Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

After saying this sentence, Eunuch Zhang straightened his shoulders slightly, and his tone became more serious, "There is another sentence that His Majesty asked the old slave to bring: 'The Wanmin Umbrella is very good, I will keep it for you first, and wait for you to return to Beijing Come and find me to get it."

Saying the word "zhen" twice in one breath, Eunuch Zhang was a little nervous, and his palms were sweating.He frowned and complained a little to Lin Ruhai: "Your Majesty let the old slave pass on such words, it really hurts the old slave." Although the tone was a bit sad, it was full of sweet burdens.

Lin Ruhai laughed twice, and said, "This is Your Majesty's trust in Eunuch."

"Your Majesty has arranged for you two assistants to help you manage the salt affairs first. That's it!" Eunuch Zhang patted his thigh, "I still have to go to the Governor's Mansion."

Lin Ruhai nodded, and went to pick up the two in person, thinking that this is the person who will take over, and if he picked two, it means that His Majesty has not yet decided who will take over.

When it comes to finding someone to take over Lin Ruhai's position, the old emperor is actually not very happy about it. The position of salt tax has a lot to do with it, and generally there will be no replacement if there is no problem.But now there is no other way, the governor of Jiangnan wrote a letter, and the governor of Hedao also wrote a letter. In addition, the emperor didn't think very well at the beginning, so he took out Lin Ruhai's ten Wanmin umbrellas early in the morning.

In fact, the original intention was to encourage the officials present and set a good example for them.

Alas...Since then, Yu Shitai wrote letters desperately.But no, it’s so easy to come up with a typical example, it’s the censor, my own family, now the officials don’t care much about going to Bada Hutong, and the aunt in the backyard of someone’s backyard is domineering again, except for people who are corrupt and perverted Don't move, the rest of the hands are all free to write a letter to the emperor.

The emperor also wanted to promote Lin Ruhai, but he also wanted him to take care of the salt tax. The original plan was to add a vacant position as a prince and grand teacher and then a marquis, let him work for another two years, and slowly cultivate a successor. Let's talk.It's good to make such a fuss, so I have to recall the capital.

As for entering the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister, Lin Ruhai is the emperor's confidant, and he will naturally be promoted when he comes back. In fact, there are not many choices for the official position in the court to be higher than his original second rank. The first is the six ministers. The adults are pulling aside, they are still young and promising, at least they can work for a few more years, and they haven't made mistakes.

The other one is the cabinet bachelors. The cabinet bachelors are divided into three classes. The first-rank bachelors, the first-rank co-organizers and the second-rank bachelors, first remove the last one from the second rank, and then there is a quota for the cabinet bachelors. Yes, then let’s start with co-organizing the bachelor’s degree.

But after all, this matter was not done according to the emperor's original plan, and the emperor was a little bit unsmooth.So the emperor had already made up his mind that he planned to delay until the next year, and by the way, lowered Lin Ruhai's title of Marquis to Earl.

Well, the emperor nodded, satisfied.

Let's talk about the Lin family again. Jia Min was very excited when he heard the news. Although she was from the south of the Yangtze River like Lin Ruhai, she was born in the Duke's mansion and grew up in the Duke's mansion, so she still has a greater sense of belonging to the capital.

Ever since Lin Ruhai said that she would go to Beijing after the next year, or that she would go to Beijing completely, she has been busy.

In the first few days, I was busy, and I was busy with Wanyu, looking at all the properties of the family, the ancestral property of the Lin family, her dowry, several villas, and the large courtyard where the Lin family lives now. Furniture, clothes, sundries and more.

After being dragged around for two rounds, Wanyu began to complain: Even if you have SF Express, you still have to clean up things like moving.She even wanted to tell her mother, we are rich and self-willed, why not change them all.

When Jia Min's excitement passed, he remembered that they didn't have a house in Beijing!I rushed to find Lin Ruhai again.

