The Untouchable Daiyu of the Red Chamber

Both Lin Ruhai and his wife were taken aback. The daughter is smart and transparent, they have always known it.However, Daiyu's style of doing things has always been straight, not calculating.The husband and wife always felt that the way the girl invited the daughter of the Xue family was inconsistent with the girl's usual style.

"Yu'er wants to be friends with Ms. Xue first, and then make a conversation?" Jia Min asked tentatively.It has to be said that Jia Min doesn't like this style of work even if she is a daughter-in-law.She was born in the Duke's Mansion, the Lin family is a noble family, and has always had its own arrogance.

Daiyu shook her head and said, "I don't know how to be friends with Ms. Xue, I don't match her temper. It's just that Ms. Xue wants to make progress and want to befriend our family, so I won't use a big stick to drive people away. The same rice supports all kinds of people. In the world, it is enough to have a few confidants with good temperaments. For example, my father is a minister in the Ministry of Households. Are all the officials in the Ministry of Households with good temperaments? Father will not dismiss people because of this.”

Jia Min really didn't like Baochai, but any thin-skinned girl would not be ashamed to curry favor with her family when Lin and Wang's family had already feuded.Hearing that the girl would not make friends with Xue's daughter, Jia Min felt relieved and said, "Yu'er is sure that the Wang family's shipbuilding skills are in Xue's?"

Daiyu shook her head and said, "I'm not sure, but it's a matter of little effort, just give it a try."

Jia Min said again: "Then do you want to explain that Lan'er is also Yinglian, and be a little more polite to Xue's daughter?"

Daiyu said: "No, I just fulfilled Miss Xue's wish, but I won't treat her particularly favorably. Our family doesn't need to make false claims on things we are not sure about, and we don't need to force our sisters to make friends with people they don't like. Xue The girl once offered to come to our house to play, and she was mentally prepared for various situations."

In fact, Baochai was bound to be treated coldly in order to curry favor with the Lin family, but since she came willingly, she deserved it.

Lin Ruhai listened quietly, thought carefully for a while, and said: "Actually, if Yu'er doesn't like Miss Xue, there is no need to invite her. We can also think of other ways to build ships. Besides, there are so many skilled craftsmen in Daling Dynasty. If you carefully recruit talents, you may not be unable to find shipbuilding skills comparable to those of the Wang family."

Lin Ruhai's words were to comfort Daiyu, the building of a sea-going ship is not something a skilled craftsman can figure out by relying on imagination.The reason why the Wang family's shipbuilding skills are good is that after the Wang family monopolized the sea trade, they also monopolized the building of sea ships, and they have been summed up in practice year after year.

However, Daiyu did not refute Lin Ruhai, and still looked indifferent: "I can't say that I hate or like Miss Xue. After all, Miss Xue is not related to me, and I don't plan to make friends with her. I and her are limited to It's just an acquaintance. But now that the Xue family has lost their support, they are about to be bullied. Our family is just giving their family a relatively fair environment. In fact, many times, to recruit a person, there is no need to show favor, as long as he feels It is enough to rely on you to be treated relatively fairly."

Many of the Xue family's businesses are in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also because the head of the Xue family is a visionary that he was able to escape into the capital before the Zhen family was overthrown.But the backing is down, the Xue family has only been in Beijing for two years, Mrs. Xue's brothers and sisters have all been imprisoned, and the Xue family's million-dollar fortune immediately stands in the downtown area like a child holding gold.Xue Patriarch and Xue Baochai, the only two foresighted Xue family members, both have a strong sense of crisis.Otherwise, Baochai would not be so eager to make friends with the girl from Shangshufu.

Lin Ruhai asked again: "Is Yu'er sure?"

Daiyu shook her head and said, "No, but I see Patriarch Xue is a sensible person, and most sensible people know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages."

It was originally a pleasure to ask the girls to get together, since Daiyu had her own reasons, and the worst result would be nothing but no harm, so Jia Min and his wife stopped objecting.Daiyu wrote a post separately and sent someone to send it.

Now Jia Mu is eager to welcome the spring, Tanchun and Daiyu to have more contacts.She is partial to Jia Zheng's family, but the premise is to protect her own wealth. Knowing that Wang's actions have implicated Wang Ziteng in prison, Jia's mother dare not blame Jia Amnesty for forcing Jia Zheng to reconcile.

The Zhang family recommended a law-teaching gentleman to Jia Lian, and Jia Amnesty took that gentleman to have an in-depth discussion with Jia's mother. If he hadn't reconciled before the Wang incident happened, he and Jia Zheng would be the ones going to jail now. Old lady, your imperial concubine may not be able to keep your order.What else can Jia Mu say?

