Jia Lian stood up for Baoyu's maid Qianxue, but in the end, Qianxue and Li Gui got married.
Not only Qian Xue and her uncle and aunt Shan Daliang were grateful to Jia Lian, but Grandma Li and his son Li Gui were also grateful to Jia Lian.
Once this matter spread in the house, it further confirmed the saying that "it is a good thing to listen to the second master's words". Everyone from top to bottom was eager to hug Jia Lian's thigh.
In addition, the group of servants who "didn't listen to the second master" had just been taken by Jiao Da to reclaim the wasteland in western Liaoning. The money that the servants were greedy for was all suppressed by Jia Lian with high pressure. All that was left to the servants were their savings.
The monthly money that comes down.
Without the "evil wealth", the servants' "evil intentions" were also reduced. For a time, the servants of the Rongguo Mansion entered a state of "obedience" that they had never had before. The earlier incident where the servants held their master hostage
It disappeared almost instantly.
Jia Lian is very satisfied with this phased result.
The next step is to solve the master's problem.
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There are many "greedy" among the Jia family's servants, but in fact the master is not much better, almost all of them are "greedy".
In the early days, when Sister Feng was housekeeper, she would show off from time to time:
"What on earth am I waiting for money for? It's just so that the family can spend more for daily necessities and earn less.
I needed money for a while, so I sold a gold bell in my dowry for five hundred and sixty taels of silver. In half a month, I didn’t do ten big or small things? Aren’t they all filled in for nothing?”
In fact, when she changed hands, she used the monthly money from the back house to loan loans, and all the interest earned went into her own pocket.
The rest of the people are not fuel-efficient lamps. Those who can "pluck their hair when the geese pass by" are all kind-hearted. Maybe they are all geese flying over and even chewing the bones of the geese.
He even used his power for personal gain and used the money from the Jia family officials to enrich himself. It was corruption and it was the Jia family that was cheated.
Even Jia Zhen, the patriarch of the Jia clan, is also greedy.
When the construction of the provincial residence was just started, he, the actual person in charge of the provincial residence project, had "hands like the wind and fingers like lightning". He immediately picked a big deal and gave it to his own people, making a lot of money.
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"Go to Suzhou to hire teachers, purchase girls, purchase musical instruments, and other things like clothing," and they were given a budget of up to thirty thousand taels of silver.
But what about in reality?
A total of twelve little opera singers were bought. Each of these girls from poor lower-class families was worth only one or twenty taels of silver.
To hire a teacher from Suzhou to teach opera, the monthly salary per person is only one tael of silver per month. Even if there is a teacher for each of the twelve young actors, the monthly salary is only 12 taels, and the year is only one hundred and fourteen taels.
Fourteen taels of silver.
As for the musical instruments required for Kun Opera, they are just sheng, pipes, flutes, three-stringed pipa, and sandalwood gongs and drums. Even if you prepare them for the top, two to three hundred taels of silver are enough.
And because the young actors are not very old, they can only perform ten plays in total. Even if they buy all the costumes for ten plays, they will not spend a thousand taels of silver in total.
Calculated in this way, plus the expenses for food and accommodation during the journey, and even the little Taoist nuns and nuns who did the shopping, the total would not be enough to use four thousand taels of silver.
Thirty thousand minus four thousand, leaving twenty-six thousand taels of silver, which is enough to make your mouth water.
But "project manager" Jia Zhen did not give such a lucrative job to her son Jia Rong, but to her godson Jia Qiang.
Facts have once again proven that godfathers are more willing to give money than biological fathers.
The reasons for justification are often not clearly stated.
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It is said that Jia Qiang's status is considered noble, and he is also an upright great-great-grandson of Ningguo Mansion.
In other words, Jia Qiang's grandfather and Jia Rong's grandfather are both the legitimate sons of Ningguo Gong Jia Yan. However, Jia Rong's grandfather is the eldest son, and Jia Qiang's grandfather is the second son.
Moreover, Grandpa Jia Qiang's family still lived in the Ningguo Mansion. Later, his grandfather died and his parents died early. His cousin Jia Zhen, who was two floors away, continued to stay in the Mansion to raise Jia Qiang. p>
The orphan Jia Qiang was raised by Jia Zhen in Ningguo Mansion until she was 16 years old. She and Jia Rong have always been like brothers. What Jia Rong has, Jia Qiang can also share.
The problem is that Jia Qiang has been handsome since she was a child, and then her handsomeness turned into romantic and handsome. In addition, she hung out with Jia Zhen and Jia Rong all day and night. Gradually, some very unsavory rumors spread about Jia Zhen.
To his nephew, Jia Rong and his cousin are just as unclean as cats and dogs. As a result, the only two clean people in Ningguo Mansion are the two stone lions at the door.
Jia Zhen originally thought about refuting the rumor in a serious manner, but later she found it troublesome and gave up.
Otherwise, with Jia Zhen's character and reputation, I'm afraid the result will be that "as soon as the rumor is refuted, it becomes true." At least until the rumor is refuted, the rumor will still be just a rumor.
Jia Zhen did not refute the rumors, but she also felt that as the leader of the clan, she had to avoid suspicion. So she allocated a house to Jia Qiang and ordered him to move out of Ning Mansion and start his own life.
Jia Qiang doesn't mind moving out. Anyway, Jia Zhen dotes on her above and Jia Rong helps her below. Who among the clan dares to mess with Jia Qiang? Don't you want to hang out in the Jia family?
Jia Qiang is arrogant at heart, but always behaves outwardly. He is a "bad boy".
He is very clever, and at the age of only sixteen, he is already very good at "killing people with a borrowed knife".
As the son of the Jia family, he also went to school, but he had no intention of studying. He just watched and took care of things, and spent the whole day playing cockfights and dogfights with everyone in the school.
In school, when he saw Jin Rong bullying Jia Rong's brother-in-law Qin Zhong, Jia Qiang was close to Jia Rong and wanted to take revenge on Jin Rong. However, he knew that Jin Rong had always been taken care of by Xue Pan and did not want to offend Xue Pan.
So Jia Qiang rolled her eyes, sneaked out, avoided the mature Li Gui, and chose the trouble-making Mingyan. After some provocation behind her back, she achieved her goal in an instant.
By the time Baoyu's four servants were smoking cigarettes, hoeing medicine, and sweeping red flowers, and Mo Yu was copying the door latch and using riding whips to make a fuss in the school, Jia Qiang, who had succeeded, had long since escaped.
Later, when the school was in chaos, Baoyu went into a rage, and Jin Rong apologized, no one saw Jia Qiang's shadow from the beginning to the end.
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After being sent by her godfather on this trip to the south, Jia Qiang clearly understood "there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". When she returned to the capital, she had gained a lot of experience.
As for purchasing an actor, you have to discuss the price with someone else, you have to negotiate the conditions when you hire a teacher, and you have to choose the quality when you buy musical instruments. These are not important. Jia Qiang knows very well that she is just helping Jia Zhen get money.
Yes, where can I do those trivial things like negotiating prices and being a broker?
He was grateful to his godfather, so he paid 10,000 taels of silver to his godfather Jia Zhen, and took 5,000 taels of silver to honor his godbrother Jia Rong. Even Shan Pinren and Bu Guxiu, two Qing guests, and several followers followed him.
, and a total of one thousand taels of silver were distributed.
And Jia Qiang herself also made ten thousand taels of silver in one fell swoop.
But Jia Qiang really didn't expect that when he returned to the capital, Jia Zheng, who didn't care about anything, would be replaced by Jia Lian, who couldn't be offended.