I have to say that this balm, which has been carefully prepared with money and energy, is indeed much more comfortable to use than using a toothbrush dipped in green salt, especially the fresh feeling in the mouth, as if it was chewing gum from a previous life.

In fact, there are already substitutes similar to toothpaste, and the ancients boiled "ancient toothpaste" with medicinal materials such as Poria cocos, and used it to rinse their mouths in the morning. If you are afraid that the cleaning will not be clean, you will use your fingers instead of the current toothbrush, otherwise, it is the willow branch mentioned earlier, dipped in ancient toothpaste to clean your teeth.

There are also green salts with a cloth or fingers, otherwise the ancient toothbrushes mentioned above, dipped in these, wiped the teeth, and then rinsed with water.

Su Shi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, prepared tooth powder, he used pine resin and poria cocos as raw materials, dried and mashed the powder, sifted it with a small sieve, and then loaded it. But this kind of tooth powder is not used together with a toothbrush, when Su Shi brushes his teeth, he scoops a spoonful of the prepared tooth powder with a small spoon, pours it into his mouth, drinks a sip of water, goo-do-doo, goo-doo, and then spits it out. It's not so much brushing your teeth as it is rinsing your mouth.

Shen Kuo has also prepared tooth powder, and the raw materials he uses are very simple, only bitter ginseng, which is also dried and mashed, and sifted through a sieve. Unlike Su Shi, Shen Kuo uses a toothbrush to brush his teeth, dip the horsetail toothbrush in water, sprinkle it with tooth powder, brush on the left and brush on the right...... Stop, Shen Kuo is not Colgate, but bitter ginseng. It seems that half a catty of yellow ripe incense, incense, and agarwood are used, and sandalwood, tonka incense, Huoxiang, sweet pine, musk, nail incense, and clove skin are three taels each. The above spices are pounded into powder, and the balm made of suhe sesame oil and cooked honey is mixed into a paste to make a balm, because the cost is too high, and the common people cannot afford to use it. From the Song Dynasty to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, brushing teeth has not become a habit for most Chinese, and most people only use willow branches to pout.

Yang Zheng took a few breaths of fresh breath, then wiped his hands, stood up from the dragon bed, and was about to go to the ground.

The two palace ladies immediately stepped forward and put a pair of purple and white loafers under the dragon bed, and the two women, one left and one right, gently supported his arm, and with a slight force, they got off the dragon bed.

These two palace ladies are about fifteen or sixteen years old, and they have good looks, but it is rare that the body that has grown open, and the faint bulging place happens to fall in his eyes, so that he can't help but take a sharp breath, and said in his heart: "Mother, don't you know that men have morning erections, and it makes me very embarrassed to dress like this?" ”

said that he was embarrassed in his heart, but his body leaned left and right intentionally or unintentionally, the two gong'e were trying their best to help him get off the dragon bed, and his delicate body was sticking up, although he was through the clothes, Yang Zheng could still feel the softness that came out, and he couldn't help but feel his heart beating.

After getting off the dragon bed, a eunuch immediately moved a bench and put it behind his buttocks, and another eunuch carefully laid a piece of cashmere, Yang Zheng sat down gently, and before he could speak, a Fengyujing man dried and combed his hair, while another eunuch trimmed his sideburns on the side, moving gently and slowly.

"Is it cool to be served by others?" Yang Zheng was secretly proud in his heart, and his eyes inadvertently fell on the chest of the palace on the left, at this time she was helping him to put on his regular clothes, which were round-necked robes, red (red), narrow sleeves in the early days, and gradually larger sleeves in the later period, and the shape was the same as the round neck of the regular clothes worn by the emperor. On the chest, back and left and right shoulders are decorated with four dragons, so it is called "Gon Dragon Robe", the two sides of the robe are slit, and there are double swings. The robe is usually worn with a guard and a sleeveless, half-sleeved or sleeveless, a white collar at the neckline, and a double hem on both sides of the body, lined with a round-necked robe. The leather belt is made of jade belt (belt version), and the blue (black) boots are made of leather, which is the most troublesome to wear, and the two palace ladies are not careless at all, and they are not aware at all, and a pair of hungry wolf-like eyes are staring at their daughter's chest and sweeping fiercely.

Yang Zheng glanced at it a few times, but didn't dare to look more, and when he smelled the faint fragrance passed by the two women, he didn't dare to look more, for fear that he, the fake prince, would be disobedient somewhere, revealing a hideous face, and scaring these two palace ladies who were like flowers and jade.