Therefore, apart from still feeling sorry for Yuanchun and Baoyu, Jia's mother is very supportive of the Jia girl's relationship with Daiyu.If it weren't for Daiyu's post not to invite Baoyu, Mother Jia would have asked Baoyu to go to Lin's house together.

As for Baochai receiving the post, don't get excited again.These days the life of the Xue family is quite difficult, and several shops in the capital are almost out of business.Even in front of the gate of Xue's house, people often throw stones, rotten vegetables and leaves, and it is even more common for people to yell at them.

In a place where every inch of land is expensive in the capital, the shops of the Xue family are all the best locations left by the ancestors of the Xue family.Now that the Xue family has no support, naturally there are many people who covet it.

Don't say anything about the yamen, the bullies stepped forward to rob, just the competitors spread the news about the Wang family, and also said that Mrs. Xue was Wang Ziteng's direct sister, and hired a few rogues in front of the Xue family's pawnshop. Calling profiteers a few times, eating people's fat and people's anointing, and disregarding human lives, what will be the result?

As a result, the reputation of the Xue family plummeted, and no one cared about the shop.Even if the Xue family made up their minds to keep their ancestral property, they would lose money day by day.

Right now, only the part of the Xue family's business that is in the household department is operating normally, and all other businesses are subsidized to maintain it.But the size of the Xue family, only government procurement orders are not enough. If the consumption continues to make ends meet, the Xue family will have to reduce its business.

What's more frightening is that the prosperity of the city is naturally prosperous, but it is also a place where strength is emphasized. If you can't hold on to the industry, then it is not a place that can be stopped by shrinking a part of the scale.It's like a person being besieged by a pack of wolves. As long as he is bitten, the pack of wolves will become more vicious when they smell the blood, and they will not stop until they gnaw off the last piece of flesh and blood.

When the Xue family's property is eaten away by ordinary people, then the business scale of the Xue family will not be enough to supply the household department, and it will inevitably be erased from the imperial business in the new year's household department rating.If the Xue family still can't find a way out, they are almost in the stage of waiting for death now.

In this case, although Baochai just received a post for a boudoir banquet, it was also a life-saving straw for the Xue family.

After accepting the post, Master Xue specially chose a useful woman in charge to act as a nanny, and went to the Lin family with Baochai, accompanied by Baochai's usual maid, Ying'er.Because she was just a merchant girl, Baochai didn't want to be too ostentatious, so she didn't bring any more people with her.

Although Baochai came back to Shangshu Mansion for the second time, the girls treated her neither salty nor rude, and naturally they would not deliberately embarrass her, but it always made people feel a kind of alienation, smart and sophisticated like Baochai, It is also impossible to integrate into the circle of these real noble ladies.

How is it like in the previous life, as soon as Xue Jiafu came to Beijing, Wang and Aunt Xue arranged for the servants of the Mansion to spread the word that Baochai was better than Daiyu, and asked the dignified official lady to carry the sedan chair for a merchant woman. Later, Baochai simply relied on some Talent suppressed all the girls of the Jia family.

Being the first to steal people has its own benefits, but in this life, even if the Xue family can think of a way to steal people first, they dare not have the chance to implement it.

Originally, Baochai felt that even if his status was not as good as those of the officials, he was at least as good as Liu Xiangyu.But seeing that the three sisters of the Lin family get along with Xiangyu casually and naturally, but there is always an invisible barrier between them, I feel a little lost in my heart.

Of course, this life is no different from the previous life. The current Xue family neither has a prominent relative like Wang Ziteng, nor does he live in Rongguo Mansion and be regarded as a guest of honor by the head wife.Even for the sake of the family, Baochai has to put away her arrogance, and she will inevitably become more cautious in communication.

Daiyu even felt that from Baochai, she had seen a bit of the carefulness and care she had in her previous life.Baochai was naturally born beautiful, but she lacked a sense of self-confidence, and she lost one or two points of brilliance compared to her previous life.

The so-called small banquet is nothing more than the girls chatting and having fun together, there is nothing to describe.It's just that the time is almost up, the girls are separated, and the three sisters Daiyu send the sisters to Yimen.

After this small banquet, the life of each family returned to normal.The organizational structure of the maritime trade yamen was discussed several times in the court hall, and the team that went south to search Wang Ziteng's mansion was finally finalized.Nothing else, except that among the personnel dispatched by the Ministry of Industry, there was even a member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang Jia Zheng.

As for Jia Zheng, apart from his high self-esteem, it can be said that he has nothing to say, and this time the errand to the south is to do practical things. This personnel arrangement is quite strange.

