Before summoning Jia Min into the palace to discuss whether Daiyu would enter the Tai Hospital to study medicine, Yuan Chun first had to deal with the selection of palace maids.

According to the usual practice, the selection of palace maids is based on the needs of the palace, and every three years from the prefectures and counties near the capital, one or several places are selected from the prefectures and counties near the capital, and women from 12 to 17 years old with innocent family background and dignified appearance are recruited to serve in the palace. This method of selection has a little bit of a beauty pageant, but it is mainly a selection method for girls. The reason why it is only selected near the capital is to eliminate the communication barrier caused by the accent problem. In these years, few people at the bottom deliberately learned official language.

In previous years, he was in charge of beauty pageants in various places - no, the person who chose the palace maid was a person from the Internal Affairs Office.

But this year, because the purpose of recruiting palace maids is completely different from the past, Yuan Chun also wants to limit the authority of the Internal Affairs Office, lest the power of those slaves expand too much, and they will be lawless, difficult to clean up, and a big bully in the future! Therefore, she planned to send the female officials in the palace as the main and the eunuchs as the auxiliary, to preside over the recruitment of palace maids. And the female official who is specifically responsible for this matter is the most suitable for Shangyi Chi Congyin of the Shangyi Bureau, who is exquisite, flexible, and has a wide range of contacts.

After Chi Congyin heard Yuan Chun's order, she was very surprised: "Niangniang, there is no precedent for this matter!" ”

"That shrine has set this precedent today!" Yuan Chun said lightly.

Chi Congyin was stunned for a moment, and said with a little hesitation: "If the Internal Affairs Office knows about this, I'm afraid it will be...... I'm afraid it's going to be rippling. After thinking about it for a while, he said more implicitly, "If we make trouble in front of the emperor and disturb the emperor, wouldn't it seem that we can't worry about the king?" ”

The implication of her words is: You are so willful, does your husband know?

Yuan Chun naturally understood what she meant, and smiled slightly: "Chi Shangyi doesn't have to worry. This palace has already informed the emperor of this matter, and the emperor has agreed! "Don't worry! My old justice is ready to clean up the gang of slaves in the Internal Affairs Office! I'm afraid they won't make trouble.

Chi Congyin breathed a sigh of relief: what she was most afraid of was that the queen would make decisions without permission, and finally make a fuss that caused the emperor to be dissatisfied. This little thing, the emperor will naturally not do anything to the queen's mother, but those of them who do specific things may carry the black pot on their backs.

"That'...... What if someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs gets in the way? Chi Congyin was still a little uneasy.

Yuan Chun smiled and said: "This year's selection of palace maids, the emperor will also issue an edict, you hold the edict, no one can clearly obstruct you." Secondly, there will be guards to escort you, and there must be few people who have the courage and necessity to intercept and kill you. As for the rest, it's up to you to figure it out on your own! This palace believes: Chi Shangyi will not let me down! ”

She has already said this, and Chi Congyin can't shirk it anymore, otherwise she won't know how to lift.

"Yes! Wechen obeys! Chi Congyin had no choice but to bow down and ask diligently, "May I ask Niangniang, is this year's selection of palace maids still according to the usual standards of previous years?" Does the mother have any special instructions? ”

For example: Let me weed out all those vixens and suspected vixens?!

Yuan Chun smiled and said, "This is not in a hurry!" This year's selection of palace maids will be very different from previous years, and the specific criteria will be given to you together with the edict. ”

"Yes!" Chi Congyin didn't ask any more, and she didn't think there would be much change in her heart.

But when she received the official edict and the specific criteria for recruiting palace maids, she was completely dumbfounded.

This, this, this...... That's too much of a change, isn't it?!

One of them: In previous years, the selection of palace maids was considered a forced recruitment. In the area where people are selected, civil marriage is stopped, and then all eligible unmarried women are among the candidates. But this year, the edict said that the people kept marrying, and whether they should be chosen was all voluntary. Although this is a moral policy, Chi Congyin is very skeptical, will there be people with good qualifications to apply for the election?

Of course, there will definitely be some poor people who don't love their daughters and stuff people into it. But what good embryos can such people have?! If the people who are elected to the palace at that time are all sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, trivial and trivial, and full of petty family spirit, how can she, the person in charge, explain? !

