The painting style of the princess in the Red Chamber is wrong

Twenty-seven months later, the emperor's filial piety period passed, and the dull atmosphere in the palace finally changed, and the concubines began to try their best to seduce the emperor's attention.

In the past 27 months, Shui Jing has initially grasped the power of the court, and the lineage of Prince Zhongyong has less and less right to speak in the court.

Those people also knew that Shui Jing's position had been secured, and Prince Zhongyong would never succeed to the throne.But these people's movements are not too restrained, probably because Shui Jing has not done anything to them for so many years, and he thinks that his position is still stable.

In other words, I think Shui Jing is a lenient emperor like the Supreme Emperor.

But you must know that at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the Supreme Emperor also acted vigorously in order to secure his position.

During this period of time, Shui Jing just quickly changed his people to important positions. Now that the subtle changes are over, he also decided to do a lot.

However, when he had someone check the treasury, he found that there was no money.

Yes, no money! ! ! !

As I said before, every king who is wise or thinks he is wise has some great achievements, and the Supreme Emperor is no exception.

Things like traveling, going to war, sending people to travel overseas to collect information, etc., all of which cost money—in fact, overseas affairs can obviously cost no money, and can make a lot of money, but obviously the eldest prince took the money before. I'm working, so I'll give you money for nothing.In addition to these things, there are also normal national expenditures, such as river engineering disasters, which one is not a waste of money?

In addition, there are palaces, gardens, hunting grounds, and every time the foreign ministers come to congratulate, the Supreme Emperor will generously reward a lot of things, all of which are money.

But although the Supreme Emperor spent a lot of money before, he also made a lot of money. After all, the Supreme Emperor is generally considered a relatively wise emperor.However, after the emperor's old age, he was too obsessed with the good reputation of kindness, and the evaluation in the history books, and it is estimated that he is getting older, and he likes to enjoy it more and more. The more and more money he uses, the less and less he earns back. Those corrupt officials don't care.

The more courageous the officials are, the more money the treasury will naturally have.

Let alone other things, the money borrowed from the national treasury accounted for one-third of the national treasury's revenue, and the Supreme Emperor actually did not intend to ask his subjects to pay back the money because of his kindness, and even made an order to tear up some honorable IOUs .

Shui Jing cried and fainted in the toilet.

Father, I won't bring you such a prodigal!He is a cheating father, you are a cheating son!

Shui Jing doesn't like extravagant enjoyment, but he is also a lucky man, even ambitious.He is planning to create a navy and grab territory from overseas - after all, the surrounding countries have all the fertile land that can be fought, and the rest are either barren, or they are used to fighting against the current dynasty, so it is difficult to win.

Shui Jing wanted to make great achievements and be famous through the ages, so he naturally needed to find another way.

But no money!I have no money!

Shui Jing also wants to implement a new salt-making law so that everyone can afford to eat salt, so that there will be no such cancer as salt merchants.But it also takes money.

No Money!But I really have no money!

Shui Jing was very sad and depressed, he wanted to catch a fat mouse or two to ransack the house, but he knew that some nobles were richer than the emperor himself!

But although Shui Jing didn't think of anything too merciful, he wasn't prepared to act so simply and rudely.After all, he wants long-term peace and stability. If other officials are frightened, his rule will be unstable.

But if he really had no money, Shui Jing would still find someone to do the surgery.

"Actually, brother, you don't have to worry so much." Shui Jue sipped his tea and said, "It's a bit troublesome to get money from those moths who don't see their blood blades, but it's not impossible."

Shui Jing immediately looked at his good sister with the twinkling eyes of the pickup.He knew that his good sister had the most flexible mind, much smarter than those think tanks who quarreled every day.

He summoned his neighbors to quarrel every day, but nothing came out of the quarrel.

"Aren't there many noble women in the harem of my brother?" Shui Jue smiled, "When the emperor was still there, in order to comfort the hearts of those nobles, my brother expanded the harem a lot, and even mentioned the daughters and granddaughters of two veteran officials. Wake up? I remember that after that, almost all nobles became concerned, and people from almost every family came in, right?"

Hearing her younger sister talk about her harem so openly, Shui Jing didn't feel dissatisfied, as if what she said was not about her own woman.Shui Jing thought for a while, then showed a sly smile: "Sister means..."