Of course, for the Lin family father and daughter, this arrangement is easy to understand.Just as Daiyu gave Baochai a chance because the current Mrs. Xue is Wang Ziteng's only free-spirited sister-in-law;After all, it's all about shipbuilding.

Going south to handle the case of the Wang family, since it involves the maritime trade business and the shipyard, it will naturally take a long time.Moreover, before the investigation of the Jiangnan Wang family found out, the case of the Wang brothers and sisters could not be judged for the time being, so the Lin family father and daughter had a little leisure time.

When discussing matters today, Daiyu said: "When I was in Jiangnan two years ago, because I was afraid of hiring a teacher to infiltrate Zhen's family, I never hired a Mr. Zhengjing for Brother Yu. Speaking of which, Brother Yu was delayed. More than two years of schooling. Now that everything in and out of our family has been clarified, it's time to hire brother Yu a husband."

In fact, Lin You's studies were not delayed much. In the past two years, Daiyu supervised him, and his father asked for advice.It's just that Lin You is a boy, and most likely he will go to the imperial examination to become an official in the future, so it's better to hire teachers to teach systematically according to the imperial examination requirements.

Lin Ruhai nodded and said: "I have already asked Prime Minister Wen and Zhang Shilang to recommend you for this matter. Our family has only been in Beijing for a short time. After all, they are more familiar with the specific skills and conduct of famous teachers in the capital. But Prime Minister Wen also asked me if I would consider calling you brother Enrolled in Taixue as an accompanying student. I thought, I need to ask Brother Yu about this matter."

Lin You, Su Lan, and Ying Lian are also here because there is no discussion about court affairs today.Lin Youdao: "Enrolling in the Imperial Academy is naturally good. There are many well-educated men who are teachers, and they don't worry about not being able to learn real talents. However, because they are accompanied by phoenix sons and grandchildren, how restrained are they? It’s no fun to calculate that you can’t pass the phoenix’s son and grandson, and you can’t do poorly in the exam and fall into our family. Why don’t you hire a famous teacher at home, I’ll study hard for a few years, and then I’ll be admitted to the Imperial College, which is justified.”

Lin Ruhai is a minister, and there is a quota for admission to the Imperial Academy under his name. In a few years, Lin You can enter the Imperial Academy no matter what.It's just that Yin Sheng is not as good as Gong Sheng.Lin Youben is an excellent child. Although he has not hired a special teacher for the past two years, he has not fallen behind in his studies. He is even better than his peers.It is a good thing that Lin You has such ambition.

Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "I, son of the Lin family, should be like this."

Jia Min said again: "Er Yu'er went to the Peony Banquet a while ago, because our family didn't hire a husband, so he was made things difficult. Although our girls are not bad in education, but going out to socialize, you can't be underestimated. Let me say, A lady should be hired for the daughters, too."

There is another layer of cryptic meaning. Jia Min can't tell Su Lan and Yinglian in front of Su Lan and Yinglian that these two adopted daughters are almost 13 years old, and gradually they have to see each other, and the parenting rules also need to be raised. Please ask The female teacher specially taught it, after all, it sounds good, and it is more beneficial to talk about kissing.

It's not a big deal, Lin Ruhai nodded on the spot.Yinglian is delicate and naive, and she doesn't know Jia Min's deep meaning. Su Lan is smart and transparent, but she vaguely guessed something, and her earlobe turned red.

Lin You's husband was quickly found. His surname is Lu, a native of the capital, and an elderly bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.Serving a bachelor's degree was originally to lecture the emperor and the prince on the classics and history, and consult them, not to mention knowledge.

Mr. Lu was entertaining his grandchildren at home, so he didn't want to accept disciples anymore. However, after the turmoil in Jiangnan's officialdom, the youngest son who was originally kept by Mr. Lu's side was also released to Jiangnan. The grandson who was originally raised by Mr. Lu went out with his parents Let go, old Mr. Lu was suddenly lonely, and then he thought of accepting a closed disciple.

Of course, people like Mr. Lu cannot be hired with money.Lin You took the school exam twice, and after teaching a class, he tried to teach that class the next day and then passed the school exam. As expected, Lin You not only stands out in terms of knowledge among his peers, but also has a flexible mind. , able to draw inferences from one instance, and was extremely spiritual in reading, so he fell into Mr. Lu's eyes and agreed to formally accept him as a disciple.

Because Mr. Lu is already of high status and is getting old, he will not come to the Lin family to teach every day, nor will he go to the Lin family to sit in the lecture hall, so it is arranged that Lin You will go to Mr. Lu's house to attend lectures every day.Daiyu originally wanted to rub off on the knowledge of the next generation of great Confucians, but there was no other way.

