While the brothers were talking, Cui Baisui brought the people from the kitchen to bring the cold noodles.
It's dark buckwheat thin noodles with cucumber shreds on top.
It comes with two meat and two vegetable side dishes, spicy cabbage, mixed bean sprouts, sliced white eggs, and salt-fried pork belly.
Although there were no oil stars on the noodles, and the hand-sized side dishes were slightly smaller, the fifth elder brother was satisfied when he saw the golden pork belly, oil coming out of it, and the aroma of meat.
The fourth elder brother touched the cold noodle bowl, looked at the ninth elder brother and said, "It's cold and hard. Since you have a weak stomach, you can't eat this."
Brother Jiu nodded and said: "No, Fujin won't let me eat buckwheat noodles. It's not easy to digest. I eat cold noodles, and I've only eaten dried noodles. But this buckwheat noodles is also made with half white flour. You guys can eat it."
Son."
The fifth elder brother was already anxious. He looked at the fourth elder brother and said, "Looking at the soup, it's only half a bowl of noodles. It doesn't take much. Fourth brother, please try it quickly."
The fourth brother then took the kuaizi and took a bite of noodles.
The taste is very refreshing, sweet and sour, and the fragrance of buckwheat is also very earthy.
The fifth elder brother urged him to use the kuaizi, and he couldn't wait to pick up the pork belly.
Just as it looks, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with juicy meat.
The fifth elder brother swallowed it all and asked the ninth elder brother out of curiosity: "This fried meat is delicious, why is the meat so tender? It is not greasy, not dry, and soft..."
Brother Jiu said proudly: "My brother doesn't like eating meat. The fat one is too greasy, and the thin one is not tasty. So I, Fujin, asked people to steam the pork belly and then fry it. The oil was steamed out before, and it tasted even better after eating it."
It’s delicious. Not only is it delicious when fried with salt, but it’s also more delicious when fried or grilled than raw pork belly.”
The fifth elder brother was moved and said: "Then I will ask someone to try it when I go back tonight."
Seeing that the fourth elder brother kept his mouth shut, the fifth elder brother asked these two questions and immersed himself in eating.
After the brothers finished eating, they returned to the city.
Brother Jiu returned to the main room and saw Shu Shuwai reading in the study, so he talked about the two posts.
Shu Shu also frowned after hearing this.
It's not that I'm stingy with things, it's that I can't do this kind of cheap favor.
If you come and go again, there will be more courtiers coming and going, which is a disadvantage.
Another is to set a precedent and give it easily. If others need something in the future, they will think of them, and no one will dare to enter this threshold.
"Then future posts will no longer be accepted. Anyone who has no correspondence will be rejected!"
Shu Shu said.
This is the capital, not another realm. How can dendrobium and panax notoginseng be so valuable?
If there is no Dendrobium Yunnan, then there is no Dendrobium Huoshan?
If there is no Sanqi with ten heads, then there is no one with twenty or thirty heads?
The two people who are coming over tomorrow may be really in trouble, but they are also a little reckless.
I won’t talk about the Gao family here.
People who don’t know each other well may really have no choice.
But if the Shi family really needs help, they should first go to Dutong Mansion and bother to come over there to send a message, instead of going directly to the door like this.
Such poor etiquette, they still regard the ninth elder brother as the younger elder brother. If the elder elder brother is replaced by the third elder brother and the fourth elder brother, how can they dare to be so rash?
Brother Jiu nodded and said, "Well, I won't accept it anymore."
Relatives don't like to socialize, let alone people they don't know well.
Shu Shu also lost a good impression of these two people and said: "Even if you are asking for medicine, don't just accept it. Ask directly why you didn't go to Beizi Mansion instead of coming here? What if there is no reasonable reason?"
Explain and tell them to get lost..."
Brother Jiu responded: "I think so too..."
*
In the West Garden, in the Tuoyuan Bookstore, the prince's face looked a little ugly.
After I fell into bed, I felt so hot that even adding an ice basin was of no use.
He asked people to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get a rhinoceros horn mat, which was cooler than the ivory mat. What did he hear?
Expenditure from the Piku is arbitrary here in Yuqing Palace, but now it is necessary to write down the withdrawal list and file it, who will use it, and where it will be used. The eunuchs who were sent there will not be able to use it, so several people from Yuqing Palace are required.
