The Rich and the Idlers of the Red Chamber

When it comes to business, Jia Amnesty naturally became serious. He squinted his eyes, tapped the table with his right index finger rhythmically, and then said: "The world is prosperous, it's all for profit, and the world is hustle and bustle, it's all for profit! Companies colluding with businessmen are nothing more than profitable, but if they find that their contributions are not proportional to their rewards, how can they get more benefits if they enforce the law fairly?"

Tu Mingyun suddenly became interested and asked, "Enhou, tell me!"

Jia She chuckled: "No matter which yamen it is, if there is no check and balance, then over time, it is certain that it will lose control. The Municipal Department has too much control, and the one who can control the Municipal Department is the Ministry of Households. The Ministry of Revenue has to manage every year There are too many things, whether they really don't know the tricks, or they have their hands in it, in short, as long as their accounts are clean, even the Ministry of Accounts can't do anything about them!"

"Enhou is saying that you want to set up an opponent for Shibosi?" Tu Mingyun naturally reacted.

Jia Amnesty nodded and said, "That's right, let's get another yamen later, um, don't care if it's anti-smuggling or what kind of yamen, they are patrolling the sea and the Yangtze River Canal anyway, and they can go directly to it if they see a merchant ship." Check, if the tax is not paid, then the ship can naturally be impounded. If the owner does not pay a fine, don't expect to get his own boat back. If the owner doesn't even want the boat, that would be even better. Let’s just auction off the merchant ships and goods, and part of the money from the auction will go to the treasury, and part of it will be the reward for the anti-smuggling government!”

"Then what if he paid taxes?" Tu Mingyun was already excited.

Jia She said with a smile: "For those who have paid the tax, that's fine. Take out the voucher, and then the anti-smuggling office will have to see whether the quantity of the goods still matches the voucher. Of course it is best to comply. If not, then on the one hand Still arrest the ship and issue a ticket, on the other hand, if this merchant ship was handled by someone from the Shi Ship Department, then we have to directly investigate it!"

Tu Mingyun clapped his palms and laughed immediately: "Wonderful! Enhou, I did not go wrong when I came to find you. This is a good idea. Well, we must prevent the anti-smuggling yamen from colluding with the Shibo Department, lest they collude with you." Fool the court!"

Jia She smiled and complimented, "Your Highness is wise!"

Tu Mingyun smiled and said: "Enhou, you still have an idea. Sure enough, the king's staff can be resigned directly, and none of them are reliable! By the way, Enhou, your family's ah Shou is also six years old after the new year." Come on!"

Jia Amnesty nodded and said, "Exactly!"

Tu Mingyun pondered for a while and asked, "I don't know what plans Enhou has? Do you want to hire a teacher, or send the child to Jia's or Zhang's family school?"

Jia Amnesty shook his head and said, "Our family normally lives outside the city. Jia's family and Zhang's family are all educated in the inner city. It is too inconvenient to go back and forth every day. To toss the child and ask someone to come back to enlighten the child later. , when he grows older, he can be sent directly to the Imperial College!"

Tu Mingyun smiled and said: "Please Xixi Enhou, what kind of people can you invite? Some people seem to be good at learning, but they may not be able to teach children! Besides, your son has grown up so old, and he doesn't have any playmates. After you grow up, it will be too late to associate with similar people!"

Jia She thought that what Tu Mingyun said was right. His own son is almost like an only child now, and the only ones who can play with him are little servants and girls. Occasionally, when he meets a relative's child, he will play with him for a while. I'm a little lonely, and I don't have much experience of learning and playing with peers, which is really not conducive to children's growth. Seeing Tu Mingyun like this, I still asked a little cautiously: "I don't know what the prince means?"

Tu Mingyun also knocked on the table, hesitated before saying: "Now there are still a few young princes in the palace school. In addition, the grandsons of the emperors and the clan's children who are about the same age have also entered the palace school to study. , the father intends to be kind and honorable, and wants to select some honorable sons to study in the palace with the prince, grandson and clan relatives. When the time comes, they will live in the palace directly, and they can come back on holidays. I don’t know what you think? "

As soon as Jia She heard about Gongxue, he immediately shook his head: "Forget it, my family, Ah Shou, was spoiled and raised, and the students in Gongxue, all the fathers are either saints or princes, no matter how bad they are, they are also princes and princesses of the clan. The son of an empty-headed Marquis, he is shorter than anyone else when he enters. I am afraid that even the ordinary companions are more confident than my son. Besides, the palace school rules are strict, and my son is only a young man. How can I be willing? Let him go in, you have to be cautious and trembling at this age, isn't that a living punishment?"

Tu Mingyun couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it. Jia She has always been thinking this way, and it hasn't changed since he was a child. Back then, Jia She was the son of Rong Guogong, and the palace had the idea of ​​letting Jia She enter the palace to be the prince's companion. As a result, Jia She She was playing and rolling around at home, wishing he could hold on to the pillar, refusing to live or die. At that time, the Duke and Mrs. Tai couldn't bear to let his grandson be wronged, so he licked his old face and entered the palace, rejecting this kindness.

Now it's the turn of Jia She's son, if someone else, even if he is reluctant to let the child suffer, he is willing to send the child in. After all, this is the grace of the saint, and the master in the palace school, which one is not full of poetry Bachelor of Books, if they can get some guidance from them, even if they don’t benefit for life, it’s almost the same. Secondly, if they have a classmate friendship with the prince’s clan, their future will be brighter!

