The Huanyi Bureau and the Jishuitan Racecourse under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Horse Prison are in the same place, one is on the west side of Desheng Gate, the east side of Jishui Tan, and the other is on the west side of Jishuitan, and the two units are across the lake.

The reason is that both units need water, and Jishuitan, as the largest water source in Beijing, is naturally favored.

As the unit with the largest number of people in the 24 prison palaces, there were no less than 1,000 palace people in the heyday of the Huanyi Bureau, and most of them were "elders" and offenders replaced in the palace.

At present, there are more than 800 palace people in the Huanyi Bureau, mainly because the bureau mainly washes clothes in the palace. This dress is not only for the emperor's concubines, but also for the eunuchs and female officials in the palace, and even the clothes of ordinary men will be sent for cleaning regularly. In addition to clothes, quilts are even more important.

In the words of Wei Liangchen's previous life, in addition to the dresses of the chairman and his wife, the work clothes of the security guards and cleaners are also washed here.

The total number of eunuchs in the entire imperial city is more than 10,000, so you can imagine how much work this is.

However, compared with the fate of the women of the Zhao family in the Jin Guohuan Clothing Bureau, the palace people who washed the clothes for the Zhu family were much luckier, at least, they didn't have to worry about being tortured to death.

However, the eunuch in charge of the Huanyi Bureau is not a good person.

Wei Liangchen can know this without investigating. As a unit dominated by hard labor, the palace people are definitely reluctant to come here, so naturally there will be "unspoken rules", and this "unspoken rule" can be money or flesh.

The "opposite food" that prevails in the palace is not all mutually pleasing, and most of them are still entangled in interests.

In such a closed environment, what kind of harassment and persecution will be faced by palace people who have no power and no money at home, they can also think of it with their buttocks.

As far as Wei Liangchen himself knows, Baba was persecuted by the Wei Dynasty, if it weren't for the second uncle who took Baba to beg Xi Li, the kid from the Wei Dynasty might be able to succeed.

And the darkest place of the Huanyi Bureau is not here, its darkest place is that it can kill people casually.

The palace maids who were sent to the Huanyi Bureau were not all elderly and guilty palace maids, but also palace concubines and female officials who failed to compete for favor. Once these people are punished and confiscated to the Huanyi Bureau, their opponents will inevitably buy the eunuchs in charge of the Huanyi Bureau to humiliate each other, and even ask for the other party's life.

Sometimes, it is more terrible for a woman to harm others.

And how people die, the emperor will not know, and will not care.

After taking a note from the concubine and leaving the palace, Wei Liangchen came to the Huanyi Bureau, in order to shock the people of the Huanyi Bureau, he specially summoned Cui Yingyuan to bring a team of Dongchang fans, which frightened Jiang Fu, the palm print eunuch of the Huanyi Bureau, and hurriedly greeted him with a group of eunuchs and eunuchs who were overseers.

"We have to pick some people from your Huanyi Bureau, and I hope that Grandpa Jiang will cooperate." Wei Liangchen handed the note of the concubine to Jiang Fu.

After reading it, Jiang Fu was a little stunned, but he didn't dare to disobey the concubine's instructions, and hurriedly asked Wei Liangchen who he wanted to pick, how many, and what he did.

But he never thought about that dirty place, because if the father-in-law of Ouchi wanted women, those young and beautiful people in the palace were more suitable. This is sent to the Huanyi Bureau, no matter how beautiful and delicate it is, the clothes that have been washed for several months are all rough.

"Let's take a look."

Wei Liangchen didn't speak, and walked towards the lake with his hands in his hands, and there were hundreds of palace people washing clothes in his sight. It's going to be summer, and it's even cool, but if it's winter, it's really a torturous job.

There are overseers by the lake, all of whom are partners, and there are no female officials in the Huanyi Bureau, and eunuchs are responsible for all major and small things. Seeing the palm print, Father-in-law Jiang accompanied a young father-in-law over, the overseers came over and bowed down to listen to the order, and the palace people squatted on the shore expressionlessly to continue cleaning. This is the rule, there is no overseer to speak, if they dare to get up and look around, they will be reprimanded, and they will be roded again.

Each unit has its own rules, and Wei Liangchen will not dictate to the system of the Huanyi Bureau, and he can't interfere so much. I glanced at the people in the palace by the lake, and found that the hair of the old people was already gray, and many palace people would stagnate slightly when they got up and squatted, obviously there was a problem with the joints. Looking at some people's fingers, they are obviously stiff, thinking that it is the cause of tenosynovitis caused by years of washing clothes.

The people of the palace wore coarse cloth clothes, or beat their clothes with wooden sticks, or kneaded water with their cooperation there, and buckets of washed clothes were carried away, and buckets of clothes were delivered.

Not far away is a drying field, very large, covering an area of one or two square miles, the field is full of clotheslines, hung with all kinds of clothes, but all are ordinary eunuchs, palace people's clothes.

There are several smaller venues in the east, judging from the color of the clothes in the sun, it should be high-ranking eunuchs and female officials, and possibly concubines.

Jiang Fu didn't know what Wei Liangchen was looking at, and he didn't dare to ask, so he just smiled there.

"Grandpa Jiang will summon everyone." Wei Liangchen suddenly turned around and ordered, and pointed to the drying ground, meaning that it was all there.

"Huh?"

Jiang Fu was stunned for a moment, did not dare to disobey, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to summon all the palace people in the bureau.

Wei Liangchen gave Cui Yingyuan an order, and the other party nodded after hearing it, and took someone to do it.

There are a lot of palace people in the Huanyi Bureau, and at this time, it will take some time to gather all the people in the bureau. Wei Liangchen was not in a hurry, and led people to the laundry field, watching Jiang Fu's men pack up their clothes and quilts there in order to vacate the space.

There was a gong in the distance, everywhere, and it was supposed to be used by the Huanyi Bureau to gather people. With the sound of gongs, palace maids from all directions rushed to the drying ground under the leadership of eunuchs. The palace people by the lake also put down their clothes, wiped the water stains on their bodies, and walked quickly under the urging of the overseer.

Wei Liangchen only heard the urging sound of the overseer and eunuch, and there was no chatter from the palace people, which made him a little silent.

After the hundreds of palace people were taken to the laundry ground, they didn't know what was going on with each other, but they didn't dare to inquire about each other, and they stood there cautiously, not daring to look or talk, lest the overseers and eunuchs see it.

"Grandpa Wei, everyone is here, you see?"

Jiang Fu was careful on his face, but he secretly scolded this little eunuch in his heart for relying on the favor of the concubine and running to his Huanyi Bureau to make a fortune.

Wei Liangchen nodded slightly, stood up and glanced around the field, and asked, "Are you all ready?" ”

"It's all right, it's all right." Jiang Fu is sure.

"Oh?"

Wei Liangchen suddenly pointed to the southeast, "What's the matter with those people?" ”

Jiang Fu took advantage of the situation, but it was a team of fans from Dongchang who came over with more than a dozen palace people. Those palace people seemed to have difficulty moving, and they supported each other, because they were afraid of the Dongchang fanzi who brought them over, and they were all colorless.