Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1133 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 59

When Big Fat Ju cleaned up the Imperial Household Department, Yixiu lost a lot of her original manpower. In addition, Big Fat Ju cleaned up the harem one after another afterwards, and now he has secretly cleaned up the Cining Palace, Ningshou Palace and Shoukang Palace. Therefore, the manpower that Jiang Xinxin can use are almost all the people newly developed by Jianqiu and Huichun, as well as the eunuchs under the jurisdiction of Jiang Fuhai.

After all, only palace maids were selected from the bonded servants, or at least civilians purchased from special channels. However, because the dynasty stipulated that palace maids could leave the palace after serving for 25 years, most palace maids from bonded servants would choose to leave the palace and marry, which was not stable enough. Eunuchs had various origins, but rarely had the opportunity to leave the palace, so Jiang Xinxin paid more attention to the appointment of eunuchs.

However, since Jiang Xinxin stopped killing concubines in the harem after she came and established a place for eunuchs to retire, Jiang Fuhai was now determined to do things for Jiang Xinxin. So after listening to Jiang Xinxin's instructions relayed by Jianqiu, Jiang Fuhai thought of the eldest prince Honghui's tomb first.

"Don't worry, Sister Jianqiu. My family still has a few useful brothers outside. They have nothing to do with the Empress. The Empress Dowager is short of manpower now. Maybe we don't have to go to the point of a fight to the death!"

Jianqiu was the person in Jingren Palace who understood the Queen Mother's methods best besides Jiang Xinxin. After all, all of Yixiu's actions in the palace and in the harem over the years were handled with the help of the Queen Mother.

So Jianqiu still looked worried, "It's not that I underestimate your ability, Chief Steward Jiang, but the Queen Mother has been working in the late emperor's harem for many years, and who knows how many people she has under her control?"

The two of them are now in Changchun Garden, seemingly far away from the imperial presence. In fact, as the palace maid and the eunuch chief in front of Jiang Xinxin, they are still too conspicuous, so Jianqiu found Jiang Fuhai.

Jiang Fuhai was not vague and directly accepted the task of monitoring the Ulanara family and entered the city smoothly.

Yixiu got married as the concubine of a prince. Not only did her father Fei Yanggu himself pack a dowry that was no less than that prepared for Rouze, but the entire Ulanara family also added a lot of dowry. That's why Yixiu was very willing to consider the glory of the Ulanara family during those years.

But she didn't expect that while she was working hard to maintain the glory of the Ulanara family in the Prince's Mansion, the Ulanara family would send Rouze to the mansion and put pressure on her, and also kill her only child Honghui. So from then on, the glory of the Ulanara family had nothing to do with her.

After Jiang Xinxin took over Yixiu's body, she completely cut off ties with the Ulanara clan. She only gave rewards according to the usual rules during the New Year and did not make any special arrangements. She was even perfunctory in giving rewards to the ladies of the Ulanara clan. It was just that the Ulanara clan insisted on relying on her identity as the queen, so they made many excuses to the outside world, which made outsiders think that Jiang Xinxin did not show much favor to the Ulanara clan due to the rules.

But Da Pang Ju, Rouze's husband, treats Ulanara even worse than Jiang Xinxin. Outsiders think that Ulanara is too mediocre and has no outstanding talents, so Da Pang Ju can't find any excuse to promote her. After all, the scene that Da Pang Ju made in order to marry Rouze was very similar to that of Emperor Shunzhi and Empress Xiaoxian.

So, when Yixiu was in the palace, her biggest expense was actually training staff. Even after Jiang Xinxin took over Yixiu's business, the biggest expense remained the same.

But no matter what, Yixiu's dowry was managed very well by Jiang Xinxin. Her biggest income at present was growing sweet potatoes on the two farms and then using them to make wine.

Because she never thought of entering the high-end liquor market, the wine she brewed in her farm was a type of white liquor, which was most suitable for ordinary people in the north who were slightly less poor. With small profits and quick turnover, the profit was quite good.

After Jiang Fuhai went out, he inspected the shop that Yixiu brought as a dowry as usual, then found a chance to find the people he had trained and instructed them on some things. Then that afternoon, a group of people urgently left the city and quietly went to the place where Yixiu buried Honghui. After confirming that Honghui's grave was intact, they rushed back to the city overnight.

Having put aside an important matter, Jiang Fuhai began to work hard at the former Prince Xun's Mansion. Soon, all the princes and princesses in Prince Xun's Mansion fell ill. Some had fever, some had diarrhea. In short, no one could stand.

Fourteenth Concubine Wanyan took her son who had a high fever back to her parents' home, leaving all the affairs at home unattended. When the Empress Dowager received the news, the only child left at Fourteenth Prince's home was the child who was taken back to her parents' home by Fourteenth Concubine to recuperate.

The Fourteenth Lady was also a ruthless person. She directly passed a sign to Jiang Xinxin through Wanyan, and also handed a letter to Dapangju, firmly stating that she wanted to divorce the Fourteenth Prince and take her only child Hongming with her.

Hongming is the third son of the Fourteenth Prince. He has the eldest and second sons left by his concubines Shushujueluo and Irgenjueluo respectively. So even though the Fourteenth Prince's wife always gets more face than Yixiu in front of the Empress Dowager, her life in the Fourteenth Prince's mansion was actually not easy, because both Shushujueluo and Irgenjueluo were from prominent families, and they married into the mansion before her, so they had a better emotional foundation with the Fourteenth Prince.

Big Fat Orange urgently recalled Jiang Xinxin to discuss Wanyan's affairs. Jiang Xinxin of course tried her best to promote the divorce between Wanyan and the Fourteenth Prince. "Your Majesty, this world is unfair to women. If a woman insists on getting a divorce, then there is only one way out, and that is death."

"Besides, there has already been a precedent of the divorce of Princess Lian's wife, Guo Luoluo, so there is nothing wrong with your request now."

Big Fat Orange looked at Jiang Xinxin with a complicated expression, and couldn't help asking, "So, the successive accidents of the children in Fourteenth Brother's house were all caused by the Queen?"

Jiang Xinxin took out the letter that the Queen Mother had given her earlier, and without saying anything, handed it to Dapangju and asked him to read it himself.

When Big Fat Orange took it and saw it, he was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. However, Jiang Xinxin picked it up, scraped off the foam of the tea leaves, took a sip, and said leisurely, "Is it so difficult to admit that the Queen Mother favors the Fourteenth Prince? After all, he has been the emperor for so many years. There is no need for others to teach him the truth that it is lonely at the top."

Fat Orange thought of the day when Jiang Xinxin confronted him, and Chun Yuan's reluctance to leave him at the end of his life flashed through his mind. In the end, he could only utter one sentence: "How can a woman take the child with her after the divorce?"

Jiang Xinxin had an idea long ago: "Why not have the emperor show favor to Hongming, adopt him as his adopted son, confer him the title of Prince Xun, and grant him a mansion to live in? In this way, Hongming won't have to be filial to the so-called concubine mothers in Fourteenth Brother's house."

Big Fat Ju felt that this matter had been done, so he released the Fourteenth Prince and awarded him the title of Beizi. There was also news that he would choose one of the two concubines, Shushujueluo and Irgenjueluo, to be the principal wife. From then on, there was no peace in the Fourteenth Prince's mansion.