The Marginal People of Jia's Family in the Red Chamber

The servants sent by Lin Ruhai to report to the Rongguo Mansion received Lin Daiyu, who heard that her father was seriously ill and was heartbroken, and was escorted by Jia Lian all the way to Yangzhou.

When Jia Lian arrived in Yangzhou, he saw that although his uncle looked sick, he was still far away from being "extremely ill" and "very ill". It seemed that his plan was about to fail.For a while, the gap was too big, and some came out on the face.

Lin Ruhai didn't bother to say anything even after seeing it.Just leave Lin Daiyu to serve the sick, and arrange Jia Lian to the guest room.From then on, Lin Ruhai made up his mind and secretly met with Jia Qiong the next day.

Jia Qiong bought a large sum of money from Lin Ruhai and sent it to King Kang, and sent a text message: "I won, and I don't want to get off the boat." This was about how they could impress the emperor with their previous bet.

Then he called the shop under his name, and secretly purchased a large number of high-grade materials for gardening, ranging from rockery and lake stones to sandalwood spices.Sure enough, in less than half a year, His Majesty announced the order to ask the concubine to visit her relatives.Jia Qiong's batch of things just came in handy.It seems that His Majesty is not unaware that Xungui's family has rotted to the extreme. Now that he has chosen an heir, he naturally has to pave the way for the heir.

Lin Ruhai has been "old and sick" and has written a letter to become an official. He is the emperor's confidant, so the emperor naturally tried to persuade him to stay. Lin Ruhai directly revealed the matter of his drunkenness. I'm sorry for Lin Ruhai, he was allowed to take a break from his position as the inspector of salt and censor, and let him go to Beijing to receive the Minister of Rites.

As for the handles and detailed information of the major wealthy families and merchants in the south of the Yangtze River that Lin Ruhai held in his hands, these things were not handed over to his successors, they were all held by Jia Qiong.

Kang Wang has already made his wife Xiao Xiao, and now it is time to marry his second concubine.The candidate proposed by King Kang was Jia Qiong's fourth sister, Jia Yushu. What has become of the Jia family talents?This is how the world sees it.

King Kang used this marriage to further show to the emperor that he has no ambitions. Jia Qiong directly talked about the marriage with the fourth sister, explaining all the twists and turns, and emphasized that nine out of ten King Kang will be the next emperor. up.Although King Kang had no legitimate sons, his concubine sons were all about the same age as Jia Yushu. From the eyes of ordinary people, they were naturally not a good match.But he is very likely to be the emperor. Jia Qiong made it very clear that the road to the deep palace is not easy, and I can't borrow much strength outside the palace. Ask Jia Yushu if she is willing?

Jia Yushu was naturally willing. She received the most orthodox education of a noble lady. Even being the emperor's concubine can bring unimaginable benefits to the family. She is also honored, so why not?

"Yushu, you are only 14 years old. The road in the deep palace is dangerous, you have to think clearly."

"Brother, I've thought about it very clearly. Could it be that if you marry another family, there won't be any fights?"

"I would like to choose a scholarly family for you who does not take concubines."

"Then, for the sake of my husband, I will go outside and bow my head to flatter other wives. Since they are all married, why not marry the best one?"

Jia Yushu is ambitious and capable, and Jia Qiong is willing to let her try.

Jia Yushu made a marriage contract with King Kang, and before they got married, His Majesty passed the throne to King Kang and became the Supreme Emperor himself.Jia Qiong's family has risen with the tide, and I don't know how many people came to visit.Even Jia Yuxian, who was married, and Zheng Jincheng, Jia Yuyan's fiancé, were harassed a lot.

Jia Qiong took his family directly to Tianlu Mountain. The mountain guards would not let anyone in to disturb the Taoist priest Qingxiu, so Jia Qiong finally found a little peace.

King Kang, ah, no, the first important thing for His Majesty to take the throne is to marry the queen.The original Concubine Kang has been named the Empress, and the Yuan Shizi has also been named the Prince Huaimin.However, the dead are dead after all. How can an emperor marry a queen and a prince marry a concubine? Jia Yushu, the successor, married into the royal family in a glorious manner.

Of course, the dowry of the new empress also opened the eyes of the clan and officials who watched the ceremony.

