After wearing the book, the Buddhist imperial concubine has spoiled again

Chapter 192 Shishi's birthday, show it to the emperor

Recently, the second elder brother also introduced her second sister-in-law's cousin, saying that he wanted them to get to know each other in advance before the show girl election.

But he felt that women were too troublesome. He was already busy enough managing his business every day, so how could he have time to deal with difficult women?
Unexpectedly, Jiang Liangdi actually wanted to introduce her cousin to him before the second brother had finished dealing with it!
Alas, it's only because he is too good that those Yingyingyanyans are eyeing him.

"." Facing such a confident and narcissistic Seventh Prince, Jiang Shishi was quite speechless, "Where are you going, I'm not setting up a red line for you, but a business line for you."

"My cousin's family runs a weaving workshop in the south of the Yangtze River. They specialize in producing all kinds of fabrics and velvet flowers. I heard that you just have a demand for this, so I brought her here."

You think you are the only one who only wants to make money, but Lin Zhiyao is worried that men will affect the speed at which she makes money!
"Ah?" The Seventh Prince still didn't believe it, "Really just discussing business with me?"

Before that, the second elder brother knew that he was focused on business, so he asked the second sister-in-law's cousin to get along with him under the pretext of business cooperation.

In the end, he revealed his secrets before even chatting a few words, revealing his true colors of wanting to marry him.

"It's really just about business!" Jiang Shishi looked at Lin Zhiyao in the guest room, "If you don't believe me, you can go in and chat with her now."

The Seventh Prince didn't go in right away, but said to Jiang Shishi: "Don't rush in, let me tell you, recently our new long johns, shoes, and glasses business are selling more and more than the other."

"Especially the long johns, which are slim and keep warm. Women in the court regard thinness as their beauty, and they especially like those long johns. The guys are almost overwhelmed." While speaking, he handed over a stack of ledgers and a large envelope. To Jiang Shishi, "Hey, this is last month's account book, and your share of the profit."

Before coming here, the Seventh Prince knew that Jiang Liangdi was here, so he had already prepared the ledger and bank notes.

Seeing Jiang Liangdi now, he handed over the account book and bank notes to Jiang Liangdi.

Jiang Shishi knew this would be the result, but she was not surprised, and took the ledger and envelope calmly.

After whispering, the Seventh Prince re-entered the guest room, exchanged casual greetings with Lin Zhiyao, "I heard that your family runs a weaving workshop?"

Lin Zhiyao: "Yes, we do everything from thread weaving to dyeing to weaving by ourselves. In addition, we also have a velvet flower workshop."

Immediately afterwards, the Seventh Prince asked Lin Zhiyao about the business situation, and Lin Zhiyao answered everything fluently.

According to Lin Zhiyao's answer, the Seventh Prince believed that Lin Zhiyao really came to discuss business with him.

Seeing that it was getting late, Jiang Shishi said to the Seventh Prince, "Seventh Prince, it's getting late. His Royal Highness and I are going back to the palace. As for my cousin's business, you can't take advantage of others."

"Since it's your cousin, I will definitely negotiate a suitable price. In addition, there is no need to say so much. I will cooperate with her directly." The Seventh Prince was very straightforward.

Lin Zhiyao disagreed, "My lord, you haven't seen my fabrics and velvet flowers yet, why did you agree to cooperate directly?"

While talking, Lin Zhiyao asked the servant girl to bring her cloth and velvet flowers and show them to the Seventh Prince.

The Seventh Prince was a man of knowledge, seeing that the fabric was good and the velvet flowers were exquisitely made, he asked more about it.

Lin Zhiyao: "For these velvet flowers, we specially hired some skilled craftsmen to select natural silk, and then use brass wire hooks to shape them. After more than ten processes, they can finally be shaped and completed."

Seeing that the Seventh Prince and Lin Zhiyao were discussing business, Jiang Shishi asked the Seventh Prince to take good care of Lin Zhiyao, and then went back to the palace with the crown prince.

As for the Seventh Prince and Lin Zhiyao, they chatted until evening.

