Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 527 Internal Affairs Department, Female Imperial Envoy

At night, Aimee Zhu did not fall asleep after taking a bath, but studied at her special "desk" in the living room.

Thinking about women's liberation and the appointment of female officials since the ranks, she felt more and more that the current system of grades and titles for female officials was not applicable, so she said, "Master, I want to reform the system of female officials, so you can help me as a staff officer. "

"I like this kind of thing the most." Hao Guangming, who was playing a game, responded, and directly pulled the hero back to the spring to hang up, and came to help Aimee Zhu with political affairs.

The two first studied the female official system in Ming Dynasty.

In fact, when they were in Chengdu before, the two of them had a little understanding of the female official system of the Ming Dynasty, and made some innovations, but the changes were very few.

Now that Auntie Zhu has preliminarily secured the throne of the Daming Emperor and kept the Daming country, it is natural to change the system of female officials to make it easier for her to employ people.

The system of female officials and court ladies in the Ming Dynasty can be called the system of nine ranks and three ranks.

Among them, the court ladies are simply divided into first, third and third classes, with the first class being the highest.

Female officials are divided into nine ranks and seventeen ranks. The reason why they are not eighteen ranks is that the nine ranks do not distinguish between righteousness and obedience, and there is no specific title. They are all called female historians.

Hao Guangming said: "The rank system of female officials and court ladies is actually quite mature, and it vaguely corresponds to the foreign dynasty, so I don't think there is any need to change it.

But the titles of female officials and their division of work, because they used to serve the concubines in the harem, and your harem is empty now, so there will be no concubines in the future, right? "

Having said this, Hao Guangming's tone suddenly became uncertain, and he stopped and looked at Aimi Zhu steadily.

This made Aunty Zhu couldn't help but chuckle, and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Xianggong, I will definitely not have a concubine."

Hao Guangming also smiled, feeling that he was polluted by some strange novels and TV series.

Concentrating his thoughts, he continued: "Because you don't have a concubine in the harem, and most of your rest time is served by your husband and I at the old house in Zhulin, so the previous division of duties and titles for female officials seems inappropriate."

"That's right," Aunt Zhu nodded, "That's what I think—I want to promote some female officials, but I always feel that there are no suitable positions."

"Then will you allow female officials in the palace to participate in politics in the future?" Hao Guangming asked the key point.

Aunt Zhu thought for a while and said, "We will definitely not allow female officials in the palace to participate in politics. If a woman wants to participate in politics, she can be an official in the outer court or join the secretariat.

However, I should send the palace ladies to supervise the implementation of some policies or do some private affairs for me like today. "

After Hao Guangming thought about it, he asked again: "Where are the eunuchs? How do you plan to arrange them? Will Daming still use eunuchs in the future?"

"Of course not." Aunt Zhu said without hesitation, "Your future generations will recognize that although the existence of eunuchs is a necessity in history, they are inhumane and will disappear due to the development of civilization.

That being the case, why didn't I, Daming, make the eunuch disappear earlier?In fact, after I ascended the throne, I ordered several senior eunuchs in the palace to stop recruiting eunuchs into the palace. "

Hao Guangming nodded and said, "Since this is the case, there is no need to put eunuchs in an important position in the establishment of the relevant new system."

Then the two studied the previous titles of female officials in detail, and found that it was really cumbersome.

Because the Ming emperor had many concubines in the past, plus the emperor himself, there were often thousands of court ladies who needed to serve.

The female official system in the past dynasties has divided all aspects of the life of the emperor and his concubines into individual responsibilities, and entrusted many female officials to take charge.

For example, in Daming, there are six bureaus for female officials, namely Shanggong Bureau, Shangyi Bureau, Shangfu Bureau, Shangshi Bureau, Shangbei Bureau, and Shanggong Bureau, each with its own department.

In each bureau, the titles of female officials represent their responsibilities. For example, the Shangfu Bureau has the positions of Sibao, Siyi, Sizhuang, and Sizhang. The matter of dressing is divided into four categories, and 40 people are arranged to do it. .

