Wei Zhongxian and Cao Huachun were a little confused by Emperor Chongzhen's sudden questioning.

In the end, it was the famous eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the eunuch party, who was nine thousand years old, bowed down and replied: "Your Majesty, there are indeed many people among the people who have purified themselves into the palace as slaves and maids.

As for the vegetable households, there are also some of them, and there are quite a few of them.

Many eunuchs who entered the palace, except for some wealthy who could have a family outside the palace and marry wives and concubines like ordinary people, the rest were to eat with those lonely palace maids, so it was called a pair of foods. ”

When it came to the eunuch marrying a wife, Emperor Chongzhen knew that after the mites were cleared, a dead eunuch named Xiao Dezhang lived in the Tianjin Concession with several wives and concubines. It's just that I never thought that the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty also played this set of marrying wives?

Wei Zhongxian saw Emperor Chongzhen's curious look, so he continued: "Originally, Emperor Taizu Gao ruled the harem very strictly, and if there were eunuchs in the palace who married wives, they would all be skinned.

It's just that since the seventh year of Emperor Yingzong's Tianshun, Cheng Ruan, the right eunuch of the capital governor of Datong East Road, married his wife and maid, and after the order of Youzhi, these prohibitions have been loosened, and the matter of eunuchs marrying wives has increased. ”

Yingzong, it's Yingzong's bastard thing again.

Outstanding English; Morality should be said to be English; Dehua Mao said Ying; Knowing the general is English.

This goods was made stupid by the Wenchen system group, not only defeated the elite of the Ming army, but also folded under the civil fort with the British public Zhang Fu.

But this bastard can be sent back after being captured, and he can be considered outstanding to be able to ascend to the throne again after being imprisoned for eight years.

The so-called moral correspondence should refer to the fact that this guy abolished the funeral system set by Zhu Yuanzhang by the harem eunuchs and palace maids.

Dehua Mao and Mingzhi are still two, hehe, there is such an emperor who is easy to fool, and those ministers are embarrassed to give a nickname such as spirit and faint.

Expelling Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, a bastard thing, from his mind, Emperor Chongzhen said: "I intend to release a group of eunuchs and palace maids, what do you think?" ”

Wei Zhongxian was shocked by Emperor Chongzhen's words, and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, you must not release the eunuchs." The palace maids can be assigned to the guards according to the age of the officials, but the eunuchs are not allowed to leave the palace. ”

Emperor Chongzhen originally wanted to assign a group of palace maids who were not up to age to the guards, but what the hell did this eunuch not let out of the palace?

Wei Zhongxian couldn't stand on his knees, but just bowed down and said: "Your Majesty is considerate of such hard-working people as slaves and maids, and wants to let some eunuchs out of the palace, and the slaves and maids are really grateful in their hearts."

It's just that since these eunuchs entered the palace, they have been disciplined and servile, except for serving nobles, but they can no longer do physical work.

If you are released from the palace, except for some who have saved more money and can live, the rest will have no other way out except to wait for death. ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted and said, "That's it, let the eunuchs out of the palace, and stop it." In addition, another sum of money will be taken out from the inner treasury to build a cemetery in Beijing, and the eunuchs in the palace will be buried in the cemetery after a hundred years.

In addition, if another temple is built, those homeless inner prisoners will be worshiped in the temple. Zhongxian remembered to pick two old eunuchs to take charge of the sweeping duties. ”

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen added: "In addition, I sent someone to find the pure master of the year, if I can find it, I will pay to redeem the treasure that was castrated back then, and temporarily put it in the side courtyard of the temple, and bury it together when I am buried." ”

Wei Zhongxian knelt more steadily this time, that is, even Cao Huachun and other eunuchs knelt down and kowtowed together: "Slaves and maids, thank Your Majesty for your grace!" ”

Originally, except for some of the eunuchs in the palace who were particularly good such as Wei Zhongxian, the remaining little eunuchs would be driven out of the palace when they reached an age that could not be driven, and they were left to fend for themselves.

This also directly led to the emergence of Zhongguancun.

Zhongguancun, formerly known as Zhongguancun, is called Zhongguan Village, which is the place where the eunuchs in the palace raised funds to bury.

However, there are still many eunuchs who don't have the silver, can't bury it, and freeze to death and starve to death after being driven out of the palace, so they can only resign themselves to fate.

As for the treasure being redeemed and buried together, this is the real key.

