Kangxi took a long breath, looked at Brother Jiu and said, "Are you worried that someone in Yuqing Palace would pretend to claim the title when you gave the order like that before?"
Brother Jiu nodded and said: "There is an example of the imperial kitchen, so my son is a little worried. When the time comes, these people will be outside under the banner of the prince, and they will also damage the prince's face."
It is only natural for a son to take advantage of me, but for the slave below to take advantage of me in the name of a son, he is so bold and seeking death.
Kangxi put down his account books and really didn't worry about the other four treasuries.
He glanced at Brother Jiu and lowered his eyes.
It's just that it's not easy to check at this time, and we can't let Brother Jiu and Yu Qinggong confront each other.
The five fingers may be long or short, but they are all biological sons. The fingers are connected to the heart, and I still hope that they will be preserved.
He closed the account book and said, "I heard that you are going to open a restaurant in Xiaotangshan?"
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "It's not a restaurant, it's a place like an inner restaurant or an outer restaurant. It sells all kinds of delicacies, including old Manchurian, Mongolian, Korean, and Ryukyu food. If Khan Amma wants to show favor to the vassals and ministers, , just enjoy staying for a few days, where food, drinks, accommodation and hot springs are all-inclusive, and then settle the settlement with the emperor and put it into the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Because it is adjacent to the imperial palace, there is no way to rent it to outsiders. It is best for it to be run by the public.
As for the cooks inside, they can be dispatched directly from the imperial kitchen.
After thinking about it, I know that whether it will be lively or not after the palace is built depends on the time of the Holy Emperor's move every year.
Just like here in Changchun Garden, the presence and absence of the Holy Master are two different situations.
Kangxi changed his attention after hearing this and said, "What's going on with the imperial settlement?"
Brother Jiu said carefully: "The accounts must be cleared. If we don't settle with the emperor, then others will rely on their status to arrange for people to go there to eat and drink, and then we will be in the red..."
"Only when the rules are set, and you reward people with real money to live there, those noble clan members who have not built a hot spring villa and still want to go there to bathe in hot springs will not dare to think about taking advantage..."
"However, there must be a certain grade. For example, there must be a noble family and above, and nobles and ministers must be above the third grade. Otherwise, all the decent people in Baoyi will go there to eat and drink, and this place will become unvalued. …”
Kangxi understood what Brother Jiu meant. He was afraid that the nobles of the clan would eat and drink, so he added restrictions and put himself first.
Give me the grace you deserve...
Kangxi was very moved.
In the past two years, he has been stationed in Changchun Garden more and more often. It is hard for the courtiers who are on duty in front of the emperor to go in and out of the city.
Those who had no time to return to the city sooner or later would stay in the official rooms in Haidian Town.
There are old row houses over there, in ordinary condition.
Kangxi thought for a while and said to his ninth elder brother: "There are rice fields to the west of the West Garden. Three or five miles to the west, we will set aside more than ten acres of land and ask people to build a place where the ministers can live. Prepare If there are more, in the coming summers, there will be no great scholars or ministers from Zhuangzi in Haidian who can live here."
After hearing this, Brother Jiu fell into deep thought.
My elder brother has three entrances, so the minister's residence can only have two entrances.
A courtyard like my brother's is the most suitable.
He said: "Khan Amma, how about building rows of courtyards with two entrances? Each courtyard covers an area of eight and a half minutes, with 21 rooms in size. There are six courtyards in a row, a total of twelve courtyards."
Kangxi listened, nodded and said: "Twelve small courtyards are enough. Let's build a large courtyard with about ten rooms. We can arrange kitchens and waiters so that the local officials who present the documents to your Majesty can stay."
Brother Jiu took note of it carefully, nodded, and said, "My son will give instructions tomorrow and draw the map according to the regulations of the official post."
Next to Changchun Garden, there is an additional official building similar to a post station.
