'Lonely ancient palace, palace flowers are lonely and red', you can imagine how many grieving white-headed palace maids there are in the palace, and there are even more attendants who have been working until death. The dismissal of the over-age palace attendants is planned to be carried out in three steps. One is to clarify the current situation, how to start sorting out the palace register, checking the personnel, avoiding impersonation or inconsistency in the person register, how much is the budget for severance expenses, whether it is enough for them to live, and a series of issues; The second step is to draw the road, how to send the palace attendants back to the age, what to do if the over-aged people have nowhere to go out of the palace, and how to deal with those who don't want to go out of the palace or have other ideas; The third step is to set the rules in the future, from selection to dispatch.

Among them, the situation of the palace maid and the chamberlain should also be treated separately.

The palace maid is relatively simple, there are many ways out after leaving the palace, there is a family to go home, and the big family will also invite to be a female teacher, or the Shang Palace Bureau, Si Zhen Division has a skill person can go to the embroidery village, cloth village, silver building, jade shop and other places to make an offering, and then let the government find the official media to marry a man who lost his wife, or set up a female household to make a living by herself.

Waiters generally have no home or can not go home, they have obvious characteristics, most of them can only serve people, have no real skills, and can only go to the good hall and relatives to adopt a stepchild to take care of themselves. Is it possible to compare Dingfuzhuang and Zhongguancun in Beijing in the previous life, and build special settlements and burial places for them? Although it is also a state of 'self-isolation' after settlement, it is easier to live. She remembered that Li Lianying deliberately built a bathhouse to solve the embarrassment that eunuchs did not have to bathe frankly with normal people.

To tell the truth, if the inner servant has no relatives, it is better to retire in the palace.

She also plans to repair and tidy up the palace and the Hongwen Pavilion, and in the future, the Hongwen Pavilion will be dedicated to the residence and study of the prince, clan relatives and companions, and the palace school will be changed to 'Quenyu Pavilion', and the girls under the age of ten will be a school. A row of inverted seats between Chongwenkan, Hongwenkan and the moat can be used as a 'Qinwentang', allowing the palace maids and chamberlains to read and learn some skills. She has already made the entire budget, and the Emperor Hongwenguan allowed it to be rebuilt first, and it is estimated that the eighth prince and the ninth prince will be moved over after the construction is completed, and the palace will be vacated to start repairing. When the women's school in the capital is also completed, the old palace maid can go to be a husband, and the old maid who is unwilling to leave the palace will teach in Qinwentang.

Even the chamberlain will have a chance to produce characters like Zheng He and Cai Lun, right?

The palace maid investigated the current situation and handed it over to Mama Xie, and asked Gan Tang to pick a few female guards to cooperate with her in dealing with Wanshang Palace. She was very concerned about the affairs of the chamberlain, and specially asked Ming Ting to invite Ming Fang and Ming Xiu to discuss. She wanted to enclose a piece of land in the eastern suburbs outside the city called 'Dingfuzhuang' and give the palace attendants to live, but she didn't have much idea of their future livelihood, and she needed to seek advice from Mingfang. In addition, the cemetery is also called 'Zhongguan Tomb' for the inner servants, and a 'Baozhong Temple' is built next to it to worship Maitreya Buddha, which is regarded as asking for their next life. Of course, I didn't forget to find another piece of feng shui treasure to build the 'Palace Maiden Temple'.

Ming Ting was very excited when he went to invite someone, and after hearing this, Ming Fang and Ming Xiu got up one after another to give her a big salute, bluffing Gu Ci.

These are not worth mentioning for the big chamberlains with heads and faces, many of them have a house outside, wives and children, and the aftermath is also arranged decently, but for ordinary small chamberlains, it is a rare and valuable act of kindness. Gu Ci was very embarrassed, her original intention was really just that she didn't want to pardon criminals or people who were exiled to the border like her predecessor Chang Ningbo, and she didn't want to see the coffin face of Wanshang Palace in the future, so she came up with this method.

