Chapter 0069 - The Storm is Coming
Xue Pan took the silver ticket from Baochai's hand and went straight to the Liansheng Gambling House. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this time, the silver bill was equivalent to the acceptance bill of later generations. Under normal circumstances, it is not possible to directly enter the market circulation. You can only use it after you get the silver number and exchange it for cash.
However, this is just the usual practice. If the denomination is relatively large and the silver number issuing the ticket is reputable, these obstacles do not exist. Some relatively large merchants can also directly collect cash tickets.
The capital flow of Liansheng Gambling House is very large, so you can directly accept the silver tickets issued by the more famous silver number. After they receive it, it can be used as a means of payment, or as a means of savings, and of course, they can also cash in the silver number.
As soon as Xue Pan walked to the door, he met Baoyu. Naturally, the two struck up a talk.
Baoyu also came to bet, so naturally he bought it and won it himself. I bought 500 taels of silver.
When he saw Xue Pan, he asked him how he planned to bet.
Along the way, Xue Pan was pondering Baochai's words, and he had been hesitating whether to listen to Baochai and buy Jia Min to win.
He himself didn't think that Jia Min would win, but he also knew that his sister had always been more reliable in doing things, so after seeing Baoyu, he forgot Baochai's advice to the back of his mind, and even told Baoyu that Baochai wanted to buy Jia Min to win.
Baoyu was naturally opposed, not that he had any malice, but he just hoped that Baochai would not lose money, and he didn't care that Baochai didn't buy him to win but bought Jia Min to win.
Xue Pan was hesitant, and under Baoyu's persuasion, he bought Baochai's 1,000 taels and Baoyu to win.
Then, the two went to eat and drink together, and while walking, they discussed, this time the fourth Min was unlucky.
At this time, Jia Min was in the carpenter shop of the Zhou family. The last Guogong wine packaging box was made here.
The Zhou family's carpenter shop is much larger than before, and the number of working guys has also increased by several times. As soon as I entered the door, I saw four men, two of whom were sawing, breaking wood.
In this era, it is still very laborious to process logs into planks.
Since there is no electricity and machinery, breaking wood is also entirely manual. Generally, it is a large saw more than one meter long, two people and one head, pulling back and forth, breaking the wood into planks or wooden squares, and the efficiency is still very low.
Under Jia Min's recommendation, the packaging and packaging boxes of the Hu Family Distillery are now also made here in the Zhou family's carpenter shop, so as soon as the shopkeeper Zhou saw Jia Min, he greeted him warmly.
Jia Min took out another picture and handed it to Shopkeeper Zhou. Then he explained and left.
Since he was already an acquaintance, Shopkeeper Zhou didn't even confiscate the deposit, so he took over the job directly.
Leaving the Zhou family's carpenter shop, Jia Min came to the market, turned around, and found no watermelons and apples for sale. After chatting with a few vendors about the market of watermelons and apples in previous years, I saw that it was almost noon, so I found a tavern to eat, and then went to the dilapidated house on Shuiyuan Street.
The bookkeeper gave him a bag of things, Jia Min opened it and looked at it, then paid 10 taels of silver, took the things out of the house, got on the horse, and returned to Yeduju.
It was Ping'er who came to open the door for him, and when he came, he seemed to have a smile on his face, but as soon as he saw that it was Jia Min, Ping'er's little face immediately became stiff.
Jia Min talked to her, didn't squeak, walked a few steps by herself, and returned to the house.
Jia Min knew that Ping'er's anger had not yet disappeared, so he didn't care, so he went directly to the garden.
Ping'er was angry, not only because of the watermelon incident, but also because of the rumors that came out of the house recently.
It is said that the government wants to take back all the properties here, and they will all hand over Ping'er and them back to the house.
She asked Jia Min to go back to the house and beg the old lady to let the old lady decide. But Jia Min disagreed, just like a nobody, what should he do in a day, or what to do. The angry Ping'er scolded him in his heart for being heartless.
Ping'er and Jiao Li are reluctant to go back to the house, and they are even more unwilling to watch these industries being taken back by the government.
Others didn't dare to say anything to Jia Min, but Ping'er did. not only dared to say that Jia Min didn't listen to him, but also dared to shake his face with Jia Min.
In Ping'er's opinion, Jia Min is really a little too sloppy.
Ping'er's temper used to be in the house, and sometimes, he dared to talk back to Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian to play with his temper, let alone with Jia Min.
He also knew that Ping'er was anxious for himself, but, according to Ping'er, would it be useful to go to the house to ask Jia's mother?
It's useless, Ping'er doesn't know where the essence of the problem is.
At present, this turmoil, on the surface, is concentrated in the handicap of this Liansheng gambling house, but in fact, the root cause is still in Jiafuli.
The initial tipping point, on the surface, was because Jia Min gave Ping'er and their dividends, but in fact, it was still in the conflict between the interests of the masters of Jiafu and Jia Min.