Brother Jiu thought for a while and said: "This part of the population can be drawn from the idle vacancies in the garden, so as to avoid adding more vacancies and leaving them idle when the Holy Master is not in the garden."
Kangxi glanced at Brother Jiu, wondering why he was so stubborn and stingy about Xin Que, turning his annual salary into a monthly salary.
"With the added vacancy, wouldn't it be enough to be transferred back to the garden to sweep the garden when the Holy Master is away?"
Kangxi asked.
Brother Jiu said: "Khan Ama, there are already more than 5,000 vacancies in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition to the more than 1,700 selected by the Outer Eight Banners, there are still more than 3,400 vacancies in clothing and clothing. All of them are paid, even if they are not in the mainstream. The errands are also paid according to Bu Ding's salary, which is twenty-four taels of silver a year, more than one third of which are high-grade, and those who are not in the mainstream are thirty-one taels of silver a year. After one year, only personnel expenses are spent. That’s about one hundred thousand taels of silver…”
There are only dozens of masters and masters in the palace, but there are more than 5,000 servants.
The average number per capita is about 100.
These are all official vacancies in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, those in charge of people, such as those who work in the palace and women's servants, they are not included.
After all, there were three or four thousand people,
In total, this amount is tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Many of these errands can be streamlined and there is no need to run into two or three shifts. However, this is a livelihood for the population and cannot be a loss of jobs.
Brother Ninth didn't mention streamlining, but he didn't agree with adding more.
Brother Jiu said: "Khan Ama, my son thinks that the 'Shangyu Reserve Office' set up in the Guards Department is very good. It can be done by selecting people from the Guards to serve concurrently. There is no need to increase the vacancy and waste money and rice; in the future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will My son also plans to study there. If he can take on both roles, he can do so. He doesn’t need to give two cents of money and rice. He just needs to give an extra one or two months according to his work. He can take turns and everyone can get multiple benefits..."
Kangxi looked at Brother Ninth.
Just adding ten vacancies to an official office would cost two to three hundred taels of silver a year, which is not much.
However, Brother Jiu calculated and reduced the expenditure of two or three hundred silver to a few percent.
This matter only cost more than one hundred taels of silver, but it made him worry a lot.
Kangxi thought about the prince's dining table and the leather materials he spent this year, and his mood was extremely complicated.
What's rare is that, knowing that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a complex personnel structure, Brother Ninth did not think about reducing the current vacancies, but only shrinking them and not adding new vacancies.
This is a very appropriate handling and people's hearts are at peace.
Kangxi praised in his heart, but did not praise him. Instead, he frowned and said: "Don't be too stingy or lose the dignity of the royal family."
Brother Jiu didn't think anything else, and just promised: "Don't worry, I promise you will be decent and everyone will be happy."
Kangxi nodded and said, "Okay, let's follow this arrangement."
Brother Jiu had a smile on his lips.
I am quite happy when my suggestions are adopted.
When the emperor came down, he did not go to the guard to check the room. Instead, he sent He Yuzhu to pass the message and dropped the matter.
He went to Tai Hospital to check in on his own, looking for Le Fengming.
It just so happened that Le Fengming was there.
He asked: "What's going on with the first-class Panax notoginseng outside now? And the first-class Dendrobium?"
He was afraid that if he didn't know the market price, he would be short-changed and be taken as an advantage.
Le Fengming thought about it carefully and said: "At the end of last year, the price of panax notoginseng offered by the medicine dealer here in the Royal Pharmacy was 70% of the price of second-class ginseng, about twenty-eight taels of silver per catty; dendrobium is rare and expensive. It is also the first-class fairy grass, and it is 50% higher than the first-class ginseng, and costs almost one hundred and five taels of silver per pound..."
After hearing this, Brother Jiu took a breath of air and said, "First-class ginseng costs seventy taels of silver? Why do you remember that it is about fifty taels of silver?"
Le Fengming said: "That was the price the year before last. From the twenty-eighth year to now, the price of ginseng has been rising every year. In the twenty-eighth year, the first-class ginseng was only fifteen taels of silver per pound. In five years, it has increased to nearly Five times.”
