The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 123 Nine-door Admiral
The public carriage incident this time is undoubtedly a major external threat to the Jia family.

The specific manifestations of this threat are the emperor's threat to their lives and property, the property plundering of Niu Jizong and others, and the great pressure of external public opinion, etc.

Theoretically speaking, the members of Jia's family are all on the same boat, and they are a community of destiny.They have common interests.It should have been a shared honor and disgrace.

However, in reality, this is not the case.

This is not only the case with the Jia Mansion, but also any other organization.

Even if they have common interests, as individual members, they may not automatically be inclined to sacrifice and contribute to the collective.

The behavioral orientation and activeness of each of them actually depend on their calculations and trade-offs of the two elements.

These two elements are the risks and costs of your own actions.

As far as risks are concerned, the concern about external threats constitutes an obstacle for the Jia family to unite and work together with the outside world. Some people will be afraid, some will evade, and some will even rebel.

As far as the cost is concerned, everyone in Jia's mansion will calculate, once the bus business is successful, what will they get from it?In other words, if the action fails, what will I lose?
They will calculate whether the remuneration they get in the end matches the share he contributed.Or calculate whether you can afford what you lost.

Such concerns determine whether the joint defense against external threats can become a reality.

The emperor's decree has been confirmed, and this threat is inevitable.Even in this case, there is no guarantee that the Jia family will unite as one.

Different people in the Jia family may still take different actions because of their individual differences, the risks and costs they bear, and the costs they bear and the incentives they obtain at each stage.

People like Jia Min are trying their best to pursue the public interests of the Jia family.

Jia's mother will pursue the public interests of Jia's family most of the time.

Of course, other people also hope that the Jia family can survive this test, but the specific actions will be very different.

Some will take the opportunity to seek their own personal gain, Jia Amnesty.People like Wang Xifeng can do it completely.The idea of ​​wanting to separate is a concrete manifestation.

Little masters like Baoyu and the girls are in a state of hitchhiking, no matter what the outcome is, I just go with the flow.

It is not even ruled out that the masters and servants of Jia's mansion may collude with Niu Jizong and others.

Even Zhang Cai, a secret agent of the Jinyi Army, followed the officials and even the emperor, posing a threat to Jia's mansion.

How Jia Min dealt with this crisis, until now kept secret from others, was out of this kind of worry.Some things will not work if people know about them.

This is the advantage of information asymmetry.

Even Jiamu, the head of the family, has her own calculations in it.

The most typical, is two things.

One is to launch a plan for Jia Min to replace the dead ghost after things fail.

Another thing, she didn't tell anyone, even Jia Min didn't realize it.That is, when Jia's mother went to Yeduju to ask Jia Min to return home, she actually secretly prepared another plan.

When Jia Min couldn't be invited back by other methods, he practiced a beauty trick.Betroth one of Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baochai to Jia Min.

However, after Jia Min agreed, she didn't need to use this trick.

Therefore, it is actually impossible to achieve a truly united and external situation.

Jia Min never naively expected that there would be such a time.As long as the situation in the mansion is generally stable and his decision can be implemented, he will be content.

At this time, the betting money is accompanied back home for the purpose of stabilizing people's hearts and building consensus.

Jia Min's minimum goal is: I don't ask you to make much contribution, but you don't want to make trouble for me either.

Publicly punishing Wang Xifeng and Baoyu, and dispatching Jia Rong to Yeduju are all part of this action.

Another purpose of losing money is a bait.Jia Min wants to take this opportunity to fish out the power hidden in the dark.

Niu Jizong and the others are now an open force, and the emperor is also an open force.However, in this incident, Niu Jizong and the emperor are just the two ends of this incident, and there is also a link in the middle.

This link is the pushing hands in the government headed by Luo Hanlin and the nine admirals.

This part of the power has not yet been fully exposed.Their intentions, their bottom line, are not entirely clear.

To lose money to the subordinates at this time is to give them an excuse to come to the stage by themselves.

Jia Min's preset behavioral logic for them is: Since your Jia family can spend more than 8000 taels of silver to accompany the servants at this time, why can't you spend the money on the bus?

Because the emperor's errand is not only a pressure on the Jia family, but also a huge pressure on these officials.

Once the Jia Mansion can't handle the errands, people from the vassal state will come, and the show will fail, and they will have no way to explain it to the emperor.

From this point of view, their interests are consistent with those of the Jia family.However, before that, they tied their own interests with Niu Jizong and the others.This is where they misassigned their roles.

