The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 69
Xue Pan took the silver bill from Baochai and went straight to Liansheng Casino.

The bank notes at this time are equivalent to the acceptance bills of later generations.Under normal circumstances, it cannot directly enter the market for circulation.You can use it only after you get the silver number and exchange it into cash.

However, this is just common practice.If the denomination is relatively large and the bank issuing the ticket has a good reputation, these obstacles will not exist.Some relatively large merchants can also receive cashier receipts directly.

The capital flow of Liansheng Casino is very large, so the bank notes issued by more famous banks can be accepted directly.After they accept it, it can be circulated as a means of payment, or deposited in a bank as a means of savings, and of course, cash can also be cashed in a bank.

As soon as Xue Pan walked to the door, he met Baoyu.The two chatted naturally.

Baoyu also came to place a bet, so naturally he bought it and won.I bought 500 taels of silver.

When I saw Xue Pan, I asked him how he planned to bet.

Along the way, Xue Pan was thinking about Baochai's words, hesitating whether to listen to Baochai and buy Jia Minying.

He himself didn't think that Jia Min would win, but he also knew that his younger sister had always been more reliable in doing things, so after seeing Baoyu, he forgot Baochai's advice and even asked Baochai to buy her. Jia Min told Baoyu all about winning.

Baoyu naturally objected, not because he had any malice, but just hoped that Baochai would not lose money, and didn't care that Baochai didn't buy him to win but bought Jia Min to win.

Xue Pan was hesitant, but under Baoyu's persuasion, he also bought Baoyu's 1000 taels to win.

Then, the two went to drink together, talking while walking, this time the fourth brother Min was out of luck.

At this time, Jia Min was in the carpenter's shop of Zhou's family.Last time, the packing box of Guogong Liquor was customized here.

Zhou's carpentry shop is much larger than before, and there are several more workers.As soon as I entered the door, I saw four guys, two sawing, breaking wood.

In this era, it is still very laborious to process logs into planks.

Since there is no electricity and machinery, the broken wood is also completely artificial.Generally, it is a big saw more than one meter long. Two people pull it back and forth, one at each end, to break the wood into planks or squares. The efficiency is still very low.

Under Jia Min's recommendation, the packaging and crates of Hu's Winery are now also made here in Zhou's carpenter's shop. Therefore, when shopkeeper Zhou saw Jia Min, he warmly greeted him.

Jia Min took out another picture and handed it to shopkeeper Zhou.Then he explained and left.

Since they were already acquaintances, shopkeeper Zhou didn't even confiscate the deposit, so he took over the job directly.

After leaving Zhou's carpenter's shop, Jia Min came to the market, walked around, but found no watermelons or apples.I chatted with a few vendors about the prices of watermelons and apples in previous years. Seeing that it was almost noon, I found a tavern for dinner, and then went to the dilapidated house on Shuiyuan Street.

The scribe gave him a package of things, Jia Min opened it and looked at it, then paid 10 taels of silver, took the things out and got on the horse, and returned to Yeduju.

It was Ping'er who opened the door for him. When he came, he seemed to have a smile on his face, but when he saw Jia Min, Ping'er's little face immediately became serious.

Jia Min talked to her without making a sound, and walked a few steps back to the house.

Jia Min knew that it was because Ping'er was still angry, so he didn't care, so he went directly to the garden.

Ping'er was angry, not only because of the watermelon incident, but also because of the rumors that came out of the mansion recently.

It is said that the mansion wants to take back all the properties here, and return Ping'er and the others to the mansion.

She asked Jia Min to go back to the mansion to beg the old lady and let the old lady decide.But Jia Min didn't agree, he just acted like a normal person, what should he do in a day, or what to do.The angry Ping'er scolded him in his heart for being heartless.

People like Ping'er and Jiao Li are unwilling to go back to the mansion, let alone watch these properties being taken back by the mansion.

Others dare not say anything to Jia Min, but Ping'er does.Not only did he dare to say that Jia Min would not listen to him, he even dared to throw face at Jia Min.

From Ping'er's point of view, Jia Min is really a bit too useless.

Ping'er's temper used to be in the mansion. Sometimes, he dared to talk back and show his temper with Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, let alone Jia Min.

He also knew that Ping'er was anxious for himself, but according to Ping'er, would it be useful to go to the mansion to ask Jia Mu?
If it's useless, Ping'er doesn't know the essence of the problem at all.

The current turmoil, on the surface, seems to be concentrated on the handicap of the Liansheng gambling house, but in fact the root cause is still in Jia's mansion.

The initial tipping point, on the surface, was because of Jia Min's dividends to Ping'er and the others, but in fact it was the conflict of interests between the masters of Jia's mansion and Jia Min.

This dividend has touched the pain points of the masters. From a macro perspective, this is another battle of ideas.

Those masters think that all interests should belong to them, and even Ping'er and his servants are their private property.

