Chapter 215: Tonic
In addition, the disaster has caused many new widows and women, and they are willing to talk again, and the first choice is these veterans - they can bring them a more stable life, and most of the veterans are strong and still in the prime of life.
The oldest batch of soldiers has been given to Liu Guangzhong, and when it comes to Xiao Yi's selection, he is actually not a veteran in the real sense, but can only be relatively weak.
The marriage of veterans has made Nanlin Mansion more stable, and people have spent more attention on production.
The first thing Qian Jun did when he came back was to go to Xiao's Mansion to report first, and quietly met Wen Jin, and then went to Xiao Yi's official office, he hoped to buy some land from the government.
At this moment, the land in Nanlin Mansion is owned by the government, and part of it has been distributed to the victims, and it has been registered and privately owned, and most of them are still in a state of ownership.
Jin Guanshan and Qian Jun transported grain into Nanlin Mansion, and the first time they came to the Xiao family to propose marriage, the dowry was half of the grain they transported.
The value of these grains is not less than 20,000 taels of silver, even if it is in the capital, it can be regarded as a big deal, Xiao Yi happily agreed, Qian Jun left for nine months, Xiao Yi was in a hurry, he was really afraid that there would be another accident and delay his daughter's life.
The second major thing Qian Jun did was to go to the government to buy land.
In order to encourage production, Xiao Yat posted a notice that anyone who has the ability to cultivate land outside the land distributed by the government only needs to register with the government, but it is not allowed to hire and cultivate. If you have a lot of money like the Jin family, you must first take out a part of it to buy land from the government.
As soon as Qian Jun made a move, it was tens of thousands of taels of silver, and he wanted to buy a whole hillside, and the little official who did the work immediately sent someone to report to his boss, and even Xiao Yi was shocked, he didn't expect that the Jin family would be a big tyrant who didn't show it.
Qian Jun was invited to Xiao Yi's official office, and after saluting, he sat down respectfully: "Father-in-law, I didn't expect the Jin family to be so rich, but what their family lacks now is a capable heir, Jin Guanshan knows that I am not necessarily his biological son, but he doesn't say it, he just doesn't want to give up this family property, I and him, it is a cooperative relationship, I want to borrow his strength to make a big career, and he needs me to support the Jin family, so that the Jin family can take root and carry forward in Nanlin Mansion." I'm not going to take him cheap. β
"Well, I can think of it, if it weren't for you revealing your amazing martial arts, Jin Guanshan wouldn't dare to reveal that he has so much property, the disaster year is a troubled time, and if you have money to protect it, you can count it as your own."
Seeing that Xiao Yi suddenly thought that his journey would definitely not be smooth, Qian Jun was moved in his heart, and he nodded heavily: "On the night when the Jin family was digging in the ruins, there were three groups of thieves, all of whom I sent away, and before I got on the road the next day, the officials of Huaizhou came to stop them, they stared at them and said nonsense, and did not admit that Jin Guanshan was the owner of those gold and silver. β
Xiao Yi didn't think Qian Jun was exaggerating at all, the more the disaster-stricken areas and the people's livelihood were in chaos, the more ruthless and unscrupulous these officials became, and they made a fortune.
"Father-in-law, I didn't want to be so high-profile, but I was afraid that Wen Jin would be wronged."
"It's hard for you."
"Father-in-law, I don't feel embarrassed, these are nothing, much better than when I was in Western Xinjiang."
One sentence silenced the two of them, Qian Jun's eyes, couldn't help but float a layer of mist, since the news brought back by Wen Han spread in the capital, saying that Qian Jun had passed away, Prince Ren was slumped, seeing that people didn't even speak, and he didn't go to court on weekdays, he only concentrated on educating his youngest son at home, but he couldn't get to the wall, his heart had no sustenance, and people quickly grew old.
Qian Jun resented his father for harboring and conniving at the Liu family, but father and son were connected, from the day he understood his identity, he had an inexplicable mind about Prince Ren, and he couldn't hear that he was not good, and he didn't want to see him, so he continued to be tortured.
It's really love and hate, and I don't know what to do. β¦β¦
Jin Guanshan's wife is also a capable person, she discussed with the people of the clan, in the north of Jinwang Town, planned a large mansion, although for the time being it is only a fence wall, plus a few wooden and bamboo structure houses, not even bricks and tiles, but it is also the best house in Nanlin Mansion second only to Xiao Mansion.
