Chapter 1975: Cherishing Blessings (Walling about asking for monthly votes)

After lunch, someone came from the imperial palace.

This is E Tengyi, the first-class guard of the Qianqing Palace.

The imperial silver reward was not banknotes from the Ministry of Revenue or the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but official silver from the inner treasury brought directly over.

One hundred taels of silver and a heavy silver ingot, brand new.

Four thousand taels of silver is a box of ingots, covered with yellow silk.

Brother Jiu got the news and took Shu Shu to the main hall in front of him, where he knelt down to receive the grace.

Because he had been with the guards for the first two months, he got along a lot with the inner guards, not to mention that he was a member of the yellow belt clan, and they were all familiar with each other.

"How many grades are there for this reward to the clan? Prince, how much silver will the prince reward?"

Brother Jiu couldn't wait to ask.

E Tengyi replied: "It is divided into three levels, several princes, the county king rewards five thousand taels of silver, the fourth master to the ninth master plus the thirteenth master is four thousand taels, the twelfth master, the fourteenth master and several counties The king, Baylor, the Duke of Zhen, and others will reward you with two thousand taels of silver."

Those who distributed rewards were all sent out by the emperor.

The difference is that the ones who went to the Prince's Palace were Ma Wu, the ones who went to Zhubeile's Palace to meet the Thirteenth Brother were some first-class guards, and the rest were the second-class guards in front of the emperor.

All official silver is drawn from the inner treasury, and rewards everywhere are silver.

Brother Jiu immediately laughed.

He himself got more than expected, and Brother Ten didn't suffer any loss either, so that's fine.

He looked at Cao Shun and said, "Prepare a double purse and give me some wine."

Cao Shun complied, presented two purses, and sent the person out personally.

E Tengyi was satisfied with his heavy purse.

He worked as an errand in front of the emperor and had long seen the arrogance of the ninth elder brother.

Needless to say, this purse contains gold ingots.

A purse is two taels of gold.

A pair of purses is equal to four taels of gold.

Compared with the ten taels and twenty taels of silver tea money in other mansions, the tea money here in Jiubele Mansion is doubled.

When the others went out, Brother Jiu danced happily and said to Shu Shu: "I really didn't expect that I was rewarded so much!"

He originally thought that the silver reward would be similar to the reward during the southern tour, a thousand taels of silver, or half the salary of Baelor.

Shu Shu looked at the neat official silver on the ground, thinking that in "A Dream of Red Mansions" the silver given to ancestors by the emperor had to be enshrined and sealed, he said: "This silver is different from last time. Last time, the emperor supplemented my livelihood. , I added the names of the master and the tenth uncle to the accurate clan merit list. This time it is the silver gift from the Longevity Festival. With the imperial blessing, I might as well save it and pass it on to Fengsheng and the others in the future..."

When the silver reward came down, Brother Jiu was still an empty-handed bald brother, waiting for the money to be spent.

The money given that time was spent in the public account of my elder brother.

Now, the treasury of Jiubele Mansion is not short of these four thousand taels of silver.

Brother Jiu thinks it makes sense.

He couldn't ask the children to kowtow in vain. Originally, he was going to give part of the silver gift to the children.

Now that I have saved it all, there is nothing.

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. When Fengsheng and the others are old, I'll use these to fill the lottery and press the box of silver, so that they can get more blessings from Khan Ama..."

Brother Ninth said.

The couple made a decision and ordered He Yuzhu to take someone to carry the silver box to the warehouse before returning to the main courtyard.

"If the reward is so heavy, it must not have been evenly affected by the rain and dew, but the reward must have been picked..."

Brother Ninth said.

Khan Amma is sometimes generous and sometimes stingy.

If you like it, you can reward it in any way; if you don't like it, you won't do it in vain.

Shu Shu thought for a moment and said, "Prince Cheng Ding should be inside."

Kangxi's main rewards should be his sons and brothers, and the others should make up the numbers.

The twelve Chengding princes, plus Prince Yu and Prince Gong, make fourteen people. This should be more than half of the reward list.

Fortunately, the fourteenth prince became a man this year, otherwise it would have been too eye-catching to rank the twelve princes alone.

