After lunch, Brother Jiu went to the imperial dining room.
"Where is the Mid-Autumn Festival tribute list from the governor of Shandong? Let me show it to you!"
When the manager of the imperial kitchen came forward to say hello, Brother Jiu gave the order.
The manager immediately called someone to bring the order.
Because this has just been put into the warehouse, the inventory was only completed yesterday, and the order has not been filed yet.
Brother Jiu took the order and read it carefully.
There are five boxes of auspicious vegetables, five barrels of pomegranates, five boxes of evergreens, nine baskets of Geng cakes, five barrels of longevity fruits, nine boxes of persimmon frost, five barrels of barley rice, five barrels of papayas, and five barrels of golden jujubes.
The quantity of longevity fruit is too small to get it from the imperial kitchen.
But there are a few other things to eat...
It is common in other palaces, but Papaya has no impression of it.
The "Papaya" that "throws me a papaya and embraces it with Qiongju"?
Brother Jiu was curious and asked: "What kind of melon is papaya? Vegetable melon or fresh fruit?"
The steward immediately ordered him to go down, and the papayas were fetched in a short time.
It is about the size of a fist, shaped like a goose egg, and smells fragrant.
"how to eat?"
Brother Ninth said.
It looks pretty good, but I wonder if Shu Shu will like it.
Kitchen manager: "This tastes bad when eaten directly, like chewing wood. It needs to be dried in the sun and used as medicinal food..."
Brother Ninth immediately lost interest and gave up.
Over the past year, he has taken a lot of tonics and medicated meals.
That's enough.
He is not interested in anything with the word "medicine" in it.
After coming out of the imperial dining room, he went to the House of Internal Affairs and told Gao Bin: "I don't have any other errands these days. Let's go to the Shandong Guild Hall first to find someone from the Shandong Governor's Yamen to see if there is any surplus tribute to buy. If there is, I will buy it." If you don’t have some long-lasting fruits, golden jujubes, barley rice, etc., go to the shops in the capital to see if there are merchants who specialize in selling Shandong specialties, and then order these.”
Gao Bin listened carefully and followed the order.
Brother Jiu was impatient. He wanted to cultivate the longevity fruit in the capital, but he didn't want to wait until the spring of the next year.
In his opinion, he can try to plant a crop now.
When the weather gets cold, just do what Dongzi cooks and burn charcoal to heat it up.
In this way, a crop can be cultivated in autumn and winter. If there is any inappropriateness, it will be avoided next spring.
With two crops in one year, there are more chances of success.
As for why the other two are added, that is incidental and confusing.
There were too many idle people in the Eight Banners outside, and some people were willing to keep an eye on the goings-on in the palace and talk about big and small things as gossip.
It would be bad to just talk about the longevity fruit and let people guess.
Since it has a beautiful meaning, he also wants to be the best, so as to show his filial piety.
Next, Brother Jiu began to read the official documents. The Construction Department had an expenditure, which was part of the expenses for repairing Princess Shuhui's villa and Princess Jiuge's mansion.
He looked at it briefly, wrote "accurate", and stamped it.
The project at Jiugege is huge and will not be completed until next year.
Princess Shuhui's villa only has a few repairs, which are where the princess lives, sits, and sleeps. The other areas are not large, so the construction period will be faster.
The reason why it is not built according to the Princess Mansion is because there is no precedent.
The princess of Fumeng is the princess of Fumeng. If the capital builds a princess palace, should the other princesses build one?
A separate courtyard has been built here. When the eldest princess uses it up, she can transfer it to other princesses who return to the capital.
The princess returns to court...
The age of the eldest princess Shuhui...
Brother Jiu looked serious. He felt that such a lucky thing as the longevity fruit was secondary. He still had to plant potatoes and corn well to make sure he took the credit.
Otherwise, if you give birth to a little Ge Ge and care for him when he grows up, wouldn't that be robbing him of his heart?
I can't bear to think about it.
It took about half an hour for the business to be completed.
Brother Ninth left the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and went to Cining Palace.
Merit is important, and money cannot be earned less.
Although it did not fall into his pocket, it was also his contribution as the general manager that the internal treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was enriched.
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Brother Jiu felt that he was a little vain and competitive.
Even if the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does a good job or a bad job, Khan Amar will not give him a salary increase, but he still wants to do better so that others can praise him once or twice.
In Cining Palace, the interior decoration is now distributed in the tea room.
As soon as Brother Ninth arrived, the doctor on duty and the eunuch in charge came out to greet him.
Brother Jiu said, "It's nothing. I'm here to find the craftsman from the enamel workshop to see the quality of the current utensils."
The eunuch in charge heard this, and immediately asked someone to send a message to the enamel maker, and at the same time took Brother Jiu there.
There are now more than 20 workshops in the internal manufacturing office, and enamel making is one of them.
The leader of the craftsmen in the enamel workshop is the craftsman.
When the craftsman came over, Brother Jiu said to the doctor on duty and the eunuch in charge: "Okay, you go ahead!"
The two of them bowed out respectfully, and then Brother Jiu asked the craftsman: "Do you have any recent finished products that I can take a look at?"
The craftsman said: "There are several pairs of bottles that the emperor ordered to bake in July..."
Brother Jiu nodded and followed the craftsman to the finished product warehouse.
There are several pairs of vases.
Among them is a pair of pastel ones, with peach blossoms in full bloom on the top and several children playing around below.
There is also a pair of lotus root-colored ones with roses on them.
There is also a pair of light blue bottoms with azaleas on top.
There is also a pair with a blue background and a cluster of orchids on top.
There is also a pair of yellow ones, with branches on the top and a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water below.
Brother Jiu raised his eyebrows and his mind began to wander.
What was ordered last month?
What big events happened last month?
