When Eunuch Kui woke up the next day, he was still sleeping alone, and his brain was a little drowsy after waking up from a hangover, he frowned and looked around and only felt that something was abnormal, but the wine and food on the table had been taken away, the incense in the incense burner had been burned out, and the basin of footwashing water had already been poured out.

He looked at the sky outside and realized that the time was not early, so he quickly changed his clothes and went to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

The little Li Zi was on an errand in front of the Yangxin Palace, standing outside the vermilion lacquer gate, and when he saw Eunuch Kui coming, he immediately walked over and shouted two words of master.

"What's wrong?"

"The emperor is looking for you?"

This tone sounded a little wrong, and the eunuch Kui immediately entered the palace of nourishing the heart with a clear mind, and the emperor was playing in Zhu's criticism, his brows were furrowed very tightly, and when he saw Eunuch Kui coming, he immediately ordered: "Immediately go to the internal affairs office to prepare 40,000 taels of silver, send it to the fifth child's house, and instruct the fifth to repair the palace of the child."

"This is natural, Your Majesty, the five princes will definitely not live up to your expectations, then the old slave will go down first to prepare,"

"Also, two months later, the sixth birthday will be married, and now we have to choose the people who will serve in the mansion first, and then train the rules in the palace first, and let people watch the jokes of the sixth child in the province, so as not to be in a hurry when you get it."

"Yes, the old slave will order the Internal Affairs Office to select a group of shrewd and capable maids to ensure that the training rules are in order."

Eunuch Kui received the order to go down, and at the same time, he saw that his apprentice Xiao Lizi was still waiting for him outside, and walked over and asked with some doubts: "Last night, you ...... later?"

"Master, you drank too much, you were washing your feet, you fell asleep, you couldn't wake up, and you took the food on the table, what's wrong?"

Eunuch Kui's eyes were half-narrowed, he remembered that someone seemed to ask him a question, he was a little afraid in his heart, he was afraid that he had missed something important, after all, for this eunuch, the emperor's words and deeds were confidential, and he should not leak the slightest bit to let outsiders guess the emperor's movements.

And usually although he also drinks, but they are all superficial, I am afraid that the emperor will have any orders to him temporarily, and there is no hangover like last night, at this moment he looked at Xiao Lizi with suspicious eyes, and it seemed that he still had doubts in his heart, but looking at the sincerity of Xiao Lizi's face, he didn't seem to feel that his master was doubting himself, and then he went to the Internal Affairs Office to order the task distributed by the emperor.

In the afternoon of the same day, 40,000 taels of silver were sent to Gong Xuanzheng's palace, and Eunuch Kui entrusted the emperor's intentions again, and Gong Xuanzheng naturally responded.

The housekeeper ordered someone to immediately carry the money to the treasury, and then began to register the account, and then went to the study to report the matter to Gong Xuanzheng.

"Lord Wang, 40,000 taels of silver have been registered in the warehouse, can you see what is wrong?"

As he spoke, the butler put the account book he had just made in his hand on the table in front of Gong Xuan, and while he flipped through the money he had spent, he asked, "Do any workers have any complaints about this point during processing?" ”

"Yes, there are a few people who have heard that they have to work at night, and they rush to work day and night, and they rest for four hours at the end of the day, and they have already started to get up and work again before the hour comes, and some people even if they double their wages, they will not want to, saying that the amount of work is too large, and they can't bear it, and they almost strike."

Gong Xuanzheng was carefully examining the so-called account books, and when he heard this, he raised his head and asked, "How is such a person?" ”

"Not much, just a few people, some people are happy because they have doubled the money, although it is very bitter."

"You go and warn those troublemakers, this is to build a mansion for the six princes, there is no room for them to refuse to say that they will not do it, and if there is a disturbance and say that the amount of work is large, you will give them some color to see, and give them a meal directly in public, and then drag it out, those people in the province will make trouble and delay the construction period, understand?"

"Yes."

"Also, the father gave a lot of money, you do everything according to the prince's standards, the luxury of the cultivation, you must make the father satisfied, all the silver money does not need to worry, the more extravagant, the better, so many years, the father and the emperor are always guilty of the sixth brother, what can be counted as making up for this." Do you understand what this king means? ”

"Yes, the old slave understands."

Sure enough, the butler arrived at the construction site that afternoon, and the people there were divided into two groups and were facing each other tensely.

"What's going on here?"

When the leader saw the housekeeper coming, he immediately came over, and said with some fear: "This group of workers is crazy, and if they let them process, they will take their lives, and they are unwilling to do it." ”

The housekeeper looked at him with a somewhat weak expression, and asked suspiciously, "You said that the daily salary has been doubled?" ”

The man bowed his head weakly, and hurriedly said: "How can there be a master who gives such a high salary to the workers, and your nephew told us that the workers will be added with one penny of silver a day." ”

Originally, the silver to be added every day was five yuan, and this time there was only one penny left, no wonder these people were so emotional, dead or alive, the housekeeper heard this, his face was bruised, and he looked around with the eyes of insufficient success and more than failure, and found that he did not see his nephew, and asked very unhappily: "The unsuccessful person does not watch these people work, where did he go?" ”

"I heard that these people were making trouble, so I went to invite the people from the yamen, saying that they wanted to suppress it, otherwise these people would not work, and the construction period was tight, so they could not be delayed."

