A house in the northwest of Yangzhou City Center Avenue, divided into three entrances, people in and out are endless, either rich or expensive, the temperature of the summer night is just not lukewarm, the title of the gold list is Da Dengke, the cave room flower candle Xiao Dengke, the patrol according to the imperial Shijia Lord married a concubine, do the magistrates dare not come? Even if you don't come, you have to give this money, right? If you send less, your heart will not be steady......

This courtyard is a temporary place arranged by the current Yangzhou prefect for the imperial historian, whether it is rented or bought, or it is taken by skill, Jia Cong has no intention of investigating it carefully, and now it has become his new house.

Officials marrying concubines are actually very simple, they don't need the cumbersome processes of three media and six appointments, six marriage ceremonies, signing documents, etc., and they don't need to sing loudly, blow gongs and drums, and marry concubines only need to give the concubine's family a little silver, send someone at night, a two-person sedan chair, and carry it to the new house, which is a concubine.

When night fell, four sedan chair men, one sedan chair for each two people came in from the backyard, the groom and the beautiful concubine both wore red clothes, Jia Cong walked out with a proud spring breeze, and the guests did not see the true face of the beautiful concubine, but they all slandered in their hearts: "Jia Yushi is still young and vigorous, and a marriage is a ......"

"The future is ......terrifying" Some old officials sighed, not because they couldn't afford to marry, but because they didn't have that blood, they envied Jia Cong, most of them were at Jia Cong's age, and they still threw themselves on the Baguwen wholeheartedly.

Under Eryou's red hijab, he was infinitely shy, but no one could see it, Jia Cong's face was sour with a smile, and he had a smiling face from beginning to end, and when they entered the new house, they toasted one by one on the flowing water seat, beaming with joy: "Jia someone is a little Dengke tonight, thank you for appreciating your face!" Some of you are not far away, rushed from Tongzhou Zhenjiang, and some of you don't have much friendship with me, they all give me face, as for giving gifts and money, that's still second! Jia doesn't care about this! Come! This cup, let's do it first! ”

Jingling!

Jingle Bell!

The sound of cups colliding first came from the Yangzhou prefect and Jia Cong, followed by Gu Tongzhi of the river and Yan Ming, the envoy of salt transportation, and then the governor of Ganquan County, the capital of Jiangdu...... The uproar came down in order, everyone stood up, and the wine was dry.

"Lord Yushi relieves the sacred heart, settles the people's poverty, sets money and food, and is punished, Jiangnan is very fortunate, how can we not admire the reason?" Gu Tongzhi ha said a few words, he ran fast, as soon as he heard that Lord Yushi had married a concubine, he immediately went down to Jiangdu from Gaoyou, obviously this matter is more important than the flooding of the Yellow River.

Huai'an River Yamen Acting Lixiahe Qizhou County, Gaoyou River is all included, to be exact, the entire Jiangbei River is in charge of this Yamen, Gu Tongzhi as an adjutant, is also the director level, very face-giving.

After a lot of joy of the guests and hosts, the guests only saw Liu Zhiyuan, who supervised the imperial history, Shen Sanguan had been thinking for a long time, Yan Ming, who was not far from the seat, nodded slightly, Shen Sanguan stood up with a brushing of coarse linen clothes, and his face was sad: "Don't hide it from Lord Yushi, the floods of the Yellow River endanger Yangzhou, the west of Hongze Lake, Baima Lake and Gaoyou Lake, all of which are disaster areas. ”

"Oh? This is the first time I've heard of this. Jia Cong was surprised: "The official spent a lot of money in Huai'an, saying that he wrapped his waist around 100,000 yuan, and rode a crane down to Yangzhou, but the official came to be poor, I don't know how much Lord Yan donated in Yangzhou?" ”

"Uh......" Yan Ming didn't expect Jia Cong to ask him, and the prefect of Yangzhou hurriedly replied: "My lord, the total amount of money and grain in Yangzhou, to say the least, is three or five thousand, and it can also give porridge to the victims for a day." ”

Jia Cong smiled perfunctorily, he had long known that it was unrealistic to expect these officials to donate money, three or five thousand or a total, and this money was a drop in the bucket for any official here, and it was a drop in the bucket for the river.

