The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 50

As I said earlier, regardless of the official position, the top of the Yanzheng has always been the most sought-after position.The position of the leading salt administration is quite fluid, and the position of the inspector of the salt censor is changed almost every year, because he is afraid that people and salt merchants will join forces.But even if this is the case, the top of the Yanzheng can still be regarded as one of the best vacancies in the whole country.

Because Lin Ruhai's family is quite wealthy, all his ambitions are devoted to being loyal to the emperor and serving the country, and his desire for money is undoubtedly much weaker. In the first year, he paid nearly [-]% to [-]% more than the previous one when he was a inspector. The salt tax, and then Sacred Heart was overjoyed, and simply continued to appoint Lin Ruhai to be re-elected as the head of the salt administration.

Since Lin Ruhai has made up his mind to be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, it will inevitably hinder other people's financial resources. In addition, the salt government is rich and vacant, and the usual rules are that officials and businessmen deal with it. People don't like it.

The majority of the Yanzheng is located in the Jiangnan area, and Lin Ruhai's doing so will in the end damage the interests of the giant Zhen's family in Jiangnan.Fortunately, after all, Jia Min, the head wife of the Lin family, had always been close to the Jia family and the Zhen family, so at least they were able to make a difference in the middle, which allowed Lin Ruhai to pass these years in peace.

But you must know that although the Zhen family is also in the heart of the emperor, they still have to support their own prince and grandson to win the heir. This cost is not small. As for a sum of money, Lin Ruhai only intercepted it once or twice. Who would have thought that Lin Ruhai would stay at the head of the Yanzheng government for so many years, robbing them of their wealth for many years in a row. How could the Zhen family bear it? .

Don't look at the so-called old relatives of the Zhen family and the Jia family, no matter how much family affection is, it can't compare with real money. , a large part of it was to be sent to Beijing for the empress and His Royal Highness in the palace.

The so-called cutting off one's wealth is like killing one's parents, plus this wealth may involve the important matter of whether one's own prince and grandson can inherit the throne. The Zhen family has endured Lin Ruhai's side for two or three years because of their affection for the Jia family. Now, this Lin Ruhai is not his own son-in-law, who can give face day after day, why not gradually intervene in the Lin family's mansion, hoping to make the Lin family retreat in spite of difficulties.

Ordinary officials are always in trouble with the Zhen family because of money or sex, but there is always no shortage of money in the generations of the Lin family. In addition, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min are very affectionate husband and wife. , these two roads are blocked.

It stands to reason that the most taboo thing for the top of the salt government is the entanglement of power in the family, so it has always been rare for a family member to be able to take the lead in the salt government.And although Lin Ruhai is a Tanhualang who has passed the imperial examination and became an official, he can be regarded as a descendant of a family. If the head of the Lin family is not rich and prosperous, the Holy Majesty would not allow the Lin family to intervene in the salt administration.

However, the weakness of the Lin family is also very obvious. After all, the Lin family is very withered. Apart from Lin Ruhai, the head of the family, they only have a pair of young children.

Even if there is no flaw in wealth and sex, the Lin family can't get around the calamity just in terms of heirs.

Ordinarily, the Zhen family didn't intend to break face with the Jia family at all. Naturally, they would not attack Jia Min if they had nothing to do. In addition, there are more patriarchal people in the family nowadays, and the Zhen family actually didn't think that the Lin family would treat their daughter too much. He paid too much attention to it, but never thought of attacking the girl of the Lin family, so he directly turned his attention to the young master of the Lin family.

For the Lin family, this trick is really not vicious. The Lin family has been passed down in the same line for several lifetimes. It is natural to have a brother who finally got a brother. The Zhen family is actually not completely ignorant, you know If it really killed the brother of the Lin family, if the Lin family were extinct, they would only die more and more, so at most they wanted to let the young master of the Lin family get sick and distract Lin Ruhai's attention—unless They can guarantee that they can insert a beautiful woman who can fascinate Lin Ruhai and give birth to another son to the Lin family. Otherwise, if there is a problem with the son and daughter of the Lin family I'm afraid that the Lin family can really go all out and give their own family a knife.

Although the elder brother of the Lin family was deficient from the womb, because of Jia Min's meticulous care and the fact that the Lin family never lacked good medicinal materials to nourish the body, his body bones have gradually improved a lot, and he is not as weak as when he was just born.Although Jia Min said that he kept the frailty of his sons and daughters secret, he couldn't hide it from the servants in his own family, let alone Jia Mu from Jia's house.

——There is no secret on the Jia family side, if the masters of the Jia family know it, it is estimated that it will be spread among the slaves. Naturally, it is impossible for the Zhen family to have no staff in the Jia family, although it cannot be said He knew everything about the Lin family's affairs, but he always knew something.

