In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 288 Alternative Beauty Pageant
It was also the first time that a founding emperor like Lin Rui, who had already ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, was not immediately conferred the title of queen.

After the imperial edict was spread to the world, almost all the gentry, wealthy households and wealthy families in the north, as long as they had girls of the right age at home, changed their minds.

One after another, painters were asked to draw a portrait of their daughter, along with her birth date and birth date, and then they asked local officials to write a letter of recommendation.

All of a sudden, all kinds of pictures of beautiful women and memorials flew to the capital like snowflakes, and finally landed on Lin Rui's desk.

Looking at the piles of portraits of beautiful girls, Lin Rui was crying and laughing, but he took the trouble to look at them one by one, but it was a pity that he couldn't appreciate ink paintings.

"Your Majesty, this looks pretty good. Please take a look at it..."

Mrs. Lu said and came to Lin Rui with the portrait in her hand.

In the entire imperial study, only Madam Lu and a dozen ladies helped with the selection. Although Madam Lu was very resistant and wanted to burn all the portraits, she had to make a careful selection.

Lin Rui did not treat Mrs. Lu and thousands of other ladies badly, and all of them were conferred imperial titles.

Mrs. Lu was even canonized as first-grade imperial concubine and served as the general manager of the inner court. The other wives were also second- to seventh-grade imperial concubines and served as chief officials of various departments in the inner court.

As for the entire inner court, Lin Rui also carried out a thorough adjustment and reform. The entire inner court has fourteen prisons, three bureaus and two divisions.

Among them, there is one chief internal officer, who is the first-rank internal official, who coordinates all supervisory bureaus and is directly responsible to the emperor. Six deputy general managers are the second-rank internal officials. Then there are the chief supervisors and the directors of each bureau, who are the third-rank internal officials.

From high to low, the internal officials are also ranked from the first to the ninth rank.

The fourteen supervisors are secretary supervisor, internal affairs supervisor, internal official supervisor, supervisor supervisor, financial supervisor, procurement supervisor, commercial supervisor, law enforcement supervisor, education supervisor, manufacturing supervisor, industrial supervisor, construction supervisor, eunuch supervisor, and audit supervisor.

Among them, the Secretary Supervisor is mainly responsible for assisting the emperor in handling daily government affairs, which is equivalent to the previous Secretary of Ceremony Supervisor.

The Internal Affairs Supervisor is mainly responsible for the logistical chores in the palace. For example, the former Shangshan Superintendent, the Salary Department, and the Clothing Bureau were all placed under the Internal Affairs Supervisor.

The Internal Affairs Supervisor is mainly responsible for personnel, the Supervisory Supervisor is responsible for supervising various supervisory bureaus, and the Financial Supervisor is responsible for managing royal money and food, which was adapted from the original Ministry of Household in China.

The Purchasing Supervisor is responsible for purchasing all supplies needed in the palace.

The Commercial Supervisor is responsible for managing the Royal's stores and commercial operations in various places in the future, including the Royal Bank of China, which was adapted from the original Ministry of Commerce of China.

The Law Enforcement Supervisor is responsible for law enforcement in the inner court, and the Education Supervisor is also adapted from the former Ministry of Rites of China. Lin Rui plans to set up schools in various places in the future to open up people's wisdom. At that time, the Royal Education Supervisor will preside over it.

Otherwise, if the Ministry of Etiquette of the outer court is responsible, I am afraid that what will be taught in the end will still be a group of moral Confucian scholars.

The Manufacturing Supervision is mainly responsible for the manufacture of weapons and firearms. It was formed by the merger of the former Ministry of Industry of China and the Bureau of War and War of the Ming Dynasty.

The Industrial Supervisor was mainly responsible for future industrial development and scientific research, while the Construction Supervisor was responsible for royal engineering construction.

The Imperial Medical Office was adapted from the Imperial Hospital of the Ming Dynasty, but added medical research and medical education.

The Audit Supervisor is responsible for the royal internal financial audit work.

The two departments are the Banking Department and the Banknote Printing Department.

The above fourteen supervisors and two departments mainly serve the royal family and business, industry, education and other aspects.

