Wang Deyong told Li Shimin all his inner thoughts, so that Li Shimin had a more specific understanding of the group of eunuchs.

He couldn't have imagined that none of the eunuchs serving the royal family were physically and mentally healthy.

The pain of that knife is enough to change a person's three views and character.

"Do you think Sun Zhengming is reminding me, eunuch, that he should not continue to exist?" Li Shimin stared at Wang Deyong's eyes and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, even if the slave maid is now in the inner prison, if you can do it all over again, the slave and maid will never choose to sell themselves into the palace to be eunuchs. When she saw that all the people had their wives and children by their side and lived a happy and fulfilling life, the feeling in the heart of the slave and maid ······"

When he said this, Wang Deyong couldn't cry anymore, Li Shimin made up for it a little, his concubines and children were gone, what would it be like, and he felt scared, in that case, if a person lives in the world, he will have no goal, he will be a walking corpse, no wonder they will have some abnormal thoughts.

"You, stand down and rest!" After all, Wang Deyong is a person who has been with Li Shimin for more than ten years, and seeing his sad appearance, Li Shimin's mood is not very good, and he waved his hand.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid is the inner chamberlain, and for the affairs of the palace, he can report directly to you, and the slave and maid want to ask you to reform the eunuch system of the inner palace." Wang Deyong, who wiped a handful of tears, did not retreat according to his words, but bowed down again.

In fact, just now when he talked about the current situation of eunuchs, Li Shimin had already risen this kind of thought, but this system, can exist for thousands of years, naturally there is a certain reason, cut off the thoughts of these close attendants, they can be more wholeheartedly loyal to the royal family, to prevent the situation of cholera palace boudoirs, and how to change it is a big problem.

"Do you already have any ideas?" Li Shimin didn't blame him for not retreating according to his words, and asked.

"I have some ideas, but there may be more aspects involved, the slave maid will tell you about the current situation of the inner palace first, and then you will see if the slave maid's idea is feasible." Seeing that Li Shimin was willing to listen to himself, Wang Deyong immediately collected his emotions and said.

"Say it."

"Your Majesty, since the reform of the civil system in the third year of Zhenguan, the number of people who sell themselves into the palace to serve as internal servants has been greatly reduced, and by the sixth year of Zhenguan, no one is willing to be punished by the palace and enter the inner palace to do things.

The original chamberlain, after the princes gradually became adults, needed to be dispatched to the outside world, and the number became smaller and smaller, and now, it has almost reached the point where there is no one available. ”

Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, in fact, he has dismissed the palace people out of the palace three times, however, the eunuchs can't do anything else out of the palace, in fact, most of them have chosen to stay, but the palace maids have gone out more, since the first year of Zhenguan Empress Sun took charge of the harem, the number of palace maids has dropped from 20,000 to 3,000 people after moving into the Daming Palace, which is equivalent to a reduction of nearly ninety percent.

You must know that the Daming Palace can be larger than the original Taiji Palace building, even if Sun Xiangfu and Yan Lide have formulated a set of more effective plans for the use of human resources when they were designing, but the number of attendants in the palace is still too busy.

In the office area of the imperial city, just the twelve office buildings, plus the cleaning of the main palace, will cost hundreds of people.

In the harem, the concubines of the two generations of emperors, the princes and princesses, the concubines and princes of the prince's East Palace, there are hundreds of villas where they live, as well as gardens as large as the Taiji Palace in the past, amusement facilities, playgrounds, etc., usually pruning, cleaning, and maintaining, all of which require a lot of manpower.

Such a big stall, even if it is the most basic cleaning, pulp washing, repair and maintenance work, it will take thousands of people, not to mention the internal servants, not only to do these jobs, holding umbrellas, playing fans, beating legs, serving tea, proclamation, communication, and honor guards······

All kinds of service work, at least more than 100 items, have to be done by them, even if the chamberlain supervises thousands of people, they can't do it, and they need to constantly replenish the manpower.

However, now, the people of the Tang Dynasty are rich, have houses and fields, have high incomes, and have enough food and clothing, who is so stupid and willing to cut themselves into slaves?

In the case of choice, there will not be too many people who choose to do dirty work and tiring work, which is an inevitable phenomenon of social development to a certain point.

Just like in later generations, many large cities are facing the problem of difficulty in employing cleaners, which is the reason.

"Even if the people are unwilling, then I must not ignore the will of the people, but must change." After listening to Wang Deyong's narration, Li Shimin nodded.

Wang Deyong continued, "Since the relocation to the new palace last year, the inner staff and supervisors have been thinking about how to reform, and finally, they have come to the conclusion that only by making the people willing to do these things can this problem be solved in the long run. Because, the Imperial Palace is still the living place of His Majesty and many nobles, and it will be very unsafe to use criminals, prisoners of war and other personnel to do things. ”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "What you say is reasonable, but how can you make the people willing to do these things!" ”

Wang Deyong replied, "First of all, the palace punishment will be abolished, so that the people will not have to worry about cutting off their children and grandchildren, and then ······."

"However, in the harem, there are concubines and palace maids, if a large number of men are put in, how can we control the occurrence of cholera in the palace?" Li Shimin interrupted Wang Deyong's words.

Seeking the dynasty to usurp the throne, there is a shortest way, that is, the green emperor, from the Yin Shang period, the ruler of the dynasty in order to prevent such a thing from happening, there is a eunuch This product appeared, but at that time it was called the temple people.

And this system, in the Tang Dynasty, began to have a more systematic management model, and it was able to grow.

As mentioned above, the stall supervised by the internal servants is very large, so in the Tang Dynasty, this position belongs to the official of the third grade, which is comparable to the books of various ministries.

