Chapter 35 I executed them all today!
"But there is no proof for what you say. You must first pass the test before you can be officially admitted to the register."
"Okay, Mr. Zhang, please do it."
Get After Zhang Wenshao's permission, Zhang Cai nodded slightly to a female officer in her thirties behind him.
"Granddaughter Shi, I'm sorry to thank you."
Granddaughter Shi nodded and said with a serious smile: "We are all doing things for His Majesty, why bother?"
Every team that came to accept the draft girls was accompanied by female officials from Chu Xiu Palace. The purpose is to verify the identity of the beautiful girl.
Royal selection is a top priority, and a woman with a broken body must not be allowed to sneak into the palace.
Otherwise, the entire team responsible for selection will be dead.
Granddaughter Shi is an experienced person among them, with extremely vicious vision.
Just by looking at the way a beautiful girl walks and her daily movements, you can tell whether she is in or out of the palace.
Granddaughter Shi Gang had been standing aside, observing the eight women.
She could tell at a glance that these eight women were all innocent women.
But there could not be any negligence in the selection, so granddaughter Shi still took the eight women into the secret room.
After testing according to the process, you can safely give your own conclusion.
"Mr. Zhang, the governor is right, these eight are all innocent women."
"Okay, okay!"
Zhang Cai smiled and clapped his hands, and quickly ordered these eight to be removed. Women, be registered.
“Do you all have names?” asked the official in charge of registration.
“Yes.”
"Gu Hengbo, Dong Xiaowan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Kou Baimen, Ma Xianglan, Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan."
The eight women came timidly.
Zhang Wenshao was extremely happy when he saw that the thin horse he had carefully cultivated was successfully selected.
"Mr. Zhang, I am hosting a banquet today. I would like to invite Mr. Zhang to attend the banquet."
"Haha, easy to say, easy to say."
Zhang Cai was extremely excited, but what he was excited about was not the fact that Zhu Youtang had selected eight beautiful girls with both sexes and arts.
Instead, he found eight beautiful concubines for himself.
Zhang Cai was deeply attracted to these eight beauties from the very first moment he saw them.
Has he ever seen such a beautiful and gentle woman?
Suddenly, a bold idea arose in his mind.
That's the hidden beauty!
Hiding a beautiful girl secretly is, of course, a serious crime that will cost you your head, but the risk of being discovered is actually very low.
In previous selections, officials often secretly hid beautiful women in their homes.
When the time comes, just report that you died of illness or escaped.
Or simply erase the show girl’s name from the book, and no one will know about it.
Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards during the Yongle period, once did this.
In the fifth year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong ordered the opening of a national talent show, and Ji Gang secretly hid the show girls selected for Emperor Taizong.
This matter was not revealed until the fourteenth year of Yongle, when Ji Gang was executed by Emperor Taizong Lingchi for treason.
It can be seen from this that the risk of secretly hiding beautiful women from being discovered is actually not high.
You know, the Ming Dynasty imperial palace had to select more than 5,000 beautiful girls at a time.
And there are only about fifty beautiful girls who can really stay in the harem smoothly.
Among the fifty or so beautiful ladies, no more than ten can truly become the emperor's women.
Most of the remaining show ladies will only become ordinary palace maids.
In this case, why can't he take advantage of Zhang Cai?
Zhang Cai is not very interested in money, but only loves beauty.
Zhang Cai felt that the beauty of these eight Yangzhou thin horses was worth the risk he would take!
The same selection process also occurred in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.
Governors, merchants, gentry, and nobles from all over the country showed their talents and racked their brains to send their daughters to the palace.
The real target of the selection is ordinary women from good families, but they are unwilling to send their own women to the palace.
The entire draft process was not very smooth, but it was proceeding in an orderly manner.
But what they don't know is that since Zhu Youtang started the national draft. Every selection team is secretly monitored by Jin Yiwei!
Anyone who tries to play tricks on the selection will not succeed and will only bring disaster to themselves and their families!
……
Five days later.
Beijing.
At midnight, officials had already left their homes neatly dressed and went to the palace to attend court.
Those who had sedans sat on them, and those who didn't walked. Before half an hour, most of the officials had arrived at Hou Chaofang.
Xie Qian saw Li Dongyang and hurriedly greeted him: "Binzhi, how are you doing lately?"
Li Dongyang knew what Xie Qian was asking and sighed and shook his head.
"It's good, but I can't sleep a little bit."
"As soon as I closed my eyes, I seemed to hear someone crying and begging for mercy in my ear."
Xie Qian and Li Dongyang looked at each other A smile full of bitterness.
The past five days in Xichang have been like crazy.
The raids on homes continued day and night, making all the officials frightened and the common people applauding.
Moreover, Zhu Youtang specifically issued an order to stay out of court for five days.
This made the officials happy and scared at the same time.
I am happy that I don’t have to go to court to face the emperor, because Zhu Youtang is moody and often raids his house.
They are really afraid that they are destined to go to court but not to go to court.
What they are afraid of is that they don’t have to go to court to face the emperor. Since the eunuchs and maids in the palace have been purged, they can’t get any information from the harem.
I don’t know when Zhu Youtang became unhappy and started another purge that affected hundreds of officials.
Then they don’t even know how they died.
Every one of the civil and military officials in the capital is suffering.
I don’t know what’s going on, but being an official in the Ming Dynasty has become a high-risk profession where you have to wear your head in your belt.
At three o'clock in the morning, the gate of the palace opened, and all officials, civil and military, entered the palace in an orderly manner.
Three cleansing whips sounded, and the officials stepped across the Jinshui Bridge one after another and found their own places to stand in the Fengtian Temple Square.
Hands down and bowed, waiting for Emperor Zhu Youtang of the Ming Dynasty to come to court.
Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Youtang has already put on his court clothes and Yi Shan crown, and is sitting on the dragon chair, looking through the inventory accounts brought by Wang Zhi.
“Okay, that’s great.”
"My dear friends, you are really a good official."
Zhu Youtang slammed the account in his hand to the ground.
“A mere 176 officials were able to give me 1.8 million taels of silver!”
“There are also 270,000 acres of grain fields in various places, and other Antique calligraphy and paintings, three hundred boxes of gold, silver and jewelry!”
“My Ming Dynasty has really raised a group of good officials!”
Wang Zhi leaned over to pick up the account book and stood respectfully beside it.
Huaien held the warm fish soup in his hand and comforted in a low voice: "Your Majesty, calm down, don't let these dog officials ruin your dragon body."
"Your Majesty, eat something. Fish soup, it’s still hot.”
“Don’t eat it!”
Zhu Youtang waved his hand and turned to look at Wang Zhi and Mou Bin.
"Have all the members of Ma Wensheng and Qiu Yue been brought into the capital?"
Wang Zhi lowered his head slightly: "Your Majesty, all members of the Ma family in Junzhou and the three tribes have been imprisoned in Xichang Prison. "
Mou Bin bowed his hands and saluted: "Your Majesty, Pingliang's enemies, nine All the members of the clan have been imprisoned in the Jinyiwei Prison."
"Okay, take Ma Wensheng and Qiu Yue and their family members to the court."
"And Xi! The one hundred and seventy-six officials in the factory were all taken to court!”
"Wan'an, Liu Jue and Liu Ji were also brought up. I will execute them all today!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Wang Zhi, Huai'en and Mou Bin handed over their hands. Take orders.
(End of this chapter)