A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 237

As the year approaches, the palace is releasing people again.

Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, he kept releasing palace people from the palace. The emperor's public reason was that these palace people were pitiful, but Wu Huaiyu guessed maliciously that it might be because Li Shimin didn't want too many people in Taiji Palace.

After all, the current owner of the Taiji Palace is the Supreme Emperor, and since the Supreme Emperor abdicated, he has lived in a secluded palace. It is said that his only hobbies are childbirth and playing the pipa.

In just a few months after the abdication, more than a dozen concubines became pregnant in the Taiji Palace.

The young emperor is definitely dissatisfied with the Taishanghuang's messing around like this, but he can't say it as a son, otherwise it is unfilial.

So the emperor eliminated a large number of court ladies on the grounds of being poor.

"I heard that after leaving the palace, many of those palace people have no home to return to and no relatives to turn to. It's really pitiful. You can go to my ancestor and bring some back. It's the cold winter months, alas."

Fan Xuanfu, who hides in the small courtyard every day to raise his fetus, took the initiative to ask Jian Yi to find Huaiyu on a rare occasion.

Still can only talk at the gate of the courtyard through the window of the porch, she is warm in the porch room, but Huaiyu can only stand in the wind and snow, holding a heater.

"Our family is not short of people now."

"Of course there is no shortage of people in our family. Isn't it the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress to let some court ladies out of the palace, but there are many poor palace maids who are homeless and have no relatives to turn to. We are placing them for the saint. "

He obviously wanted to take the opportunity to recruit people, but he said it so nicely.

The palace people released by Li Shimin are actually divided into two categories. One category is women from good families who enter the palace. These people are usually released when they are around 25 years old. Usually, their parents are allowed to bring them home for marriage, or The marriage-givers are officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army, or they are handed over to the local government as a matchmaker to match young people from good families who are suitable for marriage in the local area.

This kind of concubine is generally not allowed to be made into a concubine by powerful officials.

Of course, there is another kind of criminals who are mainly from the criminal family, women who have not entered the court, and some have even been married or even given birth to children before. Generally, they may be in their thirties, and they are old and pale.

Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, most of the palace people were the wives and daughters of criminals, most of whom were in the court, and there were very few women from real good families.

I heard that there are officials who are playing now, thinking that most of the palace people in the emperor's palace are the wives and daughters of criminals. This has led to some palace people being lucky enough to give birth to princes and princesses for the emperor, but their status is too humble and very inappropriate. Select some beautiful women from good families from the folk, even young ones with good family backgrounds, and even those who are educated and courteous, which is in line with the identity of the Tianjia.

So now a large number of palace people are eliminated, which is also to prepare for the newcomers.

Many of these palace people with bad backgrounds were directly rewarded to noble officials, and many of them were sold. Of course, the disclosure was not about selling, but dignitaries and even merchants went to pick them up.

However, the leader also needs to pay a sum of money, but it is useless to buy the title, but the fact is still a business, these palace people are equivalent to slaves who have been eliminated.

Although most of them are at least 25 years old, maybe even over [-] years old, but although these women entered the palace as the female relatives of criminals at the beginning, they are definitely not all crooked melons and jujubes, and they are all right.

Now that it is released, the price is not too expensive. It is quite high-quality to buy it for a noble family to use as a servant, or even as a concubine.

Many aristocrats and relatives in Chang'an are vying to buy it.

Fan Xuanfu also wanted to buy a batch back. The palace servants who came out of the palace were more important than Silla maids, Bosiji, and Kunlun slaves.

"If your husband is interested, you can choose two concubines. It's the Chinese New Year, and it's also a celebration to have two new concubines."

After being pregnant, Fan Xuanfu now keeps in mind Huaiyu's instructions, no longer rides horses and shoots arrows, and no longer wields big knives. Like a lady, she plays chess, plays the piano, reads books, draws pictures, and stays here. Inside the courtyard.

Coupled with intentional tonic, this made her who was originally very fit and handsome gradually plump up, and her bright and clean face became smoother.

The speech is much softer.

Huaiyu didn't want her to stay in this small courtyard every day. Although the small courtyard was not small, she still felt that she was exaggerating.

It's just that after she became pregnant, she became stubborn, and Huaiyu could only follow her heart.

She stretched her waist, "I'm so sleepy, I always feel like I don't get enough sleep every day, I won't tell you anymore, I'm going back to catch up on sleep, you hurry up and pick some palace servants back, such opportunities don't come often, Regardless of high or low, bring more back.”

"When you choose someone to take a concubine, remember to choose the kind of innocent woman. It's best not to be a daughter of the Xing family. It's better not to be married and have children."

She said a few words and left.

Staying in Huaiyu, I can't laugh or cry, what a good tradition in ancient times, this big woman takes concubines for her husband, so many men in future generations will be beyond reach.

The next day Huaiyu really went to the gate of the palace with his entourage, and went to see Zhang Anan first.

"I heard that Gao Hui'an is pregnant?"

"Eunuch is very well informed."

The old eunuch laughed a few times, "How many palace servants do you want to bring back, and what kind of people do you want?"

"Poor people who are homeless and have no relatives to vote for. My father-in-law arranged for me to take them home. The family also needs some smart and diligent people."

"Choose two young and beautiful women as concubines?"

Huaiyu shook his head, he now has one wife, three concubines and four concubines, Wu Liushi even picked a personal servant girl from each of his wives and concubines to be the housemaid,

No matter how strong the ox is, it can't beat eight wives and concubines plus eight maidservants, one dozen sixteen.