A man, regardless of whether he cut it off since he was a child or cut it off himself when he became an adult, in short, there is no one who does not remember that treasure.

However, not everyone was able to save enough money to redeem the treasure, especially those who were purified outside the palace.

Purification masters outside the palace usually do not collect money, or have no money to collect.

But why would anyone still be a pure master? Doesn't it mean that one day a dead eunuch will be developed and have silver, and then redeem that treasure at a high price?

And the redemption price of this treasure can even be as high as thousands of taels.

It can be said that the price of a treasure often requires the eunuchs in the palace to save for a lifetime, and it is not even enough - the eunuchs are often good at gambling, and those who lose the gambling are often penniless until they die.

Nowadays, Emperor Chongzhen learned in later generations the means of inviting people to buy people's hearts and minds has produced a huge chemical effect.

Emperor Chongzhen's internal funds contributed money to build cemeteries and temples, so that these eunuchs would not be homeless, and also paid for the redemption of the life of these eunuchs, which can be said to be the real grace of heaven.

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and ordered Wei Zhongxian and the others to be flattened, but then turned the topic to the matter of releasing the palace maids: "What about the palace maids?" And how? ”

Wei Zhongxian pondered for a long time before he said: "Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that it is not as good as the official match. ”

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen motioned for himself to continue, Wei Zhongxian continued: "Your Majesty has also asked about the food, if some palace maids are impatient with loneliness and use Mr. Jiao and other ***, so that they are broken, and they can't marry after leaving the palace, it is not as good as the official match." ”

Emperor Chongzhen groaned in his heart, but he forgot about this stubble.

How many palace maids and eunuchs are there in the palace at this time?

Tens of thousands of people are proper, even if the mites splash dirty water, it is said that there are 90,000, but in fact, according to half of them, there are as many as 40,000 or 50,000.

According to the ratio of half and half, the number of palace maids will be twenty or thirty thousand.

If any of the two or thirty thousand palace maids can't bear the loneliness, and the husband himself uses something like Mr. Jiao to break his body, then the marriage after leaving the palace is indeed not easy.

But to give such an official to the guards, Emperor Chongzhen was obviously even more unwilling.

It's just that Wei Zhongxian continued: "Moreover, when the women in the palace have nothing to do, they can gather together and gossip, and there are inevitably some things that cannot be passed out of the palace."

If some palace maids talk nonsense after being released from the palace, they will inevitably be suspected of being involved in the palace ban. If the official is assigned to the guards, it can ensure that the affairs in the palace will not leak to the greatest extent. ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted, then waved his hand and ordered a few people to retreat.

Regarding the so-called private leakage of the palace ban, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care much about it.

What if it leaks out? Throughout the ages, there have been more shameless emperors than me? In the southeast, I have already become a tyrant who is even more brutal than the Lord of the Lords?

This thing in the history books is little Lori, and it's not up to those in power to decide how they want to dress up. As for the people, if the people don't have a good reputation when I die, it will be.

Regarding his reputation among those gentry, Emperor Chongzhen said that he didn't care, just let them be happy, and bury them in the soil together.

Emperor Chongzhen went to Empress Zhou's bedroom again.

Queen Zhou is the real master of the harem, and you have to listen to Queen Zhou's opinion on what to release the palace maids in the harem.

It's just that Empress Zhou was going to agree with Emperor Chongzhen's statement that he wanted not to recruit eunuchs at first, but in the end she still objected.

According to rumors, some eunuchs are not completely clean when they are clean, and the treasure is likely to grow again. As for the eunuchs who have been recorded in history messing around in the harem, it is even more disgusting.

Therefore, Empress Zhou was very much in favor of Emperor Chongzhen's statement that he would not accept eunuchs anymore.

But after thinking about it, it's not right, if you don't accept eunuchs, what about the imperial horse supervisor in the east and west factories? All replaced by palace maids?

Thinking of this, Empress Zhou still persuaded: "It is not easy for Your Majesty to pity the people and have children, it was originally a good heart, but it is easy to do wrong things with good intentions, isn't it?"

If there are no eunuchs in the palace, will everything be handled by the palace maids? Especially in the east and west factories, eunuchs are indispensable.

As for choosing a man to fill the position, the concubine thinks it is very inappropriate. In the harem, it was not suitable for men to appear.

