Chapter 143

Now he is a frugal emperor, which has nothing to do with the environment in which he grew up.

He has lived in difficult conditions since he was a child, and after coming to Shangjing, his living conditions suddenly improved, and he was very uncomfortable for a long time. Even when he was the crown prince, he deliberately cut the expenses of the East Palace. The first emperor Xiao Shen was very generous to him in all aspects, in line with the idea of building a good relationship between uncle and nephew. But the better his life is, the easier it is to teach him to think of the hard days in Sihe and the livelihood problems of the people at the bottom.

This is something that the first emperor Xiao Shen could not understand at all.

However, as the crown prince, he couldn't run to tell Xiao Shen: Holy Lord, you are a little inconsiderate of the difficulties of people's livelihood in such a life!

Xiao Shen's life naturally meets the standards of an emperor who grew up in the palace, whether it is from the food utensils, or the various festival jewelry, gifts, and antiques given to the palace concubines, all of which are extremely valuable and exquisite.

After he ascended the throne himself, the decision of all major events in the country in the first three years was not completely in his hands, and the only way to do this was to play a trade-off with the DPRK and regain control of the situation step by step. On the surface, the monarch and the courtiers got along, but in reality many times he still had to listen to the advice of the courtiers, so that the development of events did not go in the direction he expected.

At this time, when he was winning people's hearts, he naturally couldn't be an emperor who picked the door, so he could only use the small private treasury of the first emperor.

Now that the situation is stable, he has secured the throne again, and the people who hold the military power are all confidants and important ministers, even if the voice of the civil officials is high, he also has confidence in his heart, and occasionally he can be strong and show the domineering spirit of the emperor.

Reducing the use of the harem was a plan he had made years ago, but after thinking about where to start the knife, when he was thinking about it, Rong Yan found the first place for him.

At the New Year's palace banquet, Rong Yan entered the palace with her in-laws and husband-in-law, and when she saw the dishes in the palace, she didn't feel anything, but Mrs. Chu participated in the palace banquet every year, and whispered to her: "Maybe the saint intends to rectify the inner palace, and the dishes of this year's palace banquet can be reduced a lot compared with previous years." ”

Rong Yan's heart moved, and then she looked at her mother-in-law's dignified face, and suddenly sighed that she knew something about it, and she couldn't even hide such a trivial matter from her ears and eyes.

After returning to the house, the Chu family ordered the servants in the house to pack up the valuables placed in the house, and the household expenses were also reduced as appropriate, so they were thrifty from the house first. When I took her back to my parents' house to pay New Year's greetings, I reminded my mother's family that they should not act too flamboyantly and extravagantly, and there would be nothing wrong with being more frugal.

Mrs. Chu's maiden name is Song, and the population of the family is many times more prosperous than the Chu family, four brothers and three sisters, and cousins and brothers and sisters of various ethnic groups.

On the contrary, Rong Yan followed her mother-in-law to recognize her relatives, and in the end, she only felt dizzy, and those who were about the same age simply called her sister, and those who looked at the Song gene on her face were called aunts, and those who didn't have them were aunts. This kind of name is roughly the same, and it ignores the embarrassment that she doesn't remember the rankings, but her sister or sister occasionally makes mistakes, and calls an aunt an aunt, which caused everyone in the hall to laugh.

But a few cousins-in-law, she saw it at the beginning of marriage, and at this time, someone came forward to take her hand and introduce them one by one, and teased her: "Sure enough, she is going to give birth, and then she will get married, and my aunt is really blessed." ”

is that Rong Yan is not shy, and she doesn't know what to say at this time, so she can only pretend to be shy, lower her head slightly, and secretly scold Chu Jun in her heart for being anxious, if she is half a year late, she will not be teased by her uncle's cousin.

Mrs. Chu has been relieved for many years, and Rong Yan is pregnant again, so she naturally wants to protect her daughter-in-law, and said to the young woman who spoke the most eloquently: "Since Ayu is a sister-in-law, I will hurt my Ayan once, take her back to you to rest, don't be tired of her." ”

This daughter-in-law's surname is Wu Mingyu, and her husband is the eldest son of Mrs. Chu's third brother, but she is also the third among the brothers.

Wu Yu immediately laughed when she heard this: "Look at my aunt, I love my daughter-in-law so much when I become a mother-in-law, it's really eye-catching!" ”

Her mother-in-law couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, and she didn't care. On the contrary, the Song family is the head of the house, Mrs. Chu's eldest sister-in-law, An Shi, said: "Don't tear this oil mouth quickly, let's look at it every day, your mother-in-law didn't lock you up and beat you, and she didn't make you kneel on the washboard every day, why do you have complaints?" ”

Wu Yu grinned at her mother-in-law: "My aunt is the most kind-hearted, even if I have a problem, I can only be hurt by my daughter, where can I be ruthless to discipline me?" It's not worse than an aunt treating her younger siblings! It's just my greed as a daughter-in-law, I always want to be lazy and slippery, look at my brother and sister, and now I have one in my arms, so I can be lazy! ”

Mrs. Chu's third sister-in-law is also Wu's daughter, Wu Yu and her husband are cousins, and her mother-in-law is her own aunt, who has always gotten along like mother and daughter, and is much closer to other mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, so Wu Yu can laugh freely in her mother-in-law's house.