According to this situation, in the future, if Jia's mansion finishes this errand, they will take all from Niu Jizong and Jia's mansion without paying.The Jia family took all the risks and costs, and fulfilled the two of them.

Before inviting Jia Min back, the Jia family had actually acquiesced in this ending.However, when Jia Min came back, he would not let this happen in his own hands.

If you want me to do a good job, fine, but you have to give something, and even more.Not only asked me to do errands, but also asked me to be taken advantage of, how can there be such a good thing?

The so-called crisis has two meanings.One is danger and the other is opportunity.Jia Min wanted to take advantage of this crisis to seek greater benefits.

To a certain extent, what he is playing is cliff tactics: intensifying conflicts, detonating conflicts, seducing all forces from all sides, and then winning in the chaos.

The tactics worked quickly, and the next day, the admirals of the Nine Gates and Shuntian Fu Yin came.

Jia Min was waiting for them.As for Niu Jizong, Liu Fang and others, Jia Min now regards them as dead.

The "nine gates" of the admiral of the nine gates refers to Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, Xuanwumen, Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen, Xizhimen, Fuchengmen, Deshengmen and Andingmen in the imperial capital.

The admiral means to promote the superintendent.

Admiral Jiumen is an official of the second rank and the leader of the imperial army.The main responsibility is to manage the city defense and security of the imperial capital.It belongs to military duty.

How could such a person take care of business matters such as buses and carriages?Isn't this out of routine?
From the perspective of the nine admirals, it is indeed out of routine.However, the nine admirals are not full-time, but part-time by the emperor's most trusted minister.

This minister is Liu Changfeng from the Military Aircraft Department. The economic and administrative affairs of the imperial capital are under his jurisdiction.He is the one who concurrently serves as the admiral of the nine schools.

It is normal for him to come on an errand assigned by the emperor.

It's normal that Shuntian Fu Yin is here.This Shuntian Prefecture governs 24 prefectures and counties including Wanping, Daxing, Changping, and Zhuozhou. It is equivalent to the mayor of the imperial capital and is in charge of the administrative affairs of the imperial capital.The bus and carriage project falls under his jurisdiction.He is a third-rank official.

Although Shuntian Fu Yin's rank is not high, his power is not small.It is in the court class and can go to the palace to face the king.His responsibilities are connected with the six departments, and he can influence, change or even negate the decisions made by the six departments through the emperor.

Shuntian Mansion also has a great responsibility, that is, it can undertake complaints from all over the country. Although it is not a criminal department, it has the functions of a criminal department, and is known as the "small criminal department".

The arrival of such two talented people shows that they attach great importance to buses and carriages.

Naturally, Jia Min was not taken seriously by them, so he went to see Jia's mother directly.Before coming, Jia Zheng was specifically notified, so Jia Zheng asked for leave today and waited at home.

Last night, Jia Min had already received the notice, so Lai Dayi went to Rongxi Hall as soon as he called.

Although Jia Mu was a little nervous about the arrival of the Admiral of the Nine Gates and the Governor of Shuntian, she was also a person with orders, and the other party did not dare to make trouble.At the same time, Mother Jia often went to the palace to see Jia Yuanchun, and she was from a big family, so she had some knowledge.

Now that he entrusted the matter to Jia Min, he just let it go.She had an intuition that Jia Min could handle the two of them.

Although the Admiral of the Nine Gates and the Governor of Shuntian had already heard about Jia Min, they were still a little surprised when they actually met.The two exchanged glances, both of them had the same thoughts.

Sure enough, he was just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child.I don't know how the Jia family entrusted him with such a heavy responsibility.Even if he had some poetry names and business skills before, he was still a little younger in handling things like buses and carriages.

Is there really no one in Jia's house, or are they just not taking this errand seriously?
"You are Jia Min?"

The admiral of the Nine Gates asked bluntly, with a natural arrogance in his tone.

"It's right here, dare to ask why the two adults came here?"

Tema's, why are you here?You little brat, do you think we'd like to come?If you finish the imperial mission, will you still use us?Not sending you to the yamen for questioning is doing you a great deal of face, but you even asked why you came here?

"Hey, Jia Min, I heard that you are the one who is in charge of the bus and carriage business?"

"Exactly. There is no one in the mansion, so I have no choice but to resign myself to it."

"Do you know that this is Huangcha?"

"Of course he knows."

"There are only ten days left before the resumption of operations, do you know?"

"Nature is clear."

It's clear and it's like a person who has nothing to do.Don't you know we're all on fire like a house?
"Do you know the consequences of disobeying the emperor's order?"

"Of course he knows."

Knowing everything, but still doing nothing, is he a fool?
(End of this chapter)