The Red Mansions

Chapter 61
The eldest princess of Jinyang already felt agitated in her heart, it was a shuddering feeling of being suddenly enlightened and seeing the world on the other side.

How should I put it, that is, when a person's knowledge completely overwhelms you, you will feel that he sees people and things, builds a strategic plan, and hits the nail on the head.

Talking with him, I only feel that the mercury is pouring down the ground, hitting the key point, and there will be a feeling of looking up at the mountain.

Why does the history book often say that when the emperor and his ministers meet, they will talk about the world, sleep on their feet, like a fish in water, and become a confidant.

As for Jia Heng's analysis, it can be said that it is a collection of the painstaking efforts of successive generations of elites. After all, it has gone through thousands of years and is infiltrated with the methodology and viewpoints of Eastern and Western historiography and political elites.

Even if Jia Heng used this set of tools to analyze the country before the time travel, the path of industrialization, the land finance, etc., he could get a glimpse of the true face of the national policy.

It can be said that this whole set of methodology and underlying logic is the inalienable, irreplaceable, and insurmountable wealth of the traveler.

For example, Princess Jinyang, in the storybook, Yuan Shaojian said that He Jin transferred border soldiers. Based on his knowledge, he could only think that eunuchs are no more than the emperor's family slaves, so why send foreign soldiers to Beijing?

Therefore, there must be calculations in it.

But she couldn't think of a deep-seated reason, which was the limitation of the underlying logic.

Listening to the dynasty of flowing water, the family of iron, Princess Jinyang felt as if a heavy fog had been torn apart in her mind, as if she had been hit, her jade face froze, her delicate body trembled, and she faintly felt dry mouth The tongue is dry, the phoenix eyes under the beautiful eyes are shining, looking up at the young man who said the "horrifying words" in the calmest tone, and tremblingly said: "Sir, what do you mean by this?"

The face of Lianxue at the side changed, and the title changed...

Jia Heng picked up the teacup on the side, moistened his throat, and said with great emotion: "Since the Guangwu Zhongxing, the aristocratic families who have monopolized reading and heirlooms of Confucian classics have dominated the selection of officials, and they have colluded with China and foreign countries, covering the sky and the sun, so there is a later Han Dynasty." The disaster of the party... until the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chen Qun established the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, and the powerful families were established, and then became a pattern of high-rank without poor families, and low-rank without aristocratic families. When the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Guanlong army was noble and established the world, and the wealthy families with the Gao surname in Shandong were still with Li Tang. The emperor ruled the world together, and later there was a Wu Tang female master who ruled the country. She used cruel officials to destroy the world's five surnames and seven people. Unfortunately, the effect was very little. Finally, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties were in troubled times. "

Tianjie trampled on the bones of the princes, and the inner warehouse was burned to splendid ashes.

The arrogant soldiers of the Five Dynasties used blood and fire to completely crush the aristocratic family into mud.

After Jia Heng finished speaking, with a silent expression, he picked up the fragrant tea at the side and took a sip.

Princess Jinyang listened to Jia Heng's discussion on Qing History, and felt her heart fluttering, unable to hold herself back, while Lianxue, who was beside her, also had a strange expression on her face and brilliant eyes.

"Sir, what do you mean by monopolizing reading? There should be no family now, right?" Princess Jinyang faintly felt that there was something else important in it, and she asked, suddenly she felt that she was blocked by a bead curtain, and she couldn't see what the young man was saying. The expression was very inconvenient, and she just waved her hand to signal the maid on the side to roll up the bead curtain.

Holding the teacup, Jia Heng didn't notice this scene, but explained: "During the Han Dynasty, the text was recorded on the slips of the book, and it was very difficult for ordinary people to read. You can pass it on to your family and teach apprentices, and when you become famous and famous to the emperor, you can be recruited as an official, but with the new technology...well, the two techniques of papermaking and printing are flourishing in the world, books and characters are widely spread, and scholars are like crossing the river. For the crucian carp, the rise of the common people from poor families led to the Sui and Tang Dynasties’ imperial examination system, and scholars from common families gradually filled the positions of officials, so...there is no family today.”

Now there are no aristocratic families, but there are bureaucrats and gentry. They are huge in number, filling counties and counties, and suzerains, vassals, and royal relatives sucked blood from the huge empire.

The eldest princess of Jinyang savored the words that were like gold and stone, looked at the young man who was facing her sideways, sitting upright, and said with emotion: "Listening to Mr. Da Lu, it is deafening."

