Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1073 Preparation for Night Talk
In the Sui Dynasty, Dongdu Garden covered an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers, and only half of it was left in the Guo Dynasty.

This may be the largest royal garden/hunting ground in the world. It extends to Xiaoshui in the west, Manfu in the north, Jufei Mountain in the south and Luoyang in the east.The two rivers of Gu and Luo meet in the middle, with waves of pines bursting out, seas of bamboo stretching to the sky, clusters of flowers, and gurgling streams.

The Forbidden Garden has already started a comprehensive restoration work, and the city walls, palaces, and gardens are fully under construction.There are five gates on the north side of the garden, from west to east, namely: Chaoyang Gate, Lingyuan Gate, Xuanpu Gate, Yudong Gate, and Yingfu Gate.

Shao Shude entered Dongdu Garden from Yingfu Gate.

It was already late at night, Wei Wei Shaoqing He Lianjun, Qingcheng Palace Supervisor, and Dongdu Garden North Supervisor Wang Chan had been waiting in the cold wind. When they saw Shao Shude riding a tall horse, they immediately stepped forward and saluted: "See Your Highness."

The palace guards also saluted together.

Shao Shude got off his horse, threw the whip to Li Yixian, returned a salute, and said: "You gentlemen have worked hard, let's go, I will go back to the palace to rest."

After all, let's go first.

Sergeant Yin An Zhi scattered widely, guarding the front, rear, left, and right, and headed towards Suyu Palace.

Suyu Palace is located in the northeast corner of Dongdu Garden, not far from Yingfu Gate.Wei Ji presided over the construction. It is adjacent to a large pool in the south, and the pool is full of flowing water.The place is not big, strictly speaking, it is not as big as a palace in Ziwei City or Shangyang Palace.

This is actually quite normal. Most of the buildings in the Forbidden Garden are vacation properties.

Take Suyu Palace as an example. It is surrounded by forests, facing the lake, and the scenery is quiet. It was originally intended for people to come and relax after tiring work. Suyu refers to the birds that roost at night, which shows its environment.

Suyu Palace is under Wang Chan's jurisdiction.

In the old system of the country, there were prisons on all sides in the Forbidden Garden, and Shao Shude also followed this system.Currently:
Qingcheng Palace Prison was used as the north prison of the Forbidden Garden to manage Su Yu, Qingcheng and other palaces.

Take the Mingde Palace prison as the south prison of the forbidden garden, and manage Mingde, Huangnu and other palaces.

Take Hebi Palace Prison as the west prison of the Forbidden Garden, and manage Hebi Palace, Feixian and other palaces.

The Cuiwei palace prison is the east prison of the Forbidden Garden, managing Cuiwei, Lengquan and other palaces.

In addition, Dongdu Garden Farm Supervisor was set up to know the chores in the garden.

Wang Chan is a member of Wang Yanfan's clan, and he is also an effective candidate for the next generation of his family to enter the palace. He has been trained for many years.There will be a shortage of people. After the screening and inspection, he quickly ascended to the position and became the Qingcheng Palace Supervisor—of course, the Qingcheng Palace is still under construction.

Shao Shude strode into Suyu Palace.

The palace servants and eunuchs immediately got busy, and someone brought over the freshly brewed tea—yes, Wang Chan always paid attention to Shao Shude’s whereabouts, and made sure that when he arrived, he would have hot tea to drink, hot rice to eat, and a place to wash his hands. Feet or even taking a bath and serving people is also a profound knowledge.

"Everyone wants to be rich, and wealth really makes people intoxicated." Yin Anzhi's soldiers were on duty outside the gate in shifts. Shao Shude ordered them to prepare wine, meat and meals, then sat down and said with emotion.

The palace man brought hot water to wash his feet.This is Shao Shude's habit. He didn't have this condition when he was in the army, and he didn't want to humiliate the warriors. Now he will go back to the palace, and there will be gentle and gentle palace servants serving him. It is indeed a fairy day.

"I heard that there are still a lot of vacancies for the palace people in Shangyang Palace, and they haven't been fully recruited yet. Is there such a thing?" Shao Shude asked.

