Yulan leaned behind the screen and listened to Mrs. Geng first congratulate Mrs. Geng on her pregnancy, and then chatted with each other for a while, all of them were human sperm, she also knew that there were people behind the screen, and after a few words, the topic was about the marriage of Yulan and Xie Zhiyuan. first praised Yulan inside and out, and then said that his son was good.

Yulan was at a loss for a while, but the two big girls listened with interest. Yulan couldn't help but be a little amused when she looked at it, the emperor was not too anxious, and he hadn't shown anything yet, but they were concerned. It doesn't sound like this all the time, Yulan gave the two maids a look, stretched out his finger and pointed to the inside, and pulled the two girls into the room.

Mrs. Geng and Mrs. Fifth in the room glanced at each other, revealing a look of understanding, and Mrs. Geng discussed with Mrs. Five: "My master has invited someone to invite a big matchmaker, and he will come to the door to propose marriage in a few days." The matchmaker is my master, Master Meng of Shangfeng Dali Temple, just ......" Mrs. Geng paused, and said with some worry: "I'm afraid of wronging the seventh girl, don't want the girl to complain about me slacking her in the future, you are watching her grow up, and also help your aunt get an idea!" After that, he looked at Mrs. Fifth with blazing eyes. The official position of Dali Siqing is from the third grade, and he is one of the small Jiuqing of the outer court, and he is enough to protect the daughter of an ordinary official eunuch as a concubine.

But Mrs. Geng heard that among the several girls in the Yang Mansion, the eighth girl was appointed by the emperor to marry, and there was no need for a matchmaker to come to the door, and then the four girls were not counted, the eldest girl, the second girl, and the big matchmaker were either the elders or the princes.

The fifth wife smiled: "Auntie doesn't need to worry about this, my sister Lan knows books and etiquette, and never cares about these false tricks, auntie, as long as you follow the etiquette, you can't be wrong!" In the future, the aunt will be more generous to her, better than anything else! Mrs. Geng breathed a sigh of relief, she was afraid that this Miss Xiangfu would be used to eating and drinking since she was a child, don't go to the Xie family, and pick that one, when the time comes, will she marry a daughter-in-law or an ancestor?

Mrs. Geng has seen Yulan a few times, and thinks that she is gentle and gentle, and Mrs. Fifth is full of praise for her, Mrs. Geng still knows something about this niece, although she is humble and gentle everywhere, she is quite proud in her bones, and she is definitely not an ordinary person to be praised by her. Now listening to Mrs. Fifth say this, she has let go of a heart.

Thinking about it like this, she became more and more satisfied, Mrs. Geng looked at her son, who had also grown into a young man, and couldn't help but say: "If it weren't for watching the eldest lady be so busy that her feet didn't touch the ground, I don't know when I would be able to make time for Zhang Luo Yuan'er and the seventh girl's marriage?" ”

The fifth lady smiled and said, "Auntie, I see that you are anxious, for fear that Sister Lan will not be able to escape!" In my opinion, when the eldest lady is busy with the marriage of the eight girls, you just have to make someone say that the matchmaker is the matchmaker, it is all a matter of decided, and it will never be done again! ”

Geng Shi took a sip of tea, a smile on his face, and said, "That's right!" I really want to marry the seventh girl back immediately, there is someone in the far house, and I can rest assured that life will be over. I can also give her the housekeeper and director matter earlier, and enjoy the blessings myself! ”

Xie Zhiyuan also laughed, but the smile was a little shy.

It wasn't until the fifth wife sent Mrs. Geng and Xie Zhiyuan away that Yulan and the two big girls walked out of the inner room.

The fifth wife was a little upset when she saw Yulan, and she thought that she was embarrassed and distracted when she saw her future husband, and made fun of her.

Although Yulan had mixed feelings in her heart, she still had a faint smile on her face, and talked to the fifth wife for a while before leaving with Xiaoyue and Xiaoyu and Chunxuan.

Along the way, the two big girls chattered endlessly.

Xiaoyue said bluntly: "Although Gongzi Xie is not as good as the prince of Jin and the young master, he is also a talent. ”

Xiaoyu glanced at Yulan and said, "Looking at his behavior, he knows that he is very well-educated, and the girl is blessed!" ”

Yulan said thoughtlessly: "How can everything go smoothly in life, and let everything go to it!" The two big girls were only confused, and looked at each other, but no one understood the meaning of Yulan's words. When a girl hears a discussion about her own family affairs, she always blushes and shys herself, but our girl, say that she is happy, it seems that she doesn't, say that she is unhappy, it doesn't seem to be, this reaction is too strange......

