Shangshi female official

She asked the eunuch to open the salt bag, which was filled with white salt. She squeezed a small amount of salt in her palm and looked at it. She didn't see any problem, so she said, "Move it in."

The eunuchs moved bags of salt in, some of them were placed against the corners, and the corners were piled up against the corners before they were finished. The entire salt bag was moved, but the salt storehouse was not filled, and more than half of it was empty. Location.

"Didn't Guanglu Temple say that they will be delivered in the afternoon? Why does this amount seem wrong?"

Qiu Shangshi stared at the ground with expressionless eyes, and covered himself: "People come to fetch salt from the salt warehouse every day, so some of them would be vacant."

"Then since you agreed to fill in the salt, it must be filled as it was before."

"Master Zhang Bing said that this is the number. There was so much salt in the salt store before, probably because the Shangshi Bureau is light on cooking and didn't use much."

"Really?" Nanny Chen looked into the room with a smile, and continued: "The person in charge of Zheng is not here, so I know that the salt storehouse can't be filled. It's really a clever plan."

The little official's face couldn't help twitching, and he said with a smile: "Master Zhang Yan also guessed, can Master Shangshi sign for it?"

Qiu Shangshi was about to take the pen to sign, when Madam Chen shouted, "Wait a minute, I can't really see the salt in the corner, take out two bags and have a look again."

The eunuchs came in to carry the salt, and Nanny Chen immediately followed them in, pointing to the northeast corner of the room and commanding: "Take away the upper two bags, and take out the lower bag." Pointing to the north wall, she said, "The one under the wall Take a bag out."

The two bags of salt were brought under the light of day again. Nanny Chen said to open them, but the two eunuchs who carried the salt looked at the delivery officer.

The transport officer took two steps forward, and said to Nanny Chen with a smile: "My lord, why do you have to do this? It's enough for the Shangshi Bureau to have enough salt, and it's fine for the Holy Majesty and the ladies to eat tribute salt. Those who don't need it It doesn't matter what kind of salt storage it is."

Seeing his flattering and treacherous appearance at this time, Mother Chen snorted coldly, and the officer laughed again: "What kind of things do you usually like, such as hairpins and rings, please let me know, and I will take care of you. "

Nanny Chen sneered, and said, "Eve, open the bag."

Wang Yifu held back for a long time, she had long wanted to open all the bags brought in and check them one by one, but now she seized this opportunity and wished she could shake the salt bag to the ground, revealing all their scandals.

Resisting the excitement of picking people's mistakes, she slowly untied the rope that tied the bag, and untied the mouth of the bag one by one, the blood on her body was about to boil like it was being roasted on a fire.

When she opened the bag and saw the things inside, Wang Yifu's nervousness and excitement relaxed for a moment, she couldn't help laughing, and said, "My lord, please take a look."

Nanny Chen looked down at the salt, grabbed a handful, and slowly let go of her hand to let the white salt grains slip out of her hand and fall onto the bricks and stones.

"It seems that it's not tribute salt."

"My lord, you are asking this question knowingly."

"It's so good, I can go and tell the empress."

It was almost August, the sky was high and the air was clear. Nanny Chen raised her head slightly and kicked her skirt from the Six Bureaus and One Division to Kunning Palace. The emerald gold hairpin on her head shone delicately in the sun. Guang has been accompanying her into the palace, to the Empress Empress.

"Reporting to Madam, I'm afraid the salt in the salt storehouse is not filled enough."

Not long after the empress woke up from her afternoon nap, she combed her hair in a simple bun, sat high up in the north with a book rolled up in her hand, and asked, "Why is that?"

"Under the blue sky and daylight today, Guanglu Temple actually used coarse salt instead of tribute salt and sent it into the palace. The officials who transported it also put the coarse salt in a corner and placed the tribute salt outside to hide the truth. Unfortunately, the old minister caught it." .”

"There is so much salt paid in tribute every year, it should be enough for two or three years, how could such a thing happen?"

"The old minister didn't know it. He lost the tribute salt and lied and failed to report it. It is a crime. It is a crime to use coarse salt instead of tribute salt to send it to the palace. How many tricks are there in , plum, and salt, I'm afraid we have to investigate carefully."

"Even if something happened to Guanglu Temple, I have to report to the emperor. Dress me up and change my clothes, and drive me to the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, the empress sued the emperor Guanglu Temple for embezzling royal tribute salt, the emperor immediately ordered the Internal Affairs Supervision and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to investigate carefully, Zheng Chengren of Guanglu Temple was in charge of selling tribute privately, buying coarse salt at a high price for kickbacks for the dining room It was revealed that a family of light silver copied out more than ten thousand taels.

Zheng Chengren's family property was confiscated, he was imprisoned, and his whole family was exiled.

"Unfortunately, he was the only one caught."

On the last day of July, the birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, my aunt went into the palace from Majuqiao Niangniang Temple to scrub the golden body of Bodhisattva, so she met Wang Yifu as a matter of course.

The two of them were holding scissors to cut sweet-scented osmanthus flowers in the backyard where Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was worshiped, talking back to back.

"He is just an abandoned son now, and there are still people behind. Auntie, you can find a way to go to the prison to see him, and ask this doctor Zheng, when he gave red flowers and cinnabar to the palace people, did you ever think about it?" There is a day."

"He asked Li Niangniang to mix your mother's wine with medicine during the Dragon Boat Festival. Today is his fate."

Mama Yan said that Madam Li became suspicious of her on the Dragon Boat Festival that year, when Mama Yan replaced her mother's wine with water, and the excessive realgar and cinnabar in it were given by the doctor Zheng.

The imperial doctor Zheng followed Li Niangniang to give some highly poisonous things like arsenic and cinnabar, which harmed concubines and emperors not once or twice.

"It's cheaper for him to spend the rest of his life in prison."

"When the things he did to Li Niangniang are exposed, it will not be so simple."

"What else do you want to know? Tell my aunt."

Wang Yifu put the cut sweet-scented osmanthus branches into the basket. The sweet-scented osmanthus was in full bloom, and the fragrance was overwhelming and dyed her whole body.

"What kind of a living is that Mr. Qiu's family doing?"

"The family is big and the business is big, there is a farm shop in Beijing, but he is very good at hiding, and the family affairs are rarely spread outside."

"Then ask Auntie to check it out again, as long as there is something unusual, it's fine."

After cutting the sweet-scented osmanthus, Wang Yifu returned to the dining room with the sweet-scented osmanthus basket. When she came in, she heard Chunxi and Xiaobai gossip, saying that the empress's own father had made great achievements in water control in the south, and was in charge of repairing the embankment and waterproofing. It's brightened up again.

Today it was her turn to prepare dishes for Nanny Chen. Nanny Zhou said in the afternoon that the emperor had ordered dinner to go to Kunning Palace to share with the Queen, and asked her to follow Nanny Chen to Kunning Palace to wait for her dinner.

At night, the Kunning Palace was brightly lit, and 64 dishes were rarely displayed. The emperor and empress sat at the north side, each at a table.

Today, the two extremely noble people seem to have no appetite, and there are not many dishes that are pleasing to the eye. The emperor drank half a bowl of porridge, and the empress only ate a small steamed bun.