The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 18
His Highness Prince Jing has changed.

When officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry came to the door again, they could not see Prince Jing himself.After being informed by Prince Jing's companion Xu Heng that Prince Jing was unwell and that they should allocate funds to rebuild the palace as soon as possible, they felt Prince Jing's "silent protest".

Obviously when they met last time, His Highness Prince Jing was very talkative, and he was about to agree to their plan.Why did you turn around after only a few days?
Not only that, Prince Jing's teacher Gu Gelao deliberately went to the Ministry of Industry to put pressure on them, warning them that when the Wanshou Festival comes early next year, the vassal princes from all over the world will come to Beijing to congratulate them.If Prince Jing's mansion is still in such dilapidated condition by then, which would damage the Tian family's dignity, someone will have to take the blame!
Everyone has worked hard for decades to study the imperial examinations, and it is easy to get mixed up in the central department as a petty official. Is it easy?It would be too unfair to lose the black hat for this kind of thing.

So the Ministry of Households could only squeeze a little bit east and dig a little bit west, and desperately collected enough 10 taels of silver to throw it to the Ministry of Industry to start work.The Ministry of Industry had no choice but to send people to nearby states and counties to search for cheaper materials and bring them back for use, trying to keep the expenditure within the 10 taels.

"Hmph, so, they...won't want to, they must."

Yun Ruochen sneered and saw workers coming in and out of the house to measure the foundation and transport materials, which further strengthened her belief in those people from the Ministry of Households and Ministry of Industry that they "picked up soft persimmons".

She didn't know that the national treasury was empty this year, and even the disaster relief almost had to collect the autumn tax in advance.But she also knew that these old foxes in the Ministry of Finance would never leave some life-saving money for themselves. No matter how empty the treasury is, there must be emergency funds. It depends on whether Prince Jing has enough face to ask for it.

This is not "the wine and meat of the wealthy family stinks, and the road is frozen to death", she insists on ignoring the suffering of the victims and building construction.On a larger scale, the reconstruction of Prince Jing's mansion is the first battle that Prince Jing will fight after returning to Beijing.

If the momentum of this battle is weakened, people will find that Prince Jing is still so weak and incompetent, easy to bully, and it will be difficult to make a comeback in the future!

So she advised Prince Jing not to soften his heart.Thinking that you only spend 5 taels of silver to repair it hastily, and save some money for the victims, and the victims will be grateful to you?Who knows the sacrifice you made, even the courtiers will secretly laugh at him for being stupid and deceitful!
Yun Ruochen has never had the interest of being a saint to save the common people.
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The repair project of Prince Jing's Mansion is gradually on the right track and is proceeding in an orderly manner.Yun Ruochen's health also improved compared to the previous days, and he was thinking about resting for a few days, but news came from the palace.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor will entertain the clan and lords in the palace, and hold a "simple and grand" Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused quite a stir in the capital.

Emperor Yuan Qi was not an easy-going emperor. Most of the time, he neither went to court nor liked to feast.

But this is also understandable. The emperor is a lifelong career, and he works every day all year round. Anyone who has worked for 35 years will get tired of it.What's more, he was an emperor with a great personality like Emperor Yuanqi.

But this doesn't mean that Emperor Yuanqi didn't care about political affairs. On the contrary, the old emperor's strict control over power was rarely seen since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.He has been slow to appoint a prince, although there is a reason for his faith, but on the other hand, he is afraid that his authority will be weakened if he establishes a crown prince.

Emperor Yuan Qi basically practiced Taoism in the inner palace every day and handled memorials.Except for Chinese New Year, he really rarely entertains foreign ministers and clans. What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd this time?

Some people with wide-eyed thoughts are thinking that this matter may have something to do with the reduction of the treatment of the clan that has been showing signs of reduction some time ago.The emperor wants to give courtesy first and then soldiers!
After 300 years of reproduction, the clan of the Qing Dynasty is already a frighteningly huge number.There are almost a million princes and brothers of the clan and vassals all over the country.Just to pay the various benefits of these clans each year, more than half of the imperial court tax will be spent.

And these clans often occupy a large number of fertile land locally, but they don't need to pay taxes, and they are happy and carefree.Emperor Yuan Qi didn't want to affect the interests of his brothers of the same clan. The problem is that there have been natural and man-made disasters for several years, and the treasury is getting cleaner day by day.At this time, there were many more memorials to impeach the vassal king for occupying land and land.