After about half a pillar of incense, I heard the two Gong E's breath each, and the Gong E on the left blushed, lowered her head and said, "Are they all dressed?" Yang Zheng nodded, for this kind of clothes to reach out and eat to open his mouth, he was said to be really uncomfortable, if it weren't for the fact that these two palace ladies were still pleasing to the eye, he really couldn't bear to sit down and wear any regular clothes.

The two palace ladies bowed and bowed, then retreated, making way for them.

Chen Wu immediately stepped forward, first made a big salute respectfully, and then said: "Your Highness, Lord Chen, the left concubine of Zuo Chunfang, has been waiting outside the palace for a long time?" ”

Yang Zheng's heart jumped, but his expression remained unchanged, and he waved his hand at those palace laves.

Gong E, the eunuch immediately bowed down and retreated, and in the huge dormitory, only Yang Zheng and Chen Wu were left.

Yang Zheng's expression immediately became nervous, and he lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness didn't say that I don't need to do things in this capital, what is this Zuo Chunfang Zuo Shuzi coming to me for?" ”

Chen Wu said: "The slave doesn't know, but when the slave passed by the hall just now, he saw a person waiting outside the door, and someone asked, only to know that it was Chen Shan, the left concubine of Zuo Chunfang, Lord Chen, it seems that there is something important to see His Highness?" “

Yang Zheng didn't know what kind of official this Zuo Chunfang Zuo Shuzi was, so he paused slightly, and said, "What kind of official position is Zuo Chunfang's Zuo Shuzi?" “

Chen Wu said: "Zuo Chunfang's Zuo Shuzi is a subordinate official of the prince, from the five-rank official position? ”

"It turned out to be the prince's secretary?" Yang Zheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Can you see it?" “

Chen Wu shook his head, His Royal Highness is not seen, but His Royal Highness Lord Chen must see it.

Yang Zheng said: "Why is this? ”

Chen Wu said: "This Lord Chen is Hongwu for 27 years, Dengjinshi, successively served as Shixing, Fenghua teaching, Yongle years, Chengzu was called in to participate in the compilation of the "Yongle Canon". Later, he was appointed as a minister, during which he was mourned by his parents, and he went to the election after the expiration of his filial piety, and he was to be appointed as the political envoy of Guangdong, and the emperor was specially appointed to stay in his old post and be in charge of six departments. Soon, teach the scriptures to His Highness! So——? “

"It turns out that His Highness's teacher? No wonder? Yang Zheng was surprised.

Chen Wu said: "If it is His Royal Highness's teacher, it is just a five-grade official position, and the prince can be dismissed, but this person is still the left servant of the household department!" In charge of the construction of Dabao'en Temple, the slave guessed, this Lord Chen is only afraid that he is here for this matter? “

"Teacher Katobe left waiter? Is it really not small? Yang Zheng said: "In this way, this Lord Chen must be very familiar with His Royal Highness?" ”

Chen Wu nodded and said, "Not bad!" “

Yang Zheng was silent, and he didn't know for a while whether he, the fake prince, should meet Chen Shan, in case the other party saw the clues, the Nanjing Palace was afraid that it would cause an uproar.

"Your Highness doesn't have to worry, although this Lord Chen is His Highness's teacher, he is a little unlearned, eager and ignorant, and is not pleased by His Highness, so he doesn't have much contact except for teaching the prince to read scriptures on weekdays, as long as His Highness deals with it carefully, he will definitely be able to hide from him?" Seeing Yang Zheng's worry, Chen Wu hurriedly comforted.

Yang Zheng nodded and said, "Thank you father-in-law for reminding me, do you know?" Will you let him wait in Lone's study? ”

Chen Wu answered and went immediately.

As soon as Chen Wu left, Yang Zheng immediately breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided!" I still don't believe that a household servant can tell the truth from the fake, and he hasn't trained his eyes! ”

In the study, a wisp of incense that seems to be there is rising in a large incense burner in the southeast, and the fragrance wafts in the study with the wind, and the faint fragrance immediately permeates the study.

Yang Zheng took a few breaths hard, felt the clarity of the fragrance, and said in his heart: "The life of this emperor's family is **, I'm afraid that this incense will cost dozens of taels of silver?" He muttered a few words in his heart and quickly walked into the study.

