"Your Royal Highness, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the Salary Saving Division, asks to see you."

"Wei Zhongxian?"

At six o'clock on the second day, Zhu Youzhen rarely slept in bed.

When he just got up and the palace maids and eunuchs were still waiting for him to dress, Wang Chengen pinched the dust and saluted at the door of the palace.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen's puzzled face, Wang Chengen drove the other eunuchs and palace maids out of the dormitory, and then stepped forward and said:

"Wei Zhongxian sent someone 20,000 taels of silver and a small box of jewelry and jade, it seems that something important has come."

"Oh...... Can't help it so soon? Zhu Youzhen sat on the washing chair, and then sneered:

"This guy wants to make a move on Wang An in order to seek the position of the celebrant supervisor."

"Then we ......" Wang Chengen felt a horror in his heart, remembering that Cao Huachun, the number two person among the eunuchs in the Miaoqin Palace, was Wang An's righteous son, so he tentatively asked his Royal Highness's thoughts.

However, as they thought, Zhu Youzhen naturally wanted to protect Wang An.

But this protection does not mean that Wang An is protected by no brains, but by another way of protection.

"In this case, you should call Wei Zhongxian in first, as for all those silver jewels, the silver two will be stored in the palace temporarily, so don't transport them to the Imperial Horse Prison."

"The slave and maid receive ......the order," Wang Chengen responded, and then slowly withdrew from the dormitory.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he also walked out of the dormitory and sat at the top of the main hall.

The eunuch of the Qingong Palace brought an ice jian, and Zhu Youzhen looked at the ice jian steaming white, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, this is the crisp mountain made by the imperial dining room, long live after tasting it and feeling that it tastes good, it is very summer-cooling, so I asked the imperial dining room to make a copy and send it to the East Palace."

"When the people in the imperial dining room saw that you were not in the East Palace, they sent you to the Qingong Palace and protected it with ice."

"Sushan?" Zhu Youzhen was stunned, he always felt that he had heard the name of this thing, and thought about it:

"Is it the crisp mountain in Yang Wanli's poem "Yongsu"?"

"Back to Your Highness, yes." As he spoke, the little eunuch opened the ice jian, and saw that the structure inside was a cylindrical shape in the middle, and inside the cylindrical shape was a yellow-white paste substance similar to ice cream, and outside the cylindrical shape were pieces of ice.

The little eunuch took out Sushan, dug a piece with a spoon, and sent it to Zhu Youzhen with both hands.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen was not afraid that the things in the imperial dining room were poisonous, so he ate them directly.

"Hmmm......"

When the crispy mountain enters the mouth, the cold taste immediately explodes, exuding a faint milk smell, like ice cream.

It is already October now, and it stands to reason that the capital has already entered winter.

However, it seems to be calm before the outbreak of the Xiaoice River period, and in early October, the capital is still trembling under the power of the autumn tiger, and most people are still wearing summer clothes.

"Is this thing hard to make?"

Zhu Youzhen took over the crisp mountain, and asked while digging and eating.

"It's not difficult to do, the main thing is to get an ice store, mix milk, goat's milk and other things with special fruit powder, and then store them in the freezer for a day and a night, and then take them out and eat them."

The little eunuch replied honestly, and Zhu Youzhen also knew that this thing was not something that ordinary people could afford to eat.

It's not that ordinary people can't afford to eat milk or drink cold drinks, but the cost of Sushan is too high.

Rather than that, the people may prefer a bowl of black plum soup mixed with ice.

"Okay, these ice cubes, you ask the cook of the East Palace to get some black plum soup, and drink it yourself, so that you can cool off the heat."

"Slave and maid knock on the ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, the little eunuch and the palace maids in the main hall saluted one after another, and at this time, Wang Chengen also appeared at the door of the main hall of the palace with Wei Zhongxian.

Without waiting for the two of them to salute, Zhu Youzhen said while eating Sushan:

"Alright, let's just come in."

When the two people who were about to salute heard this, they hurriedly entered the hall, Wei Zhongxian also knelt in the center of the main hall, and Wang Chengen walked to Zhu Youzhen's side.

"I know your intentions, don't worry about Wang An's affairs......"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, Wei Zhongxian's heart tightened, he only felt that Zhu Youzhen was too well-informed, and he couldn't help but suspect that there was an inner ghost around him.

But before he could explain, Zhu Youzhen said:

"In the next few days, you will go to the inner study hall first and learn some words well."

"Wang An's side, after all, is an old man left behind by the imperial examination, and I will remind him after the year and ask him to go to Nanjing to retire."

"Slave and maid, thank Your Highness!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly kowtowed happily, while Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said:

"There is no need for false courtesy, if you are a eunuch who is the celebrant of ceremonies, don't live up to the wishes of me and the imperial brother, just do things well."

"Slaves and maids will never dare to live up to the grace of God and His Highness!" Wei Zhongxian licked an old face, flattering Zhu Youzhen, and he was disgusted when he saw it.

"Okay, let's step back after the matter is over, you don't have to quarrel with Wang Annan before he goes down, I annoy the imperial brother, your is shaken out, and I can't protect you."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, Wei Zhongxian's heart became empty.

The so-called broken things are not the things that he took refuge in Concubine Li Kang in the first place.

If those things were really shaken out, it would be light to lose his head, so he shrunk his neck, quickly got up, and left the palace after saluting repeatedly.

But after he left, Wang Chengen bowed slightly and said:

"Your Highness, really let this guy who doesn't know a liter of big characters enter the celebrant superintendent?"

"Huh...... In the past few years, the celebrant has not been a good job. Zhu Youzhen ate the crisp mountain and chuckled lightly.

"By the way, you asked Hua Chun to tell Wang An that now is not the time for the imperial examination, and the things he had with Concubine Li Kang were also going to lose his head if he was poked out by Wei Zhongxian."

"Tell him to take care of the affairs of the celebrant in the past few months, and go to Nanjing to recuperate well after the age of the year, and let Wei Zhongxian and the Ke family be arrogant for a few years, and he will make a comeback in the future."

"The slave takes the command." Seeing that Zhu Youzhen said it so bluntly, Wang Chengen nodded, and called his cronies to send a message to Cao Huachun.

After he finished doing this, Zhu Youzhen asked again:

"Shangyi Supervisor, Scarf and Hat Bureau, Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, how many people make clothes in these places?"

"Uh...... This slave is not very clear, but according to the old calendar, there should be at least about 3,000 people. Wang Chengen replied truthfully, and Zhu Youzhen, who heard this, also spoke:

"You take 10,000 taels of silver, go to the military department to give me 94,000 sets of mandarin duck battle jackets, and take another 14,000 sets, and call the Shangyi Supervisor, the Scarf and Hat Bureau, and the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau to stuff cotton into them to make winter clothes, which must be completed within four days."

"I will use these clothes, and the silver will be taken from the 20,000 taels sent by Wei Zhongxian."

"As for Cao Huachun, tell him that after the imperial brother's enthronement ceremony is over, I will go to Changping and ask him to keep an eye on the capital, and as soon as the Zhejiang soldiers arrive in Tongzhou, I will send them to Changping to rest and recuperate."

Zhu Youzhen's words were very long, but Wang Chengen had a good memory, and when he saw that His Royal Highness finished speaking, he bowed slightly:

"Slave and maid receive ......"

"Stand down." As soon as Zhu Youzhen raised his hand, Wang Chengen also retreated, and he took out a military book from the bookshelf next to him and read it carefully......