"I have a question for you." The princess was obviously angry.
Madam Zheng shuddered again, but still said nothing.
At this time An Yi came in.
He is the leader of the prince's personal secret guards. He usually stays in public and is equivalent to a servant.
Everyone in the Prince's Palace knows his identity and that he is an expert in martial arts.
"Your Highness, I found a packet of Tibetan red chrysanthemums in Madam Zheng's room, and also several packets of other medicinal powders. I don't know what they are used for. We also found a lot of gold and silver jewelry." As he spoke, he displayed all the things he had found one by one.
When Madam Zheng saw these things, she knew she couldn't escape today. She took out a pill from her bosom and stuffed it into her mouth. She did it so quickly that she took advantage of everyone's attention being attracted by those things.
When the prince saw this, he immediately slapped her hand, trying to deflect her hand, but it was too late.
Yu Yuanzheng immediately stepped forward and was about to pick her mouth, but Nanny Zheng struggled hard to prevent Yu Yuanzheng from succeeding.
The medicine has been taken.
After a while, the effect of the medicine took effect. Nanny Zheng screamed miserably and blood came out of all her orifices.
It happened too suddenly.
Yu Chaoyang screamed in fright.
The old lady and the mistress also turned pale.
The maids serving in the hall were so frightened that they huddled together.
Yu Yuanzheng had seen many dead people, so he didn't feel anything.
An Yi went forward to take a look.
"My Lord, there is no more air."
"Butler Li, drag him out and throw him into a mass grave to feed the wild dogs." The prince ordered.
"King, you can't feed the wild dogs. The wild dogs will be poisoned to death if they eat them." Yu Yuanzheng said this for environmental protection reasons.
As a result, the old ladies looked at her as if she were a monster.
"Humph, she wanted to harm your mother, and you actually fell in love with her?" The old lady scolded for no reason.
"I'm not in love with her, I'm in love with the stray dog, but the stray dog didn't harm my mother."
"Dig a hole and bury him." The prince ordered again coldly.
"Yes." Butler Li found two servants to take the body away, and arranged for a maid to wipe the floor ten times.
Only then did the princess step forward to check what An Yi had found.
Many of the jewelry looked familiar.
Picking up one of the jade bracelets, the princess was familiar with the carvings on it. She had arranged for Jinxianglou to make it. Every year during the New Year and other festivals, she would ask the manager of Jinxianglou to custom-make a batch of jewelry for the female members of the family.
This seems to be for the old lady.
"Madam, I remember this was a gift from the previous year during the Chinese New Year. How did it end up in Madam Zheng's hands?" The princess picked up the bracelet and showed it to the madam.
The old lady had long wanted to go up and take back the jewelry she had given to the old man. She knew that the princess would definitely find something wrong.
It's been so long, and the old guy is still around.
"Princess, this old man is so dishonest that he actually dares to steal from me." The old lady said as she walked over and snatched the things from the princess's hand.
The princess really wanted to roll her eyes. She was the only one who had no shame.
"Old wife, come and see if this old man has stolen anything from you?" The old lady also asked the old lady to come over to look at the pile of things together.
Madam 㟧 was really shameless enough to come and see.
She was even nice enough to take out a few small items.
"Sister-in-law Princess, this Madam Zheng is a member of your family. I never thought that she would dare to do such a murderous thing under your nose." Then she put the things into her pocket.
"Do you all think I'm a fool? Nanny Zheng is the manager of my courtyard, so of course she will help me with some household matters. Aren't you using these things to bribe her to make things easier for you?" The princess was obviously angry.
"Mother, your daughter-in-law has something to say." Yu Yuanzheng spoke at this time.
"You say." The princess' tone was much better when talking to her daughter-in-law.
"Not long ago, didn't my daughter-in-law come here to calculate a few accounts with the Crown Prince's wife? I found that the prices of many things were a bit high. Ten chickens cost one tael of silver.
I seem to have heard my mother say that live chickens usually weigh about 10 to 10 catties per pound. We assume that a chicken weighs about 6 catties, and 10 chickens can't even get you one or two taels of silver. So where did the extra one or two taels of silver go?"
Yu Yuanzheng's words made the old lady and the old lady blush.
Isn't it clear? They used these jewels to bribe the stewards of the Princess' Court and then got benefits.
If the princess finds out about the jewelry, she can say it was a reward from another master. She won't be able to get the silver.
These slaves who took up their posts in the government did not dare to openly accept money from their masters. If they were discovered, they would be beaten to death. They only dared to do so if they were working for their masters and had their masters' protection.
In other words, Nanny Zheng accepted these benefits and asked some of her subordinates to adjust the prices of goods, and the extra money was handed over to the old lady or the madam.
"Okay, okay. Madam Zhao, tomorrow you go out of the mansion and find out the prices of the commonly used items in the mansion, and make a copy for me." The princess didn't expect that she had been fooled like this for so many years.
Yu Yuanzheng really envied the princess, who lived in the palace and didn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt were. Whatever the people below said was what she believed. Fortunately, it was a palace with abundant wealth, so it could withstand such a loss.
But after hearing what the princess said, Madam was about to cry.
If she and the old lady hadn't found a way to get some money from the servants who were doing purchasing, how would their family survive?
"Your Majesty, our wife is going to beg for food. Big brother, you can't just watch our wife starve." The wife really cried and complained to the prince.
The original purpose was to deal with the matter of Princess Yuan being imprisoned in Zang Hongying, but it turned out to be out of control.
"Why, old man? I've sent him to the military camp to do some work, but he's still not behaving himself?" The prince felt a headache when he thought of his disappointing brother.
"In the past month or so, the money has been a little less, but our first wife has so many concubines and 15 illegitimate children, each of whom needs money. How can the money in the public treasury be enough?" Mrs. Madam continued to cry.
"Dismiss all the concubines who have never given birth to children." Prince Xu received the order.
"Your Highness, I can't do that. My husband will beat my sister-in-law to death." Madam Yu didn't dare to do that.
"Princess, what do you think we should do about this?" The prince didn't know how to deal with the matter in his brother's room, so he had to ask the princess for help.
"There's nothing I can do." The prince is difficult to deal with, but it's easy for her as his sister-in-law?
"How much profit do your shops make in a year?" asked the prince.
"We have only one shop, and each shop has an average profit of one to two hundred taels, which is not enough for my husband and Zifeng." The wife was helpless.
"How do you run your business? A shop only makes a profit of one hundred taels?" The prince really didn't expect that their family was so useless.
The shop managed by the princess always makes a profit of about 1,000 taels a month, but they only have this little.
"Then take back the shops in your house and let the princess help you manage them. I'll give you 300 taels per month for each shop." The prince immediately made the decision.
"How can this be possible? That is the property of the old lady's family. No matter how poor it is, it cannot be handed over to the princess. When Zifeng gets married in the future, he will have to use one or two shops as a betrothal gift. Ling'er also wants to get married, so she will have to use a shop as a dowry." The old lady was not happy.
"This is not right, that is not right, what do you want? Our first wife's monthly expenses are not as much as the second wife's." The prince was angry.
The first wife had two children and a concubine.
The prince's two concubines were never allowed to have children, and they are only maids now.
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