Xu Xun really didn't know anything about Mama Zhou's worries, otherwise, even if Mama Zhou didn't have a good face for her, she would definitely explain a few words - she didn't know that the queen Weishenme valued the power of the palace so much, anyway, in Xu Xun's own opinion, a large part of the things here are very bad, not to mention that she is not the queen, even if she is the queen, Xu Xun will definitely not take care of it personally, at most select some palace people who check and balance each other's personnel relations to manage, Then use the liliang of the East Factory to supervise it, otherwise everyone is busy doing these trivial things every day, and what do you need people to do?

Of course, the queen also has the queen's difficulties, the queen mother now makes it clear that the carriage and horse are to toss her, and it is still a haode to toss these trivial things, at least it is still a matter, and the queen can still take care of it. If you really want to pretend to be sick and let the queen hold a medicine bowl every day to serve the sick, and just stand in Qingning Palace like that, that is to toss people. Xu Xun can also understand Empress Sun's consideration of letting the queen mother rub it like this, and now the emperor seems to be not ready to stand up for the queen, in this case, between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law is in a natural weakness - the daughter-in-law for many years has become a mother-in-law, and this is the case before she becomes a mother-in-law, there is no reason to talk about filial piety, even if the queen mother wants to kill her, the queen is not filial if she does not hand the knife, the son can receive the small cane, and the big cane go, but the daughter-in-law just can't, especially the queen as a female moral model, then don't think about it. Anyway, when a man refuses to come forward and give privileges, the requirements for filial piety are so strict.

Fortunately, the Queen Mother estimates that she will relax her requirements for Xu Xun to some extent, anyway, Xu Xun has made up her mind, if the Queen Mother has any opinions, then it is just for Aunt Qiao to take care of it, and it is impossible to expect her to do the same painstaking work as the Queen to organize the annual celebration. What if she is talked about not knowing how to take care of the palace? Anyway, it is the queen who should be in charge of the palace, not her. She's too capable, and she can't show the queen.

With such an attitude, there is no trembling mood, Xu Xun flipped through the to-do list submitted by Mama Zhou, and couldn't help laughing, "Strange Mama Dao is the first person in front of the mother, and she is indeed capable. ”

Mama Zhou was also praised by her and blushed a little, "Niangniang praised it falsely, this is all my own foolishness." ”

She is to play out the grid every day, from today, every day to prepare the details are listed, until after the Lantern Festival, although densely packed with a long list, but this way is clearer than a pile of columns, Xu Xun is looking through, Aunt Qiao and the Shang Palace Bureau Liu Shanggong, Zheng Shanggong front and rear feet also entered the house, one to Xu Xun said hello, Xu Xun ordered the four of them to sit under the kang, and said, "What kind of eunuch is the eunuch in the palace now, in addition to the staff of the palace, is it also the envoy of the Shang Palace Bureau?" ”

"Some of them are envoys of the Shanggong Bureau, and some are taken care of by the twenty-four yamen, and the people on both sides are used by each other." Liu Shanggong bowed and said respectfully, "Over the years, there have been a shortage of people in the palace, and it is inevitable that there is some indistinguishability between inside and outside, and gradually it is like this." ”

Don't think that there are a lot of servants in the more than 2,000 people, just say one thing -- how big is the palace city in Nanjing, and how big is the palace city in Nanjing? Not to mention that in addition to this huge imperial city and the West Garden, now the South Garden has been added, and the place will be maintained and repaired when it is large, and the demand for manpower will naturally become larger, but for various reasons, the palace does not enter new people every year, but there is a certain reduction in staff almost every year, and the service manpower in the palace is generally given priority"In this way, more than 500 people are not enough to call, what did the mother do last year?" ”

"Last year, Niangniang transferred 200 people from Nanyuan back, and it was easy to support." Mama Zhou replied, "But this year, the emperor is going to hold a banquet in Nannei, and he may not be able to ......serve on both sides."

Then with the increase in population and pomp, the second problem continued to appear again, as a concubine, of course, I can't feel the crampedness of the inner library, but I can find that last year, all kinds of celebrations are really more, plus more Nanyuan, usually maintenance has a lot of money, in the past, of course, the cost of the banquet is also large, and the new person is added to buy a dowry, every year on time and according to the festival to purchase daily meals, purchase jewelry, etc., the more the population, the greater the cost. After all, a lot of money was used for military expenses when Emperor Wen, the palace was still advocating simplicity, the country was rich in recent years, the emperor also had leisure and fun, the palace was more and more singing and dancing, and after a year, the harem's own treasury was already a little tight, and he had to ask the Qianqing Palace to allocate materials from the inner treasury to come in, so as to spend enough.