Emperor Yuan Qi was getting old, and his patience was not as good as when he was young.Thinking that I don't dare to spend money extravagantly in the palace, and one or two of you are extravagant in the local area, so the psychology begins to be seriously unbalanced.

Since you have money yourself, I won't give you so many benefits!Emperor Yuan Qi felt that he was very righteous, but unfortunately the clan didn't think so.

In this way, conflicts have arisen, and the matter of reducing benefits has been arguing for half a year, but there is no certainty.But this time the old emperor uncharacteristically wanted to have a big banquet for his clan, which caused many people to smell something strange again.

Yun Ruochen didn't know anything about the undercurrents behind the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet for the time being, she was just annoyed that she had to attend the palace banquet.

As the only prostitute in Prince Jing's mansion, and also a princess with the imperial title, she must participate.

Then the problem arises.What will she wear, what will she wear?How to salute after entering the palace, how to call people?
Ahhhhhhh my head hurts...

She would rather fight with dozens of high-spirited warlocks than enter the palace to deal with piles of nobles.

It's a pity that what should come always comes, no matter how much she resists in her heart, she still can't change the fact that she is about to enter the palace.

Contrary to Yun Ruochen, His Highness Prince Jing was quite excited about entering the palace.He couldn't even remember the year and month when he saw the emperor's father last time, probably when his biological mother Hu Xianfei passed away?Usually during the Chinese New Year's grand court meeting, he could only follow the officials in the Jinluan Hall to look at his father from a distance.

Now that the opportunity has come, it is finally possible for him to have a face-to-face communication with his father. Could His Highness Prince Jing not be excited?

So Prince Jing showed extraordinary enthusiasm for entering the palace.This enthusiasm was directly reflected in Yun Ruochen, that is, she got the opportunity to buy new jewelry and clothes.In addition, there is a newly invited foster nun beside her, who is dedicated to teaching her etiquette in the palace.

In the mansion, apart from Concubine Huang, who was having a confinement, several concubines of King Jing were condemned by him to serve the princess. He must dress up the princess so that everyone loves her. face.Yun Ruochen complained endlessly in his heart, but he couldn't resist the group of bored women who used her as a Barbie doll to play changing clothes.

God knows how idle they are!There are no less than ten hairstyles discussed.It was so easy for Yinqiao to comb her hair according to a certain aunt's wishes, but others either thought they were old-fashioned or outdated.Waiting to change the hairstyle suggested by others, it is a new round of pickiness... and it is also euphemistically called "for the sake of the princess", "this is the dignity of our palace"...

Help!
Yun Ruochen felt that his scalp was about to be ripped off, who could bear it if he continued playing like this, she was only eight years old, okay?Are you trying to dress me up as a generation of witches?

"Ugh……"

At night, when she was lying on the bed after washing, Yun Ruochen didn't even want to move her fingers, it was too much suffering.

Because not only did she have to be surrounded and harassed by those women, but she also had to learn the rules from the just-invited foster mother Yao Nanny.

This Nanny Yao was specially invited by Prince Jing from his cousin Prince Shu's residence. It is said that the rules are strict, and the female students taught are all outstanding ladies and gentlemen.

Yun Ruochen always felt that he was able to endure hardships.It's obvious that in her previous life, when she was only a few years old, she was able to practice with her master in the deep mountains, and she didn't move for hours when she meditated and practiced Qi.

But in front of Nanny Yao, she found that she was still weak.

Nanny Yao is not very old, not yet 40 years old, she looks like a rare beauty when she was young.Her face was covered with frost all the year round, and she didn't swear at people much, she just held a pointer made of thin willow branches to guide Yun Ruochen to get up, sit, sit and walk.

Whenever Yun Ruochen failed to do something properly, Nanny Yao's wicker whip would be whipped over, which was more ruthless than scolding.

"Narrow chin and deep mouth lines, this is a typical neurotic and mean look, she really is a perverted old aunt!"

Yun Ruochen only dared to slander in his heart, how could he dare to say a word of complaint.But she has always been weak and bad, she never resisted Nanny Yao on the surface, and secretly used some tricks to make Nanny Yao suffer from headaches and weakness for several days in a row, as if she had a cold, so she couldn't breathe. she is gone.

If she hadn't really wanted to learn some court etiquette to be close to her, so as not to cause more trouble, she would have let this perverted old aunt go as early as the first day Yao Yao came here.

After a few days, the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet is finally approaching.

In fact, Yun Ruochen was still very interested in meeting her imperial grandfather Yuan Qi and Wang Shucheng at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

Knowing yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles, she really wants to meet them.

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