Sensing her approaching, Fu Mingli slowly put down his pen and asked Xu Sheng: "If you don't want to be my concubine, then in what capacity do you want to stay in the palace?" ”

Yun Qing vaguely noticed that Fu Mingli already knew what was happening in front of the palace gate, but he didn't ask, and Yun Qing didn't want to say it, so he said after a little hesitation: "I can be a palace maid, aren't there many ambiguous stories of the emperor and the little palace maid in those scripts, so that it can be more trusted." ”

Fu Mingli didn't expect her to say this, so he couldn't help but smile and said, "Do you still believe those in the script?" ”

"The story is funny, but there are ways to learn from it." Yun Qing said seriously: "In the next period of time, I will go to the harem to walk around, and I will be accompanied by a grandmother who is familiar with the harem, and within seven days, I will come up with a suitable way to help Your Majesty dismiss these concubines one by one." ”

Fu Mingli was noncommittal: "I'm waiting to see what you're capable of." He said: "Since I am here to help, I will not treat you badly, as long as you take care of your mouth, let alone ten thousand taels of gold, it will be more benefits." ”

"I only need 10,000 taels of gold, this is what we said." Yun Qing said with a small face: "I only do the work of 10,000 taels of gold, you only pay 10,000 taels of gold, I won't do any more work, and I won't accept any more silver." ”

"You're pretty principled." Fu Mingli said with a smile.

Yun Qing's eyes rolled, and he said with a dry smile: "But I have a question I want to ask you, if Your Majesty doesn't want to say it, you can not answer me." ”

"Tell me about it."

"Your Majesty's reputation outside is already like that, if you don't like those concubines, you can kill them directly, so why come to me to the palace to help you?"

Fu Mingli had long expected that she would ask this question, and it was already very unexpected for Yun Qing to hold back asking for so long. He raised his eyes and stared deeply at the woman standing not far in front of him, she was beautiful and dusty, as beautiful as a fairy of the Nine Heavens.

He said in a deep voice: "The forces behind those women are intricate, the parties in the court are distinct, and they affect the whole body, and I am not stupid enough to kill them directly. ”

"Then why didn't Your Majesty find a reason to expel them from the palace one by one?"

"Why do you have so many questions!" Fu Mingli looked at her impatiently, and still answered her question: "It's all the same thing, it doesn't matter if the women with lower status are killed and driven away, but those ministers stuffed in, if I dispose of them at will, it will definitely cause suspicion and dissatisfaction among the courtiers, and I secretly don't know how many things will be done." ”

Yun Qing laughed out loud when he heard this.

Fu Mingli said unhappily: "Are you laughing at me?" ”

"yes, who are you laughing at if you don't laugh." Yun Qing smiled and bent his eyes: "I didn't expect that Your Majesty, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, will also be afraid of the head and tail, which is really surprising." ”

Fu Mingli was annoyed that she even sarcastically mocked herself to her face, and she cherished a person who rarely told the truth in front of her, and she was not very willing to kill her in her heart.

He thought to himself, let's look at this woman's skills first, if she can't help him, he will have to kill her.

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The court of the Ping Dynasty adopts a strict system of female officials, separating concubines from female officials, there has been a precedent since the Taizu period, "placing women's positions, in order to pawn internal affairs", and then the successive dynasties continue to develop and improve, to this day, the selection of female officials in the palace has not only been limited to the inner court of the palace ladies to investigate the outstanding talents, but also to expand the selection range to the family outside the palace, and now there are many senior female officials selected from the noble family in the palace.

The highest rank among the high-grade female officials should be the "internal secretary", the official quality is the first rank, and the female official with the highest official position in the inner court, the "secretary, chief eunuch, and female waiter" is regarded as the second grade, and the "female scholar" is the third grade.

This time, Fu Mingli arranged the position for Yunqing to be a third-grade female scholar.

The palace book summarizes the duties of the female scholar as "interfering in the affairs of the king, performing affairs outside the province, and dealing with paintings." Another note is to explain the concubines, close to orderly. This means that it is possible to provide advice to the emperor on the affairs of the previous dynasty, and to record the emperor's behavior of summoning concubines to meet him.