When Zhu Yijun said this, Lei Shili was dumbfounded on the spot. After a while, he asked: "How did you know that we were defeated by England?"
"Do you, the Jin Yiwei, still have spies in our homeland?"
In fact, Lei Li and other Francois had been deliberately concealing the disastrous failure of the Spanish Armada's first expedition to England.
Because it would really harm their national prestige, and in order not to affect their trade in the East, they would never mention this in the East.
But now, Zhu Yijun actually knew about this, and Lei Dili was naturally horrified.
"How can I be someone you can despise!"
"You are overestimating your capabilities!"
Zhu Yijun just snorted slightly, and then pointed at Chen Shigong:
"Not to mention anything else, let's just say that he gave you the medicine. Except for me who knows where he came from, no one in the West knows his origins, including your Majesty and the Pope."
Lei Dili heard what Zhu Yijun said, and after a while he couldn't help but ask Zhu Yijun: "Are you God?"
"I am not God!"
"I am the Son of Heaven!"
Zhu Yijun said in a deep voice.
Lei Shili asked again: "Then you represent God's will?"
Zhu Yijun: "..."
"Whatever you say."
Zhu Yijun replied, "Carry them down."
Tian Yi raised his hand and said yes.
Lei Shili shook his head at this moment: "This is impossible, how is this possible, how can the emperor of the East represent God!"
"This is impossible!"
Lei Dili's voice sounded outside the hall again.
Zhu Yijun ignored him and just looked at the clouds outside the hall.
At that time, the sky was filled with red clouds and the sun was shining slightly.
Zhu Yijun, standing under the eaves with his hands behind his back, thought of what Lei Dili had just said.
This made him laugh. He had to admit that the East and the West were actually the same. In this era, there had not yet been many thinkers who believed in materialism and were still in awe of gods.
The situation in the West is even more serious.
After all, the East has experienced many dynasty changes, and many people have already doubted the way of heaven. There is a saying that "the one with strong soldiers and horses is the emperor", and there is also Wang Anshi's shocking statement that "there is no need to fear the changes of heaven", not to mention any historical facts. The matter of destroying the Buddha and killing the Tao.
The West is heavily governed by the church, and it has only begun to be enlightened in the past one or two hundred years. Even now, England's defeat of the Armada is still understood by people at the time as God's support for Protestantism.
Therefore, it is easy for people in this era to sanctify and demonize powerful people. Regardless of whether the characters are good or evil, as long as they are powerful, they will be worthy of the stars.
The same goes for the emperor Zhu Yijun. He used a little bit of knowledge from later generations to improve this era. The inspiration he brought to the people of this era not only expanded their thinking, but also made them easily superstitious that Zhu Yijun represented the gods. The will of the god or himself a god.
Zhu Yijun therefore realized that this might help him monopolize ideological and academic authority in the future, which would further help him achieve his goal of ruling more humans.
This gives Zhu Yijun even more motivation to establish a hierarchical order around the world that is more in line with his own will.
You must know that the trend in society is for wealth to be concentrated in the hands of a few people, thereby creating a status hierarchy of exploitation and exploitation.
And what Zhu Yijun needs to do most if he wants to live more comfortably is to establish a more stable order of exploitation.
It is best if the person who is truly exploited is in a country thousands of miles away, so that the riots caused by entropy increase will be difficult to affect him, and it can also give him more reaction time, and increase the threshold of order destruction caused by continued entropy increase.
But Zhu Yijun knows that the starting point for building all this order now still has to focus on the feet.
Focus on the inner court.
Because the inner court is your home, the place where you live, and the place where your life is really threatened.
"Tian Yi, tell me, how many new eunuchs in the inner court have dropped sharply now?"
After Zhu Yijun thought this, he suddenly asked.
Tian Yi replied: "It is no longer as good as 30% of what it was in the early years of Wanli."
"This is a good thing! Unless there is really no other way out, or there is no other way to achieve success, who is willing to castrate himself and become a slave in the palace?"
Zhu Yijun said with a smile.
Tian Yi nodded: "What the emperor said is that he and the nobles in the harem have been wronged, and there are not many people left to serve him."
"yes!"
"It's okay for me to be wronged. The key is the Holy Mother of the Two Palaces."
"This matter needs to be resolved. I thought about it. If I use Fanyi as an eunuch, it will really elevate the status of Fanyi. Not everyone can be an eunuch in the palace and serve the nobles."
"Furthermore, if Fanyi is allowed to enter the Bureau of Ceremonies and participate in military aircraft in the future, wouldn't it be even more difficult to show that the family is the most important thing?"
"After much deliberation, we can only accept the reality that the number of eunuchs in the inner court has been reduced or even disappeared, and at the same time, we will reform the inner court. All kinds of functions that can be handed over to the Shaofu should be handed over to the Shaofu, and let the officials of the Shaofu manage them, such as The Royal Horse Supervisor, Military War Bureau, etc. in the Twenty-Four Yamen can be left to the officials of the Shaofu."
"I used Chen Zheng's affairs to hand over the Weaving Bureau, Needlework Bureau, and Inner Transport Warehouse to the clan relatives in order to prepare for the reduction of eunuchs in the future."
