When they went to Bei'anmen to find someone, Hu Guang told him when they set off from Liangchen.

These two unlucky people from the palace have been mixed in Beijing for more than two years, and they are not useless.

The imperial city is very large, in the middle of the inner city, a moat surrounds the entire imperial city, and the vermilion city wall stretches for more than ten miles, showing the royal style.

The southernmost Daming Gate of the Imperial City is for officials to enter the court, outside the Daming Gate is the major yamen such as the Six Ministries and the Nine Qings, the Five Military Governor's Mansions, and then the Gongzi Factory is located outside, where the people live are all powerful, so it is impossible for idle people to have the opportunity to approach the Imperial City from the south.

The eastern part of the Imperial City was also off-limits, forbidden to the common people, and only the west and north sides were passable.

The inner city of the imperial city is divided into the inner and outer cities, and the outer city is the Taimiao, the Sheji altar, the cabinet, the various departments and the 24 prisons of the inner court; The inner city is the palace city, where the emperor, the queen mother and the concubines are located. On weekdays, even the prince of the East Palace and the cabinet scholars were not allowed to enter the palace city easily unless it was an urgent matter or summoned by the emperor.

In the Jingtai Incident, if it weren't for the forbidden army guarding the imperial city being bluffed by Zhu Qizhen and taking the initiative to fall into locking, no matter how many people outside, they would not have wanted to attack the imperial city.

Liangchen entered the inner city of Beijing from Chongwen Gate in the south, and the southeast could not lead directly to the imperial city, so he could only make a big circle and turn from the west to Bei'anmen.

This circle, from the map, is not big, but when you really walk down, it is twenty miles away, and you can't move on both legs of Liangchen.

Any desire to appreciate the natural scenery of Beijing is gone, and Liangchen now only knows to grit his teeth and go north, otherwise if the palace gate is closed, he will not be able to see his grandmother, let alone find his second uncle.

When his legs were as heavy as lead, the walls of the palace finally appeared in the sight of the good ministers, and Bei'anmen was also close at hand, and even the good ministers saw more and more palace maids and eunuchs.

These palace maids and eunuchs are old and young, the oldest is sixty or seventy, and the youngest is only six or seven years old.

This makes the good ministers very strange, don't the eunuchs and palace maids all stay in the palace, and they can only come out unless they have official business, how can they enter and leave the palace so freely?

He didn't know that since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the palace's management of eunuchs and palace maids has gradually relaxed, except for those on duty, everyone else can freely enter and leave Bei'anmen, or shop together, or make an appointment with friends for a small gathering, just return to the palace before the palace gate closes.

The relatives and friends of the eunuchs and palace maids who came to Beijing to visit relatives were also registered here in Bei'anmen, and then sent someone to notify them by the Bell and Drum Division, who was in charge of the palace ban in Bei'anmen.

Some powerful eunuchs in the palace can even buy or rent a house outside the palace, and like those officials in the outer court, they will enter the palace when they are on duty, and return to their homes outside the palace if they are not on duty.

Of course, because of the particularity of palace maids, it is strictly forbidden for palace maids to live outside the palace, even female officials. The only exceptions are those female officials who work in the palace of the princess.

The reason why this is the case is to prevent the palace maids from doing something embarrassing outside, after all, de jure speaking, the palace maids are all women who belong to the emperor, if they are made belly bigger one by one outside, where will the emperor put his face.

The palace maids and eunuchs are limited by hours to leave the palace, and if they fail to return to the palace in time within the specified time limit, they will be deducted from the money, and the rules will be established at the worst.

Every year, there are no less than 100 eunuchs and palace maids who are scolded by the rod because they return to the palace at the wrong time, and they are killed when they meet ruthless concubines and Da Jue.

It is rumored that the current queen has to kill several palace maids around her every year, but the emperor's favorite imperial concubine is lenient with the people around her.

There are many shops outside Bei'anmen, and these shops are doing business in the palace, and some of them are directly the procurement places designated by the palace supervisors.

When Liangchen arrived at Bei'anmen, it was already in the afternoon, and there was nothing going on in the palace at this point, so there were a lot of people on leave, and there were many people who asked for leave.

Being among the many eunuchs, Liangchen felt a little strange, but fortunately, there were many palace maids, and they were tired, but they were also pleasing to the eye.

Most of the eunuchs and maids who left the palace did not wear the clothes issued by the palace, so it was difficult for the good ministers to distinguish who was higher and lower in the palace.

In his previous life, he had studied the history of the Ming Dynasty, and the good ministers generally knew the hierarchy of the inner court.

The title of eunuch is only a general term for the palace attendants, but there are very few who can really be called eunuchs.

Generally, the chamberlain who has just entered the palace can only act as the ebony card, hand towel and small fire person at the bottom level.

The small fire person is responsible for cleaning, washing, carrying and other hard work in the palace, such as the high dive that Liangchen met in Tongzhou, and he is the small fire person who has been in the palace for more than two years.

Hand towels and ebony cards were slightly better than those of the small firefighters, who served beside the high-ranking eunuchs, handed towels and took things, and ran errands to pass the word.

If you serve well, you will have the opportunity to be appreciated by the eunuchs, so many small fire people dream of being able to be taken by their father-in-law.

Further up, it is the pawn of each prison, the long follower, the emperor, the errand, and the listener, these are graded, but not high, below the seventh grade, usually the eighth grade. This type of eunuch is considered to be the middle level of the chamberlain, and usually has cultural requirements, at least literacy.

