Chapter Twenty-Nine: Mixed Sex is a Problem
"Lord Chen! The slave has seen Lord Chen! ”
"I've seen Lord Chen!"
"Alright, get up! Don't be so polite when you see me in the future! ”
"How can this be done, Childe, you are now a big official."
"What kind of official, what about Memphy?"
"I'm going to call it!"
Not long after, Meng Fei had already come out and asked Meng Fei to take care of this oil mill, first, Chen Fang was indeed lacking in skills, and he had to be busy with the Shang Food Bureau, and secondly, Meng Fei actually had a name.
Maybe it will be difficult for people in later generations to understand what happens to women with names, which is not a very normal thing, just like sugar is sweet and birds can fly.
But this is not a later generation, but an ancient era, the Tang Dynasty. It is the Tang Dynasty where the three outlines and five constants are prevalent, and the etiquette is prevalent.
In this era, women generally have no name, generally only surname, and no name, for example, your surname is Li, you are Li, your surname is Wang, you are Wang, you want to have the surname of Changsun, you are Changsun, and the queen of Taizong is generally called Empress Changsun or Empress Wende. Wende is obviously not a name either.
In the future, when a woman marries, the one who marries the surname Chen is Mrs. Chen, and the one who marries the surname Wang is Mrs. Wang. If you want to be forced, if you marry the surname Changsun, that is Mrs. Changsun, of course, Changsun is a Xianbei aristocratic surname.
Ahem, so Li Zhi has half of the Xianbei blood, and his mother is the eldest grandson queen.
If a woman wants a name in this era, it is generally a high-ranking official, a scholarly family, and a big family. As for the peach dingyu, it is not a name, it is a random name given by nobles, just a code name.
In this era, women are the appendages of men, and the husband as the wife in the Three Principles and Five Constants is not in vain.
So Memphy has a name, and apparently an official name, not a nickname or anything like that. Chen Fang knew that this woman must have been from a big family before, and her identity was extremely noble, because Chen Fang could feel that this woman must have been from a good background before.
Chen Fang didn't ask specifically, if she can come to this big family in the palace, there must be a tragic story, and if you can't tell it, it will make heaven and earth cry! If you can, don't ask.
Chen Fang couldn't do the thing of revealing people's scars and sprinkling salt on them.
At this time, Meng Fei stood in front of Chen Fang, and was about to bow down, but Chen Fang held his arm.
"In the future, these gifts will be exempted!"
"My lord, this is not going to work!"
"I said okay, Memphy, how are the oil mills these days?"
"After the adults left, a handyman brought in rapeseed twice, both of which had been squeezed, and a total of 120 catties of oil was produced. In addition to the food sent to the Food Bureau, the oil mill also has more than 40 catties of oil. ”
"It seems that the Double Ninth Banquet is used too much! Those princes and nobles are too good to eat. ”
"My lord, I heard from the eunuch who sent rapeseed that Niangniang has issued an order to let all localities buy rapeseed, and it should be shipped to Chang'an soon."
"Well, when the time comes, keep the accounts clear, and the accounts must not be messed up. The supply of rapeseed oil to the Shangshi Bureau must not be cut off, and it should be good this year and next year. ”
"Yes, sir!"
"There's one more thing I need you to do!"
"Your Excellency, please speak!"
"We need more people to help the oil mill, both men and women, and women want those who have been in the palace for more than a year, and the stronger the body, the better. Men need soldiers, not eunuchs, but must be strong and strong. ”
If you want to sin the courtiers and daughters, you don't want palace maids, but the palace maids are all delicate, and they can't do the work of the oil mill. As for the criminal courtiers and their dependents, they must stay in the palace for more than a year, because after a year, the hearts of these women have long been smoothed out by the fatigue of the palace, and they have been doing heavy work in the palace for a long time, and the work of the oil mill can also be adapted.
As for asking soldiers not eunuchs, Chen Fang really doesn't like eunuchs. And the eunuch didn't have much strength.
"My lord, these people are idle all day long, why do you need more people?"
"Just do what I say!"
"Yes, my lord, I don't know how many adults will want, and how these people will be settled after they come."
"Eight more women and six soldiers. After these people came, they were still placed in the Yeting Palace, and if the courtyard was not enough, they asked the female officials here for another one. ”
"Slaves obey!"
"Don't talk about slaves and maids in the future, you just say that Memphy obeys orders."
"My lord, but this..."
"You don't listen to what I say?"
"Memphy obeys!"
"Well, you have to remember that here, whatever I say is what I say! Just do what I say. ”
Chen Fang really doesn't want to listen to any slaves and maids obeying orders and the like, and he still can't adapt to this class society!
"My lord, there is one more thing, I want to report to my lord!"
"What do you say?"
"Now the men and women of the oil mill live in the same place, and they have a lot of things to do, for fear of causing some trouble."
Meng Fei didn't say it directly, but Chen Fang heard the meaning.
Originally, there was nothing for men and women to be together, after all, there were no minors here. It is impossible for Chen Fang to let a fourteen or fifteen-year-old palace maid come here to do things. But this is the Ting Palace.
Although it is not as strict as the Imperial Palace, if something happens here, the implication is also very powerful.
A disaster to the court, that will kill a lot of people, and Chen Fang, the actual ruler of the oil mill, will definitely be implicated at that time.
This is definitely a problem, these people are in the prime of life, dry firewood, too prone to accidents, belong to the high-risk group.
The soldier lived in the barracks for a long time, and according to the words of later generations, he was a soldier for three years, and the sow raced the sable. And those palace maids and sinners have also lived in the Yeting Palace for a long time, and the palace is empty, lonely and cold, which is definitely not as simple as saying it.
When two people live together, the probability of something happening is simply not too scary.
Just now he saw those boring workers flirting with healthy women. Twisting your ears is better than your ass, and that's not a good start.
Once something happens and is known to the people in the palace, then the matter can be big or small. It's okay not to pursue it, as long as it is investigated, Chen Fang doesn't dare to think about the result.
"Separate men and women, and have a courtyard, and the walls should not be opened. You take care of the daytime work, and at night they are not allowed to leave the courtyard where they live without permission. ”
"But even so, I'm afraid it's hard to completely block it!"
"Meng Fei, do this first, and I'll figure out how to do it later."
Leaving the Yeting Palace, Chen Fang was also thinking about how to deal with the coexistence of men and women in the oil mill.
In the strict inner palace, there will be no scandals, and even if it is strict, how can the affairs of men and women be blocked.
Relying on self-consciousness means that it is powerful. Chen Fang directly rejected this idea, there are some things, but there are many people who know that they can't do it.
Move the oil mill out of the palace, so that it is not subject to the rules of the palace.
The women used in the oil mill are all the daughters of criminal courtiers, which is equivalent to the female prisoners of later generations, and these people are not free in the first place. The men used were all transferred from the forbidden army, although their military positions had been erased from the palace, and they were completely separated from the army and transferred to the oil mill. The problem is that these people are still registered in the palace, and these people are inseparable from the palace.