[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

Jiang Heng bent down to watch the goldfish.

It's real goldfish.

After the Queen Mother rewarded the clothes, the rewards from the palaces also arrived one after another.The queen and others followed the empress dowager's example and rewarded the new couple with silks, satins and silks of various colors.The lower the position, the number of rewards will be reduced in turn with the queen's reward as the ceiling.

Clothes are full of materials, piled up on the kang facing the window in the west wing, which shows that clothing materials are an indispensable currency in the harem.I don't know what to give, come here, send two pieces of material, you can't go wrong.

But the imperial concubine is still a maverick.

The eunuch who came from Yikun Palace had the characteristics of Yikun Palace, and said with a look unique to those who favor concubines: "The noble concubine gave you a pair of decorations."

And Jiang Heng was really shocked when he saw this pair of ornaments.

The ornaments sent by the imperial concubine were each a red gold fish as thick as her wrist, and the eyes of the fish were inlaid with green opals. The scales and whiskers were lifelike, so it could be said to be a real arowana.

Jiang Heng was not surprised by the big gold bar, but because it was sent by the imperial concubine: as far as she knew, the imperial concubine's demeanor had always been that of a fairy.

For example, for the names of the palace people, Concubine Nian specially chose flowers and plants from the Book of Songs.Today, the four first-class ladies in the imperial concubine category are: Gan Tang, Jian Lan, Juan Er, and Shu Pu.It is really different from other palaces when you hear it, and strive to make the maids report their names, so that outsiders will know that their master is educated.

Jiang Heng couldn't help but be surprised that it's nothing more than a reward for the imperial concubine, but there must be another deep meaning for the two big goldfish with rich temperament.

However, the weight of this goldfish is here, and Jiang Heng still accepts it with a smile.

Turning her head, she bowed her knees cautiously to Shang Qiuxue to comfort her: "The imperial concubine is such a bully, please don't be angry."

Jiang Heng: Huh?The standard of bullying in this palace is different from what she remembers. How can sending two big gold bars count as bullying?The imperial concubine didn't hit her with a big gold bar.

Qiu Xue asked her to wait a moment, then hurried back to her room, and quickly brought back a purse for Jiang Heng to look at.

"The servant girl used to work in the Shangyi Supervisor. She used to send clothes to the imperial concubine and received a reward from Yikun Palace. All the prisons and treasuries in the palace know that the imperial concubine's mother's family is very rich, and I am also generous. I love rewarding people with small goldfish."

When Jiang Heng heard this, he understood. Sure enough, he took out the small goldfish in his purse and saw that it was a miniature version of the big goldfish he had received.The small goldfish of the appreciator is about the size of half a coin, and even the eyes are a little green.

The case has been solved. It is estimated that the deep meaning of the concubine's gift of the big goldfish is: In my eyes, rewarding you is the same as rewarding servants.

Jiang Heng shook his head and smiled, not taking it seriously.

If the imperial concubine is really brave, really firmly believes in her position in the emperor's heart, and firmly believes that she is so favored that she is fearless, then why spend a lot of money to give a pair of oversized 'goldfish'?She directly sent two purses to the Yonghe Palace, containing two small fishes for the palace appreciators.That's the real slap and humiliation.

But the imperial concubine still spent huge sums of money to buy a pair of big goldfish. No matter how arrogant the eunuch looked, he only dared to say that the imperial concubine had given him a pair of ornaments. Did the imperial concubine hesitate at all? Chuxiu Palace, but now they dare not give away the little goldfish openly.

The imperial concubine didn't want to covertly respond to her, but 'can only' covertly respond to her.

When someone who has ill intentions towards you can only covertly respond to you by throwing money at you——Jiang Heng doesn't mind the concubine doing it a few more times.

This big goldfish is definitely much harder than the cloth, and the golden scales on it can be used as a reward for people.

Qiu Xue asked from the side: "Master, do you want to display this pair of big goldfish?" If the emperor came, he would definitely ask when he saw it.

At that time, you can sue Concubine Nian, although it is a bit deliberate, but Concubine Nian is the first to deliberately respond to others.

