Mrs. Wang who left Aunt Xue's courtyard was not as calm as she said to Aunt Xue.As soon as she returned to her main room, Mrs. Wang couldn't wait to call Zhou Rui's family over:

"How is it?"

Zhou Rui's family hesitated and said: "Ma'am, my man has been waiting at the gate of Eunuch Dai's private house for three days, and he has not seen Eunuch Dai leaving the palace..."

"Confused! Since Eunuch Dai didn't go back to his private house, where is Eunuch Xia Shouzhong, the head of the Six Palaces? And Eunuch Zhou!"

Zhou Rui's family said: "Ma'am, it's not that my man doesn't do his best. It's just a coincidence. I heard that the palace is also busy with the matter of visiting your mother-in-law. Eunuch Dai is the head of the imperial court, Eunuch Xia is the head of the sixth palace, and Eunuch Zhou is the head of the sixth palace. He is also a very busy person. Now, I have only waited for so many days. I really can't complain if I didn't wait. Madam, don't worry, my man is now guarding outside Eunuch Dai's private house, and my son-in-law is guarding outside Eunuch Xia's private house. Even Zhou There are also people in the private houses of the father-in-law and the princes, as soon as there is news, they will report to the wife as soon as possible."

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she let out a long breath:

"Understood, you can go down."

Even though I said this, my heart is still full of worries.

Mrs. Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang are all wives. Jia's mother is getting old, and Mrs. Wang's grade is not enough, so it is impossible to enter the palace every month.In addition to submitting the application to get the approval of the upper hall, they can only enter the palace on the seven festivals in the palace: Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Day, the Longevity Festival of the two generations of the emperor and the current emperor, and the two generations of queens of the current empress. Qianqiu Festival.

And on such a day, the protagonists must be the four giants in the palace. Without Jia Yuanchun's business, it is impossible for Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang to ask to meet Jia Yuanchun in private on such a day.

As for other days, you need to go to the palace for approval. As a concubine, let alone Jia Yuanchun, it is the same for any concubine in the palace.If you want to see your parents and family members, you need to submit an application to the palace first and queue up. When the line is up, the servant will send the documents to the queen for instructions.The queen gave instructions, and her own servants went to inform, and then on the appointed day, the family members entered the palace to visit their mother-in-law.This day can be as short as ten days and a half a month, or as long as a year and a half, depending on the status and whether you are favored.

Without the queen nodding, how could the concubines easily see their parents and family members?

Of course, it is another matter for the emperor to take the lead not to take the queen seriously, and to give the favored concubine the right to assist in managing the six palaces.

Today's emperor is not the kind of person who spoils his concubine and destroys his wife. Naturally, the queen's status is stable.So what if Jia Yuanchun was conferred the title of a virtuous concubine, the queen's words of the palace rules made all the sense.The Jia family can unite forces such as the four kings and eight princes to put pressure on the emperor and force the emperor to confer Jia Yuanchun as a concubine, but they cannot change the palace rules one bit.

Calculating the time, Jia Yuanchun became a concubine last winter. Up to now, five festivals have passed, and Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang have also entered the palace five times to kowtow to receive the banquet, but they have not seen Jia Yuanchun once.After submitting applications to the palace several times, but still not seeing the palace nodding, Mrs. Wang was naturally anxious.

In her opinion, her daughter Jia Yuanchun was named Concubine Xiande, a second-rank concubine, already a rare high position in the palace.Theoretically, you have to wait in line for two or three months, so why haven't you been in line for so long?

Mrs. Wang felt uneasy.

— That’s all.

Mrs. Wang said to herself in her heart.

——Maybe someone jammed our notebook on purpose.However, the application form for the family visit has already been uploaded, is it possible that those people can still get stuck with us and report the matter of the family visit to the empress?

In Madam Wang's heart, she was quite proud of her daughter Jia Yuanchun's current status, but she never thought that it was none other than the current emperor who really stuck them.

After the construction of Jia's family's family villa was completed, they requested the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works to review it. The final preparations for Jia Yuanchun's family visit were sent to the emperor. The emperor opened the papers to see:

"Oh, the Jia family's relative's house has been completed? How much money did it cost?"

It's not written on the booklet.

Dai Quan said: "Back to Long Live, the Jia family borrowed 130 million taels from relatives and friends, and borrowed 180 million from the treasury. Including the old things in their warehouse, they spent 320 million taels of silver."

"I borrowed 130 million from relatives and friends. Who is so generous and borrowed so much money from them?"

"Back to Long Live, the Lin family gave the most money, but it was in exchange for Lin Jia's broken relationship."

"Oh? What's the matter."

"I heard that the Jia family asked Lin Buzheng for a loan of 5 taels for the first time, and then borrowed another 50 taels, and then borrowed again. Lin Buzheng cleared out all of Lin Jia's dowry private houses and sent them back. The Jia family, totaling [-]."

Although there wasn't a single dirty word, Dai Quan's tone said everything.

"Besides Lin Ruhai, who else?"

"It's Xue's family, a former royal merchant."

The emperor asked again: "How much does the Jia family owe to the state treasury?"

Dai Quan replied: "Rongguo Mansion is 230 million, and Ningguo Mansion is 91."

"It really is the loyal Jia family."

The emperor's face was full of sarcasm.

Before he ascended the throne, he walked in the Ministry of Households and personally participated in the collection of shortfalls. Therefore, he knew that when the Rongguo Mansion was pardoned by Jia Enhou's wife Zhang's housekeeper, the Rongguo Mansion would repay ten thousand to twenty thousand silver every year, and it would be fully repaid within ten years. 17.At that time, the court had not yet started to urge the deficit to be paid, but it was Mrs. Zhang who took the initiative.I don’t want to, but something happened to Mrs. Zhang later. Jia Yuanchun’s mother, Jia Wang, took over the family. 86 taels of silver owed.

The emperor didn't even bother to say how short the court was of money.He has been urging the deficit for more than ten years, and he also knows that the rest are old tricks. It's not that they don't have money to pay, but they don't want to pay at all.Now, it can be regarded as being caught by him.

What he needs to do now is to make preparations and wipe out these moths.

Not just the Jia family.

Thinking of the Zhang family, the emperor couldn't help but think of Jia She: "Can Marquis Jia En and the Zhang family have any heirs?"

"Yes, Mrs. Zhang's eldest son died when she was young, and the second son's single name is Lian. Because he was young, he was raised in Rongxi Hall. He married Dawang's niece and donated a sixth-rank Tongzhi."

"I'm afraid he doesn't know anything."

Interrogative sentence pattern, statement tone.

The emperor said: "Is he waiting?"

"Yes, long live."

"Let him go to Duanhui's Princess Mansion first to take up the post of chief bookkeeper."

If there were other places to arrange, the emperor would not let Jia Lian serve as an official for Miaoyu.But now, most of the country's power is in the hands of the Supreme Emperor, and his energy is limited. Even several of his former hidden residence staff are still at home.

If he is not in this position, he will not know the suffering of this position. At least, the emperor knows all about the secret actions of the four princes, so he cannot send talents to his sons, add wings to them, and threaten his imperial power.And he is already the emperor, it is impossible to have his own official configuration of the palace.Therefore, Miaoyu's Princess Mansion has become his talent reserve base—although it is not as convenient as his Wang Mansion back then.

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