Palace Flower as Employment [Red Mansion]

Got your own words?Tell Jia Qi to fill in the house?

Mother Jia almost died of anger!

Don't say that Jia Qi and Lin Daiyu have a very good relationship, just say that they are close, can historians compare with Lin Daiyu?The Shi family is just Jia Mu's natal family, and Jia Mu's father, brother, and nephew are gone long ago. The current Shi family and Jia Mu are just that face.On the other hand, Lin Daiyu is the granddaughter of Mother Jia!It crawled out of the belly of Jia Mu's own daughter!For Jia Mu, in this world, apart from her sons and grandchildren, Lin Daiyu is the most important thing.

Lin Daiyu had just given birth to a baby and hadn't finished confinement yet, so she told Jia Qi to fill in the house!Is this something her mother Jia would do?

If such rumors spread, what would others think of her?

More importantly, what would Jia Qi, the most promising grandson, think of her?

Jia's mother immediately grounded Shi Xiangyun, not allowing Shi Xiangyun to come to her.

As for Shi Xianglin, although Jia's mother was also annoyed by this grand-nephew, thinking that this grand-nephew caused her to have a rift with her own grandson and grandson, but looking back, Jia Qi and Lin Daiyu still treated Shi Xianglin the same way, that is, Shi Xianglin went to Lin Daiyu's side every day. She learned how to make dim sum with the women below, and she didn't see Lin Daiyu saying anything to Shi Xianglin, so Jia's mother muttered about it.

Mother Jia couldn't help calling Lin Daiyu to her, and said to her secretly: "You children are too honest. Although they were deceived by others, if they hadn't thought about it, they wouldn't have done that. kind of thing."

Mother Jia already knew what happened on the anniversary of Zhongjing Hou.

It was only her father's anniversary, and Shi Xianglin was eager to go on a blind date. For this kind of girl, Jia's mother just wanted to hehe.

And during this period of time, although Shi Xianglin learned how to make dim sum from the women below, Jia Qi still gave them instructions on many occasions.Because Jia Qi had eaten too many Western-style pastries in his previous life, although his hands-on ability was not enough, his theoretical guidance was enough.

Jia's mother was very worried. After spending a long time with Jia Qi, Shi Xianglin would seduce Jia Qi, just like she did on his father's anniversary.

Lin Daiyu said: "Old lady, this kind of thing can't be slapped. A Qi's attitude is what I rely on. A Qi doesn't care about my cousin at all. Why should I play tricks on my cousin? After all, we are relatives."

Mother Jia couldn't help but patted Lin Daiyu's hand and said, "You are a blessed man. How many men are shrewd outside, but they are confused when they get home. Seeing a woman who is obedient in front of her, she thinks she is a good person." , but I don’t know that most people have two different faces in front of others. In this regard, Brother Qi is better than his grandfather.”

Jia Daishan also had concubines, and Jia's mother was once angry with concubines.It was these concubines that made Jia Mu one of the majority of mistresses in this era.

Jia's mother never wanted to blame her daughter for the hardships she had suffered, but in the end, the Lin family turned out to be a difficult heir.

On the contrary, it was Lin Daiyu, whose husband loved her dearly and gave birth to a son early, which shows that her life has been smooth and smooth.

After Jia Baoyu quarreled with Shi Xiangyun, he went to the Chu Pavilion in Qinlou. It can be said that he was the last person in the Jia family to know the rumor, and he knew it from the women in the building.

Jia Baoyu was startled and angry, and even rushed home regardless of the approaching curfew—he bumped into a Beijing camp soldier who was watching the night, and was almost thrown into a prison. It was Jia Qi who took him from the Beijing camp captain Come over—unfortunately, when he ran into the soldiers of the Beijing camp, Jia Baoyu withered.Anyway, Jia Qi didn't know how he got along with Shi Xiangyun that night, nor what he said to Shi Xiangyun.

All Jia Qi knew was that the next day, Jia Baoyu came to bid farewell to Jia Mu in person and moved back to their original small courtyard.That is to say, from this day on, Jia Baoyu never came back home. He would come over when Jia Mu had something to do or invited him to a banquet. He usually stayed in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion. He wrote many poems and essays. For the men and women in those buildings, they are the famous amorous young masters in the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, but they are ruthlessly unwilling to go home and take a look at Shi Xiangyun, and Shi Xiangyun can't control the servants at home, and he has no way to arrest Jia Baoyu When she came back, she only had that cold courtyard in her life.

