Chapter 1961 Royal Employee: Female Official of the Tang Dynasty
The female officer next to Elizabeth is about forty years old, named Zhu Xueyan. She does not wear the same court skirt as the maids in the palace, nor does she wear the traditional skirt like the women outside or the recently popular simple and smooth dress.
Lord's dress.
Instead, he was wearing a professional attire rarely seen on women.
Black straight pants, small leather shoes with low heels and pointed toes, a slim right waistcoat, a medium-sized black placket jacket, long hair tied up, wearing a tall dome hat, and holding a handful in his hand, which is more commonly used by men in the workplace.
The nine-inch folding fan is slightly smaller than the eight-inch folding fan for women.
This outfit is actually rarely seen outside, because it is a very standard Tang Dynasty female business attire. It is very similar to men's business attire. The only big difference is the leather shoes and slim vests used as accessories.
Folding fans, pendants and other details.
However, in the Tang Dynasty palace, it could be seen everywhere, because this is what the middle and high-ranking female officials in the Tang Dynasty palace wore.
The female court officials of the Tang Dynasty were special products of the Tang Dynasty court.
Because there were no such creatures as eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty's court, all matters in the Tang Dynasty's court in the early years were handled by ordinary palace maids and elderly nuns.
After moving the capital to Jinling, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan formulated the royal employee system, which clearly stipulated in law that palace maids, female officials, persons in charge of royal assets or other royal employees were not state employees or officials, but royal employees.
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But even royal employees are divided into several categories. One is ordinary royal employees, which are employees of royal holding companies. In theory, they are also royal employees, but in fact they have nothing to do with the royal family.
There is also a group of royal officials, including officials working within the Royal Assets Department and senior managers of royal enterprises. These people are generally regarded as officials by the outside world, and they also have grades, official status, and corresponding political treatment.
But in fact, they were not imperial officials, because their ranks were not awarded by the Ministry of Personnel, but directly by the emperor. If this statement is used in other traditional dynasties, it is roughly similar to the ministerial officials in the pre-Ming Dynasty.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, there were special legal provisions for such royal officials, and candidates were recruited directly through the imperial examination.
What's more important is that after these royal officials reached a certain level, Li Xuan would sometimes let them go through a formal review by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, select them to become imperial officials, and finally enter the cabinet.
After serving as president of the Royal Bank, he will eventually become the chief of the Royal Assets Section, and eventually he will enter the Finance Department as a Minister or even a Chancellor.
There have been more than ten presidents of the Royal Bank. Except for the fool who committed a crime and ended up in the middle, all the others without exception have entered the cabinet, and the last one was a minister.
Finally, there is another kind of royal employees who specialize in providing life and internal security services for the royal family. This kind of employees is very special. They are not recruited from outside, but only recruited in the Lady's Garden, which is the same as that of the past.
An organization established at the same time as the Youjun Camp, the Youjun Camp has been reformed many times and is now beyond recognition.
However, the Lady's Garden managed by Queen Mother Bai has always maintained its original appearance.
Lady Garden recruits young orphan girls from across the country, raises them, receives education, and then goes through layers of selection. Finally, a group of women are selected every year for the final centralized education, mainly in etiquette matters.
After completing all schooling at about the age of eighteen.
Then the final selection will be carried out. The selected candidates will work in the palace according to their wishes. If not, they can do whatever they want.
If you are willing, you can sign a contract and start working for the royal family. The working period is naturally the same as when you were receiving education. It is a completely closed working environment and no contact with outsiders is allowed, let alone marriage.
However, if you don’t want to continue working, you can resign at any time. Generally speaking, the royal family will not stop you in any way. Even if the managers find that you are not enthusiastic about work and have complaints, they will often fire you immediately.
, this is to avoid any potential risks.
Well, before you leave, you have to make sure that you are still a young lady.
Well, the Holy Emperor is a passionate person, and sometimes the maid will not refuse him when he is interested.
In fact, many concubines in the Tang Dynasty palace were from the Lady Garden.
The Imperial Family of the Tang Dynasty obviously would not let the woman of the Holy Emperor appear to the outside world again.
In addition, there are also some people who are unwilling to return to society. For them, the palace is the place where they live their whole life. Many people work in the palace until they are thirty or even forty years old, and they are still working in the palace at the age of fifty.
There is also a group of people who are unwilling to give up their jobs in the palace, but want to contact the outside world and have their own families. For this, the royal family will also have special grace and allow them to marry commoners and have children, while their work becomes
into some external work.
The imperial family of the Tang Dynasty was very humane in its recruitment and employment of palace employees. They would give them a variety of choices, and then you can choose by yourself. To sum up, if you like it, go ahead, if you don't, get out!
There will also be a small number of special people here. They have served the royal family for many years, received higher education, and have sworn to never marry. They have sworn that they will never have a relationship with any male member of the royal family and serve the royal family for life.
Although these people are still ordinary royal employees legally, within the palace and the outside world, they are not confused with ordinary maids and maids, but are specifically called female officials.
These female officials usually hold management positions within the palace. Well, this management position is naturally not a management position related to imperial government affairs, but a management position within the palace.
The harem is not involved in politics, let alone female officials.
In fact, to put it bluntly, these female officials were not under the control of Emperor Li Xuan, but under the control of Empress Dong, and they dealt with internal affairs of the palace.
There are so many affairs in such a large palace. Just the issue of food is a big problem, and management is very complicated. Empress Dong, the master of the harem, does not have the energy to take care of so many people and things, so there must be a need for various managers below.
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To put it bluntly, these female officials are the management under Empress Dong. Well, they used to be the management under Empress Dowager Bai.
Empress Dong was a good girl in her early years, and Empress Dowager Bai was very powerful, so for a long time, Empress Dowager Bai had the final say in the harem of the Tang Dynasty. Empress Dong only had the title of mother of the country and master of the harem, but in fact
In the harem of the Tang Dynasty, she did not have much real power and could only take care of some trivial matters.
But starting more than ten years ago, as Empress Dowager Bai gradually became frail, Empress Dong slowly took over some of her rights.
In recent years, although Empress Dowager Bai was not in good health, she still refused to give up the power of the harem, but in the end Empress Dong won.
She has successfully taken control of the harem and reached the pinnacle of her life.
Therefore, these female officials were no longer Empress Dowager Bai's subordinates, but became Empress Dong's subordinates.
Zhu Xueyan next to Elizabeth is one of the female officials under Empress Dong, and she is also her direct confidant!