Chapter 200 Jia Yun is promoted from a second-grade official
There is still snow in the sky, less heavily, but the back garden is still a land of ice and snow, covered with hoarfrost.
Jia Yun is still wearing a smart suit, a cloak and a hat.
Li Feixue was still wearing white clothes, even her shoes and cloak were white, but this time she didn't wear a hat and put on the hat of the cloak directly. Because the snow was falling lightly, wearing a hat would somewhat detract from her beauty.
Even though Li Feixue had drunk a lot of wine, she was not very drunk. Her drinking capacity was quite large.
She still paid attention to the details of etiquette. When walking with Jia Yun, she always walked diagonally behind Jia Yun. This not only showed her respect for Jia Yun, but also made it easier to talk to Jia Yun.
Under the guidance of Li Feixue, Jia Yun had a good tour of the back garden covered with ice and snow, covered with hoarfrost, and kept chatting with Li Feixue during the process.
The two talked about the old servant who had been guarding the mansion in the past few years. Jia Yun praised the old servant for his ability in building mountains, digging ponds, erecting buildings and pavilions, planting bamboos and flowers, etc. The Li family
This mansion, whether it is the front house or the back garden, is much more exquisite than Jia Yun's mansion.
The two talked about Yangzhou, Slender West Lake, salt merchants, and Li Feixue's father Li Danbai...
At this time, the two passed through a green pine and a green bamboo beside the pond and walked into a red plum forest composed of more than a dozen red plum trees.
Jia Yun admired the red plum blossoms in front of her at close range, which looked like rouge against the snow, and looked particularly lively. Then she turned to look directly at Li Feixue and smiled slightly: "Don't you have something to say to me, girl? Isn't it the same thing that I followed along the way?
All those gossips I chatted about?”
Li Feixue looked around and saw that there was no one around. Even Yu Zhu and Yaqin were a little far away.
Seeing that Li Feixue was so cautious and mysterious, Jia Yun became more sure that she had plans for him and became even more curious.
Li Feixue looked extremely serious: "Sir, I have something to ask of you."
Jia Yun asked: "What's the matter?"
Li Feixue said: "Today is the first time that I meet you, sir. I wouldn't be able to ask you about this matter, but I think you are a very smart person. You must have guessed that I have something to ask you for when I invite you to see me face to face. So I
Thinking about it, it is better to be honest in front of the adults, and going around in circles will make the adults unhappy."
"It's just that, as I said before, if you feel offended by this request, please bear with me."
Jia Yun asked: "What's going on? Tell me."
Li Feixue said: "Please introduce me to the emperor."
Jia Yun: "..."
Li Feixue then said: "I just said that you are a very smart person and I dare not hide it from you. The reason why I want to see the emperor is just because I want to become the emperor's concubine!"
"My father is just a newly promoted chief salt merchant. My family is not even a famous official. He does not even have the qualifications to be a talented person or to praise good people. What's more, even if he is selected to be a talented person, he praises him and wants to become the emperor's concubine.
It’s also very difficult, and I can only have this opportunity if I can meet the emperor.”
When writing about the reason why Xue Baochai came to Beijing, the original work wrote: The recent reason is that poetry and etiquette are respected in the world, and talents are sought out, which is an unparalleled favor. In addition to recruiting concubines, all the daughters of famous officials in the world are named Dabu.
If you choose to be a princess, the princess will be admitted to school to accompany you, and you will be regarded as a talented person and a good person.
There have been different interpretations of this passage in previous lives. Some said it was a draft, while others said it was a selection of palace maidens.
As far as Jia Yun now knows, the meaning of this passage belongs to the draft. The so-called talents and praises are actually the reserve members of the harem. If the opportunity is good, they can meet the emperor, be favored by the emperor, and enter the harem, but
The chance of this is very small.
In other words, if Xue Baochai participates in this form of talent show, based on her family background, it will be difficult for her to be selected as a talented person or a good person, and even if she is selected, it will be difficult for her to be promoted to a member of the harem.
And Li Danbai is the newly promoted chief salt merchant, and his family is not even considered a "famous official". Li Feixue is not even qualified to select talents or praise good people, and even Xue Baochai is not as good as him in this regard.
After all, the Xue family had an official position and is still an imperial merchant, belonging to the "famous family of officials".
Jia Yun smiled playfully: "If you meet the emperor once, you can become the emperor's concubine?"
Li Feixue rarely felt a little shy: "Your Excellency, all you need to do is introduce me to the Emperor. When I see the Emperor, I will do my best to win the Emperor's appreciation."
Then he said: "As long as your Excellency arranges this matter, my family will honor you with fifty thousand taels of silver. If I am lucky enough to be appreciated by the emperor and enter the harem, I will have another fifty thousand taels of silver to honor you. In addition, your Excellency will be here from now on."
My benefactor, if I become a concubine in the future, I will repay you in another way."
