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

"Gong Wu."

After thinking about what she was going to do, Zhang Xin turned around and waved to Wu Shanggong, who had been standing behind the three of them.

"Yes, Crown Princess."

"Can you tell us how the ladies-in-waiting in our palace are set up?"

"Yes, Crown Princess."

Zhu Zhiming and Zhu Anle were both fooled once and were taken to the shed area by Zhang Xin to help. When Zhang Xin called her Wu Shanggong this time, they both had a bad premonition.

They all stood up and prepared to leave.

"Don't even think about running away, both of you. Sit down and listen together!"

"Ah, why?"

"Sister-in-law will give you all the official titles!!!"

"Well, we are princesses, aren't we higher than officials?"

"That's different! Princess sounds good, but she can only manage the people in her own palace. Being an official is different. The homework of the past is a copycat. I want to set up a set of female officials in Peking. Recruit female workers, manage female workers, and discuss with the Provincial Government to let female officials manage them. This will save me from not having anyone to use when I want to."

Zhang Xin felt that since the capital would be moved eventually, it would be better to get his team ready in advance.

"Wow, sister-in-law, you have a big appetite."

"Sister-in-law, people have three urgent needs!"

"You big-headed ghost, just sit down and listen to the class. I'll hold Fatty Zhu and let the two of you pinch his face and butt!"

"Ten times!"

"Five!"

"Eight!"

"Six times!"

"make a deal!!!"

After some bargaining, the two sisters-in-law finally sat down and listened to Wu Shanggong's stories with Zhang Xin.

"In this palace, lady-in-waiting—"

Zhang Xin said that she wanted Wu Shanggong to tell her about it, but in fact she wanted Wu Shanggong to tell her two sisters-in-law.

She seemed to be listening, but her thoughts had already wandered to decades ago and decades later.

She had been with Concubine Wu for such a long time that her casual conversations would always, intentionally or unintentionally, lead the conversation to the capital.

Comparing it with my previous life, the image of my great-grandfather was originally very vague.

In Wu Shanggong's narration, the story gradually became more comprehensive.

It has to be said that her original impression of her royal grandfather was indeed very one-sided.

Of course, there were things that my great grandfather did wrong, but there were also many things that he did right.

When the Ming Dynasty was first established, in order to prevent the eunuchs from monopolizing power and the external relatives from causing chaos in the government as happened in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's grandfather mainly employed female officials in the entire palace.

The palace officials were in charge of the female officials, and there were one chief and one deputy chief. The chief chief official was of the fifth rank.

There are six bureaus under the Gongzheng Division, and under the six bureaus there are twenty-four Tongshi Divisions.

The total number of female officials in the entire palace was three hundred.

The selection of female officials was stricter than that of concubines.

First there is a preliminary selection among the people, during which an imperial envoy appointed by the Ministry of Rites or the emperor's grandfather would go to various places with an imperial edict to investigate whether the women participating in the selection had decent conduct, appropriate words and deeds, and whether they were literate.

Only when all aspects are met will the candidate's family send him to the capital to be re-elected by the Imperial Household Department.

The final selection is based mainly on moral character, talent, and conduct, with appearance as a secondary consideration.

Only those who stay will be assigned to different palaces and departments.

Zhang Xin spent most of her previous life dealing with the Six Bureaus and has deep feelings about it.

Most of the female officials are the kind of people who keep their talents secret.

During his tenure, he behaved himself and abided by the rules.

The etiquette is also good.

In the inner court, the words, deeds and upbringing of these female officials influenced many young concubines who had just entered the palace and were ignorant of the immensity of the world, and greatly reduced the pressure on Zhang Xin to manage her father-in-law's harem.

They can handle most of the complicated and tedious palace affairs in an orderly manner.

Zhang Xin learned a lot of his knowledge and understanding about business from female officials.

In the Forbidden City, there are few masters, but there are quite a lot of people.

The eating, drinking, defecating and urinating of several thousand people were nominally managed by the Imperial Household Department and the female officials.

But in fact, most of the work was done by female officials.

If a eunuch wants to enter the palace, there is no test or selection. It's just a matter of being stabbed. If you can survive, most of them can enter the palace. Even if you don't know how to do anything, you can at least do some work like sweeping the courtyard and doing some lifting.

Whether in the Hongwu Dynasty or the Yongle Dynasty, the personal qualities of the eunuchs could not be compared with those of the female officials. In every aspect, they were suppressed by the female officials.

Most of the affairs, big and small, inside and outside the palace are handled by people from the six bureaus and one department.

Female officials were responsible for selecting shops that supplied food and cloth to the imperial city, negotiating prices and determining quality, and for organizing documents, registering and calculating accounts.

After all these things were summarized, they were handed over to Zhang Xin. All Zhang Xin needed to do was to make a decision.

When the capital was moved to Peking, the purchases made by the imperial city alone boosted the economy of the entire city of Peking.

In just five or six years, Peking's prosperity began to far surpass that of the original capital.

These female officials were buried deep in the palace.

Most of the female officials were talented and knowledgeable girls who were both good in character and academic performance when they were young. When they entered the palace, it was agreed that they would be replaced every five years. They were retained because they were too useful. However, if they were released after their youth, it would be difficult for them to gain a foothold outside the palace, and their positions became just empty words.

They could have had a happy family, but most of them had to spend their old age in the palace.

Moreover, since there are many scholarly families in the south and most of the female officials come from the south of the Yangtze River, it takes a long time for them to get used to living in Peking.

There are many rules in the palace, and the life of low-level female officials is not much better than that of palace maids. They can lose their lives if they are not careful.

By the middle of the Yongle reign, southern families who had suffered losses were no longer keen on sending their daughters to the palace to serve as court ladies.

The North lacks the resources, and some people want to send it, but they can’t even pass the palace’s preliminary selection.

There are more and more vacancies in various positions in the six bureaus and one department.

Not long after my father-in-law ascended the throne, my mother-in-law passed away. Originally, everything went smoothly through my mother-in-law's appointment of female officials.

Once her mother-in-law was gone, Zhang Xin became a daughter-in-law again, and her father-in-law no longer appointed a queen.

In order to make it easier to employ people, my father-in-law ignored the teachings of his grandfather and recruited a group of young eunuchs to learn to read and write.

People who originally had no chance to study are now able to study and are working hard to improve themselves.

In just three to five years, the smarter eunuchs immediately emerged.

It turned out that some of the matters that the female officials were in charge of were handed over to the eunuchs.

The vacancies in the palace were gradually filled by eunuchs.

Outside the palace, the eunuchs also served as military supervisors to supervise the wars.

Later, in order to have more time for fun, his son Zhu Zhanji brought the issue of eunuchs' reading to the fore and established the Neishutang, where scholars from the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Dynasty were specifically taught knowledge.

My father-in-law’s twenty-plus years plus Zhanji’s ten years.

Thirty years later, by the time of the eldest grandson, all the eunuchs in the palace had become human sperm.

She didn't realize that there was something wrong with this matter at that time. She just gave a reprimand to Wang Zhen, who was a little careless and was standing next to her eldest grandson.

As a result, when she died, the eldest grandson really became a grandson!!!

In this step-by-step development, everyone is wrong, and if you go wrong one step at a time, all of them will go wrong.

If you are wrong, you must admit it and correct it.

While her father-in-law had not yet gotten the position, she prepared the female official to take over in advance.

I can't go back to the old ways in this life.