The ninth elder brother couldn't help but be a little worried and said: "It can't be the daughter of Yin De from Shengjing, right? Where do you want to put such a restless temper?" The tenth elder brother shook his head and said: "That is not among the girls to be drafted." With a bad reputation again, Aling'a won't look for trouble.
"That's not right. The eldest daughter of Aling'a was also selected for the draft the year before last?" The ninth elder brother was surprised and asked very puzzledly: "Isn't it the daughter of the descendant who was given grace to be exempted from the selection?" The tenth elder brother thought about it. Thinking about it, he said: "I should just go through the motions and meet people with Concubine Yi's mother..." Brother Jiu curled his lips and thought of the draft in thirty-seven years. It felt like it had been a long time ago.
Thank God. If I had pointed out Aling'a's eldest daughter to him, then Shu Shu would have been someone else's.
Considering how much Shu Shu is loved by her parents-in-law, she is afraid that she will still buy a dowry now and wait for her to get married. After all, it is now popular in the Eight Banners to marry late, and it is not unusual for a princess to stay until she is eighteen or nineteen.
What about yourself? Maybe it was the wedding last year, maybe it was the wedding this year. In short, he is still in elder brother's house, maybe he has not left the study yet... Ninth elder brother wanted to go back to Aling'a again, and said: "He can do whatever he likes, what are you doing with him? I'll be sorry if I misunderstood you again." , do you think it was not unjust for you to torment them?" The tenth elder brother said: "It should be a conversation, to see if I have the intention to choose another Xiang Fujin from Niu Hulu's family, or to see if I can stop them... ..." Brother Jiu frowned and said: "It's simply inexplicable! I told you, it's better not to meet him. He is a sinister person and behaves irregularly. He may be deliberately showing off. If he comes to your place for a while, if he doesn't save everything, he will drag you into trouble. The flag is up..." Brother Ten nodded and said, "Brother Ninth is right, that younger brother is gone." His relationship with Niu Hulu's family is just as close as it is now, not close but close.
If we take another step closer, I'm afraid there will be more speculations from outside and more troubles. After a while, when the brothers arrived at Xihua Gate, Brother Jiu got off the carriage and took people to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
He now went out, accompanied by two close attendants, He Yuzhu and Sun Jin, two haha beads, Xing He and Baoshan, and four guards on duty, a total of eight people following him.
The twelfth elder brother is already here, writing something under the bed. The ninth elder brother walked over and leaned forward to read: "What do you write?" The twelfth elder brother stood up and said: "Yesterday, I checked the household registers of many left-collar residents and found that the increase in population by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not just due to normal breeding. There are also many people who live with the same clan and have different surnames..." Just like the Eight Banners are related to each other, the three banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are also inextricably linked to the five banners.
These coated populations are still under the old Eight Banners from Longguan Pass, and are divided into various flag colors, and there are times when the colors are changed.
There was not much difference in the early years, but since entering the customs, there has been a difference between the upper three flags coating and the lower five flags coating.
There are many officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and many errands. There are more than 4,000 vacancies to be counted. It is also easier to choose women errands.
Under the Five Banners, the situation is much worse, and the selection of officials is not as good as the population of the banners. Some people came to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to move their children to the Three Flags Protection Register of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as adoptive parents or adopted sons-in-law.
After the twelfth elder brother said this, he pointed to another one and said: "Besides the Manchu left leaders and the Mongolian left leaders, there are also many banner and drum left leaders marrying the people..." If there is a normal marriage, there will be no such thing. What is eye-catching, but there are a few cases of people who marry people's widows or take people as concubines, and then their stepsons and stepdaughters become Baoyi.
Brother Jiu heard this and became serious. It was a common practice in the wealthy family to keep concubines. The ninth elder brother's grandfather, Sanguanbao, had two wives on one side and several rooms for concubines.
The reason why the palace only selects maids from the three banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is to know the basics. Who knows what this new coating from outside is?
Brother Twelve pointed this out because he was also worried about this. The ninth elder brother pondered and said: "Write this down, look back and see how to deal with it." The twelfth elder brother nodded in agreement, then pointed to another item, and said: "These families marry children with red belts, and some marry children under the household. Human..." All dynasties have paid attention to
"Good people and bad people should not marry", and the Qing Dynasty was no exception. Baoyi is also a Zhenghu Banner, and there are many people who marry each other with Qizuo Banners, but most of them marry Qizuo Banners, and it is still rare to marry directly with Huangdaizi or Hongdaizi.
According to the "Eight Banners Regulations", marrying a member of the household is not allowed. In the future, titles and errands will be reduced to those of ordinary people.
The ninth elder brother said: "According to the law, all the places that violate the law will be gathered together, and when the time comes, we will ask the superiors to judge..." The twelfth elder brother agreed and continued to sort it out.
After a while, Zhang Baozhuo came and took two brochures, looking very worried. Brother Ninth glanced at him and said, "Why, there are no spare rent-collecting official rooms?" It turned out that Brother Ninth remembered the Queen Mother's instructions and asked Zhang Baozhu to sort out the book of official shops in the imperial city, and planned to select a few good ones among the spare official rooms. Yes, add it to Jiugege.