Lin Ruhai is a good hand in being an official, but he is not very good at internal affairs, so he only relies on Jia Min.Jia Min's ability to be a housekeeper is not weak, and the population of the Lin family is very simple, so he can naturally take care of everything in an orderly manner.

There is only one thing... It is probably a common problem of all daughter-in-laws. Compared with the old people of the Lin family, Jia Min naturally trusts her natal family's companions more.It's not a big deal if it's another family. The young daughter-in-law of another family is not like this. Even the confidant of a widow and old lady like Jia Mu, Lai Mammy was brought out from the Shi family at that time, but now the Lin family Jia's position was very hot, and Jia's end became a leaky sieve, but from this point, Zhen's end took advantage of the loophole.

It's hard to figure out exactly how the Zhen family used threats and lures. Anyway, when the weather turned cold in late autumn and early winter, the youngest son of the Lin family suddenly caught a cold and became seriously ill.

The end of the year is the time to check the accounts, not to mention the busy people in Lin Ruhai's yamen, even Jia Min's side has many women in charge who came to reconcile the accounts, but the only brother of the Lin family fell ill at this time , isn't it even worse.

But fortunately, Baochai is almost seven years old now. Although she can't help Lin Ruhai's affairs at all, whether it's taking care of her younger brother or Jia Min's housekeeper, she can always help her a bit. number one.And since the Lengxiang pill was formulated, her body has become healthy, and she didn't fall ill at the same time as her younger brother, adding to the hustle and bustle at home.

Regardless of how healthy Baochai is, after all, the cold is a disease passed on from person to person. Jia Min would rather let her daughter learn more about managing affairs than let her stay with her son for a long time. It was said that she was ill, and that really broke her heart.And Baochai is not too unfamiliar with the housekeeper. Although it is impossible to completely take over the affairs in Jia Min's hands due to various reasons, he can still help share one or two.

There is even spare energy to pay attention to the cause of his younger brother.

Autumn and winter seasons are the high incidence of colds and colds, and even Jia Min didn't think there was anything wrong with it.However, Baochai is still young and not as experienced as Jia Min. She just thinks that her younger brother's illness must be due to something wrong or negligent by the people around her. Since her mother doesn't allow herself to come in front of her younger brother, she can only do her best in these matters. Do your best.If it were any other time, Jia Min probably wouldn't be able to let Baochai mess around, but now Jia Min has exhausted all her thoughts just being a director and taking care of her son. My daughter found something to do and didn't ask much.

Although Baochai is young, she has a lot of thoughtfulness, and the nuns that Jia Min allocated to her are also quite capable. When Jia Min has no intention of restraining her, she can show her talents. Actually found some clues.

Maybe it was the Zhen family or the Jia family that was unlucky. Originally, the Lin family’s night watch hours and rules were fixed, but now that the front and back yards are busy, many shopkeepers and even Lin Ruhai’s Colleagues and subordinates occasionally have to live in Lin's residence once in a while.

When the elder brother of the Lin family was ill, it happened that Lin Ruhai was entertaining an unknown guest who lived in the mansion. Although the guest himself was accompanied by servants, the Lin family still allocated some small staff. The servant girls go to the guest house to serve people.

On that day, the guest went to the study to talk to Lin Ruhai at night, then went back to the yard, and then found something left in the study, so he sent two servants to look for it—one of the two servants was brought by the guest himself. However, the other one just came from Zhuangzi with Lao Tzuniang. He was not very familiar with the Lin family, and it was dark and windy at night, so he didn't know how to get to Jia Min's yard.

Although the population of the Lin family is not large, there is no reason for younger brothers and sisters to live in the same yard alone. Therefore, Baochai and younger brothers actually live with their mother Jia Min, and only one lives in the left wing and the other lives in the right. It's just a wing.

Anyway, according to what the boy said, I vaguely saw a dark shadow sneaking around the left wing room, but at that time, both of them accidentally broke into the wife's yard, and they were panicking. If he wanted to alarm others, he ran out quickly without daring to look at anything.

Baochai has always preferred to be wronged rather than misplaced in this matter. Although he was still not sure if what the boy said was true, he still followed the matter seriously to investigate, but found out that Lin Ruhai was in the courtyard. On the head of an aunt.

Although Lin Ruhai is deeply in love with Jia Min and his wife, there are also a few old concubines in the room, basically Jia Min carried him through the room not long after they got married or when they were not pregnant after the filial piety period. But Lin Ruhai wasn't keen on this matter, so these aunts didn't serve her a few times.

Oh, by the way, if there is anything in common among these aunts, it is that they all served Jia Min in the past, just like the aunt who committed the crime this time is a dowry maid from Jia's family, because I am still in Jia Min's house. Jia Min is not worried that these people will return to the water because of the fact that they are holding hands, but only treats them as playthings.

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It's late again... I was temporarily summoned out of the house halfway through writing, and it was too late to come back...