Jia Cong is a hands-off shopkeeper, and after gathering all the people, Gong Kun led the two disciples to arrange the back. Jia Cong, the big proprietor, slipped away to King Ning's mansion the next day to ask to see him. The sixth prince never thought that he would come, and he was a little surprised, so he came out to welcome him into the study.

Jia Cong saluted, squeezed his eyebrows and said, "The kid has something to ask the prince." ”

The sixth prince smiled: "What's the big deal, you just have to say it." "For when he saw that his eyes were rolling around, he commanded them all to go down.

Jia Cong said in a low voice: "Actually, there is more than one. ”

The sixth prince said: "You can say it." ”

Jia Cong said: "First of all, I heard that the governor of Liangguang is going to resign, will this position be vacant in a few days?" ”

The sixth prince glanced at him and said with a smile: "Could it be that you want to be it?" ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "I would like to recommend a relative of my family, Lord Wang Ziteng." ”

The sixth prince was stunned, and his face was a little strange: "Lord Wang? ”

Jia Cong nodded: "It's not a secret, my family intends to join forces with the Wang family and the Xue family to get some seafood for the idea of trading, Lingnan is really important." ”

The sixth prince understood when he arrived, and smiled slightly: "What about the Shi family? ”

Jia Cong shook his head and said, "The Shi family is incompetent, so I don't take them to play." Because most of the important wharves are in the Liangguang area. In recent years, seafood has become very popular, and I heard that the items of our dynasty in the West are also very popular with their nobles, and the exchanges are all profiteering. It's just that the imperial court sea ban is too powerful. If you are interested, you can also make a fortune together. It is more comfortable to make money from Westerners than to scrape the land of ordinary people. ”

The sixth prince couldn't help laughing and said, "You talk like an adult, who taught you?" ”

Jia Cong blinked: "You guess." ”

The sixth prince snorted: "This king is not that interested. It's just that the governor of Liangguang is a feudal official, and I don't count what I said. ”

Jia Cong smiled and said: "Isn't the inspection of the nine provinces a feudal official?" Lord Wang is very loyal to the old sage. If my father had the ability himself, he would have recommended him, but he didn't have that ability. ”

A smile appeared at the corner of the sixth prince's mouth, his eyes rolled quietly, and said, "I can try, but I may not be able to succeed." ”

Jia Cong arched his hand: "Everyone making money is really making money, please prince." ”

The sixth prince smiled: "I didn't answer you. What else? ”

Jia Cong drooped his face: "That...... I heard that the prince has some friendship with us in Dongfu? Two days ago, my second sister-in-law sent a big girl from the house to find me, and she talked about it for a long time, as if to say that Uncle Jing was funeral two months ago, and Brother Zhen, a relative of a woman, hooked up with my second brother, and I have looked for him many times these days. They didn't bother to care about the second brother's drunken things, but they were afraid that he would leak something. When it's not good to hook up with him, it has to be at the time of the funeral. My brother just touched a little fourth-rank official, and his ass hasn't been hot yet, so it's over if he lets the official know. ”

The sixth prince said curiously: "Shouldn't you go to find your father in this matter?" What did the king do? ”

Jia Cong pouted and said, "It's useless to look for my father, what kind of character is my brother?" It is easiest to suffer on the head of a woman. If we don't solve the root cause, my father will stop this time and the next time. To tell you the truth, I suspect that this was provoked by Jia Rong. I beat him up once in the early years, but he never let this breath out, and he was uncomfortable. ”

The sixth prince shook his head: "How can this be reasonable." Well, if it's such a bad thing, I'll mention it for you and block it. ”

Jia Cong hurriedly gave a deep salute: "Thank you, Lord Wang!" ”

The sixth prince waved his hand and said, "It's just a trivial matter." ”

Jia Cong whispered again: "That...... There's one more thing I shouldn't ask, and I just want to ask and give it a try. ”

The sixth prince asked what was the matter.

"I went to pick up my uncle back to Beijing that day, why didn't Brother Xianwang go? They have such a good relationship, he came to pick up people four years ago. Won't it be a quarrel? ”

The sixth prince stared at him for a long time, and Jia Cong only pretended to be stupid and stunned, staring at him with big eyes. The sixth prince asked, "Lin Ruhai asked you to ask?" ”

Jia Cong pursed his lips: "I dare to tell him that he must not be beaten to death!" I was very well-behaved in front of Uncle Lin, except for studying and playing. ”

The sixth prince looked at him again, and sighed: "That's it, this king won't embarrass you, and you don't ask about irrelevant things." Lin Hai's friendship with Lao Jiu is clear in his own heart, and I look closer to him than he and Lao Jiu. ”

Jia Cong let out an "oh", knowing that there was something wrong with King Xian and Jinshang, so he didn't speak.

At one point, the sixth prince asked him again: "Your senior brother is not too young, when are you going to take the exam?" Jia Cong thought for a while and said, "Mr. Lin and Mr. Su haven't spoken yet." ”

The sixth prince knew that Jarvis's imperial examination was up to his husband, and the two were loyal servants of the saint, so he sighed lightly.