In the Forbidden City, the orthodox emperor Wenhua Hall finished meeting several cabinet ministers, returned to the Qianqing Palace and looked at the excerpts for a while, and there was no shortage of people after a busy day. On this day, the Qianqing Palace was the second person in the inner court, Wang Ying, the governor of Dongchang, and he hurriedly personally picked up the tip of the hair, and the eight points of hot just happened to be the emperor's favorite heat. "Your Majesty, after reading so many excerpts, you are also tired, let's have a cup of tea first!" As he spoke, he instructed the little eunuch to bring up the snacks that had been prepared a long time ago.

There are not 10,000 eunuchs in the Forbidden City, but 8,000, and among these many eunuchs, he can mix in the second person of the celebrant eunuch, and hold the power of Dongchang, this Wang Ying is not a simple person. His backstage is the concubine of Emperor Xiao of Chengqian Palace.

The orthodox emperor's dragon position is strange, at the beginning, no one thought that this master could become the emperor, when he was young, because of his average qualifications, Emperor Taizong's requirements for him were not so strict, so he suddenly got a big position, no matter how good his knowledge and ability are very poor, but with the support of the queen mother, and the support of Yang Peishi's ministers, he sat on the throne. Until today, he is also the emperor who deserves to be so-so, the great Chu is still less than a Jiazi, Taizu Taizong has left a lot of civil and military talents, although the officialdom is **, it has not been corrupted to the point of dying, and there are old ministers like Yang Peishi in the cabinet, and he sits on the throne steadily.

He also knew that his majesty and power were far worse than those of Taizu Taizong, but the old men in the cabinet were all old and bearded, and a few of them had been his teachers, one by one with a straight face every day, and the saint opened his mouth and closed his mouth The emperor, he is a coward, although he wants to put power in his own hands, but he has no ability, no courage or no courage, it turns out that a dog bites a turtle and has no way to start.

He also thought of learning from the previous dynasty, cultivating the inner court to contain the outer court, who knew that Lu Dao did not have the wisdom to know people, and personally promoted a celebrant Zhang Chong, the eunuch who held the seal, and gave him the right to approve the red, originally wanted him to contain the power of the outer court, but who knew that in addition to instigating the emperor to eat, drink and have fun all day long, the power was not able to be snatched back at all. This Wang Ying is a person who knows how to grasp power, and knows how to do what he likes, and it is very suitable for him to offer him the elixir of beautiful girls and men, and he slowly used it around him, so he slowly alienated Zhang Chong and was ready to cultivate Wang Ying.

I didn't want the queen mother to know the way, so I called him to Cining Palace again, and told him about the eunuchs of the previous dynasties who caused trouble to the country and the government, and the orthodox emperor was terrified after hearing it, so he hesitated again.

This emperor is such a lack of assertiveness and is easily influenced by others.

Wang Ying asked the eunuch to go to the imperial dining room and just made sixteen colors of dim sum, and the orthodox emperor ate a few pieces of dim sum. "Are there any other important excerpts today?" he asked. ”

Wang Ying took out a fold from his arms, and respectfully handed it forward: "This is the wedding excerpt of the prince played by the Ministry of Rites." "The prince's wedding is not a trivial matter, and the Ministry of Rites does not dare to specialize in it, so it is natural to ask the emperor for everything.

The orthodox emperor took the fold. I've seen a few similar excerpts before, most of them are nothing remarkable, sixty years after the establishment of the Great Chu Dynasty, the various etiquette systems of Taizong have been roughly determined, and after Yang Peishi's additions and improvements, they have been very perfect, and according to the established steps, the orthodox emperor feels tired after working for a few hours. Then he instructed Wang Yingdao: "You come and read!" ”

Wang Ying agreed, knelt on the ground and read. Reading and reading, Wang Yingpin found out that something was wrong with this excerpt, in short, this was a excerpt to ask the emperor for money.

The prince's wedding should be paid by the imperial court according to the system, so it makes sense for the Ministry of Rites to fold it. But when the emperor heard the Ministry of Rites ask for the amount of silver, his face immediately became a little unpleasant.

- 800,000 taels!

A few days ago, the orthodox emperor wanted to start construction of a garden, and the Ministry of Industry needed to consume one million taels of silver, but Yang Peishi and several cabinet ministers persuaded him to dispel the idea, the annual income of the imperial court was less than 10 million taels of silver, and the country has not yet been unified, and the military expenditure accounts for two-thirds of the annual expenditure, and the emperor takes out one million silver, and the treasury will be immediately half empty.

