Yangzhou Dongcheng, Xu's house.

Xu Zhen still looked cynical, sitting on the chair with a smile, sometimes knocking a peanut, sometimes sipping a sip of fragrant tea, which was delicious.

Seeing him like this, his eldest brother Xu Zhi's face changed for a while, and he gritted his teeth faintly, but he was helpless.

Xu Zhen glanced at him, and when he saw Xu Zhi like this, his heart became more and more happy.

He just likes the way his stupid brother can't get used to him, and he can't get rid of him......

Cooperating with Jia Qiang, Xu Zhen was under great pressure at home.

If it weren't for the fact that his mother Lou was the continuation of his son Xu Minghe, who was extremely favored, and the pillow was blown by the wind, it would be impossible for the Xu family to take out the ice cellar and cooperate with a young man from the capital who was not familiar with the roots.

His eldest brother Xu Zhi also listed several of his major crimes, what helped the foreigners offend the Bai family, took the Xu family's roots and cooperated with others without authorization, lawlessness, and disregarded etiquette, righteousness and shame, and called people "second master" in spite of etiquette, righteousness and shame......

As a result, all the corrections disappeared when the Bai family was wiped out, the Shen, Wu, and Zhou families fell silently, and the Qi family, the leading salt merchant, was getting closer and closer to the Yanyuan Yamen.

The opposition within the Xu family was also swept away.

No one is a fool, and wherever the wind yearns, he can see it wherever he has eyes.

Xu Minghe, the manager of Yangzhou Mansion, looked at his doted second son, and scolded with a smile: "Bastard, don't be in a hurry to be happy first." Now that you have climbed the high branches, then your eldest brother will go to the government with me to do things. In addition, the Xu family can't bet all the treasures on you. You take the ice cellar, and I asked people to buy a 5,000-acre grange outside the city with the money at home, one is as a back road, and the other is that if there is anything uninsured on your side, this grange is your eldest brother's. Your third brother is still young, and in the future, his share will have to be supplemented with the money you earn, at least it will be a grange of 5,000 acres. Today is considered a separation, have you written it down? ”

When Xu Zhen heard this, he almost didn't laugh off his eyes.

The government has never thought of sitting in this position.

First, he is not the son of the Xu family, and secondly, his temperament is not suitable for doing this.

Speaking of which, the power of this position is indeed not small, but no matter how heavy the power is, it is just a small official who does not enter the stream.

When I saw a bunch of officials in the palace, I had to greet them, and I had to kowtow when I met them seriously.

The weight of the subordinates, but the humility of the superiors, let him sit in this position, it is better to kill him.

As for the family's silver, as well as 5,000 acres of grange or something, it was a trivial matter to him.

In contrast, the Xu family's two ice cellars and ice house businesses are the golden roosters that lay golden eggs.

Even if most of the silver he earns in the next three or five years will be subsidized to the family, as long as the chickens are his, it is not a matter of time before he earns silver?

What's more, what he values is not the silver earned by these two ice cellars, but the ability to have the capital to partner with Jia Qiang and Qi Yun.

Previously, he was hesitant about him taking out the Xu family's ice cellar to partner, but now that he has completely made the decision, he can let it go.

Xu Zhen jumped up and smiled at him: "Gotcha! With your old words, it will be done, and the blessings will be returned to everyone in the future, and I will bear the disaster alone, and I will never drag down the family, so don't look ugly, big brother. Let's go, strive to make ice out before the year, and make a lot of money while the year is ahead. ”

With that, turn around and run.

After Xu Zhen left, Xu Minghe looked at his eldest son and sighed, "Do you understand?" The future official is yours, as long as you can afford to sit down. Add to that grange and this house, and your future road will be more stable than anyone else's. You always complain in private that I love your brother, and now he and the third child together don't have more than two ice cellars. ”

When Xu Zhi heard this, his face was full of shame, and he even said a little uneasy: "Father, why is this so?" ”

Xu Minghe shook his head and said, "Our Xu family has been heirloom with stability since your great-ancestor. You have a calm temperament, not like the second child, and you are the eldest son, so you should have passed on the family business to you. The two ice cellars will not be separated...... However, Yangzhou Mansion is now in chaos, the whole world is going to be chaotic, and the emperor Laozi wants to innovate, but the officials and gentry in the world may not be willing. Look at Jiangnan, a Han Bin and Han Banshan, plus a Lin Ruhai, such two cadres who rely on the Son of Heaven are here, and when they really start, they all need the Jia family, that is, the good ministers appointed by the Emperor Taishang, to be in front. Trembling, walking on thin ice. If they really succeed, your second brother will follow him, and he will not have a share of his creation. But in case they are defeated, when your second brother is in trouble and has nothing to eat in the future, you must remember to pull him by the hand, and don't let him starve to death. ”

Regardless of preference or doting, for the head of a family, ensuring the continuation of the family is always the first priority.

