The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 351 Competing with the 'people' for profit

【5300 words big chapter~】

Because the emperor suddenly came to ride face output, the Hongmen Banquet in Kunning Palace naturally ended without a problem.

It's just that when Emperor Longyuan followed Jia Yuanchun to Yuyunyuan, he changed his joyful appearance and sat on the couch with a gloomy face, silent.

Jia Yuanchun served the tea himself, seeing the emperor like this, he didn't want to provoke him, but thinking that the matter was all caused by his younger brother, he insisted on persuasion: "Your Majesty, if the news of self-destruction of the palace gate gets out, I'm afraid The foreign court wants to..."

Before she could finish speaking, the emperor suddenly got up, gritted his teeth and asked: "You don't know the truth?! Do you think I'm really that foolish king who plays with things?!

Hearing him gnashing his teeth and the veins throbbing on his forehead, Jia Yuanchun hurriedly knelt down and bowed his head to confess: "It's my concubine's fault, please take care of your majesty's dragon body!"

She suddenly fell short, and the emperor's anger could not be vented, so he could only sit back on the couch and sighed: "Oh~ I'm not attacking you, let's get up and talk first——Last time, the Ministry of Rites, Inspector Please refrain from the excerpts of the industrial drama, I purposely keep it and not publish it, originally I want them to retreat in the face of difficulties, and then hand over the matter to the Ministry of Industry for supervision."

"Who would have thought that in the early morning court today, the Ministry of Rites announced that work-study students can be regarded as career candidates. They should take the imperial examinations and obtain official titles before they can become officials—this is simply absurd. If I follow their wishes, I will only I'm afraid that craftsmen and officials will be cut off from now on, let alone any industrial innovation!"

As he said that, he couldn't help standing up again, and gritted his teeth red-faced and said: "The strange way has been the stupid kings since ancient times. Many of them are wise and young. I'm afraid many of them were forced out by these disobedient ministers!"

After a pause, I finally couldn't hold back and said: "If I have to, I may not be able to be a tyrant once!"

Hearing the emperor's violent remarks, Jia Yuanchun was inexplicably terrified, and wanted to persuade him, but he couldn't explain it too clearly because of the rules of the harem not to interfere in politics. The emperor said '1 years is too long', but in the end he could only be indifferent.

But Emperor Longyuan vented for a long time, and found that she had become a saw-mouth gourd again, not saying a word or commenting, and he was also bored by the boss, so he changed the topic and said: "Let's not talk about these, in fact, today I am In addition to playing with things and losing one's ambitions, he also did something to compete with the people for profit..."

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But said this afternoon.

Hearing that Jia Baoyu had brought his bicycle into the palace, Jia Zhenjiarong and his son rushed to Rongguo Mansion excitedly.

Because Jia Zheng is still recovering from his illness, Lin Zhixiao, who was welcoming the guests, originally planned to invite Jia Lian out to meet the guests, but Jia Zhen hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "Don't disturb Brother Lian, we are only here for Baoyu. ——You are busy with your work, we are here waiting for him."

After all, he is not an outsider, and he often comes and goes on weekdays, so Lin Zhixiao respectfully agreed, and ordered the servant girl to serve tea and snacks, and left someone outside the door to wait for orders, and went to work on his own affairs .

However, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, father and son, sat for nearly an hour with tea and snacks. During this period, they couldn't help thinking about the bright future of bicycles being sold and Ningguo Mansion also making money. Get excited.

And so on until the sun sets.

Just then Jia Baoyu came back with the big and small bags he bought on the road. He jumped out of the car and was instructing the servants to send some of them to the old lady and Wang Xifeng's house. I'm back, Uncle Zhen and Brother Rong have been waiting in the small flower hall of Neiyi Gate for more than an hour!"

Jia Baoyu was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then his face, which was originally quite festive, collapsed. He beat his chest and said, "Oops, no, why did I forget that there is Brother Zhen?!"

He beat his hands and turned around anxiously.

Seeing this, Lin Zhixiao hurriedly asked what happened and whether he should tell his wife or the old lady to know.

Jia Baoyu waved his hand irritably, and was about to tell him not to make any noise, when he suddenly remembered something, so he hurriedly said: "Go to Jiao's house and ask when Brother Jiao will come back, and when he comes back, be sure to invite him to Yihong Courtyard Find me!"

Lin Zhixiao asked in a respectful voice, and then asked, "Where is Master Zhen..."

"Don't tell Brother Zhen that I'm back!"

As Jia Baoyu said, he tugged at the neckline and said, "Stop talking, I'm sweating all over today, I'm in a hurry to go back and wash and change my clothes."

Saying that, he led Li Gui and a group of powerful slaves to the Grand View Garden.