The specific plan and plan Ming Fang and Ming Xiu took over, before leaving, just reminded her that she might be attacked for 'buying people's hearts', Gu Ci thanked them, and turned back to let Ming Ting watch the door, especially the corner door of the clean car, the key was returned to the key control, no longer put it in the hands of the little waiter, make a record of the collection, and only take it to open the door at the point, and return it within a quarter of an hour afterwards, if it is overdue, if the explanation is not clear, change people immediately.

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There are no secrets in the palace, and Gu Ci's proposal spread throughout the palace almost that afternoon, and many palace maids and chamberlains wept. There are not no people who are angry and corrupt, and all kinds of rumors about the crown princess 'not being satisfied with the love of the house and taking power', 'the city must have a plot for the public', and 'buying people's hearts and eliminating dissidents' suddenly became like a spark.

Many people took the rumors seriously and waited for the princess to bargain with them. But when the excerpts were put on the emperor's desk, seeing that the queen mother was about to issue an edict to be implemented, I didn't see anyone in the East Palace come to contact them. I really want to buy people's hearts, and my attitude is so inactive, so that people who want to be bought are kind!

Looking back at the East Palace, the female guards are all upright and not smiling or squinting when they are on duty, and the Wurate Mansion is stimulated by them, and they also follow the example of the shelf, except for a few slippery waiters in the concierge and the amiable Gantang Mama next to the crown princess, there is no palace attendant who loves to chatter in the entire East Palace!

On weekdays, I want to meet the princess to show loyalty or make a statement, and the maid next to me said, "I'm sorry, you didn't have an appointment today" and threw it over. There's nowhere to put your mouth at all!

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Seeing that there are still a few days to enter the wax moon, the emperor received the report of the two small victories of Beiguan and Yangguan early in the morning, and he was in an extremely comfortable mood, and after lunch, he picked up the princess's recital and read it carefully. After repeated torture by her appreciation level of Xiao Lu, Zhan Shi no longer dared to do flowery official articles, completely straightforward and concise, there was something to say, it seemed that the outline was very clear, and the matter was explained in just a few pages, and the attachment was opened, and a complete table report listed the cost, number of people, measures, as well as remedies and alternatives.

The emperor rarely showed a smile and summoned her to play the right game. Seeing the little girl answer the question seriously and seriously, the emperor felt that he was in a better mood today.

"Someone impeached you for 'favoring the public and buying people's hearts', do you want to defend yourself again?"

Gu Ci was stunned, she had only been in office for less than half a year, and she actually enjoyed impeachment treatment?

"No, anyway, after doing this, even if someone is bought, they will all be released from the palace, just like if they didn't buy it." Then she peeked suspiciously at the emperor, and continued to straighten her face and ask the emperor to correct her plan.

The emperor also beckoned her to sit down beside her, as she did when she was a child, "What did you think with those little eyes just now?" ”

Gu Ci choked, stammering and speechless.

"Speak quickly, be honest, and I'll approve your excerpt."

“…… I just think that you have to watch even this kind of brainless excerpt, it's too much of a waste of your precious time! Gu Ci had no choice but to complain quietly.

"Hahaha." The emperor was obviously in a happier mood, "After the New Year, let Wanqing go and give you a hand." ”

“…… There is no basis for words! ”

The emperor glared at her and made a clear decree.

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It is said that the newly appointed four concubines are "reluctant" to work the crown princess, and collectively invite Ying to organize a New Year's Day banquet and a New Year's family banquet. It is said that the four concubines tore each other apart in order to 'hold a good feast'.

Gu Ci was happy, she went to the Queen Mother's COS doll every day to let her old man and Yuyi have a good time, teased her little nephew, went back to the East Palace and asked Gan Ming to lead the female guards to calculate the annual account of the silver, and then stuffed the master and the little brother to Zhan Shifu to read the report for her, and then she herself was responsible for writing love letters to her husband.