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The study is not as small as he imagined, much larger than he imagined, even larger than the imperial study seen yesterday, the real handwriting of Mi Fu is hung on the wall of the room, and there is even the calligraphy of Zhang Xu in cursive, which made him really dazzled.

Close to the direction of the left side of Mi Fu's real handiwork, there is a pineapple wood bookshelf, the bookshelf is full of dense wire-bound ancient books, it can be seen that Zhu Zhanji is indeed very hard-working, Yang Zheng stepped forward and glanced slightly, mostly poetry and songs, as well as governing classics, it can be seen that Zhu Zhanji has made a lot of efforts in governing the country and art, which also laid the foundation for him to become a great person in art and governance.

After a few glances, his eyes swept to the right, and on the right side was a large rosewood desk, on which were neatly placed lake pens, Hui ink, rice paper, Duan inkstone, and a few calligraphy and paintings that had not yet been completed.

Yang Zheng was watching with relish, when he heard a sound of footsteps outside the door, followed by Chen Wu's voice outside the door, and said, "Your Highness, Lord Chen wants to see?" ”

Yang Zheng immediately looked a little nervous, for fear that he would show the reins of the horse somewhere, and the other party would see the clue: "Damn, Lao Tzu has been plastic surgery like this, I don't believe you can see that I am an impostor?" I muttered to myself, glanced left and right, and saw that there was a pair of calligraphy and paintings on the desk, and the calligraphy and painting were copied by Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface", and my heart moved and immediately walked out, took out a lake pen, dyed it with ink, and wrote it silently on the calligraphy and painting.

I just wrote a "There are lofty mountains and mountains, lush forests and bamboos, and clear streams and turbulent ...... here? Then he heard the door and said: "Minister Chen Shan knocked to see His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose Chitose?" “

Yang Zheng immediately put down the lake pen in his hand, sat down on the Taishi chair with a piece of mink wool behind him, straightened his sitting posture slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Lord Chen doesn't have to be formal, get up and talk?" “

Chen Shan thanked him and stood up.

At this time, Yang Zheng took a closer look at the current prince's teacher, who was extremely tall, wide-faced, high-nosed, with long eyeliner, and a long beard under the chin, but also had a somewhat elegant temperament.

Yang Zheng nodded and asked casually, "What is the important matter of Lord Chen?" ”

Chen Shan kept his head down, and only after listening to the question did he raise his head, quickly glanced at Yang Zheng, and was slightly stunned.

Yang Zheng was shocked and said, "What's wrong with you, Lord Chen?" ”

Chen Shan was stunned for a moment, and only after listening to the voice did he come back to his senses, and hurriedly said, "Oh, it's okay, it's okay!" But he said in his heart: "When did this prince lose a little weight, isn't it that I am not here for a few days, it is too much toss——? ”

Yang Zheng didn't know what he was thinking, seeing that the other party's expression was wrong, his heart became more and more nervous, and he squinted at Chen Wu, seeing that he was not nervous, so he slowly relaxed his heart.

Fortunately, Chen Shan was only slightly stunned, and did not dwell on it at this time, bowed slightly, and said: "Your Highness, Weichen received the emperor's order as the head of the household department, and was in charge of the overall work of the household department. “

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Note: Official name. It is rumored that there are officials of "concubines" in ancient times. Zhou Li•; Xia Guan" has the official name "Zhuzi", the concubine of the princes and doctors. During the Warring States Period, the concubine was the minister of the king, the prince, the prince, the prince, the minister, and the county order, and had the names of the imperial concubine, the middle concubine, and the young concubine, also known as the gate court. Qin has a middle concubine and a concubine. The attendants of the Han prince have the prince's concubine and the prince's concubine, the former ranking is 400 stones, and the latter is 600 stones. Successive generations. The official of the Eastern Palace of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the middle concubine leads the door to the lower workshop, and the concubine leads the diandian bookstore. Sui Erfang is divided into left and right concubines. Tang is divided into left and right concubines. The prince of Song Li was placed from time to time, one and two were different, and he often led him as an official. Liao has left and right concubines. Kim is noncommittal. Yuan has a middle concubine. The Ming and Qing dynasties were left and right, and they were in the five grades, and they moved to the ladder as ministers, and they were not subordinate to the princes.

In the previous chapter, several readers asked questions about the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, and here is an explanation:

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty had a series of management systems, including the selection system, the discipline system, the reward system, and the sick and old funeral system.