Second: In previous years, the palace maids were all selected from good families with clean family backgrounds, that is, daughters from non-doctoral, non-witch, non-business, and non-hundred workers' families. But this year, the edict said that as long as the origin is clear, the daughters of doctors, businessmen, and hundreds of workers can also be selected!

This...... Will you be impeached by those imperial histories?!

Third: In previous years, the selection of palace maids was from twelve to seventeen years old. But this year, the age range for the selection of palace maids has been greatly reduced, to six to nine years old. He also said that if you meet a child with particularly good qualifications, you can relax the age by one year, that is: the actual age range is five to ten years old.

Such a young child, don't think about it in three or five years, what do you choose to do? Could it be that the queen thinks that there is only one little prince in the palace, too lonely, and wants to find some playmates for the little prince? Or does the queen have too much money and have nowhere to go, and she wants to help people raise children for nothing?!

Fourth: In previous years, the selection of palace maids required dignified appearance. This is the proper righteousness, the palace is in the palace, dangling in front of the nobles every day, if it looks too cold, it will be an eyesore, right? But this year, the requirements for the selection of palace maids are: as long as there is no disease or disability, it doesn't matter if you are tall or short, fat or thin, beautiful or ugly, only smart and clever women are selected! Even in order to select such a woman, several sets of exam questions were designed!

Regarding the criterion of "only choosing smart and clever women", Chi Congyin wondered: Hasn't loyalty been the first element in the selection of maids? The queen chooses so many smart and clever women, aren't you afraid that there are a few fox spirits hidden in it?

As the saying goes, women change eighteen times, some women are not good-looking when they are young, but they will be beautiful when they grow up; And vice versa. What if a smart and clever palace maid grew up with a peugeot face and seduced the emperor? Although the emperor has never had a concubine because of his fate, it is difficult to guarantee that when the emperor meets a lovely person in the future, he will not have the idea of "peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic".

She didn't quite understand the queen's intention to formulate such a selection standard, so she took the standard, sincerely "asked" the queen's mother, and briefly described her worries more tactfully.

Yuan Chun didn't bother to explain too much to her, so he only smiled and said: "These problems have been considered by this palace, Chi Shangyi doesn't have to worry, just follow this selection!" ”

This "palace girls' school", which cannot even be officially declared by name, is too valuable an educational resource, and only those women with high IQ can be selected for education first, and those women with mediocre qualifications cannot be allowed to waste resources.

When Chi Congyin saw her say this, she didn't bother to worry about it anymore!

She cleaned up, took several female officials, palace maids, and eunuchs, escorted by hundreds of guards, and went out of the palace to recruit new palace maids.

The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs have already received the news that there has been a change in the election of palace maids this year, but they have always been lucky. When the official edict came down, and sure enough, the female officials of the inner court were sent to conduct the selection of palace maids, and they couldn't sit still.

The wife of the head of the Internal Affairs Office was assigned by her own lord to enter the palace to ask Yuan Chun for peace, and asked half-seriously and half-jokingly: "In this year's palace maid selection, my mother ordered Chi Shangyi, and my lord is still a little worried!" I'm afraid that Chi Shangyi has no experience and delays the errand. Speaking of which, this errand was returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in previous years, why did the rules change this year? Could it be that the people in the Internal Affairs Office are not doing a good job and making the mother angry? ”

Yuan Chun smiled: "The Internal Affairs Office has been busy in the past two years!" Now that they are a little more relaxed, I will give them a vacation and let them rest for a while, which is also sympathetic to their kindness. The selection of palace maids is just a trivial matter, so why bother with them? Just leave it to the female court official to do it! There are fewer things to do in the Internal Affairs Office, and it can also concentrate manpower and get the bathroom of Yihe Palace done earlier. ”

When the wife of the head of the Internal Affairs Office heard this, she thought she understood.

