Weak Concubine [Qing Wear + Red House]

Yinzhen brought up these troubles when drinking with close friends and staff, and asked for their opinions.

Nian Gengyao thought for a while and smiled:

"My lord, why don't you recommend merchants?"

"Wonderful!" Wu Sidao clapped his hands.

"My lord, Lianggong's idea is brilliant. Not only can it solve the current predicament for the court, but it can also make it easier for us to choose the right person."

"Merchants?"

Yinzhen hesitated, he didn't trust the merchant very much like everyone else.

"Businessmen value profits and forget righteousness. I'm afraid they have no bottom line for money." He was worried that this would force him to surrender to him, and he would betray him if he had a better choice later. It would be better to never use it than to do this.

"The pursuit of profit is the foundation of a businessman. It's not surprising. It depends on how to use it. If you can make a lot of money, you can still control it."

Yinzhen didn't speak, but took a sip of wine.

Wu Sidao looked at Nian Gengyao and motioned him to talk more.

Nian Gengyao said seriously:

"My lord, do you know how many royal merchants are registered in the imperial court?"

"I don't know much about this. I only know about the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants, and I don't know about the others."

Nian Gengyao nodded:

"In addition to the eight families who were appointed by Lord Shunzhi, another 26 were awarded as imperial merchants in Manchuria later, exclusively for royal compradors."

"There are so many?"

"A lot? It's not just these, it's just famous. In addition to these 34 big imperial merchants, there are countless small merchants that are subordinate to them. There are really too many to count.

They have traveled all over the country, and their network of people is all over the country. It can be said that where important things happen in the country, they will definitely know the court and court quickly and in detail. "

"hiss?"

Not only Yinzhen, but even the thirteen elder brothers who were listening couldn't help but gasped, obviously never thought that their energy would be so great.

"Don't underestimate some small families. Although they don't have as many families as the big royal merchants, their skills are no worse than them. Some big royal merchants simply rely on these small families to support them and control them. It is not a problem for twenty or thirty small families like this to earn several million taels easily every year.

They want money and money, and they want skills and skills, but they lack a solid backing, so they can only let big businessmen suck their blood. "

The Nian family is the leader in Huguang, so it is natural that there are small business families who do not rely on it. These are all managed by his mother, Mrs. Jia. When he and his sister have spare money, they will invest in these small business families. Not a small sum.

So he didn't understand how the Jia family was in such a predicament until now. I heard that the women's family members are still lending loan sharks outside. Making money seriously is much worse than that.

Yinzhen is serious this time:

"Is there anything else, let's continue."

Nian Gengyao thought about it:

"I don't know much, I have only experienced some of them personally. Most of these things are the skills that the ladies of the inner house need to master. I don't know my sister clearly."

Thirteen was amazed:

"Could it be that the wife of the inner house is more powerful than the officials of the household department? They don't know how to use money to make money for the court!"

Yinzhen snorted coldly:

"It's not that they don't know, it's just that they all give birth to their own families."

Nian Gengyao smiled, not daring to answer Fourth Master's words, and only said to Thirteen:

"The ladies in the house should not be underestimated. The monthly salary we get is not enough for our own social and entertainment expenses, let alone supporting the family. It is they who arrange the limited money reasonably so that the small family can operate normally. What's more, in some On the one hand, you really can't underestimate women!"

"What you said is true. My monthly silver bill was used up soon after I got it. The family doesn't seem to care much about flowers. It seems that I have to reward Fujin when I go back. It's really hard work for her."

Yinzhen looked at the two with a funny face, and poured cold water on Yinxiang:

"You forgot that all the daily needs of the Prince's Mansion are provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there is no need for you, Fujin, to pay money to support concubines and children."

"Uh……"

After seeing each other with several people, they all laughed.

Yinzhen is a man of action. After discussing the details with Wu Sidao that night, he came to the Nian Mansion early the next morning and asked to see Jinyao by name.

Nian Gengyao was in a bit of a dilemma now:

"Fourth Master, this slave is about to go to work. Jin'er is a girl waiting for a draft. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to be alone with you?" You don't need to be too tactful when you are familiar with her.

Sure enough, Fourth Master didn't care about his disrespect:

"It's my father who is making waves! It's just that my father wants to know about the business, otherwise you can call any girl or mother around her to tell me if she speaks clearly and knows what happened."

Call a girl to explain business to fourth master?Nian Gengyao will definitely not be able to do this. No matter how close you are, you are still the master. How can you use a slave to belittle someone? He is afraid of being charged later.

But in order to please him, it is definitely not acceptable to use his sister as a favor. After thinking about it:

"It's a coincidence that Jin'er fell in love with the thirteenth princess and the fifteenth princess. She said that she hadn't seen her for a long time, and she missed her very much. If possible, she would like to invite them to the humble house."

Yinzhen's eyes brightened:

"The thirteenth and fifteenth sisters must be tired of staying in the palace all day. If there is nothing to do today, I can ask to pick them up to play."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and went out to the palace together.

Jinyao originally got the news that the fourth elder brother came to see her for something, and everyone had dressed up and changed their clothes, but suddenly heard that he and the second elder brother left together.

Yep, I was tossing around for a while, and was about to change back to regular clothes, and my second brother sent someone to tell me that the 15th and [-]th Gege would come to play later.

Okay, this time it's really going to be a toss.

Fortunately, the second brother was on duty, and there was no one else at home, so there was no need for people to avoid suspicion, just arrange meals.

For a moment, all the girls and women around me started to move, trying their best to arrange everything in the shortest time to satisfy the distinguished guests.

