The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 56

Xue Pan is indeed learning business dealings from the old shopkeepers at home, and judging by his age, the progress is really quite good-but this does not mean that he can also play well. Turn to the things in the hall.

It's probably a genetic problem. It is true that the Xue family has been somewhat talented in business throughout the generations, at least being conservative is not a problem.But when it comes to being an official, not everyone has the ability to be good at dancing. Even the head of the Xue family who had a unique vision at the founding of the country was forced to leave the court? .

Especially when Xue Pan had never been in contact with this aspect before, he only felt that his eyes were smeared.

Fortunately, Aunt Xue, who is the head of the house, married into the Xue family and worked as a merchant woman for many years, she did not lose all her skills as a daughter of the Wang family when she was in the boudoir. It's not impossible to deal with smooth temperament.

Not long after his father passed away in his prime, he saw his mother fall ill again, and his only sibling, who was born, looked rather delicate.As the only man in the family, Xue Pan already regarded himself as an adult. He usually felt that he was able to support his mother and sister as the pillar of his father at home, but this time After seeing the people from Beijing, I suddenly realized that there were so many things in my family that I couldn't handle at all, which was not a small blow to Xue Pan.

If this matter had happened when her husband had just passed away, Aunt Xue would have taken care of it all by herself, and she would never let her children worry about it.It's just that after several years of tempering, Xue Pan has really grown a lot compared to when he was young. It is not an exaggeration to say that, as long as Xue Pan doesn't suddenly go back to being a dumb king, this Xue family can be regarded as a master. Smooth oversuccess.

In this case, out of trust in her son, even if Xue Pan still doesn't understand these things at all, at least Aunt Xue will not just think about taking the whole bag without saying a word, and carry it on her own.

Jiawang Shixue's four families have been very friendly since the founding of the country, and they can be regarded as watching and helping each other.As a daughter of the Wang family who married into the Xue family, Aunt Xue knew a lot of secrets about the Xue family, so she picked up what she knew about this matter and dumped it all with her son.

Since ancient times, it is impossible to make a wealthy person by doing business without the help of the officialdom. For example, the marriage between Xue and Wang’s two families is considered an official-business marriage. This kind of marriage should generally be a model where the Wang family provides protection and Xue’s money. Even such marriages are mostly unequal.However, although the Xue family did send a lot of gold and silver property to the Wang family before, at least when Xue Pan's father was still alive, the status of the two families was not too disparate, although there were members of the so-called four major families. There is affection, but it is obviously impossible to rely only on the illusory affection of the ancestors.

Three generations of merchants cannot be officials, this is the iron law.Regardless of what happened to the Wang family back then, at least the word "official family" was enough to suppress the Xue family's merchant background.As the completely weaker party in the two marriages, they still maintained at least a superficial level of equality. The Xue family relied on their status as the eyeliner of the royal family in the marketplace.

Although it is impossible for the Wang family to fully know about this matter, but based on Mr. Wang's ability back then and the affection that the four major families had when they first founded the country, it is more or less guessed that the Xue family is at least not an ordinary merchant family. .

This is why the marriage of the concubine daughter of the main branch of the Wang family to marry the head of the Xue family, otherwise, even if it is not easy to find a marriage with all four corners as Aunt Xue, it is better to find someone from a noble family lower than the Rongguo Mansion. It is not difficult to be the second son or an official from a poor family, there is no need to descend from one's status to marry as a merchant's wife.

That is to say, since Xue Pan's father passed away, the connection between Xue Pan's house and his superiors was severed. This is why Aunt Xue had to rely on the power of her natal brothers and sisters to keep Xue Pan's position as the head of the family.

The so-called three obediences and four virtues for women, although Aunt Xue has a close relationship with her natal family, she also knows that her natal family cannot always be her reliance, and all she can rely on for the rest of her life is her own pair of children.

Now that the superior intends to re-use the Xue family, Aunt Xue is obviously full of heart for her son and only hopes that his son will be successful and successful, so naturally she has no selfish intentions at all.

And this time the matter is related to the Zhen family... Although the Zhen family is the confidant of the Holy Majesty, since the Holy Majesty wanted to investigate them, regardless of whether they were used to test the Xue family, it proved that the Holy Majesty was suspicious.Over the years, because the Xue family is still considerate, the first branch of the Zhen family did not make trouble for the Xue family on major matters, but the subordinate branches and even the servants in their house troubled the Xue family's shop for small things in order to seek financial benefits. Things like this are not uncommon, and they are obviously more rampant than when Xue Pan's father was alive.Although the Xue family had to swallow their anger due to the differences between officials and businessmen, everyone was muttering in their hearts.