His wife and uncle are responsible for supervising the construction of a new house, Jin Guanshan with his son, busy making a fortune, he released the news to hire someone to plant trees, ready to raise silkworms, because there is enough food in hand, the remuneration of the helper is to eat well, and each person has two taels of grain per day, which is already a "high salary" in Nanlin Mansion, as soon as the news is released, people who work will flock to it, Nanlin has more water and floor heating, that is, in autumn and winter, you can also plant trees.
The Jin family is very solemn about Qian Jun and Wen Jin's family affairs, from the discussion of relatives, Najib, to the next appointment, invitation, marriage, every step is based on the ancient rites, step by step, by the time Wen Jin gets married, it is already the first month of the next year, the Jin family's house has been cleaned up, Xiao Yi has also made a lot of furniture for Wen Jin, although it is not the most expensive wood, but the fine workmanship, and the materials used, are not ambiguous at all.
They are surrounded by mountains, and some of them are good wood, although not very famous, but very rare, and the texture is very good. For example, Wen Jin has a set of wooden combs, the texture is delicate and oily, the texture is beautiful, and the texture is very detailed, and it is not so heavy in the hand, and married women in this era like to put the comb on their heads. She prepared Wen Jin for marriage, not only has such a set of combs, but also dressing boxes of this texture, dressing table mirrors, small interstitial screens, large screens, etc., a few months, it is really enough for Mrs. Xiao to be busy, fortunately, when Qian Jun came from Jiangnan, she brought a group of carpenters with good skills, otherwise Mrs. Xiao has a heart, and there is no way - she can't do it herself, right? She has to know how to do it.
Wen Jin resolutely objected to Xiao Yi and Mrs. Xiao wanting to give her a luxurious dowry with ten miles of red makeup, and did not allow Qian Jun's excessive pomp and circumstance, Qian Jun didn't want to go back to the capital, they still tried to keep a low profile, and put on a show in front of the victims, this is not to earn face, but to spread hatred.
There are many dignitaries and nobles in the capital, and it is impossible to take the first place no matter how pomp and circumstance, Wen Jin refuses, but when he arrives here, he doesn't even have the object to show off, and Wen Jin is even more reluctant to ask for these false names.
Xiao Yi and Mrs. Xiao can understand Wen Jin, the Jin family's large-scale construction of houses and buying mountains and planting mulberry has become a special existence in the eyes of the victims, and now it is true that no more fire can be added, and thousands of people are watching, among which all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred, and possibly hatred, are the most.
Although Wen Jin has been low-key again and again, her wedding still attracted the attention of the people of Quannan Linfu, after all, the identity of Xiao Guogong's daughter is unique in itself, and the Jin family, although it is a disaster victim, is still a rich man, and can buy the entire hillside - more than 20,000 acres of land, and next year will start raising silkworms and reeling silk, and the annual income will be at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Guo's people soon infiltrated Nanlin Mansion, and one by one secret letters were sent out through Weiyuan Hou, Emperor Yongchang looked at the secret report of Xiao Yi's marriage on the desk, and was so angry that he tore it up and threw it on the ground: "Xiao Wenjin, isn't she not married to Qian Jun?" Broken your promise so soon? β
Guo Gonggong stood aside and didn't dare to come out, the emperor missed his meritorious cousin, this kind of heartache, but also with deep remorse, if he and the Queen Mother were not willing to support Qian Jun, he would not have forced him to run away from home, let alone be buried by the landslide and lose his life (Guo Gonggong sent to Nanlin Mansion people, never saw Qian Jun, and he also said in his secret letter that the son of the Jin family was lost, but he didn't think of Qian Jun, therefore, Emperor Yongchang also thought that Qian Jun was dead)
Thinking of Liu Caiqin's hatefulness, Emperor Yongchang's heart was even more resentful, he had a seizure, knowing that he didn't give a clear order, Gonggong Guo would not dare to do it, and after letting out a sigh of relief, he gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "You can find a way to help me eradicate that bane, maybe Prince Ren can have another son, a son-in-law-"
Guo Gonggong's face was expressionless, and he bowed down to agree, but he was very embarrassed in his heart, he had to find a way to let go of Liu Caiqin in Prince Ren's heart first, this difficulty was too great, and the beauties given by the Queen Mother did not work.
