[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

Let's talk about Jia Amnesty, after sending Madam Xing away, he asked the nanny to take Jia Cong away and let Jia Cong go back to rest, and then he took out a stack of bank notes from his pocket.

"Girl, the method you mentioned is very good. It turns out that we can only grow some melons and fruits by relying on Tangquan Zhuangzi next to Ganlu Palace, and prepare them for eating in winter. With your method, even ordinary fields can grow We have grown courgettes in winter. This year, the net income of courgettes alone is 6000 taels. The two of us make five, and the 3000 taels are yours."

Ganlu Palace is the royal hot spring palace, and the surroundings of Ganlu Palace are also the Zhuangzi of the rich and powerful.Of course, Jia's family also has such a village, but it's a pity that there are really not many melons and fruits brought up every winter, and there is simply not enough to eat.Every winter in the Jia family, Jia's mother, Jia Baoyu, can't finish eating by herself, and let the girls below give favors, but for Jia Cong, Jia Yan, Tanchun Xichun and others, the number of times they can get five fingers a month I can count the heads clearly.When Jia Yan was still Jia Yingchun and living in Jia's mother's house, she never got vegetables and fruits for a whole winter, and she was constipated for more than half a month!

Because of the sweet potato, Jia She was willing to accept Jia Yan's suggestion because the sweet potato gave Jia She a taste of the sweetness.But even so, the harvest of the hundred or so mu of land made Jia Amnesty laugh.You must know that Laba is just over now, and there is still half a month until Xiaonian.These fifteen days are enough to harvest another crop of courgettes.Jia Amnesty reckoned that there were about seven to eight thousand taels of income.

Jia Yan smiled when she saw these banknotes: "Father, look at my daughter, you asked my mother to prepare the house, and you paid for the clothes and jewelry. Mother's cost-effective, that is, receiving the monthly money, except for the rewards below. The girl and the woman are just waiting to be ashes in the cabinet. Although this bank note is good, it is a pity that it is given to the daughter, but it is just waiting for the mice to bite, or let him wait for it to rot."

In a word, because she is a daughter, Jia Yan has no place to spend money at all!Especially now, she lives with Mrs. Jia Shexing, and Jia She has made it clear that she loves her daughter. Even Jia Lian remembers that his official position was borrowed from his sister. With Jia Yan like this, which servant in the East Court would dare to short her s things?With Jia Amnesty, where does she need to manage?

It was too late for others to flatter her.

It was only then that Jia Amnesty realized that he had made a mistake of some sort.

"That's not the case. You're a girl, and you really don't have much money to spend. Well, I'll pick out a few heads for you later. It's just that you won't need it this year, and you can wear it when you finish your career in September. "

Jia Yan smiled and said, "That's half a year away!" As he spoke, he looked thoughtful again.

Seeing his daughter's hesitation to speak, Jia She immediately got excited.Without him, the last time my daughter showed this look was when she took out sweet potatoes.Jia Amnesty was impressed.So now that Jia Yan showed this appearance again, Jia Amnesty naturally cared.

"You child, what's wrong with your own father? Say it quickly! Is there anything you can do for your father?"

"Father, it's not a big deal, it's just..."

"What is it?"

"It is the daughter who may have discovered the secret of wine."

wine?

Jia Amnesty was taken aback.

The wines of this era are also called Western wines, for nothing else, because no wines are produced in the East, and even if someone has tried them, the wines produced are all strange-flavored grape juices.Therefore, all wines in this period depended on imports.And relying entirely on imports, there is only one result in the end, that is, the rarest is the most expensive.The price of wine is so high that only a few people in the capital can afford it.In this era, wine is something that only the top aristocrats can enjoy.

Take the Grand View Garden in the original book as an example. In the entire Grand View Garden, there are so many girls and masters, that is, Jia Baoyu always keeps wine in one room.

Jia Amnesty couldn't help asking: "You said it, but it's true? Did you really make wine?"

Jia Yan hurriedly asked someone to bring the two blue and white pots with general belly on the shelf in his room.Not long after, the girls brought the two jars over.The wax seal of one of the jars has been broken. As long as the jar is opened, you can smell the aroma of sweet wine.

The smell of sweet wine filled the whole room, and Jia She could not help being intoxicated by it.

For an otaku, especially an otaku in ancient times, antique toys are a noble pastime, but drinking and sex are also necessary.As a nobleman, especially the lord of the Duke's Mansion, it would make people laugh if he didn't know about wine.

Based on the aroma alone, Jia Amnesty can tell that this is an excellent wine.

