The tenth elder brother sat there for a quarter of an hour and then returned to the clan mansion.
Brother Jiu thought for a while and felt bored, so he continued to read the files of Cangchang Yamen.
Since he had just read the documents of the Eight Banners Division before this and knew the number of registered residents of each banner, he took a pen and paper and listed down the approximate number.
Not to mention anything else, just the money and rice from Dingkou of the Eight Banners is a big expense.
If we just pay it off during the war, the population will increase in times of peace, and the burden will become heavier and heavier.
Moreover, each of the Eight Banners has a quota for selecting armor.
This number does not change, but the number of people changes, and many idle people are born.
The streets are full of streetwalkers, these are the people.
Brother Jiu looked at the proportion of idle men and thought about the banner population he would be allocated.
The Manchus had three assistants, the Han army had two, and the Mongols had one.
There are still vacancies for forty guards in the mansion, and there are only four guards left.
However, Baylor Mansion can also have two Sanqilang, who are the deputies of the chief of ceremonies. This needs to be filled by Eight Banners lay officials.
For example, among the six banner lords under the name of Brother Nine, if there is a hereditary lord among them, he is qualified to replace the knight.
Brother Jiu thought of Guiyuan. Guiyuan had a coat and collar, which could make up for the casual knights and fill the vacancy of guards.
In this case, five guards and forty guards must be selected from the population of the banner.
As for Baylor Mansion, as usual, there can be two riding schools of the sixth grade.
In this way, there are seven officials and forty armors.
From more than 600 households to choose from, there are not many of them.
However, the flag population is different from the coat population.
There are countless vacancies that the coat population can fill. In addition to filling the vacancies in the Baylor Mansion, the banner population can also pick up armor to fill the flag vacancies like ordinary bannermen.
To pick an armor, you draw one out of four, while for a flag, each commander receives a fixed amount.
This is used in conjunction with the prince's palace staff, and the number of assistants under the prince's name also has an extra future.
Brother Ninth is not in a hurry, and still plans to follow the regulations when he left the government in 1938. He will first select the candidates with the Ding register, practice for a month, and then officially select the candidates for two months.
In just one hour, it will be noon.
Shu Shu sent Zhou Song over to deliver food boxes.
Brother Jiu had to taste the food at the Hubu Yamen once, and the government still arranged for people to deliver lunch boxes every day.
Brother Jiu asked Zhou Song, "Is everything okay in the house? What is Fujin busy with?"
Zhou Song said: "Everything is fine. Fujin is taking Li Yin and Ging Guo to check the warehouse."
It has been two and a half years since we moved out of the Prince's Mansion in the 38th year. The warehouse is already full. If we don't clear it up, there won't be room to put the cash boxes.
After hearing this, Brother Jiu didn't ask any more questions and asked He Yuzhu to pick up the food box and go to the east room.
Su Peisheng had just returned from delivering food in the kitchen.
Brother Jiu glanced at him with disgust, pointed at his food box and said, "Fourth brother, there are some interesting things here today..."
In the past, the two brothers were in the same room and often had lunch together.
My younger brother, Fourth Brother, didn’t pretend to be fake, he nodded and said, “Then I’ll give it a try.”
It was up to He Yuzhu and Su Peisheng to put out the food in the food box.
Jiubele Mansion serves two kinds of pastries and four dishes.
The pastry is Yuqian cake and lazy dragon, and the four dishes are leek, river shrimp, yellow croaker, fried pepper sprouts and toon beans.
The typical dishes served at Hubu Yamen today are elbow meat, smooth chicken breast, stir-fried cabbage and sweet and sour radish shreds.
The big pot of rice in this yamen looks like that.
Brother Jiu hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Get them all out, the pork is fishy, the chicken is fishy, the vegetables are also fishy, it's so smoked..."
Especially on the elbow, there are still a few unburned pig hairs, which is intolerable.
Su Peisheng looked at the fourth elder brother, who nodded and put away these special dishes.
Brother Jiu pointed to the Yuqian cake and said: "Fourth brother, try this. The Yuqian cakes in Beijing mostly use millet flour, but this one uses corn flour!"
Brother Si washed his hands, sat down at the dining table, and picked up a piece of golden elm cake. It was soft in the mouth, with the softness of cornmeal and the fragrance of elm cake.
He swallowed all the Yuqian cake in his mouth and praised: "This is good, the coarse grains are made carefully, and it tastes good."
Brother Jiu proudly said: "It's also good for health. Yuqian'er has the effects of clearing away heat and calming the nerves, digesting food and reducing accumulation."
As he said this, he just broke off a few pieces, one bite, and ate them freshly, and then ate the meat dragon.
This meat dragon is stuffed with stir-fried diced pork belly in sauce, and it tastes great.
Brother Ninth has always loved to eat. He can eat a lot every time without having to eat vegetables.
The fourth elder brother saw that he was talking about keeping in good health, but it turned out that "Ye Gong loves dragons". He only took one bite and put it away, and was speechless.
Compared with the meaty meat dragon, this Yuqian cake suits Si Age's taste, and the four side dishes are also suitable for meat and vegetables.
The two brothers stopped talking and finished their lunch.
Brother Jiu thought of something and said: "Fourth brother, third brother wants to serve wine, then should we give a gift? How to give this?"
When the group of princes left the palace and opened their mansions in the 37th year, Brother Ninth had already given them a bunch of gifts.
At that time, it was not a knighthood ceremony, but a warm pot ceremony.
This was the second time, and he felt a little bit at a loss.
The fourth elder brother thought for a moment and found that there was no precedent for a second exchange between these brothers.
But no one else was knighted twice.
The fourth elder brother thought for a while and said: "A while ago, Yarjiang's prince was assassinated, and various governments also sent congratulatory gifts, so let's reduce the grade according to that!"