These shops in the Imperial City still belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but in the future, the rental income can go to Jiugege.
If Jiu Gege is impatient and rents out, he can take it back and ask his subordinates to open a shop. The right to use this shop will not be recovered until Jiu Gege dies.
In this case, the quality of this realm is very important. For the same shop, the annual rent of two or three hundred taels is certainly different from that of two or thirty taels.
Brother Jiu told the matter to Zhang Baozhu and asked him to walk around several streets in the imperial city to see where the boundaries were.
Zhang Baozhu took the booklet and said: "Yes, there is, but the ownership is a little unclear now..." Brother Jiu listened to Hu Tu and said: "Why is it not clear? Either he is still in the public administration, or he was given a gift. There are always records..." The Eight Banners have been in Guan for more than fifty years. All the houses in the imperial city are owned by the royal family. How can there be two homeowners?
Zhang Baozhu took two brochures and said: "According to this brochure, there are five shops in Xi'anmen Street. The houses are dilapidated. They are rented to the people to manage the third business at 50% of the market price. The annual rent is forty-eight taels of silver. But the slave passed by and took a look. Isn't this the 'Yufeng Building'? Yufeng Building is a large shop with a width of ten rooms, with two floors, and a courtyard at the back. The total number of rooms in this building is about forty..." Brother Jiu After hearing this, I couldn't help but frown.
The annual rent of a prosperous shop is forty-eight taels? Nonsense! Living in the capital is not easy, let alone a shop, even a small courtyard in a secluded part of the inner city, with a rent of forty-eight taels, there is no place to rent it.
The trouble is not in the accounting books.
"Ha! I didn't realize that there is this rich man in the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" Brother Jiu grinded his teeth. If we didn't ask people to check the shop, who would have thought of this?
Brother Jiu glanced at Zhang Baozhu and said, "Okay, I understand. Mr. Zhang can keep these two books. There is no need to mention this matter again." Zhang Baozhu agreed, left the books, and retreated.
The twelfth elder brother had already put down his pen and listened to the whole story. Seeing the ninth elder brother's expression, he hesitated for a moment and advised: "Ninth elder brother, it is not possible for one or two people to act like this, and there are many things involved behind it." It's not just one family or two families..." Killing people's jobs is like killing their parents.
Brother Jiu glanced at him and said: "Don't worry, brother knows what he knows, but he didn't expect that he would raise a second master under Khan Ama's nose!" This is the shortcoming of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
They are all members of the coated population, either relatives or friends. In the end, they got together and deceived the superiors and deceived the inferiors. He hummed softly and had a plan.
The Yushi Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs... is not a senior official... It has been established for several months now, and it can't just check accounts.
That's all part of the job, so what's the credit? Now, isn't it a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds? Brother Jiu knew what was going on, so he was not in a hurry.
seeing is believing. Even though Zhang Baozhuo reported it, Brother Jiu still wanted to see it with his own eyes.
Therefore, when he came home at noon, Brother Jiu took a closer look. Because it was almost dinner time, there was an endless stream of customers downstairs at Yufeng, and some people were already waiting for a table outside.
The table is full. Brother Jiu glanced at his pocket watch. It was only the second quarter of the afternoon. Looking at this land and shop, no wonder business is good.
It looks grand and is located at the intersection of Sancha, making it the best-located shop on the entire street. Forty-eight taels of silver a year!
Brother Jiu couldn’t help grinding his teeth! The normal price of a shop like this is more than ten times, estimated to be more than ten times.
In the end, only forty-eight taels of silver were handed over to the Accounting Department. Even the meat and bones were given to the secret, leaving only a mouthful of soup for the public.
How unreasonable! Also, he had been the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for three years, but he had not heard any news at all, which also made him feel embarrassed and annoyed.
His eyes darkened. He didn't like to talk to Baoyi before, and besides Gao Bin and his son, he never got close to anyone else.
Now it seems that that won't work. The Gao family has no foundation in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is not well-informed. Brother Ninth needs both ears and eyes here.
He put down the curtain and thought of this. Even though he was worried about it, he didn't forget about buying mutton in Xisi. He walked half a street and bought mutton and sesame sauce biscuits.
Here at Shu Shu, Shi Fujin has just been sent away. Throughout the morning, Shu Shu asked about the monks and temples on the grassland.
As a result, she discovered that almost all the people in the grasslands are now religious. The princes of various tribes believed in religion and had begun to arrange for other sons who were not qualified to become monks.
The example above will lead to imitation. Even those who have many sons from common people like to send them to become monks.
"Otherwise, what should we do? If we have more sons, we need to divide the family. But for the princes and Belles, the size of the pasture is fixed. If it is divided again and again, the pasture will become smaller. For ordinary people, too, the livestock will be smaller. It is fixed, and there is no extra space to raise more cattle and sheep. If you divide it back and forth, the family will never be able to save..." When Shi Fujin talked about this, he was extremely transparent and said: "Just It's like killing wolf cubs every spring. It's to control the size of the wolf pack and send the children to become monks. It's no different from that..." Shu Shu looked at Shi Fujin and was shocked.
I never expected this to be the reason. It actually sounds reasonable. We can only talk about the difference between nomadic people and agricultural people.
They are more particular
Some "natural selection"...
