The examination of female officials in the inner court draws on the rules of the Daming Imperial Examination, but there are definitely some changes.

The Ministry of Rites organizes the examination, the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervises the examination, and the officials of each ministry select officials to judge the examination papers.

In fact, there is no content to be tested, first of all, the theory of Datong must be qualified, secondly, mathematics must also be qualified, and finally the writing of various official documents.

The top two hundred were selected by the competition, and the bigwigs of each ministry personally presided over the interview - Zhao Han didn't let them participate, and the ministers could handle it, but those Shangshu were really not at ease.

And then it's fun.

"This wandering lotus is very good, Kong Wu is powerful, and he has also been a missionary, and he can be the palm seal of the imperial horse supervisor." Li Banghua stroked his beard and nodded in approval.

Pang Chunlai said: "The golden cui bottle is also very good, and before becoming a missionary, she also worked as a cook in the palace. Although he was ranked at the bottom of the written examination, only 198 were examined, it was most suitable to be the palm print of Shangshan supervisor. ”

The two women who were favored by Li Banghua and Pang Chun are both people with big shoulders and round waists. They are obviously deliberate, afraid that the female official will confuse the emperor!

The use of female officials in the inner court is a pioneering move, and no one knows what it will become, so the bigwigs of the various ministries must be cautious.

Especially for the first time, you have to set the tone and become the unspoken rule in the future, that is: try to choose people with mediocre appearance, and you must be innocent.

After repeated discussions, a number of Shangshu voted and finally elected the female official of the Inner Court of the Master of Ceremonies.

This position can be called the internal minister or the female minister.

is still mediocre in appearance, and it can only be said that it is not ugly. He is still a missionary, ensuring that his ideas pass the test and that his origin is reliable.

This woman's name is Shi Weixian, the daughter of a village school master.

First, he was promised to be married to a fellow villager Xiucai, but before he could pass the door, his fiancé died. remarried to a neighboring county child, and after half a year of marriage, her husband died again.

Since then, he has taken the name of Kefu on his back, and it happened that the Datong army was killed, and Shi Weixian ran away from home to become a missionary. Her qualifications are very profound, and the time she took refuge in Zhao Han was a month earlier than Li Banghua, and now she is thirty-four years old, and she refuses to marry again.

Although the written test is outside the hundredth, it is most suitable to choose her as the internal minister.

Of course, there are more senior women, such as Xiaohong and Xiaocui.

But Xiaohong is now a state acquaintance, and her marriage and family are quite happy. Xiaocui has also been married for three years, quit her job directly, and taught her husband and children at home.

Many female missionaries pursue freedom and the value of life, and they do not want to be locked up in the inner court as female officials.

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Li Xiangjun was a little disappointed, she scored first in the written test, but she only became the head of the seal and ribbon prison.

Moreover, Zhao Han's inner court's seal and ribbon supervisors, compared with the Ming Dynasty's seal and ribbon prisons, have been cut by more than half. You can also be in charge of the books in the palace, the letters in the inner court, and the waist cards that enter and exit the inner court.

Kou Baimen is similar, with the top ten scores in the written exam, and he was assigned to the internal officials and supervisors whose power was cut by ninety.

Gu Hengbo scored second in the written test, but was directly eliminated because she was a prostitute.

Although Zhao Han abolished the distinction between good and low, the examination for female officials in the inner court did not prohibit famous prostitutes from participating. But the interviewers have rods and scales in their hearts, and the people contacted by famous prostitutes are too mixed, what is the evil intention in case they sneak into the palace?

Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and others are even discussing that people from certain industries will not be allowed to become female officials in the inner court in the future.

Although Chen Maosheng advocated the equality of the good and the low, he also clearly distinguished the pros and cons, and acquiesced in their proposal.

A few days later, they were assigned to a garden training business.

When You Julian saw Li Xiangjun, she asked with a smile, "What position does my sister do?" ”

Li Xiangjun replied: "The seal supervisor is in charge." ”

"It's promising." You Julian praised.

The chief officials of each prison in Zhao Han's inner court are respectively palm seals, palm books, and palm secretaries.

The head of the company is already the third person in the Seal Ribbon Prison, Li Xiangjun is young and indeed very promising.

Although she is beautiful and has deducted points, she has the first score in the written test, and she has worked as a clerk in Jiangning County, which makes the interviewers have nothing to say.

Li Xiangjun asked about the candidates for the palm seals of each supervisor, and You Julian gave a detailed introduction.

The palm prints of the supervisors are all female missionaries, all of them are mediocre-looking women, with an average age of more than 30 years.

After such an inquiry, Li Xiangjun instantly balanced his mind.

Not long after, Shi Weixian, the master of ceremonies, appeared and said, "I don't know much about the rules of the inner court, but I have been a missionary for many years. Everyone is a female official, and it is not allowed to beat and scold subordinates, nor is it allowed to beat and scold palace maids. Of course, if you do something wrong, you will be punished, and if you should have a major demerit, you will have a major demerit recorded, and if you should be criticized, you will be criticized. Done an unforgivable wrong, expulsion is a certainty......"

Well, let an old qualified missionary be the master of ceremonies, and Zhao Han's inner court quickly became the one of the missionary system.

Shi Weixian said: "The great day of His Highness's accession to the throne has been set, and it is time to address Your Majesty in the future." In the enthronement ceremony, our inner court must also cooperate well, especially the sisters of the governor and the eunuch have to work hard! ”

The inner court of the Ming Dynasty has 12 prisons, 4 divisions, and 8 bureaus.

Zhao Han not only cut the power of the inner court by half, but also cut the inner court institutions by half.

