Limiting the number of concubines, dismissing palace maids, and eunuchs becoming officials, these three major events have caused an uproar in the government and the opposition.

Limiting the number of concubines, in the final analysis, is still a private matter of the heavenly family, even if the selection of abandoned show girls violates the ancestral system, this move is always beneficial to the society, and others have nothing to say.

Measures such as dismissing the palace maids, coupled with restricting the concubines, are the proper meaning of the question, and it is only necessary to properly place the people who are dismissed from the palace.

After Yan Kang discussed with the three ladies, he had a draft in mind on how to arrange the dismissal of the palace maid. The existing 2,000 palace ladies in the palace were registered, and after asking about the family situation and intentions, they were arranged in three categories.

The palace maids who have a home to return to and are willing to go home will be given a settling-in allowance according to the number of years they have served in the palace and sent home one by one.

For palace maids who are homeless or unwilling to return home and are willing to accept marriage, the military selects a group of unmarried officers and organizes a large-scale blind date activity. For these palace ladies, these officers are the descendants of the new emperor, and the future is immeasurable, and they are naturally overjoyed to marry such a beloved. For these officers, these palace maids are all beautiful and well-read, but it is difficult to find them with lanterns.

The last category is some older palace maids, who are homeless and choose to stay in the palace after the appropriate marriage age. After Yan Kang, the new emperor, took various measures after he ascended the throne, so that these palace maids did not have to worry all day long, afraid that they would lose their heads if they made some mistakes for no reason, and it was a good destination to live a peaceful and stable life in the palace.

For the first two major events, most of the courtiers were in favor of it. But for the eunuch to be an official, he still arranged to go to the extremely powerful supervision court and court, and the courtiers opposed it one after another.

Xu Daosheng, as the new prime minister of the State Council, stood up and said the opposite: "Your Majesty, it is really taboo for eunuchs to hold power. The death of the strong man will die at the hands of the eunuchs, and Your Majesty will not see the story of the ten permanent servants! ”

After speaking, Xu Daosheng knelt down on his knees and kowtowed to the ground: "Please think twice, Your Majesty!" ”

Gongsun Yu followed and knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty think twice!" ”

A group of civil and military ministers knelt on the ground one after another: "Your Majesty think twice!" ”

Wan Yankang couldn't cry or laugh for a while, and shouted repeatedly: "Kneel and kneel, get up and speak." ”

Xu Daosheng didn't move, and the meaning was clear: Your Majesty, if you don't agree, I won't get up today.

After Yan Kang ascended the throne for a while, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were used to not kneeling, and at this moment they fell to the ground, which shows that everyone is dissatisfied.

After waiting for a while, seeing that everyone still had no intention of getting up, he was angry and laughed in his heart. He simply walked down the steps and sat on the ground next to Xu Daosheng: "Prime Minister, if you don't get up to speak, let's just talk." ”

Xu Daosheng raised his eyes and looked at it, and suddenly he couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to take the lead in getting up. At this moment, if he doesn't get up again, he will completely sweep the face of Yan Kang, the emperor.

Xu Daosheng was the head of the ministers, he got up, and finished Yan Kang with a clear drink: "What's the matter, I can't please them one by one!" The ministers all stood up, their faces embarrassed.

After everyone got up, Wan Yankang did not sit back on the dragon chair, but ordered someone to move two stools over and put them in front of the hall. He invited Xu Daosheng to sit on one, and then he sat on another, and then said: "I, as the emperor, don't be arbitrary." Neither can you, who are courtiers, do whatever you want. Whether a eunuch can be an official or not, let's have a good theory, and whoever is justified will listen to whomever it is, how about it? ”

Xu Daosheng saw that Yan Kang said this, so he had to bow down and say, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Wan Yan Kang laughed: "It's hard to say whether the holy is or not, but the more you argue, the clearer it is, this is an unbreakable truth in the world." Let's have a debate on this matter, my point of view is that eunuchs can also be officials, and the prime minister's position is that eunuchs cannot be officials. ”

Xu Daosheng saw Yan Kang's words, and his heart was a little drumming. Although Wan Yankang was his student, he had great ideas since he was a child, and many of his ideas were wild, which amazed him. Although Xu Daosheng said that he was a rich man, he was not fully sure of winning.