Of course, there will definitely be money, and it is impossible to live in a dignified palace for years. However, Xu Xun was still a little puzzled, "I remember that although the Inner Twelve Libraries are called Inner Libraries, they are not used to reward their subordinates, provide disaster relief to the world, and give military attachés support to Yinglu, etc., why is the money used in the palace now directly from the Inner Treasury?" ”

Although the inner library is called the inner library, it is not located in the palace city, but in the imperial city, and it is not accessible to Xu Xun and other harem concubines, they are all controlled by the emperor's cronies and eunuchs, but Xu Xun used to hear a few grandmothers mention that the palace expenses are mainly provided by the household department, and the inner carrier library is used, or the uses she said are the main ones, the emperor used to joke, saying that he wanted to give her the key to the treasury, that is talking about the harem's own palace treasury, the inner carrier library is located in the imperial city, it is a very serious department, It has nothing to do with harem women - at least, in Xu Xun's understanding.

"I don't know." Liu Shanggong pouted and said, "That is, in the first two years, it seems that we have spent too much money outside, and the emperor is annoyed, so he simply supplies it all from the inner library, anyway, we don't need anything money in the palace, what is lacking, it is more convenient, whether it is rice noodles or gold beads, there is nothing in the inner library?" I told the emperor directly, and I can pay it when I open a note, but it's convenient. Now, let's see what else can be said outside. ――I don't want to think about how big the place is in Nanjing, and how big is the place? This place is big, and if you want to be decent and not degenerate, won't it cost you more, aren't we actually doing things, but swallowing it all into our stomachs? ”

These words immediately resonated with Mama Zhou and Aunt Qiao, and the three of them did not distinguish between the enemy and me, and they all denounced the "outside" together, and felt very indignant about the idea of "outside" being decent and not spending money, so that the Qiao woman could cook without rice.

According to Xu Xun, even if there is something to say about the 'outside', it should be focused on the ceremonial activities of the previous dynasty, and they will not say much about the affairs of the later dynasty. However, she didn't expect this piece before, but now that she has access to the account book, she feels that the palace is spending more and more extravagantly, and even wants to encroach on the material reserves that were originally used for emergency relief and rewards......

Xu Xun's thinking is very simple, if this piece is occupied, the original use will have to be squeezed elsewhere. Originally, it was a dispensable banquet, and it was not a daily necessities such as eating and dressing......

Thinking of the flying and domineering appearance when the tax collector went to Yuhuatai to collect taxes after the autumn every year, she frowned, and no longer asked about the inner library, "Just these gold and silver satins from our own palace treasury, are they enough for the next year?" ”

Every year, we appreciate new clothes, auspicious fruits, and decorate the palace banquet hall, tie colorful flowers, etc., and all that are drawn out are genuine wealth - silk and grain, which are used as money in many times in the countryside. The consumption of wealth in the harem is not to take money and spend it indiscriminately, but to wantonly consume expensive silk silk, a large amount of food and processed products, and of course, the increasing demand for jewelry made of gold and silver treasures. As for the artificial monthly cases, the purchase of materials to fill their pockets, etc., that is a matter of eunuchs, and it has nothing to do with the history of Xu Xun and other harem concubines.

"I'm afraid it's just enough to make new clothes." Mama Zhou said, "This is still the Mid-Autumn Festival in September, Niangniang specially from the inner carrier warehouse to come, about the beginning of the month can be sent to the Shang Gong Bureau, by the Shang Gong Bureau to make new clothes, the New Year is just to be worn." The materials for other pavilions and pavilions, colorful flowers and ice lanterns, then you have to ask for it again. ”

In addition to the decent palace people in each palace, the rest of the low-level palace maids and miscellaneous servants are rewarded with new clothes all year round, which is the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's energy, and the rest of the season, there is no additional input, just point to the monthly silver of Weibo to live, and the silver is often sent late, and it is a high probability event to eat cold rice or even not eat. - It is impossible for Xu Xun to remove their new clothes, she sighed, and said, "Then how much material does it take to touch it?" ”

"All kinds of yarn and colored satin must be asked for according to a thousand horses." Mama Zhou glanced at Aunt Qiao and said a little unconfidently. Zheng Shanggong supported, "At least, after the festival, there will be a spring section again, where is there enough for a thousand horses, this bit of material, go to Nanyuan a few more times in the first month, and it will be gone." ”

A few people counted while talking, and Xu Xun was trembling: The Lantern Festival long lantern was placed all the way to Nannei, is it lively? It is all made of colored yarn palace lanterns, covered with high-grade tribute yarn and tribute silk, and after a Lantern Festival, the palace lantern alone consumes thousands of taels of silver, which is still less to say. There are also the colorful flowers tied on the tree between the pavilions during the banquet every year, which are also tied up with satin, not to mention the artificial, throwing out is money, there is a lot of rain and snow in winter, the tree is often muddy, the satin is dirty and loves to fade, and the color flower loss rate is so high that it is afraid of people......