The inner court was being renovated, and how many concubines and empresses were moving into the palace? !
Is this a reward from Nogong?
The one with pink peach blossoms belongs to Concubine Zhang?
There are children playing here.
Which is the rosy rose?
Rose, the "rich" among flowers, the flower of wealth?
Is this noble Gualja?
Du Juanhua is the beauty among flowers, but is she the concubine of Wei?
Needless to say about orchids, the gentleman among flowers is Empress Hui.
The remaining vines and mandarin ducks...
Brother Jiu is a little embarrassed, but his mother-in-law really seems to like this color...
The old man is quite funny, taking into account both "new love" and "old love".
But this is my Khan Amma, not as ruthless as the emperors in history books.
He complained a few words in his mind, picked up the blue vase, looked at it carefully, and said, "Is this made of silver?"
This blue enamel has a nice color, but the luster is a bit stiff.
It seems that my wife's idea is feasible. After color adjustment, it should be possible to bake a blue color that is very similar to the color of Dian Cui.
The craftsman said: "Yes, this set of vases are all made of silver."
Brother Jiu asked: "If it were on a gold tire, could this blue color be produced?"
The craftsman was stunned when he heard this and said: "I don't know, I have only fired copper and silver enamels before. The difference between the copper enamel and the silver enamel is brighter..."
Brother Jiu then ordered: "Then try goldware these days. You don't have to start with big pieces, you can burn small ones first, such as rings, peace cards, etc., try coloring, mainly blue, adjust the shades some……"
Silverware may be considered a good thing to ordinary people, but to real princes and nobles, it is not pleasing to the eye.
The price can't go up either.
It's different if you change the goldware.
The craftsman said: "Master Jiu, when you open the workshop to collect materials, you must have a list before you can collect materials from the treasurer..."
Brother Jiu said, "Can I make an order?"
The craftsman bowed and said, "Of course it is possible."
The Internal Affairs Office, the full name of the Internal Affairs Office is the "Internal Affairs Office." The ninth elder brother is the director of the Internal Affairs Office, so he naturally has the jurisdiction and control power of the Internal Affairs Office.
Brother Jiu was not polite. He called the doctor on duty and made a list of materials.
Allocate fifty taels of enamel to make gold and bake utensils.
Then he signed and stamped his name at the back.
When the craftsman took the order and went down, the doctor whispered to Brother Jiu: "If Master Jiu wants to make jewelry for Fujin, it's better not to use the materials in the inner treasury. It would be more convenient to bring the gold directly, and there is no need to record it." This amount is just a reward to the craftsman.”
This is also a kind reminder.
I was afraid that Brother Jiu would take away the finished utensils, and he would not be able to reconcile the accounts inside and outside, and would be criticized.
Brother Jiu said: "It's not for my own use, it's for me to enter, so that's all!"
The doctor was relieved.
However, when the doctor mentioned Fujin, Brother Jiu remembered the glass window his wife had mentioned.
If more transparent glass could be made, replacing glass windows would not be a dream.
But the premise is that the number of transparent glass must be increased, and the Qianqing Palace and Ningshou Palace must be replaced first.
The inner palace rooms have almost been changed, and then it will be their turn to be younger, so that they will not be conspicuous.
After he left the enamel factory, he went to the glazed factory and looked at the finished product warehouse here.
The glass factory under Liulizuo was not in the palace, but outside the gate of Xi'an.
But the finished product warehouse is in the palace.
Brother Jiu briefly read it and was a little disappointed.
The glass that can be fired in glass factories now is mainly colored glass, and very few are transparent.
Those that are occasionally fired are treasures. If you want to use them to frame windows, you simply don’t have the quantity.
There can be more milky white ones, which are translucent, but the quantity is limited.
Brother Jiu shook his head and temporarily turned off his thoughts on the glass window.
Let's wait and see.
If the blue-fired gold jewelry is completed and you earn more money, you can allocate part of the money to develop the firing process of transparent glass.
Thinking that it was made of silver, Brother Jiu felt a little sick.
Even if the money spent is not one's own money, it is still reluctant to part with it.
But who asked his wife to mention it?
Brother Ninth is still very motivated and plans to give Shu Shu a surprise when the time comes.
When he returned to the Second Institute, Brother Jiu mentioned the silver enamel made of enamel and said: "There are many colors, all of which look bright. In addition to burning blue, you can also burn red..."
There are many tribes in Mongolia who prefer red, and coral, red agate and red beeswax jewelry are popular.
With hot red gold jewelry, many people will definitely like it.
Shu Shu praised: "You are so smart..."
Not only are the Mongolians more popular in red, but the Manchus were white in their early years. Now that they have been in the customs for many years and their lives have been Sinicized, they are also starting to be red.
Brother Jiu raised his eyebrows and said, "What's the matter? You're really smart. I'm just picking up the pieces and filling in the gaps for you..."
He is not the kind of man who doesn't like seeing strong women.
On the contrary, there is no glory in it.
However, thinking of the color of Dian Cui, he still said: "You take time to go to Yikun Palace tomorrow and borrow some Dian Cui hairpins from the empress so that the enamel makers can refer to the color. Otherwise, it won't be like working behind closed doors..."
Shu Shu felt a little numb after hearing this.
According to Concubine Yi, it was a gift from the emperor, or a reward for giving birth to Brother Nine. This borrowing would not misunderstand Concubine Yi, right?
Do you think you are short-sighted and are trying different ways to ask for it?
She asked, "Then what should I tell my queen?"
Brother Jiu thought of those vases and decided to imitate them. He said: "Tell me the truth to your Majesty and let me use it as a reference for the enamel painting. Your Majesty likes to decorate the vases, and I can't find a suitable one for a while. Let's just think about it." I want to honor the queen with some roasted blue jewelry..."
