Chapter 1415 Don’t suffer a loss (rolling and asking for monthly votes)
Haidian, North Fifth Institute.
Shu Shu and Jiu Age came back from Zhuangzi.
The two of them went to Zhuangzi, bringing fishing rods and fishing nets.
It turned out that we had seen fish in the mountain stream at the foot of Baiwang Mountain. The couple had nothing to do in the morning, so they went to catch fish.
The largest one is a bundle of small white strips, and the smallest one is only as long as a finger.
But seeing that it was clean, the couple took out half the bucket and kept it all, preparing to ask the kitchen to make small fish sauce.
After returning to Beiwusuo, Xiaoyu went directly to the dining room.
This year, corn and potatoes were planted on Zhuangzi. Now some of the potatoes are edible, and the corn has not yet headed, so it looks like it is growing well.
Here in Zhuangzi, pig manure, chicken manure, and sheep manure can all be used as fertilizer. In the past two years, the previous middle fields have been fertilized a lot, and the new land opened up last year at the foot of the mountain has also become fertile.
The couple changed their outer clothes and simply freshened up.
Brother Jiu said: "It would be great if the corn in the wasteland could produce more than two stones."
When the couple were in Zhuangzi just now, they asked the tenants that they planted soybeans in the new land last year and harvested eight bushels.
Shu Shu said: "If you want to promote corn, high yield is not enough. You also need to harvest it officially, so that there will be more people planting it."
Brother Jiu frowned and said, "That's difficult. Millet has been eaten for more than a thousand years. If corn wants to become an official grain like millet, it can be used to pay field taxes and store in official warehouses. It won't be harvested for ten or eight years."
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Shu Shu nodded, it was indeed impossible to achieve success in eight or ten years.
It was not until three hundred years later, when the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China fell one after another, that high-yielding and storable corn became the main reserve grain type in the north.
Just as we were about to have lunch, Brother Twelve's personal eunuch arrived.
Cui Baisui came in to report, saying that the twelfth elder brother had sent people around him, so the ninth elder brother asked people to come directly to the main courtyard to answer the question.
After a while, the eunuch followed Cui Baisui in and presented a gift list that Bao Zheng copied.
Knowing that Zhang Baozhuo was back, Brother Jiu said to Shu Shu: "The tribute boat is really fast. It takes two and a half months to go back and forth via the canal..."
Shu Shu also remembered that the time when Sun Wencheng left Beijing was after marrying his daughter, on the ninth and tenth days of February. Today, April 22, he arrived in Hangzhou and changed to Zhang Baoshu to go north. It was quite fast.
When he saw the thick gift list and the Dongba tax card counting slip, Brother Jiu was speechless.
Hangzhou damask, Hangzhou silk, Hangzhou brocade and other fabrics, gilt vases, silver tableware and other Western objects, fans, silk fans, Longjing tea and other specialties, followed by some silver seals in the New Year's greetings.
The quantity of these things is like a merchant purchasing goods, it is so eye-catching.
Brother Jiu ordered Cui Baisui: "Take the lead to the front to eat. Since it's time to eat, don't go back and forth on an empty stomach."
Cui Baisui took people down.
Brother Jiu handed this to Shu Shu and couldn't help but said angrily: "What's going on with him? He doesn't arrange for a suitable person to follow him. Mr. Zhang is too inflexible in his actions."
Shu Shu took it and looked at it. There were about 200 pieces of fabrics and more than 40 pieces of Western utensils. The former were discounted from 800 taels to 1,000 taels of silver, and the latter were doubled. The remaining local products and the like were increased in quantity.
The total price is not low either.
If we estimate the price of these things, it would be three thousand taels at least, and 50% more if it is more.
The following annual tributes add up to two thousand taels.
You must know that the annual salary of Zhang Baozhu's top five doctors is only eighty taels of silver.
On this business trip, the "earth rituals" and yearly respects brought back were equivalent to seventy or eighty years of salary.
No wonder all the officials in the capital are sent to other places, money comes quickly.
"I just exchanged the gold and silver back, quietly, and got a lot of money. How do I deal with the things in such a big way?" Brother Ninth Brother was in a dilemma.
Shu Shu thought for a moment and said: "In the past, when the governors and governors were sent to Beijing, they also brought more local products. When they brought the elders of the family back to Beijing, they brought many famous Xi'an products. In addition to those Western objects,
, it is also reasonable to say that it is Hangzhou Tuyi..."
"There seems to be a lot of fabric, but the prices of Hang Ling and Hang Brocade are displayed there. Even if they are higher, they are only less than 1,800 taels of silver. It's nothing to leave them all to Mr. Zhang..."
"It's just that Western objects are more eye-catching. Jin Yiren's crime is withholding tribute. Most of these artifacts are tribute from the customs..."
Brother Jiu nodded and said, "Yes, he came back from Hangzhou, and people outside are forced to compare him with the Jin family."
However, the weaving industry in Hangzhou is really huge. Even if Zhang Baozhuo has the bonus from the prince's father-in-law, he can still make a lot of profits after "three festivals and two lifespans".
