There are four tables in the Xunfeng Building, the delicacies are listed, the dishes are good, the wine is better, the five famous wines are on the same, no matter how you choose, many people have not tasted these five kinds of famous wines, the opportunity is rare, that is, people who don't drink much on weekdays also drink happily, as a result, nearly half of them were drunk, Jiang Anyi asked people to call a carriage from the carriage and horse shop to send them home.

In the Zhan Mansion of the East Palace, the next day, everyone was still unsatisfied, and they were talking about our luxurious night banquet. There is a surname Xu Ling Shi sighed: "I have heard the name of Xunzhenlou for a long time, Xu is the first time to eat there, the name is well deserved, the wine and food of Xunzhenlou are really delicious, I am not afraid of everyone's jokes, Xu is drunk, if there is nonsense offended, I hope to forgive me." ”

Someone teased: "Xu Xiaozi, you are drunk and pulling others to read poems, and you don't let people go if you don't listen, and finally pull Master Jiang to read poems to him, don't you want to think about your poems before you dare to show them in front of Lord Jiang?" ”

"Alas, it's good to be rich, and the four tables of banquets should cost two hundred taels of silver."

"Snort", the recorder Chen Minghan laughed and said: "When I left, I happened to meet the shopkeeper, and I asked casually, how much silver do you guess?" ”

Listening to Chen Lushi's tone, two hundred taels must be more than one, and many people asked curiously, "How much?" ”

"Six hundred and seventy-eight taels."

There was a gasp. After a while, someone sighed faintly: "The money for a table of wine and food is worth more than two years of our income, and the inequality between the rich and the poor is really unfair." ”

"I don't have the ability to complain, I heard that Lord Jiang was not full of food and clothing when he was young, you ask yourself how much better it is compared to Lord Jiang. Master Jiang can have today is he turned the golden house in the book into reality, you have the ability to turn the virtual into reality, my old Jiang promises not to be blushing, rich and easy to friend, don't know me. Someone heard the sound and said.

Seeing that he was about to quarrel, Ren Zhiyi, the recorder, said in a round game: "Life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, what to fight for." I don't know how much you drank yesterday, but I tasted it all over the time, and I still have a hangover and headache when I wake up today. Tsk, next time I drink with someone, I can say it. ”

The crowd laughed. Chen Minghan teased: "Ren Jiuxian, this is worthy of the name." ”

Zhang Zhiwei walked in and reprimanded: "Why are you still gathered here to talk nonsense, you don't have to do things, just disperse, let Lord Jiang see it." ”

Everyone dispersed to run errands, and the officials walked to each other, and in less than an hour, the entire East Palace was talking about the night banquet in Zhan Shifu last night, envy, jealousy, contempt, red-eyed, and noisy.

The left and right Chunfang are combined in one office, and the right concubine Cheng Mingdao is the prime minister of Chunfang affairs, and the official party is located in the small cross-courtyard on the left side of the Zhan Mansion. The whispers of the officials on the corridor outside the official hall reached Cheng Mingdao, Cheng Mingdao put down his pen and instructed the Shuling Shi beside him: "Go and call Song Siyi." ”

Si Lang Song Qing is Cheng Mingdao's confidant, and when he heard the rumor, he hurriedly came in, and said respectfully: "What is Lord Cheng calling me for?" ”

Cheng Mingdao took care of his beard and asked slowly, "What's the noise outside?" ”

"Lord Yu, yesterday Lord Zhan Shijiang, the young man of Zhan Shifu, came to take up his new post, and invited his colleagues to eat in Xunzhen Lou in the evening, it is said that the four tables of wine and vegetables cost nearly seven hundred taels of silver, and the people of Zhan Shifu are boasting." Song Qingyu said.

Cheng Mingdao scoffed and sneered: "One meal can buy people's hearts, and the people of Zhan Shifu are too easy to dismiss." "Song Qing has just heard about the richness of the night banquet, and he is very envious of Zhan Shifu, who has been in Chunfang for more than six years, except for everyone to invite Lord Cheng to dinner, Lord Cheng has never invited a guest.

Yesterday, Jiang Anyi came to the East Palace to take up his new position, Cheng Mingdao was not in the East Palace, he followed the prince to the court to manage the government. After the prince regent, he will take the officials of the East Palace to manage the government every day, yesterday it was the turn of the left and right Chunfang to take turn, and today it is the left and right Yude, and He Ziying accompanied the prince with his subordinates.

Ji Tianming was transferred to the secretary and supervisor, Cheng Mingdao took stock of the officials in the East Palace, and was full of confidence to take over as the Shao Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion. Three days ago, I suddenly got a letter, Jiang Anyi fell from the sky, and Shao Zhan's position belonged to him, although he knew that it was not Jiang Anyi's original intention, the knot in Cheng Mingdao's heart was formed.

Squinting his eyes, Cheng Mingdao? Step lotus? A prostitute and a hairy cow? Kiss and kiss? Ascaris?? Vast? Naan Huai Tan Ji is heartfelt and rude?

"Song Qing, seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, can the festival reward in the East Palace be arranged?" Cheng Mingdao asked coldly.

The palace has a custom degree in the court, Shi Fangzhen has been diligent since his accession to the throne, and the palace has been compressed by nearly half, when the prince first entered the East Palace, the annual example was 20,000 taels, and later the East Palace officials and eunuchs and palace maids increased year by year, and these people's salaries were issued by the household department, but the festival rewards, the usual rewards had to be solved by the East Palace itself, the prince liked to travel and Ye, and 20,000 taels of silver were far from enough to spend. The Son of Heaven increased the number of princes several times, from 20,000 taels to 50,000 taels, and when the prince got married, it increased from 50,000 taels to 80,000 taels.

