Chapter 232: Incit the flames and actively cause internal trouble!
Yi Buchun said a faint "um", and his exquisite vision still did not leave Zichu.
"Yes, Your Majesty, thank you for inviting me to eat such a delicious meal. In this way, I just suddenly thought of a good way to subsidize the treasury, which can greatly save the treasury expenditure. I don't know if you are interested in listening to it?"
Zichu is full of food and drink, and the baby in his abdomen is also much quieter. She had an idea and began to destroy the stability and unity of the enemy's family and create family conflicts. In this way, these women don't have time to come here to grind their teeth with her every day.
"Oh? What's your idea? I'd like to hear it." Yi Butun heard that it was related to the treasury, which was his current concern, and naturally he was very interested.
"Well, I think the jewelry and clothes of these concubines are very exquisite and gorgeous. I don't know whether it is the treasury allocated to pay for their decoration expenses or the money they brought from their mother's house?"
"Do you want to reduce their monthly silver?" Yi Butun was obedient this time. He did not immediately answer Zichu's question, but asked her a rhetorical question. Because of Zichu's strange eyes, he suddenly felt that it was a little inappropriate to say both answers.
If it is the expenditure of the treasury, I'm afraid that I will become the culprit who can't make ends meet with the treasury. If it is the expenditure of the concubine's mother's family, it will cut off their face as emperor and man. After all, these concubines are always his women. It's a joke that he doesn't support his own women. Therefore, he simply answered the question with questions and dug out what Zichu wanted to say next.
Zi's original thoughts are not so crooked, but she also knew that it was not easy to start from those women at once, so she decided to change her way and said with a smile, "I don't know how much the monthly money is. I won't reduce it first, but the hands of the eunuch can definitely be reduced. Emperor, you might as well reduce it from this Yaohua Palace first. Let me take a look. There are palace maids and eunuchs here. I'm afraid there will be dozens of servants.
"Well, Yaohua Palace is the queen's bedroom, with a total of 96 maids and eunuchs." Yibuqun quickly replied and then added that the regulations of the queen and the empress dowager were the same, that is to say, except for the difference inbei, the two have the same status and treatment.
"Ninety-six so much? I think it's enough to leave ten and send all the rest out of the palace. As for other palaces, there are at most ten and at least two, which I think is almost enough. Of course, please let the emperor decide the specific situation.
Haha! Since you can't cut the monthly money of these concubines from the beginning, you can also cut the people around them! At least, I have benefited from it. There won't be so many followers when I go out. Even if I take a shower and change clothes, there are fewer people who can monitor me.
As soon as Zichu said this, Mama Rong, Grandpa Wang and others who were waiting beside him were shocked, while the little maids standing on the side were secretly happy.
According to the rules of Xiangluo, maids generally enter the palace at the age of 13 or 14. After entering the palace, if they are not favored by the emperor and have no special strengths to become a female official, they will generally not be released from the palace until the age of 25.
At the age of 25, she has become a super old girl these days. After leaving the palace, it is very difficult to get married. It can be said that there is no choice but to be a stepmother to fill the house.
But according to Zichu, many of these little maids can be released from the palace without staying up to 25 years old. Then after leaving the palace, you can naturally choose to marry your mother-in-law's family. In this way, how much ** it is for the little girl who is bullied and lonely in the palace.
But for Mother Rong and the prince, the situation is completely different. They have been in the palace for many years, and their youth has long been exhausted. The palace is their root. The family's money and power depend on them. When they go out of the palace, there is no possibility of marrying and becoming a family at all. The father-in-law is an alien in the eyes of ordinary people, even if there is Money is not easy to live.
Besides, there are so many little eunuchs who will go when they work in the future? This is really bad!
Yi Buchun is not a fool. Naturally, he knows that this may cause a great uproar. These maidservants can ignore the ideas, but are those concubines in the palace who are used to being hugged in front and behind afraid of crying faces to trouble themselves? Just thinking about this is enough for him to have a headache.
But I also want to know that if I can really do this, I can indeed save a lot of expenses every year. And this expenditure can be used for external warfare.
So, this is a question that needs to be weighed carefully.
Zichu saw that Yi Buchun was silent and just meditated, and knew that he was not so easy to be fooled, so he continued to contribute: "On my way, I heard that after Jin Xuguo Jun Yuli succeeded to the throne, the new emperor not only had very few slaves and maidservants in the harem, but also few concubines. Your Majesty, do you think you can't even compare with Junyu?
Haha, Junyu, don't curse me all the time. Look, I've taken you as an example of Mingjun Shengxian, hehe!
