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Chapter 008: Rectify the Inner Court

After the scattered court, Zhu Youxiao started the next move because he had money. If he wanted to create a safe environment, he had to be an emperor supported by eunuchs and palace maids in the palace.

The number of eunuchs and palace women in the palace was about 2,000, more than 900 eunuchs and more than 1,000 palace maids, many of whom were old palace maids.

With money, we naturally need to improve the treatment of eunuchs and palace maids first. The treatment of high-level eunuchs in the palace is good. However, the life of eunuchs and palace women at the bottom is not so easy.

For a time, the emperor was in the palace and increased the salary of eunuchs and palace maids, formulated a rotational rest system and working hours regulations, distributed cotton clothes to eunuchs and palace maids for the winter, and built nursing homes, new dormitories, canteens, public toilets, and cemeteries in the palace. At the same time, lynching was prohibited, and eunuchs were selected from the palace to form an inspection team. The eunuchs who made mistakes must be handed over to the inspection team for trial in accordance with the law in the future. At the same time, a series of intra-palace governance regulations were promulgated.

The salary increased to the eunuchs and palace maids was not too much. The monthly salary of ordinary eunuchs was increased to 2 taels of silver, and the palace maids were increased to 3 taels of silver. But the eunuchs and palace maids were happy because they also received subsidies for food and clothing, which was equivalent to pocket money.

At the same time, a nursing home was built in the palace. The eunuchs and palace maids could go to the nursing home for retirement after they were fifty years old. When they were retired, they could still receive their salary every month until they died. At the same time, there were people serving them in the nursing home, and they could be buried in the cemetery after their death. The emperor promised that the Fengshui master in the palace find Fengshui treasure land for them to build the cemetery.

Anyway, as long as you enter the palace, you will live a worry-free pace in the future.

At the same time, you can take two days off every seven days, and you only work for four hours a day, that is, eight hours. If you are busy working overtime, the emperor will pay them extra salary. For example, the palace maids at the Clothes Washing Bureau (washing clothes) and the eunuchs who push manure trucks in the palace have all increased their benefits, and they are given 5 taels of silver every month.

This makes the palace maids and eunuchs reward their efforts. They don’t have to worry about pension issues when they are old, and the issue of having no place to bury after death.

The introduction of the new system has made the palace happy.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also adjusted the personnel of the twenty-four departments in the palace to prevent the eunuchs and palace maids from some departments from doing nothing all day, and busy all day long without feet.

Zhu Youxiao is now unable to interfere in the government affairs, so he can only manage the palace. He formulated a series of humane regulations and the twenty-four departments that need to pay attention to, so that the inspection team can supervise it.

The inspection team is temporarily under the responsibility of Li Jinzhong. At this time, the eunuch Wang An, the chief inspector of the Sili Supervisor, found that he was gradually being emptied in the palace.

The 12 supervisors, the fourth supervisor, and the eighth bureau in the palace became an inspection team, instead of the eunuch in charge of the seal. Originally, the eunuch in charge of the seal was also somewhat unreasonable. The chief supervisor in charge of the seal was supposed to be the eunuch in charge of the seal. The chief supervisor in the palace should be the eunuch in charge of the seal, and this position is usually the eunuch in charge of the seal.

When Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, he was not promoted to the admiral and eunuch because he found out that Wang An belonged to the Donglin Party. After Zhu Youxiao took office, he did not promote Wang An to the admiral and the supervisor of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the

Now that the intra-palace inspection team has been established, Wang An immediately has no management authority in the palace. In terms of personnel arrangements, Zhu Youxiao personally intervened, and Wang An could not control it.

"Li Jinzhong, go and investigate what kind of people in the palace have the opportunity to communicate with people outside the imperial city." Zhu Youchao said to Li Jinzhong.

"Yes, the emperor. I will go and investigate immediately." Li Jinzhong quickly received the order, and then ran to the East Factory to find someone to investigate.

Zhu Youxiao spent a lot of money in the palace to improve the living standards of eunuchs and palace maids at the bottom and gather people in the palace. The next step is to formally ensure his own safety, so he needs to find out how many groups in the palace can contact outside the palace.

