Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 160 Invite Your Majesty to choose the best girl!
The merchants in the Ming Dynasty are not limited to those rich merchants and tycoons - small merchants and hawkers are also an important supplement to the economy of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, why does Liu Huaiwen cry every day that the national treasury is empty, but when Zhu Jinsong wants to mess with others, why can he always come up with money?Because the urban management of Daming will collect a sum of health management fees and operating fees from these small traders every month and send them to the state treasury.

Then the problem is coming.

The behavior of the government no longer collecting the previous copper plates but instead collecting banknotes and coins made these small merchants prefer banknotes and coins. However, the banknotes issued by the Daming Treasury could not meet the market demand at all.

Therefore, the rich merchants and small merchants of the Ming Dynasty came to a conclusion after some research: there were no bigwigs who understood economics in the Ming Dynasty, and they were all little spicy chickens who ate each other. The salaries given to them might as well be fed to the dogs.

Of course, scolding is nothing but scolding, no matter how much you scold, you can’t delay the big guys from going to the bank to exchange for treasure notes-I’ve heard that if you exchange them after a few years, you will be charged for fire consumption money, and the money saved by exchanging now is equivalent to being in vain. earned?
Apart from the matter of treasures, what the people of Ming Dynasty were most concerned about was that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was finally going to choose a concubine.

I don't know how this happened.

First, someone published an article in a newspaper run by the people, claiming that Emperor Zhu Jinsong of the Ming Dynasty had been on the throne for five years, but there was only one side concubine in the harem, and this side concubine was from the Sauron tribe in Eastern Liaodong. Does it mean that the emperor is still a bachelor in the legal sense?

This shit is not good. Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty had only one daughter-in-law, Empress Zhang, and only one son. Later, he fell to the side. This matter was ridiculed by the people of Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years. You have been ridiculed for more than 100 years, and you are about to become the embarrassment of the emperor. What's the matter, your emperor Zhu plans to learn from your ancestors?
In short, Emperor Xiaozong is a good husband, but he is definitely not a good emperor, because a good emperor not only requires martial arts and martial arts, but also has the obligation to marry more wives and have more sons to stabilize the country.

Naturally, the current emperor is the same - he has no morals in martial arts and martial arts, and there is nothing wrong with personal morals except that his father's ashes have not been buried. The only problem is that the position of empress is vacant and the harem is not real.

If it was just a non-governmental newspaper saying so, Zhu Jinsong would probably take it as a joke. Anyway, Ming Dynasty is not my Qing Dynasty, and I never pay attention to sinners because of words. who was killed for it.

For example, Zhu Laosi punished Fang Xiaoru and ten clans, for example, three thousand court ladies were killed alive, for example, Zhengde and good women, for example, Jiajing Jiajing, every family was clean, and the emperor of Ming Dynasty was not arranged.

The problem is that the "Daming Newspaper" reprinted this article for the first time.

And "Daming Newspaper" is the mouthpiece official newspaper covering the entire Ming Dynasty, and every article published on it will be repeatedly studied-this means that everyone from the local government to the people basically knows that Zhu Jinsong still has legal significance on the Bachelor.

Now, the people of Ming Dynasty lost their interest in eating melons, and instead worried about Zhu Jinsong, the emperor.

Is Zhu Jinsong a good emperor?That must be true. If you dare to say no, you can go to the field to say this, and see if those old farmers who are farming will hit people with hoes.

However, such a good emperor has no daughter-in-law or son?So what about the great Ming country?What should I do with the good life I finally had?
Damn, you can let the emperor do whatever you want with other things, but absolutely not with this one!Write the book of the people, spray him!

Then a group of bigwigs in the court took the "Daming Newspaper" and Wanmin Book and ran to the temporary palace. Zeng Cheng, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, took the lead in trouble: "Your Majesty has been at the imperial court for five years, and now Jiannu has shrunk to a corner. Most of the family and country have been recovered, and the people's livelihood in the world is stable, I ask your Majesty to select a wide range of beautiful girls to serve as the harem."

Regarding the persuasion of these bigwigs, it would be bullshit to say that Zhu Jinsong was not at all tempted.

Take a look at the process of Daming's female draft:

First of all, eunuchs must be sent to collect 16 beauties between the ages of [-] and [-], and these [-] beauties must be non-medical, non-witch, non-merchant, and non-workers to be eligible to participate in the draft.

Because the general view at that time was that those who are skilled in medicine may poison the emperor, and those who are skilled in witchcraft may poison the emperor.

After [-] beauties are selected, they will be screened every day.

On the first day, the beauties stand in order of age, in groups of one hundred people, let the eunuchs gossip, pick and choose, for example, those who are slightly taller, shorter, fatter, and thinner are excluded, and 1000 people will be removed first;

On the second day, carefully check whether the ears, eyes, mouth, nose, hair, skin, collar, shoulders, back, etc. are well-proportioned, listen to whether the voice is pleasant to the ear, and then brush away 2000 people;

On the third day, use a measuring device to measure the figure of the beauties in detail, and let each of them walk dozens of steps to see their charm, and brush away another 1000 people.

The remaining 1000 people, as candidate maids, will be led to the secret room by the old palace woman, to explore their breasts, sniff their armpits, and touch their skin to see if their skin is smooth and delicate, so there are only 300 people selected—of course, the most important thing is Check if it is the original virgin, otherwise, this thing is enough to kill people.

These 300 people live in the palace for a month, and the court judges are familiar with their temperament and speech, and evaluate whether their character is firm, soft, foolish, wise, and wise, so only 50 people were selected and kept as concubines.