Tu Mingyun smiled and said: "Study is not hard, you dote on children too much!"

Jia She said solemnly: "Doting is not counted. I admit that I love my child. He is only a little older. Only a worthless person wants to see his son become a dragon. I only hope that my son will be sensible in the future, so that he won't be a fool." A dandy who eats and waits to die can live a peaceful life with a filial wife and virtuous son. Others, there are no big requirements! Since he is not expected to be a marquis and a minister, and to honor his ancestors, why let him be so young at this age? happy?"

"Zi are not fish, how do you know the joy of fish?" On the one hand, Tu Mingyun lamented Jia She's pity for his son, on the other hand, he laughed at the allusion of Lao Zhuang.

Jia She said: "My lord's words are wrong. Children seem to be very sensible when they are young. Adults should feel ashamed, because they don't have enough sense of security, so they want to rely on their own efforts. To strive for a better future! What children at this age know is nothing more than how adults teach them, they just follow the gourd! If my son goes to school alone and feels lonely and has no playmates, then we will move back to the city It's not impossible for him to send him to the family school. After all, whether it's the Jia family's family school or the Zhang family's family school, they are all under the nose of us adults. Even if there are any problems, we can take care of them. If the child has been wronged, I can always help him find it. But if we go to the palace school, no matter what happens, our family can only accept our fate! Therefore, I would rather he has no future, and I don’t want him to be in the palace. What hurts where I can't see!"

Tu Mingyun heard it silently: "Enhou is really a loving father!" At Tu Mingyun's age, he already had two sons.Speaking of Gong Xue, not everyone is qualified to enter, generally either the eldest son or the first son.Otherwise, after many years since the founding of the country, the clan has become larger and larger, and everyone's children and grandchildren want to go to Saigong School, no amount of teachers can teach them!

Tu Mingyun originally had a legitimate son, but he died at the age of three. The concubine injured her body and has never conceived again. Now, Tu Mingyun's two sons are about the same age, but they are not from the same mother. Gong Xue, the two concubines who gave birth to the emperor's grandson wanted to pinch each other, which made Tu Mingyun feel a headache.Of course, it was his eldest son who entered the palace school in the end. For this reason, the side concubine who gave birth to the second son was wronged by Tu Mingyun for a while. Now that Jia She said so, Tu Mingyun Also feel a little dull.

Pulling himself together, Tu Mingyun chatted and laughed at Jia She's place for a while, and then took away the two pots of crabapple flowers from Jia She's side, and then went back.

"Oh, Jia She really said that?" After hearing Tu Mingyun's report, the sage didn't ask about the anti-smuggling yamen first, but instead focused on the part of Jia She's refusal to let his son go to palace school. asked with interest.

Seeing that the saint didn't seem to be angry, Tu Mingyun was also relatively relaxed, and exaggerated on purpose: "Isn't that right, Jia Enhou simply regarded the palace school as a scourge, he was lazy, and I heard that he refused to go to the palace that day. Is it because he hates the palace that he gets up early and goes to bed late, so he can't be free? Today is his son's turn, and it is still the same. I don't know, he is such a big man, he is so spoiled by children, and he is not afraid to treat children like this. Spoiled!"

At the same time, Dai Quan also joked: "Shang Mingjian, I heard that the maidservant heard that in the house of Lord Anle, Lord Anle is a loving father, but Mrs. Hou is a strict mother!"

The saint was amused when he heard this: "Jia She's temperament has never changed. He is a lazy person, and he is also like his own son. He even said that he would rather his son have no future. However, this is also human nature. Jia She has earned such a family fortune for his son by himself, and with his cover, his son will live happily ever after, it will not be a problem!"

While talking, the sage had a sudden whim and said, "The kid from Jia She's family, his nickname is A Shou, isn't he? I've seen him before, and he's a clever and good boy. If he gets along with Jia She in the future Generally speaking, if you just want to be a rich and idle person, I would be happy to help him!" After speaking, the saint showed a naughty smile on his face: "Well, Twelve Girls and A Shou are about the same age What!" The sage was talking about the twelve princesses, who are actually only three years old at the moment, and whose mother is Concubine Yu, who has been favored only by Concubine Zhen in recent years.

When he said this, both Dai Quan and Tu Mingyun knew it well. It seems that even if Jia She's son is really worthless in the future, the saint is willing to marry the princess for Jia She's sake. During the special period at that time, the concubine of this dynasty had no real power, and always married to noble or similar families, and the marriage of a princess was naturally a good amulet for noble families. Thinking about it this way, the saint is right Jia She's favoritism is already obvious at a glance, but whether Jia She will accept it is another matter.

Tu Mingyun grinned and said: "Father is so loving and caring, after An Lehou knows it, he must be deeply impressed by it, and he will do his best for him!"

The sage laughed and said, "I'm just talking about it. That kid, A Shou, is smart, and he might be a minister of the humerus in the future! You are not allowed to reveal these words today, do you understand?"

Tu Mingyun and Dai Quan quickly agreed, thinking that Jia She would be lucky, that his son would be successful in the future, and that he would be able to rise to the top in the court. Then he directly turned the topic back to Jia Amnesty's anti-smuggling Yamen.