After the rest, the rest of the journey will be quick. Towards noon, the Holy Master's team returned to the capital.
Seeing the Holy Emperor entering the palace, the adult princes accompanying him dispersed. The ninth elder brother was already hungry, so he followed the fourth elder brother, eighth elder brother and tenth elder brother on the way back to the prince's mansion.
The fourth elder brother wanted to talk to the ninth elder brother, but when he saw that the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother were riding together, no one was talking to the eighth elder brother, so he did not move, and said to the eighth elder brother: "Autumn Jue is suspended. It's okay at the local level. Here in the capital, we're afraid of trouble caused by suffering masters. These days, you should be careful when coming in and out, take more guards with you and don't leave the city." After hearing this, the eighth prince felt bitter in his heart.
Although the prince is rich in money, when it comes to life and death hatred, others would dare to fight even if they really want to exchange their lives for their lives. This is the wrath of a common man.
He nodded and said: "Yes, I took note of it, thank you Fourth Brother!" The Ninth Elder Brother and the Tenth Elder Brother followed behind, listening attentively, and the brothers looked at each other.
This job is quite dangerous. In May, the third elder brother packed up the coats in the House of Internal Affairs. What were the coats? They were just royal servants. Their children and grandchildren were still working in the House of Internal Affairs, and the only way to hold grudges against their masters was to use evil.
It is impossible to guarantee that among the officials and people involved in the previous dynasty, there was no one who was lonely and courageous. In the prince's residence, Shu Shu was also looking at the time.
When I woke up this morning, I didn't have the freedom and comfort of yesterday. What was left was worry. I'm afraid that Brother Jiu won't be able to eat well or sleep well.
The temperature in the mountains is low, so I am afraid of catching a cold in the morning and evening. Estimating the time and arriving in Beijing around noon, Shu Shu asked the dining room to prepare bone soup.
When Brother Jiu came back, she hadn't eaten her lunch yet, so the couple ate it together. It's relatively simple, just braised noodles in bone soup with bok choy in it.
This is what Brother Jiu sent back yesterday afternoon. After finishing a bowl of hot noodles, Brother Jiu finally came to life. He looked at Shu Shu and said, "If you don't like to go out alone, you won't be able to eat or sleep well." Shu Shu pointed to the dark circles under his eyes. , said: "I miss you too. No one could sleep last night." In fact, it was not true. She was chatting with Walnut. After the hour, she felt sleepy after walking, so she went to bed late.
Brother Jiu said: "In the future, if I am on my own, I will not go far away. It has only been a day, and I am not worried. If time goes by, I will think even more." Shu Shu nodded in response, but in his heart he felt that he still needed Xiao Something else.
It would have been better if it had been longer. After taking a nap, Brother Jiu didn't move. He just called Sun Jin and said, "Go and see how He Yuzhu is doing. If he's still not feeling well, ask for the doctor to come and have a look." Sun Jin agreed and went to see him. He Yuzhu went.
Only then did Shu Shu know that He Yuzhu was sick. After hearing from Brother Jiu that he caught a cold after coming out of the greenhouse, she said to Walnut: "Give him a few Sangju pills. They are for treating colds and colds. Tell him to have a good rest." Don't worry about me for a few days." Walnut went down to find medicine and went out to deliver it.
Brother Jiu was already leaning on the kang and said: "I have never thought about He Yuzhu's family background before, but in the past ten years I have not heard that he has any relatives outside. Now that I think about it, I guess that with Wei Zhu Almost, I have no relatives anymore, so I entered the palace just for the sake of food. It's so pitiful." He Yuzhu is the eunuch of Haha Pearl, who has been with Jiu Age since he was ten years old.
There is no lower age limit for a young eunuch to purify himself and enter the palace, but there is no age limit for young eunuchs to be purified and unable to serve others. Generally, they have to be eight years old or above.
The upper limit is sixteen. In the first year of entering the palace, you usually learn the rules, and then you are assigned to various errands.
He Yuzhu was able to come to the prince's side at the age of ten because he had learned the rules well. Based on this calculation, he would have entered the palace at the age of eight or nine.
Shu Shu said: "Now that we are out of the palace, if I want to give He Yuzhu grace, it is easy. Just ask him later if he has any other relatives." After hearing this, Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "Don't ask, even if there are any Relatives, who can send their flesh and blood to the palace? What kind of good people are they? Most of them are like Wei Zhu's uncle and aunt. It's not enough to occupy the nephew's land, so he has to force the person to death to feel at ease." Shu Shu heard this. , also makes sense.
Even if a poor family has no food to eat, even if it is sold as a slave, it is better than being sent to the palace as a slave.
But the little eunuchs in the palace all have their own heels. It does not mean that a beggar on the street can purify himself if he wants to go to the palace. He must have relatives to protect him. Otherwise, if he cannot survive the purification process, it will be a human life, and no one can bear it.
Shu Shu said, "It's my fault. It's better not to get involved with such a relative." Brother Jiu knew that Shu Shu was kind-hearted and didn't like her to think about these things, so he mentioned Xiao Liu and praised, "Xiao Liu" Six is not bad. I have survived by being with Brother Fifteen. I have eight reading companions. This time I only ordered two, including Xiao Liu." Shu Shu said: "Brother Fifteen is a tolerant and soft-hearted person. Child." Brother Jiu said, "Well, you look sensible..." After a while, Sun Jin came back with Walnut.
He Yuzhu didn't have a fever, so he didn't call the doctor. However, he kept Sangju Pills and planned to take them for two days. He would not come to the main room for these two days.
