Chapter 20 Xiangguo Mansion
Dali Xiangguo Mansion, since Gao Shengtai Gao Xiangguo from the dragon meritorious, helped Emperor Baoding ascend to the throne, Xiangguo's family can be said to be a person to get the Tao, chicken and dog ascended to heaven, even Xiangguo's house, horsemen go out on the street, that is also called a style, there is a commanding appearance between the road, but ordinary people are afraid to avoid it. I'm afraid that if one accidentally collides, it will be bad luck.
At best, it was punching and kicking, smashing and overturning items, or it was simply dragged to the yamen, accompanied by a large sum of silver, and almost half of the net worth had to be put in. It's really unreasonable, but the Dali public court is afraid of the power of Gao Xiangguo from top to bottom, ten lawsuits are fought, nine must have won, and the one who didn't win either knelt down and kowtowed, tearful door-to-door attenuation, or inexplicably disappeared in Dali City.
Therefore, although after Emperor Baoding ascended the throne, various enlightened policies were promulgated and implemented, and some poor areas were given the care of tax reduction, and the people of Dali Kingdom supported Emperor Baoding very highly, but the common people of Dali Imperial City were afraid of Xiangguofu to a significantly higher degree than the degree of love for Emperor Baoding. Not to mention Gao Xiangguo's monstrous power, just in the past few years, Gao Xiangguo's eldest son, Gao Taiming, is amazing, and he is in the army, and with the power of his father Gao Xiangguo, he commands an army among the five conventional troops in Dali.
The current military system of Dali is divided into the Chinese army and the southeast, northwest and northwest five armies, these five armies are conventional troops, and the Chinese army is stationed in the imperial city of Dali all the year round, only listening to the emperor's orders. The remaining four armies were stationed around Dali, the Eastern Army confronted the Great Song Dynasty, the Northern Army and the Western Army confronted the Tibetan States, and the Southern Army was to guard against some indigenous incursions from the south of Dali. On the whole, due to the perennial confrontation with Tibet, the combat effectiveness of the western and northern armies is significantly higher than that of the other three armies, and the scale of the conventional army is not large, both of which are 10,000 people. The main force is the conventional army, but the main combat army is still mainly the township army, which is exercised during the agricultural slack on weekdays, and goes home to work as a farmer when the farming is busy, and the size of the township army in Dali is about 200,000 people. Compared with the Great Song Dynasty at this time, the countries bordering the Great Song Dynasty basically adopted the life mode of being a soldier on the horse and a peasant on the horse.
At present, the two armies in the northwest are in the hands of the general Yang Tie, Gao Taiming controls the eastern army that confronts the Great Song army, and the southern army is led by Duan Zhengchun, the king of Zhennan. Because Gao Taiming has military power, the Xiangguo Mansion is now a high Xiangguo inside, and there are Gao generals outside, not to mention the people of Dali, that is, many ministers, including some princes of the Dali royal family, are also respectful of the Xiangguo family.
Xiangguo Mansion is also the most gorgeous mansion in the imperial city, five steps in front of the door, two stone lion heads are high-spirited, majestic and majestic, the gate is built by vermilion wood, and the gate is directly above the book "Gao Xiangguofu" four big characters. Push open the door and look inside, the golden carved gallery, rockery and flowing water, even the pavilion is made of haode wood in the south, the overall layout exudes a graceful and luxurious atmosphere, but it does not appear abrupt, there is no nouveau riche atmosphere of ordinary merchants' homes.
Bypassing the dazzling various layouts, you can see everywhere that you are in the prime of life, and the twenty-eight women with a wonderful figure are shuttling in the mansion, and the maids of the Xiangguo Mansion are also first-class beauties in Dali, needless to say, the appearance and figure are needless to say, just these maids want to enter the Xiangguo Mansion to undergo a year and a half of training, who doesn't know that entering the Xiangguo Mansion is not only higher than the monthly money in other places, but also a little wishful thinking can help their relatives in various small county yamen and the like, and there is no problem in arranging a small official position. Therefore, although many people in the imperial city of Dali are afraid of the power of Xiangguofu, they are yearning for it at the same time, so it is not contradictory.
The most central hall in the house is the place where Gao Xiangguo usually uses to meet guests, facing a lotus pond, a small pavilion on the right, and a small arch bridge in the middle, the scenery is extremely good. The hall belongs to the backyard, and the idle miscellaneous servants are not allowed to enter, unless they are mixed with the second-level family in the Xiangguo Mansion, speaking of which, the servants of the Xiangguo Mansion are also divided into several grades, and the lowest is the servant who has just entered the house, what serves tea and cooks, cleans the stable, cleans the yard, in short, it is the most inferior miscellaneous servant. After three years, the performance is good, and after the recommendation of the housekeeper of the outer court, you can consider being promoted to the small leader of the servants in the outer court, which is the second-level family or consider entering the inner court, of course, if you enter the inner court, it is still a small servant, but the level is one level higher than that of the outer court, and the second-level family has a little free time at the beginning, such as watching others work, and you can go home during the New Year's holidays or something. If you are promoted to the second level in the outer courtyard, you still won't be able to enter the inner courtyard. If you continue to be promoted above the second level, you will have the opportunity to be promoted to the deputy housekeeper of the outer court, and this position will really have real power from the beginning, either in charge of personnel appointments, or in charge of financial power, of course, zuihou is still the number one housekeeper who has the final say, but the person in charge is also great. Generally dry to this position, if nothing else. Within three or five years, the master of Xiangguo can arrange to go out for training, such as going to Xiangguo's mansion to manage a silk shop and grain store in a certain part of Dali City, or the master of a small county and so on.
