Chapter Ninety-Three: The Policy of the Palace People

All the eunuchs and palace maids are still in amazement, and they have not yet recovered from the shock, Liu Hou's series of words are too unexpected, what thank you for your contribution to the royal family, what can you decide to stay at your own discretion, is this emperor crazy?

When will you serve the royal family and still get the emperor's gratitude? Isn't it all your own obligation? Isn't it something you take for granted? Usually, as long as the masters don't beat or scold, they are grateful, and they dare to expect the masters to be grateful to themselves.

What else is there to decide to stay, the so-called once you enter the palace gate is as deep as the sea, the palace maid at this time is still lifelong, there is no retirement system, when have you heard that palace people can leave the palace? And you can decide for yourself.

The life of most palace ladies is actually very miserable, they are elected to the palace at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and they are faced with cumbersome etiquette, strict rules, occasional humiliation and endless loneliness. If they were not favored by the emperor, they could not marry, start a family, or have children, so they could only serve for life, and then die of old age in the palace.

Of course, the eunuchs were even more miserable, their bodies were crippled, and their minds were usually affected, their personalities were distorted, and most of the eunuchs were also powerless in the palace, they would also be humiliated and do hard labor that could never be finished.

Moreover, what makes them worse than the palace maids is that they can never leave the palace, and even if they have the opportunity to escape, it is difficult to survive among the people, and the palace is their only destination.

So, now when they heard the emperor say that they could decide for themselves to go and stay, they were all dumbfounded. The matter didn't seem to be over yet, so I heard the emperor continue: "From now on, all palace maids will implement a retirement system, as long as they are twenty years old and have not been named concubines, they can receive a pension and go out of the palace."

The palace maids who leave the palace can choose to go home on their own, and if they are afraid that they will be too old to marry, they can also be arranged by the royal family to marry you. Well, in general, you will be arranged to marry someone in the military. Well, let's do it, I will hold a blind date every year, invite generals at all levels in the army to attend, and all palace maids who are old enough to leave the palace can participate in this blind date.

In a few days, I will hold the first blind date, and all of you who are over twenty years old can go to Huang Hao to sign up, and choose to go home or go on a blind date. As for those who are too old to be homeless and unable to marry, I will establish a royal village where you can spend your old age in peace.

The Huangzhuang was built on the outskirts of the capital, and I would enclose a large piece of fertile land, hire some tenants to cultivate it, and use the output to provide for retired palace maids and eunuchs to support their retirement. ”

In fact, the palace maid retirement system has no loss to the royal family, but it is beneficial and harmless, because new palace maids are constantly elected to the palace, and new blood and new faces are constantly entering the palace, which can make the palace maid group always maintain vitality.

And the palace maids have hope, they don't have to worry about the white head palace, lonely and old, they will be more motivated, they will not have so many negative feelings, and they will not be so easy to distort their personalities, which is very good for the atmosphere in the palace.

Liu Hou continued: "As for the arrangement of eunuchs, it is also similar to that of palace maids, you can apply for retirement when you are old, I will temporarily set the retirement age at fifty years old, as long as you are over fifty years old, you can apply for retirement, and the retired eunuchs can go home to live on their own, and of course, they can also enter the Huangzhuang for retirement."

The output of the Huangzhuang will ensure that all retired palace people have no worries about food and clothing, and can ensure that you can live a leisurely life in your old age. In addition, I have announced here a policy that from now on, the palace will not accept new temple members.

For the emperor's own selfishness, castrating men for no reason is really a tragic and cruel act, the emperor should rule the world with benevolence, how can he allow such cruel things to happen around him? Therefore, I stipulate that from now on, all the descendants of the Liu family and the Han royal family will no longer use temple people, so as to demonstrate the benevolence of the royal family.

Of course, now you temple people will not be affected in any way, and you can still stay in the palace and serve the royal family until you retire and enter the imperial village for retirement. By that time, there will be no more temple people in the palace #. ”

In order to take care of the face of these eunuchs, Liu Hou did not say eunuchs, but used the relatively elegant word temple people.

"Buzz ......" all the palace people are fried, regardless of the loss of honor in front of the king, they talk about each other. They were stunned by the emperor's shocking decisions one after another. If the establishment of the palace retirement system and pension system is a T# #t炸#弹的话, then the direct abolition of the eunuch system is undoubtedly an original # son # bomb.

The eunuch system originated in the pre-Qin period, and there are records about eunuchs in the Book of Songs, Zhou Li, and the Book of Rites. The Zhou Dynasty and the vassal states mostly set up eunuchs. In other words, the profession of eunuch has existed since ancient times, and people have long been accustomed to the use of eunuchs by emperors or princes.

At this time, I suddenly heard that the emperor said that he would abolish the eunuchs, and everyone who heard it couldn't believe that it was true. Among them, the most complicated mood is the current eunuchs.

They had just received a promise from the emperor that they could retire and provide for their old age, and they were very happy and welcomed this policy. But the emperor's statement that he would abolish the eunuch system made them both happy and frightened.

