The Lonely Family in the Red Chamber

Tu Jingnian paid attention to the Xue family mostly because of the General Secretary. The Xue family has been in charge of the General Secretary for several generations. Who knows if their family has left behind. As a result, Jin Yiwei and the reorganized General Secretary took turns to stare at Xue. It took so long for the family to realize that Xue Jian probably did not tell his family about the Secretary of General Affairs.

This is not impossible. Xue Jian has been shrewd all his life, and he does not know what evil he has done. There are many wives and concubines in his family, but only his wife, Wang, has a son and a daughter. The daughter is just ten years old now, and the son is not young. , Thirteen or fourteen years old, but he is a mud that can't support the wall. He bullies men and women. It's blindly doting again. Anyway, in Wang's view, his son likes beauties and likes to spend money. It's nothing special. Isn't the Xue family's several million belongings not enough for his son?Therefore, Xue Pan's request is almost obedient. If Xue Pan wants the moon, she can immediately order a ladder to be made.

With such a foolish son and a muddleheaded wife, Xue Jian would not dare to tell his family about the General Secretary's affairs as long as his head was still in the water, let alone his own brother. If I tell my brother, with the power of the General Secretary and the position of the patriarch, can I still keep my house?

Therefore, even until his death, Xue Jian kept this secret. In his opinion, the millions of furniture he had accumulated over the years were enough for his children and grandchildren to squander.

Xue Jian underestimated his son's ability to spend money and make trouble.Xue Pan was originally a rapper, once he was provoked, a stone could be bought as a beautiful jade. Not long after Xue Jian's hot filial piety, he was hooked and wandered in the fireworks and willow alley, spending a lot of money on those oiran and thin horses, Competing and jealous with many dudes in Jinling.He led a group of thugs to swagger through the market all day long, and anyone who dared to charge would be beaten up immediately.

Because Xue's family was rich and powerful, Xue Wang asked the steward to follow Xue Pan to tidy up the head and tail. Xue Pan injured someone in front of him, and someone came to make amends immediately.There are even some people who deliberately lure Xue Pan to do it, and those who get money are not much different from Pengci.The steward was also very happy. Anyway, it would be beneficial for him to wipe Xue Pan’s ass. Others asked for 100 taels of decoction, and he went home and falsely reported 300 taels. He put it in his own pocket, and Xue Pan was released for a year. The manager didn't even do business, and followed Xue Pan wholeheartedly. He actually accumulated nearly ten thousand taels of property and bought a lot of good land outside. The child has also passed the days of calling slaves and servants, and he wishes that Xue Pan would fight eight times a day.

In this way, Xue Pan became more and more courageous, and now he simply beat the unlucky Feng Yuan to death.The old steward who followed behind to wipe his ass panicked. Injuring someone and killing someone are completely different concepts. One is called a fight, and the other may be called murder.

Therefore, the steward hurriedly went back to find Mrs. Xue to ventilate, and Mrs. Xue was also anxious. In all dynasties, murderers die. Sins, but how can the Xue family have these.Xue Jian is dead, even if Xue Wang is not willing to say that his son is a waste, it is indeed the case. When Xue Jian was around, even if he did not have much business means, the collusion between officials and businessmen has always been the most profitable. If a person casually changes a word on an official document, some people will lose their fortunes, and some will make a lot of money because of it.Xue Jian was in charge of the General Secretary, so he didn't know what made money and what lost money. Later, he colluded with the Zhen family, killed several competitors, swallowed the business of several big salt merchants, and made money every day. Under his management, it was booming, and the eighth family members of the Xue family's direct branch followed Xue Jian to do business, and they also had to sleep in the gold and silver nest every year.

After Xue Jian's death, the Department of General Affairs was reorganized, and all the people who had taken refuge in Xue Jian were purged, and the people who belonged to the Department of General Affairs in Xue's shop were evacuated one by one. Well-informed, everything is smooth sailing, and now he is better than the deaf and blind. In addition to the people offended by the Xue family before, the business of the Xue family has plummeted compared to before. They clamored for a change of patriarch, removed members of the business, and each found his own way.

With great difficulty, the Wang family of Xue used the power of the Wang family and the Jia family to suppress those members of the Xue family. As a result, Xue Pan beat someone to death this time, not just a penniless commoner, but a local gentry!What is a squire? In this era when the decree does not go to the countryside, and the highest only goes to the county seat, the squire is a part of the ruling power of the vast countryside. Even if Feng Yuan is also a dude and has no effective clansman, but he was beaten to death Even if it aroused public outrage, the governor of Yingtian Mansion is also in a dilemma. The Xue family is not a soft persimmon. Although Xue Jian is gone, the Xue family is also a wealthy family in Jinling, and the name of the Xue family is still on the official talisman!Therefore, Yin Tianfu Yin played a trick. While secretly calling someone to deliver a letter to the Xue family, he ordered people to arrest Xue Pan with great fanfare. The two parties reached an agreement in private, and it's okay to go private, but Xue Wangshi was an idiot. He panicked when he heard the news, and immediately took his children, packed some things casually, and ran away!

