[Red House] The First Imperial Merchant

Chapter 70 Trouble Your Husband’s Yamen Without Money

Just after the Lantern Festival, Mrs. Jia sent a post to invite Mrs. Xue to enter the mansion. Mrs. Xue was like a mirror in her heart. She knew that her sister was borrowing money for the last time, but she did not agree. If you want to promise something, you don't have to guess, it's the same thing, and even intends to match Baochai with Baoyu, and she is full of anger when she mentions this, this time she directly sent the person away, no appointment!

Xue Pan sent someone to find out the money that the Grand View Garden would cost early on. His good aunt’s money seemed to be blown by a strong wind. She didn’t know the price of wood and didn’t mention it. The two can be done, but the price is almost doubled, so this flower method is naturally not enough.Thinking of his little apprentice's injury, Xue Pan's eyes revealed a trace of cunning, "Yanzi, please come here."

Xue Biao is living a very interesting life now. In the morning, he goes out to various shops for a stroll. If he comes across a novelty and brings it back to coax the two sisters and his aunt, he eats at noon and drinks with his friends in the afternoon. Have fun, this year has been a happy and carefree one.

When Yanzi passed by, Xue Biao was sleeping late. Last night he drank too much and had a splitting headache. He heard the servants say that, after washing, he rubbed his forehead and went to Xue Pan's courtyard.Seeing Xue Biao's appearance, Xue Pan knew that he drank too much last night, ordered breakfast, poured a cup of tea for his younger brother, "You don't need money for wine, your body is worthless?"

Xue Biao took the teacup and smiled, "Brother, I just drank too much yesterday, and I'm not usually like this." Seeing that his brother was still talking, he quickly changed the topic, "Why did you ask me this morning? "

Xue Pan glanced at the younger brother who changed the subject, "You're being sloppy again, this trick is useful in front of your mother, don't use it to fool me." After finishing speaking, he sighed, "You and I are about the same age, we grew up together, a family I don't like to mention these things, I think it's very sensational. Back then, I was going to take the imperial examination. The business at home, the offshoot of the clan, which one is not greedy? I let you carry it over, especially when you went to the south to touch it before you were fourteen. Climbing and rolling, I also know how good it is in the business field. When you were young, you probably suffered a lot and were plotted against by others, but you didn’t mention these things. I didn’t mention these things before but I kept them in my heart. I am a big brother I didn’t take responsibility for it, which caused you to suffer. I didn’t talk about it in the wine market, so I didn’t mention it before. Since I came back this time, take good care of your body and don’t drink anymore. Now our Xue family Although it's not that the power is too high, but it doesn't need my brother to work hard to drink and discuss business---"

Xue Biao's eyes were wet. He was young at that time. Although Xue's Wanguan family was backing him, he never mentioned how much he suffered when he came to someone else's territory. Now he knows that his brother is thinking about everything. It's all worth it.

The moved and tearful Xue Biao provocatively promised: "Brother, I won't drink too much in the future, don't worry, I, I---"

"It's good to know, what does a young man of seventeen or eighteen look like drinking and having fun all day long!? He's not promising, so hurry up and cheer up and have serious things for you to do." Xue Biao said.

"..." Xue Biao, who looked like a dog, this rhythm is not right, his brother just felt sorry for him and asked him to take care of his body, but now he looks like a rich man rushing him to work, what is he doing? ! !Fortunately, he was moved in vain, the tears seemed to be free of money, only his brother could coax people, and he coaxed him in the same way back then!

"That's enough, stop pretending to wipe your tears." Xue Pan laughed and said, "You are a big man pretending to be like a wronged little daughter-in-law!"

Xue Biao stopped crying in an instant and became more energetic. He looked like a rascal, crossed his legs, and squinted at his brother, "How is this? Enough for men?!"

The corner of Xue Pan's mouth twitched, and he scolded with a smile: "Fuck off! This is no man, he is obviously the stupid son of the landlord's family!"

