"Sister Lin, twenty thousand taels of silver is too little..." Wang Xifeng said unhappily. The historian, the poorest of the four major families, also contributed fifty thousand taels of silver each.
Before coming, Jia's mother specifically told Wang Xifeng that although Lin Ruhai had donated the family property, the dowry of previous mistresses was not included in this. In this way, the Lin family's remaining property was still considerable.
The Lin family is naturally rich. Not only the dowries of the previous mistresses have not been touched, but also many collections of the Lin family have been preserved. However, they are all books, calligraphy and paintings, and Lin Ruhai is really reluctant to sell them. Especially books, the true treasures of the scholarly family.
The foundation is actually these family collections of books.
"Sister Feng, twenty thousand taels is already the limit of the Lin family, and the remaining money can only barely support the Lin family's daily expenses." Lin Daiyu did not want to break up with the Jia family, and repeatedly emphasized that these are the daily expenses of the Lin family, just hoping that
Wang Xifeng retreated when she realized the difficulty.
Wang Xifeng understood the meaning, but had no choice. If she went back with such a small amount of money, she would not be able to explain it to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang.
"Sister, the old lady is your grandmother, the eldest master, the second master is your biological uncle, and my mother-in-law is also your biological cousin. Now that the family is encountering difficulties, I have no choice but to ask my sister for help. My sister's behavior is really chilling!"
Lin Daiyu paused for a moment. She had many ungrateful people, but Jia Mu was indeed somewhat sincere to her back then. Those sincerities were extremely precious to a little girl who had lost her mother and left her father.
But the Lin family currently has no money at all to come up with, and they can't come up with it.
Free money was no longer available, so Wang Xifeng could only settle for the next best thing.
"Uncle Lin is in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Our family built the provincial villa for the sake of the empress. In the end, it is all for the emperor. The old lady wants to borrow some money from the Ministry of Household Affairs for a period of time. Can my sister intercede in front of Uncle Lin?
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After all, the Jia family still wanted to have prostitution for nothing. Do they really think that the money from the Ministry of Finance does not need to be paid back?
Lin Daiyu didn't know what to say: "The emperor has issued an edict that no one is allowed to borrow money from the Ministry of Household Affairs. My father does not dare to disobey the edict. Please forgive me, Sister Feng."
When Lin Ruhai went to the Yamen, Lin Daiyu told Lin Ruhai about the Jia family coming to borrow money.
Lin Ruhai said: "Those twenty thousand taels should be regarded as honoring the old lady for your mother. If the Jia family comes to borrow money again, just give it to me."
Lin Daiyu nodded and said: "Grandma's family has been relying on Sister Feng's dowry money, so it is really not suitable to build a villa for relatives. Father, can't you go and persuade my uncle?"
Advise, how to persuade?
The Jia family has been possessed by demons, and no one has the ability to wake up a person who is pretending to sleep.
Even though no one in the Jia family is an official, they are the vanguard officials secretly recommended by the four princes and eight princes. They have not inherited the bravery of their ancestors, but their ability to charge into battle is not inferior to others.
Let’s talk about the dispute over the salt inspector.
Others used Qin Keqing's funeral to clearly demonstrate their power and force the emperor to bow his head.
For the sake of the overall situation, the emperor had no choice but to accept this embarrassing loss and gave up the position of Salt Patrol Censor. The emperor couldn't deal with all the aristocratic families, so why couldn't he deal with the Jia family?
Jia Yuanchun entered the palace at the age of thirteen. Ten years have passed and she is now twenty-three years old. Normal palace ladies can apply to leave the palace at the age of twenty-five. Jia Yuanchun was promoted to the position of noble concubine.
If it were a politically sensitive family, they should have realized something was wrong long ago. Not only did the Jia family not realize the crisis, they were still immersed in the illusion of glory and wealth.
The Jia family is not only immersed in the illusion of glory and wealth, but also in the illusion of taking and taking away from the Lin family.