Originally, he took care of Lin Zhiyao because of Jiang Liangdi's face.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zhiyao introduced fabrics and velvet flowers to him very seriously, and even showed her various samples.

It was the first time he saw a little girl who was so serious and sincere in doing business, and it really impressed him.

In addition, he really fell in love with the Lin family's fabrics and velvet flowers, so the two negotiated the price on the same day, and they were going to cooperate next.

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Flash forward to the twelfth lunar month.

At the end of the year, the officials of the various ministries of the East Liang Kingdom have a small exam every year, and a big exam every three years.

At the end of the year, the heads of the various ministries will go to the summit to evaluate the officials in four grades: A, B, C, and D based on the five aspects of morality, ability, diligence, performance, and integrity.

Those with more than three A's and no Bing Ding will be rewarded.

Five armors, promoted and promoted.

More than three dings, downgrade.

Five Ding, dismissed.

On this day, Pei Xuanling called Song Fu to the study room of the Ministry of Rites, and handed Song Fu a booklet, "Based on the performance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites this year, I rated them."

Song Fu took the brochure, and handed a brochure to the crown prince, "I have also listed a brochure of official ratings, please have a look at it, Your Highness."

So, Pei Xuanling and Song Fu began to look at each other's list.

After reading it, Song Fu said with a smile: "Your Highness, I found that the lists we made are roughly the same, and your list is more comprehensive than mine. I will call all the officials of the Ministry of Rites in a while, and follow your list. Bar."

Pei Xuanling nodded, and gave a faint "hmm".

Then, he handed another letter to Song Fu.

When Song Fu received the letter, he saw the word "Dictionary Table" written on the envelope, and his expression suddenly became dignified.

He immediately opened the envelope and looked at the contents carefully.

After reading it, he looked at the prince in shock, "His Royal Highness, you actually want to ask yourself to remove the Ministry of Rites? Transfer the Ministry of Rites to the sixth prince? Are you going to leave the Ministry of Rites behind? , don’t you just leave it alone if you don’t want to?”

Pei Xuanling didn't expect Song Fu's reaction to be so strong, "Master Song has always admired the talented sixth prince, and asked the emperor to let him take over the Ministry of Rites many times? Isn't this what Master Song wants?"

"Your Highness, that's all in the past." Song Fu hurriedly explained: "Yes, I really admired the Sixth Prince at the beginning, so I rejected you from the bottom of my heart, but that was because I didn't know you well enough."

"Now that you have been in charge of the Ministry of Rites for this year, I am convinced by your talents, your policies for governing the country, and your responsibility."

Speaking of this, Song Fuchao bowed to the prince and kowtowed to the ground, "Your Highness, I implore you to continue to be in charge of the Ministry of Rites!"

Several times before, he was surprised by His Highness the Crown Prince who was able to plan and make decisions, and secretly admired the Crown Prince.

Until the emperor's birthday last time, when such a big event happened, the prince was removed from the right to be in charge of the Ministry of Rites by the emperor. When the emperor wanted to severely punish the Ministry of Rites, the prince took on the matter by himself, and he completely surrendered to the prince !
Pei Xuanling was a little surprised by Song Fu's sudden surrender.

Because before this, Song Fu had never revealed this in front of him.

"I don't want to leave the Ministry of Rites, but the situation forces me to let go temporarily." Pei Xuanling tried to persuade Song Fu, "The sixth child is his own, and the Ministry of Rites is entrusted to him to take care of him. Gu is at ease. If there is any major event in the Ministry of Rites, he will I will also tell Gu.”

At present, he is in charge of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites, which is indeed a bit eye-catching.

Last time, my father handed over the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War to him, King Mu, and King Kang respectively, but turned around and left it alone, and the final decision was made by my father.

Now that there are two departments in the Six Departments in his hands, the father will definitely not be at ease.

Instead of waiting for the father to take measures, it is better for him to abdicate and make way for the virtuous.

Anyway, the sixth brother is one of his own, and the fat and water will not flow to outsiders.

It would be a big loss if he waited until his father handed over the Ministry of Rites to someone else.

Song Funeng became the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and he is also a crafty and cunning person.