Seeing this, Hao Guangming couldn't help sighing: "It's too extravagant, too wasteful, and too cumbersome. To be honest, dividing all aspects of life into so many tasks is not only a waste of manpower, but also a kind of siege to the recipients.

I seriously doubt that the person who designed this system in the first place just wanted to fill the lives of concubines in the harem with these cumbersome things, so as to prevent them from thinking wildly because they don't have enough time for the emperor. "

Auntie Zhu nodded her head in agreement.

She has seen some things in later generations from the Internet, but she knows that many things are developed towards simplicity and convenience, even etiquette is the same.

Think about it, it takes half a day for a person to be dressed and eaten by dozens of people, what is he planning?What can he do this day?It's completely unnecessary.

In fact, in Auntie Zhu's memory, many palace positions during the Chongzhen period were vacant, and they were not used at all, and many were only used once a year.

Overly cumbersome etiquette is also one of the disadvantages she wants to change. Naturally, it is impossible to inherit those cumbersome and unnecessary things in the palace.

"According to your needs, I think it is possible to streamline the organization of the Six Courts of Court Ladies and the 24 Supervisors of Eunuchs, eliminate unnecessary positions, and merge them into the Department of Internal Affairs.

This organization is only responsible for your personal and "staff" living in the Forbidden City, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, and does not involve military and political affairs.

Therefore, the 24 prisons originally managed by eunuchs can temporarily retain the upper [-] prisons, and the subsequent four divisions and eight bureaus will be abolished directly.

The original Sixth Bureau can add the Procurement Bureau, Neicang Bureau, Huanyi Bureau, and Internal Electricity Bureau to form the Twelfth Bureau, and transfer some affairs of the Fourth Division and Eighth Bureau that were originally in charge of the eunuchs to the Twelfth Bureau for management.

In this way, the Department of Internal Affairs became the Twelfth Supervisor and the Twelfth Bureau.

As there are fewer and fewer eunuchs in the palace in the future, you can gradually hand over the work of the eunuchs to the maids, until finally the maids and female officials are completely responsible for the affairs of the Twelve Supervisors.

Of course, the specific functions of the Twelfth Prison and the Twelfth Bureau have to be changed to make it more suitable for your needs..."

After finally studying the system, division of duties, titles, etc. of the Internal Affairs Department, Hao Guangming talked about the part that Aimee Zhu cares most about——

"Since you just want to use female officials to help you supervise and check the implementation of some policies, you can set up another internal supervisor outside the Internal Affairs Department.

Those who are promoted from the maids of internal affairs to enter the inner prison have no actual titles and are known as "imperial envoys" to the outside world, but their ranks are divided into nine and seventeen ranks, which correspond to the ranks of female officials.

Anyway, this department is destined not to have too many people, so there is no need to make it so complicated.what do you think? "

Although Aimee Zhu felt that it was better than before, she was still not satisfied.

But she knew that it was good for Hao Guangming to come up with this new system in such a short period of time, and if there were any problems, she would just change it slowly in the future.

So he said: "It's okay, let's do this first."

The next day, Aunt Zhu called together all the court ladies, eunuchs, and female officials in the Forbidden City to announce the relevant new system.

He also appointed Fei Zhen'e as the chief manager of the Internal Affairs Department, and appointed Fang Zhenghua, Lu Jiude, Han Zanzhou, Lianqiao, and Liu Zhu as the chief managers to assist Fei Zhen'e in running the Internal Affairs Department.

Under the general manager is the top leader of the [-]th Bureau and the [-]th Supervisor.

For the time being, Zhu Yuxi only promoted ten female officials, including Ming Shilan and An Ruoxi, as "imperial envoys".

　I feel very dissatisfied with the writing of this chapter. I wrote it while researching the materials. When I was about to finish writing, I found that although the system of eunuchs, court ladies, and female officials in the Ming Dynasty was cumbersome, it was actually quite complete. It's not much better than that.

　　The author wants to set up a new system in line with the reality of the article. Even if he can, it will take a lot of time and brains, but this is not an important plot, it can only be regarded as an addition. . .

　　After writing for more than three hours, I feel that I have done useless work.At most, it can be regarded as a patch for the female officer system in the article.

　　Eat a fall and gain a wisdom.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)