At this moment, Gonggong Guo received a secret report, it turned out to be Shiwei Village, Shanyang County, in the wine shop of the eldest lady of the Xiao family, the dead person still refused to take responsibility, and someone crossed the government to complain and directly stabbed the matter to the criminal department.
The thing is very simple, Miss Xiao's manor uses sun-dried kiwifruit to make wine, because of the mellow taste, but the brewing process of this wine has to go through more than a dozen demanding processes, otherwise the wine will be drunk too much and it will hurt the body.
Last winter, a repeat offender in Shanyang dug a hole in the ground and sneaked into the cellar of the winery, he may have wanted to steal the wine at first, but when he saw the wine again, he couldn't help but be addicted to it, so he drank it first.
In the spring of this year, the housekeeper Jiang Chun took Zhuang Ding to open the cellar and prepare for the next step of the process, only to find the deceased.
Shanyang Zhixian received the report, did not dare to ignore it, personally went to the scene to investigate, there was a collapsed robbery hole placed there, he was sure that the deceased was a burglar, originally planned to close the case, but someone with ulterior motives intervened in, turned the clouds and rain, reversed black and white and said, Miss Xiao's manor killed people. Miss Xiao is not at home, and besides, Xiao Yi has no real power, even if she is at home, she is not their opponent, and her harmful calculations are very fine, but she didn't expect to kill a Cheng Cheng on the way, and the people of Shiwei Village near Miss Xiao's manor couldn't stand it, they desperately intervened in it, and Shi Qihou actually sent the case to the capital directly through his former colleagues.
The harm is so big that it's too late to shrink your head.
Just when Gonggong Guo had just investigated the matter clearly, and before he could decide how to deal with it, Shi Zhenzong's performance to the emperor arrived. He said that he received a letter from home and pleaded guilty to the emperor for his father's recklessness.
"Wei Chen was saved by Miss Xiao and her brother Qian Wenhan, and he couldn't repay it, and his father saw that he was wronged at this moment, so he defended it desperately, hindering the law of the country, and it was the minister's crime.
The whole world is not the king's land, the emperor is wise and wise, and the cadres are arbitrary, how can Xiaoxiao be confused and harm others and seize property? Whether it is the Shanyang County Order, or the Governor of Liangzhong, they are all Jurong's courtiers, the emperor's eyes are like torches, they will definitely not dare to be corrupt and bend the law to disregard people's lives, the Shanyang Wine Cellar death case, will definitely be in broad daylight, will never wronged a good person, and let go of a bad person, the minister has written to his father to calm down, don't meddle in this matter......"
When Emperor Yongchang saw this, he was angry and funny, and scolded hatefully: "This honest man has also learned to be poor, in order to repay his kindness, he actually wants me to come out, hum, I don't want to!" β
Thinking that Qian Wenjin betrayed his feelings for his cousin so quickly, Emperor Yongchang was very angry, but he weighed it again and again, and asked Gonggong Guo to send someone to take a look, and make sure that the matter came to light and be just.
The Shi family's intervention had actually decided the direction of the matter, and the other party was quickly defeated, and the matter was obvious, some people coveted the winery of Miss Xiao. Here from the trial of a new method of winemaking, the wine is mellow and delicious, as soon as it opened, it made a lot of money, the income is coveted, pomegranate blossom trade this spring, then placed an order to underwrite all, the price given is even more staggering, there is a Shen million in the county, he thinks he has met the big man in the capital, can turn the clouds and rain, but he didn't think just stretched out his hand, he was slapped back, he instructed the person who came forward to make a false accusation heard that he was going to be exiled to the north of Xinjiang as a military slave, and he turned against the water and confessed to him, and finally, this brain is full of fat and mercenary guys, He was put in a wooden flail and escorted to northern Xinjiang.
When Wen Jin received the letter, it was already calm and became a thing of the past, but the ripples it caused were still fluctuating in the capital.
Autumn comes, Prince Ren's health is a little bad, the Queen Mother specially gave a large cart of medicinal supplements, including a jar of fruit wine, drink sweet and sour and delicious, it is said that when brewing, it is added with astragalus, wolfberry, jujube and other warm tonic medicinal materials, can nourish blood and nourish qi and delay aging, Prince Ren is reluctant to enjoy it exclusively, every time he gives the princess a cup, the two drink together.
