Shi Min walked out of Zheng Cherry's Cining Palace, crossed a palace road, walked the imperial bridge, and when he passed a relatively secluded rockery, he suddenly heard a sobbing sound.

Well?

Shi Min was stunned and stood on his heels.

Looking at the source of the cry, I saw that in the corner of the rockery, a palace maid with a certain color was squatting there, crying with pear blossoms and rain, and her nose twitched, so she was not sad.

Shi Min was puzzled at this time, and couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Why are you crying here?" ”

The palace maid seemed to know Shi Min, so she immediately got up, bowed, and looked complaining: "The king forgive me." The elder brother of the family wrote a letter, saying that his father was sick and had died, and time was running out, and the slave maid wanted to ask for leave to go home, but he was not allowed, which was not the first time in the palace. The slave and maid tried to send a letter out, but they were also intercepted and punished! The slave and maid thought of the old father at home, and for a while, she was sad and inexplicable, and she didn't want to be seen by the king, she was really guilty of sin, and begged for mercy! ”

"Get up." Shi Min waved his hand.

"Thank you for not killing."

"Don't leave yet, the Lone King has something to ask you." Shi Min saw that the palace maid was leaving, so he stopped.

The palace maid stood with low eyebrows, her eyes were red, but she didn't dare to speak.

"The rules in the palace are so strict, don't you even have a period?"

"Yes."

"How many years have you been in the palace?"

"It's been six or seven years since I returned to the king."

Shi Min's brows furrowed: "So long? ”

"Yes." The palace maid said bitterly, "Actually, the slave maid is not a long time, in the cold palace, or some miscellaneous servants are still sixty or seventy years old!" Many people are dying of old age. ”

"No wonder ......" No wonder I haven't seen it before!

"If the king has nothing else to do, the slave and maid will retire."

"Go ahead."

Shi Min pondered there for a while, then returned to his Wei Wangfu and found Cui Hao and Qin Mu to discuss.

"Yuan Liang, Qin Mu, and King Gu plan to revise the laws in the palace, and at the same time release those palace maids or chamberlains who are old and decrepit or have nothing to do all day long, and let them live a normal life. What do you think? ”

Hearing this, Cui Hao and Qin Mu glanced at each other.

Cui Hao immediately said: "The king is wise! In fact, even if the king doesn't have this matter, the minister wants to bring it up with the king. ”

"Oh? So you and I coincide with each other's thoughts? ”

"Yes."

Cui Hao said with some sadness: "Shi Hu is not a son of man!" Lustful, greedy and not benevolent! During Shi Hu's reign, he repeatedly built palaces and repeatedly recruited a large number of show girls to enter the palace, with the number reaching 100,000! Isn't it painful for so many women in their prime to die in the deep palace of old age? Wouldn't it be a pity? ”

"And there are so many women in the palace, it's a huge expense! Now that the treasury is tight, it is already a situation where it is beyond its means, what can be used to feed these women who are not productive? ”

Shi Min nodded, thinking so!

Shi Hu, the tyrant, did a lot of ridiculous things, that year, the addition of female officials in the palace, divided into twenty-four ranks, the East Palace twelve, more than 70 princes and feudal countries were divided into nine ranks, and more than 30,000 voters were recruited on a large scale, divided into three classes and configured everywhere.

The crown prince and the princes privately ordered the selection of nearly 10,000 beauties.

The counties and counties tried their best to select beautiful women, and often forcibly took the wives of the common people, killed their husbands, and the number of them who committed suicide amounted to more than 3,000. After the beauty was sent to Ye, Shi Hu selected the grade in front of the palace, because the envoy was capable, and there were twelve people who were crowned marquis. As a result, the people of Jingchu, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou were killed and injured due to loss and rebellion.

Because the local guards could not appease them, more than 50 people were sent to prison and killed. When Dr. Jin Ziguanglu served Shi Hu, Shi Hu was furious, and let the brave Long Teng Zhonglang crush him to death!

In its heyday, it was rumored that there were tens of thousands of concubines and 200,000 palace maids in Shi Hu's harem! Shi Hu can be called the most lustful emperor in Chinese history.

As far as Shi Min knew, the number of existing palace maids in Jianzhang Palace had already exceeded 100,000! And that's not even counting those who died in war or ran away!

In troubled times, women are undoubtedly the most pitiful and vulnerable group.

Historically, in Shi Hu's later years, his sons killed each other, and there came one after another "Xuanwumen Change", he couldn't play it all at once, and finally he killed his two sons in a row, and also killed his grandson, so he became insane, and died in less than a year, and as a result, there was a problem after his death - how to deal with his tens of thousands of harems?

It's a real problem.

You must know that Shi Hu had 200,000 palace maids in Yecheng at that time, and these people had to eat hundreds of thousands of dollars every time they ate, which was a huge expense at that time.

Shi Hu is dead, and it is not a matter for the country to raise them, so how should it be solved?

This first way out came, and his son Shi Jian, with the support of the then powerful minister Ran Min, came to power and included these women in his harem.

Shi Jian saw that his father was really a good fortune, the women in it were all kinds of tastes, and there were all kinds of amorous styles, so he simply indulged in wine and ignored the government, anyway, at that time, the internal and external power was in the hands of Ran Min, so he let go of the play, and as a result, he only played 103 and was raised by Ran Min to sacrifice the flag!

After Ran Min killed Shi Jian, he also felt that this palace maid was difficult to deal with, so he simply let go of a part, this is also the second way out, out of the palace, but out of the palace is not a good way out, you must know that there was an undercurrent outside the palace at that time, and it was a time of chaos, taking advantage of Shi Hu's death, many people raised troops to rebel against Hou Zhao, such as what Fu Hong and the like, all betrayed Hou Zhao, so it was very dangerous to go out of Yecheng.

So many people are reluctant to go, so Ran Min's liberation routine is actually useless, and this second way is basically empty talk, so what is the fate of these people?

Later, the Xianbei Murong clan was the Murong clan of Murong Fu of the Dragon Babu who called over, and this group of people surrounded Yecheng, where Ran Min's troops were located, and they made Yecheng a water, and Ran Min was no longer in Yecheng at that time.

These defenders are desperately resisting and do not dare to surrender, but after resisting for a long time, there is a lack of food in the city, which is embarrassing, what to do if there is no food?

Some people have crooked brains, you must know that once there is a shortage of food in Chinese history, there is one thing that is inevitable, that is, people are food, and as a result, the palace maids in the Shihu period are basically turned into food, the so-called hunger in Yezhong, cannibalism, and the palace people in Jilong are eaten up.

This is amazing, these palace maids who didn't run out have basically become the food in the city, in fact, many of them were eaten by Ran Min's troops, so the end of the female Rao during the war years was really miserable, and later after Murong Xianbei broke through Yecheng, he found that the palace maids of Shihu in Yecheng were basically gone.

It is indeed a human tragedy, but this is all fate, and there is no way to do it, so women in the feudal era are indeed very miserable!

And Shi Min just wants this tragedy to happen again!

"Alas!"

Shi Min sighed: "It's all some poor women! Tomorrow, King Lone will go to ask Shi to follow the order and release those helpless palace maids. ”

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