Second Master Xue of the Red Chamber has space

Chapter 28
Xue Hong picked up what people who left home liked to hear, and the father and son chatted enthusiastically along the way.When they arrived at Xue's mansion, Mrs. Xue brought the female family members to welcome them outside the second gate. After seeing the father and son who had not seen each other for a long time, the heart that had been hanging for so many days was finally let go.

At dinner time, Xue Yi happily made an exception and had dinner with his family. Even Bao Xiang was held in Xue Wang's arms and served on the table together. During the dinner, only Aunt Liu made way, and there was no one else, the family kept talking Ladder own words.

In fact, it was said that the whole family was talking, but most of the time it was Xue Pan who was making noise.

He went out with his father, experienced some things and heard some things, all of which subverted his previous boring life. There are many things that have long been suffocated in his heart and no one has anything to say, which is about to make him sick coming.

After finally seeing his relatives, he can finally vomit freely. Isn't he talking endlessly?
At first, everyone listened to him with great interest, but it was a pity that Xue Pan's words were not exciting enough, and the story was not very fascinating.Later, when Xue Pan talked about the bandits, Xue Wang took his family members back to rest in order to avoid embarrassment. Only the three of them, father and son, were still drinking tea and chatting at night.

"Second Brother, tell me why Old Hei and the others don't always like rich people, even Uncle Bai and Aunt Hong hate rich people, aren't we from a family? We should be famous people, why don't these people like us?" ? I've been thinking about this question all the time, but I just can't figure it out. You read a lot, can you tell me why?"

Xue Hong smiled wryly, how should I explain the issue of class contradictions to you, besides, even if I explain it, do you understand?

"Hey, brother, why are you worrying about this? Is it possible that a person living in this world must be liked by everyone? Whether they like it or not, we just need to live our own lives."

Xue Pan scratched his head: "Old Hei also said the same thing. He wants me to live a good life, but I almost don't know how to live it."

Xue Hong smiled: "Didn't my brother say that I am afraid of the fate of that family? Our family is just a merchant, and our background is not very noble, but there is also a saying that 'wealth cannot last three generations' to warn us. Speaking of it The Xue family has been very rich since the grandfather's generation, and my father is capable now, so what we can do as the descendants of the Xue family is to find ways to revitalize the Xue family, brother, don't you think so?"

"Revitalize the Xue family..."

"Yeah, if it weren't for honoring our ancestors, my brother, I am a playful person by nature. Who would bother to read those hard books? My brother is now learning business from his father, isn't it also for the sake of improving skills? Although we two brothers are still young, We are fledglings, but we are boys, and sooner or later we will be masters of the family like our father, and now that my father is willing to teach my brother himself, that is a blessing that cannot be obtained, and my brother is not good enough to study hard?"

Xue Yi's education is a good opportunity for Xue Pan to reshape the three views. First, Xue Hong is afraid of trouble, and second, he explains too much, making him look like a child. It's better to kick the ball to the cheap old man. It's easy to come, anyway, Xue Pan is his own, are you afraid that he won't teach?
Xue Pan thought for a while, and felt that what his younger brother said was indeed reasonable, but he was indeed a little afraid of Xue Yi.

Xue Hong laughed again: "Brother always said that I read a lot, let me tell you about a person, I think we are businessmen, if we can do what he does, we can be regarded as worthy of the kindness of the heavenly family, and worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth." gone."

"Oh? Who?"

"Brother, have you ever heard of She Wenyi, an Huizhou merchant in the Ming Dynasty? He was poor when he was young, and later he became rich through hard work. Although he is not the richest man, he is a rich man who knows how well the world is. He knows how to give back, and has done many charitable deeds, even "set up a righteous land to support the family who don't give it, a righteous house to live in the one who has no shelter, a righteous school to teach the knowledge and scholars of the family", and later even "donated four thousand gold to surround the water mouth, He is a person of good deeds, and he is over eighty years old and his righteous deeds are not bad. Most people like this kind of rich man who knows how to do more righteous deeds. When my brother is in charge of the family in the future, he might as well learn from this She Wenyi and do more. Charitable deeds, just help a bunch of deserving people within the scope of your ability, right?"

After thinking about Xue Hong's words several times, he felt that his words were very reasonable, Xue Pan let go of his worries, and only secretly found a goal in his heart.

Because I suddenly thought of the scenery of the northern country again, the chatterbox opened again.

"Hong'er, have you ever seen the green leaves covered with snow? It's really beautiful! Let me tell you, there are..."

Xue Pan dragged Xue Hong along, nagging on and on until after the third watch.Seeing that he was in high spirits, Xue Hong didn't have the heart to interrupt him, but he couldn't hold on later, and didn't know when he fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, neither of the two brothers got up, because they were too young to stay up late.

After lunch at noon, Xue Pan wanted to chat with Xue Hong again. Xue Hong was terrified, and waved his hands again and again: "Brother, please forgive me. I have heard many of your stories, why don't you find someone to accompany you?" You chat? I think he must like your story more than anyone else, but I don’t know if you know that person.”

Xue Pan regained his spirits when he heard this: "Oh? Let me tell you who it is."

"I'm an acquaintance too, Tang Rui, the son of the Emperor Shang's Tang family."

"Tang Rui...Tang Rui..." With the name in his mouth, Xue Pan thought for a while, then shook his head, "I know there is a Tang family in the imperial business, but I really have no impression of this Tang Rui, I'm afraid I haven't seen it before."

Xue Hong wasn't surprised at all, she said in her heart that you didn't attend the Royal Businessmen's daily gatherings at all, how could you know Tang Rui?

