Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 444 My Harem
There were too many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, which caused too many men to be eunuched or voluntarily eunuched.

This is a great destruction of human nature, and it also affects the population growth of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian wants to gradually eliminate this destructive creature.

Of course, Zhu Youjian's prohibition of marriage among female officials in power in the inner court will also affect population growth.

However, Zhu Youjian did not really prohibit it, but did not allow female internal officials to marry when they held important positions in the inner court. That is to say, women still have the opportunity to marry after becoming internal officials, but they only need to apply for resignation.

And even if there are a large number of folk women who will actively become palace officials in the future, only a small number of those who are actually selected and will not marry for life, and those who are eliminated can still go out of the palace to get married.

If a female internal official is a eunuch of the supervisor of ceremonies, she can only be unmarried for life. If she wants to marry, she can no longer serve as the supervisor of ceremonies, or even other inner court officials.

In layman's terms, it's your choice whether you want power or love.

But eunuchs are different.

Once eunuchs are not selected into the palace or deposed, they will no longer have the ability to reproduce, and will cause public security problems.

This is why Zhu Youjian wanted to use women instead of eunuchs to enrich the inner court.

maybe one day.

There will be no more eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and perhaps because the inner court is enriched by women, it will have a great impact on Neo Confucianism.

Of course, Zhu Youjian couldn't predict the unforeseen consequences of letting a woman replace the eunuch in charge of the inner court. Now he can only set up defense lines as much as possible.

For example, not to marry for life, and it is even strictly forbidden for clan vassals to collude with officials of foreign courts and internal officials, etc.

"Your Majesty, according to what you said, if there are female eunuchs, then what if these female eunuchs keep a lot of heads? Isn't that contrary to the three cardinal principles and five constant principles? How can people in the world spare them?"

Chen Yuanyuan brought up the most likely phenomenon of female eunuchs, so she showed a look of panic.

"Then how can I manage it? I don't know how to know that they raise face heads. Besides, it's better for the world not to tolerate them. The inner court needs lonely ministers."

As Zhu Youjian spoke, he heard the shouts of more than [-] women running in the square. Before running a few steps, some internal officials gave up and could no longer persist.

Zhu Youjian could only smile helplessly at this.

However, sometimes the willpower and competitive spirit of women are unimaginable to Zhu Youjian. After the physical training is over, there are still two thousand internal officials staying.

The two thousand internal officials will be examined by the Hanlin officials in Neishutang. The content of the examination is very simple, including writing a policy theory and a test post poem.

However, these days, if a woman is ignorant, she is a virtue, so there are really not many who can read and write. Fortunately, Zhu Youjian has asked Han Shoujing to pay attention to selecting those who can read and write, so there are [-] selected into the inner school. study.

Among the [-] internal officials elected to the Inner Academy, it means that after three years of study, some of them will enter the key departments of the inner court such as the Rites Supervisor and the Imperial Horse Supervisor to hold important positions.

Even the female internal officials who did not enter the Lijian and Yumajian would directly hold the low-level official positions of the 24th Yamen because they had entered the Neishutang, or they would be transferred to the Dongchang and local inner court institutions to serve as middle-level officials.

As for those who have not entered the inner hall, they will naturally start as handymen first, and those who are outstanding will naturally be promoted.

It's the same reason that the cabinet of the outer dynasty must go to the Hanlin, and the official must first choose Jinshi.

However, whether it is the inner court or the outer court, Zhu Youjian will also change this rule again. There is no reason why the Imperial Academy directly enters the six cabinets.

Whether there is local administrative experience and central ministry administrative experience will be inspected by Zhu You as the most important principle.

How these female internal officials are allocated and selected into the inner school, although the final appointment is still decided by Zhu Youjian, but he naturally does not have to ask about everything.

Now, Zhu Youjian has to pay attention to the fifty concubines he has chosen.

How to determine the ranks of these fifty concubines is also a troublesome matter.

However, when Zhu Youjian thought that he had so many concubines who were essentially stallions and produced more offspring, he was really not looking for some beloved woman to come to the Ming Dynasty version of the Palace of Eternal Life, so he ordered the Ministry of Rites to general These concubines were given the title of nobleman uniformly.

The concubines of the Ming Dynasty have the ranks of noble concubine, concubine, concubine, nobleman, talented person, chosen servant, and lady.

Now Zhu Youjian directly bestows the titles of nobles to these new concubines who entered the palace, which is not low or stingy.

As for which of these 50 people can finally win Zhu Youjian's favor and be promoted to concubine, concubine or even queen, Zhu Youjian is naturally unpredictable.

Chen Yuanyuan also got the title of Concubine Yuan.

Because she has been with Zhu Youjian for a while and has had skin-to-skin relationship with Zhu Youjian, Zhu Youjian did not let Chen Yuanyuan enter the inner court in order to abide by the principle that female internal officials should not have affairs with the royal family. life management.

Chen Yuanyuan, who has been here for a long time, is naturally higher than the new concubine.

Naturally, the Ministry of Etiquette was concerned about how these fifty nobles were named, and Zhu Youjian didn't care.

Now he has to be blessed one by one, and to be exposed to the rain and dew evenly.

This may be the greatest benefit of being an emperor.

Having so many women has not been criticized by anyone, and it should be taken for granted.

Even if Zhu Youjian chooses so many nobles to enter the palace now, it is to make the entire Ming Dynasty have better successors.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian has not yet reached the age of forty, but he has the energy to cultivate a few competitive adult princes, but he is not too young now, so the time for the stallion should not be too late.

Comprehensively considering the principles of self-cultivation and other factors, Zhu Youjian decided to make the cycle of luck every seven days, so that all the new nobles can have the opportunity to harvest rain and dew throughout the year.

Fifty nobles always have successful fertilization.

Zhu Youjian's sperm cells are naturally fine, as evidenced by Concubine Yuan Gui's successful conception.

Concubine Yuan Gui has indeed given birth to a prince now, and this can be regarded as Zhu Youjian's first child in the true sense after traveling through Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian named it Zhu Ciyun.

When Zhu Yuanzhang established the country, he set the rules for naming the heirs of the Zhu family, and Zhu Youjian did not break it. He still let the last name of the eighth prince, who was not yet one year old, be next to the fire, and his generation was divided into the generation of kindness.

Zhu Youjian had already had seven sons who died before crossing, so Zhu Ciyun was counted as the eighth prince.

Zhu Cihong, who is now King Hui, is the eldest prince.

Zhu Cijiong is the current King Ding as the third prince.

Zhu Cihuan, who is now King Yong, is the fifth prince.

Zhu Youjian didn't expect that he would taste the taste of being a father in the Ming Dynasty. Seeing Zhu Ciyun with pink makeup and jade made him feel like he couldn't put it down. So make him feel kinder.

Of course, Zhu Youjian's frequent visits to Concubine Yuan Gui now have something to do with his relatively weak relationship with Queen Zhou.

Only at the beginning of the year, after Zhu Youjian returned to Beijing from Henan, he had a conversation with Queen Zhou, and the two of them were like a cold war, and there was no communication except for the harmony in front of outsiders.

The biggest obstacle to the communication between the two is their different views on whether to restore Zhu Cihong's crown prince.

(End of this chapter)