The Zhen family has all kinds of problems, at least Mrs. Fengsheng must not be moved, and Zhen Yingjia, as the prince's grandfather, cannot be easily impeached before Zhen Guifei's line has not lost power, at least not in major matters.But if the Xue family really made up a good secret to go back to the Zhen family this time, it is obviously too fake-at least the matter of the Zhen family's side branch can be regarded as Zhen Yingjia's lax restraint of the clan, and find some more That's all about other issues, whether it's big or small.

Even if they can do business well, they won't completely offend the Zhen family.

Of course, the most important thing is to find out the reason for the secret decree, or to put it another way.

It's not been a year or two since the Holy Majesty believed in the Zhen family. If something hadn't happened this time, the Holy Majesty would never have thought about investigating the Zhen family's affairs—if he wanted to justify the Zhen family again, this The matter had to be included no matter what, otherwise it would ruin the future of the Xue family.

The Zhen family has been entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River for more than [-] years. If it is true that the white jade is flawless, even the Holy One will not believe it. The Xue family is also a local snake in Jinling. With his own news channel, even if he doesn't deliberately investigate, he can tell all about the Zhen family's affairs-the so-called high-ranking and big families have more or less things that step on the law, the so-called water is clear. If there is no fish, these things are just hidden from the top, it depends on whether the Holy One is willing to put in the effort to take care of it.

Because she wanted to teach Xue Pan, although Aunt Xue wanted to do it herself in view of the importance of the matter, she still had to teach her son the twists and turns.

Xue Pan has indeed worked hard and studied hard, but he is actually not one of the most intelligent people, and he is even a bit dull. Even if he inherited the Xue family's talent in business, he is by no means a business genius. It's probably just that he can keep the Xue family's huge family business. It is difficult to expect him to develop and innovate.

Fortunately, Xue Pan's father's generation had developed really well, so good that even if Xue Pan is only a mediocre talent, as long as he can be honest and upright, it will not be regarded as a loss to the Xue family's reputation.

In addition, Xue Pan is not too old now, and there is always some lack of experience. Even if Aunt Xue analyzed the twists and turns here quite seriously, Xue Pan can understand it at best, and I hope he can understand it. It is delusional to draw inferences quickly.

On the other hand, Daiyu, who was obediently staying on the sidelines and studying, tilted her head, as if she had some thoughts: "Mom usually doesn't care about the affairs below. At most, a few big managers can make a big fuss to disturb Mom. Think so After all, what can be heard at Datian is always the discussion among officials, and it has to be some decent people. There are always so many people here in Jiangnan. That's right."

Daiyu's health is not good after beating a child, and with the words of the monk before her as a basis, although Aunt Xue may not believe everything, she would rather believe that she has some and she doesn't like to ask Daiyu to go out, so she is very supportive Daiyu has a quiet and elegant temperament.In addition, although she is not very sick, she will inevitably feel a little mentally ill when the seasons change, and it is not good to worry too much on weekdays. At most, she only spends her free time reading books with the female master specially invited by Aunt Xue. , and then just put Aunt Xue beside her when she was in the board of directors and taught a few words casually and unsystematically.

Probably because she was spoiled by Aunt Xue, Daiyu usually doesn't care much about economics and official career, and she is quite aloof, but it's not that she doesn't eat the fireworks of the world, on the contrary, she has a sense of insight into world affairs. , quite good at drawing inferences from one instance.

For example, this time, Aunt Xue was just analyzing the matter with Xue Pan. As usual, Daiyu stayed aside and didn't listen very carefully, but she was still able to react quickly and even find a solution from it.

There is indeed a difference between cleverness and mediocrity between people.Although Xue Pan is not a genius, but at his current age, he can barely maintain the family and business of the Xue family, and he is by no means a stupid person-but compared with the Zhong Lingyuxiu of his compatriot sister, it is inevitable that Xue Pan will let him go. It looks a little silly.

Fortunately, Xue Pan has always been a filial son and filial brother. He is really lacking in this aspect. He is only proud of his sister's Linghui. He doesn't care how he is compared. The two brothers and sisters have nothing to do with it. rift.

This time Daiyu's thoughts even reminded Aunt Xue.

The so-called Sacred Heart is unpredictable, who knows why the Holy Majesty became suspicious of the Zhen family - the Zhen family has too many things to tell, but it is difficult to distinguish the specific reason - but this time Daiyu's statement is not true. It doesn't make sense, but it's very likely that there was a gap between the Zhen family and a certain official family of similar status in the south of the Yangtze River, which attracted the attention of the Holy One.

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