Red Mansions Become Baochai

.On the "Guardian Talisman" that the doorman brought to Jia Yucun, Xue's family wrote this--there is a lot of snow in a good year, and the pearls are as golden as iron when they are buried in the soil.

But the other three families are all dukes, hereditary nobles.Only the Xue family, after Xue Gong died, no one became an official.Although they are imperial merchants, the status of ancient merchants is far lower than that of later generations.Merchants who have money but no power are basically the objects of exploitation by officials.A very greedy and cool official, and there is a saying that he eats big families.The county magistrate who destroyed the family and the governor who destroyed the family also came from this.When he arrived at Xue's family, how come he became one of the four major families in turn, and could still "guard the officer"?

In fact, it is just four words that make sense: collusion between officials and businessmen.The Xue family is rich, and the historians of the Wang family and Jia family are powerful.The Xue family wants to rely on the power of those three families, and the three families want money from the Xue family.Everyone gets what they need, which is a fair deal.It's just that they are still relatives on the surface, sharing the same spirit and sharing weal and woe.

Thinking of this, Baochai couldn't help sneering, she thought those families were all relatives, and it was hard to make excuses to alienate her.Now it seems that the intimacy is only for the sake of money.Since these three families are unreliable, don't blame the Xue family for being wise and safe in the future.

Keeping the secret from her husband, Mrs. Xue, to prepare a gift

For Xue Pan's transformation plan, Baochai has been looking for an opportunity to chat with his father.Unexpectedly, the ancient times are different from the modern times. The end of September and the beginning of October are the busiest times of the year for businessmen.At that time, the transportation was inconvenient, and most of the travels from south to north depended on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.In order to prevent the river from freezing and impassable, if you want to go home, you have to pack your bags in October at the latest.

These days, each shop of Xue's family needs annual accounts.The merchants who come and go want to talk about cooperation for the next year.It is also necessary to practice wine treatment for the stewards who go home for the New Year.Master Xue is as busy as a spinning top, and doesn't go home until dark.After returning home, I also have to check the accounts.Seeing that his father was so tired and thinner, Baochai had no choice but to hold back his thoughts and wait for a few more days.

Unexpectedly, after Xue Ke finished his work in the shop, he went to look at the land beside Qiyun Temple outside the city.It is said that because of the large number of pilgrims in the temple and the flow of people, many hawkers started their business here, and many swindlers and beggars also came to join in the fun.This road is a dirt road, and it is dusty when cars and horses cross the road on sunny days, and it is even more muddy and muddy when it is rainy, making it very inconvenient for people passing by.

Xue Ke happened to pass by here one day, and found a business opportunity in the chaos.After many surveys, I feel that it is indeed feasible.So I paid a sum of money to get a permit from the government.I plan to build a road here and build some shops on both sides. In addition to my own use, I will send a shop to the monks in Qiyun Temple to sell paper offerings, and other shops can be rented to other merchants.It is expected to make a small profit, repairing bridges and repairing roads is also what good people should do.Since her daughter got sick and was rescued by the bald master, Xue Ke also began to believe in Buddhist cause and effect more or less.

For Xue Ke's ambition, Baochai can only sigh.It turned out that the Xue family had already engaged in real estate at that time, and it was still a commercial real estate!With such a large career map, how Xue Pan was defeated by Xue Pan is simply unimaginable.

The speculation of later red scholars is that the four major families stood on the wrong team in the struggle for imperial power.

In Baochai's view, in the ancient times when it was difficult for businessmen to change their political status, the Xue family should be as far away from those in power as possible.It is best to learn from Huizhou merchants and Shanxi merchants to set up chambers of commerce, secretly form local forces, keep silent, and everyone hugs together to make a fortune in silence.

Regardless of the official history or the unofficial history, how many of those giant merchants who flattered the court will end well?But being treated as a fat pig, you can slaughter it however you want.

Shen Wansan, the emperor in white clothes who was as rich as the enemy, was deprived of his family property by Zhu Yuanzhang and sent to the army.Because Hu Xueyan, a red-capped businessman, fought against Sheng Xuanhuai, who was supported by Li Hongzhang, another official and business force, Sheng Xuanhuai planned a run to destroy the bank and bankrupt his raw silk business.After the bankruptcy, Hu Xueyan was regarded as an abandoned son by the court, confiscated and dismissed from his post, and soon died of grief and anger.

Although the Xue family is an imperial merchant, among the eighteen imperial merchants, the Xue family is not the top group.Furthermore, Xue's family started to make a fortune by helping the Ministry of Internal Affairs to purchase miscellaneous materials because of the exclusive business of Palace Flower and Palace Fan.But times have changed, and Xue's firm has long since developed into a diversified investment group.Most of the profits from the business obtained from the royal family are taken by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the remaining profit becomes tasteless, tasteless, and if it is discarded, it will affect other businesses.

When Baochai was worried about the future of the Xue family, Mrs. Xue also had her own concerns.Because her husband got angry with her at the New Year's Eve, she planned to secretly add something while her husband was away.Cut first and play later, and then talk after doing it.

Xue's shop is an ancient boutique department store.This time, the Lord's mother asked herself, which manager would dare not do his best?Because it was inconvenient to carry the special silver in the annual ceremony, it was sent directly from the store in Jingli as usual.In a few days, all kinds of gifts for the New Year ceremony had been prepared, but the detonator used four mule carts, pulled them back and forth three times, and asked a few proper young men in green clothes to carry them in. The second door was put down, and let those women send it to the yard for Mrs. Xue to have a look.