Selection system. At that time, it was stipulated that anyone who voluntarily castrated to become a eunuch had to obtain prior approval from the government. The Ming Dynasty had stipulated that a family with more than four or five children, willing to castrate one of the children, by the relevant departments to register and make a register, to be selected on the day of acceptance, if castrated without permission, once discovered, the punishment will be severe, and the neighbors know but do not report, together with the crime. However, this provision has not been strictly followed. Judging from the actual situation of the recruitment of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the eunuchs who signed up and waited for them in accordance with the regulations, the imperial court also directly hired a large number of those who went to Beijing without signing up and sending them to the palace without registration. In the Ming Dynasty, the competent authority for the recruitment of eunuchs was the Ministry of Rites. However, with the continuous improvement of the status of the celebrant supervisor, the recruitment of eunuchs was gradually handled by the celebrant supervisor in conjunction with the Ministry of Rites, and the eunuch institution actually had considerable decision-making power.

Discipline system. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu clearly stipulated that "the temple people are only allowed to serve and sweep, and are not allowed to do political affairs". In addition, the Ming court also successively formulated some specific systems for the control and punishment of eunuchs. If a eunuch violates the law, he will be arrested and punished by the judiciary as usual. or go to the prison of the criminal department, or go to the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or go to the prison of Jinyi Guard, and the law department will discuss the crime. In order to punish eunuchs who violate the law abroad, the Ming court also deliberately emphasized the authority of "Yousi" to punish eunuchs who violate the law. The punishment methods for eunuchs who violate the law mainly include the death penalty, family membership, dismissal, dismissal, demotion, reprimand, cane, etc.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty gave eunuchs a reward system for silver vessels. In addition to being promoted to official positions, eunuchs are rewarded with gold and silver, galumi, edicts to avoid death, seals, encouragement, sacrifices, shrines, official titles conferred by parents, and knighthoods by younger brothers and nephews.

Sick and old funeral system. The eunuchs were old and sick, and most of them retreated to various temples inside and outside the capital to provide firewood and rice, winter clothes, and boots to enjoy their old age. During the eunuch's service in the inner court, if he was sick, he could go to Anle Hall for treatment, and after he recovered from his illness, he would take leave to continue to serve. If he dies of illness, the coffin will be given by the internal official supervisor, and the firewood will be incinerated by the Salary Division, and carried to the Jingle Hall for incineration. After the death of a eunuch with a higher status, he could be specially buried and built a stele pavilion to enjoy the hall.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch institution of the inner court began to be established. During the reign of Ming Taizu, the eunuch institutions and related officials changed frequently, the number of eunuchs continued to increase, and the related institutions gradually expanded. By the Hongwu period, the eunuch institutions and official settings of the Ming Dynasty had been basically customized. The eunuch institution of the Ming Dynasty was based on the "Twenty-four Yamen". The 24 yamen include 12 prisons, 4 divisions, and 8 bureaus. In addition to serving in the inner court, eunuchs can also serve as envoys on various foreign missions. According to the original regulations, these twenty-four yamen were mainly only departments that served around the emperor and served his life. But in fact, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty had developed into an extremely important political force, not only in charge of the general affairs of food and daily life in the court, but also in charge of important military and political affairs throughout the country.

The chief of the 24 yamen of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and the highest position in the entire eunuch system. The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Feng Bao, Wei Zhongxian, etc., were all eunuchs. There are three main functions and powers of the celebrant supervisor, one is to approve the reply and proclaim the decree, which is the most important authority of the celebrant supervisor; The second is to be in charge of eunuch affairs, and the celebrant is not only in the position of "first agency" in all eunuch institutions, but also in fact in the position of managing and directing other eunuch institutions; The third is to take into account other important official positions, some other important official positions in the eunuch system at that time, such as the commander of Dongchang and the garrison of Nanjing, were either exclusively led by the celebrant or sent by the celebrant to the outsider, which is also an important aspect of the power of the celebrant supervisor. The first function of the bronze medal of the imperial horse eunuch became the largest power possessed by the eunuch in history, and it was also the fundamental reason for the power of the celebrant in the Ming Dynasty.

