[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

Let your mother fart!

Such a careless perfunctory, you can't understand it when I'm an old man?Or, if you don't even care about being perfunctory, this relative doesn't want to do it?

When Wang Ziteng heard that Aunt Xue was not at Zhuangzi, his expression changed.He thought of the fear of being dominated by Aunt Xue when the two of them ran back and forth in the summer.But when the servants who watched Zhuangzi said that Aunt Xue followed Xue Pan to suppress the bandits, her face could no longer be described as livid.

Which bandit suppressor brought his old lady into battle?

The servants of the Xue family were frightened by Wang Ziteng's sudden change of face, and Wang Ziteng's official authority was enough to make the common people awe, so the servants of the Xue family shrunk their necks and leaned against the door. If you come here again, I will run away.

Wang Ziteng: "..."

After taking a few deep breaths, Wang Ziteng took his old wife away with a cold face.Wang Ziteng, who left, complained to Aunt Xue, and at the same time was thinking about how to get some money to tide over the difficulties.

In addition to adding chaos, there is no hope at all.

Knowing that someone wants to borrow money from you, it's still the kind that doesn't pay it back.You opened your mouth, and you are too embarrassed not to borrow it. It would be foolish not to hide at a time like this.

Aunt Xue didn't know what happened, but she hid.Xue Pan went to suppress the bandits, and Wang Ziteng couldn't find the culprit.It is estimated that even if Xue Pan is found, with Xue Pan's heart, he still has to ask Wang Ziteng about his promotion.

With Xue Pan's reckless temperament, he really can do it.

Outsiders are crazily rumoring that Zuo Xi is Shi Shi's concubine, even if not, Wang Ziteng and his wife have no reason to go to Shi Shi's door to ask to see Zuo Xi.

Therefore, in terms of borrowing money, the Xue family not only blocked the Wang family, but also blocked the Jia family.Especially when the Jia family didn't know that Wang Ziteng had used Yuan Chun as a cover.

Rongguo Mansion is related to the Jia family, and now it is the second room.Tanchun is a concubine's daughter, no matter how strong and capable she is, she cannot represent the second wife.Li Wan is the eldest daughter-in-law of the second house, so she can represent the second house, but will Li Wan go to Xue's house to borrow money in order to support a large family?

Will not.

Mother Jia won't do this, and Mrs. Wang is not at home.Leaving aside the female relatives, Jia Zheng and Baoyu are left.

And this guy is not this material at all.

Because of this, Mother Jia probably gave up the idea of ​​borrowing some money from Xue's family long ago.But after running away from the Xue family, there is still the Lin family.

It's just that the Lin family didn't run away, but the Lin family is poor.

Zuo Xi is so partial to Daiyu, and has read countless versions of fan novels about the Rongguo Mansion coveting the Lin family's property in modern times. Can you not tip off the news at this time?

In addition, before entering Beijing a few years ago, the Lin family took a low-key and simple script.From time to time, rumors of how much money was spent and what was sold to keep Lin Ruhai alive.Not to mention that Rongguo Mansion, which knew about the rich wealth of the Lin family earlier, believed that the Lin family was nothing but a sham. Many people in the capital probably thought so too.

But even with the poverty script, as soon as the Rongguo Mansion's incident came out, Daiyu asked someone to send 1000 taels of silver, plus a few horses of inferior materials and some rice charcoal.The things were loaded into three big carts, and Zijuan and his wife delivered them in person.

The reason why Daiyu didn't come was that Lin Ruhai had been a little unwell these few days, and she would come back after a few days when she was free.Of course, these are all excuses, mainly because Daiyu is afraid that seeing her grandmother will soften her heart.

As for Sister Feng, Zuo Xi only told Daiyu how Wang and Jia's family treated Sister Feng, but didn't say how Sister Feng paid them back.But as soon as the following incidents came out, how could Daiyu not expect that there was a shadow of Sister Feng in it.

But still the same sentence, if they hadn't abandoned Sister Feng first, how could Sister Feng have taken action against Wang Jia's family.