"We are currently recruiting." Wang Chan said, "Your Highness is fighting everywhere and taking care of a lot of things every day. Naturally, you need someone to serve you. The palace supervisor specially instructed that Your Highness likes to stay in Shendu Garden. First, prepare all the palace personnel and household items here."

As a eunuch, you really need to be smart.

Shao Shude only spoke the first half of a sentence, and Wang Chan figured out the hidden meaning, and immediately explained the reason.

Recruiting palace people is actually not that simple.

Palace people is a general term. In a broad sense, concubines are also considered palace people, but they generally refer to court ladies, unranked palace ladies, female musicians, female workers, handymen, etc., with a clear division of labor and a large number of personnel.

There are also four types of sources: first, courtesy hire into the palace, this kind of palace people are distinguished, such as Du Shi, Pei Shi, Xiao Shi, Wei Shi and others who served beside Shao Shude before; Entering the palace is generally a well-dressed scholar's family woman; thirdly, entering the palace as a sacrifice, there are many such people, and their identities are complicated, some enter the palace because of their outstanding virtues, some enter the palace because of their appearance, and some enter the palace because of special skills. In short, there are many; fourth, the crime has not entered the palace, and is also called an official slave, official slut.

In fact, the number of palace people entering the palace due to crimes is beyond your imagination. Many palace ladies, female workers, female musicians and other miscellaneous households have this identity.

Shao Shude nodded, gently stroked the cheek of the palace man kneeling in front of him, and asked, "Who is this girl? Why haven't I seen her before?"

"Your Highness forgot." Wang Chan said with a smile: "This is one of the daughters of the crime chief Abus, and His Highness has been lucky enough to be here before."

Shao Shude was a little embarrassed. During that time, he was crawling on the women of the Abusi family every day, making a fool of himself.Grabbing a snow-white buttocks and going in, I didn't take a good look at their appearance.

"Aren't those who have entered the palace with no crime afraid of hidden dangers?" Shao Shude dared to play with these women, but he basically didn't spend the night with them because he was afraid.

"There will be no hidden dangers. Your Highness can enjoy it with peace of mind." Wang Chan said: "Gaozong's wet nurse, Lu Shi, is the wife of Du Caihan, the governor of Huazhou. Nurse Zong."

"In Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong and the servant of the Huangmen, Wang Yu, had a banquet, and there were always beauties by his side. The concubine of Ai, the king of Lujiang, was defeated and did not enter the palace."

"Before Hou Junji was about to be executed, he begged his whole son to offer sacrifices, and he granted his permission. He exiled his wife to the south of the Five Ridges, and the whole family was wiped out. Among them were two beauties who drank human milk since childhood and did not eat. Taizong loved them and ordered them to come here. serve."

Shao Shude opened his eyes greatly.

Some secrets, he doesn't know, only exist in some inconspicuous piles of old papers, no one pays attention to them.

Taizong gave a banquet to his ministers, with Li Ai's concubine by his side.The two beauties who "drink human milk" that Hou Junji specially enjoyed for himself also fell into Taizong's hands in the end.

Professionals from the family of eunuchs know these black materials best.

"Very good, you are very attentive." Shao Shude praised, then patted the girl on the cheek, she quickly dried Shao Shude's feet, and left with a footbath.

Shao Shude put on his boots by himself, sat back at the table, and said while enjoying dinner, "Let your uncle come over."

"Obey." Wang Chan knew that there were some things that people of his level could not participate in, so he responded immediately.

After Shao Shude had almost eaten, Wang Yanfan rushed to Suyu Palace panting, wiped his sweat a little, and after breathing evenly, he walked into the palace room and said: "See Your Highness."

"Sit down." Shao Shude put the bowl and chopsticks aside, wiped his mouth, then got up and paced.

Wang Yanfan watched his nose, nose, and heart, not daring to move.

King Xia returned from the Wei Bo front line, of course he knew why.He, his servant Qiu Silian, Wei Weiqing Murong Fu, and Chishui army envoy Fan He all participated in this important event. They discussed it repeatedly in advance and conducted secret investigations to ensure that there were no problems.

