Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 142
When Daxia was founded, the Tartars wreaked havoc on the Central Plains for nearly a hundred years. It can be said that all industries withered and people's livelihoods withered.

Let alone the common people, even the meritorious family who just followed the Taizu to conquer the world, did not have much money to maintain the gradually growing family.

Emperor Taizu couldn't bear to go through hardships with his old guys who fought the world. Not only were there many rewards, but he also set a rule that he could borrow money from the treasury of the household department to survive the hardships.

It's a pity that the rules are good, but the person who borrows money is not necessarily the same.

Over the past century, the IOUs accumulated in the household department have been packed into several large boxes, but very few people have paid back the money.

Especially during the Zhaowu period, His Majesty Tian Khan's martial arts were perfect, and the Great Xia almost reached the peak moment in the millennium.

One day, Liu Jibai was bored and Lai Weifu made a private visit. He saw that a Jinshi in the new department rented a dilapidated house in Nancheng because his salary was not enough to support his family.My mother was seriously ill and had no money to treat her, so she set up a stall to sell calligraphy while she was taking a bath.

This made Liu Ji, who had always been a proud and benevolent sage, bear it, and then issued an imperial decree, civil and military officials and family financial difficulties can also borrow money from the Ministry of Households.

As a result, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty went to the household department one after another, ranging from tens of thousands to nearly a thousand.Afterwards, he wrote a letter of thanks for this matter, and the Secretary of the General Administration was almost full of ten thousand words of thank you notes...

Even noble sons like Lin Ruhai borrowed a thousand 880 taels of silver with the crowd, and Jia Cong once asked why.

At that time, Lin Ruhai's original words were: The Supreme Emperor is using his imperial decree to show the grace of God. If you don't borrow it, you are ungrateful!
Although this matter is enough nonsense, it was indeed a kind of political correctness and fashion at the time.

When the old Paixiu Wen Tongxuan took office as Minister of the Household Department, the Great Xia God of Wealth walked around the Household Bank.

Is that the Daxia household department bank?Too poor to raise mice and starve to death!

Later, at the beginning of the spring of the first year of Yuanyou, there was a call to pay the debt owed by the household department. Unfortunately, the new emperor's throne would not be stable at that time, and the recovered saint would come to the court again. don't want to hear.

Not only did he scold Wen Tongxuan, but he also issued an order again that regardless of the rank of the court and Chinese military, those who have difficulties can go to the Ministry of Households to borrow money to overcome difficulties.

Ever since, this summer, there was almost no silver left in the bank of the Ministry of Household Affairs, so the skylight was almost opened before the autumn tax arrived in Beijing.

Since then, Wen Tongxuan has become an old Pixiu, and he can only go in and out of the household department if it is not necessary. Let alone the courtiers to borrow money, even if the emperor and the emperor want to take a tael of silver from the household department, he can bring the household department's bank. The account book blocked Er Sheng, nagging about no money all the time.

"We are building a garden for the empress, and that is for the royal family. Isn't it natural for the household department to pay the money? Why do we have to pay it back?"

If the words of Mrs. Wang are really spread, heh!

Wen Lao Paixiu would really do what Grand Master She said, and write poems on debt collection on the wall of Rongguo Mansion.

Don't look at the old lady who has the same idea in her heart, but she is much smarter.After the eldest son raped the second daughter-in-law, he never mentioned the matter of borrowing money from the household department, and even asked how much money his family owed the household department...

"Old lady, father, uncle, second uncle, Mr. Wen wrote a book a few days ago to ask His Majesty to prepare to pay the debt. If our family doesn't have enough money to pay the debt, don't make the hole bigger. If you don't pay the money by then, you will be in big trouble!"

Ugh!
Jia Cong sighed, and carried Yuan Chun out of the palace: "Eldest sister is still struggling in the palace, we can't trouble her anymore. Your Majesty is not a saint, he has always been thinking about the money owed by the household department... "

Needless to say, everyone here has more or less understood what it means.

Jia Jing had already grasped the little fat man's mind, stroked his beard and said: "Brother Cong is right, your majesty's honor and disgrace rest with your majesty, we should consider repaying the money owed."

"Return the owed silver?"

Mother Jia's complexion is very bad, is this asking for her money?

The old lady frowned and asked back: "The past few years have been flooded and droughty, and there is almost no harvest in the village, and the government has to subsidize it. The income of shops in various places is also declining year by year, and they have to support the old and weak of the family. Where did the money come from?" Still owe money?"

"That's right, now I want to build a garden for my mother to visit relatives, and I don't have enough money..."

Mrs. Wang was halfway through speaking, but Jia Jing waved his hand and said, "You can pay back part of the owed money first. At least you have to have an attitude. There is no need to discuss this matter. As for the construction of the garden..."

"The garden is built behind our two mansions, and a part of Huifang Garden in the East Mansion and the East Courtyard in the West Mansion will be freed up, so that you can save money for buying land. The East Mansion will give another 5 taels of silver, and Brother Pardon and Brother Zheng will have their own money. Fifty thousand."

Speaking of this, Jia Jing turned his gaze back to the old lady again, implying: "Auntie, let's build a garden for your mother this time, so you don't have to trouble your in-laws."

Jia's mother blushed immediately, not to mention, the old lady was thinking about whether to take this opportunity to spend some money on old friends with the Wang family, the Shi family, and even the Lin family...

"Jing'er, our mother has received the Holy Grace, and everyone in the family is honored. Wouldn't some help lighten our family's burden?"

The old lady said dissatisfiedly: "Such a big garden costs money inside and out, what is 15 taels enough for?"

