Chapter 1530 I agreed (rolling and asking for monthly votes)
After checking more than a hundred packages of ginseng, there was movement outside.
It turned out that it was almost the first day of the year, and people were sent from everywhere to collect tea leaves.
Something doesn't look right in the teahouse today. The leaders are all gone, and only a few warehousemen are left in panic.
The eunuchs in charge of the various palaces who came to receive the tea could not help but whisper and discuss among themselves.
Brother Jiu looked back at Li Wen and said, "Other than Brother's and Gege's, where else can Chen Cha be found?"
Li Wen whispered: "Xianfu Palace, Qixiang Palace..."
Brother Jiu sneered: "You are so courageous!"
Li Wen smiled sarcastically.
He is a new guy and can't make the decision, so he just follows the old rules here.
Brother Jiu then said: "Go out and give the order and tell me that I will come to the tea warehouse to check the accounts. I delayed opening the warehouse today. Come back on the 26th!"
Li Wen listened to the instructions and went out to send people.
The ninth elder brother and the twelfth elder brother said: "Look, these Baoyi guys know it in their hearts and know how to pick people to bully!"
Although the Xianfu Palace Concubine and the concubines are the main ones, they have no children and no favors, and they can't turn over their names all year round. This "old practice" is probably very old.
The twelfth elder brother said nothing.
It is a common practice for people to flatter others and despise others. Even princes and princesses dare to look down on them, let alone concubines who are not favored.
The location of the tea warehouse is in the Square of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Brother Jiu and his party did not hide it from anyone. They even dispatched the Shenxing Department, and all the guards from all the sects saw it.
Before lunch, the news reached the imperial court.
It was Zhao Chang who came to report it in person.
When he got the news, he first went to the Shenxing Department and asked Du Tu about the situation before he hurriedly reported it.
Kangxi heard that there was something wrong with ginseng, his face was uncertain, and he said: "Brother Jiu ordered all the officials in the teahouse to be detained. Is it true that the evidence has been found?"
Like the twelfth elder brother, he also wanted to plant ginseng.
Guo Luoluo's family grows ginseng privately, and what comes out is ginseng.
The price of ginseng seedlings of the same size is only 10% of that of ginseng.
When the Guo Luoluo family's ginseng is sold for takeout, it is sold at the price of ginseng. Although the Jin family has been traced, it is not impossible for it to return to the capital.
Zhao Changdao: "Jiu Ye didn't tell Du Tu, but just brought the imperial doctor into the tea storehouse. However, there is evidence here about the tea. The tea storehouse chief replaced the tea leaves of the Twelveth Prince and Prince Ping with old tea, and there was also Gege."
All the special guests have also been replaced, and the teapot on duty is filled with Tianshan tea..."
If it only involves the twelfth elder brother, or it is a royal family scandal, but if it is all bullied to Prince Ping, it will be a disgrace in front of the clan.
Zhao Chang did not expect that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had been struggling for several years and still had such a blind servant.
Kangxi was sitting cross-legged, but now he got off the kang and ordered Liang Jiugong: "Pass the chariot!"
Liang Jiugong responded and went down to deliver the message.
Qianqing Palace is one mile away from the tea warehouse, so the distance is really not close.
When Wei Zhu took over, he served Kangxi and put on the hood, and the chariot outside was also ready.
Kangxi left Qianqing Palace and got on the chariot.
This is a light-stepping chariot, carried by sixteen Luan Yi guards.
There was also Ma Wu and another imperial guard, with twenty guards accompanying them on both sides.
The eunuch, the leader of the food service, came over to wait for the food to be passed around, but when he saw this, he stepped aside.
The little brother in the study room also came to the fourteenth brother during his lunch break. When he saw the majestic driver passing by, he quietly retreated to the side.
When the fourteenth elder brother got the news and knew that Shengjia had left Qianqing Gate, he couldn't help but come out curiously. He looked at the younger brothers and said, "Did you see where Shengjia went?"
The eldest Nersu said: "I don't know. He probably didn't leave the palace. He was riding a light chariot."
This is the chariot used by the emperor to travel in the Forbidden City. If he leaves the palace, he needs to change to another chariot or another carriage.
Brother Fourteen is a little confused about Shengjia traveling at this time, but he also knows the rules, so he can just ask in private. If he asks any more, he will break the rules...
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Tiren Pavilion, Ginseng Library.
The imperial doctors were still checking the packages, and Brother Jiu's legs were sore from standing, and his stomach was hungry.
Immediately, he realized something was wrong, and quickly took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was already three quarters in the afternoon.
It's too late.
Normally at this time, he would be out of the palace with his tenth prince.
And at the Prince's Mansion, Fujin would also be waiting for him to have dinner.
He then told He Yuzhu: "Go to our yamen to see if the Tenth Master has come. If he comes, tell him and let him go back alone first, and then give Fujin a message..."
He Yuzhu wrote it down and went out.
As a result, as soon as he left Tiren Pavilion, he saw the emperor coming in a chariot, followed by the tenth prince.
It turned out that the tenth elder brother went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs as usual, but in vain. Knowing that the ninth elder brother had come here in the morning, he came over to look for someone. He happened to meet Shengjia and was ordered by Kangxi to follow him.
Kangxi got off the chariot, looked at the tenth elder brother, and said thoughtfully: "Has the ninth elder brother told you about ginseng?"
