The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 152 Checking and Balancing Wang Xifeng

Wang Xifeng's problems, one is the competition for wealth, and the other is the unscrupulous way of doing things.

This problem, in a sense, is actually a problem of the Jia family.It's just that Wang Xifeng's performance is more typical.

The current Jia Mansion still maintains the standard of living of the heyday of the Jia Mansion, if not worse.Extravagance and extravagance prevailed, and luxury flourished.It is also a false name to the outside world, talking about ostentation.

With the increase in housing allocation and population, Jia's wealth—that is, political resources and economic resources should also increase simultaneously.Only in this way can the relatively high standard of living in the past be maintained.

In fact, not only did Jia's wealth not increase, but it shrank further.At this time, if you want to maintain the previous level, resources will naturally become tense.

If the members of the Jia family maintain the pioneering and enterprising spirit of their ancestors, or as Jia Min said, maintain the noble spirit of their ancestors, the Jia family can also open up new fortunes and maintain this level.

However, the current members of Jia's family can't even count as defending Chengdu, they are just comparing one by one who is more prodigal.

In the case of tight resources, competition is inevitable.This is actually the root of Jia's house struggle.

The so-called house struggle is essentially a competition for resources, and everyone wants to control more power and property.

This kind of house fighting is common in all big families.In the start-up period of a general family, this kind of competition is not very fierce, and the later the competition, the more intense the competition will be.The second generation is still barely able to keep up. , By the time of the third and fourth generations, house fighting began to heat up.

The current Jia Mansion is in the midst of this intergenerational alternation.

Compared with other aristocratic families, the disadvantage of the Jia family's small population is actually an advantage in the house fight.Other aristocratic families with a large population, especially those with a large number of males, have more intense house fighting than Jia's.

Even a family like the Jia Mansion has murderous means, and one can imagine how bloody the house fights of other families are.

With the disappearance of the aristocratic spirit, it is the degradation of the master's ability.Text cannot be written, military cannot be martial, business cannot be business.The results of this degradation, most of the time, manifest themselves in two ways.

One is that the master is weak and the slave is strong, and nothing can be done without servants.For example, Lai Shangrong, Lai Da's son, became the county magistrate, and the housekeeper of Jia's house controlled the finances, and even fooled the master, plundered from it, and enriched his own pockets, which is the embodiment of the weak master and the strong slave.

Another result is the loss of the ability to obtain wealth from the outside world, and the result is to turn to the inside and compete for this limited resource.

The logic of its behavior is that if you have it, I will lose it.If you have more, I will lose this zero-sum thinking.

The reason why Jia Min came to Jia's mansion was to do business and make money.In addition to wanting to gain a firm foothold, I want to increase wealth as much as possible and reduce the intensity of this competition.

However, increasing wealth alone cannot solve the fundamental problem.It is also necessary to change people's behavior habits and transform people's concepts.

Changing the concept is by no means a one-time achievement, so the plan of the scorpion and the popcorn plan are carefully planned.

His intention is to turn people into economic animals in a short period of time by introducing them into the economic track.Let them focus on the pursuit of wealth.From this perspective, to ease this kind of internal contention and strife.

This requires a relatively long process.If Jia Min had enough time, he could still advance the plan in an orderly manner, but now that he was going to train soldiers, and with the champion in the martial arts examination, if the emperor used troops in the future, it was very likely that Jia Min would lead the troops.

Therefore, his time is running out.

Once he leaves Jia's mansion, whether his plan can be carried out will be a big question mark.

Therefore, he must seize the time to implement his plan.

Among the masters of Rongguo Mansion, the girls are basically harmless.Although Baoyu didn't live up to expectations, he wasn't too harmful either.Jia Lian's personal morals are mediocre, and her ability is also mediocre, but she still has a bottom line in doing things.

Although Mrs. Wang is also good at house fights, as the head of the Rongguo Mansion, she still has to consider the overall situation when doing things.And the ability is relatively mediocre.

Jia Amnesty has certain abilities, but currently has no ambitions.It seems to be limited to money and beauty.There is no immediate threat to the overall situation.

The only one who is capable and has no bottom line in doing things is Wang Xifeng.

Previously, Jia Min had thought of exposing Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong's affair and driving Wang Xifeng out of Jia's house.However, he later rejected this idea.

By doing so, Wang Xifeng can certainly be driven out of Jia's mansion.However, the consequences of doing so are also very serious.This means the break between the Jia and Wang families.

Among the current four major families of Jia Wang Xue Shi, historians have a faint tendency to drift away from the four major families.The Xue family also has a tendency to exist in name only, and now it is basically attached to the Jia family.If the two families of Jia and Wang broke up, the so-called four major families would also fall apart.

Not only that, Jia Min will also offend the Wang family and establish a powerful enemy.Even the Jia family will be dissatisfied with Jia Min because Jia Min lifted the cover.In the future, if he wants to do something in the Jia family, it will be difficult to find allies.