"As for those who cannot be transferred, those who need to serve the nobles in the inner garden will be transferred to women. In the future, more good daughters of the same clan will be hired. The inner court no longer only selects women to enter the palace in the same way that I select concubines, so there is no need to just select Young, beautiful, and older and virtuous strong women can also be selected to replace the eunuchs in doing the chores."
"I asked Jin Yiwei to investigate. Many wealthy families, such as Shen and Wang, hired strong women because they could not use eunuchs to serve their family members."
Zhu Yijun said.
Tian Yi said at this time: "What the emperor said is that barbarians have always had a strong taste, and entering the palace as eunuchs. Although it is their blessing, it will inevitably offend the nobles!"
"So, it is really not suitable for barbarians to enter the palace!"
"It is also very suitable for the twenty-four yamen to split up some internal affairs that do not need to go to the palace to serve the nobles, and give them to the clan relatives, and it is even more suitable!"
"After all, the clan members are relatives and close ministers. What they care about is the long-term stability of the royal family. To be honest, they dare to reform in internal affairs than eunuchs like slaves;"
"If in order to prevent the nobles from having fewer people to serve around them, and use more women, or even select strong women to come in, that would be fine, but the servants feel that this woman is the same as the men. If they can become nobles by entering the palace, they are afraid that they will not be willing to enter. palace."
"Therefore, in the tenth year of Wanli, to increase the number of palace maidens, we can only choose nine concubines by imperial edict, rather than purely selecting palace maidens, because if we only select palace maidens, there is no hope of becoming the emperor's concubine, and not many good girls are willing to be selected. I would rather be a commoner’s wife.”
"It's the same now. If the inner court wants to select more women to enter the palace, it can only be done in the name of selecting concubines. In name, all the women entering the palace are the emperor's women, and it can only be done if there is a hope of giving birth to an emperor's heir and the mother will be more valuable than the son. Otherwise, there is fear Not many people are willing to enter the palace."
Tian Yi replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "You are right. From this point of view, it is necessary to select women into the palace and give them official status in the same way as in other dynasties. However, in this case, it is suspected of changing the official system, which is different from giving eunuchs Official positions are different, eunuchs are domestic slaves, and no matter how high they are, they are only members of the inner court, but maids-in-waiting are not only members of the inner court, but also people with families, clans, and clans."
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, it would be easier in the name of choosing a concubine."
Tian Yi replied.
Zhu Yijun smiled: "Let's discuss it later."
Zhu Yijun felt a headache from this.
He had to admit that the biggest obstacle to the implementation of the new rituals was that it was too difficult to prevent Han people from being slaves.
Because once we insist that Han people will not be slaves, many systems must be changed.
Including many systems of the inner court.
If a palace maid does not serve the royal nobles as a slave, in what capacity will she serve?
Official status or civilian status with a service relationship established in the form of employment?
If it is an official position, it must be given higher privileges.
If you are a civilian, you have to pay a very high salary, otherwise why would people give up time with their families to serve you?
And now the palace maids are willing to serve the royal nobles as slaves, because although the palace ladies were slaves before being favored by the emperor, they became nobles after being favored, and a woman who was already an emperor in name was already considered a quasi-official status.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun either spent more money to hire, or he could only continue to admit that all the women who entered the palace were his women, or he found a way to set up a new official system to attract many outstanding women to enter the palace to serve the royal nobles.
As for the establishment of a new official system, it must be carefully considered, or at least discussed with the ruling officials. After all, as long as a woman is not the emperor's wife or slave, she is not completely considered a member of the inner court. She has social relations outside the inner court. , which requires the establishment of respective new systems to ensure the stability of the power structure.
Zhu Yijun did not jump to the conclusion that he should change it.
Undoubtedly, it is not easy for the Han people to achieve the goal of not being slaves.
It seems that as long as there is an emperor, he must have his own people as domestic slaves.
It is impossible for an authoritarian empire to eliminate domestic slaves in its own clan.
The biggest change can only be to change the name of the domestic slave and raise the status of the domestic slave, but in fact it is still a domestic slave.
The outer court also noticed this problem, knowing that the implementation of the new rituals would lead to the reduction of royal domestic slaves and would affect the operation of the inner court, not just the quality of life of the royal family members.
Many civil servants in foreign dynasties didn't really care whether the emperor lived comfortably or not. They actually wanted the emperor to live like a saint and be frugal in everything.
What they care more about is that the inner court will not be able to run well due to the reduction of slaves, which will affect the operation of the entire country.
Therefore, Shen Guanyi, the Minister of Rites, first went to Shu to ask the emperor to issue an order to select thirty-six Zhaoyi on the grounds that too many palace maids had been released recently, which might affect the emperor's heirs.
Shen Yiguan obviously just wanted to cover up the problem of the reduction of the number of people in the inner court caused by the implementation of the new rites. He asked the emperor to select additional maids in the name of selecting concubines. The shortage of maids in the inner court should be solved first.
Moreover, the emperor was asked to add thirty-six Zhaoyi positions at once.
Zhu Yijun therefore said: "This paper poster has added thirty-six Zhaoyi people this time. Next time, will he add seventy-two talents, and then keep increasing? Can I sleep through it?"
(End of chapter)
