Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 184

Not long after the Dragon Boat Festival, the account books of the household department were finished, and Luo Baisu resumed the ordinary life of going out early and returning early to make books, as if the busyness of the branch office for several months did not exist.When I asked him, he only said that the account books had been handed in, and there was nothing wrong with him, so he went back to the Duzhi Division to compile the books.

Luo Tiandu knew that this was just a brief calm before the storm.The account books of the Ministry of Accounting for the past ten years, which were found on the accounts alone, were 4 to [-] taels, not to mention the hidden accounts that were tampered with and wiped out.

There were discrepancies in many of the accounts she checked, but those people were very cunning, and there were only a few inaccuracies in a booklet, and the amount of each account was very small, all of which were leftovers Fractions, there are many large and small yamen in the imperial court, and there are various kinds of expenditure requests. There are a lot of running accounts, and if you accumulate them over time, it will be a lot of money.

Such a blatant loss of the imperial court's money, she doesn't believe that today she can bear it, she's just waiting for the opportunity to make a big move.

Sure enough, in August, the court, which had been calm and peaceful, suddenly caused a big disturbance.One day in the morning of the court, Jinshang suddenly launched an attack. He took out several ministers of the household department who had embezzled money, put them under the shackles, and pressed them to Dali Temple. However, Shangshu Lu did not attack.

Lu Shangshu was a veteran of the two dynasties, and he was in charge of the money bags of Daqing in the two dynasties. Now that this happened, his face was really dull, and he was so ashamed that he wanted to resign on the spot.He is an important minister of the two dynasties, representing not only the face of the aristocratic family, but also the royal family's sympathy for the veterans. Even if he wants to get angry with him today, he can't deal with him directly like others. He has to wait until Lu Shangshu resigns himself. , after pretentiously revisiting Xuliu today, on the grounds that he was old and couldn't bear to make him suffer any more, he logically removed his position as Minister of the Household Department, and rewarded him with the treatment of Kaifu Yitong Sansi, just to let him Ignore the meaning of the government and feel at ease for the elderly.As for the newly released post of Minister of the Household Department, it was taken up by Imamami's cronies.Master Ming, who made meritorious service in the audit this time, was promoted to be the Shaoyin of the Xiling Mansion in the courtroom, which was a solid promotion. As for Luo Baisu, his official position was probably too low, and he was never mentioned in the courtroom. .

No one in the Luo family cared about this, Luo Tian still wanted to report Luo Baisu's name to save trouble.Offending the Hubu, even if the offended Hubu Shangshu has stepped down, it is not a good thing, and few of them will end well.On the contrary, Prince Rui was a little embarrassed, and thanked the Luo family for helping him. In the name of Princess Rui, Zhao Luotian ordered two sets of cards and left two boxes of things, which was regarded as hard work for Luo Baisu up.

Coincidentally, the one who came to pick up the cards was Wang Gonggong, who had come with Wei Que before, because he had met him before, so he was an acquaintance. The Wang Gonggong had a very good attitude, and said a lot of auspicious words with a smile on his face. Of course, the Luo family also packed him a thick purse.

As soon as the prince left, Fang Shi and Luo Tian both opened the box, and were a little dumbfounded.

In the box, apart from the two high-grade silks, which are relatively common things, the red gold, wisdom, silk and jade pearl hairpins, suet and white jade paperweights, and Nanxiang wood inlaid golden blessing word number bead bracelets are so bright that they look like Very high-end things, what is going on?In the past, Luo Tian would sell cards, and he could get some good things, but this was obviously not on the level, and there was an aura of bribery from inside to outside.

The Fang family panicked at first, as a woman of this duty, her first thought was whether Luo Baisu had done something she shouldn't have done outside, that's why someone came to her door with gifts.

Luo Baisu looked it over, and sure enough, he saw two things coming out of the palace, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "It's okay, just take it."

As soon as Luo Tiandu saw it, he knew there was an inside story, and asked tentatively, "Father, is this...well, a reward for you?" When she said this, her chin moved towards the imperial city. Young.

Luo Baisu didn't treat her like a child any more, as long as it was a court affair, as long as it wasn't particularly confidential, he was willing to say a few words to her. Hearing Luo Tian's guess, he nodded.

Luo Tiandu is not stupid, he immediately understood that Luo Baisu also made meritorious service when he was going to mobilize the household department. A few words, I am afraid that the hearts of the courtiers will be cold today. This is because Prince Pai Rui came to appease Luo Baisu.Thinking about it, Lu Shangshu has been in the household department for many years, and he does not know how many followers he has in the court. He is also a veteran of the two dynasties. It's so beautiful that you can't reward this or that in front of officials, big and small. After all, you have to care about the emotions of Lu faction officials, so you have to reward something behind your back.

Luo Tian had figured it out, so he didn't care about it, and collected all the boxes, which was a small fortune, although there were a few things that came out of the palace that couldn't be touched, so they could only be offered as ancestors.

