The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

Wang Guizhi saw that the housekeeper in this house was actually a little history of this place. After listening for a long time, it turned out that the mumbling was referring to me. At first, he felt that the language was inconvenient and he wanted to find another replacement. Seeing that he was old and only had an old wife And the young girl, thinking that maybe this is a place for the elderly, how can she live if she drives them out? Now that she is not short of money, she stays and asks his daughter to send a letter to Jia Zhu, so don't rush to buy someone. Two will do.The local people are very nice, but they may not be able to understand the local dialect!

He gestured to the old housekeeper, "Lead them to the place where they buy vegetables and rice."

Food is the most important thing for the people, and the Bowei Restaurant has not yet opened, and the kitchen at home is also indispensable.

The seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, all have to be bought.Now in Shanxi, where mature vinegar is so famous, I stopped them again, "Go and buy some sliced ​​noodles first!"

Taste it, the vinegar tastes good too.

Turning around, I saw Yuan Chun obediently staying in the house with his younger brothers and sisters, and ran over with distress and said, "When the cleaning is finished, Mom will take you to the street to listen to folk songs and watch big plays." Taste the famous local snacks!Keep this sentence in mind, lest Jia Zheng say that she never teaches the children well.

Yuan Chun smiled slightly, "Okay, I'll wait."

"The study is quite clean. Why don't you write a few letters to the old lady first, and your uncles will also report that they are safe."

"Okay."

Yuan Chun didn't go to the study room, and took a pen and paper to write several letters in the room. Except for Jia Mu, Jia She, etc., even Uncle Lin didn't miss it. , was appointed Tanhua, and became a doctor of Lantai Temple.

The house had already been tidied up earlier, and Jia’s mansion was full of people. When it was time to light the lamps, everything except the bathing and the reincarnation of grains was almost tidied up. There were five main houses. Jia Zheng Wang Guizhi lived in the middle. There are three children in Yuanyuan, Jia Zhu and Li Wan are on the right, and there is one room left for Mrs. Wang to discuss matters.The maids lived in the west wing, and the maids lived in the east wing.

The family ate a bowl of simple and beautiful knife-cut noodles in front of the candlelight, served with Shanxi vinegar, fried pork, and the haggis cut and Yuci sausage that Xiao Shi highly recommended.The red sausage may be made of pig blood, Wang Guizhi is not used to eating it, but the white one is soft and smooth with tendons, very delicious.

After taking turns letting the kitchen boil water for washing, they all went back to their houses to rest after being tired all day.

Wang Guizhi watched Jia Zheng fall down for a while, and then picked up a stack of papers to read silently, thinking that he was driven away from the shelves and became the head of the whole place, and he was afraid of doing something wrong, so he couldn't help saying, "Actually, it doesn't matter if you say something wrong. Yes." Anyway, it's all about the scene, as long as the leader has a correct attitude, the people below will take advantage of it, especially the officials.

Jia Zheng knew in his heart that his wife was worried about him, but he couldn't help but get angry, "What do you know, if you say something wrong or do something wrong, how will you explain to the Holy Majesty!" House!

"What are you afraid of? You only need to do one thing well. In fact, others will naturally do it."

Wang Guizhi is still not afraid of the majesty of the imperial power enough, even if she knelt down, but the emperor gave her child a name before, and now the emperor has written the words "Business is booming" to her shop, which means that he is called a saint again. Also just a mortal with a human touch.

"What's the matter?" Jia Zheng was infected by her attitude and couldn't help asking.

"Make up for the shortfall."

Wang Guizhi thought that no matter when, the officials who can make money and develop people's livelihood and management are the favorites of the poor and in power.Think about Qianlong, why he dotes on He Kun so much, not only because he speaks very nicely, and he is very good at flattering, but also he can think of Qianlong, when Qianlong wants to spend money, he can give Qianlong money at any time!

He Kun is equivalent to Qianlong's purse. Who doesn't like to carefully select a big wallet that is most suitable for him and can be taken out at any time?

Jia Zheng hissed, "I don't know yet!"

Madam understands, but he still doesn't understand!Everyone knows what he came here for!

In a place as big as Shanxi, coal, tea, salt, vinegar, leather goods, commerce, trade, farming, etc. of course have income, but there are more places to spend!There are rich counties, and there are even poor counties (don’t ask if you ask for silver, it’s considered Amitabha).

Today, he took out some records in the government annals and went through them roughly. Last year, the total amount of fire consumption, ordinary military pay, water feet, and ministry meals was 36 taels. He asked Mr. Qian and Liang that this was just a normal expense a part of!We also hope that God will bless the imperial court and never start a war, otherwise he will give priority to getting that money out quickly, no matter how much the superior apportions!

Fortunately, since he was born, he has never heard of any wars. The four kings of Nan'an, Beijing, Dongping, and Xining all stayed leisurely in Beijing.

This does not count the "lack of business monthly fees" such as public expenses, book servants, hard work, paper rice, etc. of the entire siya and the lower yamen, and another 87 taels, 870 yuan is needed here!This has exceeded the money and food collected!

In addition, there are a lot of additional expenses. For example, when he came to live in this house, he charged the repair fee. According to Zhuer, after hearing his name, many businessmen dragged him to look at the furnishings at will. Jia Zhu I was so frightened that I only said that I had no money, and everyone frankly said that I would keep the account directly, and the government would just pay it...

