Ganlu Temple.

Zhang Chao came in wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and soft-footed head.

Empress Cui Yingying sat there, next to her concubine Zheng Wanyan, Shufei Lu, Xianfei Zheng Hongxian, Defei Du Caiwei, and several other concubines.

The lineup, more than a dozen people in the harem, were all here.

"What are you doing?"

Zhang Chao was a little helpless. These women united and wanted to give him a draft.

All unmarried daughters and granddaughters of noble families, officials of fifth rank or above, and members of the State Council over the age of fourteen to sixteen are among the talent show.

"Your Majesty has just passed his forty years, and it was the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period. But there are only a few of us in the harem, so how can we do it? Since I am the queen and I will take charge of these six palaces, I will do my duty as the queen, select the daughters of Your Majesty to enrich the harem, and also add more children to the royal family."

Cui Yingying told him about this several times in advance, but Zhang Chao did not agree.

He is in his forties, not a young man, and he doesn't care much about beauty or something. In fact, there are about ten women in the family, all of them are both beautiful and elegant, and there are Pingyang and Qingluan outside.

But now Thirteen Niang directly used her queen's power to surrender the imperial edict.

The emperor and the empress each hold their own ranks. In this palace, the front court belongs to Zhang Chao and the harem is in charge of the empress. Cui Yingying wanted to give the emperor a selection of daughters, and the cabinet pursued it very quickly.

No one thinks there is anything wrong with this. Of course, this matter is under the control of the queen, and the queen can also take care of it.

It would be fine to add some beautiful girls to the emperor.

Everyone even thinks this is a glorious thing. Originally, Cui Yingying did not ask for the daughter of a noble and high-ranking official, but in the cabinet, the prime ministers added that the beautiful girls were only selected in the homes of nobles, high-ranking officials and above and above.

First, there were auditions at various stages, and finally a group of outstanding people were selected to be sent to the capital. Finally, the Emperor and the Queen chose once in person.

The draft adopts the principle of voluntary registration, as long as it meets the family conditions, as well as unmarried and unmarried girls aged 14 to 16.

According to this convention, Emperor Zhang Chao was not even qualified to select the show in this draft. The first audition was handed over to various parliamentary envoys, general managers, and court eunuchs sent by the queen.

The second time, the queen and concubines were personally selected by Cui Yingying.

Zhang Chao doesn’t have to do anything, just wait until the candidate is ready.

Zhang Chao couldn't say the queen, so he had to say in the end, "Okay, I'll take a step back. You can change the age of the girl. First of all, you have to be at least sixteen years old. Fourteen years old is too young. Sixteen to eighteen years old!"

In fact, he also wanted to cancel the restriction on family background, and he didn't have to choose the daughter of aristocratic officials and congressmen, and even the one that had to be a Han girl didn't have to be added.

The intermarriage between Han and Hu can speed up the assimilation of other conquered nations.

However, Cui Yingying and the cabinet both believed that the draft can only be selected by the families of nobles and officials, and it must be a Han girl.

They seemed to have forgotten that Zhang Chao actually had two Hu concubines, one Persie and the other Roman woman.

"In the end, only four were selected." Zhang Chao added another one.

"How can four be enough, choose one hundred."

Zhang Chao shook his head. This talent show is not ordinary. Those who chose the emperor's women, not ordinary palace ladies. Once these people were chosen, they were Zhang Chao's concubines.

Unlike palace ladies, every year, local people choose a group of young women to enter the palace. These people enter the palace after training to be palace maids, specializing in serving the emperor and concubines, and taking care of young princes and princesses. According to the current palace system, palace ladies learn the rules after being selected, and then they can leave the palace and go home after four years.

These palace maids still have wages in the palace, which is actually equivalent to maids hired by the royal family.

Of course, if the emperor is lucky, he will be promoted to the emperor's woman, and he will be given an identity and cannot leave.

"Four." Zhang Chao insisted.

Cui Yingying glanced at her husband, "Thirty."

“Four.”

"Twelve, no more."

Seeing that Thirteen Niang refused to give in, Zhang Chao had no choice but to nod and agree.

"The palace staff is a little more streamlined, so there is no need for so many people."

Zhang Chao advocated that things that could be outsourced should be done outside, without having to do everything by himself in the palace.

A palace has caused tens of thousands of people, which is too much.

Actually, there are so many people who use it.

There are many eunuchs in the palace now, and the Zhang royal family should be considered the richest royal family, but if you have money, you don’t have to show off such a big show.

"The court will cut the personnel to less than three thousand."

There are eunuchs and palace insiders in the palace. The eunuchs are the emperor's closest escorts, managing internal affairs of the palace. They do not use eunuchs and are in charge of miscellaneous scholars. They are headed by eunuchs, eunuchs, and eunuchs, who are in charge of conveying edicts, guarding the palace gates, sweeping the inner court, and caring for the emperor's food and daily life. There are six bureaus including the Yeting and the Palace.

There are also six bureaus including Shang Food and Medicine.

The eunuch and the two provinces inside the hall can completely set up the yamen outside the palace.