The Jin family is too greedy.
Even if you don't get involved in the ginseng trade and don't withhold tributes, within the reasonable and legal scope, you can easily have a few thousand taels of silver left every year.
Brother Jiu said: "I felt embarrassed before accepting the 'Three Festivals and Two Lifespans'. How did it turn out? In addition to this, the yamen in the capital also have the governors of other places, 'Bing Jing', 'Tan Jing' and 'Bie Jing'.
When you reach the status of a teacher, two or thirty thousand taels a year is very little."
Shu Shu closed the gift list and said: "Master Zhang is honest. He probably didn't think of putting it in his pocket, so he remembered to be careful."
Brother Jiu nodded and said: "You can't let honest people suffer, but it seems greedy to take them all. Then I'll present the Western utensils and wait for Khan Amma to dispose of them. Leave a hundred pieces of fabrics for distribution."
He went to several officials, as well as the doctor, principal and others here in the yamen, and he just kept the remaining one hundred pieces of fabrics and local products."
He didn't carry any silver, but it was two thousand taels of silver, weighing more than a hundred kilograms. It was inconspicuous, so Zhang Baozhu kept it for himself.
Brother Jiu thought this, so he went to the study, took a pen and paper and wrote a handwritten note for Zhang Baozhu. He wrote down all the disposal methods on it, and then told He Yuzhu: "Send it to the front, and give me a purse. It's noon."
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He Yuzhu took the handwritten letter and went.
The eunuch in front did not dare to delay. He ate in a hurry, took the handwritten letter from Brother Jiu and returned to the city.
By the time he returned to the palace, it was already the second quarter of the year.
Zhang Baozhu is helping the twelfth elder brother handle official documents.
Lunch has just been eaten.
The twelfth elder brother sent someone back to Wusuo and brought a meal for two people at noon.
Zhang Baozhu followed and had a meal.
They are all the palace dishes, eight-treasure duck, stewed cabbage with pork belly, stir-fried spinach with dried shrimps, radish balls, pickled cucumbers, and pickled eggplant.
The staple food I ate was steamed noodles, cabbage, vermicelli steamed dumplings, pork and scallion steamed dumplings, and seaweed and tofu soup.
Zhang Baozhu ate with gusto and ate a tray and a half of dumplings.
The twelfth brother watched and ate a few more chopsticks.
After finishing the meal, Zhang Baozhu said to his twelfth brother: "The Jin family went to Beijing, and all the people in the household followed them. The weaving yamen hired local masters. Most of the dishes are sweet, and sugar is not allowed.
Let’s put more soy sauce, it’s different from the soy sauce we have in the capital, it has a bland taste, and we don’t eat much pork and mutton, it’s all river delicacies, river delicacies, lake delicacies and so on.”
The twelfth elder brother listened with envy.
Even if the food is not to your liking, it is still Hangzhou.
There is heaven, there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.
There is the West Lake, there is the White Lady...
He doesn't like to see people, but he wants to see mountains and rivers.
I have seen the scenery of various provinces in books, but because of his identity, I don’t know if I will have the opportunity to see them in this life.
The princes of the Qing Dynasty were all in the capital, and some of them never traveled far away during their entire lives.
When the handwritten letter from Brother Ninth arrived, Zhang Baozhu put down the official document and came out of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As long as there are regulations, just follow the regulations and no one can find fault.
It's just that he doesn't plan to take all the one hundred bolts of cloth and two thousand taels of annual tribute to the mansion.
After returning the account, you cannot take it later.
He knew that Brother Jiu was subsidizing him for this job.
This favor is not for him, but for the fifth elder brother.
If he is pretending to be confused, then he is looking down on his ninth elder brother.
Brother Jiu's actions are all seen through his eyes, and he is a happy person.
If it goes against his wishes, just do it with a cold face.
After Zhang Baozhuo left the Donghua Gate, he went to his chief attendant and told Brother Jiu's instructions to have people carry things to the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
More than 40 Western objects and 100 pieces of fabrics were sent to the Main Hall Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for temporary storage.
As for how to distribute the hundred horses among his colleagues, Zhang Baozhu decided to postpone it until Gao Yanzhong came back, and the two of them discussed it.
Here in the yamen of this hall, the doctor is in charge, the chief official is appointed and the writing style is full. The full number is seventy. Now there are nine vacancies, making sixty-one people.
Since the yamen of this hall allocate their share, even if the ninth elder brother does not mention the two prince elder brothers, he should still set aside a share.
The few who followed him south also received more points than others.
One hundred pieces of fabric is really not much.
There were five carriages, and three were vacant.
His family members had been impatient for a long time. They had already divided their forces and went back to the house to report to his wife, but this was what they were waiting for.
This is the entrance to Donghua Gate, not a place where they can block the noise.
There are only two cars left!
They could all predict how annoyed the wife and grandma would be.
As a result, Zhang Bao came out, but instead of going home directly, he took his people directly to Wubeile Mansion.
