My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1379 Don't Mess With the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Seeing Brother Jiu's rascal appearance, Kangxi was too lazy to argue with him, looked at the brocade box next to him, and said, "What is this?"

Brother Nine smiled and said, "It's a birthday gift prepared by my son for Khan Amma. After thinking about it for several months, I didn't know what to give, and finally prepared this."

In Kangxi's mind, Jin Ruyi and Baifu jars given by Brother Jiu came to mind.

Not light weight of gold.

Unbearable.

But filial piety is commendable.

This year is still a while before Longevity Day, so he didn't think of this for a while.

Kangxi signaled Liang Jiugong to open the box.

Liang Jiugong stepped forward and opened the brocade box, revealing a two-foot-tall bonsai.

Liang Jiugong's eyes widened. Although he had already guessed that it was gold, he didn't expect it to be this type of utensil, which looked very familiar.

On the other hand, Kangxi, a little curious, got off the ground and looked closer, and asked Brother Jiu, "What kind of tree is this?"

This time it was Brother Nine who was surprised, and instead of answering, asked, "Khan Ama doesn't recognize this?"

Kangxi glanced at him, and said: "I want to keep everything in my heart? Of course I know what I have seen, and I don't know what I haven't seen."

Brother Nine laughed "haha" and said, "That son is so young, but Bihan Ama is down-to-earth. This is ginger, onion, ginger and garlic, the most common thing!"

Of course Kangxi knew what ginger was, but he had never seen a complete ginger.

Seeing that brother Jiu was proud, he asked: "Then tell me, when did you meet Jiang? Let's see when you became popular."

Brother Jiu thought about the Jiang Shan sample drawn by Shu Shu before, and Lao Jiang who was copied in the dining room and took it to the study, and said: "I met last year, probably less than half a year."

Kangxi snorted lightly.

It was only a few days more, and I had never seen it before it was designated to prepare this.

Jiang Shan.

A bucket of ginger mountain is indeed a pleasing object.

This ingenuity has nothing to do with Brother Jiu, it should be Dong E's proposal.

She loves to read, and also likes to study food and drink, and it is not uncommon to be familiar with ginger.

Kangxi looked at Brother Nine, and felt a little disgusted, because he was not as clever as him and Concubine Yi, and Dong E's together, a clever wife with a clumsy husband, is not a good match.

Brother Jiu didn't think so much, he was talking to Kangxi about the weight of Jiangshan, and said: "The red sandalwood barrel next to it is 48 pieces, and 480 taels of gold are used in the middle. The future longevity ceremony will increase according to this, and when the son is old and confused Now, I have to leave a note for Fengsheng, asking him to pay 1000 taels of gold every year, and keep this filial piety..."

Kangxi couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this, and said: "You are really worried about the long term!"

Brother Nine smiled and said: "My son is self-aware and has no future. Ama Khan dislikes him three-points, but loves him seven-points. It's my son's blessing to be the prince for the rest of his life!"

Kangxi was thinking about that scene, Brother Nine was still crying and fussing in front of the imperial court while leaning on his crutches, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "I didn't commit such a big crime!"

Brother Jiu felt that he had said too little, and his dislike was obviously more than half.

He'd better withdraw, he can't afford to be provoked and hide.

Just as he was thinking of resigning, Kangxi had already walked to the edge of the kang with his hands behind his back, sat down again, looked at Brother Jiu and said, "In more than ten days, it will be the Longevity Festival."

Seeing his serious expression, Brother Jiu didn't dare to smile playfully, so he stopped laughing, nodded and said, "Today is the sixth day of the lunar new year, and there are still twelve days left."

Kangxi continued: "These days, I will ask Zhao Chang to keep an eye on Jin Yiren. After the Longevity Festival, the case of the Jin family will be questioned."

Brother Nine blinked, a little unsure of what to say.

Didn't expect it to be so fast.

He thought it would take half a year.

Jin Yiren officially took up the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs when the yamen opened in the second half of the first month, and it took only two months until the end of March.

Kangxi picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said, "I heard that you recommended Gao Yanzhong as the head of the Xiaotangshan Palace?"

Brother Nine nodded and said: "I just thought that I would be able to advance to a higher level by then, and I have been here in this hall, and the doctor is at the end."

Nor did he hide his cronyism.

Anyway, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are only two doctors in total.

Among them, Zhang Baozhu was not born in Baoyi, and his ability is also ordinary. He is estimated to be a doctor for the rest of his life.

Gao Yanzhong here is considered a smooth old official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he pushed his qualifications to the end. He might be qualified to be the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in three to five years.

Kangxi didn't say anything else, just thinking about Jin Yiren's various small actions and temptations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the past one and a half months.

If Brother Nine hadn't scolded directly in the face, the previous rule of not allowing relatives' children to fill in the vacancies first would be abandoned.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs still has to follow the rules of Brother Nine to handle errands so as not to worry.

Otherwise, the ethos of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which has been rectified with great difficulty, will be crooked again.

Kangxi didn't want the smog inside and outside the palace to continue, and he couldn't bear the fact that these coat-coated slaves turned their backs on the guests in places he couldn't see.

Kangxi nodded and said: "He worked hard last year, so he should be the fourth-rank palace manager!"

Brother Jiu didn't say anything about helping Gao Yanzhong to thank him, he just said: "When the time comes, there will be a vacancy for the doctor of the hall, and my son wants to recommend Dong Dianbang, the doctor of the accounting department."

Kangxi was a little surprised, and said, "Why do you think of him?"

Brother Jiu said: "I just think he has done a good job in the accounting department for the past six months, and he has a wealthy family and a solid title, unlike a small family who knows how to spend money."

