Temple of Manna.
Zhang Chao came in in a bright yellow dragon robe and a soft-footed head.
Queen Cui Yingying sat there, next to the noble concubine Zheng Wanyan, the concubine Lu Shi, the virtuous concubine Zheng Hongxian, the concubine Du Caiwei, and several other concubines.
In that lineup, more than a dozen people from the harem have arrived.
"What are you doing here?"
Zhang Chao was a little helpless, this group of women joined forces to give him a draft.
The unmarried daughters and granddaughters of all noble families, officials above the fifth rank, and councillors above the provincial level who are between the ages of 14 and 16 are among the drafts.
"Your Majesty has just passed the year of confusion, and it is the peak of spring and autumn.
There are only a few of us in the harem, where can we do it.
Since the concubine is the queen and is in charge of these six palaces, she should do her duty as a queen, draft a girl for His Majesty to enrich the harem, and also add more heirs to the royal family. ” Cui Yingying told him a few times in advance about this, but Zhang Chao did not agree.
I'm in my forties, and I'm not a young guy, so I don't care much about beauties or anything.
In fact, there are more than a dozen women in the family, all of whom are beautiful and temperamental, and there are Pingyang and Qingluan outside.
But now Thirteen Niang directly used her power as the queen and lowered the draft of Yi.
The emperor and queen each have their own positions, in this palace, the front court is Zhang Chao's, and the harem is in charge of the queen.
Cui Yingying wants to choose a draft girl for the emperor, and the cabinet pursues it very quickly.
No one thinks there is anything wrong with this, of course this matter is in the hands of the queen, and the queen mother can also take care of it.
It's no problem to add some show girls to the emperor's queen.
Even everyone thinks that this is a glorious thing, originally Cui Yingying did not ask for the daughter of a nobleman and a high-ranking official and a member of the parliament, but in the cabinet, the prime ministers added a clause that the show girl was only limited to the nobles and high-ranking officials and parliamentarians above the fifth grade.
First in the various auditions, and finally select a group of outstanding people to send to the capital, and finally in the emperor and queen personally selected once.
The draft is voluntary, as long as the family conditions are met, as well as unmarried and unmarried girls between the ages of 14 and 16.
According to this convention, Zhang Chao, the emperor, is not even qualified to personally select the show girl in this draft.
The first audition was handed over to the provincial councils and the envoys, the governors, and the palace attendants sent by the queen.
The second time was personally selected by Cui Yingying and other queen concubines.
Zhang Chao doesn't have to do anything, just wait for the selection of the candidate.
Zhang Chao couldn't say anything about the queen, so he had to say, "Okay, I'll take a step back, you can change the age of the show girl, first of all, you have to be sixteen years old, fourteen years old is too young."
Sixteen to eighteen years old."
In fact, he also wants to cancel the restriction of family origin, and it is not necessary to elect the daughters of noble officials and parliamentarians, and even those who must be Han women do not necessarily need to be added.
Han-Hu intermarriage can speed up the assimilation of other conquering peoples.
However, Cui Yingying and the cabinet both believe that the draft can only be selected in the families of nobles and officials and parliamentarians, and it has to be a Han girl.
They seem to have forgotten that Zhang Chao actually had two Hu concubines, a Persian Ji and a Roman woman.
"In the end, only four were chosen."
Zhang Chao added another one.
"How is four enough, choose a hundred."
Zhang Chao shook his head, this draft is not ordinary, these are the emperor's women, not ordinary palace people.
As soon as these people were chosen, they were Zhang Chao's concubines.
Unlike the palace people, a group of young women are selected to enter the palace every year, and these people enter the palace after training to be palace maids, specializing in serving the emperor and concubines, and taking care of young princes and princesses.
According to the current palace system, after the palace is selected, the rules are learned, and then they can go home after four years.
These palace maids still have wages in the palace, which is actually equivalent to the maids hired by the royal family.
Of course, if you get the emperor's favor, you will be promoted to the emperor's woman, given the status or something, and you can't leave anymore.
"Four."
Zhang Chao insisted.
Cui Yingying glanced at her husband, "Thirty." ” "Four."
"Twelve, no less."
Seeing that Thirteen Niang refused to let it go, Zhang Chao had no choice but to nod and agree.
"The staff in the court is a little more streamlined, and there are not so many people."
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Zhang Chao advocates that what can be outsourced, let it be done outside, and it is not necessary to do everything in the palace.
A palace with tens of thousands of people, this is too much.
In fact, there are so many people.
Now there are many eunuchs in the palace, and the Zhang royal family should be regarded as the richest royal family, but there is no need to put on such a big show if you are rich.
"Let's cut the number of personnel in the palace to less than three thousand."
There are the Inner Chamberlain Province and the Inner Chamberlain Province in the palace, which is the emperor's close attendant body and manages the internal affairs of the palace.
It is not dedicated to eunuchs, and is managed by miscellaneous scholars, and is headed by the inner chamberlain, inner attendant, inner attendant, etc., who are in charge of conveying edicts, guarding the palace gates, sprinkling and sweeping the inner court, and taking care of the emperor's diet and daily life.
There are six bureaus such as the court and the palace.
There is also a palace province, in charge of the emperor's life, there are six bureaus such as food and medicine.
The two provinces of the inner chamberlain and the palace can completely set up the yamen outside the palace.
