The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

Let's talk about Tu Zhen and Xue Pan who had just chatted affectionately, Dai Quan, who was guarding outside, summoned twice: "Qizou Your Majesty, the empress is asking to see you."

When Xue Pan heard this, he couldn't help but think of the Tong family who had jumped up and down before.During these days, Tu Zhen tried every means to limit the rights of the Xue family, among which the Tong family was the most happy.Not only did his father, who was running on the court, back down everywhere, he even kept making up gossip about Xue's family in the market.On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xue Pan finally opened up the situation, and gradually retreated to the original place.What's more, the fact that the Xue family monopolized the procurement in the palace caused public outrage, and for a while it seemed like they were pushing the wall down.

Now the women in their family are also jumping out to grab men from themselves.With new and old hatred added together, Xue Pan could no longer bear the aggrieved heart.He glanced at Tu Zhen with squinted eyes, and asked in a neutral voice: "I remember that in the Yong Dynasty, there was an ancestor's precept that the harem should not interfere in politics. How come the harem women can come and go in and out of the Qianqing Palace at will? ?”

Tu Zhen is also well aware of the nasty things going on between the Xue family and the Tong family.Originally, he didn't have a good impression of the Tong family who were actively pursuing business, but for the sake of adoptive mother Tong Huang, they were all raised in front of relatives who beat Feng Feng.Unexpectedly, this Tong's family has no eyesight, and they can't tell the height of their eyebrows, but they are getting bigger and bigger.Tu Zhen is very bored now!

Xue Pan added fuel to the flames and sarcastically said: "It's just a country bumpkin raised by a woman's crony. I didn't see how they worked when the accident happened. Now that the matter is over, I jumped out to get benefits. And I Xue Pan My family plays business wars, and I also want to be the Holy Majesty's money bag, and I don't want to see if he has the ability."

Tu Zhen was really angry when he saw Xue Pan, and he didn't want to bring the atmosphere that they had just eased into a stalemate again because of the disappointment of Tong's family.Immediately, his face turned cold, and he told Dai Quan: "You go back to her, I still have important matters to deal with, just ask her to go back to the harem to stay. Qianqing Palace Yangxin Palace is not a place where women should come."

Xue Pan couldn't help snorting coldly when he heard the words.He said in his mouth: "Your Majesty doesn't know, this Tong family is very capable. Not to mention that the family occupies two generations of empresses, now except for the women in the harem of His Majesty, they even want to manage the money of His Majesty's previous court. These days, the Holy Majesty hates it. The Dongfeng of the Xue family has often turned against our Xue family. I have done some calculations in my spare time, and I think that the money income of the Xue family this year will definitely not be as good as usual. But what the Tong family said is good, the fat will not flow to outsiders. .Your majesty's money is naturally earned by yourself. I don't know how much money the Tong family can hand over to the internal treasury during the Chinese New Year. "

Tu Zhen frowned even more when he heard this.

After all, no matter how threatened the Xue family is, the money they give every year is real.With such a commotion this year, the meaning of looking at Pan'er must not be as much as in previous years.After all, a part of the business was really taken over by the Tong family under their own banner.But don't you know what kind of person you are, they don't care if they want money or officials, how can they give themselves money?Even if it is given away, it probably means one hundred and eighty thousand. I don't know if it can make up for what the Xue family is missing.

After much deliberation, after such a toss, it seems that other than my own loss, no one else will be seriously affected.

Tu Zhen sighed with a headache, and said, "It's really not worth the loss."

Seeing this, Xue Pan knew that Tu Zhen had doubts in his heart.When the money is paid at the end of the year, if the Tong family really doesn't know how to do things, I'm afraid the grudge will deepen.

Thinking of this, Xue Pan couldn't help being secretly happy.

It's fine if the Tong family doesn't jump out.After all, it is the majestic family of the father-in-law, and when Baochai entered the palace, he was also under the care of the empress dowager.Although Xue Pan didn't regard these small favors seriously as kindness offering incense and prostration, he still took them to heart.In recent years, many rare jewels, large and small, have been sent to the Dangkang Palace of the Queen Mother Tong.Even the Kunning Palace with the queen sent a lot like flowing water.Even looking at the incense of spending people's money and people's misfortunes, the Tong family shouldn't be so troublesome, eating ugly, stepping on the heads of their Xue family to climb up.

