Chapter 15: Return to Beijing
"Dog's day, don't you look for death!"
"The blind dog thing, the grandfather's ship is loaded with the stone of the Ministry of Industry, and it is urgently needed to repair the emperor's mausoleum, which delayed the hour and cut off the dog's head on the dog's day."
"You're blind, and the ship that escorts the grain from the household department dares not to let you!"
Huai'an wharf side is messy, there are shouts and scolding everywhere, at this time it is better than whose voice is louder, the most important thing is to be bigger than whose official position, the civilian ships are all behind, otherwise there is no place to cry if something happens, several boats are official errands, no one will let anyone, not only quarrel, but also pick up the boat penny and fight.
There was a fight here, and several boats behind also fought, no one let anyone, and the river was congested for a while, and Cao Ding, who was in charge of dredging, did not dare to come forward, they were all uncles, and they couldn't afford to offend.
"Bang!"
"Bang! Boom! ”
Suddenly, a loud noise came out of the river, and the two sides of the battle were stunned, this was the sound of fire, and they were shocked, and they all stopped fighting, and turned to look behind.
A group of official ships came from the river, and the boat headed by them was so big, and the well-informed ones immediately understood that this was the warship of the Yangtze River Naval Division, and even more understood that this fleet must be escorting very important things, so they leaned towards both sides of the river, one word, hide.
There are several big flags hanging on the mast of the official ship, the names of "Military Department", "Jiangnan Battalion", "Yangtze River Naval Division", "Guerrilla General" and "Jia"!
, this is the military's warship, the official on the official ship who was still arguing before immediately panicked, and immediately scolded his subordinates to avoid both sides of the river, and the bosses of the civilian ships and merchant ships who were originally making fun were even more panicked, and they went south and north all the year round, and they understood that the people did not fight with the officials, not to mention that it was still a warship, and for a while, the river was full of shouts: "Quick, come to the side!" "Dog, don't hurry up! You can't kill Lao Tzu! ”
The warships of the Yangtze River Naval Division occupied the middle of the canal and sailed mightily towards the capital!
At the back of the fleet was a two-story passenger ship, and the people on both sides of the official, civilian, and merchant ships looked at each other, wondering how this ship with the flag of "Xue" could be tied behind the warship.
"Hahaha...."
Xue Pan stood on the second deck, looking at all the expressions of those people, and his heart was very comfortable.
"Pan'er!"
Aunt Xue's voice came from inside the cabin, "It's windy outside, don't come in yet!" ”
Being told by Aunt Xue that Xue Pan's interest was defeated a lot, but this situation still made him very happy, his face was full of smiles, and he turned around and walked into the cabin.
The door curtain was lifted, and I saw Aunt Xue and Baochai sitting by the window looking at the scenery outside, and Aunt Xue's maid Tongxi Tonggui and Baochai's personal maid Ying'er stood on the side.
"Mother, do you see that?"
Xue Pan said loudly, strode to the table, sat down, poured a bowl of tea, and sighed: "Damn, in the past, I used to pass from here, which time was not to pretend to be a grandson, and it cost a lot of money, but now, the pretending to be a grandson has become them, and the mother didn't see the eyes of those dog officials, and ate with them.... Ahem, the people don't fight with the rich, and the rich don't fight with the officials. What an irony the scene just had! ”
Speaking of this, Xue Pan's eyes flashed, he glanced at Aunt Xue, then at Baochai, and muttered: "No matter how much money you have, it's not as big as a fist, think about what the scenery of the Bai family is, not to mention the local officials in Yangzhou, even the people from the governor's yamen have to nod and say hello when they see it, but what?" provoked the wrong people, and the whole clan was wiped out overnight, and there was not even a single explanation...."
As he spoke, he glanced back at the fleet in front of him, "It's so ruthless! ”
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Aunt Xue was taken aback, patted her son who didn't choose to speak, and whispered: "We have to rely on your aunt's family to help us when we enter Beijing, your aunt and they don't have to count on the support of the men outside, no matter how ruthless he is, he still helps our family." Let me tell you, if you meet in the future, you are not allowed to be big or small, remember, the more power he has, the more beneficial it is to our family, and if you are not cruel to outsiders, you have to be cruel to your own people. ”
Seeing Xue Pan's brows frowning slightly, Baochai's eyes looked out of the window, and said softly: "Our family is also considered to be in the army, and the ancestor relied on supporting the military exploits of the Holy Ancestor Northern Expedition to Keding Shenjing to get the position of Ziwei Sheren, and received the errand of the Internal Affairs Office. ”
The words were full of loneliness and desolation.
Xue Pan smiled awkwardly, "My sister is a scholar, and she speaks in a crepe-like manner." ”
Aunt Xue looked at Xue Pan and sighed: "If you can support this family, we won't go to the capital to join your uncle and your aunt, and your sister won't have to..."
Speaking of this, he glanced at Baochai, secretly regretting, God does not bless the Xue family....
In other words, this is another sin created by Jia Jue!
Originally, Aunt Xue was going to only sell some store properties with large losses and low returns, and she didn't want to sell all the properties in Nanzhili, but unfortunately, Jia Zhong fell in love with these industries and was willing to pay for them, but those Xue family members were unwilling, they were already unwilling to follow Xue Pan to continue to walk, how could they be willing to give up such a good opportunity, and everyone would go their own way after selling the property.