While speaking, the little nephew had already brought someone over, and saw the housekeeper standing here, as if he had confidence, and immediately came to the housekeeper, and the wicked man first complained: "I see that you are still arrogant, and you have said that you will add money to you every day, but you are not greedy enough, and you have to make trouble." I've already invited someone from the government to come, and I'll see if you're still making trouble."

The housekeeper glared at him, then turned his head and quickly cleared his throat and said to the workers: "This is the construction of a mansion for the six princes, which is your blessing, but you are so unhappy and unsatisfied. ”

"You old man looks like a steward, can't we do it now? We don't take your wages anymore, we don't have enough to eat all day long, and we rush to work day and night, we can't bear it, will you people bully people? ”

The housekeeper laughed and commanded in a very contemptuous tone: "Come on, pull out this person who speaks, beat him, and let him know what it means to crush people to death at the level of officials." ”

"You officials protect each other, you know how to oppress us ordinary people, you ....."

Before he finished speaking, someone had already come to pull the man out, and the officers and soldiers who had just been brought over gave this person a lecture without saying a word.

But after all, he was afraid that he would also be beaten half to death, and he glared at these people one by one, as if he hated to eat them alive.

"This is to build a palace for the six princes, how can you refuse, and it is not a place where you can go wild casually."

Those workers gritted their teeth, and they all secretly hated the six princes in their hearts, could the royal relatives and relatives bully people like this? At the beginning, I thought that it would be better to take over the royal affairs, but I didn't expect to be more picky than ordinary people.

Workers want to contribute, just give some pickles and steamed buns every day, and this also suddenly increases the working hours for so long, and the silver money is only added so little, who is left behind, who will not be convinced.

Seeing their resentful expressions, the butler immediately coughed again and said, "You don't need to be so angry, our fifth prince heard about this matter, and is willing to add four more coins of silver to you every day, so that you can get nine coins of silver every day, and others can't give such a high amount of silver." ”

"Nine coins of silver? You're not kidding, old man, are you? ”

Not only were these workers suspicious, but even his nephew was in a hurry, and hurriedly whispered: "This can't be done, nine coins of silver, plus their food and drink, everyone has at least one or two silver a day, and there are so many workers, how can this be afforded." ”

The housekeeper ignored his words, and even gritted his teeth in a reproachful tone: "You little rabbit cub, you almost broke a big thing, I'll clean you up when I go back." ”

The man knew that he was at a loss, he was greedy, and he thought that his uncle was talking about it, and immediately the sprout was extinguished, and his voice was quiet, and he did not dare to say anything more.

"The contemptible person is the steward of the palace of the five princes, and the silver is settled every Monday, and when the time comes, you will total it, if you are missing a penny, you can only go to the palace to find me."

The workers looked at each other, but most of them chose to believe it.

"Don't be anxious, nine dollars a day, you are indispensable, the fifth prince said, as long as you repair the mansion for the sixth prince, it's okay,"

With him as a guarantor, those workers felt that they could take such a high amount of silver, and immediately those voices of opposition were quieter, not only that, but rumors spread in the capital that the six princes had not returned to the capital, and they had begun to bully people, but the five princes had a good reputation.

Although they were all rumors, they still spread to the inner house of the General's Mansion, and at this moment, Ning Zimo was giving medicine to Xiaoli in his arms.

At noon today, Ning Zimo was thinking in a daze about what happened to Gong Xuanli in the National Temple, and Xiao Li, who had disappeared for a long time, climbed her window, and scratched the window frame with her paws, only then did Ning Zimo realize that something was wrong with it, there seemed to be many terrible sores on her back, some of them were still red and bloodshot, and if you touched it casually, Ning Zimo could see it trembling in pain.

Ning Zimo's eyes immediately turned red, and in a panic, he asked Yunu to find the veterinarian again, and he prepared a lot of medicine, looking for the wound on its back inch by inch, and then carefully applied the plaster.

"Where have you been these days? Why did you hurt so badly? Did you get into a fight with another cat? ”

Xiao Li lay quietly on the table in front of her, drooping her head, her watery eyes looked at her for a moment, as if she was pouring out the endless pain in her back, every time Ning Zimo wanted to apply the medicine, she could feel the trembling of Xiao Li's pain, the subtle tremor passed through her fingertips, straight to her heart wall, she felt that she was so reluctant to give up this fat cat, although it didn't come back often to accompany her,

"Alright, alright, it won't hurt right away, good,"

When she said this, Xiao Li's paw hugged Ning Zimo's hand tightly, as if she didn't want her to touch its back again.

The wound on the back was indeed a little shocking, Ning Zimo gently hugged Xiao Li in his arms after applying the medicine, and said reluctantly: "Where did you get this injury, did you sleep with someone else's little female cat is not responsible, and the back is scratched like this." ”

The jade slave has also been waiting on the side, looked over, and said with some suspicion: "Miss, the slave and maid look at it, this injury seems to have been beaten." ”