Therefore, the concubine thought that His Majesty could issue an edict to prohibit the people from purifying themselves, and the violators would be severely punished. ”

After thinking about it, Empress Zhou continued: "As for the release of the palace maids, in the future, Your Majesty can determine according to their age, and anyone who is over twenty-three or four years old will be sent out of the palace, and they will be allowed to marry or be an official on their own." ”

Emperor Chongzhen was a little unimpressed.

In later generations, the FBI, CIA and other things on the Yankees side were not all composed of rough men and female men, if all of them used eunuchs, the picture would be too beautiful to think.

But what Queen Zhou said was not wrong. Now the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty are like this, or the national conditions of the Central Plains since ancient times, eunuchs should still have to have.

It's just that when Emperor Chongzhen was discussing with Empress Zhou, Wei Zhongxian, Cao Huachun and others called the other ten eunuchs in the palace, except for the ceremonial supervisor and the imperial horse supervisor, and the four eunuchs of the eight bureaus, and came to Wei Zhongxian's house together.

After driving away the servants who were waiting, even Wei Zhongxian's son was driven out, and the entire study was surrounded by some things from the factory.

Wei Zhongxian looked at some of the other big eunuchs, coughed and said, "Your Majesty ordered our family and Gonggong Cao to enter the palace to meet him, but he said a big thing.

This matter is related to the old way of waiting for me in the future, so our family and Father-in-law Cao came to discuss with you.

In addition, the eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the palace, and the grandfather of Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch of the imperial horse, both agreed, and asked our family to handle this matter with full authority. ”

Hearing Wei Zhongxian's solemn words, the palm print eunuchs in the other twenty-four eunuchs and some high-ranking eunuchs were all stunned, bowed down and said, "Please give orders from nine thousand years old." ”

Wei Zhongxian changed color and said, "Wait for our family to die!" In the future, it is enough to call Wei Gonggong, if you look at us, you can call Wei Admiral, if the words nine thousand years old pop out of someone's mouth, our family will make him a dilemma of life and death! ”

When the eunuchs heard this, they were stunned. Originally, I thought that Lao Wei had brought his people here with great fanfare to discuss something, but it turned out to be such a thing as soon as he came up.

Wei Zhongxian's face eased, and then said: "Outside it is said that we are eunuchs, dead eunuchs, rotten ass, yin and yang people, anyway, they will say whatever is ugly."

However, His Majesty is considerate of us eunuchs, and plans to purchase a piece of land in Beijing to build a temple with a sum of money from the palace, so that we eunuchs who have no roots will have a place to settle after they die, and in addition, we will redeem the treasures we lost back then and store them in the temple first.

It's okay for our family to say that we have sons and daughters, but it's hard to say it among all of you here? ”

Only then did the eunuchs know why Wei Zhongxian's face had changed so much just now.

Not to mention hearing Emperor Chongzhen's words, even if they heard Wei Zhongxian's relay, everyone's hearts were hot.

It is estimated that Lao Wei was determined to sell his life for Emperor Chongzhen on the spot, and it is better not to say anything about the taboo of nine thousand years old in the future - these people who were originally present shouted nine thousand years old or something in private, Lao Wei didn't care at all, and no one would run to tell Emperor Chongzhen anyway.

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen raised this point is a good thing, why did this nine thousand years old still summon himself and others?

After all, Xu Yanpan, the chief eunuch of the imperial eunuch, was also a person who could contact Emperor Chongzhen, and after some confusion, he exclaimed: "Isn't it that Your Majesty intends to prohibit civil castration, and no eunuchs will be recruited in the palace from now on?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said with a gloomy face: "Yes, this is what our family is worried about. The emperor is kind-hearted, even if it is a eunuch like us, the emperor is also merciful, and he must be reluctant to let the people clean themselves again.

It's just that apart from us and other eunuchs who are destined to cut off their children and grandchildren, who else is as loyal to the emperor as we are? ”

Xu Yanpan groaned: "What Gonggong Wei said is true. It's just that once the emperor makes a will, I'm afraid that this matter will be irreparable.

Otherwise, let's take advantage of the emperor's will to get a batch first? ”

Wei Zhongxian sneered: "You get it!" As long as you can, if you finish it today, the emperor will be able to pick your skin tomorrow! ”

When the other eunuchs heard this, they all felt a little helpless.

Wei Zhongxian then continued: "Okay, who will show a dead man this to?" Since we called you here, we have discussed it with Gonggong Cao, Gonggong Wang, and Gonggong Fang. ”

When all the eunuchs heard that Wei Zhongxian already had a case, they all bowed down and said, "Please make it clear to Gonggong Wei." ”