Jia Yun asked: "Is this the girl's own wish? Or is it your father's arrangement?"
Li Feixue paused and said: "It is both my father's arrangement and my wish."
Jia Yun: "How do you say this?"
Li Feixue said: "My father arranged for me to do this because it would be beneficial for him to become a concubine, and I also felt that I should do this. Although I am just a girl from a boudoir, I still have some ambitions in my heart, and there is no other woman in the world who can compare with me.
It is more noble in the palace."
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty stipulated that there should be one queen, one imperial concubine, two concubines, four concubines, six concubines, and an unknown number of others, and Li Feixue wanted to be a concubine.
According to Jia Yun's speculation, Li Feixue's ambition may not only be a concubine, but even a noble concubine!
As far as Jia Yun knew, there was a noble concubine in ancient times who was the daughter of a Yangzhou salt merchant.
**** During a tour to the south of the Yangtze River, a salt merchant introduced his daughter to the Supreme Emperor, who attracted his attention and was later promoted to a noble concubine.
The Supreme Emperor likes to tour the South very much. He has visited the South many times during his decades in power.
Emperor Tianzhi didn't like this kind of thing. He never made a southern tour in the past few years since he ascended the throne, and even left Shenjing City very rarely.
Therefore, Li Danbai wanted to imitate the senior salt merchant and offer his precious daughter to Emperor Tianzhi during his southern tour, but there was probably no chance, so he asked Li Feixue to go to Beijing and proactively seek an opportunity to meet Emperor Tianzhi.
I have to say that Li Danbai and Li Feixue, the father and daughter, are so ambitious!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Alas, I also have a day when I am so sentimental!
Jia Yun sighed inwardly, dumbfounded.
Originally, he thought that Li Feixue's attempt on him was probably to seduce him and become his woman, but it turned out that the person she wanted to seduce was Emperor Tianzhi, what a good guy!
For introducing Li Feixue to see Emperor Tianzhi, she would get 50,000 taels of silver. If she entered the harem and received another 50,000 taels of silver, she would regard Jia Yun as a benefactor. If she became a concubine in the future, she would treat Jia Yun in another way.
There is a reward...
This is a good deal.
With Jia Yun's current status and Emperor Tianzhi's appreciation for him, arranging for Li Feixue to meet Emperor Tianzhi is not too difficult, and even clever arrangements can be made.
Li Danbai and Li Feixue came to him for this reason.
The problem is that Jia Yun is not willing to do this kind of matchmaker thing, not to mention that he himself has a strong interest in Li Feixue. Wouldn't doing this kind of thing become "giving away a daughter"?
What's more, Jia Yun knows Emperor Tianzhi relatively well. According to Jia Yun's understanding, Emperor Tianzhi is not greedy, very rational and less emotional. He is an emperor who puts interests first. The positions of his queen, imperial concubine, noble concubine and even the fourth concubine,
It's not something that a salt merchant's daughter like Li Feixue can become.
In the original work, Yuanchun became a noble concubine later, in addition to the arrangement of the Supreme Emperor, it may also be because Emperor Tianzhi had other purposes. After all, Yuanchun is the blood of Rongguofu...
At that time, the Supreme Emperor was willing to let a salt merchant's daughter become his concubine. Emperor Tianzhi would hardly be willing to do this.
So even if Jia Yun introduced Li Feixue to Emperor Tianzhi, no matter how good Li Feixue was, Emperor Tianzhi might not like her. Even if he liked her, the possibility of Li Feixue becoming a concubine, let alone a noble concubine, was extremely low.
And if a top-notch woman like Li Feixue enters the harem and fails to become a concubine in a few years, and Emperor Tianzhi is not a compassionate person, Li Feixue will most likely end up miserable.
Women's palace fights are no joke, they are very cruel!
Thinking of this, Jia Yun smiled faintly: "Miss Feixue, I'm sorry, I can't help you with this matter. Please listen to my advice and stop having such plans. The palace is not a suitable place for you."
It's interesting enough to say that this step is enough. Even if Jia Yun is very interested in Li Feixue, she will not say anything dangerous to herself when they meet for the first time, and her sense of precaution will not be weakened.
Li Feixue looked directly at Jia Yun: "Isn't it a suitable place for me?"
Jia Yun smiled and said: "Young girl is a smart person, I think you can understand the meaning of my words. Thank you very much for your hospitality today. Well, I have to perform a dance today, but I can't help you. I feel guilty. This way
Well, I will sing a song for the girl some other day to repay the dance she gave me today."
Li Feixue: "..."
After Jia Yun finished speaking, she turned and walked away.
At this time, the snow in the sky was falling heavier again, and the snow was falling like flakes.
Li Feixue kept witnessing Jia Yun's back disappearing into the snow.
When the eldest maid Yaqin was about to come over, Li Feixue said: "Don't come over here, let me be alone."
Yaqin said "Oh" and turned around to walk away.