But the fact is that the Tong family not only made trouble, but even dared to play tricks behind their backs, instigating several other forces in the court to squeeze the Xue family's business.Although Xue Pan didn't take such naive tricks seriously, it didn't feel good to be provoked by someone pointing his nose at him.Especially when he knew that the suffocation of the Xue family had an inseparable relationship with Tu Zhen...

It is naturally impossible for Xue Pan to be angry with Tu Zhen.He was also reluctant, but this did not prevent Xue Pan from taking all his anger on the Tong family.Therefore, after Xue Pan quickly took down Tu Zhen, he planned how to take revenge on the Tong family.

After all, people die for money and birds die for food.The struggles of aristocratic families have always been based on the rise and fall of the whole family.The Xue family has paid so much to get to where it is today, and Xue Pan can say without humility that the Xue family deserves it all.In order to protect these vested interests, the leaders of the Xue family headed by Xue Zhizhang and Xue Pan don't care about trying their best and using all means.

Xue Pan can tolerate Tu Zhen's suspicion and an immature betrayal. In addition to the special relationship between Tu Zhen and Xue Pan, Tu Zhen's extremely sensitive identity is also one of the most important reasons.After all, when the strength of a subject arouses the emperor's uneasiness and suspicion, even if the emperor is not Tu Zhen but anyone else, it is a dangerous signal for the Xue family.

A famous family has been handed down for a hundred years, so it is natural to pass it down from generation to generation.If the Xue family did not have an accurate positioning and code of conduct, even if Xue Pan forcibly stopped Tu Zhen's actions, the subsequent emperors would not have the same entanglements and concerns.Therefore, it is better to use Tu Zhen's feelings and guilt to adjust and change at the beginning of the incident, until such a huge property power will not make the emperor feel threatened, or let the emperor feel from the bottom of his heart that this is an indispensable help.Only in this way can the Xue family prosper from generation to generation.

That's why Xue Zhizhang set such a family motto, and that's why during this period of time, Xue Pan took the initiative to transfer Tu Zhen's personnel from the sticky office in the Xue family system to positions related to finance and procurement.Let them have the right to supervise, and let Tu Zhen clearly see where every transaction and batch of money of the Xue family is used.

Of course, Xue Pan intentionally let the Tong family members, and even helped the Tong family to toss their own business to lose no less than money, which was conveyed to Tu Zhen through the eyes on the stick.

If you don't let me have a good time, I won't let you hold money, at worst, I won't make money myself.Let's make trouble together!

Anyway, Xue's family has become a real family of royal merchants who "do business for the emperor".

For Xue Pan's seemingly naive but desperate "strike and revenge", although it hurts the enemy eight hundred and self-damages one thousand, it is definitely immediate.At least for Tu Zhen now, every time he dreams back at midnight, he is heartbroken about the money that Xue Pan deliberately tossed away.

When he couldn't laugh or cry, what he got in exchange was that the Xue family's voice in the temple was getting bigger and bigger.

Nowadays, the influence of Xue Zhizhang and Xue Pan on Tu Zhen need not be elaborated. Even Xue Biao after the Enke Examination was arranged by the Holy Master to practice in the household department.After a few years, Xue Biao, who has rich experience and qualifications, will also be reused by the Holy Majesty.

At the same time, the Xue family’s old house far away in Jinling also started to set up a family study according to Xue Pan’s instructions, abandoning the old custom of learning a subset of classics and history. Today’s Xue family study teaches more about how to do business and how to make money. How to attract contacts and so on.And it is stipulated that adult men above must bring money that matches their abilities to go out for a walk, and they can only return to their home after they have reached a certain level.

The later world-famous Xuejia Business School showed its embryonic form at this moment.Although it looks so clumsy and ridiculous at the moment.But decades or even hundreds of years later.However, the Xue Family School of Business has become an existence that all people with lofty ideals flock to, and its influence is second only to the Royal Academy.Although, the Xue Family Business School only recruits children who are blood related to the Xue family to enter the elite class.But for those talented and talented children from other families, even the ordinary classes taught by Xue's Business School are enough for them to learn for a lifetime.

After experiencing a confrontation between imperial power and emotion, the Xue family finally found its own position.That is to abandon most of the private thoughts, become the emperor's money bag, become the indispensable pillar of money for the emperor on the road of leaving his name in history, and pass it on from generation to generation.