"If it's not enough, the second child will add more. What does it look like to ask relatives for money?"

Jia She looked at Mrs. Wang contemptuously, and said with a cold snort: "Siblings are very aggressive when they go to Wang's house to draw silver. Tens of thousands of taels are taken from their mother's house. A mere 10 taels of silver is not lacking at all!"

"Uncle..."

"Boss, shut up!"

Seeing the second daughter-in-law howling and crying, the old lady took Yuan Chun into consideration and spoke out to stop the elder son's yin and yang.

At this time there was a knock on the door, but the person who came in was Baochai from Xue's family who lived in Lixiangyuan. She saw Baochai approaching gracefully, bowed to the elders present, and gave a blessing ceremony.

Then he handed a brocade box to the mandarin ducks and said, "Holy grace has come from heaven, our mother is going back to the manor to visit our relatives, how can we not congratulate such a great joy? Mother heard that Yingjia needs to build a family-friendly garden, so she wanted to do her part. force……"

"what!"

Although Yuanyang and the old lady had seen many things, she was still startled by the thick stack of bank notes.

Seeing Yuanyang put the opened brocade box in front of the old lady, the old lady also exclaimed: "Baby girl, this..."

Baochai smiled happily: "The cash at home is limited, so I can only scrape together so much. Today my brother went outside to inquire, and the Zhen family didn't say anything. Zhou Guiren's family, Fang Concubine's family, and Concubine Liu's family are already ordering stone and wood. , The minimum estimate is three or four million taels. My mother asked my brother to collect the 40 taels of silver. If it is not enough, I will ask my brother to go back to the south of the Yangtze River in a few days and collect the silver in the south!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? The trouble in the south is so serious, how dare you let Brother Pan go back to the south..."

Mother Jia pulled Baochai to her, stroked the back of her hand, praised her for being a good girl, and refused several times. Finally, regardless of Jia Jing and Jia Amnesty's frowning objections, she insisted on accepting the brocade box full of silver notes.

Seeing that Jia Amnesty was about to lose his temper, Jia Cong quickly tugged on his sleeve, and whispered, "It's a loan, the Xue family will feel at ease if they don't accept it!"

After a short period of displeasure, Jia Jing also understood why the Xue family did this.If it was another family, he would have returned the banknote despite the dissatisfaction of the old lady, but now the Xue family can't wait to try their best to tie up with the Jia family, so it's better to accept the wishes of the orphan and widow.

"Mother, look, look, after all, it's better for my family!"

Mrs. Wang and You Rongyan, after receiving the 10 taels of silver note from their sister, immediately felt confident to speak and trembled.

She even took Baochai's other hand and smiled all over her face: "Bao girl is really a good girl. When my mother goes home to visit her relatives, my aunt will tell my mother to ask her to give you and Baoyu..."

"Brother and sister!"

Seeing that Mrs. Wang was going to be stupid again, Jia Jing, who was suppressing his dissatisfaction, immediately turned cold and frosty.

After he stopped Mrs. Wang from being stupid, he said leisurely: "Brother Zheng, write an IOU, and Lian's daughter-in-law will personally send it to Lixiangyuan!"

"Jing Gong, there is no need to be like this, mother said this is a congratulatory gift..."

Baochai hurriedly stopped her, but Jia Jing shook her head: "Girl, it's good if you think about it, this money is still a loan. Brother Cong, it's freezing, you send Bao girl back!"

Gee...

Is this going to quarrel?

Jia Cong quickly winked at Baochai, and the clever Baochai immediately sensed the strange atmosphere in the Rongxi Hall, and Yingying left the Rongxi Hall with Jia Cong.

As soon as he left the house, he heard Jia Jing's angry voice: "Sister and sister, you don't know what to say or what to say! Why, you are so short of money that you want to sell your son?"

"Sister Bao, you don't have to take what Second Aunt said..."

"I didn't hear what my aunt said!"

Baochai smiled sweetly, shook her head slightly, and the steps on her bun trembled slightly, shining brightly.

Such a clever girl, unfortunately she was born at an untimely time.

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said, "Before Sister Bao came, Uncle Jing just told the old lady that he didn't plan to build a garden with his in-laws..."

Before Jia Cong finished speaking, Baochai covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Ah? Then my family ruined Jinggong's plan?"

"Not really, even if you don't send it, with Second Aunt's temperament, she will definitely go to your house to borrow money. In front of Uncle Jing and my father, the whereabouts of this money can be regarded as a witness. It's better than being in Second Aunt's private treasury!"

Although it is inappropriate to speak ill of Wang in front of his niece, there are some things that Baochai should be careful about.

Fortunately, Baochai had figured out the situation of each room in Jia's house during the time he came to Beijing, so he didn't mind Jia Cong's outspokenness, so he nodded.

The two whispered about building a garden to visit relatives. It was not until Baochai was sent back to Lixiangyuan that Jia Cong put away the smile on his face and walked towards Daiyu's courtyard with a cold face.

The Xue family deliberately sent money, which disrupted Jia Jing's plan, which is nothing.But what does Mrs. Wang mean by saying that my family is better?Is this blaming the Lin family?
Yes, they are all relatives-in-law, and Xue's family sent 10 taels of silver notes immediately.The Lin family is one of the most wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River. As the niece of the Jia family, she doesn't even have a nice word of congratulations!

Mrs. Wang's thoughts are all on her face, Jia Cong can't see it.

Hmph, my dear Second Aunt, it seems that it is really impossible not to beat you!
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(End of this chapter)