Chapter 425: As Expected
When the eldest daughter-in-law is confined, this is also the rule. The daughter-in-law wanted to eat a few more eggs, but no matter how much the son pleaded, the earl just wouldn't agree. The angry son almost didn't smash the kitchen. The daughter-in-law has no milk, and she is not allowed to hire a wet nurse. In the end, it was the wet nurse hired by the mother's brother that solved the problem of feeding the child.
Although this earl's family has three sons and two daughters, those princes and dignitaries in the capital are worried that their daughters will be guilty of marrying their family, and this old brother himself is not a dime, but he has high requirements for his in-laws. Whoever marries a daughter into their family, the dowry needs a certain amount. He made this so that he was only allowed to enter and not to go out, and no one was willing to give his daughter to their family.
Although the eldest son is a talent, he can only marry a widowed daughter of a certain Hanlin in the end. The other two sons have not yet married. Because he refused to pay a dowry, his two daughters were very old before they got married. In order to save money, this old man's family doesn't even have a carriage, not to mention the palanquin that needs to support several palanquins.
Every time I need to go to court, I am only willing to ride a donkey that is so old that I can't walk. Just because the price of donkeys is much cheaper than horses, and raising donkeys saves feed compared to raising horses. It is said that in the earl's palace, there was a lot of money piled up in several rooms. Because he was reluctant to spend it on weekdays, the rope used to string money was rotten, and he refused to change it to a new one, just because it cost money to buy a new hemp rope.
The earl's greatest hobby was to sleep on the money-making pile. He has been an earl for so many years, and he has always changed his two sets of official uniforms. And one of these two sets of official uniforms is still Huang Qiong's emperor Laozi, who really can't stand him wearing only a washed white court dress to the court all day, and specially rewarded him.
He was also given a horse so that he would not ride a donkey to the court all day. But this old man, because it costs too much feed to raise horses, he refused to ask for it to be killed. Fortunately, he is only a nobleman, and he doesn't have to go to court every time, so he didn't make a thing of wearing a patched official uniform to go to court. If he does a court official who needs to go to the court, he can't really do it to wear a patched official uniform and go to the court.
With this earl's unstoppable hair, he still thinks about the sugar rooster character who comes back with a hair all day long. Asking him to pay a thousand yuan for a good deed is almost more distressing to him than to take off a few pieces of flesh from him. If it weren't for the upstart Huang Qiong, I was worried that after the upstart really inherited the throne one day, he would remember that he would not give face and find trouble for himself.
At that time, the money he has accumulated may be anyone's, and he will not come up with this money if he is killed. Originally, he was only willing to give 300 guan, but in the end, under the persuasion of the Zhi Shi Hanlin family, it took a long time for the flesh to be added to 1,000 guan. No matter how much he wants, he would rather jump into the well with the ingots.
You know, this thousand dollars is enough for their family to spend a year, and this includes the monthly expenses of those servants. Even if you're saving some, you can't use these. It is estimated that this stingy earl, who has become the laughing stock of the capital, although the money is taken out, but this heart is also bleeding, and he thinks about how to get this money back all day long.
I heard that the first thing this brother did when he came home after spending the money was to reduce the four dishes and one soup at home every day to two, and the soup was not allowed to be served again. Originally, there was only one meat dish per meal, but it was changed to only one meal in three days. This old man, who is obviously striving to lose the loss outside the embankment, and it would be strange if he didn't scold Huang Qiong when he went home.
Of course, those like this earl who are stingy to this point are also very few in the capital, and they can even be said to be unique. Most of the princes and nobles, people don't care about these thousands of things. Not to mention a thousand yuan, in the eyes of some well-intentioned people, as long as you can buy a good king, no matter how much money you have, it doesn't matter. The only one who really doesn't pull out a dime is just a Song king.
It's just that this King of Song is really poor in money, and he still sincerely and consciously can't get along with King Ying. Then it can only be the opinion of the benevolent and the wise of the wise. Anyway, when Concubine De celebrated her birthday this year, the King of Song spent more than 30,000 yuan in order to buy a birthday star carved from a good Hetian jade, and everyone saw it. Before the heavy snowfall, when I bought a Silla maid, I spent a lot of money, and everyone remembered it vividly.
It's just that King Song doesn't pull out a dime, and others don't say anything too much, but he has some contempt in his heart. It's just that no one said anything, after all, he is the only son of Concubine De, and he is also the current prince. As far as Concubine De's temperament is concerned, what she said, if it reaches her ears, she will have to find some trouble.
Moreover, it is impossible to hide these things that happened in Beijing from the emperor. The emperor didn't say anything, and it was even harder for those who were courtiers to say anything. It's just that when he looked at Song Wangfu again, there was something like that. And these things, Huang Qiong only smiled faintly after hearing King Yong, who ran to his mansion talk about it, and did not make any comments.
Huang Qiong didn't say anything, and he couldn't see it from King Yong's person, and this time King Song lost a lot of points in front of the emperor. The old man is indeed very taboo about the prince to win the hearts of the people. But today is different from the past, it has snowed so heavily in the capital, and the displaced areas have been so badly affected, but the imperial court has no money to provide relief. And the old man is the kind of person who attaches great importance to face.
Besides, the old man is not a faint king who sits and watches the people suffer, but he is indifferent. What's more, this snow disaster happened right under the nose of the old man, and the old man really didn't ask. If there is really no Yamen to take care of it, and the Chinese military officials all sit idly by, wouldn't that be equivalent to slapping the old man in the face?
