Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 282 Seventh Brother Xing Feng
Xing Feng was called Seventh Brother by Li You. He was the seventh brother of Xue Rengui. Xing Feng had only one eye, and his other eye was blinded by the enemy. The purpose was to let Xing Feng tell the army where Xing Feng was at that time. where the grain and grass are.

However, Xing Feng's bones were very hard, so he insisted on not saying anything, so the other party took off one of Xing Feng's eyeballs.

It's a pity that after losing one eye, such a tough guy was directly abandoned by the leadership above, and then thrown into the gang leader army.

Others are not rare, but Li You has seen the toughness in Xing Feng's bones. Now Xing Feng helps Li You train newcomers and is in charge of Li You's intelligence system. Of course, now Li You does not have a complete intelligence system. The so-called intelligence system Just scratch the surface.

However, Li You believes that his intelligence system will get better and better.

"Why is Seventh Brother here?" After seeing Xing Feng, Li You stood up directly, followed by walking out of the room, welcoming Xing Feng out, and letting Yueying accompany Li Mingda in the room.

After Li You and Xing Feng came outside, Li You quickly asked, "Seventh brother, what happened?"

Xing Feng quickly took out a letter, and there were three chicken feathers stuck on the letter, Li You was startled, this is the chicken feather letter, it is an urgent message that he only knew between himself and the mysterious person.

Of course, the sticky feather is not Li You's original creation, in fact, the chicken feather letter originated from "Yu Xi".

"Feather call": This is an ancient document for recruiting troops. The bird feathers are inserted on it to indicate urgency and must be delivered by express delivery. But Li You used chicken feathers. This is Li You's idea after reading the chicken feather letter, so that he expresses his urgency. At this time, three chicken feathers were inserted on the letter, indicating that it was the most urgent.

Li You also opened the chicken-feather letter immediately, and saw the letter read: "Careful to make ice, someone is looking for it, turn it in as soon as possible to avoid attack!"

After reading these sixteen characters, Li You understood. To be honest, sometimes Li You really didn’t know what to say. The bit immediately followed suit.

This time, Li You only wanted to use ice in his Dunhuafang to make ice with saltpeter this time, but Li You ignored that the whole Chang'an was experiencing high temperature at this time. If someone could find out that Li You could make ice with saltpeter ice, but it was not dedicated to the court.

People are dying every day in Chang'an now, as long as you make a little fuss, then Li You will become the target of public criticism.

Fortunately, the mysterious person sent me this news, otherwise I would definitely be in trouble here. After reading the chicken feather letter, Li You slightly looked at Xing Feng beside him, and then said something in Xing Feng's ear. sentence.

Xing Feng immediately nodded understandingly, followed and left, Li You also took a look at this time, Li Mingda, who was flying happily in the room, smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth: "Sister, you are going to the palace for a while. "

"Everyone work hard!"

This is the place where Dunhuafang is close to the Furong Garden. There is a Qujiang River in the Furong Garden. The water source is very rich. The downstream of the pond flows into the city, which is one of the water sources for the southeast of the city.

A large group of people stood by the Qujiang River, using large wooden barrels to fetch water, put the water on a wheelbarrow, and then passed out in the ice-making workshop, and poured the water into large wooden boxes.

Then put raw saltpeter into it, and after a while, it will freeze into ice.

The chemical name of saltpeter is calcium nitrate. When it dissolves in water, it absorbs heat and the temperature drops, so the water will freeze. Just buy calcium nitrate directly. I don’t know if the ingredients are the same at the pharmacy, otherwise it can be used again. You can just dry it in the sun, you can find it at the chemical supply store, or you can buy saltpeter at the drugstore and try it out.
There is also a little knowledge here, that is, in ancient times, it took ten days to replace the saltpeter each time. The royal family can replace it every half a month, and the cost is not high, because after the saltpeter is dissolved in water, it can be crystallized by cooling or Evaporative crystallization is used to extract saltpeter for reuse. .

Again, ice with saltpeter in it is absolutely inedible. After eating it, you will not be able to stand it, and you will die if you have diarrhea.

Edible ice must be without adding saltpeter, and how to make ice without adding saltpeter has already been said before.

Xiao Wa is the steward who makes ice cubes. Xiao Wa and Li You have a relationship, what kind of relationship, this Xiao Wa is the uncle of Li You's concubine Yueying, this is also a gift from Li You to his bride .

Yueying was sent to the palace since she was a child. Fortunately, because of her good looks, Yueying was chosen to be beside Concubine Yin.

Datang recruits girls from the people into the palace every year, and both middle-aged and Baiding's daughters can apply. Unlike other dynasties who choose palace girls to serve the emperor, Datang's entry into the palace is more of a profession.

After entering the palace, they start from a young maid, and can be promoted to the ranks of mistress, Shangyan concubine, Shanggong, or the most noble palace in the future. (that is, Shang Gong's position)

This is also a future.
During the Tang Dynasty, the age for girls to enter the palace as maidservants ranged from four or five years old to more than ten years old.Generally speaking, the younger the age of entering the palace, the longer the time of receiving court education and training. Since they were familiar with court etiquette since childhood, most of them were sent to the main hall when they grew up to serve as the "most secret palace" next to the king.

If they enter the palace after the age of ten, they are often sent to the imperial dining room, dining room, step washing room, water washing room, fruit room, etc., because these departments focus more on teaching skills related to the job.

For example, learn how to cook in the Imperial Dining Room, and learn how to do needlework in the Embroidery Room.Every child entering the palace will be placed under the discipline of an in-law or Shang Palace, who will act as a teacher and mother.Everyone lives in the same room.

After learning etiquette and skills in the palace, the little maids can take the "insider test" after about eight to ten years. After passing the test, they will officially become insiders and belong to the ninth-rank official rank.After more than ten or twenty years of experience, the wife can take the Shang Palace Examination.

If you pass the exam, you will be given a certiorari paper and a fake bun, which belongs to the official rank of the fifth rank.In the future, if there is a chance to be promoted to the most noble palace and promoted to the noble palace, the official rank will be higher.

And the Qing Dynasty that we are familiar with. If you entered the palace as a court lady in the Qing Dynasty, you basically wanted to become the emperor's woman. In the Qing Dynasty, there was only one way for women to enter the palace, and that was to participate in the draft.Anyone who has watched Qing court dramas should know this, the concubines in the harem are all drafted.

However, there are actually two types of talent show systems in the Qing Dynasty. What we know is that princes, princes and other clansmen and nobles select empresses and concubines to be canonized in Fujin, which is called the general election.

The Shunzhi Dynasty also listed the selection of palace ladies separately, which is the small selection.

General elections are held every three years, but minor elections are held every year.Because they mainly entered the palace to serve the nobles, so the only ones who participated in the small election were the Three Banners of the Three Banners, which belonged to the Upper Three Banners.Also known as the Three Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Baoyi is the slaves of the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han tribes to which the Eight Banners belong. The Three Banners of the House of Internal Affairs only serve the royal family.

Participating in the small election can only be the daughter of a family with a position below that of Baoyi Zuolin. Ordinary people are not eligible at all.

Girls in the Three Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be registered at the Zuo Ling Office as soon as they are born. Therefore, in the annual small election, Zuo Ling registers and compiles a list of qualified girls who have reached the age of 13 under the banner, and then sends the list to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Therefore, girls who entered the palace in the Qing Dynasty basically had no future if they were not favored by the emperor, but in the Tang Dynasty, when a palace maid entered the palace, she would have an official position, which was a career, which is why many poor families in the Tang Dynasty sent their daughters to the palace. The reason for sending it to the palace.

(End of this chapter)