For example, the division supervision and Shangyi supervision were directly cancelled in their entirety. The affairs of the department of supervision were merged into the metropolitan governor's office, and the affairs of the Shangyi prison were merged into the imperial prison.

Streamlining the organization and streamlining the staff.

What can be done by one person, not by two people. What can be done by the outer court, not by the inner court.

Even the palace supervisor was canceled, cleaning and maintaining the Taimiao, and offering incense to the Taimiao Emperor, this kind of thing was handed over to the Ministry of Rites to do.

Moreover, some female officials in the inner court will definitely go out of the Forbidden City to do business, and they will definitely have contact with men outside.

Even the office addresses of the prisons are outside the Forbidden City and inside the Imperial City.

Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and others strongly recommend adding a rule: female officials in the inner court are pregnant and give birth, and they cannot be regarded as princes and princesses!

Because it may be due to an affair with a guard, or a civil official.

If a female official really wants to get married, she can resign at any time.

The future emperor, if he likes which female official. He must also be removed from his position first, and he will leave his post and enter the harem for more than ten years, and the baby born will be considered to be born to the royal family.

It is so troublesome to use female officials, and there is no need to think about fertility at all when using eunuchs.

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As the date of Zhao Han's accession to the throne approached, the management of public security in Nanjing became more and more stringent.

Hallym Temple.

Liu Ru was in the process of cutting the dictionary, and their first draft was sent back by Zhao Han. Each word must be deleted and corrected as much as possible to be as concise as possible so that beginners can understand it.

All the vulgar language is used, and the literary language is not allowed!

It's a tiring change, even more tiring than when I first started compiling it.

"Master Liu!"

A handyman from the Hanlin Academy hurriedly walked over and whispered, "Your maid has been found, there is an urgent matter at home, so let you go back quickly." ”

Liu Ru didn't know why, so she walked out of the Hanlin Courtyard quickly, and saw the maid standing there with a happy face.

"What's wrong?" Liu asked.

The maid was a maid she hired in Nanjing, and now she lives in a rented house, and there is a cook-in-law at home.

The maid was delighted: "Someone has come to the house to collect money. ”

Liu Ru smiled: "Just drive away." ”

Nacai is to ask for marriage, and after the woman agrees, she begins to have eight characters on her birthday.

When the emperor and the prince get married, they also have to go through this process.

The maid laughed in a low voice: "It's someone sent by King Wu." ”

Liu Ru was stunned for a moment, and then smiled with a little disbelief.

Except for the time when Zhao Han was personally recruited, she has always maintained correspondence with Zhao Han. At first, he talked about poetry and literature, and then he talked about the content of his work, such as compiling pinyin and dictionaries, and Zhao Han always gave instructions by writing letters.

Later, the correspondence became more casual, and even chatted about some interesting things in life.

Liu Ru felt that her intimacy with Zhao Han was getting closer, but she was less and less interested in marrying Zhao Han, after all, Zhao Han was the one who wanted to be the emperor, and she herself was born as a prostitute.

Unexpectedly, it actually became!

Liu Ru took the maid, summoned two roadside sedan chairs, and hurried back to the rental house in a sedan chair.

Nacai is also a female official, in her thirties, with a team of Wu Wangfu guards, seeing Liu Ru is face full of smiles.

After the business was done, the female official said: "Master Liu, King Wu has an order." Even if you canonize a concubine, you can continue to work in the Hanlin Academy, but when the palace is repaired, you can't go out easily. ”

"Your Highness has a heart." Liu Ru was even happier that she could finish the dictionary.

The next day, the matter was reported to the Hanlin Academy, and Qian Qianyi and Zhang Pu came with everyone to congratulate them.

At the same time, he was more suspicious and did not dare to approach within two steps. Even when discussing the content of the dictionary, a third person was specially pulled, and he didn't dare to talk to Liu Ru alone.

In this regard, Liu Ru felt very helpless, she completely became an outlier in the Hanlin Academy.

That night, Liu Ru drank alone, drank a few glasses of rice wine, and wrote a poem while drunk. The content is a little stunned, but there is joy between the lines, and he laughs when he writes it.

For Zhao Han, one queen and two concubines are enough, but the Fei family sisters are all concubines, and one or two more women must be selected as concubines.

Whether it's balance or beating, this is no longer Zhao Han's housework.

In this case, of course, the choice of concubines must choose those who know the roots. Zhao Han thinks that Liu Ru is good, he likes it very much, and his character is also very good, it doesn't matter if he is born or something.

Zhang Pu invited Qian Qianyi for the first time, and the two went to the Qinglou to play tea.

The woman who retired from the Qinglou, the two drank and chatted alone.

Zhang Pu sighed: "In another month, there will be a change of dynasty." ”

"Yes," Qian Qianyi also sighed, "Looking back on decades, it's really like a dream." The battle between the government and the opposition is really ridiculous, Da Ming is really gone. ”

Zhang Pu said: "Right now, this must be the British Lord Mingjun." But doing things out of the ordinary is unpredictable, and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. Mr. Liu is naturally talented and good-looking, but his background is ...... Ordinary emperors can't do it. ”

Qian Qianyi laughed: "Extraordinary people have their own extraordinary actions, which are not something that mortals can consider. Who would have thought that he would not use eunuchs and use female officials instead? The female official must have made a lot of trouble, and it depends on how the future monarchs and ministers can remedy it. ”

"Two or three generations later, I guess I will still use eunuchs." Zhang Pu couldn't help laughing.

Qian Qianyi said: "Two or three generations later, why should we worry? Come, drink this cup full! ”