"Don't put it up now, it's getting hotter, I'm dazzled looking at this golden thing, let's put it out in winter." In winter, charcoal fire is paired with this big gold bar, and the flashing light of money can warm people's hearts just thinking about it .

And now is not the time, Jiang Heng wants to see how far this plot can deviate.

Did the emperor and the noble concubine have an occasional short-term quarrel just like in the book, or did an irreversible rift really occur.

Qiuxue did as he was told, and then panting tiredly, she moved the two big goldfishes to the east corner room which was temporarily used as a small storeroom twice.

When Qiu Xue came back, she entered the door with Qiu Shuang.

The two came to report to Jiang Heng the number of clothes sent by the palaces: "The empress has sent..."

Jiang Heng stood in front of the desk, and while listening, recorded the numbers they reported.Instead of the usual Arabic numerals, traditional numerals were used, which made her a little slow.

Some habits are soaked in the bones and are always difficult to change.

Fortunately, the court ladies have been trained to speak in a very steady tone instead of machine-gun-like. It is best not to make an exclamation point when there is a fire, but to say to the master: "There is water outside." Jiang Heng It can still keep up with their speaking speed.

After finishing the recording, she calculated in her mind how much more clothes she had added to her warehouse—basically, she didn't have to pay for new clothes within two years.

However, the sum of all the clothes and materials sent by the palace is not as solid as Nian Guifei's big goldfish.

In modern times, these two heavy and solid goldfish would have to be hundreds of thousands in size.

Jiang Heng hoped that Concubine Nian would always have this attitude towards her—to make her unhappy by throwing money at her.Jiang Heng was even thinking about whether he should pretend to be wronged and humiliated when he saw the imperial concubine tomorrow, and give back to the big boss.Maybe the noble concubine will give another pair of golden tortoises when she sees her.

"Including the spring ration issued by the palace, how many batches of whole materials are there in the warehouse?" Jiang Heng put down his pen after recording, and raised his head to ask the two of them.

Both Qiuxue and Qiushuang were at a loss for words.

Few people can read and write in this era, and even fewer people know how to count.Therefore, the seasoned accountant is a professional talent that all shops are vying for.

When Jiang Heng asked this question, all the court ladies were stopped.

At this time, both of them blushed, and hurriedly said: "Master, please forgive me, this servant will go to the storeroom to order it now."

Jiang Heng called her to stop: "Don't worry, find two brochures first, and I'll make a list of things."

Ancient paper is not modern paper, and the price is so low that children don't feel bad for origami airplanes.The reason why scholars spend money these days is that everything is not cheap.

So Qiushuang first asked: "Master, do you want an ordinary hemp paper book, or a high-quality mulberry paper book?"

Jiang Heng said: "Take a copy first."

The concubines' pens, inks, papers and inkstones also have rules. Before they learned the palace rules in Chuxiu Palace, in order to facilitate copying, the empress specially gave them an extra month's worth of 'stationery'.

Now Jiang Heng has several packs of ordinary white hemp paper, which is the most common paper in the palace, and is often used to make draft paper; and the high-quality mulberry paper and Chupi paper used for calligraphy practice are tough and smooth, with a total of four packs of eight hundred. Zhang; in the legend, "smooth as spring and ice as dense as cocoon" Chengxintang paper is more precious, only a pack of [-] sheets.

At that time, there were no books made by plastic binding machines. To make booklets, most of them were wrapped with paste, or punched and threaded by skillful hands. Nowadays, this kind of durable thread-bound books is more popular in the palace.

Qiu Xue brought two booklets, and Jiang Heng easily recognized the mulberry paper booklet with better paper quality, and wrote the word "fixed" on it.

And another ordinary hemp paper book, wrote the word 'flow'.

In fact, she originally wanted to write fixed assets and current assets, but in the end she concealed the word "assets".Qiu Xue came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and just now when the nobleman asked for the booklet, she knew that she wanted to register the objects in the palace.

But although Qiu Xue knew the words 'fixed' and 'flowing', she didn't understand them.

