Chapter 18: Culotes (Ask for Recommendations)

At this time, women in the East wore shirts, jackets, shawns, backs, armor and skirts, etc., while the inside was more unrestrained, or even only knee pants or no knee-length pants. At this time, the West was similar, Zhu Youxiao remembered that there were historical records that in the West, once a woman rode a horse during this period, even the emperor would go to watch.

Zhu Youxiao thought of designing a pair of trousers for them. It's a pity that there is no elastic band now, and there are no chemical raw materials, so I can only rely on ropes and other things.

Tie it with a rope, tie it with a rope!

With long pants, at least when you ride a horse, you won't be watched!

"It's spring now, and it's going to be summer soon, and it seems too hot to wear so many clothes, so let's design a pair of pants for all the concubines." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Bring pen and paper." Zhu Youxiao didn't wait for everyone to reply, he had already decided.

The pen and paper were brought quickly, Zhu Youxiao hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to draw a pair of culottes, after all, he couldn't be radical. Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao still has some talent in painting, after all, he is a genius carpenter, and the renderings he draws are also similar.

"Your Majesty, these pants seem to be just a little longer than what we wear every day, and they look like pants and skirts." Zhang Yan was a little speechless when she saw Zhu Youxiao's design.

"That's right! In the future, you can wear pants like this directly, and you don't have to wear long skirts all the time? Our clothes are too complicated to wear, and they should be simpler. It doesn't matter if you wear it or not, I'm going to wear it anyway. After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he drew another pair of big pants, and then instructed, "Send this design to the Needlework Bureau, and in addition, merge the Needlework Bureau and the Scarf and Hat Bureau to set up a new Clothes and Hats Bureau, and only keep six bureaus in the future." ”

Everyone didn't take the pants designed by Zhu Youxiao seriously, but a series of follow-up actions, so that the news that Zhu Youxiao wanted to reduce the eunuchs seemed to have been confirmed, and now the palace can be said to be floating people's hearts, and there are even rumors that the emperor is going to drive them out of the palace, and these people all understand that if they leave the palace, they don't know how to live.

"Your Majesty, you have successively cut and merged two games, and now the hearts of the people in the palace are fluctuating, and the concubines are afraid that they will change after a long time." Zhang Yan said softly.

"Although the two bureaus have been abolished and merged, except for the people from the silver bureau who want to go to the money bureau, the rest of the people will not be driven out of the palace, but there are no new eunuchs in the palace." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The concubine understands, and the concubine will convey His Majesty's will to the people below." Zhang Yan said.

"I'm still thinking about setting up a department to arrange the old palace maids and old eunuchs in the palace."

"Your Majesty has mercy."

"I decided to sort out the mass graves on the outskirts of Beijing and build a cemetery dedicated to burying the old palace maids and eunuchs. After all, these people have dedicated their lives to the royal family, and they don't even have a place to bury their bones on the day they grow old. Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said.

"This ......" Zhang Yan didn't know what to say, after all, many dead palace maids and eunuchs were thrown into this mass grave.

"You can rest assured, this time the cemetery will be built magnificently, and I am going to fund the construction of a Taoist temple here, let the people of the Taoist temple manage it on my behalf, and hold a festival for them here every year." Zhu Youxiao thought that this was the best way to appease the emotions of the people in the palace.

"Your Majesty......" Zhang Yan said softly.

"In addition, you select a hundred smart and clever palace maids to come out, and I am going to send them to the Tai Hospital to study medicine." Zhu Youxiao said. In the palace, except for people with status, the rest of the people are sick, and the only treatment is to lie down, and no one will come to treat them at all.

"Your Majesty, this seems unreasonable." Zhang Yan said.

"There's nothing to ignore it, my words are reasonable. Seeing these palace maids and eunuchs die of illness, and I can't do anything, I can't bear it! Zhu Youxiao said with a sigh.

"The concubine understood." Zhang Yan replied.

Zhu Youxiao thought about going to the Tai Hospital tomorrow, and he must ask the Tai Hospital to accept this group of palace maids.

……

The next day, Li Xianjiu came early in the morning to ask to see Zhu Youxiao. The matter of Zhu Youxiao's meeting with Zhang Tianshi has been completed.

"Your Majesty, Tianshi Zhang can wait for His Majesty's summons at any time."

"Where do you think the location is the most appropriate and secret?" Zhu Youxiao is not familiar with Jingshi.

"Back to Your Majesty, I think Goolan Hutong is the most suitable......" Li Xianjiu thought for a while and said.

"You're presumptuous." Wang Liqian didn't wait for Li Xianjiu's words to finish, and he couldn't help but reprimand.

Zhu Youxiao glared at Wang Liqian, Wang Liqian retreated with interest, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Goolan Hutong is the place of fireworks in Beijing, this place is indeed the most suitable, the most secret, I also want to see it." ”

"Your Majesty, when is the time?" Li Xijiu asked.

"After noon the day after tomorrow." Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said.

"Then I'll go out of the palace at this moment to reply to Zhang Tianshi."

……

Yuan Keli had already arrived in the capital yesterday, waiting for Zhu Youxiao's summons. Hearing that Yuan Keli had arrived in the capital, Zhu Youxiao couldn't wait to let Yuan Keli enter the palace.

"Master Yuan, I'm tired all the way, and I only let Master Yuan rest for one night before I was in a hurry to summon me, and I feel very uneasy." Zhu Youxiao said with concern.

"Your Majesty is concerned, and the minister is in good health." Yuan Keli saw that the former students seemed to have changed a lot compared to before, and he was also relieved.

"Master Yuan, I hope that you will continue to serve as the governor of Shandong, Zheng Erpin, in charge of the military and political affairs of Shandong Province, and Liu Xingzuo's affairs, only you can handle it well, this matter is related to the empire's Liaodong strategy." Zhu Youxiao said solemnly.

"How should Liu Xingzuo's matter be handled next, please make it clear to Your Majesty." Yuan Keli replied.

"I have sent you a secret decree that after Liu Xingzuo returns to the Ming Dynasty, he will be the governor of the Beihai Division, training a naval army for me to prepare for the future attack on Jianguo from the sea." Zhu Youxiao said.

"It takes a lot of money to train sailors, and I don't know where the money comes from?" Yuan Keli understands that there is no problem in training sailors, and the most important thing is the problem of funding.

"I will find a way to fund it, and Master Yuan only needs to be ready. A year later, I promised that 10 million taels of silver would be sent to Shandong. Zhu Youxiao assured.

"If there are ten million taels of silver, great things can be done." Although Yuan Keli didn't know where Zhu Youxiao could get ten million taels of silver, he chose to believe it without hesitation.

……

Yuan Keli served as the governor of Shandong, awarded the second grade, was in charge of the military and political affairs of Shandong Province, and abolished the governor of Denglai, and assigned the power that originally belonged to the governor of Denglai to the governor of Shandong, but Yuan Keli did not hold any other positions, which once again broke the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.