The sun has set.

The red and white Forbidden City gradually hid behind the scenes, and lanterns began to appear in rows of white marble railings around them.

Sudden.

The sound of a whip suddenly erupts.

It was like a line connecting the lanterns suddenly became shorter, and the officials in the inner world immediately knelt down and buried their heads.

The Jinyiwei, who was on duty, also knelt on the ground tremblingly, not daring to be disrespectful.

Although it is the winter solstice day, these inner court officials only watched the execution in Xicheng during the day. They saw the end of betraying the emperor with their own eyes, and had personally felt the pain before the punishment of those inner court officials who regretted their loyalty to the emperor. Therefore, they did not dare to feel the joy of the Winter Solstice Festival, and only feared the new master of the Ming Dynasty.

And now, the emperor has returned from Xiyuan.

Their hearts naturally became even more nervous, fearing that they would make any mistakes.

Ancient people valued the Winter Solstice Festival very much.

Zhu Youxiao knew this.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao felt that the atmosphere of the entire inner court seemed particularly serious and depressing on the winter solstice, he found that his severe punishment of the internal court personnel had indeed achieved the effect.

But Zhu Youxiao would not keep the inner court staff tensed.

That way people will collapse.

The lower one uses force, the middle one uses wisdom, and the lower one uses heart.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to use these people naturally to be strong and soft, and they would be relaxed and relaxed.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao had already prepared two eunuchs with the highest power in the inner court, Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ruoyu.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked them: "Go to send an order. Except for the necessary duty, all the staff of the inner court have summoned to the Qianqing Palace to kowtow to me, and I invite them to eat dumplings for the Winter Solstice Festival!"

"I obey the order, I will do it now!"

Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ruoyu replied at the same time and started to handle it.

For a moment, outside the Qianqing Palace, a large number of internal officials and Jinyiwei officials were kneeling.

Some of the higher status were even allowed to stand in the hall.

Zhu Youxiao sat in the warm cabinet and said to Wei Zhongxian through the curtain: "Wei Zhongxian, go and ask the imperial kitchen, are the dumplings ready?"

Before this, Zhu Youxiao had asked Wei Zhongxian to inform the people in the imperial kitchen to prepare dumplings and put them in Bingkuli for use today.

So, although there were many people, Zhu Youxiao suddenly ordered to invite all the inner court staff to eat dumplings.

"Go back to the emperor! It's ready and will be brought up soon."

Wei Zhongxian replied with a smile.

"good!"

Zhu Youxiao said something.

Other inner court personnel gradually let go of their nervousness and began to smile, and the atmosphere of festivals and home gradually became stronger.

Sure enough, within a while, an inner servant wearing a sacred man appeared outside the hall, and he was carrying a food box in his hand.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the dumplings are here."

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Let them come to me and kowtow, then he took the dumplings and stood to eat, listening to me while eating."

"Abide by the order!"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly started to do it.

For a moment, the inner court staff walked up in rows and kowtowed to Zhu Youxiao.

Although Zhu Youxiao was not very used to this method, he had to accept it because this was the family ritual of this era. He had to let these inner court personnel know that they were the emperor's slaves.

After all the inner court staff received a bowl of dumplings, Zhu Youxiao said loudly: "I know that many of you have become rootless people since entering the palace and have no home, but the palace is your home!"

When Zhu Youxiao said this, many inner officials' hearts were suddenly tightened.

Because, most eunuchs who have been physically disabled since childhood and have not experienced family life have defects in their personalities, especially those who are particularly sensitive to "home".

Therefore, eunuchs in the inner court like to use the titles of "son" and "ancestor" with family attributes.

Now, when Zhu Youxiao, the head of the inner court, took the initiative to use the concept of "home" to comfort them, he naturally hit their weaknesses.

"I also know that many of you have been loyal to the king's affairs since their ancestors and have always regarded the Emperor of Ming Dynasty as the mainstay!"

And when Zhu Youxiao said this, the Jinyiwei also looked solemn.

When Zhu Youxiao saw this, he continued to say: "Although I am your head of the family, I am also your family. What happened today is not the result I am willing to see. But since it is a family, you must have family rules and those who are still alive are all loyal people. At least for now, I will not treat you badly at the moment, and I will still treat you as my own people!

"Today is the Winter Solstice Festival, so I will invite you to have dumplings so that we can experience the feeling of home like ordinary people. Don't be afraid. As long as you have me in your heart, treat the palace as your home, and treat the Ming Dynasty on the spot, I will only show kindness to you! Because like me, only the Forbidden City is the home, and only the Ming Dynasty is the country, not like the court officials in the foreign dynasty. Even if the aliens become emperors, they can still have high titles and high honors and have family and careers!"

The following sentences Zhu Youxiao said have caused many inner court personnel who are rich in emotions and sensitive in their personalities to sob and cry.

For example, Wang Chengen started to drip into the hot bowl of dumplings at this time.

And what Zhu Youxiao wants is this effect.

He wanted to strengthen the sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty royal family by everyone in the inner court.

Zhu Youxiao also said: "No matter what position you hold now, as long as you do your work faithfully, I will use you in the future. I will not treat any loyal person unfairly, just as I will not forgive a person who betrays his country!"

"I remember the Emperor's Holy Tradition!"

Everyone replied immediately.

"Speaking about some happy things is now in recent years. Recently, I have copied the homes of many treacherous officials and traitors. You know that, so the inner treasury has invested a lot of silver. Of course, everyone will have a reward of silver this year, and at least half a year of annual salary will be rewarded. If the inner treasury has more inputs next year than this, the reward of silver will naturally be more!"

After Zhu Youxiao said this, the inner court officials suddenly became happy and began to smile.

Zhu Youxiao continued, "In addition, I will give you a briefing, and your good days will come in the future when you are in the temple."

Zhu Youxiao said that the good days of the temple dynasty refer to the days when the Wanli period asked the civil servants to collect mining taxes. At that time, because the civil servants were responsible for collecting mining taxes for the emperor, they all had a lot of money and life was very comfortable.

Therefore, the internal officials naturally miss it very much.

Now that Zhu Youxiao said this, these internal officials were naturally excited, and they all looked up at Zhu Youxiao who was talking to them through the curtain in the warm cabinet.

But Zhu Youxiao said at this time: "However, the conditions are not yet mature. First, because there are few people who know how to collect taxes, some people look for trouble and say that you have harmed the people, said that you have done something bad, and slandered you in front of the people, saying that you are destroying my country and making the people unable to survive; second, there are still many people who are against us outside, and you also know that as long as I use you a little, I will be called a tyrant!"
Chapter completed!