One month after the empress's wedding, the newly appointed Marquis of Cheng En, Jia Qiong, presented tens of millions of property to congratulate the empress on her wedding.This is a major event that everyone in the world knows, and only the courtiers know that the chaos in the Jiangnan area was also taken care of by Jia Qiong. In one fell swoop, countless salt merchants were taken over, and the control over the salt returned to His Majesty's hands.

The courtiers all sighed. At the beginning, they thought that His Majesty had a deep mind. In order to win the trust of the Supreme Emperor, they directly married a woman with no family background. Now they understand that, let alone her family background, she has so much money. , is worth marrying!It's a big deal to be a noble concubine~ So, Jia Qiong is such a rich person, how did he do it?People in the officialdom can be corrupt, Jia Qiong is an idler, where can he go to scrape land, could it be that Tao Zhugong is reincarnated?

Jia Qiong ignored all the speculations from the outside world. He is now the only Cheng Enhou, and he is already eye-catching enough. He should keep a low profile.

Although the Supreme Emperor had abdicated, he didn't want to admit that he had misjudged himself and mistook the tiger for a Persian cat. He also wanted to do something to show that he was not wrong.

In this regard, Jia Qiong supported the emperor by directly marrying Lin Ruhai's daughter as his wife.Lin Ruhai is now the minister of the Ministry of Rites. After he returned to Beijing, the Supreme Emperor arranged for an imperial doctor to take his pulse. He came to the conclusion that he had suffered from a thousand-day drunkenness, but there were some experts who would continue his life, but his life would not last long.The Supreme Emperor always felt sorry for him and regarded Lin Ruhai as his confidant.Now that Jia Qiong married Lin Ruhai's daughter directly, and then contacted Jiangnan and directly entered the hands of the new emperor, what else does the Supreme Emperor not understand?I was directly stunned.

When Lin Ruhai came to Beijing, he took Lin Daiyu to his home, broke apart the broken body and told Lin Daiyu about the key points, which directly refreshed Lin Daiyu's three views, and she must be allowed to be Mrs. Cheng Enhou in peace.

In fact, if Jia Qiong found out, Jia Qiong would tell Lin Ruhai not to worry.What he wants is stunning beauty, and he doesn't necessarily insist on a good ending, as long as someone gets married, Jia Qiong doesn't care about those who don't care.A cold beauty with no false words is also a beauty~ Lin Daiyu was already 16 years old when she got married, and she was pregnant when she was newlyweds, and the doctor said it was still twins.Lin Daiyu's body couldn't bear such a heavy burden. Once she gave birth, the mother died and the son survived, they were twins.

Jia Qiong made Lin Daiyu procrastinate for a few more days, so that the child would not bear the reputation of Kemu, and then directly named the two children Jia Ming and Lin Huang.

Lin Ruhai was originally saddened by the death of her only daughter, but seeing that Jia Qiong really kept her promise to let the Lin family have a queen, she couldn't care less about being sad and devoted all her attention to taking care of the hope of the Lin family - Lin Huang.Lin Ruhai thought it was just a big cake painted by Jia Qiong, but now that Jia Qiong quit, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to see the Lin family inheriting incense in his lifetime, Lin Ruhai only felt that he would die without regret.

Lin Ruhai only had one or two years to live. Before he died, he was very glad that Jia Qiong had gone to Yangzhou.

When the emperor and empress got married, Jia Yushu was 15 years old. He followed Jia Qiong's advice, don't rush to have a child. The emperor already has a child. what is the benefit.So when Jia Yushu took the harem into her own hands, she became pregnant at the age of 19 and gave birth to the ninth prince.

As long as your Majesty has a son, the son will be useless. Don't be brainwashed by those dramas in the Qing Dynasty. In the orthodox Han civilization, the son is the most honorable.For example, Ziqi and Zishou are siblings of the same mother, the elder brother is the concubine, and the younger brother is the concubine, just because their mother was still a concubine when she gave birth to Ziqi, and she was a wife when she gave birth to son Shou. Because of this, the younger brother's son Shou was inherited. throne.It can be seen from this that there is a difference between the concubine and the concubine.

In just two years, Jia Qiong completed the process of marrying a wife, having a son, the death of his wife, and the succession of his son, and his inexplicably restless heart finally settled down.

Seeing Jia Qiong regain the peace of the past, the elders such as Jia Jing, and the friends such as Lu Lutong breathed a sigh of relief.Lu Tong came to visit Jia Qiong in Chengenhou's mansion, and even sighed: "Qion San'er, you are normal. A few days ago, I was so scared that I didn't dare to approach you."