In the past, Jingzhao Mansion used the official warehouse to store grain for porridge, although it was not used much. Coupled with the fact that the people who have endured it have gone up and down, there are not many people who have really fallen into the mouths of the homeless. But is it possible to use the grain of the official warehouse without the holy decree of the old man? The grain taken out of the soup kitchen in Jingzhao Mansion looked like the grain stored in the official warehouse last year. Didn't you look at the grain, is it all a little moldy?
It's just that there is a severe drought in the northwest at present, and a considerable part of the grain that was originally intended to be transported to the official warehouse in the capital has been transferred to the northwest. One is to fill the official warehouses in the northwest, because there is very little grain in the warehouses due to the drought this year, and in addition, the huge amount of theft and sale that has been detected this year is huge, and they cannot afford the rations of the Xijing camp garrison, as well as the northwest border army and the guards in the coming year.
At the same time, for the sake of next year's drought, we may continue to hoard food. Therefore, this autumn, the grain transported to the granaries in the capital is almost sixty percent less than in previous years. And the sixty percent of the grain in the warehouse, under the condition of ensuring the garrison, officials and people in the capital, there is simply not much relief for this snow disaster.
But if it is the homeless people inside and outside Jingzhao Mansion, there are also those who are poor. At the foot of the Son of Heaven and in the first good place, a large number of people died of freezing and starvation because of this snow disaster, isn't that equivalent to beating the face of the old man who thinks he is diligent and loves the people? As the ninth brother, this move seems to be a bit reckless, but it happened to be stabbed in the waist of his emperor Lao Tzu.
This time, he dragged most of the princes and powerful families in the city into the water, and even if the old man wanted to get angry, he released it. King Yong didn't believe it, with the shrewdness of his own emperor Lao Tzu, those powerful families were so rare, and even the reason why they worked so hard for the first time, and they donated food and winter clothes, the old man couldn't see it?
This move greatly alleviated the urgent needs of the imperial court, at least saved the old man's face. Even if the old man knows the Tao in this, he can't tell what is wrong? The most important thing is that after the rebellion of the two kings of Jing and Duan, the prestige of the Heavenly Family among the people was greatly restored. You must know that a large part of the exiles in the capital come from the two kings and the fiefs of the clan.
And his ninth brother, although the money he paid a little more this time, the total amount was quite exquisite. Even if it solves the headache of the old man, the scale is also the benefit. It can be said that it did not arouse the suspicion of the old man. and forced the rest of the princes and magnates in the city to follow suit in order to cling to him, the new upstart, but at least it did not arouse the disgust of most people. After all, that amount of money is indeed a huge expense for ordinary people.
But for those princes and dignitaries, it may not even be a drop in the bucket. In normal times, if you take some money out to do some good deeds, you will worry about the emperor's suspicion. But this time, the king took the lead, and everyone contributed to their efforts. Even if it didn't impress him, an upstart. But at least among the people, it left a good name, didn't it?
is his fiancée, who has never had a good impression of the children of the heavenly family, who praised it a lot, and even contributed money and efforts. At first, I was worried about those princes and dignitaries in the city, and no one gave face to this ninth brother. He took the lead, but others didn't pull out a dime. At first, I also thought that I would take a hand in this matter, at least help him round his face.
It was only after this matter developed to the point that he didn't even imagine it, and he carefully tasted and figured out the truth of it. Afterwards, I was still glad that I made a timely move. It's just that he didn't expect that this is a good thing for the old man to have a long face, but King Song actually didn't pull it out. You must know that he King Song is one of the best local tyrants among the kings of Beijing at present.
Someone charged forward for him, and he didn't know that he was stupid to take the opportunity to use this opportunity to buy the hearts of the people. No wonder she was called Jiucao Bao by the crazy girl of the Yuan family when she opened her mouth and closed her mouth. Now look, it's really straw bales. It's that he doesn't even know what his own father is thinking about, and he is still there all day long, and he really doesn't know who gave him the confidence.
In terms of the character of his own emperor Lao Tzu, not to mention that the emperor did not have any hope for King Song. There was still a glimmer of hope, but after experiencing this, I am afraid that I will be extremely disappointed in it.
It's just that his mouth is dry, but Huang Qiong didn't make any comments on King Song's move, which was somewhat unexpected by King Yong. However, after he finished speaking, the corner of Huang Qiong's mouth occasionally revealed a trace of surprise, and even a light smile with a hint of ridicule was accurately captured by King Yong.
Seeing the hint of ridicule on the corner of Huang Qiong's mouth, King Yong realized that his ninth brother was really fighting in his heart, and he had never looked down on King Song. King Song's insistence may have been expected by him. After understanding this, King Yong felt a little creepy. I feel that I and my brothers can't hide anything in front of this ninth brother.
Although he rarely makes evaluations, he seems to have seen everything very thoroughly. Even everyone's mind can be guessed clearly. Looking at Huang Qiong, who was breezy and calm, King Yong also fell silent. In front of this ninth brother who is very deep in the city, but he sees everything clearly, he really doesn't know what to say.
He even felt that what he said when he came to the British Palace, which was even a little childish and ridiculous. Because he felt that what he said had already been seen by Huang Qiong. After thinking about this, the Yongwang was somewhat depressed. Originally, I wanted to pull Huang Qiong to drink another drink to make up for my somewhat injured heart.