During this period of time, Yuzhu's life was quite regular.
In the morning, Yongmei slept in. After lunch, he went to the palace to play chess with the old emperor.
After leaving the palace in the afternoon, Yuzhu stayed in the tax patrol camp, training his officers...
Yuzhu's life was extremely tight, and the wedding of Cao Jia and Nersu was also in full swing.
Cao Yin was originally a weaving doctor with a background in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he was in charge of the Lianghuai Salt Administration. Even if the Cao family suffered a huge loss, the dowry for the eldest Cao Jia family had already been prepared.
The Da Cao Jia family married a hereditary county king. The dowry should not be said to be twenty miles of red dowry, but at least ten miles of red dowry, right?
Money is not a problem.
The problem is that after Kangxi had money in his pocket, he officially issued an order to start the construction of some scenic spots in Changchun Garden.
The Lei family team, which had been discussed long ago, and the various royal carpenter teams affiliated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs were all drawn into Changchun Garden to work on the emperor's behalf.
As a result, the household items and other items in the new house in the main courtyard of the county prince's mansion cannot be made on time.
According to the rules, the furniture and other sundries in the new house are all made by the woman.
Now, the wedding date has been set, but we can’t find a suitable top-notch carpenter to make the furniture and other items for the new house.
If ordinary people are building a garden at home, whether it is Cao Yin or Nersu who comes forward, there is room for negotiation.
It's nothing more than that the person invited to come forward is of sufficient status and can be compensated with more money.
The question is, who dares to stop the old emperor's own maintenance project without authorization? Do you want to give up your head?
As the wedding day approaches, Cao Yin's temporary carpenter team makes mistakes almost every day.
These shabby carpenters waste a lot of rare rosewood. The quality of the furniture they produce is so terrible that it is almost impossible to stand it.
Cao Yin was extremely anxious and angry, his mouth was blistered, and his heart was very angry. In addition, he caught a little cold at night, and he fell ill due to anxiety and anger.
After receiving the notice from the Cao Mansion, Yuzhu, the son-in-law, would come to visit Cao Yin no matter what, bringing generous gifts.
In the afternoon, after coming out of the palace, Yuzhu took a sedan chair directly to the Cao Mansion's old house in Shaojiu Alley.
Arriving at the gate of Cao Mansion, Lai Da, the chief steward of the Cao family, was already waiting eagerly outside the gate.
As soon as Yuzhu came out of the official sedan, Lai Dada ran over quickly and bowed respectfully.
"Little Lai Da, please be safe."
Yuzhu nodded, waved his hand and said, "That's all."
After Lai Da got up, he bent his waist and walked in with Yuzhu.
On the way, Yuzhu asked Lai Da casually: "Prince Ne must have been here a long time ago, right?"
Lai Da's face tightened and he felt bitter in his heart. He didn't want to say such an embarrassing thing. However, the fact that Nersu didn't come to visit Cao Yin at all must not be hidden from anyone.
"Back to my aunt, maybe there are too many important things about the wedding, and Prince Ne has been too busy to get away from it." Lai Da's story was full of flaws, and not even a ghost could deceive him.
Yuzhu understood as soon as he heard that, Nersu, the iron-hatted prince, did not take Cao Yin, the father-in-law, seriously at all.
Hehe, my father-in-law fell ill, Yuzhu came, but Nersu never showed up, which already explains the problem.
However, after Cao Yin brought Cao Jia's family to Beijing, he hardly contacted Yuzhu, and Yuzhu was happy to pretend to be confused.
After entering the main room, Yuzhu pretended to greet Cao Yin. From inviting the imperial doctor, to taking medicine on time, to covering him with quilt, everything was taken care of.
It is enough that the son-in-law has fulfilled his obligations.
Cao Yin was not willing to get close to Yuzhu, and Yuzhu didn't want to be saddled with the Cao family's huge losses.
Cao Yin was lying on the hospital bed, his face was sallow, he looked haggard, and he looked quite pitiful.
Yuzhu had finished saying all the polite words, but Cao Yin didn't want to let him go, and he didn't say anything was wrong.
Finally, Lai Da, who was on the side, took Cao Yin's look and told Yu Zhu about the lack of a carpenter team to build the house.
Yuzhu didn't want to get into trouble, so he asked Lai Da directly: "Has Prince Ne ever gone to ask for help from the emperor?"
Yes, the parties involved are not in a hurry, let alone an outsider like Yuzhu?
How could Lai Da know this? He could only turn his head and look longingly at Cao Yin who was leaning on the couch.
Cao Yin was a little embarrassed and pretended to cough for a while. After drinking warm water, he said: "Prince Ne has been on an errand recently and is quite busy."
Yuzhu immediately understood that Nersu was afraid that the old emperor would not sell his account, so he did not dare to go to the palace to ask for help.
Yuzhu understood what Cao Yin meant. However, Yuzhu didn't like Cao Yin's roundabout attitude, so he deliberately pretended to be stupid.
Are you kidding me? Are Nersu and Yuzhu familiar?
Besides, the Cao family and Yuzhu are not close, and Yuzhu is not a virgin, so there is no reason to take the initiative to do things for him.
Cao Yin saw Yuzhu's evasive attitude and knew that Yuzhu was unwilling to help.
To put it bluntly, Cao Yin just asked Lai Da to say this, and did not really believe that Yuzhu had the ability to ask the old emperor to lend him craftsmen.
So, after a few polite words, Yuzhu resigned from Cao Yin.
Who would have thought that not long after Yuzhu went out, he heard someone calling him from behind, "Sister-in-law, please stay, I have something to say."
