Chapter 1287 - Tease the Hedgehog
Yao Qian, as a leading general, is incompetent, but his eldest son is very "brave", known in the army as an "invincible" warrior, when he was sixteen, he repeatedly won the enemy's head to lay military merits, before the weak crown year, he was named a strong general, but of course such a glory is not true - the main general Yao Qian was beaten to ashes, collapsed, and handed over the entire Hebei Province to others, how can his son deserve his name?
But Yao Dalang is indeed aggressive, loves the courage of a horseman, and learns from his generals during training, and has not tasted defeat.
After all, he grew up in the army, and he is the son of the main general, the riding and shooting have never been deserted, the daily diet is far better than that of ordinary soldiers, the physique is strong, and the strength of the martial arts can be compared with the soldiers? And those captains who led the team, most of them climbed the like, even if they had the ability to beat Yao Dalang, they didn't have the courage to be strong, so Yao Dalang was "invincible".
When Yao Qian suffered the adversity of being degraded due to the loss of Yan Zhao, Yao Dalang couldn't even swallow his anger, pretended to be Chang'an, often provoked and brawled, and even fought against the "same party" and Yuankang, the son of Enhou Yuandeyun, which shows how domineering this person's temperament is.
However, Yao Qian has more brains than Yuan Deyun, and he knows how to restrain his son, and he did not indulge Yao Dalang to kill civilians, bully and bully nobles, and it will not cause the impeachment of the speech official, which will damage the reputation of the Queen Mother and Yao Qian himself - after all, it is a contradiction between the same classes, it is a competition between the strong and the strong, and it is impossible to buckle the hat of bullying the weak.
But Yao Dalang's aggressive and reckless temperament has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, since He Ye became the emperor, Yao Qian was seized of military power, and the family suffered an unprecedented crisis, Mo said that Yao Dalang was extremely unsuitable for the days of cowering, even Yao Qian, because he was forced to "taoguang to raise obscurity", and he has not been able to meet the queen mother for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be impetuous.
After all, He Ye is in the prime of life, but the Empress Dowager Wei is already in the last years, Yao Qian can't be sure whether the old woman in adversity really has the opportunity to turn defeat into victory, he has no room for both ends of the first rat, he knows that for the emperor, Yan Guogong and Liu Yan and so on are trustworthy generals, He Ye's era has no place for the Yao family, so if the Empress Dowager Wei is defeated, the Yao family will definitely suffer a catastrophe.
Falling from the pinnacle of wealth to the trough of predicament has made Yao Qian unbearable, not to mention the disaster of killing?
Therefore, the capital and the court, the slight wind and grass are enough to make Yao Qian shrink his veins, he is not like a turtle and turtle temperament, can not cringe for a long time, his nature is like a hedgehog, when in danger, the thorns and hairs immediately stand up, and Yao Qian thinks that time is not waiting, he must fight against the water, forcing the Empress Dowager Wei to make a decision immediately.
Although the Yao family is not a famous family, but the wealth of the past 30 years, it will naturally develop a group of relatives, especially in the past ten years, with the support of Yao Qian, many clansmen began to run business, they rely on Yao Qian's power, often only need to invest a little capital, force the merchant to sign a contract, supply goods at a price much lower than the market, and then sell it, making huge profits from it, to say that this method is also a bully and dominate the market, but the status of the merchant is not high, how dare ordinary people offend General Yao? can only choose to pinch his nose and suffer a loss, and he has to smile and dare not show the slightest complaint, which has not caused public anger and reprimand, and the imperial historian knows nothing about this, of course, it will not trigger an impeachment incident.
It is said that Yao Qian likes the unique fragrance of pine wood after injecting hot water, and the basins and barrels that clean the face and bathe the feet every day are made of natural pine, in order to prevent the impact on the fragrance, it is not allowed to paint any paint oil, and the carefully made pots and barrels are discarded after one use, only this one expense, it costs 200,000 yuan per month, which shows that it is extravagant and extravagant, just relying on the queen mother to reward? It is obviously not enough to support the family's daily waste.
Yao Qian did not occupy people's wealth and embezzle public funds, where did the huge consumption come from? The "offering" of kinship is naturally extremely important.
Even if He Ye ascended to the pole and the Queen Mother resigned, those merchants who swallowed their anger could not conclude for a while that Yao Qian had indeed lost power, and did not dare to immediately "regret the contract", so although Yao Qian's father and son were not as beautiful as in the past, the quality of life of poverty and luxury was not greatly affected, and it was not to the point where they could not bear it until the autumn of the second year of revival.
The relatives and friends of the clan have complained to Yao Qian, because they can no longer buy goods at a low price from the hands of the merchants, not to mention, they were also jointly arranged by the merchants led by Pei Zijian, and the shops and cabinets that used to find them to ask for / buy goods have "repented" and no longer cooperated, which has caused a large backlog of goods, and must lease warehouses with heavy money and expand a large number of manpower, because once the storage is not done properly, such as precious spices, medicinal materials, silk and other goods, may be damaged, which must invest more capital, and the most important thing is that If the boycott is not eliminated and well kept, these goods will not be able to be sold, and they will definitely be lost.
Yao Qian's relatives and friends have never thought of opening a store in the east and west two cities, to put it bluntly, they are playing the calculation of "handling", buying a large number of goods from the merchants at a low price, and selling them to the merchants at a high price.
As soon as this financial road was broken, Yao Qian immediately lost his offerings, although he would not fall into the embarrassing situation of having no food and clothing, but all expenses must be greatly reduced, and the quality of life was immediately reduced, of course he hated those businessmen who fell into the ground, but Yao Qian didn't know who Pei Zijian's backstage was? Even if he was really a hedgehog, he didn't dare to directly prick this fox with a tiger standing behind him.
How easy is it to go from luxury to frugality? Even if Yao Qian can tolerate the repeated use of the foot-washing bucket with varnish and no natural fragrance of pine wood, his wife and concubine can't adapt to the left and right servants and maids can only wear cloth clothes - silk clothes are too expensive, and the servants and maids will inevitably have to do some work to serve tea and water, which is easy to wear out the clothes, and they can only wear cheaper dresses. As for Yao Dalang, Erlang, San Lang, etc., they can't bear to keep two or three of the hundreds of good horses they have domesticated, and most of them must be sold, because the consumption of high-quality forage is excessive, and the family is really unable to make ends meet.
The family complained for days, and Yao Qian became more and more impetuous.
For the eldest son who is extremely beloved, one day because of a trivial matter, Yao Qian was so angry that he slapped him.
Yao Dalang, who was full of grievances, went out to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, and met a provocation, Yao Dalang didn't know the person who was provoking at all, so he added his fists and feet, he didn't do this kind of thing before, and he won a big victory and never attracted accountability, only this time, although Yao Dalang had a slight upper hand at first, but was soon found back by the other party's strong servants, Yao Dalang was slapped by his father again, and was beaten by outsiders again with a blue nose and swollen face - the incident was going to be noisy, and the onlookers had a lot of Yao family relatives, but these former flattering and flattering people to Yao Qian's father and son, This time, he chose to sit on the wall and ignore it, watching Yao Dalang be humiliated in public.
This incident made Yao Qian feel a great crisis, the big tree has not fallen, the monkey has dispersed, if it continues like this, I am afraid that the courtyard wall of the Xunguo Mansion will be torn down!
You must no longer endure the humiliation, you must fight back, at least let those who fall into the well understand that he Yao Qian has not reached the end of the road!