The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Thanks to Situ Pan's help, Jia Cong invited two imperial doctors from the imperial hospital: one surnamed Hou, who was very good at treating pregnant women; the other surnamed Qi, who was a master in obstetrics.He also invited four midwives and four medical girls. Qin Sangu helped him find some useful medicinal materials, and a group of people went to Ping'an Prefecture.

Before setting off, Jia Cong gave each of them a generous gift, and said that he would thank them again when he came back.Along the way, he was quite polite to everyone, playing emotional cards when he had nothing to do, and talking about some chicken soup for the soul, which made the midwives and medical girls melancholy and moved.He also took the opportunity to propose, "I heard that Western doctors cut open the abdomen of women with dystocia, took out the fetus, and then used steel needles to guide catgut to suture the abdomen. The mother was safe and sound." The two imperial doctors were very interested and asked repeatedly.Jia Cong had never been married in his previous life, and he was a man of engineering, so his understanding of modern medicine was limited to common sense.But some common sense is hard to come by in this day and age.Such as penicillin.Penicillium can be naturally produced from paste, orange peel, etc., but it cannot be purified at present; telling doctors that this substance can be used to heal wounds and even treat tuberculosis can be somewhat beneficial to the development of medicine.The two imperial doctors listened to many of his words along the way, and they were all very interested.

It was noon when we arrived at Gao's house.Because of the news from the flying horse, Gao Li led his three sons out to greet him.

Jia Cong hurriedly jumped off the horse and cupped his fists with a smile on his face, "I'm really sorry for disturbing my cousin and my cousins ​​having lunch."

Gao Li also smiled and said: "My nephew came just in time, and the reception banquet has been prepared."

Jia Cong let out a "ah", grabbed his sleeve recklessly and said, "I haven't seen my sister since I went south, my nephew wants to take a look first, okay?"

Gao Mang said: "I know your temperament, your sister is in the Yimen."

Jia Cong was startled: "Isn't she pregnant? Why is she running around?"

Later, the doctor said: "Sister Ling is pregnant for less than three months. Since she is usually in good health, some actions will not hinder her."

Jia Cong giggled a few times: "After all, every other row is like a mountain."

Gao Hua jokingly said: "It's a good thing you are a brother-in-law, otherwise the third child might not be jealous."

Jia Cong said with emotion: "Second cousin doesn't know. I lost my mother when I was two years old, and my father doesn't care about anything. My sister made all the clothes, shoes and socks for me. It's true that my elder sister is like my mother."

Gao Ying said: "Sure enough, it's the same as what our old lady guessed!" Nai and Gao Hua looked at each other.

Jia Cong said: "My aunt is so old, she has eaten more salt than we have eaten rice, so naturally she has seen everything." Everyone smiled and went in after greeting.

Just saw Yimen, Jia Yingchun was standing with a smile in a cloak of Fuchsia Qiu, describing it as usual.Jia Cong said "wow": "Sister, you are still so beautiful!"

When Yingchun said it, he immediately smiled and opened his eyebrows: "You're being silly again!" The siblings joined hands, and Yingchun caressed his head and neck and sighed, "It's dark, and it's also thin."

Jia Cong said: "Sister, I'm already dark. Wouldn't it be great if the fat man lost weight? Brother Huan can hardly sit still."

Yingchun pinched his ear.

Jia Cong said "Oops" twice, turned his head and saw Gao Mang, and looked over with gratitude: He took good care of his sister!

When they got there, Gao Li hosted a banquet for them and the group, during which they talked about various things these days.Gao Li sighed: "Cong'er, it is true what you said back then, once the late emperor left, the kings would tear down the world."

Jia Cong said: "That's fine, if the Supreme Emperor lives on for a day, the kings will be like a sharp knife hanging above their heads, and they dare not make any big moves."

Gao Li asked in a low voice, "Where did the Supreme Emperor go?"

Jia Cong said, "I have to ask King Xian about this. Oh, King Yan."

Gao Li was stunned for a moment, and said "Oops": "It turned out to be him! It's a strange way, he knows the basics, how can it be so easy for others."