"What's wrong with me?" Jia Qiong vaguely knew that his mentality was wrong at the time.

"What do you think!" Lu Tong gave him a big white eye and said: "The whole person is inexplicably anxious, stubborn, and irritable, feeling disheartened, and wanting to drag everyone to be buried with him. What's wrong with you? ? Are you coming out now? Would you like to talk to me?"

"There's nothing I can't say. It's just that I have always believed in something as a god, and I found it to be nothing more than that." Jia Qiong's previous lives were too far away from the main plot. "Crimson Pearl Fairy" has always been the dream of all men, but you It turns out that being an offshoot of Jia's mansion doesn't have absolute power like being an emperor, and unlike being an elder of Jia's mansion, there are moral and senior constraints. Just such an ordinary offshoot of Jia's mansion can control the fate of the former fairy.

Years of obsession, in the end, easily obtained, and found, but that's all.Not as graceful as the Queen, not as smart as Mrs. Ge, not as free and easy as the hermit's wife... Jia Qiong knew that he was picking faults, no matter how Sister Lin was portrayed, she is just a teenager now.But Jia Qiong just couldn't help being disappointed. You have been looking forward to the New Year's Eve dinner for a whole year, but the taste is not as good as home-cooked food.

This is Jia Qiong's problem, and he also realized it, but at that time he walked into a magic barrier and couldn't turn around for a while.

Jia Qiong realized that she felt sorry for Lin Daiyu, the Crimson Pearl Fairy in this plane was totally a victim of his innocence.

"How old are you, and you are still bewitched by such a boring thing, what a waste!" Lu Tong said coolly from the side, "Why don't you hug your two sons with very different faces. By the way, twins don't both Are they similar? Why are your two sons not alike at all?"

"One is like me and the other is like their mother, isn't it just right?" Jia Qiong smiled.

Since then, I have kept my two children by my side to raise them, and truly fulfilled the responsibility of being a father.Of course, he also asked the two children to take care of the Ninth Prince, who is four years younger than them. Feelings must be cultivated from an early age~ Time flies by, and Jia Qiong, who has realized it, will not naively insist on confession in political affairs Take a look at your achievements and leave a name.In this way, the relationship between him and the emperor became more and more harmonious.

The emperor was very satisfied with the empress, who was capable and able to have sons, and her family would not interfere in the government; he was even more satisfied with Jia Qiong, who did more work than anyone else, but never asked him for payment.For this reason, after the queen mother left, he deliberately raised Jia Qiong's title to Duke. You must know that Cheng Engong was granted to the queen mother's natal family.

Hehe, Jia Qiong knew that the emperor's thoughts would definitely confuse him. Is the cabinet that is exhausted every day just a decoration?Just because they are doing daily affairs, is it really okay to ignore them when you take your salary?Besides, Jia Qiong is not without remuneration, he has money and a title, because he often helps the emperor handle affairs, and he also has rights. Often, although the master is not in the arena, there are legends everywhere in the arena.I don't see those officials flattering him more than the Prime Minister.

On this day, the emperor, Jia Qiong and several important officials were discussing matters in the Lizheng Hall. Suddenly, Fu Er, a young eunuch in the Queen's Palace, said a few words to Jia Qiong.Jia Qiong is the only one who dares to do such a thing in front of the emperor.

After hearing this, Jia Qiong smashed the teacup with a "snap".

"Huaijin, what's the matter?" the emperor asked in surprise, Huaijin was the name given by Jia Jing when Jia Qiong became an adult, and several ministers also looked at Jia Qiong blankly.

"Speak!" Jia Qiong pointed at the little eunuch.

The little eunuch was young, and he clearly explained the ins and outs of the matter in a crisp voice: "Return to Your Majesty, just now your Majesty received a letter from His Highness the Crown Prince, the son of Duke Cheng En, and the Marquis of Jingning. The three met a salt merchant Doufu in the south of the Yangtze River. Now that there is a severe drought in the Northwest and there is no harvest, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very worried, but seeing the salt merchants taxing them with gold leaves and the trees decorated with silk brocade, he stepped forward to ask them why they don’t follow the example of Cheng Engong’s Tzu Chi Association and donate to the victims of the disaster in the Northwest. The businessman replied: "You can use my money as you like. You meddle in other things, even the emperor can't control me." His Royal Highness did not disclose his identity, but this salt merchant is also famous , there is another salt merchant next to him and said: "Anyway, your money is not legitimate. You haven't done anything like smuggling salt, raising salt prices, and squeezing river workers. It's better to spend money to eliminate disasters and treat it as good deeds." That salt Shang replied: "I have a strong background, which is the greatest virtue. You can't control me!""

