Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Empress Zhou is the real lord of the harem, and you have to listen to Empress Zhou's opinion about releasing the maids in the harem.

It's just that Empress Zhou intended to agree with Emperor Chongzhen's statement that he didn't want to recruit eunuchs at first, but finally expressed her opposition.

According to rumors in the rivers and lakes, some eunuchs were not completely clean when they cleaned themselves, and the baby may grow out again.As for the eunuchs messing around in the harem recorded in history, it is even more disgusting.

So at the beginning, Empress Zhou was in favor of Emperor Chongzhen saying that he would no longer accept eunuchs.

But after thinking about it, it's not right. If eunuchs are not accepted, what about the imperial horse supervisors in the east factory and the west factory?All replaced by maids?

Thinking of this, Empress Zhou still persuaded: "Your Majesty sympathizes with the people that it is not easy to have children. It is originally a good intention, but it is easy to do wrong things with good intentions, isn't it?

If there were no eunuchs in the palace, wouldn't everything be handled by the palace maids?Especially in the east and west factories, eunuchs are indispensable.

As for choosing a man to act, the concubine thought it was a big mistake.In the harem, it was originally inappropriate for men to appear.

Therefore, the concubine thought that His Majesty could issue a decree to prohibit the people from purifying themselves, and offenders would be punished severely. "

After thinking for a while, Empress Zhou continued, "As for the repatriation of maids, His Majesty can decide according to age in the future. Anyone who is over 23 or [-] years old will be expelled from the palace, and they can be married by themselves or by the government."

Emperor Chongzhen was somewhat disapproving.

The FBI and CIA in the later generations of Yankees are not all made up of rough guys and female guys. If they all use eunuchs, the picture is so beautiful that I dare not think about it.

But what Queen Zhou said was not wrong.This is the current state of the Ming Dynasty, or the state of the Central Plains since ancient times, so there must be eunuchs.

It's just that when Emperor Chongzhen was discussing with Empress Zhou, Wei Zhongxian, Cao Huachun and others called the other ten eunuchs in the palace except the Sili Supervisor and Yuma Supervisor, and the eunuchs from the Four Divisions and Eight Bureaus came to Wei Zhongxian's house together. home.

After driving away the serving servants, even after Wei Zhongxian's son was driven out, the whole study was surrounded by some shopkeepers.

Wei Zhongxian looked at some other eunuchs, coughed and said: "Your Majesty ordered our family and Eunuch Cao to enter the palace for an audience, but he said something important.

This matter is related to my old road in the future, so our family and Eunuch Cao asked you to come to discuss.

In addition, Eunuch Wang Chengen, Eunuch Wang Chengen, and Eunuch Fang Zhenghua, the eunuchs in the palace, both agreed, and asked our family to handle this matter with full authority. "

Hearing what Wei Zhongxian said was so solemn, the palm print eunuchs in the other 24 prisons and some high-ranking eunuchs all trembled in their hearts, bowed and said: "Please give orders to Nine Thousand Years."

However, Wei Zhongxian changed his face suddenly and said: "Wait, this is to kill our family! From now on, it's enough to call Mr. Wei, if you look down on us, just call Wei Admiral, if it comes out of someone's mouth again With the word thousand years old, our family put him in a dilemma!"

The eunuchs were dumbfounded when they heard this.Originally, he thought that Old Wei had recruited people like himself with great fanfare to discuss some important matter, but it turned out that he came like this as soon as he came up.

Wei Zhongxian calmed down, and continued: "Outside people say that we are eunuchs, dead eunuchs, rotten asses, and hermaphrodites, and they will say whatever is unpleasant.

But His Majesty cares about us eunuchs, and plans to use a sum of money from the palace to buy a piece of land in Beijing to build a temple, so that we eunuchs without roots can have a place to settle after death. The baby is redeemed and stored in the temple first.

It's okay for our family to say that we have a son and a daughter, but it's hard to say among everyone here? "

Only then did the eunuchs realize why Wei Zhongxian's face changed drastically just now.

Not to mention hearing and hearing Emperor Chongzhen's words, even hearing Wei Zhongxian's retelling made everyone's hearts warm.

It is estimated that Old Wei was determined to sacrifice his life for Emperor Chongzhen on the spot. It is better not to talk about taboo things like nine thousand years old in the future. Don't worry, no one will go to inform Emperor Chongzhen anyway.

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen's point was a good thing. Why did the Nine Thousand Years Summon him and others?

