Red Mansion: Bastards rule the roost

Chapter 525 Gaining both people and wealth
The snow-white letterhead depicts a beautiful woman standing on a tall building melancholy looking at the moon. Her skirt and robes are lifted up by the night wind, making her figure even more graceful and floating, with a sword hanging from her waist.

With just a few strokes, the color, temperament, and emotions of the beauty in the painting are outlined, which is extremely vivid.

Next to it were written two famous lines from the poet:

The bonus fades easily like a man's will, and the water flow is infinite like Nong's sorrow. Signed: Shu.

The font is delicate and elegant, with a bit of chicness and elegance. Although it seems to be written by a woman at first glance, it is a bit more sassy than the ordinary fonts written by daughters, and the writing power is excellent.

Wei Dao Baochai talks about the three unique features of poetry, calligraphy and painting.

"Tsk, tsk, my consort has gotten to know such a strange woman sooner or later, and he didn't even mention bringing her back to introduce her to us." Ruyi sneered.

Seeing Jia Cong's embarrassed look, all the girls pursed their lips tightly for fear of laughing out loud.

Daiyu chuckled and said: "What a 'bonus is easy to fade like a man's will, and the water is infinite like a farmer's sorrow'. Brother Cong, is she moaning for nothing?"
You can tell me last time, don't use any sad words. It seems that this girl also needs your guidance. "

"I only like to point out the 'maze'"

Jia Cong smiled and shy away from Daiyu, and then said to Ruyi: "Yan'er, do you believe me when I say I am the master of suffering?"

"Bah, if you don't go around messing around with women, people will come looking for you? And they took your post. Who is this girl?" Ruyi said angrily.

"Ren Shu in Qilou, everyone. If I say this, it's your fault..." Jia Cong smiled bitterly, because he mentioned the last time he invited the top four leaders to perform at the door.

"Yan'er, you said, I owe someone a favor, and it doesn't make sense if I don't give him a name card.

You said that if you hadn't lost your temper, wouldn't I have needed to spend so much effort to invite someone?

You feel comfortable, but you owe me a huge debt of gratitude, and you still blame me. "Jia Cong took it for granted.

Ruyi Liu's eyebrows stood up and he spat: "Who asked you to invite these leaders to perform? You are so passionate and dare to talk about it randomly, it is shameless.

That's all. What do these two lines of poetry mean? I also gave you a portrait. Well, if I say that you are not having an affair, ask your sisters if they believe it? "

Jia Cong raised his eyes and glanced at him. The girls looked disbelieving and rolled their eyes at him.

"You have been fooled. Now the four major businesses are forced to pick up the guests. Ren Shu is asking me for help. He is afraid that I will not agree, so he wrote these two poems.

The Lord is bright and the wind is bright and the moon is shining, and Huai Jin is holding Yu, so there is no personal relationship. " Jia Cong explained with a wry smile.

The girls suddenly realized that this made sense, but they simply ignored the second half of his sentence and believed that he was a ghost.

Ruyi pondered for a moment and said, "Are you going to redeem her? How to arrange her?"

Jia Cong said cautiously: "Yan'er, why don't you redeem her and let her accompany you to be naughty? Everyone is famous for her swordsmanship in Shenjing, so I will be able to compete with you."

Ruyi suddenly became interested and wondered why the beauty in the Taoist painting was wearing a sword. Then she thought something was wrong and rolled her eyes at Jia Cong again.

He sneered and said: "Play with me? I think I want to play with you. Dirty bastard, don't think I don't know what your intentions are."

The girls sneered and laughed.

Jia Cong said hurriedly: "Don't look through the cracks in the door. What kind of person am I? I promise to only have a public heart and no selfish thoughts."

Yan'er, I'm not doing it for your own good. You don't like poetry and books, so you want to talk about swordsmanship. Sister Bao and the others are not good at it, and I am busy every day.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a girl of the same age to accompany you to relieve your boredom? What's more, if everyone is both civilized and military, they are not village women, but they can still be said to be Taoist. "

The girls all laughed, and the bastard became eloquent when it came to women.

Ruyi smiled angrily: "Did you learn from Fatty Feng to beat rabbits with one hand?"

"I can't show my face." Jia Cong laughed dryly and patted the name card in his hand.

Ruyi rolled her eyes at him. She didn't pay attention to a single line item, and said, "How much silver does it cost to redeem a line item?"

