Chapter 191: Twelve Weapons for Favor
After talking to himself, Li Yongji suddenly remembered one thing, that is, there was not only one person in this room, but also a female officer here, and when he looked up, sure enough, the female officer in a modern lady's formal dress was standing obediently on the side with the demeanor of a flight attendant.
For this female official, Li Yongji only knew that she was a female officer on duty, similar to a maid or a life secretary who served people, and she looked familiar, but she couldn't call her name.
This is because Li Yongji has many female officials on duty, and there are twelve personal female officials who are responsible for serving him in his daily life, and they are also given the official name, which is called Changzai, so they are also called the twelve Changzai of Yonghua Palace.
However, this Chang Zai is different from the Qing Dynasty's promise, not a concubine, just a maid or a lady, and is a member of the official record of the Internal Affairs Office, that is, they all belong to the internal affairs staff and are officials.
These twelve are changed every day, and every wave is every twelve days, and every day is not the same, but since Li Yongji ascended the throne, there has not been a day of free, and there is not much time to stay in Yonghua Palace to enjoy.
For example, as soon as his enthronement ceremony was over, he soon led his troops to launch the Nanjing Campaign, and since then he has been busy in Nanjing, and after coming back, he was busy with the Chinese New Deal.
In short, Li Yongji has been busy these days, and he has to find time to work as a porter to carry out smuggling in time and space, where does he have the heart to pay attention to who is more in the palace, and those rules.
Yonghua Palace belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the head of the House of Internal Affairs is Susu, and the deputy head is Xiuxiu, Jiajia and Lili, but these four personal maids have their own responsibilities and often do not appear in the palace, so everything in Yonghua Palace is actually Lili is in charge.
In other words, the defense and female official configuration in Yonghua Palace. All of them were handled by Lili, of course, it was not all her credit, but more of Zhang Xinda's planning.
For some reason, Zhang Xinda is particularly addicted to these things in the harem, so he made a big internal plan, from the rules to the clothing, almost all of them have detailed instructions, and then Li Yongji took it to Lili and others to study, and finally made it like this.
But it seems a little boring at the moment. So Li Yongji suddenly had an urge to talk to this beautiful female official.
"What's your name?" Li Yongji suddenly spoke.
"Hui Majesty." The female officer folded her hands in front of her and bowed lightly, "The slave's name is Soho, and she is one of the twelve permanent beings. ”
"Twelve?" Li Yongji was stunned, obviously didn't understand what this was, because he didn't think much of the "Harem Treasure Book" that Zhang Xinda did.
Although he didn't figure it out, Li Yongji nodded quickly and quickly changed the topic: "But this Soho is a good name, um." Listen to your accent, Suzhou native? ”
"Yes, Your Majesty." The maidservant named Soho replied softly.
"How did you get into the palace?"
"Back to your majesty, the slave maid came in through the tryout of the super maid."
"Super Maid Tryouts? I'll go. Did you come in with the guò that sandwiched rice-like game? ”
"Yes, Your Majesty." Soho continued, "All the female officials in the palace were screened for the Super Maid Tryout, and then they went through three months of training. After passing the final assessment, you can officially take up your post. ”
"Oh, that's it." Li Yongji nodded.
Super Maid Tryouts Lee Yong-gil knows. This name was originally set by him, and the reason why it is called sandwich rice is, of course, there are inherent reasons.
In fact, before Li Yongji ascended the throne, the selection of palace maids, or maids, had already begun, but at that time, it was not a gimmick for palace maids, but in the name of recruiting ladies from the marshal's mansion, and openly recruited from the society.
Earlier, Li Yongji did have some two-dimensional thoughts, wanting to get some eye-catching maids by his side, and then as soon as he came back, two rows of beautiful maid girls lined up to welcome, and he was drunk thinking about that scene.
However, at that time, the Jingwu Army had just fought the Battle of Suzhou, and had not yet begun to rebel, and even the summer offensive against the Taiping Army had not started, so the reputation was very average, and even a little bad, and the intellectuals all respected the Jingwu Army, and the daughters of good families naturally did not participate in this kind of prostitute competition.
