[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

Although Xue Baoqin is a guest, she is still a girl of the people. In front of Jia Yan and Lin Daiyu, she must first perform the national ceremony and then the family ceremony.And when she gave the family salute, Jia Yan and Lin Daiyu didn't have to answer the salute in person, the maids around them could do it for them.

The three sat down again, and Xue Baoqin had time to observe Lin Daiyu.

Speaking of it, Lin Daiyu is only slightly older than Tanchun, but she is more than a step ahead of Xue Baochai both in bearing and appearance.Even though Xue Baoqin thought she was good, but after seeing Lin Daiyu, she couldn't help hiding a bit of shame in her heart.

With Jia Yan’s protection, and the servants of their Lin family around her, such a Lin Daiyu is not the same as in the original book, who is worried about the precarious situation and has to worry about her own life from time to time. How can she be as cheap as she is?

Compared with the lonely and lonely girl in the original book, Lin Daiyu is now truly worthy of the word "external fairy plant".

Even if she lost her whole body, it was still difficult to hide her peerless appearance and elegant demeanor.

Even Xue Baoqin admitted that she was indeed attracted to Lin Daiyu.

The three of them sat down again, and after a brief exchange of greetings, Jia Yan said: "What is it that made Sister Qin come to see me in the garden, and also found this concave crystal pavilion?"

Xue Baoqin said casually: "Madam Lao, please ask. I heard that Madam is interested in governing the Yellow River, so I want to do my best for Madam. Even if our family is weak, I hope I can help Madam."

Jia Yan looked at her with a smile, and said, "Who is your family that Sister Qin is referring to?"

Xue Baoqin immediately knew that Jia Yan might have known that Xue Baochai would back down.

Xue Baoqin said inside: "Going back to your mother, what the girl said about our house refers to the room my brother and I have."

Although Xue Baoqin's father just passed away a few years ago, they still have a son in this house.Even though Xue Biao is still young and has not yet reached the age of 15, but the moment he gets the account card at the age of 15, he has absolute power over their house.And Xue Baoqin has this self-confidence, she has enough influence on her brother.

If it doesn't work, she gambles with her dowry.

Xue Baoqin knew very well that Jia's mother's reputation was not very good, and since she came to Beijing, the Mei family has never sent anyone to ask her if she is doing well in Jia's house.It can be seen from this that even if she is married as a dowry, the Mei family will not value her much.In this case, she will use her dowry to pave the way for herself, as long as she follows Jia Yan's path, even if her dowry is only three to five thousand silver in the end, as long as this relationship exists, as long as Jia Yan has her seat next to her, Then it's all worth it.

Xue Baoqin, who followed her father to many places when she was young, is very courageous in certain things.

Jia Yan stared at her for a while, then said:

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"know."

Jia Yan asked again: "Do you know what I'm going to do?"

"Govern the Yellow River."

Jia Yan said: "Then let me tell you the truth. The imperial court allocates 200 million taels of silver every year. What can be done is just repairing river embankments. In fact, it is nothing more than treating headaches and feet. It’s a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. My plan is to treat the root cause. Once the work starts, the amount of money and food that needs to be dispatched in a year will be as high as ten million taels of silver. Do you understand?”

Xue Baoqin was dumbfounded.

She thought what Jia Yan was going to do was just another river worker.And the annual appropriation of the imperial court for river engineering is almost 200 million taels of silver.She originally thought that if she could fight for 10 taels of silver, she would be able to sell well in front of Jia Yan, follow Jia Yan's path, and give her brother a future, all of which were in it.

Where did she think that it was ten million taels of silver!

Even she, who was born in the Xue family where pearls are as muddy as gold and iron, dare not say that she has seen anyone who has so much money and food.

No, to be more precise, whose family has so much money and food, I'm afraid it will be targeted by the higher-ups long ago, and they are going to raid the house, right?

Xue Baoqin is not the kind of woman who knows nothing about the world. On the contrary, as a member of the Xue family, Xue Baoqin knows very well that the reason why those salt merchants throw gold leaves into the river is to flaunt their wealth and please others. In addition to the concubine's favor, it is also because they have become fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, so they frantically waste their hard-earned money.

Because they can't see where tomorrow is.

Under the shock, Xue Baoqin's mind went blank, even deprived of the ability to think.

Compared with Xue Baoqin, the first thing Lin Daiyu noticed was the word scheduling.Dispatching [-] million taels of money and grain and appropriating [-] million taels of money and grain are two concepts.

Lin Daiyu frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Second sister, what you are going to do is not something that one family can do."

Jia Yan smiled and said: "Yes, I once resented myself as a woman, and my whole life was just going from one four-corner yard to another. But now I am very glad that I am a woman, so I changed someone else to do it. There must be many difficulties. And I am the imperial concubine, so as long as I can persuade Long live, even if there is a detour, the difficulty will still be much lower."

Lin Daiyu said: "Second sister has already considered everything?"

Jia Yan said: "According to my method to control the river, there is only one content, which is to dig down along those old rivers and ancient rivers."

Only then did Xue Baoqin come back to her senses, but she couldn't help asking:

"Dig down along the old and ancient river?"

"Yes," Jia Yan said, "Actually, the most worrying thing about cleaning up the river is water seepage. If the river is dug in other places, the river water will seep down, and the river that should have flowed on the ground will follow the underground river to the ground." It went down. This is also the reason why Emperor Sui Yang used bluestone slabs to pave the river when he built the Grand Canal, and also used Sanhe soil. It is because of the problem of water seepage. And when the river is built on the old river of the ancient river, the river below is hundreds of years ago The ancient river channel thousands of years ago has accumulated silt for countless years. Naturally, there is no need to worry about this problem, and the cost will be saved a lot.”

When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal in the past, he considered the problem of water seepage, so he used bluestone slabs and composite soil.

Jia Yan also considered this issue.Digging up those ancient river channels that have become land is one way, and another way is to learn from Emperor Sui Yang.Of course, the cost of bluestone slabs is relatively high, so she can use cement slabs instead.The cement formula has been given to the emperor, and the sand can be obtained locally from the Yellow River, and the only difference is iron slag and clay.