The three bureaus are the Statistics Bureau, the Intelligence Bureau, and the Supervision Bureau. These three departments are mainly responsible for external affairs and have independent personnel and financial powers.

The Bureau of Statistics is responsible for statistics and investigation of data from various places. The Intelligence Bureau is responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence from various places. The Supervision Bureau has the greatest power. It supervises hundreds of officials. Officials below the seventh rank can be directly summoned for interrogation and arrest. Officials above the seventh rank and below the third rank can be summoned for questioning. However, the emperor's approval is required before arrests and interrogations can be made. Those of rank three and above must be summoned and interrogated with the emperor's approval before they can be summoned for interrogation and arrest.

Compared with Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty, the Supervisory Bureau has much smaller powers. It only has the power to investigate, arrest and interrogate, but does not have the power to make judgments and dispositions.

It can be said that except for the wives in the Governor's Mansion, basically all the ladies in the cabinet ministries were assigned to the inner court by Lin Rui.

Except for the addition of a Ministry of Agriculture and a Ministry of Commerce, all cabinet ministries have remained unchanged, while the external ones have been directly abolished.

The Chinese officials brought by Hong Chengchou were mainly concentrated in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce, and the other six ministries were still officials from the Ming Dynasty.Hong Chengchou served as the chief assistant of the cabinet, Xue Guoguan served as the second assistant, and Zhang Han served as the left governor of the Supervisory Council.

At this moment, Lin Rui's eyes lit up when he stared at the portrait in Mrs. Lu's hand, and then he smiled and said: "It's really good, but it only shows that the artist is very skilled. Who knows what the real person looks like?"

The woman in the portrait does have beautiful features and a graceful figure. The key is that compared to other portraits, she has a little more charm. Even Lin Rui, a layman who doesn't understand Chinese painting, can see that this painting is a rare masterpiece.

"Your Majesty, you can draw something so vivid and lifelike that the real person should not be far behind."

Mrs. Lu smiled and explained.

Obviously, the whole mentality has changed now. Almost the whole body and mind are focused on Lin Rui. As for the previous hatred, it has long disappeared without a trace.

"Oh, really?" Lin Rui took the portrait doubtfully, obviously he was really attracted to the beautiful girl on it. The key is that the painting is so good.

"Your majesty is infallible..."

"what!"

Lin Rui shifted his gaze to the text on the side of the portrait. When he saw the content clearly, he was stunned in shock.

"What's wrong? Your Majesty!"

Mrs. Lu immediately put her head over, and the other ladies also put down the scrolls in their hands and gathered around.

"This...is this Princess Kunxing?"

Everyone was equally astonished when they looked at the introduction above.

"Who sent this?"

After Lin Rui came to his senses, he was furious, apparently thinking that the official had done it on his own initiative.

"His Majesty…"

Mrs. Lu quickly found the memorial that was sent with the portrait and handed it to Lin Rui. It was obvious that everyone focused on the portrait and did not read the memorial at all. After all, the content on it was the same.

Lin Rui took the memorial and found out that it was actually Zhang Yan. Although he was relieved a lot, he was even more surprised.

I didn’t know for a moment whether Zhang Yan was testing or serious.

So he said: "Let's put this painting and memorial aside for now."

"It's Your Majesty."

After learning that it was the Princess of Ming Dynasty, no one, including Mrs. Lu, dared to express any random opinions.

After all, there are many princesses who have become concubines for new emperors, but few have become queens.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with these selected ones?"

Mrs. Lu asked, pointing to the portraits on the table.

"What can you tell by just looking at the portrait? Well, since they are so keen on sending their daughters to the palace, I naturally can't refute their good intentions. I will pass them all and let them send all their daughters to the capital first. From now on, I will handle it this way again when I receive a memorial like this."

Lin Rui waved his hand and chuckled.

These guys have good calculations and want their daughter to be the queen for nothing. How can it be so cheap?

So he decided to use his trick to trick all these young ladies into coming to the capital, and then symbolically select a few outstanding ones to be added to the harem, while the rest were eliminated and sent to the education prison to study, so as to reserve teacher talents for future education.

(End of this chapter)