But he himself made friends with this character by accident at a party with Feng Ziying and others.

It is true that the Tang family is an imperial merchant, and it has flourished in the past few years, and its power is evenly divided with that of the Xue family.Only Mr. Tang encountered a strong wind when he was sailing by sea, and unfortunately died. The Tang family was sparsely populated. Now only Tang Rui supports the family business.

The Tang family's current business is only concentrated in Hengchang Bank.This Hengchang bank is a national chain, and it can be regarded as the largest bank in the Qing Dynasty. Most of the other industries were changed by Tang Rui, and only this bank was conscientiously operating.

Many people said that Tang Rui was immature. Seeing that one shop after another was sold out, he might not be able to keep his family business after all.But Tang Rui retorted: Although I am young, I know myself well.With my age and ability, as long as I can do a good job at Hengchang Bank, I don't have to worry about the time when my Tang family will rise again in the future.

It was precisely because of his words that Xue Hong met him.After getting close to each other, Xue Hong discovered that this Tang Rui was not only a smart man with bright eyes, but also a lunatic with a very adventurous spirit.

Where does this madness come from?It comes from the fact that the Tang family took over a Haicao document promulgated by the imperial court in the early years.

Haicao is to move the water transport that originally took the canal waterway to the sea.

However, because the water transportation on the canal waterway involves too many conflicts of interest, and although the canal has encountered large and small silts and floods, it has not affected the transportation after all. , this is fat meat that is impossible to spit out - there is so much oily smell, wouldn't it hurt to spit it out?
Therefore, regarding the matter of Haicao, the court's attitude has always been to discuss it again.

But this document caused the Tang family to have another idea.

The old man of the Tang family is a man with great foresight.He feels that the current water transportation does more harm than good. Although the canal waterway is much safer than the seaway, the exploitation of state capital barns and gates along the way has made the water transportation a mess, and the canal waterway will eventually face floods and silts. , Waterway changes and many other issues, sooner or later the imperial court will put the sea water issue on the agenda.

With this understanding, the Tang family invested a lot of manpower and material resources in shipping.According to Mr. Tang, he hopes that the Tang family can be the pioneers of the Great Qing Haicao.

When the imperial court completely abandoned the inland water transport and thought of sea transport, they would definitely be afraid of unknown sea routes. If the Tang family could provide comprehensive, safe and normal routes to the imperial court at that time, they would definitely make great achievements. At that time, even if they can't leave their names in history, the Tang family will still receive a lot of favor from the royal family, and their embarrassing imperial business status may be improved.

With this in mind, Mr. Tang poured his whole life into HNA, and he has no regrets about taking his own life.

Tang Rui is the son of the Tang family, so he naturally inherited this adventurous bloodline.If it weren't for his young age, being the only child in the family, and no support from the female relatives, he might have gone to sea with the chart in his hand.

So this Tang Rui had already said that as long as he married a wife and had children and left roots for their old Tang family, he would go to sea to fulfill his father's last wish of opening up sea routes.

However, few people took his words seriously because he was too young, one year younger than Xue Hong.

However, it doesn't matter if Tang Rui is young, I'm afraid he, a lunatic, can chat with Xue Pan now.

In order to protect her tender eardrums and gain precious sleep time, Xue Hong wrote a post to Feng Ziying without thinking, inviting him to have a small gathering at the house.There is only one condition, if it is someone else, you can decide for yourself who to take and who not to take, and you must bring that kid Tang Rui to me.

Sure enough, Xue Pan and Tang Rui chatted together at the banquet that Xue Hong planned for.One is a runaway wild horse, and the other is a canary in a cage, but both have a heart yearning for freedom.These two don't need to be introduced, and they naturally get acquainted with each other.

After successfully dumping Xue Pan to Tang Rui, Xue Hong thought that his life had returned to cleanliness, but he was urged several times by Man Rong, the big maid beside Xue Wang's, in the early morning of the next day. Qingying, Qinghuai, Qingtong, and Qingmei's four big maids all went to battle to get him up and dress him.

Xue Hong didn't get enough sleep, and just let others play with her. When she opened her eyes in a daze, she realized that today was the birthday of Jia Mu, the old lord of the Jia family. The government has gone.

Although Jia Daishan died, the prestige of Rongning and Ningfu in the Wuxun family in the capital is still there, so Mrs. Jia's birthday was naturally very lively.Although it wasn't the whole birthday, most of Wu Xun's families in central and central Beijing were here.Several county princes' mansions who have always been friendly with Jia's mansion are no exception.

Xue Hong only felt that today's banquet in Jia's mansion was more grand than usual, and it was full of prosperity and dazzling.When the rich and powerful get together, it's fun to show off their wealth. On Mother Jia's birthday, the congratulatory gifts from the male and female guests alone will cost at least 10,000+ taels.

　Tomorrow, for the little ones who work hard, there will be an extra update~O(∩_∩)O~As for New Year’s Day...because I need to go out, so there is no extra~Imagination has no upper limit, who said Red Mansions It has to be rigid and old-fashioned, we have system space here, we have spiritual pets, house fights, and battles... I have seen so many red mansions, and it turns out that my brain is the most amazing?Keke, actually not.Thank you again for your willingness to support and pay attention to my baby, I saw your recommendation, tears in my eyes, thank you! In 2019, full firepower!This book will not be updated~ Pen Xin~ PS: The next few chapters are about Sister Bao. Those who like Sister Bao can move a small bench and grab a handful of melon seeds... ^_^
　　


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