Brother Jiu and Shu Shu let the matter go. I thought that the matter of the little eunuch was just mentioned casually, but it turned out that there was a follow-up the next day.
It is no coincidence that the book is written. The eunuchs in the palace are all under the control of the Jingshifang. In fact, there are countless eunuchs in each palace. They are a carrot and a pit, and they are not wealthy at all.
Now the seventeenth elder brother is four years old and the eighteenth elder brother is two years old. Little eunuchs have to be prepared for the two elder brothers. After a young eunuch is purified, he will need to be raised for half a year to a year, and it will take another one or two years to learn the rules. If he is not prepared now, it will be too late to prepare temporarily.
In the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Brother Jiu frowned as he looked at the documents sent from the Jingshi Office. The document states that forty people are to be admitted as eunuchs, twenty from eight to ten years old, and twenty from ten to sixteen years old.
The prince was divided into palaces when he was six years old, and he had four eunuchs named Haha Pearl. These twenty people are prepared for selection. As for the more, it fills up everywhere.
Because the old eunuch has reached old age, his strength is too weak, he can no longer work as a servant, and he has to withdraw from the palace. After the Ministry of Internal Affairs stamps the seal, notices will be posted to start recruiting eunuchs.
The eunuch must first be recommended by the eunuch who has a tablet in the palace, and then write a purchase and sale document similar to a marriage document, as well as a life and death document, before he can be purified and enter the palace.
The ninth elder brother sighed, looked at the twelfth elder brother and said, "Look at these poor things. We are so blessed to be born in the royal family." Only then did the twelfth elder brother realize that not many eunuchs in the palace entered the palace by themselves. Those in the palace were sold by their parents and relatives.
"What if it's a kidnapped child?" Brother Twelve was a little worried. He is also a man, and he knows how valuable his life is. If he cuts it with a knife, there will be no room for repair, but it is too deceptive.
After hearing this, Brother Jiu was also alert and said: "We have to ask someone to check clearly, and we can't just make a fuss." Thinking like this, he picked up a pen and wrote a few sentences on the document. The verification of identity must be strict.
Unless your parents have obtained the household registration certificate to prove that it is your own flesh and blood; otherwise, if your uncles or elders come to give it away, you are not allowed to accept it directly. You must check it carefully to ensure that there is no suspicion of abduction.
After the official document came down, Brother Jiu dropped the matter. He has been the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for three years, and the people below him also know his temper and don't like to worry about things. However, those who have spoken specifically will still ask questions later, and no one dares to make fun of him.
In the eyes of Brother Jiu, being a palace eunuch is a very miserable profession, but for extremely poor families with many sons, it is a good way out.
Even a young eunuch has two taels of silver per month, one and a half dou of rice, and six hundred coins for public expenses. Therefore, many of the eunuchs in the palace have people from the countryside asking for help, and they are waiting for news about the recruitment of eunuchs in the palace.
A few days after the official document was sent to Brother Jiu, the forty places were divided among the eunuchs in the palace.
As a eunuch with no heirs, he is willing to take one or two of his fellow countrymen's descendants to provide for him in his old age. Because of Brother Jiu's orders, the forty young eunuch candidates who were sent to the Imperial City to wait went through several rounds of interrogations.
It is indeed his own flesh and blood, as evidenced by the household registration book, and he is indeed his biological father and mother. There is no objection to this. If you find all three old and four young people as proof, you can have a knife.
For those who do not have a household registration booklet as proof, even if it is sent by their grandfather, they must be checked. As a result, it turned out that there were two wrong ones. One was from Tongzhou, sent by his uncle. He was thin, small, and full of scars.
This was none other than Bian'er, the wife of Yaqibu, the eighth prince's wet nurse, who was barely eight years old. After Yaqibu was questioned last year, several houses and shops that Yaqibu bought in Tongzhou were also raided.
The money used to buy the property was the money divided by the occupied Eighth Prince, and those houses and shops belonged directly to the Eighth Prince.
Long before the inspection, the raised outer room took the private room and took the son back to his parents' home. Who can be a good person if he can give his own sister to an old man as his wife?
The outer room is also a scheming person, and he has a tight grip on his private room. At the beginning, mother and son were kicked out after hearing Yaqib's accusation.
Later, Yaqib died, and time passed, so he pretended to take her back, but this time he was cruel and accepted a high-priced gift and wanted to sell the girl.
But the outer room took the lead, took his private room and ran away with the passing merchant. The merchant only knew that he was from Chengdu and came to Beijing to sell cinnabar. He didn't know anything else.
This uncle's bamboo basket was empty, he didn't get any money, and he was still left to eat, so he scolded him.
When he found out that the palace was recruiting eunuchs, the uncle found a way to send the eunuchs over, thinking about the silver they would get from selling their bodies and the twenty-four taels of monthly silver for the next year.
When the inside story was found out and reported to the Ninth Elder Brother, the Ninth Elder Brother was in trouble. This person definitely cannot be accepted.
But if Uncle Tiger and Wolf keeps this child, he will either be sold into slavery or die.
This child should have been in the flag, but because of his status as a foreigner, he was naturalized. Now that I know, do you want to join the flag?
Brother Jiu thought for a while and went to the Penal Department Yamen. He doesn't like to deal with the eighth prince, but he can't clean up the eighth prince's tail.
The Yaqibs are serving the law, but they still have a daughter. It seems to have been sent to Zhuangzi. Was this child sent to his sister to be raised?
*When I get home tomorrow, I will resume the third update. The next update will be at 12 noon on May 26th. Welcome to the Qidian app.