Wan Yankang saw that he didn't pick up the stubble immediately, heart

Li probably guessed his thoughts, and couldn't help laughing: "In this debate, you can express your opinions if you have any ideas, regardless of me and the prime minister." ”

"Good!" Xu Daosheng immediately agreed, one person's wisdom is short, everyone's wisdom is long, and the wisdom of the ministers is not as good as one person.

"Little Lizi, come here." Wan Yankang beckoned to a small eunuch serving on the side.

Xiao Lizi walked over quickly, bowed down and said, "What does Your Majesty command?" ”

"There's nothing to say, you stand here and let everyone see." After Yan Kang finished speaking, he turned to the ministers and said, "Everyone, take a good look, how is this little plum different from us?" ”

Xiao Lizi is neither tall nor short, her face is fair, and her facial features are weekly, because she was looked at by the ministers, she looked extremely nervous at the moment.

Xu Daosheng shook his head: "Your Majesty, the difference between the eunuch and us is not on the surface. ”

Wan Yankang turned his head and asked, "Xiao Lizi, are you okay with your eyes?" ”

Xiao Lizi replied repeatedly: "Back to Your Majesty, Xiao Lizi's eyes are good, in these dog days, the mosquitoes within three zhang can't escape the eyes of the villain." ”

"Your ears are still bright?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Xiao Lizi's ears are tight."

"You don't need to ask if you can speak, have you ever read and read?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the villain has also read a few books in the palace."

After Xu Daosheng saw the few questions asked by Yan Kang, he immediately knew what he meant, and hurriedly grabbed the conversation: "Xiao Lizi, how much private money have you hidden?" ”

Xiao Lizi panicked and couldn't answer for a while.

Xu Daosheng's face was blank, and he said in a deep voice: "If you dare to hide it, you will be severely punished!" ”

Xiao Lizi trembled even more, her legs trembled, and she couldn't stand anymore.

Wan Yankang spoke out in time: "Just answer honestly, all the past is old." ”

The little eunuch listened to the emperor's words, and immediately relieved most of his heart, and then lowered his head and whispered: "The villain's private money is estimated to be thousands of taels." ”

"A few thousand taels?" Xu Daosheng immediately asked.

"Seven, seven or eight thousand ......"

Xu Daosheng's tone sank, and he arched his hand to Wan Yankang: "Your Majesty, this little eunuch is no more than a weak crown in his age, and his monthly salary is only three or five taels, but he can save seven or eight thousand taels of private money. ”

"Eunuchs take power, and the disaster is even greater. Qiang Qin died at the hands of Zhao Gao, and Han had ten permanent servants to stir up the world. Tang Li Fuguo took the body of a eunuch and killed the queen, causing Suzong to die in fear. Later, Wenzong was made by the eunuchs, and he did not leave the palace, and his people often said, I am not as good as Emperor Han Xian! The lessons of the past and the teachers of future generations must not be ignored. Your Majesty is a good reader of history, and all of the above must be known in more detail. At the end, Xu Daosheng was already a word, and his expression was extremely serious.

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Wan Yan Kang did not respond to Xu Daosheng's words, but said to Xiao Lizi and a group of eunuchs who were trembling next to him: "Stand down, if you have too much floating wealth, keep three times your legal income, and hand over the rest to the treasury, but you will not be blamed for the past." ”

A group of eunuchs in the court knelt down and kowtowed.

Wan Yankang turned his head and smiled at the ministers: "The prime minister said that I am good at reading history, and this is true. In his words just now, there was something wrong, Zhao Gao, who referred to the deer as a horse, was not a eunuch! ”

The ministers were shocked when they heard this, and they all whispered, and Xu Daosheng also sighed.

Wan Yan Kang talked eloquently: "Zhao Gao was born in the Hidden Palace, and he is even more prominent, not a eunuch. Prime Minister Shicai's statement that Qiang Qin died at the hands of Zhao Gao is too biased. I thought that seven points of responsibility for Qin's death were in the First Emperor, and three points were in Zhao Gao, Li Si, Hu Hai and others. ”

"People often say that ten often serve chaotic men. Rebels, is it really ten times old? Emperor Ling often said: Let my father be loyal to my mother. If it weren't for Emperor Ling's mediocrity, how could a few eunuchs control the government and bring disaster to the world! ”

"As for the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was all because of the emperor's incompetence, and the Shence Army was controlled by eunuchs. How glorious the Kaiyuan Dynasty was, in the last years of Xuanzong, his people appointed Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, An Lushan, Shi Siming and other traitors, causing turmoil in the country, Li Linfu and these people are not eunuchs!

