"Princess, you see, this is the monthly cost breakdown of each room in the inner house. As the accounts of various places gradually became perfect, Cold Moon and Green Shadow also sorted out the expenses of the three independent courtyards of the inner house, large and small, and the expenses of the eighteen courtyards, including the other houses in the inner house, and even began to take out the previous account books and reorganize them on this basis.

"The cost of 20,000 yuan a month is enough for twenty Lu families. Tongling, Jiahe and others all gathered in front of Lu Mingyan, looking at each other and wanting to speak.

"You also think it's too much, don't you?Jiahe, how much do you think a month is appropriate?" Lu Mingyan looked at Jiahe and asked. Among this group of maids, Jiahe's temperament is the most stable, and he has the demeanor of a female envoy in charge, and he is also very thoughtful about things.

"That's not easy, just cut it in half. Green Shadow directly took over the conversation next to him and said: "Mama Zhao has inquired, that Chengwang Mansion is less than 20,000 yuan a month plus the outer house, and I heard that several other palaces don't even need 10,000 yuan a month." As far as we end the Wangfu, we can't beat the total of 50,000 inside and outside the house in a month. And our female envoys have less money a month than others, and the money is all that-"

Lu Mingyan waved his hand and said: "Then cut it by half, but not everyone will cut it by half, the female envoys and envoys in the palace will not move for the time being, and the monthly money of all the relatives will be reduced according to the level, from me, forget it, I don't plan to receive any monthly money, let's start with the Jing family, the side concubine will use 400 yuan per month? Grab the money? From today, it will be reduced to 100 yuan, Liangdi's 200 yuan will be reduced to 80 yuan, and it will be reduced to 20 yuan!"

Speaking of this, Lu Mingyan couldn't cry or laugh himself, this kind of monthly money is not known how many times higher than the concubines in the palace, but it has been in Duanwang's Mansion for two or three years, it is enough to see that the water is too deep here, and Duanwang Su Heng is only afraid that he will either know that he is dying, or he is going crazy. You must know that according to the salary standard of officials in the Great Jin Dynasty, Lu Zhonghe, as the head of the Tai Hospital, has a salary of only 300 yuan a month, with some Lu rice, but it is not as much as a woman in the back house of the Jing family.

"The princess has reduced it by more than half!" Tong Ling was taken aback next to her, and then said: "These people have been cut so much money for so many months, they will definitely come to make trouble." ”

"It's better to make trouble than to starve to death at that time!" Lu Mingyan did not hesitate, and did not pay attention to the meaning of others, and directly asked Mama Zhao to take people to notify the owners of each house and each house, and in addition to cutting the monthly money, the standard of daily necessities used in the inner house has also begun to be greatly cut down, and even many cases have been directly checked off.

"A total of thirty-eight examples, the princess changed to eleven, and three of them were only used during the New Year's Festival, and from this month onwards, the cost of the inner house was enough to compress to about 5,000 yuan. Jiahe said with a smile after a quick calculation next to him: "There are as many as 15,000 left at once." ”

"Just do this, Mama Zhao, you take people to inspect everywhere to prevent people from making trouble in all rooms and courtyards, including all departments and bureaus!" Lu Mingyan said after finishing this matter: "In the past few days, I will think about the affairs of the outer house and see if I can come up with any good solutions." ”

She let go of her hands and feet, but she didn't wait for a few days, and after the people in each room understood this large-scale measure to cut expenses, the entire Duanwang Mansion suddenly boiled.

"If you have something to say slowly, the sky will not fall. Early in the morning, Lu Mingyan had just turned to the main hall to prepare for dinner, and Li Shisan hurriedly asked to see him outside, and said in an anxious voice: "Princess Qiyu, Jing's family is here again." ”

Before his words fell, Jiahe next to him also hurried over, came to Lu Mingyan and said: "The stewards of various divisions also came, saying that it was the princess's fanfare to cut expenses, which was easy for outsiders to tell jokes, and those who didn't know thought that Duanwangfu was poor, and even this little money began to be saved, and what did they say that the money would fall into the princess's private treasury." ”

"You go to Mama Zhao, ask her to deal with these stewards, and tell her that if you don't want to do it, you will sell it to people after you have a deed. Lu Mingyan waved his hand, ignoring the commotion of the stewards outside, and after asking Jiahe to summon the news, he stood up and said to Li Shisan: "Let them in, Tongling, are the account books of the Chengwang Mansion that I asked Jiahe to collect yesterday ready?" ”

As soon as Li Shisan's side got the order, the Jing clan outside took everyone to the main hall again, this time no one was chattering, but everyone's eyes were full of anger.

"What are you doing here? Didn't I say that this daily greeting is waived? Just come once a month on the fifteenth day of the new month. Lu Mingyan looked at everyone present and smiled: "What's the matter, do you have anything to say?"

"We just want to ask the princess, why did we deduct so much from our sisters' monthly money?" Before Jing could speak, a tall young woman behind him suddenly pushed aside everyone and rushed up, her pretty face was cold, she looked at Lu Mingyan and said angrily: "At the beginning, our monthly money was set by the prince himself, why did the princess break the prince's promise after only a few days of entering the palace." I want to know whether this end of the palace is the princess or the princess. ”

"Hehe, do you mean the same thing?Jing, are you the same?" Lu Mingyan ignored Chen Liangdi, who opened his mouth, but looked at Jing's and nodded and asked.

"The princess didn't say a word and directly deducted our monthly money, and the concubine also felt that something was wrong. But if there is an accident, the princess can also explain to our sisters, if the princess really has any difficulties and needs money, I think it is nothing for our sisters to suffer a little. Jing's face turned pale when he was stared at by Lu Mingyan, but then he calmed down and said softly and slowly: "We also know that the Lu family is not a big family, but is the princess too ruthless? Even if it is natural for our sisters to be filial, but we can't deduct eighty or ninety percent from ten percent, right?

Jing's words made everyone's faces change, and they even glanced at her with Lu Mingyan, and this time they even dispelled it, not only pushing away the matter of gathering people to make trouble, but also pointing all the fingers at Lu Mingyan himself.

"That's it, princess, even if you think about your mother's family and help the Lu family from the palace, you can't take our monthly money to your mother's house to save face?" Chen Liangdi followed the next sentence and said directly Everyone followed the coaxing, and in a moment, the entire main hall followed the commotion, and the noise came and went, even louder than the first time.

"If the princess doesn't give me a reason to convince my sisters today, then I will go to the palace to denounce you, accuse you of embezzling the palace's money, and use it as your mother's private property!"

"If you want to go to the palace, go by yourself, it's better to leave or not!" Lu Mingyan was still the same as before, ignoring everyone's reactions, but instead asked Tongling to put food on the table in front of him, and said to himself: "If you are not afraid of being beaten to death on the spot, go ahead!" I won't stop it, I have been in the Jin Dynasty for two hundred years, and it is the first time I have seen a concubine in my family who can show up and go to the palace to sue the emperor, and it is because of the monthly money to sue me, the concubine, you are really bold!"