Jia Cong sighed: "He has no other choice. The Supreme Emperor has been on guard against him for several years. With such a suspicious temperament, the bird has already hidden the good bow, and the cunning rabbit is not dead. The running dog cooks first, and he will be killed sooner or later. The wise king You're not stupid, if you don't do it in advance, you're waiting to die?"

Gao Li nodded, shook his head again, and drank a large bowl of wine generously.

Jia Cong asked again: "Cousin, it's cold now, how are South American potatoes growing in Ping'an Prefecture?"

Gao Li was overjoyed and stretched out his thumb: "It's really easy to plant high-yielding plants in any place! The best thing is not to be afraid of the cold! Great, great! Cong'er, you have helped me a lot in Ping'an Prefecture! "

Jia Cong said with a smile: "This plant was transplanted by Westerners from South America more than [-] years ago. The climate in the West is cold, and there have been famines for thousands of years, so this plant finally stopped. We can only grow this plant in cold weather in the south. , you are very useful here. Speaking of which, there is something I want to discuss with my cousin."

Gao Li hurriedly asked what was the matter.

Jia Cong said: "Cousin, we have tested an excellent method of sun-drying salt. I want to discuss with my cousin that when our method is tested properly in the future and we can produce a large amount of low-priced good salt, Pingan Prefecture will Do not catch private salt."

Gao Li was surprised: "The salt class is extremely important!"

Jia Cong said: "Salt class is important. There are two things. First, the amount of salt is limited; second, there is a lot of money for salt class. Now we have a way to dry a lot of salt—our place is an island, and the weather is still hot; and This method will also be introduced to the coastal kings, even if the princes are not in the coastal area, they can go to the coastal area to buy salt drying workshops. Therefore, the amount of salt is not a problem."

Gao Li nodded.

"As for money, it's not a problem. Cousin, since you don't catch illegal salt in Ping'an Prefecture, the profit is that the underworld will lead the way! It will take less than a month for the world to know about it. You need to know that salt merchants and salt dealers are the richest in the world. They know that you don’t catch illegal salt here, and the salt here is plentiful, good and cheap, so naturally they come here one after another. They come to eat, to stay in a store, to go to a brothel, to go to a casino, and to buy some good things Go back and honor your parents and coax your children. These are all your taxes! Much more money than the salt class!"

Gao Li couldn't help shouting: "Gao Ming!"

Jia Cong grinned, and then said: "Besides, Ping'an Prefecture is only seven or eight days away from the capital, and it only takes about ten days to walk slowly. It is very convenient to transport things. These days when Beijing and China are in chaos, our family I got a lot of bargains. There are also seafood, which are not as easy to sell in Beijing as they used to be. My cousin can run two commercial streets, one for seafood and one for land."

Gao Li became more interested, and moved closer: "Please explain clearly!"

Jia Cong dipped his finger in the wine and drew a picture on the table, saying: "Choose two adjacent streets, one full of seafood shops, and the other full of antique jade, gold, and other valuables shops. Soldiers patrol day and night, absolutely not allowing thieves to come here. When the salt merchants come to Ping'an Prefecture to sell salt, they will inevitably go to the market. People ask, "Master, is there anything interesting in your city?" The uncle said, "Guest officer, are you a foreigner? Come to us, if you haven't visited the Haihuo Street and Luhuo Street, you have never been here!" "Uncle, where is the Haihuo Street and Luhuo Street? What's there?" "He said it vividly, and the Gao brothers who were listening laughed.

Jia Cong said: "These shops can be filled at first by us alone. Uncle, don't worry, the price is right and cost-effective to keep the goods. There will be more people buying in the future, and the shop will naturally prosper. At that time, the shop will be transferred. It’s a lot of money to go out. There are good things and they are cheap, so you’re afraid that the rich won’t buy them?” Seeing Gao Li’s eyes getting brighter, he continued, “The street next door can still be a street for foodies. They go to eat when they’re tired from shopping, and then buy after they’re done eating! There’s a kiln at most three streets away, so after a night’s sleep, they can continue shopping tomorrow!”

