After the court ended, Lao Zhu was in a good mood. He tilted his head towards Zhu Bai and said, "Old Twelve has made meritorious service and suffered injustice. I will leave it to you to inspect the prince's house."
Erhu rushed up and handed over the list of mansions.
Zhu Bai took it and glanced at it, secretly sighing: Erhu is indeed loyal to Lao Zhu. If he wants to hide one or two mansions, no one will know.
But he not only listed what was reported by the Ministry of Household Affairs, but also wrote down what the Ministry of Household Affairs didn't know.
Zhu Bai handed over to Erhu: "Thank you for your hard work, Master Erhu."
The two tigers returned the gift in fear: "Your Highness, you have betrayed a humble minister."
Zhu Bai said to Lao Zhu: "The prince's close family members add up to more than a dozen houses. Everyone around my son and minister has work to do, and it is really too busy. If my father can point out a eunuch who can settle accounts and be trustworthy. My son, nothing could be better."
There weren't many eunuchs around Lao Zhu who knew how to read.
There are even fewer who need to know the words and trust them.
The key is that this person can follow him every day without affecting Lao Zhu's daily life.
After counting, Yunqi is the only one left.
Lao Zhu looked at Zhu Biao and asked, "Have you thought of anyone?"
Zhu Biao thought for a while: "Eunuch Yun, who is beside my mother, has followed my father for many years and is trustworthy. Eunuch Yun was a scholar before."
He is not good at recommending the people around him.
Lao Zhu would definitely agree with recommending people around Queen Ma.
Lao Zhu nodded: "Okay, it's up to him. Let's ask someone to talk to the Queen."
Over there, Queen Ma received the message from Lao Zhu and told Yun Qi to serve and assist King Xiang well, so she quickly let him out to report to Zhu Bai.
After arriving at Kunning Palace, Yunqi was summoned here and there by the favored eunuchs who were eloquent and able to please Queen Ma, and could only do peripheral cleaning and heavy-lifting work.
Queen Ma rarely had the chance to look at him, let alone talk to him so closely.
Yunqi was so nervous that he couldn't speak properly and could only kowtow.
In fact, he was a little scared.
When he served Zhu Bai before, he was tortured by Zhu Bai's naughtiness.
I heard that Zhu Bai has changed his temper now and has become more terrifying. He no longer does small bad things like plundering birds and fish, but specializes in big bad things like making money and killing people.
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Zhu Bai waited outside the palace with his hands behind his back, smiled and nodded at Yun Qi: "Eunuch Yun. Long time no see."
Yunqi came trotting all the way, a little out of breath. He already stuttered. When he saw Zhu Bai, he became more nervous. The more nervous he became, the more speechless he became. The more speechless he became, the more nervous he became.
In the end, the sound only swirled in the throat, making a "clucking" sound, but I couldn't say a complete word.
Zhu Bai stepped forward and patted Yun Qi's shoulder, and said gently: "Don't be nervous. We are all old acquaintances. It doesn't matter if we don't talk. Just know how to work."
Yun Qi looked up at Zhu Bai in surprise.
When Zhu Bai was a child, he knew that he stuttered, but he still forced him to speak. Then he would laugh until he heard him repeat a word many times.
Not at all like the Little King of Hell that everyone calls him...
Because Lao Zhu kept sending people to Zhu Bai's bedroom, there are now more than thirty eunuchs, eunuchs and maids in Zhu Bai's bedroom.
Except for those who stayed in the palace on weekdays, the others followed Zhu Bai around and worked.
Zhu Bai led the people to the mansion where the prince's brother lived first.
Yesterday, people from the pro-military Duwei Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment surrounded the yard and put a seal on the door.
The prisoners have been taken to the punishment department.
Now it is filled with gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.
Seeing Zhu Bai coming, a guard immediately broke the seal and opened the door.
When Zhu Bai went in, his people immediately turned around and closed the door, and then each of them, well-trained, began to work and inventory things.