If this matter is too extreme, people will be very afraid of him, very afraid of him, and thus avoid him.

Therefore, the best way to deal with Wang Xifeng is to subdue her and use her.If Jia Min is here, he has the confidence to do this.However, if you leave Jia's mansion, this trick will not work.

Therefore, he must have his means to control Wang Xifeng.

In the current Jia family, the one who can control Wang Xifeng is actually Jia's mother alone.However, Jia Mu was old and she was no longer able to deal with practical affairs directly, so it was relatively easy for Wang Xifeng to deceive Jia Mu.

In fact, Wang Xifeng is currently doing the same.

In name, Mrs. Wang has the power to control Wang Xifeng, but in view of their relationship and Mrs. Wang's ability, she cannot actually control Wang Xifeng.

Jia Lian did not have this ability, and Baoyu and Jia Huan were no match for her.

It stands to reason that Li Wan's position as the eldest daughter-in-law should be an ideal candidate.However, Li Wan has no allies in the mansion, and her natal family has no influence, plus her own ability and character, she is not Wang Xifeng's opponent.

Among young people, in terms of knowledge, ability and strategy, there are only two people left who can compete with Wang Xifeng.

One is Xue Baochai, and the other is Qin Keqing.

These two people, even if they fight alone, Wang Xifeng may not be an opponent.If the two of them work together, they can completely play Wang Xifeng to the north.

If the two of them were to check and balance Wang Xifeng, it would be the most ideal solution.

However, there are still certain obstacles in relying on the two of them to check and balance Wang Xifeng.

Qin Keqing is the eldest granddaughter-in-law of Ningguo Mansion, and it will be a matter of time before she takes over the internal affairs of Ningguo Mansion, but her hand cannot reach Rongguo Mansion for a while.Moreover, she has not yet surfaced in Ningguo Mansion.

Baochai now belongs to the identity of a guest in Jia's mansion, and her participation in the affairs of Jia's mansion is not justified, and it is difficult to be convincing.

Therefore, we have to think of other ways.

Jia Min is already implementing this method.This bus and carriage project, with Qin Keqing as the largest shareholder, is part of this plan.

Qin Keqing's shares, together with Feng Ziying's, Chen Yejun's and Wei Ruolan's shares, as well as Jia's Guanzhong's shares, guaranteed absolute financial control.

This move was Jia Min's test of water, intended to test the reactions of the people in Jia's mansion.At present, it seems that they have accepted this result, or in other words, they have not discovered Jia Min's real intention.

It can be said that this first step of the plan was successful.The next step is to gradually integrate some of Jia's existing industries into the bus and carriage project, and inject Qin Keqing's other 1 taels of silver into it, so as to maintain the controlling position all the time.

In this way, Qin Keqing can control a part of Jia's finances.

Introducing Qin Keqing, in addition to being able to check and balance Wang Xifeng, she can also be used to further integrate the resources of Ningguo Mansion and promote the integration of resources between the two prefectures. The future goal is to realize the deep integration and integration of the two prefectures' economies.

Baochai's identity barrier, Jia Min also plans to solve it through this model.

The Popcorn Project provided a carrier for his proposal.This military training provided him another good opportunity. At this time, it was the best time for Baochai to enter the economic life of Jia's mansion.

Jia Min's approach is to take advantage of this opportunity to transfer soldiers from the servants, and integrate Rongguo Mansion and even Zhuangzi outside Ningguo Mansion into the Popcorn Project under the pretext of not having enough soldiers.He owns the shares, and Baochai takes the shares.In the end, he, Baochai, and the shares of Jia's officials, together with the three shares, realize the controlling share.Distribute some small shares to other masters.

In this way, the shops in the city were integrated to Qin Keqing, and the land and Zhuangzi outside were integrated to Xue Baochai.Realized the control of Jia's economy.

Once this situation is achieved, not to mention Wang Xifeng, even Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang will not be able to change this trend.

As a kind of compensation and balance, Jia She, Wang Xifeng and others can be given some business opportunities, allowing them to indulge in the joy of making money.

The next step is to make their current underground economy and gray income public and legal.

You can run your own business, and the income can go to your own coffers, but you do so at your own risk.

The ultimate goal is to achieve a complete separation of personal finances from official finances.Change the current situation of not distinguishing between public and private, and harming the public and benefiting the private.

The public finance of the Jia Mansion is the daily operating expenses of the Jia Mansion and the minimum guarantee for all members. Individuals have the space and opportunity to start their own businesses freely.Achieving win-win results.

In this way, the young masters and servants in the mansion can be unified to the greatest extent under the banner of Qin Keqing and Baochai, so as to achieve this quiet transformation of Jia's mansion through economic means.

A money-hungry person like Wang Xifeng told her to busy herself with earning private money.Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang and her like kept them busy enjoying themselves, so as to minimize the phenomenon of house fighting.

As for Baoyu, just be a wealthy and idle person.

(End of this chapter)