Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2162 Flower War (seventy)

   In the fortieth episode of Dream of Red Mansions, Shi Taijun held two banquets in the Grand View Garden, and it was also the second time for Grandma Liu to enter the Rongguo Mansion.

   At that time, they took a boat to Hengwuyuan, and they encountered a residual lotus on the way. Usually, they were fine on the shore. When they got into the water, the residual lotus got in the way and almost overturned the boat.

   Baoyu complained: This broken lotus leaf is really hateful, why hasn't it been pulled out.

   Baochai said with a smile: In the past few days this year, have you ever spared the idleness of this garden, wandering around every day, and there is still time to ask someone to clean it up.

  Daiyu said: I don't like Li Yishan's poems the most, I only like his line "Leave the residual lotus to listen to the rain", but you don't have the residual lotus anymore.

  Baoyu immediately changed his words: It's a good sentence, let's not ask people to pull it out in the future.

   It can be seen from this that Baoyu's eccentricity is hopelessly eccentric. No matter how beautiful or reasonable Baochai's words are, it is not as good as Lin Daiyu's "I like it".

Of course, this is not the point of the people to tell Nick. After getting off the boat, they entered Hengwu Garden together. It was like a snow cave, and there were no colored toys. chrysanthemum.

  Wuyuan is Xue Baochai's residence. Did Wang Xifeng treat her badly, or did she treat her badly?

   Wang Xifeng doesn't like Xue Baochai, just like Mrs. Wang doesn't like Lin Daiyu.

Sister Feng is in charge of the Rongguo Mansion. She doesn't want Xue Baochai, who is equally astute and capable, to share her power. Madam Wang doesn't like Lin Daiyu because she doesn't want Lin Daiyu to marry Jia Baoyu. This time, Li Daiyu personally poured tea for her. Drink, she doesn't take it.

  Daiyu is not only the one that Wang Xifeng watched grow up, but she is weak and can't manage the housework of Rongguo, which is beneficial to Wang Xifeng.

   For fun, the girls in the Grand View Garden deliberately played tricks on Grandma Liu. They specially gave Grandma Liu a pair of four-edged ivory inlaid gold chopsticks for her to pick up pigeon eggs.

  Ivory chopsticks are slippery and inlaid with gold. They are precious, but they are very heavy. They cannot hold the round pigeon eggs. As expected, Grandma Liu got the pigeon eggs on the ground.

   Sister Feng said at this time, these pigeons have one or two eggs. Why are pigeons so expensive to lay eggs? Almost a stone of rice.

  There was such a thing, the concubines in the palace needed to buy some boxes to put things in, a total of 100 were bought, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs went out to buy them, 60 taels per box.

   An official from another province did not understand the doorway. He whispered in the ear of the Queen Mother, a box in the capital was only 6 taels, how could it become 60 taels?

  The Queen Mother didn't believe it. She said that you bought 100 of them within half a month, and the official actually went to buy them. However, the next day, she found that all the luggage stores in the capital were closed, and he couldn't buy a single suitcase.

   The servant asked, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent someone to say hello. Whoever sold him the box should not think about continuing to do business in Beijing in the future.

  The official did not believe in evil and sent someone to Tianjin to buy it, but the servant he sent never returned. It turned out that the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent 1,000 taels to bribe him. He didn’t buy the box and ran away with the money.

   After half a month, the box was not bought, and the queen mother laughed at him. Since then, no one has reminded how much the price outside is different from the price in the palace.

  Will Wang Xifeng go to the vegetable market and ask how much for a pound of pigeon eggs? She doesn't care how much a pound of pigeon eggs cost, but she knows that to make ends meet, she will lend usury.

Xue Baochai's family is down, and like Lin Daiyu, they live in Ningguo Mansion. The Tuding vase with flowers in her room is from Ding kiln. There are two kinds of thickness. .

JDZ also produces porcelain, which is divided into official kilns and private kilns. There are many main sources of income for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such as HLJ's gold mines, Northeast deer antler ginseng, Jiangning weaving, JDZ official kilns, Huangzhuang, etc., and even the positive tax of Guangzhou Customs. The Admiral's hometown is in JDZ.

Heshen was mainly "open source" when he was in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Every year, officials, salt merchants, and businessmen would give gifts on the emperor's birthday, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Day. The library was about to be full, so Heshen thought of a way to pull those "old objects" to Chongwenmen and sell them. This not only solved the problem of too many objects and nowhere to put them, but also made the income and expenditure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "balanced". ". This year, we sold a batch of "old objects", and the officials will pay tribute next year to make up the tribute. These objects have been distributed to the people, and to the rich or collectors. "bought.