Further up the middle level, there are naturally the eunuchs, young eunuchs, and eunuchs of each prison. The eunuchs are the palm prints or admirals of the eunuchs, and if they can achieve this position, they can almost be said to be figures in the inner court.

Liangchen fellow, why Zhang Bing, the supervisor of the Treasure Banknote Division, was able to make a move to the county to exempt his family's land from being expropriated, the reason is that he, the prisoner, is more or less a figure in the palace.

Just as countless officials of the outer court have worked in the six ministries and nine secretaries for decades, and they cannot enter the cabinet to become the top of the civil officials, only a few eunuchs in the inner court can be promoted to the chief of ceremonies and become the inner minister who can be comparable to the elders of the outer court.

The structure of this pyramid is similar to that of the imperial examination of foreign dynasties, and the difference is only whether there are birds under the crotch.

His second uncle will be nine thousand years old in the future, of course it is impossible for Liangchen to find any Da Jue to befriend, and after asking the young man who looks like a small fire man about the rules of finding people in the palace, he came to the duty room of the Bell and Drum Division on the edge of Bei'an Gate.

On the other side of the duty room is the duty room of the palace guards, and there is also the forbidden army office behind the palace gate. The inventory is extremely strict, and without the signs and the handnotes issued by the various prisons and palaces, it is impossible for anyone to sneak into the palace.

When Liangchen entered, he found that there were five or six small firefighters in the room, and a man in a green robe was in charge of the affairs here.

"Who are you looking for?" Seeing that it was a young man who came in, the listener looked up at Wei Liangchen more, and this person's voice was a little sharp.

"I'm looking for Yinyue." Liangchen didn't dare to make a mistake, and answered very honestly.

There were so many people in the palace, and it was naturally impossible for him to know everyone, so he asked, "Ke Yinyue?" What does she do in the palace? ”

Liangchen hurriedly said: "It's for the emperor's eldest grandson to be a nurse." ”

Hearing this, the listener nodded: "There seems to be such a person." He also asked Liangchen who was Keyinyue.

Of course, Liangchen can't say that the two have nothing to do with each other, so he says that he is a brother from her hometown.

The status of the Bell and Drum Division in the 24th Prison of the Inner Court is not high, and most of the people who are sent to this Division are unwilling in the palace, or they have no background. Therefore, this hearing did not make things difficult for the good ministers, and asked him for any running expenses, just asked him to wait, and then instructed the few errand runners to go to the Qingning Palace of the Prince's East Palace to pass a guest Yinyue.

The palace is very large, and Qingning Palace is in the outer imperial city in the south, and it is several miles back and forth, so a few small firefighters don't want to go.

A little fireman pouted and said: "Father-in-law Fan, the nurse lives outside the palace, and the Hakka family may not be on duty at the master's place, so it is better to ask him to go to the Hakka residence by himself." ”

Hearing this, Liangchen was stunned: Why doesn't the nurse live in the palace? If this is not in the palace, where can I find her?

The listener who was called Fan Gonggong turned his face cold, glanced at these little firefighters, and said coldly: "Is it useless to talk about it yesterday?" ”

Seeing this, the few little firefighters hurriedly said that they didn't dare, and pushed one of them to reluctantly go to the palace to call people for the good ministers.

Gonggong Fan snorted slightly, and said to the stunned minister: "The Hakka family will be in the palace, and you will wait outside." ”

"Thank you, father-in-law!"

Liangchen was very grateful, and withdrew from the duty room according to his words, and there were still many people behind him who wanted to find someone or send things to the palace.

Coincidentally, it's exactly nineteen today.

According to the rules in the palace, visiting relatives and looking for people is every four days and nine days, and other times are not allowed. Therefore, it is not good for good ministers to come one day early, and it is even more impossible to come late.

It is estimated that Hu Guang and the others also knew that they could find someone in the palace today, so they let the good ministers come, otherwise they would not have to bother so much.

Liangchen didn't know when the person arrived, so he wandered outside the duty room, and finally his legs were a little sore, so he simply sat under the corner of the city wall and waited.

A few guards on duty at the palace gate glanced at the good ministers and ignored them, they saw a lot of people from other places.

There were many eunuchs and palace maids who came and went, and the good ministers had the leisure to observe them carefully at this time.

Regardless of the past or present life, but if you have a bit of status, there will always be a group of people around you. Based on this analysis, Liangchen guessed a few eunuchs who had functions in the palace.

The eunuch was tired of seeing it, so he turned his head to admire the palace maid, the more he looked at it, the more beautiful it became, especially when a palace maid who looked like a female official passed by, the good minister's eyes were straight.

With long legs and white skin, a girlish figure, and the taste of a mature sister, and an indescribable temperament, Liangchen is really comfortable to see, this female official is very suitable for his taste.

The female officer seemed to notice that the good minister was staring at her, and turned her face sideways to look at her, and there was frost on her face.

This girl is not very approachable.

Liangchen slowly turned his head, not daring to look at the female official again, lest the female official call the guards and beat him.

When the female official walked away, Liangchen turned his head again to continue admiring the graceful figure of the other person, but his vision was blocked by a few eunuchs.

The eunuchs seemed to have something happy, and walked outside the palace gate as they spoke.

Liangchen didn't bother to look at these eunuchs, so he looked away from them and looked for a new target, so as to fantasize.

I can't eat it, so it's good to think about it.

Liangchen was amusing himself, and a sentence from the group of eunuchs who came over almost didn't make him jump.

"Father-in-law Wei's luck is really good today, he killed the royal prison and the gang of people who were all out of their pants, see if they dare to bet with us next time!"