At the beginning, when he found out, he would get angry, and wanted to find someone to reason with, but let the master hold him down.Anyway, just persuade him not to be greedy for this money. The past is over, and his life is gone. What can you do?Bai Qi broke the body.

In this way, how to make ends meet, how to fill in the shortfall!It is impossible to take Jia Zheng's life to fill it!

Is it really going to be like what the masters said?Don't worry about how the officials recover the shortfall, in short, just send the money to the emperor?

But it is not a good thing to exploit the people too hard, more than 300 million taels!It's not a day or two, at least one or two years of exorbitant taxes will be increased!What about civilians?How could they bear it?If the time comes when they make too much of an exaggeration, and someone initiates a scene of government coercion and civil rebellion, his death will be even worse!

Alas, after looking at those expenses, it is as my brother-in-law said, it is a difficult thing to be roasted on the fire!

More than 300 million snowflake silver, how did I receive it, that is, Madam’s Zhenwei Restaurant does not deduct any costs, and receives 2000 taels in real money every day, and it will take five years to fill up the huge sum!

Wait, thinking about it this way, I feel that Madam is really amazing...Give her 20 years, maybe she can earn more than 300 million!

Thinking about it this way, maybe Madam really has an idea?If you go to the doctor in a hurry, maybe you will beat the master to death with random punches?

Jia Zheng asked again, "Does Madam have any tricks up her sleeve?"

Wang Guizhi opened his mouth to speak, "I..." But what can she do?How to lead Shanxi Province to make money?When asked about her, she still...couldn't say anything, she hid her face. In her previous life, she often saw in news reports that some officials said that they wanted to help the poor, regardless of whether the place was suitable or not, let the farmers raise sheep or pigs Or if you plant fruit trees, there will be no good end. Either you can’t support them and get plague, or you can’t sell them after planting them, and they can only rot on the branches.

If she wants to talk nonsense and harm the common people, she will not forgive herself first.

"how?"

Jia Zheng asked.

snort!

Wang Guizhi glared at him and said, "Shanren has his own tricks, but you didn't even do the investigation, just want to ask for advice, this is too cheap for you!"

"What investigation?" Jia Zheng was puzzled.

Want to send him over, Wang Guizhi has already gained experience in coaxing Jia Zheng, so he just opened his mouth, "Officials are like battlefields, why don't you know yourself and the enemy? At least you know that there are officials who are from other places like you. Locals, those are newly appointed, just like you, they are being bullied... Even the subordinates didn't make it clear, how could they listen to your decree? There are also records of how much the counties owe, but you have to check it out , What is the problem? Is it because the planted things are not successful or the development of the place is wrong. We can’t let Wang Po not sell melons but sell flowers instead, maybe it’s because of the yellowness..."

"Is there really a disaster in those places that have reported the disaster? You can gather the officials you can use to disturb your heart, so you can send them out to investigate. I heard that many counties are actually not poor, but the county officials are not as poor as those there. In order to allow the imperial court to withdraw money and take over the taxes paid by the people, the local security guards reported disasters, shortages, and so on every year.” Didn’t the prison officials in the Song Dynasty mention such a thing?

Jia Zheng listened and thought, yes, this makes sense, it's better than just rushing in with his eyes darkened.

"Yes, ma'am is right."

Right!Seeing that he was sure, Wang Guizhi spoke more and more naturally, "After the situation has been investigated, you can find those local wealthy businessmen and gentry and let them talk about how to develop the local economy! These local snakes don't know any industry better than you Can you make money? After the plan is made, let them do what you can do after you have thought about it, whether it is a shareholding, or collecting heavy taxes from them, it will be more money than the hard-working people digging in the fields, right?"

As soon as the tax was mentioned, she thought of collecting taxes for the police in the carriage, so she began to laugh.

"There is also tax collection, why can't tax be collected? Do you think this tax is collected casually? That is, it is the top ten in Shanxi who have this honor to pay taxes. At least through appearance and manners After passing the assessment in [-] aspects, such as language, conversation, knowledge, technology, etc., it will be recognized by the government and the top ten famous prostitutes will be taxed."

"Pfft... you! You are so naughty!"

Jia Zheng hugged her into his arms and scratched her armpit with his fingers, "Talk and talk and you will lose your shape!"

"Hahaha... let me go, I... I'm going to give you the Lord... Ha, I mean, you're still teasing me..." Wang Guizhi rolled and hid. After a while, his clothes were thrown all over the floor, and the two of them came together again. Messed around for a while.

Just when Wang Guizhi asked Jia Zhu to accompany him from time to time, he led Yuan Chun to watch the preparatory work progress of Bowei Hall.Of course, when I go out, I will inevitably go to places of interest, teahouses, Liuxiang theater, etc. In order not to be conspicuous, Wang Guizhi and Yuan Chun dressed up as men and walked with Jia Zhu once out of ten times.Fun is fun, fun is fun, what should be paid attention to, Wang Guizhi doesn't want Yuan Chun's reputation to be affected.

No matter what, she never let Yuan Chun go out alone, nor would she leave her outside alone, and she never brought any special stamps, let alone purse handkerchiefs with embroidered names, etc. when she went out.

Mother Jia also received the second home letter declaring that she was safe, and there was a ridiculous rumor in Taiyuan City, which was true.I heard that in order to make up for the emperor's shortfall, the newly appointed chief secretary, Mr. Jia, thought of a way to make the gangsters pay heavy taxes!

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