Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Early morning.

Zhu Cihong had already gotten up early in the morning, and he was going to ask the queen for the jewels later, so he washed up early and walked into the warehouse.

"Your Highness, all the treasures worth one million taels are here, this is the list."

Qiu Zhizhong opened the door of the hall and led Zhu Cihong all the way in, only to see that the space inside was as big as half a basketball court, and the shelves on both sides were full of all kinds of treasures, pearls, and jade pendants, which were the most ordinary.

"Most of these were copied out by Zhu Chunchen's family?"

Zhu Cihong opened the list and saw that most of the things were marked as copied from Zhu Chunchen's house.

"Yes, Your Highness, if you give it to the queen mother, and the concubine mother, the pearl and jade pendant will look tacky, and the slave and maid will look at this purple gold glass bowl, it will be very noble and gorgeous."

Qiu Zhizhong came to a shelf, pointed to a bowl and said.

Zhu Cihong walked in to take a look, only to see that the bottom of the bowl was inlaid with purple gold, the bowl body was brilliant, green, blue and cyan three colors gradually changed on it, changing magnificent, beautiful.

"The Buddhist scriptures say: May I be in the next life, when I get Bodhi, my body is like glass, clear inside and outside, clean and flawless, this purple gold glass bowl, it is really beautiful, this glass is the best, the color is thorough and flawless, no wonder Zhu Chunchen collected it and was reluctant to use it."

Zhu Cihong looked at this purple gold glass bowl, and instantly felt that his golden bowl was not fragrant, there was no extravagance at all, and some only had the temperament of an upstart.

"These five phoenix money jade step shake, red sandalwood carved phoenix mirror heart screen, red coral, agarwood, and this pair of jade cranes are all moved out, and they will be sent to Kunning Palace to the palace."

Zhu Cihong pointed to a few treasures in a row, and then began to look at them again, planning to send some to Tian Guifei.

"Rosewood, carved Haidongqing necklace, red gold pine crane hairpin, flying swallow heavy bead earrings, enamel color baby play double bottle, ivory comb, ivory carved round mirror, pineapple wood carved chair, green jade pillow, red gold cloud tooth basin, red sandalwood origami plum blossom screen, all moved to Tian Guifei."

Zhu Cihong picked out some treasures for women, looked around and said: "I heard that Tian Guifei played a good qin, and sent this guqin made of rosewood to Chengqian Palace together." "

It's Your Highness, someone is coming."

After Qiu Zhizhong took the list and wrote it down a few times, he went outside to ask someone to move things, and shouted: "Be careful, if you fall, if you touch, your ten heads are not enough to compensate!"

Zhu Cihong watched these treasures being moved out one by one, although they were precious, but his heart was not very painful, anyway, they were copied from his family, and they were all used by women, and he didn't need them.

If you sell it outside, you will lose part of the price, which is not cost-effective, and ordinary people don't dare to accept it, don't dare to use it, it's better to give it away, anyway, it's not an outsider.

Kunning Palace.

Zhu Cihong took more than a dozen eunuchs to carry the treasures and walked into the Kunning Palace.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Jin An."

A group of palace maids, when they saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had come down, they all stepped forward to salute.

"What about the Queen Mother?"

Zhu Cihong asked a palace maid dressed as a female official.

"Niangniang is in the house, and she is telling the female officer of the Sixth Bureau that she wants to reduce the use of the harem."

Chunmei, the newly appointed female official of Kunning Palace, looked at Zhu Cihong with a little fear and said in a low voice.

Now in the palace, I am not afraid to see His Majesty the Emperor, I am not afraid to see the queen mother, I am afraid to see His Royal Highness the Prince, some time ago, I cut off the heads of more than 800 palace people, which really frightened the eunuchs and palace maids in the entire palace.

Regardless of the rank of official, as long as anyone who participated in that incident was executed, no one was afraid.

Zhu Cihong smiled and nodded, walked directly up the steps, waited at the door outside for a while, and only after hearing the explanation inside was almost over, he raised his feet and walked in.

"Greetings to the Queen Mother."

As soon as he entered, he saluted the queen, only to see that the queen's face was neither good nor bad, but she didn't have as much smile as before, it was estimated that Zhou Kui was dead, and she was still a little sad in her heart.

"Slaves and maids, etc., see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose."

As soon as the female officials of the sixth bureau of the harem saw Zhu Cihong coming in, they all saluted.

"Alright, you all go and get busy, Hailan, go and pass on the early come."

Queen Zhou waved away the female officials, stood up with a smile and took Zhu Cihong's hand, came to the table and sat down.

Zhu Cihong looked at the queen's concerned look, and he felt even more guilty about the incident of destroying Zhou Kuimanmen, but this matter was a must-do thing, otherwise he wanted to poison him this time, and next time he would poison him directly.

"Move in."

Zhu Cihong thought and immediately shouted outside.

When Qiu Zhizhong heard the words outside, he immediately asked people to carefully carry those treasures inside.

"This is the treasure that the child collected some time ago, and selected a few of the most valuable ones to send to the queen mother, and did his filial piety."

