Chapter 693: Gold

Prince Jian’s mansion, inner house, northwest cross courtyard.

Occasionally, women screamed hoarsely in the room, and the maids holding water at the corridor were busy with water.

Yongjia sat in the main seat in the hall with a faint expression on her face. The concubine Irgen Jueluo was sitting at the lower head, with a smile on her face, and she talked to Yongjia without a word. On the chair opposite her, Nemin was still dressed as a girl.

In the end, he could not be as calm as Yongjia, nor could he be as experienced as Irgen Jueluo. Nemin listened to the screams coming from the inner room and looked at Yongjia and Irgen Jueluo with a complicated expression, and his face could not hide his sourness.

Although it was already August and I changed into silk clothes, Irgenjueluo still felt a little hot.

She smiled and said to Yongjia, "I heard that half a month ago, the prince asked someone to choose two nurses from his subordinates. Sister Cui is so lucky. Since the Sixth Princess landed, there has been no movement in the mansion in recent years. If he can add a little prince this time, it would be a great charity."

Yongjia nodded slightly and said, "Yes, it's really rare."

Yaerjiang A rarely stayed in the inner courtyard. He had occasionally stayed in Yongjia and Irgen Jueluo. After this year, Nemin died in the inner courtyard.

Cui was also lucky. He served Yaerjiang for a few days in the twelfth lunar month last year and had a body.

She was humble from a background and was one of Yongjia's dowry girls, so she had a body, and Yaerjiang A had nothing to fear.

Yiergen Jueluo didn't think so. Although Yaer Jiang'a was nostalgic for the past six months, she was always respectful to each other and did not speak badly.

Now that Cui is pregnant, Yaerjiang A is so irritating, she is a little worried.

If she was a prince, she would probably have to be raised under the name of the concubine. In that way, her son's status would be lower and she would be more respectful to a baby who had just landed.

Wanting here, Yiergen Jueluo cursed in his heart and prayed that Cui would give birth to a princess. In that case, the concubine would be happy in vain.

With six princesses here, who can surpass the prince's most doting daughter?

A few women were bored and heard the sound of a maid and a woman greeting me from the yard. It was Yaerjiang A who was here.

Everyone stood up from their seats and greeted Yaerjiang.

Yaerjiang A waved his hand and asked everyone to get up. Then he asked Yongjia: "I've been struggling for a long time yesterday, but I've been there for a while today, but haven't landed yet?"

Yongjia replied: "I just asked someone in and asked. I heard that the fetus is a bit big and it is difficult to land."

After hearing this, Yaerjiang A frowned and said, "What should I do? I must save the child."

Just as he was saying this, he heard a cry of infants coming from the room, and Yaer Jiang's face was filled with joy.

A moment later, an old woman came out with her cradles in her arms.

Yaerjiang A stepped forward and asked, "Is it the little prince or the little princess?"

The woman was a little frightened and said, "If you go back to the prince, you are... a little princess..."

When Yaerjiang A heard this, he was not angry. He smiled and nodded, saying, "That's the seventh princess, okay, good, please see the reward."

The following sentence was said to Yongjia.

On the other hand, Yongjia turned around and ordered someone to take the prepared silver seal. Before he could continue to reward, he heard crying from the inner room.

Before everyone in the hall could react, they saw someone report that Cui was due to a postpartum hemorrhage, so he was afraid that it would not work.

Both Irgen Jueluo and Nemin were so scared that they covered their mouths.

Yongjia had turned around and quickly walked into the delivery room. Yaer Jianga looked at Yongjia's back, glanced at the baby in his cradle, and then entered the delivery room.

Seeing this, the old woman at the door hurriedly said, "Prince, the delivery room is dirty..." Before she finished speaking, she heard Yaerjiang A snorting coldly.

The woman was so scared that she was shocked and didn't dare to talk anymore.

In the delivery room, Cui was lying on the kang, with no blood on his face. His hair was soaked in sweat, and he was pressed against his face one by one, and his lower body was covered with blood. It looked very terrifying.

The room was full of disgusting bloody smell, but Yongjia was not aware of it. She was already walking beside the kang, holding Cui's hand, and couldn't speak.

Although she is usually cold, her eyes are still red now.

After a while, Yongjia calmed down his mind, turned around and ordered someone to carry the seventh princess over.

I don’t know if it was caused by the bloody smell, but after the seventh princess was carried to the house, she started crying "wow".

"Ruyi, wake up... look at the little princess..." Yongjia called out in a low voice.

She called out several times before she saw Cui wake up quietly.

The moment she saw Yongjia, she burst into tears and said in a crying voice: "Girl...Child..."

Yongjia put down Cui's hand, turned around and took the cradle from the old lady, and sent it to Cui's face. He smiled and said, "It's a little princess. Look at her little nose and eyes, it hurts so much."

The Cui family in front of me is Yongjia's dowry maid Ruyi. She and Jixiang both served Yongjia for many years.

Ruyi's eyes were towards Yaerjiang behind Yongjia, and Gaba's mouth was about to say something, but she finally retracted her sight.

She stretched out her strength to grab Yongjia's clothes, tears had already come out, her face and eyes were full of prayers.

Yongjia has become a mother and naturally knows that what mother in this world cares about most is her own flesh and blood. She held Ruyi's hand and said, "This is the prince's blood, and I can't feel wronged. You can rest assured, it's important to keep a good body."

Ruyi's tears were getting worse and worse, but she still refused to let go.

Yongjia looked down at the baby in the cradle, then looked at Ruyi, who was already dying, and couldn't bear it, and said softly: "She will call me my mother in the future, and she is also my child..."

Before he finished speaking, Ruyi had already let go of Yongjia's clothes, her arms hung weakly on the edge of the kang, closed her eyes, and lost her breath...

The house was in chaos, and an old woman was burying Ruyi.

Yongjia and Yaerjiang A returned to the hall. Yaerjiang A hesitated for a moment and said, "Foreigners first look at the cooking for Cui's funeral, I..." Speaking of this, he looked at the baby in the wet nurse's arms and said, "I send the seventh princess there."

Yongjia's face turned pale, as if he had drained his strength from his body and held the armrests of the chair next to him to support his body.

After hearing what Yaerjiang A said, Yongjia was not surprised.

What else can Yaerjiang A begs for trouble and personally instruct someone to choose a nurse except to please the new favorite?

I just don’t know if it was Yaerjiang A’s own decision or the one who meant it.

If that person is intentionally robbing others of their flesh and blood, it will not be good in his heart. Now, maybe he can't give birth to a child and wants to have a prince and a princess by his side. When he gives birth to his biological flesh and blood, he still doesn't know how to take care of his adopted son and daughter.

Thinking of this, Yongjia said in a deep voice: "It is also the prince who gave the seventh prince to raise. However, this child has a bad fate and will lose his mother when he lands. It's really pitiful. Can the prince agree to me? If the little prince adds a little prince, the little prince will send the seventh prince back to the palace, so that he won't be too tired."

Yaerjiang A just saw Ruyi's entrusting his orphanage, and was still worried that something would happen outside the family. Seeing that Yongjia had no intention of stopping him, he felt relieved.

He smiled and waved his hand, saying, "You said that the Seventh Princess is the flesh and blood of this king, and he can still be wronged. Yang cannot give birth to a child, so there will be no time when he dislikes the Seventh Princess. Don't worry."

Seeing that he couldn't wait to leave, Yongjia reached out and took a thin gold chain from his neck, with a golden lock piece hanging under it, and put it on the seventh princess with his own hands.

Yaer Jiang'a glanced at Yongjia with a complicated expression, called the nurse, and walked with him.

Yongjia sat on the chair, thinking about Ruyi's death, and felt a little regretful. In recent years, Ruyi has always been careful when she saw her, for fear of being blamed.