An laughed at her: "Then you also have one, can someone stop you?" ”

Wu Yu's two sons and one daughter, both of whom were still young, hurriedly waved her hand when she heard this: "Those three naughty treasures are about to toss me to death, aunt, don't scare me!" ”

All the women in the room laughed.

Only those cousins who went to live in the General's Mansion before, now they are all married and have children, but they are a little unhappy when they see Rong Yan, but they are very polite in their faces.

Wu Yu took Rong Yan back to the room to rest for a while, her two sons were five years old and seven years old, they all went to the front hall with their father, only the daughter was only three years old, about the same age as Rong Xiu, and was playing in the room. Rong Yan took out a jade pendant from her arms as a gift, and Wu Yu accompanied her on the couch crookedly, playing with the little girl for a while, and she giggled and laughed.

Someone likes her children, and it's best for a mother. Wu Yu saw that Rong Yan was having fun with her sister, this Huifu county lord did not seem to be a fake, she had a good trick to coax the child, and told her sister several small stories, all of which were stories of various small animals, and she was also very patient and meticulous in answering the children's questions, she felt that Rong Yan was really good.

"San Lang is such a cold-faced god, with such a gentle temperament as his younger brother and sister, but it is just right." There are a lot of sisters-in-law in the family, but there is no such one, no wonder Chu Saburo doesn't like it.

Rong Yan, who was provoked by these words, couldn't help laughing and winked at her: "I am only so gentle with children, but not necessarily with San Lang." My mother's sister is about the same age as my sister, and when I see my sister, I seem to have seen my mother's sister. ”

Wu Yu is also a cool person, and when he heard this, he nodded in agreement: "You can't be gentle and obedient to men, you have to clean up when you should clean up." Her mother-in-law is her own aunt, and she is not soft when she repairs her husband, but she is not afraid that her mother-in-law will think of ways to stop her, and when necessary, she can also bring out the big Buddha of her mother-in-law to support her, Wu Yu's married life can be described as smooth.

The two smiled at each other, quite a bit of speculation in marriage management.

After the Song family finished paying New Year's greetings, Rong Yan and Chu Junyue went back to their parents' house to pay New Year's greetings, and they were nagged by Princess Yi'an for a long time, and they couldn't wait to send her back at that time. Rong Yan only thought that Princess Yi'an was too nervous, and wanted to divert the topic with a smile, but in the end, Rong Shao spoke, she stopped nagging, and the whole family had a reunion dinner.

After that, she went to the county lord's house to pay New Year's greetings, and even when she heard that Rong Yan was pregnant, she couldn't help but have the urge to send her back to the general's mansion, not to mention the timid He family, originally Rong Yan came to her overjoyed, and Chu Sanlang was accompanied, seeing that although the young general had a cold face, but Rong Yan was considerate in the end, this was enough, and when she heard that she was now pregnant, after eating, she urged the couple to go back as soon as possible, and repeatedly told her not to run around, and to be careful in everything.

Lin Biyun is very close to her mother's house at home, and after she is pregnant, she still raises the baby at her mother-in-law's house with peace of mind, and she is easily not allowed to go back to her parents' house, for fear that she will accidentally bump into it, not to mention Rong Yan, the responsibility is heavier, where does He dare to let her stay more

On the contrary, Mrs. Chu, since the Chinese New Year's Eve Yang Palace banquet took Rong Yan to the palace once, after returning to see that she looked very good, people are more energetic than nesting at home, so she did not bind her to nest in the room to raise the fetus, and took her back to her mother's house, on the way back, she heard her even talking and laughing, and was in good spirits, and after arriving home, she was allowed to walk around, but everything was careful, and Chu Junyue had to escort her personally wherever she went.

Needless to say, Chu Sanlang was also happy with this messenger.

Before the Lantern Festival, Rong Yan handed a sign to the palace, asking to see Jinshang, and a day later, there was a carriage in the palace to pick up, and it happened that Chu Junyue went to the camp to have fun with his subordinates, and he was served by Twelve Lang.

The ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee will not open until the Lantern Festival, which is a rare idle time of the year for the monarchs and ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government. It's about to meet someone close to her, who is only wearing regular clothes today, Rong Yan wants to salute, and hurriedly stops her: "Don't do those false courtesies, you should be raising, I haven't congratulated Ah Mei yet." ”

Rong Yan insisted on saluting, and beckoned to her today: "Ah Yan come and sit." ”

After sitting down for a while, Jin Shang asked: "Ah Mei has something difficult to do?" Could it be that Chu Saburo bullied you and wanted me to call the shots? ”

"With the support of the imperial brother, where does San Lang dare to bully me? It's just that at this year's palace banquet, I heard my mother-in-law say that it was more frugal than in previous years, so I wondered if the saint was short of silver? ”

Today, Su knows that Rong Yan is a little anxious to make money, although the Rong family has returned, but the caravan is still there, and she gets along well with the Beidi merchants, and the ready-made dowry shop heard that there are many goods shipped by the Beidi merchants, so he smiled at her: "Is it that I am short of silver, and Ah Yan will be generous?" ”

The treasury is a bottomless pit, as an emperor, of course, he hopes that the more silver the better, not today, the south is flooded, and the north of Ming'er is drought, but the treasury can't transfer silver to relieve the disaster.

Rong Yan tightened her purse: "The saint Mo is competing with my little people for profit." ”

"Are you still a little common man? Good for you, little people with money bags! Jinshang pointed at Rong Yan and laughed, "You're not here to send me money, are you here to borrow money from me?" Otherwise, why do you cry poor as soon as you come in? ”

Rong Yan felt that the time had come, so she didn't go around in circles: "I came today to ask the imperial brother for an envoy and an imperial businessman to do it." ”

Imajo glanced at her belly meaningfully: "Even if you want to do this, you have to wait until you have a child, right?" ”

Rong Yan looked at him in surprise: "So the imperial brother promised me?" There is one thing I don't want to hide from the imperial brother," so he explained the matter of his adoptive father Lin Baosheng, "I recommended myself like this, just to make the Shen family no longer able to be the imperial businessman, to slowly bring down the Shen family, and to let Shen Wei taste the evil consequences of raising a child and not teaching." ”

Although he can't copy the Shen family with one decree, it is easy to take the position of the Shen family's imperial businessman. It's just that after the Shen family, it is inevitable to find another imperial businessman, but this is something to be reconsidered.

Rong Yan said: "I heard that the Shen family has a caravan and goes to all parts of the country to collect treasures and worship the palace, and obtains a lot of wealth from the palace and the people every year. I'm afraid that the price of daily use in the palace is not low. The royal brother has the idea of reducing the amount of use in the palace, so it is better to buy here from the palace first, and see how the daily things in the palace compare to the market price. ”

When she returned to her parents' home, she had heard Princess Yi'an mention that the queen had recently reviewed the age of the palace ladies and was about to release a batch, but she did not mean to re-select the palace maids.

The first emperor liked luxurious and exquisite furnishings, and the upper part was good, and the lower part must be effective. The first emperor was in the court for more than ten years, whether it was an important minister in the court or a rich gentry among the people, they all pursued a luxurious and rich life, that is, the small people whose family backgrounds were a little more passable, and the skirts of women should be more than two feet wider.

This kind of practice of blindly pursuing external magnificence not only affects the economy, but also affects the atmosphere of officialdom, causing people to be superficial, and officials who are serious about doing practical things are not as good as officials who talk flamboyantly and have a good face to please their superiors, and there is naturally a difference in the evaluation of their political achievements at the end of the year.

Over time, many officials have become slack off in political affairs, and they only like to take small shortcuts, and it is more important to please their bosses than anything else.

Rong Yan can understand Xiao Ze's thoughts very well.

She also often has this kind of thought, from the original county lord's mansion to the later Guogong Mansion, and now the general's mansion, after living an aristocratic life, she can't help but use the grassroots people's algorithm to calculate the living expenses. For example, a large dish with complex workmanship, converted into the table food of ordinary people, how many days can a family of five eat......

Rong Yan couldn't help but talk about the folding method of a grassroots person like herself, which made Xiao Zefu laugh, "If you calculate it carefully, the amount of money in the palace is really amazing, I have been in the palace for several years, and I can't get used to it in many places." "A person has lived in a poor environment for too long, even if he is rich and prosperous after that, but the imprint left by his original life in his heart will always be difficult to erase.

What's more, Xiao Ze also knows how difficult people's livelihood is.

Rong Yan thought about it for a while and gave him an idea: "I heard that the Shen family is the only one of the imperial merchants, and the rich flowing oil is not as good as the imperial brother's foreign investment, and all kinds of daily necessities in the palace, as long as the goods are good and the price is low, they will buy them back to the palace." But for a long time, there will always be some greasy in the middle, and this offering will last for three months or half a year, not waiting for the outside merchants and the eunuchs in the palace to form a deep friendship with silver, and change the next home, after all, it is a move to save silver. ”

Her idea is not bad, Xiao Ze found it interesting when he heard it, and this is why the Shen family was masturbated.