In that case, everyone will know that the emperor does not want to see the twelfth prince.

You must know that not only the boss is snobbish, but the clan and ministers are also snobbish.

The ninth elder brother was happy for the thirteenth elder brother and said: "The thirteenth elder brother is with the retinue all the year round. He is not the kind of person who just followed and made up the numbers in the early years. He sent out errands every time, which is no easier than the third brother and fifth brother.

He deserves more reward."

The twelfth elder brother has no ambition and is just trying to get by; the fourteenth elder brother has just started working in the six departments and has not made any achievements.

If the Thirteenth Prince were given rewards at the same level as these two, it would be a bit unfair to the Thirteenth Prince.

Shu Shu smiled and listened.

In the eyes of outsiders, the "loved son" of the Thirteenth Prince is better than the Ninth Prince.

Since the first retinue in thirty-seven years, the thirteenth elder brother has been retinue every time he travels in front of the emperor. This is the only one among the princes.

In addition, at the end of last year, the emperor held a memorial ceremony for Mount Tai, so the thirteenth prince was really a hot topic.

That is to say, we are in the palace now, and the flag has not been lowered, otherwise someone would have come forward.

When Kangxi raised the Thirteenth Prince this time, he probably also intended to increase the weight of the Thirteenth Prince...

*

Prince Yu's Mansion.

Hearing that someone from the imperial court was coming, Baotai brought Baoshou to the front.

When he heard that the gift of silver had arrived, Baotai hesitated.

This gift of silver was given to his Ama, and according to the rules, Prince Yu came to the front in person to receive the gift.

Fortunately, Ma Wu had already received the order and said: "The emperor has given instructions not to disturb the prince, but to let the prince receive the reward on his behalf."

Baotai hurriedly kowtowed in the direction of the Forbidden City and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace..."

Then, he took his younger brother with him to receive the reward on his father's behalf.

When Ma Wu left, Baotai looked at the silver reward on the ground, but there was no joy on his face.

"Amma is on the sick bed and cannot enter the palace to celebrate her birthday. It is already uncomfortable. But now that she has received such grace, I am afraid she will be even more uneasy..."

Baotai whispered to Baoshou.

Baoshou said: "There is no way around this. I have Amma's information in front of the emperor. I know that Amma can't get out of bed, so I won't blame him..."

Speaking of this, he thought of Prince Gong who showed up this morning, and said: "Uncle Wang, isn't it a bit too much? It seems that Amma is disrespectful to the emperor..."

He also complained of illness, but Prince Gong showed up today.

Baotai said: "Uncle Wang is different from Ama..."

It was indeed difficult for Ama to stand up. Prince Gong looked at the difficulty, but he could still walk with the help of crutches.

In addition, my Amma is the royal brother, and Prince Gong is the royal younger brother. After all, they are different.

Even if they knew that Amma would be upset, the two brothers would not keep it to themselves. They asked someone to collect the reward and went to the main courtyard to report...

*

Since they were visitors from the imperial court, all the princes and princes who were originally on duty at the Yamen also hurried home.

Prince Yu was the only one who received the oral instruction and allowed others to receive the reward on his behalf.

Others must receive the instruction in person.

The thirteenth elder brother in the Ministry of Industry and the fourteenth elder brother in the household department also received the message from the elder brother's charge and returned to the palace to receive the reward.

The two met at the door of the Hubu Yamen.

The Fourteenth Brother looked forward to it and said, "How much was the silver reward when the Thirteenth Brother visited the South? Isn't it at least the same amount this time?"

The thirteenth elder brother said truthfully: "I was rewarded twice during the southern tour, each time was 500 taels. I don't know this time."

The fourteenth elder brother was a little stunned after hearing this, and said: "That's too little, it's not as much as our monthly income!"

They currently have no titles, only a princely status of fifty taels of silver per month.

The thirteenth elder brother said: "The emperor's favor is so great that you don't need to care much about it."

No matter how much it was, he planned to keep it and wait for Brother Jiu to get a share in his pearl market business.

Now in the palace, there are relatively few expenses. When the palace opens, there will be more favors and more expenses. Then you will have to think about how to increase the income.

After all, this sum of money was an unexpected blessing.
To be continued...