That's right, maid maid, as the name suggests, isn't that another name for a handmaid who sells herself to a big family?
So in the end, the people who can participate in the super maid selection competition are either the Qingqi people in the courtyard, or the poor women from poor families who are eager to change their lives and rely on this to enter a large family as a maidservant, or a girl who is like a thin horse specially raised by human traffickers.
However, Li Yongji only made a start in this matter, the people were recruited, and the election was scheduled, but he was soon left behind because of his busy military affairs, so the election was not over, or in other words, it was all handed over to Lili to manage.
Lili is kind-hearted, she pities what happened to these people, and doesn't want them to return to their original lives because of the defeat, so she basically put away all the things she can send, and the number of people soon broke through the 2,000 mark.
Because of this, there was a lot of criticism at that time, but fortunately, Li Yongji knew about it in time, stopped the further expansion in time, and gave the money truthfully, and officially recognized that these women were his maids, which can be regarded as determining the identity of these women.
Although they are maids, because Li Yongji has never had time to care about them, they all entered the classroom led by Xiuxiu and became a new batch of students of the Youth Guards Corps, anyway, in terms of identity, they are all the same.
In other words, the young guards recruited by Li Yongji in the early days were all taught by Li Yongji himself at first, and later when Li Yongji had no time to take care of them, they became a group of students who were taken care of by Xiuxiu and others, and they still lived the same closed teaching life as in the past, and they also received the education of Xiuxiu and others.
These people are not only receiving modern primary and secondary school knowledge education, they also have to receive etiquette education, these etiquette classes are usually taught by Lili, and the methods are all Zhang Xinda's set from modern times, the main content is not much different from the flight attendant training, but it is more cumbersome, more strict, and even dressing up. There's a lot to talk about.
After Li Yongji ascended the throne and became emperor, for fear of trouble, he no longer recruited any palace maid guards under the pretext of not disturbing the people, but counted the members of the original youth guard group as Ouchi guards, among which boys were male guards and girls were female guards.
In other words, this Soho should be born as a female guard, no wonder the demeanor is so standard.
"Twelve is always there, I have heard it. But what exactly are the 12 constants? Li Yongji asked, "New title?" ”
"Yes, Your Majesty." Soho said, "The twelve permanent presence refers to the twelve personal female guards who serve His Majesty's daily life, not only to serve His Majesty's daily life, so that His Majesty is not troubled by the trivial matters of life, but also to resist the sword soldiers for His Majesty when necessary." It was one of the most prestigious positions among the ladies of the court. ”
"Uh-oh." Li Yongji nodded as if he didn't understand, "How did the Twelve Constants come about?" ”
"Hui Majesty xià, is a pass guò exam." Soho said, "Be the twelve." You must pass the rigorous training, and then pass the guò exam, and the best 12 in the overall score of the exam can become a permanent presence. ”
"Sounds amazing." Li Yongji nodded. "What's on the exam?"
"There's calligraphy, there's music, there's language. There's arithmetic, there's massage, there's shooting, there's ......"
"What else?"
"And ...... Sex for men and women. At the end of the day, Soho lowered her head completely, and seemed a little shy to say this.
"And men and women? Isn't this puberty education? Li Yongji didn't feel embarrassed, after all, he had heard a lot of meat jokes on the Internet in modern society before, so he just felt strange, "Who do you learn from?" Who added this? ”
"It's the mother invited by the Suzhou Academy." Soho said, "It was specially invited by Mr. Sun." ”
"It's Lili, I didn't expect it to be her." Li Yongji nodded.
Like other personal maids, Lili was later allowed to restore her family name, her original surname was Sun, so she was called Sun Lili, and because she was the deputy head of the Internal Affairs Office, she was also called Sun Lili.
"I remember that there are more than two thousand court maidens, so I am afraid it will be very hard for you to pass the guò exam and become one of the twelve permanent officials, right?"
"It's fine." Soho replied softly.
Although Soho's tone was light, it was just the indifference of the victor, in fact, the twelve were often among the court ladies, that is, the position of envy and jealousy, and it was also synonymous with fierce competition.
