Abolish the eunuch system and replace it with female inner court officials. The original intention is that the eunuch system is very inhumane and harms the body and spirit, so that the court officials who assist the imperial power can only be selected from a small and narrow group of physically and mentally unsound people.
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How can such a selected group play the role of assisting, extending, defending the imperial power, and fighting and balancing the civil servants of the foreign court? The result is just that they are attacked by a group of court officials, which always turns into the beginning of bad government.
In public opinion, Shilin was often targeted by literati.
As for female officials in the inner court, the selection range is even wider. The number of women is almost equal to the number of men in the world, and the selection range is hundreds to thousands of times that of eunuchs.
What's more, since the Ming Dynasty, although there has been propaganda by Neo-Confucianists that "it is virtue for women not to have talent", there are not a few women who are educated. This is another great advantage compared with eunuchs who are almost all illiterate.
However, since Li Laiheng created the female official system, his original intention was to replace eunuchs who suffered physical and mental abuse and were often mentally extreme with educated women who were physically and mentally healthy, so it was impossible to impose excessive restrictions on the marriage and childbirth of female officials.
In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, the bodyguards of the Qing Dynasty mainly consisted of bannermen, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs built the inner court to check and balance the civil servants and generals of the outer court. They also did not completely prohibit the marriage and childbirth of bannermen-this shows that marriage and childbirth are not the primary factors affecting the construction of the inner court.
Li Laiheng only put some restrictions on the marriage of female officials:
First, female officials can only engage in bridal marriages, which greatly limits the possibility of marriage between children of large clans and famous families and female officials;
Secondly, the husband of a female official is not allowed to be an official. This also limits the possibility of men speculating in officialdom through marriage with female officials and using covert means -
Of course, on the other hand, this may lead to senior female officials in the imperial court supporting their husbands' development in industry and commerce, forming collusion between government and businessmen. But in Li Laiheng's view, the economy in the late Ming Dynasty was in the early stages of capitalism, even if bureaucratic capitalism was relatively different from the feudal economy.
It is also somewhat advanced. However, early capitalism did not have the protection of bureaucratic administrative privileges. In terms of profit rate, it may not be able to defeat the small-scale peasant economy where men farmed and women weaved. Taking advantage of the marriage restrictions of female officials, some middle- and lower-class men were forced not to pursue official careers.
, but it would not be a bad idea to put talents and wisdom into industry and commerce.
Lin Maomao woke up early the next day. She first went to the courtyard to take a look and found that the other candidates for female officials still closed their doors and were still sleeping.
On the contrary, the Shun soldiers who were escorting the female officers to the north did not know whether they did not sleep at all at night, or whether they got up early in the morning to stand guard and were already standing guard outside the courtyard.
Fireworks Yangzhou is extremely prosperous. The market is already very lively in the early morning, and many merchants and hawkers have started selling their goods early. The canal docks are full of pedestrians, and there is an endless flow of ships carrying goods from the north and south.
The Shunjun guards all grinned at Lin Maomao and asked her why she got up so early.
"Lin Shanggong can have a good rest. We will take a boat north to Kaifeng in a few days. There will not be as good conditions as Yangzhou Prefecture on the way!"
Lin Maomao touched her pocket, and there were some pieces of silver that Liu Rushi had left for her. She saw that many guards had morning dew on their shoulders. It was clear at a glance that they were abiding by their duties, so she
He took his own money and went outside the hospital to buy a steamed bun for each guard.
However, the leader of the Shun army laughed and said: "Shang Gong doesn't know something. The Dashun army has strict discipline and is not allowed to take anything from the people without permission. If any of the soldiers among the soldiers steal anything from the people without permission, they will be killed immediately.
If the supervisor does not head, he will sit down; if the supervisor fails to observe, he will be punished with eighty sticks.
If the legislation of our army were so strict, we would not even dare to accept the courtesy of a plant or a tree. Last year when Marshal Hao led his troops to Zhenjiang, some of the troops on the right side of the army went to Danyang to transport food on camels and rested in the town on the way.
, a soldier accidentally damaged a carriage owned by a horse and carriage shop. The people shouted, and the captain learned about it, so he took the soldier and punished him with ten sticks, and paid the shop ten taels of silver.
Unexpectedly, this matter was reported to Marshal Hao by the Zhuang envoy. When the captain escorted the grain back to the camp for delivery, Marshal Hao scolded the captain and ordered him to punish the captain with a hundred sticks. All the officials tried to protect him.
The soldiers who damaged the store's vehicles were immediately taken away by the officer, and their heads were immediately tied up outside the camp gate, and their heads were sent to Jinling, Danyang and other places for orders.
The military law is so harsh, and we are determined not to accept this small courtesy from you. Your Majesty, please don't harm me."
When Lin Maomao heard this, he was speechless. The military law of the Shun army was so harsh and inhumane. He just destroyed a civilian car and was immediately beheaded? It was also reported to all the counties. It is no wonder that since the Central Plains soldiers last summer
Since crossing the river, I have never heard of a military disaster in the long time I have been in the south of the Yangtze River.
Lin Maomao recalled that when Gu Yanwu first arrived at the Qian Mansion, the gentleman had scolded Qian Qianyi in front of many people for surrendering and how shameless and immoral he was.
At that time Qian Qianyi said something like this:
"I heard that the two saints of Daliang were waiting for their birthday. The soldiers and the people came to congratulate each other. The common people each had a big steamed bun. The ministers left wine and food, and ordered the propaganda officials to accompany them. I also ordered the local people, regardless of the gentlemen, soldiers or civilians, to do it for the sake of the local area.
If you are stupid, you are allowed to make suggestions and introduce them, but you are not allowed to hinder them. Even if you make absurd remarks, you will not go into the details. Reward filial piety, return to the countryside to drink, dredge the Huanghuai River, save farming and harvest, and do everything that is beneficial to the people.
As the old saying goes, great chaos must be followed by great governance, and if this is achieved by Chuang, it will be a great blessing for Jiangnan's misfortune.
Sigh! They took over the Central Plains with banditry, but within three years they changed their ways, changed their minds, advocated etiquette and justice, and treated the people as their own children. Who said that a boat that mends leaks is not enough to save the great river!"
At that time, Lin Maomao still felt that this was just Qian Qianyi's sophistry. Whether it was the Chuang Army or the Donglu, Qian Qianyi might be able to come up with a set of theoretical arguments to persuade him to surrender no matter who came to occupy Jiangnan.
However, after going to Yangzhou and witnessing with his own eyes the scene of the Dashun army passing by and the city being devastated, Lin Maomao felt that at least the saying "After great chaos there must be great order" was indeed a good word for ordinary people.
The soldier laughed and said: "I just arrived in Yangzhou to garrison the horse during the first day of this year. At that time, the governor Liu Zhongtai invited many theater troupes to set off lanterns and perform operas in four doors for three days. King Wu couldn't help it.
Liu Fuyin did not impose any prohibitions on men and women from the surrounding countryside who wanted to visit the city. I heard a fortune teller say at that time that this was called "the wind of the common people."
Speaking of which, Yangzhou is really prosperous. I once walked through Kaifeng with Mr. Hao. Among the many big cities in Taiyuan, none are as beautiful and colorful as Yangzhou. Shang Gong and other Jiangnan people are so lucky! It is a good thing that I have enjoyed peace for many years.
I hope that after Long Live We and the Jian Kingdom bring peace to the world, maybe my hometown in Henan will also be able to enjoy this peaceful scene."
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