That's all for Sister Feng. It's the matter of welcoming the spring that makes Daiyu feel cold.

Yingchun has always been gentle and gentle, but she was submissive in her early years.A granddaughter who has been raised by her side since she was a child is treated like this. How can she, a granddaughter who has not been raised by her side for a long time, not be cold and hurt?

With Daiyu's temperament, she really doesn't want to associate with the Rongguo Mansion anymore.But I thought that I lived in Rongguo Mansion for a while, and that was her mother's natal family. Now the wind in the capital is so turbulent that the relationship will be cold immediately, but no matter how much it is, it will disappear.

Zijuan also knew how to cry when delivering things.First congratulations on the concubine of Jin in Yuanchun, and greetings to Jia Mu and the whole family, and then talking about the difficulties in the family business, but something like this happened in the house, and it happened that Zhuangzi sent a message of this year's harvest in the past two days.

Finally, I feel sorry for the old lady once again.

"...Our girl always talked about the garden when she was at home. Every time she came back from the mansion, she would always talk about the Xiaoxiang Pavilion that the old lady left for her. It was like something she loved. I heard that the second master brought the garden to the garden. I gave it to the court, and felt distressed and sad. Our master heard it, and he was full of admiration for the old lady and the second master for their determination and courage..."

Giving Yuan Chunjin a concubine with a useless provincial house is definitely a lucrative deal.

A concubine is not worth much, but a serious concubine is valuable.

Well, no matter what, the women in the harem who have not given birth to dragon heirs are still inferior to those who spread their branches and leaves for the royal family.However, the harem has always emphasized that the mother is more expensive than the son, and the son is more expensive than the mother.

Now that she is the concubine of Jin Dynasty in Yuanchun, she will have a dragon heir in the future, and her status will be higher than those of the princes born by concubines.

When Jia's mother heard what Zijuan said, she gritted her teeth and swallowed blood.

Now I am afraid that everyone thinks that they exchanged it on purpose.

Not wanting to talk about the Grand View Garden, Mother Jia turned her back and asked Zijuan, "Now that the court has started to clean up the old accounts, did the Lin family owe any silver taels to the household department in the early years?"

Zicuckoo shook her head, "Our master heard about this, so he asked someone to go to the household department to inquire. He never borrowed from the household department when he took office, and I'm afraid the old lady followed suit and borrowed some. I don't know. If it is It’s best if you don’t borrow it. If you borrow it, you must find a way to pay it back. The old lady knows about our family’s situation. The girl is ready to sell the dowry left by her wife. I didn't borrow it. Maybe God loves our girl, but I don't know."

In the early years of Kangxi, some ministers had a tight life, so Kangxi let go of the household department and allowed those ministers to borrow money temporarily.Some people are really short of money, some just want to follow the trend, and some just think that if they don't take advantage of it, they are bastards.The Lin family mostly lived in the south of the Yangtze River in the early years. In addition, the family's population was simple and the expenses were low. Maybe they thought it was troublesome, maybe they were noble, but they didn't follow this trend.At this moment, when the people next to him heard the news, because many years had passed, the original parties were either old or dead.The new generation of family members are more or less ignorant of their own situation, and they all go to the household department to see if they have borrowed money.

After getting the letter, the whole family sits together and discusses how to pay back the money.The Lin family is more at ease, as long as they continue to carry forward the poor and simple life.

With Wang Ziteng and Rongguo Mansion as the top birds, others can't do it if they don't want to.But the money that has been in his pocket for so many years has long been a part of himself, and anyone who asks to take it out will look like he is in pain and suffering from angina pectoris.

While hating these two families to death, he had to be careful about how the fourth elder brother wanted to collect the money owed to the treasury.

How to collect it?

The fourth elder brother means to come to the door to collect the money, first inform you how much money you owe, and then limit you to pay back the money in a few days.

But Brother Nine ransacked the house last time, oh no, he benefited from taking stock of the assets of Wang Jia and his family, and now his son decided to take part in it too.