The Shen family stepped down, the family was in chaos, and Shen was only questioned by the angry clansmen why he didn't keep the palace offerings, and he couldn't say what he was suffering, but Mrs. Jiang personally came to relieve him and explain what Shen Jiayu had done back then.

Although Mrs. Jiang relieved Shen Weiwei, Shen Weiwei did not appreciate it.

The matter has come to this point, even if Shen Jiayu is sacrificed, he can't save the Shen family's inevitable defeat, so why bother to do this?

As soon as the Shen family heard that the matter was caused by Shen Jiayu, they made a fuss, and wanted to expelle Shen Jiayu and drive him out of the Shen family.

Mrs. Jiang took the lead in taking her son Shen Jiayuan to express her position: because she taught Shen Jiayu such a wicked son, she is ashamed of the ancestors of the Shen family, and she will move out of the ancestral house with her son.

Her timely statement was unanimously praised by all the clansmen, but it angered Shen Weiwei.

Shen Weiwei took over the position of head of the family from his father in his early twenties, and now although he has lost his position as an imperial businessman, he still has other businesses, where is he willing to let go and move out of the ancestral house?

Mrs. Jiang had already taken Shen Jiayuan back to prepare to move, and she only said that she would move out of the ancestral house within three days. As for Shen Weiwei, who was arguing with the clansmen, she refused to look at it again.

Shen Weiwei couldn't resist the clansmen in the end, so he could only remove Shen Jiayu from the ancestral genealogy, and drove him out of the Shen family that night.

Shen Jiayu never dreamed that he would be kicked out of the house, so he went to his arms and stuffed a lot of silver tickets, and asked the waiting maid around him: "Which of you goes out to play with your master?" ”

The girls have been at the lower level for a long time, and their sense of crisis is much more sensitive than that of this son, so they immediately shook their heads.

Shen Jiayu didn't force it, and still held the idea that "these flowers and willows at home have already been put into my mouth, and there must be many beauties waiting for me outside", packed up her baggage and left.

-- He didn't know the seriousness of the matter, but he just had to go out on a spring outing and come back after a turn.

Aunt Hong cried to death, knelt in the front hall and kowtowed to the uncles in the clan, these people usually don't like Shen Jiayu's young age and only knows how to squander, not as good as Shen Jiayuan can bring huge benefits to the family, and they despise Aunt Hong's concubine, and no one can pretend to see it. A younger nephew came forward and said, "A concubine, run to the front hall to show your eyes!" ”

Shen Wei's old face was flushed and very embarrassed, and he called the mother-in-law to drag Aunt Hong back to the backyard, her crying sounded all the way through the backyard, but unfortunately the two mothers-in-law who dragged Aunt Hong back were married by Mrs. Jiang's mother's family, and at first she was polite and persuaded the two: "Auntie, please stop a little!" Seeing that she was unmoved, she took out a splashing and rolling posture to rush to the front yard, and one of the mothers-in-law took out a handkerchief, regardless of whether she wiped her nose for her little grandson or not, and gagged her mouth in a ball, and the two dragged the struggling Aunt Hong back to the backyard.

Within two days, Mrs. Jiang packed up all the dowry, and with the private money she had saved over the years, she took Shen Jiayuan to move to the wedding Zhuangzi, regardless of Shen Weiwei and Aunt Hong.

Shen Jiayuan went to Shen Wei's place to say goodbye, only to protect his mother and go back to Zhuangzi, Shen Weiwei seemed to be more than ten years old overnight, and only muttered: "Ah Yuan, Daddy took over the power of the Shen family at your age...... That was the most proud time in his life.

Shen Jiayuan kowtowed to him: "Daddy, our family has several generations of imperial businessmen, and the wealth is boundless, if the person is not good, where can we keep it?" ”

He thought he was shrewd at the beginning, but now he regrets that he missed not only the virtue of honesty, but also the person he loved deeply in his heart.

It turns out that businessmen have been doing it for a long time, and they are good at calculating every day, and in the end, they are clever and mistaken, and they don't know that they have calculated themselves, which is the most terrible.

Jiang took Shen Jiayuan and his wife to live in the Zhuangzi where he married, and soon after, Shen only had to move out of the Shen family's ancestral house and moved to another courtyard in the east of the city with Aunt Hong.

Shen's only family fell apart overnight.

As for Shen Jiayu, some people saw that he had entered Wanhong Pavilion since he came out of the house that day, and he never came out again, and he was still drunk and dreaming of death.

The author has something to say: there will be a shift before about twelve o'clock tonight.