As he spoke, he introduced them one by one.

When the queen saw these things, she was also smiling, after all, how could a woman be unhappy when she saw luxury goods, it was the same from ancient times to modern times.

"Yo, this bowl is so beautiful."

When the queen saw this purple gold glass bowl, she immediately liked it, and said with a smile: "I am reluctant to use it." "

If you don't use something, it's not waste."

Zhu Cihong said with a smile.

Soon, the female official of the Shangshi Bureau came early, a big bowl of white porridge, three boiled eggs, and a red shell.

"Huh?"

Zhu Cihong felt wrong at first glance, even if the palace reduced the use, then it would be too economical, he remembered that he had just sent a million taels of silver to his father's anger.

"Who is responsible for purchasing the ingredients from your food bureau?"

Thinking about it, he asked the female officer of the Shangshi Bureau who was waiting on the side.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the ingredients of the Shangshi Bureau are all sent to the Shangshan Supervisor by Guanglu Temple, and then to the Shangshan Supervisor of the Harem."

The female official lowered her head and explained, she didn't dare to look up at His Royal Highness the Prince, she would not be so restrained with the queen on weekdays, after all, the queen was benevolent, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was famous.

"The child sent a million taels of silver to Ouchi, don't you know the queen mother?"

Zhu Cihong looked at the queen a little curiously.

"I know, but I can't be extravagant and wasteful, I looked at the use of the harem, this egg costs twenty taels of silver, so how can you eat more."

The queen picked up a red one, cracked it and began to peel the shell.

Zhu Cihong glanced at the female official when he heard this, and said, "This is the price reported by Shangshan Superintendent?" "

Yes, Your Highness."

The female officer bowed her head and said.

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong suddenly smiled, this queen has lived in the deep palace for a long time, of course she doesn't know what prices are outside, I'm afraid that even her father may not know, here and outside the deception, you just think it's strange, if you want to ask clearly, it is estimated that you can't ask, these eunuchs are all colluding, so they dare to deceive like this.

This egg can be fetched a sky-high price.

This Emperor Chongzhen is really difficult, inside and outside the palace, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all deceitful and deceitful, this... Hey....

"Qiu Zhizhong."

"The slave is here."

"Immediately go to the eunuch who passed on the seal of the Shang Shan Supervisor."

Zhu Cihong picked up a red egg, thinking that this kind of egg was originally available in the Ming Dynasty, peel off the egg shell, and didn't eat it, just waited.

"Prince, why don't you eat it."

The queen asked while drinking the porridge, and when she saw that her son didn't eat, she sat there stupidly, and she didn't understand what he was doing with the eunuchs.

"I'll eat when I come."

Zhu Cihong said with a smile, the last Shangshan supervisor's palm print had just been cut off by him, and the newly appointed palm print dared to do this, did he kill people enough, or did he look like he was easily deceived?

Or is it that in this palace, this was the same hanging before?

"The slave maid Shangshan Supervisor holds the seal of Jiuxi, see the queen's mother, see His Royal Highness the Prince."

Soon, Qiu Zhizhong led a eunuch to run over.

"This egg is good, such a good thing, you can get fifty taels, right?"

When Zhu Cihong saw someone coming, he immediately took a bite and smiled with satisfaction.

As soon as these words came out, the queen was stunned, and the female officials on the side were stunned, didn't you know the price of this egg just now, why would you pretend to be stupid?

Jiuxi, who was still the food supervisor, was also stunned.

The prince is so easy to deceive?

Although he is ruthless, but in the end he is still a child, Jiuxi thought in his heart, so he smiled and said: "Back to Your Highness, this egg does not need fifty taels, and the price of Shangshan Jian and Guanglu Temple to purchase is only twenty taels, this is still the queen's mother said to reduce the use of the palace, otherwise the slave maid will buy more and send it to the Shangshi Bureau."

"It is rumored that Daoguang's Internal Affairs Office quoted him the price of eggs is more than 30 taels, and a patch of clothing costs 3,000 taels, and I don't know if it's true."

"Hehe, the eggs in this palace are only twenty taels, and Shangshanjian and Guanglu Temple are still very conscientious."

Zhu Cihong suddenly looked at the palm print eunuch Jiuxi with a smile, it seems that it is useless to kill a group of people in this palace, the punishment is light, they are not afraid, they will dare next time, the punishment is heavy, it is inevitable to feel resentful, and move their hands and feet in the meal.

Either don't punish and endure it, or uproot it and kill them all together.

But obviously, these house slaves dare to deceive him and treat the people of the royal family as fools, and Zhu Cihong can't tolerate this matter.

"Whose godson are you, who recommended you to be the palm seal of the Shangshan supervisor, you are so effective, this palace wants to reward you."

Zhu Cihong suddenly showed a strange smile.

Jiuxi was stunned, who is this light, what is the Internal Affairs Office, and what His Royal Highness said, what does it mean that Shangshanjian and Guanglu Temple are very conscientious, how can he not understand, but the next moment he heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to reward him, and he immediately smiled.