In the imperial study room, all the grown-up sons except Shi Yi were called to him today, and he talked about the debt collection and asked who could take the job.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and finally took a step back in unison, revealing the fourth master who was standing there motionless.

The fourth master was in charge of the household department, so he thought it was his job. Seeing the old man asking, he was duty-bound to lead this thankless job.

Since his biological mother Concubine Min died of illness, Shisan has been raised under the name of Concubine De, and because of this, Shisan has always been close to Fourth Master, and is also the closest to Fourth Master.Seeing that such a big job fell on his fourth brother, Shisan jumped out and rolled up his sleeves to work with his fourth brother.

Master Jiu rolled his eyes, poked Old Ten with his finger, and jumped out to ask for help.

The old ten also stood up and said to his father with a silly smile, "Huang Ama is also a son."

Seeing Master Jiu jumping out, those who reacted quickly knew that with Master Jiu's unprofitable temperament, there must be a lot of trouble in collecting debts.Immediately, someone was envious.

Not to mention the obvious behavior of not wanting to touch hands just now, but to say that four elder brothers have stood up in a row, and if they jump out again, it will be too ugly to eat.

Everyone wants to be decent people, looking at the old man sitting above, no one will jump out and get involved.

So the matter of debt collection fell on the four, nine, ten, and thirteen masters.After that, the four of them went to the fourth master's house to discuss how to deal with the debt collection job after leaving the palace.

The fourth master was really worried about the treasury of the horse race, and the thirteenth really wanted to do something for his father and his fourth brother.Master Shi is listening to the yelling in the car, so he doesn't need to pay much attention to it.It's just that Master Jiu has a hand in this kind of debt collection, and the situation will definitely develop in a different direction.

No, when he arrived at Si Ye's house, Jiu Ye was still thinking about how to maximize his own interests.

The fourth master asked someone to copy a list of debts early on. At this time, it was inconvenient for four people to read a copy, so the fourth master called the eldest son Honghui in. While the four brothers were discussing debt collection, Honghui asked Copy the list of debts on the side.

Repaying debts is a matter of course.Nowadays, it is already possible to expressly imply that those who are in debt will pay back the money quickly, but those people are still stubborn.So this debt collection job may not be easy to do.

First divide the list into grades and grades, and list them carefully from identity to loan amount.

Master Jiu had some hazy thoughts in his mind, but he didn't rush out immediately.After discussing with the fourth master and the others, he took the list and left.

Master Jiu returned to his home and immediately called the accountant to tell him to count his assets and see how much money he could give.

Afterwards, they asked people to find fifty of the most clever servants and eunuchs in the mansion, he was of great use.

"The people on this list, except for these few who need to be notified by our brothers in person, the rest just ask the officials of the household department to come. Give them three days. If they take the initiative to pay back the money, there is nothing wrong with us here. Nothing to say. If the money is not returned after three days..."

Master Jiu thought of an extremely wicked idea.

People who don't pay back the money or don't pay the money can borrow money from him.He won't lend money at interest like those people, but he can't lend them money for nothing.

Take real estate title deeds or heirloom antiques as collateral, and then sign an agreement to repay the loan in installments with your salary.But this kind is only aimed at those who have titles and high positions.If someone commits a crime during this period, loses his title or dies of illness, and loses his official position, then it depends on how much he still owes.If there are too many, then some extraordinary measures must be taken.If there are too few, the house and land will be collected directly, and the heirloom antiques will be auctioned.

For those whose grandparents owed money and have no official or job in their generation, the debt must be repaid, and the father's debt should be paid by the son.Without a title and salary, the only way to call the shopkeeper of the pawnshop is to come to your door.

First appraise the family property, then buy all the assets at a low price, and finally ask that person to owe the outstanding IOUs, and try to repay the debts in this life.

You say these people may be trash?

Master Jiu shook his head, there are no useless people, it depends on how you want to use this person.

At this time, Master Jiu was thinking about Sister Feng.

That girl is a big deal.

……

The first vigorous debt collection operation of the Qing Dynasty was launched in October of this year.

