Jia Minqi's family in the Red Chamber

In the previous dynasty, the Sun family earned a lot of wealth through sea trading, which was enough to support the clansmen to study. He became a knight, but he became a second-rate family and gained a firm foothold in Jiangnan.

Duantou has been in business for decades, and let his family see the opportunity to help Jinshang secure the throne, and the Holy One even rewarded him with the Southwest Guard General.

However, the grandpa of the Sun family, the father-in-law of the sage, and the grandfather of the crown prince, retired to the capital after 20 years in the southwest, and returned to the capital to take care of his old age.There are two sons under his knees, the eldest son is now serving as the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the second son is guarding the ancestral property in his hometown.

Lin Hai said with emotion in front of his wife: "It's a pity that the Sun family looks majestic, but in fact there are hidden dangers everywhere."

Jia Min took it very seriously, "The prince is getting older, and the prince's younger brothers have also reached the age of starting a family. Besides, the family business is big, and the food is getting bigger and bigger every day, and the more people in the tribe, the more different thoughts." Once a strong man breaks his wrist, he can't do it.

But it is said that the Holy Majesty and Empress Sun have a very deep relationship, and the husband and wife spent the most difficult time of the Holy Majesty together.

Lin Hai felt quite at ease to be able to share his thoughts with his wife, "The salt inspector in front of me is the Sun family."

Jia Min nodded and said, "Your Majesty is acquiescing to the Sun family to get pocket money for the prince from the Yanzheng?"

"More than [-] taels a year, how can it be regarded as pocket money." After a pause, Lin Hai said again, "After I took office, I roughly looked through the accounts, and someone was willing to give me some information, so I realized that the more than [-] is in the account. The prince only has [-] to [-]."

When Jia Min heard this, she had no choice but to praise her, "It's the courage to let people say something."

"The prince can't only rely on the Sun family in the south of the Yangtze River... This matter has fallen into the ears of the prince. Even though the prince has not fallen out with his little uncle, he is unwilling to trust the Sun family as much as before."

Jia Min sighed: "If I knew this earlier, why did I do it in the first place?"

Lin Hai smiled, "The grandpa of the Sun family is old after all, and the Sun family still has to rely on the crown prince if they want to maintain Rujia's dignity."

Facing her husband, Jia Min could say whatever she wanted, "It's not difficult to please the prince. It's nothing more than two things. The more money the better, it's perfect to buy people's hearts. Besides... you have soldiers in your hands?"

Chatting with my wife is comfort.Lin Hai nodded and said, "Who said no?"

"That is to say, the hundreds of private soldiers in Taixing were originally prepared for the prince?"

Lin Hai nodded again.

Jia Min asked curiously: "I don't understand this. Wouldn't it be better to just use money and kindness to buy one or two generals, their deputy, or their school lieutenant?"

Old Mrs. Sun already has great prestige in the army, and if he can take refuge in the prince, there are benefits... As long as he doesn't follow the prince~rebellion~, how many generals are there who will sternly refuse?

Lin Hai said with a smile: "The Sun family's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and they just want to do business without cost."

Jia Min was drinking tea to moisten his throat, but he almost couldn't swallow the tea smoothly.Seeing that her complexion was not right, Lin Hai rushed over to rub her chest and patted her back.

Jia Min let out a sigh of relief before exclaiming, "This is the source of breaking the family."

It's a pity that the Sun family has been a local snake in the south of the Yangtze River for too long, and it seems that they have forgotten that there is such a thing as yin and yang.

Even if the rest of the princes have one or two eyes and ears in the south of the Yangtze River, they are all at the level of purely watching the excitement, and they really can't get any help.Only the mother of the fifth and eighth princes, Concubine Chen, is also from Jiangnan. Her grandfather was the governor of Jiangsu, and her father was also a political envoy. She has a lot of contacts in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

But he said that the second master of the Sun family had prepared some private soldiers for the prince, just in case of emergencies—it would be a fantasy if such a few people wanted to rebel, but it would not be a problem to deal with disobedient courtiers and merchants, and it would be easy to make a fortune. It is said that the blame can also be shifted to the water thieves fleeing along the river.

Anyway, under the banner of the prince, the prince can't use it, but he can use it himself.

It was a good idea, but how did they know that the "supplier" of the Sun family who delivered food and grass to these private soldiers had long been bought by the Chen family.So whether this group of people were trained for the Sun family or the Chen family, or both.

No one expected that a heavy rain would cause Taixing county magistrate Han Qi to discover the clues. After he found out the whereabouts of these private soldiers, he decisively informed Lin Hai of the matter, and Lin Hai wrote a confidential report... The Sun family and the Chen family were caught off guard.

In fact, Lin Hai didn't know that this group of people was indeed prepared by the Sun family, and he thought that the Sun family was so popular that they took the blame for others.However, after he went to Hangzhou to take up his post, several senior brothers and classmates in Beijing and China handed over messages one after another, and he also learned the truth.