And Thirteen Gege and Fifteen Gege, who were regarded as tool people, were really pleasantly surprised.

It was already boring in winter, and there was no good place to go in the palace, how could Yinzhen be unhappy to take them out to play now, although he was puzzled, he still packed up his things and happily brought the maids and nanny out.

After seeing the fourth elder brother who was waiting for them, the happy Wen Ke hesitated and said:

"Did the fourth brother only pick up me and the fifteenth sister? Didn't he call the ninth sister?"

Yin Zhen was stunned:

"I'll pick up Wen Xian next time. This time I'm going to a different place."

The two sisters were a little afraid of the usually serious fourth brother, so they didn't dare to ask more questions, so they followed him out of the palace.

But Jiugege who got the news at this time couldn't believe the little eunuch's reply, thinking that he had heard it wrong.

"You said that the fourth brother took the thirteenth and fifteenth sisters out of the palace to play?"

"Really, the servant saw it with his own eyes."

"Are you sure they've left the palace?"

"Yes!" The little eunuch shrank his neck.

Jiugege raised the ornaments at hand and was about to throw them to the ground. He raised his hands only to realize that this is Ningshou Palace and the residence of the Empress Dowager. He suppressed his temper and went directly to Yonghe Palace.

Mother and daughter, Jiugege does not need to be passed on when entering the Yonghe Palace. The greetings from the maids and eunuchs along the way have already reached Defei's ears, and she couldn't help laughing:

"Why did this girl come here so early in the morning?"

The nanny next to him jokingly said:

"I thought I missed my mother when we came together, so I ran here."

"Mother!"

Jiu Gege didn't salute when he came in, and threw himself into De Fei's arms in aggrieved manner.

Concubine De lost her two sons and daughters to keep Jiugege, she is naturally like a sweetheart, she hugged her and hurriedly asked:

"What's the matter, who wronged you?"

"It's not the fourth brother!"

"Your fourth brother? What happened to him?"

"Hmph, he went to the palace to find Huang Ama and picked up Thirteen and Fifteen to play out of the palace, but he didn't pick me up. I'm his own sister. It's too much for me to even think about good things!"

Concubine De's smile faded, and she asked the people next to her:

"Did the fourth son enter the palace today?"

When they said entering the palace, they meant entering the harem, and when the female family members of the Fujin Dynasty said entering the palace, they also entered the harem, but the officials, when they said entering the palace, they meant the former dynasty.

"Go back to your mother, the Fourth Prince did not come to pay his respects."

Concubine De's face fell completely.

"This fourth child is not close to me. I spent a lot of money to make a mirror before, and I didn't say anything to the queen mother, but later I didn't think of giving it to me. Fortunately, he has a glass workshop himself. How much silver can be used, I can't bear it!

It is all thanks to my good son that I have been laughed at by Concubine Yi and Concubine Rong until now! "

The nanny and others around him hurriedly persuaded Concubine De to calm down, and don't get mad at herself.

At this time, Jiugege also regretted that he was angry for a while but came to Mufei to complain about his inappropriateness.

She didn't think much about it before, when she was wronged by her own brother, she naturally asked her concubine mother to help her vent her anger, but she forgot that the relationship between concubine mother and fourth brother is not like a normal mother and son, is she adding fuel to the flames?

People are also a little awkward.

Concubine De scolded Si elder brother for a while, then patted Jiu Gege reassuringly:

"Don't worry, my son. Next time your fourth brother and sister-in-law come to the palace, I'll scold them to vent your anger on you! If we don't follow him, we can go out of the palace to play, and I will ask Shisi to take you to his mansion to play."

"It's okay, Er Niang, I'm playing around with my fourth brother, don't take it seriously, and what's the matter with my fourth sister-in-law."

"Why is it all right? Do you think she's a good one? They're all the same." Mentioning the fourth wife, Concubine De, was full of complaints.

A few words of persuasion by Jiugege didn't help, so she sat with her for a while with a dry smile and then went back to the queen mother's palace.

After the passers-by calmed down, their hearts became a little complicated.

Although she doesn't know the conflict between the mother concubine and the fourth brother, it is true that the mother concubine is very strange to the fourth brother. Compared with Fourteen, she doesn't seem to regard the fourth brother as a son at all, but like an enemy .

If you often pick on him and don't say anything, you can't see how filial fourth brother Ren is.

Just like what happened in the mirror last time, it was clear that the mother concubine knew that the fourth brother had set up a glass workshop and thought it would be very profitable, and asked him to share some dry shares with fourteen, which annoyed the fourth brother. She has no face in front of her, and she has persuaded her more than once, but the concubine mother seems to have recognized it, and no one says it is useless.

Speaking of Nianfu, Jinyao was naturally very happy to see her friends Thirteen Gege and Fifteen Gege, and personally picked them up from the car, but when she saw Yinzhen who got off the same car, her eyes widened in surprise:

"Fourth, how come the fourth prince is here, isn't there a court meeting today?"

The fourth elder brother nodded:

"The main reason is that I have something to ask you. Since the matter is complicated and cannot be explained in a short while, and it is inconvenient, I invited the two younger sisters to come with me."

Only then did Shisan Gege understand, no wonder she and Fifteenth Sister were the only ones called, so that was the case, but she didn't mind being a tool man for a while, of course she was happy to have more time to play.

"That's really great, fourth brother, next time you have something to do with Jinyao, don't forget to call me and fifteenth sister."

"Pfft!" Jin Yao was amused by her, it was the first time she saw such an active tool person.

The beauty smiled, as if the moon was covered by light clouds, and the wind returned to the snow, Yinzhen stared blankly for a moment.