   As for the tribute, how the officials raided the people. The first battle of Jinchuan was due to lack of finances and had to withdraw troops. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Zhang Guangsi, lost his head.

After the Lianghuai salt citation case broke out, Qianlong was not in a hurry to conduct a census. As a result, apart from the few dead people and the household, no one knew how many salt citation taxes had not been paid. This is all a matter of Qianlong's words, so He can make the salt merchants pay four million taels less at once.

  The salt merchants all hoped that they could get more salt, so they bribed the salt administrators and fought back and forth. Who would honestly tell other salt merchants how much salt they had allocated?

In this way, they can only be "apportioned" by the Ministry of Household to pay the fine, just like the meat on the chopping board. This money is indeed a money that they can't pay even if they go bankrupt. The profit is also 10 million taels.

  The salt merchants themselves have to make ends meet, they lend usury, and those who owe their debts hate them. In addition, they occupied the kitchen household’s salt pool before, and no one spoke for them. The census cannot be completed with the financial and human resources of a few salt merchants, and requires the cooperation of government departments at all levels of the state, prefecture, and county.

   "People don't fight with officials", unless these salt traders and private salt dealers, Huang Chao, revolted, this loss could only be eaten by themselves. The White Lotus Sect of Chuanchu was under the banner of "official forcing the people to rebel". Jiaqing blamed Heshen for all the guilt. It was Heshen and the governors who were friends with him who exploited him, making the people who live in peace and happiness take risks.

   The Admiral wrote a letter to cut off diplomatic relations with Heshen. He did not **** Guangzhou's people's fat and ointment during his tenure, but what about JDZ? Did JDZ give a gift?

  Chongwenmen not only sold the "old goods" in the palace, but also the things confiscated from the officials when they raided the house, but Heshen's house was raided.

Generally, when giving gifts, it is necessary to write clearly who gave them. Heshen has been an official for so many years. As long as he is not obviously hostile, he will send some gifts because of affection. , the Admiral's name is written on it by chance, so the target of the White Lotus Sect is not Guangzhou, but "Heshen's colleague" - the Admiral himself.

   "Wow." Georgiana couldn't help exclaiming.

   Bonaparte laughed too.

   "See, that's how the story is written," Georgiana said to the failed writer.

   "See it or not, this is love!" Bonaparte pointed to the dialogue between Jia Baoyu, Xue Baochai, and Lin Daiyu.

   She pouted and turned to the next page, where two mandarin ducks were drawn.

   Li Yishan is Li Shangyin, Nick looked up the poetry collection he wrote, and one of them is called "Mandarin Duck" which is written like this:

  The female de-male flew thousands of miles into the sky, and Yunluo was full of tears.

   You don't need to make a vow, lock to the golden cage to have both.

  The full title of the fortieth chapter of Dream of Red Mansions is Shi Taijun's Two Banquets Grand View Garden, and the golden mandarin ducks and three promulgating teeth decree.

   Birds want to fly freely in the sky, but Yunluo's eyes are full of eyes, and he will suffer from it if he is not careful. Although the freedom is lost in the golden cage, it can be exchanged for stability.

When she saw this, she suddenly remembered that she seemed to mention a fabric called "Qingyanluo" that time. There are only four colors of this kind of thing, one is blue after rain, one is autumn fragrance, one is pine green, and one is silver red. , If you make a tent and paste the window, it will look like smoke from a distance, and the beauty sitting by the window will look like a fairy in the clouds.

   This time everyone was laughing, even Lin Daiyu, who loved to cry, was laughing, but she couldn't see her tears.

  Pengwu is a chrysanthemum with fragrant leaves.

  Xiaoxiang was originally a kind of ordinary bamboo, and it became the "Bamboo of Concubine Xiang" because the tears of Empress E and Nuying were sprinkled on it.

   Grandma Liu was made fun of, didn't she know?

   But before she left, she took 100 taels of silver and an antique cup. These were nothing in the Grand View Garden, but they were enough for a poor person like her to live for a long time.

   When Grandma Liu goes to Rongguo Mansion next time, it's time to raid her house.

   "What are you thinking?" asked Bonaparte.

   "I'm thinking of Cao Xueqin." She said regretfully, "It's a pity that the golden cage has to be held so that I can live in it."

   Then she began to read the following.

   (end of this chapter)