A famous teacher like Mr. Lu is hard to come by.Girls from the Lin family naturally couldn't invite such a great Confucian.

But Daiyu and Su Lan's knowledge is sufficient, Yinglian is slightly inferior, but her understanding is good, and she has made up a lot in the past two years, which is enough for a girl's family.Therefore, it is very beneficial for the Lin family to hire a female teacher who teaches manners.

This is easy, all you need to do is tell Lin Qing when you enter the palace.After all, Lin Qing is also a crown princess, so she should be cautious about participating in and discussing state affairs. Isn't it easy to elect a female official who should be released from the palace?

The lady of the Lin family is a female historian released from the palace, surnamed Shen.Naturally, Mr. Shen's knowledge cannot be compared with Mr. Lu's, but Mr. Shen is very affordable. He can teach knowledge, tea art, embroidery, and palace rules.Since she came from the palace, and Mr. Shen had no relatives in the imperial capital, Daiyu ordered someone to tidy up a small courtyard for Mr. Shen to live in, and the Lin family would worship her.From then on, the Lin family's sons and daughters were considered to have official husbands.

Since the Lin family came to Beijing, Lin Ruhai has been involved in several major events and has not stopped getting involved in various fights.It wasn't until the team went south to investigate Wang Ziteng's case that the civil and military officials saw that Emperor Taizong paid more and more attention to Lin Ruhai, and Lin Ruhai's own character could not catch mistakes, and all kinds of open and hidden arrows gradually decreased.

So what if you don't stop?There are not many smart people in the world, and the imperial capital is even more hidden dragons and crouching tigers, but after several contests, no one can beat Lin Shangshu.

After the silence of all parties, the Lin family finally had a few days of quiet leisure time, which was quite relaxed and happy.But outside of the Lin family, there are many undercurrents.

As the Ghost Festival approached, the female family members of the Lin family even went to the Muni Court.The Muni Academy is quite famous in the nunnery in Beijing. The abbot of the Muni Academy was Su Lan's uncle when he was leading the practice. After Su Lan just reported Zhen Yingjia, he once gave Su Lan shelter.With this love of incense, the Lin family would often bring some alms and offer incense to the Muni courtyard.

After returning from the Muni Court, Lin Ruhai had already arrived home first.Today Lin Ruhai went to Prime Minister Wen's mansion, Daiyu thought that the two of them would have a talk and came back quite late, but her father came back first.

Seeing his wife and daughter coming back, Lin Ruhai said directly: "Yu'er, come to the study."

The Lin family was used to such situations, so they naturally knew that Lin Ruhai had some political affairs to discuss with Daiyu.Daiyu didn't delay, and went directly to the study without even changing her clothes.

After the father and daughter were seated, Lin Ruhai got straight to the point and said, "The little prince sent another letter."

"What did the little prince say in the letter?"

Lin Ruhai handed the letter directly to Daiyu, and said the contents of the letter: "The little prince said that on the first day of this month, Mrs. Cheng Engong and Mrs. Cheng Engong both entered the palace to pay their respects, and the two wives went to Changkang together. Palace, but they didn't come out together. Moreover, when Mrs. Shi came out, she had a bad face."

Daiyu laughed lightly when she heard this, and sighed in her heart about the difficulty of collecting information in this era. Situ Zhuo could only start with these details, but said in his mouth: "I said before that the opportunity to cut the military power of the Ninth Prince has come. No. Can you trust me now?"

Seeing Daiyu's confident look, Lin Ruhai couldn't help but ask, "Is Yu'er predicting things like a god or has she done something?"

Of course there is nothing to hide from her father, Daiyu smiled and said: "I didn't do anything. During the Peony Banquet, Miss Bowling's Miss Smith provoked me everywhere, first saying that I don't study, and then challenging me to limit my reading. Rhyme composes ten poems with me within a limited time, comparing the pros and cons.

Later, the little prince sent a letter to our family saying that the Ninth Prince was very sad when he entered the Changkang Palace, and that it will be fine when he comes out.At that time, we also guessed that the Ninth Prince might have decided to separate the Haimao Yamen from the household department.I had nothing to do before, so I wrote ten peony poems and sent them to Smith. "

During that time, Daiyu was helping Lin Ruhai draft the detailed rules of the maritime trade office, but she was not idle at all.Sending a letter to the Shijia girl can be said to take time out of her busy schedule to write, and it is even more unnecessary for Daiyu to write ten boudoir poems to vent her anger.But my daughter never does things aimlessly.