Jia Min's point of view is that servants are certainly your property, but you should also give them a future and make them feel a bit rushed.Properly giving them some benefits will help them work better for their Master.

Although the servants got a little money, but by making the cake bigger, the masters got more.

The masters in the house thought that Jia Min was using the public money to build up his prestige and attack their authority.

Jia Min did have this kind of thinking, but his purpose was to increase his right to speak, so as to transform Jia's mansion, plan a future for Jia's mansion, and avoid the fate of defeat.

This action against Jia Min was originally initiated and actively promoted by Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong.However, when Mother Jia ordered that people in the house be allowed to place bets at Liansheng Casino, the nature changed.

This shows that Jia's mother also joined the action against Jia Min.Jia Mu's purpose may not be the same as Wang Xifeng's. She also took this opportunity to use Wang Xifeng and the others to achieve her own purpose.

Although their goals may not be the same, in fact, this turmoil has indeed become a confrontation between Jia Min alone and the entire Jia family.

Of course Jia Min knew that this was Mother Jia sending a signal to him, warning him that she was exercising her authority to keep Baoyu's position.

Therefore, he must now fight with his back.

Because he has no way out.

It's not because he can't live if he leaves Jia's mansion. On the contrary, if he leaves Jia's mansion now, without the burden of Jia's mansion, without the constraints of Jia's mansion, he will live better.

Once he leaves Jia's mansion, he will be completely cut off from Jia's mansion.If that is the case, the Jia family will lose their last chance of self-salvation.If Jia Min wants to start the renovation of the Jia Mansion again, not only is it a long way off, but even if it starts, precious time will be lost.

If Jia Min admits defeat this time, the position of the conservatives in Jia's mansion will be greatly consolidated, and all future reform measures will encounter strong resistance from them.

At that time, even Jia Mu and Jia Zheng, who can be regarded as enlightened, will be coerced by them and will do nothing anymore.

More importantly, if Jia Min fails, Qin Keqing, Miaoyu and Baochai will miss him forever.So much so that he finally had to take such extreme measures as abducting Qin Keqing and Miaoyu.

Maybe Miaoyu and Qin Keqing will go with him, but Baochai will definitely not go with him.

Besides, it was really not in Jia Min's character to raise his hand and surrender like this.

This time, there is also an upside.That is to let Jia Min see clearly the true face of Jia's mother.

Mother Jia just regarded him as a money-making tool.

She can use Jia Min to make money for herself, and she can also use Jia Min to deal with opponents like Mrs. Wang, but she will never allow him to challenge Baoyu's status and her own authority.

Therefore, Jia Min's real opponent this time is not Jia She, nor Wang Xifeng, but Jia Mu.

Jia's mother called him back. This was the first time the two met.This first meeting will also be an official duel between the two.

Although Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong had a good time, in fact, apart from venting their personal anger towards Jia Min, they won't get much benefit from this struggle.

Jia's mother cleverly used them to turn the situation in the direction she wanted, and took this opportunity to subdue Jia Min.It not only kept Baoyu's position and consolidated her authority, but also got Jia Min, a money-making machine.

Jia Mu is the master of struggle.

On the surface, it seemed that Jia's mother had the chance to win now, but she underestimated Jia Min's ability and determination.

Since you want to play, I will play a big one with you.

It's just that when the time comes, I won't follow your path to play.You hit yours, I hit mine.I want to fight to establish my own position and firmly seize my right to speak in Jia's mansion.

The Jia family must follow my path, there is no room for negotiation!
After Jia Min finished working in the yard, it was getting dark.Wash your face and start eating.

Now, there are more than a dozen people in Yedu Juli. Because there are so many people, they don't all eat together now.Instead, they all called back and each ate his own food.However, the food is the same, even Jia Min is no exception.So, no one has any comments.

After dinner, continue with class.However, due to the recent rumors, I was not concentrating on studying.Yesterday, Fang Xiucai talked to Jia Min about this matter, but Jia Min didn't have any clear attitude.It's just that, whatever you learn is whatever you want.It seems that the situation is very low.

Fang Xiucai and the others also heard about what happened in Jia's mansion.Fang Xiucai was also shaken by the matter of building a school in his home.

However, on this point, Jia Min's attitude is very firm.Ask Fang Xiucai to carry out everything according to the original plan.And took out 5000 taels of silver bills on the spot, saying that it was used for the cost of building the school.

In fact, there is no shortage of money now, but Fang Xiucai saw Jia Min's determination from this move.Although he still doesn't know what specific plans Jia Min has, but he has an intuition that Jia Min will not be so easily succumbed.

Previously, Jia Min had revealed his plan to run a school to Fang Xiucai, and it was precisely because of this that Fang Xiucai followed Jia Min wholeheartedly.

A person who can write poems like "Poppy", who can invent Chinese pinyin, who can invent Arabic numerals, can be defeated so easily by others?
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