"What Your Majesty said is naturally excellent, and the concubines should obey their orders. However, the concubine is young and ignorant, and she doesn't know much about the affairs of the palace, so it is better to ask Your Majesty to hand over this palace maid to me, and with a palace maid like her who is familiar with the inside story to assist the concubine, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. Zhou Yufeng didn't want this little palace maid who seemed to be clever to follow her husband anymore.

Zhu Youzhen didn't immediately agree to the queen's request, because he felt that Lin Xianger was capable of doing things, and as long as she cultivated it well, she might not be able to become a strong woman who stood alone. Just handed it over to the queen, which made him a little reluctant. But then he thought that compared to himself, Zhou Yufeng's side lacked people who could do things.

So he asked hesitantly: "Lin Xiang'er, are you willing to assist the queen in handling the Internal Medicine Bureau?" ”

"Little maid is willing, thank you for your grace." Lin Xiang'er immediately thanked Zhu Youzhen happily.

"Do you like medicine? It seems that the strong woman is out of play, but there is a possibility of a female doctor. Zhu Youzhen smiled and readily agreed to the queen's request.

Then Zhu Youzhen said the last thing, "The queen and the two concubines, in addition to these things, investigate the age, family background, and whether you want to leave the palace..."

"Your Majesty wants to let go of the palace maid, this is a virtuous policy. I don't think anyone will object, so there's no need to do it again, right? Zhou Yufeng was a little happy for Zhu Youzhen's benevolence, but he didn't understand why he still asked the palace maids for their thoughts.

"No, some palace maids have been in the palace for decades, and it's not even certain whether their families are willing to take them back. Doesn't letting such a palace maid out of the palace mean harming them? It's better to ask. In the future, a system should be formed, and after serving in the palace for many years, they should be allowed to go home, and they can communicate with their families or something. ”

Zhu Youzhen's words moved Zhou Yufeng and Lin Xiang'er, but Tian Xiuying was not interested in it at all, and Yuan Zhaorong bowed slightly, as if he was approving of Zhu Youzhen's behavior.

After chatting with Zhou Yufeng and the other three about the basic principles of how to deal with the problem of palace maids, Zhu Youzhen handed over the matter of dealing with palace maids to Zhou Yufeng and the others.

After having a preliminary understanding of the situation in the palace, Zhu Youzhen began to call the middle-level and above eunuchs of the 24 yamen one by one according to the reports of the eunuchs around him.

Zhu Youzhen's move was an exception for the previous Ming emperors. And for these eunuchs, big and small, it is also a novel experience.

According to the rules of the palace in the past, except for the palm print eunuchs of the twenty-four yamen, the rest of the small eunuchs in the palace did not have the opportunity to meet and talk with the emperor at all.

Even if there are few little eunuchs who can be trusted by the emperor, they grew up with the emperor since they were children and gained the emperor's trust.

Whenever the new emperor ascends the throne, it is the time when the eunuchs of the leaders of the twenty-four yamen are replaced, which is also a customary rule in the palace.

However, after His Royal Highness King Xin ascended the throne, he changed the previous practice of the emperors to release the eunuchs around them, and mastered the eunuchs of the twenty-four yamen leaders in the palace, and then these eunuchs adjusted the personnel of each yamen.

After Zhu Youzhen talked with most of the eunuchs in charge of the yamen, there were only two yamen left, the imperial horse eunuch and the celebrant eunuch, and he never went to talk to anyone. The two leaders of the eunuchs, Pang Tianshou and Wang Tiqian, expressed to Wang Chengen several times that they wanted to report their work to Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen politely declined through Wang Chengen, and let them work with peace of mind without thinking about it.

Zhu Youzhen's performance made Pang Tianshou, Wang Tiqian and others feel a little up, but Wei Zhongxian has been watching carefully.

Compared with Zhu Youzhen's inaction in the outer court, in the inner court, Zhu Youzhen unknowingly has mastered the hearts of most of the palace maids and chamberlains.

After these days of talking with the eunuchs of various yamen, and studying the twenty-four yamen in the palace. Zhu Youzhen found that the 24 Yamen looked huge, but in fact they were a very loose association.

Nominally, the ceremonial eunuchs were in charge of all the yamen in the inner court, but the ceremonial eunuchs and eunuchs, who were busy competing for power with the civil officials of the outer courts, did not care about the management of the inner court at all, but adopted a laissez-faire attitude.

Moreover, the yamen are not subordinate to each other, and even the celebrant can only manage the eunuchs through the appointment and dismissal of each yamen, rather than managing the yamen according to their specific work capabilities.

This also caused the palace attendants to desperately tie up the celebrities around the emperor, wanting to ascend to the sky in one step and get a position in charge. Then he embezzled funds to provide for the chief eunuchs in exchange for more oily and watery errands.

And those who do things honestly will always be pressed to the bottom and have no future. It can be said that the corruption of the inner court is not inferior to that of the civil officials of the outer court.

After understanding all this, Zhu Youzhen knew what he needed, an organization department and a supervision organization.

Among the 24 yamen, the functions of the capital governor and the direct palace supervisor overlapped, and both became the health departments that cleaned the palace.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a long time and decided to reorganize a new department in the name of restoring the original functions of the metropolitan governor.

Zhu Youzhen first appointed Wang Chengen as the eunuch of the palm seal of the metropolitan governor, and through the assessment of the people in the metropolitan governor, most of the unsuitable personnel were replaced by other yamen.

And let Wang Chengen openly recruit members of the imperial eunuch to the palace, this form of open recruitment makes the eunuchs and palace in the palace very fresh, but the life of being oppressed and bullied for a long time makes them dare not be the first person to eat crabs.

In the area where the low-ranking eunuchs lived, a eunuch was standing under a wooden bulletin board, reading the bulletin in a hoarse voice. In the crowd of onlookers, a little eunuch in a blue robe couldn't help but mockingly say to a middle-aged eunuch next to him: "Zhang Zhangsi, haven't you always boasted that you are also from the inner study?" Why bother to bury your skills in the direct palace. Now His Majesty wants to reset the capital governor and recruit internal officials who can read and count and do arithmetic, regardless of age or background, such a good opportunity, you can't get it, maybe the emperor will be happy, and he will carry you into the celebrant eunuch. ”

As soon as the little eunuch finished speaking, several young eunuchs on the side immediately coaxed on the side. The middle-aged eunuch's face turned pale for a while, but in the face of the godson who was deeply favored by his boss, he could only respond with a smile: "Hey, little Father-in-law, don't make fun of me, I drank a few glasses of horse urine and said drunken words, you still take it seriously." Only a young talent like Xiao Zhang's father-in-law can enter the eyes of the emperor, don't you say? ”