"Princess, there are still female envoys and stewards waiting to be seen outside. When Mama Zhao saw Lu Mingyan get up, she bowed down beside her and said, "The princess also needs to take over the princess's account books and treasury everywhere in the palace. ”

"In the past, these were all in charge of Mama Zhao, right?" Lu Mingyan nodded, and said to the other party after letting people in: "Now these people are still handed over to Mama Zhao, I don't have much interest in the housekeeper, just go through the motions." How can it be in the plain day? ”

"This, the old body obeys. Mama Zhao's face was stunned, but when she saw Lu Mingyan nodding, she immediately took the matter back, but then said: "But the princess of the palace still has to look at it." ”

"Is there something wrong?" Lu Mingyan saw that the other party wanted to speak and stopped, as if he had something to say, so he nodded and said: "In that case, let's move the account books in first after a while, and choose a few maids who can read and break words and settle accounts for them to come to Liuxi Pavilion to listen to." ”

Mama Zhao's face improved slightly when she heard this, and at this time, the housekeepers and maids outside also walked in, lined up on both sides and saluted Lu Mingyan, after experiencing the previous gang of concubines and the Kang family's troubles, these people were much more respectful, and everyone reported their names and the affairs they were now in charge of and the roster of subordinates arranged in each room and courtyard according to Mama Zhao's instructions.

"Jiahe, Green Shadow, Coral, and Cold Moon, you will each enter the Liuxi Pavilion with four third-class female envoys later to obey the princess's envoy. After these people reported, Mama Zhao said to Lu Mingyan: "I don't know if the old body is satisfied with the princess in this way?" They are all born to the royal family, and they are also people who are familiar with the old body, they know the roots, and they will not cause trouble for the princess." ”

Lu Mingyan first arrived, and she didn't pay attention to these, and in fact, she could cook everything with Tongling on weekdays, and it didn't matter much if she wanted these maids by her side.

However, when Mama Zhao then ordered someone to bring several boxes of account books, including the steward in charge of the treasury and the treasury, she was shocked.

"Princess, this is all the account books of the palace over the years, when should you arrange the inventory in the treasury?" Mama Zhao looked at Lu Mingyan's appearance and said with a smile beside her: "The princess is hard, these account books can only be stored in the warehouse after you have passed them." ”

"Put it here first, I'll see. Lu Mingyan threw aside the open basic account book, and the way of bookkeeping in this era also made her helpless, so she thought about it slightly and understood the key point, and turned to the three men and two women in front of her and said: "Steward Qi, how much money is there in the treasury now?

"Princess Qiyu, there are still 110,000 pieces of silver and 3,000 stones of grain and rice in the warehouse. The monthly expenses of the palace are more or less, but they are no less than about 30,000 yuan. Steward Qi was a middle-aged man with a serious face, and he opened his mouth when he talked about this, but this sentence made Tongling startled, and said directly: "Thirty thousand, how can you spend so much money?"

"Princess, this is counting the cost of the prince and the outer house, and the inner house should be about half. Mama Zhao whispered beside her: "But the cost of the inner house is getting bigger and bigger, and the prince doesn't know——"

"When did the prince get his New Year's Pension back?" Lu Mingyan took a deep breath and calmed himself down and asked, "I remember that the prince is a first-class prince, and in addition to the New Year's Salary, there are also fiefs and rewards. ”

"I received the annual salary for half a year last month, and the income of the fief will not be sent to the mansion until the end of the year, and as for the reward, it will only be available on the New Year's Festival. Seeing Mama Zhao nodding, Steward Qi immediately continued: "And the prince in Guangyuntai, Narcissus Residence and the major restaurants in Shangjing has now reached the deadline for checkout, and I am afraid that I will not be able to send it away without tens of thousands of yuan." ”

"So a huge palace is actually an empty shell, isn't it?" Lu Mingyan looked at the other party and said, "Did the prince say how the palace will live in the second half of the year?"

"Princess Qiyu, the prince never cares about these things. Mama Zhao came to Lu Mingyan and said: "The reason why the old body handed over all these to the princess is also to let the princess persuade the princess, although this palace is full of flowers, but it relies on silver money to open the way, and it will be impossible to make ends meet in the long run!"

"It's not like this for a long time, but it's imminent!" Lu Mingyan rubbed his head, and then said to himself: "Mama Zhao asked me to persuade him? I'm afraid it's better for you to say it yourself, if he listens to my words, it will be a great miracle." ”

"Princess, you are joking, the princess has just arrived at the palace now, and the prince has handed over the power of this steward to you, which is a trust in you, and he will definitely listen to your words. Mama Zhao said with a difficult face: "It's just now-"

"It's just that you should find a way now, right?" Lu Mingyan looked at the other party's face and thought about it: "He doesn't trust me, he is deliberately trying to throw this big trouble into my hands." ”

"But you are the princess, you are justified as a family member in this inner house, so you are affected, or take care of it, although the old body has a special identity, but after all, he is a subordinate, and it is not pleasing to say too much. Mama Zhao said: "Princess, if you speak, the whole house will never dare to disobey." ”

"Girl, the dowry given by the eldest lady adds up to less than 2,000 yuan, and the shop and grange that accompany the marriage have not given the house deed and land deed at all, what should the girl do?" Tong Ling's face turned pale in a hurry, she was literate and arithmetic before following Lu Mingyan, and naturally understood that although there was a lot of money and food in the account of this end of the palace, the expenses were so large, and there was not much income in the second half of the year, or that the group of people in front of them did not buy any industry at all, and they were empty, and 110,000 yuan was not enough for two months' expenses. This rashly handed over such a big mess to Lu Mingyan at once, what should she do with it?

"What else can I do? It's just to open up sources and reduce expenditure. After Lu Mingyan suppressed the complaints and helplessness in his heart, he got up and said: "Qi Guan, without my nod in the future, even the prince is not allowed to withdraw cash from the account, do you know? ”

"From now on, all expenses in the house must be approved by me before I can receive the money, and I want to change the atmosphere in the house. Lu Mingyan seemed to have guessed Su Heng's thoughts, so he turned to say: "Since he doesn't plan to live according to his life, then I will simply do something nonsense, anyway, he is the prince, and he is responsible for the accident." ”

"Princess, are you going to-" Mama Zhao was startled by the other party's muttering voice, and hurriedly said, "Princess, do you have any plans?"

"I do have a plan, but I still need Mama Zhao to help me!" Lu Mingyan nodded and said: "Now it's not just my own business, the livelihood of thousands of people in this mansion, including the regular soldiers of the town government, is imminent, so I hope everyone will work together to tide over the difficulties! As for the prince's side, I will find a way, but it really can't work, so I will break his pocket." ”