Xue Baochai thought that firstly, there were not many people who could put his heart into his heart, and secondly, although the two marquis of the Shi family were weaker than Jiafu, they did not have any deep hatred after all.

So it's a good thing that there is hope to make Jia Cong's alliance bigger and more big. Besides, she is used to pushing the boat and favoring people along the water, and there is no difficulty at all.

And Xiangling and Xiangyun have similar temperaments, they are both relatively simple and naïve people, and the two daughters often discuss poetry and classics together, mountains and rivers, and the piano and the seer are harmonious, which once made Sister Bao complain that they were really noisy, and at that time they were in her Wuyuan in the same bed, and they talked about these for a long time.

Therefore, the relationship between Xiangyun Xiangling's two daughters is better, they are both stupid people, and they are happy to write poems and sentences, and Xiangling is also willing to help Xiangyun.

In terms of Jia Cong's yard in Xifu, it was Jia Cong who first proposed to let Xiangling also come to the store to walk around and help take care of it, it doesn't matter how much she can help, the key is that they are bored in the yard and have more idle feelings, and there will be more gossip, so it is better to find something to do in their own shop, so it is difficult for Xiangling and Qingwen to be unhappy and unhappy.

Baochai has no objection to this, even if the other elders in the house have complaints, they are not good at caring about Jia Cong's internal affairs, even if Xiangling often comes out, but she does not show up, most of them are behind-the-scenes paperwork.

……

Imperial City, Samwang Street, Prince Zhongshun's Mansion.

The third prince, Prince Zhongshun, Ling Jiechu, turned his back to the people who came to visit him, looked out the window, and said quietly: "Didn't Qi Wendao and Jia Yucun still fail to participate in Jia Cong?" I've had a lot of twists and turns. ”

"There should always be a process, Jia Cong's previous power was too long, but it is enough to be sure that the emperor has already lost too much trust, otherwise Jia Cong's Fuling fold will not stay in the middle, and continue to exert force later, even if Jia Cong does not die, he will definitely not be able to get up. Why don't you find the two who came back from the south and try it again? ”

"Don't be too fierce for the time being, although Jia Cong drove my palace governor's mansion and collected my salt merchants' profits, but the current situation is too treacherous, the second rebellion is first, even if I have the team of the old stewards, I still can't act rashly in the capital, it's not that I'm afraid of Jia Cong. In the next few rounds, let the people in the palace go into battle to meet the enemy. ”

"What did the third prince say?"

……

The inner palace, the north wind is bleak and desolate, and the celebrant is in the inner hall.

Zhao Kang put on an ear warmer, baked the brazier, handed out a letter backwards, and said, "Give it to him." ”

"Father-in-law is ......," Chen Ruiwen smiled and bowed.

"Shaoqing of Taifu Temple!"

Chen Ruiwen knew that this person had a grudge against Jia Cong, three years ago the emperor sued the Temple of Heaven for spring ploughing, Taifu Temple Shaoqing Li Shanzhi took the lead in attacking, and then Jia Cong bombarded Qingyuan Academy, the mountain chief Li Liangzhi is Li Shan's own brother, angry A lot of Shandong officials, next to Liu Fang said: "Father-in-law's trick is really wonderful, promising, but I don't know what to charge?" It's better to prepare for the lower officials. ”

"Let's just talk about the business tax, except for the one that Jia Cong personally brought back, but it hasn't been handed over yet, so we can't wait." Zhao Kang is very flattered by them, although he has heard too much, but he, like Jia Cong, is the son of luck, but in fact, he is very young, and he is inevitably vigorous.

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West Sixth Palace, Fengzao Palace.

Since Jia Yuanchun was a virtuous concubine who lived here, he could be regarded as a little merit to the royal family of the first dynasty, and it was the merit of the female history of the first emperor Long Qian. At this time, he was free, but he often cultivated himself and secretly strengthened his body in the courtyard.