This is the long-term way for the family to endure.

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The back house of the salt courtyard.

After Jia Qiang led Xue Baoqin in, Xue Baoqin asked Aunt Mei and Daiyu very obediently.

Aunt Mei was taken aback when she saw Baoqin like this, and exclaimed, "I haven't seen a girl with such a good color for many years!" ”

Bao Qin smiled shyly, and explained to Aunt Mei the reason why her mother couldn't come.

Aunt Mei heard that Baoqin's mother had phlegm, so she changed her complexion slightly, and looked at Baoqin with some pity: "What are you afraid of if you can't meet?" Let your mother rest for a long time, and let someone tell me what she lacks. ”

Daiyu, who looked at Baoqin for a while, suddenly looked at Jia Qiang and said with a smile: "How can I remember, you said that the treasure medicine of Tianning Temple is the most symptomatic high fever lung disease?" ”

Jia Qiang nodded, and Baoqin said with a smile on the side: "Sister Lin, Brother Qiang said that after letting the imperial doctor see it in the evening, if it is feasible, he will go and ask for treasure medicine." ”

When Daiyu heard this, her eyebrows raised slightly, and she looked at Jia Qiang with a smile and said, "Brother Qiang? ”

Jia Qiang first responded with a "um", and when she saw Daiyu's eyebrows raised, she hurriedly said "um" (three times), indicating that she didn't understand what it meant......

Daiyu took a sip and teased: "What a thick dough!" Qin'er is Bao Yatou's sister, you call Bao Yatou aunt, let Qin'er call you Brother Qiang? ”

Jia Qiang smiled, and said lightly: "What you shout, it doesn't really matter to me." It just depends on how Sister Baoqin chooses ......"

Baoqin is only eleven years old, and she pointed to Jia Qiang to save her father, how could she choose the wrong path? So he smiled: "I'll call my brother." ”

Daiyu saw through Jia Qiang's intentions and glared at him with some annoyance.

Jia Qiang waved her hand and said to Baoqin: "It's okay to be here with your sister Lin, she is in the capital, and your cousin is very good, like a sister!" ”

Baoqin took it seriously, responded obediently, and looked at Daiyu again, but her starry eyes were wide open, and she glared at someone angrily, and she couldn't help but be stunned.

What's the problem?

Jia Qiang hurriedly glanced at Daiyu, signaling her not to lose her identity in front of the children, and after saying goodbye to Aunt Mei, she turned around and left.

Daiyu looked at Jia Qiang's back angrily and snorted, but in a blink of an eye, she saw that Baoqin seemed to be a little restrained and timid when she saw her like this, and she hurriedly changed her smiling face and talked to her......

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Imperial City, Daming Palace.

It has entered the wax moon, and all parts of the palace have been newly painted.

In particular, it can be said that since the beginning of Long An, the glass lantern festival, which has been interrupted for five years, has started again since the seventh day of the lunar month.

Countless glass lanterns are hung all over the imperial city.

The people of the capital can look at the imperial city in the center of Shenjing, and they are all shocked and worshiped by the scene that is like a heavenly palace.

Nourishing heart hall, Xinuan Pavilion diligent government and pro-virtuous hall.

Emperor Long An stood in front of the window, looking at the lights outside, his brows furrowed tightly.

He has been taught by the cabinet master since he was a child, and he has a sense of diligence and thrift, and he can't see the extravagance and waste of disorder.

But......

There was such a big storm in the south of the Yangtze River, and some princes of the clan went to Jiuhua Palace to slander him, saying that Han Bin and Lin Ruhai began to liquidate the old man Jingchu in Yangzhou Mansion.

Although the Emperor didn't say anything, according to the chamberlain, the Emperor was very unhappy......

