After lunch, Brother Jiu went to the imperial dining room.

"Where is the Mid-Autumn Festival tribute list from the governor of Shandong? Let me show it to you!"

When the manager of the imperial kitchen came forward to say hello, Brother Jiu gave the order.

The manager immediately called someone to bring the order.

Because this has just been put into storage, the inventory was only completed yesterday, and the order has not been filed yet.

Brother Jiu took the order and read it carefully.

Five boxes of auspicious vegetables, five barrels of pomegranates, five boxes of evergreens, nine baskets of Geng cakes, five barrels of longevity fruits, nine boxes of persimmon frost, five barrels of barley rice, five barrels of papayas, and five barrels of golden jujubes.

The quantity of longevity fruit is too small, so it is difficult to get it from the imperial kitchen.

But there are a few other things to eat...

It is common in other palaces, but I have no impression of papaya.

The "Papaya" that "throws me a papaya and embraces it with Qiongju"?

Brother Jiu was curious and asked: "What kind of melon is papaya? Vegetable melon or fresh fruit?"

The manager immediately ordered him to go down, and the papayas were fetched in a short time.

It's about the size of a fist, shaped like a goose egg, and smells fragrant.

"how to eat?"

Brother Ninth said.

It looks pretty good, I wonder if Shu Shu will like it.

Kitchen manager: "This tastes bad when eaten directly, like chewing wood. It needs to be dried in the sun and used as medicinal food..."

Brother Ninth immediately lost interest and gave up.

Over the past year, he has taken a lot of tonics and medicated meals.

That's enough.

He is not interested in anything with the word "medicine" in it.

After coming out of the imperial dining room, he went to the House of Internal Affairs and told Gao Bin: "I don't have any other errands these days. Let's go to the Shandong Guild Hall first to find someone from the Shandong Governor's Yamen to see if there is any surplus tribute to buy. If there is, I will buy it."

If you don’t have some long-lasting fruits, golden jujubes, barley rice, etc., go to the shops in the capital to see if there are merchants who specialize in selling Shandong specialties, and order these.”

Gao Bin listened carefully and followed the order.

Brother Jiu was impatient. He wanted to cultivate the longevity fruit in the capital, but he didn't want to wait until the spring of the next year.

In his opinion, he can try to plant a crop now.

When the weather gets cold, just cook with Dongzi and burn charcoal to heat it up.

In this way, a crop can be cultivated in autumn and winter. If there is any inappropriateness, it can be avoided next spring.

If you do two crops in one year, you have more chances of success.

As for why the other two are added, that is incidental and confusing.

There were too many idle people in the Eight Banners outside, and some people were willing to keep an eye on the goings-on in the palace and talk about big and small things as gossip.

It would be bad to just talk about the longevity fruit and let people guess.

Since it has a beautiful meaning, he also wants to be the best, so as to show his filial piety.

Next, Brother Jiu began to read the official documents. The Construction Department had an expenditure, which was part of the expenses for repairing Princess Shuhui's villa and Princess Jiuge's mansion.

He took a brief look at it, wrote "accurate", and stamped it.

The project at Jiugege is huge and will not be completed until next year.

Princess Shuhui's villa has only been repaired in a few areas, which are where the princess lives, sits and sleeps. The other areas are not large, so the construction period will be faster.

The reason why it is not built according to the Princess Mansion is because there is no precedent.

The princess of Fumeng is the princess of Fumeng. If the capital builds a princess palace, should the other princesses build one?

A separate courtyard has been built here. When the eldest princess uses it up, she can move it to other princesses who return to Beijing.

The princess returns to court...

The age of the eldest princess Shuhui...

Brother Jiu looked serious. He felt that such a lucky thing as the longevity fruit was secondary. He still had to grow potatoes and corn well to make sure he took the credit.

Otherwise, if you give birth to a little Ge Ge and care for him when he grows up, wouldn't that be robbing him of his heart?

I can't bear to think about it.

It takes about half an hour to finish the official business.

Brother Ninth left the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and went to Cining Palace.

If you have merit, you can't earn less money.

Although it did not fall into his pocket, it was his achievement as the general manager that the internal treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was enriched.

Brother Jiu felt that he was a little vain and competitive.

Even if the chief minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does a good job and a bad job, Khan Amar will not give him a salary increase, but he still wants to do better so that others can praise him once or twice when he mentions it.

In Cining Palace, the interior decoration is now distributed in the tea room.

As soon as Brother Ninth arrived, the doctor on duty and the eunuch in charge came out to welcome him.

Brother Jiu said: "It's nothing. I'm here to find the craftsman from the enamel workshop and see the quality of the current utensils."

The eunuch in charge heard this, and immediately asked someone to send a message to the enamel maker, and at the same time took Brother Jiu there.

There are now more than 20 workshops in the internal manufacturing office, and enamel making is one of them.

The leader of the craftsmen in the enamel workshop is the craftsman.

When the craftsman came over, Brother Jiu said to the doctor on duty and the eunuch in charge: "Okay, you go ahead!"

The two of them bowed out respectfully, and then Brother Jiu asked the craftsman: "Do you have any recent finished products that I can take a look at?"

The craftsman said: "There are several pairs of bottles that the emperor ordered to bake in July..."

Brother Jiu nodded and followed the craftsman to the finished product warehouse.

There are several pairs of vases.

Among them is a pair of pastel ones, with peach blossoms in full bloom on the top and several children playing around below.

There is also a pair of lotus root-colored ones with roses on top.

There is also a pair of light blue bottoms with azaleas on them.

There is also a pair with a blue background and a cluster of orchids on top.

There is also a pair with a yellow background, with branches on the top and a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water below.

Brother Jiu raised his eyebrows and his mind began to wander.

What was ordered last month?

What big events happened last month?

The inner palace is being renovated and several concubines are moving into the palace?!

Is this a reward from Nogong?

The one with pink peach blossoms belongs to Concubine Zhang?

There are children playing here.

Which is the rosy rose?

Rose, the "rich" among flowers, the flower of wealth?

Is this noble Gualja?

Rhododendron is the beauty among flowers, which one is Empress Wei?

Needless to say about orchids, the gentleman among flowers is Empress Hui.

The remaining vines and mandarin ducks...

Brother Jiu is a little embarrassed, but my mother-in-law really seems to like this color...

The old man is quite funny, he balances "new love" with "old love".

But this is my Khan Amma, not as ruthless as the emperors in history books.

He complained a few words in his mind, picked up the blue vase, looked at it carefully, and said, "Is this made of silver?"

This blue enamel has a nice color, but the luster is a bit dull.

It seems that my wife's idea is feasible. After color adjustment, it should be possible to bake a blue color that is very similar to the color of Dian Cui.

The craftsman said: "Yes, this set of vases are all made of silver."
To be continued...