Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 314
Jia Cong yawned, didn't bother to open his eyes, and even leaned against Daiyu, found a comfortable position and dozed off.

Daiyu originally wanted to push away, but looking at Jia Cong's tired and lazy face, she finally put him down, let him rest on her lap, and gently rubbed his forehead.

"If you don't want it, then you don't want it. I'll ask someone to reply, and I will invite girls from various prefectures to my house when I have time."

Jia Cong opened his eyes slightly, and said indifferently: "If Sister Lin doesn't like these entertainments, don't bother..."

Daiyu tapped Jia Cong's head lightly: "Nonsense, these are all high-ranking officials, whether it is Jia's family or Lin's family, how can they easily offend people? Besides, Dad and Lian's second brother are working outside. It’s good to have this opportunity to get in touch with people, not to mention anything else, I can find out the temperament of several governors, and it will be easy to deal with in the future.”

Jia Cong pushed his head against Daiyu's gentle belly, causing Daiyu to blush and hold her dishonest head: "Don't make trouble, let's talk about business..."

"Listen, listen, Sister Lin will do as she sees, and I will fully support it!"

Hearing Jia Cong's response, Daiyu frowned.

Now she desperately wants to get out of the inner house and watch the world.The posts sent by the second generation of governors happened to give her the best chance.

"Zicuckoo, go and reply one by one, just say that it is inconvenient to bother you today, and I will send a post to the various mansions in the next day, and invite all the girls to come to Rongguo Mansion for a gathering."

……

Lin Ruhai just returned to Beijing early this morning, and after submitting the invitation letter, the postman at the official post said that there were more than ten governors from various places queuing up ahead, and they would not be summoned until tomorrow.

I don't want to think that not long after lunch, the palace came to the palace to convey the emperor's oral order, summoning the doctor, Zhengzhiqing, Youdu censor, and imperial envoys to inspect the south of the Yangtze River.

Those who chatted with Lin Ruhai in the official station once again refreshed their cognition of this person. It really is the character of Jane in the emperor's heart. They have been waiting in the official station for two or three days, and Lin Tanhua only returned to Beijing After two or three hours, the emperor summoned the oral order.

"Lin Aiqing contributed a lot to the great governance of the salt government. As Aiqing said, it is time to expand the salt field."

Lin Ruhai rectified the Jiangnan salt department within a year, cracked down on illegal salt, exterminated salt bandits, opened salt farms, and stabilized salt prices.

The price of a catty of official salt has been reduced by Lin Ruhai from three cents to four cents to one cent and two cents silver.

Lin Ruhai is confident that after one year, the price of salt will be halved again, and the history of people being unable to afford salt will be completely ended.

The reduction of salt price not only did not reduce the salt tax, but because of the compression of private salt and the expansion of the sale of official salt, the trading volume of official salt soared more than ten times, and the salt tax just trickled into the sea. So he escorted more than 400 million taels of silver back to the capital.

Liu Heng's evaluation of Lin Ruhai has once again increased by a level, he is really a minister!

Loyal, upright, clean, and capable, he is really a perfect candidate for Zaifu!

It's just that my bones are not very good...

"Come on, pass the imperial doctor here."

Liu Heng is an extremely contradictory person, and his attitude towards his courtiers can be said to be polarized.

Treating corrupt officials is like a storm, but it always makes loyal courtiers feel like a spring breeze, which warms the heart and melts the ice outside.

The imperial doctor arrived soon, and after some consultations, Liu Heng asked the imperial doctor Lin Ruhai about his physical condition carefully.

Knowing that the mind was exhausted too much, if he didn't take a good rest, his life expectancy might be affected, so the emperor immediately "sent" Lin Ruhai a meal.

"Lin Aiqing, you have to remember that you still have a wife and child in Beijing, and your son is just one year old..."

"There are many courtiers in the country, but there are only a few people I have to use. Aiqing is the Tanhua Lang handpicked by the father, and is the pillar of the country. I intend to let you join the cabinet to assist the government, but look, you are the only one. In the age of forty, the mental head is not as good as that old man Wen Lao Pixiu."

"When you return to Beijing this time, let's take a good rest. I will arrange for suitable people to handle the errands of the Jiangnan Salt Administration."

Lin Ruhai became anxious when he heard that, he had only done half of the affairs of the Yanzheng, how could he easily change people?

"Your Majesty, my minister..."

With a wave of Liu Heng's hand, he interrupted the second half of Lin Ruhai's sentence: "There is no need to discuss, I don't want to lose a right-hand man! Don't worry, the salt administration is on the right track, and I will choose a proper person to follow through step by step. .”

As for the candidates...

The old thirteen is happily living his little life in the gentle township every day recently, I have never been so comfortable, so go to the beach and dry the salt for me, hum!
"My lord, Wen Tongxuan, Minister of the Household Department, is asking to see you."