The descendants of the Xue family inherit and establish the world, and what they care about is never the money itself, but the process of enjoying the creation of money.As for the money earned, in addition to ensuring their own good life and tossing the principal of other businesses, most of it was donated to the royal family for governing the country without compensation.

And what the Xue family has passed down to the world is never the business of making money every day, but the means of making money every day.

Make sure that as long as the descendants of the Xue family participate in the business, no matter how depressed it is, as long as the Xue family intervenes, it will definitely come back to life and create the greatest benefits in the shortest possible time.

As long as the emperors of the Tu family understand that only by keeping the Xue family can they have endless money, and only by keeping the Xue family can they not have to worry about money.And if he takes action against the Xue family, it will undoubtedly kill the chicken and take the eggs, and if both sides suffer...

The Xue family will be truly safe only if the Tu family and the Xue family are tightly bound together and cannot be separated again.

Of course, this last one requires the joint efforts and cooperation of several generations of the Xue family and the Tu family to achieve perfection.

Fortunately, no matter which party it is, they are actively cooperating with each other in a harmonious state of cooperation.

After trying to understand the basic conditions for the establishment of the Xue family, Xue Pan finally breathed a sigh of relief.After another "tender meeting" successfully pulled the Xue family back from the predicament of "betrayal", Xue Pan was free to deal with the Tong family who were staring at their Xue family like jackals.

It has to be said that the Tong family's other abilities are still open to question, but in terms of sending women to the top and establishing strong enemies, they are almost self-taught.After all, all onlookers know that the Xue family has always valued peace and prosperity, and they rarely get angry with others, let alone carry a certain family power endlessly.After entering the court for so many years, only the Tong family has managed it.

The Xue family established itself as an imperial business, and if the Tong family competed with Xue Pan for business, it meant fighting for their lives with the Xue family.With Xue Pan's dominance and rebelliousness, he naturally dragged the Tong family into the hostile camp, and marked them with the mark of immortality.

When the Xue family thought of dealing with the head of the country, Tong's family, the first to bear the brunt was naturally the Queen Mother Tong and Queen Tong who were now staying safely in the harem.

Thinking of this, Xue Pan said in a nonchalant manner: "I think it's because the Tong family has been brilliant for too long, causing the two women of the Tong family to forget the ancestral precepts of the Tu family—but maybe it's the Tong family. Women don't care what the men from the disciple family say!"

Naked and naked sowing dissension is always the most effective.Xue Pan looked coldly at Tu Zhen's frowning and silent expression, and secretly sneered.

Dai Quan bowed and bowed as if he didn't hear it, turned around and left the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and naturally told the queen what Tu Zhen had said.He also hated this queen who was always domineering when they met, and kept saying "what about you slave".Dai Quan has been with Tu Zhen since he was a child. He has suffered a lot and suffered a lot, and he has done a lot of things for Tu Zhen.Therefore, after Tu Zhen was proud, he would be promoted to the head of the palace.Although there is a feeling of growing up in it, but if Dai Quan has no real skills, it is impossible.

Although Queen Tong's actions are not conspicuous, Dai Quan still feels ashamed.It's just that as a slave girl, I really don't want to talk too much about my master's affairs.But under the premise of Tu Zhen's obvious disgust and impatience, he instigated a few words.Still all right.

What's more, he is just "passing on the word" now, not even instigating!

Listening to Dai Quan's "spreading the word", Queen Tong's nose almost crooked in anger.When her aunt asked her to marry Tu Zhen, she was not very happy either.After all, Tu Zhen's status is too low, and he was not born to his aunt, so when he grows up, he will inevitably have other thoughts in his heart.So she probably won't have much future if she gets married.It's just that her arms can't hold back her thighs. For the future status of the Tong family, the aunt still talked to the patriarch of the Tong family's own grandfather.Therefore, she reluctantly married into the Fourth Prince's Mansion.But even after they are married, the husband and wife "respect each other like ice" and are indifferent.There is no enthusiasm like a newlywed couple at all.

Apart from sleeping in her room on the first and fifteenth day of the junior high, Tu Zhen basically spent the rest of her time in the study and in the rooms of several concubines who had children.

When it comes to this child queen, it is inevitable to get angry.