Finally, the queen mother or the concubine personally summoned 50 people to talk with them, and try to use calligraphy to count poetry and painting. The lady's sleeves will be accepted by the year and month posts, and the three will be selected as the best choice.

In other words, once a draft is held, the whole world will be shaken. Five thousand beauties will be selected from all the age-appropriate beauties, and the last three will be selected from the five thousand. The final contest.

Just like the school beauties and goddesses written in many online novels, the concubines of the emperor's harem just pick out [-] school beauties and goddesses from an unknown number, and then pick the best three out of the [-].

In addition to these three, if the emperor has something extra to look at, it will be counted separately, and will not take up the last three places for beautiful girls.

That's why, in Zhang Xiaohua's writing, Liu Bang, the old rascal, is so worried about steamed stuffed buns—like a person who satiates his hunger with sea cucumber and abalone every day, and suddenly gives him a piece of stinky tofu that he has never seen before. As a delicacy for the world.

Corruption, this was used to test the emperor in ancient times, which emperor can stand such a test?

It is estimated that as long as he is a normal man, it is difficult to resist this kind of temptation - anyway, Zhu Jinsong can't resist, because Zhu Jinsong is very normal, normal can't be more normal.

The question is, is there a queen mother or concubine in Ming Dynasty who presides over the draft?Even if we take a step back, let the queen preside over it, but does Daming have a queen now?Does Daming have eunuchs now?
No, it's not like Daming has no eunuchs, and there are eunuchs in every stall in the East Factory. The problem is that the eunuchs of Daming are currently serving the old dog Qian Deaf in the Forbidden City.

To put it bluntly, there were many people in the Ming court who understood the selection process, but none of them were qualified to preside over the selection process!

But Zeng Cheng and those bigwigs said that it doesn't matter. I guess you, Emperor Zhu, and your two younger brothers are still bachelors in the sense of the Ming Dynasty. Who else has no daughter-in-law?
Since there are no queens, concubines and queens who can preside over the draft, then those of us who are courtiers should show kindness and ask the women in the family to help you choose, and when the last few are selected, you can hand-pick queens and concubines.
Don't even try to refuse - if you agree to this matter, it's okay to say, if you don't agree, we big guys will take turns to go to Fengyang to cry?At that time, we will burn the book of Wanmin to Emperor Taizu Gao, and see how you will face your ancestors and the people of the world in the future!

In desperation, Zhu Jinsong could only nod his head and agree, but Zhu Jinsong suddenly remembered something, and said to Zeng Cheng and others: "The talent show is my private matter. It is not appropriate to make a big fanfare or harass the people. Do as you please." Yes. The incident of "Han Xiucai Hiring a Beautiful Wife by Randomness" must never be repeated!"

Because Zhu Jinsong, who is good at reading, suddenly remembered the "Surprise at the First Moment", which he had read some time ago, in which there was a section "Han Xiucai's Random Employment of a Beautiful Wife", which vividly wrote about a strange incident with a man.

A scholar named Han Ziwen, because of his poor family, was regarded as "sour yellow beetle and rotten tofu", but when he was worried about not being able to marry a wife, a rich man begged to marry his beautiful daughter to him. he.

Although there are a lot of nonsense in "Surprise at the First Moment", and the matter of the draft is exaggerated, there must be such things as harassment of the people.

If you don't take the opportunity to make a fortune, you will be sorry for such a big event in the draft—isn't the draft in later generations also like a bird?

Don't look at the officials and common people all over the world trying to persuade Zhu Jinsong to draft a girl, but when it's time for the draft, you'll see it again?Those ordinary people are still willing to marry their daughters into the palace?

But as soon as Zhu Jinsong's words fell, Zeng Cheng said with a confused face: "Why did your majesty say that? The so-called selflessness of the family and the selection of beautiful women, although it is a private matter of your majesty, it is also a public matter related to Daming Jiangshan .”

"As for what is said to disturb the people, it is even more nonsense. "Han Xiucai Hires a Beautiful Wife by Chaos" is written by the poor. —This is also a good opportunity for ordinary people to fly to the branches, who would miss it?"

Only then did Zhu Jinsong realize that what he was thinking was the thinking of future generations, and what the people today think might be completely different from what he thought.

As long as the selected emperor is not an old dog like Qianlong, the benefits of becoming a concubine in the palace are simply innumerable. Even palace maids and eunuchs are vying for the spot, let alone being a concubine.

As for the fact that you can't go home to visit your relatives, it's not a big problem-it's not easy for folks to marry themselves, unless they are from a wealthy family or are married close to each other.

Therefore, when Zhu Jinsong finally nodded and agreed to the draft, the people of Ming Dynasty, who had already eaten their fill, were excited.

Especially those who have school-age daughters at home are even more excited.

It's just that before these common people were happy, the news that came immediately afterwards was like a bolt from the blue, which directly stunned the common people of Daming.

Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, made regulations on the wide selection of female candidates. The restriction must be that they must be between the ages of 25 and must be literate, without a marriage contract, and without bound feet.

Let's put it this way, assuming that the sixteen provinces currently occupied by Ming Dynasty have a population of 25 million, with a 500-[-] ratio of men to women, and a quarter of the [-] million women are aged [-], which is only [-] million.

Among the 500 million women, including those who can write their own names and are considered literate, there may not be more than 1000 of them. Among these 1000 women, there are not a few who are not married or have no engagement. After all, Ming Dynasty The rate stipulates that women must marry later, but if the condition of not having feet bound is added, there may not be a few in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Then, the common people hated me, Taqing.

(End of this chapter)