Forbidden City, Ganqing Palace.??

After Liu Jun became emperor, he used the Ganqing Palace of the Inner Court as his bedroom as his bedroom, just like the previous dynasty. This palace of the Inner Court is one of the three Inner Court palaces and has been burned several times in history and rebuilt.

The Ganqing Palace has a double-eaved hip roof with yellow glazed tiles and double-eaved hip roof. It is located on a single-layer white marble base. The corridor is 9 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep. The building area is more than 2 acres, and it is more than 20 meters high from the tabletop to the main ridge.

There are warm pavilions between the east and west ends, and there are fairy towers on the back eaves. There are halls on the two sides, which can connect to the Jiaotai Hall and Kunning Palace. There are gold bricks in the hall. On the spacious platform in front of the hall, there are copper turtles, copper cranes, sundials, and Jialiang on the left and right. There are four gilded incense burners in front, with Danbi in the middle, connected to the high platform corridor and Ganqing Gate.

This luxurious palace is extremely tall, with two floors and nine warm cabinets.

A major feature of the Ganqing Palace is that there are many rooms and many beds. Although this palace is just Liu Jun's bedroom, there are twenty-seven beds in the hall. According to the convention of the previous Ming Dynasty, Liu Jun would sleep in different rooms every night in case of an accident, so that no one knew where the emperor would sleep.

Although Liu Jun was not worried about his safety in the palace, he did not change these things. During the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, too many things happened in the Ganqing palace, such as the Renyin palace change during the Jiajing Dynasty, the Hongwanan case during the Wanli Dynasty, and the case of Taichang Concubine Li Xuanshi fighting to be the queen, all of them were born in the Ganqing palace.

After Liu Jun became emperor, he still followed the Ming system and used it as an important place to summon court officials, review memorials, and handle daily affairs.

At this time, Liu Jun was wearing a bright yellow robe, and did not wear a crown on his head. He just casually put his head into a bun and fixed it with a jade hairpin. He tied a nine-dragon jade belt around his waist. The jade belt was inlaid with many white jades of the same size into nine dragon patterns, and a pair of bright yellow soft-soled boots were worn on the soles of his feet.

Liu Jun was watching the memorial. The country was inaugurated, and there were still many rebellions in the world that had not yet been put down. Countless matters of all sizes were waiting for Liu Jun to deal with.

To be honest, Liu Jun felt that being an emperor was much tired. No wonder someone once said that the emperor was actually a slave to the dynasty, and that was indeed the case.

But many things have to be asked, and Liu Jun can't throw everything aside.

After a busy day, Liu Jun couldn't help but feel tired. He stretched and got up and moved.

"When is it?"

"Go back to Your Majesty. It's time to dinner. Will dinner be passed on?" The eunuch Wang Kun, who was standing beside him, said quickly.

Wang Kun was an old man who served as his director when Liu Jun was the general of Yunyang. He has been following him in recent years and has played a great role in Liu Jun's exhibition. After Liu Jun became emperor, he also gave him the position of the chief eunuch in charge of the seal. As for the original Wang Chengen, he asked him to serve Empress Dowager Zhou and Empress Dowager Zhang and other concubines in the previous dynasty.

The former admiral of the East Factory, Wang Zhixin, was appointed as the eunuch of Bingbi, but was not the admiral of the East Factory. The admiral of the East Factory was replaced by another old eunuch of Liu Jun.

Although Wang Zhixin served as Bingbi, Liu Jun promoted Bingbi from the original four to the seventh, which was the same as the number of Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.

Although he retained the eunuchs who were in charge of the Silijian, these eunuchs were not too harmful. Although many ministers kept writing letters, demanding that the right to dismiss the Silijian be abolished.

But Liu Jun did not agree.

It’s not that Liu Jun is stupid and trusts the treacherous and slanderous. It’s that the eunuchs in the Silijian’s power to criticize the dividends is not as terrible as the ministers outside said. In fact, unless the emperor is a child of a few years old, even though the eunuchs in the Silijian have the right to criticize the dividends, this right is actually greatly restricted.

The cabinet and the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the court. Although Liu Jun retained the Prime Minister's Office, but without the regent of the Minister, the Prime Minister's Office was only equivalent to a court discussion.

The improvement of the rank of the Cabinet Grand Secretary has made it even more righteous and upright to have the power of the prime minister. However, it is a system of general ministers, and there are supervision and constraints between each other.

But the Silijian is different. Even if they have the right to criticize the emperor, they are only the right to criticize the emperor. The Silijian Eunuch is actually the emperor's personal secretary. They criticize the memorials according to the emperor's requirements. In fact, every instruction they make is just conveying the emperor's will.

The emperor was busy with government affairs, so Liu Jun alone would definitely not be able to do it. The palace was special and could not have any external ministers. Therefore, in the front court, there were Grand Secretary, Secretariat, and Hanlin people to assist Liu Jun, but in the back court, they could only rely on eunuchs to assist.

Although the eunuchs have the most evil reputation in history books, in fact, eunuchs have the evil of indulging in government affairs, but the eunuchs also gave great help to the emperor. However, eunuchs are naturally hostile to the court officials, and the historical books are written by officials, so they have such a bad reputation.