Jiang Heng spread out the mulberry paper first: "All the things in our house that will not change for a long time, such as the dressing table, tables and chairs, screens, yes, and the pair of big goldfishes, etc. are all recorded in the 'fixed 'In this book, every month you two will inspect the book according to the number to see if there is any loss or damage."

The other ordinary hemp paper book is used to record mobile supplies: such as monthly haircuts, and daily consumption of satin, wax, charcoal, tea, etc.

"These commonly used items are recorded on a separate page on the first day of each month from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After that, the usage is recorded every three days. If the Ministry of Internal Affairs sends more in the middle, it will be added to the total amount on a separate page first." The top and bottom should also be marked according to the date."

Qiuxue can read, but not very good at writing, while Qiushuang can only read very limited.Therefore, Jiang Heng prepared to build a database by himself, so that they could learn to read and write as soon as possible.

"It's not difficult to write, and you don't need to write poems or essays, you can simply keep accounts. First learn the words 'out' and 'in', and then learn to write those household objects."

In the first item of fixed assets, Jiang Heng wrote the Furong Dongshi tripod given by the emperor, and then said with a smile to the two: "Don't mention you for this tripod, sometimes I write that there is one less and more. "Used to use the computer in the past, modern people are a little bit forgetful.

After that, she drew a stick figure of a tripod next to the five characters with the thinnest brush.

"How about it? This way, it will be easier for you to read the account reconciliation, and you won't be afraid of words you don't know."

When I was learning to write when I was a child, I wrote pinyin for those who didn't know it. Now Jiang Heng moved over and asked them to draw stick figures if they didn't know it.

"All kinds of objects are kept in accounts. It may be a little troublesome at first, but as time goes by, you will know the simplicity of it."

Jiang Heng still remembered that when she first joined the company, she caught up with the equipment department to inspect fixed assets.Later, it was discovered that even if the department needs a box of pens and a box of pins, it needs to go through the material application procedure on the intranet.

At first, Jiang Heng also found it troublesome, but later he also handled some management matters, and realized that the more detailed the rules are, the more traceable they can be followed.

Trouble is temporary, order is permanent.

If everything is piled up in the warehouse, whoever needs it can get it. It is convenient for a while, but it will be messed up.

No rules no standards.

Qiuxue and Qiushuang looked at each other, and said hastily: "How can the master decide what to do, the servants are willing to keep their accounts clean!"

Especially Qiushuang, who had served the late emperor's concubines before, knew some old things about the palaces.

Some concubines are either not good at it, or find it troublesome, and they don't care about their own expenses, and the whole palace is messy. They often live affluently in the first half of the month, but are stretched in the second half.

When it's time to use it, you find that the moon silver is gone, or you go to the dining room to order food, and you are told that the whole chicken and duck in this month's routine have been used up. When the masters get angry, they take the palace servants to vent their anger.

Although the concubines would not knock people down in their own palace for the sake of reputation.

But there are too many ways for the master to punish the slave

He only said that he felt that there was a shortage of things, and he was afraid that there were thieves in the palace, so he could make the palace servants kneel down on cinders, broken porcelain, or any other way to vent their anger.

And if the palace maid and eunuch unfortunately suffers from a disability, the rest of her life will be over.

Qiu Shuang had heard of or even seen the concubine punishing people, and Qiu Xue had also seen that once there was a stark and a half in the warehouse of the Shangyi Supervisor, people from the Department of Punishment and Punishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs would come to arrest people.

They are just slaves. If the master is the kind of person who just muddle along and doesn't want to pay attention to the accounts, they can only be more careful and keep themselves.

Now I believe that the nobles actually want to register everything from the very beginning, from the decorations bestowed by the emperor to the small broom, they are very willing from the bottom of their hearts.

People are lazy and want to save trouble.But the problem is that when life safety is at stake, there is nothing to be afraid of if you do more work.

For the next two days, apart from greeting the queen in the morning, Jiang Heng has been building a database of his own assets.

Qiu Xue, who knows the most characters, is already leading a few court ladies and eunuchs to recognize some characters commonly used in accounts.

The day after tomorrow, when Jiang Heng's database was preliminarily completed, he received a message: her Cong Yipin Ama, the new governor of the river, Guar Jiaguanbao, had already led people out of the Jingzhi River.

