Yang Yi, who is considered to be kind, is facing a difficult problem at this time, in the harem.

The harem refers to the place where the emperor's wives and concubines live, and usually refers to women living in the harem; in the Zhou Dynasty, the harem had an internal official to praise the internal rule, and in the Qin Dynasty, the harem had a fourteenth grade of internal official, with hundreds of people.

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

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

These women who were elected to serve in the palace have existed since ancient times and have unique rules.

"Guanzi·Ren and Minister" "It is the old king who hired his wife to a different surname and appointed him as a nephew's wife and palace maid. All the legal systems are in place, so he is governed."

"Book of Han: Biography of Gong Yu" "In ancient times, palaces were in charge, and there were only nine palace maids."

Palace maids, also commonly known as palace maids, 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. Those who have a higher status are called female officials; the other is the maids who are sent to work in the palace and are sent to the palace and weaving maids. They also refer to women who are selected to be used in the palace for the emperor's voice and sex. They are roughly composed of three people, one is the type of concubines that are allowed by etiquette and law, and are arranged in the past dynasties.

"The Book of Rites: Hunyi" says, "In ancient times, the emperor established six palaces, three wives, nine concubines, twenty-seven generations of wives, and eighty-one imperial wives." Feudal emperors of all dynasties possessed thousands of women, and according to their likes and dislikes, the women in the palace were divided into several levels.

If the emperor carefully followed the statement in "The Book of Rites: Hunyi", he appointed the third wife, nine concubines, twenty-seven generations, eighty-one wife, imperial concubine, Shu concubine, and Concubine De as the third wife, and the first rank.

Shunyi Shunhua, Xiuyi Xiurong Xiuhua, Chongyi Chongrong Chonghua is the second most important concubine; twelve concubines, the third most important; 15 beautiful talents, the fourth most important; 24 Baolin people, the fifth most important; 24 imperial women, the sixth most important; 37 women, the seventh most important; 124 people, the seventh most important; this is the highest-quality palace maids.

However, there have been basically changes now. The palace has a queen, and the queen is the imperial concubine, Lifei, Huifei, Defei, Shufei, and Xianfei; there are Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, and Chongyuan, which are called the Nine Concubines; there are Jieyu, beauty, and talented people under the Nine Concubines; there are 27 people in Baolin, Yunu and Cainu.

The above-mentioned women are high-level and status palace maids in the palace. This is only a small part of the harem's group of palace maids. Second, there are countless female officials and palace maids in the palace, etc. These women can be summoned at any time and given titles to win the emperor's temporary favor; third, the huge female musicians in the palace advocate excellence, and they are outstanding in their erotic skills and are dedicated to the emperor's enjoyment and socializing needs.

In the early days, palace maids became concubines and palace maids who defeated the emperor through the battle of female prisoners. After the Han Dynasty, the empire was unified, so the court sent a large number of personnel to select beautiful women from good families from the people's hometowns. They were over thirteen or twenty years old and selected into the palace.

Once a beauties are chosen as palace maids, they will no longer be able to reunite with their families. They will be locked in the palace and isolated from the outside world. Only a few of them are favored by the emperor can be promoted to concubines. Most palace maids live alone in loneliness and desolation.

In order to prevent the palace maids from resisting, there are severe punishments in the palace. Palace maids may be beaten and killed anytime and anywhere.

Of course, this is because most of the early palace maids came from female slaves, female prisoners and criminal wives. In order to prevent them from causing trouble, they were shocked by punishment.

Later, after the unification, some of the sources of palace maids began to be selected from the folk "beauty pageants" and "picking girls". "Beauty pageants" are like examination selection, with a set of strict rules. Women who run for election must be good families. However, the Han Dynasty was not as strict as those in later generations, with clear classes, and merchants and labourers were still good families.

The number of palace maids has been increasing with the times since the Han Dynasty. In the early years of the former Han Dynasty, there were only a dozen palace maids. During the reign of Emperor Wu, the number of palace maids exceeded 1,000. During the reign of Emperor Huan of Zhonghan, there were five or six thousand women gathered in the harem.

The identities of palace maids are also different. The upper class is the female officials in the palace; the lower class is the ordinary slaves. In addition to the age, body, and character conditions, female officials must also master the skills of female workers.