The chief manager Xia Shouzhong came on a rare trip, or saw that the emperor had a good intention to be good to the Xue family, so he said with a smile: "The old slave heard that Baoyu in the mother's house made a poem, which is very good, called "Sister-in-law", which tells the story of a female general named Lin Siniang, which is very Bai Letian's style. It has already spread, and the old slave has a copy here, show it to the mother, and comfort the calf. ”

He is not wrong about licking calves, Jia Yuanchun has too much big Baoyu, he was taught by his surrogate mother since he was a child before entering the palace, and Baoyu's words were all taught by her, called sister and brother, like mother and son. Putting away the wooden sword at the moment, Jia Yuanchun smiled and said, "It looks like me now." ”

In fact, Jia Baoyu's Yuefu poem has been done here for a while, but it also takes time to spread it.

In the study of the world of Red Mansions, many people are also incomprehensible to this "Concubine Ci", which does not seem to have any effect on the overall plot, but in "Wu's Stone Records" and other editions, it corresponds to Jia Yuanchun's riddle and proverb "The body is like a bundle and the air is like thunder".

……

It's far, far away.

Overseas, Nanyang, Manraka.

Zhou Wenbai and Wei Ruolan were in the dust, followed by Gui Buyan, Tian Youfu and others, and walked down from the blessing boat that the Wei family asked for in Jiangnan City.

Tian Youfu followed Zheng Luo and the others to join the Shanhai shop, and they faced the northeast monsoon and were slightly cool.

The northeast monsoon in winter is a natural tool for Western sailing adventurers to return to China, and the power of creation is indispensable for the progress of sailing ships.

Today's Manraka is still a major trade gateway, there are many Chinese, Zhou Wei and the others have no strangeness, Liu Ting and Lu Tingwan came out to greet them, took them to see the port, and spoke in the sea breeze, Lu Tingwan introduced with a smile: "In the past, for hundreds of years, the Franco-Portuguese machine (Portugal) was here, and it taxed six percent of all goods from India to Malacca. ”

"A quarter of what is shipped to China must be sold to them."

"The year the Dutch took over, Malacca provided Lisbon with 80,000 ducats in taxes. They levied even more heavily on their rivals, the British, and the Western colonies were not just Malacca. ”

Wei Ruolan pondered: "How is the Ducat currency converted?" How much is approximately equal to ours? ”

Zhou Wenbai replied for him: "Ducat, which is the Venetian Bi in Italy, is one of the common gold coins in the West like the Florentine currency, because they are linked to gold, and one Ducater and one Florent are both 3.5 grams of gold. ”

According to modern gold, one ducat is one hundred and forty dollars, eight or nine hundred yuan, and eighty thousand ducats is at least eighty million yuan.

Zhou Wenbai grew up overseas, everyone is not surprised, Wei Ruolan shook her head and said: "So if you change it to gold and silver, it's only 800,000 taels of silver, it's not much." ”

Liu Ting smiled gently: "General Lu is talking about two hundred years ago, the Netherlands took over for a few hundred years, and now, at least ten times more, and we don't just want to operate this one trade point, but also Manila, Goa, Macau, and more." ”

Zhou Wenbai, Wei Ruolan, and Gui Buyan and other businessmen were so shocked that they couldn't speak, and it increased tenfold to eight million, and Liu Ting would only say less, they didn't know how much they were greedy for, and the money to raise soldiers, they all knew that Liu Ting had even done such a thing as privately minting copper coins, so just one port in Malacca, the annual tax revenue was at the level of ten million taels of silver.

Converted into RMB, it is nearly 10 billion level.

Zhou Wenbai breathed a sigh of relief: "In this way, it can completely alleviate the danger of you and Teacher Jia Cong, as long as a part is handed over to the treasury, what about the Ai Guan team in Penghu?" ”

At this moment, Liu Ting's gentle appearance is gone, Wei Ruolan and the others are not surprised, they have long known that Liu Ting and others will definitely have big changes, they are all fearless and quiet, waiting for the following.