Survive in the world of Red Mansions

Early the next morning, the housekeeper brought Jia Lian to Daming Temple to offer incense to his late wife.

Firstly, Jia Lian's trip was to pay homage to his aunt; secondly, he was ordered by the old lady to take his aunt's two cousins ​​to the capital.

After Jia Lian paid homage to her aunt, she came to Jiangnan once in a while and didn't intend to leave immediately, and with Lin Hai's persuasion, she stayed even more happily.

During Jia Lian's stay in Yangzhou, Lin Hai ordered the housekeeper Lin Zhong to send someone to follow him carefully, not to let him do unnecessary things, as far as money is concerned, as long as he doesn't go too far, he can do whatever he wants.

During Jia Lian's stay in Yangzhou, Yangzhou's officialdom ushered in a new round of changes.

Lin Hai was once again retained as the censor of salt inspection in the south of the Yangtze River. This was not only expected by many people, but also unexpected by many people.In the past, the Jiangnan Salt Administration was either questioned by the superiors or died unexpectedly. It was rare for them to serve for a full term.Now Lin Hai is not only re-elected as Yanzheng, but also re-elected again. In the hearts of many people, Lin Hai is definitely the emperor's confidant.

Cui Huan, the magistrate of Yangzhou, was transferred to the capital. Generally speaking, officials transferred to the capital can be regarded as promoted if they can be transferred at the same level. An official from a wealthy place in the south of the Yangtze River became a ceremonial official with little real power in central Beijing.

The one who replaced Cui Huan was Zeng Jie from a wealthy family in Shanxi, whose style name was Junwen. He was a second-class Jinshi in the early years. He was appointed the magistrate of Yangzhou by the emperor.

Jiangnan notified the political secretary Xu Zhen, Yangzhou garrison Han Bin, Zhizhou Fangxiang and others to stay in their posts, and the inspector Liu Daren was transferred away. The new inspector Yang Jia was appointed, and other official positions were also adjusted to varying degrees.

Some time ago, the strange atmosphere caused by the transfer of personnel made the whole Yangzhou City quiet for a while, and now Yangzhou City, which has been suppressed for more than a month, has begun to become lively again with the stability of the Jiangnan officialdom.

Although a man who has lost his wife does not need to keep his filial piety, it doesn't feel good to go to banquets frequently after your wife has just died.Therefore, during this period of time, those who can refuse the banquet will generally decline, or let the two staff members go and lie down, and those who can't postpone it will attend.

For example, Zeng Jie, the new magistrate of Yangzhou, asked the housekeeper to personally deliver the invitation card to the door, which is inconvenient to refuse.

However, Lin Hai was not prepared to refuse. Although he seldom participated in these banquets recently, he was in the officialdom, especially because he was in such a sensitive position. Explore Zeng Jie's background.

According to what we have learned so far, this Zeng Jie has not yet taken refuge in any prince. Maybe the old emperor valued that he did not take refuge in several princes, so this is why the old emperor sent him to Yangzhou?

The butler of Zeng's family met Lin Hai at the gate, and took him directly to Zeng Jie's outer study to meet Zeng Jie.

Before that, Lin Hai also met Zeng Jie a few times, but they were just saying hello, without any in-depth conversation.To be frank, Zeng Jie is very easy to like when meeting him for the first time.Although he has been released for many years and has risen rapidly, he must be shrewd and capable as a chief official, but he does not give people the feeling of this at all, but gives people a gentle and elegant, refined and dignified feeling of a literati.

"Brother Junwen!"

"Brother Ruhai!"

After the two bowed their hands and greeted each other, Fang sat down together.

"Brother Ru Hai, when I first arrived in Yangzhou, I was supposed to visit your residence in person, but thinking about how convenient your residence is now, I will post a banquet for Brother Ru Hai in person."

"Thank you, Brother Junwen, for your understanding!"

Since Lin Hai was recruited at Cui Huan's banquet last year, he is really careful and cautious when eating outside, but not every time he is as good as last time!

"Your Majesty has always attached great importance to Jiangnan. The tax and bank of the entire Jiangnan is the top priority of the entire treasury. The salt merchant Qian's family that Brother Ruhai inspected at the end of last year is indeed very satisfying. I am not familiar with many aspects of Yangzhou when I first arrived. Hope Brother Ruhai will support you a lot.”

Lin Hai ransacked the Qian family so quickly last year. The most important thing is that the Qian family has definite evidence of selling private salt, which cannot be denied by the Qian family. The more than 100 million wealth stolen from the Qian family just enriched the national treasury.But there are still big salt merchants relying on several princes. The big salt merchants of the Ma family, Wang family, Xue family, and Bao family have not been affected in any way.