You said that you are just a down-and-out prince who wants status but no status, and ability but no ability. Even your own mother is a lowly slave.It's already aggrieved for the daughter of my dignified Tong family to marry you, but you still dare to let me be a ready-made stepmother?

When Queen Tong got angry, it was natural that someone would take care of her.Therefore, the biological mothers of the first prince and princess all died for no apparent reason one year after the Queen Tong married into the prince's mansion.Even the two children were left dying by her.As a result, there was too much movement and was discovered by Tu Zhen.

In fact, it's hard to put it bluntly, when Queen Tong was doing these things, she didn't intend to hide it from Tu Zhen, and she was just depressed and wanted to show her off.As a result, Tu Zhen really didn't have the guts to come to her. He just kept the eldest prince and princess by his side and didn't give her another chance.

Seeing this shape, Queen Tong was not reconciled, but since Tu Zhen didn't get close to the concubine Ji who was next to her, she didn't take it seriously because her aunt invited her to beat her repeatedly. It stopped.

Then for the next three or four years, the life of the two of them was no different from before.After a long time, Queen Tong gradually got used to it.

And then Tu Zhen was pushed to the Dragon Throne by the emperor for some shit luck, and he became the queen as a matter of course.

Surprisingly, although Tu Zhen was aggrieved as the emperor, he was still an emperor no matter what!What's more, according to my aunt's analysis, Tu Zhen can stand out among so many outstanding princes, and his mental skills are also extraordinary when he has the last laugh.

Thinking of this, Empress Tong finally looked at her husband seriously.Still thinking about how to win over her husband, give birth to a son as soon as possible, so as to inherit the throne of the Great Yong Dynasty in a legitimate way.

Unexpectedly, after such a calculation, Empress Tong suddenly discovered that Tu Zhen had not been in the harem for a long time.Even the tumultuous general elections in the past two years were just a means for Tu Zhen to deal with the four kings and eight princes.

As far as Yu Tuzhen himself is concerned, he doesn't care about female sex at all.

Thinking of this, a look of disdain and disgust flashed across Queen Tong's face.Secretly sneered and said: "It's not that you don't care about female sex! The Holy Majesty and Xue Pan, the eldest son of the Xue family, are so sticky that no one with eyes can see it! Sure enough, things born by lowly seedlings are not so noble. What do you say It's not good for you, a majestic emperor, to love something, but you just fell in love with this..."

After waiting for such a long time, Dai Quan didn't hear the Queen's reply, so he couldn't help but look up.Just seeing the disgust and disdain on the queen's face, his heart moved, and he immediately stood aside with lowered eyebrows and lowered eyes.

Empress Tong took a few deep breaths before forcing down the disbelief in her heart, and said coldly: "If you go back to the emperor, just say that this palace has something important to report to the sage. He must see me."

As he said that, he turned his head and winked at the big lady beside her.The palace lady nodded, took two steps forward, took out a piece of silver from her sleeve and handed it to Dai Quan, and said like alms: "Elder-in-law has worked hard, please go again."

Dai Quan looked at the expression on the maid's face, and then looked down at the ten taels of silver that was not worth it, secretly despising the queen's stinginess.On the face, he accepted it calmly, nodded slightly and said: "In that case, the servant will report it again, and the empress will wait a moment."

Empress Tong looked at the ingot of silver in Dai Quan's hand, and a look of uneasiness flashed across her face.Quickly snatched a translucent suet jade bracelet from his wrist and handed it to Dai Quan, pretending to say: "Grandfather, you have worked hard."

It's just that a touch of heartache flashed across his face involuntarily.This bracelet was offered by my mother not long ago, and the quality is naturally not good. If it is sold outside, it will cost 10,000+ taels at least.

Seeing this, Dai Quan naturally couldn't really accept it.Immediately refused with a smile, then slightly bowed and said: "The old slave went in to report."

Queen Tong snorted softly, waved her hands and said impatiently: "Go quickly! I'm a little tired from standing here."

Dai Quan bowed, turned around and went in again.

Just in time, Tu Zhen and Xue Pan were discussing how to place the silver and jewels looted from Japan in the hidden sticks in the Ryukyu area.Seeing Dai Quan's figure going back and forth, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows and asked, "Why are you in again?"

Dai Quan bowed slightly, and said with a respectful and helpless expression: "Qi Zou is the order of the Empress. She said that she has important matters related to the country and the stability of the country to discuss with the Holy Majesty. You must report to the Holy Majesty again when you send the slaves."

