Uncle Hong Lou Rong

Chapter 158

Xue Baochai has his own views on this issue.

"Someone got a glimpse of the opportunity last month, and all the quarries on the outskirts of Shenjing were bought up first, raising the price of earth and rock in Shenjing all the way up."

They are all very smart people!

Brother Rong asked curiously: "The Xue family is also hoarding earth and rocks?"

Xue Baochai replied indifferently: "They are all cheap and easy-to-obtain raw materials, and you can't make much money by hoarding them. When the price reaches a certain level, it will be cheaper for those who need to buy earth and rock to transport earth and rock from Gyeonggi. I know your recipe The bottom line is that the earth and rocks won't rise for long, so what's the point of hoarding that thing? It still takes up space."

It is not cheap for this era to open mountains to quarry rocks and dig rivers to collect sand.Even if it is mined, transportation is troublesome.

Jia Rong also knew that those who hoarded earth and rocks were using poor information to raise the price of raw materials in Shenjing in a short period of time.This matter cannot continue, after all, no one is a fool.

If the earth and stone in Shenjing were too expensive, it would be a big deal to go to other provinces to buy land and build kilns. Isn't that what Ningguo Mansion did?

However, if this continues, the court will be dissatisfied.The Ministry of Industry and the Water Conservancy and Land Administration consume a lot of earth and stone materials every day, and each boat costs one or two silver, which is not a small sum.

Brother Rong thought to himself: It's time to stop, it's too late.

"Fake? This Jia Rong is really interesting, isn't it just because the Jia family wants to monopolize the property? Do you think that if you find Uncle Thirteen, this king will believe his words? If you don't stop, let people buy sand and gravel and send them all to you." Qiu and Lai's kilns." Someone in the palace said.

"It's ridiculous, the Jia family is really in a hurry. Now that Jia Rong has nothing to do, he asked King Zhongshun to come forward and tell the outside world that the prescription is fake. It's just trying to trick us into giving up voluntarily, and at the same time let King Zhongshun put pressure on us He is in a hurry, he is really in a hurry. It seems that Fangzi is true, and those lowly craftsmen must have made a mistake, so the cement of Ningguo Mansion has not been made." A rich and powerful man in the outer city of Shenjing Jia said so.

"What's the use of doing these tricks now? The Chou family near Zhuangzi in the Ningguo Mansion has produced cement and is already selling it to the outside world. I haven't realized before that a small captain's mansion has such financial resources. Build three large kilns to produce cement. We have to hurry up and not let Qiu Duwei's family take the lead." You said humanely.

"My brother is very right. If you want my brother to tell you, this Jia Rong is also stupid. But he stopped production at the Zhuangzi in Shenjing and wanted to go to Pingan Prefecture to build a kiln. This is not in vain to give up Shenjing and Jingji. It is a large area, you must know that the projects of the Ministry of Industry and Shuili Yingtian Prefecture are mainly in the Zhili area of ​​Gyeonggi Province.”

Lai Shangrong didn't think the same way as they did, and was very flustered at the moment.The joy of the previous days is long gone!He secretly built a kiln on Lai's village, how could he keep it out, Nanny Lai had already scolded him.But the people arranged in the palace brought sand and gravel every day, and he couldn't stop now.

The most worrying thing is, is this prescription true or false?

If it's true, it's okay, it's nothing more than turning against the Jia family and no longer being attached to the Jia family.Anyway, he doesn't like the Jia family either!
If it's fake... then it will be a disaster.Now Jia Rong has declared twice that the prescription is fake and not perfect.However, I sold it to so many houses, and most of the money I got was donated to the palace, and the rest was built to buy sand and gravel.

what should i do

Lai Shangrong panicked now, and ordered a few servants to go to Shenjing every day to inquire about news.He went to Qiu's house in person again, but he didn't even meet Qiu Jiheng, and he didn't know whether the cement from Qiu's house was real or not.

In a few days, the three-year draft girls ended.

Emperor Xiande bestowed a marriage on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

There is no news about cement in Shenjingli for the time being, and everyone is discussing the fact that the daughter of the former Momeng Jiedushi was made a princess.For things like cement, how can royal gossip be more worthy of attention?

The Li family has always been married to the royal family, but no one thought that the one chosen for the crown prince today would be the daughter of Li Baoning who once strongly recommended Prince Yizhong to the crown prince.

It seems that the Momeng land is still uneasy, and wants to use a princess to appease the Li family of Momeng.

It's just that not everyone is discussing Li Baoning, and some people continue to pay attention to cement.For example, Lai's family, Qiu's family, a certain master in the palace, and all those who have fake prescriptions.

"The door of Qiu's house was smashed?" Brother Rong asked curiously.

"That's right! Because of the matter of cement, their enemies sold a lot of cement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs at a low price. Although the result looks similar to your Jia's cement, it's just hard to condense. If someone stomps on it hard, it shatters."