"I'll pick two for you. They're absolutely not bad. They're definitely better than the second high school last time. You don't have to be polite. Which noble family is not like this. They can also be used to entertain guests or give them away."

Among the aristocratic families, it is popular to give maids as gifts.

Huaiyu found it difficult to accept, although he also knew that most of the gifts were housewives, usually kabuki and dancers kept at home, but there were indeed some people who would give away their concubines, and even Some gave away pregnant concubines.

This is too unacceptable.

But in the eyes of nobles in Chang'an, concubines are actually like cattle and horses. Only noble concubines like you have a certain status, or they have given birth to children for the master.

All other concubines can be gifted.

Huaiyu handed Zhang Anan a piece of paper, which was the dividend of Changshengtang. Changshengtang originally had three shareholders. With two branch offices, the capital is sufficient, the business is also big, and with a strong backing, the business is naturally more prosperous.

Although the account period is every five years, Huaiyu still took out a large amount of surplus funds in the account to distribute dividends.

The piece in Zhang Ananda's hand is a voucher, with this piece of paper and a special key as a token, one can withdraw a thousand coins at any time from the three accounts in Chang'an and Luoyang.

"Hehe." After listening, Zhang Anan put it into his arms with a smile.

Huaiyu had heard that eunuchs love money, after all, without treasures, it is difficult to have other pursuits.

Zhang Anan called his adoptive son Zhang Fuguo and asked him to pick someone for Huaiyu.

Picked twenty 25-year-old palace servants from the Xing family who were not in Yeting, and picked two 20-year-old palace servants from good families for Huaiyu to be his concubines.

For those 20 people, Huaiyu paid 100 million yuan according to the rules, 20 yuan each, and [-] yuan each for the other two. In fact, this price, if it is in the Renma Market of Chang'an City, is also relatively high. .

However, even if these palace servants come from the Xing family, they are also from the palace, and the number is limited, which is not comparable to ordinary slaves.The slaves in the two cities were also divided into many grades, for example, there were domestic slaves, and there were fanhu slaves, and then there were male and female slaves.

For example, Silla maidservants, Kunlun slaves, and orchids are still high-end. As for the maids who come out of the palace, rare things are more expensive.

If it is an ordinary Fan Ding maidservant, it is a young and strong barbarian maidservant, maybe 1 for the inferior one, and only more than [-] for the underage maidservant, and only a few thousand for the old and young barbarian maidservant.But some of the best female servants can be sold for [-] yuan, and if they are beautiful or have some special talents, such as singing and cooking, the price may be doubled.

Generally speaking, the price of a young and strong barbarian male slave is roughly equivalent to that of a horse in Chang'an.

The Silla maidservants that the aristocratic families are vying to buy are even more expensive, especially those authentic Silla maidservants, just like buying a BMW, ordinary people can't afford it.

Zhang Anan still gave Huaiyu some discounts, and asked his adopted son to choose the best in the same class.

22 people paid 140 million yuan. Huaiyu felt that it was not worth it. Although these palace people were rare and expensive, he felt that the Wu family should not have reached this level now.

However, Fan Xuanfu wanted to buy it, and she paid for it.

If you buy some raw fangs and maidservants from Lingnan, you can buy a thirteen or fourteen-year-old for seven or eight thousand yuan, and for more than one million yuan, you can buy two hundred.

Based on today's conversion of two hundred dollars for a bucket of rice, a servant girl can exchange three and a half stones of rice, but a palace servant can exchange 25 stones of rice.

Take them home and hand them over to the monks and servants. There are quite a lot of people in the Hou Mansion now, but the sisters of the Fan family still feel that there are too few people.

Fan Xing had more than 30 concubines, more than 20 housewives who specialized in playing the piano, singing and dancing, and more than [-] slaves.

It is said that Yang Suquan of the Sui Dynasty was in power, with thousands of children in his family, and thousands of prostitutes, concubines, and maids in the backyard.

And Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian in this dynasty, now drinks and listens to music at home every day, and there are more than 100 singing girls and dancing girls in his backyard.

These days, to see who has power and status, one must not only look at how many farms and shops there are, but also how many servants and maidservants, and how many kabuki and dance girls they have.

Huaiyu discovered that in the early Tang Dynasty, although the treasury was empty and the people were poor, those powerful people really lived extravagantly.

Ice and Fire.

It is completely two worlds.

Just as Huaiyu was sighing, Duan Lun, the governor of Gyeongju, who used to be the supervisor of the Military Weapons Supervision, sent someone to bring Huaiyu a carload of New Year's goods, and also sent two pipa prostitutes. .Duan Lun said that he had learned a lot from Huaiyu's practice before, so he specially sent two pipa prostitutes to thank him.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t accept it. Just after accepting it here, Qihui, doctor Jin Ziguanglu and the abbot of Lou Guanzong Shengguan, also sent someone to send two Kunlun slaves and two carts of bacon, wild rice, and pheasant to Huaiyu. The hare and others said it was a New Year gift for the uncle.

Wuwei Bo'an Yuanshou also sent two Persian orchids, with curly black brown hair, big and round eyes, amber pupils that look very deep, tall, young and beautiful, with a lot of spices from the Western Regions.

Seeing the Sogdian steward of An's family leading the two Persian orchids out of the carriage, Huaiyu couldn't help thinking, the sixth son of the six doors, is he trying to put eyeliner next to him again?
(End of this chapter)