Baochai is a happy wife [Red Mansion]

On this day, the Xue family received an invitation from the Xu family. Of course, the invitation was not for a child like Xue Baochai, but for Mrs. Xue.Mrs. Xu really couldn't hold her daughter back. If the daughter wanted to let those little girls play with her, she would invite their mothers to come over, and some of those wives would take the little girls out.

No matter how thick-skinned Mrs. Xu is, it is impossible for her to post a post to invite a five or six-year-old girl.Such a little girl has to be accompanied by her elders when she goes out, and people don't worry about the little girl coming out with her servants.

A slave is not a master, and sometimes it is difficult to show up.It's like two families with similar status. One family has an elder, but the other does not. If there are only servants, it will be easy to be suppressed.People can also say that if there are no slaves speaking here, the slaves are just slaves.

If they were a bit harsher, they would even say that they would teach that servant a lesson on behalf of others.

Anyway, I bullied first, and I will say a few words later.It's just a few slaves, what can others do, you can't offend people for the sake of slaves, it's easy to let it go.

Xu Jiayue wanted to invite someone alone, but Mrs. Xu refused, and she had no choice.

After Mrs. Xue saw the invitation, she thought that the servant had specially emphasized to take the girl with her, saying that the children could play together.Mrs. Xue didn't think much about it, children really need friends, it's impossible to only play with relatives' children, and it's impossible to only play with maidservants.

It's just that the daughter of the Xu family has a bad temper, and always treats others as low-status, so she should be with her and support her.

Mrs. Xue had seen Xu Jiayue's arrogant eyes before, and the other party even mocked Miss Qianjin who was playing with her.Xu Jiayue's status is indeed high, she is the daughter of the magistrate, speaking of the official rank of her father's generation, in this Jinling, Xu Jiayue is indeed qualified to be arrogant.

"Go to Xu's house in two days, and stay away from Xu Jiayue." Mrs. Xue told her daughter that she had been spoiled since she was a child, and she didn't want her daughter's hot face to stick to someone else's cold ass.

The Xue family has enough money, and there are other relatives backing them, so there is no need to rely on the daughter of the Xu family.

The two families have to communicate, but they are not too close.Excessive sticking doesn't necessarily mean it's useful, but it makes people think that the Xue family is useless, that's why they have to be so humble.

"Got it." Xue Baochai nodded, looking at the flowers on the coffee table.

She wasn't really a five-year-old child, so it was impossible for her to argue with Xu Jiayue.If the other party doesn't like her, then there's no need for her to lean forward.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are really not easy to mix, so they have to curry favor with people like Xu Jiayue.Fortunately, the Xue family is not that down and out, and it is relatively prosperous now.

It's just that it's not a good thing for the Xue family to be too rich. When the national treasury is still empty, the army needs food and grass, and disaster relief needs money.Even if Xue's family has paid the tax, they still have too much money in their hands.

Ancient times are not modern times. In this feudal society, if a family has too much money and the royal family is dissatisfied, they can still play tricks on the merchants and use the merchants' money into the national treasury.

Instead of waiting for the royal family to come, it is better to do it yourself, such as submitting a memorial to the emperor and secretly giving money to the emperor.You can't directly say donate to the army in public, and you can't say that a large amount of money is used for disaster relief. The merchant's reputation among the people is too high, and it is prone to problems.

Xue Baochai is not the kind of person who takes money very seriously, and she is only five years old now, so she can't do too much, otherwise it will look too weird.

"The flowers are going to wilt." Xue Baochai stretched out his hand to poke those flowers, no matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will wither.Even fake flowers, after a long time, it is impossible to be as bright as the beginning.

In fact, Father Xue already had an idea, especially after his body gradually recovered.He used to think that if he couldn't get better, the Xue family had so much money, and it was impossible for their children and grandchildren to lose everything all at once.

But now, his body is recovering day by day, and he also understands what happened to the store when he was weak.When he was seriously ill, people had already attacked the Xue family in various ways. If he died, the situation would only get worse.

This reminded Father Xue of his ancestors, who used huge sums of money to support the founding emperor. Ziwei Sheren was also a close minister of the emperor.

Because of this, the Xue family became an imperial merchant, and after several generations, they accumulated a lot of money.Then listen to the rumors outside, what about the white jade bed, what about the Golden Dragon King, there is so much snow in a good year, pearls are like earth and gold is like iron, this made Father Xue feel very bad.

Father Xue also paid attention to the problems that he hadn't noticed before.Father Xue also saw problems that he hadn't seen before.

Look at Xue's family, is it prosperous? Compared with other families, it is not considered prosperous. Father Xue's father only has two children.There are not many children of the grandfather, and there are collateral children, but there are not many.If you look carefully, you will know that the Xue family has been descended from generation to generation, and there are few direct descendants, so the money is also concentrated.

There are few direct descendants and few collateral descendants. This is not a safe signal.That may be the beginning of decline. It seems that one generation has more money, but in fact it is easier for others to get money.

Yes, these aristocratic families also give most of their property to the first house, but if the other houses are not capable enough, they can't keep it.