Zuo Xi has been calling people to pay attention to the news in the city, and from time to time he tells Eleven how damaging Jiu Ye's tricks are.

Those honorable ministers who didn't act according to his ideas were all tormented by Master Jiu so much that they wanted to jump up and kill him.

Jiu Ye organized a debt collection propaganda team composed of fifty servants and eunuchs.When encountering those uncooperative honorable ministers, Master Jiu ordered these fifty servants and eunuchs to stand on the street outside their mansion, beating gongs and drums and shouting how much money they owed the court.

How many concubines in the family, how many sons, how many daughters.

Loudly suggested that the world should not marry with their family, lest the dowry of the girl from the family should be used to pay off the national debt of the husband’s family, and said loudly that the girl of this family has no dowry.

In short, it is how the damage is done, without talking about the morals of the rivers and lakes.

There are many censors who have impeached Lord Jiu, who is the master who dared to fight you desperately for money, a few censors really can't scare him.Today, after a few symbolic reprimands, there is no actual punishment.So Master Jiu was more open-minded.

After calling for two days, the publicity team will change to another one, and then the manager of the pawnshop will proceed to the next step.

You see, there is another way to pay back this silver.

We, Jiuyezhai, have a kind heart, and we can help you put on...

The fourth master and the thirteenth master are in a team, the ninth master and the tenth master are in a group, two fastidious ones are not as efficient as two non-particular ones, but within a month, the list of nine masters and tenth masters has been discussed. Seven seven eight eight.

The rest is that there is really no way to squeeze out half of the oil.

So the two debt collection teams exchanged names again, and Master Jiu and Master Shi continued to collect debts.The fourth master and the thirteenth master took the reorganized list and went out using the good method they had obtained from the ninth master.

It is not incomprehensible to have no money, but the future of future generations may be delayed.

What do you mean?

When will the money be returned, your son will be a scholar again, and your daughter will be drafted again.

Others can't guarantee that it's no problem to fall off the list.

As for the draft, the girls are all good girls, so how can they fail.It's just that the family owes money to the treasury, so it's not easy to praise.It's better to make a name first, when will the money be paid, and then allow the girl to marry freely.

The most frightening thing about the Qing draft is not being selected, let alone losing, but the one that is registered.

When a girl is drafted, if she is selected, she will either enter the palace or be given a marriage.If you lose the election, you can marry freely.As for the name registration, it looks good, but I don't know how to arrange it for a while, so I write down the name first and make arrangements later.But in the draft every three years, there are so many show girls, and it has been a long time, who still remembers such a named show girl.

However, after Xiunu's name was registered, she was not allowed to marry freely without getting accurate information about where she would go or stay.Some girls are delayed for a lifetime just because of this registration.

Some people offend others, they will use this method to toss their girls.There are people who are not decent, but they can't ask the emperor, and they get married privately, which is another serious crime of ransacking the family and exterminating the family.If you love your girl, you have to give in.Otherwise, it is possible that her own girl will be left as an old girl.

If you want to rely on your daughter's draft to fight for your future, it will be cut off for you.

This move is even more damaging.Therefore, as a superficial man who only knows how to look at money, Master Jiu told Fourth Master and Thirteenth Master this method.

Thinking of the empty treasury, Junggar, which has been eyeing it all the time, and several towns in this year's severe drought that are still waiting to allocate funds for disaster relief, Fourth Master can't care less about it.

Of course, if these people can return all the money on time, those things will not happen.If you obviously have money but don't pay it back, it's hard to get good shoots from bad bamboos, and the children of this family may not be good. It's a pity that their future is ruined.If it is true that he has no money to repay the national debt, his character is good, and his son really has the ability to govern the world, this kind of threat is nothing more than verbal talk.

Historically, fourth master's collection of debts has not been smooth, let alone without the help of ninth master and tenth master, these two people also teamed up with eighth master to trip up fourth master.

It made fourth master's reputation so bad, not to mention how much money was confiscated.It wasn't until the fourth master became the throne that the debtors were found out one by one by the fourth master, and they were stewed.