Although the prince didn't say it clearly, he still heard something wrong from the prince's words.

The crown prince didn't want to leave the Ministry of Rites, but was forced by the situation and had to leave the Ministry of Rites. Who else could put pressure on the crown prince besides the emperor?
Thinking of this, he tried to ask the prince: "Your Highness, I want to confirm with you again, you are sure that you are not really ignoring the Ministry of Rites, but handing over the Ministry of Rites to the Sixth Prince, you will continue to secretly pay attention to the Ministry of Rites, right?"

Pei Xuanling nodded, indicating that he meant it.

Hearing this, Song Fu was relieved, "Since that's the case, I can help you!"

Speaking of this, Song Fu walked up to the prince and had a private conversation with the prince.

Not long after, there was a sound of the prince arguing with Song Fu in the study, which stunned all the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

In the end, the two quarreled in the Longyuan Hall of Emperor Jianyuan.

At this moment, Emperor Jianyuan was sitting in the study of Longyuan Hall, and the Crown Prince and Song Fu were standing in front of him, each saying their own reasons.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is using his power for personal gain and specially promoting officials for his use. For those who refuse to attach to him, he will be demoted!" Song Fuyi reported the matter to Emperor Jianyuan angrily.

Here, Pei Xuanling also said: "Father, the son-in-law is just promoting a few officials with real talents and hard work. Mr. Song said that the son-in-law used power for personal gain, but those officials were not good in the five aspects of morality, ability, diligence, performance, and integrity. Yes, why do you talk about using power for personal gain?"

Song Fu: "Since you didn't use power for personal gain, why do you take care of them so much?"

Pei Xuanling: "Who doesn't like subordinates with real talents?"

Song Fu: "What about those officials who don't want to attach to you, you target them everywhere, so what?"

Pei Xuanling: "They've always turned their backs on public affairs and turned their backs on private affairs. They are flattering and deceitful officials. Of course I don't want to see them!"

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The prince and Song Fu quarreled with them, and Emperor Jianyuan saw what he wanted to see.

He glanced at the crown prince's rating of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and found that the people the crown prince wanted to promote were indeed excellent officials.

As for the people who were demoted by the prince, their official style is indeed not good.

However, he didn't say anything, and just let Song Fu and the prince continue to quarrel.

Regardless of whether the prince quarreled with the prince, or officials quarreled with officials, or officials quarreled with princes, Emperor Jianyuan liked to hear it.

This shows that his balancing act worked. The reason why he handed over the Ministry of Rites to the crown prince was because he knew that Song Fu would not accept the crown prince.

In this way, even if the crown prince is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites will not become the crown prince.

Otherwise, if the courtiers are friendly, they will think about how to deal with him.

Song Fu: "Your Majesty, ever since the crown prince took charge of the Ministry of Rites, I have always disliked the prince's actions. After a year of working together, the conflict between the subject and the crown prince has deepened day by day. Therefore, I implore the emperor to remove the prince from taking charge of the Ministry of Rites. Otherwise, the Ministry of Rites has me but no prince, and the prince has no me!"

When it came to the end, Song Fu gritted his teeth, his face was flushed, and he was very angry at the first sight.

Pei Xuanling also said with a sullen face: "Father, my minister has tolerated Master Song for a long time. I just rated the officials of the Ministry of Rites according to the rules, and he is here to push back and slander my minister."

"It just so happens that Erchen just took over the handicraft department recently, so he couldn't take care of the two departments at the moment. Didn't Mr. Song always admire the sixth son and refused to cooperate with Erchen in managing the ritual department? It's fine for the father to ask the sixth son to manage the ritual department, or find someone else to manage the ritual department. Forget it, anyway, I don’t want to take care of this Ministry of Rites for a long time!”

"Hmph." Song Fu snorted coldly, "Don't say it, His Royal Highness, maybe, the Sixth Prince is really more suitable than you to be in charge of the Ministry of Rites!"

Seeing the crown prince and Song Fu arguing red-faced, Emperor Jianyuan said, "Since the two of you have reached the point where fire and water cannot be tolerated, it is better not to work together."