Of course, during the Taizong period, there were still strict regulations on the number of eunuchs, but in the Tang Zhongzong period, it was out of control, and the number of eunuchs above the seventh grade was as high as 1,000, and the number of eunuchs in the entire group reached tens of thousands.

There is no way, people have a Daming Palace the size of 500 football fields to manage, and there are palaces in the eastern capital of Luoyang, as well as palaces all over the country that need to be managed.

In the Suzong period, the power of the eunuchs expanded again, and they directly began to grasp the military power, the Praetorian Guard Agency, several major military branches, all managed by the eunuchs, although there was little interference in the affairs of the outer court, but this group expanded to such a huge scale, mastered such a huge power, the impact on a country, is all aspects.

Sun Xiangfu didn't know the history of eunuchs, he just felt that castration was inhumane, and he hated dealing with these physically and mentally unhealthy people.

And Ma Daquan happens to be a eunuch who is hostile to him, so he will use him to promote the reform of the eunuch system, for the sake of Ding Ding, who does not know how many men there are in future generations, it is worth sacrificing him alone.

"The slaves and maids thought that the harem, when all female officials were used to manage daily affairs, and female guards were used to be responsible for guarding safety, and they could also recruit female workers to do basic chores, just like the female workers recruited by various factories in Weinan, just to provide labor services for the harem, and no longer restrict their personal freedom.

As for the office area of the imperial city, since there is no harem concubine to enter and exit, there is no need to use eunuchs at all, just use normal labor, I believe that as long as the salary of the inner chamberlain is high, there are still some people who are willing to come to the palace to work. Wang had to use some of the methods he had thought of to say it in one go.

"Female officer, female guard."

Speaking of this, Li Shimin thought of his secret guard, for the sake of convenience, isn't it both male and female, and besides, the proportion of women in Datang is much higher than that of men, so a large number of women's labor should be used.

"Yes, the slaves and maids have seen the spirit of those female officials in the art troupe these days, all of them are comparable to soldiers, if the inner servants train a group of people with a mental outlook like them to manage the order of the harem, the effect must be very good.

As for some of the physical work that eunuchs usually do, women with great strength can also be completely competent, and the slaves and maids do not think that eunuchs who are eunuchs in the inner prison are more powerful than those village women and female workers who work in the fields and factories.

In addition, you may not have noticed that in the Daming Palace, many designs are designed to help people who work to save effort, such as water, in the past, we need to lift buckets from the well one by one, and then pick them into the tank.

Now, a waterwheel has been built directly at a high place, and the water from the Titai liquid pool is fed into the filter tank, and the location of the filter tank is at a high place, and the filtered clean water can directly enter all the villas and buildings through the pipes.

Even if it is watering flowers, you only need to push the built water wheel to the front of the water truck, and after it is naturally filled with water, push it to the flower bed, unscrew the water valve at the bottom of the carriage, and spray water into the flower bed with a leather pipe.

In other aspects, there is also such a design, the slave maid will not list them with you one by one, in short, according to the slave and maid's observation, there is no work in the harem, which the palace maid can't do. ”

After listening to Wang Deyong's explanation, Li Shimin felt that it was indeed feasible, so he said, "In this case, you can write these suggestions into a concert and submit them to the empress, and I will make a decision after consulting with the empress and the ministers of the court." ”

"No."

Seeing that Li Shimin intended to reform, Wang Deyong relaxed his whole person.

Previously, Sun Xiangfu said when chatting with him that if the eunuch system ends in his hands, then he will be able to leave a name in history and be praised by the people of later generations.

After chatting about these things, Li Shimin's mood was not so unpleasant, he changed into a civilian costume and was about to go out for a walk, but outside the small courtyard of the study, he saw several princes and princesses coming home from school, and they were all holding a black lump in their hands and gnawing on it, Li Shimin knew that it was a roasted sweet potato.

"What, does the county school even care about dinner today?" Li Shimin greeted him with a smile, and a group of children saluted him.

"No, father, these sweet potatoes are all grown by themselves, and now they have been harvested, and the teacher has distributed some to their classmates, and the beauty has also been stained with them!"

Li Lizhen, who is thirteen or fourteen years old, is already a little girl, she said, and took a roasted sweet potato in the basket in her hand to Li Shimin to eat.

Because she had received a cultural education from the palace and had a strong understanding ability, after studying in Jiuyuan County, she quickly improved her learning progress to the fifth-grade course, which made her miss a lot of fun in the first- and second-grade courses.

This kind of sweet potato, is the new first and second grade extracurricular activities of Jiuyuan County School, before the sweet potato seeds to Shannan Road, their young princes and princesses just went to Jiuyuan County to go to school, at that time, planting sweet potatoes, was designated by Sun Xiangfu to join the teaching content, is the reason, just went to school these princes and princesses, in the extracurricular activity class, was taken out by the teacher, teach them to plant sweet potatoes.

After all, sweet potatoes are one of the simpler crops to plant, and in later generations, schools in the Wa Kingdom began to teach children to plant when they were in kindergarten, not to mention these seven or eight-year-old elementary school students.

As for Li Liqin's fifth grade, it is the cultivation of amaranth, cabbage, melon and other crops that are slightly more difficult to learn, and Li Lizhi also brought some back today.

After receiving the roasted sweet potatoes handed over by Li Lizhi, Li Shimin was not in a hurry to eat them, but he was thinking in his heart, what is the meaning of Sun Xiangfu letting the county learn to teach these children to grow sweet potatoes, after all, this thing has just been introduced to Datang, and after the previous eunuchs, he felt that Sun Xiangfu might have a useful intention in doing anything.