At this moment, no one is stumbling him, and Master Jiu and Master Shi are helping to spread hatred. By the time of the twelfth lunar month, [-]% of the debt owed by the treasury has been collected.

Except for the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, the remaining debts are the kind of crimes committed in the early years and the whole family died.

After being busy for two or three months, Master Jiu had time to go to the other courtyard to see his younger brother who is not in good health.It's just that he found that his younger brother's face has flesh, and his complexion has improved. He was really overjoyed.

Thinking of the money earned from this debt collection, and thinking about the improved health of Eleven, Master Jiu really felt that there would be no better life than now.

He didn't really come here for the money, but he was the emperor and the courtiers. His father looked down on his money, but others might not.He was worried that the tree would attract the wind and be targeted by one of his new brothers in the end.

Now he took out all his money to pay off the national debt, and then went to the household department to receive the salaries of those people on a regular and monthly basis.

The family property first came to the world and broke it into pieces, and then when doing business to earn money, he was more low-key and cautious, and he achieved his desired goal.

Moreover, anyone in the court who could be offended has offended him seven or eight times, and charges such as linking up with the party for private interests cannot be pinned on him.Moreover, he tossed himself to the point of being inhumane, but his fifth elder brother was still in full bloom. What's the matter, his fifth elder brother was still there.

Eleven poured a cup of hot tea with jujubes, longan and other things for Master Jiu, and asked about the capital with a smile.Guo Guiren and Concubine Yi couldn't leave the palace, but they would send people to visit him every few days, or ask about his health, or send some food and playthings.

Fifth master is not as busy as ninth master, but he also has a lot of errands in his hands, but he still maintains the habit of visiting other courtyards every ten days to check in.That is to say, Master Jiu has been too busy recently. Apart from sending people a few times to deliver things and delivering a few messages, this is the first time Master Jiu has come back to other courtyards in the past two or three months.

The plum blossoms in the other courtyard were in bloom. When Zuo Xi and Shi Shi went out for a walk, they broke off a few branches and put them in a vase. Tea, Master Jiu found that his brother's life is really good.

Just comfortable!

"I heard from Empress E that you are not planning to return to the palace for the New Year this year?" After taking a sip of hot tea, Master Jiu picked a piece of dried pork from the food box in front of him and asked Eleven while grinding his teeth.

During the Chinese New Year in the palace, not to mention the big rules, it is also cumbersome.Eleven's body is well maintained, but asking him to toss around with those people for a while is definitely unbearable.

Let alone eleven, even a strong-bodied person would be exhausted after tossing around.

Master Jiu thought of how exhausted he would be like a dog every year during the Chinese New Year, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with making the choice on Eleventh.In addition, the Eleventh Chief is so old, and the number of times he attends the palace banquet is pitiful, everyone acquiesced that he would not participate, and suddenly appeared at the palace banquet, and the appointment made people think of something.

Just stay outside the palace for the New Year.

"I have already made an agreement with the Xue family. During the Chinese New Year, Miaoyu and I will go to the Xue family's Zhuangzi to celebrate the New Year with them." Speaking of this, Shi Shi couldn't help but smiled at Master Jiu once and said that Aunt Xue recognized Miaoyu. do daughter thing.

Going to Xue's house for the New Year, he is the only outsider.

"I went to Jinling with Xue's family before, and I heard that Miaoyu's name was written in Xue's family tree. I thought, it's rare for their wives to fall in love with each other, so that's all."

Master Jiu twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard the words, feeling that anything related to Xue's family would lead to a very strange direction.

But this is also good, Miaoyu's background has a foothold, and it will be easier for them to promote Miaoyu in the future.

"When I entered the palace that day, I heard the couple talking about Miaoyu's marriage. So let's ask Mrs. Xue to watch it first."

Eleven nodded, thinking so too.

"Why isn't that girl from the Xue family gone?" Mentioning Miaoyu and Aunt Xue, Master Jiu couldn't help but think of Zuo Xi.Looking left and right, he couldn't find Zuo Xi's figure, so he couldn't help asking Eleven in surprise.