Only the eunuch in charge can spend it.
"When did you add the rules?"
The prince frowned and asked.
Although he ignored these chores, he knew that it was not so complicated to get a mat and pillow for the first time in April.
The eunuch said: "In the first ten days of the month, Master Jiu asked people to count the Piku and add rules."
The prince's face became increasingly gloomy.
The only place where you can go directly to the Piku to withdraw things is Yuqing Palace, besides Yuqian.
Is this rule specifically restricting Yuqing Palace?
The prince said angrily: "Take the chicken feathers as the order arrows! Just follow the original rules and draw them out. If you can't get them out, go directly to the yamen of the hall to find Brother Jiu!"
The eunuch agreed.
The prince's eyes were a little gloomy.
Two or three million taels of silver!
Even if he is the prince of a country, he cannot say that the money is too little.
Last year, the land tax of the Qing Dynasty was more than 24.39 million taels, and the salt tax was 2.69 million taels.
The ninth elder brother hoarded land and earned a year's worth of salt tax and 10% of land tax in less than a year.
He also understood what the five hundred thousand taels of silver used by the inner treasury were.
It was the capital that the emperor's father gave to the ninth elder brother.
As for the 100,000 taels of silver that the eldest elder brother, the fifth elder brother and others took out, it was also the ninth elder brother who found an excuse to collect the principal.
No wonder borrowing money doesn't look like borrowing money.
What about now?
The banquet at Beiwusuo has paid dividends.
No wonder the emperor's father has gone.
The prince felt uneasy in his heart.
It’s not that I feel bad that I didn’t get a share of the pie.
To him, money is nothing.
He was worried that if the prince's brother's money was mixed up, they would favor the eldest brother in the future.
I am also worried that the eldest elder brother will make money through the ninth elder brother, and he will have more capital to bribe more civil and military officials.
He thought for a while, stood up, and went to Changchun Garden.
The reason why Ninth Brother was able to raise the land price in Xiaotangshan was because he was the emperor's father, and the money he earned was not other people's money, but most of his clan's money.
For a long time, there has been no distinction between public and private affairs, which is not a good thing.
*
Qingxi Bookstore, Kangxi was feeling heartbroken.
He took two sips of dendrobium and chrysanthemum tea to calm himself down.
What he placed in his hand was Princess Kejing's veins and a bottle of rose perfume.
The princesses at the top of the list were raised by him personally, and they had more to worry about.
Besides, Princess Kejing is different from others, and she has a lot of troubles in her heart.
Therefore, after he finished handling the government affairs today, he thought of the princess reporting illness, so he sent someone to the Imperial Hospital to get Princess Kejing's pulse.
As a result, the patient was diagnosed as ringworm.
The word "rose" is too coincidental.
Kangxi directly ordered Liang Jiugong to visit the Fifth Southern Institute.
Princess Kejing was scrupulous and had no intention of pursuing the case, nor did she intend to complain to the emperor. However, when the emperor came to inquire, she did not hide it and directly told the reason for the rash, and also handed over the bottle of perfume.
Liang Jiugong's expression did not change, and he felt as if he had seen a ghost as he took the things over.
Kangxi also felt gloomy when he heard that the prince sent it to his eighth prince, and that the eighth prince and his wife gave it to the princess.
He asked people to try this effect, but nothing happened for a while.
But if it can induce rubella, you know it is not a good thing and is indeed harmful to the body.
He looked at Liang Jiugong and said, "How is the princess doing now?"
Liang Jiugong thought carefully about the situation just now and said: "The princess still has ringworm on her cheeks and a rash on her neck. It looks like she hasn't rested well and is somewhat relieved."
Kangxi's eyes fell on the rose vase.
What does prince mean?
I don't allow him to use this anymore. He should know his taboos, so why would he reward his eighth brother with this?
Is it to cherish things?
Or does it have other intentions?
He pondered and wanted to tell Zhao Chang, but then he remembered that Zhao Chang was not in the capital.
At this moment, the messenger eunuch at the door announced: "Your Majesty, please see the prince. Please wait outside."
Kangxi nodded and said: "Pass it on..."
As he spoke, his eyes fell on the rose perfume, he hesitated, and then told Liang Jiugong: "Put it away."