Lin Zhixiao had no choice but to go to Jiao's house in person, poked his head in the yard, hesitating whether to call out, when Xiangling came out to pour water in the East Wing, saw him at first glance, and hurriedly turned around and shouted: "Hongyu, Hongyu, Uncle Lin is here!" !"

"where?!"

When Lin Hongyu heard this, she hurriedly put down her work and came out. Seeing that it was indeed her father who came to the door, she said happily, "Father, did you come here specially to see me?"

"It just so happens that I have an errand. If I really want to see you, it's your mother."

As Lin Zhixiao's family said, they couldn't help looking up and down at their daughter, but they saw that she was very different from when she was in Baoyu's room. As the melon matured, the stalks swelled, and there were more pieces of jewelry on the head and hands that I had never seen before.

While Lin Zhixiao was relieved by this, he couldn't help but feel the sour feeling that his cabbage had been crushed.

It wasn't until Hongyu asked him why he came that Lin Zhixiao came to his senses and hurriedly told Baoyu what he had ordered.

Lin Hongyu took out a gold-plated pocket watch from her skirt neatly, glanced at her eyes and said: "As long as you don't get caught up in official duties, our master should be back soon—but if you get caught up, you don't know when." .”

As he said that, he wanted to pull Lin Zhixiao to sit in the West Wing Hall, but Lin Zhixiao hurriedly waved his hands and refused, saying that he should reply to Second Master Bao anyway, and besides, there are still Mr. Zhen and his son at Neiyi Gate. I'm afraid I'm getting impatient waiting for a while, someone needs to deal with it carefully.

Hongyu sent her father out of the courtyard all the way, and watched him go away reluctantly, then returned to the East Wing, and taught Aunt Xing what Lin Zhixiao had just explained.

Xing Xiuyan heard that it was related to Uncle Zhen from the East Mansion, plus the news that Baoyu entered the palace with a bicycle, so he immediately guessed the cause and effect of it closely.

It's just that why Jia Baoyu refused to go to see Jia Zhen alone, and instead wanted to bring her master along with her, she was at a loss for a moment.

Seeing this, Siqi persuaded: "There is an old man outside, what is my aunt doing with such nosy things? While it's cool, let me help you take a walk in the yard."

After speaking, they ordered Xiangling's general again, and the two of them helped Xing Xiuyan to the outside, walking slowly along the veranda.

Only Yuchuan and Hongyu were left in the room, looking at each other with disgust, and naturally they had nothing to say to each other.

After about another cup of tea, he heard the carriage stop outside the door, and then Lai Wang and Jiao Shun came in side by side.

The two chess players hurriedly helped Xing Xiuyan to go forward to salute.

Laiwang couldn't talk to his son's concubine room, so he only told Siqi to take good care of his aunt, and went to the main room to change and wash.

After his father left, Jiao Shun was about to step forward to replace Xiang Ling, Xing Xiuyan hurriedly said: "Brother Bao just sent someone to invite him, it sounds like there is something urgent, I'd better go back to the house and change into the usual clothes for a while."

Jiao Shun asked what happened, but she didn't answer, she only said that it was Lin Zhixiao who came, and Hongyu knew the reason most clearly.

Jiao Shun knew that she didn't want to rob the maids of their chance to be petted, so he took out a bag of candy from his sleeve with a smile and handed it to her: "This is Westerner's toffee, you can chew it first if you can't chew it."

Then he turned around and went to the East Wing.

Afraid of missing her father's errand, Hongyu had been waiting at the door for a long time, and naturally listened to the conversation between the two just now, thanking Aunt Xing for her generosity and consideration, while busy serving Jiao Shun to change clothes and wash, and by the way, tell all she knew. Smell from the beginning.

After Jiao Shun finished listening, he was also a little puzzled by Jia Baoyu's eagerness to find him.

He casually took out another toffee, peeled off the paper seal, stuffed it into Lin Hongyu's mouth, and said with a smile: "Now you are all in this mansion, and I have never restrained you, so go home and have a look if you have time, otherwise we will wait until next year." If you move to Zijin Street, it will not be so easy to come back."

Hongyu held the candy in her mouth, and heard that the uncle was so considerate, the sweetness went from her throat to her heart.

Yu Chuan on the side was a little displeased because she took the lead, but thinking that he was taught a lesson by the uncle last time, he didn't dare to show it.

So after Jiao Shun left, she gritted her teeth and wrapped a slender piece of cloth around her body a few times to tightly wrap the weight on her chest, then took out the rope and jumped three to five hundred times in a row until her legs were sore and swollen. Just stopped.