Yuzhu heard that it was a nice female voice, and it was called sister-in-law, so he knew that it was Cao Jia who was calling him behind him.
After turning around, Yuzhu still adhered to the principle of "don't look at anything inappropriate". He looked at the ground, bowed his head and saluted, and said very politely: "Little brother Yuzhu pays homage to eldest sister."
The eldest daughter, Cao Jia, hurriedly stepped aside, knelt down and returned the salute, saying sincerely: "I know that my sister-in-law has been neglected, and I have opinions about the Cao family in my heart, so I am not willing to help."
This is what Yuzhu meant, but it was impossible to admit it publicly. He quickly handed over his hands and said: "Abha treats my younger brother very dearly..."
Unexpectedly, maybe Yuzhu's perfunctory words were too careless. Before he finished speaking, he actually made Cao Jiashi laugh, "Pfft."
"Sister-in-law, I shouldn't have overstepped my bounds. However, if the furniture in the new house is not made properly, I will definitely be laughed at." Cao Jia was also forced to have no choice but to squat down and salute again.
He begged Yuzhu for help in a very low-key manner, "My father and our family can only stare. I know that my sister-in-law is capable of helping, but I just feel a little disconnected in my heart."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yuzhu has always been a man of soft temper. Moreover, he also knows that if there is anything wrong with the household items in the new house, it has nothing to do with the man. .If something goes wrong, everyone will only blame the woman, that is, the eldest Cao Jia family and the Cao family.
"To be honest, eldest sister, the emperor wants to build Changchun Garden, which is of great importance. I am not sure that I can help you, eldest sister." Even if Yuzhu agreed to help, he could not keep his promise.
Cao Jia heard the turning point and quickly knelt down again, bowed and thanked her, "Thank you very much, my sister-in-law, for being so willing to help me. I won't thank you for your kindness. I will keep it in my heart."
Yuzhu was not a disciple. He kept his head down while talking from beginning to end, and did not see the appearance of Cao Jiashi clearly.
However, Yuzhu didn't know that Cao Jia had already seen his appearance clearly on the Tongzhou Pier.
After lunch on the second day, Yuzhu went to the Qianqing Palace to play chess with the old emperor.
The old emperor got five million taels of pocket money out of thin air. It was the time when he valued Yuzhu, so he spoke with extra affection.
If it's just a one-time deal, that's it.
The problem is that after Yuzhu took charge of Chongwenmen, he was able to collect a net profit of more than 8,000 taels of silver every day by controlling the rice and vegetable shops.
The absolute monopoly business, in Yuzhu's hands, took the business to a new level, and it was so easy to collect money.
The hundreds of thousands of poor people in the capital have to eat cheap vegetables and cheap rice every day. The smaller hundreds of thousands of wealthy people have to eat fresh vegetables and buy cheap rice and cheap vegetables for their children.
In this kind of monopoly business, the amount of each transaction seems to be small, but when accumulated by so many people, it is not a small amount.
Hehe, more than eight thousand taels of silver a day is nearly three million taels of pocket money a year.
With so much money in hand, Kangxi could easily start construction every year to build many scenic spots in Changchun Garden.
The old emperor was not short of money to spend. Naturally, he became more and more pleased with the jade pillars.
Changchun Garden and the Three Yuanming Gardens were not built in a day, and the money spent was gone.
Among them, especially the Old Summer Palace, funds were allocated to repair it every year, and it took more than 150 years to build it.
That was until the British and French forces invaded the Forty-Nine City and a fire burned down the Old Summer Palace.
Before Emperor Guangxu came to power, when Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to build a place for her retirement, the Qing Dynasty had no money to rebuild the Old Summer Palace, so they had to build the Summer Palace.
"Hey, look at the way you are looking around, tell me, what kind of trouble have you run into?"
The old emperor had long seen Yuzhu's deliberate scratching of his head and ears.
The old emperor watched calmly until after winning three games of chess and drinking tea, he asked Yuzhu.
Yuzhu was waiting for this question, so he told the old emperor in a garbled way that the Cao family had a headache and there was no good carpenter.
"Old man, it is a great favor for you to marry into the Cao family. If the household items in the new house are not well made and the status drops, and the Cao family is laughed at, gossip will inevitably spread. .”
Nowadays, Nersu holds the title of hereditary county king and has no real power. There is no need for Yuzhu to take his eye medicine.
However, it was impossible to arouse the sympathy of the old emperor unless he spoke clearly.
It was the lesser of two evils, and Yuzhu sold Nersu in a snap.
The old emperor thought for a while and did not make a decision immediately. Instead, he sent someone to call Lei Jinyu.
After Lei Jinyu explained the specific construction process and time, Kangxi nodded and promised to give Yuzhu a huge favor by temporarily lending the carpenters from Lei's class to the Cao family for a month.
However, the old emperor was worried that he would miss the important task of repairing the garden, so he refused. He only borrowed it for a month, and most of the time it would not be enough for half a day.
After bidding farewell to the emperor, Yuzhu had just left the Qianqing Palace gate when he saw Lei Jinyu coming over to salute him. He said respectfully: "I will do things for you, Mr. Zhu, and I will not charge you any wages."
Yuzhu couldn't help but smile. He didn't pay for the royal carpenter's wages. Naturally, he collected the money as he wanted from the Cao family.
Well, Lei Jinyu’s flattery was indeed taken in the wrong place.
(PS: The old emperor rewarded you with gold noodles, it’s time for young and old men to reward you with monthly tickets!)