So far, Wang Sai'er has only selected 2,000 people from the orphanage, half of whom are men and half of them, half of whom are about 14 years old, and half are under 10 years old. Wang Sai'er has her own selection criteria, and every woman selected should be in the middle and upper part of this group of orphans, while the selected men pay attention to cleverness and intelligence.

When the orphanage was first established, the orphanage adopted children under the age of 10, and after Zhu Youxiao expanded the orphanage, the age of the adopted people also increased to 14 years old.

Although Wang Sai'er is the leader of these two thousand people, she is not in charge of specific teaching, and there are other people in charge of specific teaching, and they are all appointed by Zhu Youxiao himself.

For example, the skills of espionage must be learned by all people, while in the fields of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, etc., women must learn and must be proficient in one of them, and for men, the principle of voluntariness is adopted.

The place where Zhu Youxiao came to see was the studio, where more than 300 people were learning to paint, most of them were women, and there were less than ten men in total, and the teachers in charge of teaching were painters from the court.

"Your Majesty! Meet the Queen! "The painter was the first to see Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan.

The painter's words alarmed more than 300 people who were painting, and more than 300 people shouted in unison: "Knock to your majesty!" Meet the Queen! Loyal to Your Majesty! ”

"Get up, don't worry about me, you go on with your own business." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"No."

"Wang Zhangban, you've been here for a long time, are there any particularly outstanding people?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Yes, there are three of them here." Wang Sai'er replied.

"Call me to have a look." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"Liu Ai, Tang Xiaohong, Dai Sanxi, the three of you come here." Wang Sai'er commanded.

When the three of them heard Wang Sai'er's order, they immediately trotted over, "Knock on Your Majesty!" Meet the Queen! Loyal to Your Majesty! ”

"Get up." Zhu Youxiao commanded, turned his head to Wang Sai'er and said, "Tell me what makes the three of them brilliant?" ”

"Dai Sanxi, a native of Huguang, is 14 years old this year, intelligent and different from ordinary people, well-read and strong, and he has read books and recitations. The disadvantage is that he can not be literary, but not martial, and his body is too thin. Wang Sai'er introduced.

"What are you going to do?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"But by His Majesty's orders." Wang Sai'er said.

"If I tell you to say it, you will say it." Zhu Youxiao said coldly.

"The minister is temporarily preparing to let Dai Sanxi serve as the commander and be responsible for sorting out the intelligence." Wang Sai'er said softly.

"Well, what about the other two?" Zhu Youxiao nodded and said. Regarding Wang Sai'er's arrangement, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to interfere too much.

"Tang Xiaohong, a native of Liaodong, is fifteen years old this year, and he killed someone at the age of thirteen, but he still killed Jianyu. She is thoughtful and ruthless, and there are only a handful of men her age who can beat her. The disadvantage is that the appearance is average, and the phase is broken. Wang Sai'er introduced.

Zhu Youxiao took a closer look at Tang Xiaohong, only to find that the scars on her cheeks were usually just covered by her hair, and Zhu Youxiao didn't find them at all if he didn't observe carefully.

"Who hurt your face?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Jianyu." When she said these two words, Tang Xiaohong's body was still trembling slightly, and she didn't know whether she was scared or excited.

"How did it hurt?" Zhu Youxiao continued to ask. Although it is painful to uncover the scars, the people who Zhu Youxiao wants will face life and death at any time in the future.

"The folk girl took advantage of the ...... Taking advantage of the fact that Jianlu was violent to the Minnu, he stabbed Jianlu with the dagger he carried, but he only stabbed him with the first blow, but he took the dagger and drew a knife on my face, and the Minnu used the second dagger to kill him. Tang Xiaohong said softly. Her voice was not loud, but there was a hatred and murderous aura in her words. Although Tang Xiaohong said it very simply, other people could feel the thrill of that time through her words.

"You brought two daggers with you?" Zhu Youxiao asked curiously.

"Yes, Liaodong is too chaotic, and my father gave me self-defense." Tang Xiaohong replied.

Zhu Youxiao seems to understand a little, why in this era is earlier than later generations of people to understand, this is definitely related to survival, the children of poor families are in charge of the family early!

"Then how did you come to the orphanage?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"After the folk girl buried her family, she kept walking south, and then she met someone who said that the imperial court had adopted Ding Kou, who was under the age of fifteen, and the folk girl followed." Tang Xiaohong replied.

Hearing Tang Xiaohong's words, Zhu Youxiao knew that in the adoption process, someone must have been corrupted, everyone here Zhu Youxiao paid real money, and even his money was greedy, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but glared at Wang Tiqian fiercely. Wang Tiqian also knew that something was wrong at this time, his face turned white, and he almost knelt down to plead guilty.

"Tang Xiaohong, I ask you to select three thousand women from the orphanage and the palace to strengthen their training, and once you pass my test, you will serve as the palace guards. Wang Liqian, you send someone to assist Tang Xiaohong. Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"No." The two replied.

During the Wei Zhongxian period, the palace had tens of thousands of eunuchs, since Zhu Youxiao opened the Imperial Bank and Fengqiuhuang, the number of eunuchs and palace maids in the palace has decreased greatly, the number of eunuchs has shrunk to more than 70,000, the number of palace maids has also shrunk to more than 7,000, and the number of eunuchs is also decreasing.

"Liu Ai, her background is unknown, according to the information of the orphanage, she was bought back from the Jiangnan area, she looks like a beautiful embryo, and she is smart and studious, she is a rare talented woman who is a little thorough in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Shortcoming...... Cons: Too young. Wang Sai'er thought for a while and said.

"Liu Ai, where are you from, don't you remember yourself?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Folk girls have been trafficked since they were young, and they don't remember what happened to them when they were young." Liu Ai said softly.

"What do you remember? I might be able to find it out for you. Zhu Youxiao said.

"The folk girl only remembered one of the people who sold the folk girl, whose surname was Liu, so he changed the surname of the folk girl to Liu. The real name of the folk girl is Yang Ai. Liu Ai replied.

Yang Ai...... Surname Liu ......" Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered a person at this time, that is Liu Ruyi, one of the eight Yans of Qin Huai.

In addition to Gu Hengbo, Qin Huai Bayan's integrity and ethics of each of the other women are worthy of admiration by future generations, if only about integrity and ethics, many literati and businessmen in the late Ming Dynasty are not even worthy of carrying shoes for them, especially Liu Ruyi, but the most outstanding representative at that time, if Qian Qianyi did not marry Liu Ruyi, his infamy in later generations would be far more than that.

(End of chapter)