The palace year-old selection of the girls, whoever chooses to enter the palace will try to use embroidered brocade and hold brooms and see whether their qualities are good. If there are any unqualified ones, they will be ordered to be replaced by the next time. Then, the best ones will be selected and taught the rules of the yeting, each writing and reading for one hour each day. After writing and reading, the next day, the palace servant will be ordered to take the exam and teach the six methods a year later.

Among these palace maids, the better ones became female officials in the palace. However, because the eunuchs were in power, the Zhongchangshi was in charge of the personnel, finance, etiquette, defense and everything in the daily life of the emperor, empress, concubines, and concubines, the female officials were in vain.

Some of the selected palace maids were assigned to the emperor, queen, concubine, princess, princess and other palaces to accompany the palaces. Of course, the number of palace maids of different levels was also different.

The first thing a palace maid does when entering the palace is to shave his head, take a bath, and wait until he gets older before he can keep his hair. The old palace maids who have just entered the palace must teach them various etiquette and dressing skills. If they are smart and clever, they can serve in half a year and have monthly money to get.

There is no customization for the monthly money of the palace maids. The lowest is a few hundred yuan, and the highest is a few tens of thousands of yuan. There is also a supply of meals, clothes, etc. If you get the favor of the queen or the queen mother, you can also gain wealth for your parents, but most palace maids' lives are miserable.

From the first day they were elected to enter the palace, they were like being imprisoned and lost their personal freedom. They were not allowed to leave the palace for marriage until they were 25 or even 30 years old.

Those who leave the palace early due to illness, stupidity or other reasons must be checked by eunuchs and reported to the rear before leaving the palace. Some palace maids are old after leaving the palace because "the emperor and the empress are used, and they still stay in the palace for ten years." They are already old after leaving the palace, and even a normal marriage is difficult.

Of course, there are exceptions, that is, those who are favored by the emperor and promoted to Zhipin and concubine will stay in the palace forever, but this is a very rare one.

As for why the harem level needs to be set so detailed, to everyone? The reason is that being a wife to the emperor is also a "professional behavior" at this time. They will also receive salary every year, and some will receive monthly salary.

Since you have to "pay your salary", you must be rated. Different "working years" and different salary. The contributions of each concubine are of particular importance. It is impossible for everyone to be the same. Therefore, the harem is more set up by court officials, and the palace concubines with different official ranks are designated and different salaries are received.

Taking the salary system of public officials in the Han Dynasty as an example, the prime minister ranks first among all officials, with the highest salary, assisting the emperor, assistanting the ten thousand knots, and the highest salary is "gold seal and purple ribbon, and the rank of ten thousand stones". Zhaoyi, the harem, is equivalent to the prime minister, but in fact, Zhaoyi's annual salary is not as high as the prime minister, at 4,200 hu. The peerless Tang Sect fo

Commonly used units of measurement today include 黑, 黑, 黑, 黑, 黑, 黑, 黑, and 黑, which are different names for the same level of measurement units. 10 黑 is 1 黑 (stone); "The Book of Han·Lu Lizhi" records that "twenty-four 黑 is 2. Sixteen liang is jin; thirty jin is jin, and four 黑 is stone."

One stone is 120 kilograms, and Zhaoyi's 4,200 hu are equivalent to Han jin. The weights and measures have changed in the past dynasties. One kilogram in the Han Dynasty is about 034 kilograms in later generations. Therefore, the actual annual salary of Zhaoyi of Han is equivalent to that of later generations. Although it is not so rigorous, it is quite considerable.

At this time, the annual salary of the lowest-level palace maid in the Han Palace was 192 hu, which is equivalent to 5,184 jin in later generations. This salary was already very high in this era. Based on the per capita grain per day, the annual salary of a palace maid can support 14 people in the family, while Zhaoyi's annual salary can support 310 people.

Of course, this was the Han Dynasty and was treated superiorly, so there were many palace maids in the Han Palace, and even adopted orphans from folk to the palace. At this time, women were not completely vassals in terms of men and women's status among the people.

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

Since Yang Yi started to release the palace maids from the palace the day before yesterday, the number of palace maids in the palace has dropped to a very low level. Although many maids who had to be used in the Northern Region have been brought from the Northern Region, there are not many palace maids compared with the huge Han Palace.

Nowadays, there are even fewer women in the palace, so there are naturally material discussions among the people. However, many daughters in Luoyi are waiting to be raised and given back to their homes after entering the palace.

So, now the folk legend has begun to say that the new emperor is likely to be a woman, so he may not choose a palace maid...