As the modern police investigation said, even if you know that he killed someone, if you don't have real evidence, you can't convict him.The same is true for these big salt merchants now. They have found some evidence, from which they can guess what they did in private, but they didn’t get the real account book. What's more, there are people behind these salt merchants who support them.

Since Lin Ruhai in the past, he has been visiting several major salt merchants. After Lin Hai came, he has increased the manpower in this area. He still doesn't believe that there are people who can do all these things without leaking.

This Zeng Jie mentioned this matter as soon as he came here. On the surface, he still admired himself very much, but in any case, as long as Zeng Jie is not a member of the other three princes, there will be no harm in making friends with him. As for what to do in the future, Just take it easy.

"Brother Junwen laughed at you. You are doing things for the emperor. If necessary, I will help you."

Zeng Jie knew Lin Hai before he came to Yangzhou City.Not to mention other things, just because Lin Hai was able to serve a full term in the Yanzheng position, and he was re-elected term after term, it can be seen that this person is definitely not easy.

It is true that Lin Hai is the emperor's confidant. Could it be that the person sent by the emperor to this position is not his confidant? However, since the emperor came to the throne, the Yanzheng has rarely served a full term, either being dismissed or dying.Only this Lin Hai not only satisfies the emperor, but also has a life, and stays in this position well, this is the calamity!

This time I was able to succeed Cui Huan as the magistrate of Yangzhou. The fourth prince contributed a lot in private, but no one knew it. Everyone thought that the emperor thought that he was not involved with other parties, so he sent himself to this position.

If I can build a good relationship with Lin Hai, even if I can't get Lin Hai to support the fourth prince, but I can keep Lin Hai not biased towards the eldest prince, the prince, or the third prince, and I can always work for the emperor, which is also a great achievement for the fourth prince.

Under the circumstances that both of them have the intention to befriend each other, and are both good at doing superficial kung fu to test and deal with each other, this time the two met alone in the study, the atmosphere can be said to be quite harmonious and harmonious.

Because Jia Min had just died of illness, after Lin Hai declined the offer, Zeng Jie didn't insist anymore.What should be talked about is almost done in the study, so this banquet ended quite early.

Lin Hai was still thinking on the road that he could talk to his son before going back to rest early today. He has been so busy these days that he has no time to talk to his son properly.

But as soon as he got back to the mansion, the housekeeper stepped forward and said that the second master Lian of the Cousin Jia's mansion had something to look for him.

Lin Hai knew that he should be bringing Daiyu back to Beijing. Daiyu now has a female teacher to teach her, and the foster nun mentioned when she met Zhou Tao last time has also received a message saying that she will be here soon. Well, Daiyu is being taught by a female husband and nuns, so she will have nothing to say in the future, so there is no need to send her to other people's homes.

After Lin Hai went back to take a bath, he changed into casual clothes and asked Jia Lian to come to the study.

"Nephew pays respects to uncle!"

"Lian'er, I just came back and heard from the butler that you have something to do with me. Is it because the people below are not serving you wholeheartedly? Feel free to speak up if there is anything unsatisfactory."

"No, the servants are all serving with all their heart. It is my nephew who has been staying in Yangzhou for a long time. This time I came to Yangzhou to pay respects to Aunt Min. The old lady mentioned that I hope to take my two cousins ​​back to the capital. The old lady has never seen them and misses them very much."

"Your aunt just passed away, and the two of them are keeping their filial piety, so it's really not good for them to go to another house?"

"The old lady is also thinking about it. Uncle, you are busy with business, and your cousin and cousin may not be taken care of in the house, so you will be sent to the capital to comfort the old lady's miss, and it will be convenient for you to take care of your cousin."

"I know the old lady's intentions are good, but they are in the period of filial piety, and it's really inconvenient to go out as guests. Besides, I invited a female gentleman to teach Daiyu, and a foster nun will come over in a few days. And then Rui'er is now 4 years old and has already started to read, and Mr. Zhou now teaches him to read every day."

"If Cousin Rui wants to study, the Jia family has a family to study after arriving in the capital..."

"I know my mother-in-law misses my grandson. If I have the opportunity to go to Beijing, I will definitely take their siblings to visit the old lady. But it is inconvenient now that it is the filial piety period. I have to trouble the old lady and ask my mother-in-law to be considerate. Lianer It’s rare to have the opportunity to come to Yangzhou, why don’t you stay a little longer and have a look?”

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Lin Hai's salt government, after a Mr. Lin Rui's enlightenment came some time ago, a new nanny came in, Lin Daiyu's nurturing nanny.

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