Chapter 008: Rectify the Inner Court
After the dispersal of the dynasty, Zhu Youxiao immediately started the next step because he had the silver in his hand. If you want to create a safe environment, you must first be an emperor who is supported by the eunuchs and maids in the palace.
The number of eunuchs and palace maids in the palace is about 2,000, more than 900 eunuchs, and more than 1,000 palace maids, many of whom are old palace maids.
With silver, it is natural to improve the treatment of eunuchs and palace maids first. The treatment of those senior eunuchs and palace maids in the palace is good. However, the eunuchs and palace women at the bottom did not have such an easy time.
For a time, the emperor was in the palace, and he was to improve the salaries of the eunuchs and palace maids, to formulate a rotation system and working time regulations, and to distribute cotton clothes and charcoal to the eunuchs and palace maids for the winter, and to build nursing homes, new dormitories, canteens, public toilets, and cemeteries in the palace. At the same time, lynching was prohibited, and eunuchs were selected from the palace to set up an inspection team, and the palace maids and eunuchs who made mistakes must be handed over to the inspection team for trial according to law in the future, and a series of palace governance regulations were promulgated at the same time.
The increase in the amount of money for the eunuchs and palace maids is not too much, the average eunuch is raised to 2 taels of silver per month, and the palace maid is increased to 3 taels of silver. But the eunuchs and palace ladies were overjoyed, because they were also subsidized in terms of food and clothing, which was equivalent to pocket money.
At the same time, the palace built a nursing home, the eunuchs and palace maids can go to the nursing home after the age of fifty, and there are still Yulu every month when the elderly are old, until they die, and at the same time, the nursing home has people to serve them, and they can also be buried in the cemetery after death, and the emperor promised to let the feng shui master in the palace find them a feng shui treasure to build a cemetery.
Anyway, as long as you enter the palace, you will live a worry-free rhythm in the future.
At the same time, you can take two days off every seven days, and you only need to work four hours a day, that is, eight hours. If they work overtime when they are busy, the emperor will also pay them extra salaries. And the palace maids like the Huanyi Bureau (washing clothes), as well as the eunuchs who push the dung cart in the palace, their salaries have risen, and they are given 5 taels of silver every month.
This allows the palace maids and eunuchs to pay for their efforts, and they don't have to worry about pension when they are old, and there is no place to bury them after death.
The introduction of the new system made the palace happy.
At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also adjusted the personnel of the 24 departments in the palace, so as not to let the eunuchs and palace maids in some departments have nothing to do all day long, and they are busy and have no feet on the ground all day.
Zhu Youxiao can't interfere in the government now, so he can only manage the palace. He formulated a series of humane regulations, as well as twenty-four departments that needed attention, for the inspection team to supervise.
For the time being, the inspection team is still in charge of Li Jinzhong, and at this time, Wang An, the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, finds that he is gradually being hollowed out in the palace.
The one who managed the twelve eunuchs, the four divisions, and the eight bureaus in the palace became the inspector team, not him, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal. Originally, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal of the master of ceremonies was also a little unjustifiable, and the chief of the palace should be the chief eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and the eunuch of the palm seal was generally concurrently held by the eunuch of the palm seal.
When Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, he did not promote him to the rank of admiral eunuch because he found out that Wang An was from the Donglin Party. After Colonel Zhu You ascended to the throne, he did not promote Wang An to be the commander of the ceremonial superintendent.
Now that the palace inspection team has been established, Wang Anquan has no management power in the palace. In terms of personnel arrangements, Zhu Youxiao personally intervened, and Wang An couldn't manipulate it.
"Li Jinzhong, you go and investigate, what kind of people in the palace have the opportunity to communicate with people outside the imperial city." Zhu You said to Li Jinzhong.
"Yes, Your Majesty. The minions immediately went to check. Li Jinzhong hurriedly received the order, and then went to the East Factory to find someone to investigate.
Zhu Youxiao threw money in the palace to improve the living standards of low-level eunuchs and palace maids, and gathered the hearts of the people in the palace. The next step is to officially ensure his own safety, so he has to find out how many groups in the uterus can come into contact with outside the uterus.
If the Donglin Party wants to poison him, there must be internal response in the palace. Wang An, the anti-bone boy, is already targeted by Zhu Youxiao.