Brother Jiu's eyes widened. Even if Guo Luoluo's family didn't mine secretly, they would still have more money left in ginseng than he thought!
He nodded and asked: "Are Panax notoginseng and Dendrobium from Yunnan Kaihua Prefecture considered first-class? Can they be calculated based on price?"
Le Fengming's eyes brightened after hearing this, and he said: "Notoginseng is originally produced in Yunnan and is of the highest quality. Yunnan Dendrobium is not as famous as Huoshan Dendrobium. However, there are more Dendrobium trees planted in Huoshan Mountain Garden at the moment, but Yunnan Dendrobium is all Dendrobium Mountain."
Brother Jiu heard that it was a good thing, so he didn't feel bad about the double price he gave.
However, he knew that sometimes the price of the Imperial Merchant at the Ministry of Internal Affairs was different from the market price, so he said: "What's the market outside, is it also at this price?"
Le Fengming said: "The palace demands excellence and has never lowered the price. The first-class prices outside are just what I said."
Brother Ninth was relieved now and went back to Brother's place without any further delay. He said to Shu Shu: "Prepare some banknotes. I bought some good things."
He talked about buying Panax notoginseng and Dendrobium.
Shu Shu immediately ordered Walnut to install the banker's ticket.
She has personally witnessed the efficacy of dendrobium and plans to honor her elders.
Then, Sun Jin took the banker's ticket and went outside the Xiaodong Gate.
As for He Yuzhu, he asked Brother Jiu to stay outside the Xiaodong Gate to block people.
Since it's a good thing, it's better to get it early.
Outside the Xiaodong Gate, Gao Bisheng was stopped by He Yuzhu and couldn't laugh or cry.
Since he agreed to Brother Ninth's request, does he still have the guts to say it back?
That's the prince's elder brother, Jin Gui.
When Sun Jin came over and took one thousand three hundred taels of banknotes, he was shocked.
I only heard that slaves were filial to their masters, but I didn’t hear that slaves had to earn a fortune from their masters for their belongings.
He hurriedly said: "No, no, no, just think of it as my filial piety to Master Jiu."
He Yuzhu said: "Sir, are you trying to harm our master? Then the censor is gibbering again, and our master will have to be punished."
At this point, Gao Bisheng didn't dare to refuse anymore, but he also refused to accept it all, saying: "It's really not that expensive. In Kaihua Mansion, the two items combined are one to two hundred taels of silver."
This is a gift from local officials.
He Yuzhu said: "Master Jiu asked the people at Tai Hospital and prepared a bank note for you that is twice the price of the first-class medicine in the Royal Pharmacy last year. You can just accept it. What our master said is like spitting and nailing. I will go back and ask." You know that our master is not short of money..."
A ninth-rank official in front of the prime minister's door, this prince's personal servant has no rank and is not easily offended.
Seeing He Yuzhu's arrogance and firm attitude, he was still outside the Xiaodong Gate with the guards and soldiers looking at him. It was not a suitable place to stay. Gao Bisheng took the purse and said, "Excuse me, father-in-law, please tell me." Master, I will ask the boy to bring the medicinal materials tomorrow."
He Yuzhu waved his hand and said, "Well, well, sir, just don't delay."
This drama about "not lacking money" was spread to Qingxi Bookstore during dinner time.
After hearing that Brother Jiu spent 1,300 taels of silver to buy Panax notoginseng and dendrobium, Kangxi asked Liang Jiugong: "How many medicinal materials did Gao Bisheng bring to Beijing?"
How many kilograms of medicinal materials do I need to buy? !
Liang Jiugong smiled and said, "My servant actually asked and said it was five pounds of Panax notoginseng and five pounds of dendrobium, a total of ten pounds. Lord Jiu was generous and didn't want others to talk about it, so he gave it twice the market price."
Kangxi's hands were itchy, this prodigal child...
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