Gao Yao smiled bitterly, knowing that Qin Mo's old habit had happened again.
"My godfather is already sixty, and it's not appropriate for him to still be looking for a wife..." Gao Yao said.
"The main thing is to find someone to take care of him. It's good to have someone beside him who knows how to deal with things!" Qin Mo said.
"Have you forgotten about Little Peony?" Gao Yao said helplessly: "I feel sorry for delaying you for so many years!"
Speaking of Little Peony, this incident was also Qin Mo's fault, and all the good time was wasted.
Gao Yao originally planned to let Qin Mo keep Little Peony, but Little Peony was not Qin Mo's cup of tea, and her beauty was still far behind if she wanted to enter Qin Mo's harem.
Moreover, Qin Mo really didn't have that idea anymore.
The three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines are all fake.
Twenty concubines are enough to keep you busy for a lifetime. Any more will really overdraw your life.
However, fortunately, Chai Rong had a good sense of little Peony, and finally he was accepted by Chai Rong, which was regarded as giving her a good home.
And that girl Xiaonuan is also the princess now. She has grown up tall and graceful, and she will have haircuts in two years.
When he rescued her from the land of Jiuqu, Little Mudan has been educating her very well over the years.
Retracting his thoughts, Qin Mo said: "That's different. There is a saying that the most beautiful thing is the red sunset. My father-in-law will be lonely and helpless all his life. Wouldn't it be nice to have a companion when he gets old?"
Gao Yao pouted, "You can pull the string if you want. I don't care. I don't know whether my godfather agrees or not!"
"Don't be angry, I have a suggestion!" Qin Mo hugged her and sat down, "The key is that there are no suitable widows in the Ming Dynasty... Even if there are widows, the status gap is too big.
If it doesn't work out, how about I give more of my mother-in-law to my father-in-law? "
"You can have this!" Gao Yao nodded. She was really a little afraid of Qin Mo's partner.
In the blink of an eye, time has arrived for Gao Shilian's sixtieth birthday.
Gao Shilian never thought in his life that his sixtieth birthday would be so glorious.
He originally thought that his sixtieth birthday would be spent in the Daqian Palace, and then the young eunuchs would try their best to curry favor with him in order to get the upper hand.
But now he is the Duke of Jingguo, and he can entertain all parties in a dignified manner.
Great Ming Dynasty, everything that should come has come.
His Majesty sent congratulatory gifts, and the prince's son-in-law personally welcomed the guests. There was no one left in this honor.
He stood next to Qin Mo, looking at the guests coming in one after another, and he couldn't help but greet them, "Prince Ejun, please come in!
Prince Rongjun, please come inside..."
After receiving one wave of guests and receiving a bunch of gifts, Gao Shilian's face went numb with laughter.
After the guests left, Gao Shilian and Qin Mo sat in the study and had a drink.
He poured a glass of wine for Qin Mo, "This glass of wine, I toast to you, gave me a birthday that I couldn't even imagine. Our life is worth it!"
"Where are you now? When you are seventy, eighty or ninetieth birthday, I will do even more!" Qin Mo clinked glasses with him and said with a smile.
"It is not easy for a person to reach his sixties. To be able to reach the age of seventy is already a blessing from God. To be like the Supreme Emperor at the age of sixty is already a blessing from God." Gao Shilian said with a smile: "But I did this for the prince. I feel uncomfortable, maybe because I have been a eunuch for a long time.
How about I still enter the palace?
Those little eunuchs in the palace are so stupid, I feel so worried!
Don't think too much, I have no other intention, I just want to help Daming train some people! "
Gao Shilian was afraid that Qin Mo would think too much. After all, Qin Mo was the prince now and he had many heirs.
He is Gao Yao's 'godfather', so it might not make people think too much.
It would be bad if Qin Mo felt that he wanted to help Gao Yao's heirs fight for something.
"I didn't think much about it. I don't even know whether the child is a boy or a girl!" Qin Mo put down his wine glass, "However, it would be inappropriate for you to enter the palace again, and the courtiers would not agree.
My father is too embarrassed to order you around, and I will be even more embarrassed if you follow me.
How can a son-in-law instigate his father-in-law?
If you tell me, there will be lightning! "At this point, Qin Mo changed the subject, "But if you can't sit still, I have some ideas.
Most of the current young eunuchs are from Gao Li and Wozhou, which is not good. If these people form gangs, it will be extremely easy for trouble to happen.
After all, this is related to the safety of my family.
Maybe my generation will not dare to do anything, but there is no guarantee that my descendants will not have a cowardly person.
At that time, it is possible to be bullied by these people. "
"You mean, study. Daqian?"
"You can learn, but you can't take over everything. Lao Liu can't figure it out himself. I want to set up the East and West No. 2 Factory!
There are two factories in the east and west, one is mainly responsible for serving the nobles of the palace, and the other is mainly responsible for the royal workshop.
Give them certain rights and let them restrain each other! "
"This is a good idea, but...it is easy to breed ambitious eunuchs." Gao Shilian said: "Those concubines in the harem who are not favored will have a hard time, and there are also those princes who are not favored, such as the emperor. The lives of those in Ganganye Temple are worse than death.
The eunuch is a rootless person with a weak mind. He is either greedy for money or greedy for power, but even though he is a rootless person, he still has the desire of this man.
It is not uncommon for people to fall in love with each other in the palace, and it is not possible for them to have sex with palace maids as husband and wife.
If they collude, it's not just a security issue. The secrets in the palace are like ventilated walls. They seem to be tight, but in fact there are no secrets at all! "Gao Shilian knows this very well. The so-called secret is just because not many people know it.
"What's your father-in-law's clever move?" Qin Mo asked.
Gao Shilian smiled and said, "Let me tell you from the maid first that beautiful girls from good families are regularly recruited from among the people to enter the palace, and when they are of appropriate age, they are released to get married outside the palace.
In this way, the maid can be prevented from being associated with these young eunuchs for a long time.
However, eunuchs are not suitable for this method. There are thousands of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty Palace. Even if they are replaced every ten or fifteen years, it will still require a lot of people.
After these people leave the palace, they have no skills, which is equivalent to forcing them to die. Otherwise, when they are in the palace, they try every means to be greedy and earn pension money for them after leaving the palace.
So I think we can reduce the number of eunuchs and increase the number of maids.
Strictly control the rights of eunuchs, and do not allow eunuchs to interfere in politics. Use the method of training dead soldiers to train these young eunuchs to ensure their loyalty!
It's okay to have two factories in the east and west, but eunuchs are also human beings. Once they seize power, they will inevitably breed ambition. "
Gao Shilian has no good solution. He is also a eunuch, so he knows eunuchs too well.
It can only be contained, not exempted.
"At the end of every dynasty, the emperor even valued eunuchs to control powerful officials. Therefore, there was no absolute power to control. My opinion is to hold these people in your hands like a knife.
You can tighten the control and use strict regulations to restrict it! "