He asked people to unload the silver box, and also unloaded fifty bolts of silk and satin, as well as two boxes of local products.
By the time Wufujin got the news and came out to greet him, Zhang Baozhu had already asked people to carry the things into Baylor Mansion and put them in the yard.
"Amma..."
Wu Fujin looked at the large and small boxes in the front yard and said in surprise: "You came back from Hangzhou, why did you send your things here?"
Zhang Baozhu said: "If you miss me for a hundred days, I will make up for it. There is also the 'Zhou Zhou' gift prepared in advance. You can accept it on my behalf!"
Wufujin felt it was inappropriate and did not give gifts like this.
But this is for his son, and it is also the elder's intention.
She thought of her family's situation, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Amma, didn't Mafa mention the separation of the family?"
Her eldest uncle has grandchildren. If she were from a common banner family, the family would have been separated long ago.
It’s just that now the Eight Banners nobles and high-ranking officials are beginning to become Chinese-speaking, and it’s popular to say “if parents are together, they don’t separate at home”.
Zhang Baozhu's second-grade family, even in the capital, is not low-grade, so he naturally follows the rules of a high-ranking family.
Zhang Baozhu said: "If you don't want to separate, don't separate. It might as well wait until your two brothers get married in a few years before we separate."
It doesn't matter now, their family is from a family of ministers, so they will have better choices when it comes to getting married.
If the family is divided, the daughter-in-law will have to look for her in the future.
There is also an old man in the family who is serving as a minister. It seems that he has reached his age. I am afraid that if he becomes an official while serving as a minister, he will not be promoted to the minister.
Even then, the amount of silver the minister received from various tributes throughout the year amounted to several thousand taels.
The money was returned to the public, new properties were purchased, and it was used to subsidize the children and grandchildren.
Wufujin knew that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages by not dividing the families, so it was hard to say anything.
Zhang Baozhu said: "Okay, it's time for me to go home."
Wu Fujin personally sent it out, looking at the sad faces of the family members and stewards, his expression unchanged.
It's not that she is greedy and insists on taking advantage of her parents' family, but that her eldest aunt is a bit weird, claiming to be the wife of the clan, and wishes to treat all the money from the public as her own, and tries to make money in various ways.
In the past few years, the eldest family member has taken up most of the gifts sent back by Baylor Mansion.
Wu Fujin mentioned it to his parents twice, but Zhang Baozhu and his wife were both soft-tempered.
This time Zhang Baozou changed his behavior. Wu Fujin was only happy and naturally he would not stop him.
He didn't mention how his wife and grandma felt when they saw a carriage. They only talked about the fifth elder brother's place and went home in a happy mood.
There is no need to get up early starting tomorrow.
I slept until I woke up naturally, then I brought some delicious food and went over to eat with my brothers. In the afternoon, I just stayed up.
The steward of the front yard took the reins of the horse, and when the fifth elder brother dismounted, he reported the arrival of the in-laws.
"There were only two carts of things in total. One cart was unloaded and was said to be a 100-day gift for my little brother, as well as a Zhouzhou gift sent in advance. Fujin couldn't refuse, so he asked someone to accept it..."
The fifth elder brother was puzzled after hearing this.
My father-in-law, when he went out for a trip, started to be scheming, and he even knew how to send him here.
As for those moved to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he had already received the news in advance.
It seems that Lao Jiu helped me make amends.
Only by giving up can you gain.
The other families in his family were compared with the descendants of the country's lord and relatives of the emperor. In fact, they also had the surname of the Eight Banners, but they were just side branches. Otherwise, they would not be qualified to marry the royal family.
There is no shortage of food and drink, a few thousand taels more will not make you rich, and a little less will not make you embarrassed.
It's better to leave a shadow in front of the emperor.
In the future, if you have enough qualifications in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you will be transferred to Jiuqing Yamen as a deputy, and your rank will be promoted.
On the contrary, if you leave the impression that greed is inappropriate, there will be no future.
A man of the fifth grade will live forever...
He felt that his father-in-law's choice was the right one, and this was not a disadvantage...
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Zhiziying is the place where the Holy Master is stationed.
Kangxi inspected the river during the day and found a dangerous place, and the embankments had not been reinforced.
Nowadays, river management and embankment construction are all made of wood and stone.
The fir trees brought from the south were used as piles, and the rocks from the mountains were built as embankments.
This would cost a lot of money.
Every section of the dam was made of money.
This is also the reason why Kangxi personally inspected the river work time and time again. He did not want to spend money a second time. In order to prevent people on the river from being fooled, he had to pay attention from top to bottom.
When it was time to light the lamp, he called his three sons to have dinner together, and also asked his fourth elder brother how much silver the fir trees would cost after they were shipped to the capital.
The father and son talked for a quarter of an hour, and then Kangxi asked them to go down and settle down.
The folder from the capital has arrived, and along with it, there is also a secret envelope, which contains exactly what Prince Cheng Ding has been doing in the past two days...
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Do somersaults to get monthly tickets, ^_^.
The next update will be around 12 noon on August 30th