Jia Baoyu, who spent many years in Huajie and Liuxiang, was soon hollowed out, and died in the pond after a Lantern Festival lantern. It was the people in the Qinlou and Chu Pavilion who helped him take care of his funeral.

Jia Qi has no interest in the ending of Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun.In fact, after so many years, even the gossiping servants of the Jia family have lost interest in Jia Baoyu, Shi Xiangyun and the couple. Compared with Jia Baoyu, Shi Xiangyun, everyone is more concerned about the trend of western pastries in Beijing.

To be more precise, it is chocolate and cakes that set off a trend in the capital and even around the world.

The cakes are really delicious, and you can smell the aroma all over the street as soon as they come out of the pan. The expensive chocolate milk cakes and matcha cakes are only available for reservations, and the ice cream cakes are sold in limited quantities every day. This marketing strategy has actually promoted cake consumption.As long as they have some money in their pockets, they don't mind buying a dollar or two to go back and try something new, and the rich are used to sending out servants to wait in line.

Shi Xianglin's cake shop was busy from morning to night every day, earning thousands of taels of silver in the first month, and the supply exceeded demand every day. As for the cocoa beans in the warehouse of the Shanghai government, they didn't last until the Chinese New Year.

If Jia Qi hadn't bought all these cocoa beans long ago, I'm afraid their family wouldn't be able to eat chocolate and chocolate cakes. As for some products in Shi Xianglin's cake shop, they would have to stop selling them.

Just as Jia Qi estimated, Jingshi's acceptance of cakes, a novel snack, is very high. Similarly, Dawei's demand for cocoa beans has also skyrocketed.

Looking at the recent trade report, Jia Qi's headache did not ease much.

Although the trade of cocoa beans did give Western merchants an extra income, compared to the export of tea, silk, and porcelain, including the trade of cocoa beans, the imports of various high-grade wood, gemstones, and spices are not products of Western countries. In other words, those who are rich in trade are only those businessmen, and they have not benefited the people of those countries, including those workers and farmers.

But the problem is that Jia Qi is an official of Wei after all. He is the one who has achieved macro-control of foreign trade, and he can't affect the appointment of officials in those countries, just like he can't change the status quo of cotton cloth trade.

Those British people always think that their cotton cloth is the best, not only the quality is excellent, but also the price is extremely low. In addition, Jia Qi has bought cotton cloth twice, which gave the British people an illusion that their cotton cloth is in this country. There is a market in the world, and their cotton cloth cannot be bought because of trade barriers.

The British thought that this was the reason of the Wei government, so soon, the British East India Company wrote a formal official document and submitted it to the Shanghai government.

In fact, in the UK, the status of merchants is also not high. Even if the UK has a national policy that allows merchants to spend money to buy titles, this national policy only improves the status of British domestic merchants.In fact, this national policy still embarrasses the British in front of continental Europeans.

Because of this national policy, the gold content of British titles is not so high, but it also causes British businessmen to be very arrogant overseas, and it can even be said to be rampant.

No, the British East India Company sent a letter of credence to Wei, but the Shanghai government government threw the letter out without even reading it.

How dare a mere businessman submit any credentials!I just don't know what to say.

The Huzhou government felt that this overseas barbarian was worthy of being a barbarian, and he really had no manners, but he didn't know that the person in charge of the East India Company was also jumping with anger.

They think that these oriental bureaucrats are really hateful.

Then, they sent someone to find a way to come to the capital to find Jia Qi.

When Jia Qi came back from the cabinet, he was blocked on his way home by a group of overseas people with strange hair and eyes, not to mention, the few leaders were quite rude, and even looked like you were making trouble for no reason.

Jia Qi was speechless.

He directly asked the Jingying soldiers who came to maintain the law and order of the capital to throw him to Jingzhao Mansion, and asked Honglu Temple to pick him up in three days.

This time, both the capital and the British businessman were in trouble.

People in the capital felt that the people of this country called England did not understand the rules and dared to block the way of the Zhiyuan Lord. Many officials even felt that they should kill the chickens to scare the monkeys and execute these barbarians.

British businessmen think that this is called the ancient oriental civilization, and it is simply a barbarian, okay?What about human rights?What about the minimum respect?

Both sides felt that they were justified, and those British businessmen were even very unhappy when they were transferred to Honglu Temple.

The officials of Honglu Temple were almost pissed off by these stubborn barbarians.If Jia Qi hadn't stopped talking, they would have wanted to execute these guys first.

It was under such circumstances that Jia Qi met these British businessmen at Honglu Temple.

