Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 209 Chapter 209 Taoist Emperor
Throughout the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang took the most serious precautions against eunuchs. Although he ordered eunuchs not to be literate, most of the eunuchs around him were literate.

Because after he became emperor, he recruited officials and scholars from the Yuan Dynasty on a large scale to serve as officials in the court, including eunuchs who served the inner court.

Among them, the "skilled" eunuchs of the Yuan Dynasty were basically Taishiyuan and Huihui Sitianjian. These people were closely related to politics and were skilled eunuchs who could observe astronomy and understand yin and yang.

These people played a great role by conveniently recording the emperor's daily notes and promptly reporting changes in celestial phenomena.

Kang Changmin and others were all literate, otherwise how could they convey the content of the imperial edict?

Although Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would not let people become literate, he also prohibited eunuchs from interacting with many departments.

But in fact, the internal officials in the internal official prison are not only literate, but also have the ability to understand official documents, communicate with the outer court, and have the ability to handle certain political affairs.

Most of these people were eunuchs who could read and write, had a certain level of culture, and directly served the imperial politics.

Especially when he was king of Wu, he began to train young eunuchs.

A lot of clerical work was completed by small internal officials who were "common at writing and calculating".

Even though the eunuch has no descendants, he still has brothers and nephews.

This matter made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely entangled. It can be said that he wanted to avoid this, but he was constrained by that.

The rank of female officials is not low, mainly between the sixth and seventh grades.

Paying attention to the management of the entire harem, Yongsu must realize his vision of an orderly palace and a boudoir. As managers of the harem, female officials bear important responsibilities.

In ancient times, most women over the age of twenty were already married.

Zhu Biao may not have flown again for a long time.

Then after three days of the Qing Dynasty after Zhu Di was successfully defeated, many palace officials, female officials, and internal officials were executed, but only those who had offended Emperor Jianwen remained.

Later, girls aged thirteen and above were also selected, probably aiming at the age range below twenty, as candidates for the harem's concubines.

Is there any system in the world that can prevent everything?

The selection of female officials is generally divided into two types, one is literate girls, the other is literate widows!
Zhu Yuanzhang attached so much importance to internal governance mainly because he wanted to "strict internal education."

It can be said to be very contradictory.

He could forbid the eunuchs from reading and reading because of an impulse or an idea, and prohibited them from communicating with foreign ministers, but he had to educate the eunuchs in calligraphy and arithmetic.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would be willing to return to his hometown after the age of fifty, he would do as he pleased, but many of the female officials left over from his dynasty retired in Tianshun.

The father and son stood aside and watched as some palace maids aged thirteen or fourteen were harvested from their virgin menstrual blood, and they were not allowed to eat during the days when sunflower water was available.

When he was in Hongwu for five years, he selected people from Suzhou and Hangzhou who were proficient in books and willing to enter the palace. There were more than a thousand people who applied.

Especially the task of reading memorials was all done by eunuchs.

At noon that day, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed many of his attendants, leaving behind the crown prince Zhu Biao.

Empress Ma suggested to Zhu Yuanzhang that when selecting the first batch of female officials, not only should the selected women have certain cultural qualities, but she also tended to choose older women. The girls who were rejected should be sent home to get married. Godson is the best.

Suzhou and Hangzhou are places where culture and education are prosperous, and there are many scholarly families. Naturally, there are many women who know books and etiquette.

But once a woman is used to read the memorial to him, wouldn't that violate the regulations he set that prohibit the harem from intervening in politics?

He then sent someone to transport the female official's family from Fujian to the capital via a post station, and gave them official accommodation, exempting their family from taxes. This was indeed a rare and generous reward for Lao Zhu.

This violated Lao Zhu's rules, because many eunuchs in the palace were castrated since childhood, and few adults entered the palace.

So Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about female officials.

The father and son stepped forward, clasped their hands, and entered the fairyland together.

The female officials who had returned to their hometown during the Hongwu period but were once highly regarded were recalled to serve because of the shortage of personnel after Zhu Di ascended the throne because they were familiar with the allusions in the palace.

