The Empress of the Qing Dynasty is from the Northeast

"What did you say? Eight...has he been beheaded?" Honghui was suddenly filled with disbelief when he heard the news.

The eunuch beside him knelt down and kowtowed: "I dare not deceive you, my brother. It is true. The emperor personally issued an imperial decree a few days ago, and the execution was carried out yesterday!"

"But..." Honghui was a little doubtful, "After all, he is the biological son of the Emperor, the brother of the Emperor. Would it really not be against human ethics and justice to execute him?"

The eunuch was so frightened after hearing Honghui's words that he trembled: "Big brother! Please don't say that again. If the emperor hears it, it may cause a big disturbance! If the emperor thinks you are disloyal and unrighteous, it will be bad!"

Honghui made a bitter face and sighed: "I just feel it's a pity. I'm afraid that my father's reputation will be tarnished. Obviously, my father has been very famous during the period of his reign. The people and officials all love him, and his reputation has spread far and wide.

But now there is a mass killing in the inner court, and the court officials are also in turmoil, and brothers have been killed... I really have to worry about my father!"

Seeing that the eldest prince was getting more and more outrageous, the eunuch was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, soaking his clothes and robes behind him: "Brother! This is the Forbidden City, don't speak out of turn!"

Honghui realized the seriousness of the situation at this time and didn't want to say anything more. He closed his mouth but felt a little regretful. Why did he say all these things, as if he was dissatisfied with what the emperor had done.

But in fact, there was no such thing. If this was really spread by some people, would there be a rift between the emperor and himself? Thinking of this, Honghui felt extremely guilty and blamed himself.

However, I heard that the root cause of this incident was that the Queen wanted to clean up the staff of the Imperial Household Department and promote female officials.

Female officer...

Honghui had to admit that Empress Chun was more courageous and had more ideas than his own mother.

But this move was too risky and even affected her second sister. Honghui didn't know whether she would continue to persevere.

At this time, in the Yangxin Palace...

Yinzhen looked at the memorial handed over by the Minister of Justice, which recorded how Nianhulu colluded with officials from the Imperial Household Department and passed the news to the Eighth Prince, and how they concealed the truth from the public.

"Great, that's great. If it hadn't happened this time, I wouldn't have known there were so many corrupt officials in the court!"

There was a gleam of light in Yinzhen's eyes. He was not a smooth-tempered person to begin with. He dared to take the path of a lone minister on his own and took the initiative to take responsibility for collecting the arrears of the Ministry of Revenue, and went against all the ministers. This was enough to prove that he was a man of firm mind and would not tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes.

If it were an ordinary monarch, he might take into account the large number of officials involved and give a lenient sentence, but he would never do that. Moreover, Changning and the child were the weak spots in his heart. Once someone touched them, he would never let them go easily.

"If that's the case, there's no need for these officials to keep their official hats. After the entire family is executed, no one from the same family will be allowed to return to the government for a hundred years."

After Yinzhen issued the decree, everyone in the court and the country was shocked.

Within a hundred years... you are not allowed to re-enter the government...

To be disrespectful, it is still unclear whether the Qing Dynasty can continue to last for another hundred years.

This sentence completely cut off the hope and way out for these families to rise again.

It was at this time that the ministers finally understood Emperor Yongzheng's style of doing things.

This was definitely not a cowardly and conservative monarch. Whether in his political achievements, his war style, or the way he dealt with officials, every big and small matter revealed his decisiveness and ruthlessness.

This is a good thing for the Qing Dynasty.

For some officials, this may be unbearable.

By the time the matter in Hutuli was almost settled, autumn was about to begin.

The female official system established by Changning has already taken shape.

Nowadays, the inner court has established a relatively complete and strict system of female officials.

Now, there are many palace maids and nannies with real talents and skills who have taken up the position of female officials. Among them, Chuixue, Yuxia, Tingfeng and others around Changning all hold important positions and are now female officials of certain ranks.

This time they have realized their lifelong dreams. They are not just palace maids serving others. More importantly, they can have the power and status that belong to women like other eunuchs in the Imperial Household Department. They have the freedom to not have to get married or become maids.

This system was destined to go down in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

But this alone is not enough. Changning plans to conduct another selection next year to select a group of female officials from the general public or from the royal family.

But before that...

She had to arrange a meeting between Yierha and Fashan...

Chang Ning remembered that she had promised Concubine Mao that she would give Yi Erha a chance to meet her future husband in the spring. But she didn't expect that the establishment of the female official system, coupled with the murder of Hutuli, would take until autumn...

No, let’s put it on the agenda as soon as possible.

Just when Changning summoned Concubine Mao and was about to discuss with her urgently how to arrange for the two to meet, Yierha and Hutuli were in the South Third House, listening to the third lady from the Third Uncle's House talking about Fashan.

"My brother has met Fashan once. He said he is tall, strong, and scholarly. He seems to be quite smart. He is also humble and low-key, without many bad habits."

The Third Princess is worthy of being the daughter of Concubine Tian, ​​and she is a professional when it comes to gossip.

In addition to these open questions, she also asked some more private questions.

"I heard that there is no woman in Fashan's backyard..."

Several girls were whispering together. The palace maids and nannies who served them had been sent out by Hutu a long time ago, so they could talk as much as they wanted here without having to worry about the rules.

Ever since Hutuli was murdered and she asked Yinzhen to let her sisters enter the palace to accompany her, Yinzhen seemed to have suddenly come to his senses.

He felt that his daughter was a little lonely most of the time. There were only two girls of the same age in the palace, Hutuli and Yierha, which was indeed a little too few.

A girl of this age is at the stage where she loves to chatter and call her friends, so Yinzhen agreed to let Hutuli invite these good friends to the palace to play often.

Now the third princess from the third brother's mansion, the eldest princess from the seventh brother's mansion, and Wan Ji are all frequent visitors to the harem.

They also often brought some gossip from outside the palace to entertain the two princesses.

This time I bring you news about Fashan.

"Really? You can find out this... this news?" Hutuli couldn't help but admire the Third Princess a little.