The selection of concubines by the emperor has a long history of thousands of years in China.

In the Han Dynasty, a poll tax was levied on men and women over the age of 15 in August every year, called Shufu. At the same time, the imperial court sent the middle doctor and Ye Tingcheng, and brought the people who looked at the face, to the countryside around Luoyang to read the good family virgins, all over the age of thirteen, under the age of twenty, as long as the posture is beautiful and in line with the law, they will be returned to the harem, and then further screening and inspection, it can be used for the emperor to "ascend the throne".

According to the record of "Sanfu Huangtu", after the completion of the Mingguang Palace, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty selected 2,000 Yan Zhao beauties to be sent to the palace at one time. In short, since the Han Dynasty, it has become customized to select women of appropriate age across the country, choose their beauties, and fill the harem.

Later, it slowly evolved into: "All the beautiful girls who should be selected, without the selection and inspection, are not allowed to be hired and married privately, and the violators will be handed over to the ministry for punishment." ”

The female selection system was the main source of the harem of the previous dynasties, and it was also the only way for folk women to enter the palace. Therefore, ordinary women can be ranked as concubines, enjoy wealth and glory at will, and even have the slightest possibility of coveting the phoenix crown.

In the modern 21st century, any woman with a hint of beauty wants to marry a rich man, not to mention that she can still marry the emperor here?

Emperor He of the Han Dynasty was born in a butcher's family, and the reason why she was selected for the harem was that her family used gold silk to buy off the host when the Han court routinely selected women. The Mengyuan royal family also regularly went to the Hongjira tribe to choose women, and "Marco Polo's Travels" recorded the coveted mentality of the chosen family:

Unless the emperor is already very old, whenever the young emperor chooses a concubine and a draft girl, the people's reaction is generally more joyful than worried.

The psychology of one person entering the palace and the whole family ascending to heaven is still quite marketable under the monarchy.

In the Ming Dynasty, in the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), Ming Xizong drafted a girl near Beijing. He is the young son of heaven, the emperor's clone that Zhu Zilong is now possessed, and some people want to invite grace and hope that their daughter will be selected.

In ancient times, men could study and become officials, and if women could not marry officials and beloved, then they wanted to go to the land, which was naturally like the college entrance examination. Their only chance is to enter the palace to participate in the draft!

Therefore, as long as it is a young emperor's draft, for the people, it is a women's copycat imperial examination is coming.

The difference with the real imperial examination of men is that if a man fails to be elected, he can only go home to eat old rice or repeat his studies. And even if the women are not elected, they can mix in a job as a copycat civil servant, and the winner is the imperial concubine.

In fact, in history, most emperors would let the palace maids leave the palace at the age of 25-30 years after they had been working for many years. It's quite humane!

That's why there will be so many cup game incidents, that is, some emperors have also changed their hexagrams, and some old emperors have died suddenly and asked someone to accompany them to be buried.

However, obviously, Zhu Zilong, the credibility of the young copycat emperor doppelganger, is still barely there.

Coupled with a series of recent examples, his actions prove that there is a bit of the appearance of the lord of Zhongxing. Therefore, this disaster relief draft is still popular.

After all, this time the main target of the draft is the women in the disaster area.

The women in the disaster area have been miserable recently, and it is good to be able to enter the palace to eat. If you accidentally win a prize, become an imperial concubine or something, isn't it a bully?

This is what the common people think, and of course the rich and the officials think differently.

Even if it is a noble family, it does not necessarily want the daughter of its own family to be elected to the palace.

In the inner world of the monarchs of the past dynasties, they thought that with the supreme dignity of the world, the richest in the world, they did not worry about entering the palace without the world's stunning beauty, but they could not understand: in addition to honor and glory, others have more important pursuits. For example, freedom, etc.!

The so-called rich adopted daughter and poor girl are a little different after they have their own thoughts.

This time, Zhu Zilong's draft girl of the emperor's doppelganger, because there is also the subtext of saving the people. and let the rich girl volunteer whether to run for election, so it is much more humane.

According to the holy decree, the whole country of the Ming Dynasty: First, women aged 13-35 in disaster areas, as well as women from other parts of the country who voluntarily run for election, can enter the palace.

Second, whether you are a virgin or not, that is, whether you are a virgin or not, as long as you are long-looking, beautiful and better, you can come.

Third, all the family members of the selected women can get a settling-in allowance of at least ten taels of silver, and most of them are based on their appearance, and more than one hundred taels.

Fourth, widows who have no children's problems or whose children are close to reaching adulthood can also run for election.

In other words, a beautiful little widow can also enter the palace, and it is best if she has no children. If so, it's okay for your children to reach adulthood, and you can arrange a job for your son or something. There are only a few things that can live!

Maybe you'd say that's a bit weird, right?

However, when you think about it, it's not surprising. Because women in the Ming Dynasty generally got married between the ages of 11-13. Then according to the birth of a child at the age of 14-15, when her son or daughter is close to the adult level of the Ming Dynasty when she is 11-12 years old. This widow is still only about 25-27 years old, why can't she enter the palace?

As a modern person, Zhu Zilong doesn't think that a woman at the age of 25-27 is a broken flower.

The so-called woman has three points of appearance and seven points of dress. The delicacy of mature women is best understood only by married men, uh-huh!

Inside the Ming Palace!

For a few days, I learned that the selection of concubines was going smoothly, and there were not too many objections from the officials. Zhu Zilong's emperor clone immediately showed a hint of silver on his face, oh no, a smile of relief.

He was in a good mood and went to the palace flower courtyard and various palaces to inspect.

When I found that there were still many empty spaces in the palace that had not been repaired out of the palace, my heart suddenly moved.

He thought that the number of people who entered the palace in this draft, not to mention the Chinese dynasties, was only the largest estimated number of people to enter the palace in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

With so many MMs, the current palace is definitely not enough to live.

Could it be that you still have iron shelves in the room to get in and out of bed, sleeping eight in one room, eighteen women?

Then the grade of this palace is too low, no, we have to build a new palace and let the beauties live.

happened to clean up Wei Zhongxian this time, and he took all his family property by himself. The so-called, loyal and virtuous hit the street, and the apocalypse was full.

This time, the treasury is not to mention, only as the emperor's private money inventory, there is only less silver taels comparable to several years, or even nearly ten years of Ming taxes. Renovating a few new palaces is not a problem at all.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong waved his hand and said to Wang Chengen on the side: "A man should be an old driver, read all the flowers in the world, and taste thousands of poems, which is wonderful." Spread my will, and ordered people to quickly repair three palaces, an old driver's palace, a driving palace, and a palace with me! ”

Wang Chengen: "...... Embarrassed!"

As a native of the Ming Dynasty, Comrade Wang Chengen can understand the emperor's idea of building a new palace. However, in terms of the name of the palace, he couldn't understand why the emperor would give the names of the three new palaces, "Old Driver Palace", "Driving Palace", and "Take Me Palace"!

It's completely devoid of literary beauty, right?

Comrade Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch with a bead of cold sweat, thought about it and looked at Zhu Zilong, who was still self-absorbed. I thought, does the emperor have any deep meaning in it?

The so-called companion is like a tiger, if you can't guess the emperor's heart, how can you be in the emperor's heart?

In the palace compound, Zhu Zilong was in high spirits, and the eunuch chief behind him, Lao Wang, was in a state of crankiness. I kept thinking about a few words, a word.

Old driver, drive, take me? What does it mean? -

(To be continued.) )