Forty-four people were selected in the primary election. After further inspection by the Queen after entering the palace, only 14 people were available, all of whom were awarded official positions.

Throughout the Taizu period, he selected female officials from the private sector into the palace six times.

However, after discovering the emperor in the fairyland, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely wary of this behavior.

A total of forty-four people were selected in this selection, but only fourteen were appointed.

Zhu Yuanzhang not only received courteous treatment in the palace for some outstanding female officials, but also brought favors to her family. She rewarded her father and brothers to come to Beijing for reunion, the emperor gave banquets, awarded the official position of Jin Yiwei, and returned home with honors after taking the reward coins. .

Because most of these female officials had to serve the imperial court for decades, they generally lived longer.

If one wanted to select a woman who was proficient in reading, Suzhou and Hangzhou would be the first choice for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't like those kinds of folk entertainment activities. Compared with Xuande and other emperors who cut off adult jugglers and brought them into the palace for him to watch, Lao Zhu was quite reliable!

Also, because the older female officer missed her children, Lao Zhu was not young at that time, so she felt the same way.

Otherwise, once a woman reaches her fifties, she may have nothing left when she goes back.

Most of the famous female officials in the Ming Dynasty came from the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties. According to official records, the rest of the descendants did not see the selection of female officials. It was not until Jialong that there were large-scale records.

The thirty people who returned were less than twenty years old.

The relatives of the established emperor Wei Zhongxian can be said to be like chickens and dogs ascending to heaven, and he actually has a daughter. It seems that she was not castrated since childhood.

Therefore, we want to take more precautions.

When you are hungry, you can only eat mulberry leaves; when you are thirsty, you can drink dew.

Zhu Yuanzhang has always believed that he will be able to design a perfect system.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were very surprised by this operation. What the hell is this?
Why is it so disgusting?

Then he watched the menstrual blood being delivered to the hands of a man in Taoist robes, who began to make elixirs.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't hold himself any longer:
"There is actually a demon that confuses the emperor of Ming Dynasty and refines the elixir of immortality?"

As a monk, he didn't believe in gods or Buddhas. After becoming the emperor, he also suppressed the old Zhang family in Longhu Mountain, but he took care of the monks.

Otherwise, his sons would not be equipped with monks to open mansions, and Yao Guangxiao would not stay with Zhu Di as a matter of course.

"Dad, Wang Buli has long said that there are no gods in the world, let alone any way to live forever!"

Zhu Biao clenched his fists when his second grandson, a new Taoist like him, did something like this.

"He even scorned this Taoist priest who made alchemy."

If there are real immortals in the world, they have to seek help from Wang Buli, not from some Taoist.

Zhu Yuanzhang also once wondered whether the immortal who created a small world was an old Taoist priest from the Song Dynasty. After all, Wang Buli taught some kind of health-preserving method, which was completely unrelated to the immortal method.

As for Wang Buli, who practices swordsmanship, he is also someone who doesn't know how to master swordsmanship at a glance.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, Wang Buli had the best chance to come into contact with immortals.

How can future generations believe so?
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were stunned as they continued to read. They thought that the Taoist priest who made alchemy was bewitching the emperor.

Unexpectedly, this Taoist priest obsessed with alchemy turned out to be our great emperor!

Zhu Biao's face suddenly burned up.

He suddenly felt embarrassed, but his father didn't know what to say.

Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang watching the emperor behind him swallowing red pills and doing carpentry work, it turned out that there was an emperor who was a professional monk in front of him.

He was so angry that he laughed.

Zhu Biao looked at his father and laughed, not knowing what to say.

Taoism is a native religion in China. These people like to hold scriptures and make various formulas. In front of the smoky elixir furnace, they hope that their elixirs will make them dream of having their own destiny!

Jiajing is not a stupid person, in comparison, he is an extremely smart person.

After the Ming Emperor succeeded to the throne, there were two assistants in front of him.

One is a eunuch with low education, good at flattering, and very obedient.