If the Donglin Party wants to poison him, there must be an internal support in the palace. Wang An, a rebellious boy, is already targeted by Zhu Youxiao.

However, even if Wang An is solved, the merchant group can understand the gods and can still buy people in the palace. Therefore, if you want to manage the palace as safe as an iron barrel, you must first understand who can contact the outside world and then eliminate hidden dangers one by one.

Li Jinzhong ran to investigate for a while and came back, reporting to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, the only ones who can contact outside the palace are those high-ranking eunuchs who have houses outside the palace and can freely enter and exit, as well as eunuchs who come out of the palace to purchase goods."

"Get out all the list of these people for me and replace them all." Zhu Youxiao said, and Li Jinzhong said: "The emperor, including Wang An, and now many of them are Wang An's people in the twenty-four departments."

"Wang An and his group of people must have a unclear foundation. Find out their handles and search and imprison everything except Wang An." In order to ensure his own safety, Zhu Youxiao must clean up the eunuchs of Wang An's sect. If someone outside the palace wants to harm him, then the inner person must have a certain identity in the palace.

For example, the Emperor Xizong Zhu Changluo died one month after he ascended the throne. It is very likely that the eunuchs around the emperor, such as Wang An, participated in it. In this way, the bribed imperial doctors were arranged to drug the emperor. In other words, before Zhu Changluo became emperor, the Donglin Party had made arrangements with Zhu Changluo. Emperor Wanli and the Donglin Party could not die.

This means that the main risk is Wang An’s line. After Wang An became the eunuch in charge of seals, there will inevitably be connections in the palace.

What we need to do now is to cut off Wang An’s minions first.

As for Wang An, he cannot move for the time being. He is the suspicion of the Donglin Party in the palace. If he moves now, it will inevitably arouse the Donglin Party's vigilance, and he may attack him.

Let this guy be cut off first, so that he has no power in the palace, so he can be much safer.

The palace soon launched a major anti-corruption campaign under the instruction of Zhu Youxiao. The inspection team set up a report box and a report department, and at the same time, it conducted a large-scale investigation in the 12th Supervisor, the Fourth Division, and the Eighth Bureau. Especially the departments responsible for the eunuchs promoted by Wang An were the targets of the focus of the investigation.

Which of the senior eunuchs in the palace has clean butts? Even Li Jinzhong's butts may not be clean. It would be too simple to catch the handle. As long as you can make up your mind to check, nothing can be done seamlessly.

Soon, the high-level eunuchs in the palace were in a major earthquake, and a large number of eunuchs who embezzled public funds and stole the treasury were caught. Many of them were reported. The eunuchs who reported meritoriously, and the palace maids received generous rewards.

The East Factory ran around the palace all day long, arresting the eunuchs in charge of this department and the eunuchs in charge of that department. For a while, the senior eunuchs were in panic.

The anti-corruption campaign was too rapid. Before the eunuchs could react, the eunuchs had already arrested and imprisoned.

After a severe torture, Wang An was naturally involved, which involved the transaction of in-house positions. Many eunuchs promoted by Wang An paid money to Wang An. In order to make money back, after taking office, he took advantage of the frequent change of emperors to corruption and embezzled a lot of the treasury finances.

"Emperor, a slave is guilty, and a slave is guilty. Please punish him." Wang An entered the Palace of Yangxin and knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao and cried bitterly.

"Get up! After all, you are the minister who is the one who is left by your father. How can I bear to punish you? Besides, I see those government affairs, and I need Wang An and the ministers in the court to help you deal with it. You just took some money, so I won't pursue it." Zhu Youxiao showed a warm smile on his face and helped Wang An up. Now Zhu Youxiao is walking a tightrope at a high altitude. He must first stabilize Wang An and the Donglin Party. Or, first stabilize the Donglin Party.

Now Zhu Youxiao is moving in the palace with Wang An's interests. As long as he does not show his will to resist the Donglin Party, even if Wang An's minions are cut off by the emperor, the Donglin Party will not allow Wang An to kill the emperor.

Wang An was comforted and didn't know what he was thinking. Zhu Youxiao didn't care about his thoughts and sent him away, allowing him to concentrate on the approval of the Silijian and stamp it.
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