Gao Li laughed out loud!Lian Zan: "You really have a history, kid! It's hard to understand where you came from!"

"If you have money, you can buy Jia Ge and war horses. Since Ping'an Prefecture has potatoes, which are cheap, and cheap things are cheap, you don't have to worry about whether you can't support people. If you have Jia Ge, horses and people, everything is easy to do. "

Gao Li clapped his hands and said, "Good!"

"One more thing is extremely important. Don't ask where the things you buy and sell come from."

Gao Li thought for a while and said, "But there are stolen goods?"

Jia Cong nodded: "In addition to stolen goods, there are also smuggled goods. I have to trouble my cousin to help them clean up and get a serious document, which can ensure that Ping'an Prefecture is safer than other places."

Gao Li said: "I understand that you can profit from selling stolen goods, but where does safety come from?"

Jia Cong said with a smile: "How many of the lords, lords, and even the mother's house of the harem are clean? They will come to sell the stolen goods. Those two commercial streets will not only be the cornucopia of the cousin, but also the cornucopia of the princes. Who dares to do it casually?" You smashed everyone's cornucopia? Besides, Ping'an Prefecture is not big. It is not big, lush, and valuable. The future will be like a war. You must know that war is the most damaging business. For one thing, the kings will not destroy themselves and other princes at will. The place where money comes, and secondly, they feel that this place is too small, it is easy to fight, and they don’t rush to fight, but it is safe.”

Gao Li thought about it for a long time, and said: "It's really reasonable." He sighed again, "If any prince wins you, he won't worry about losing the world."

Jia Cong also sighed: "But I don't dare to trust the surname Situ. The virtuous king helped the Supreme Emperor like a mother and brother, but he was forced to turn against him."

Gao Li looked at him and said, "Why are you standing on the side of the virtuous king?"

Jia Cong said: "I don't think King Xian is wrong at all. Since the day the Supreme Emperor suspected him, with his ability and merit, if he does not rebel, he will die. On the contrary, he has taken it for granted."

Gao Li was silent for a long time, then sighed softly, stretched his head to Jia Cong's side and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to support him?"

Jia Cong shook his head, and said in a low voice: "Firstly, I don't know if he will be another late emperor when he gets old; secondly, I don't know whether his descendants are reliable; thirdly, if you want to support him, he is more suitable than him. "

Gao Li hurriedly asked: "Who?"

Jia Cong grabbed Gao Li's hand and squeezed it: "Cousin, don't inquire about it. Anyway, let's hang around first. If it's really hard to get along, he won't be the one who wants to support him."

Gao Li also squeezed his hand back and nodded.

After lunch, Jia Cong went to Gaomang Courtyard to see his sister.Yingchun grew plumper than before, and she didn't know if she was going to be a mother, so her expression became softer.Some people who came from Rongguo Mansion as a dowry came up to kowtow.Before Yingchun got married that day, Jia Cong told Siqi Xiuju and other maidservants that the dowry must be a pair, and let them find a good husband in advance.As expected, Siqi married her cousin Pan You'an.Afterwards everyone went out, and Jia Cong chatted with his sister for a long time.Sometimes I asked Yingchun about the daily chores, sometimes I talked about my own daily chores, and sometimes I talked about the daily trifles of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, which made Yingchun a little envious.Gao Mang listened quietly.

Jia Cong suddenly said "Oops" and said, "I just remembered something." Nai smiled and said, "Brother Huan fell in love with a girl, and wrote to ask us to give her advice on how to marry her. The master is so domineering. Said that when the girl grows up, grab it."

Yingchun shook her head twice: "The master is getting more and more mischievous."

Jia Cong said: "Brother Huan is dissatisfied, saying that he wants people to marry him willingly. I have many ways to coerce and lure her to marry, but I can't do it willingly."

Yingchun asked, "Whose family is the girl?"

"The sixth prince's sister, Princess Jian'an."

Both Yingchun and Gao Mang were startled.Yingchun said: "Isn't it the one who fell in love with Baoyu?"