Jiang Heng sat silently for a while.

Even in modern times, family trips are still something to worry about.What's more, it is an era when letters are difficult to pass by car and horse.

Most of the perspectives of "Xinfeilu" are in the harem, and there are very few descriptions of the previous dynasty, even the heroine's family.

Jiang Heng also only knew that the heroine, Ama, had a high official position and was highly trusted by the emperor. He didn't know exactly what errands he was ordered to do, and he didn't know whether he had served as the governor of the river, and whether everything went smoothly.

Flood control is not an easy job. Although Ama is going to be the governor, she must also inspect the frontier construction sites. People involved in floods are treated equally regardless of their official positions.

"Is there any place in this palace where concubines can go to burn incense?" Jiang Heng went to the countryside to follow the customs, and was going to seek some protection from Xuanxue.

"Do you believe in Buddhism? There are many Buddha statues in the Zhongzheng Hall." Ju Qiuxue introduced that the Zhongzheng Hall in the palace is not a hall, but a palace with more than ten palaces.Among them, Baohua Hall, Fori Tower, and Yuhua Tower all worship different Buddha statues.Usually, when the emperor issued a decree to set up a grand Buddhist event, the concubines had to avoid it, but in normal times, they could go to burn incense and light Buddhist lamps by themselves.

Qiuxue thought again that the nobleman was from the old manchurian surname of the Guerjia family, and said again: "Maybe the head of the Kunning Palace worships the god Mulihan, and there are also shaman women's practices."

Jiang Heng said that compared to some shaman dancing the gods, it is Sakyamuni Buddha, which sounds more reassuring.

When she actually went out to the Zhongzheng Hall, Jiang Heng had a deep understanding of how difficult it is to worship the Buddha—her Yonghe Palace is at the east end of the harem, and the Buddhas in the Zhongzheng Hall are all sitting in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City.

Nobility is not the main position, Jiang Heng does not have his own guard of honor now.If you want to take a step or a sedan chair instead of walking, you have to ask the palace servants to go to the sedan chair to call now.

This kind of publicity is generally not called out except for the nobles who are pregnant and seriously ill.

Jiang Heng is in good health, and he also thought about going for a walk.

As soon as Jiang Heng arrived at the entrance of the Zhongzheng Hall, he met Concubine Yu and Mrs. Guo coming out of it.

Guo was very pleasantly surprised to see her.It's just that Concubine Yu is the main seat, and if she doesn't speak, Mrs. Guo can't speak first, and only blinks at her a few times behind Concubine Yu as a greeting.

Jiang Heng stepped forward and blessed Concubine Yu.

Concubine Yu laughed heartily, and made a joke, pointing to the palace inside: "Before the Buddha, all living beings are equal, so there is no need to salute. It is the right thing to go in and kowtow to the gods and Buddhas later." Jiang Heng and Guo behind Concubine Yu Everyone laughed.

Concubine Yu continued to chatter: "I came here to pray for Hong Zhou. You are new to the court, why don't you rest more in the palace, but come to burn incense from a long distance?" Concubine Yu felt very good to Jiang Heng. Kind, like the enthusiastic colleagues in the previous office who liked to share group buying groups and trifles in life with you.

Jiang Heng replied with a smile: "Ama has gone out of Beijing, I just wanted to pray for safety."

Concubine Yu nodded when she heard the words, and said with emotion: "You have intentions, but in fact, you can't keep up with the safety and security of your loved ones."

She also has a reason for feeling this way.

A few days ago, Yupin's only son, the fifth elder brother, Hong Zhou, was moved to live in the elder brother's house because he had reached the age.Although I know that my son's departure is due to his studies, but I still feel distressed.

There are many wet nurses, nannies and court ladies and eunuchs around the prince, but none of these people are real mothers.

As the biological mother, Geng could only come to burn incense to beg for the safety and health of her son.

Ask Concubine Yu to say, Long Live Lord has few sons, Hong Zhou will not be able to run away with at least one prince in the future, and the most important thing is for his son to grow up safely.