Brother Ten hesitated for a moment and said: "I mentioned it a few days ago. He said that he asked the director of the Imperial Pharmacy to count the quantity of ginseng reserves. He planned to take out the ginseng that had been more than five years old and whose medicinal efficacy had been reduced by half and let the Imperial Pharmacy make medicinal wine and go to the Imperial Pharmacy. Later, it was sold to Zhasak Tuhan, which saved the Khalkha Mongols from receiving hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in salary from the imperial court every year..."
Kangxi snorted coldly.
This is really the style of Brother Jiu.
He Yuzhu did not dare to move and retreated like the others, so no one went in to deliver the message.
The eunuch that Brother Twelve sent to get the ginseng slices has returned, and Brother Ninth is letting the imperial doctor take a look at the ginseng slices.
According to the records from the warehouse, the Imperial Queen rewarded Grandma Su Ma with four taels of fourth-grade ginseng during the Double Ninth Festival, which was the amount of ginseng tea in half a year.
Because ginseng tea is mainly drunk in winter, in the past two and a half months, there are still nearly three taels of ginseng left, all of which have been cut into slices.
When Aunt Su Ma heard that Brother Twelve used ginseng, she sent the remaining three ounces.
The imperial doctor took a look, picked out a small piece, put it in his mouth and tasted it. The bitter taste was very light.
He said: "This ginseng is old and has little medicinal effect left. It should be ten years old..."
The twelfth elder brother usually looks neither sad nor happy, but now he is more angry.
Brother Jiu was even more angry and said: "You are so brave. I am an old man. I am the old man left by the Empress Dowager. Both the Khan Ama and the empress dowager respect me, but I let the slaves do it!"
The twelfth elder brother choked up when he spoke, and said: "Brother Ninth, I bought grandma's ginseng from outside..."
He was also filled with anger, but he knew his grandmother's temper. She didn't like to cause trouble to others, and she probably didn't like to pursue the matter herself.
Brother Jiu scolded: "Confused! Is this something that can be compromised? They dare to exchange half of the good ginseng. How come the crumbled ginseng is only given to mama? Mama is only keeping in good health, and she is saving others' lives when they are sick.
?What is the difference between using ginseng that has lost its medicinal effect as medicine and directly killing people? And the face of Khan Ama. People who can get ginseng from Khan Ama are all first-class officials. This bad ginseng has reached the bottom and is called to receive grace.
What do people think? But this is a gift from the emperor, and no one will come to Khan Amma to ask why he was rewarded with the fluffy ginseng, and he deceived the superiors and concealed it. That's it, these bastards!"
The twelfth elder brother said angrily: "It's all because of my carelessness. I should have known the nature of these people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and should have paid attention to the supplies from grandma."
Brother Jiu said: "How can I rely on you? Even Khan Ama was kept in the dark, let alone our little one..."
At this point, he gritted his teeth and said: "These dog slaves, the Qianqing Palace's supplies are good, but they bully the weak. They are not a thing. If they have even manipulated the imperial supplies, I would admire them!"
As soon as Brother Jiu finished speaking, someone answered at the door.
"Hmph! Can't you just wish me well?!"
Following the voice, Kangxi came in with a slumped face, followed by his tenth prince.
In addition to the two princes, there were also two imperial doctors, two pens holding pens and papers, and Li Wen holding an account book. Everyone knelt down when they heard the identity of the visitor.
Brother Jiu turned his head and said with a sneer: "My son is just thinking that if they dared to tamper with the supplies of Qianqing Palace, Khan Amma would have exposed their misdeeds long ago. How could they be allowed to be so rampant like this!"
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Kangxi sneered and looked at the twelfth elder brother standing next to him with his hands hanging down.
The twelfth elder brother held the oiled paper bag in his hand, which was exactly the three or two ginseng that the imperial doctor had examined before.
"Bring it to me and have a look..."
Kangxi said calmly to his twelfth elder brother.
The twelfth elder brother raised his head, glanced at Kangxi, presented the paper package with both hands, and then knelt down, with red eyes and said: "I beg Khan Amma to make the decision for my mother!"
Kangxi took the oil paper bag, looked at the twelfth prince and said: "I... agreed!"
The twelfth elder brother kowtowed again, then stood up and stepped aside.
Kangxi opened the oil paper package and acted similarly to the imperial physician. He smelled it first and then put it in his mouth to chew.
In fact, there is no need to chew it. Just by the taste, you know it is not the ginseng of the past.
Kangxi personally conducted the appraisal, with a sneer on his face. He looked at Brother Jiu and said, "What percentage of the wrong ginseng accounts for it? Are they all old ginseng? Or are there seedling ginseng?"
Brother Jiu said: "We counted more than 400 packages, and 45% of them were wrong. They were aged ginseng. They should have been replaced directly with the old ginseng in the ginseng room, which was reported as damaged in the account books in the past few years.
Ginseng is more obvious, because the labels on it are old ginseng, so no one pays much attention to it..."
A package of half a kilogram of ginseng. In one and a half hours, more than two hundred kilograms of ginseng were checked. It would take two or three days to fully identify the hundreds of kilograms of ginseng.
However, the ratio is here, and the number of replacements will probably be determined.
The missing ginseng was estimated to be around four hundred kilograms.
It’s just that the time is spread over five years or more, which translates into seventy or eighty pounds per year and six or seven pounds per month.
The warehouse is opened nine times a month. Calculated, every time it is carried out, it is only half a catty, so it is not so conspicuous.
Kangxi asked: "Is this the same proportion that the first, second and third grade ginsengs are replaced with?"
The fourth-grade ginseng was awarded to the outside world, while the first-, second- and third-grade ginseng was used by the master of the palace.
Brother Jiu nodded and said bitterly: "This is what makes my son angry. These bastards are too courageous..."