In the Wenhua Palace, Zuo Shu Sun Chengzong looked at the "homework" handed in by Zhu Youxiao, stroked his beard, and said with a smile:

"The penmanship of this "University" is strong, not bad, not bad."

After a while, he said to Xiao Gong'e who was standing aside: "You go back and tell the emperor and ask him to copy another copy that is different from this artistic conception for me." ”

Xiao Gong'e hadn't read much, so naturally she didn't understand it, so she nodded and ran back to Xinuan Pavilion.

After listening to her words, Zhu Youxiao's face was full of bitterness.

He really didn't expect that since he had become an emperor in later generations, he would have to "hand in his homework" every day.

What the hell is Sun Chengzong's so-called different artistic conception, I am obviously just copying it casually, how can there be any artistic conception...

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youxiao asked: "What about Wei Zhongxian, is he on duty as the celebrant supervisor?" ”

Xiao Gong'e nodded: "It should be there." ”

"Call him." As soon as Xiao Gong'e turned around, she heard Zhu Youxiao call behind her:

"Forget it, this guy doesn't know a few big characters, I'm afraid he can't write his name, so it's useless to call him."

"In this way, you go to Nanhaizi and tell Li Chaoqing and ask him to find the Jinyi guard to command Liu Qiao to enter the palace."

Xiao Gong'e was overjoyed in her heart, and hurriedly nodded and left the Qianqing Palace.

Not long after, Liu Qiao, who looked apprehensive, came.

On the way here, he was surprised and happy in his heart, the emperor hadn't summoned him for a long time, and this time he was suddenly summoned, was there any dissatisfaction.

Want to remove yourself from your position?

Or, if you are able to do things yourself, you want to be added to the ranks?

But no matter how he thought about it, he didn't feel that his Jinyi Wei was much more powerful than Wei Zhongxian's East Factory.

"Chen Jin Yiwei commanded Liu Qiao, see the emperor."

At this moment, Zhu Youzheng copied "University" repeatedly with a serious face, and from time to time he was slightly angry, crumpling a piece of white paper into a ball and throwing it to the ground.

"Come, take a look, how about this article?" Zhu Youxiao looked at him excitedly.

"Yes, the emperor wrote well." Liu Qiao looked confused.

Zhu Youxiao was dumbfounded: "It's over?" ”

"Your Majesty..."Liu Qiao scratched his head, and added: "The emperor is talented and intelligent, and the emperor's words are really, really admirable to the five bodies!" ”

"Alright, alright."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand stupidly, and the nature of Fang Cai was completely dissipated by this stiff touting.

"You come and copy it."

Liu Qiao's throat hardened, and he looked at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone brought by Xiao Gong'e, and he was also stunned and speechless for a long time.

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao took the words copied by Liu Qiao, sighed twice, and said to himself: "If Sun Chengzong knows, I'm afraid I will be angry enough." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Gong'e on the side snickered.

Liu Qiao's writing can only be described by dragon flying and phoenix dance, and even Zhu Youxiao feels that if Wei Zhongxian can write, it may be better than him.

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "Send this to the gentlemen in the side hall, and say that I wrote it." ”

"Liu Qiao, it's okay, you can go back."

Liu Qiao let out an "ah" and retreated step by step with trepidation.

"What is this—What is this?" In the Wenhua Palace, Sun Chengzong, who was holding this word, opened his mouth wide.

Yu's lecturers were so surprised when they saw him, and they thought that Zhu Youxiao had written something amazing, so they also came over one after another.

Not surprisingly, all of them were angry.

Sun Chengzong's face was pale and his lips trembled, the emperor's "Wild Grass" and Fang Cai's article did not seem to have been written by a person at all.

As for why Zhu Youxiao is so excited, it is not because at this moment, the harem is "choosing three".

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On the third day of December last year, the celebrant supervised the inscription of the Ministry of Rites, asking the new emperor to enrich the harem.

For such a constructive and good viewpoint, Zhu Youxiao will naturally not shirk.

So, from that day on, Li Shi, the celebrant and eunuch, got the emperor's order, and went to the north and south of Zhili, Lianghuai, Fengyang, Shandong, Shanxi, Fujian and other places to select folk beauties to enter the palace as a show, in order to prepare for the future.

