Chapter 41
by41. The amount of firewood and rice
When Pei Nianyu returned to the house, he was ready to deal with the matter of the head of Shangshan.
He first sent someone to call Gao Tong, the chief steward of the mansion, and wanted to ask about the situation, but his servants reported that Mr. Gao had a slight illness a few days ago, so he took a leave of absence and went home to recuperate due to illness. He will not be able to return to the mansion until tomorrowWork.
Pei Nianyu had no choice but to send someone to Gao Tong's house to reward him with some medicine and supplements, and told him to take good care of his illness.
Unexpectedly, the servant who sent the message came back after a while, saying that Manager Qin of the big kitchen was just rectifying a few servants who made "serious mistakes", and got angry.Hearing the message from the master, he is currently arranging his grooming, and rushing over immediately...
Pei Nianyu: "..."
How come everyone is busier than me!
However, he completely forgot that he is actually the most idle one in this mansion.
So he sighed and waved his hands:
"Forget it, it's time for dinner now. Go tell him and let him come back in the afternoon."
Pei Nianyu thought for a while, what serious mistake the servants in the big kitchen could make was nothing more than swallowing oil and water.In fact, the bad food of the shadow guard is probably the reason for this, but it is common for a big kitchen to get some oil and water, and he, the chief catering manager, gets the most, so how could it be called a serious mistake for this reason...
He shook his head and didn't think about it anymore, anyway, he would have to report to him sooner or later.
In the afternoon, it was Gao Tong who came first.He reckoned that he was almost recovering from his illness, and today he heard from the servant who delivered the things that the prince was looking for him, so he returned to the mansion ahead of schedule.
"...That's the way it is. Please trouble Uncle Gao to check it out. In addition, today, Director Qin said that he was dealing with a few servants, so let's take a look at what mistakes they made."
Pei Nianyu simply assigned the matter to Gao Tong, and just waited for the result.He himself went to Lou Yefeng's room to see how the exercise he wrote for himself was progressing.
Gao Tong was his confidant eunuch who served him when he was in the palace. After so many years of immersion in the palace, he was more than enough to handle such a few things in the palace.
After a while, Gao Tong came back with a cold face.
"how?"
"Returning to your lord, just as you imagined, the stewards of the dining room who went out to buy things tried their best to deduct some money for the purchase..."
Pei Nianyu was a little angry:
"On weekdays, every department in this mansion is making money. I know this, and I don't care. Why have the abacus been put on the heads of these shadow guards recently? And...why hasn't this happened before?"
Gao Tong secretly wiped his sweat:
"This... Speaking of it... it's because..."
Pei Nianyu suddenly felt uncomfortable:
"Because of what?"
"It's like this. The big kitchen was mainly responsible for your three meals a day, my lord. Providing meals for the shadow guards was just a small job. Your lord's own meal allowance is ten taels of silver a day."
"These ten taels of silver are three hundred taels a month. These are all allocated to the dining room by the treasurer of the mansion every month. But...Your lord, you always prepare the three meals according to the prince's standard., that day will not cost ten taels... I am afraid that half of it will be..."
It went into the pocket of the errand.
Pei Nianyu said angrily:
"Understood. Then if I don't let them prepare my meals this month, their income of more than one hundred taels of silver this month will be gone, right?"
"...Yes. It's the old servant who made the decision, so that the treasurer doesn't have to transfer the money, but I didn't expect them to lose this income, and they even made an idea on the food of the shadow guards."
Pei Nianyu waved his hand:
"You're right. If you don't do government affairs, how can you get Milu free? Besides, this is not a serious income... Speaking of which, how much is the monthly silver for the people in their big kitchen? They are assigned to be in charge every month.How much is the money for the food of the shadow guard?"
"Back to the lord, there are twelve messengers in the big kitchen. Their monthly silver is the same as that of the second-class maids in the mansion. They are all four taels of silver. But most of their income is on this regular oil, plus the waiterThe cost of tea and snacks, many of which can be obtained. Twelve of them share one share, and their income in private is about twenty taels a month..."
"As for the money allocated to them for the food of the shadow guards...it is the same as yours, lord, ten taels a day."
Pei Nianyu took a sip of tea and sprayed it out:
"That is to say, the standard of one hundred shadow guards for one day is the same as that of myself?"
This is really... Pei Nianyu sighed in his heart, he didn't know if he didn't ask, but he was shocked when he asked.
Even if they prepare ordinary meals for their shadow guards, and prepare dishes of delicacies from mountains and seas for His Highness King Yu, but this is too far away.
"Yes, so this month they can only deduct money from the shadow guard's food, so naturally..."
The more Pei Nianyu thought about it, the angrier he became. The fee given to the shadow guard was not enough to get any extra money, and he had the audacity to deduct half of it. No wonder they ate pickled cabbage every day...
Moreover, heard that there are ten or so people in their big kitchen, and each of them can get more than twenty taels in their pockets a month, almost catching up with the monthly salary of an ordinary shadow guard!
But who is the shadow guard? He has trained hard for so many years since he was a child, and he has to risk his life to protect his prince when he is in danger, so it is only natural to get more monthly salary.
But... How can a large monthly salary compare to the richness of those people who can make money in the mansion...
Greed is not enough!
If things go on like this, his shadow guards watch these servants chatting and farting for most of the day, and their pockets are bulging.
In the past, Pei Nianyu had always been indifferent to the management of the mansion. He only had one request, which was not to wrong his shadow guards. Who knew that these money-greedy guys would still get more and more greedy...
