"Your Majesty, there is still something to tell the Emperor." Zhang Yan suddenly remembered something.

"Is there anything else in the palace that I need to deal with?" Zhu Youxiao saw Zhang Yan with a straight face, and was very curious.

"Now the number of palace maids in the palace is still maintained at about 3,000, but the number of eunuchs is less than 10,000, the twelve prisons, the four divisions, and the eight bureaus are all short of people. Zhang Yan commanded the harem, and now the problem of manpower in the harem has become more and more serious, and she has to ask Zhu Youxiao for instructions on how to solve it.

"The internal officials and supervisors have also been abolished, and the affairs of the internal officials and supervisors will be handed over to the Ministry of Works. The imperial superintendent was also abolished, and the affairs of the imperial superintendent were assigned to four divisions and eight bureaus to be responsible, and the superintendent could also be abolished. Zhu Youxiao thought about the functions of the 24 yamen.

"There are still not enough manpower, unless the emperor can cut half of it and keep only the twelve yamen." Zhang Yan shook her head and said.

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor was also cut, the financial power was distributed to the Salary Division, the military power was assigned to the Military Department and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the other affairs were assigned to the Jinyi Guard......" Zhu Youxiao continued.

"Is the emperor going to lay off the twelve eunuchs?" Zhang Yan asked suspiciously.

"No, only the Shang Shan Supervisor will be retained, and the Shang Shan Supervisor will be changed to the Shang Shan Division, and the eleven eunuchs, including the Shenguan Supervisor, the Shang Bao Supervisor, the Seal Ribbon Supervisor, the Zhidian Supervisor, the Shang Yi Supervisor, and the Du Zhi Supervisor, will all be abolished, and the Bao Qian Division will also be cut, and the affairs of the 12 yamen that have been cut off will be assigned to the corresponding yamen according to what I just said, and the six bureaus and 24 divisions of the female officials will take on more affairs accordingly, and there will be no eunuchs in the palace in the future, and this system must be abolished." Zhu Youxiao once again stressed the abolition of the eunuch system.

"But with such a huge harem, it will be very difficult to operate if the eunuchs are completely abolished." Zhang Yan said in a consultative tone.

"I have spent so much effort to abolish the eunuch system, and I will never go back." Zhu Youxiao's tone was unquestionable.

"The concubine is afraid that after a hundred years, the successor will go back." Zhang Yan said worriedly.

"I have tried my best to prevent such a thing from happening, first of all, I am already limiting the number of concubines, and I will clearly stipulate the number of concubines of the emperor in the "Law of Marriage"; Second, a hundred years after I was born, all the concubines who gave birth to the prince followed the prince to live; Third, the affairs of the palace will be entrusted to the six bureaus and twenty divisions; Fourth, we will reduce the living area of the inner court, and from next year, the Forbidden City will be divided into two parts according to the line from the Huangji Gate to the Cining Gate, half of which will still belong to the inner court, and the other half will be used by the imperial court; Fifth, part of the royal private collection will be sent to the Forbidden City in Nanjing, which will become the largest museum in the Imperial Palace; Sixth, the Society forbade the use of eunuchs in the palace at the level of the law. Zhu Youxiao explained carefully.

Zhang Yan listened to Zhu Youxiao's explanation, and knew that Zhu Youxiao was determined that he would not go back, and she didn't say anything more, she understood that what she had to do now was to assist Zhu Youxiao to complete his reform.

……

At the first court meeting in the 47th year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao officially announced that the Forbidden City would be divided into two, and all the confidential departments of the imperial court would be moved to the Forbidden City to work, and the defense work of the Forbidden City would also be divided into two, with the outer court and the inner court respectively undertaking the defense work of their own areas.

"Huang Jiong, I heard that a group of newcomers came to Hualou, why don't you wait and take a look?" Hualou is another name for the Qinglou run by Kyushu in the Empire, not only the largest Qinglou in the Empire, but also its fame is the largest in the Empire, the most famous Hualou is her service, which has never been tried in the Empire before, which makes the business of Hualou really very good.

"I really don't have time today, I still have things to deal with here, you can go by yourself." Zhu Cijiong declined. Some time ago, Zhu Youxiao terminated the history of the three princes in a row, so that the other princes were honest during this time, especially the princes who had thoughts about the throne.

"Work is important, but it's also important to combine work and rest."

"Lang Keren, I really can't go today, there are really things to deal with." Zhu Cijiong smiled and shook his head.

"Huang Jiong, this time I used the money left by our department, if you don't go, it's a pity. It is said that Hualou is a gold cave, and there is no chance to go to it in normal times. Lang Keren lamented.

"Do we have any money left over from last year? Why haven't I heard of it? Zhu Cijiong asked curiously.

"Hehe, you are a newcomer, you naturally don't understand, and you will understand after you fully integrate into the department. This is an unwritten rule in officialdom. Lang Keren smiled.

"But why did you invite me with you this time?" Zhu Cijiong asked.

"This is what Ambassador Yao meant, and I don't understand the specific reason." The ambassador of the military department is just an unpopular official, but he happens to manage Zhu Cijiong and other officials. Zhu Cijiong was directly assigned from above, and although Ambassador Yao didn't know his origin, he felt that Zhu Cijiong should be related.

"Then I'll check it out too!" Zhu Cijiong realized that there might be a loophole in officialdom here, and this loophole could cause huge losses to the empire every year, and he felt the need to check it.

……

Located in the suburbs of Beijing, Jingshi Hualou is the largest green building in Beijing, with an area of nearly 20 acres of land, which is built according to the classical gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the flagship store in the Hualou chain, and its scale is second only to that of Nanjing. The women in the flower building are not only from Dongying, but also from many places such as the West, in addition to blacks, there are all kinds of skin colors, and the women in the Jingshi flower building are carefully selected, and the natural consumption is also the highest.

Although Zhu Youxiao made extremely strict regulations on the system of wives and concubines of ordinary people and officials, he did not prohibit officials from visiting the Qinglou, which also made the business of the Qinglou more popular than before.

Xu Xinsu knows his strengths and weaknesses, he can't train the imperial qin, chess, calligraphy and painting for this group of foreigners, so that they are as popular as the imperial prostitutes, he can only start from the service, Hualou can give customers all the services that can be imagined and unimaginable, this is his advantage. His advantage is that this group of Fanbang women are slaves, they are different from the women of Daming, Xu Xinsu can act recklessly, even if they disappear in Daming, no one will care, even if someone knows, no one will care.

Zhu Cijiong accompanied Ambassador Yao with a total of seven people, and when they came to the flower building, the flower building was already full of friends and crowds.

"Please ask a few distinguished guests to rest in the court, and the old man will arrange for a few later." An old bustard dressed in fancy clothes walked up to the store and said with a smile and politeness.

"How long will it take? If it's a long time, we'll have to go first. Ambassador Yao said impatiently.

(End of chapter)