Jia Amnesty looked at his daughter, and suddenly made a move. He took the scissors himself, and removed the wax seal on another jar. Sure enough, it also contained excellent wine.

Taking another deep breath of the aroma of the wine, Jia She called for someone to bring the wine utensils he had kept for a long time.

Jia She has a good taste for wine, and as the serious lord of the Jia family, he naturally drank wine a lot. Based on the aroma alone, Jia She can conclude that the two cans of wine made by his daughter are definitely not bad, not only sweet but also not astringent. Son.

Jia Yan wrung the handkerchief in his hand and said, "Daughter has become like this, I don't know..."

Jia She said cheerfully: "That's not important. A lot of good wines are made by chance." As he spoke, he took another sip of the wine.Although it is different from the wine bought outside, the taste...Jia She has to say that people like him who are old and not suitable for drinking, as well as women and children in the inner house, can't refuse this kind of wine.

Jia She carefully tasted the wine in the wine glass, and it took him a while to remember to ask his daughter, "What do you need to make this wine?"

Jia Yan replied: "I want very sweet grapes, and then I want sugar cane that is more than three years old."

"sugar cane?"

Jia Yan nodded quickly: "Yes, sugarcane is said to be native to Tianzhu, but the merchant who gave sweet potato vines to his daughter the year before last said that the sugarcane is in the south, and my daughter said that there are many in Qiongzhou and Yazhou. That's what the sea merchant told his daughter."

In this era, the south that people refer to actually refers to Jiangnan, that is, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in later generations. As for Guangzhou and Guangxi, in the eyes of people in this era, it is a land of exile, no different from a wild land!Except for one or two coastal cities that are a little more developed, other places are far behind.

Jia Amnesty walked around the room several times before finally making a decision.

"When did you start making wine."

"When the grapes are harvested, it's about May."

"Alright. Is that sea merchant surnamed Yan? Later, I will ask him to help you transport a ship of sugar cane that is more than three years old. In May, you will ask Lin Zhixiao to help you harvest some grapes, no matter how many. The brewed Wine, I use it."

Not only is it useful, it is clearly of great use!

After all, Jia Amnesty was raised as the heir of the Rongguo Mansion, and he has experienced the corresponding heir education one by one, so he knows the value of wine.If it was Jia Zheng, maybe he would reprimand Jia Yan, thinking that Jia Yan was ruining things; but if it was Jia Amnesty, not only would he not reprimand Jia Yan, on the contrary, he would also confirm the possibility of making wine from sugar cane.As long as it is really possible, countless businessmen will go to Yazhou and Qiongzhou. At that time, what is waiting for the court is the great governance of Qiongzhou and Yazhou.

Thinking of this, Jia Amnesty couldn't sit still.

Isn't it just sugar cane, isn't it just grapes?Now it is not the Qin and Han Dynasties. There are not many grape vines in the Central Plains. On the contrary, grapes have been in the Central Plains for more than 1000 years. There is no shortage of big and sweet grapes in the Central Plains. Many places are covered with grapes. Birds peck or rot directly in the mountains.If Jia Amnesty let the word out, he wants to collect grapes, most of them are sent to him with the best grapes, the cost of this is 1000 taels of silver, including those black-hearted servants of the Jia family who were greedy for ink. big head.If you don't count those greedy ink, 500 taels will not be used.

As for sugar cane, it's even simpler.As long as Jia Amnesty tells some sea merchants that he needs two shipments of sugar cane, and those sea merchants who keep them will deliver them to him, the cost will never exceed 3000 taels of silver.

Not to mention the sweet potatoes, but the cucumbers this winter, which made Jia Shen so much money, would Jia Shen be stingy with this little investment?Wool comes from sheep.Anyway, it was originally intended to give Jia Yan a share, but it was just a different method.If it can be done, isn't it lying down and counting money?

Of course, silver is still a trivial matter, and winemaking has far-reaching significance.

If wine is really so profitable, sugar cane trading will become an important industry in the southern Baiyue in the future.Jia She is sure that in the future, the sugar cane trade in the south will become flowing gold, and it will also be the key to the south becoming a land of prosperity.

Jia Amnesty can't get out of Beijing, and he can't get ahead, but he still has Jia Lian, doesn't he?Of course, if Jia Lian is as incompetent, unpromising and unsophisticated as Jia Zheng, then it would be a good choice for him to learn Jia Zheng's qualifications in the household department.But if Jia Amnesty has the way to rule Yazhou and Qiongzhou in his hands, why can't Jia Lian try it?