"I caught a cold, and I was afraid that I would overwhelm my illness, so I went to the mountain to recuperate." Speaking of Zuo Xi, on the eleventh day, I feel distressed and helpless. I have to soak in some open-air hot spring in the winter. The cold and heat will not freeze caught.

It didn't stop when it was frozen, and saw Aunt Xue and others came back years ago, and went down the mountain again.

Eleven thought that she hadn't seen her family for several months, so it didn't bother her.Good guy, he didn't restrain Zuo Xi here, Zuo Xi himself was more relaxed.

People poured a lot of water on the side of Xuejiazhuangzi, and after one night, the area was covered with thick ice.Take Miaoyu to learn ice play.

Not to mention that the two little girls fell and limped, the wind and cold that were not so severe at first became serious.

Now the man is being raised in the Xue family village at the foot of the mountain. Eleven was worried that it would be too heavy to move the man out, so he had to go to see it every day.

Master Jiu didn't know what was going on here, so he let it go after hearing what Eleven said.After talking on the phone, I left some banknotes for my brother as pocket money, and then returned to the city.

After Master Jiu left, Eleven sat for a while, seeing that it was almost time for lunch, and asked someone to pack the prepared food, so Eleven went to the gate of the other courtyard in a small sedan chair, and then changed trains at the gate. The carriage goes to Xue's house.

After Aunt Xue went there for three months, she not only set up a sacrifice field, but also recorded her daughter Miaoyu in Xue's family tree.After being complimented by those relatives in the clan, I talked about how to raise children.

After all, everyone knew what Xue Pan was like when he left Jinling.After going to the capital for a few years, he not only practiced good archery skills, but also took the martial arts exam and became an official.

Especially when Aunt Xue first returned to Jinling, Xue Pan was only a hundred households of the sixth rank. The clans were all boiling.

It's the fifth grade.

When Aunt Xue first went to the capital, she was just a widowed businessman, but when she became a mother of a sixth rank and a hundred households, Aunt Xue was very content. Now that her son has been in the court for a year, he has been promoted to a fifth rank and a thousand households If it wasn't for her nature, Aunt Xue would really be able to float far away.

Although it is not floating, the joy is hard to suppress.With a swipe of a pen, dozens of mu of land for sacrifices were purchased, and many condolences were sent to the widows and widows of the clan.

When no one was around, Aunt Xue would tell the two nuns and Miaoyu beside her that it was all thanks to their master's dream, otherwise she would have risen so fast.

Thinking of the threats she had received before, Aunt Xue felt that it was her master who had appeared underground.

The two nuns looked at each other, no one knew what was going on in their minds, but they followed Aunt Xue's words, coaxing Aunt Xue to be happy, and making Aunt Xue believe in this dream, so that she could prepare for the next Zuo Xi's dream. prepare for.

Miaoyu is not stupid, seeing that Aunt Xue is happy, she will not tell Aunt Xue what she knows.Although Zuo Xi is quite annoying, she has to turn her elbows in, doesn't she?

After finishing the work happily, seeing that the end of the year is not far away, I can't leave unless I walk on the river bed.Aunt Xue took Miaoyu back to Beijing.

Oh, the Baoqin brothers and sisters didn't come back together this time.

When she first came to the capital, it was because of the marriage between Baoqin and the Mei family.I don't want to go to the capital until I know that Mei's house has been released from Beijing.Now that I'm back in Jinling, and it's the end of the year, I can't leave my mother behind and go to the capital to wait for the Mei family to come back.

Moreover, Baoqin was frightened by Sister Feng's reconciliation, and she really didn't want to settle down with the Mei family's marriage.On the way back, she told her brother Xue Biao that Xue Biao was unwilling to wrong her sister.Now back to Jinling, the siblings stayed at home and tried their best to lobby Second Aunt Xue, so naturally they would not go to Beijing again.

"Girl, master is here. I just saw my wife, and I'm coming this way now." Yun Cheng came in with a big vase in his arms, and said to Zuo Xi with a smile.