"It's all folk material discussions, and I never take them to heart." Yang Yi said, "The people are living a difficult life now, so I am destined to be a good person in their eyes. Let them talk about anything. However, the palace still needs to add some popularity and support some women. It's nothing. Wen Ji will do this."

Yang Yi took the tea in front of him and took a sip, calmed down and put the miscellaneous things behind his head. Now, he let others worry about these things. After taking the paper and pen beside him, he dipped some ink with the tip of the pen, Yang Yi began to write a letter.

The letter was handed over to Xu Rong, the general of Zhenxi. Previously, Xu Rong had already led more than 30,000 vanguards to Guanzhong to guard Chang'an. Since Wang Yue had agreed to go to Xiliang to assassinate Han Sui, if Xiliang was in chaos, he could find an opportunity to take back Liangzhou. Before that, Yang Yi still hoped that Xu Rong would make all-round plans, such as the different reactions of Xiliang and the responses taken based on these reactions.

Whether to recruit or strangle, try to be prepared as much as possible. Yang Yi attaches great importance to Xu Rong. Although this person's martial arts is not first-class, he can protect himself. He has a skilled military strategy, but he is a rare talent.

In this era, there will be military advisors, but only when both are used can they become the commander. For example, Zhang Fei, under Yang Yi, and Wen Chou, are of outstanding military power and the best in the world, but when it comes to military tactics, they can only advance when they hear the drum and retreat when they hear the gold. What they are best at is "fight with me!"

Zhao Yun was smart and had enough force, but he was still young at this time and needed more training. However, Guan Yu could not put down the script and was now a qualified commander.

With the pen, Yang Yi quickly wrote the letter, took the envelope next to him, and then called the eunuch to ask them to send the letter to Guanzhong using the caravan system of the Northern Region.

The Northern Region Trading World has established complete transportation in several northern prefectures in just one year. At this time, it was being merged with the post stations of the Han Dynasty, and there were already stations. During the Zhou Dynasty, there were beacon towers and post stations to deliver military intelligence. In the Han Dynasty, post stations were set up every 30 miles, and the Grand Marshal was in charge.

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

I have come into contact with countless martial arts masters. From the various things I have in the world, interpreted by the heaven and earth, between the real and the real, they can be regarded as real to some extent. And now, the truth is one step further than before. For example, Wang Yue, the general of Tiger Ben, has a very distinct color, whether these people are modern or ancient people.

That means that they all have a belief.

When Wu Wudi fought in Tongguan, there was Ling Donglai, and Wang Yue now, it is obvious that these people have one common characteristic, which is "confidence", persistence in their own path, recognition of their beliefs, or a certain kind of persistence.

If the attachment shown by masters at this level is a commonality, then what are the masters who are more above them obsessed with?

To a certain extent, Yang Yi and them are at the same level, but they have accumulated too much, had too much opportunities, and made breakthroughs all rely on resources. Although they have enough ability, they are in a state of knowing what they are but not what they are.

Yang Yi stroked the desk in front of him. People's cognition of themselves is an illusion caused by the nervous system. Therefore, if a person wants to live forever, he cannot decline. This is the most basic thing. The gods are transcendent from human beings. The self-consciousness is free from the constraints of the nervous system and has a new foundation for existence.

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

But 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 state of transcendence?

When a person is born as a spirit, the foundation of his existence is the consciousness that people have. If there is no free consciousness, then there is no difference between living and dying. Like mountains, rivers, what's the use of living forever?

Yang Yi knew a concept that by using falsehood to cultivate the truth, that is, the human body is formed by the combination of the four false elements and the combination of each other, which is a illusion of inability to escape the formation, existence, destruction and emptiness. However, the human consciousness cannot get rid of the independent existence of the human body, so we must use the falsehood of the four false elements to practice the true nature of the true nature, which was carried forward by the Buddhist family in later generations.

Taoism attaches more importance to transcendence, and the human body seems to have become a burden, especially the inner alchemy method, which practices qi and immortality, or harmonizes lead and mercury, absorbs the essence between heaven and earth, or subdues dragons and tigers in the cauldron.

However, whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, the human body seems to be not their main pursuit in pursuing liberation. They value spiritual leap more.

With this in mind, Yang Yi felt many feelings in her heart. She seemed to have vaguely known the most important thing. At this time, she ordered someone to send the treasure that she had never seen.

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Chapter completed!