Although because of the Ministry of Household affairs, Luo Baisu got the favor of Lord Rui, but now that Lord Rui is old, regardless of the affairs of the court, the Luo family really didn't get any benefit this time.The Household Department is in charge of the income and expenditure of each yamen. Although Lu Shangshu has stepped down, most of his disciples and friends are still there. Luo Baisu offended the Household Department, and even the Book Bureau registered with the Household Department. Soon On the ground, the Publications Bureau discovered that when something needs to be added to the government office, or some furnishings are broken, it is much slower than before to apply for a new application at the Baigong Office or the Craftsman's Office. Only the Ministry of Accounts does not lend money.After going back and forth several times, everyone understood that the Ministry of Household Affairs was deliberately making things difficult. As for the reason for making things difficult, everyone knew in their hearts.

Luo Baisu was the chief of the Publications Bureau. He ran away a few times, received cold looks from people a few times, and felt a little unhappy in his heart. It was inevitable that he would be unhappy when he returned home.

Luo Tian saw it and was very helpless.Officialdom has been like this since ancient times, like a big vortex, no matter who you are, if you enter this vortex, you will inevitably suffer some grievances.

Not only Luo Baisu, but Fang's and Luo Tiandu's popularity has also declined rapidly among those female relatives. Before, they just pretended not to know each other on the street. Leaving, actually means that he doesn't want to stay in the same place with them.

Luo Tian was so depressed that he couldn't say anything.The relationship is so bad, how can she still do business with these rich ladies? Fortunately, she didn't sell the yard in the outer city a few days ago, otherwise she would have to pay so much that she couldn't even cry.

Because she was not popular, Luo Tian didn't even bother to go out for a stroll. She stayed at home every day, helping Fang's house, and occasionally cooking two dishes. In this way, she had a lot more free time. Having nothing to do, I just tossed the simple oven at home, and there were more and more snacks at home. Fortunately, everyone liked to eat them, and Luo Tiandu specially asked Cheng Qing to send many to Cheng Sheng in the military camp.The group of men eat big pot meals in the army, and they don't think there are such delicate snacks.

On this day, Luo Tiandu did a set of punches in the yard as usual, and practiced his arm strength for a while, when he saw Uncle Gu come in with a strange expression, holding a greeting card in his hand.

There was no signature on that post, it only said that it was introduced by Zuo Junya, which was a bit of a no brainer.Luo Tian was very strange in his heart. When he went out, he saw a carriage parked outside his yard. The appearance of the carriage was very low-key, it didn't even have a logo representing his identity, and the curtains were stacked on top of each other. .

Not long after, a servant girl came out, saw Luo Tiandu, and whispered: "Miss Zuo Jiaya asked us to come here, Miss Luo let us drive the carriage in first."

Luo Tian heard her mention Zuo Junya's name twice, but after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't come up with anything. The maid kept urging her, obviously afraid that others would see her, so she asked Cheng Qing to open the door and let the carriage be pulled away. He rushed in, looked around, and saw that the doors of several houses around him were closed, and no one was paying attention to the movement in front of his own door, so he closed the courtyard door.

Because there were female relatives in the car, Luo Tian had to let Uncle Gu and the others avoid it. When there was no one else in the yard except her, he saw the curtain of the car lifted, and there was a man wearing a gauze wafting in the fragrant wind. The little lady got out of the carriage.

She had known Fang's earlier and asked her and Xiang Lan to stay in the house, and she led the little lady into the inner door by herself.

She converted the west wing room into an entertainment room, and built a low wall to separate it, and opened another small door on the side of the low wall to enter and exit.Luo Tiandu led people to the recreation room, served tea and snacks himself, and then said with a smile: "I don't know which family's young lady this is, what's the matter today?"

The little lady didn't speak, but the servant girl next to her spoke eloquently: "Our little lady's name has been revealed, I'm afraid you don't recognize her, the little lady came out in a hurry and the time was short, so I just went straight I said it. A few days ago, I heard Mrs. Ya say that you have sandbags here. It was very interesting. Our little lady was curious, so I came over to have a look."

"Oh..." Luo Tian dragged his tone and understood that this is someone's daughter, and he was very depressed, so he wanted to find a way to vent.Seeing that the other party was covering up and didn't even show his face, she didn't bother to ask any more questions. She led him to the room where the sandbags were hung, taught her how to hit the sandbags and how to avoid his face, and demonstrated it clearly. It's clear.These little ladies usually don't step out of the door, and if they don't make it clear, I'm afraid they will be hit by a sandbag until their noses are blue and their faces are swollen.

The little lady went in to punch sandbags, while Luo Tiandu and the little maid stood guard outside the door.After about half an hour, Luo Tian could hear the commotion in the room quiet down. Knowing that it was almost time, he fetched a basin of warm water and asked the maid to bring it in when the little lady rested. .

The little lady finished her grooming, put on the gauze hat again, and went out with her maid in silence.

Luo Tian had been sending them into the carriage before returning to the house. When he entered the house, he found an extra purse on the table, which contained two small silver coins of ten taels.Her eyes lit up immediately, and she thought to herself, this business is really profitable.

(End of this chapter)