Liu Jun had no intention of whitewashing the eunuchs. In fact, when Liu Jun ascended the throne, he had issued an order to recall eunuchs from all over the world and no longer sent eunuchs to supervise their troops, collect taxes, and manage imperial villages, imperial shops, official shops, official fields, etc.

The eunuch was only responsible for internal affairs, and only one east factory was retained outside the palace.

The twenty-four yamen in the palace have been greatly reduced and cut, and many not particularly important institutions have given sanctions. For some of the business, those who can be handed over to the outside world will be handed over to the outside world directly.

And now, Liu Jun is planning a new decision.

We are preparing to further streamline the eunuch organization and lay off most eunuchs, so that those who are old and sick will leave the palace. Those who have family members will be sent back to their hometowns and will be given monthly pensions. Those who have no family members will be paid to build a nursing home and resettle them.

Even some young people have to cut most of the cuts. Those with family members are allowed to seek a way out and give severance payments. Those without family members will arrange work.

Liu Jun wanted to cut eunuchs at this time, because there were too many eunuchs.

There were more than 10,000 eunuchs in the palace, and recently the royal palaces of the previous dynasties in various places were abolished, and the eunuchs in each palace were sent back to Beijing, with the total number of even more than 20,000, which is more than the ones in the palace. According to the rules, there were originally a certain number of eunuchs in each palace, but many royal palaces violated the rules.

Because life was difficult in the late Ming Dynasty, many people who could not survive castrated themselves. After all, compared to starving to death and entering the palace after castrating themselves, they could at least make a living, and maybe even make a good fortune.

Often when the court wanted to recruit eunuchs, thousands of people would cast themselves and seek advancement.

Once, because the court only recruited more than a thousand people, four or five thousand people castrated themselves, and there were too few places to be elected, which led to the riots of the purifiers, forcing the court to recruit many more and then distribute them to various places.

So many eunuchs have been seriously compiled.

Liu Jun planned to be the eunuchs who would only serve in the palace in the future, so there would be no need for so many eunuchs in the palace.

He only planned to lay off most of the eunuchs. At present, the total number of eunuchs is tens of thousands, and there are still many royal families rebelling, and the eunuchs in the mansion have not been sent back to Beijing.

There are about 35,000 eunuchs in the capital now. Liu Jun is planning to lay off 30,000 people directly, and use the remaining 5,000 people first, and then slowly streamline the eunuchs' yamen and then lay off some eunuchs. Liu Jun feels that having more than a thousand eunuchs in the palace is actually enough.

After all, in addition to eunuchs, there were also palace maids and female palaces in the palace, and not many people were to serve. Liu Jun and his parents, wife and children were just family members, and it was enough to serve three or four thousand people.

The situation of palace maids is better than that of eunuchs. There are also some palace maids sent to Beijing by the royal palaces in various places, but most Liu Jun asked local officials to dismiss them on the spot. After all, palace maids are not eunuchs, and eunuchs are a special group, but the palace maids are still an ordinary woman after leaving the palace.

The total number of palace maids in the palace is no less than 5,000.

Liu Jun plans to cut 3,000 and leave 2,000 people.

In this way, the eunuchs were slaughtered 30,000, the palace maids were slaughtered 3,000, the eunuchs were 5,000, and the palace maids were 2,000.

In the future, there may be more than a thousand eunuchs and more than a thousand palace maids. There are already many people serving in a palace with three thousand people.

Cutting off excess eunuchs can also reduce the cost in the palace. At the same time, it can also strengthen the management of eunuchs and palace people, especially no longer allowing eunuchs to leave the palace to avoid them interfering in politics.

"It's so late? Then let's pass the meal."

The emperor's diet was not as exaggerated as later generations imagined. Just like the imperial meals in the Forbidden Purple Palace, there were strict regulations, such as the emperor's daily meals were only 36 taels. This is because the emperor's food price was high. Under normal knowledge, the emperor's breakfast and lunch were not allowed to drink, but wine must be prepared for dinner.

After Liu Jun became emperor, he did not change his original rules much.

Lunch and dinner are still water 6 must-haves. Now Liu Jun’s breakfast has twelve dishes, including pigs, cows, sheep, gooses, chickens, fish, etc., as well as vegetables and tea. Lunch has twenty dishes and a seafood dish.

The emperor did not eat anything from the emperor. In fact, Liu Jun was not better than Chongzhen when he became an emperor, but he had more beef. In the past, the imperial court forbidden to slaughter oxen privately. But now the great man has to support the Mongolian tribes, and various livestock and fur trade is very smooth, so beef, mutton, ghee, milk powder, etc. are not rare. The more precious one is the seafood, after all, it has to be transported from Tianjin hundreds of miles away.

Generally speaking, Liu Jun eats alone, and the other concubines are mostly like this. According to each person's grade, there will be a corresponding level of meal. There are regulations on how much each meal costs, and the imperial kitchen will be made according to it. If the concubines have other requirements, they have to pay the money to order in advance.

Soon dinner had been passed on, and there were still twenty dishes, thirteen dishes, seven vegetarian dishes, and tea and wine.

There has been a special person trying every meal, so the dishes are no longer very hot, but it is summer.

Seeing that the emperor had picked up his job, Wang Kun waved his hand quickly. Immediately, a group of palace servants came forward with various instruments and sat aside to start playing music.

The simple and elegant music sounded, it was really good. (To be continued.)

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