"Big brother, second brother." Zhu Shaochen saluted the two brothers when he was far away, which is also the rule of the palace, and it is the etiquette that juniors should have for their predecessors.

"Third brother," Zhu Shaoli looked at Zhu Shaochen, and stopped talking: "Don't salute, let's talk while we have something to say, we have to go to the Shizi Mansion quickly." ”

Zhu Shaochen hurriedly said yes. The group walked together in the direction of Shizifu.

"Big brother, second brother, do you know what happened to your uncle?" Zhu Shaochen couldn't help but ask.

"I heard that it was Luoyang, and there was an accident with the Pujitang branch, and some people said that my uncle was greedy for the silver of the semicolon. The other brothers don't know much about it. The grandson Zhu Shaoli said and looked at his second brother.

Feeling the eyes of his eldest brother looking at him, Zhu Shaoren understood what he meant to consult himself.

"Big brother, the younger brother will know more, I heard that this time there are all kinds of human and material evidence." Zhu Shaoren glanced at his eldest brother and hurriedly said as he walked.

"The younger brother also heard about it."

"Second brother, what kind of person is my uncle, how can I not know it in the palace? What's more, my uncle doesn't care about Pujitang, why can he also be involved in greedy ink? Zhu Shaochen asked suspiciously.

Zhu Shaoren looked at Zhu Shaochen, his younger brother was still a child after all.

"Third brother, you're not too young to speak. Something should be told to you, too. Zhu Shaoren said to Zhu Shaochen.

"As everyone knows, our palace is rich and rivals the country, and the rice that the court gives us every year is 20,000 stone for Grandpa Wang alone, not including the number of my father and eldest brother.

The reason why the imperial court has not given me the title for a long time is also because once the second brother and I are crowned the king of the county, it will be two thousand stones a year.

Of course, if we rely on this little bit of rice alone, it will be enough to feed the thousands of mouths in our house? This is really impossible, and the prince's 20,000 stones are only exchanged for more than 10,000 taels of silver a year.

The monthly silver per person in the palace, plus the expenses of Grandpa Wang, his father and the ladies in the palace, and then the princes in the palace, including you and me. These inputs are far from sufficient.

Therefore, our royal palace still has to rely on land rent, shop rents in various places, and our own property every year to earn a lot of silver.

And what my uncle is in charge of in Luoyang is all the properties of the palace in Luoyang. Including the branch of our time-honored pharmacy 'Pujitang' in Luoyang. It was this 'Pujitang' semicolon that had an accident this time. ”

Zhu Shaoren said a lot in one breath, rested for a while and then said: "It's strange to say. At the beginning of this year, the Luoyang branch received a big deal, and the people who came said that it was the Li family in Taiyuan who wanted to purchase a batch of ginseng.

As soon as the Li family inquired, they knew that our 'Pujitang' was the largest pharmacy in the entire Henan, so they naturally procured it with us.

On the same day, a deposit of 5,000 taels of silver was deposited, and the remaining 45,000 taels were to be paid after the goods were picked up and inspected.

With such a good thing, the semicolon shopkeeper naturally hurriedly reported it.

As soon as possible, the uncle who was in charge of all industries in Luoyang received it.

Uncle is full of promises, but you also know that Luoyang is just a semicolon after all, how can there be so much ginseng in the pharmacy warehouse?

So, my uncle sent someone to deploy from our Kaifeng general number. We've been in stock for so many years, so naturally these stocks are still available.

It was shipped immediately.

Who knew that the people of the Li family paid the deposit but did not come to pick up the goods. The contract of the painting is to pick up the goods after ten days, and the three-day period expires without waiting, and the deposit will not be refunded. But I couldn't wait for anyone to come.

It's like the Li family suddenly threw five thousand taels of silver for us to earn.

Uncle also thought it was strange, but it didn't matter that there were 5,000 taels of silver in the account inexplicably.

The ginseng that was transferred was escorted back untouched.

I didn't know that something was wrong at this time. As soon as the warehouse received the goods, it was found that it was full of dead branches and rotten leaves, and there was not a single ginseng.

So the general number suspected that his uncle was greedy for ink. Here's why. ”

Zhu Shaochen thought about it and felt that his uncle had been cheated nine times out of ten. The man made a deposit just to make a game and let his uncle transfer the goods. Then the goods were changed halfway or on the way back.

"Uncle, why are you so stupid, I think these ginseng should have been dropped on the way back." The eldest brother Zhu Shaoli came to a conclusion after listening.

"Who's to say it isn't. But I see that this matter is not so simple, and a discerning person knows at a glance that his uncle has been wronged. But my uncle is afraid that he is full of mouths, and it is difficult to explain clearly. Zhu Shaoren replied.

The three of them chatted while walking, but at this moment, there were eighteen large sedan chairs carried in front of them.

"The prince has arrived!"

There are not many people who can sit in a sedan chair in this palace, especially the eight-lift scarlet sedan chair.

But it's not the current Zhou prince, who is Zhu Suqin when he arrives.

"Grandpa Wang! The grandchildren kowtowed to their grandfather. ”

The three brothers hurriedly knelt down to greet Lord Zhou.

Waiting for the palace maid waiting on the side to open the sedan curtain, Zhou Wangye got off the sedan chair and looked at the three brothers, and said, "Your brothers are also here?" It's good, it's good. ”

"The grandchildren also just arrived, but they never thought that Grandpa Wang would also come." The eldest brother Zhu Shaoli hurriedly replied politely.

"Well, after hearing about this, even Lone has to come." After that, Zhou Wang Ye also sighed.

"Lonely and ask you, on one side is your father, on the other side is your mother, which side do you want to help?"

This kind of question of me and your mother falling into the water, which one do you save first is the most difficult to answer. Zhu Shaoli and Zhu Shaoren had never met, so they didn't dare to reply.

Zhu Shaochen looked at the two brothers and saw that they were all drooping their heads and did not dare to speak. So I had to say to myself: "The grandchildren are only on the side of reason." ”

"Which side is that?" Zhou Wang Ye looked at Zhu Shaochen, and he couldn't imagine that his grandson, who was less than ten years old, was quite bold.

"Reason is on the side of justice." Zhu Shaochen then replied. If the prince asks where justice is, I will return to him to be fair and comfortable in the hearts of the people!

Zhu Suqin thought that this baby was quite capable of breaking blindly. Anyway, I'm just asking a question on a whim.

Forget it!

Zhu Suqin thought to himself, but this baby is brave and knowledgeable, but he almost died back then.

I'm afraid that this son will have some achievements in the future.

"That's it." King Zhou looked at the other two brothers, "Let's go in and see which side of this principle and people's hearts are." ”

"Let's go, let's all go in together." So Zhu Suqin, the king of the old Zhou, took his three grandchildren into the Shizi's Mansion together. I saw that the prince Zhu Gongfang was already in the front yard of the prince's mansion.

I am afraid that the sentence 'the prince has arrived' has already been reported inside.

"The son has seen his father." Zhu Gongyu saluted, and the prince nodded. The prince got up, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that his three sons were all following behind King Zhou. decisively thought that it was the three sons who brought the king of Zhou.

"You three bastard boys, how dare you bother your grandfather Wang for this matter." Zhu Gongqi said.