In Jia She's impression, as long as it is profitable, merchants will swarm like flies that have seen blood. With merchants, there will be a lot of supplies, which means prosperity and prosperity.

The magistrates in the Baiyue land are one level lower than those in other places. It is not easy to find the magistrates in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is very easy to find the magistrates in the Baiyue land.It is a matter of course for Jia Lian's current fifth-rank member of the household department, Wailang, to seek the magistrate of Baiyue.If sugar cane can really produce wine, this alone can turn the low-level state capital in the Baiyue Land into a middle-level state capital, and with a little light, it can open the shackles of the fourth grade for Jia Lian.If Jia Lian worked harder and had better luck, and turned the low-level state capital in his hand into a high-level state capital, he would not be able to enter the cabinet in the future, and he could properly reserve the position of a feudal official.

How many officials have been stuck in the position of being the fourth rank all their lives, Jia She knew it clearly.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, Jia Amnesty couldn't sit still anymore, and immediately shouted: "Come on! Come on! Call me Lian'er!"

Jia Amnesty didn't care that it was already dark and Jia Lian had to get up early to go to the Yamen tomorrow.

He is an old man, and he is for his son's future. In his impression, Jia Lian should obediently come over to him, even if he is having sex with his daughter-in-law right now.

The author has something to say: Although I have already said it in the book "The Life of a Modern Jiaojiao Girl in the Red Mansion" a long time ago, I still want to say it here:

Until now, I still feel that Jia Amnesty was not wrong in Jia Yingchun's marriage.

If you read the original book, you will know that Xue Baochai was 15 years old before they entered the Grand View Garden. In the first 16 chapters of the original book, there is a clear record that Xue Baochai called Jia Yingchun's second sister.In other words, Jia Yingchun is older than Xue Baochai.Xue Baochai was born in January, so Jia Yingchun was already [-] years old when they entered the Grand View Garden.

After looking at the relevant chapters of Second Sister You, especially after the death of Second Sister You, in just a few chapters, it is written that Jia Lian will celebrate the anniversary of Second Sister You.

In other words, Jia Yingchun was at least 19 years old before Jia Amnesty found a marriage for Jia Yingchun!

In that era, which girl didn't look at her until she was 20 years old? !It is said that Jia Amnesty doesn't care about her daughter, so what are Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang doing?Have they ever taken Jia Yingchun out once? ?

I said that Jia Amnesty didn't care about her daughter, but let me say that Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang contributed a lot to Jia Yingchun's delay in marrying until she was almost 20 years old!

Let's talk about Jia Amnesty selling his daughter for 5000 taels.

Among other things, is an old girl who is almost 20 years old worth 5000 taels of silver?When Qin Keqing died, Jia Zhen bought an official position for Jia Rong, and the five-rank Long Jinwei only spent 1000 taels.Is Jia Yingchun, an old girl who is almost 20 years old, worth so much money?Is she a woman who can watch the people below empty out the warehouse, is she worth five regular fifth-rank Captain Long?

You know, in ancient times, when girls in many dynasties were unmarried at the age of 20, the official media would come to their door.And this kind of door-to-door visit is not a good thing, because the people they bring are either soldiers or ruffians.

If Jia Amnesty didn't care about Jia Yingchun, he could have waited for the official media to come to his door, so why bother to abandon his old face, disregarding that the woman's marriage proposal was unseemly and unethical, he found Jia Yingchun's husband as a commanding officer, so that Jia Yingchun would be happy as soon as he walked through the door. Feng Guanxia wears it?Wouldn't it be easier for Jia Yingchun to marry a ruffian under the arrangement of the official media?

It is also said in the original book that when Jia Yingchun got married, the dowry was the official share. According to the rules of the Jia family, the dowry of 1 to [-] taels of silver was given to a concubine. Jia Yingchun herself was cowardly and stupid, and Mrs. Wang He and Wang Xifeng teamed up to trick her, and used things that were worth three cents to prevaricate her. This is because Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng were greedy for money and didn't take her seriously.She didn't blame Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng, but Jia She and Mrs. Xing who couldn't interfere with her dowry at all.What about logic?

So for people like Jia Yingchun, I have no idea of ​​saving her.Because I am not so holy.

This is also the reason why I let the heroine dress as Jia Yingchun.If time travel means obliterating a person in the original book, there are so many girls in the original book, only Jia Yingchun makes me feel sorry.

ps: Because there is no text about Guangdong and Guangxi in the first [-] chapters of the original work, the ancient name will be used in this article.