The two brothers were very poor, Yan Zi set up breakfast, and Xue Biao saw that it was light, especially a small bowl of hangover soup, which was sour and sweet, which was specially used to treat headaches and stomach discomfort after hangovers.

"Use some clear porridge first, put something in your stomach, and then drink the hangover soup." Xue Pan scooped the porridge for the two of them.

The two brothers don't like to be served by servants when they eat. They are not quiet people at the dinner table on weekdays. They occasionally talk about serious things. Standing next to the servants, Xue Biao knows that his brother's meal is not delicious. He can't remember when he got the habit, anyway, now he doesn't like to be served when he eats at home.The two brothers moved their chopsticks to clear the porridge and side dishes. After eating half of them, Xue Pan said, "Auntie must be short of money. You should find some people to make them clean and push them. Or something else, make some trouble, our aunt is so free to talk to mother all day, then make him some trouble to make him busy--"

"Brother, you are so treacherous!" Xue Biao pretended to be tender and said, "If you want me to help—" the rascal made a pose for some money.

"Ask me for money?" Xue Pan looked at his younger brother who was making small plans, and said, "Do you think I have a little silver? Isn't our aunt a big hand? As far as I know, the materials used to build the garden are from our family My shop, it's getting cold recently, let's raise the price!"

The two brothers of the Xue family have different divisions of labor, Xue Pan is in politics, and Xue Biao is in business.All the big and small properties of the Xue family are handed over to Xue Biao, including Xue Pan's own private property. His younger brother has a developed business mind and a keen sense of smell. The assets are entrusted to him to take care of, and the income has doubled, compared to when he was not out of the imperial business. Also earn more.Xue Pan trusts Xue Biao, Xue Biao's natural property is transparent, and every year he will report to Xue Pan about his family's property, etc., and decide on the future direction. The two brothers trust and cooperate to grow the Xue family.

"Brother, you are really a good material for being a corrupt official." Xue Biao tsk-tsk.

Xue Pan just rolled his eyes at his younger brother when the conversation was over.

Seven days later, the auspicious day selected by Qin Tianjian.Emperor Pingkang took a bath on this day and held a seal opening ceremony, officially ushering in the 26th year of Pingkang.Hundreds of officials stood in front of the Hall of Central Harmony that day, and the eunuchs who chanted the salute sang rituals, and all the officials kowtowed and shouted long live.After the seal opening ceremony was over, Xue Pan's legs were numb, and he knelt for more than an hour listening to the long-winded etiquette. After the ceremony, he finally had to enter the palace for the first morning court of the new year. He had accumulated more than a month of papers Things were all on the table, especially when the issue of land reform popped up.

Yan Yanqing is proud of his sharpness, but since he was involved in the case of murdering Liao Ying last time, Yan Yanqing, who was originally high-spirited in the court, has learned to restrain his edge and do things more smoothly. For example, in this land reform, the first area to be reformed is In the area of ​​Beilu, we started with the capital first, but the actual effect was negligible. If it had been done in the past, the strict clean-up would have to take the lead. Whoever did the rat shit that destroyed the land reform would be the first to pinch. Kangdi's attitude hurt, he recognized that a companion is like a tiger, this time, if there is a problem, let the prince first, you are close to the people, you are kind, you care about the people of Sheji, then you come!

The sudden death of the eldest prince has always been a thorn in Yan Qing's mind. The eldest prince is benevolent and generous, and actively implements the New Deal. Yan Yanqing is not stupid, he is patriotic and wants Daqing to be better, but Yan Qing does not want to end up with a dead dog, and to avoid such an ending is to push the eldest prince to the throne.

Occupy the eldest son, benevolence, filial piety and generosity.This is the reason for strictly clearing up the first prince. Although the second prince is wise, he is too cold-blooded and not close to him.Since the death of the first prince, he was framed and thought about it behind closed doors. No matter how you look at this matter, there is no conspiracy. The second prince was the first person Strictly suspected. Others don't have such means and viciousness.For this reason, Emperor Pingkang called him back to the court again and asked him to do land reform with the second prince who was already a prince. Strict Qing would not be so stupid as the second prince's spear.

