[Comprehensive Wear] It's hard to be a princess

Lin Hai soon took his wife south to Yangzhou, and Jia Zheng volunteered to send Lin Hai off. He thought he was a qualified literati all these years, but in fact, he still had some ac numbers in his heart, and he never took the exam again. Passing the imperial examination, in the eyes of those flattering people, he is just underappreciated, and has never met his own Bole. Rather than being in the same dust as the light, he might as well stick to himself!In short, in order to show that he is already in the group of civil servants, this guy got very close to Lin Hai.Lin Hai was relatively close to this second uncle at the beginning. After all, compared to Jia Amnesty, who was a bit stingy, Jia Zheng did seem to be a bit of an upright gentleman. The background is too bad, empty talk can't get to the point, the political sensitivity is very poor, and the other thing is that, despite having a good pregnancy, there is a lot of resentment deep in my heart.Lin Hai naturally figured it out very quickly. His mother-in-law drew a big cake for Jia Zheng, which made Jia Zheng think that he had a chance to inherit the Rongguo Mansion. At last, he found that this cake was not enough to satisfy his hunger. I can't see clearly!He always felt that his luck was bad, he was born two years later than Jia She, and then he was underappreciated in various ways.

Lin Hai has come to this day, on the one hand, it is indeed because of his family. After all, these days, if you want to be an official in the imperial examination, it is not just about talent and learning. Many people are really talented and learned, but in the end they fail after repeated trials.There are many people like this in Jiangnan. Lin Hai has an aide, who is also a talented young man. After repeated attempts, and after taking the test several times, he was absolutely devoid of thoughts on this matter.His family is considered to have a small fortune, but they couldn't afford him to go to the exam for so many years. In the end, he simply studied Daqilu and planned to be a master of punishment for others. Later, Lin Hai's family recommended him to Lin Hai. Now he is regarded as an extremely capable person around Lin Hai.Therefore, the imperial examination is not something that everyone can enjoy. The Lin family only figured out some of the ways in the imperial examination after several generations of marriage. Therefore, Lin Hai has never taken a detour and passed smoothly. Tanhua.Like Jia Zheng, Lin Hai has seen a lot, and he is completely self-righteous and disease-free.

However, the Yue family has also given Lin Hai a lot of help over the years. Although they could not help Lin Hai gain a foothold in the circle of civil servants, they also blocked many criticisms. After all, not everyone can afford to offend a Duke. result.Lin Hai was Ding You back then, and it was Jia Daian who mentioned it to Emperor Qianyuan in time, otherwise, we don't know when Emperor Qianyuan would remember him!

Even for the sake of his father-in-law, Lin Hai couldn't tell Jia Zheng directly that you just have no talent and incompetence, so you deserved not to pass the exam.Lin Hai's emotional intelligence is relatively high, and Jia Zheng is far behind Lin Hai. Therefore, Lin Hai thinks he is perfunctory Jia Zheng, but Jia Zheng regards Lin Hai as his confidant.Therefore, when Lin Hai wanted to be released, Jia Zheng felt very reluctant.

After finally fooling Jia Zheng away, Lin Hai heaved a sigh of relief when he returned to the cabin.

Jia Min, who was studying with his child, looked at Lin Hai's expression, and couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled: "Second brother has gone back?"

Lin Hai nodded and said, "Yeah, it's getting late, if the second uncle delays any longer, before dark, there will be no time to enter the city!"

Knowing that Lin Hai probably used this reason to fool Jia Zheng away, Jia Min wanted to laugh even more.Jia Min felt that he knew his second brother well. He didn't have much talent, but he didn't have the guts to do bad things. In short, apart from being a bit pedantic, he was actually a good person.However, when Jia Min thought of the second sister-in-law at home, she curled her lips in disgust.In the past few years, I have not had children, but the second sister-in-law mocked her openly and secretly, and said that she was jealous and asked her to arrange concubines for her husband.Jia Min almost slapped him on the spot!Who doesn't know who, you see Aunt Tongfang like a thorn in your flesh, it's not that Aunt Tongfang has been pregnant in the past few years, but who will be born in the end?The most unlucky thing is that Wang arranged for Jia Zheng a girl called Jin Liu, she was born well, and when Wang was pregnant with Yuanchun, she was arranged by Wang to serve Jia Zheng, and Jia Zheng was not a Liuxia. Hui, as the name suggests, Jinliu has a willow waist and a willow-like temperament. Jia Zheng naturally likes it very much, so when Yuanchun was seven or eight months old, Jinliu became pregnant.At that time, Mrs. Wang was very happy, and she specially reported it to Mrs. Shi, and proposed Jin Liu as her concubine.As a result, Jin Liu was pregnant for more than eight months. On the way back to ask Mrs. Wang, she stepped on the lamp oil that someone spilled on the ground, and then she gave birth to a boy, Maoer. After crying twice, he died.Mrs. Wang said that she wanted to seek justice for Jin Liu, but in fact, the person who spilled the lamp oil was a rough envoy woman arranged by Zhou Rui's family.The rough envoy's mother-in-law was kicked out, but later, her daughter was sent to work as an official in the mansion.After all, Jin Liu is also the son of the Jia family, so she quickly figured out what was going on, but she couldn't do anything with the Wang family. She was such a little beauty, but she soon withered. Eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha in the backyard is said to be for a better life for the children, so naturally they fell out of favor.