Yongjia just felt that there were so many things for women to get together, so she was impatient with socializing with everyone in the house, so no one paid much attention to it...

Imperial City, the Interior Government Office.

Cao Yong sat behind the desk, Dong Changhai, the head of the construction department, took the accounts and reported to him the progress of the repair of several pavilions in Changchun Garden.

Nowadays, in the eyes of the Office of the Internal Affairs, Dong Changhai is a celebrity of the Office of the Internal Affairs, not only the nephew of the newly appointed chief supervisor, but also Cao Yong's confidant.

He was originally the head of the sixth rank, but because he followed Cao Yong to Rehe to repair Zhuangzi, he appointed a member of the Wailang. After the repair of the Zhuangzi and returned to the capital, he was promoted to the real vacancy.

In September, the weather will turn colder and some projects will not be moved. So now we need to speed up the progress so that we can complete the work before the end of the month. Dong Changhai's intention is to learn from the example of repairing the Rehe Palace in the spring, and then draw staff from elsewhere and work in two shifts.

In addition to manpower, money and materials must be prepared first, so as to save the same amount of money and time to delay.

In addition to this, there is another thing, that is, there are several Buddha statues in royal temples that require gilding. In addition, the Empress Dowager had earlier instructed that the Ministry of Internal Affairs should make a batch of gold instruments to worship Buddha, all of which require gold.

But in the Interior Department’s Bank of China, there are some gold figures, so I’m afraid it’s not enough.

Cao Yong was still able to make the decision before. When talking about gold later, Cao Yong was unsure and could not think of a countermeasure for the moment.

The Interior Government Bank’s Bank of China is the emperor’s private treasury, but there are many kinds of expenses, which makes the Interior Government bankrupt and the money is very tight.

"Where are you going to ask Manager Dong, if he has no other opinions, just do what you said. As for how many gold you need, how many in the bank deposit, and how much is still missing in the middle, I will ask you to make a list for me." Cao Yong thought for a while and said.

Dong Changhai responded and went out to search for Dong Dianbang.

Cao Yong sat behind the desk and touched his chin, thinking about whether there was any other place to hide gold in the palace.

Does the emperor also have a private house?

Otherwise, the emperor would have done too embarrassingly.

At present, the gold that was found in various places, and the last gold that was found in the warehouse were collected into the warehouse, so how could it be so small?

Thinking of this, Cao Yong felt more and more that there was a vault in the palace, but outsiders didn't know it. Otherwise, even the emperor would be short of gold, so the gold in the palace would be hard to say.

In this way, if you wanted to deal with Yaerjiang's business, you wouldn't be able to do it anymore. Thinking about Yaerjiang's still excited and waiting for him to come up with an idea, it would be really embarrassing if he didn't deal with it.

I am really afraid of anything and come.

Just as Cao Yong was thinking about the gold problem, someone laughed and said, "What are you thinking? I am so enchanting, I don't know if I am here."

Cao Yong looked up and saw who was not Yaerjiang?

He hurriedly got up, came out from the desk, took two steps forward, and said, "Prince..."

Yaer Jianga was wearing a regular suit and was in a good mood. She stepped into the room, pulled a chair and sat down, and said, "It's a good day today, I will come to see you. What I told you before is that I have no clues. You should also use your heart. I don't want to urge you too much, so you can give me some face."

Cao Yong carefully explained the Guangzhou silver-for-gold plan he had mentioned to the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Prince before.

I heard that the gold in Guangzhou could be exchanged for thirteen or four taels of silver. Yaerjiang A couldn't help but his eyes lit up. He stretched out his thumbs to Cao Yong and said, "It's worthy of being a boy Shancai. If the 200,000 taels of silver were exchanged for gold in the capital, it could be exchanged for 20,000 taels of silver. Even if it was calculated at thirteen taels, it would be a profit of 60,000 yuan per trip. After deducting all kinds of disposals, there would be 50,000 taels of silver left, which would be enough for the sect's mansion to be in a while."
To be continued...