It's not appropriate to use it, but Lin Ruhai went to Beijing to rush for the exam earlier, and then became a Hanlin. The small yard bought in those few years was not enough for their big family to live in.

"Master, where are we going to live in the capital?" After Jia Min asked this question, Lin Ruhai was also a little puzzled. It is the twelfth lunar month, and basically from now until the second day of February, people who buy houses are in a state of rest, with money but no land. purchase.

"Yeah." Lin Ruhai nodded to show that he understood, "You clean up first, I'll send someone to the capital right away."

Only then did Jia Min feel relieved, and Wanyu added next to her: "It's time to get the big guy over there first."

Jia Min was a little discouraged when he came out. If he had a place to live in the middle of Beijing, he could clean up the unused things first, and then it would be easier when he finally set out on the road.The same is true for Wanyu, sometimes she feels that she is a bit obsessive-compulsive, now tidy up, where to put it.

Forget it, let's put this aside for now.

The mother and daughter got together again to talk about the Lin family's property.The fields of the Lin family's Zhuangzi are all located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the land property is the same as modern houses. Everyone wants to have as many as possible, and they hold it all in their hands, so this cannot be sold.

But after moving to the capital, you can buy some land in the northeast and build two more villages.

Wanyu recollected the rice sent by Zhongrong Mansion in Beijing a few days ago, and it seemed that it was more chewy than the rice from Jiangnan, so she added another item after Zhuangzi on the list, planting rice.

Jia Min turned her head to take a look, smiled and asked Daiyu who was sitting in her arms, "Where is Daiyu, is there anything you want?"

Daiyu tilted her head, looked at Jia Min and then at her sister, and said, "The fur cushion last time was pretty good."

Which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted!Wanyu shrank her neck subconsciously, and Jia Min's voice immediately rang in her ears: "The fox fur I saved for three years sewed a blanket, and I asked you to lay it on the floor for me!"

Wanyu glared at Daiyu, you are sitting in your mother's arms, covered with a small quilt, eating snacks and drinking hot soup, I am sitting on a stool writing a list in the cold weather, you still want to expose my short story , Can you still be sisters properly!

Daiyu subconsciously turned her head and shrank into Jia Min's arms.

"Don't stare at my sister!"

"No, ma'am, I think my sister would look better in a red fox fur cape."

"Yeah." Jia Min looked down at Daiyu's pink face, no matter how she looked at it, she thought it was pretty, "Let's write it down, there are foxes in the village."

"Return the rabbits and sheep to make writing brushes for my younger brother and father." Wanyu suggested again, hoping that Jia Min would forget her dark history sooner.

Sure enough, Jia Min laughed and said, "It's better to buy it in a shop, do you think it's so easy to get a good one?" Looking at Wanyu a little sad, Jia Min said again: "Add it, your father read it." Definitely happy."

After discussing about Zhuangzi, Jia Min took out another stack of land deeds for shops.

When it comes to doing business, people like these rich families will have a little bit of involvement, otherwise there are so many things produced on the farm and in the fields, and it would be a waste to eat a bowl.

This is a matter of degree. For example, the Lin family owns land and opens a grain store in Jiangnan, so they cannot be regarded as businessmen.Or according to Wanyu, there are several villages in the Northeast, and they can't run out of foxes. Opening a fur shop in the capital is not a business.

Only those who don't produce anything in their own family and buy and sell with money are businessmen.

So for them, it is okay to buy basic products, but it is a bit dangerous to open a tavern, and if they open a restaurant or a grocery store, it is a self-deprecation.

However, although the last few coins earned more money, it was useless to the Lin family. Just talking about grain, if they want to transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital to buy, then they have to take the waterway of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Rivers are taxed.

Although Lin Ruhai is in charge of the salt tax, it belongs to the same system as the governor in charge of water transportation, so it is symbolic. For example, three ships are collected as one ship, and one thousand stones are charged as one hundred stones, and the cost has dropped a lot. .