"How about this, Song Aiqing will continue to be your minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the crown prince is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, and he can't take care of the Ministry of Rites for the time being, so the sixth son will be in charge of the Ministry of Rites."

In fact, even if the prince and Song Fu didn't get into this kind of trouble, he still planned to find a reason to take back the Ministry of Rites from the prince.

Now that the prince and Song Fu are not in harmony, it saves him from looking for excuses, and he just took advantage of this matter to withdraw the Prince's Ministry of Rites.

For the time being, besides the sixth child, he can't think of anyone to take over the Ministry of Rites for the time being.

Although Song Fu appreciates the sixth son, and the sixth son is also a princeling, once he is tainted with power, the relationship between brothers and sons is hard to say.
To this, Pei Xuanling replied "Yes".

Song Fu: "That's really great!"

**
On that day, the crown prince had a big quarrel with the minister of the Ministry of Rites. The two quarreled so much that they couldn't work together. The news that the emperor had handed over the Ministry of Rites to the sixth prince spread throughout the capital.

After Mu Wangdang and Kang Wangdang learned about it, they couldn't even mention how much they gloated.

In the following days, the princes are busy with the year-end summary of their respective departments.

After the prince handed over the Ministry of Rites to the sixth prince, he devoted himself to taking charge of the Ministry of Industry.

The Ministry of Industry is in charge of Shanze, Tuntian, craftsmen, and various companies, paper, pen and ink.

The Ministry of Industry is responsible for the construction of various tools, the construction of city dams, and the repair of palaces and yamen.

There are also hunting, logging, coal, medicine, and gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, etc., which are also managed by the Ministry of Industry.

The prince's year-end summary has been written long ago, and he is already thinking about his plans for next year.

I heard that the military pay at the frontier is tight, thinking that the end of the year is coming, and now I have ordered to garrison the fields, and the border can start spring plowing at the beginning of next year.

As for Jiang Shishi in the East Palace, besides reading the account book, she just enjoys food, exercises, and greets the side concubines.

The sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is Jiang Shishi's birthday.

On this day, except that Chun Xing gave her a bowl of longevity noodles early, the rest was no different from usual.

In the afternoon, Jiang Shishi held Mrs. Tang in her arms and sat in the inner room to read the account book given to her by the Seventh Prince.

Now, she is already a little rich woman.

Jiang Shishi was happy to count the money, but Chun Xing on the side was thinking, it was the end of the year, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very busy, and he hadn't visited the young master for a long time, and I don't know if the young master's birthday, will His Highness come?
Under normal circumstances, only when the two concubines of the Eastern Palace celebrate their birthdays, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will take care of them, and send someone to reward them with birthday gifts, or let them sleep with them.

For a Liangdi like the young master, His Highness probably doesn't even remember the young master's birthday.

At dusk, Jiang Shishi saw that it was getting dark outside, so she ordered the servants, "Chun Xing, can you go to the imperial dining room?"

"The servant is planning to go to the imperial dining room." Chun Xing tried to ask: "Today is your birthday, do you want to spend money to add a few more dishes?"

Jiang Shishi: "If I add too much, I can't finish it all by myself. Let them cook a lotus root stewed bone soup, and then make salt and pepper prawns."

It's too cold in winter, so I like to drink some soup to warm my stomach.

After Chun Xing answered, she took the food box and prepared to go to the imperial dining room.

As soon as he walked out of the yard, he saw Huang Dechang coming in with his whisk on his arm.

"My servant wishes Jiang Liangdi a happy birthday, peace and health." As soon as he entered the room, Huang Dechang gave Jiang Liangdi a big gift.

Jiang Shishi put down the ledger in her hand and cried out.

After Huang Dechang got up, he said with a smile: "Jiang Liangdi, Your Highness knows that today is your birthday, so I specially asked this servant to invite you to the front yard."

　Emperor Jianyuan: I like to watch them quarrel, otherwise, if the courtiers are friendly, they will think about how to deal with me.

　　Pei Xuanling & Song Fu: We quarreled to deal with the emperor.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)