The other group is civil servants who are rich in theoretical knowledge, like to find faults, and have unique personalities.

Everyone knows that the former is much easier to deal with than the latter.

Therefore, many seniors and juniors in Jiajing chose eunuchs as their personal assistants.

Only two people didn't do this.

Chongzhen chose to go it alone, and what he was doing was counterattack!

Jiajing chose to control the entire scene, and everything was at his disposal.

Because he is overconfident.

Jiajing succeeded to the throne as the vassal king at the age of fifteen, and he was able to make all his officials helpless because he believed that he could deal with everyone in the world.

It doesn't matter how much the ministers below like to quarrel with each other, he is the referee, always ensuring that the two boxers can fight each other and no one falls.

As a result of this situation, Jiajing, as a top expert, suddenly felt that everything was small.

I am invincible in the world!
The master is lonely.

If you want to live a less empty life, always find something to do for yourself. Then Jiajing embarked on such a mysterious and mysterious matter as cultivating Taoism.

Jiajing didn't have much respect for the Three Pure Ones and the like. He just wanted to achieve his ultimate goal of "immortality" so that he could rule the entire world for a long time.

He sat high in that position, watching with cold eyes the inextricable fighting below. He would casually pull back, or if one of the parties was knocked down, he would casually stop it.

Only immortality would allow him to work longer in his profession as emperor.

Countless people around Jiajing have tried to use various means to influence him or even change him.

But without exception, they all ended in failure.

But a group of women actually changed him.

That is, a group of palace maids tried to strangle him, and almost succeeded.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know about Jiajing, but he only saw that the dignified emperor was so moody, and from time to time ordered the whipping of the palace ladies who were harvested by him?
Who dared them to eat randomly!

Then one night, these maids banded together to strangle the Taoist emperor.

Both Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were stunned.

"Is it possible that the emperor of Ming Dynasty was killed by several palace maids?"

Compared with the fact that future generations would practice Taoism, he felt very unhappy. What made him even more angry was that someone dared to do the following!
"These people should be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts."

Zhu Yuanzhang's fists were clenched.

This incident made him even more angry, even more angry than when Daming was destroyed by a group of people.

Because he clearly knew that this was not the end of the Ming Dynasty yet, and those palace people were so bold, damn it!
Although Zhu Biao has a kind-hearted personality, when he sees this kind of thing, he empathizes with his father and stands by his father's side.

How could the emperor be killed like this?

A lowly palace servant dared to kill the most noble person in the world!

For Zhu Yuanzhang and his son, this slap in the face showed that some people really dared to risk the disapproval of the world!

The reason why this group of palace people could not successfully assassinate was probably because of the little girl Yang Jinying. She was not very good at tying ropes because she didn't eat much and had little strength.

If she tied a knot and used a little more force, it might be done.

But because it was not safe, she tied a second knot. No matter how hard she tried, she found that the knot did not get tighter.

Jiajing would not hang up, but used his own weight to fall hard to help her complete this shocking assassination.

The matter inevitably failed.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were silent.

Wang Buli didn't notice at all that he started playing with the woman playing the cat.

"This incident really didn't make us think that these palace people are so courageous."

Zhu Yuanzhang had a gloomy face. Although his son and grandson Emperor Jiajing was extremely harsh on these palace ladies, it was an unforgivable sin for them to dare to murder the emperor.

"Dad, this incident should wake us up. Future generations will not be allowed to practice immortality, especially for the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism."

Zhu Biao also felt that the emperor was not doing his job properly and did not govern the country. He went to make elixirs, and he still had to eat them by himself?

He was so damn embarrassed!

It's just too outrageous.

"useless."

Zhu Yuanzhang had long been worried about this matter.

As the founding emperor, he was very powerful, so he could kill his ministers if they disobeyed them.

It is also extremely harsh on palace maids and officials.

"When we die, after you inherit the throne, will you be able to fully accept the policies we originally designated?"

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled down his sleeves and said: "If future generations all follow the policies we have formulated for them, how can we see so many bad things?"