"Hmph!" Jia Qiong snorted coldly.

The little eunuch continued: "His Royal Highness saw someone speaking out of righteousness, and he also felt that not all salt merchants were unkind for the rich. I didn't think about it, but within ten days, the salt merchant who spoke out was run out of bankruptcy by the so-called Salt Gang. The reason for the Salt Gang It is: not seeking profit for the salt merchant, but speaking for outsiders, inviting fame and rebellion. Prince Cheng En was enraged, so he wanted to discuss with the salt merchant, fortunately, His Highness the Crown Prince and Marquis Jingning persuaded him."

Jia Qiong waved the little eunuch back, and said bitterly: "Your Majesty, look, this is our salt merchant. You gave up a few layers of profits back then. You didn't ask them to be as clean as water, but just let them sell salt at a low price. It's better now , raised a large group of moths, and sold salt at a low price, how could they accumulate so much wealth, and play such tricks as water and gold leaves!"

"Mr. Cheng'en's words are wrong. There are good salt merchants and bad ones, and you can't overturn a boatload of people with one pole. Merchants are chasing profit, ignorant and fearless, and the court should guide them well." It was one of the cabinet members who spoke.

Jia Qiong squinted at him. He had a daughter of a big salt merchant as a concubine, and he collected a lot of money from the salt merchant every year, but it was quite hidden, and the emperor only found out about it recently.

"Hmph! I don't care about them on weekdays, but those brats are going to push their noses in the face. If they dare to bully my son and nephew, the salt merchant must go bankrupt!" Jia Qiong hammered the table.

"Huaijin, what's the point of getting angry at the table? If you don't want to be angry, I'll leave the salt business to you." The emperor said decisively.

"Your Majesty!" A few ministers wanted to say something, but His Majesty waved his hand and said, "I'm tired, so let's all step down, and Cheng Engong will stay here."

When the ministers all filed out, Jia Qiong put down his angry face, sipped tea quietly and said, "Have my acting skills improved?"

"It's enough to bluff people." The emperor laughed. They had already arranged for the rectification of the salt merchants, but they just couldn't find the right time.Now let the prince go to the south of the Yangtze River for a while, which not only educates the prince, but also finds a breakthrough, which kills two birds with one stone.

"That's right, I've taken the blame. Your Majesty has a good plan." Jia Qiong squinted at the emperor.

"It's my fault, how can I compensate you? The pear blossoms in the palace have been white for 50 years, and a piece of fine jade was tributed from Yunnan. I asked the craftsman to carve two jade flutes, and made two jade pendants from the leftovers. I will give you a share. How about it?" ?” The emperor joked that these years, his relationship with Jia Qiong was extremely close like a confidant, like a father and brother.

"One pot of wine and two pieces of jade will send me away. What I'm doing is to promote the promotion of cheap salt across the country. You are not guilty!" Jia Qiong said dissatisfied.

"Then what do you say?"

"I want Master Ji from the imperial dining room!" Jia Qiong said.

"No! You're getting more and more lazy now. I called you, but you didn't enter the palace. You didn't enter the palace because of Master Ji's craftsmanship. I rely on Master Ji to hang you, and I can't give it to you."

"Stingy ghost!" Jia Qiong muttered, pushing away the teacup in front of him, "I don't want to drink tea anymore, give me some wine, while the three debt collectors are away. Otherwise, when they come back, I will have to hold father Yan's fairy She's on the shelf."

"Go, serve wine to Duke Cheng En." The emperor ordered the chief executive who had been standing behind him all the time.

Jia Qiong had a good capacity for alcohol, and in front of his friends, he soon became so drunk that the emperor moved him to the side hall himself.Looking at Yuyan under the flickering lights, I sighed in my heart. She is already in her 30s, and she is still as attractive as Yulang, who was famous in the capital.

"Waiting for the salt merchant, waiting for the salt merchant..." The emperor murmured, "Huaijin, I'm here to protect you, don't blame me..."