As soon as the servant informed him, Liu Heng's teeth were aching. This old man...

I saw the emperor waved his hands irritably and said, "Just say I'm busy, no see!"

"Old minister greets His Majesty!"

It's a pity that Wen Tongxuan knew the emperor's temperament well, so he squeezed away the servants who were guarding the gate outside the Hall of Qinzheng, and just squeezed in, laughing with his hands in his hands.

"The old minister heard that Dr. Lin entered Beijing with this year's salt tax money, so what... Hey!"

……

"Old man Wen, I will never die with you!"

The emperor was annoyed by the old man and threw a handwritten letter to Wen Tongxuan.

Whenever there is silver sent to the capital, the old man is like a hunting dog, smelling the silver and looking for it.

With one hand, he could cut half of his silver.

do not give?The old man skillfully took off his official hat, lay down on the ground of Qinzheng Palace and began to slap.

Once again, 200 million taels of silver that hadn't been warmed up were taken from the pocket of the emperor's lord.

Although Lin Ruhai had heard about it a long time ago, when he saw Wen Tongxuan take out 200 million taels of silver from the emperor's pocket, he had a clearer understanding of the Great Xia Finance Minister.

At the same time, my perception of the emperor has risen again—this is a respectable and admirable monarch who can be bullied.

Wen Tongxuan happily held the emperor's handwriting, and said to Lin Ruhai who walked out of the Qinzheng Hall together: "Ruhai, since His Majesty asked you to come to the Ministry of Household Affairs, I will tell you today that the most important thing is to be an official of the Ministry of Household Affairs. a bit of..."

"shameless!"

Um?Alright, why are you always scolding people?

"What the old man means is that you can't lose your face when you are an official of the household department. The people below want money, and you have to lose your face and cry for poverty. The household department has 100 million taels, but in your mouth, it is only 10 taels."

"If you want money from your majesty, you still can't shame. Your majesty earns 100 million taels, of which 50 taels will be sent to the household department. If you don't give it, you can go wherever your majesty goes. Even if your majesty goes to rest in the harem, you have to lie down At the palace gate of the harem, cry poor!"

Wen Tongxuan has been the Secretary of the Household Department for nearly ten years, and his false title has been promoted several times, but his real position has not changed.

It's not that the second sage doesn't value this one, it's that Wen Lao Pixiu is in the household department, which can make the second sage feel at ease.

Not to mention anything else, the second sage already knew that the old Paixiu had built a secret room in the bank of the household department.Even though the country had spent a lot of money in the past ten years, he still saved 500 million taels of silver secretly like a hamster saving food.

For such a minister, the emperor would be so angry that he would die every time, but he would always give various tonics after scolding the old guy.

On the way out of the palace, Lin Ruhai listened to Wen Tongxuan's "guidance" with a wry smile all the way.

The old man is mighty, but he is useless after school!
After parting from the door of the household department, Lin Ruhai looked up at the gold-lacquered and red-bottomed plaque hanging on the eaves of the door, and smiled helplessly.

"Girl, third master, the master is out of the palace."

Jia Cong and Daiyu got off the carriage, Lin Ruhai saw the young couple from a distance, and the smile on his face was even bigger.

He rubbed his daughter and future son-in-law who greeted him one by one, and said with a smile: "The emperor has given me grace, and I promised to be the left servant of my father's household department, so I don't have to go back to the south of the Yangtze River!"

……

After nightfall, the hustle and bustle of Rongxi Hall temporarily came to an end.

The children all went back to rest, and the old lady sighed as she looked at her son-in-law sitting at the bottom.

"At the beginning, you served as Jiangnan from outside the Imperial Academy, and it took you more than ten years to leave. Now you can be considered to have made it through. Poor old lady, Min'er, has no chance to return to the capital."

Lin Ruhai frowned slightly, he knew that the old lady had a heart of resentment towards him after all, but in the end it was he who failed the entrustment of his parents-in-law and made his wife suffer.

It's hard to have the involvement of his wife's natal family, and at the same time, his own negligence at the beginning.

Alas, this is a messy account, the kind that can't be calculated.

He stood up and knelt down, and said solemnly: "Master-in-law, my son-in-law has already requested an order from the palace for his wife. My son-in-law's wife will always be Min'er alone."

The old lady clapped her hands heavily on the table: "What are you doing? I'm not forcing you to marry a second wife. Do you want Brother Mo to be called a bastard for the rest of your life?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head, and said slowly: "Actually, my son-in-law has thought about this before, planning to record Brother Mo under Min'er's name..."

"Bullshit!"

The old lady got up angrily: "You are now an official of the Six Departments, and you will have countless entertainments in the future. If you don't even have a decent wife in your family, how can you get along with people?"

"This……"

Lin Ruhai is a straight man, he never thought about the inner house at all.It was only after being reminded by the old lady that I thought of this, and I suddenly had a headache.