Jia Heng smiled lightly, and said: "As Your Highness said earlier, it's just chatting, not worthy of Your Highness's praise."

While speaking, subconsciously turned his head and cupped his hands.

However, looking up and staring, the four eyes met, just stunned.

I saw a beautiful woman wearing vermilion palace clothes and a phoenix hairpin on her temples sitting on the cloud bed opposite. She was about 25 or [-] years old, with a plump figure and a beautiful face. Familiar charm, smiling sweetly at this moment, like a hibiscus stamen, Jia Heng's eyes lowered slightly, only to see that the skin on the neck is fair, like jade, it is really ice bone and snow skin.

Although beauty is in the bones but not the skin, the skin is also the top priority.

As if capturing a trace of surprise in the depths of the young man's quiet eyes, the beauty in palace clothes on the opposite side smiled and said: "Sir, there seems to be something left to say just now? I wonder if there is any grand theory for this dynasty?"

Jia Heng withdrew his gaze, his face was calm, and he muttered: "Heng has not entered an official position, so he should not be good at talking about political affairs."

When Princess Jinyang heard the words, her bright and charming face was bright and her smile was undiminished, but her eyes were deep and thoughtful, and she said softly, "What if it's just a small talk?"

Jia Heng said: "Your Highness, the princes and other carnivorous people in the temples have to plan for political affairs. Jia Heng is just a white man, so I don't want to talk too much."

"Meat eaters? Meat eaters are contemptible, and they can't seek far-sightedness. Mr. Jia cares about what to point out?" Princess Jinyang narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly, looked at the young man opposite, and gradually became interested in her heart, and said with a smile.

When Jia Heng heard the words, he just paused, thinking to himself, at this moment, he has become Mr. Jia.He is... not small.

But it hasn't been answered yet.

Seeing the young man's stunned expression, Princess Jinyang smiled lightly, and stopped asking any more questions, but said softly: "It's really not easy to talk about court affairs here in this palace, and you still talk about what you will say later. "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is over, when do you plan to deliver the rest of the manuscript?"

Jia Heng was silent for a while, and said: "Your Highness, can the price of this manuscript be discussed again?"

"Oh?" Princess Jinyang's windy eyes flashed, and she said with a half-smile, "Lianxue said to give you a thousand taels of money from a famous family, what do you think is wrong?"

She wanted to see how this young man would bargain for her.

Just now, he was still talking about history, scolding Fang Qiu, and then turned to wealth. This young man is also interesting.

To put it bluntly, if Jia Heng negotiated the price first, Princess Jinyang would not have left in a huff. This is the effect caused by the different order of speaking.

From this point of view, Lianxue's previous reminder was indeed well intentioned.

Jia Henglang said: "Thousands of taels of money are really secret investment by Mingzhu, which is not enough to call the value of the manuscript. Your Royal Highness, the price of the manuscript should be re-negotiated."

Upon hearing the words, the eldest princess of Jinyang picked up the teacup on the side, took a sip, and said with a cold expression on purpose: "Thousands of taels are too few, Mr. Jia, you are too greedy."

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, and said: "Your Highness, if you feel that you are in a hurry, you can destroy the deed. According to the usual practice, Jia will return 100 taels to Hanmozhai."

Princess Jinyang couldn't help chuckling, her phoenix eyes were bright, she stared aggressively at the young man opposite, and said, "Do you think I care about your hundred taels of silver? Or do you mean to tear up the contract and do that?" Unbelievers?"

Jia Heng said silently: "Then Your Highness...it might as well be like this, the manuscript of the Three Kingdoms is still engraved and printed in your name, but it is no longer a one-time buyout, such as selling a book, and splitting it into half of the profit."

When he talked about sharing with Liu Tong, it was inappropriate, whimsical, and seeking skin from a tiger, but it was possible to talk about sharing with Princess Jinyang.

Because the value of him in the eyes of the two is different, and the latter has a wealthy family and does not have the benefit of ten thousand taels of silver, so it may be difficult to attract his attention.

Upon hearing the words, Princess Jinyang looked at Lianxue at the side, and said with great interest: "Is there such a practice in the house?"

"Not in the studio." Lianxue shook her head lightly, thought for a while, and then said: "I heard that there are several other book sellers doing this."

Princess Jinyang smiled sweetly, glanced at Lianxue meaningfully, turned to look at Jia Heng, and said: "It seems that Mr. Jia came prepared."

(End of this chapter)