Zhu Biao thought about the same result.

Even though you are the supreme emperor, if you die, you will die. Who will be afraid of you?

Even if it is the remaining power of the First Emperor, it is not easy to use!
Not to mention that when the First Emperor was still alive, someone dared to assassinate him.

"It's troublesome!"

Zhu Biao also began to worry, how can future generations avoid such things?
The legacy of the Emperor is, after all, fraught with many dangers.

Zhu Yuanzhang had been very angry because of this matter before. He thought he could enter the fairyland and see if the system we established would allow future generations to become emperors.

As a result, they all became emperors like this?

I'm so angry.

So the father and son were sulking, watching Wang Buli coming in and out, feeling very happy.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood that Wang Buli's temperament of enjoying timely pleasure was really enviable.

He worked hard and diligently, but this is how future generations will hand in answers to him when they become emperors.

In his opinion, this kind of answers are all existences that will be deposed.

"Sooner or later I will be pissed off by them."

Zhu Yuanzhang touched his chest and said, "Why are everyone so unsatisfactory?"

Zhu Biao still thinks that they are all his descendants, so he always looks embarrassed and doesn't know how to argue.

Why do all his descendants look so out of place after becoming emperor?

Our prince is very diligent after all!

Sighing in the fairyland, they returned to the main hall, and the father and son continued to sigh.

"Why, why did it become like this?"

"If he was successfully assassinated by a few palace men, wouldn't it be recorded in the history books and become a joke for future generations?"

"Shame on you."

"What a shame."

Zhu Biao couldn't help but patted his face: "Dad, if others find out, I will be too embarrassed to see anyone!"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, but he didn't think of saying that this should be the descendant of the fourth child.

Not even after your son becomes emperor!
As the saying goes, I am a hero and my son is a hero, but your son is not as good as my son!

Now it's okay for you kid to say this.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of telling Zhu Biao about this, lest he feel slack.

"Okay, let's go to work." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand:

"Wang Buli and his wife are almost done with their marriage, and the princess's palace has been built. It's time to officially get married, and feel at ease. This will save him from having to talk to the fairy all the time."

Thanks to the fact that Wang Buli was thinking about the Japanese silver mine when he was skiing last time. After Lao Zhu heard about it, he wanted Wang Buli to go skiing again.

In short, when a man is not in love with a woman, he will have many thoughts.

But once you do it, your mind is filled with only one idea.

"Yes." Zhu Biao responded.

"This matter requires the people of Qin Tianjian to carefully calculate the good times and auspicious days. If anything goes wrong again, I will not punish them, but kill them with their heads."

Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to Wang Buli, even though after he entered the fairyland, he was not satisfied even once out of ten times.

But it’s all the descendants of later generations who have failed to live up to expectations, and it’s not the fault of Wang Bu’s plowshare.

Otherwise, until we die, we will happily feel that what we have done is great, and the Ming Dynasty will last for generations to come.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang thinks back to the operations of those emperors. It is really a blessing from God that the Ming Dynasty can persist for a hundred years!

Later generations failed to live up to expectations, which made Zhu Yuanzhang lose his confidence!

Even Zhu Yuanzhang had already thought about the worst. The emperor who succeeded him was mediocre and stupid, but he didn't expect that he looked so weird!
The operations and behaviors of these emperors really opened the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, an old farmer.

After Wang Buli woke up from his nap, he went back from Yong'an Village. He didn't see Zhu Mingxiu for some days.

Last time I heard that she was making wedding dresses, I had to say that I wanted to make one myself.

Wang Buli was very supportive. She didn't have to go to school anyway at her age, and there were people helping her, so she had plenty of time to do this.

Just as Wang Buli was riding his horse, he saw a government servant running towards him quickly, panting:
"Your Majesty, the people from the Jiangdong Bridge Inspection Department said they found a ledger secretly hidden on Liu Youjiang's bed, the original inspector. They asked the Prince-in-law to come over, but they didn't dare to touch it lightly."

"Oh?"

(End of this chapter)