However, even if Wang An is solved, the merchant group can still buy the people in the palace if the money can communicate with the gods. Therefore, if you want to make the palace as safe as an iron bucket, you must first figure out which people can come into contact with the outside world, and then eliminate hidden dangers one by one.
Li Jinzhong ran to investigate for a while and then came back, and reported to Zhu Youxiao: "Emperor Qiqi, the only people in the palace who can get in touch with the outside of the palace are those senior eunuchs who have a house outside the palace and can enter and exit freely, as well as eunuchs who go out of the palace to purchase goods. ”
"I got the list of these people out, and I changed them all." Zhu Youxiao said, Li Jinzhong said: "Your Majesty, including Wang An, and now in the twenty-four departments, many of them are Wang An's people. ”
"Wang An's group of people must not be clean, find out their handles, except for Wang An, and confiscate all the others and send them to prison." In order to ensure his own safety, Zhu Youxiao must purge the eunuchs of Wang An's faction. If someone outside the palace wants to harm him, then he must have a certain identity in the palace.
For example, Xizong Zhu Changluo died within a month of ascending the throne, and it is very likely that the eunuchs around the emperor like Wang An were involved, so that the bribed imperial doctor could be arranged to give the emperor medicine. In other words, before Zhu Changluo became the emperor, the Donglin Party was laid out around Zhu Changluo. And the Wanli Emperor, the Donglin Party is immortal.
This also means that the main risk is Wang An's line. After Wang An served as the eunuch of the palm seal, he must have developed contacts in the palace.
What needs to be done now is to cut off Wang An's minions first.
As for Wang An, he can't move for the time being. He is the eyeliner of the Donglin Party in the palace, and if he moves now, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Donglin Party, and maybe he will attack him.
Let's put this guy in the air first, so that he has no power in the palace, and he can be much safer.
The palace soon launched an anti-corruption campaign under the instruction of Zhu Youxiao. The inspection team set up a whistle-blowing box and a whistle-blowing office, and at the same time conducted a large-scale audit of the 12th prison, the fourth division, and the eighth bureau, especially the departments in charge of the eunuchs promoted by Wang An, which were the key targets of the investigation.
Which of those high-ranking eunuchs in the palace has a clean butt? Even Li Jinzhong's ass may not be clean, it is too simple to grasp the handle, as long as you can make up your mind to investigate, nothing can be done seamlessly.
Soon the high-ranking eunuchs in the palace were shocked, and a large amount of public funds were embezzled, and the eunuchs who stole the state treasury were found out. Many of them were reported, and the eunuchs and palace maids who reported meritorious service were richly rewarded.
Dongchang ran around the palace all day long, arresting the eunuch in charge of this department, and the eunuch in charge of that department, and for a while those senior eunuchs were panicked.
This anti-corruption action was too fast, and before those eunuchs could react, Dongchang had already arrested those eunuchs and sent them to prison.
After some torture, Wang An was naturally involved, which even involved the sale of positions in the palace. Many eunuchs promoted by Wang An paid money to Wang An. In order to make money back, after taking office, he took advantage of the frequent change of emperors to be crazy and embezzled a lot of internal finances.
"Your Majesty, only the slave is guilty, and the slave is guilty, please punish the emperor." Wang An entered the Heart Nourishing Hall and knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao and wept bitterly.
"Get up! After all, you are the minister of the humerus left by your father, how can I bear to punish you. Besides, when I see those government leaders, they are big, and I still need Wang An's help with you and the ministers in the court. You only took a little money, and I won't pursue it. Zhu Youxiao showed a warm smile on his face and helped Wang An up. Now Zhu Youxiao is like walking a tightrope in the sky, and Wang An and the Donglin Party must be stabilized first. In other words, it is to stabilize the Donglin Party first.
Now that Zhu Youxiao is moving Wang An's interests in the palace, as long as he does not show his will to rebel against the Donglin Party, even if Wang An's minions are cut off by the emperor, the Donglin Party will not allow Wang An to kill the emperor.
Wang An was appeased, and he didn't know what he thought in his heart, Zhu Youxiao didn't care what he thought, sent him away, and let him concentrate on being in charge of the celebrity supervisor's approval and sealing.
After Wang An left, Zhu Youxiao went to the eunuch school in the palace and came here to personally select talents.