After Jia Cong left, the sixth prince only felt that he had made a fuss about the relatives and women of Ning Guofu, so he sent someone to check on Eryou. I was shocked to learn that they almost recommended these two daughters to Jia Zheng as concubines, and then pushed them to Jia Lian! scolded: "I don't know how to measure!" No wonder people are so angry. How many times have I told the Rongguo Mansion that it can only be won over and not offended. "Ordered Jia Zhen to dispose of these two daughters quickly, and he must not harass Rongguo Mansion again. Jia Zhen argued, "It's just some romantic little things", and the sixth prince scolded, "It's just a trivial matter, why do people come to me to complain?" Helplessly, Jia Zhen only got a good dowry from Second Sister You and married her to the son of an oil mill owner. Because Third Sister You refused to marry at will, she wrung her hair in anger and went to be a sister-in-law. Wang Xifeng knew from the kid who followed Jia Lian that Second Sister You was married, and she was filial and lewd. When the crime of chaos is gone, it will no longer be cared for. Second Sister Hou You and Jia Lian are still cheating.

On this day, Lin Hai came back from the yamen, and the third master Cong had been waiting for a while, so he called him over.

Jia Cong smiled and saluted, "Uncle, I have something to tell you." ”

Lin Hai glanced at him: "It must not be a good thing." ”

Jia Cong said: "It's hard to say, it's a good thing that you can't keep it." ”

The master and apprentice sat in Lin Hai's study, and Jia Cong said: "The saint is so annoying, he knows that the errand of the household department is the most difficult, and he still gets you there." How nice it would be to stay in Hanlin Temple. ”

Lin Hai glared at him: "It is the courtier's duty to share the worries of the Son of Heaven." ”

Jia Cong sighed: "He is really useless to people. If the four seas are level, the treasury is abundant, and the rats and silverfish are becoming more and more rampant, it is good to use Mr. Where are those rat silverfish now? It's all in the way, okay? The tax money was gone before it could be put on the road, and the treasury was poor. You have to use some ruthless villains or rampage stunned young people to get money, and the scheming little fox can do it. I've never heard of a gentleman being used against a ruffian. ”

Lin Hai raised his head and looked at him: "According to you, who can this villain, the stunned green and the little fox be?" ”

Jia Cong thought for a while: "I only know one villain, but unfortunately he died, it is Han Guang, the prefect of Taiyuan." That thing is really a villain. ”

Lin Hai nodded and said: "I heard your sister tell you about your affairs in Taiyuan, this person is really a villain, but his ability is limited, and he can't take on a big responsibility." What else? ”

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Stunned Qing and the little fox, aren't they my father and me?" ”

Lin Hai laughed and raised his hand to give him a moment.

Jia Cong rubbed his forehead and said aggrievedly: "I came to make an idea for Mr. and beat me." ”

Lin Hai knew that he had a lot of ghost ideas, so he deliberately picked up the tea and took a sip, and asked slowly, "What do you have in mind?" ”

Jia Cong said: "Money, it's nothing more than opening up sources and reducing expenditures. Let's not talk about throttling, my uncle can't play the backer behind corrupt officials. Therefore, there is only open source. ”

"How open source?"

Jia Cong said: "Open the sea and ban it." ”

Lin Hai waved his hand: "Moti, the sea ban was originally closed by the old sage. ”

Jia Cong said: "Then smuggle." ”

Lin Hai glared at him: "Nonsense! ”

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Uncle, to be honest, there must be a lot of smuggling. ”

Lin Hai asked, "How do you know?" ”

Jia Cong said: "Guess." I once heard a gentleman say that businessmen seek profit. If a business has half of the capital, it dares to take risks; If he can double his earnings, he is not afraid of breaking the law; If you can make three times the profit, the merchant will dare to do anything. Seafood is so profitable, and people who are not afraid of dying to make money are indispensable. Blocking is unstoppable. ”

Lin Hai sighed: "This gentleman is really talented. There are many cases of smuggling of seafood. ”

Jia Cong said: "Since the old sage refuses to open the sea ban, there will be a lot of smuggling. There is so much smuggling that many of them can only be sold secretly. Originally, there was a tax on the entry of sea goods, and there was naturally no such thing for smuggled goods. Originally, there was also a tax when it was sold, but since it was sold secretly, the treasury had one less money to enter the account. Now that the court has become chaotic like this, absurdity is rolling all over the ground, and I am not afraid of being a little more ridiculous. ”

Lin Hai reprimanded: "Nonsense! Where is the chaos in the imperial court? ”

Jia Cong rolled his eyes and said nothing.

After a while, Lin Hai sighed, got up and walked to the window.

Jia Cong followed and pulled the corner of his clothes: "Sell the seafood at will, don't care whether it's serious or smuggled." You can collect a few taxes horizontally and vertically, so that your old man will not worry about the empty appearance of the treasury all day long. ”

Lin Hai sighed: "Where is the face of the imperial court. ”

Jia Cong said disdainfully: "It's face again, I really don't know what you adults are doing when you value face more than the inside." The sage wants the face of the court, and it is not too late to wait for the old sage to leave and then pack it up. ”

Lin Hai scolded again, "Nonsense." ”

Jia Cong grinned and said no more.