It's okay if you work abroad. There are many cases of people who travel in official circles without a family.

But now when he returns to Beijing to work, it is always necessary to interact with the inner house.

Seeing her son-in-law being speechless by what she said, the old lady was angry and funny.

Be it her son or her son-in-law, none of them made her worry.

"Okay, there's no rush for this matter, you're exhausted, go and have a good rest first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

……

On New Year's Eve, the Rongguo Mansion was full of joy and laughter.

Lin Ruhai sent a letter before returning to Beijing, so the old lady asked people to clean up the Lixiangyuan with a side door.

Brother Mo is already over a year old, and he can not only call out his father, mother, brother, and sister, but also walk a few steps crookedly.

Lin Ruhai hugged the saliva baby, and the wrinkles on Le's face disappeared a little.

He talked to Jinse most of the night last night, and he couldn't express his gratitude to the old lady.

It is true that the old lady complained to him, and it is also true that his wife was silent when she suffered a disaster.

But Jinse's successful delivery of a child is inseparable from the protection and care of the Rongguo Mansion and the old lady.

You must know that he has been assassinated more than ten times in Nanzhili for more than a year.If Jinse really followed him to Nanzhili, he would have died long ago.

"Stay dumb..."

"It's Daddy."

"Four dazed..."

"Daddy!"

"Stay!"

Well, just be dazed.

Jinse put a tiger hat on her son's head in a gentle and virtuous manner, and took out a handkerchief to wipe the saliva baby's face clean.

"Master, think it over, you really don't plan to move out?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "At least not for the time being. The situation in the capital is still unclear. Your Majesty has basically grasped the power of the government. I'm afraid there will be big moves in the next two years. You, Yu'er and Mo Geer are staying in Rongrong." The government, I can rest assured."

Speaking of this, Lin Ruhai suddenly asked: "Did someone whisper something in your ear? Don't you want to continue living in Rongguo Mansion? Or is someone embarrassing you?"

"No, no..."

Jinse knew that Lin Ruhai had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "I am just worried that if I continue to live in Rongguo Mansion, it will hinder the future of the master. After all, there is a difference between civil and martial arts."

"You, think too much."

Lin Ruhai could feel Jinse's true feelings, so he freed a hand and put his arms around him: "Don't worry about this, the difference between civil and military skills is not important when you are at my level. Besides, this is the Rongguo Mansion. It’s not too much for a poor son-in-law of the government to live there for a year or two. Whoever dares to talk about this kind of thing, I’ll let Brother Cong call him..."

"Pfft..."

"Who does uncle want me to hit?"

The two brains at the door made Jinse's whole body flush with embarrassment, and the slobber in Lin Ruhai's arms smiled toothlessly.

"Sister, brother, sister, brother..."

……

Daiyu was holding the slobber baby and playing hand-to-hand games on the soft bed, while Lin Ruhai was teaching the little son-in-law the homework.

"Your scriptures are enough to pass the boy's test, but your policy theory is very problematic."

After Lin Ruhai read several policy articles submitted by Jia Cong, he began to train seriously.

"Although policy theory is the most important thing to talk about, but you are too talkative. Not to mention anything else, the improvement of taxes is something you, a kid, can talk about?"

"Before you have the power, what you have to do is to be in harmony with the light, not to stand out from the crowd and want to show eagerness. You have to understand a truth, the tree is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it; the behavior is higher than the people, the crowd will No."

"Even if you, Jia Cong, are in the Emperor's heart, you cannot become the target of public criticism."

"The most indispensable thing in this world is the person who is in the emperor's heart!"

Lin Ruhai couldn't help but support his forehead when he looked at these policy theories that were becoming more and more fierce.

Brother Cong's these few strategies, if they were just presented directly to the emperor, they would definitely be top-notch articles.

But if it is placed in the examination room, [-]% of the time it will be directly dismissed by the examiner.

If it is not done well, it will be said to be unconventional, deliberately selling directly to seek fame.

He looked at Jia Cong, who was full of disbelief, and had to say patiently: "Do you know what your teacher Xu Qingteng's policy theory was like in the middle school and the top pick? It was stable and stable, and there was a hint of newness in the stability. The examiners of that class were right Your teacher's highest evaluation is the word "steady."

Jia Cong had never heard of this matter, so he couldn't help being curious.

"Could it be that the teacher never proposed the new coup law during the imperial examination?"

Lin Ruhai raised his hand and rubbed Jia Cong's head, and said earnestly: "Silly boy, the first requirement for the imperial court to select officials is not to be talented, but to be stable enough. When Xu Qingteng was in the Imperial Academy, he never publicized it. The new coup d'état law, but when you are in a foreign office, you start to raise Wang, silently raise Wang for ten years, and once it is known to the world. You have to learn from your teacher and seek change in stability!"

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　I will stop here tonight and continue tomorrow.Good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)