Jia Cong said: "That's a cover." Then he told the story of the meeting between Princess Jian'an and Jia Huan, "I'm only 12 years old, at least I have to wait four years. Four years to deal with a little King Lu , It is enough to lure him to marry his sister to our family. It is really difficult to deal with the four words of willingness. How about giving her brother a tiger talisman now? Is it a gift to their family? "

Gao Mang quickly asked, "Do you have the fake Tiger Talisman?"

Jia Cong winked: "The last time I wrote to you saying 'Prince Yizhong's people sent a bunch of fake tiger charms to the kings', it was just to coax the princes. Just you two know about this matter, brother-in-law, don't worry." If you want to tell others, Uncle Gao won’t do either.”

Gao Mang immediately understood that the tiger talisman was from him, and he was shocked!After looking at each other for a while, Yingchun asked, "Where did you get it?"

Jia Cong said: "Naturally it is an imitation. Situ Pan captured the Supreme Emperor and got the Tiger Talisman. We managed to steal the real Tiger Talisman from him and recreate it. The capital has never been short of masters of counterfeiting ancient relics. All of them are exquisite in craftsmanship and can make as many as they need. "

Gao Mang knew that there were people from the forest under Jia's house, so he secretly guessed that it was Gong Sanyi or Liu Xianglian who did it.

"Otherwise, [-]% of the world will belong to Situ Pan. It is easy for the next prince to fight the emperor, but it is difficult to fight the virtuous king."

Yingchun thought for a moment, then sighed: "I really don't know where you are so bold."

Gao Mang also sighed: "Even if King Zi Xian took out the real tiger talisman now, there is no way to prove that his is real. The tiger talisman is useless. I have seen a fake one once, and it was really real. If it wasn't for If I received the letter from your family Ma Xing early, I am afraid that even my father will be coaxed over."

Jia Cong hurriedly asked: "Who brought it? What does he want to do?"

Gao Mang said: "The people of King Lu want to send my father's troops to Qingzhou."

Jia Cong couldn't help grinding his teeth: "Liu Tong! This guy, I have to fix him to vent my anger!" Nai then said, "The king of Lu has a tiger talisman, and neither the king of Chen nor the king of Lu has a share. From this point of view, the king of Shu is more generous than the king of Yan." Seeing that both of them were thinking about this matter, they hurriedly said, "It's a crooked building! Sister, how is Brother Huan going to hook up with that Princess Jian'an? Do you have a plan?"

Yingchun said: "He wants people, as you said, it is very easy. If he wants hearts, we are useless. Let him want to go."

Jia Cong said: "He is also an unstoppable character, it's strange if he can figure it out."

Yingchun said with a smile: "He really likes Princess Jian'an, so he can figure out a way. What matters is not the way, but his mind. Even if his way is stupid? You must know, only the heart can change the heart."

Jia Cong seemed to have returned to his previous life!What his sister said seems to be what women of later generations often say, but he really can't find a scientific basis for it.It turns out that women 300 years ago were also so illogical and could only talk nonsense.Nai covered his face with an "Aww", took his hands down and said helplessly: "Sister! My real sister! You believe me! I am a man, and Brother Huan is also a man. We really don't know what women think Yes. Can you come up with some real ideas? Even if it’s writing love poems to her or sending a pot of flowers a thousand miles away.”

Yingchun smiled and said: "These two ideas are good, but you have to think about it, don't make trouble. You will understand when you meet a girl you like."

Jia Cong turned to look at Gao Mang: "Do you know what my sister is thinking?"

Gao Mang glanced at Yingchun and said, "Sometimes I know, sometimes I don't."

Jia Cong stretched out his fist to touch him: "Pure man!" The two brothers laughed.

Yingchun smiled and said, "I probably know what you think."

Then I wentssip about the meeting again, and invite the imperial doctor to come in and help the pulse.The imperial doctor said that Yingchun was in good health and her fetus was very stable; Jia Cong was relieved, thanked the two imperial doctors repeatedly, and asked again and again.