Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 346 You Are Really a Good Relative

As long as Mrs. Wang is willing to let Xia Jingui in, Mother Jia may still think of Shi Xiangyun and Jia Baoyu as a pair at first.

After all, Mother Jia herself was from a historian family. Without Lin Daiyu as her own grandson, it would be nice to have another nephew and grandson.

Moreover, since Daiyu was named the head of Fushun County by the emperor, her marriage is actually not up to Jiamu to decide.

Coupled with the need to win over Shi Zhongkui, this is probably one of the reasons why Jia's mother had to agree in the end.

In this case, of course Mother Jia would think of Shi Xiangyun and marry into the Jia family just like her.

But this idea is likely to bow to reality as Jia's family gets richer and more deficient, agreeing with Mrs. Wang's idea and letting Xia Jingui in.

Don't look at the fact that the Jia family has stabilized the family's position in Dazhou because Shi Zhongkui's second wife is Yingchun, and the eldest wife is Baochai, the niece of a relative's family.

But it is not so easy to convert this status into money in a short period of time.

Shi Zhongkui didn't go out even when he returned home, even if someone wanted to use his prestige to make troubles, he had no chance.

The second Shi Zhongkui used Xue Pan, Jia Lian, and Jia Rong as excuses before, and severely suppressed the ups and downs of the Jia family and the Xue family.

Not to mention making money, but because of the more prominent family background, the daily expenses suddenly became larger.

According to the Jia family's consistent practice of swollen faces to pretend to be fat, the extravagant atmosphere within the family will only get worse.

If it hadn't been for copying the Lai family and getting a lot of money, the Jia family might not be able to hold on long ago.

But after Jia Lian inherited the title of Rongguo Mansion, this family was really and completely taken over by Wang Xifeng.

Because of their filial piety, she and Jia Lian did not dare to reduce the expenses of Jia's mother, Jia She and his wife, Jia Zheng and his wife, two younger sisters, and Jia Lan, his nephew, mother and son.

But in front of the consumption of hundreds of taels a month, or even soaring to 2000 taels of silver, I will definitely feel very heartbroken.

After all, the money copied from Lai's family belonged to the couple theoretically.

And Jia Amnesty lost his title, lost his future, and almost became a Taoist priest like Jia Zhen. With this mentality, he would not save money for the Rongguo Mansion.

In the past, it was obviously Wang Xifeng who was in charge of the family's expenses, but secretly it was Mrs. Wang who was in charge of the money.

If Jia Amnesty wants to buy a concubine or an antique toy, he has to plan carefully.

But now that his own son is the heir to the title of Rongguo Mansion, and Jia She still spends money endlessly, he is no longer Jia She.

So, the richer Jia's family is, the more money they need.

Although it can last for a few more years now, the Jia family must have lingering fears after the Grand View Garden is short-lived.

Adding that Wang Xifeng is now in power, even if she considers her son, it is impossible for her to allow the Rongguo Mansion to be defeated.

However, Jia Lian and Xue Pan cooperated to buy Babao wine, and all the shares in name belonged to Xue Pan.

The amount of money that belonged to Jia Lian secretly was definitely quite a lot, but he dared not and would not bring it back to Rongguo Mansion.

One entered the Rongguo Mansion, because there was no separation, the money was on the public account.

The second went into the warehouse, which means that Wang Xifeng is in charge.

Judging from Jia Lian's temperament that he would fish out every penny in the frying pan before, he didn't want to live the days when he wanted to spend money and had to ask Wang Xifeng for it.

Not to mention that although this guy has a bottom line, he is definitely a playboy, and he can only mess around outside if he has money.

Shi Zhongkui wanted to understand this, looked at Ji Guangxiang, who was pleasing to the eye, and secretly thought that if the old eunuch had obtained the information buried in Jia's spy report from Xia Shouzhong, the great eunuch next to the emperor.

So if you want to deal with the Jia family, you don't need to play tricks, just amplify the Jia family's expenses, and you can force the Jia family to find money.

If it was a bit more sinister, deliberately provoking comparisons between Jia Yuanchun and other concubines, the Jia family would have to send money to the palace every month.

Shi Zhongkui would absolutely hate this kind of situation in the past, but now, he wishes Ji Guangxiang and the eunuchs could do more.

Putting the tea bowl in his hand on the table, he said with a smile, "Last year, the Supreme Emperor allowed the emperor's concubine's natal family to build a separate courtyard at home. It has been a year and a half. Has any concubine returned home to visit relatives?"

Ji Guangxiang's heart tightened again, "Back to the elder, because the grasslands in the north are not very peaceful, this matter has been dragging on and no one dared to mention it."

"Prairie", Shi Zhongkui sneered.

It is already mid-March now, and the snow has almost melted long ago.

So there is really a big move on the grassland, and it should have spread all over Gyeonggi by now.

But no news came out, that is to say, the plague and heavy snow last year did cause too much damage to the grassland.

It is even so big that it lacks the ability to go south to fight the autumn wind.

At the same time, the loss of cattle and sheep due to blizzard is not comparable to the loss of population caused by the plague.

Those who survived suddenly discovered that the per capita consumption of cattle and sheep was actually higher than before the plague, and the bottom layer did not have so much motivation to fight.

Therefore, the grassland high-level calculations are eager to make up for their losses, and they have to appease the herdsmen first.

It may even be that the grasslands are busy fighting each other at this time to compete for grasslands and annex various small tribes.

After the forces are reshuffled, it is possible to go south in autumn.

At that time, going south would only grab a wave of people, food and wealth and leave.

So as not to be trapped by the wind and snow.

This can also be explained. The spies from the grassland would bring jewelry and other items into the capital. They should be more afraid of Da Zhou taking the opportunity to send troops into the grassland at this time.

Shi Zhongkui sighed and said his guess, Ji Guangxiang was stunned.

Thinking about it carefully, it will be summer in half a month, and the grassland army is coming, and it should have come long ago.

But if they didn't come, it's really possible that they did what the old man said.

Shi Zhongkui smiled and said, "Go and tell Xia Shouzhong my guess, and ask him to send Xiu Yiwei into the grassland to investigate carefully, if it is true that his own people beat his own people on the grassland.

After this summer, the destructive power of the army that survived the fighting on the grassland was much more powerful than what they rushed over at this time. "

Ji Guangxiang nodded hurriedly, saying that Dazhou is his hometown, and no one really wants to see grassland people raiding in, burning, killing and looting.

"Master, don't worry, I'll inform Xia Shouzhong immediately."

Shi Zhongkui waved his hands, looked at Ji Guangxiang who was leaving in a hurry, and smiled secretly.

After Xia Shouzhong found out, he would definitely take Ji Guangxiang to see the emperor.

After the emperor heard it, even if he didn't consider himself, a god who was an official in the sky, the weight of what he said, he would basically agree with it just after thinking about it.

If the news he heard is correct, he will definitely ask all the things he said to Ji Guangxiang while taking a more serious attitude.

With Eunuch Ji's ability, he can definitely understand, letting Jia Yuanchun go home to visit relatives is tantamount to continuing to empty out Jia's family.

It just so happened that Jia Lian, Xue Pan and Liu Changji, the leader of Xiuyiwei, arrested a group of grassland spies.

After discussing with the Supreme Emperor, the emperor might think of using Yuan Chun and other concubines to return home to visit their relatives, so as to take the opportunity to paralyze the grassland.

(End of this chapter)