"Now that the filial piety period is over, it's only natural for my brother to raise his position." Shui Jue showed the same smile as Shui Jing, "This palace has been silent for so long, so there should be some happy events. You must know that brother is keeping his filial piety. Those concubines You have to follow along, and people from outside the palace cannot be summoned, presumably they are very homesick."

Shui Jing immediately understood, and he nodded: "What my sister said is that my brother was negligent. The concubines have been in the palace for so long, so they are naturally homesick. No matter in this dynasty or in history, there are royal favors to let the family It is a tradition for concubines in the capital to go home to visit relatives."

Shui Jue pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Although in the past only concubines who were favored one or two times could have the honor of going home to visit their relatives, isn't this just past the filial piety period? It is only natural for my brother to be kind and add joy to the palace."

"It's just that there are regulations for concubines to go home. If it's a small family, it will probably cause a lot of trouble, right?" Shui Jing blinked.

"If my brother's concubines are seen by other people, it's against the rules." Shui Jue continued, "At any rate, it must be... a multi-story building? The place where the concubines go, although it is not as good as the palace, it is still a place A villa with a garden, right? The stones and wood, flowers, plants and rocks all cost money, let alone the decorations."

"Leave this matter to my younger sister. My younger sister has almost sent people to hoard these things in the capital. Just say, my elder brother will also decree this grace." Shui Jing is very satisfied with this plan.Even the emperor can honestly make money through business, can't he?

"My sister obeys, and I will definitely live up to my brother's expectations." Shui Jue stood up and bent over slightly, the two siblings looked at each other and smiled.

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Shui Jue's industry already occupies the first place in the capital, and Liu Ziyi's business is mostly located in Jinling and Jiangnan. Coupled with the background of the Xue family, Shui Jue's businesses from the capital to Jinling and Jiangnan are all Speak up.

What's more, although the things used to build gardens and houses are expensive, they are not used much - even those who are capable of gardening do not always want to change to live in a garden.These things are actually quite unpopular, but whether it is stone or wood, or exotic flowers and plants in the garden, or strange rocks, it takes time to find them.

It is absolutely impossible to find suitable and sufficient things in this one or two months.

Therefore, when Shui Jue sent people to hoard these things secretly, they did not attract the attention of others.Regardless of whether it is her property or Shui Jing's property, they are irrelevant on the surface, let alone the Xue family and the Liu family.

According to Shui Jing's wishes, the rest of them were not disclosed.It's not that Shui Jing doesn't trust many people, but all the money is to subsidize the national treasury, and it's best not to pass through the hands of other people.

When Shui Jue and Liu Ziyi hoarded these items, they almost exhausted the current available liquidity - after all, the cost of these items is very expensive.

Xue Baochai asked the members of the Xue family to try their best to hoard these things without attracting others' attention, even Xue Biao was surprised.But after knowing that this was what the princess meant, Xue Biao didn't care whether the thing was profitable or not, or that he was going to pay tribute to the emperor or the princess. Anyway, what the royal family wanted, he did his best.Xue Biao handled the matter himself, and only said to the outside world that there were officials he knew who wanted to repair the garden, and he helped to make arrangements.

When the funds of several companies were almost used up, Shui Jue told Shui Jing that the plan could be started.

A few days ago, Shui Jing had raised the status of many concubines, which made the concubines panic. They thought that they could become the favored concubine above the empress and give birth to a favored prince. Position - after all the emperor is still young and the death of the former crown prince set a bad example for everyone.

Shui Jing counted the time, and then issued a decree, saying that the filial piety period has passed, and in order to pray for blessings, the nobles and concubines above are specially allowed to go home to visit their relatives during the Lantern Festival.But the concubines who can go back must have a separate garden family villa at home to show respect for the concubines.

As soon as this decree came out, although there was a lot of repercussions, there was no opposition.It is a great grace for this concubine to go home, and it has always been only available to favored concubines.Concubines have a whole day to go home to visit relatives, so naturally they can't show their faces in front of outsiders, and there is always an illusion of going back to their mother's house when they return to their own home, which is not in line with the etiquette of concubines, so it is naturally appropriate to meet family members in another place.

And the family doesn't even have a garden where you can visit relatives, so is the concubine embarrassed to go home?There's no room for this guard of honor, right?