I really didn't expect that the first to suffer was the enemy.

How did Qiu Jiheng get involved in this matter?Could it be that the third master also took the fake prescription seriously?

Brother Rong smiled secretly and shook his head, if he was really the third master, he would deserve to be in bad luck.In the big wedding, he didn't enjoy the tenderness of the country, and spied on the cement of Jia's family.It's no wonder that such a guy is not unlucky, and it may not be ventilated after giving birth to a son.

Only this time, Brother Rong was wrong.Behind Qiu Jiheng is not the third master, but another one.

Shi En laughed softly again: "Now that brother from the Lai family is kneeling in the West Mansion begging for mercy."

"Why do you kneel down to the West Mansion to beg for mercy?" Uncle Rong asked puzzledly, "Is he also being targeted?"

Shi De laughed again: "The father and son of the Chou family are on duty at the bodyguards, and they have connections with the palace. The people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will beat up, and they will vent their anger if they accompany Yin Zi. The Lai family has offended many people, which is insatiable. My brother has sold the recipe many times, and now I have to find him trouble."

"It's his fate." Brother Rong laughed lightly, "Let's go to the West Mansion to see the excitement, and see if the old lady of the West Mansion will intercede for him."

Uncle Rong asked the Shi family brothers to get into the car and go to the west mansion at night.

I was in a hurry all the way, for fear that I would not see the excitement if I went late.

When we arrived outside the old lady's courtyard, the maids in the hallway saw Uncle Xiao Rong coming, and hurriedly went to the main room to sign up.Not long after, Yuanyang came out and asked strangely: "Why are you here? The old lady is angry, why come to take advantage of this bad luck."

Brother Rong was smiling in his heart, but his face was extremely serious. "I heard rumors from outside that the prescription of my Ningguo Mansion was leaked from Lai Shangrong, so I came here specially to ask for an explanation."

Yuanyang said: "It's not the time to ask for an explanation. The Lai family is more or less respectable in the two houses. Nanny Lai is also in the room. Uncle Xiaorong has met now. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for the old lady?"

Uncle Rong is here to embarrass the old lady.

He said loudly: "There has been such a big battle in Shenjing, and Ningguo Mansion has really lost money. Before coming here, I have told Lai Sheng that he is the chief executive, and he will be dismissed in a few days. Farming in a mountain village. How can the chief criminal be punished lightly? If the servants in the mansion follow suit, why don’t they evacuate all the properties of the two mansions?”

Jia Rong's voice was so loud that the old lady and others in the main room could hear it clearly.

Lai Shangrong, who was kneeling on the ground, lowered his head and did not dare to get up. He had long since lost his arrogance when he was in Ningguo Mansion.Nanny Lai was even more embarrassed. With such a white-eyed wolf in the Lai family, she could only ask the old lady to save her grandson.

Lai and his wife were even more afraid to speak, regretting that they didn't find out that it was Lai Shangrong who was playing tricks in the first place, and they didn't forcefully stop them after they found out.Now that he has come to this point, he has nothing to say.

Only Wang Xifeng was sneering in the room.

Yuanyang blushed with anger, her identity was similar to that of Nanny Lai.She felt that Uncle Xiao Rong was secretly mocking her, but at this juncture she couldn't say anything to justify, so she could only invite Uncle Xiao Rong in behind the curtain.

Uncle Rong entered the room, first greeted the old lady, and then excused himself.

"The great-grandson also believes that the old ancestor will be the master of the Jia family and the two governments. He will never easily let go of any bad person who damages the interests of the Jia family, nor will he frame a good person who has done nothing. Brother Lai The great-grandson doesn't need to take care of my son's affairs. It's just that the interests of the Jia family and the two governments are involved, so the great-grandson has to come."

Mrs. Xing said: "Hasn't the prescription been proven to be fake?"

Uncle Rong returned respectfully. "It is the most worrying thing for an unfinished recipe to go from the quietly Feilai's garden in Ningguo Mansion."

Killing hearts.

The old lady was also taken aback, all the most confidential things in Ningguo Mansion were taken by the Lai family, so Rongguo Mansion, which is closer to the Lai family.

Lai Shangrong sobbed and kowtowed to the old lady, "The prescription was sent by someone else, it has nothing to do with me, I didn't steal it."

Brother Rong sighed and said, "It's the brother who left the mansion after all. Let's believe it. Why did you get the prescription, knowing that it was something from the Ningguo Mansion, and didn't send it to the Ningguo Mansion? Instead, you sold the Fangzi to make money How do you explain this? I heard people say that it can be sold for at least a few thousand taels of silver, Uncle Lai Shi really has a trick."

When Lai Shangrong heard this uncle's title, he immediately forgot to cry, and just knelt there blankly.My heart was pounding, I couldn't believe it.He said this to his second uncle in private. Could it be that his second uncle told him the secret?

