Cai Bixia's eyes lit up and she whispered, "This... this is... the one sent by the capital..."
Fuhui nodded, and Cai Bixia looked at each of the girls carefully with her eyes wide open, thinking to herself, "My dear, this brat Zai Chun is so willing to give up! These are really stunning girls!"
Cai Bixia has been in the capital for a long time, and she is also aware of some of the rules in the palace. According to the royal ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, Han women are not allowed to enter the palace to draft girls.
But this rule is basically in a semi-abolished state, and it's too easy to get around it.
Okay, Zu Zhi won’t let you enter the palace? Then can we go to the Three Mountains and Five Gardens? When you formulated the ancestral system, the Old Summer Palace and Changchun Garden were not built. I can't choose to go to the Forbidden City.
This is one way to get around the rules, but the other way is even simpler. What if the beautiful girl from the Han family really likes the emperor and wants to give her a title?
Raise the flag! If you directly raise it as the Han military flag, doesn't this bypass the ancestral family law?
Cai Bixia was a little surprised when she heard this. She secretly asked Er Mao, among the millions of people in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, couldn't they even choose some beautiful girls?
Er Mao laughed when he heard this and said, "My good sister... I just need to take you to the harem secretly. What you see are the few high-class ones around the nobles. You haven't seen most of the other beautiful girls." !”
After that, Er Mao secretly took Cai Bixia to the harem several times. Only then did Cai Bixia understand why the Qing Dynasty had to choose Han show girls. The show girls provided by the Eight Banners were really ugly!
It's indescribable. If you say 60 points, it's barely passed, but many of them don't even get 60 points, only 20 or 30 points, with buck teeth, a pie face, sparse hair, and black and yellow teeth!
It is simply unimaginable that all these rags were brought to the palace!
Cai Bixia didn't understand. She really couldn't figure it out. Don't the nobles in the palace have any sense of aesthetics? Are they all a bunch of perverts? But look at the girls serving around Cixi, Ci'an and Zaichun. They all have pretty faces, right?
Ermao explained it thoroughly in one sentence: "Sister! Politics! Everything here has a political purpose!"
When the Qing Dynasty was founded, the policy was very vacillating. In order to maintain the nobility and purity of their bloodline, the original rulers of the Manchu people once formulated a national policy that Manchus and Han people could not intermarry.
Especially the emperor cannot allow the blood of the Han people to be contaminated!
However, Shunzhi, Kangxi, and later emperors all pursued the national policy of integrating Manchu and Han Dynasty. Regardless of whether it is true or false, at least on the point of selecting Han Chinese beautiful women, all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty had the same attitude!
It's very simple. How big is the population of the Han people? What is the population of Manchu? Calculated in proportion, Han girls are more beautiful than Manchu girls!
That emperor doesn't like beautiful women? That emperor is not lustful? Therefore, emperors of all dynasties tried their best to change this rule.
But the emperor always favored Han women, and the other Eight Banners palace nobles were not happy! Sending girls from your own family to the palace, and then letting the girls become concubines or even emperors, is a kind of political investment by the major families of the Eight Banners!
That Manchu family gave birth to a girl who gained rank in the palace, and the whole family took advantage of it! This is a political investment well worth it!
Failure is just a girl sacrificing decades of youth. If the bet is right, she can become a concubine, even if she becomes a high-level female official.
A little investment, a return of ten times, a hundred times or even ten thousand times, this deal is so cost-effective!
Now that your emperor has increased the proportion of Han women in the draft, isn't this cutting off our Manchus' financial resources? This is not okay, we have to give advice, you are being deviant!
The imperial power was also forced to have no choice. The emperor sometimes had to take care of the face of those old relationships. The Eight Banners were complicated and complicated by relatives. Who did you offend? Who do you offend for a few show girl spots?
This resulted in a lot of corruption in the process of drafting women under the Eight Banners in the late Manchu Dynasty!
If your family has connections, connections, and money, even if your daughter has buck teeth and vitiligo, she can still enter the palace! If you are from a powerless family, I'm sorry, even if your daughter were to come down to earth, she would never be able to enter the palace!
This kind of corrupt emperor has no choice but to turn a blind eye. Anyway, a female talent show will bring hundreds of people with her at one time, and he can't sleep with them all.
It is enough to ensure that one-tenth of the beautiful women are there, and the other ugly women are there! Even if the royal family takes care of it for you, you won’t be short of food anyway!
Everyone thinks that there are three thousand beauties in the harem, all of them are as beautiful as clouds, but in fact they are all spread by lies! There are beautiful women in the harem, but there are just as many ugly women who come in for various political reasons!
Zai Chun was able to select twenty-six such beautiful and high-quality beauties from the group of beautiful women he carefully selected to give to his master as annual gifts. His filial piety was truly touching!
Cai Bixia let out a long sigh, "That's the master. If it were any man, he would have been turned into a puddle of mud if he encountered such a bone-scraping steel knife!"
The leading female officer brought a glass of white wine to Xiao Letian, "Head of the State, please drink this cup. This is the famous chrysanthemum white in the capital. It is the most nourishing and nourishing qi..."
Xiao Letian looked at the twenty-six beautiful girls and couldn't help but smile, "Do you also want to fight? If I drink twenty-six glasses of this liquor, I will really get under the table!" "
The leading female officer lightly covered her lips with the back of her hand and glanced at Xiao Letian with her peach-blossom eyes. Could it be that this current has 240 kilowatts? Xiao Letian felt his heart tremble.
"The head of state is joking, slaves don't dare to be rude. We are new here and don't understand the rules. Please have mercy on the head of state..."
Ouch! What she said was so beautiful that Qingwen Ping'er, who was next to Xiao Letian, suddenly lost her temper. "Rouji! Are you talking about us with a gun and a stick?"
Xiao Letian's eyes lit up: "Your name is Broiler? What a good name, what a good name..."
Qingwen pinched Xiao Letian's back hard, stared at Rouji and said coldly, "Just toast well, why are you squinting when you are throwing ashes?"
"You don't dare to be rude, so we toast together. You know the rules so you won't force the head of state to drink... You pity the head of state's body and bones, and you know how to care for people!"
"Are we the bad guys? We are toasting one by one, but we don't pity the Führer? You are so calculating, you are indeed honed in the Forbidden City!"
When Rouji and the twenty-five beautiful ladies saw that Madam Ru was angry, they all fell to their knees in fright, "I don't dare... I really don't dare..."
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuori, I have only been in Naha for a few days. I really don't understand the rules. Please forgive me, madam!"
Qingwen was so angry that she said, "You! You are swearing without using curse words! What do you mean by sparing your life? What have I become? I can kill you!"
"Okay, it's such a big holiday for you to come and squeeze on me like this! I'm so angry..."