Lin Ruhai was taken aback for a moment, then sighed again.As for the wisdom of my daughter, I can always amaze myself.This kind of boudoir fight, which seems completely logical, can play an amazing role in Daiyu's hands. Apart from talent, Lin Ruhai doesn't know how to explain it.

The key is that when the daughter does these things, she can think of everyone in front of them, and the timing is just right.Even after playing its role, the other party may not be able to think of where he has got his way.

Lin Ruhai sighed and said: "The little prince can pass information by observing the people in Changkang Palace, and the expressions of the characters in and out. Naturally, Changkang Palace can also use this method. The conflict in the government. The girls in the boudoir are justified in not admitting defeat to each other. However, this timing is too ingenious."

When was that time? First, Lin Ruhai put together various forces coveting the sea trade business at the Great Court Meeting, and then the Lin family got the information from Situ Zhuo, and changed the plan of setting up a separate sea trade office overnight, rushing to hand it over to the Ninth Prince. imperial front.

However, Emperor Taizong was also dissatisfied with his sons and ministers regarding the sea trade matter, and deliberately blurred the key points of Lin Ruhai's plan to set up a sea trade yamen, testing the attitudes of the princes and officials.There is no need to elaborate on how terrible the wolfish ambitions of the Nine Princes were exposed at the Great Court Meeting, so it is inevitable that Emperor Taizong will be suspicious.

Changkang Palace did something, not only did not achieve the expected results, but also lost the trust of Emperor Taizong, it can be said that he lost his wife and lost his army.Then Changkang Palace will definitely resume.

All court battles, when analyzing the situation, will deduce the opponent's possible response from the perspective of the opponent.From the perspective of Changkang Palace, Lin Ruhai put forward the idea of ​​monopolizing the sea trade, maximizing the benefits is to set the sea trade office under the jurisdiction of the household department.The salt and iron franchise is also set up in this way, and there are precedents to follow. From the perspective of the Ninth Prince and Changkang Palace, it is impossible for the East Palace Department to propose Lin Ruhai's plan to set up the maritime trade office separately under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province.

Then why did Lin Ruhai propose such an impossible plan?That is his plan leaked.

If someone leaks the secret, naturally Changkang Palace and the Ninth Prince will investigate it secretly.Little Concubine Zhong is a meticulous person. Looking back, she found that she had made a plan on the front foot, and the girl from the Lin family had corresponded with the girl from the Shi family on the back foot.

Mrs. Baolinghou is also a rare and thoughtful person, and ordinary people can't figure her out. Xiangyun offended the Lin family girl at the Peony Banquet, and the Lin family girl sent a letter. Naturally, Mrs. Baolinghou wanted to investigate.

As soon as Zhang He's family delivered the letter, Mrs. Baolinghou opened it in front of Xiangyun. When she saw that it was indeed ten peony poems, she thought of Xiangyun's provocation that day and felt that it was all right, so she sent the letter to Xiangyun. Hand the letter to Xiangyun.

Mrs. Baolinghou felt that at the Peony Banquet, her daughter was crushed to death by that girl from the Lin family. If she didn't earn back her face, her own daughter would also be implicated in the future.Since it was a poetry fight, Mrs. Baolinghou didn't kick anyone out, so she asked Zhang He's family to drink tea in the guest room and wait for Xiangyun's reply.

Xiangyun was really quick at composing poems, and he finished ten peony poems in less than a stick of incense, and asked Zhang He's family to bring them back.

That's what happened, but because of Daiyu's timing, this behavior became: The Lin family sent a letter to the Shi family girl in the name of their daughter, but the Lin family's mother-in-law stayed at the Shi family for a full hour.The ghost knows what the two families exchanged, and they don't know what the historian wrote back.Immediately afterwards, the Lin family knew of Changkang Palace's plan for the sea trade yamen, and they were the first to hand over the booklet to the emperor. How could it be such a coincidence?

From the perspective of the Ninth Prince and Changkang Palace, the Marquis Bowling's Mansion is nothing but yellow mud stained crotch, which is either shit or shit.

Lin Ruhai looked at Daiyu in shock, and saw that the girl's expression was normal, as if she had done something very ordinary.If this is used on the battlefield, it is not an exaggeration to say that using soldiers is like a god.

The so-called divorce, who said that one must promise some benefits to one party or get the other party's handle?You just need to be aware of the tempers of both parties, and create a small misunderstanding at a critical moment, and it will hit you.

Making the other party and allies suspicious of each other is sometimes just a matter of lifting a finger. It depends on whether the timing and strength are clever enough.Lin Ruhai felt that her daughter taught herself a lesson today.