The book was placed on the dragon case, and Emperor Pingkang was very troubled. The first one who called out to train him was the prince. The prince's face was ashen when he was scolded by his father, and he had to pretend to be a grandson, showing that he would work hard.After procrastinating and procrastinating for a long time, Emperor Pingkang finally knew that the land reform would be of great help to Daqing, so he scolded him and gave him special privileges, but the power was not only given to the crown prince, but also strictly controlled the power, so he was so angry The prince has blue veins on the back of his hands and has to pretend to be generous and realize his mistakes.

It's already noon.Zhao Hongyi couldn't attend class this morning, so he had to move it to the afternoon.As soon as he walked out of the outer hall, Li Zi had been guarding at the bottom of the steps. Seeing Xue Pan, he quickly stepped forward and said, "Lord Xue, the lord knows that you haven't had lunch yet, so you have already prepared it. Please come over."

So Xue Pan stared more or less enviously and followed Li Zi to the new palace of King Fu.The Wenhua Palace is very large and newly repaired. When you enter the door, both the decoration and the decoration are exquisite, Xue Pan thought, "If he is the second prince, he will be fucked!"

One second before, Zhao Hongyi was displaying the prince's genealogy in the palace, all kinds of arrogance and self-willedness. The next second, when he saw Xue Pan, he was overjoyed all of a sudden, but the eunuchs in the palace were waiting on him, so he had to pretend to be grand and waved his hands, "Go down!" Get ready for lunch." Seeing Xue Pan, he stood up and saluted as a student, "Master, take your seat quickly, and serve tea with chestnuts."

Li Zi went down to serve tea, Zhao Hongyi looked like a monkey, and said, "Master's guess is indeed right, what's wrong with Brother Huan's injury?"

"The wound is healed, it's already much better." Xue Pan subconsciously didn't want to talk about Jia Huan with Zhao Hongyi, so he turned aside and said, "Is the prince in the new palace used to it?" It was obviously a joke.

Zhao Hongyi's face drooped all of a sudden, and he said in a muffled voice: "It's so far away from the palace of the concubine mother, how interesting is it that I live here alone!" At this time, Li Zi came in to pour tea, followed by the maids file for lunch, Zhao Hongyi said When the food was served, he waved back and waited on him. Lizi stayed at the end and obviously didn't want to go out. Zhao Hongyi lost his temper, so Lizi went down.

The palace is not a good place to talk, even in Zhao Hongyi's territory, all kinds of eyeliners are placed, and the two of them simply talked and finished their meal.Since Zhao Hongyi moved to Xindian, there is no need to go to Qin Xuetang to study. The study room here is very large, and there is no need to run errands, which saves a lot of trouble.

When we arrived at the mansion in the evening, the whole family sat down and had tea and chatted after the meal. Mrs. Xue said in surprise, "Son, your aunt hasn't come to send invitations for many days."

Xue Biao laughed when he heard this, but didn't say a word, but just looked at his brother sitting tall and drinking tea with nothing to do.The Grand View Garden is half built, and you suddenly told people that the price of wood has recently increased and is out of stock. If you want this, there is no price. His cheap aunt is probably busy trying to find ways to raise money. If someone takes the initiative to lend a large sum of money to Mrs. Wang at this time ---

A month later, Mrs. Wang was holding the interest bill in her hand, bastard, bastard, what did these bastards say when they borrowed money, the interest rate is so high now! ! !

Everyone Lai stood beside him, with a bad expression on his face, and said anxiously: "Madam, those people said that if the interest is not paid, they will go to the lord's yamen with their money to make trouble---" Madam Wang's eyes frightened her Dare to say it again, but those people outside are lowly and desperate, and these people will do what they say.Thinking of this, everyone Lai couldn't help but shudder.