Zi Chu smiled secretly in his heart.
In fact, the harem of Jin Xuguo has actually become similar to the old man's home under the efforts of Empress Zhang. Except for a few young concubines used for decoration, those beautiful women in the East Palace had already been sent out by the queen early. Naturally, the highest and most conspicuous positions are Shangguan Wanyin, a noble concubine, and Shen Rongrong, a nobleman. But Shen Rong couldn't tolerate the emperor's favor, but just looked bright. Although Shangguan Wanyin is favored, she is also pregnant and difficult to publicize.
As for the ancestral palace, the places left are all elderly concubines who have no children to rely on. Basically, they are the mothers and grandmothers of Junyu. Empress Zhang is very active in attracting the hearts of these people. She arranged some equally helpless elderly female officials, maids and eunuchs to serve them. As for the living treatment, it is better.
Other young female officials and maids of honor, in order to prevent their disturbance, the queen also issued an order to release people from the palace. The palace needs young women to serve, so they choose widows from the official's family to enter the palace. In short, in addition to those who have lived in the East Palace**, they will no longer hire new people, and at the same time no longer continue to recruit eunuchs.
At the beginning, these things also caused some disturbances in the court, but in the end, they were calmed down by Junyu in various ways. Because, at this point, Junyu's opinion is actually the same as that of Queen Zhang. The harem should only be calm but not moving. Once moved, his harem will be unstable, and naturally his energy will be greatly reduced.
Yi Bqun heard that he was both a thorn in his eyes and a rival in love, so he sneered and said, "Jun Yu is just a new king's accession to the throne. What has he done? How can he be compared with me?
Zichu didn't say anything and fiercely despised Yi's sour grape psychology. There is no problem to use this move in the harem of Jinxu, because the hostess inside is originally an unbearable master, and the resistance to the court is limited.
But if you do this in the harem of Xiangluo, the problem will be big. Isn't there a big mess behind dozens of concubines? Therefore, in the final analysis, it is certain that the emperor Yi Buchun is not as good as Jun Yu.
But after all, Yi Buchun was a little moved by what he said. After weighing the pros and cons, he threw down a sentence "wait for me to think it over" and was about to leave. Before going out, he caught a glimpse of the strange look on the faces of the prince and Mother Rong. He was stunned, so he turned back and called the eunuchs who had just been in the palace. He warned coldly: "The matter I discussed with the queen is related to the national body and is extremely confidential. If you find that it is known by others and leaks the wind, no matter who leaks it, you will all come to see me with your heads!"
Zichu couldn't help shouting ashamed in his heart when he heard it. Why did he forget the reactions of the people around him? Really, according to my own words, I guess there are many people around me who hate themselves to the bone.
As the saying goes, it is easy to block dark arrows and difficult to prevent. You have a simple mind and don't know how to make enemies everywhere. Don't wait for Jun Yuchen to save you and your children will be assassinated by these people first. At that time, I will be really ashamed of Jun Yuchen.
To say, Mother Rong and the prince are not bad people. Although they are dissatisfied with Zichu's suggestion, after being solemnly threatened by the emperor, they also saw the emperor's attention to Zichu and did not dare to secretly make trouble. They could only honestly and more carefully serve them to prove the necessity of their existence. I hope that even if Zichu really wants to lay off staff, he will not lay off them, although in terms of salary, their monthly case is ten or eight little maids.
So, on the second day of Zichu's entry into the palace. Various rumors about the new queen spread throughout the palace, and Yi Buchun also spread the news of the establishment of the queen outside the palace.
At the same time, in a residential house in the capital of Xiangluo, after the internal servant sent by Jun Yusulun, who had been modified by Yirong, met the secret agent arranged in Xiangluo, they also fell into a great panic when they learned the news, looking worried about how to return.
After hesitating for half an hour, the leader still didn't think of what kind of words to use to write the horrible news he had just heard into the secret newspaper to his emperor.
"Alas, this is true. You said, how to write this secret newspaper... Can we really tell the truth that the thief Yi's group wants to marry the emperor's be the queen? I want to write like this. The emperor saw..."
These people have been responsible for tracking the whereabouts of Zichu, so they are very clear about the emperor Jun Yusul's nervousness towards Miss Song. Thinking of Jun Yu's horrible reaction after receiving this secret letter, their faces changed.
Then, after a period of sad face, these people couldn't help complaining in their hearts that their ability to provoke peach blossoms was too fierce, which not only provoked their two brothers, the emperor and Dingwang. Look, this is easy to become an ugly woman, and they were also attracted by Xiangluo. The king of the country is in the like.