Now that the prince is getting married, he actually asks him for 800,000 taels of silver?! It is the queen mother's intention to marry the eight girls of the Yang family to the prince, the orthodox emperor was not very willing, the prince was originally the natural second-in-command of the imperial court in addition to him, Yang Peishi on seniority and prestige firmly controlled the cabinet, and he remembered the words of Emperor Xiao's concubine: The prince and the Yang family are married, where will the emperor be?

This strong alliance does make people have a lot of doubts, although the good prince is about to become Yang Peishi's grandson-in-law, Yang Peishi has no intention of getting closer to him. The Queen Mother once again supported this family business, and the orthodoxy was a little relieved.

The orthodox emperor asked, "Does Mr. Yang have a proposed ticket?" ”

Wang Ying flipped through the folds, raised his head and glanced at the emperor, and hurriedly bowed his head and said, "The Yuan Auxiliary Ticket is intended to be: Accurate!" Wang Ying said casually: "The 800,000 silver was 'approved' by Yuanfu like this, and the prince was approved!" Your Majesty, if you want to build a garden, you can push back and ......"

The orthodox emperor was already unhappy in his heart, but at this time, he felt anger surging up and stood up. A group of eunuchs and eunuchs in the room suddenly knelt down, bowing their heads desperately, eager to shrink into the cracks in the ground. Wang Ying was so panicked that his head touched the ground: "The slave is talking nonsense, and there is a dirty saint to listen, please punish the emperor!" ”

The emperor looked at him with a pale face for a while, and said lightly: "Get up!" It's none of your business! Wang Ying cautiously got up, helped the orthodox to sit down, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, ...... this fold?"

The emperor waved his hand impatiently: "You come to approve it for me, 800,000 taels is too expensive, so make a discount and ask the household department to allocate 400,000 taels of Taicang silver!" ”

Wang Ying promised: "Yes!" He lowered his head, and Orthodoxy did not see a flash of joy on his face. He thought to himself, with himself and Emperor Xiao Guifei provoking like this, I want to see how long the prince can sit in this seat!

The cabinet duty room is located in the south of the three major halls of Taihe, Baohe, and Zhonghe, and two months ago, he just entered the cabinet Ding Pavilion and came back to Yang Peishi with the emperor's approval: "Yuanfu, come and see, the emperor cut half of the prince's wedding expenses, and now there are only 400,000 taels left, how can such a little money be?" Look, are we going to hand over a sign and ask to see the emperor right away? "This Ding Ge Lao is the second wife's in-laws, the second girl's father-in-law, and now he has finally entered the cabinet, of course, not because of his nepotism with Yang Peishi, but because he has outstanding ability, and it is expected to enter the cabinet.

His cabinet is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and the cost of the prince's wedding is that he took the officials of the Ministry of Rites and stayed up all night with several yamen such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs to negotiate together. The prince's wedding and the emperor's garden are different, the garden can be repaired or not, but the prince's marriage must be knotted, some money can be spent or not, some money must be spent, and even the wedding of the prince of the dynasty is picked and searched, then the entire court will be embarrassed, and the royal face will not look good. Therefore, Yang Peishi made a "according to the accuracy!" on the fold of the Ministry of Rites! ”

The emperor spent more than this amount of money when he got married!

But now...... How could Yang Peishi not understand the emperor's intentions. If he now takes a few elders to find the emperor to theorize, wouldn't he be suspected of forcing the palace?

Hey, this family affair is really uncomfortable!

Yang Peishi rubbed his sore old waist, and said tiredly: "Stamp the cabinet seal and send it to the Rite Branch to follow it!" ”

"Motosuke!" Ding Ge Lao screamed, he could understand Yang Peishi's embarrassment at the moment. "But how can such a little money be enough? It's not that the household department can't take out 800,000 taels of silver! ”

Yang Peishi said: "So you hurry up and call the people from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and everyone will discuss what kind of flower method should be used for these 400,000 taels?" Although there is only such a small amount of silver, the prince's wedding can't be too sloppy! ”

In Yuqing Palace, the prince's personal eunuch just trembled and told the prince the news that the wedding fee had been halved. Ye Minshu's face was pale, and his heart was cold. can't even get married to the crown prince, he is probably the last one in the unprecedented Great Chu Dynasty, right?