Lin Hai thought about it at home for a few days, and finally found a day to enter the palace to face the saint and tell him about it. He didn't pull out Jia Cong, he only said that he was wandering on the street, and a child quietly pulled him and asked, "Master, do you want seafood?" This kind of thing is common in Beijing, and Lin Hai has also encountered it, and most of them are smuggled goods. He said that because of this, he thought that the imperial court could not help smuggling and had lost two taxes, so it was better to simply allow smuggling of seafood to sell.

The sage was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and sighed: "Pity you, an old Confucian student, to be able to say such things." It's just that if this is the case, the court really can't come down. Besides, there's the Goshidai. ”

Lin Haidao: "Wechen has thought about it. Some entry documents can be sold secretly by the sage. Horizontal and vertical are already sold, who sells them and doesn't sell them? It is better for the saints to sell it themselves. Those smugglers who could buy documents from the imperial court and then operate them in a grand manner, so why should they risk selling them secretly? As for the Imperial Tower, those incompetent rotten people didn't notice these things at all. They only stared at the saint, but there were words and deeds that were not in accordance with the rules, whether the officials were prostitutes and gambling, drinking and listening to dramas during filial piety. ”

The sage still hesitated, and only said after a long time: "Let me think about it for a few more days." ”

Lin Hai hurriedly retired. He walked to the gate of Daming Palace and came back. He knelt down and played, "The minister heard about an incident a few days ago, because the saint knew about it a long time ago, and he didn't say much. It's just that I thought about it plainly yesterday, and for a while I felt that some of the details that the minister knew, the people who went to check the court might not be able to find out. ”

The sage said, "Tell me." ”

Lin Haidao: "Not long after the minister returned to Beijing, the three disciples and ministers recounted what they had passed in the past three years, and then mentioned that they were almost killed by the market hooligans on the way to Chang'an at the beginning of the year. He then told Jia Cong what he heard from Lin Daiyu about their experience in Taiyuan Mansion. That Han Guang is also a dignified court official, and he actually let the market hooligans kill him, and I heard that the case has not been solved. Speaking of which, this matter has made the court more and more disgraced. ”

Because Jia Cong didn't tell Daiyu Han Guang who was behind the Taiyuan Wang family, he only regarded it as a dispute between officials and market hooligan leaders, and Lin Hai naturally didn't know. The court and the Han family have investigated this matter for a long time, and the sage has found out that the Wang family is his son's person, and he was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and said, "I know." ”

Lin Hai immediately understood that the Wang family was not small, so he hurriedly kowtowed and resigned.

Jia Cong always felt a little uneasy in his heart because of the many entanglements between Liu Xianglian and Third Sister You in the original book; After Wang Xifeng's thanksgiving gift, I was secretly relieved to hear that Third Sister You had become a monk. I thought I would have nothing to do with this person anymore, but it was just a month of work, and something happened again.

On this day, a mother-in-law who followed Yuan Chun hurriedly ran back to Rongguo Mansion to ask for help, saying that someone was making trouble outside Shuiyue Nunnery. At that time, Jia Lian, Jia Huan, and Jia Cong were not there. Since Yuanchun took charge of the family school, Jia Lan has lived a very happy life, and he reads well; Hearing that something had happened to his aunt, he hurriedly led a dozen boys to the north gate. When Jia Yu heard the report, the kid had already run away and disappeared. was so angry that Jia Yu scolded: "I can't even ride a horse steadily, and I dare to lead people to fight!" "Busy Gao Mang, go and protect him.

Coincidentally, Yang Heng and his children both played tricks in Gaomang's Courtyard. Mi'er was cautious and said: "There is a big girl from Rongguo Mansion who lives in Shuiyue Nunnery, and everyone knows it. Although I don't know the origin of the other party, it is not ordinary people who dare to provoke the head of Rongguo Mansion. I'm afraid we're going to have to deal with it. So he led the brothers of Lixiangyuan and ordered someone to move people to the Taiping Dart Bureau.

When he arrived at Shuiyue Nunnery, Jia Lan forced people to the side of the road to get close to the mountain gate, and a man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks pointed at him and scolded. Jia Lan had never seen such a layman, and he was stupid. Gao Mang hurriedly led the people over and surrounded Jia Lan, and he pushed his horse forward to stop in front of Jia Lan, pointed at the man and asked, "Who is rampant in front of the Buddha Gate Pure Land?" ”

That person was not stupid, when he saw that this group of newcomers had thick arms and bright eyes, they were definitely not a little scholar like Jia Lan, and they also turned their horses and retreated. I saw a man with a white face and a long beard in the group of people opposite, and he arched his hand proudly: "Xia Guan is the chief historian of the Zhongshun Palace." "Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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Chapter 149 of the text.

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