Li Feixue, who was standing in the red plum forest, took off his cloak and hat, looked up at the sky, and let the falling snowflakes fall on his head, face, and body.
There are thoughts in my mind.
She remembered that Jia Yun had asked her before why her father had arranged for her to learn dancing from a young age, and her answer was that she didn't know.
As Jia Yun thought, there was indeed something fishy about this matter. It was not that she didn't know it, but that she knew it was inconvenient to say and was too embarrassed to speak out.
The reason why her father, Li Danbai, made such arrangements was to train her like a Yangzhou skinny horse from a young age, so that she would have the opportunity to be favored by big shots and even become the emperor's concubine in the future.
Just last year, when Emperor Tianzhi was short of money, he asked the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou to donate two million taels of silver, which was a donation of two million taels of silver. The eight major salt merchants only collected 450,000 taels of silver to donate.
Later, Jia Yun ransacked his house in Huainan, allowing Emperor Tianzhi to obtain a large amount of property. Emperor Tianzhi was not in a hurry to deal with the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, and gave Lin Ruhai, the salt inspector, one year to urge for donations.
Three months ago, on the third day of September, seeing that the one-year deadline was up and the collection of donations could not be completed, Lin Ruhai committed suicide to plead guilty, begging Emperor Tianzhi not to offend his family.
The Qing Dynasty inherited the salt production from the Ming Dynasty and implemented the Gang Salt System. This system resulted in a hereditary monopoly of the chief salt merchant.
In other words, most of the chief salt merchants in Yangzhou are hereditary. It is difficult for latecomers to become chief salt merchants, and Li Danbai is such a latecomer.
Li Danbai's father was originally a loose salt merchant. In Li Danbai's generation, he got the opportunity to be promoted to the general salt merchant and became one of the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou.
The reason is that Li Danbai has a backing of great scholars in the imperial court, and Li Danbai is also a good friend of Lin Ruhai, the censor of salt inspection.
Recently, Lin Ruhai committed suicide to plead guilty, and Li Danbai's backstage scholar suddenly "begged for rest", causing Li Danbai's two most important backstage members to disappear.
In this case, Li Danbai's position as chief salt merchant could not be maintained.
In addition, due to the donation incident and Lin Ruhai's suicide, Emperor Tianzhi is likely to send people to Yangzhou to investigate and hold accountable, and Li Danbai will be in danger without his two backers.
So recently, Li Danbai arranged for Li Feixue to travel all the way from Yangzhou to Shenjing City in order to let Li Feixue meet Emperor Tianzhi.
Li Danbai felt that with Li Feixue's appearance, talent and intelligence, once she met Emperor Tianzhi, he would probably be attracted by Emperor Tianzhi. Once he was attracted by Emperor Tianzhi, he would probably become a concubine or even a noble concubine in the future...
Li Danbai already knew that Jia Yun lived next door to his mansion in Shenjing City.
In Li Danbai's view, Jia Yun, as a former imperial bodyguard, the current commander of Jinyi Mansion and a doctor of the Coal Mine Division of the Ministry of Industry and Imperial Envoy, was a close official of the emperor who was highly appreciated by Emperor Tianzhi, so it would be possible to arrange for Li Feixue to meet Emperor Tianzhi.
Yes, these are Li Danbai's arrangements!
But Li Feixue himself was willing to do this.
As she just said to Jia Yun, she is an ambitious woman who wants to be a noble woman, and the most noble woman in the world is naturally the one in the palace.
Like Li Danbai, Li Feixue not only hopes to become a concubine, but even a noble concubine!
Unfortunately, Li Feixue's request and transaction were decisively rejected by Jia Yun.
Right now, in the back garden, among the red plum trees, Li Feixue looked up at the sky, letting the falling snowflakes fall on her head, face, and body, thinking about these thoughts.
"Although Mr. Jia has refused, I can't give up just yet. Otherwise, not only will my father not be able to keep his position as the chief salt merchant, but he will also be in danger. Then I will probably be reduced to a lowly mortal woman."
Li Feixue sighed in her heart and also sighed in her mouth.
No matter what, she won't give up on this matter.
She will see Jia Yun again and beg Jia Yun again. If Jia Yun's path really doesn't work, she will also find ways to contact other noble people to help...
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Two days later, December 12th.
Jia Yun was on duty at Jinyi Mansion that day and was suddenly summoned by Emperor Tianzhi in the morning.
It was sudden, but it was not sudden at all. Emperor Tianzhi summoning Jia Yun had become a habit.
Immediately, Jia Yun left the Yamen of Jinyi Mansion, walked into the palace, came to Qianqing Palace, knelt down and worshiped Emperor Tianzhi, who then said two words.
The first sentence is to ask Jia Yun to stand up, that is, to stand up.
The second sentence is: "I want to upgrade the rank of the commander of Jinyi Mansion from the third rank to the second rank. In other words, I want you to be promoted to the second rank military attache!"