When these businessmen saw Jia Qi, they complained again and again.

After they finished speaking, Jia Qi said slowly: "I remember that the social status of British businessmen was greatly improved after Nathan Rothschild took control of the British national debt and the right to issue pounds. Britain also began to allow merchants to spend money to buy titles from that time. How many years have passed? You have forgotten your history? I remember that in the Middle Ages, Jews in England were just the king’s cows, and the king could buy whatever Reasons to impose heavy taxes on Jews and merchants, and even execute Jews. Or are you all a bunch of ignorant fakes who don’t even care about the history of their own country? Huh?”

Jia Qi's words were almost equivalent to saying; Nobility?Are you worthy?

Those British businessmen were all stupid.

They never expected that the person in front of them was so clear about their history, and even knew that the British government allowed businessmen to spend money to buy titles, a national policy that made British businessmen feel proud but made the British feel ashamed in front of the mainlanders.

These British businessmen looked at each other, and after exchanging a few glances with each other, a person stood up and said, "My lord, are you..."

"I'm Jia Qi, the former magistrate of Shanghai Prefecture. At the same time, I'm also the political counselor of this country. In terms of position, I'm equivalent to the speaker of your British House of Lords."

Speaker of the House of Lords?Isn't that the Prime Minister of the Empire?

The attitudes of these businessmen changed immediately.

"You look really young, how old are you this year?"

There was a businessman who was unwilling to believe that a young man who looked like a child would be the prime minister of this ancient country.

"19 years old." Jia Qi said plainly.

"19 years old?"

Jia Qi's return elicited exclamations.

Hearing that Jia Qi is only so young, the faces of these businessmen will inevitably be full of pain.There was a look of distrust.

Jia Qi waited for these businessmen to calm down for a while, and then said lightly: "I think you should be familiar with Nathan. If you don't understand, please treat me as another Mr. Nathan Rothschild. Although I feel more like a combination of Nathan and the Duke of Devonshire."

The British businessmen immediately fell silent.

They don't know enough about this ancient East, but they are no strangers to Nathan Rothschild.

That man is the uncrowned king of the financial world in England, and the Duke of Devonshire is an old British aristocrat.Just one of them is tough enough, let alone a combination of both.

What made these British people quiet was that the young official who claimed to be a combination of Nathan and the Duke of Devonshire in front of him seemed to know the UK very well. Naturally, they would not dare to be presumptuous about such a person.

The leading businessman named William Flower had no choice but to say that they submitted their credentials to Wei, but they were treated unfairly...

Jia Qi interrupted them impatiently: "Credit? What credence? Is a mere East India Company going to dictate the internal affairs of Wei? If it is written by your queen and approved by the cabinet , that's fine. East India Company, what is that? Or, if the tavern keeper on the street in front of you wrote to your queen, asking your queen to lower the tariff and dedicate the Tower of London as his warehouse, you British would What's your reaction? When will we, Great Wei, have to listen to your British businessmen's internal affairs?"

Jia Qi slapped the tea bowl heavily on the table in front of him.

"Listen, I don't care how arrogant you are in your own country, and how you make fun of the nobles and even the royal family in your country behind your back, but this is Wei. Or are you deliberately provoking my Wei? , the purpose is to start a war?"

Jia Qi already knew the time axis of Britain and France in this era from Castiglione.If it wasn't for the fear of the coming Opium War, if it wasn't for Wei's navy that had just started, Jia Qi would not have tolerated these British businessmen any longer.

For a moment, Jia Qi was angry.

He felt humiliated.

in case,

If Wei also had a powerful navy, and if Wei's ships were cruising in the English Channel, he wouldn't have to talk nonsense with these people at all, just go to war directly.Where does he need to be patient!

However, it is still too late, the ships of these Westerners are still wooden boats.

However, the matter of the steamship must not be delayed any longer.

Thinking of this, Jia Qi's face can already be said to be gloomy and terrifying.

These British businessmen realized that it was not good.

This land is still a feudal society, and the royal family and nobles have great power. The official in front of him even has the right to execute them.

It was only now that the British businessmen began to beg for mercy, and told Jia Qi that they just felt that Dawei didn't need their products, so they felt that there was something shady about it...

Jia Qi told them directly: "I said these words to the Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, and French, including you British, as early as a few years ago, when the capital of Shanghai was still Songjiangkou. This is determined by the culture of our country. Ordinary women from common people will not buy this kind of industrial product, which is almost a proof of their incompetence and lack of virtuousness. However, wealthy families have various grades of silk to choose from. Cotton cloth, unless it is Government procurement, otherwise no one will want it. As for government procurement, not to mention that your country does not have protection policies for your country’s textile industry, government procurement in our country has always given priority to suppliers in your own country. More Don't talk about your attitude."

