Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 86
The heavy palace gate slowly opened, and what caught the eye was the ground paved with blue bricks, and on the cornices carved from sandalwood, a phoenix spread its wings to fly, and the floating windows carved from blue tiles slowly sank along with the jade steps.

Ye Ting ordered Jiang Ji to be careful, and led His Majesty the Emperor into the palace gate. Like the accompanying Jing Xiang, Yang Shihou and others, Li Ye also entered for the first time.

Yeting Palace is located on the west side of Taiji Palace, away from Daming Palace. It used to be a place where concubines and maids of the Tang Dynasty lived.

After the completion of the Daming Palace, most of the concubines and maids lived in the Daming Palace with the emperor.

Most of the women who lived here were married to sin, and there were also some unfavored concubines and old court ladies.

Among the women, there are clever ones who are engaged in spinning and weaving.

Those who are good-looking and good at singing and dancing will go to the stage and rehearse singing and dancing, so as to prepare for the emperor's favor.

And those who have no special skills can only do the most crude farm work or handyman.

The road was very clean, Li Ye asked as he walked, "How many people are there now?"

Jiang Ji said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there are currently 360 eight convicts in Yeting Palace, and the remaining 280."

Li Ye was a little surprised when he heard this number. In fact, Yeting had another saying, that is, the emperor's back garden, and every woman here can be favored by the emperor as he pleases.

"Why so many?"

"Most of these are fake Qi family wives."

After saying this, Li Ye understood that Li Ye's good brother Tang Xizong didn't do anything about personnel, and he didn't notify the civil and military officials of the court when he fled. People, turned around and entered the puppet Qi regime.

After Emperor Xizong regained Chang'an, it was natural for these people to settle their accounts after the fall, and the men would inevitably be stabbed, while most of the wives and daughters were not brought into the court.

Li Ye shook his head, in this troubled world.

At this time, the place to go is the silk cloth workshop of Yeting Palace. The cotton seeds have germinated, and Li Ye ordered people to move the seedlings to the field. The gap between the seedlings was wide, and a full three mu of land was planted.

After the cotton is planted, the corresponding ginning, spinning and weaving will naturally keep up. Cotton can not only be used to make quilts and fill cotton-padded clothes.

However, hearing that there were so many women in Ye Ting Palace, they thought about whether they should let her go, so they gathered together and set up a workshop for spinning and weaving in Ye Ting Palace.

Turning his head to look at Jing Xiang, Master Jing still knows etiquette, and when he arrived at this place, he kept his head down and looked at the green bricks in front of him without squinting.

And Yang Shihou, who was holding a long spear and a saber on his waist, didn't know where to put his eyes.

Spring is here, and the air is full of hormones. The restless Yang Shihou began to miss women.

Li Ye was not annoyed either, the emperor wanted to use the talents of Jingxiang and Shihou, so naturally he would not be stingy with women.

Of course, the main wife is definitely not good, and the two main wives have their own political considerations.

Originally, I just went to the silk cloth workshop, but now I have an extra itinerary. Now that I am here, it is also okay to watch the singing and dancing...

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"Your Majesty is down!"

"Your Majesty has come to Yeting Palace!"

The news was like a blockbuster, and Yingying and Yanyan were extremely manic.

In the clear and cold Ye Ting Palace, they do the same thing every day, restricting their freedom, unable to see the future, and always facing the gray and red palace walls.

Compared with extremely rough and hard-to-swallow meals, the days that will never end are the most tormenting people.

"Ten Niang, hurry up, put on new clothes, if you are lucky enough to catch His Majesty's eyes, you will be out of the sea of ​​suffering."

It was Ying'er who called her. Ying'er was only average in appearance, and she used to serve the official lady, but her own lady hanged herself within three months after entering the court.

Ying'er didn't know anyone in the huge Yeting Palace, but she was surprised by Wei Shiniang's appearance once she saw Wei Shiniang once in a while.

At that time, Wei Shiniang was only ten years old, and she had a delicate face.

Wei Shiniang is also a poor person, she lost her mother at a young age, and followed her aunt into Yeting, and not long after, her aunt died of illness.

Yeting Palace is not a good place, the women are very introverted, and Wei Shiniang, who has lost her support, is bullied.

After all, Ying'er is older, so she can only do her best to protect Shi Niang.

Five years have passed, the girl has reached Ji's age, and the little girl has become more and more graceful. Ying'er is not jealous, and her heart is full of joy.

Five years of investment, only now.

Ying'er knows that by herself, she will never be able to get out of the dark Ye Ting Palace, and her hope lies in Wei Shiniang.

Compared with the surrounding women who said to each other: "If you are rich, don't forget each other."

Ying'er finds it ridiculous, since there is no kindness, how can there be any righteousness, even if it falls on a branch and turns into a phoenix, can it still remember the native chicken under the tree?

She had never said anything like this to Wei Shiniang, but she could feel Wei Shiniang's dependence on her.

She has her own way of seeing people.

This is the wisdom of the bottom people's life, not to mention wisdom, it is instinct, the instinct to live.

Wei Shiniang blushed and said, "Sister Ying..."

"Don't hurry up. Be smart when the time comes. I have to go to the silk-making workshop soon. Ye Tingcheng said it yesterday. I reckon that His Majesty is going to the silk-making workshop. You go with me and find Do some chores."

It is said to be new clothes, not fancy clothes, they are made of scraps left over from the commoner workshop, and the stitching is more delicate. They are green clothes and white gowns, and gray cloth clothes.

The simple collocation outlines the girl's figure flawlessly.

Ying'er helped to fiddle with the hem of the skirt, she was very satisfied.

"Little cutie, you can surely stun His Majesty!"

"Let's go!"

Ying'er is one of the stewards of Kesi Cloth Shop, so it's okay to have a handyman. Of course, her steward has no rank.

In the entire Yeting Palace, there are only nine officials with ranks.

There are two Linglings on the left and right of Yeting Palace, and they are the persons in charge of Yeting Palace.

The three Ye Ting Cheng are in charge of the roster of palace personnel, account books, and arrange the palace personnel to engage in weaving, singing and dancing, or handy farming. They are the real power figures of Ye Ting Palace.

There are four supervisors, who are in charge of miscellaneous and labor services.

The rest are the management positions that Ling, Cheng, and Jianzuo verbally call. After all, there are three to 4000 people in Yeting Palace, and it is definitely impossible to manage only nine official people.

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The environment of the silk workshop is much worse than that of the cloth workshop. There are more than [-] large pots in the courtyard. After the water is boiled, put the cocoons into it. After the cocoons are soaked, the silk heads are pulled out.

The silk heads of dozens of cocoons are twisted together and wound on the yarn wheel, and the yarn drawn out is silk yarn.

Every day, hundreds of people have to work in the high temperature of tens of degrees. After the yarn is air-dried, it is sent to the cloth workshop next door.

The Weaver Girl there will weave silk from silkworm yarn.

This is not the first time Wei Shiniang has come here, and she quickly picks out the silk head from the boiling water.

Ying'er slapped her on the hand all of a sudden: "Don't dare to do this, this is not a job you can do!"

At this moment, a loud voice shouted at the door: "Your Majesty is here..."

　I'm too busy today, I can't fish in the company, one thing after another, my thoughts are messed up, I will update it in the evening, I wish you all a happy May Day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)