Aunt Xue is not a fool, she knows that if she stays in Jinling again, she will definitely be targeted by someone with a heart, and she happened to learn that Jia Jue was going back to Beijing, so she immediately packed her luggage and brought all the money she could take away, and took Xue Pan and Baochai brothers and sisters into Beijing to join Wang Ziteng and Mrs. Wang, and as for the remaining property, she directly threw it to Xue Pan's second uncle to take care of.
Without the slightest trouble or hindrance, the fleet passed through the Huai'an wharf, and Jia Jue walked out of the cabin and stood on the bow deck, the river wind blowing the flag on the mast.
At this time, it is already late July, counting the days, you can arrive in Shenjing in early August.
The wings of the butterfly stirred up again, a month ago, Niu Jizong escorted a batch of Bai family's property into Beijing, and it was into Beijing to serve as the secretary of the military department, if I remember correctly, Niu Jizong should have entered Beijing after the winter ceremony to serve as the secretary of the military department, it seems that something must have happened in Shenjing again.
However, this should be a good thing for himself, after all, there are people in the DPRK who are good officials.
In the past two months, with the squandering of a lot of money, Jia Zhong bought dozens of shops in Nanzhili, established a chamber of commerce, mainly engaged in grain, medicinal materials and jewelry business, the jewelry is simple, directly put out the dozens of boxes of jewelry from the Bai family, as for the grain, the Jia family manor first pulled out the top one, Huang Yiding said hello, as long as the grain is sold to the Jia family chamber of commerce, the cargo ship is given priority to dock and unload, the Jia family does not have a merchant ship, the Yangtze River sailor borrowed three ships. As for the medicinal materials, first use the inventory in the Xue family's store for a period of time, and someone has already been sent to collect it, so it's good to take your time.
After a circle, Jia Jue became a poor egg again, fortunately, Lin Ruhai gave his strength, and after receiving his letter, he directly asked Jia Gui to bring him 500,000 taels of silver tickets, which only survived, two million taels barely set up the shelf of the Jia Family Chamber of Commerce, and then he could only wait for the money to expand slowly, and Lin Ruhai didn't say that he would pay it back, tsk, it's really rich!
Originally, he planned to stop in Yangzhou for one night to visit in person, but Lin Ruhai sent a letter in advance, saying that this time he entered Beijing for the emperor's errand, and he could not stop the ship without authorization, which would leave people with a handle and tell him some things in the letter, and the cabinet broke out A big dispute broke out, or a direct confrontation between the first assistant Wen dialect and the second assistant Zhang Fu, as for the reason, the donation of silver by Jiangnan salt merchants, ostensibly because of the distribution of taxes and silver, but in fact because of the counterattack of the Jiangnan group dominated by Zhang Fu on this matter, Shoufu Wen dialect is the representative of the Beiren Group, this time they are supporting Lin Ruhai and carrying the pressure from the cabinet and the imperial court for him, of course, Jia Jue's intervention has also had a great impact on this matter.
According to Lin Ruhai's estimate, there is the emperor's impetus in this, and in addition, he also said that the emperor is ready to recover the arrears, so that he and the Jia family are ready.
Thinking of this, Jia Jue had a headache, if I remember correctly, Ning Rong and the two mansions owed a total of 230,000 taels, including 80,000 taels in Ningguo Mansion and 150,000 taels in Rongguo Mansion, why does Rongguo Mansion owe so much, this also has to talk about Jia Lian's marriage, Rongguo Mansion divided the family, Jia Yu attacked the title, and did not get much property, plus he spent money lavishly, yes, the reason why Mrs. Xing loves money has been found.
Although Jia Lian got married, although there was a part of the Rongfu public account, and Jia's mother paid a lot of private money, but who let Jia pardon the poor, Jia Lian, as the inheritor, naturally couldn't be too shabby to marry, and he had to buy an official position, and then he borrowed 120,000 taels from the treasury under Jia Zhen's prodding, and the extra 30,000 taels were borrowed later.... No, this is an account a year later, Ning Rong and the two mansions owe 200,000 taels, Jia Zhen is a gentleman, but people still know about the purchase of property, so this money is not borrowed in vain, and it is also trivial to repay this arrears, in the previous life, Jia Yu was forced to sell a lot of things, plus Jia's mother privately gave 50,000 taels to pay off the arrears, it can be seen from this that Jia's mother still has feelings for Jia Yu, not entirely for the face of Rongguofu.
"Third master, it's windy outside."
At this time, Xiangling's voice came from behind her, Jia Jue turned around and looked at her with a smile, this girl is smart and studious, pestering herself all day long to teach her to read and write, maybe this is the talent, this girl has made very fast progress, she already knows more than 100 words, and some simple poems can be read through.
Compared with the embarrassment when he first crossed over, Jia Jue shook his head with a wry smile and walked over, "I don't have the ability to teach you, I will find you a female gentleman when I get home." ”
Xiangling stuck out her tongue, "Then forget it." ”
Jia Jue smiled slightly and said, "You will like it, trust me." ”