That's why he had to ask for a large amount of money on the grounds of marrying a concubine, as he said to Miaoyu, giving it to him, and giving it to the court and the magistrate's attitude is completely different.

However, Jia Cong's means are not only this, he still has a lot of goals to achieve in this concubine banquet tonight.

"My lord smiled, Lord Yushi's loyalty to the country is a blessing for the people of the court." Shen Sanguan's face did not change: "It is reported that the adult and Liu Gong have a very good relationship, and I hope that the Lord Yushi will forgive us, Liu Gonggong wants to meddle in the salt road, saying that it is to change the outline salt to ticket salt, and the grass people think that in this way, the two Huai salt roads will not be chaotic?" If this is changed, the salt road will be in chaos, and if it is redistributed, this disaster relief will only be more chaotic...... Please have an idea......

After speaking, Shen Sanguan bent down, and although Yan Ming and the others were busy drinking and eating, they all listened attentively.

If the salt reform was carried out by Jia Cong, the success rate would be equal to zero, and without the iron fist support of the emperor, he would have become a victim of political struggles and interests struggles.

And Liu Zhiyuan is different, the eunuch is the emperor's slave, from the emperor's point of view, morality and talent are ranked behind, the emperor wants loyalty and obedience, the eunuch will not oppose him, and it represents the emperor's face, even if Liu Zhiyuan turns Jiangsu over, it is useless for them to oppose it.

Therefore, Jia Cong's idea to let Liu Zhiyuan do it is undoubtedly the smartest move.

Moreover, he can not only make a profit from it, but also sell good people, and gradually solve the disaster victims and rivers, killing three birds with one stone.

"President Shen is right!" Jia Cong was heartbroken, his palm slapped the table, the wine splashed, and he looked up sadly at the crescent moon in the treetops in the corner of the courtyard: "This official went south this time, he worked hard, he wanted to raise money but couldn't get it, and there has been no news so far, and when he arrived in Yangzhou, he had to rely on your support, how could Gonggong Liu do this?" This is not only to kill you all, but also to not give me someone to lose face! ”

"It's all up to adults." Shen Sanguan's heart was relieved, and he was a little grateful, it seemed that Jia Yushi still had a friendship with him for many years.

Yan Ming's eyes flickered.

"Inspector Liu is here to congratulate! Send four pearls and four gold leaves! ”

At this time, Wu Sange and Wu Zhuangyuan, who acted as the master of ceremonies, shouted in unison, and Yu Lu and Bao Er hurriedly handed over the gifts to Sun Fu and Jia Yun of the door and made a list.

Liu Zhiyuan strode in as if no one was around, and all the officials and wealthy businessmen stood up in panic to greet him: "Congratulations to Grandpa Liu!" ”

Only Jia Cong lay on the table sadly and cried, obviously he was the groom's official, why didn't he have any joy?

Liu Zhiyuan didn't look at them at all, and a few eunuchs were waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and he came to Jia Cong's side strangely, "Brother Shanhai, what's going on?" Who bullied you? You tell us! ”

The officials were excited, and Jia Cong's face was helpless: "It's my father-in-law who is bullying me!" ”

Liu Zhiyuan's face changed greatly, and when he suddenly saw Jia Cong's eyes, Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly said in a voice that only the two of them heard: "Which one do you play?" ”

"I can't talk about it in detail now, as long as my father-in-law knows, we only have a red face and a white face, so that we can reduce their resistance and get millions of silver quietly." Jia Cong instigated.

Liu Gonggong thought about it, suddenly happy, understood, looked around at everyone, and comforted: "You don't have to worry, the matter of ticket salt is our family's idea, and our family has played the emperor's order. ”

Jia Cong was extremely excited, now, he didn't need to take the blame, and when people were not paying attention, he wiped the corners of his eyes with wine.

Liu Zhiyuan secretly praised Jia Cong's warm boiled frog in his heart, and said in surprise: "Why did Brother Shanhai cry even more?" ”

Jia Cong sighed: "I cried with joy!" ”

Yan Ming and the others complimented Jia Cong one after another, and they became more and more grateful to Jia Cong, and decided to give another big gift tomorrow.