Kangxi looked at Brother Nine and said, "Isn't the Gao family a small family?"

Brother Jiu thought for a while, and said: "Let's count it as a poor family. The key is that the family style is good. Gao Yanzhong is not very courageous. Don't worry, my son is afraid of being courageous now."

Just like Kim Eun-in.

Brother Jiu understands the reason why Yuqian wants to deal with him in advance, he is too active to curry favor with the East Palace, make friends with the prince, and get married all over the place.

Kangxi didn't nod or shake his head, he said, "Let's talk about it later!"

When he came out of Qingxi Bookstore, Brother Jiu was thinking about this sentence.

Is this happy, or not happy?
If you are not happy, just say no?
Ask yourself to guess what?
Brother Nine felt that he couldn't figure it out.

When he left the small east gate, he frowned.

Could it be that there is something wrong with the Dong family, and it is also the family that Khan Amma wants to clean up?
But those offshoots of the Dong family suspected of corruption, aren't they all dealt with pretty well?
As for Dong Dianbang, I really can't find any major faults.

Did he show it to the outside world? He offended so many people last year that someone had already sent news to Yushi Yamen.

"Ninth Brother..."

It was Elder Brother Shi who came and waited outside Xiaodongmen, beside He Yuzhu who was going to deliver the message in the morning.

Brother Jiu glanced at him and said, "Are you climbing a mountain in front of the sky? It looks a little dark."

Elder Brother Shi laughed and said, "In spring, the wind is strong and it blows, but it's also comfortable. I feel that my bones are alive."

Brother Nine felt that this was too unprofessional.

Even if the yamen of the clan's mansion is free in spring, how about asking for leave all the time?
He said, "You climb the mountain in the morning, what do you do in the afternoon?"

The tenth elder brother said: "I was riding horses and shooting arrows at the Royal Horse Farm, and I brought my younger brother Fujin with me."

Brother Nine said: "Didn't the clan's mansion also arrange people to take turns at the garden? You can go back and tell Yabu that you should take turns here, and go around in the afternoon and explain the style of writing. I will call you when my elder brother calls you."

Otherwise, when everyone else was working, it would be ridiculous for him to be idle.

Elder Brother Shi shook his head and said, "No, I've asked for leave."

If that is the case, people will misunderstand that he wants to get close to the emperor, it is unnecessary.

The two brothers were talking and arrived at the North Sixth Institute.

Ninth elder brother is not an outsider, since he ordered to eat noodles, tenth elder brother didn't ask anyone to prepare anything else, just a serving of fried noodles.

There are also silver noodles here, but the ones are not as good as fried noodles.

The side dishes to eat with the noodles are not only Jiuagoti’s quma dish, but also a dish of small root vegetables, a dish of elbow meat, and a dish of crispy fish.

The ninth elder brother ate the noodles happily, and said to the tenth elder brother: "Your sister-in-law's prescription can be opened directly outside the noodle restaurant."

Elder Brother Ten remembered the dishes from "Zhou Zhou". Most of them were new dishes, and it was the first time he had seen them.

He said to Brother Jiu: "Swallow-wing mats are popular in the capital now, but to be honest, except for people in Shandong, Fujian, and Guangdong who love to eat seafood, other people just eat fresh ones and don't think it's delicious. The new dishes that Aunt Nine has come up with look expensive, but they also suit everyone's tastes."

Brother Jiu put down his chopsticks, sighed, and said, "This is originally a list that your sister-in-law Jiu drew up for the private restaurant. It's hard to say whether the private restaurant can be opened now."

Since the third entrance courtyard by the Shicha seaside was prepared for him by the elder brother's natal family, it has been repaired, and it can be used with simple sweeping.

It's just that the matter of Guangshanku has already reached the imperial court, and the uncle of Twelve Elder Brothers should not be able to please him.

Brother Nine is a little embarrassed to use Brother Twelve's house.

The tenth elder brother was no one else, so the ninth elder brother dismissed He Yuzhu and Wang Pingan who were standing at the door, and told the tenth elder brother about the Guangshanku "nest case".

"I did some calculations. They 'borrowed' the silver and put it in the bank to earn the price difference. After a year, it will be 10,000+ taels of silver; but if it is not in the rules, they will give loan sharks in private, or directly give high interest to the merchants. The oil and water of that year will be overturned..."

"Guangshan Library has been established for ten years, but there is no news about it. There is no clean up and down here, and it is another accounting department..."

Speaking of this, Brother Jiu said angrily: "It only took 8 taels of silver to build a Changchun Garden; the Xiaotangshan Palace is about a hundred thousand taels. These big rats, if they go on in a year, they will be greedy for two taels of silver." Going down to the garden, this is the kindness that Khan Ama gave the coat, and the poor people in the coat were borrowed when they encountered difficulties, and these people cut off their beards!"

Elder Brother Ten felt a little headache when he listened.

Why is there one "nest case" a year?
Even if the coat is cheap, but those people are in front of the imperial court, so it's okay to offend them endlessly?

He looked at Brother Nine and said, "Brother Nine, why don't I sue for illness and resign from my job in the Clan's Mansion, so come to the Clan's Mansion and don't interfere with the House of Internal Affairs."

I often walk by the river, how can I not wet my shoes?
Once or twice, even if Yuqian didn't directly ask Brother Jiu to investigate the case, others could still think of Brother Jiu.

Brother Jiu quickly shook his head and said: "No, I won't go, I am most annoyed by relatives who are not close to me, it is troublesome to remember people, and it is also troublesome to socialize. The family's mansion is either the clan's lack or Jue Luo's. In the past, I still have to go Memorizing the genealogy, it's a big head to think about..."

(End of this chapter)