When the country was founded, the Central Plains was plagued for nearly a hundred years, and it can be said that all industries withered and people's livelihood withered.

Not to mention the people, even the meritorious family who just followed Taizu to fight the world, and they don't have much money to maintain the growing family.

Emperor Taizu couldn't bear to follow the hardships of the old guys who fought the world with him, not only did he have many rewards, but he also set the rule that he could borrow money from the household treasury to survive the difficulties.

It's a pity that the rules are good, but the people who borrow money are not necessarily.

In the past 100 years, the IOUs piled up in the household department have been packed into several large boxes, but there are very few people who pay back.

Especially during the Zhaowu period, His Majesty Tian Khan was full of martial arts, and Great Xia almost reached the peak moment of a thousand years.

One day, Liu Jibai was bored and Lai Weifu paid a private visit, and saw a new Kejinshi renting a dilapidated house in Nancheng because he was not enough to support his family. The old mother was seriously ill and had no money for treatment, so she set up a stall to sell words during her break.

This made Liu Ji, who was proud and benevolent to the Holy Monarch, how to endure it, and then issued another holy decree, and those who were in difficulty in the civil and military officials could also borrow silver from the household department.

As a result, hundreds of civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty went to the household department one after another, with tens of thousands and nearly a thousand. Later, he wrote a letter of thanks for this matter, and the General Administration Department was almost full of excerpts of gratitude in 10,000 words......

Even nobles like Lin Ruhai borrowed 1,888 taels of silver from the crowd, and Jia Cong once asked why.

At that time, Lin Ruhai's original words were: The Emperor Taishang is showing his holy grace with his holy decree, and if you don't borrow it, you are not grateful!

Although this matter is nonsense enough, it was indeed a political correctness and fashion at the time.

When the old Pixiu Wen Tongxuan took office as the head of the household department, the god of wealth of Great Xia walked around the household treasury, and when he entered, he didn't recognize his six relatives, but when he came out, he was like a mourner.

Is that the Ottobe Treasury? If you are so poor that you have to starve to death if you raise rats!

Then in the first year of Yuanyou in the spring of the first year, there was a fold to urge the household to pay the silver owed by the household, but unfortunately the new emperor's throne was unstable, and the recovered saint came to the court again, this kind of slap in the face, the emperor didn't even want to hear it.

Not only did he scold Wen Tongxuan, but he also issued an order again, regardless of the grade of the Chinese martial arts, those who had difficulties could go to the household department to borrow silver to overcome the difficulties.

As a result, until the summer of this year, there was almost no silver in the treasury of the household department, and it was so hanging that it could not survive until the autumn tax arrived in Beijing, and the skylight was almost opened.

Since then, Wen Tongxuan has become an old Pixiu, and he can only enter and exit the household department unless necessary, not to mention the courtiers to borrow silver, that is, the emperor and the emperor want to take a tael of silver from the household department, he can take the account book of the household treasury to block the two saints, and nag about the lack of money all the time.

"We are building a garden for Niangniang, that is to build for the royal family, isn't it natural for the household to pay the money? Why should you pay it back?"

If Mrs. Wang's words really spread, heh!

Wen Lao Pixiu will really be as the old man pardoned and wrote, and the wall of Rongguo Mansion is full of poems to collect debts.

Don't look at the old lady with the same idea in her heart, but she is much more shrewd. After the eldest son scolded his second daughter-in-law, he didn't mention the matter of borrowing money from the household department, and even asked how much silver his family owed the household department in total......

"Old lady, father, uncle, second uncle, Wen Lao Shangshu went to the excerpt a few days ago to ask His Majesty to prepare to call for the payment of the arrears, our family is not enough silver to pay off the debts for a while, so don't poke the hole bigger. If you don't pay the money at that time, you're going to be annoyed!"

Alas!

Jia Cong sighed and carried out Yuan Chun in the palace: "Big sister is still struggling in the palace, we can't trouble her anymore." Your Majesty is not a saint, but he has always been worried about the debt of the household......

Needless to say, several of you actually understand what it means.

Jia Jing had already touched the little fat man's thoughts, stroked his beard and said, "Brother Cong is right, the honor and disgrace of the mother are all in Your Majesty, and we should consider returning the silver owed."

"Pay back the money?"

Jia Mu's face is very bad, is this asking for her silver?

I saw the old lady frowning and asking, "In the past few years, there have been floods and droughts, and there is almost no harvest in the Zhuangzi, and the government has to make up for it. The income of shops in various places is also not as good as a year, and it is still needed

Where did the money come from and the money that still owes money to the old and weak of the supporting people?"

"Yes, now I have to build a garden for my mother's relatives, and I don't have enough money......

Mrs. Wang was halfway through her words, but she saw Jia Jing waving her hand and said, "You can repay part of the arrears first, at least you must have an attitude, and there is no need to discuss this matter. As for the garden......

"The garden will be built behind our two mansions, and part of the East Mansion Huifang Garden and the East Compound of the West Mansion will be vacated, so that you can save money to buy land. The Eastern Mansion will give another 50,000 taels of silver, and the pardon brother and the political brother will each give 50,000."

Speaking of this, Jia Jing turned his gaze back to the old lady again, meaning something: "Auntie, this time we will build a garden for Niangniang, so we don't have to trouble the in-laws of the old family."

Mother Jia immediately blushed, not to mention, the old lady was thinking about whether to take this opportunity to pay some money with the Wang family, the Shi family, and even the Lin family......

"Jing'er, our mother has received the grace of the Holy Grace, and all families are stained, can't we help us reduce the burden of our family?"

I saw the old lady say dissatisfiedly, "Such a big garden, inside and outside costs silver, what is 150,000 taels enough for?"