The emperor is looking for a wife, and naturally there is a lot of movement.

Zhu Youxiao cared about it in his heart, but he couldn't urge Li Shi and the others who were the celebrant supervisors for this.

The biggest reason for this is that he didn't want to cause a butterfly effect because of his words, so he married a woman other than Zhang Yan in a daze.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao repaired the "Women's Training".

"All the sons of heaven, princes, concubines, and palace concubines are carefully selected for the daughters of good families, and those who enter are receiving, so the concubines and the people who are more talented later."

Zhu Yuanzhang made such a provision, of course, he learned the lesson of the pseudo-Yuan relatives' interference in politics, if the queen comes from a small family of jasper, her relatives will not enrich themselves and mess up the government.

Beginning in December last year, Li Shi, the celebrant and eunuch, "shouldered a heavy burden" and made covert inspections throughout the country.

By the beginning of February of the first year of the Apocalypse, Li Shi and others selected 5,000 beautiful girls, the youngest was thirteen years old, and the oldest was only sixteen years old.

This is only the first round of "auditions".

The 5,000 girls who were paid for by the royal treasury entered Beijing from all over the country in early February, and by March, they had all arrived in Beijing one after another.

Immediately after that, there is another "screening".

The celebrant and eunuch Li Shi and others would choose a relatively large inner courtyard and let the girls be sorted according to their age, and every hundred people would line up, and they would carefully inspect them one by one.

In this round, those who are slightly taller, shorter or slightly fatter and slightly thinner will be eliminated, and according to Concubine Liu, more than a thousand people will be eliminated.

The next day, following the previous day's order, the celebrants and eunuchs would carefully examine each girl's facial features, hair, skin, etc.

If one item is not met, you will be eliminated.

On the third day, the celebrant chooses a large courtyard and asks the girls to report their family numbers, names, ages, etc., and are secretly inspected by experienced palace people.

Those who are inarticulate and have poor manners will be rejected immediately.

In the past two days, at least more than 2,000 people have been screened out.

This is not the end, and the remaining nearly 1,000 people have to take another step to "select the fine".

On a certain day, the eunuchs would take a ruler and carefully measure the hands and feet of each girl, and then let them try to walk around.

The girls behaved a little misbehaps, and then they were defeated.

Within a few days, the 5,000 show girls who entered Beijing were screened several times, and only about 1,000 people were left at this time, and only these people were qualified to officially enter the palace.

Do you think that's the end of it?

, it's not that simple.

After the girls broke through four levels in a row, they just got the opportunity to enter the palace, they are not show girls yet, and their identity at this time is - palace maids.

Just like the little Gong'e next to Zhu Youxiao, she was also defeated after breaking through four levels in a row.

At this time, the "work" of the celebrant and eunuch was basically completed, and it was the turn of those old palace ladies to go out.

They led thousands of young girls to the secret rooms of the palace, "probing their breasts, sniffing their armpits, touching their textures, and inspecting their chastity." ”

If the girls' skin is not delicate and shiny, if there is a trace on their bodies, they will be quickly screened off under the "fiery eyes" of Lao Gong'e.

At this time, there were only 300 of the more than 1,000 girls who had just entered the palace, but this was not over.

Next, these three hundred maidens will stay in the palace for a month, during which time the old palace lady will observe them in detail.

During the month, the words and deeds of the girls will be recorded by the old palace ladies to judge whether they are gentle and generous, virtuous and virtuous.

As a result, 300 people were defeated and 250 people were elected, and the remaining 50 people would be willing to come and become the quasi-concubines of the Ming royal family.

After this level, there is a "choose three" link.

The so-called election of three means that the empress dowager or concubine selects three of the fifty new concubines from these fifty new concubines for the emperor's appoint.

On the second day of the fourth month of the first year of the Apocalypse, it was the third part of the election, and Concubine Liu, who held the seal of the Queen Mother, was naturally invited by Zhu Youxiao to preside over it.

Therefore, at this time, Zhu Youxiao lacked interest, so how could he have the heart to listen to the lectures of these old scholars.