Recently, whenever she needs to vent her emotions, she will do this. When asked by others, they only say that she is learning from the uncle to strengthen her body-this is not entirely a lie, she really wants to increase the strength of her lower limbs by jumping rope. One day, he pretended to accidentally lock up the uncle, so as to break the contraceptive method!
Not to mention this.

But Jiao Shun saw that it was getting late, so he didn't enter the Grand View Garden to avoid suspicion, but asked someone to send a message to Jia Baoyu to come out and meet him.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Baoyu came out dejectedly. Seeing this, Jiao Shun thought that he had suffered a setback in the palace, so he took the lead to comfort him: "So many people in the Ministry of Industry don't like this bicycle. It's common sense that His Majesty doesn't like it..."

"Who said the emperor doesn't like bicycles?"

Jia Baoyu interrupted Jiao Shun in bewilderment, then scratched his head and said in distress: "It's obvious that I like it too much!"

Jiao Shun was surprised when he heard the words: "Isn't that right? Why is Brother Bao still looking downcast?"

"This... ugh!"

Jia Baoyu sighed with a wrinkled little round face, raised his hand forward and said, "Let's talk about it after seeing Big Brother Zhen."

Jiao Shun was confused by him, but it's not far from Neiyimen flower hall, and it's not too short of a few steps.

So they turned to Neiyimen together with him.

As soon as he arrived near the small flower hall, Jia Zhen, who got the news, couldn't wait to come out, and laughed from a long distance: "Brother Bao is back! Brother Jiao Xian is here too? Exactly, just right, tell me, that bicycle Can you still enter the eyes of the emperor?"

Jia Baoyu spread his hands and smiled wryly: "It's not just because of your majesty's eyes, your majesty even used lunch on the school grounds, and it only took half a day to be more proficient in riding than me--I heard what your majesty said. The door sills have been removed, and it will be easier to ride in and out in the future.”

This was even more exaggerated than what Jia Zhenjiarong had imagined before. Thinking of this, the bicycle would no longer have to worry about the sale of the bicycle. Both of them were smiling from ear to ear.

But Jiao Shun knew that things were not that simple, and asked from the side: "Then why is Brother Bao so unhappy? Is there something else to say?"

"This……"

Jia Baoyu looked at Jia Zhen who was on the opposite side, looked away with embarrassment, and mumbled: "Your Majesty has fallen in love with this item, and plans to contribute part of the capital to do business with us."

"There is such a thing?! This, this is really a great blessing!"

Jia Zhen trembled with excitement when she heard the words, where did he think that it was just a purchase, and he actually got a partner with the emperor? !
After this...

"and many more!"

Jia Zhen was thinking about the future, but Jiao Shun next to him frowned, pointed at the key point and asked, "I don't know how this share capital is divided?"

Jia Baoyu simply lowered his head, and said like a mosquito: "The Ministry of Industry will hold [-]% of the shares, and Your Majesty, Brother Jiao, and I will each hold [-]% of the shares."

The excitement on Jia Zhen's face froze in an instant, but her hands trembled even more. She opened her mouth for a long time before she questioned: "Bao, Brother Bao, what did you say? It's obvious that Brother Jiao Xian and I are going to work together. Business, but how, but how..."

As he spoke, he couldn't help stepping forward to pull Baoyu.

Scared, Jia Baoyu sneaked behind Jiao Shun, and explained shamelessly: "I heard the emperor talk about the rise, and for a moment I forgot that Brother Ti Zhen also took a share in it. As a result, as a result..."

"You, you... this, this..."

Jia Zhen was so angry that she almost vomited blood.

Just now, he thought he was on the Tongtian Avenue, but because Jia Baoyu didn't make it clear, he fell off the Tianlu in a blink of an eye.

"Brother Zhen, don't worry!"

Seeing that Jia Zhen's face was red with green and black with red, Jia Baoyu hurriedly said: "I will transfer the [-]% shares to you at that time! Otherwise, I will make it clear to the emperor in a few days, let... ..."

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate!"

Without waiting for Jia Zhen to be happy, Jiao Shun said decisively: "Your Majesty speaks well, how can we allow us to give and receive in private? What's more, this kind of division is obviously that His Majesty intends to benefit Brother Bao. If you make a fuss and insist on pushing it to Brother Zhen, I'm afraid ..."

Saying that, he shook his head vigorously.

The flames that had just ignited in Jia Zhen's heart were immediately extinguished by Jiao Shun.

At the moment, I can't help but hate Jia Baoyu. The fault is not because of the situation that the west is strong and the east is weak.

After all this trouble, Jia Zhen naturally refused to stay in Rong Mansion for dinner, and led her son back home angrily.

After entering the door and repelling the left and right, he began to scold Baoyu's eighth-generation ancestors, completely forgetting that they were also his ancestors.