As for Shengshang Shengming, he just looked for an opportunity to close the door, so that he could educate his two sons, but the mother family who treated the sons was not so loving and tolerant. A censor of the Chen family was transferred back to the capital.

Lin Hai couldn't help feeling, "The Sun family has suffered a much greater loss than the Chen family."

The head of Yangzhou Guan, who handles the ship tax merchant tax, is a fat job. Without this position, the Sun family still feels heartbroken.The censor of the Chen family is still in his official position at least...

Jia Min said: "No wonder. The fifth prince suddenly cared about our girl."

After all, she was raised by her father carefully, so it is not difficult to guess what the fifth prince is thinking.

In other words, the fifth prince had long guessed that his father wanted to use Lin Hai's heart, and Lin Hai also dealt with the incident of private soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River fairly.The fifth prince is not broad-minded but not narrow-minded... the Jiangnan incident happened, anyway, the Sun family is much worse than the Chen family... much worse.In all fairness, in the entire Jiangnan, although most of the officials from the fourth rank up were not close to the Sun family, they were not afraid of the Sun family at all... Lin Hai was one of them.

The fifth prince's uncle also recommended Lin Hai to him many times. Even if this kind of person can't be wooed, goodwill is enough. After all, Lin Hai is the real Jane in the heart of the emperor. Too close will make the two families together. "Remember".

And the fifth prince sent his side concubine to Rongfu, acting as if he wanted to marry Daiyu, purely to test Lin Hai's attitude.If Lin Hai didn't feel disgusted and picked a concubine from the Rong Mansion as a show of goodwill, the Fifth Prince didn't mind that there were many women in the back house of his palace.

Helpless, the thoughts of the fifth prince, Lin Hai and Jia Min, are like a mirror, and Jia Zhu knows that the fifth prince is not interested in his sister, and even Jia's mother feels that something is wrong, and writes to her daughter to ask for advice, but Jia Zheng and Mrs. "Delusion".

But Jia Min didn't intend to stop him, he had to fall himself to know the pain, so that he would not have to pretend to be a family member of the Duke's Mansion all day long, not knowing the heights of heaven and earth!

As for the attitude of the Sun family in the future, it is even clearer.I lost the Xunyan Yushi earlier, and now I don't have a banknote. The house of Sun's family has little influence, but the rest of the house is quite sad.

During the period when Lin Hai acted as the chief envoy temporarily, the Sun family would be more keen on making money than before, so they just got into a fight with Lin Hai.

To a wise man, there is no need to say everything.Lin Hai smiled and said, "Thank you Madam."

Husband and wife are one, and one's ~political~ enemies and opponents should always be the first to let the wife know, so that she can adjust her attitude immediately - there are countless local wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River who are biased towards the Sun family, and the wife should take precautions early when she is pregnant.

It's not that I'm worried about which wife will fight against the wife, but that without the wife's dedicated care, there will be more unsightly things around the daughter.

Jia Min heard the master's unfinished meaning, "I'm still young, so I can't go out often. I asked Daiyu to follow me to learn how to be a housekeeper. When the fetus is stable, I can do whatever I want. It's a pity that Miaoyu Mother is about to give birth... Otherwise, I can ask her to help."

Lin Hai smiled and said, "Brother Han, you should be worried about this baby." I am almost the same as me, as long as he is free, he will follow wherever his wife goes.

Jia Min also laughed, "If you survive a catastrophe, you must have future blessings."

However, since Han Qi was promoted and the wife of the Han family was pregnant again, Miaoyu has been in charge of the internal affairs of the house.So Miaoyu came much less than before. Fortunately, she lived close by, and the girls wrote letters casually.

Daiyu and Miaoyu recently exchanged housekeeping tricks, and even expressed emotion in letters. Fortunately, there is no aunt or concubine at home, and I don't know how many moths are missing.

Miaoyu first talked about how her aunt "disappeared": her father was imprisoned, and the aunts suddenly felt that a catastrophe was imminent, so they just knelt down in front of their pregnant mother and cried bitterly.

The misery and sorrow caused the already haggard mother to have a headache in her head.

Fortunately, his father was not at home, but he left a fortune, so Miaoyu made the decision to distribute the money to the aunts and let them leave home.When her father came back, not only did he not complain, but he praised her greatly, and even wrote a document to the government for filing.

It's just that after his father returned to his post and was even promoted to the magistrate, the two former aunts and their father and brother entrusted the middleman to negotiate peace and beg for mercy several times: no matter what, they wanted to go back to the manor and continue to serve the adults.The father not only drove the middleman out of the house, but also secretly ordered them to send the two families to the southwest.

Only in this way can the family be considered completely safe and sound.

Looking at this letter, Miaoyu's elder sister's look of rejoicing and complacency was almost in front of her eyes, and Daiyu naturally did her part to reply: My aunt was dismissed by my father long ago.

But she said that three days later, when the little sisters met, Miaoyu feigned anger and said, "What is there to be proud of!"

Daiyu didn't answer, just pursed her lips and kept laughing.