"The case of Lu Guangqi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Dugushang, the assistant minister, and other traitorous ministers who murdered saints have been clarified?" Shao Shude stopped and looked at the bright moonlight outside the window, and asked suddenly.

Wang Yan and Fan Yilin, this is a qualitative statement.

The saint is not wrong, but the minister is guilty.The crime was not murdering King Xia, but murdering the king.

As for whether the slightly nonsensical reason for killing the king makes sense, no one cares.Anyway, what King Xia said was what he said, and no one dared to question it.

"Your Highness, does the saint want to..." Wang Yanfan asked in a low voice.

Don't look at the middle officials who usually bully the emperor, but killing the king must be a small number of people who dare to do it.If Liu Keming hadn't been accidentally injured by Jingzong and hit the base of his thigh with an arrow, he thought that the emperor found out that he was a fake eunuch with eggs and had raped more than ten palace people including Concubine Dong Shu, so he would not have thought of killing the king.

This psychological pressure is actually great.

"The sage was deceived by traitors, what's wrong?" Shao Shude asked rhetorically.

"Yes." Wang Yanfan breathed a sigh of relief.

If it is true to kill the king, why not eunuchs like them do it?Using sergeants to enter the palace to kill people is too ugly, and it is difficult to stop the mouths of the people of the world.

Even King Xia has a reputation for being generous, but those who kill the king directly will definitely not end well. It would be best not to touch this matter.

"However, the sage is so restless and wants to rebel, so he has to beat him." Shao Shude said, "You can handle this matter, don't make it too ugly. Let all the confidantes he brought out of the palace." .”

"Should all the thousands of people in Ziwei City be let go?" Wang Yanfan was a little surprised and asked.

How many palace people are needed in the palace is a question.

Since the Han Dynasty, the number of palace people has been expanding.

During the period of Emperor Taizong of the Kingdom, Li Baiyao, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, wrote a letter: "I heard that there are tens of thousands of useless palace people in Da'an Palace and Ye Court."

In the Xuanzong Dynasty, there were [-] palace people.

Even after the Anshi Rebellion, there were still tens of thousands of people.

Datang should be the dynasty with the largest number of courtiers in history.In the later Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is generally difficult to exceed [-] people.

Xuanzong loves to enjoy, so it is understandable that there are many people in the palace.

Although Taizong also liked female sex, there were many women in his harem because he inherited the harem of the former Emperor Sui Yang.

In the early years of the Kingdom, mainly in the two dynasties of Gaozu and Taizong, a major source of palace people was the concubines and court ladies left over from the previous Sui Dynasty. The new dynasty incorporated them in situ and continued to let them serve in the palace. In the year of the clan, there is no end to seeking talent." To put it bluntly, the country is in chaos and the population has dropped sharply. It is difficult to choose new palace ladies, so it is better to use Yang Guang to stay.

In fact, this is not a potential safety hazard. It has been done almost since the Northern Dynasties.

Chen Huashu, a palace man, entered the palace in the fourth year of Jiande (575) in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He successively served five emperors, Yuwenyong, Yuwenyun, Yuwenchan, Yang Jian, and Yang Guang, with extremely senior qualifications.

Tang Xizong was a man in the palace, and even served until the later Tang Mingzong period, and he had seven emperors, and he was very powerful.

"Be more screened." Shao Shude said: "The country is in chaos, the people are in dire straits, and the selection of palace officials can be avoided if possible. Some of the old palace officials will be released, some of them will be punished, and the rest will be comforted and retained."

"Of order." Wang Yanfan replied.

Shao Shude took a few more steps.

After this matter was dealt with, apart from his sons and daughters and concubines, there would be no familiar people around the saint.This should also be his last struggle. After going through this, he should accept his fate.

Of course, this was Shao Shude's idea.As for whether the saint will be intimidated, he still has to observe and observe.If it really doesn't work, he will be abolished, let the prince go, and then go through the whole process.

"Go down and let Murong Fu come over." Shao Shude waved his hand and said.

　Well, there will be a conference tomorrow, and this chapter says that the function should be blocked these days.

　　I can see what you said in the background, but the chapter page is not displayed, and it will probably take a few days before it is released.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)