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Chapter 1941 Preparation
Chapter 1941 Preparation
Weaving government office.
Li Xu's face was gloomy.
The emperor traveled to Suzhou but did not ask him to accompany him.
For a moment, Li Xu didn't know whether the emperor was angry with him for arranging people to visit the crown prince and the prince, or whether he was uneasy because of what the Ninth Prince said.
At this moment, Li Can came over.
"Brother, the maids at the Fourth Prince's place are used as sweepers, and the maids at the Thirteenth Prince's place are only used as maids. However, the Crown Prince has hired someone..."
All of them were arranged as maids, and this way of treating them also reflects the personalities of the princes.
The prince acted openly and honestly. For a man like him, there was nothing to worry about when it came to having sex with a little girl.
The Fourth Prince is old-fashioned in nature, which is similar to what is rumored, and he may even be going too far in correcting a wrong.
The Thirteenth Prince looked at Lang Kuo, but he was rough but meticulous.
There is no need to say anything about the Ninth Prince. He is the one who changes his mood as he pleases.
The staff arranged by Li Can also asked people to pay attention to everyone's reactions.
Li Xu was originally arranged for the prince, and now that he had gotten what he wanted, he did not feel happy.
He said, "Recheck his origins. If there are any doubts, send him away directly. If his origins are clear, wait until the emperor returns to see what the prince thinks."
Seeing his seriousness, Li Can also became more serious and said, "Okay, let's check it again today..."
The candidates for the prince were carefully selected and their identities were verified in the early years.
Now, it’s just a matter of verifying it again.
He hesitated and asked, "Are you sending her to the palace? Then why not send her directly to the capital as a subordinate?"
After entering the palace, she was like a kite with a broken string.
They were far away from the capital, so it was not convenient for them to communicate with the palace.
These women are different from Concubine Wang.
These women were originally arranged to serve their masters temporarily, so naturally there would be no hidden dangers.
Otherwise, no one can bear the sin of confusing the royal bloodline.
Since she is infertile, it would be more convenient to keep her outside the palace instead of sending her to be a maid in the Yuqing Palace.
Li Xu shook his head and said, "Even if we don't send anyone into the palace, we still need to be more cautious..."
One emperor and one courtier.
This Suzhou weaving qualification is not enough to provide support for his son.
What Li Xu wanted was to be a second-rank minister like Cao Yin's father Cao Xi, but he was still unable to achieve his wish when he was fifty years old.
My obsession is too strong, and I have lost my composure in recent years.
Li Can said angrily: "Our family has never dealt with the Ninth Prince, so how could there be any grudge between them? It must be that Cao Shun who fanned the flames, and the Ninth Prince deliberately embarrassed the eldest brother..."
How can this not make people jealous?
Although Li Can is a generation younger than Cao Shun, he is actually only a few years older than Cao Shun.
Both of them were students of the Imperial Academy. They previously worked as odd jobs in the weaving house, one running errands for his brother and the other for his uncle.
As a result, Cao Yin recommended Cao Shun to the ninth prince. Cao Shun then had a bright future and within a few years, he had become an official of the fourth rank.
Thinking of this, Li Can felt unhappy.
When the Emperor went on a southern tour in the 38th year of the Qing Dynasty, he also ran errands for the Ninth Prince.
Cao Yin was thinking about arranging a future for his nephew, but his elder brother had no such intention.
At that time, the emperor's carriage also arrived in Suzhou first. If my eldest brother could recommend me to the ninth prince before Cao Yin did, then would the position of fourth-rank chief master of ceremonies be mine now?
Outside the Weaving House, the Imperial Household Department camp.
Ji Hong was as uneasy as Li Xu.
Ji Hong already regretted it.
You shouldn't come up to me at this time.
Cao Shun originally thought that the Ninth Prince wanted to introduce Ji Hong to him, but when he waited for a long time and received no message, he realized that he must have been wrong.
Fortunately, at noon, the Ninth Prince, who had just returned from the pearl field, came directly to find Cao Shun and Ji Hong.
"The emperor is going to the pearl field today. I wanted to introduce you to him, but there are many important officials with him. The timing is not right. Let's wait until next time..."
The Ninth Prince spoke the truth.
Ji Hong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Master Jiu, for your help. I'm glad I didn't cause you any trouble."
The Ninth Prince said, "The elders who followed me today all said that the pearl farm has great potential. If you work hard, your hard work will not be in vain."
Ji Hong said: "I will definitely assist you well and will not let you down."
The Ninth Prince said, "Then I won't keep you here. I happen to have a shopping list here. If it's convenient for you to arrange for someone to help with the shopping, you can come back when the emperor returns, and we'll go to Dongshan Island."
Ji Hong agreed, took the servant and left.
The Ninth Prince thought about the next journey, first Hangzhou, then Suzhou, and then Jiangning, so he said to Cao Shun: "The emperor will go to Hangzhou tomorrow, and will stay in Suzhou when he comes back. You don't have to follow him. Go directly to Jiangning to visit your relatives, and wait until the imperial boat arrives in Jiangning and then catch up. This way you can stay in Jiangning for ten days or half a month."
Cao Shun did not respond immediately, but hesitated for a moment and said, "Jiangning is an important town, and people will be arranged to offer sacrifices to the tomb of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor will stay for several days, so this is enough. I don't need to visit my parents in advance."
"what?"
The Ninth Prince looked him over and said, "Haven't you been with your uncle for more than ten years? Are you afraid of being away from home?"
Cao Shun said: "I am afraid that the elders will be suspicious."
The Ninth Prince was puzzled and said, "For the sake of the heir? Isn't that all over?"
Cao Shun smiled bitterly and said, "My uncle is old, and my cousin is still young, so my grandmother and mother have other ideas and are thinking about the hereditary position of the weaving house."
Cao Yin had only one son who was born in his old age. The father and son were more than 40 years apart in age. If Cao Yin died before his son grew up, the Cao family would need a son to take up the position of weaving doctor.
The Ninth Prince sneered and said, "They are using you as a cover? How ridiculous! You are already a fourth-rank official, and you still need to worry about your fifth-rank official career? Your uncle can be appointed as the Minister of Public Administration, but others who are textile manufacturers cannot be appointed as the Minister of Public Administration..."
The weaving doctor was of the fifth rank, and the Tongzhengshi was of the third rank.
Cao Shun nodded and said, "Yes, and with the example of the Jin family, this weaving position may not become a hereditary position, but will only be passed down among the Cao family's children. Anyway, I just want to stay away and don't want to get involved. I just hope that my uncle will be healthy and live a long life. Otherwise, the Cao family will lose its pillar and there will be chaos."
The Ninth Prince said, "You should stay away from them, so as not to get any benefits and get yourself covered in mud..."
He wanted to let Cao Shun go to Jiangning in advance out of consideration for his subordinates.
Since Cao Shun was unwilling, he naturally had to follow his orders.
The next day, the emperor set out for Hangzhou...
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Beijing.
Shushu went to the palace to pay her respects and then took half a day off to return home.
Last year, when Fusong got married, she was unable to help because she was in poor health.
This time when Zhuliang was getting married, she had to come over to ask a few questions and see if there was anything she could do to help.
"You don't have to do anything. Just be your aunt..."
Jueluo said.
Shu Shu said, "How about I marry a wife?"
In the early years, people liked to invite her to be the "blessed person", but she didn't like socializing. She showed up twice and turned down the rest.
But when she arrived at her mother's home, she was happy to help.
Jueluo shook her head and said, "No need. Just use as big a bowl as possible and eat as much as you want. You don't need to work hard to keep the family honorable."
Shushu said: "I am not someone else, why are you being polite to me?"
Jueluo shook her head and said, "It's not good to set this precedent. It would make our family look frivolous. We must put you, the prince's wife, in the front."
Shushu thought about it and realized that if that happened, it would easily overshadow the main event.
On this auspicious wedding day, the focus should be on the two newlyweds.
Shushu thought about the General's Mansion's misappropriation of Qingru's dowry last August, and said, "Half a year has passed, shouldn't it be time to make up for it?"
The expression on Jueluo's face was indescribable.
When Shushu saw this, he knew there was a story behind it.
"No make-up?" Shushu was also a little annoyed.
It's not that their family covets the woman's dowry, but this dowry is not only a reflection of the importance of the married woman, but also of the importance of the in-laws.
If the dowry is simple, others will think that the General's Mansion does not value the marriage with the Dong E family.
Jueluo said: "I have asked people to buy more wood, but the construction period cannot be rushed. Part of the second princess's dowry was embezzled..."
Shushu was also speechless: "Isn't this just sowing discord between the sisters? It would be strange if there is no rift between them..."
The second lady of the general's mansion is Qingru's younger sister. The sisters are close in age and are also of marriageable age.
Jueluo was not optimistic about this either, and said, "There is no other way, we can only let our family suffer. Qingru was against it, but her father made the decision."
Shu Shu shook his head and said, "This isn't about giving Qing Ru face, it's about giving the General's Mansion face, right?"
Qingru's father was dismissed from his position as a guard last year and has been unemployed at home.
There are many members of the royal family, but the number of vacancies for royal guards is limited.
It is not easy to get a guard back after he is dismissed.
In the early years, the General's Mansion was a royal family and was also the prince's brother-in-law, so it was confident enough to face the Governor-General's Mansion.
Now that he has no future and has left a bad impression in front of the emperor, his family is already in decline.
Jueluo said: "This is disgusting. People outside who don't know about it will inevitably blame Qingru and fabricate a story that she has appropriated her sister's dowry. Unfortunately, our family cannot say anything. It is unreasonable for the in-laws to interfere with the dowry of their daughter-in-law..."
(End of this chapter)