The third elder brother is the elder brother, and the only ones they treat as younger brothers are those who respect him, so the situation must be lifted up and not undermined.
Brother Ninth also knew that there was no reason to go to a banquet and drink empty-handed, but he didn't quite remember the favor he had given to Prince Jian's palace. He planned to ask himself about Fujin when he returned home.
This is a human relationship.
When he returned home in the afternoon, Brother Jiu asked Shu Shu about the matter and said, "Yarjiang Ah Xijue, how many congratulatory gifts did we send?"
Shu Shu thought for a while and said: "Four hundred taels of silver..."
"so much?"
Brother Jiu felt his tooth hurt and said, "Master Qianqing's salary is not enough to give gifts to several families!"
Shu Shu said: "That is the prince's palace, there are not many in the capital, and this conferring a title is as happy as a wedding or a funeral. We are all following the example of other families."
Brother Jiu touched his chin and said, "Then the county prince's office will reduce the wait. Is two hundred taels enough?"
Shu Shu nodded and said: "Prince Pingjun accepts the title, so I will give him two hundred taels of congratulations."
Brother Jiu drew inferences and said, "Then this time I grant Baylor a hundred taels of congratulations?"
Shu Shu thought for a while and said: "Ordinary clans are basically based on this. There should be more Prince Yu's Palace and Prince Gong's Palace."
Those two are uncles.
They are all the same nephews, so it is not good to give them different congratulatory gifts based on their initial knighthood.
I heard that in the thirty-seventh year, the two palaces paid the same amount of money to the prince for opening a palace, but the Zhijun palace had two more ornaments.
When the prince opened his palace, it was already November, and the third elder brother's county king became Baylor, just like the brothers below him.
Brother Jiu said to Shu Shu: "No wonder Baotai is so confident in front of everyone. He is the prince. In the future, the prince will be stable. On the contrary, there are so many princes, but not all of them may be princes!"
Earlier, I didn't think it mattered whether the title was high or low, but now I just look at the amount of money and the difference is there.
Prince Zhi's palace is fine, but Prince Cheng's third elder brother is still worrying.
Don't ask Gege, whose surname is Tian or Sour, to be granted the title of Fu Jin later. In that case, she will be on an equal footing with other princes Fujin in the future.
Shu Shu said: "Don't worry, the emperor has always protected his shortcomings. After ten or eight years, he was promoted to prince for the second time, and my title came up."
Brother Jiu took out the piece of paper he had written in the morning from his sleeve and said: "It's time to pick out the armor and make up for some guards. I'm thinking of promoting Cao Shun, Fu Qing and Chunlin to second-class guards, and giving Xing
Jiang Bu’s third-class bodyguard…”
Baylor Mansion can have ten guards, four second-class guards, and six third-class guards.
Previously, there were two second-class guards, Heishan and Erhe, five third-class guards, Fu Qing, Cao Shun, Gui Dan, Gui Yuan, Chun Lin, and one alternate guard, Xing Jiang.
Heishan is now walking with the red flag and has relieved himself of the guards of the Prince's Mansion.
After hearing this, Shu Shu was a little surprised and said: "Isn't Guiyuan promoted?"
In the past few years, Guiyuan has been guarded by guards, but he has been arrested both internally and externally, and has been very careful in handling errands.
Every season when visiting Huangzhuang outside, Guiyuan and Fusong would come.
Brother Jiu said: "There are still two missing knights, they are also from the fourth rank, and one is for Guiyuan..."
Shu Shu had no objection and just said: "Isn't there a vacancy for the second-class guards? Then there will be no room for improvement for the guards who were selected from the leader's population."
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "If you don't stay, Cao Shun and the others have been working as cadres for several years. As for the newcomers, just wait for three or five years. Erhe and Fuqing should move when they have reached the seniority."
place."
Brother Jiu knew it well, so Shu Shu didn't say anything else.
Erhe and Fu Qing, one is the son of the minister in charge of the bodyguard, and the other is the son of a bachelor. The small Baylor Mansion is just a place where the two of them can get their seniority, and they will not stay here for long.
After dinner, the couple began to make a list of guests.
Needless to say, the relatives who came before are all invited, and in addition, they are the clan members of Zhenglan Banner.
The couple counted the clan members of Zhenglan Banner one by one and couldn't help but look at each other.
Well, the relationship between the Xin County Prince's Palace and several neighboring Beizi Palaces and Guogong's Palace is not good and there is no contact.
Prince An and his family have no contact with each other.
There has never been any contact between the several public houses of the descendants of Brave Baylor and the general's house.
After counting around, it turned out that I only had human relations with Prince Gong's Mansion.
Brother Jiu hesitated and said, "Can you not invite me?"
Neither husband nor wife likes to deal with strangers.
Shu Shu said: "What do you say?"
Brother Jiu said: "Please, if you don't please, if you don't receive the congratulatory gift, you will still be left behind. Write everything down..."
Shu Shu also means the same thing.
The ninth elder brother's seniority is here. These Zhenglan Banner clan members are all elders of the clan who have not left the fifth service. When they did not lower the flag earlier, they could not interact with each other, but now they cannot be rude. Otherwise, they are wrong and appear arrogant and arrogant.
Just writing in such a dull way, it is inevitable that there will be some omissions.
Shu Shu said, "I'm going to visit Prince Gong and Auntie tomorrow. Let's ask them about the gift list and then draft it, okay?"
Especially the children and grandchildren of Brave Baylor, as well as the side branches of Anjun Prince's Palace and Xinjun Prince's Palace. Many relatives have never heard of them at all, and they will have to deal with them in the future.
Brother Jiu said: "Don't bother, I will go there at noon tomorrow..."
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Let’s do this for today, and wait for the next day tomorrow, ^_^.