Jia Cong said: "I heard that the price of a comb cage is at least one hundred thousand silver, but the price has dropped sharply since then.

However, the prestige of the head of the line is here, and it costs at least thousands of silver to kiss the beauty. After that, as the color fades with age, the price naturally drops all the way, until it becomes a ruined flower and no one cares about it.

During this period of time, even if you say little, you can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars for the brothel. "

Baochai and Daiyu both frowned when they heard this. Although Jia Cong's words were plain, they could already imagine the miserable plight of the brothel girls.

The so-called glamorous and glamorous outfit, sought after by thousands of people, will eventually become a cash cow that sells skin and color until it is drained of the last drop of blood and tears.

Ruyi couldn't bear it in her heart, sighed and said, "Just redeem her."

Jia Cong said hurriedly: "Yan'er, you are so kind-hearted and chivalrous, you can pass it down to the family."

Ruyi laughed and scolded: "Fuck you, stop wearing a high hat on me. You talk about her so pitifully, don't you just want me to let go? Don't think that I don't know your frivolous nature."

Jia Cong smiled and said: "I once heard someone say that behind every successful man, there is a great woman. This statement is just right for Yan'er."

The girls smiled and said yes.

Ruyi glanced at him, which was very helpful. She covered her mouth and smiled softly. You bastard, your mouth seemed to be covered with honey when asking for help.

At that moment, Jia Cong took the pen and wrote a sentence on the letterhead: The princess loves the fragrance and cherishes the jade, why should she worry so much? He ordered people to return Ren Shu quietly.

What Ruyi didn't know was that Lan Wei and Jia Cong had already secretly communicated with each other, and he was aiming to be at the top of the Four Great Travels, so how could he only care about Ren Shu?
It was just a trick to get up the stairs. Jia Cong knew that it would be quite difficult to get Ruyi to agree to catch all the top four leaders in one go.

It would be much easier to get her to nod and agree to the one that is less difficult, and then accept the other three.
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The next day, Jia Cong went to the Yamen, and Pang Chao accompanied him. This is his rule. He usually works from home. On the day of the court meeting, he will go to the Yamen at the end of the court meeting to listen to the report from the North and South Department.

"Greetings to the Admiral. Mr. Pang is polite." The commander's Yamen and the main personnel of the North and South Department were already waiting in the lobby. When Jia Cong came in, they hurriedly saluted.

"No need." Jia Cong waved his hand and walked to sit behind the big case. Pang Chao sat behind the small table on one side.

"Is there any news today?" Jia Cong asked after taking a sip of tea.

Lei Tai said: "Your Majesty, this morning, under pressure from our own guards, the Third Division reported that Lu Jie and Zhao Huaian had embezzled money and violated the law. His Majesty was furious and sentenced them to dismissal from their posts and ransacked their homes.

The important ministers discussed filling the vacancies again, and Jiang Zhongtang submitted an article to Guanpu discussing the implementation of the new law. The Sacred Heart was very happy.

Ding Xian, the former governor of Henan and the current censor of Youdu, was ordered to concurrently serve as the right minister of the Ministry of punishment, and he was appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of official affairs in Guanpu. "

Jia Cong nodded. This personnel arrangement was as expected by Pang Chao. Although Ding Xian was a censor from the first rank of Youdu, it was just a false title.

This time, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice, who also served as the second-rank official, had real power, which was equivalent to tearing a big hole in the Ministry of Justice controlled by the old party.

As for Guanpu, he was able to promote the head of the six departments to the position of minister. Jiang Zhongtang obviously made a lot of efforts, which would be of great benefit to Guanpu in taking care of and promoting the people of the Jiangnan Socialist Party in the future.

“In addition, this morning the candidates for Jinke Chunwei’s president and vice president were agreed upon.

Song Rui, a bachelor of Wuyingdian, serves as the president, Chen Dao, the Minister of Rites, Meng Huacai, the left minister of the Ministry of War, and Lu Wenbin, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments, serve as vice presidents.

There are also eighteen fellow examiners, all of whom are cadres who are imperial scholars of the third or fourth rank or above. "Wen Zhen said.

The president is the examiner, and the vice president is the deputy examiner. Jia Cong knows this common sense.

Because he asked: "Why is Meng Shilang the only new party official among the president and vice president?"