After hearing Wang Xifeng's words, Jia Mu was not happy for a long time. She said to everyone: "When Min'er was alive, how could the Lin family dare to treat our family like this? They say that most heartless people are scholars. I think this is right. I'm a good Jade
My son left me only a short time ago, and it was Lin Ruhai who taught her bad things."
Jia Mu complained for a while, but no one agreed and she found it boring, so she asked Mrs. Xing and Wang Xifeng to leave, leaving only Mrs. Wang.
"From the second child's house, I'm thinking about how you, a mother-in-law, plan to keep two Yu'ers together."
This is the first time that Jia Mu has come out to Mrs. Wang. Even though their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been fighting for so long, no one has been at odds with each other. Now that Jia Yuanchun has become the empress, Mrs. Wang's momentum has gradually caught up with Jia Mu. Jia Mu also
I'm not sure I can force Mrs. Wang to agree.
Mrs. Wang had always looked down upon the Lin family, and now she looked down upon the Lin family even more. Although Lin Ruhai had been promoted, the Lin family had become pauper. How could the daughter of the Lin family be worthy of the talented Jia Baoyu?
Mrs. Wang said: "Old lady, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be better if the Queen Mother goes through the wedding ceremony before planning for Baoyu? As long as the Queen Mother's marriage ceremony goes smoothly, the Queen Mother will be more favored by the Emperor. The Queen Mother knows many noble girls, maybe
You can find a better one for Baoyu."
Jia Mu did not deny it. No matter how close her granddaughter is to her, she is not as good as the royal daughter. The only pity is that the emperor does not have a suitable princess.
But the premise of all this is that the Jia family has built a villa for the bride's wedding and is waiting for the mother-in-law's marriage.
"Now that we haven't even collected the money, do you have any good ideas? I originally planned to use the marriage of the two Yu'ers to ask Lin Ruhai to help."
Mrs. Wang said: "Old lady, haven't all the property of Mr. Lin's family been donated to the court, how much is left?"
Jia Mu said confidently: "You Hu Tu, don't forget that the dowries of the mistresses of the Lin family have not been used. The dowries of the mistresses of the Lin family have not been used at all. The mistresses of the Lin family all came from wealthy families. In addition, the Lin family has few heirs, so the dowries of the mistresses have not been used at all.
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Mrs. Wang thought, even if this was the case, how much would the Lin family have left? The mistress's dowry could not be more than the Lin family's property. When Jia Lian went to Yangzhou to deal with the Lin family's property, but according to estimates, the Lin family's property was only
It’s worth two to three million taels.
After Lin Ruhai donated more than two million taels to the court, what else would be left, probably only two to three hundred thousand taels at most.
Although Mrs. Wang wished that the Lin family had no money left, she was not stupid enough to think that Lin Ruhai would take out the money.
Seeing Mrs. Wang's indifference, Jia Mu had the urge to hate the fact that iron cannot be transformed into steel. She really didn't know why she chose such a stupid wife for her son at that time.
Jia's mother said: "You haven't read many books, and you don't know the twists and turns of scholars. The daughters of those scholars are all smarter than Feng Yatou. The matrons of the Lin family in the past generations also only have one child, and they can read
Are you going to give such a huge family fortune to a concubine? You would probably plan it for your own children."
As soon as she heard Jia Mu's words, Mrs. Wang felt unhappy. What do you mean I haven't read many books? What's so great about being a scholar? Can a daughter from a scholar's family give birth to such talented children as Empress and Baoyu?
After listening to Jia Mu's words, Mrs. Wang understood, and at the same time she looked at Jia Mu in a vague way. That means, how can you have the nerve to talk about the mistress of the Lin family? You are such a person yourself. Don't think I don't know,
Many things in the public treasury have been secretly collected by you.
The Lin family has been a single family for generations. If the mistress wants to get things from the public treasury, she doesn't have to be sneaky at all, which is much more convenient than Jia's mother. In this way, there are more than two million taels of silver left in the Lin family's public treasury.
Mrs. Wang made a simple estimate and knew how rich the private treasury of the Lin family's mistress was.
This chapter has been completed!