The administration of the inner chamber uses scholars, while the inner court uses eunuchs.
The palace province handed over many manual and other affairs to the outside to contract, and the palace was only responsible for serving.
In this way, the number of personnel can be significantly reduced.
The eunuchs did not leave the palace, and even if the emperor wanted to use the eunuchs to transmit the decree, the eunuchs would only transmit the decree to the internal service province outside the palace and hand it over to the officials to take over the administration.
Historically, the number of eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty increased, and their powers became more and more powerful.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the eunuchs frequently served as supervisors and other positions, and even later, they directly commanded the forbidden army, and the result was that the eunuchs controlled the forbidden army and had great power, so they began to control the court and even the government, and then had the power to abolish the emperor.
In all Chinese dynasties, there has never been a eunuch with greater power than the Tang Dynasty.
The eunuchs at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty could not be compared, and the eunuchs at the end of the Ming Dynasty were also not compared.
At the time of Tianbao, there were 1,696 high-grade eunuchs, 2,932 high-grade officials, and more than 4,000 eunuchs in one internal service province.
Quite an amazing force.
To prevent eunuchs from interfering in government, it was necessary to limit their power.
For example, before the Tang Dynasty, the Inner Servant Province did not completely use eunuchs, but eunuchs and scholars were mixed, and eunuchs would not be used to supervise the army to pass on decrees.
The eunuchs were confined to the palace and were not allowed to leave the palace, so they could not interfere in government affairs.
Zhang Chao's consulting agency is the Hanlin Academy, and the scholars in the Hanlin Academy are all scholars, and he will not make an inner court in the palace like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Although eunuchs were reliable servants of the emperor, these people were born with many flaws, and letting them meddle in politics was the way to get into chaos.
The affairs outside the palace are handed over to the scholars, and the number of eunuchs in the palace must also be limited.
Eunuchs are not as good as palace maids, palace maids change every few years, and if they enter the palace once, they can still be regarded as continuing training, and if they leave the palace, their worth may still rise, and they will marry a good family.
Eunuchs are different, once they are purified, they will not be able to be a man in this life.
It is impossible to say that eunuchs change every few years, and they have to do it for a lifetime as soon as they enter the palace.
If you can use less, use less, and use more palace maids in the palace.
Cui Yingying has never been a person who likes to be extravagant, if you outsource a lot of manual work in the palace to the outside, there are actually a lot of 3,000 people in the palace.
After all, the princes had to live in the palace at the age of twelve, and there were not many people in the palace who needed to serve.
Whether a dynasty can last or not depends on the first emperor.
Because when the first emperor was the emperor, he was able to set various rules and regulations.
Therefore, how far an imperial dynasty can go depends on how far the founding emperor's vision is.
Cui Yingying and Zheng Wanyan no longer paid attention to Zhang Chao, and sat there openly discussing the standards of show girls, and Zhang Chao listened cheekily for a while.
Zheng Wanyan proposed that a show girl must not only have a good background, but also have hard conditions in appearance.
For example, you must be at least five feet six tall.
One foot is about 30'7 centimeters, and more than five feet six, that is, at least 1.7 meters tall.
I have to say that Zheng Wanyan's height condition is indeed tall enough.
The average number of men and women in this era was generally not too high, and the average was definitely lower than that of later generations.
The women of the aristocratic eunuchs are in good condition and well-nourished, and it is estimated that they can grow taller, but one meter seven can definitely eliminate the vast majority of women outside the audition.
"I'm afraid that more than five feet six is too demanding, but five feet four is good."
Concubine Lu spoke against Zheng Wanyan, the Lu family herself is not five feet six, and not all of them are as long as pillars like the Zheng family.
If you set a standard of five feet six, wouldn't it mean that you are not even as qualified as a show girl Five feet four, Zhang Chao converted it in his heart, and it is estimated that it will be one meter six or five, well, this is a normal standard.
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But the more they discussed, Zhang Chaoyue felt that he couldn't listen anymore.
They actually think that they should choose a plump one, isn't that fat?
He also said that he was small-chested.
You've all asked to choose the fat one, why the hell do you still want to choose the small one, I like the one with bigger breasts Zhang Chao was really afraid that they would say such things as a thick waist and a big ass.
I can't listen to it anymore.
Draft, shouldn't you let me set the standards?
That's for me to choose a woman, and I should be in charge.
But now, his daughters-in-law were sitting there, discussing.
Yes, these women are now so noble, living in this huge palace, and they have nothing to do every day, and they are not as comfortable as when they were outside.
At least at that time, you can still hold a tea party from time to time, invite a group of noble ladies to enjoy flowers and tea, and occasionally go to watch the ball and listen to the play, or go shopping.
Looking at their excited looks, Zhang Chao got up and went out.
I hope that in the end, I can choose a few people with excellent appearance.
However, when he met a wife like Cui Yingying, Zhang Chao was still relatively happy, better than Dugu Jialuo, and the wife of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian was a complete tigress, more powerful than Fang Xuanling's wife Lu.
Yang Jian's dignified generation of descendants praised the emperor, but he didn't even dare to take a concubine after marriage.
Even if he became an emperor, when he was old, he finally wanted to pamper a Yu Chi clan, but when he went out, Yu Chi was killed by Queen Dugu.
The women with the five surnames are indeed much stronger than the noble women of Guanlong. t1706231537: