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Chapter 739: Steward


Ruoyun's side is devoted to the great cause of housekeeping, she used to manage the house when she was in Fuyuan, but after all, the family population was simple at that time, and she didn't pay attention to so many rules, and with the assistance of Mama Liu and Li Da and others, it was easy after all.

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However, after becoming the hostess of King An's Mansion, things are different, the status is high, and there are more things to prove to be encountered.

Let's take the prayer post as an example, in the past, it was estimated that there would not be such a prayer post in Fuyuan for a month.

However, nowadays, at least seven, eight, or even a dozen or so prayer posts, invitations, and other things are sent to the Taoist government every day.

These posts, Chu Ziheng and Ruoyun, as the prince and princess, do not need to meet in person, but people in high positions must be cautious in their words and deeds, and they must not make any mistakes and leave no handles.

Although these people don't have to be interviewed, they can't be lazy, they should reply to the post, they should be rewarded, and they should be rewarded.

Of course, not all posts have to be processed by Ruoyun, and there are special people who will screen out the more important ones and hand them over, but the amount of these screened out is also 79, which is not small, and they all need to be done by Ruoyun himself.

After all, as a superior person, sometimes she can not do it, she can order the people below to do it, but she needs to understand clearly what these things are going on.

Ruoyun, now is the stage to figure things out.

This is still a small matter of daily housekeeping, and more is to manage the slave door of the house.

In the past, the masters and servants in Fuyuan added up to dozens of people, and they returned to the Dingguo Mansion.

There were as many as twenty or thirty slaves and maids in Ruoyun's courtyard, and at that time, Ruoyun already felt that it was enough luxury for so many people to serve her.

Who knows, when she arrived at this Anwang Mansion, the first time she was a director, when she saw the thick roster in the mansion, she also had a big head.

In fact, there are only two masters in this mansion, she and Chu Ziheng, but there are as many as four or five hundred minions of all sizes, of course, there are also some people who are running errands outside, but there are as many as three or four hundred minions standing in King An's mansion alone.

A lot of them are idle people.

Actually, there are no actual errands.

When Ruoyun began to see these people, he thought about whether to send some people out, not because he thought that it cost a lot of money to support these people, but mainly because there were many people and they were messy.

I can't say who caused something.

Besides, she and Chu Ziheng used so many people to serve the two of them.

But.

Ruoyun's idea was quickly dissuaded by Mama Bian.

Mama Bian said that since these people can be royal slaves, they all have roots in Beijing, and they don't know who their relatives are.

Who is the relationship with who, they have their own set of lifestyles.

Don't look at the status of these people as slaves, it seems to be inferior, there is no free body, but it depends on whose slave they are.

As the saying goes, there are four officials in front of the prime minister, let alone a slave in the palace, after going out, some officials dare not slack off, and no one wants to lose this job easily.

If this person is easily dismissed, they have no job, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will cause trouble, plus their relationship is complicated, and they will be involved in the whole body, saying that there will be no chaos, leaving hidden dangers in the future.

Please come here to read this book Besides, the only big families in this capital buy slaves from time to time, and there are people who dismiss slaves in large numbers, and only those who are in the middle of the road, or whose families have suffered disasters, or who have been convicted, will send off their slaves in large numbers.

When Ruoyun heard this, he had to stop this plan, the water in it was really quite deep These people can't be dismissed, so in order to make their lives better, they have to be disciplined.

But some people are unwilling to obey discipline so easily, most of them are old fritters with status, most of them are from the palace or from the internal affairs office, maybe they have some relatives with the imperial relatives. looked at Ruoyun and Chu Ziheng who were young, relying on the old and selling the old in the house.

The things that are explained are either pushed, or they are filled with private pockets, deceived and deceived the superiors and subordinates, and violated the yang and the yin.

Although Ruoyun understands the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, some people have gone too far, obviously treating her as if she was blind.

At this time, Ruoyun, who was on the board of directors of the Green Ming Hall of King An's Mansion, encountered such a thing.

At this time, the green hall was very quiet, and there were more than a dozen brightly dressed stewards standing in the hall with a magnificent face, all of them were standing with their heads bowed and their hands down, and they all looked very respectful, but if you looked closely, you could see impatient looks in the eyes of several people.

And Ruoyun was sitting on a comfortable chair in the middle of the hall at this time, at this time he was holding an account book in his hand and turning it page by page.

Ruoyun turned the ledger very carefully, she had been looking at this ledger for a quarter of an hour, and of course the people below had been standing for a quarter of an hour.

Finally, someone should have been unable to help it, a rich middle-aged man wearing a dark blue robe embroidered with the word Fu Tuanwen stood up, coughed lightly and said: "If the princess has no other instructions to the slaves, she will go down to do things, seeing that the New Year is approaching, there are a lot of things and New Year's gifts that need to be purchased everywhere in this house, and the slaves are busy every day without touching the ground."

Ruoyun looked up at him from the ledger, and directly gave him a slightly calm look, signaling him not to speak, and then ignored it and continued to look at the ledger in her hand.

This was the steward who was suddenly shut up by Ruoyun when he saw it like this, but he was angry in his heart, after all, he was the steward of this mansion no matter what he said, but the princess didn't even give him face, in front of so many people, he didn't let him speak with a look, he was indignant in his heart, thinking that the princess didn't know how to be polite at a young age, and he didn't know that relying on them old people would suffer in the future.

The more I thought about it, the more angry I felt, and I didn't stand there as respectful as before, with a look of resentment on my face.

From time to time, a cold snort came out of his nose.

And although the rest of the people stood respectfully, there were more and more impatient looks in their eyes.

Ruoyun ignored them like this, and after another quarter of an hour, he felt that it was almost over, so he closed the ledger, and then threw it on the table in front of him, looked at the steward who spoke just now and said, "Steward Zhou has been very busy recently."

The steward of Zhou was not in a good mood at this time, but when he heard Ruoyun talking to him, he didn't dare not reply, so he had to give up his hand and say: "Back to the princess, the year is approaching now."

Naturally busy."

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His tone was a little stiff. seems to be laughing at Ruoyun for not even understanding this, who is not busy when the New Year is approaching "In this way, Steward Xu is busy now, and I don't know if this account book is wrong," Ruoyun said with a smile on his face.

Steward Zhou was stunned when he heard this, thinking that the princess had seen something in the account book.

But looking back, I don't think it's possible.

What can you see in such a short period of time?

And this ledger, he is confident, he is doing it very carefully, and he should not be able to see anything.

"The princess is not mistaken, although the prince and the princess only lived in our palace this year, but this An Wangfu has been here since it was built five years ago.

I work hard, but I never made any mistakes," said the steward with a disapprehensive face.

Ruoyun knew that their Anwang Mansion was not created from scratch, but was enclosed with a few unmanned official mansions, and then rebuilt into Anwang Mansion on the original site.

When it was first rebuilt, the Internal Affairs Office and the palace had already sent people to manage the affairs of the house, and later many people were sent one after another.

This week's steward meant to tell her that he was much earlier than Ruoyun entered the mansion, and that he was able to come over to manage the purchase back then, and it must be someone behind him who has been able to stay until now.

"Oh, what Steward Zhou means is that your account book is not wrong," Ruoyun asked, raising his eyebrows.

"The minions' account books have been carefully checked, and they can't be wrong," Steward Zhou said.

"Okay, since Steward Zhou said that it was right, then let's read it in person, and see if Steward Zhou remembered it wrongly, or if I was dazzled" Ruoyun casually picked up the account book just now, and said to Holly behind him: "Read out everything I just pointed with my finger for everyone to hear" Holly was standing behind Ruoyun just now, and Ruoyun's finger touched the ground, which she had already remembered in her heart, and she took the account book and began to read it at this time.

"Today, the small kitchen buys 200 eggs, and uses 200 taels of silver" "Today, I bought fifty boxes of rouge for the maid in the house, and used five hundred taels of silver."

"Today, the big kitchen buys 100 catties of firewood, and uses 100 taels of silver" "Today I will buy fifty pounds of rags, and use three hundred taels of silver."

Dong Lan read it out one by one, and he didn't care about it for the sake of the week, but the more he listened, the more nervous he became, and the more he listened, the more weak he became, and on a cold day, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead in this hall.

"Why, I don't know that this egg costs one tael of silver, the rouge used by the people also costs ten taels of silver a box, the firewood costs one tael of silver a catty, and the rag costs six taels of silver a catty, when did the price of this capital become so expensive" Ruoyun looked at the steward Zhou's head getting lower and lowered, and said with a sneer.

Steward Zhou couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he didn't expect the princess to look at such a detailed thing.

On those big accounts and those big things that were bought for thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels, he smoothed out the accounts himself, but he didn't notice these small things like a few eggs and a few catties of firewood.

He didn't think that the princess would pay attention to this, after all, there was so much silver going out of the palace every day, and the princess would care about these small things of tens and hundreds of taels.

"This, this is because it is purchased by our palace, so we are buying good things, and now that the year is approaching, things are naturally expensive" The steward of the week also said stiffly, he thought that the princess may not know the real price of these things, so it is difficult to get through the customs.

"Good thing, Steward Zhou, don't you deceive me when I'm young and don't understand the market, the eggs in this capital are only three cents a piece, two five-dollar dollars, even the best eggs are not more expensive than ten cents, your two silver eggs, are not made of gold" Ruoyun said.

"And the rouge purchased by the subordinates actually cost ten taels of silver a box, do you know that in addition to this girl next to me, the remaining second-class monthly silver is only one or two silver, this is still I see that they are serving carefully mentioning more, you actually buy them ten taels of silver a box of rouge every month, which is ten times higher than their monthly money, who gave you this right How can I ask those girls to come over with their rouge to see how much it is worth ten taels of silver?"

Ruoyun stretched out his hand and slapped the table, and the steward of the frightened Zhou couldn't help but tremble, while the people standing behind him lowered their heads and didn't dare to come out.

The rest of the rain does not need to be said one by one, the best firewood is only twenty wen a pound at most, this is because the price is expensive in the capital, if it is placed elsewhere, this firewood is a no-roots thing, but it takes some strength, it is estimated that seven or eight wen a pound can be sold.

As for the rags, needless to say, the cloth of the average small family is five taels of silver a horse, and it is bright and decent to wear, and this week's steward turned out to be six taels of silver and a pound to buy rags, thinking that she was wronged "Why, Steward Zhou, do you want me to call these vendors you bought over to confront you," Ruoyun said lightly.

Steward Zhou panicked when he heard this, he dared to let the princess call these people over to confront him, where did these people dare to tell the truth when they entered the palace, the things he bought from them, because the large quantity was actually much cheaper than the market price, wouldn't this confrontation be exposed.

"No, no, Xu is the slave has been busy and dizzy recently, and it may be possible to make a mistake in the account, so the slave will go back and re-write it and show it to the princess" The steward said hurriedly.

"I'm busy and dizzy" Ruoyun chuckled: "I see that you are busy and don't know what your surname is, and you don't know who your master is."

"Where does the princess say this, the slave has served in the palace for so many years, there is no merit and hard work, the princess only relies on the negligence of the slave, and the slave is at fault, which will inevitably make the working slaves feel cold."

This week's steward feels that it is the end of the year, even if he is at fault, but now that the family is busy, the princess easily does not dare to change him, after all, no one does anything to replace him, and there is a mistake in the New Year's gifts and the purchase of New Year's goods So even if he was caught by Ruoyun at this time, he still didn't admit his mistake, and his words were quite reasonable.

If this person immediately admits his mistake at this time, maybe Ruoyun can punish him lightly if he is soft-hearted for a while, but at this time, he is a dead duck with a hard mouth, don't blame Ruoyun for being ruthless.

"Dong Hong, read" Ruoyun suddenly said to Dong Hong behind him.

Dong Hong nodded when she heard this, and opened a booklet in her hand, and then Lang Sheng began to read it in this silent hall.

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