Yang Yi, who is considered benevolent, is facing a difficult problem at this time, the harem.

A harem refers to the place where the emperor's wives and concubines lived, and usually refers to the women who lived in the harem; Zhou system, the harem set up internal officials to praise internal governance, Qin Yanzhi; The Han Dynasty set up 14 internal officials, where hundreds of people.

"Your Highness, now the palace needs to add a population."

A few days ago, the follow-up people from the Northern Regions arrived one after another, mainly Yang Yi's maids in the palace in the Northern Regions, and in accordance with the rules, the palace maids of Liu Hong's time were released from the palace and given gold and silver.

These women who were drafted to serve in the court have existed since ancient times, and have unique rules.

"Guanzi Junchen": "It is the late monarch who hired his wife with a different surname and set him as a nephew and a maid of the palace, and he has the legal system, so he governs it." ”

"Hanshu Gongyu Biography": "The ancients had a system in the palace, and there were only nine palace maids. ”

Palace maids, also known as palace people, can be roughly divided into two categories according to their duties and status: one is the person who manages the daily life of the monarch in the palace, and those who are granted official positions with higher status are called female officials; One is the maidservants and weavers who are servant in the palace and are served. It also refers to the women who were selected into the palace for the emperor's voice and sensuality, and it is roughly composed of three parts: first, the concubines who are allowed by the etiquette and the system of the past dynasties.

"The Book of Rites: Dusk Yi" said: "The ancients established six palaces, three wives, nine concubines, twenty-seven wives, and eighty-one royal wives. "The feudal emperors of the past generations possessed thousands of women, and according to their likes and dislikes, the women in the palace were divided into several ranks.

If the emperor carefully follows the words in the "Book of Rites: Dusk Yi", he will put the three ladies, nine concubines, twenty-seven wives, and eighty-one royal wives: the noble concubine, the lady concubine, and the virtuous concubine are the three ladies, and the character is the first.

Shunyi Shunrong Shunhua, Xiuyi Xiuhua, Chongyi Chonghua are the nine concubines, and the quality is the second; There are 12 Jieyu, the third in Pinzheng; There are a total of 15 beautiful talents, and the fourth is in good quality; Baolin has twenty-four people, and the fifth is the first; There are twenty-four maidens, and the sixth is the first; There are thirty-seven women, and the seventh is the first; a total of one hundred and twenty-four; This is the highest grade among the palace maids.

However, now it has basically changed, with a queen in the palace, and under the queen are concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines; Under the concubine, there are Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiuyuan, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, and Chongyuan, which are called nine concubines; Under the nine concubines, there are nine Jieyu, beauties, and nine talents; Then there are 27 Baolin, the royal maid, and the picker.

The above-mentioned women are high-ranking and high-status palace maids in the palace, which is only a small part of the group of palace maids in the harem, and the second is the countless female officials and palace ladies in the palace, etc., these women can be summoned at any time and given titles to win the favor of the emperor for a while; The third is the huge female musicians in the palace, who are outstanding in color and art, and are exclusively for the emperor's pleasure and entertainment.

In the early days, the palace maid became the concubine and palace maid who defeated the emperor through the female prisoner of the defeated side of the battle, and after the Han Dynasty, the empire was unified, and it was changed to a large number of personnel sent by the imperial court to select the beauties of good families in the countryside of the people, aged 13 and 20, and selected to enter the palace.

Once the beauty is selected as the palace maid, she can no longer reunite with her family, locked in the palace, isolated from the outside world, and only a very few of them can be promoted to concubines by the emperor, and the vast majority of palace maids are lonely and lonely in the desolation.

In order to prevent the palace maids from resisting, the palace was punished with severe torture. Palace maids can be killed anytime and anywhere.

Of course, this is because most of the early court ladies came from female slaves, female prisoners, and the wives of criminals, etc., and in order to prevent them from causing rebellion, they were deterred by punishment.

Then, after the unification, the source of the palace maids, some began to be selected from the folk "beauty pageant" and "women", "beauty pageant" is like the examination selection, there is a set of strict rules, the woman must be a good family, but the Han Dynasty, not as strict as the later generations, the class is clear, and the merchants and workers are still good families.

The number of palace maids since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, with the times and continue to increase, in the early years of the Han Dynasty, there were only a dozen palace maids, when Emperor Wu, the number of palace maids exceeded 1,000 people, and when Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the harem gathered women up to five or six thousand people.

The identities of the palace maids are also different, and the upper ones are the female officials in the palace; The lower classes are ordinary slaves. In addition to age, physical fitness, and conduct, female officials must also master skills such as female workers.