The palace maids and attendants attach great importance to this year, because many people will be able to leave the palace next year! Leave contact information with each other, farewell gifts or discuss walking together, and the harem is unprecedentedly lively. Seeing that the imperial court is also going to have a holiday, the emperor made a decree before the seal, this year's palace banquet for the female dependents will be held in the Fengxian Palace, the crown princess will preside, and the male guests will still be in the Chongxi Palace.

When the concubines of the coolies unanimously felt that their faces were very swollen, they had to salute this stinky milk doll in public!

After the two feasts, the princess, who was a year older and more beautiful and glamorous, was more in the limelight, and the banquet held by the four concubines was obviously not as good as the three days of Shengshou, and all kinds of small problems emerged one after another, and even made people feel that they were taking advantage of the fact that the palace attendants had not yet gone out, but they were calling hard, and people who were passive and slacking off abounded.

inadvertently treated the fourth concubine as a monster AOE to brush up on prestige, Gu Ci said that he was very innocent, and the opponent's grade was too low, so he didn't feel it at all.

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After the Shangyuan Festival alone, the crown princess is about to dismiss the palace attendants.

She first found the secretary of the Shanggong Provincial Shanggong Bureau and the secretary of the Inner Servant Provincial Palace Bureau, and asked for the list of palace maids and internal servants, and threw it aside after a glance, took out a form without a trace of fireworks, and said to the two gently, "I am tired of the two of you according to this form, remake a list, and hand it in ten days." ”

"It's time for the day to ......," the clerk hesitated.

"I'll give you fifty female guards."

The two gritted their teeth and responded, and immediately began to re-register the palace attendants one palace after another with fifty people. Fortunately, Gu Ci was very prescient and let Danqing Pavilion print a lot of forms, and the female guards were able to write and calculate well, and they did things neatly, and ten days later, the two divisions were smoothly handed over.

Gu Ci was very satisfied, "It's not difficult at all, right?" Please also ask both of you to be so efficient in the future. ”

After getting the roster, the female guard copied five copies, and at the same time, under the leadership of Mama Xie, selected those who met the conditions for leaving the palace. After dividing them, Gu Ci asked them to count the remaining people separately according to the palace division, and invited Wanshang Palace and Mu to consult them about what needed to be replenished or could be transferred. This time, Wanshang Palace, which was preparing to leave the palace to reunite with his family, was very cooperative, and this part was also solved smoothly. She now has a very clear idea of how many people are needed in each place, and the palace attendants are only overstaffed, and there will never be a situation where there are not enough people to do it.

It's all thanks to so many concubines of Gaozong!

Therefore, she was relieved and bold to move all the palace attendants who could leave from their original places. Originally, the selected location for moving the palace was the three palaces of Chuxiu, Yonghe and Changchun in the South Eighteen Palaces, but the Queen Mother felt that the place was too small to toss, so she generously lent out the three palaces of longevity, happiness and longevity. Gu Ci sent out all the female guards, in groups of three, to go to the palace from palace to roster, interrogate, and verify, and it took seven or eight days to move all the palace maids to the two palaces of longevity and happiness, and there were a little fewer attendants, all of whom were in Fushou Palace. For the sake of safety, each palace sent thirty female guards to guard the vital places.

The Queen Mother didn't plan to send these people out immediately, in the name of accompanying herself, she wanted these people to stay in it for three months, and said, 'Let these old people who have worked in the palace all their lives last accompany me, an old woman, for a few days'. Gu Ci didn't know why at first, but the next day, a guard from the Shoufu Palace came to report that someone had secretly left a note to report that someone in the palace maid had impersonated, and she suddenly realized the queen mother's foresight.

Mentioning the person who replaced him, Gu Ci ran to the Queen Mother's sycophant, and the Queen Mother laughed happily, "Where is this, you wait and see." ”

After another half a month, all kinds of rumors began to spread in the third house.