Jia Qi swept across the British businessmen in front of him like a sharp knife.

These British businessmen all lowered their heads, but Jia Qi didn't think that these British businessmen would really reflect. Even if they did, it was only for profit or for their goods.

Not much speculation.

Since these merchants seemed to belittle him, Jia Qi didn't bother to talk nonsense to them.The cabinet does not know how many official duties are waiting for him.

After leaving Honglu Temple, Jia Qi sent a letter to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Pan Renmei, to understand the situation in Guangzhou. At the same time, he also pointed out in the letter that he had obtained information, and the French side also found A large amount of porcelain clay directly led to a sharp decline in the export volume of porcelain.Jia Qi hoped that Pan Renmei would pay attention to the silk trade, and that Westerners should not be allowed to visit silk workshops and not let them learn any silk-related technologies.That would harm Da Wei's interests.

On the other hand, Jia Qi also began to pay attention to the various affairs of the Donghai Navy and the Bohai Sea Navy.

Because of the Supreme Emperor, the Privy Council has no privy envoys and privy envoys.Jia Qi didn't know why the Supreme Emperor left the four seats in the Privy Council empty. If there was still time, Jia Qi would definitely not reach out, but British businessmen dared to be so rampant, which shows the national strength of the United Kingdom, or in other words, the navies of Western countries have already How far has it developed.

Jia Qi even began to worry that it would be too late for Da Wei to catch up now.

But if Wei wants to catch up, he must develop the navy. With the current size of the navy, no matter the type of weapons or the reserves, it is definitely not enough.

After two full nights of thinking, Jia Qi went to find Shaodi with a pile of documents.

The young emperor was very surprised when he learned of Jia Qi's intention: "Jia Zhiyuan, are these Westerners really so powerful?"

Jia Qi said: "Long live, wood is definitely not as hard as iron. If a wooden boat encounters kerosene, it will have to abandon the boat, but an iron boat can survive the fire. As for whether the iron boat can float , In fact, the Ministry of Industry already has a model."

"Really?"

"Wanzai want to go and have a look?"

The young emperor did not refuse.

In fact, as early as a few years ago, Dai Zi made several iron ship models under Jia Qi's request. Some of these models still have clockwork, which can drive in the water after being wound up.

These iron ship models were entrusted to Jia Qi when he went south to prepare for the construction of the Songjiangkou City Shipping Department. For this reason, Jia Qi also gave Dai Zi a big red envelope, but Jia Qi did not mention it after returning from the south. It's not easy for Azusa to ask.These models did not find a chance to hand over to Jia Qi.

Therefore, when Jia Qi arrived with the young emperor, Dai Zi was stunned for a long time before he could react.

Dai Zi never expected that these models were prepared for the young emperor.

After all, the young emperor was young, so he couldn't stop the temptation.Although these model boats can be said to be quite rudimentary in later generations, the young emperor still played with them for a long time with great interest, and even put those model boats in his bedroom.

Although there are suspicions of playing with things and losing one's mind, Jia Qi's goal has been achieved.

The young emperor finally decided to send the imperial army to Nvzhi in the name of revenge.The forbidden army has only one purpose, revenge.If there are those who are willing to surrender, that's fine. If there are those who are not willing to surrender, then they will simply be killed.After cleaning the women's straights, you can build a dock in Vladivostok and start building a large-scale navy.

The century-old trees in Daxing'an Mountains are good materials for shipbuilding.Since Dawei does not have the strength to manufacture iron boats now, it is also possible to manufacture a large number of wooden boats and win by quantity.

And the Ministry of Industry, while manufacturing fire|arms in large quantities, will also start to study iron ship technology, especially the steam engine technology.

It has to be said that the state apparatus is the state apparatus.Once the state machine starts to operate, the energy is definitely not comparable to those Zhuangzi and workshops run by Jia Qi.

The imperial court transferred the Hunan army, which was the most disobedient and most likely to cause trouble behind the scenes, first to outside the pass as a forward, then Guangdong soldiers, and then Jiangnan soldiers and the original water transport soldiers.

Especially the water transport of soldiers, it is basically for the purpose of controlling the northeast and carrying out farming.

It can be said that Wei's Vladivostok was built on the bones of straight women.