Pei Nianyu's face turned dark:
"That guy Qin Lei, let him come over."
After a while, the manager of Shangshan came to pay a visit, sweating profusely all the way.
"My lord, the matter of embezzlement of the shadow guard's food and money... is not brought up by the old servant... but the person who bought it below has a twisted mind..."
Pei Nianyu was even more unhappy when he saw Qin Lei's flattering face.These people can shirk their responsibilities one by one. Compared with his sensible shadow guards, they are really unlovable.
"Then you are also guilty of covering up without reporting it! Half a year's monthly salary will be deducted from you to supplement the food for the shadow guards. In addition, anyone who is involved in corruption in the dining room will be opened and driven out of the house. The next time you commit the crime, it will be the same."Same!"
"Yes, yes, the old servant thanked the prince for his kindness..."
That Qin Lei dragged his fat body and hurriedly kowtowed like garlic.
"get out!"
"Yes, yes, old servant, get lost now..."
"No, wait a minute, what mistakes did you make for the servants who made mistakes that you said in the morning?"
Then Qin Lei immediately pretended to be filled with righteous indignation:
"Returning to the lord, some cooks overheard some of the recipes you developed that your maid passed on, and told their family members when they went back, and then they accidentally spread it. Leaking the secret of the lord is a serious crime..."
Pei Nianyu spit out another mouthful of water:
"What kind of secret is this thing again? Pass it on and pass it on, what do they do? Don't worry about what you should care about, and worry about what you shouldn't care about! Go back and reflect on yourself!"
Qin Lei scrambled away.
On Pei Nianyu's side, Xindao said, no wonder the food value in the system has been slowly increasing by +1+1+1 when he was not cooking recently.
Now he finally understands the reason. It seems that it is not only the dishes he cooks that are delicious if people eat them.There will be 1 point of food value credited.
No matter how much it is, there is no more.
But even so, when he invents more recipes and spreads them on a large scale, the accumulation of 1 point and 1 point will be a terrible number.
It seems... This system is really like what Pei Niancheng said, it follows the mass line and collects the beliefs of the masses as energy.
Pei Nianyu asked Gao Tong while thinking:
"Speaking of which, isn't there several Zhuangzi below the mansion in the suburbs of Beijing? Can't the food, vegetables and poultry and eggs produced in the mansion be directly supplied to the mansion, and they have to go out to buy?"
Pei Nianyu also suddenly realized that as the top landlord in the Dajing Dynasty, the King Manor under the Wangfu has more than 100,000 mu, not only producing food and various crops, but also orchards, and even pastures in the north.There are also several tea gardens and so on.
The annual output and land rent, etc. were exchanged for white money and handed over to the palace for the life of his prince, a real exploiting class.
Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing alone has more than 20,000 mu. Let Zhuangzi send the latest vegetables and grains to the mansion every few days.The opportunity for tenant farmers to be exploited is convenient for everyone.
Gao Tong thought for a while and said:
"Of course you can..."
"Then why didn't you do it before?"
"Uh...Going back to the prince, it's really because there are not so many Zhuangzi in other mansions..."
"Okay. Then it's settled. In the future, Zhuangzi will send the ingredients from the big kitchen. The daily routine silver... If you need to buy extra, just write off the account separately. Moreover, the routine silver will be allocated to Fu Chen in the future, so thatHe'll take care of it too."
"Yes, the old servant understands."
Fu Chen is the shadow guard in charge of logistics, and now that the big kitchen is not in charge of Pei Nianyu's meals, there is nothing wrong with him directly taking over the big kitchen.
In this way, their deduction was avoided to the greatest extent.
"Yes, the old servant is going to deliver a message."
Pei Nianyu ordered again:
"By the way, let Yun Shao come over."
"yes."
After Yun Shao arrived, Pei Nianyu directly appointed her as an official:
"Yun Shao, you've been a second-class maid for long enough. From now on, you'll take over the post of cooking maid. You'll be in charge of my meals on weekdays. In your spare time, you'll be in charge of teaching the idiots in the big kitchen. Let themAt least learn home cooking."
Naturally, there are female officials in the mansion, and Xia Yao is the female official in charge of ceremonies.
Yun Shao quietly asked:
"Master, do you still remember that this subordinate is the shadow guard responsible for testing your poison..."
Pei Nianyu: "...Sorry, I really forgot..."
"But it's okay, the old building is now in charge."
Yun Shao secretly clicked his tongue.
"Okay...Master, this lady in charge...has an extra salary..."
"Of course there are."
Yun Shao's eyes lit up immediately: "Thank you, Master!"
Pei Nianyu stepped forward and patted her on the shoulder: "Yun Shao, the quality of your teaching is related to the food of your hundred brothers...I'm afraid you will have to work harder these days..."
"That's not a lot of hard work. The subordinates have really been too idle in the past few years."
"By the way, after the shift of the shadow guards changes later, you go gather them all and find out what they like to eat, and then I will arrange the recipes for the big kitchen."
"Yes, thank you master!"
What Pei Nianyu didn't see was that on the roofs of the wing rooms on both sides of the dormitory, there were a few shadow guards lying on the tiles secretly, drooling down at the same time...
He leisurely went back to the house, and when he heard the system finally issued a "mission completed" notification sound, he opened the interface in a calm manner, and was about to receive the mission reward, but was dumbfounded.
I saw a line of large characters slowly displayed on the interface:
"Because you merged the two tasks into one, the task rewards have also become one. The task completion is being calculated, and the rewards are being redesigned. Please wait..."
Pei Nianyu: "..."
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