Brother Rong said to the old lady: "If the ancestor wants to protect him, the great-grandson will have nothing to say. It's just that the account leaked by Fang Zi of the Ningguo Mansion still has to be settled. In order to make money, the brother of the Lai family made it difficult for the water conservancy to run the farm. The matter of charging 500 taels of silver for one mu of land. I didn’t care about it anymore, he asked me to respectfully call him uncle, and now I do. The matter of cement and natural objects must not be forgotten now.”

The old lady was confused and asked about 500 taels of silver.

Brother Rong sneered and told the story back and forth, and then asked: "Uncle Lai, did Rong'er tell a lie? When Uncle Shi left for Ningguo Mansion, he said that he was the brother of the Lai family, and we are the brothers of the Jia family. , we have to respectfully call Uncle Shi when we see you. Is this true or false? Can we feel sorry for you afterwards?"

Lai Shangrong only thought that it was Lai Sheng who told him the secret, so he didn't dare to lie, so he could only bow his head and keep silent.

Seeing this, everyone knew that the matter was basically true. At this moment, Mrs. Wang, who had been seeing Jia Rong uncomfortable, also turned black on the Lai family.

A son of a family who is out of the house is going to ride on the head of his master. Doesn't Baoyu have to respectfully call him a good brother?

Mrs. Wang questioned Lai Dao in a cold voice: "It's really good, look at the good brother you have raised."

Jia Rong replied again: "The Jia family has always been kind, and they are also kind to their servants. Unfortunately, what they got in return was not gratitude, but a white-eyed wolf. Now that they have suffered outside, they have come to beg the Jia family. This counts What's the point?"

Nanny Lai let out a long sigh, got down from her seat, and knelt down towards the old lady.

"..."

Nanny Lai didn't say a word, but everyone knew that she had actually said everything.

Jia Rong watched Nanny Lai perform quietly.

The old lady became embarrassed, sighed, and asked Yuanyang to help Nanny Lai up.

The Lai family could no longer stand up, let alone make waves.

The old lady sighed and said: "The Lai family has been serving them for so many years. There is no credit but hard work. The garden of their family is considered to have paid off the debt of the Ningguo Mansion. It is also the responsibility of Mr. Lai to raise such a brother. Your old lady can stay in the mansion, and you and your wife will live in Rongguo Mansion from now on."

Brother Rong still didn't want to let them go, and said: "Last year, the Ningguo Mansion stole tens of thousands of taels of silver from several villages. Those who want to play tricks will play tricks no matter where they are."

Wang Xifeng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly gave Jia Rong a look and told him to shut up.

Jia Rongfang didn't continue talking.

The old lady sent people to send away the Lai family members, and then called everyone to disperse.

Brother Rong saw that he left the Lai family in disgrace, feeling not happy, only relaxed.It's really disgraceful to deal with a servant like this.

However, after this incident, if the servants in the mansion want to learn from the Lai family, they will naturally weigh it in their hearts.

"Why don't you let me go on."

Wang Xifeng said: "I really want to kill them all right? After all, the Lai family has friendship with the big and small masters of the mansion, and you should stop if you get an advantage. If you do things too much, you will only become a disgusting person like me." .Now that you let them go, the servants and servants of the two mansions will call you kind in their hearts. Even if you let them go to the village, will they still have a good life? People outside will not let Lai Shangrong go."

In the past, Mrs. Lai and Mrs. Lai were backed by Nanny Lai, the old lady and Mrs. Wang in the mansion, and they were very beautiful.Now that they are sent to the village, the people in the village may not look at them directly.

Jia Rong has never heard of a few servants who were sent to the manor and could return to the mansion.

There are too many servants in the two mansions, and if there is no clever one, another clever one can be filled immediately.

Brother Rong said with a smile: "Thank you Feng'er for teaching me, you are still good at these things."

"Fumbling on the road." Sister Feng spat at him and snorted, "The inner house is the women's territory, and there are often intrigues and bad things. You have to be in the inner house for a few days, and you will understand."

Brother Rong nodded and hummed, and said with a smile: "The tree was disturbed by the wind and rain that day, so we have to make up for it that day."

Sister Feng scolded: "What's the trouble? After returning to Yixia Pavilion that night, your precious aunt also said that I smell like a smell on my body. Pian Ping's coquettish hooves were dreaming, and I closed the room to wash it myself."

Listening to the conversation between grandpa and grandma, Ping'er felt that she missed many wonderful things that night.

Brother Rong laughed at her, "Are you curious about what happened that night? Wait until Uncle Ming'er takes you under the tree to enjoy the night view."

This bastard actually molested Ping'er in front of him.Wang Xifeng was so angry that he kicked it out.

"Go to the East Mansion."

(End of this chapter)