This dividend has touched the sore spot of the masters, and from a macro point of view, this is another battle of ideas.
Those masters think that all the interests should be theirs, even Ping'er and their subordinates are their private property.
Jia Min's point of view is that the subordinates are certainly your property, but you must also give the subordinates a future, so that they also feel a little rushed. Giving them some benefits appropriately will help them to work better for their masters.
Although the subordinates got a little money, the masters got more when the cake was made bigger.
The masters of the palace thought that Jia Min was taking the government's money to establish his own prestige and attack their authority.
Jia Min does have this kind of thought, but his purpose is to increase his right to speak, so as to transform Jiafu, plan a future for Jiafu, and avoid the fate of defeat.
This action against Jia Min was initially initiated and actively promoted by Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong. However, when Jia Mu ordered that people in the house were allowed to place bets at Liansheng Gambling House, the nature changed.
This shows that Jia Mu also joined the action against Jia Min. Mother Jia's purpose may not be the same as Wang Xifeng, she also took this opportunity to use Wang Xifeng and them to achieve her own goals.
Although their goals are not necessarily the same, in fact, this turmoil has indeed become a showdown between Jia Min alone and the entire Jia Mansion.
Of course, Jia Min knew that this was Jia Mu's signal to him, warning him, exercising her authority, and keeping Baoyu's position.
So, he now has to fight against the water.
Because there is no way back.
It's not that he can't live if he leaves Jiafu, on the contrary, if he leaves Jiafu now, without the burden of Jiafu and without the constraints of Jiafu, he will live a better life.
Once he leaves Jiafu, he will be completely cut off from Jiafu. In that case, Jia Fu will lose its last chance to redeem itself. If Jia Min wants to start the transformation of Jia Mansion again, not only is it far away, but even if it does, it will lose precious time.
If Jia Min admits defeat this time, the position of the conservatives in Jiafu will be greatly consolidated, and all future reform measures will meet with strong resistance from them.
At that time, even Jia Mu and Jia Zheng, who are still considered enlightened, will be coerced by them and will never do anything again.
What's more, if Jia Min fails, Qin Keqing, Miaoyu and Baochai will miss him forever. So much so that he finally had to take extreme measures like abducting Qin Keqing and Miaoyu away.
Maybe Miaoyu and Qin Keqing will still go with him, but Baochai will never go with him.
Besides, raising his hands to surrender like this is really not Jia Min's character.
This time, there is also a benefit. That is to let Jia Min see the true face of Jia Mu thoroughly.
Jia Mu just used him as a money-making tool.
She can use Jia Min to make money for herself, and she can also use Jia Min to deal with opponents like Madame Wang, but he is never allowed to challenge Baoyu's position and her own authority.
Therefore, Jia Min's real opponent this time is not Jia Yu, nor Wang Xifeng, but Jia Mu.
Jia's mother summoned him back, and this was the first time the two met. This first meeting will also be an official showdown between the two.
Although Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong were happy, in fact, apart from venting their personal anger against Jia Min, they did not get any benefits in this struggle.
Jia Mu skillfully uses them to turn the situation in the direction she wants, and takes the opportunity to subdue Jia Min. not only retained Baoyu's position and consolidated her authority, but also got Jia Min, a money-making machine.
Jia Mu is the master of struggle.
On the surface, Jia Mu is now in control, but she underestimated Jia Min's ability and determination.
Since you want to play, I'll play with you.
It's just that when the time comes, I won't play your way. You hit yours, I'll hit mine. I want to establish my position in a war and forcefully seize my right to speak in Jiafu.
Jiafu, you must follow my path, there is no room for negotiation!
Jia Min was busy in the yard, and it was getting dark. I washed my face and started eating.
Now, there are more than a dozen people in Yedu Curie, because there are more people, so not all of them are together at dinner now. Instead, they all went back and ate their own food. However, the meals are all the same, even Jia Min is no exception. So, no one has any opinions.
After eating, continue the lesson. However, due to the recent rumors, I can't concentrate on learning. Yesterday, Fang Xiucai had talked to Jia Min about it, but Jia Min didn't have any clear attitude. It's just that you can learn whatever you want. It seems to be very low.
What happened in Jiafuli, Fang Xiucai and they also heard about it. Regarding the construction of a school in his home, Fang Xiucai was also shaken.
However, at this point, Jia Min's attitude is very resolute. asked Fang Xiucai to go according to the original plan. And took out 5,000 taels of silver tickets on the spot, saying that it was for the cost of building the school.
Actually, there is no shortage of silver now, but Fang Xiucai saw his determination from Jia Min's move. Although he didn't know what specific plans Jia Min had yet, he had a gut feeling that Jia Min would not be someone who would succumb so easily.
In the past, Jia Min had revealed his school-running plan to Fang Xiucai, and it was precisely because of this that Fang Xiucai followed Jia Min with all his heart.
Can someone who can write a poem like "Poppy", who can invent Hanyu Pinyin, who can invent Arabic numerals, be so easily defeated by others?