Nanjing Chongli Street, Department of Ceremonies.

In the vast compound, 5,000 beautiful girls stood in a neat formation like a military formation.

These show girls are all sixteen or seventeen years old, with graceful figures, good faces, and they all hang their heads and stand quietly.

They are carefully selected from all provinces across the country, at this time, according to their age, every 100 people are lined up in a row, a total of 50 rows, and they stand in a unified manner.

A team of eunuchs of the official supervisors stepped into the formation, checked the images of the show girls one by one, and eliminated those who were tall, short, fat, thin, and over-standard.

Xu Chenyun's age belongs to the largest category, standing at the back, she has never been so panicked as she is today.

"You, out of the ranks!"

An old eunuch with a serious face walked over slowly, walked past Xu Chenyun, and pointed to a show girl beside her with Buddha dust.

The show girl had a beautiful face and looked like she was also the color of the country, but she was brushed off in the first round due to her height.

The standard for choosing a concubine in the Ming Dynasty is basically limited to about one meter six three, although this show girl is beautiful, but unfortunately, it is only one meter and a half.

"You, out of the ranks!"

Soon, another slightly taller show girl was eliminated.

"You, out of the ranks!"

......

After the first round of screening, the slightly taller, shorter, slightly fatter, slightly thinner, and poor image show girls were all eliminated, about 1,000 people.

Then, the remaining 4,000 show girls were rearranged and accepted for the second round of screening.

A team of eunuchs re-entered the queue, like an instructor inspecting a recruit's appearance.

Obviously, this time these eunuchs were more serious, they carefully checked the facial features of the show girls, the color of their hair, whether their skin was rough, whether their waist was thick, whether their necks were standard, whether their backs were Luo, and the width of their shoulders......

As long as there is an unqualified show girl, you can buy a return ticket.

An old eunuch passed by Xu Chenyun and looked at her carefully from top to bottom, giving a special glance at her ass.....

This is not improper, but the core needs of the work of the internal officials and supervisors, it is rumored that the big butt can give birth to sons, in order to continue the royal bloodline, it is natural to hope that the concubines can give birth to princes.

The old eunuch nodded with satisfaction and continued to walk to the next show girl.

After this round of careful screening, 4,000 show girls were eliminated by 1,000 again.

The 3,000 show girls who passed the physical examination stood quietly again and entered the third round of the draft.

At this time, a eunuch in a crimson python robe walked slowly, in his early thirties, accompanied by a large group of eunuchs and a disciplined mother-in-law.

Xu Chenyun saw that there was a flying fish under the python on the eunuch's clothes, according to her cognition, only dignitaries could give python clothes, and it was difficult for even Wu Wen Yipin officials in the court to have this honor.

Since the Yongle Dynasty, the eunuchs around the emperor must wear python clothes to show the dignity of the Son of Heaven's ministers.

During the Hongzhi period, in order to restrain the internal officials, Xiaozong repeatedly declared that they should not abuse the python clothes, but the internal officials have been arrogant for a long time, and they have accumulated habits and cannot prohibit them.

This eunuch can wear reckless clothes, and he is also the best among the eunuchs, maybe he is the palm print eunuch in the twenty-four eunuchs, or the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch.....

It's just that this eunuch in a reckless suit looks young, behaves very well-behaved, and has a long scar on his face, which looks very scary.

The show girls didn't dare to raise their eyes to look at each other, and lowered their heads one after another.

A little eunuch on the side shouted: "This is the eunuch with the palm print of the internal official eunuch, Qiu Zhizhong Father-in-law Qiu!" ”

"I've seen Grandpa Qiu!" A group of show girls made a deep blessing ceremony.

Xu Chenyun then remembered that the scar on the rumored father-in-law Qiu's face was injured by the Son of Heaven with a whip when he was young.

Naturally, some of these show girls have heard about this, and many people didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that this injury is even worse than rumored!

Some show girls have chills in their hearts, the Son of Heaven was so ruthless when he was young, and now that he has grown up, how hot his temper should be, will he be like Emperor Jiajing......

When they thought of this, everyone shuddered.

Qiu Zhizhong glanced at the show girls, nodded casually, and said loudly: "Thanks to the trust of the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, our family is responsible for this draft, I hope you can cooperate with our family and don't make trouble." ”

"Yes!" The women answered.

"Go ahead!"

Qiu Zhizhong raised his hand, and immediately a little eunuch supported him, and two eunuchs put chairs behind him.

A eunuch with a shift said in a loud voice: "Roll call in turn!" ”

The first show girl who came out made a blessing ceremony, and her voice was crisp: "Show girl Li Xue, Beizhi is affiliated with the Shun Tianfu people, sixteen years old this year, and her father Li Guangji is a ...... of Daxing."

"Hmm." The eunuch who led the class nodded slightly and said, "Next!" ”

"Show Girl Horse...... Ma Cai ...... Charges"

The second show girl was obviously nervous, and for a while her name was mispronounced, and her voice became quieter and quieter.

"Horse what?" The eunuch who led the class frowned.

Ma Xiunu, who was questioned, became even more nervous, her face turned red and she said, "Show girl Ma Cai...... Lotus, River...... Henan Luo..... Luoyang Mansion ....."

"Ma Cai what?" The eunuch who led the class seemed to be very stubborn, and he was still struggling with the name of this beautiful girl.

"Horse ...... Harvesting. ”

"What kind of horse?"

Qiu Zhizhong waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, next!" ”

Obviously, this show girl named Ma Caihe was eliminated.

The self-introduction of this round of links is mainly to examine the timbre and demeanor of the show girls, and remove those who have muffled voices, slurred speech, or are nervous.

.......

"Show girl Xu Chenyun, a person from Yingtianfu, is eighteen years old, and her father Xu Haitai is ...... doing business in Zhejiang."

Xu Chenyun came out of the queue and calmly responded.

Qiu Zhizhong, who was sitting there drinking tea and waiting, trembled slightly in his right hand, and raised his eyes to take a look.

I saw that this woman was beautiful and plump, her neck was white and long, her eyes were the same as autumn water, her mouth was like a vermilion cherry, her color was like the morning glow reflecting the snow, and she was like a hibiscus coming out of the water, and her voice was like a white stone passing through a secluded spring, and her body exuded a special temperament that could not be hidden.

What surprised him was that this girl turned out to be the daughter of a businessman, and according to the previous rules, the daughters of the businessman's family were not allowed to participate in the draft.

Emperor Tianwu implemented a new policy and abolished the traditional Shinong industrial and commercial class, which allowed the daughters of merchants to be eligible for the draft, which can be said to be the precedent of the Ming Dynasty.

Qiu Zhizhong secretly paid attention to this woman, and the show girls introduced themselves and continued.

After the third round of screening, another thousand people were eliminated, and only 2,000 of the original 5,000 show girls remained.

The fourth round of screening is more stringent, and the eunuchs directly measure the hands and feet of the show girls with rulers, and those with short wrists and large soles will be removed.

After measuring, you still need to walk to observe whether the show girl behaves frizzy, and those who do not walk well will also be eliminated.

"Bigfoot?"

A little eunuch came to Xu Chenyun, and when he saw the shoes under his skirt, he immediately frowned and exclaimed.

In the Ming Dynasty, the folk respected foot binding, whether foot binding became a sign of social status and noble and low rank, as long as it was a scholarly family, or a girl with a bit of status, she would bind her feet.

Only those peasant women who work in the fields do not bind their feet, but have big feet.