Now Xue Pan is guilty even if he is not convicted, otherwise, why would you abscond in fear of crime!The Xue family was busy dealing with the properties near Jinling. A lot of businessmen who had heard the news rushed forward and lowered the prices in various ways. As a result, the shop with hundreds of thousands may not even have a hundred thousand in the end. , only thinking of going to join his elder brothers and sisters, Jinling may not come back here, so he naturally decided to sell the property on the bright side directly.The members of the Xue family who originally planned to come to the door to inquire about their crimes, took the opportunity to seize Xue Pan's title as the patriarch, jumped up and down. You know, they also have a share of the bonuses in those shops. They sold them at such a low price. Don't even think about getting a penny in the future.

All these things that happened to the Xue family were sent up by the General Secretary. Tu Jingnian pondered for a while, Xue Pan could run away as a monk, but he couldn’t run away from the temple, so he had to see, what happened to Xue’s family, Wang’s and Jia’s What kind of reaction is it? If they are really colluding, then it will be all over by then.

Moreover, Xue Pan had a life lawsuit, so he could only turn to the Jia family and the Wang family for help. Xue Jian estimated that even if he had left behind, the Xue Wang family and Xue Pan might not know about it and kept staring at them. It doesn't make much sense, instead of that, why not put your mind on other things!

As for the idea of ​​the Xue family planning to send Jingyingxue, a senior scholar in the mountains, to the palace to be a court lady, Tu Jingnian has no curiosity about it at all. She has high self-esteem, some strong ambitions, but no corresponding strength. Such a woman, even if she is a fairy, is also a disaster. What's more, Tu Jingnian is not very interested in the so-called twelve hairpins. They are nothing more than a group of miserable women. .What's more, now that the Jia family is without the so-called virtuous concubine, there will be no troubles, and it may not end up in a white and clean situation. The so-called twelve beauties, although character determines fate, but if the Jia family does not fall, Natural destiny will change.

Tu Jingnian is currently busy with steelmaking. He comes from later generations, so he naturally knows where there are iron mines. In fact, the iron mines in China are not good. There are too many impurities, and steelmaking is very troublesome. But the current sea-going ships are not so Ability to travel across the Pacific Ocean peacefully, and go to that huge iron ore in Australia, where most of the country is almost useless. Slowly eliminated and replaced with a steel giant ship, it will naturally be able to withstand the huge wind and waves at sea and realize the initial safe colonization.

According to Tu Jingnian's plan, Tu Jingnian thought that in the future, except for A Ming, his son would be entrusted to various colonies directly, so he naturally needed to speed up the progress.

Tu Jingnian has established steel factories in both Anshan and Shanxi. They use open hearth furnaces and steam engines as power. Now the steel output is quite a lot. What we have to do now is actually to practice hands. Now we are making various agricultural tools and military equipment. !Tu Jingnian remembered a lot of material formulas, but the production capacity is too low these days, and even if there are formulas, the raw materials can't be found, so they can't be used at all. Therefore, ordinary steel has to be used first.On the contrary, stainless steel and aluminum can be produced. Even if it is directly made into tableware, it can be sold overseas to make a fortune.

Tu Jingnian was full of money, and when He Yu heard that the Supreme Emperor began to look at the list of beautiful girls and planned to choose for his son, he finally couldn't afford it, and it didn't take long for him to recover from the illness. He also complained about the troubles of the Supreme Emperor, but he didn't dare to say it. Like Tu Jingnian, the Supreme Emperor generally praised her for her perception. Tu Jingnian is still a nostalgic, and the Supreme Emperor is not a charity At that time, choose a concubine with outstanding family background and beauty for Tu Jingnian. Is it possible that I will be like the one who was deposed before, holding the title of queen for nothing, and competing with those concubines all day long? ?

He Yu also wants to be a queen in peace and stability. Anyway, she already has two sons. However, if she has never received Tu Jingnian's tenderness and consideration, maybe she can follow this standard model of a virtuous wife and choose her husband personally. The newcomer, however, first of all, she spent a long time in harmony with Tu Jingnian, and second, the palace is no different from ordinary people, the palace seems to be the most well-behaved, but in fact it is the most unruly.If Yu Shi can impeach an official for spoiling his concubine and destroying his wife, can he still manage the affairs of the harem?They can manage it, but what they are looking at is the number of the emperor's heirs and the number of people in the harem. A few immediately blamed the queen, and everyone felt that the queen was not virtuous enough.The position of queen is really not easy to take, and He Yu wants too much, so naturally he can only be aggrieved now!

Therefore, on this day, when Tu Jingnian went to the Changchun Palace as usual, He Yu pushed out a court lady named Yulu beside him.