These people followed Zhu Bai and copied not only eight but also ten houses.
Zhu Bai had already divided the work for them.
Wealth and wealth manage gold and silver bills.
Longevity tube calligraphy and painting antiques.
Duofu manages jewelry and jade.
Prosperous wealth in wood and bronze.
After they finished ordering, they packed it in a box, affixed a special seal made by Zhu Bai, and carried it to Zhu Bai's palace, where they slowly settled the accounts.
Yunqi didn't know which way to go and was a little scared.
Zhu Bai said: "Go and see the antique calligraphy and paintings. Changshou is also a half-way monk and doesn't understand much."
Yun Qi hurriedly accepted the offer and followed Changshou.
When Zhu Bai is free, he also spends time looking at the jewels.
Tsk tsk, there are only a dozen large emerald ornaments of good quality, not to mention small things like bracelets, jade hairpins and jade pendants.
He is so rich. It is unreasonable for a dead eunuch to be so rich.
After a while, there was a sudden noise on the Changshou side: "This is the authentic work."
"Fake."
Zhu Bai said to Duofu, "Go on. I'll go take a look."
Then he walked slowly over.
Changshou and Yunqi were arguing over a painting.
Changshou gushed: ""The Picture of Flat Rocks in the Distance" was a masterpiece created by Guo Xi in the later years of the Northern Song Dynasty. It depicts a late autumn scene. Although there is not much ink, it has a superb artistic conception and a broad and open realm. The exquisite brushwork will be used by future generations. No one can beat it."
Yunqi: "Fake..."
Changshou suppressed his blush and pointed at the painting: "Mountains and rocks are mostly covered with cirrus clouds or ghost faces; branches are painted like crab claws drooping, with vigorous brushstrokes. He created an original three-distance painting method. The high distance is the distant peaks and the rocks by the water; the deep distance is the vastness. The infinite stretch from the front mountain to the back mountain; the plain distance is the calm and misty mountains nearby and the distant mountains."
Yunqi: "Fake...fake."
Changshou: "This silk painting is not from this dynasty, how could it be fake?"
Changshou is usually smiling, but it is rare to see him being so angry.
Zhu Bai said: "Longevity, longevity, don't be angry first, listen to Yunqi's words."
When Changshou saw Zhu Bai coming, he didn't dare to make any mistake, so he could only shut up and stand quietly with his hands down.
Yunqi stammered intermittently, but he could barely speak clearly.
He said that Guo Xi was the favorite painter of Song Shenzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he only used Hebei silk for his paintings.
The silkworm species of the Song Dynasty in northern areas were mostly three-sleeping silkworms, which had a short larval period, less mulberry food, small cocoon shape, less silk content, fine cocoon silk fiber, and weak disease resistance. In the south, the silk spun out by Si Mian silkworms is easier to smudge than the thicker silk.
Not to mention today's Ming Dynasty, even the later Yuan Dynasty could not reach the silk fineness of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The reason why this painting is said to be fake is because its canvas is not Hebei silk from the Song Dynasty, but Suzhou silk from the late Yuan Dynasty.
Zhu Bai understood Suzhou Silk as soon as he heard about it.
Suzhou is a big market for fake cultural relics.
He had read a book that described the level of counterfeit cultural relics in Suzhou during the Yuan and Ming dynasties: "All the techniques in Suzhou are exquisite and unparalleled in the world. They are good at counterfeiting ancient utensils, such as the new writing on silk, which can make it look old; the copper The cauldron is cast at first, but can be made ready for use immediately."
The more Changshou heard the expression on his face, the less confident he became.
Yunqi continued to stutter and made another stab.
Guo Xi paints very quickly, so his lines are smooth and his landscapes are clear.
Although this imitation is very real, it is still based on other people's paintings, so it is inevitable that the hands are shaking, and traces are faintly visible on the edges of flowing water and rocks.
Zhu Bai took out the magnifying glass given to him by the Guangdong Official Dental Bureau and looked at it.
really!
