After the new royal draft system was released, it immediately caused great shock in the palace.
In order to completely cut off the idea of serving maids, Zhu Cixi also specially added one thing, that is, maids who successfully seduced the emperor will not be able to obtain status and cannot leave the palace to marry. It is even more inappropriate to continue to be maids, so they will be
He was thrown into the cold palace and imprisoned until his death.
As soon as this article came out, all the palace ladies had a look of death on their faces, especially those over twenty, it could be said that they had completely given up their thoughts.
Those little palace maids did not dare to test the law anymore. They all decided to participate in the future talent selection honestly and did not dare to engage in evil practices.
The palace maids who had already obtained their titles cheered and secretly rejoiced. Even the three concubines, including Red Lady and Ran Duoer, all called His Majesty the Holy Ming.
There were already tens of thousands of boys in the Imperial College. For the missing girls, Zhu Cixi thought about it and decided to notify Zhang Yan. He would first select 20,000 girls from various southern provinces and send them to the capital. Those aged six to eight years old would sign up voluntarily, with priority given to ordinary people's families.
Gentlemen and merchants are also welcome.
Zhu Cixiang also had the idea of being lenient in and strict in exiting. These girls have been trained by the royal family for free for ten years. The top batch will be talented girls, the less capable ones will serve the royal family, and the less capable ones can also become teachers in the future.
To put it bluntly, Zhu Cihong went to compete with those wealthy gentry families in disguise for their maids and maids.
After all, in ancient times, sons were favored over daughters. If some ordinary people had too many daughters in their families and their conditions were poor, they would sell them to the gentry and wealthy families as slaves.
Nowadays, everyone will definitely choose to sell to the royal family. After all, not only food and accommodation are provided, but there is also a future. As long as they are not stupid, they know how to choose.
Although this is nonsense, Zhu Cixiang knows that even if he reforms, he will not be able to change this phenomenon of selling girls in a short time. Even if everyone can have enough to eat in the future, those who should sell their daughters will still sell them.
Similarly, even if the imperial court legislates to ban human trafficking, it may not be able to completely eliminate this phenomenon, because the Ming Dynasty stipulated that merchants were not allowed to keep slaves, so they adopted adopted sons and daughters instead.
Based on the principle of joining if you can't defeat them for the time being, Zhu Cixiang was actually very helpless.
While Zhu Cihong was reorganizing the inner court, Li Banghua and Wu Sangui of Chang'an also received instructions from the emperor.
Looking at the instructions in the memorial, Li Banghua was completely stunned, while Wu Sangui was gloating about his misfortune. Obviously, both of them were not stupid, and they both understood that His Majesty was extremely dissatisfied.
"Master Li, how will we deal with Ningxia's return?"
Wu Sangui said sadly.
"Shock first, then suppress those who disobey!"
Li Banghua thought about it and said slowly, sighing in his heart.
Even though he knew that His Majesty was dissatisfied with him, he still refused to ruin his reputation and chose to directly suppress him.
"Haha, okay, you are the officer in charge, you have the final say."
Wu Sangui did not refute, but nodded with a smile, but the laughter sounded unkind and had no good intentions.
"General Wu, don't blame me for not reminding you. If the army deliberately delays or takes action without asking, I will definitely report to Your Majesty at that time to impeach the field army for not cooperating!"
Li Banghua threatened with a serious face.
But it made Wu Sangui sneer and snort: "What a joke, Master Li, do you think our field army is an old army?"
"That's good." Li Banghua was actually very relieved about this. He knew that if Wu Sangui dared to do something wrong, he would not need to impeach him at all.
The next day, Wu Sangui detached two battalions, totaling 12,000 men, and marched westwards. At the same time, he led six battalions of more than 36,000 men to kill towards Ningxia.
The reason why he brought so many people was that Wu Sangui knew very well that even if the imperial army arrived, those Huihui would never compromise and would definitely use force in the end.
He believed that Li Banghua was actually aware of this, and the reason why he had not ordered the action was because, to put it bluntly, he cherished his reputation and did not want to take the blame.
But if Li Banghua doesn’t take the blame, who will? Should the emperor take the blame?
Wu Sangui wanted to take the blame, and he was not afraid of the blame no matter how big it was. However, His Majesty wanted to separate civil and military affairs and did not want the army to directly intervene in government affairs and take the lead in relocation.
On the other hand, Wu Sangui knew that the military attaches in Gansu Town would not dare to continue to rebel after the imperial army arrived, so more than 10,000 troops were more than enough.
Compared with Li Banghua who cherished his reputation and didn't want to take the blame, and even though he understood the emperor's intention, he still didn't want to commit massacre, Huang Degong didn't have so many worries.
After receiving the military order from the imperial court, some were just excited. However, the military order was only stamped with the seal of Zuo Dudu. Sure enough, no one in the entire Fourth Army's officers, big or small, questioned it.
Huang Degong immediately decided to lead a cavalry battalion, a chariot battalion, and two infantry battalions with more than 20,000 troops, and then summoned 5,000 Tumut troops to go to the Hetao area.
At this time, the four walls of the Andong Protectorate City had been completed, and less than half of the internal buildings had been repaired.
In the newly completed official hall, Hou Xun looked at Huang Degong and said coldly: "General Huang, you want to lead the troops of the Fourth Army. I have no objections and I dare not have any objections, but I want to summon the troops from the Tumut Department.
Unless there is an imperial edict from His Majesty, no one can recruit one person and one horse."
"Master Hou, according to the regulations of the imperial court, if you want to summon the cavalry of various tribes to participate in the battle, you do need your Majesty's imperial edict. However, it is also stipulated that in case of emergency, as long as you and I agree, you can call up to five thousand cavalry to fight. Has Master Hou forgotten?
Already?"
Huang Degong frowned and said, somewhat confused as to what he meant by this.
"General Huang is right. As long as I, the envoy, and you, the deputy envoy, agree, we can temporarily summon five thousand cavalry to fight. But is General Huang discussing with me? The military order from the imperial court arrived yesterday morning. This morning
The army was preparing for war, and I only learned about it."
When Hou Xun said it to the end, he suppressed the anger in his heart.
"Sir Hou, this is a military order from the Governor's Office to my Fourth Army Corps. You are a civilian official. Is it possible that after I receive the military order, I still need to discuss it with you?"
Huang Degong's brows furrowed further and he asked righteously.
He didn't want to have a civilian official over his head in the future, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did. Naturally, the military orders of the Governor's Office could not be shown to civilian officials.
"It turns out that this is the case. I do not agree to summon the Tumote troops to participate in the war. If General Huang needs to do so, he can submit a request to His Majesty himself! Farewell!"
Hou Xun's face turned red from suppressing his emotions, and he walked away without saying a word.
For such a big matter, His Majesty did not issue an imperial edict but directly issued a military order, making him, the Protector-General, useless.
If it is an imperial edict, then he must accept the edict together with Huang Degong, and he must be the master.
Now His Majesty has directly issued military orders, clearly intending to suppress civilian officials.
In fact, Hou Xun misunderstood Zhu Cihong this time. Originally, after Zhu Cihong stamped the governor's capital seal on the military order, he also stamped the emperor's special jade seal, but after being interrupted by the red lady, in order to cherish his reputation, he did not