As for the inner court, it is different, because the lord of Xiangguo and his family are here most of the time, compared with the outer court, the inner court has a stricter management of the servants, which is also the relationship between the servants of the inner court and the servants of the outer court. Due to the large number of family members, the servants in the inner court were often mostly women, and few were men. This also led to the important reason why the deputy housekeepers in the outer courtyard and the second-level family members were looking forward to finding a lady in the inner courtyard every day. Of course, there are also grades among the women in these inner courtyards, and the second-level servants in the inner courtyard are a small supervisor, such as those in charge of the inner courtyard food, singing and dancing, and cleaning the study and bedroom, etc., these are all divided into small groups, and there are special people who are mainly responsible, above this, there is no housekeeper, deputy housekeeper, but handed over to Gao Xiangguo's wives and concubines to manage alone, and the only place in the inner courtyard where there is a male family is Gao Taiming's original companion little scholar, but now with Gao Taiming entering the army, the little scholar has already been arranged in the Dali civil official systemγ
As for the secret sentinels and martial artists in Xiangguo's Mansion, they are all classified as the lowest-level family members, but the treatment they enjoy is the treatment of the second-level family members, especially the three martial artists with the most martial arts on the bright side, their treatment is the same as that of the adjutant's family.
The layout of the house in the backyard, it is worth mentioning that it is the study, in one word to describe that it is big! Almost catch up with the size of the master bedroom, according to the meaning of the master of Xiangguo, that people must have knowledge, learn more knowledge, and the probability of success can be higher. Therefore, the study of the Xiangguo master is full of dense books, divided into categories, all kinds of them, having said that, the Xiangguo master can become the Xiangguo that also has its profound heritage. Take Xiangguo's eldest son Gao Taiming as an example, he began to study martial arts at the age of six, studied under Abda, the first master of the Southern Barbarians, and his external attainments are also among the best among the younger generation.
Now in this big study, Gao Xiangguo and Gao Taiming, the two fathers and sons, are arguing fiercely, Xu is to inform the relationship between the subordinates in advance, and there are no servants and secret sentinels within a hundred steps of the study.
"Father, I don't agree!" Gao Taiming shouted angrily at Gao Xiangguo.
Gao Xiangguo just looked at Gao Taiming in a bland manner, and asked without any ups and downs: "What do you disagree with?"
Gao Taiming lost his temper and said: "I just don't agree, I already have a favorite sweetheart, you now let me go and ask a princess of the Tubo country who has met to marry, I can't do this, you have to do it to let the second brother go." β
Gao Xiangguo sat on the Taishi chair, leaned back, and said in a slightly serious tone: "Your second brother is only eight years old now, which princess of the Tubo Kingdom is willing to marry him, and you are different, you are already the commander of the first army, and you are only twenty-six years old. β
As soon as he heard Gao Xiangguo mention Xue'er, Gao Taiming, who knew his father's way of doing things, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly asked, "Father, what happened to Xue'er?"
Gao Xiangguo still returned with a look of Gujing Bubo: "I didn't do anything, I sent it back to where I came from, you don't have to worry, I gave a sum of money and sent someone to protect her secretly, and my life should not be bad." β
Hearing that Xue'er had no accident, the stone that Gao Taiming mentioned in his heart fell to the ground, but what Gao Xiangguo said was good, and he sent someone to protect him secretly, and what he said was unpleasant was that if he was disobedient, the person who was secretly protected would become secretly killed? This suddenly made Gao Taiming, who was not yet twenty years old, entangled. Speaking of which, Xue'er is a girl who has been serving Gao Taiming since he was a child, with a delicate appearance and a slender figure, for Gao Taiming, whose father is majestic and his mother is busy consolidating the dominance of his relatives, Xue'er is his only emotional sustenance since he was a child. Gao Taiming is not without ups and downs, but only every time he returns to his house and looks at Xue'er's busy figure for himself, Gao Taiming's restless heart can gradually return to calm, and he is captured at the age when his love is first opened. But the reality is often cruel, especially as a child like Gao Xiangguo, if you can't have a character like Gao Xiangguo, then life will not be satisfactory. This is also an important reason why Gao Taiming is now 26 years old, but he still does not dare to openly marry Xue'er as his wife. Now that Gao Taiming, who has been smooth all the way, has finally encountered the first important choice on the road of life, for his feelings, should he give up or stick to it?
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