The emergency incident in Tongzhou seemed to be over, but it still left ripples in Jia Rong's heart.
If it were placed in the Double Dragon World of the Tang Dynasty, I'm afraid it would have been passed over long ago.
That is to say, there are suspected immortals in the world of Red Mansions, which makes him fearful and unwilling to act rashly.
But Jia Rong has his own plans and ideas, and it is estimated that there will be a considerable degree of fierce conflict with the current vested interest groups.
For example, the Cao Gang, which is entrenched in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and claims to have millions of people, will inevitably face various confrontations in the future.
However, he didn't have the idea to take action directly.
In this world, Jia Rong is not the only one who has thoughts and ideas to change.
Of course, the first to be prepared are the so-called four major families of Jinling.
The Xue family, who lived in Rongfu, soon learned about what happened in Tongzhou.
Aunt Xue and Xue Pan didn't have much impression. They just felt that Lian Er and Jia Zhu were unlucky. They had encountered such an embarrassing thing less than a year after taking office.
I don’t know if it will affect their career?
The Xue family expressed their condolences in the same way as before, and the condolence payment of 5,000 taels made Mrs. Wang, who was feeling a little unhappy, smile with joy.
Xue Baochai, on the other hand, noticed something was wrong.
Ningfu Girls' School did not intend to hide the news. On the contrary, it took the initiative to publish the situation in the journal so that students could understand the details.
During the self-study, Qin Keqing, the mountain leader, took the lead and carefully studied and discussed all aspects of the impact of this incident with a group of interested female students.
How should I put it, Ningfu female students will encounter such situations more or less in the future, so it is good to be mentally prepared in advance.
Xue Baochai actively participated, and during the discussion process, he realized that the impact of this incident was not very good for the Xue family.
As mentioned before, the Xue family, as imperial merchants, has a business network that extends throughout the major prosperous towns of Daqian.
Inevitably, the meeting will have relatively close ties with various forces on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is the main transportation artery between the north and the south.
As a force that cannot be ignored on the canal, the relationship between the Xue family and the Caobang is quite close.
In the past, it was nothing, but now the situation is different.
Even though the Ningrong Second Mansion has publicly reconciled with the Cao Gang, how could it be possible that privately there is no resentment and then quarrel?
If Mrs. Wang knew about it, I'm afraid it would not be a good situation for the Xue family.
At Lixiangyuan in the evening, she informed Aunt Xue of this consideration, hoping that Aunt Xue would be aware of it and not be disturbed by possible problems.
"What should I do?"
Aunt Xue suddenly panicked. She didn't have the courage to offend Rong Mansion now.
But it was impossible for her to make up her mind and completely cut off from the Caobang. In this case, the Xue family would lose at least half of its business.
Aunt Xue actually didn't care, since she planned to stay in the capital from now on.
The Northland property in his hands is enough for a pair of children to squander.
But she had to consider the thoughts of the Xue family. After all, Xue Pan was still the patriarch of the Xue family in Jinling, and it was impossible to completely separate from the clan.
Previously, Xue Pan had to temporarily leave Jinling for safety because of a life-threatening lawsuit.
In order to maintain their status as imperial merchants and clan leaders, Aunt Xue and Xue Pan paid a high price and handed over basically all of the Xue family's business in the south to their clan members.
Of course, the Jinling clan had to rely on the clan leader Xue Pan.
After all, Xue Pan was residing in Rong Mansion at this time, and the Jinling branch could not afford to offend him at all.
"Don't worry, mother. I believe the Jia family understands our Xue family's difficulties and will naturally solve our worries for us!"
Xue Baochai was open-minded and didn't really care about this.
Among the four major families in Jinling, the Xue family is a veritable money bag. Every year, they provide massive amounts of money to the other three families to maintain their status.
For this reason, it is impossible for the other three major families to ignore the difficulties that the Xue family may encounter. When it comes to free money, no one can give up easily.
Of course, based on Xue Baochai's observation, the Ning Mansion may not care too much because it has more stable financial income, but the Rong Mansion is absolutely impossible to give up.
Understanding this is enough.
"That's good!"
Aunt Xue is just an ordinary housewife, with average vision, knowledge and ability.
When something happened, it was inevitable that things could not be seen clearly. Fortunately, Xue Baochai helped to check for leaks and fill in the gaps, which saved a lot of unnecessary losses.
Regarding this situation, it would be impossible if Xue Baochai had no idea in his mind.
After all, if the Xue family wants to maintain its status as one of the four major families in Jinling, it must continuously pay tribute to the other three major families.
Over time, the amount of money can really be described as massive.
Those are real money and real benefits.
Things are fine in normal times, but if the business is in a downturn, it will be difficult for the Xue family.
The amount of money paid as tribute to the other three major families must not be less. This is a sure thing.
Once the business fails to make enough money, the Xue family has no choice but to make up the money from their own pockets, which is a very unstable factor.
You know, since Xue Pan took over as the head of the Xue family, the business scale and profits can be said to have declined sharply.
If we hadn't relied on the momentum of the four major Jinling families to stabilize a few fixed incomes, we might have gone bankrupt within a few years.
Xue Baochai doesn't want this to happen. The other three major families will not be polite when the time comes. The Xue family is nothing without benefits.
In fact, as the Ningrong and Ningfus became increasingly powerful, the four major families in Jinling became more and more closely connected.
On important festivals, important figures from the Wang family, the Historian family, and the Xue family would all gather at the Jia family to communicate and discuss common development strategies.
There is no way, the so-called four major families in Jinling are just alliances of interests.
If any company suddenly falls behind midway, the other three companies will not be able to recruit people.
This time, two officials from the Rong Mansion who were working abroad encountered trouble. The four major family leaders gathered in the Rong Mansion's study room to discuss the matter very consciously during the Dragon Boat Festival.
No one is a fool. If you offend the Rong Mansion, you will offend the entire four major Jinling families.
No matter what happens now, there will be a fight between dragons and tigers in the future.
Jia Rong told the other three big families to be calm. The four major families in Jinling are advancing and retreating together. It is natural that joint actions will be inevitable in the future, but there is no need to do anything deliberately at the moment.
If you really have an idea, you can plan it in advance.
The current situation in the court is quite good for the four major families in Jinling.
Now that the throne has been completely stabilized, as time goes by, the power in his hands will become heavier and heavier, and the emperor's restraint on him will become weaker and weaker.
At this time, I naturally want to make a difference, so I can leave my name in history...