Happy because from now on, men in the world will no longer have to suffer the same pain as them. As people who have come before, they know very well what kind of pain they have to endure as eunuchs, what kind of torture they have to suffer, and what kind of humiliation they have to suffer. This pain and suffering is not only physical, but also spiritual.

The flesh # The knife cut on the body can be cured for a hundred days, but the humiliation of the soul will accompany them for a lifetime, so that many people will be distorted by these tortures#

Eunuchs would have undergone great physical changes as a result of castration, they had lost their abilities as men, but they were not women. The perverted body will slowly lead to the perverted mind, so their soul is distorted, and their mind has no return.

Their personalities are very abnormal. They will cry for no reason, they will get angry about a little thing for no reason, and when they get angry, they will suddenly lose their anger and be moody. When they see someone stronger than themselves, they will wag their tails and beg for mercy, groveling to cater to them, showing their inferiority and weakness.

When you encounter someone weaker than yourself, you will wantonly insult you, forgetting how uncomfortable you are when you are being abused. They lose their ability to have sex, so they will demand more intensely and even perverted desires for power and money. So they took bribes on a large scale and tried their best to seize power and interfere in government affairs.

So, after learning that the emperor had abolished the eunuch system, they were happy for the descendants, because the descendants did not have to suffer as much as themselves. But at the same time, they also have a sense of loss, because the eunuchs, as a group, as a race, will disappear forever in the long river of history.

They are already like this, their castration is a fait accompli, and as people of this particular race, they don't want this group to disappear, which makes them feel more lonely and less existent.

In addition, they are not reconciled. The reason why they paid such a big price to enter the palace was because they wanted to get glory, wealth, and power. If the emperor abolished the eunuch system, even if he kept them in the palace, the status of the eunuchs would inevitably become lower and lower as time passed, and their glory, wealth, and power would never be settled again.

Liu Houke didn't have the heart or time to watch these palace people shocked here, he called Huang Hao to him, and instructed him to sort out what he just said, make a few palace people policies, and then write them in the form of notices and post them, so that these palace people can see clearly.

After instructing Huang Hao, he went back to Ganquan Hall by himself, and left the rest to Huang Hao to do. There was a guard battalion and a regiment stationed in the palace, and these palace people couldn't make any trouble.

Back in Ganquan Palace, Liu Hou couldn't be idle at all, because many generals were already waiting for his return outside the hall. These are the generals of the various units, and most of them have come to report on the completion of their tasks, as well as the capture and capture.

After a day and a night, the city of Chengdu has basically calmed down. The generals of the various departments are very experienced in occupying the city, and they all know what to do, although Chengdu is the capital, it is only a large city.

The seizures were abundant, but of course, not gold and silver treasures. In fact, there is not much money left in the treasury, Shu has been fighting with Wei and Wu in recent years, the war is an act of burning money, with such a small territory and such a small population of Shu, if it were not for the production of Liu Hou's "Ministry of Industry" to help it, Shu's finances would have collapsed long ago.

Rao is like this, the war has been fought so far, there is not much money left in the treasury, hearing that the official in charge of counting the treasury came back to report, Liu Hou was secretly frightened, without money, his own governance will be difficult. However, I don't have the time or mood to take care of the finances now, and I leave these things to the civil servants to worry about.

Liu Hou was most interested in the captured weapons and equipment. In this occupation of Chengdu, a total of about 4,000 fire # guns were captured, and if it weren't for Liu Hou's use of Keqiu to kill the # military camp, it is estimated that the number of seizures would be more than that. These 4,000 fire# guns can meet the needs of 16 battalions, and with them, Liu Hou's pressure to reorganize brigade-level military units is much less.

At that time, as long as the "Ministry of Industry" is allowed to step up production for a short period of time, it will basically be able to gather enough guns to equip six brigades.

Then there was the artillery, and there were fifty of them, but they were all erected on the walls. Therefore, their capture is basically meaningless, because Liu Hou did not plan to dismantle them and put them in the army, firstly, these artillery pieces are generally large and inconvenient to transport, and secondly, the large city of Nuoda still needs to be defended by artillery.

What makes Liu Hou happiest is the ten hot air balloons, which are brand new and ready to use immediately. Liu Hou immediately ordered to go down and let the craftsmen do their best to repair the damaged hot air balloon before. As long as these hot air balloons are repaired, there will be more than 20 hot air balloons in his air force, what a spectacular thing, Liu Hou looks forward to the day when his air force will grow.

The number of prisoners is not very large, but there are also six or seven thousand, and it is quite sad that there are only so many defenders in the capital of a country. These people can't be considered prisoners, because they are all soldiers of Shu, and they can only be said to be generals anyway. They will be able to be used by Liu Hou in no time. Liu Hou reorganized the troops this time, and he will fill all these people into various brigades.

These former Chengdu defenders are the elite of the Shu army, and they have experience in using fire # guns and artillery, which can quickly be transformed into combat effectiveness, and are the most ideal source of replenishment of soldiers for the Hong army.