After crossing, I was dragged by the bamboo horse and became a queen

Chapter 671 "Worth a Thousand Gold"

Master Wu is an old fox, so naturally he refuses to admit it honestly.Wang Shangshu had expected this point, and he and Shangguan Muyun were not in a hurry, they just let it hang if they didn't recruit, and looked for clues from the Wu family's shop in Beijing.

But check it out!Combined, Wang Shangshu and Shangguan Muyun are not as professional as the money rakes in the household department who are in charge of spending.Therefore, Wang Shangshu pondered for two days, and decided that he should apply to the prince and princess, and ask the officials of the household department to help.

Shangguan Mu Yun personally went to Xiao Jingheng to raise his mouth, and Xiao Jingheng nodded without much hesitation.

These days, the household department is actually very busy.The Wu family in Qingzhou, together with a few big officials in frontiers, confiscated too many assets, and all the members of the household department worked overtime until their faces turned blue before they were fully counted and put into the warehouse.

On the second day after finishing his work, Shangguanjing secretly sent Lu Shangshu to help Wang Shangshu.

Wang Shangshu thought that Deng Wenshao was the most sent by the East Palace, but he didn't expect that it was actually Shangshu himself.

It was also at this time that Wang Shangshu knew that Lu Shangshu was also from the East Palace! !
Hidden enough!
As an old financial dog who has worked in the household department for many years, Lu Shangshu's eyes are of course very poisonous when he reads the accounts. He has studied the abnormalities of the Wu family's account books in Beijing within two days.

And the experienced criminal officer Wang Xu followed the clues to check and found out, oh ho, it is true that doing business makes money and makes money!The Wu family has the ability to sell Rouge into the palace, and sell it at a sky-high price, so they must pay something.

After Lu Shangshu and Shangguan Muyun had clues, they quickly interrogated Master Wu again overnight, and then early the next morning, they happened to catch up with the emperor and did not go to court.Wang Shangshu himself was busy working overtime in the Ministry of Punishment, and sent Shangguan Muyun back to the East Palace.

"I heard that the third brother didn't come back yesterday and stayed in the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. He came back early this morning, but did he make a breakthrough?" Shangguan Jing asked curiously as soon as she saw Shangguan Muyun.

Before Shangguan Muyun opened his mouth, he handed Shangguan Jing two slips. One slip was full of rouge, gouache, and toilet water, and the other slip was full of curiosities and antiques.

"Send someone to go to the harem first," Shangguan Muyun said, "Bring some of the gouache and rouge on the list. This is the last batch of rouge and rouge that the Wu family paid into the palace before the accident at the end of last year. , there should still be stock in the palace."

Xiao Jingheng took a glance at the rouge and gouache list, then took off his private seal of the princess from his waist, and directly stamped it on his head, inviting Yingyue to take Xiao Ying to the harem in person.

The Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace wants rouge powder, which is not a big deal. The Bureau of Shangfu hurriedly prepared according to the documents. I packed some, and personally took people to the East Palace.

For Shangfu Bureau, it is common for concubines in the harem to ask for rouge and gouache, women always need to dress up!Although Shangguanjing doesn't pay much attention to dressing up on weekdays, there is a prince in the East Palace who loves to take care of every little thing. On weekdays, Xiao Jingheng is in charge of Shangguanjing's clothing, jewelry, rouge and balm. He can't wait to send someone to the Fashion Bureau Go for something.

Therefore, people in the Shangfu bureau have always had a misunderstanding, thinking that the princess lives a very particular life, the people in the Shangfu bureau are used to it, and so is Empress Chen who controls the Shangfu bureau.

Although she heard that Donggong sent someone to collect a bunch of rouge powder, she didn't pay much attention to it.

People from the Shangfu Bureau sent a lot of things over the limit, but Shangguan Muyun didn't dislike it, and was even very happy.

He first picked out all the rouge gouaches sent by the Wu family to the palace on the receipt and put them aside, then took a can of rouge gouache from every other Shangfu bureau as a comparison item, and found a few more A maid came to ask a question.

The Wu family's rouge gouache and fragrant dew are indeed better than the rouge tributes from other imperial merchants, but they are limited.

In Shangguan Jing's words, no matter how good it is, it's rouge!

After listening to Shangguan Jing's words, Shangguan Muyun smiled: "Since it is a good thing, those noble ladies and young ladies in the capital will definitely use it, but I don't know if they will spend such a large price to buy it."

Makes sense.Shangguan Jing also laughed.

But unless the house is ransacked, there is no reason to check other people's accounts!Only from their own people.

Therefore, the overtime workers who returned to the East Palace to work overtime later, everyone was assigned a task, and asked them to take some rouge and gouache from the Wu family home for the female relatives to recognize. return.

Even Shangguan Jing asked Su Qingyun to bring rouge to Shangguan Yuan.About the life of noble ladies in Beijing, Shangguan Yuan understands much better than the princess.

All overtime party members from aristocratic families were sent to work, except Chen Qiyu.

Chen Qiyu didn't need to go home to look for Yanzhi, because he was afraid that Empress Chen would be involved, and he would inevitably startle the snake by looking for Yanzhi with such a clear goal, and secondly... Another list in Shangguan Muyun's hand was actually prepared for him.

"They are all rare curios and antiques, and there are also some calligraphy and paintings by famous artists from the previous dynasty," Shangguan Muyun confessed, "I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for you to search, so jewelry is not listed in it. You can see if there are any here." You look at something familiar."

"This is..." Chen Qiyu was taken aback.

"These things were all sold by the Wu family's shop in Beijing." Shangguan Muyun replied, "It's just a pair of calligraphy and paintings by famous artists from the previous dynasty. If they were sold in the antique shop next to them, they might sell ten times or even more. Dozens of times the price."

"Understood." Chen Qiyu nodded.Use this method to bribe!The Wu family can stretch their hands into the palace, so naturally they have their own way.

"It's better than this," Lin Sixing thought quickly, and after thinking for a while, he said, "It's not good for Qi Yu to inquire about these things for no reason. I asked my father to come forward and announce that he wanted to accept one of these famous paintings. I My father has always liked to collect famous calligraphy and paintings, so it is not easy for him to come forward to attract suspicion, maybe if the news is released, someone will come to provide clues to please."

It's a good idea.The surrounding people nodded immediately.

In this way, the second large-scale fishing law enforcement in Donggong began again.

Later that day, even Yu Changmin and Wei Zhengliang ran home to ask their mother and sisters for rouge.

As expected by Shangguan Muyun, Wu family's rouge is of good quality, it is a top-notch product purchased by the palace, and those ladies who love beauty in Beijing will naturally not miss it, and they search for it carefully, and they find a lot of it.

After all, the ladies and young ladies of these aristocratic families are not short of money, and... this rouge is outside, although it is several times more expensive than ordinary rouge and gouache, it is not unaffordable.

The so-called value of thousands of gold, from this point of view, really seems like a joke.

　---Here is the dividing line of the price of rouge--
　　Of course it is very expensive to sell to the palace, but of course it is not expensive to sell to those powerful and powerful families. It is not ruled out that some people charge a cost price for their rouge and gouache, or don't pay at all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)