It is said that Queen Xiao kept staring at Concubine Lin De when she was breathing, and she didn't blink an eye.

The queen concubine in the palace is favored but not easy to get pregnant, it is Chen Shufei who gave the emperor medicine, and Chen Shufei, who loves to grow flowers, is very familiar with the medicine of the Western Regions and Tianzhu, and the imperial doctor can't solve it at all.

The former concubine Du Xian, Du Cairen, had an affair with the half-brother who was better than his own brother.

Liang Shuyuan, the biological mother of the seventh princess, and Liang Shuyi, the former Liang 'good concubine', are actually sisters of the same race. Now it is really higher than Liang Shuyi's position, so the Liang family of Xiuning Hou is so unlucky, and Liang Shuyuan has not put in much effort.

The biological mother of the eighth princess, Yu Zhaohua, is a courtesan in the teaching workshop, not a perfect body, because the side face is like Queen Xiao, she was secretly sent to the palace by someone across the world, it is said that the person who bought her ** is an old man, so she can pass the physical examination.

The reason why the second prince and the fifth prince died violently was because they wanted to poison the crown prince, but they were secretly replaced, and instead drank all the poison themselves, and they couldn't save it at all.

The third prince's body had already been ruined by the rejuvenating medicine, and it was the eldest prince who hooked him to the teaching workshop to mess around, so he contracted this problem, and it was not possible to do it without medicine.

And so on and so forth.

Gu Ci was dazed by all kinds of rumors that could not be distinguished from falsehood, and listened to Chamomile's report one by one, and he didn't slow down for a long time.

Of course, there are still dry goods in it, for example, a palace maid said that Wei Zi and Chen Shufei of Cining Palace were actually from the same place in the past, and their news exchange was also very special, and they passed on the message through a flower in the small garden in the northwest corner of Cining Palace. The little waiter who watered the flowers would tell Chen Shufei how many flowers there were in Cining Palace every day, what they looked like, and in what direction, and Chen Shufei knew what Wei Zi meant, which was very magical.

After a few days, Gu Ci, who was tickled everywhere by curiosity, couldn't help but beg the Queen Mother to watch in Cining Palace. The energetic Queen Mother was happy to let her go and let her go to see the flower. She ran to that legendary and mysterious corner, and saw a cluster of red flowers, burning like peach blossoms, green leaves like willows and bamboo, corolla dyed pink to crimson, the fragrance was extremely special, and she couldn't help but be surprised, "What's the name of this flower?" ”

"The registration of the Si Nong Office is 'geranium flower'."

Mouth beard! This tree is obviously an oleander! Geranium flowers are clustered one by one, not one by one, and geraniums are subshrubs and very short! Where could it be taller than her!

Gu Ci looked at the flower in a tangled way, turned his head and ran to the Queen Mother to whisper, "Grandmother, there may be something wrong with that flower." ”

"Oh? How so? After many years, I didn't see anything. ”

"Uh, I have a smart nose, there is really something wrong with that flower, otherwise I will get it out and let Master see it?"

"Okay, just say I don't like it, dig up the tree and give it to Yu Ze. I'll check the rest, and you don't care. ”

Gu Ci didn't dare to call Si Nong's people to come, so he asked Ming Ting to find a few chamberlains, cover his mouth and nose, and dig up the tree at night without hurting the roots, stems, branches and leaves, and let Xiao Lu take it to Tiemei Temple for study. She only remembered that the whole oleander plant was highly poisonous, but as long as it was not eaten in the stomach, it would not be life-threatening, the fragrance of flowers could make people sleepy, and the medicinal value was cardiotonic and diuretic, and I didn't know anything else. After telling her master about this and letting him engage in scientific research, she was not nervous anymore, and she was so happy to see the rumors of the third palace as a joke.

In private, Ming Ting, Gantang, and Chamomile checked the East Palace to the side, and made sure that there were no such flowers, so they wrote a letter to the prince to report with confidence.