Concubine's Handbook of Good Life in Ancient Times

Chapter 196

"The old minister thanked the emperor, and thanked the empress for her kindness."

Marquis Yongning knelt down to thank him.

"Marquis Yongning, get up!"

This is the case with eating with the emperor. I have to kneel down and thank you every now and then, which is exhausting.

Fortunately, the emperor didn't want to bother Marquis Yongning too much, but he just broke up after a while.It's okay for Mrs. Wang to eat, after all, it's her daughter who takes her to eat, and there are not so many rules.

Shuning asked Hou Lin to send them away after dinner, and she went into the inner room by herself.

I saw the emperor lying on the bed with one hand covering his eyes. I don't know if he is asleep?Still asleep?

"Emperor~"

Shuning called softly, but the emperor didn't answer her.Then he invited Mr. Su, and together with him he lightly removed the emperor's coat, leaving only the innermost coat, and pulled the thin quilt to cover him.

After helping the emperor, Shuning distributed it for herself and changed into a set of light pajamas, that's right, pajamas.Although the appearance is still the same as ordinary underwear, Shu Ning just used it to make pajamas, and the material is still ice silk, it is perfect for sleeping on the body in summer.

The jade mat was wiped off by Mei Chun and the others with ice water, and the Yishui Pavilion was built on the water, so you only need to put a basin of ice in the house, and there are cool breezes blowing in through the open windows, it is simply Great place to sleep.

This time, Shu Ning didn't wake up until it was almost Shen's time, which shows how comfortable the sleep was.When he woke up and didn't see the emperor, he knew that the hardworking emperor had left and returned to Zhengyang Palace to deal with state affairs.As for what the emperor said to Marquis Yongning today, Shuning was not interested at all.

She doesn't understand state affairs, but she thinks of a letter from her brother a few days ago saying that the [-] shi of grain has been collected and shipped to the capital.Because the price of food in the capital is relatively expensive, the Marquis of Yongning sent people to buy it from other places, and they went to several places in a row to get it together.

After all, if you buy too much in one place, the price of food in that place will inevitably rise, which is not beneficial to the people.With the sophistication of the Marquis of Yongning, it is impossible to make such a mistake, so he asked people to go to a few more places, so as not to cause the price of food to rise that day.

The most indispensable things in war are food and grass, and weapons, both of which are indispensable, so the emperor attaches great importance to them.Hearing that so much food was offered, the emperor could not remain indifferent.

Moreover, the emperor also discovered that the result of not needing the royal family to prepare food and grass was that the price of food was much cheaper.

Ask the Ministry of Accounts to take out the account books of previous years, and it is indeed twice as high as the price when Yongninghou bought grain.

All of a sudden, the Ministry of Finance has stabbed a hornet's nest.The emperor directly ransacked the homes of several household managers, and issued seven or eight imperial edicts to return to Beijing.

The Household Minister and his family alone copied out more than 100 million silver, not counting those non-money properties.This Minister of the Household Department came from a poor family, where did he get so much wealth?

Dare to cry for injustice, go directly to the sky prison, and ask to be executed after autumn.

Among the people whose homes were ransacked was Mr. Qin's family from the Ministry of Rites.Although it is puzzling that he is not a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs, why he is also included in the family raid. It can only be said that he has the ability to steal money from the Ministry of Household Affairs. This is still copied from the Minister of the Household Department Checked in the account book.

In any case, this Lord Qin is miserable.As a result of the mutual protection of officials and officials, he died together and went to prison with several officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs.

At that time, Mr. Hong's family, the left servant of the household department, proved to be innocent after investigation. Not only was he released, but he was also promoted to the position of minister of the household department.

Compared with the previous treatment, Mr. Hong suddenly became the envy of civil and military officials.It turned out to be a second-rank official, but now it is an official of the second rank. There are not many officials in the entire Great Xia Dynasty, and it is only a little lower than the cabinet ministers of the first rank. Many people are stuck in the position of the third rank all their lives.Changing from a deputy to a positive, how many servants' wishes, Hong Shilang finally fulfilled it.

As for Lord Hong's family members, the queen also invited them in to appease them. Shu Ning also met the married eldest daughter of the Hong family and winked at her.

Hong's parents looked at the noble concubine sitting next to the queen. None of them could have expected that the concubine of the Fang family would have such a fate to enter the palace as a concubine.

"Sister Concubine, I'm talking to Mrs. Hong, so you can greet the girls of the Hong family for me!"

Although Hong's family and daughter are married, she was also affected by the turmoil this time. Her husband's family was actually ungrateful. Mr. Hong was just arrested and before he was convicted, he couldn't wait to drive her out of the Hong family, and even took his dowry .

As soon as Mr. Hong came out and was promoted again, the son-in-law's family panicked and hurriedly sent someone to pick up Hong's daughter.

It's a pity that it was too late at this time, Mr. Hong would never let his daughter return to such a family, he just sent someone to take back all his daughter's dowry according to the list.Ask them to make up for the missing ones, and see you in court if you don't make up.

After taking back her daughter's dowry, another piece of paper and a letter of departure were sent to the former son-in-law's family, completely letting the eldest daughter say goodbye to their family.

The other party really wanted to make a fuss, but they saw Mr. Hong's official career was flourishing, and their actions seemed to touch the sensitive nerves of all officials.

If one day they were like Master Hong, wouldn't their married daughters all be kicked out of their husband's house?So Master Hong's ex-son-in-law's behavior made everyone angry, even their own relatives were annoyed, let alone helping, if they didn't follow, it was because of their relatives.

(End of this chapter)