After listening to the complaints of the thirteenth elder brother in the courtyard, Xia Liansheng, who was able to move, rolled his eyes and said to the thirteenth elder brother with a smile: "I have a business that I want to do with the fourth elder brother, I wonder if the fourth elder brother appreciates his face?" I hope that the thirteenth elder brother will help me say good things. www.biquge.info The thirteenth elder brother was excited when he saw his eyes, and said, "Okay, tell me your idea." ”

Xia Liansheng smiled silently and asked the thirteenth elder brother to come and get the plan the next day, so the next night, the thirteenth elder brother entered the fourth elder brother's mansion with a thick letter.

The next day, the fourth elder brother did not ask the officials of the household department for tea for the time being, but went to the emperor with an excerpt. The emperor summoned him in the Qianqing Palace, but the two drove everyone else out, even Li Dequan was no exception, so the two talked for nearly two hours, and the fourth elder brother also accompanied the emperor to have lunch, and then returned to the household. Just when many people thought he was going to make a ruthless move, the next day at the court meeting, the fourth elder brother had a completely unrelated excerpt: the officials of the Daqing Dynasty went out to be officials, and they were generally unable to return to their hometowns to be officials, in order to increase the humanization of the Daqing Dynasty and the convenience of communication for the people of the Daqing Dynasty, we had to add the function of sending letters to the post station, but for the sake of the national treasury, everyone also had to pay some postage. In fact, it is the Daqing version of the post office and express delivery, which is called the post office. Because it was too troublesome to rebuild the post station, he borrowed the official post station, but did not add to the burden on the post station, but re-recruited some people who were responsible for the sorting and transportation of letters, and did not pay a penny of silver from the user department, but the money earned must also be paid to these people's monthly silver first, and then it will be handed over to the state treasury.

Just when everyone thought that the fourth elder brother was going to transform into a local tyrant and rob the ninth elder brother like a tyrant, and was just about to use language to violently criticize him for competing with the people for profit, the fourth elder brother listed the mailing fee standard, but everyone was directly dumbfounded, the reason was that it was too cheap! A letter is only a few copper plates, and the expensive and urgent money is only half a dollar to the same money, that is, less than one or two silver, which makes everyone not know how to deal with it, so under this silence, the emperor approved the fourth elder brother's excerpt, but because the fourth elder brother is still responsible for the collection of the silver owed by the household department, he will not be responsible.

So the ministers realized again, the four elder brothers were going to find a few fat sheep, let him be in charge of things and slaughter their money, so they all worked hard to narrow their sense of existence, but the thirteenth elder brother was willing to take full responsibility for this matter instead of resisting, the emperor was more pleased, so he ordered the thirteenth elder brother's difference, and promised him to choose a suitable deputy himself, so Lin Ruhai was selected, and then Xia Liansheng's friends Zhang Xuan and Fan Ning were also selected, so the two stared at their colleagues or sympathetic, or ridiculed, I did the handover of the previous work and focused on this matter. Compared with other people's schadenfreude, the two still believe in Xia Liansheng, since this idea came out, the thirteenth elder brother took the initiative to hold it in his hands, not to mention whether he could make money, Xia Liansheng must have come up with some idea for the fourth elder brother, it must be beneficial to follow, the two are not stupid, of course, they must accept the olive branch thrown by the thirteenth elder brother immediately, but they can't be seen, the two of them have endured very hard for this.

However, since the beginning of the postal service, although the fourth elder brother still drinks tea with the adults in the household department every day, he has gradually stopped being anxious and irritable. Moreover, the scope of tea drinking has gradually expanded from a few familiar old faces in the household department to several other departments, and several departments that want to wait and see are miserable, but they have to think of ways to deal with it, and finally there are still some petty officials or people who owe little money and begin to repay the money.

Speaking of arrears, in addition to Wei Dongting, the Zhen family in Rongguo Mansion and Jiangnan are also big debtors. When the Duke of Rongguo was not knighted, his family was still in Jinling, and the emperor had also taken over the drive when he toured the south, and the Rongguo Mansion owed 500,000 taels for a courtyard, and the Zhen family, who had taken over several times, owed as much as 1.8 million taels. In order to facilitate them to repay the silver, the emperor acquiesced to Rong Guogong's means of collecting wealth during the war and gave the Zhen family a position of good oil and water weaving in Jiangnan, especially the special favor given to the Zhen family, so that their family monopolized the salt tax in the entire Jiangnan. However, these two families can be regarded as obvious hardliners, the Ministry of Industry invited Jia Zheng to tea, and while drinking tea, he said that it was his brother Jia Yu who was in charge of the family, and he couldn't speak. invited Jia Yu to drink tea, but Jia Yu cried that he had been squeezed into the stable at home, and he couldn't speak at home. Invite Mother Jia to tea... Officials saw that she was already seventy years old, and they didn't dare to post. The Zhen family is far away from the emperor of the sky, the whole of Jiangnan is controlled, they are completely ignorant and uncooperative, no one in the capital dares to ask the eighth elder brother to drink tea, if the fourth elder brother invites the eighth elder brother to drink tea one day, Concubine Zhen has to invite Concubine De to sit in her palace, and then the fourth elder brother has to be invited into the palace by his own mother to drink tea, see the fourteenth brother and her mother and son, and then be so angry that he goes home and gets angry for a few days, even he Fujin persuaded him to take it easy for his body.

Xia Liansheng got the news and specifically asked Lin Ruhai about the silver debt, because Lin Ruhai was also in the household department, he also repaid it when many household officials decided to repay the silver, anyway, his father borrowed it from him, not much at all. Then Xia Liansheng secretly gave Jia Lian a post, Jia Lian didn't go to Guozijian one day, and came to muttered to Xia Liansheng for a long time, and then Jia Lian went back and muttered to Jia Lian for a long time, Jia Lian went to visit his previous daughter-in-law's maiden house Zhang the next day, and I didn't know what to say to the old man Zhang Ying, and only returned to Rongguo Mansion when it was dark.

Early the next morning, Mrs. Xing was going to greet the old lady, but her master had to follow, so the two took a mule cart together to Rongqing Hall. When she entered, Mrs. Wang was talking to the old lady about the details of Jia Zhu's engagement, the matchmaker had already been to Nalan's house, and Nalan's family had also set the next series of days.

It happened that Jia Yu led Mrs. Xing into the door, but Mrs. Wang continued to talk even more proudly, Jia Yu watched as if watching a monkey show, and the more Mrs. Wang talked, the more boring she became, so she made a hasty decision with the old lady and stopped.

Jia Mu saw that Jia Yu had not left, and wondered what he wanted to say, so she turned her head to look at Jia Yu. Jia Yu saw his mother look over, with a smile on his face, and said, "Since my mother has discussed Zhu'er's marriage with her younger siblings, it is time to listen to Lian'er's marriage." ”