On August 16 of the eighteenth year of Longzheng, two simple carriages drove into the Daming Palace in a very low-key manner and stopped in Yanqing Gate.

Baoqin jumped down from the carriage in front of him, turned around and helped Yuan Chun out again.

Yuan Chun looked back at the deep palace gate.

I'll be free to enter and leave the palace! She made up her mind in her heart.

During this time, she focused on understanding the court system of this dynasty. Whether it is a palace maid or a female official, once you enter the palace, you can be regarded as a concubine reserve. Before he was old and decrepit and was allowed to retire from the palace by "En", he couldn't leave this cage, even if he traveled with the emperor, it was also under heavy protection, and it was rare to have a moment of freedom.

Of course, being obedient and resigning herself has never been her style. She is a greedy person who not only wants to have a job with status and fulfillment in ancient society, but also wants to have a certain amount of freedom and not be confined under this palm-sized sky. Therefore, she will definitely fight for the right to enter and leave the palace freely for herself!

"Girl, go this way." Gonggong Yuan, who took her into the palace, came up to guide the way.

This Gonggong Yuan is the one Yuan Chun had seen in Rongguo Mansion before, and his real name is Yuan Weihou. Because he met Yuan Chun, he was sent by the queen to take Yuan Chun into the palace.

Yuan Chun smiled and thanked him, and walked forward without hurrying according to what Gonggong Yuan pointed out. Huqin trembled and followed behind, forcing his composure.

According to the system, female officials can bring two maids when they enter the palace, but Yuanchun only brought a girl holding the qin.

Although there are many girls around her, Yuan Chun feels that it is more appropriate to only hold the qin. If you bring other girls, I am afraid that they will give up their lives in vain in this Daming Palace and cause trouble for themselves. Yuan Chun also guessed: If Baoqin is also a person with a thin life, he will probably leave his name on the sub-book or sub-book of Jinling Twelve Hairpins in the too illusory realm.

"The emperor lives in Zichen Palace, and the queen lives in Yihe Palace. The girl first went to Yihe Palace to meet the queen, and when the emperor was free, she would summon the girl's ...... "Yuan Weihou walked all the way, all the way to Yuanchun to introduce: which palace is this, what is it or who lives there; and where does this road lead, etc. The attitude is very attentive.

Yuan Chun echoed the two sentences with a smile while carefully memorizing the map.

According to Yuan Weihou, the emperor's Zichen Palace is counted in the previous dynasty, so the queen's Yihe Palace is the largest palace in the harem, including a triple palace and a garden of considerable scale.

The front hall is the place where the queen receives the court, sets up the palace banquet, handles the palace affairs, and receives the concubines and wives, which is regarded as the queen's office area. The nave is the daily living place of the queen, which is considered the queen's private living area. The apse is the residence of the envoys of Yihe Palace.

When he arrived at Yihe Palace, he invited the little eunuch who guarded the door of Yihe Palace to report, and Yuan Weihou accompanied Yuan Chun to wait for the summons in the waiting hall of the front hall.

This waiting hall is located in the inverted seat room on the east side of the front hall, and it is the place where the women are called to wait for the summons during the festival, so there are many tables and chairs in the hall. There are six medium-sized round tables in the middle, each with a circle of drum stools around it. At the base of the four walls, there are benches along the walls.

Yuan Chun looked at the furnishings in the hall, and made up for the overcrowding situation here during the heavy festival, which was a little funny.

Not long after, a female official came out and led Yuan Chun and Yuan Weihou to meet the queen.

Yuan Chun looked at her clothes, and she was a Zhaorong from the fifth grade.

In the original work, the two female officials "Zhaorong" and "Cai Concubine", who had returned to the province with Yuanchun, both belonged to the Yingfeng Division of the Shangyi Bureau. Zhaorong is from the fifth grade, and the concubine is from the sixth grade. These two kinds of female officials have always only selected female officials with outstanding appearance and good etiquette to fill them, and they are specially responsible for etiquette and send-off, and they belong to the protocol staff.

The queen was not in the front hall, and the female official led Yuan Chun and Yuan Weihou into the middle courtyard with lush flowers and trees, and directly into the middle hall where the queen lived daily.

According to what Jia's mother taught, Yuan Chun walked into the main hall with his head half-hung and lowered his eyebrows, and made a formal audience to the queen.

"Get up!" A gentle voice with a slight smile came from the front, "Raise your head and let Hongu see!" ”

Yuan Chun stood up, raised his head slightly, and saw a middle-aged woman sitting on the phoenix chair in front of him. With a goose egg face, curved eyebrows, and smiling eyes, he looks very kind.

She knew that this was the current Empress Shen. Although Empress Shen is the step-queen, she is the old man of the emperor's mansion and has been with the emperor for nearly half a century. She has been favored all her life, and the biggest regret in her life is that she did not give birth to a son and a half daughter.

"It's a Peugeot kid!" Empress Shen praised it with a smile, and asked Yuan Chun what her name was, how old she was this year, and Yuan Chun answered them one by one.