Empress Yin suggested that Emperor Long'an, in order to appease the heart of the emperor, re-hang this lantern all over the imperial city, just like the old year of Jingchu, in order to comfort the emperor.

Emperor Long An knew the importance of the current affairs, so he should respond.

Sure enough, the Emperor and the Queen Mother were very happy when they saw it.

However, Emperor Long An was not happy.

Not only because of this extravagance, but also because of the clan!

Dayan has been passed down to his generation, and it is already the fourth generation.

Four generations have accumulated fifteen princely mansions, thirty-eight county palaces, and as for the Zhenguo Duke, the Auxiliary Guogong, and the Zhenguo General, there are as many as hundreds of people.

Although, compared to the previous dynasty, Dayan's clan is not too much, and the expenditure is acceptable.

However, some people are not satisfied, and they borrow money in the household department, not to mention, and send people from the palace to enclose land everywhere and build a royal village.

These wangzhuang did not dare to be managed by the local government, let alone collect taxes, and they also wantonly donated land, which caused a sharp decline in local fiscal and tax revenues......

At the moment, although there are not many prince's mansions and county princes' mansions, the numbers will become more and more alarming, and one day, the clan expenditure will become a mountain that crushes the imperial court's finances.

Originally, because of these, Emperor Long An didn't like most of the clans that were about to become wasted, but he didn't expect that now there were still people who dared to give him eye medicine, forcing him to do such extravagant things against his will.

For Emperor Long An, this is simply a great shame!!

At this time, the Amitayus Pagoda in the Buddha Hall of the Immortal Tower outside the hall, the copper bell rings, echoing in the hall, like a burst of Sanskrit sound.

This design is ingenious, but whenever someone enters the temple and pushes open the temple door, the air flow in, and it will bring a bell.

There is a Huangmen Tongbing Tianzi: "The queen is here." ”

After a while, I saw Yin Hou entering.

It's just that, unlike in the past, when Empress Yin entered today, her face was a little more dignified.

"What's wrong?"

Emperor Long An knew that this wife was the most intelligent, and she couldn't stop her when she was idle, and it was rare to see her like this.

Now, it can be seen that we have encountered a real difficulty.

Sure enough, Yin said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the Qiu family on the Xuan'er Mansion just entered the palace to tell the concubine that she and the side concubine Bai of the Yao'er Mansion have been getting closer recently, and she doesn't want the Bai family to tell her some strange things, because the Bai family can't enter the palace, so let the Qiu family come to the concubine and say:

In the past six months, Princess Ning and the Zhao family have been constantly traveling between the palaces of the clan. In addition to the kings of the clan, there are also the mansions of the six major princes of Yuanping and the twenty-four marquis' mansions, and she also went to most of them. The concubine heard from the Qiu family that every time the Zhao family visited, they would not go empty-handed, and they were very active. She has a special identity, and all the county kings in the world are two-character seals, but King Ning is the one-word king. It can be seen that in the future, there will always be a prince. So most of these people won't treat her slowly.

The emperor, thinking of the identity of the grandson of the emperor Li Hui, the emperor has repeatedly sent grace, I just hope that he can be peaceful, who knows that he is so restless!

By the way, the Bai family also said that before Prince Jian entered the palace to see the emperor, the Zhao family went to Prince Jian's mansion three times with heavy gifts! ”

When Emperor Long An heard this, he was furious!

He didn't expect that King Ning, the grandson of the Taishang Yuansun, would be so cunning that he would not move and let the princess collude with these.

What's even angrier is that he actually learned about this from Empress Yin, it's a bastard!

There is also the palace of Prince Jane of the clan, they dare to be so ignorant of life and death!

I also hate these people for being stupid, to this point, they still want to turn the sky upside down?

A bunch of idiots!

However, after many years of tenacity, Emperor Long An quickly suppressed his anger, and he said in a deep voice: "It is inconvenient for me to come forward, you reward the Bai family on my behalf, it is difficult for her, you have such a loyal and filial heart!" After a pause, he frowned and asked, "Which family is the Bai family from?" He wanted to give grace to his daughter-in-law's mother, and he couldn't remember who to grace for a while.

Empress Yin pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "The emperor forgot, the Bai family is the daughter of the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, the Bai family." This family affair is still Yao'er who drove the emperor to Yangzhou, and the emperor graced the Bai family. ”

When Emperor Long An heard this, his face turned dark, and he was in a bad mood for a while!

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