The eunuchs used scholars in management, while the eunuchs were used in the inner court. The inner court gave many manual work and other matters to the outside world, and the palace was only responsible for serving.

This will greatly reduce the number of people.

If the eunuchs do not leave the palace, even if the emperor wants to use eunuchs to pass the order, the eunuchs will only pass the order to the eunuchs outside the palace and hand it over to the officials for the treatment.

Historically, the number of eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty was increasing and the power was increasing.

After the Anshi Rebellion, eunuchs frequently held positions such as military supervisors. Later, they directly led the imperial guards. As a result, the eunuchs controlled the imperial guards and had great power, thus starting to control the palace and even the government affairs, and then gaining the power to abolish the emperor.

In all dynasties, there has never been more powerful than the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty.

The eunuchs at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty were not as good as those at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the eunuchs at the end of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Tianbao period, there were 1,696 high-ranking eunuchs, 2,932 ranks of officials, and more than 4,000 eunuchs in one eunuch.

Very amazing power.

To avoid eunuchs from interfering in politics, they have to limit their power.

For example, before the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs did not use eunuchs completely, but eunuchs and scholars and ginseng, and would not use eunuchs as military supervisors to pass orders.

The eunuchs were restricted to the palace and were not allowed to leave the palace, so they could not interfere in government affairs.

Zhang Chao's consulting organization was the Hanlin Academy. The bachelors and other scholars in the Hanlin Academy were all scholars. He would not have created an inner court in the palace like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although eunuchs were reliable servants to the emperor, these people were born with many flaws. Letting them interfere in politics is a way to cause chaos.

All matters outside the palace were handed over to scholars, and the eunuchs in the palace had to limit the number.

Eunuchs are not as good as palace maids. When palace maids change every few years, they enter the palace once. They can be considered as further training. If you leave the palace, you may even have a higher value and marry a good family.

Eunuchs are different. Once they are purified, they will never be men in their lives. It is impossible to say that eunuchs will be forever changed in a few years, and once they enter the palace, they will be forever.

Use less, use less, and use more palace maids in the palace.

Cui Yingying has never been a person who likes to be extravagant. If many of the handicrafts in the palace are outsourced, there are actually a lot of 3,000 people in the palace.

After all, the princes had to leave the palace to live at the age of twelve, and not many people needed to serve in the palace.

Whether a dynasty can last forever depends on the first emperor.

Because it was the first emperor that various systems and regulations were established.

Therefore, how far a dynasty can go actually depends on how far the founding emperor has.

Cui Yingying, Zheng Wanyan and others ignored Zhang Chao and sat there openly discussing the standards of the show girl. Zhang Chao listened with shamelessness for a while.

Zheng Wanyan suggested that not only beautiful girls must have good backgrounds, but also have tough conditions for appearance. For example, they must be at least five feet and six feet tall.

One foot is about 30`7 cm, five feet and six feet, which means at least one meter seven. It has to be said that Zheng Wanyan's height condition is indeed high enough. Men and women in this era are generally not too high, and the average is definitely lower than that in later generations.

Women from noble and official families have good conditions and sufficient nutrition, and they can probably grow taller, but 1.7 meters tall can definitely eliminate most women outside the audition mark.

"The requirements for more than five feet and six are too high, but five feet and four is good." Concubine Lu spoke against Zheng Wanyan. Lu himself was not five feet and six, and they were not all like the Zheng family. If they set a standard of five feet and six, wouldn't they say that they were not even as qualified as a beautiful woman?

Five feet four, Zhang Chao thought it would probably be 1.65 meters tall. Well, this is a normal standard.

However, the more they discussed, Zhang Chaoyue felt that he couldn't listen.

They actually think that they should choose to grow more plump, isn’t that fat?

He also said that he was small in his chest.

You all ask to choose fat people, but why do you still have to choose small breasts? What the hell is that small breasts? I like larger breasts!

Zhang Chao was really afraid that they would say something like thick waist and big butt.

I really can't listen anymore.

In the draft, shouldn’t you let me set standards?

That's when I choose a woman, I should make the decision.

But now, his wives were sitting there, discussing very enthusiastically.

Yes, these women are so noble now, living in this huge palace, having nothing to do every day, and not as comfortable as they were outside.

At least at that time, I could hold tea parties from time to time, invite a group of ladies to appreciate flowers and taste tea, and occasionally go to watch the ball and listen to the opera, or go shopping.

Looking at their excited appearance, Zhang Chao got up and went out.

I hope to choose a few who are both good at appearance and talent in the end.

However, Zhang Chao is still happier when he meets a wife like Cui Yingying. He is better than Dugu Jialuo. Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian's wife is a complete tigress, and is even better than Fang Xuanling's wife Lu.

Yang Jian was praised by his descendants of a generation of descendants, but he didn't even dare to take a concubine after marriage. Even if he became an emperor, he finally wanted to favor a Yuchi family when he was old. As a result, after leaving the family, Yuchi was beaten and killed by Empress Dugu.
Chapter completed!