The court drafted women, who are selected, enter the palace to try to embroider brocade, hold all the skills of the broom, and observe whether its etiquette should be, if there are unqualified people, they will be replaced, and then select the best ones, teach them to the court regulations, and each day will take one hour to write and read. After writing and reading, the next day he ordered the palace people to take the examination, and a year later he was awarded the six laws.

The better of these palace ladies became the female officials in the palace, but because the eunuchs were in power, the central attendants were in charge of the internal personnel, finances, etiquette, security and all the daily life of the emperor, queen, concubine, and concubine, so the female officials were in charge.

Some of the selected palace maids are assigned to the emperor, empress, concubine, princess, elder brother and other palace attendants, of course, the number of palace maids assigned to different ranks is also different.

The first thing the palace maid does when she enters the palace is to shave her head and take a bath, and she can keep her hair when she is a little older.

The monthly money of the palace maids is not customized, the lowest is a few hundred dollars, the high can reach several times, meals, clothes, etc. are also provided, if you get the favor of the queen or the queen mother, you can also win wealth for your parents, but the life of most palace maids is miserable.

From the first day they were selected to enter the palace, they were like entering prison, losing their personal freedom, and they were not allowed to leave the palace until they were 25 or even 30 years old.

Those who leave the palace in advance due to illness, stupidity or other reasons must be checked by the eunuch before they are allowed to leave the palace, and some palace maids are still in the palace for ten years because "the emperor has to use it", they are already old after leaving the palace, and it is very difficult to even marry normally.

Of course, there are exceptions, that is, those who are favored by the emperor and promoted to concubines and concubines will have to stay in the palace forever, but this is a very small number.

As for why the harem level should be set in such detail, down to everyone? The reason for this is that being the emperor's wife is also a "professional behavior" at this time, and they will have a salary every year, and some will receive a monthly salary.

Since it is necessary to "pay wages", then it is necessary to talk about grades, and the amount of wages is also different depending on the "length of service"; And the favored procedures and contributions of each concubine are exquisite, and it is impossible for everyone to be the same, so the harem compares the settings of courtiers, and determines the palace concubines with different official qualities and receives different salaries.

Taking the salary system of public officials in the Han Dynasty as an example, the prime minister ranked first among the hundred officials, the highest in Yulu, the assistant to the emperor in Tianzi, the assistant Wanji, and the highest in Yulu "Golden Seal Purple Ribbon, Rank and Ten Thousand Stones". And the harem Zhaoyi is equivalent to the prime minister, but in fact, Zhaoyi does not have as much as the prime minister, 4200 hu. Peerless Tang Gate fo

Nowadays, the commonly used units of measurement are 龠, he, liter, bucket, Hu, etc., "stone" and "Hu", is the same level of measurement unit of different names, 10 buckets for 1 Hu (stone); The Hanshu Chronicles of the Law records: "Twenty-four baht is two. Sixteen taels for catties; Thirty catties are jun, and four jun are stones. ”

One stone is 120 catties, Zhaoyi's 4200 Hu, it is equivalent to 504,000 Han catties, the weights and measures of the past dynasties have changed, Han one catty is about equal to 0.34 city catties in later generations, so the actual annual salary of Han Zhaoyi is equivalent to 174,182 city catties in later generations, although it is not so rigorous, but it is also considerable.

At this time, the lowest level of the Han Palace's palace maid's annual salary is also 192 Hu, equivalent to 5184 catties in later generations, this salary is already very high in this era, with one pound of grain per capita a day, a palace maid can feed 14 people in the family for a year, and Zhaoyi's annual salary can support 310 people.

Of course, this is the Han Dynasty, and the treatment is superior, so there are many palace maids in the Han Palace, and even adopt folk orphan girls into the palace.

However, because of the generous treatment, there are generally not many palace maids in the Han Palace, and the emperor has money, so he can raise more, and the emperor has no money, so he can only raise less.

And since Yang Yi began to let the palace maids out of the palace the day before yesterday, the number of palace maids in the palace has dropped to a very low level, although they have brought a lot of maids from the northern region who have been used before, compared with the huge Han Palace, there are not many palace maids.

And now, there are fewer women in the palace, so there will naturally be discussions among the people, but there are many daughters in Luoyi who are waiting to give back to their families after entering the palace.

Therefore, now folk legends have begun to say that the new emperor is likely to be a woman, so he may not choose a palace maid......