The other eleven eunuchs are: the internal official supervisor (mainly in charge of the procurement of the utensils used by the emperor, such as screens, beds, tables and cabinets, etc.), the secretary of the prison (in charge of the book, the guard of honor, the fence, the curtain, the rain gear, etc.), the imperial horse supervisor (in charge of the inner palace and horse administration), the shrine supervisor (in charge of the temple and the temple of the sprinkling and incense lamps, etc.), the Shang food supervisor (in charge of the imperial diet, the palace food and banquets, etc.), the Shang Bao supervisor (in charge of the treasure seal, the edict, the general's seal), the seal and ribbon supervisor (in charge of the ancient and modern collection of libraries and iron coupons, edicts, yellow, seals, books, surveys, verifications, letters, etc), Zhidian Jian (in charge of the sprinkling and sweeping of the halls and corridors), Shangyi Jian (in charge of the emperor's crown, robes, boots and socks, etc.), Duzhi Jian (at first responsible for the transfer of the prisons, Guan Zhi, survey, etc., and later followed the emperor and was responsible for guiding the Qing Dao).

The four eunuch divisions are: the Salary Division (in charge of the firewood and charcoal used in the palace and the firewood and charcoal of the ministers in the 24 yamen, mountain tombs, etc.), the Bell and Drum Division (in charge of the emperor's bell and drumming and the performance of internal music, legends, brocade, rice and other miscellaneous plays), the Treasure Money Division (in charge of making thick and thin straw paper), and the Mixed Hall Division (in charge of bathing).

The eight bureaus of eunuchs are: the War Bureau (in charge of making weapons, including knives and guns, swords and halberds, whips and axes, armor, bows and arrows and other weapons), the Silver Bureau (responsible for creating gold and silver ornaments), the Huanyi Bureau (the bureau is the only eunuch institution in the 24 yamen that is not in the palace, the bureau is located in the west of Deshengmen, and is filled by the old and guilty retired palace people), the Scarf and Hat Bureau (in charge of the hat boots of the palace envoys, the crown boots of the horses and the hat boots of the flag captains of the country of the vassal king), the Needlework Bureau (responsible for making clothes in the palace), and the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau ( He is in charge of dyeing and making the palace and the application of satin silk and silk in the palace), the Wine and Vinegar Noodles Bureau (in charge of the palace's edible wine, vinegar, sugar, pulp, noodles, beans and other things), and the Siyuan Bureau (in charge of the affairs of vegetables, fruits and seeds in various parts of the palace).

It can be seen that the organizational structure and authority of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty have reached the highest point, and the authority has penetrated into all aspects of social life and court life, and the 24 yamen have greatly exceeded the scale of the eunuch organization before the Ming Dynasty, but the organizational structure of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty is by no means limited to these 24 yamen. In addition to the twenty-four yamen, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty also had quite a number of organizational structures. Such as the inner government supply warehouse, the key library, the internal carrier warehouse, the Guangying warehouse, the Guanghui warehouse, the Guangji warehouse, the imperial wine room, the imperial tea room, the livestock room, the carved leakage room, the drum room, the armor factory, the Forestry Department, the weaving and dyeing office, the Anle Hall, etc. The number of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty is not clearly recorded in the history books. But on the whole, with the passage of time, the government of the Ming Dynasty became more and more corrupt, and the number of eunuchs showed a sharp increase trend, from hundreds in the early Ming Dynasty to tens of thousands in the late Ming Dynasty (one says 70,000, one says more than 100,000).

For example, in the eleventh year of Zhengde (1516), more than 3,000 eunuchs were hired from the palace at one time, and more than 6,000 eunuchs were hired from the palace twice from the first year of Wanli to the sixth year of Wanli. The eunuchs of the past generations had little learning. The Ming Dynasty was no exception, for example, the eunuch Liu Jin was illiterate, and Wei Zhongxian didn't even know his own name. But there was an interesting phenomenon in the eunuch field of the Ming Dynasty: the Inner Study Hall was established during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, which is the eunuch school in today's terms. The eunuch school accommodated two or three hundred students under the age of ten, with the governor of the celebrant as the headmaster, and the senior being a respected elder, and invited the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy to teach the students. In the fourth year of Xuande (1429), Chen Shan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites with the title of primary scholar, served as a teacher. The textbooks studied by the students were "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Essays", "The Book of Filial Piety", "Four Books", "Thousand Family Poems", "Prodigy Poems" and so on. Grades are judged on the basis of memorization and the neatness of the font. Particularly poor grades and offences are registered by the teacher on the transcript and handed over to the Governor. Wang Zhen, the first eunuch in the Ming Dynasty to start dictatorship, came from the Inner Book Hall.