People outside don't know about this kind of thing, how could Jia Min not know about it!Shi Shi was furious in private because of this matter, if it wasn't for the fact that Wang Shi gave birth to Jia Zhu and Yuan Chun, Shi Shi would definitely teach Wang a lesson.

Jia Min naturally felt that Mrs. Wang was not an upright person, and she still wanted to command her from a high position. Therefore, she had a bad relationship with Mrs. Wang again, so she was surprised. It can be regarded as a good rule, why did he marry such a short-sighted poisonous woman!Jia Min had a strong filter on his own family, and he didn't realize at all that if Shi and Wang hadn't helped Jia Zheng do some things that Jia Zheng didn't want to touch, how could Jia Zheng be so unearthly?

Lin Hai didn't explain to Jia Min what kind of person Jia Zheng was, and he couldn't get close to each other. As a brother-in-law, if you speak ill of your brother to your sister, don't make the husband and wife estranged later!Moreover, although Jia Min has some innocence and nobility in his temper because of his good background, he has been well educated after all, so he has never made any mistakes in his dealings with others, and he can be regarded as a virtuous wife!Not to mention, there is Jia's family behind Jia Min, and if he went to serve as the inspector of salt by himself, without the help of Jia's family, it would be difficult for him to open up the situation.

When Lin Hai's family boarded the official ship heading south, Tu Jingchen, Zhang Anyuan, Jia She, Jia Jing, Liu Fu and other close officials of the East Palace were talking in the study on the other side of the East Palace, and they were talking about the Jiangnan Salt Administration.

As the crown prince, Tu Jingchen didn't have any interest in Jiangnan's salt administration. He watched his brothers regard the salt administration as their own money bag, causing the price of official salt to remain high in the market, private salt to be rampant, and the court's salt tax to drop sharply. , Tu Jingchen is full of anger, they all belong to the old apprentice's family, you are here for the throne, you can poach the corners of the old apprentice's house!What good does it do you if the court has no money?At the end of the former dynasty, why were those warlords so stubborn? Wasn’t it because the court had no money, and the money for raising soldiers was all prepared by themselves?Serving as a soldier is actually taking someone's money and being under his control!If the imperial court does not pay the soldiers, who will fight for you!

Tu Jingchen is familiar with history books, and they all say how powerful the army was during the Han and Tang Dynasties, but according to the historical records at that time, military expenditures were also very exaggerated at that time. Therefore, without money, for a court, there is no sense of security.

Therefore, Tu Jingchen hoped that Lin Hai would be able to reorganize the salt administration when he went south this time to serve as the censor of salt inspection. However, the salt administration in the south of the Yangtze River has been corrupted to this extent. Whether Lin Hai can do it or not is a question.

Jia Amnesty still looked generous, he put down the teacup in his hand, and said: "My old man said before that he would give my brother-in-law a certain amount of support, but the Jia family has stayed in the capital for so many years. How much influence they still have is also a question! After all, the Jia family has nothing to do with the Yanzheng, and how much face those people are willing to give to the Jia family is also a question, at most they don’t want to do evil to my brother-in-law!”

Zhang Anyuan frowned, and said: "If you don't go under the hood, Master Lin should have already won half of the battle. I'm afraid they will jump over the wall in a hurry when they see the situation is not good! In addition, we must prevent them from dragging Master Lin into the water!"

Jia Jing shook his head and said: "That's not enough. If the Lin family has a large population, that's all. But, on the Lin family's side, Lin Hai is now alone supporting the lintel. Unless he doesn't want the future of the Lin family, otherwise, he must think about it." Find a way to break the game and make some achievements!"

Liu Fu listened to these people's serious discussion over there, and yawned a little bored.

Jia She has sharp eyes, saw it, and couldn't help laughing: "What's the matter, maybe it was too late to chat with the princess yesterday?"

Liu Fu was not angry either, and said with a smile: "I have a good relationship with the princess, what's bothering you!"

Seeing his brother-in-law and brother-in-law interrupting him, Tu Jingchen felt helpless, and sighed, "Oh, those salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are all rich and powerful, and the profit from selling official salt is already quite high, but in the end, they all still hold money." Selling private salt with the official salt, it should be killed!"

When Liu Fu heard this, he blinked his eyes, and suddenly said: "Since the official salt is used to sell private salt, it is nothing more than private salt making more money. If the price of official salt is lowered, private salt will not make money! "

Tu Jingchen immediately looked at Liu Fu, and asked, "Can you reduce the cost of official salt?" All along, unless it is green salt, even well salt is fried, whether it is firewood or iron. Pots are all costs that cannot be saved. Since then, the cost of official salt will naturally not be reduced.The reason why private salt is cheap is that those salt merchants mixed sand into the official salt. In addition, they bypassed those salt households in private, found someone to fry salt by themselves, and even directly colluded with salt farms to force those salt households to make extra salt, reducing the cost. Pass it on to those salt households.If the cost of official salt can be reduced, then when everyone finds that buying official salt is more cost-effective than buying private salt, there will be little room for private salt to survive, unless those salt merchants can also reduce the cost of private salt further. compression.

Liu Fu blinked, then took out a book and put it in front of several people.