Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Ming Dynasty, the first year of Yongle, April.

The capital, the imperial city.

"Let's take the one in the northwest corner. Mother? There's no need to build another house. Just use the existing ones as a comfortable room and a comfortable residence."

Zhang Xin spread out the layout map of the entire imperial city and showed it to Xu and Hu Shanggong one by one.

"Zhiming, write this down and tell your father that we want this corner of the new palace. The ones nearby should be useful, but they can't be too noisy."

Xu nodded in agreement.

"Yes, mother."

Zhu Zhiming responded by writing it down on another layout map.

"No one is allowed to work while sick."

"Old or sick palace maids should let us know in advance, and the Palace Administration will check and move them to the Anle Room if they are all correct."

"Yao Niang will place a few female doctors there. If you feel unwell, you can go to the Anle Room. The little eunuch can also go."

"The elderly, sick and low-ranking palace servants will be placed in Anleju in the future."

Zhang Xin waited until Zhu Zhiming finished taking notes before continuing.

"Should we also move the laundry department there? It's close. If we do, we can immediately change the burial clothes and send it to Jingle Hall for cremation."

Zhu Anle suggested.

"It's feasible. I'll make a note of it."

Xu nodded again.

The two daughters followed Zhang Xin in and out, and they had obviously made great progress, which made her very satisfied.

"Go through all the wells in the palace and make sure they are clean. Clean them several times. If there is a body sunk into a well again, I will only question the palace lady."

Zhang Xin reiterated again.

When my father-in-law entered the capital, there was no use of knives or guns. Apart from the fact that Zhu Yunwen set fire to the palace and killed some people, there was no news of any major killing in the palace.

Zhu Yunwen had not yet had time to arrange his harem.

But this time when she took over the palace affairs and sorted out the palaces one by one, several wells were filled with people.

There were both men and women, not just eunuchs and palace maids.

Human life is worthless.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Hu Shanggong stood up in panic and apologized.

No one expected that there were so many corpses in the abandoned and locked palace. To be honest, it was because their six bureaus and one department did not manage it well and were busy and neglectful.

When so many bodies were unearthed, the leaders of the entire six bureaus and one department felt like their heads were not their own.

Fortunately, the Queen Mother did not pursue the matter.

"Fortunately we didn't drink the water from the well..."

Zhu Zhiming is still frightened.

“It’s scary even if you haven’t drunk it.”

Zhu Anle's face also looked unhappy.

That day, she and Zhu Zhiming were both with Zhang Xin.

In the future, both of them will be in charge of the Princess's Mansion, and with fewer people, the affairs of a palace will be almost the same as those of the Princess's Mansion.

Zhang Xin took them to familiarize themselves with the place in advance.

Who knew I could see something so horrifying.

"Although we didn't drink it, we used the water from the well to sweep and wash the palace and water the flowers and trees."

Zhang Xin actually wants to say more.

All the palace maids and eunuchs who served them used water from the well.

Their daily lives were all taken care of by the palace maids and eunuchs.

Some of the rules of this emperor's grandfather were also very strange. The Imperial Hospital only treated the emperor's sons and daughters. Concubines were not allowed to hire imperial doctors if they were not of high enough rank. If palace maids were sick, they were moved out and were not allowed to see a doctor or take medicine. They could only fend for themselves.

For fear of being moved out to live with seriously ill people, the people in the palace endured their illness and pain.

This is equivalent to a moving source of disease.

After finishing the affairs of the imperial city, we will sort out the rules and regulations.

In order to reduce the risks that she would encounter in the future, she wanted to move back to Beijing with her whole family.

The decision to move the capital had already been made, and the court didn't have to pay for the money or the people, so most of the objections had to disappear.

It would not be a big deal if they were willful again and did not live in the capital.

It was just this reason for being willful, but she hadn't figured out how to be willful yet.

"Well, let's all move to the capital."

Xu obviously thought of it and frowned.

"Your Majesty, how will we select the palace maids? Will we select them from around the capital?"

Hu Shanggong spoke the truth according to her position.

Moving the capital is inevitable, but the date is still uncertain, which involves the issue of where to choose people from when the time comes.

The capital city is large and sparsely populated, and the number of candidates is insufficient, so it would be difficult to do both.

"I will discuss this with the Emperor later. The selection of palace maids, the selection of female officials, and the selection of marriages for our royal family must all be revised."

Xu felt a headache just thinking about it.

If she wasn't in good health right now, Zhang Xin had been taking care of most of the family, so she wouldn't want to take on this mess.

These things, if done at all, can have a huge impact.

She had never been to other places and didn't know much about them.

But she has lived in the capital for so many years, how could she not know the population number?

How many men can’t find a wife.

How many military households were enlisted because they married their wives?

The palace maids from the capital were selected in batches.

No matter what they did in the end, almost all batches of people came in but never left.

If you can survive until death, it will be considered a good end.

Although the late emperor had many concubines, he only slept with dozens of them.

Among them are those who had been with the late emperor since the early days, as well as those presented by Korea and Japan.

Thousands of palace maids, whether they were there voluntarily or forced, spent their best years in the palace.

The selection of female officials becomes more difficult every year.

If Zhang Xin hadn't just happened to get a group of little ones to be used as managers, the female officials would obviously have no successors.

The wealthy and powerful families in Jiangnan raised girls who were literate and well-mannered, originally hoping that they could enter the palace as court ladies to gain experience in imperial court. However, they ended up being wasted and never came back.

How could people in Jiangnan do such a loss-making business?

As far as she knew, in the 20th year of Hongwu, the selection of female officials was in name only.

Three years ago, the late emperor passed away, and the practice of burying people alive with the dead was revived before his death.

The people in Jiangnan are completely unwilling to do anything now.

Therefore, they could only rely on marriages with royal family members to supplement the number of female officials.

There were also problems with the selection of marriages for members of the royal family, as all of them were from small and medium-sized families.

The matter of choosing moral character just seems unreliable.

When choosing concubines for the princes and grandchildren of Zhu Gaochi's generation, most of the candidates including Zhang Xin were still educated.

By the time of Zhu Gaoxu, Wei had only read some books, while many of his peers had never even read a book.

In recent years, the idea that women in the capital are virtuous if they are not talented has become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Ordinary families follow this trend and do not let their daughters go to school in order to save money.

But the girls chosen are all from ordinary families.

It's hard to comment on this kind of thing.

[A little science - the laundry bureau was not a place to wash clothes in the Ming Dynasty, but the end of life. If the dead palace people had no relatives to claim them, they would be cremated in Jingle Hall outside Xizhimen and then poured into the well]