In order to win people's hearts, the prince's regent has been flowing out of the silver for more than a month, and Cheng Mingdao overheard Shi Yu complaining that the silver rewarded for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is gone. There are more than 1,000 ministers, internal officials and slaves in the East Palace, and there is a shortage of money in previous years, so the prince goes to Kun'an Palace for a trip, at least 10,000 taels of silver, which is enough to deal with, and now the queen goes to Yanshan Villa with the Son of Heaven, and it is not so convenient for the prince to ask for money.

Song Qing heard the song and knew the meaning of elegance, Lord Cheng wanted to take advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival to embarrass the new Shao Zhan Shijiang, and asked with a smile: "My lord, but let me mention it to Shi Jialing?" ”

The three temples of the East Palace, the Jialing Temple (the East Palace drinks, storage, storage, distribution of palace use, etc.), the rate of the temple (the order of the clan, the ritual music, punishment and omission, etc.), the servant temple (the head of the car, the ride, the guard of honor, the funeral, the general stable pastoral office, etc.), the three temples are under the jurisdiction of the Zhan Shifu, so the Mid-Autumn Festival reward distribution is the business of the Zhan Shifu.

Cheng Mingdao shook his head and said, "Idiot, isn't this a matter of giving people a handle." Don't you have a good relationship with the sacrificial wine of Chu'an Palace, you might as well ask him privately what the Mid-Autumn Festival reward of Chu'an Palace's Mansion is, and discuss it with your colleagues when you have time, our East Palace can't be weaker than Chu Palace. ”

Song Qing comprehended and retreated.

Three days later, there was a lot of discussion in the East Palace, when the two of them met the toilet to talk about the Mid-Autumn Festival reward, the more the words spread, the more the news changed, the festival reward of the Chu'an Mansion changed from the original two catties of moon cakes, two taels of silver to Qingfeng Ramadan moon cake box of a product, four boxes of dim sum, a Weizhou ham, five taels of silver, this set of silver is worth at least ten taels. This is not a small amount, and the total number of festival rewards in the East Palace last year was only twelve or thirty taels. The newcomer Shao Zhan Shi Jiang has a bit of a reputation for being a golden hand, and he has a lot of rewards in the history of Huazhou, and the officials of the East Palace are all looking forward to Jiang Anyi letting everyone have a rich Mid-Autumn Festival.

Jiang Anyi has been busy getting acquainted with the things of Zhan Shifu these days, and he has not paid attention to everyone's careful thoughts, until Shi Yu enters the official house. Shi Yu is over fifty years old, with a thin face, a goatee, two eyes that are rolling around, and a shrewd look. He is a servant of the Son of Heaven, and the family has been a slave of the Son of Heaven for generations, and the seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, the slave of the Son of Heaven naturally cannot be small, this group of slaves who were given the surname Shi managed the manor and took care of the housework instead of the Son of Heaven, and there were many people like Shi Yu who became high-ranking officials.

Donggong family order, from the fourth rank to the official rank, coupled with the special status, Jiang Anyi did not dare to take the big one, and stood up to greet him. Shi Yu gave a salute to Jiang Anyi according to the number of courtesies, then sat down in the chair and said: "Xia Guan came for the Mid-Autumn Festival reward, there are only less than three thousand taels of silver left in the account of the East Palace, and there are still ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Lord Jiang, the lower officials came to you to get an idea? ”

Jiang Anyi really didn't expect that the East Palace was actually within the jurisdiction of Zhan Shifu, wouldn't this be all inclusive of eating, drinking, and sleeping, stroking his forehead with a headache, Jiang Anyi asked weakly: "Lord Shi, how did it work in previous years, according to the old practice." ”

Shi Yu smiled bitterly: "If you can follow the old practice of previous years, the lower officials will not dare to disturb the adults, and the situation this year is a little different." ”

Hearing Shi Yu tell about the ministers of the East Palace talking about the festival rewards of the Chu'an Mansion in recent days, Jiang Anyi's face became solemn, and he asked people to call Zhang Zhiwei, and sure enough, the people in the Zhan Mansion were also discussing. The festival reward was originally a trivial matter, but the hook with the Chu'an Mansion attracted Jiang Anyi's attention. The crown prince and King Chu An are fighting openly and secretly in the court, and now even such a trivial matter as festivals and rewards has been compared by people with a heart, which is really worrying.

Frowning and thinking for a moment, Jiang Anyi asked, "Lord Shi, what are the entries in the East Palace?" In your opinion, how many silver taels will it cost to enjoy the East Palace during the Mid-Autumn Festival? ”

"The main entry of the East Palace is the year of the crown prince, half of the 80,000 taels of silver are handed over to the crown princess, and half are taken care of by the lower officials, and the queen will give some self-esteem, and the prince's usual rewards are mostly from this piece, and the long live lord also gave a piece of Zhuangzi and mountains and forests, with an annual income of about 20,000 yuan." Shi Yu roughly introduced to Jiang Anyi, these are all incomes on the surface, and secretly there are dividends from dry shares obtained in the name of the East Palace, contributions from courtiers, etc., which is not easy to tell Jiang Anyi.

"In previous years, the Mid-Autumn Festival cost two taels of silver and two catties of moon cakes per person, and the adults increased in turn, and three thousand taels of silver could be stopped." Shi Yu's thin face shrunk into a ball, and said with a bitter face: "But this year, everyone is looking forward to being on par with the Chu'an Palace, I think this matter is a bit evil, and it is not good to inquire about the Chu'an Palace, if according to the standards of the Chu'an Palace, ten thousand taels of silver can't be stopped, and there are only two thousand seven hundred taels of silver left in the account, where does this deficit come from?" I also want Lord Jiang to give me an idea. ”

Jiang Anyi thought for a while and said, "This matter is not trivial, let's wait for the prince to come and decide." ”