Miaoyu snorted softly, and changed her smiling face in an instant, "I haven't congratulated you yet."

Daiyu smiled and said, "Thank you." After saying that, she said in a serious manner, "Fortune and misfortune depend on each other, and now I don't know what will happen in the future."

Miaoyu said: "Is this what you should worry about?"

Daiyu continued: "If a person has no long-term worries, he must have near-term worries."

Miaoyu grabbed Daiyu and said seriously, "That's reasonable. I'll tell you when we're close..." She raised her finger and pointed to herself, "It's only been a while, and someone is already plotting against my marriage. You have to Just be more careful."

And why didn't her father, Han Qi, have one or two cronies who passed on the news?

I don't know how many people miss her as the eldest daughter of a second-rank official who is less than forty.Miaoyu continued to make suggestions: "If you are alone, you should not go out."

Daiyu said helplessly: "My mother is pregnant, so one thing more is worse than one thing less. Fortunately, big brother Zhu will take care of me."

Speaking of the two little sisters sitting side by side, they were a little bit silent: the two of them talked about their aunt in the letter, so they were envious of their parents' deep feelings. If they were them, they would not know how to marry in the future. You can't have a good marriage like your parents.

After a while, Miaoyu said, "Next spring, will your big brother Zhu go back to Beijing?"

"Brother Zhu said that he has to take another subject before leaving." According to his father, Brother Zhu will be retired next year, and his ranking will only be between the bottom of the second and third, and it will not be of much use if he takes the exam.

Miaoyu's father was also a Jinshi, and he sighed when he heard the words, "Father often said that if he was stable in the past, he might be able to take the exam later, and maybe he would be better. The palace exam is for life, so we can't be careless."

Daiyu asked again: "Do relatives in the clan still come to the door often?"

Miaoyu said: "They want to 'get back together'. They were even annoyed when they saw my father, so how could they continue to lose their winks. They took a step back, and my father gave him a good look."

Daiyu snorted coldly and said, "This is a good deal. Not only do you see death, but you also make trouble. Afterwards, as long as you lie down and be a companion, you can let it go. Are you still a family?"

Back then, sister Miaoyu was so thin that a gust of wind could blow her down, and she had to take care of her pregnant mother and restrain the servants at home, while Uncle Han was at least ten years older when he returned home.

Having said that, Daiyu also knew that she could only talk about it, and it was her business to decide what to do.

Miaoyu smiled, and immediately comforted her good sister, "Just say yes, when the time comes... let's talk!"

Daiyu said, "I'm relieved."

"After this incident, not to mention my father, even I can no longer be the same as before, only the two of us can't change."

The words were a bit vague, but Daiyu couldn't understand anymore, and said sincerely, "I understand."

Both the Fang family and the Zhen family are still in Yangzhou, Fang Jieyuan is going to be a filial piety soon, and next year will just end, the sister of the Fang family may not be able to come to the reunion; the mother of the sister Yinglian has just been diagnosed with a happy pulse... These two sisters are the only ones who have done it in recent years But I heard from my mother that Sister Baochai will go south with her parents at the end of the year.

Thinking about Uncle Xue who finally got the official status, Sister Baochai also got her wish.

After thinking wildly for a while, Daiyu held Miaoyu back, "Let's discuss what to give back to Sister Yinglian."

Yinglian wrote to her sisters to announce the good news, and she did not forget to pack a lot of things, especially all kinds of Yangzhou snacks.Daiyu couldn't help laughing and said, "Xi Xin'er is just two thin sheets of paper, and the food that comes with the letter is half a carload."

Miaoyu also smiled and said, "It's the same with me."

However, when Jia Min received Feng's letter, she was also filled with emotion: After listening to her words, Feng took out all the original sesame oil money to buy grain and rice, and sent them to those villages that were half buried by the mountain's silt. But a year later, it was found out that she was pregnant.

Feng's letter wrote: She is almost forty, this kind of thing is really... unthinkable.Originally, he wanted to bring Yinglian over to visit, but now he dared not go out again.

In Jia Min's view, the sesame oil money must be spent in the right place.If, like her second sister-in-law and nephew and daughter-in-law, she gave money to someone like Ma Daopo, the Buddha would still blame her!

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year, and Jia Min was completely settled.For the past two months, Daiyu mostly talked with her. In her free time, she only studied and took care of her younger brother. She didn't go out much. Jia Min felt that her daughter was bored, so she found a good day to take her out for a stroll.

Before going out, Jia Min first got the news from the big girl: Baochai is on the waiting list.

Lin Hai, as the chief envoy, was naturally "destined" to see the list of women to be elected in the province. When he saw the list in the yamen, he sent his entourage home to inform his wife.

Daiyu was on the side, and asked curiously after hearing the words, "Why are you in such a hurry, sister Baochai will only be fourteen next year."

Jia Min and Daiyu's mother and daughter were at most a little curious, but when they arrived at Xue's house, it became strange... because Baochai's name was not given by Xue Huan, his own father!