Naturally, Shui Jing ordered the ministers to spread the above remarks.Those people can't come up with clever ideas, but they can still play tricks.

When Shui Jing made the decree, it was only eight or nine months away from the Lantern Festival, so it was enough to build a garden.It's just that this is when the material is sufficient.

With such a great kindness, wouldn't it be disgraceful for a concubine who failed to return home?When I see other "sisters" again, won't I be ridiculed all the time?

Only some concubines whose families are not in the capital are sad, but at least one thing is missing.However, the concubines in the inner courtyard of Shuijing, except for the old people in the Prince's Mansion, are almost all nobles who have houses in the capital.Even if the foundation is not in the capital, there are clansmen who are officials in the capital.

When Shui Jing made the decree, he said that as long as he returned to the clan, it was fine, so those concubines whose parents were not in the capital could also go home to visit their relatives and meet other clan members.

Since the filial piety of the palace, those who sent their daughters into the palace have not heard from their daughters for a long time.Whether it's those who really love their daughter, those who need this honor, or those who want to explore the situation in the palace with their daughter, they all start to talk about it.

In this case, the family that used to be proud and unwilling to win this honor is also busy building a family-saving villa-other people's daughters have returned, but their own daughter has not returned, so it makes the daughter very sad in the palace?

Among them is the descendant Chen family.

Everyone knew that the Chen family and Empress Chen were at odds.The insider couldn't help gloating when he thought that the Chen family didn't even want to pay the queen's dowry when she got married.

After Shui Jing ascended the throne, the Chen family wanted to repair the relationship with Queen Chen several times, but Queen Chen didn't care about it at all, and didn't even intend to give her son a little bit of succession chips. Being her queen well-behaved made the Chen family very angry.

Didn't the Chen family send a daughter into the palace later?She was also made a concubine, which made the Chen family happy for a long time.It was only later that he was suppressed by Concubine Zhou Gui and Wu Guiren.

By the way, nobleman Wu is also a concubine now.

This time visiting relatives, the Chen family originally thought that the empress could not leave the palace, so it was not very good for them to receive a concubine so wantonly?But watching other people's houses build gardens to welcome the nobles in the palace to go home to visit their relatives, and their family gave birth to a queen and a concubine, and they are still deserted, it seems really unreasonable.In the end, when she entered the palace to meet her daughter, she was so cried and complained, and she suddenly felt that people should not look down on the Chen family anymore.

Although there is no queen and our family is not close, at least our family still has a concubine.

As the Chen family thought about it, they also joined the ranks of buying materials for building gardens at high prices everywhere.

The old lady of the Chen family was very angry, but it was useless to stop the Chen family from sending their daughter into the palace in every possible way before. It is of course useless to stop the family members from building a garden this time.As soon as Mrs. Chen got angry, she fell ill.

It's just that the Chen family was busy repairing the garden, so they didn't pay much attention to the old lady.

Later, the married daughter of the Chen family went to work in Beijing. Mrs. Chen’s grandson-in-law happened to be pregnant, and the elders of the Chen family went again. The daughter of the Chen family begged Mrs. Chen to come to her house for a while and take care of the grandma. The grandson's daughter-in-law said that she was exhausted physically and mentally because she was busy with her husband's going to Beijing.

The Chen family has long disliked the old lady, but just for the sake of filial piety, they have to support the old lady on the surface.Hearing that someone is picking up the old lady now, I can't wait to ask for it.Mrs. Chen just moved into the home of her daughter and son-in-law.

Of course, Mrs. Chen never went back to the Chen family after that.

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"Fortunately, my aunt and uncle have returned to Beijing, otherwise grandma..." Chen Ning'an held Shui Jue's hand and wept uncontrollably.

Shui Jue comforted: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, Mrs. Chen will be at ease in the future. Master Yu is a good person, and he grew up in front of Mrs. Chen, so he will be filial to Mrs. Chen in the future."

Mrs. Chen's surname is Yu, and this son-in-law also belongs to the Yu family, named Yu Lei.Although she is separated from Mrs. Chen in the same room, she is also a cousin.Both of Yu Lei's parents died since he was a child, and his parents were very close to Mrs. Chen and Mr. Chen who was still alive at the time. Mr. Chen took Yu Lei to his side to raise him. He lived and ate with the eldest son of the Chen family, Chen Yi.Although Yu Lei and Chen Yi have the same literary and martial arts, they obviously have a very good relationship.