Liang Jiugong responded, took the perfume, stepped aside, and put it into a brocade box.
At this moment, the prince had already entered.
"My son, I would like to send my regards to Khan Amma..."
The prince's voice was loud and clear.
Kangxi nodded and said: "The prince is also well..."
With that said, he motioned to Liang Jiugong to move the chair over, told the prince to sit down, and said, "Why are you coming out at this time? It's so hot..."
It's not early yet, it's the hottest time of the day.
The prince sat down and said: "I thought Ama Khan would be free at this time, so I came over..."
Having said this, he looked at the mat Kangxi was sitting on. It was not an ivory mat or a rhinoceros horn mat, but a bamboo mat. He said with disapproval: "Why does Khan Ama use a bamboo mat? Bamboo is cool, so this mat is cool."
If used for a long time, it is easy to catch cold and cause paralysis."
Kangxi's hands on his sleeves trembled slightly, and he said with a warm face: "You put it on when you are in bed, and you take it off when you are out of bed."
The prince said: "If the ivory mat is too hot right now, you can try the rhino horn mat..."
At this point, he paused and said: "My son also discovered through comparison that the ivory pillow is not as cool as the rhino horn pillow. This mat should also be better made of rhino horn. It's just that the ninth brother in Piku added a rule, which is too much."
The son found it troublesome, so he ordered people to spend it according to the old rules."
Kangxi looked at the prince.
It sounds like ivory is more valuable, but this is not the case here.
Ivory is big, rhino horn is small.
It takes hundreds of rhino horns to make a rhino horn mat.
In Pikuli, the total number of rhino horn mats shall not exceed five.
He looked at the prince and said: "The rules for withdrawing money from Piku were changed by me after I asked my ninth elder brother."
The prince was stunned, his face turned red, but there was disbelief in his heart.
This is obviously a rule added for the Yuqing Palace. The Ninth Prince was spending money at the Yuqing Palace. The emperor did not make the decision for him, but instead supported the Ninth Prince in front of him?
Kangxi looked at him and said: "Did you know that Yuqing Palace has used a total of twenty-two ivory mats in these years? There are only four ivory mats in Qianqing Palace and Qingxi Bookstore combined, and three in Ningshou Palace..."
After hearing this, the prince immediately stood up and said, "My son, please forgive me."
He is the prince, and if he spends more than the Imperial Palace and Ningshou Palace, he is exceeding the rules.
The number of these twenty-two seats is shocking to hear.
He no longer doubted Kangxi's words.
That's a mat, it's a valuable item that cost a lot of manpower and material resources, it's not a bed sheet, it's not something you need after washing it twice.
There is indeed a problem with the withdrawals here at Yuqing Palace.
Kangxi said sympathetically: "You study government affairs every day, why do you bother about this? Just the revelation of the imperial kitchen is also a lesson for the past. Later, you ask the princess to check the warehouse of Yuqing Palace. I also want to know, what's next
How many ivory mats has this servant coveted in the name of the prince?"
The prince also felt ashamed and annoyed.
Previously, Yuqinggong, the wife of the Ma family, had arrested several nuns to take charge of things.
At that time, the prince felt that it was a slap in the face and it was not appropriate to intervene at the time. He later forgot about the matter and did not check the remaining personnel.
He smiled bitterly and said: "My son is so blind that I can't think of this. I'm afraid that not only the expenses of the Pitreasury will exceed the limit, but also the expenses of other treasuries will not be less."
Kangxi nodded and said: "That's true. I have already asked people to register the things used by Yuqing Palace. Later, you will also check the accounts of Yuqing Palace's warehouse and send them over. I want to see who is in Yuqing Palace."
The palace harms the public and enriches the private..."
The prince responded, but felt uncomfortable in his heart.
Even if Yuqing Palace is to be investigated, shouldn’t he, as the master of Yuqing Palace, investigate it?
The emperor's father should have handed him the expenditure booklet of Guangshu Treasury and asked others to compare it.
In this way, major issues are reduced to trivial matters, and things are controllable without damaging the dignity of Yuqing Palace.
Once he passed the imperial court, he could no longer hide it from the outside world. Looking back, in the eyes of others, he was just the Prince of Hutu who was not strict with his subordinates...