The twelve are always there, this is something that only happened after Li Yongji ascended the throne, because he was close to the emperor, close to the water, so anyone who has a little ambition wants to get this position.
But there are more than 2,000 palace maids, and there are only 12 places in the 12 permanent places, what should I do? That can only be a brutal system of elimination.
How to eliminate it? The first one is that if you are selected for the twelve, you must not be dragged down by relatives, that is, you must be an orphan girl.
Because in Lili's opinion, if there are relatives outside, then you must not be able to put your mind in the palace, and you must not be able to serve the emperor wholeheartedly, so if you want to be twelve constants, you can, first become an orphan girl.
Fortunately, this is not a problem for most palace maids, after all, more than 2,000 people originally came in through the original super maids, and most of the people who participated in this selection activity at that time either broke off their relationship with their parents, or were sold by their parents early, or they really lost their parents.
Anyway, most of these women do not have relatives.
So after choosing, there are 1,000 and 5 people who are not restrained by relatives, and these people have undergone rigorous training, and finally stood out through the layers of assessment, which is the twelve constants.
There is no doubt that this elimination rate has reached 83 to 1, even exceeding the art examination of later generations, and those who can stand out are generally those who win in terms of personality, appearance, and talent.
For example, this Soho has a quiet personality, a beautiful face, and Mount Tai collapses in front of him without moving, which is one of Sun Lili's most valued personnel, and it is also one of Sun Lili's weapons.
Wait a minute, how is it a weapon? This involves Sun Lili's personal thoughts.
Although Sun Lili was fortunate to be one of Li Yongji's four maids because of luck, she has now become the deputy head of the Internal Affairs Office, and has become one of the women with the heaviest grace and the most authority in the world.
However, the more this happened, the more panicked Lili became, because she was afraid of losing this qiē.
It's very simple, because Lili was born in a fisherman's family, she is the oldest of the four maids, and she is also the most thoughtful one, when she was recruited by Li Yongji, she was eighteen years old, but because she was small, she lied about fifteen, which means that she concealed her age at the beginning.
Originally, she didn't think about it so much, and she was very satisfied if she got by, but since Su Su had a relationship with Li Yongji, and Li Yongji became the emperor again, she began to realize that many things were different from the past.
Why? Because among the four major maids, it seems that Lili is the most dispensable, and the other three have their own careers, and they are all very important careers for use.
Of course, this is because Lili was too lazy at the beginning, after all, they were a starting line at the beginning, and Li Yongji didn't favor one over the other, but she saw that Li Yongji was not demanding, and she was so easy and hardworking, so she didn't take the initiative to fight for it, but now she knows that she was wrong.
In particular, when Jiajia showed more and more bad feelings towards her, Sun Lili felt that if it continued like this, I was afraid that his status as one of the four personal maids would be suspended.
If she hadn't had it, Sun Lili might not be disappointed, but once you have some things, if you have them, and then you have to lose them, it will be terrifying.
It's not that she hasn't thought about seducing herself, but Li Yongji seems to be quite self-disciplined at this point, and except for Su Su, the other three have not touched it.
For example, Jiajia once took the initiative to attack, but except for being reprimanded by Li Yongji, it was useless, and finally became her intelligence director with peace of mind.
A lesson from the past, this made Sun Lili dispel the simple and rough temptation of lust, and calm down again, and she asked herself, her appearance is actually not as good as Jiajia, and Su Su, who was born in everyone's beauty, is even more incomparable with Xiuxiu, at least not as tall and white as the other three, and Li Yongji seems to be an intellectual woman who likes to be tall and white.
Therefore, she wants to help Li Yongji deal with the things around him and not let him worry about miscellaneous things, which is also the only place where she has the ability to serve Li Yongji and can do it well.
At the same time, she carefully selected the twelve permanent presences, in order to compete for favor.
That's right, it's the harem to compete for favor, even if she is not a concubine, even if she hasn't seen the palace scheming, even if no one teaches him this thing, but she has learned it herself. This Soho has a trace of Yin Susu's tranquil temperament, and her appearance and figure are even more excessive, so she has become one of the twelve weapons she uses to compete for favor.
Now it seems, as if, it probably played a role in that way. (To be continued......)