Chen Ning'an's aunt used to be close to her two elder brothers, but because Mrs. Chen Yu was very displeased with this favored sister-in-law, the relationship between her and Chen Yu gradually became estranged.

Because Yu Lei was a protégé of Empress Shengde's father, when the lineage of Empress Shengde was suppressed, Yu Lei was naturally demoted to another place.However, when she learned that Chen Ning'an was being bullied, Chen Ning'an's aunt still scolded Chen Yu in a letter, and finally Chen Yu, who became furious, banned correspondence with her family.However, Mrs. Chen loves her daughter dearly and always has contacts with her, and Chen Yu can't stop her.

Chen Ning'an's aunt gave Chen Ning'an things and money every year for the reason of giving things to Mrs. Chen, so even though she hadn't met this aunt a few times, Chen Ning'an was very close to her.

When Yu Lei was gradually favored by Shui Jing again, his official position was naturally promoted, but he was always out of town.

After all, there are many important official positions in other places. Before Shui Jing finds a suitable replacement, he does not dare to let Yu Lei leave.So Yu Lei didn't return to Beijing until the young officials trained by Shui Jing were in place.

As soon as Yu Lei came to Beijing, he was directly the Minister of Rites, and it can be said that he was very beautiful.

Because he was raised by his side since he was a child, Yu Lei's feelings for Mrs. Chen are like his own mother.Now that Mrs. Chen was ill, the Chen family ignored her. Of course, they discussed with their wife and took the opportunity of her daughter-in-law's pregnancy to take Mrs. Chen away.

Anyway, there are no elders in the family, so it is very common for the elders of the parents-in-law to take care of the children.

This time, Yu Lei and his wife had no intention of letting Mrs. Chen leave.As for Mrs. Chen's private house in the Chen family - she had already spent a lot of money to help the Chen family repay the debts in the treasury in the past few years.Chen Ning'an got married, and she subsidized a lot.At home, Mrs. Chen Yu stole a lot.In fact, there is nothing left.The Chen family is busy building gardens again, so they will definitely use Mrs. Chen's private house.

Old Mrs. Chen decided to give her private house to her son in advance, thinking that more things are worse than less things.

As for Aunt Chen, she naturally didn't care.When she got married, the dowry was already very rich.And Mrs. Chen lived with her, could it be that there is still a place where Mrs. Chen needs to spend her own money?

Besides, as soon as Mrs. Chen came, Princess Chang Ruichang personally visited in disguise and brought many rare things, which were much more valuable than the dowry left by Mrs. Chen.If Mrs. Chen is pleasing to anyone and wants to tip something, she has something in hand.

Mrs. Chen's visit to Yu Lei's house was naturally handled by Shui Jue, who was more convenient to do things outside the palace.Chen Ning'an has been thinking about her grandmother since she was in the Chen family, but she is happy.No, she didn't let go of Shui Jue's hand, Lian Shui Jing coughed dryly, indicating that he needed to chat with Shui Jue, Chen Ning'an pretended not to hear.

Chen Ning'an's heart was brightened. Whenever the emperor talked to his sister-in-law, he would talk endlessly. He would never give himself a chance to get close to her sister-in-law.She wouldn't be so stupid.

So Shui Jing was very depressed.There was a son-in-law who robbed me of my sister outside the palace, and now there was no father and emperor in the palace to rob me of my sister, but there was an extra queen robbing me of my sister.

Queens were not like this before!I must be too kind to her!That's why she was so presumptuous!

"Your Majesty, I haven't talked to my sister-in-law for a long time, can I let my sister-in-law stay overnight in the palace?" Chen Ning'an asked.

"Okay!" Shui Jing hurriedly said.The queen is indeed my virtuous wife!You know my heart best!

"...But..." The son-in-law is still waiting in the mansion!Brother and sister-in-law, do the math yourself!You must stay in the palace for at least seven or eight days a month!Is this really good!Just as Shui Jue wanted to refuse, Chen Ning'an dragged her to see the little prince.

Ouch, now the little prince can run and jump, so cute!Sister, you must go and see it!The tiger puppet outfit worn by the little prince today!

Outside the palace: The son-in-law is weeping and biting a handkerchief...