"I remember that during the reign of Emperor Wen, I didn't pay attention to this." She couldn't help but say, "At that time, I came with my eldest brother and took care of the family for a few months, how could I have these expenses?" At that time, I don't remember such a particular thing. ”

I don't know this Mama Zhou, or Liu Shanggong said with a smile, "Niangniang doesn't know, now the daughters of all families, when they drink and feast at home, they are all like this, after all, the cold winter wax moon, no better than the south, most of the trees are bare and not very good-looking, and the courtyard is tied with flowers." In our palace, how can it be the face of the heavenly family......"

Face, face, face. Xu Xun glanced at Liu Shanggong - she was naturally respectful to her favorite concubine, but how many years has she lived in the palace? Liu Shanggong's eyebrows were slightly disdainful, couldn't she see it?

"I'm a country girl." She said coldly, "A small family from a poor family, I have never seen the world since I was a child, and I dare not compare with my grandmothers." This colorful flower, plus labor at least three dollars, my tenants chew a year, that is, ten flowers, even a tree can not be tied, a party, whose eyes look at the flowers? I didn't look at it, a few hundred taels of silver are gone, you don't feel distressed, I am very distressed. ”

Liu Shanggong's words rushed Xu Xun's emotions, no matter whether she looked down on Xu Xun in her heart or not, now she was so frightened that Suo Suo trembled, and she knelt down to ask for guilt. Xu Xun glanced at her, and didn't let her get up, but turned to Mama Zhou and said, "Caihua is exempted." This year, there is no need for high-grade tribute yarn for palace lanterns, and I will talk about it after I have asked my eldest brother. ”

Her tone was categorical and non-negotiable. Mama Zhou rarely saw the concubine angry, but she was taken by her momentum, and the thoughts in her heart were all difficult, and she couldn't think about the pros and cons at all, so she just nodded and agreed, and the cost of Caihua was hooked off at the desk.

Xu Xun said to Aunt Qiao again, "My aunt is an old man in the palace, I must also remember the style of Emperor Wen during the reign of Emperor Wen, the ancestors can not be wasted lightly, I wait for the concubines, since everything is done to the ancestors first, how can we sublimate things and become more and more extravagant, aunt might as well take a look at the things on this list first, take Emperor Wen as an example, some matters, can be exempted." I'm a lonely person, and I can't say that everyone is going to spend a poor year with me. ”

Aunt Qiao is stronger than Mama Zhou, but she hasn't been frightened yet, she glanced at Liu Shanggong who was still kneeling on the ground, and then looked at Mama Zhou who was writing with her head down, the corners of her mouth squirmed a few times, and finally said in a low voice, "Niangniang, please borrow a step to speak......

Xu Xun was slightly stunned, and walked to the corner of the house with Aunt Qiao, and Aunt Qiao said in a low voice, "The colorful flowers and palace lamps that you exempted were all ordered by the old lady to make ......."

When the queen was trembling and gaining a firm foothold, it must have been Xiao Gui Cao's idea, without the queen mother's instructions, how could she make trouble and make a big show? When the time comes, a extravagant hat will be smashed down, isn't she walking around without enough to eat? Xu Xun immediately understood the twists and turns here, and she thought of the light road that stretched for miles last year - in order to set up this light road, the queen was afraid that she had also put a lot of effort into it.

This is really an expensive mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's vindictiveness, should it be said to be royal weather? This fighting spirit, what has been lost is thousands of taels of silver, Xu Xun's chest, she couldn't help but be angry up, she closed her eyes, Fang smiled at Aunt Qiao, and thanked her first, "Aunt has to remind me, otherwise, I really don't know about it." ”

Aunt Qiao was obviously relieved, she was about to thank her, Xu Xun had already turned around and sat on the side of the kang again.

She undoubtedly instructed Mama Zhou, as well as Aunt Qiao, who was still standing in the corner of the house, to "continue to delete." ”

Not to mention Aunt Qiao, even Liu Shanggong, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but jump his eyebrows.

Mama Zhou gradually came back to her senses, and she couldn't guess what Aunt Qiao was talking about. At this time, when she saw Guifei speak, she was surprised, and she couldn't help but smile in her heart - now, she likes Xu Guifei's temperament a little more.

She was the first to respond to Xu Guifei, "According to the old practice, this iceberg is also not tied with colored satin......"

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