When the emperor left, he ordered the palace servants to take good care of Jia Qiong. Jia Qiong did not stay in the palace once or twice.

The ministers at the Lizheng Hall that day quickly spread the news that Cheng Engong Jia Qiong threatened to destroy the salt merchants because his son was bullied.According to the rumors, His Royal Highness and His Majesty did not appear on the stage at all, and all the pressure was concentrated on Prince Cheng En and Marquis Jingning, both of whom were Jia Qiong's sons.

Jia Qiong didn't care about the disturbance from the outside world, and just immersed himself in his own business.

The prince and Jia Qiong's two sons will soon return from Jiangnan. Jia Qiong is about to make a big move, and he is worried that they are in danger.After the crown prince came back, after the ceremony, the first thing he did was to come to Cheng'en Gong's mansion to apologize.

The teenage prince, full of youth and in full bloom, said with red eyes: "Uncle, did I cause trouble for you? Those villains are afraid of angering the emperor. They are obviously things that I do, so they push them away." On Brother Ming and Brother Huang, I just want to use this to hit you."

"Since the prince knows, why is he still so reckless!" Jia Qiong said with a smile on the tip of his nose.

"Uncle, I was wrong. I will definitely think twice before acting in the future, and I won't cause trouble for you."

"It's better not to cause trouble for your father."

"I won't cause trouble for my father anymore." The crown prince nodded and asked, "Uncle, is this difficult? Is there anything I can do?"

"It's difficult, but..." Jia Qiong wanted to say that it was all planned, but seeing the sincere little face of the prince, he couldn't say it, so he changed his words: "But this time uncle can do it, as long as the prince can do it well. Just watch and learn something from it, that's all."

"Well, I must study hard." The prince nodded vigorously.

It is related to the safety of the country's salt, everyone is waiting for Jia Qiong's actions, and pays close attention to the Cheng'en Gong Mansion. Unexpectedly, Jia Qiong didn't go around, contacting and ordering; I lived my life, except for the Mid-Autumn Festival, I took my old mother to Tianlu Mountain for a trip.Jia Jing has gone, and today's Tianlu Mountain is just a beautiful place.

Half a year later, everyone thought that when Jia Qiong quit, the whole country issued a decree to set the sales price of salt. If it exceeded this price, it would be punished as "price gouging".

Using administrative orders to standardize the natural effect is remarkable, but the big salt merchants united and did not cooperate. Where did Jia Qiong go to find so much salt?Everyone was waiting to see Jia Qiong's joke.

Unexpectedly, there is a steady supply of salt. At the beginning, it would cause people to loot it. Now that it has been bought for a year and a half, the salt in Jia Qiong's hand has not yet been out of stock.Not only the ministers of the DPRK and China looked sideways, but even the salt merchants were helpless.

Those salt merchants with small plans are still waiting for Jia Qiong to make a wave, and they have already prepared the steps for Jia Qiong, just waiting for Jia Qiong to hand over the olive branch.I didn't expect Jia Qiong's ambition to be so big, this is the rhythm of directly killing all the salt merchants!

After selling cheap table salt for so long, those salt merchants who paid high prices for salt and weighed down their entire net worth became flustered.With the depreciation of salt, what they hold in their hands is not "white gold" that can be negotiated with the court, but an ordinary commodity of ten cents a catty.

It is too late for the salt merchants to sell the salt with tears in their eyes, and all of them lost their money.

Until now, the source of the salt in Jia Qiong's hands has only been exposed. Jia Qiong found the salt lake in Xinjiang, and vigorously purchased the saline-alkali land in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shanxi and other places, vigorously developed the salt farm, improved the salt-making process, and fully implemented the sun-dried salt method , Abandoned the method of boiling salt that was too labor-intensive and materially resource-intensive.

All of a sudden, the salt production increased sharply. I heard from those who participated in it that in Xinjiang, roads are built with salt, and now salt is not uncommon at all. The situation where salt is as expensive as gold is gone forever.

Jia Qiong caused all the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River to go bankrupt, and the business was difficult to sustain; Make Division' two specialized agencies in charge of salt affairs.Corrupt officials frequently appear in the salt transportation management organization, and the strange situation that officials from the DPRK and China have to sharpen their heads and transfer to the salt transportation organization has become history for a while.

Since then, Jia Qiong has become even more famous!