titles on all the beautiful ladies.

The first was Guiyi, who was a 4th rank concubine. The second was Yuerong, who was a 4th rank concubine. The third was Yuehua, who was a 4th rank concubine. The fourth was Liu Yanfei, who was a 6th rank concubine. The fifth was Liu Rushi, who was a 6th rank concubine.

Even the lowest-ranking concubine was given the title of a concubine of the tenth rank, enjoying a considerable monthly salary and various benefits.

This matter was handled by Lu Changjing. After admiring the performances, it was time to send the betrothal gifts and the bride price. It was done in one step without so many procedures.

There were enough procedures during the draft, which lasted for about two years, and there were not so many rules after that.

For Lu Changjing, the betrothal gift and the bride price were nothing. In order to please his many father-in-law and mother-in-law, Lu Changjing specially took out a year's treasury income and gave generous betrothal gift and bride price.

He used his own small treasury instead of the resources and treasures in the national treasury, which left many fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law speechless with shock.

Lu Changjing also knew that many of his father-in-law and mother-in-law were not from wealthy families, and some even spent all their wealth on the talent show just to gain wealth.

For this reason, Lu Changjing would naturally not treat them unfairly.

After all, their daughter was raised with so much effort and she was so outstanding. They had to give so much, so there had to be some reward.

Besides, this is not a problem for Lu Changjing.

The value of a few random magic pills is far more than the betrothal gifts and bride price. It is just a drop in the bucket for him. Why should he be so stingy?

He is not like Ning Tianbao and Ning Zhongyu, the two turtle father and son, who are stingy, selfish and not presentable.

It is said that when marrying concubines, the father and son often did not spend any 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 that shameless yet.

This talent show was a great success with both hosts and guests enjoying the event, and even those girls who were eliminated received varying amounts of compensation.

Although travel expenses, food expenses and the like are reimbursed, no one will reimburse the expenses for training concubines and preparing various treasures for nourishing the skin.

Lu Changjing helped them make up for their losses and also received additional gifts, using his own money. For a while, people both inside and outside the government praised him.

There are even many people clamoring for when the second round of auditions will begin. Although only about two years have passed, a new group of girls of the right age have grown up, waiting for Lu Changjing's favor.

Lu Changjing was speechless about this. This batch had just ended, and if the second round started immediately, he would probably be scolded as a tyrant.

And in his current situation, he couldn't consummate the marriage, so why bother wasting more girls.

Directly rejecting this matter, saying that the second round of selection will start in a few years, even if it is not for filling the harem, just the good seedlings selected from the show girls are worth Lu Changjing's doing. As mentioned before, talent and qualifications will be examined during the selection, and in the Daning Dynasty, there is a general preference for 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 to practice.

This also led to the missing of many good talents, and quite a few were found in this audition. Although many of them were eliminated, their information has been recorded.

For example, Guli'er, not only has an extremely beautiful appearance, but also has excellent talents and qualifications, so she was specially recorded and then Ning Yuwan recruited her into the Pink Palace.

There were many other young girls who were in similar situations, and they were all secretly watched by the Pink Palace and recruited.

It is not acceptable to worship foreigners and fawn on foreigners. Even in the Pink Palace, these are Lu Changjing's imperial servants after all. They can't all be tribute girls from other countries.

In addition to these eliminated concubines, Ning Yuwan also recruited many talented girls from various sects. Moreover, she treated these girls from her own country better, which firmly surpassed the tribute girls from other countries.

Unless the tribute girls from other countries perform exceptionally well, it will be difficult for them to surpass the girls from their own country.

This can be considered a kind of check and balance. Otherwise, when the Pink Palace becomes bigger, there will be some hidden dangers.

After the one-to-many group wedding was over, Lu Changjing prepared to return to the imperial study. He still had some things to do tonight, so he practiced for a while and recharged his energy.

To a certain extent, tonight is the wedding night for Lu Changjing and the 632 beauties. However, given his current condition, it is obviously impossible for him to consummate the marriage.

Even if they could consummate the marriage, they would only choose one or several concubines to consummate the marriage with, and they could not take care of so many concubines.

So tonight is not a very good wedding night for the concubines.

For this, Lu Changjing can only compensate them in other ways, such as various resources, delicious food and wine, welfare benefits... It can also be regarded as Lu Changjing's apology to these brides.

The concubines in the harem also received corresponding care, and their welfare and treatment have all been greatly improved, at least several times higher than when Ning Zhongyu was in power.

This made the concubines in the harem like Lu Changjing more and more, and also saved a lot of trouble.

Ning Zhongyu used to be too stingy, and Ning Tianbao was almost the same. For their own benefit, they deducted benefits everywhere, even their own women were not spared.

Lu Changjing had seen how stingy and cowardly this father and son were. No wonder Daning had been declining over the years, even though it had many famous ministers and generals.

If it weren't for these famous ministers and generals who worked hard to hold on, I'm afraid Da Ning would have been close to destruction.

Looking at the Chuxiu Palace not far away, and thinking of the girls who were alone in their empty rooms, Lu Changjing also sighed.

He secretly thought that the emperors in ancient times were really good-for-nothings, as they knew that they had no use for many young girls, yet they still kept them.

I thought it was excessive when I watched it on TV in my previous life, but I never expected that one day I would become an emperor and face a similar situation.

If that’s the case, how should we treat so many concubines and concubines that Ning Zhongyu had 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?
(End of this chapter)