Jiang Heng comforted: "The mother's heart is loving, and the gods and Buddhas know it, and they will definitely protect the fifth elder brother in safety and health."

She said this sincerely and firmly: firstly, she likes children very much, and hopes that all children will be free from disease and disaster, and grow up healthily; Brother Hong Zhou has grown up.

Hearing what she said, Concubine Yu smiled even more: "Your Majesty Chengxin has a good word. That's all right, I won't delay you, go in quickly."

Because Concubine Yu didn't stop talking and Mrs. Guo didn't interrupt, so I had to wink with Jiang Heng again to say goodbye.

However, when Jiang Heng was about to enter the door, Concubine Yu stopped her again: "I heard that the concubine gave you a pair of goldfish."

No one mentioned it when paying his respects in the past two days, Jiang Heng thought no one knew about it, but now that Yu Yu mentioned it, he realized that everyone knew that he had received the Arowana, which represented the meaning of slapping the face.

No one raised this matter to mock her?

Jiang Heng was still a little bit regretful: this has no emotional value, it's strange that the imperial concubine refused to give her a big gold bar.

Hearing Concubine Yu's expression when he talked about the imperial concubine, Jiang Heng understood: it wasn't that she was popular, but that the imperial concubine was not popular, and everyone was unwilling to set up a stage for her.

Another one is that Jiang Heng still has the prestige of "the only newcomer that the emperor has personally seen", and no one is willing to take the initiative to make enemies when he can't figure out the details.

The phrase "Don't bully the young and poor" is as accurate in the palace as it is in fantasy novels.

At this moment, Concubine Yu even specially reminded her.

"You have a good background and you are young. Being young is a good thing, but don't be arrogant. Of course it is not kind for the imperial concubine to give you a pair of goldfish, but you can just treat it as an ordinary decoration and take it away. Don't be wronged enough to complain to the emperor." Concubine Yu lowered her voice: "We have all suffered losses before."

"When the imperial concubine first entered the mansion, I was still pregnant with Hong Zhou, and the concubine Xi had just given birth to her fourth elder brother—these are the times when women are the most precious. But even so, it is still not as good as the imperial concubine's face in front of the emperor. It is useless to tell the emperor about the grievance of the imperial concubine, if there is not a child by his side, I am afraid that we will all suffer a lot."

This is the real experience of those who have been there.

Jiang Heng didn't expect Concubine Yu to talk so deeply with her, so he thanked her first.

Afterwards Concubine Yu brought Mrs. Guo back to the palace, Jiang Heng went into the palace to burn incense, worship Buddha, and wandered back to his Yonghe Palace again, which took more than an hour.

After Jiang Heng went back, he remembered Concubine Yu's advice today.

The concubine Yu in the book is almost the background board, only appearing when paying respects, and is a popular figure.She didn't frame the heroine, but she didn't show any kindness to the heroine either.

In fact, in general time-traveling novels or rebirth novels, the heroine will use the advantage of the prophet to destroy the enemy in the cradle as much as possible.

But the heroine actually has no fixed enemies.

The situation in the harem is that anyone can step on them when they are weak, and those who don't make trouble are considered good-hearted people.They are like living in a deep sea full of whirlpools. From the queen to the most ordinary little maid and eunuch, everyone has their own whirlpool to escape. If you don’t swim hard, no one will always drag you burdened and struggling.

Only when you show a good posture and can protect yourself, will someone help you out of a good relationship, I will give you a hand today, and you will give me a hand in the future.

Not long after Jiang Heng returned from the Central Hall, he was standing under the eaves looking at the courtyard, thinking of adding some flowers, when he saw a big eunuch wearing a satin-trimmed waistcoat, and brought two young eunuchs in.

Saved the little eunuchs guarding the door to report.

"Slave Zhang Yuzhu, I have met Mr. Xingui."

Zhang Yuzhu, Jiang Heng has heard of this name before—the concubine in the harem who has never heard of the name of eunuch Zhang is an outlier. This one is in charge of handing green cards to the emperor. The eunuch in charge of the messenger.

It can be called the number one big magpie in the harem.