Now in the entire palace, the number of palace maids and eunuchs adds up to nearly 100,000.

The daily eating, drinking, and lazing of these 100,000 people adds up to a very terrifying astronomical number.

This is undoubtedly a very huge burden for the Ming court, which is now stormy and half of the country. Therefore, the idea of eliminating the number of eunuchs and palace maids in the palace had already arisen before Jiang Chuan entered the customs.

He is now in charge. So I plan to put this idea into practice immediately.

He will not be influenced by those rotten ideas of loyalty to the king, and think that this is unkind to the royal family. If he was really unkind, he would have killed the entire Ming royal family a long time ago, instead of retaining their lives and honorific titles.

Jiang Chuan handed over this matter to Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch who was in charge of the celebrant and the seal, to implement it specifically.

He handed it over to Wei Zhongxian for implementation, because Wei Zhongxian was in charge of the entire inner court. Very familiar with the situation in the palace. Second, he also wanted to test Wei Zhongxian's loyalty.

When Wei Zhongxian received Jiang Chuan's order, he was taken aback.

From the bottom of his heart, he was extremely reluctant to accept it.

But he knew that he could not resist Jiang Chuan's order.

If he dares to resist. He will immediately become the second Huang Jin.

The corpse of the eunuch Huang Jin, the master of ceremonies. Now it has been thrown on the mass grave.

When Ye Jin Yiwei took the Qin Wang's personal guards to arrest Huang Jin, Huang Jin naively thought that the emperor would be able to keep him, so he resisted stubbornly. In the end, those wolf-like Qin Wang guards broke into the door and cut off her head with a knife, without even giving her a chance to plead.

Wei Zhongxian knew that King Qin did this in order to give the emperor a warning. Therefore, he did not want to be the second Huang Jin.

The reason why Wei Zhongxian was reluctant to accept this task from the bottom of his heart was because of his so-called first person in the inner court, the so-called old ancestor. It is based on the awe of these 100,000 palace maids and eunuchs for him.

Without these people, he Wei Zhongxian could only be a domestic slave of the emperor, and he could no longer enjoy the glory and pleasure of being feared by thousands of people and taking the lives of others.

But Wei Zhongxian raised a question: how will these palace maids and eunuchs be resettled after they are removed from the palace?

The question is realistic. If it is not handled well, it is not only possible to cause chaos in the capital, but it is more likely to have an adverse impact on the reputation and prestige of the regent Jiang Chuan, and it is even possible that those who oppose him may find an excuse to take advantage of the opportunity to attack.

Jiang Chuan had already made up his mind about this problem, and he told Wei Zhongxian. Everything has its own opinions. What he has to do is to sort out the yamen and personnel that need to be laid off as soon as possible in accordance with the set goals, and then gradually remove them.

According to Jiang Chuan's instructions, the total number of people retained in the entire palace should not exceed one percent of the original. In other words, less than a thousand of the original 100,000 palace maids and eunuchs could stay in the end.

In fact, even a thousand people Jiang Chuan felt that it was too much.

Now the emperor has not yet married, so there is no queen and heirs.

Those who live in the palace. Only the Emperor, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager.

With 10,000 people to serve a few people, Jiang Chuan felt that it was already very luxurious. If it weren't for the opinion of the courtiers a little, Jiang Chuan even planned to clean up the entire palace to less than five hundred, or even less.

This is in terms of numbers.

In terms of the number of yamen, there are now twenty-four yamen in the palace.

These twenty-four yamen are all for the purpose of serving the emperor's family's diet, daily life, eating, drinking and merrymaking.

According to Jiang Chuan's assumption, of the 24 yamen, only four yamen could be retained at most. For example, the Imperial Dining Room, the Huanyi Bureau, the Shangyi Superintendent, and the Camp Division.

All other yamen should be abolished.

And the four remaining yamen should also be downsized, and it is enough to meet the basic needs of the emperor's family.

For the regent's cuts. Wei Zhongxian felt very dissatisfied and resistant in his heart. But he didn't dare to say a word. In the end, he just silently received the order, saying that he was ready to clean up when he went back.

The news of cleaning up the palace personnel spread quickly.

There was chaos in the palace, and many people were crying, dazed, and at a loss.

Although the palace is a place for individuals to eat people, at least they can stay in this place and get food and clothing.

But once out of the palace, they don't even know where to go. What do you live on?

Of course, most of the people who think this way are those eunuchs in the palace. They have no long skills, and they have no normal functions of men, and even their strength has become smaller than that of normal men. So they are at a loss about their future.

And the attitude of the palace ladies is diametrically opposite.

Most of them hope to be able to go out of the palace and find an honest family to marry An An and live their part.

Now everyone knows that the emperor has been unable to protect himself, and no one has the dream of being favored by the emperor to fly on the branches and become a phoenix.

Therefore, most of the palace ladies were excited about Jiang Chuan's will, and welcomed and thanked them from the heart.

But they will also be at a loss, after leaving the palace, can they really find such a man who is good to them? After all, when they were elected to the palace, they were all show girls from all over the world, all of them were dignified, everyone was beautiful, and they all entered the palace with the dream of flying on the branches and becoming phoenixes.

It's just that no one thought that the Ming dynasty would lose too quickly, and the situation would change and be unpredictable, so that the dreams of these poor women would eventually come to naught.

There was no one who reacted most violently to this question than the Emperor.

When the emperor heard the news from Wei Zhongxian, he almost fainted, and after coming back to his senses, he was so angry that he scolded Jiang Chuan in the Qianqing Palace.

scolded Jiang Chuan for killing the royal family of his Ji family, and scolded Jiang Chuan for being a traitor. Frightened, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly admonished the emperor to keep his voice quiet, so as not to be heard by the eyes and ears of the regent.

After hearing this, the queen mother of the two palaces was first angry, and then silent, and quietly wept.

When they lost their power, they were just a poor middle-aged woman and a poor old lady, and they had nothing to do with the tyrannical Jiang Chuan, so they could only curse and lament their miserable fate silently in their hearts.

When Jiang Chuan asked people to send good news. The emperor had just finished scolding a wave of rivers, and was lying on the imperial couch in frustration and weeping silently.

When Wei Zhongxian reported a great victory in Qingzhou. The emperor's first reaction was not to look at it, and scolded Wei Zhongxian for taking it.

But when Wei Zhongxian was about to take it away, he called Wei Zhongxian again.

He snatched it from Wei Zhongxian's hand. After a quick look. Lianshang's expression was very strange, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

The lost territory can be returned to the hands of the imperial court, logically speaking, he should be happy, but he really can't be happy, after all, this is Jiang Chuan's victory, not the victory of him, the Ming Emperor.

He, the former Ming Emperor, has now become a puppet emperor who has lost his power.

Even the female eunuchs of the Yellow Palace who served beside him. and they will be forced to turn away from him. Thinking that he had now become a poor worm abandoned by a corpse bearer, he couldn't help but burst into tears.