Wen Zhendao: "The competition for this in the court today is quite fierce. The old party is strong, and the two new party members have already served as examiners for the first two subjects. The new party has no capable person in this subject, so it cannot compete with the old party."

"Well, that's it." Jia Cong nodded, which was reasonable, and said, "What else can I do?"

"Back to your lord, Jinlingwei Town Fu Qiaoyin came to report that the second batch of 10 million stolen silver was shipped on the 20th, and was heavily escorted along the way to ensure nothing went wrong." Fan Ming said.

"I got it." Jia Cong discussed other official matters with them for a long time before saying, "That's all for today. Spring is coming soon, and princes from all over the country will gather in the capital. Keep an eye on them to make sure nothing goes wrong. "

"I humbly obey my orders." Everyone said in unison.

"Wang Fei, Meng Chen, Zhou Wei, Tang Zhan and Lei Tai will stay, and the rest will go and do their own business," Jia Cong said.

"Yes, I'm resigning from my humble position." Everyone saw that Jia Cong had left the North and South to be in charge of punishment and in charge of thousands of households. They must have something important to do, so they hurriedly left.

Jia Cong glanced at everyone and said: "In a few days, the four famous buildings in Beijing will groom the four heads of business. Do you know?"

"Return to my lord, I know this from my humble position." Everyone said.

"I don't quite understand this matter yet, please tell me." Jia Cong said calmly.

Wang Fei said hurriedly: "My lord, I have inquired carefully and found out that this time it was the princes and nobles behind the scenes who worked together to do this.

Firstly, taking advantage of the youth of the four major fashionistas to sell them at a good price, and secondly, taking advantage of the trend to launch a new generation of the four major fashionistas.

After all, this industry is all about youth, and a leader who has only been in the limelight for a few years will eventually have to sleep with him.

If you are lucky, you will be redeemed as a concubine after receiving customers for two years. If you are unlucky, you will have to die in a brothel for the rest of your life or be drained of all your money by the brothel. "

Jia Cong glared at him and said, "Wang Fei, who do you think can come out on top among the four of us?"

Wang Fei smiled and said: "This time the news has been released a long time ago. I think all the wealthy businessmen and businessmen in Shenjing will bid for it. I don't think they will enjoy it themselves. Most of them are given to dignitaries as favors, but they don't know where the flowers will end." Whose family..."

He suddenly noticed that Jia Cong didn't look very good, and secretly cursed himself for being stupid, and quickly said, "But those are common people, how can they be worthy of four of you? Isn't it a waste of natural resources?

According to my humble position, in the world, only the elegant and suave adults can enjoy the beauty of the four leaders, and this can be regarded as a perfect match. "

Everyone nodded, smiled, and agreed. Wang Fei was smart enough to stop at the brink and thought he was going to tell the truth.

Jia Cong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense. As a consort, how can I hang around a brothel?"

Everyone is a veteran of Jianghu, so they already understand what Jia Cong means.

Wang Fei smiled and said: "Your Excellency, you can redeem the four leaders. Firstly, you can save them from the pit of fire. Secondly, they will not be known as prostitutes. No one dares to compete with you."

Jia Cong asked: "How much money does it cost to redeem one of you?"

Meng Chen said: "Sir, no one has redeemed this, just because the price is too high. Without hundreds of thousands of silver, the brothel will never let go.

Although there are many people who want to taste everyone's taste, the worst thing is that after combing the cage, the tangled hair will be reduced. Spending a thousand coins can be enough to be stubborn to the fullest, so why bother to redeem people? "

"I mean, you all know that I owed you a favor last time. Although I wanted to help, I was short of money. How could I come up with millions of silver to redeem people?" Jia Cong sighed.

Now that all his money is reserved for foreign affairs, he is not willing to spend millions to buy people.

Everyone understood completely this time. It turned out that the Admiral had a big appetite. He wanted to eat four people in one bite, but he didn't want to spend money. This was a bit difficult to handle.

If it were an ordinary girl from a good family, she could just spend some money and coax and scare her to buy her. But the people behind these four brothels are not easy to mess with. If you use force, big problems will occur.

It was Zhou Wei who was still old-fashioned. He had an idea as soon as he rolled his eyes and said: "My lord is self-denial, dedicated to the public, and has a chivalrous heart. I admire him for his humiliation. I have something to report, and he has some connections with several brothels."

(End of this chapter)