"Jiangshan Sheji, Guozuo is stable?" Tu Zhen raised his eyebrows, and said sarcastically, "Why don't I know that my Jiangshan Sheji and Guozuo's Anwen need a harem lady to 'discuss' with me?"

Xue Pan was concerned about another matter, twitching the corners of his mouth, and asked Dai Quan with a half-smile, "You said she sent you in to pass on a message?"

Dai Quan bowed and took another look at Tu Zhen.Seeing his disapproving expression, he took out the ingot of silver from his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "The maid beside the Empress said she was a hard worker, and she stood outside on duty in the cold. To reward slaves."

Xue Pan got up and walked in front of Dai Quan, took the silver in Dai Quan's palm, weighed it in his palm, immediately curled his lips in disdain, turned his head and said to Tu Zhen: "This ingot of broken silver doesn't even have ten taels. Our family does not use this as a concierge. I heard that Tong Guozhang’s mansion specially asked someone to make a few fancy gold and silver whetstones for the New Year’s celebration. It seems that in the eyes of the empress, you are a The chief executive is not as good as the handyman servants in their family!"

After a pause, he turned his head and smiled at Dai Quan: "Dai Quan, you are a fourth-rank old man, right?"

Dai Quan leaned forward and replied: "Return to the words of the eldest son, it is true."

Xue Pan casually threw the ingot of silver on the ground, and smiled at Tu Zhen: "Your Majesty, a fourth-rank official is not as good as a slave in the father-in-law's house. The Tong family is really a big shelf!"

In fact, these words really wronged Queen Tong.After all, the Tong family had just made gold and silver shackles, and now they have not come to the harem pepper room to enter the palace for an audience. Naturally, Queen Tong did not get those things.On weekdays, Tu Zhen advocated frugality, so in order to be virtuous, Queen Tong naturally couldn't be too generous, so as not to arouse the displeasure and suspicion of the Holy Majesty.This is also the order of the elders in the family and even the empress dowager's aunt.

Moreover, she never thought that she would be shut out at Qianqing Palace because she was not prepared enough for the time being, and she gave the ingot of silver to ordinary eunuchs and maids at random.She may not be ashamed to give it to Dai Quan temporarily.Otherwise, there would be no move to give the bracelet later.

It's just that Xue Pan didn't know the reason, and Dai Quan naturally couldn't explain it.Now the situation is that the queen's pettiness is shamefully thrown in front of the foreign ministers.And it was Xue Pan who Tu Zhen cared most about.

Tu Zhen's face darkened, and he felt more and more that Queen Tong was unreliable in doing things.

Seeing this, Xue Pan naturally knew that there was a suspicion in Tu Zhen's heart.He chuckled, and pretended to be casual and said: "Didn't the empress say that she would tell the sage about important matters about the country and the country's stability. Why don't you see the sage, so as not to delay the business."

Tu Zhen's face darkened, and he said coldly: "The ancestors' family laws are strict, and they all say that the harem is not allowed to participate in politics. I think the queen is confused. Pass the decree, and the queen will be confined to the Kunning Palace for three months, and no one is allowed to visit."

Dai Quan was about to bow to answer, but Xue Pan waved his hand disapprovingly, patted Tu Zhen on the shoulder and said, "I'm quite curious about what the queen is looking for you for, anyway, you don't have anything to do now, you might as well meet, it's a criticism." In the rest of the memorial, relax and relax."

He has long been extremely tired of the Tong family's jumping and provocation from time to time.It's just that there is no chance to fight back on weekdays.Now the empress is in a mess of her own accord, and she came to her and let him plot.If he is not good at making plans, wouldn't he have failed the empress's kindness?

Xue Pan sneered, looked straight at Tu Zhen, and said in a deep voice, "Perhaps, if you are a husband and wife for a day, your Majesty will be reluctant to part with the empress."

Tu Zhen's expression froze, he glanced at Xue Pan helplessly, and sighed softly: "It's up to you. What's the point of always saying things like this?"

Xue Pan curled his lips in satisfaction, got up and walked to the back of the Nuan Pavilion, found a stool at random and sat down.

Tu Zhen sighed softly and said, "Empress Xuan sees you."

Dai Quan immediately preached loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, Empress Xuan has an audience—"