When she got home, she said to her husband: "Niangniang must have thought that the Internal Affairs Office was procrastinating in getting a bathroom, so she wanted to teach the Internal Affairs Office a lesson." In other words, how do you get the bathroom? I heard that I want to make a large pool in the ear room on the side of the main house and dig many holes in the wall, will it break the feng shui? ”

The head of the Internal Affairs Office listened to his wife's words and was silent, still unsteady in his heart. He always felt that the matter of recruiting palace maids was suddenly transferred from the Internal Affairs Office to the female officials of the Inner Court, and the reason would not be as simple as the queen said.

Recently, the emperor also seems to be a little dissatisfied with the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

He was very irritable in his heart: this pair of emperors and queens are acting too bizarrely! It always made him feel uncomfortable. He has repeatedly discussed with several henchmen, wanting to sow discord between the emperor and the queen, but it seems that he has no way to start - because the emperor has no other concubines, the methods they are familiar with cannot be used, and new methods have not been developed for the time being. picked two things and tried them, but the fist that came out was like hitting cotton, so that he couldn't figure out the reality of the emperor.

He thought to himself: Why don't you just take advantage of the opportunity to renovate the Yihe Palace, get two not so good feng shui arrays, and fight back?! But the queen is a person who meets immortals, and she is a disciple of immortals! Wouldn't it be too risky to do that?!

Yuan Chun didn't know what the people in the Internal Affairs Office were thinking.

After the team to recruit new palace maids set off, she summoned Jia Min into the palace and asked her to discuss with Daiyu: whether Daiyu is allowed to obtain a medical qualification certificate, and whether she is allowed to officially enter the Tai Hospital to study medicine.

Yuan Chun did not participate in the discussion between their mother and daughter, and when they finished discussing and came to see him, Yuan Chun found that although they had all washed their faces again, it could be seen from their red eyes that they had all cried fiercely.

Jia Min solemnly saluted to Yuan Chun: "Niangniang, please allow Daiyu to study in Tai Hospital!" ”

Yuan Chun didn't promise her directly, but turned his head and asked Daiyu: "Have you thought about it?" ”

Daiyu knelt down directly: "Niangniang, the minister has already thought about it!" The worst result of this matter is that the minister stays in the palace and never marries! Aren't they all like this with so many senior female officials in the palace? They can, and so can Daiyu! Although Daiyu is not talented, since she chose to practice medicine, she is unwilling to give up halfway, and has wasted her many years. If Niangniang doesn't believe it, Daiyu is willing to make a poisonous oath......"

"Don't!" Yuan Chun hurriedly stopped her, "I believe in you!" You don't have to swear any poisonous oaths. Daiyu, remember: you can make up your mind to do something, and prepare for the worst, but you don't have to make vows lightly. It's easy to block your future retreat! Get up! ”

She thought to herself: If I had blocked my abdication back then, would I still have such a fate with Shui Xiao today? Therefore, it is better to be a man and leave a line!

"Yes!" Daiyu stood up.

Jia Min listened to Yuan Chun's words, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: It's good to have a way out!

She accompanied her smiling face and said to Yuan Chun: "Niangniang, Daiyu and Xu Nushi will inevitably call each other those men when they go to take the medical qualification examination and enter the Tai Hospital to study. If the daughter's name is called at will, there is something wrong after all. I wonder if Niangniang can follow the example of the Emperor Taishang and give them an alias? In this way, it is easier for them to be addressed by others. In addition, Niangniang's official uniform of a first-class doctor, with a mask, hat and gloves, was very thoughtful. Of course, Daiyu didn't dare to trespass, but they ...... Can you give them a uniform with a mask, a hood, and gloves so they can walk outside?! ”

Yuan Chun listened to Jia Min's words, and felt a little embarrassed in his heart: Do you really want to wrap the women who walk out of the house so tightly? Will they follow the path of Arab women?

After thinking about it for a while, she decided to make a little concession for the time being: be stricter! Let the women go out of the house first.

"What my aunt said is very true! When it comes to clothes, I'll call the Shangfu Bureau to handle it when I turn around. She thought to herself: Why don't you give all the female officials in the palace a set of such uniforms, and then give them more opportunities to go out of the palace to do errands?

"As for aliases...... Feiying is called Yunze, Xu Yunze. Yuan Chun smiled slightly, "Daiyu's alias can be called Xiao 'Xiang...... Lin Xiao'Xiang! ”

That's nice! Lin Xiao's name Xiang is so familiar and so kind!