Jia Rong was also dejected and annoyed.

After finally waiting for Jia Zhen to vent, he couldn't help inquiring: "Master, can we really just let this go?"

"What counts?"

Jia Zhen slapped the table and stared: "Nowadays the provincial homes have been repaired everywhere, but there is no shortage of wood from the south. Seeing that the income is getting less and less, if we don't find a way to get rich, why don't we go there?" Can't you drink the northwest wind?!"

The profit of the timber business is indeed inferior to that of last year, but the decline is by no means as exaggerated as Jia Zhen said. What really forced him to rush to increase income is actually the constantly rising profligate expenditure of the Ningguo Mansion.

When Jia Rong heard the words, she only thought that her own father was really daring to resist the order, and hurriedly persuaded: "Master, calm down, this, this is the emperor's intention after all, how can we..."

"What is the emperor's intention?"

Jia Zhen's eyes widened and she said angrily: "The emperor won't let us do the bicycle business, so can he stop us from finding another way to get rich?!"

Jia Rong: "..."

Having said so much, aren't you cowardly?

Jia Zhen got up and paced back and forth a few times, then said decisively: "This matter still has to fall on Jiao Shun!"

Jia Rong thought the same way. Both father and son were masters who could only get out and not get in. If they caught Jiao Shun, a fat sheep, they naturally wanted to squeeze him to death.

only……

Jia Rong frowned and said, "But I see what Jiao Shun means, I'm afraid he doesn't like our repeated demands..."

"So what if you don't like it?"

Jia Zhen sneered: "He was the one who pinched us before, and now I'm also tied up at home, so why is he willing to burn everything?!"

"It's strange that my father pushed my wife..."

Jia Rong's eyes widened, and her "respect" for her father was overwhelming—encouraging her own wife to be pregnant by an adulterer, and then threatening the adulterer with her children, is this an idea that ordinary people can come up with?
When mentioning Youshi, his stepmother's snow-white body became more and more plump and delicious after giving birth, and he couldn't help but think about it again.

So he hurriedly suggested: "Since that's the case, it's better to make an example of my wife - recently, relying on Jiao Shun's influence, she has become more and more disrespectful! When the confinement is over, the master must cheer up and work hard to let her Know who the male master of this mansion is!"

This is because the father wants to eat meat and the son drinks soup. It just so happens that the Xu family is not new, so father and son trade each other, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?
Jia Zhen glanced at her son, and immediately saw what was in his heart based on her rich dirty experience, she shook her head and said: "I think this guy is the most greedy, and he may not be willing to facilitate everyone - besides, you heard it just now, the emperor said If you want to do business with him in partnership, this guy will change his status in the future and become the purse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and forcing him to turn his face at this time, wouldn't it be a small loss?"

Although he rejected his son's idea, but thinking about the cute and lovely appearance of the new daughter-in-law, he couldn't control it for a while.

So he frantically hinted: "However, your mother and I have been husband and wife for ten years, so it's not difficult to handle her—you first pay tribute to your father carefully, and then I will naturally miss your benefits, master!"

Jia Rong hurriedly stood up and cupped her hands and said, "What is the father saying? Even if it is not good, how dare a son not honor his father?!"

Having said that, he cursed loudly in his heart, this old bastard is really not a thing, if he hadn't been worried about Jiao Shun, he would have swallowed Xu's body and bones, now he has the face to talk to the white wolf and coax himself Offer up Xu's family.

Really shameless!
Jia Zhen saw that her son was well-behaved on the surface, thinking of the wit of picking up ashes, her attitude became unprecedentedly kind, she raised her hand to support her and said: "Sit down and talk, sit down and talk-you know how to be filial, wait for me for a hundred years After that, not all the plants and trees in this mansion will be yours."

Jia Rongwei sat down, and the two subconsciously looked at each other, full of fatherly kindness and filial piety.

After a while, Jia Zhen remembered the business again, and ordered: "Jiao Shun will definitely come to that evil bastard who will put the full moon wine in the future. You and Brother Qiang have worked hard these two days, and you must do it thoughtfully and decently. We Then I took advantage of the situation and opened my mouth at him."

"Son, save it!"

Jia Rong nodded in agreement, but then she couldn't help complaining: "Brother Qiang, for some reason, runs to the West Mansion every day, and there is no one in the street all day long!"

"Humph~"

Jia Zhen's face darkened when she heard the words, and she stroked her beard thoughtfully, but in the end she didn't say anything else, she just told Jia Rong to spare no effort to make this full moon wine, and to listen to You Shi's opinions more - to make her happy Yes, it's good to say a few words of kindness.

(End of this chapter)