I said before that Wanyu is very good at mental arithmetic, but Jia Min didn't know, and Lin Ruhai didn't tell her about this obvious scolding thing, so Wanyu looked at the land deeds Jia Min took out, and the store deeds. , and large-denomination bank notes and so on, benefiting from the experience of calculating the salt tax with her father for half a year, she roughly added these.

Hehe, we really have two or three million taels of silver at home, Wanyu suddenly became worried, this is clearly a temptation to force people to do black hands.

"Wanyu, Wanyu!" Jia Min noticed that her daughter was a little distracted, and called out twice: "But tired? Come and have a rest."

Wanyu nodded, and walked up to Jia Min to touch her younger sister. Now that her parents and mother will go to Beijing together, there should be no more problems.

After the new year, among the first batch of imperial decrees issued by the old emperor, there was Lin Ruhai's transfer order: Lin Ruhai was promoted to the cabinet to co-organize the university, he was named the prince and grand teacher, he was named Huai Ningbo, and he was rewarded with a house.

Now everyone is happy, and there is no need to buy a house anymore, and in Wanyu's heart, she loves the old emperor more.Jia Min hastily sent someone to measure the house, and then sent a few mature butlers from Lin's mansion and his wife to go to Beijing to tidy up the house.

The things of the Lin family went to Beijing one by one in the cargo ship, which was not very conspicuous. After the two sisters finished eating the longevity noodles for their birthday, the last group of the Lin family got on the big boat and officially set foot on the way to the capital. path of.

As for the aunts in the backyard who have been imprisoned for a long time, Jia Min said: "It's a busy trip, and they may not be able to settle down in a year or two. They should stay in the old house and don't move."

Lin Ruhai thinks it makes sense, and those aunts are also quite good at making trouble, so it's good to stay in the old house for the rest of their lives.

As for Mr. Cao, the teacher of the three brothers and sisters of the Lin family, he is staying in the south of the Yangtze River. Lin Ruhai plans to find a new teacher for the child after he arrives in the capital, such as Mr. Zheng who retired from the Imperial College. Mr. Cao has already written him a letter.

Before Wanyu left, she went to Guanyin Nunnery to say goodbye, because she went to the capital, and the grain output of Guanyin Nunnery would probably return to normal in the future, so she felt a little guilty.Especially after Master Lianhua told her about the relationship between several nunneries in Beijing, and said that there were senior sisters who had gone out of Guanyin nunnery, Wanyu felt even more guilty.

Wanyu twisted her fingers and whispered: "Master, the land in the backyard...has been three years, I'm afraid..."

Although Guru Lianhua became a monk, she could understand the meaning of Wanyu's words, she said: "Don't worry about the things outside your body."

Wanyu was sad for a while and then returned to normal. Cough, the masters of Guanyin Nunnery did not have a good life before her, and they are all masters of the world, and they are more open than she wants to see.

The matter in Jiangnan has been settled.

When the Lin family's boat was halfway through, another great news came. A cabinet scholar wrote a letter to resign, and the emperor approved it, but he insisted on delaying the people below to fill it in. What does this mean?The emperor reserved this position for Lin Ruhai.

Maybe you can be promoted after a few months as a co-organizer, or you can be a first-rank official directly.

Although Lin Ruhai said that this was against the rules, he was secretly looking forward to it. If His Majesty really intends to let him work in the position of co-organizer for a period of time, shouldn't he be called up now to fill in the cabinet position? what.

In short, everyone was very happy, and even the south wind was blowing strongly, making people feel that the boat was much faster.

On the second day of April, the five members of the Lin family officially arrived in the capital. They rested in their own mansion for a few days and sorted out the things they needed. Jia Min said, "Go to bed early today, and I will take you to my grandmother's house tomorrow morning to say hello."

"Are the rules in grandma's house high?" Wanyu asked pretending to be nonchalant.

Jia Min smiled and said: "You have always been fearless, why are you now timid? That is my natal family, your grandmother loves me the most, don't worry."

Sure enough, having a real mother is different.