"If it's not enough, the second child will make up for it, what does it look like to ask for money from relatives?"

Jia Yu looked at Mrs. Wang with disdain, and snorted coldly: "When my younger brother and sister went to Wang's house to draw money, they were very atmospheric, tens of thousands of taels to their mother's house, and there was no shortage of 100,000 taels of silver!" Z.br>

"Uncle ......"

"Shut up, Boss!"

Seeing the second daughter-in-law wailing and screaming, the old lady took into account Yuan Chun and spoke out to stop the eldest son's yin and yang weirdness.

At this time, there was a knock at the door, but the person who came in was the Xue family Baochai who lived in Lixiangyuan.

Then he handed a brocade box to the mandarin duck and said, "Holy grace descends from heaven, our mother wants to go back to the house to save relatives, how can you not congratulate such a great joy? When my mother heard that she needed to build a provincial garden, she wanted to do her part......

"Ahh

Although the mandarin duck had seen a lot of things with the old lady, the thick stack of silver tickets still startled her.

I saw the mandarin duck put the opened brocade box in front of the old lady, and the old lady also exclaimed, "Bao girl, this ......"

Bao Chai smiled: "The cash at home is limited, so I can only make up so many points. Today, my brother went outside to inquire, not to mention the Zhen family, Zhou Gui's family, Fang Concubine's family, and Concubine Liu's family have all ordered stone and wood, and the minimum estimate is three or four hundred thousand taels. My mother asked my brother to scrape together the 100,000 taels of silver, and if it wasn't enough, let my brother go back to Jiangnan in a few days and collect the silver from the south!"

"What nonsense, the trouble in the south is so serious, how dare you let Brother Pan go back to the south......

Mother Jia pulled Baochai to her, stroked the back of her hand, praised the good girl, and refused several times, and finally accepted the brocade box full of silver tickets despite Jia Jing and Jia Yu's frowning objections.

Seeing that Jia Yu was about to get angry, Jia Cong hurriedly pulled his sleeve and whispered, "Even if it is borrowed, it is difficult to accept the Xue family!"

After a short period of displeasure, Jia Jing also understood the reason why the Xue family did this. If it was another family, he would have to return the silver ticket despite the old lady's dissatisfaction, but the Xue family is now eager to try their best to tie up with the Jia family, so let's accept the heart of this orphan and widow.

"Mother, look, look, after all, it's better to be your own family!"

Mrs. Wang and Yourongyan, after receiving the 100,000 taels of silver tickets from her sister, immediately felt that she had the confidence to speak and trembled.

even took Baochai's other hand, and smiled all over her face: "Bao Yatou is really a good girl, when Niangniang goes home to save her relatives, my aunt will tell Niangniang and ask her to give you and Baoyu ......"

"Brother and sister!"

Seeing that Mrs. Wang was going to be stupid again, Jia Jing, who was holding back her dissatisfaction, immediately turned cold and frosty.

After he stopped Mrs. Wang from being stupid, he said leisurely, "Brother Zheng, write an IOU, and then Lian's daughter-in-law will personally send it to Lixiangyuan!"

"Respectfully, it doesn't have to be like this, my mother said this is a congratulatory gift...

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Baochai hurriedly spoke out to stop him, but Jia Jing shook his head: "Girl, it's good that your mind has arrived, this silver is still borrowed." Brother Cong, it's freezing, you can send the baby girl back!"

Gee......

Is this going to quarrel?

Jia Cong hurriedly squeezed his eyes with Baochai, and the smart Baochai immediately noticed the strange atmosphere in Rongxi Hall, and Yingying said goodbye to Jia Cong and withdrew from Rongxi Hall.

As soon as he went out, he heard Jia Jing's angry voice: "Brother and sister, what to say, what to say, what not to say, you don't understand at all!" Why is there a shortage of money to the point that you have to sell your son?"

"Sister Bao, you don't have to take the words of the second aunt to heart......

"I didn't hear what my aunt said!"

Baochai smiled, shook her head slightly, and the steps on her bun trembled slightly, shining brightly.

What a smart girl, but it's a pity that she was born at the wrong time.

Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said, "Before Sister Bao came, Uncle Jing just told the old lady that he didn't plan to borrow from his in-laws to build a garden this time......

Before Jia Cong finished speaking, Baochai covered his mouth and exclaimed, "Huh? Isn't my family's plan to honor the public ruined?"

"It's not really, even if you don't send it, with the second aunt's temperament, she will definitely go to your house to borrow money." In front of Uncle Jing and my father, there is a witness to where this silver came from and went, which is better than entering the second aunt's private treasury!"

Although it is not appropriate to say bad things about the Wang family in front of other people's nieces, there are some things that Baochai has to pay attention to.

Fortunately, during the time he came to Beijing, Baochai had already figured out the situation of the Jia family's rooms, and he didn't mind Jia Cong's outspokenness, and nodded.

The two whispered about Jianyuan and their relatives, and it was not until they sent Baochai back to Lixiang Courtyard that Jia Cong put away the smile on his face and walked towards Daiyu's courtyard with a cold face.

The Xue family had the intention to send silver, which disrupted Jia Jing's plan, which was nothing. But what does Mrs. Wang's sentence mean that she is still good for her own family? Is this accusing the Lin family of not succeeding?

Yes, they are all in-laws, and the Xue family sent 100,000 taels of silver tickets as soon as possible. The Lin family is a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, and as the niece of the Jia family, they don't even have a beautiful word of congratulations!

Mrs. Wang's thoughts were all on her face, and Jia Cong couldn't see it.

Hmph, my good second aunt, it seems that if I don't knock you, it really won't work!

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