Madam Xue came out and saw dozens of large boxes, filling the courtyard to the brim.The steward replied: "The glass kang screen has been selected, and all kinds of clothing and wood are brought from the shop. The Western clock and coral bonsai are all ready-made. Only porcelain and lacquerware have been sent to Suzhou and Hangzhou to buy. Bring it here." Mrs. Xue said her hard work, nodded, and asked Tonggui to send out the silver reward.

After entering the room and listening to Zhao Fu's family read a long list of gifts, Mrs. Xue still sighed slightly.There are no fewer things than last year, but I haven't added more. I know it's my husband's intention and I can't change it.

Mrs. Xue is not ignorant of the fact that her brother and sister reached out to fish money from the Xue family.It's just that although she has been married for many years, she also knows that if she doesn't have her natal family to rely on, she will never be able to live such a happy life.Her mother left early, and besides her four siblings, her father had more than a dozen concubine children.Back then, if Xue Gong hadn't asked to marry his concubine daughter, I'm afraid that such a good marriage would have been snatched away by her concubine sister who is more favored than her.When the mother-in-law was alive earlier, she thought she didn't have the bearing and insight to be a daughter-in-law.But after the second elder brother was promoted to the Jingying Jiedushi that year, the mother-in-law never mentioned that she wanted to find a good concubine for her husband.

Not to mention that Mrs. Xue is a younger sister. She was brought up by her older brothers and sisters since she was a child, so she is naturally very dependent on her brothers and sisters.After returning to Jinling with her husband and mother-in-law, the mountains are long and the rivers are far away, so they cannot get together as usual.At least once a month, I have to send a letter back to Beijing, and I have to ask my brothers and sisters for their opinions on everything.Because of this, I will always be teased by my husband.Said that she would not even walk without her brothers and sisters.

Besides, the Jia family and the Wang family are all big families, and I don't want the Xue family to live a life that is easy if the family is divided like this.And because of the title, everything has to be pompous.It is better for the two elder brothers to be officials.The Jia family where my sister married, from the old lady to the next, blindly enjoyed wealth and honor, and were unwilling to make ends meet.My sister has to deal with the big family, and I am afraid that the dowry that accompanied her would not be enough for them.

The eldest brother is going to take up the post in Ping'an Prefecture, so he needs to prepare some money and good medicinal materials.When my niece is getting married, I want to give her some jewelry to add makeup.These two things are her duty as a younger sister and an aunt, and if her husband finds out about it, it's hard to criticize her too much.

After making up her mind, Mrs. Xue hurriedly called Zhang Shou's family, and quietly opened the warehouse while Xue Ke was not at home.They chose the best ginseng antler, bear gall and tiger bones, and about twenty pieces of gold and silver utensils, and asked them to stuff them into boxes as local products.

My niece, Brother Feng, she also met in Beijing. She was a beautiful fetus at a young age, with a pair of red phoenix eyes and two curved willow-leaf eyebrows.Because he was raised as a boy, he has a very sharp personality, is very good at talking and is not afraid of people.I don't know what it's like now. She married into a big family at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Even if she has an aunt to take care of her, the child is afraid that she will suffer a lot.

While thinking about it, he opened several large boxes for storing jewelry one by one.I planned to pick some ladders to give to Wang Xifeng, after choosing for half a day, I took out several very expensive ones, a Hetian white jade Ruyi, an eight-winged golden phoenix hairpin, a double-weighted rose with a pair of eyes, and a red gold silk necklace with eight treasures.

Coupled with the double happiness and wishful emerald gold hairpins paired to celebrate the newlyweds, the golden thread Ruyi Acacia hairpin paired, the dragon and phoenix inlaid jade gold bracelets paired, and various jade pendants paired, all of these were put into a gold-painted jewelry box inlaid with treasures, and He took down an ivory ornament of a boy named He Chun from the Duobaoge on the wall of the Wanzi fence, thinking that these things should be very decent for makeup, and secretly stuffed the things into the box where the clothes were placed.Fang returned to the main room and asked the steward to prepare the things earlier so that they could be delivered.

Mrs. Xue thought she kept it a secret, but she never expected to be watched by Baochai from the beginning to the end.From ancient times to the present, it is not uncommon for daughters who marry out to their natal families.Even in modern times, some people posted on Tianya that the wife secretly took away her daughter's education expenses and sent them back to her natal family to buy a house for her father-in-law.But seeing his mother so confused, Baochai couldn't help but pat her forehead.Fortunately, the Xue family is very rich now. If it is a small family, Mrs. Xue's behavior has already constituted a reason to divorce his wife. One of the seven things is theft!

Baochai knew that it was impossible for Mrs. Xue to be divorced, but a big storm of family ethics was probably inevitable.Waited quietly for two days.When I went to pay my respects on the third day, I heard servants on the road talking about Zhang Shou's family being beaten ten boards, and the warehouse manager was gone.When I entered the back room, I saw Mrs. Xue's eyes were swollen, and she looked at Xue Ke timidly.His father talked to her with Yan Yuese, but he didn't even look at Madam Xue.

The storm has passed, but fortunately the situation is not serious.With Mrs. Xue's usual gentle and careless temperament, she put on a face of knowing her mistakes and fear, and she will be able to coax Daddy back in a few days.Seeing that Xue Pan didn't notice it, he ate three ding buns and drank green rice porridge. Sure enough, the more single-minded and stupid people are, the easier it is to be happy.

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