Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

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".

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

Therefore, we want to take more precautions.

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.

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

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.

It can be said to be very contradictory.

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

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

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

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

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.

So Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about female officials.

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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. .

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?

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 thirty people who returned were less than twenty years old.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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, you should always find something to do.

Then Jiajing embarked on the mysterious practice of 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!