In the capital city.
Zhou Jianwei has been busy for a moment in these few months.
There is no such thing as new employees being left out in the cold or being excluded in the Ministry of Commerce... There is really no time for that, everyone is so busy that they even jog.
Especially for a top scholar like him in the trade department, he didn't even have time to go back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. Anyway, as soon as he entered the Ministry of Commerce, he immediately took the lead in promoting glass windows.
In addition to promoting it among the public, he also took on the task of replacing glass windows in the imperial palace and other places.
A few months ago, when the workshop had just developed stained glass, he gathered a group of young eunuchs to learn how to make it. Then, while the emperor was in the palace, they replaced all the glass in the palace.
The patterns were chosen by Emperor Ming Yan and the Empress before they left. In addition to the palace, the prince's palace, the princess's palace, the king's, duke's, marquis' and earl's palaces, as well as the six ministries and other court institutions such as the Imperial Hospital, all needed to be replaced while the main officials were away.
Compared with window paper and window screen, glass is indeed brand new. After the memorial was submitted to the emperor, Emperor Ming Yan was so happy with the praise that he ordered that the homes of managers of the fourth rank and above should all have their windows replaced. This was equivalent to an employee benefit.
After all, they were all high-ranking officials, so Zhou Jianwei was very nervous about this assignment. Although he didn't have to do it himself, he had to take care of everything. He was so busy that he wished he could be cut into eight pieces.
There is nothing wrong with this. Just replace them one by one according to the procedure.
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But after the palace was replaced, the concubines started to act like monsters.
The women in the harem were extremely bored and loved to compete with each other for these things that were merely for show. From time to time, concubines would be sent to convey messages, saying that they wanted to change their homes as well.
Zhou Jianwei came from a merchant family. He was a man of modesty on the outside but a tactful mind on the inside. He was not ignorant of the ways of the world and was able to humble himself. So no matter how arrogant the eunuchs were or how unreasonable their demands were, as long as they had titles, were somewhat related to the emperor, and could make sense, he agreed in a friendly manner to all their requests.
After all, they are all the emperor's women, and the cost of glass itself is not high. It is impossible for Emperor Mingyan to refuse such a small matter. If it is really brought to the emperor, it means that the subordinates are ignorant.
So he just agreed, secretly wrote a letter to inform Qu Sinian, and then told Yan Shiyue and let it go.
However, the usage was too high and the stock that the glass workshop had previously accumulated was quickly consumed.
So we could only work overtime to produce and install it at the same time. In the meantime, there were all kinds of people competing and arguing, which made it really difficult.
Fortunately, Qu Sinian was thoughtful, and Yan Shiyue's second steward Tang Xiaoying had been following him, so these people finally did not dare to make too much trouble.
As a result, one day when he had just gone to the Ministry of Commerce, a female official came over with a very friendly attitude and asked why the residence of Nansui Bo had not been installed yet.
Nansuibo was the empress dowager's younger brother. The empress dowager had two younger brothers. One of them inherited the title, and the other earned the title himself, namely Nansuibo. However, he had died at this time, and his son inherited the title with a downgrade.
The two families did not live in the same house.
Zhou Jianwei was stunned when he heard it.
The Empress Dowager’s relatives are extremely important. They are at the top of the list. After the palace was completed, they went here immediately. Looking at the clock, they were installed more than a month ago!
Zhou Jianwei didn't know what went wrong for a moment, and while he hurriedly apologized, he went to see it in person, and sure enough, he saw that the Bofu had not been installed. Zhou Jianwei quickly called someone to install it in the Bofu.
But Yan Shiyue and the Queen were not there at the moment, so no one could speak for him.
Afterwards, Zhou Jianwei checked carefully and found that it was on the table of Nansui Marquis's Mansion, but had not been installed, but it was not installed on the table of another Mingcheng Marquis's Mansion, but was actually installed.
Most of the craftsmen were illiterate, and he didn't know whether it was a coincidence or someone was deliberately doing something bad. He could only write a letter and tell Qu Sinian everything in detail.
Yan Shiyue was speechless after learning this.
So these people are just idle, right? Can a glass window cause so much trouble?
At the moment, she was far away and there was nothing she could do. She could only report to Emperor Ming Yan first.
Emperor Ming Yan did not take it seriously. Zhou Jianwei was just a newly appointed minor official. It was not surprising that he made a mistake. In the end, he could just let it go.
Then the Nansui Marquis's Mansion had to go to the palace to express gratitude. The Marquis's wife knelt down to thank the Queen Mother for her care, and said that Lord Zhou was personally keeping an eye on An, and kept apologizing.
In fact, he just took the money from Zhou Jianwei and spoke for him.
Then Concubine Shu said softly, "Don't take it too seriously. Everyone knows that the young princess is impartial and fair. Her subordinates will follow her example. But this Mr. Zhou is not bad. I heard that he is sweet-mouthed and good at talking!"
The scene was eerily quiet.
Her words seemed well-intentioned, but in fact they were extremely mean.
Doesn't this mean that according to their rank, they were already viscounts and were not included in the list of imperial edicts, so they were first settled in the Mingcheng Earl's Mansion, and later, when the Empress Dowager asked about it, they were settled together with the families of the palace concubines?
In other words, the Queen Mother's relatives were not taken seriously at all? They were even ranked behind the concubines?
Mrs. Bo was extremely embarrassed for the moment and opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.
The Queen Mother's face suddenly darkened.
Nanny Fu, who was beside the Queen Mother, saw this and couldn't help but sigh.
She knew that Yan Shiyue had a grudge against the seventh and eighth princes, but the seventh prince was blamed for all the big mistakes, and the eighth prince was just confined for a few days. Concubine Shu instigated this trouble and framed Fu Yan, but she also earned the dislike of the empress dowager. Why did she do this?
After everyone had left, the Queen Mother said, "I can't even protect my mother's family now!"
Upon hearing this, Nanny Fu knew that the Queen Mother was angry.
He urged: "Your Majesty, please don't think too much. The young prince is a filial son, and these junior officials are all educated people who know filial piety best. Even if they can't settle anywhere else, they must settle your family first! This time, it must be that the subordinates made a mistake."
The Queen Mother closed her eyes and said, "After all, the children are useless."
It’s hard to persuade Aunt Fu with this statement.
Nansui Bo was a capable man, but his descendants were incompetent, so he only had this one son left. He was neither good at literature nor martial arts, and was lustful and drunk. Now he just spends his days hanging out in restaurants and brothels...
But these things would not easily reach the ears of the Queen Mother.
In the eyes of the empress dowager, he was the well-behaved nephew of those years. Because she pitied him for losing his father, the empress dowager always loved him and always wanted him to enter the officialdom, but Emperor Ming Yan had never agreed. This had been a concern of the empress dowager in the first place, and it was Shufei's words that brought it out.
But anyway, after working hard for several months, I finally installed everything that needed to be installed.
It was not until Yan Shiyue received Zhou Jianwei's letter that she realized she had delayed a lot of things.
After arriving at the palace, she stayed there for several months. She had many plans, but because she had to take time out to take care of the children and learn how to write, all her plans were delayed. Fortunately, she did not take the imperial examination, otherwise she would have nothing to do for at least three years.
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