Empress Shen said: "Tonight, you will stay in Yihe Palace for a while, and then hold the canonization ceremony tomorrow." The emperor means that a new medical bureau will be set up in the female official province, and you will be the chief doctor of this medical bureau, and the medicine of the Shang Food Bureau will also be distributed to you. In the future, you will be a fourth-grade female official, and you will be of the same grade as Shangfu, Shangshi, and Shangling. ”

Yuan Chun was slightly surprised. When Empress Wenxuan rectified the affairs of the harem □□ this dynasty, the responsibilities and grades of the provincial bureaus of female officials were reset.

The original six bureaus of the female official province were condensed into five bureaus: Shanggong, Shangyi, Shangfu, Shangshi, and Shangyu. Each bureau is no longer a parallel unit, but the Shanggong Bureau is in charge of the overall situation, and the Shanggong is the third product; Shangyi Bureau is in charge of etiquette to welcome and send, and Shangyi is from the three products; Shangfu, Shangshi, and Shangshu are parallel, and the first leaders are all from the four products.

In order to settle himself, the emperor specially set up a new medical bureau, which is definitely a big deal. As soon as you let yourself enter the palace, you are from the fourth grade, which can be regarded as generous, after all, when female officials enter the palace, they usually start from the female history of the sixth grade. In the entire female official province, there are only five people with a higher grade than her.

Yuan Chun hurriedly thanked the emperor and the queen for their trouble, and said, "...... Because there are two important medicinal materials that need to be cultivated, the emperor and the queen are also asked for permission to allocate a medicinal field to the courtiers. ”

Now that she has not been officially canonized, it is not good to call her "minister" directly, so she uses the title of "courtier". Although her father is still white, her grandfather is an important minister of the court, and it is not wrong for her to call herself a courtier.

"Can't you use ready-made herbs? Tai Hospital has a ready-made medicine storehouse. There will also be a medicine depot at the Medical Bureau. ”

Yuan Chun said: "These two flavors of medicinal materials are not recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and they will not be available in the Tai Hospital, so I am afraid that they need to be cultivated artificially." The courtiers had already drawn a pattern, and asked her grandfather to ask the herb picker for a large amount of money to buy live plants, and if she got it, she would need to cultivate it in the medicine garden. ”

Empress Shen said: "In this case, this palace will arrange it!" ”

asked Yuan Chun again: "I heard that you only brought one maid into the palace, why is this?" "When the palace concubine and the female official enter the palace, they can bring two personal maids, which is also one of the sources of palace maids.

The maid who has served since childhood, the master's temperament, temperament and habits are known, and there are family members who are pinched in the palm of the master's mother's family. When the master uses it, it is naturally both convenient and reassuring. Born like Yuan Chun, he has never brought only one maid when he entered the palace.

Yuan Chun smiled: "Although there are many girls in the family, there are few good ones. Bringing one in is just to let her know my temper habits. If you bring one more, I'm afraid that she will be too ugly and well-behaved, and she will be laughed at. ”

Empress Shen smiled: "You are modest!" Then he cried out, "Frost! ”

Next to her, a palace maid wearing the costume of an eight-rank envoy walked out of the queue: "The slave is here!" ”

If you don't count the emperor's concubines, there are four categories of female staff in the palace: female officials, palace maids, grandmothers and palace slaves. Among them, the palace maids are divided into five grades, the seventh-grade selection attendant, the seventh-grade regular attendant, the eighth-grade long envoy, the nineth-grade young envoy and the ungraded rough palace maid.

The selection of waiters is the highest rank of the palace maid, and she is the head of the palace maid in the queen's palace. The regular attendant is the chief palace maid around the concubines, concubines, and concubines. The chief envoy and the junior envoy either obeyed orders in the palace of the queen and high-ranking concubines, or became a small leader in various other places.

Since this palace maid named Ning Shuang is an envoy from the eighth grade, she is naturally the leader of Yuan Chun's side. When she first entered the court, she could only be regarded as a rough palace maid.

Empress Shen instructed: "From today onwards, you will wait for Doctor Jia Shang!" ”

"Yes!" The palace maid named Ning Shuang agreed, and immediately worshiped the new master: "Slave and maid Qiu Ning Shuang, meet your lord!" ”

"Get up! In the future, I will ask the autumn chief to bother a lot! ”

Qiu Ningshuang hurriedly said: "Don't dare! The adult is called the slave and the maid condensation. ”

The female official is a "minister", and the palace maid is a "slave", which is the most essential difference between a female official and a palace maid.

Empress Shen said: "From the four-rank female officials, according to the rules, there can be a chief envoy, a young envoy, two rough envoys and palace maids, as well as a steward eunuch, a attendant eunuch, and two rough eunuchs. Then Yuan Weihou asked for his own life and said, I am willing to serve you and be a steward eunuch for you, are you willing to reward him with this face? ”

Yuan Chunqi said: "With Yuan's rank and position, it's too aggrieved to serve me, right?" ”

How good is it to be a herald eunuch? Oily and decent. To serve by the side of a fourth-grade female official like myself, not to mention the hard work, there is no benefit to be gained!

Empress Shen smiled: "He just sees that you have a bright future, so let's burn a cold stove first, and when you are developed, he will be hot." ”

Yuan Chun doesn't care: "If he wants to come, come here!" ”

When she first entered the court, Yuan Weihou was an acquaintance. As for character, loyalty, etc., let's take a look at it slowly!