Xue's father was startled. Apart from the in-laws of the Xue family who are now officials, the Xue family itself has no officials and no ability.Their Xue family can be regarded as a scholarly family, and there are countless books in the family. However, the Xue family has nothing that can be used in the court.

This made Xue's father break out in a cold sweat. Could it be that he imitated other families and sent their daughters to the palace?

Father Xue also thought of His Majesty, who is the fourth son of the former emperor. He was very cold and serious when he was the prince, and once mentioned to the emperor to ask the officials to pay back the money owed by the Ministry of Households.The first emperor didn't agree, the money was originally lent by the first emperor, and the first emperor wanted face, and couldn't bear to slap those old ministers in the face.

Later, when His Majesty ascended the throne, he did not mention the matter of the household department owed money for the time being, perhaps the foundation was not stable.

The four big families are connected with each other, Xue's father thought that the Xue family did not owe the Ministry of Households any money, so naturally there was no need to pay it back.The Xue family used the family money to do other things, and there was no need to talk to other families.

The Xue family is an aristocratic family, after all, Father Xue still has some ability, and he can still present a memorial to the emperor to show his loyalty, willing to hand over half of the Xue family's money to the emperor.

Now, that book has arrived in front of the emperor.

The emperor dealt with official duties on a daily basis, and when he saw the papers submitted by Xue's family, he thought he had read it wrong.

"Jiang Sheng, look, are my eyes dazzled?" The emperor really felt that he had made a mistake.

The emperor has only just ascended the throne for two years, and is young, but in his twenties, less than thirty.But he has been very worried recently, the late emperor went to the south of the Yangtze River many times, and let those courtiers borrow money from the treasury, which led to the emptiness of the treasury.

Due to the short time of the emperor's accession to the throne and his unstable foundation, those old ministers played tricks again.This made the emperor very dissatisfied, but he could only endure it.

When the emperor saw the booklet of the Xue family, he saw that the Xue family wanted to donate so much money to the treasury.The Patriarch Xue was also interesting. He said that he had been sick for many years, and one day he dreamed of the Buddha. The Buddha said that the emperor is a wise king.

This kind of dream can be true or false.

The emperor was willing to listen, and Rongguo Mansion also had a treasure jade born with a jade title.Why can't he, the emperor, be called a Mingjun by the Buddha?

"You're young, you don't have eyesight." Jiang Sheng had been with the emperor when he was the prince, and he also understood that the emperor was worried about the money in the household department recently.The move of the Xue family can be said to be timely help, and the title is also nice, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, a wise king through the ages."

Jiang Sheng also knelt on the ground deliberately, because those people outside said that His Majesty is cruel and cruel, and said that His Majesty is cruel to his brothers and feet.The Xue family's memorial is just right, firstly, it can relieve the emperor's urgent need, and secondly, it will also help the emperor stabilize the people's hearts and improve his reputation.

It was just right for the Xue family to do this at this time, just at the right time.

If it was a few months later, or a few years later, it would be completely different.

Since ancient times, how many merchants have really donated so much money, even if they donated, most of them were due to the chaotic current situation and the founding king.There is also the kind of people who want to support the emperor and have the merits of following the dragon.

And the current emperor has already ascended the throne. Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible for those merchants to donate so much money.There is another Buddha's dream, in addition to sending charcoal in the snow, there is also the meaning of icing on the cake.

"Okay, okay, okay" The emperor doesn't care if the memorial was written by the Xue family or not, even if someone faked it, the Xue family must accept it.

However, no one should pretend to be a member of the Xue family to write such a memorial, because the Xue family is in Jinling, and most of the cash is also in Jinling.The Xue family also stated that if the emperor sent someone to fetch it, the Xue family would not be able to escort so much money, so as not to be robbed.

The Xue family donated so much silver, of course it was impossible for the emperor to let the Xue family donate in vain.

Like a historian with two princes, that is also a display without real power.Such as the Xue family, of course, can also have an empty title.

It's just that the four major families are too conspicuous. The Xue family understood this truth, so they said in the memorial that they dare not ask for rewards. It is the Xue family's luck that the son of the emperor's merchant can participate in the scientific examination.

The emperor was very satisfied, he had originally planned to deal with those veterans of the aristocratic family, this move of the Xue family was considered a surrender.Without a title, the Xue family held a post in the Ministry of Household Affairs, but this posting also belonged to that level of procurement, which was different from those magistrates and servants of the Household Department.

To put it bluntly, many people regard them as royal servants and businessmen.

Then let Xue Pan enter the palace as a companion, the emperor thought so.

In the Xue family, father Xue didn't tell his wife about the memorial before, not because he was worried about his wife, nor because he was afraid that his wife would tell her natal family.Rather, he was prepared to wait, fearing that the booklet would be lost on the road, or be intercepted.

"The booklet has already been uploaded." After waiting for about time, Patriarch Xue told his wife this point, "There are so few people in the family, we can't afford it."

Mrs. Xue wanted to talk about her natal family, but she thought that when her husband was seriously ill, her natal family would not be able to help much, and the business would still be swallowed up.It's just that they weren't swallowed particularly badly, and those people still had some scruples. After all, it was because the Xue family wasn't powerful enough.