The lights were still on when the Zhongcui Palace in the Forbidden City passed.

Since Zhu Cilang recovered Beijing, he has rarely worked all night long, but today he has no sleepiness. Now the country is staggering forward, and as long as he spends time, the national strength will inevitably have a leaps and bounds. However, the impact of change is a headache, such as the shortage of eunuchs in the palace.

In the original historical time and space, a "saint ancestor" said that there were 100,000 eunuchs in the palace, and people starved to death every day. This kind of lie is not easy to believe. In fact, the total number of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, plus palace maids and female officials was only 20,000 to 30,000. After the national change, the eunuchs in the palace were sharply reduced, and they were still around 10,000 after the restoration of Shenjing.

After Zhu Cilang ascended the throne, the number of this 10,000 was difficult to maintain. The Supreme Emperor Chongzhen suggested that Zhu Cilang recruit firefighters, but Zhu Cilang felt that doing so would be a worse problem for the already stressful population of the Ming Dynasty. Without a population of 400 million or 500 million, it would be impossible to ensure the effective control of the entire Ming Dynasty.

After dragging it, I finally reached the point where I couldn't hold it.

"Today my mother called me, that is, the palace was not cleaned. There were actually several roofs leaking, and no one noticed it for a long time." Duan complained carefully.

"There are too many temples that no one lives in. If it really doesn't work, it will be turned off and changed into a garden." Zhu Cixuan said.

"It's all set by our ancestors, so how can you push it if you say it? Besides, no one lives in it and there is no space, there are a lot of things piled up inside." Duan said.

"How to deal with it now?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

"There are only places where no one lives, and they can only be recruited from outside the palace to clean it. Every time, it feels like a great enemy." Duan walked in the palace for most of the day today, gently beat his swollen legs, and said, "There are more and more people who have resigned. The momentum seems to be unstoppable. I am afraid that my family will give you less wages?"

Of course, the royal family cannot give less. It is even more than other relatives. However, the pressure of working in the palace is also high and there are many rules. If you are not careful, you will be beaten, and if you are exiled, you will be exiled. If you have better work outside, it will be normal for employees to be lost.

Now the Ming Dynasty has limitedly opened the road ban. People have moved more than in the past three hundred years. On the one hand, it has ensured economic development along the way, and on the other hand, it has effectively guided the population distribution. The new problem brought about is that when you are poor, you will think of change, and the people's minds become more and more active and you will be uneasy about the status quo.

"Can the folk nameless whites still be recruited?" Duan asked.

Zhu Cilang shook his head and said, "Wang Chengen's return, saying that many bathhouses in the temple are closed now. Wuming Baidu went to work in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and no one was willing to enter the palace."

Duan sighed and said, "Don't say that these people refuse to enter the palace, those who enter the palace still have to run out."

"What if you don't need eunuchs?" Zhu Cixuan said: "There must be no eunuchs during the three generations. Even in the pre-Qin period, there were no eunuchs."

"I really can't say such a rebellious person." Duan said.

"In this way, count the palace and send it to the library and the museum if you don't use it on weekdays. The empty houses and courtyards can be recruited from outside to clean up on time. The eunuchs will be responsible for supervising it." Zhu Cixuan said: "If there is any more, I'm afraid that the palace maids can only be allowed to continue serving after the female official gets married."

"I have to take care of my family, too." Duan said.

"Then you have to give more money." Zhu Cixuan said: "If a man can't hire a healthy woman."

Duan nodded and said, "That's all."

Zhu Cixuan felt that in domestic work, the physical differences between men and women were not big, and it was not marching and fighting, and women were born to suffer losses. Even if there were some heavy things to be carried, there was no one in the palace. However, after two thousand years of breeding of eunuchs, they were indispensable in the eyes of people at that time. It seemed that the entire Ming Dynasty would collapse without them.

So when the news that King Yong was going to send five hundred black servants was spread to the capital, it immediately received praise from the court officials. In fact, they also hoped that they could live a fresh life of serving the young maids and black servants.

Fang Jiahong soon realized that he was wasting his natural resources. He didn't expect to relieve his worries for the emperor's family when he was guarding Taiwan. However, the native Taiwanese had already had the budding culture and was not as easy as the native Australians. So Fang Jiahong used another method to cleanse the young natives and raise them in the camp, and educated them from the beginning of the virtue of obedience and service.

As for the issue of North Korean maids, there was a ban as early as the time of Emperor Yingzong: it was strictly prohibited to smuggle and trafficking of North Koreans to become slaves in the Ming Dynasty.

The King of Korea has also written letters many times to plead with the Ming Dynasty to ban such inhumane population transactions.

However, under the wise and powerful Emperor Longjing, the trend of fresh maids has become popular again. Moreover, in order to avoid the "slaves and rejuvenate" edict in Chongzhen for the 20th year, many families used "concubines" as a cover to accommodate Korean maids.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, China has been a monogamous system and has no restrictions on concubines. In theory, as long as you can afford to eat and afford, it is no problem to take three or five hundred rooms.

Zhu Cilang is a person who has seen the "miss wife" and "miss three" in later generations. In contrast, the "concubine system" is much brighter and more orderly. Zhu Cilang really has no ability to change this social behavior that is entirely due to market needs, so he can only let it go.