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Speaking of this, Wan Yankang stood up: "In a word, the disaster of eunuchs is not in the eunuchs, but in the only husband!" ”

Some literati describe eunuchs: they do not look like a human body, they do not look like a human face, they do not listen to a human voice, and they are not close to human feelings.

For the ministers of the DPRK and China, most of them were hostile to the eunuchs, and they were extremely contemptuous in their hearts. The historians of all dynasties and dynasties recorded that the annals of history were for the service of the rulers, and there was a group like a eunuch who was not loved by his grandmother and not hurt by his uncle, how could he not use it.

After Yan Kang's remarks, the mistakes and culpabilities of the eunuchs of all dynasties were eliminated, and most of them were attributed to the emperor.

The courtiers may have thought about these ideas, but they never dared to discuss them in public.

Xu Daosheng was speechless for a while, and Gongsun Yu stood up: "Your Majesty uses me to take charge of the court, and the minister feels that the burden on his shoulders is heavy, and he can't sleep all night." According to His Majesty's wishes, the judges in the hall are all eunuchs, and the ministers are afraid that their majesty and virtue are insufficient, and it is difficult to convince the public. ”

The implication of Gongsun Yu's words, this Manchu Dynasty civil and military, students all over the world can choose to use it, why choose these people who are detrimental to decency.

Wan Yankang understood what he meant, he knew that this matter had to be agreed by the courtiers, and it could not be implemented only by force, but only by persuasion. After thinking for a while, he said: "The two thousand eunuchs in the palace don't all have to be used, and not all of them can be used. These people have to be used separately. Those who can read and write, have some ability, and have passed the moral test, and only after passing the training can they go to the Supervision Yuan and the courts to take up their posts. Those who are illiterate, lazy to eat, and morally corrupt are dismissed on the spot. ”

"The Supervision Yuan and the courts only select and appoint a group of good people, firstly, to enrich the organization, and secondly, to give these poor people a good place to go. From now on, eunuchs will no longer be accepted in this palace. This deformed product was tossed out by Ying Zheng's hands, so let's draw an end from my hands! ”

After Yan Kang's words, it is equivalent to closing the coffin.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were unable to refute Wan Yankang's remarks, so they had to call Shengming together.

Xu Daosheng and Gongsun Yu both knew Wan Yankang's temper, and since they couldn't convince him, they had to follow his wishes. Since Wan Yankang said that he did not want to use all of them, how to select personnel is a matter for the Supervision Yuan and the court.

The people who are wanted by the Supervision Yuan need to be both civil and military. And the people who want to be in the court have high requirements for writing and legal skills.

After some statistics, there are more than 1,700 eunuchs in the palace, of which more than half are literate, but only about 200 are martial arts. According to the standards set by Gongsun Yu, eighty percent of them have nowhere to go.

Wan Yankang saw that the list approved by the preliminary review was so small, and he knew that this matter was still a little resistant to the ministers.

At first, he was still angry, but after thinking about it, this is a good thing after all. If everyone is in harmony and obeys him, the emperor, wouldn't it be against his original intention of innovation.

Then let's play with the little tricks again!

Because there are still libraries, treasure rooms and other places in the palace, they have always been guarded by some old eunuchs, and these old eunuchs have also begged Wan Yankang many times not to dismiss him, and Wan Yankang promised these hundred or so people to die in the palace. The vast majority of the little eunuchs were driven into the barracks by Wan Yankang and underwent a three-month military training.

Before these little eunuchs were driven to the barracks, many people retreated, for fear that they would not be able to endure the hardships of the barracks.

Ma Kubo summoned a group of little eunuchs and only said one sentence: "We couldn't be human before, but fortunately, Your Majesty has mercy, so we have the opportunity to be human beings!" ”

After this word spread, the eunuchs in the palace all cried bitterly.

The eunuchs in the palace, the favored ones seem to have unlimited scenery, but in fact, they are all trembling and trembling, as if walking on thin ice. The little eunuchs who are not favored, but there are those who anger the nobles, and countless people are killed by the rod every year.

Before, there was no choice.

Now, you can be a decent person.

Faced with such a choice, a large number of eunuchs, large and small, have burst out with great potential.

After March, the number of eunuchs who could meet the standards exceeded 1,000, which surprised important ministers such as Xu Daosheng and Gongsun Yu......