Sure enough, it was given by the Queen Mother, and a month later, Prince Ren's face was much more ruddy, and Princess Ren found that her skin had become smooth and fair, almost returning to the tenderness of her youth.
No wonder the Queen Mother is over sixty years old, her hair is childish, and her skin is still tight and moisturized.
But after the wine was drunk, she didn't dare to ask the Queen Mother for it.
The old housekeeper heard the news from somewhere, and bought a jar of fruit wine from the pomegranate flower trading company, saying that it had the power of aphrodisiac and dedicated it to Prince Ren, and the old man drank it for a month, and his spirit was good.
Princess Ren was annoyed that the housekeeper didn't think about her, and wronged the old butler: "The pomegranate flower trading company said that this is the only one, and the slave also wants to serve the princess, but I didn't hear about this-"
Just when Prince Ren was in a big way, the Liu family, her mother's side, a nurse next to Mrs. Liu said that she heard that a new "Jiaozi" wine shop had opened in the capital, and there was a fruit wine, which tasted mellow and could also rejuvenate.
Princess Ren sent someone to buy it, came back and let people try it, and sure enough, the effect was good, and since then, she has almost been inseparable from this, and if she doesn't drink a glass a day, she feels uncomfortable.
Princess Ren didn't notice that she was drinking more and more, and she was drinking more and more, at first it was just a small glass, and after a few months, she liked to drink it until it was slightly smoked, and her mind was dizzy.
This wine is so delicious that even Prince Ren is full of praise after tasting it. On the day of the winter solstice, the kitchen of Prince Ren's mansion made a few fried foods, after the princess ate it, she always felt that her throat was dry, she didn't want to drink water, so she drank sweet and sour fruit wine cup after cup, a little drunk, everything was vague, the maid around her served her and slept, but she didn't expect that the next day, in front of her eyes, it was still vague, and she didn't see anything real.
"It's a lot of wine." Prince Ren thought, but as the days passed, Prince Ren's eyes not only did not recover, but also became more and more serious, and when Prince Ren returned to the inner house, the princess could only see a vague shadow, and she couldn't even see the man's expression.
"Princess, what's wrong? Is there a Xuan Taiyi? Prince Ren was shocked.
The maid replied cautiously: "The imperial doctor has come and prescribed the Rehmannia Bright Eye Pill and let me take it every day." Doctor Wang said that it is not easy for blood and qi to enter the eyes, and this disease cannot be cured at once, so let the prince and the princess not worry. β
Princess Ren's eyes were dark and staring, without her charming eyes, when she started crying, the lethality of Prince Ren was greatly reduced, and the tears of the "atomic bomb" that were invincible before were now just a few small droplets.
Prince Ren had an eye disease attack and could not preside over Zhongkui, Prince Ren's previous concubines, let Prince Ren drive away the princess, and forced to die, the daughter Yufeng's wedding date was approaching, and Prince Ren's mansion was about to be messed up, and the queen mother had no choice but to point out a frustrated granddaughter of a former cabinet minister to Prince Ren as a side concubine.
When Princess Ren heard that it was Wang Changyao's granddaughter, she hurriedly let the maid support her, crying and begging Prince Ren not to accept the order: "That Wang Changyao failed to impeach his uncle and died by hitting the pillar, she and the concubine are mortal enemies, and the concubine can't see now, if she presides over Zhongkui, I, I, what can I do ββ, prince, you go and beg the queen mother, let her old man take back the decree." β
In the past, Prince Ren's tears were invincible in front of men, but now, when he saw his wife like this, he was a little bored, his wife was so naΓ―ve, and the Queen Mother's decree was so easy to change? Besides, although the old man is old, he is not confused, why did he suddenly point to such a woman entering the door, the purpose is self-evident, that is, to disgust the princess Liu Caiqin, and let people fight with her, he has already made the emperor and the queen mother abandoned, at this time, how can he annoy people for the sake of women?
It's very strange, Princess Ren's eyes are gone, no matter how she cries, Prince Ren's heart doesn't have the feeling of involuntary desperate care, and she can say it without thinking about rejecting his wife's words. The Queen Mother was surprised when she heard the news that Xiao Anzi came back from inquiring: "How did she become like this?" Then he was very happy and clapped his hands like a child: "Now I am relieved." β
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