Chapter 815 The heartbreaking Princess Kunxing

There were originally twelve magistrates and eight bureaus in the palace, but now there are five twelve magistrates.

Princess Kunxing has no right to interfere with the remaining departments, and she has no intention of involving them.

However, Princess Kunxing is preparing to provide all the other vacancies for her father.

For example, such as the Clothes Washing Bureau, Shou Pharmacy, Jingshi Room, Antique Room, Xinzheku, Satin Library, Lantern Library, Nanguo Room, etc., it must be configured regardless of whether it is used or not.

The imperial kitchen also needs to be improved. There is a serious shortage of personnel in the imperial kitchen, and they are still old people who have not escaped before.

More precisely, he was a royal chef loyal to the emperor. Most of the people were dismissed by Emperor Chongzhen when the bandits were trapped.

There are also not enough palace maids and eunuchs. Zhu Youjian does not need too many palace maids and eunuchs, but people working in the palace still need them.

Under normal circumstances, there are eight to ten palace maids around the Queen and the Imperial Concubine. Now there are not even figures of the Queen. There are only five palace maids around the four little flowers.

In the huge palace, there are no more than one hundred palace maids and eunuchs. Even the simplest period of Emperor Chongzhen, the total number of palace maids and eunuchs in the palace exceeded two thousand.

Princess Kunxing knew that her father didn't like too many people to serve her, but the palace maids and eunuchs who worked were necessary, so she prepared to recruit five hundred palace maids and two hundred eunuchs.

She was also sending people to find previously experienced palace maids who could bring new palace maids and service staff for the emperor's draft, among which female officials were indispensable.

Female officials are palace maids who checked the emperor's selection. Not only do they have higher positions, they also teach the selected female girls various rules and how to serve the emperor in the palace.

Now the Ming Dynasty is rich and the people are strong, and the emperor has become the god in the hearts of the people. It is not difficult to find palace maids and eunuchs. In addition, no matter how the people's status is improved, it is always a feudal society.

The treatment and salary in the palace were very high. In just five days, the palace maids and eunuchs needed by Princess Kunxing Zhu Weishi had already recruited, and among them, there were 100 palace maids who were dismissed.

These hundred people are not over twenty years old. They can teach the new palace maids rules and how to do things. Shangguan Hong, the palace maid who used to serve Empress Zhou, was appointed as the female official in the palace by Princess Kunxing.

Shangguan Hong is eighteen years old this year. She has been with Empress Zhou for more than three years. She is not only very beautiful but also very sensible. Although she is still an uninformed girl, she has witnessed Empress Zhou and the Emperor with her own eyes many times and knows how to serve the Emperor.

The palace maids and eunuchs were in place, and Princess Kunxing decided to start the next plan. This plan was to give the emperor's father a talent show. The candidates for this talent show were first excluded from the capital.

Princess Kunxing doesn't care about her identity as a beautiful girl, but she doesn't want to choose a family where the whole family lives near the capital. She mainly doesn't want to see a single person ascend to heaven.

In addition, she also asked through Jinyiwei, East Factory and West Factory to find out who her daughter is sensible, beautiful and virtuous. Fortunately, she really found two big beauties, one is Mu Jianping, the daughter of Qian Guogong Mu Tianbo and Qin Liangyu's niece Qin Mingyue.

However, Princess Kunxing may not succeed if she falls in love with others unilaterally. If she doesn't agree, Princess Kunxing will never force herself. Before the talent show started, Princess Kunxing sent someone to Sichuan and Yunnan.

As a result, Mu Tianbo and Qin Liangyu agreed to let them participate in the talent show without any hesitation.

Just kidding, who doesn’t know that the emperor has not yet chosen a queen. If his daughter and niece can enter the palace, it will be not far from the mother’s world, and what an honor it is for the family.

Qin Liangyu, the first female general in Chinese history, still insisted on fighting after Emperor Chongzhen was hanged. He died in Shizhu in 1648, which is now considered to be the 21st year of Chongzhen.

However, the current situation is too different from history. Qin Liangyu is still full of energy at the age of 74 this year. It seems that it is possible to live to the age of 90.

After obtaining the approval of Qin Liangyu and Mu Tianbo, Princess Kunxing's draft for her father began.

There are several hard conditions for the draft.

1. The age of a beautiful girl should be between 14 and 16 years old.

2. In terms of family status, it is limited to three categories: military, household registration and official registration.

3. A beautiful girl must be from a good family, have both parents, and her family cannot violate discipline and have a good reputation for morality.

4. A beautiful girl must have a dignified appearance and polite behavior, and must not suffer physical defects and damage, and have certain cultural literacy.

5. The beautiful girl must be raised by her legitimate mother.

6. The birth date and eight characters of beautiful girls, the theory of Yin and Yang and Five Elements, must be consistent with the royal children.

These six hard indicators are not difficult to understand. The age range of 14-16 ensures the best reproductive age for ancient women.

The choice of family background roughly locks on the beautiful girl's family that will not have much power.

Even the so-called "official origin" is only among the lower-class officials; the origin of a beautiful girl needs to undergo strict political review, and her appearance and figure are even more rigorous.

As for the need to be raised by the legitimate mother, it is for the consideration of maintaining feudal order.

The final birth date and eight characters say that even when many families now have weddings, they will find someone to calculate it to ensure peace of mind.

Of course, Princess Kunxing knew that her father didn't care about her identity as a show girl. In order to choose the best show girl, she was more relaxed in her official account.

If this is not the case, Qin Mingyue and Mu Jianping will not be able to participate in this draft.

In terms of choosing the origins of concubines, there were also differences between the north and the south in the Ming Dynasty.

Someone has done statistics. In the early Ming Dynasty, most concubines were mainly southern women.

After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, especially after the mid-Ming Dynasty, it was mainly dominated by northern women.

So what was the process of the royal family's talent show in the Ming Dynasty? Let's take Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty as an example.

In the first screening, the girls who were auditions arrived in the capital in the first month of the year, with about 5,000 people.

The girls lined up every hundred people, lined up, and the eunuchs began to initially screen.

Those who are too tall, too short, too tall, or too thin are all eliminated from the team, and about a thousand people will be eliminated in this round.

During the second screening, the eunuchs began to check the details of ears, nose, shoulders, hair, skin, etc.

When I listen to the girls talking, I eliminate those who stutter, those who are confused, those who are dialect, those who speak with heavy dialects, and those who speak with unpleasant voices, I eliminated about two thousand people in this round.

In the third round of screening, the eunuchs took out a ruler to measure whether the proportions between hands and feet and waist were compliant, whether the cultural literacy met the standards, and whether the speech and behavior were polite, and about one thousand people were eliminated.

In the fourth round, experienced palace maids began to check some private parts of their bodies.

In the end, only 300 people were left. Of course, these 300 girls can be regarded as serious "show girls".

In the fifth round, the remaining 300 people have to live in the palace for a while, during which time there is a dedicated person responsible for secretly observing their behavior, and they will be eliminated if they are not satisfied.

In the end, only fifty people were left, and these fifty people were basically qualified to become emperor women.

In the sixth round, the Empress Dowager, the Concubine, and even the Emperor himself took action to select the top three of these fifty people to become concubines.

Of course, Zhu Youjian was quite pitiful. He had no queen mother or a concubine here.

Princess Kunxing would not let the eunuch intervene, and the palace maids and female officials around him would complete the whole process.
Chapter completed!