Xu Yanpan, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Prison, was also someone who had access to the Emperor Chongzhen after all, so he wondered, "Could it be that His Majesty intends to prohibit castration among the people, so that eunuchs will no longer be recruited in the palace?"

Wei Zhongxian said with a gloomy face: "That's right, that's what our family is worried about. The emperor is kind-hearted. Even if we are eunuchs, the emperor is very sympathetic. He must be reluctant to let the people purify themselves.

It's just that apart from us eunuchs who are destined to die, who else is as loyal to the emperor as we are? "

Xu Yanpan pondered and said: "What Eunuch Wei said is true. It's just that once the emperor makes a decree, I'm afraid this matter will never be undone.

Otherwise, let's get a batch first before the emperor's order is issued? "

Wei Zhongxian sneered and said: "You do it! As long as you can, if you finish it today, tomorrow the emperor will be able to take your skin off!"

When the other eunuchs heard this, they all felt helpless.

Only then did Wei Zhongxian continue: "Okay, who is showing you a dead face? This is it? Since we called you here, we have discussed it with Eunuch Cao, Eunuch Wang, and Eunuch Fang."

When all the eunuchs heard that Wei Zhongxian already had a case, they all bowed and said, "Please, Eunuch Wei, make it clear."

Chapter 292 It's Still a Lighter Punishment

Wei Zhongxian laughed dryly, and then continued: "Our family will join hands with Eunuch Cao, Eunuch Wang, and Eunuch Fang to play together, and ask for His Majesty's grace tomorrow, and ask His Majesty to recruit some eunuchs in the future.

You don't need to mix in this, so as not to displease the emperor, thinking that we are all putting pressure on the emperor, I'm afraid it will backfire. "

Xu Yanpan and the others trembled again.

Just now I was thinking that Wei Zhongxian called the big guys together, whether he wanted to let the big guys jointly write a letter to ask for grace.

Sure enough, it was by no means a fluke that Wei Zhongxian got to this position today, and the kung fu of figuring out what he wants is by no means comparable to ordinary people.

According to the temperament of the current emperor, once the memorial signed by the big guys is handed over, within an hour, they will all have to hang up the city gate to air dry.

Since he didn't ask himself and others to jointly sign the memorial, why did Wei Zhongxian gather his group together?

You know, gathering together on such a large scale is also a taboo thing, how can the treacherous Wei Zhongxian not know this?

Just when Xu Yanpan and others were struggling, Wei Zhongxian went on to say: "Although I didn't ask you to write a letter together, but calling you here today is not for dispelling condemnation, but for our future.

The emperor is kind-hearted, thinking of me waiting for these eggless goods, but we can't just let the emperor pay for it himself?Nowadays, in Liaodong and Shaanxi, where is there no money?

Not to mention anything else, your Internal Official Supervisor, Imperial Supervisor, Shangshan Supervisor, Shangyi Supervisor, and the other seven bureaus except the Bingzhan Bureau and the Huanyi Bureau, is it true that the oil and water are not as good as before? "

What Wei Zhongxian said was very straightforward, and the ten eunuchs named by Wei Zhongxian all smiled knowingly.

This matter is obvious. Since Emperor Chongzhen came to the throne, he either ran out of slavery or confiscated the grasslands, and the various expenses in the palace can be saved as much as possible.

If it wasn't for the late Empress Zhang and the pregnancy of the current Empress Zhou, I am afraid that the expenses in the palace would still decrease again and again, and there would naturally be very little oil and water left in everyone's hands.

Looking at everyone's expressions, Wei Zhongxian knew what was going on in his heart, but he didn't reveal it, he just continued: "To put it bluntly, our family can't get involved in this matter today.

In terms of money, our family has no shortage, and in terms of power, in addition to the supervisor of rituals, our family also supervises the West Factory.

Of course, you are not short of money, and after death, someone will take care of it for you.

But who will take care of your godsons and grandsons?

So let’s talk about it today, half of the money you were greedy in the past will be spit out to our family, and it will be used for the construction of the temple ordered by the emperor. "

Seeing that the expressions of everyone who seemed a little excited just now became a little dazed, Wei Zhongxian knew that it was true that the eunuchs were grateful to Emperor Chongzhen in their hearts, but he was not so happy to ask them to take out the money.

Wei Zhongxian, who had long made up his mind to be a loyal dog, sneered again and said: "Our family knows that you are not willing to take out this money.

If you have been greedy for a lifetime, no one will be happy if you let anyone take it.