As for the North Korean woman who was sold to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cixuan could only order the Dali Temple and the Censorate to screen. Only the involuntary North Korean woman would be sent back to China.

In fact, this kind of woman who is unwilling to stay in the Ming Dynasty is the real non-mainstream.

First of all, not to mention that the living standards of the Ming Dynasty far exceed those of North Korea, even if a well-off family can eat meat and beating teeth every now and then. Secondly, most of these women are from low-class backgrounds and are inferior people in North Korea. The mother system of North Korea determines that their children are inferior people - even if their biological father is a noble, they cannot be changed.

However, the Ming Dynasty only looked at the father's line. After these Korean women became "concubines" in powerful and wealthy families, if they had children, their social status would follow their father. This not only would the children have the opportunity to make a name for themselves, but they could also be noble by their mothers. Why not do it?

As for some men who are too poor to marry a wife, they can only have a living and spend a little money to marry a pretty young woman with a good appearance.

Of course, this kind of young woman who marrys Ming people as a wife also needs to be given filial piety and matchmakers.

Many North Korean businessmen are also happy to recruit such Ming people as sons-in-law and enjoy the treatment of the Ming people. At least by borrowing the Ming people's household registration from their son-in-law, they can buy land in Haixi, Hetao and other places.

In the second year of Longjing, the entire Ming Dynasty underwent earth-shaking changes.

As the problem of too many lands and fewer people emerged, more and more people in the Ming Dynasty began to migrate west, north, or go south to sea to change their living conditions. The popularization of legal system and education reduced the number of prisoners, making a large number of Koreans and Mongolians the main force in infrastructure construction.

The Ministry of Works is worried that these people will not have fine workmanship, the inspection will be more complicated and the standards will be stricter. The craftsmen of Daming became supervisors because of their improved status and refused to let go of various flaws, which inadvertently promoted the improvement of project quality.

Even so, the local prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty were still trapped by the problem of insufficient labor, and the emerging steam engines were not enough to replace manpower on a large scale. Therefore, the Xiaodonglou army of the Second Guards stationed in Liaoning entered the entire army in June of the second year of Longjing to mobilize and launch an attack on the Mongolian tribes to the north.

The purpose of this attack was not to be a city and a village. It was not simply to echo the southern desert battles, but mainly to the human resources of the eastern Mongolia to support the land and mineral development of the entire Liaoning and even Haixi.

"These Mongolians have nothing useful to the Ming Dynasty except labor." Xiao Donglou touched his blindfold: "The army is the main force to drive and arrest, don't kill people randomly!"

The Second Army had land in Liaodong, and there were mines without fields. Everyone knew that there was not enough manpower. In order to obtain greater profits, even if the superiors did not order, they were reluctant to kill people.

Cao Ning was interested in this. He said, "It's up to you, I just want to make some contributions and retire and return home."

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Donglou asked curiously.

"At a young age, it's time to go back to support my mother and pass on the family line." Cao Ning sighed.

Xiao Donglou knew that Cao Ning had an old mother who lived with his younger brother, but when it comes to inheriting the family line... he probably had a new son a few days ago to stimulate this old partner.

"There is no woman in Liaodong who has a son? You are going back alone now. How uncomfortable is your aunt? Why not take a room here first... No, Mongolian and Korean women each have a room, and how happy do you get back with a fat boy?" Xiao Donglou advised.

Cao Ning always felt that such a son was born in a illegitimate child, not his eldest son, who would he give his family property in the future? He looked at Xiao Donglou. After his wife died, he never had a few concubines, but he had no legitimate son, but a group of concubines.

Alas, I didn’t bother him, but it shows that I had less worries when I read less!

When Cao Ning thought of this, he took a brief look at his property in his heart. In addition to the land that has been increased in the year in Liaodong, he also took out his military pay and bought stocks of Nanyang Company, and sent another 500 taels to his younger brother, asking him to buy a piece of land in Hetao and rent it to others for farming.

The Cao family was originally a local clan, otherwise he would not be able to pass the imperial examination, so he arranged for the children of the clan to do business in Liaoning and the income was included in the clan. Now he is a lucky star for the entire clan. During the holidays, the clan leader and elders must go to their homes to visit their mothers before they can arrange major events in the clan.

This is also very glorious. It would be a pity if there was no legitimate son!

"By the way, I heard that Wang Yi married a female official, and his father-in-law was still a rank-in official. Why don't you think about it?" Xiao Donglou suddenly said excitedly: "That, that, the one who has been following His Majesty, although he is older, looking at his waist and buttocks, he looks like a man!"

"Fuck!" Cao Ning spat: "This woman can also make a move! You are becoming more and more bold and arrogant."

"What's wrong with this? Haven't you heard of it? Your Majesty definitely won't accept her. She said that in private." Xiao Donglou said: "After all, you are a long hero. The two are just matching!"

Cao Ning was skeptical and secretly turned his mind: It would be great if he could really marry that woman. Maybe his son would be able to play with the royal children since he was a child. (To be continued...)

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Chapter completed!