"It's all a folk discussion, and I never take it to heart." Yang Yi said: "The people are living a difficult life now, so I am not destined to be a good person in their eyes, let them say something, but the palace still needs to add some popularity and support some women, it's nothing, and Wen Ji will do it." ”

Yang Yi took a sip of the tea in front of him, eased his mind, and put these miscellaneous things in the back of his mind, now these things, let others worry about them, took the pen and paper on the side, dipped some ink with the pen, Yang Yi began to write.

This letter was handed over to Xu Rong, the general of Zhenxi, before that, Xu Rong had rushed to Guanzhong with more than 30,000 pioneers to guard Chang'an, since Wang Yue had promised to go to Xiliang to assassinate Han Sui, then if Xiliang was in chaos, he could also find an opportunity to take Liangzhou back, before that, Yang Yi still hoped that Xu Rong would make a comprehensive plan, such as the different reactions of Xiliang's side, and the responses taken according to these reactions.

Or appease, or strangle, try to be prepared, for Xu Rong, Yang Yi is very important, although this person's force is not first-rate, but it is enough to protect himself, he is proficient in the art of war, but he is a rare handsome talent.

In this era, there will be, there will be military divisions, but only those who have both can be handsome, such as Zhang Fei and Wen Chou under Yang Yi, although they are outstanding in force and first-class in the world, but for the art of war, there is only the degree of advancing when they hear the drums and retreating when they hear the gold, and the best thing is "kill with me!" ”

Zhao Yun's agility and force are enough, but he is still young at this time, and he still needs more experience, but Guan Yu, who can't let go of his hands, is now a qualified commander.

Yang Yi quickly wrote the letter, took the envelope next to him, and then called the chamberlain to send them to Guanzhong.

The Northern Regions of the world, in just one year, has been in the northern states of several states to establish a perfect transportation, at this time, is merging with the Han Dynasty's post station, the post station has long existed, the Zhou Dynasty has a beacon tower and a post post to transmit military information, to the Han Dynasty every 30 miles of the post, by the Taiwei in charge.

After finishing the letter, Yang Yi fell into deep thought.

I don't know how many martial arts masters I have been in contact with, from the beginning of the rivers and lakes, deduced by the Heaven and Earth Imperial Book, between the virtual and the real, to some extent, it can be regarded as true, and now, the authenticity is a higher level than at the beginning, such as this Tiger Ben General Wang Yue, whether these people are today or ancients, they all have a very distinct color.

That is, they all have a belief.

At the beginning of the battle of Wu Invincible Tongguan, as well as Ling Donglai, and now Wang Yue, it is obvious that these people have a common characteristic is "self-confidence", persistence in their own path, recognition of their own beliefs, or a certain kind of persistence.

If the persistence shown by the masters of this level is a commonality, then what are the grandmasters above them clinging to?

To a certain extent, Yang Yi and them are at the same level, but the accumulation is too deep, the opportunities are too sufficient, and the breakthrough is all based on resources, although the ability is enough, but it is in a state of knowing what it is and not knowing why it is.

Yang Yi stroked the table in front of him, people's perception of self is an illusion produced by the nervous system, so if a person wants to live forever, then the body cannot decay, this is the most basic, and the gods are beyond the human being, self-consciousness is free from the shackles of the nervous system, and has a new basis for existence.

Based on this, a new body is then molded, and finally immortality is achieved.

However, according to this statement, one's consciousness appears out of thin air in this illusory and strange world, an illusory person, so is "I" already in a certain transcendent realm?

If there is no free consciousness, there is no difference between people living and dying, and what is the use of eternal existence like mountains and rivers?

Yang Yi knows a concept, cultivating the truth through falsehood, that is, the human body is formed by the harmony of the four major falsehoods, which is an illusion that cannot escape the existence of the human body, but the consciousness of the human body cannot be separated from the independent existence of the human body, so it is necessary to use the four false combinations to practice the true truth of the nature, which is carried forward by the Buddhas of later generations.

Taoism, on the other hand, attaches more importance to detachment, and the human body seems to have become a burden, especially the Inner Dan Method, where the practice of qi and immortality is either to reconcile lead and mercury, or to absorb the essence between heaven and earth, or to surrender the dragon and tiger in the Ding Furnace.

But neither Buddhists nor Taoists seem to have the human body as their primary pursuit in their quest for liberation, and they value spiritual leaps more.

As soon as she thought of this, Yang Yi had a lot of feelings in her heart, and she seemed to know something most important, and at this time, she ordered someone to send someone to send a treasure that she had never seen.