Chapter one hundred and seventy-ninth, the cutting is still chaotic
There has been a lot of commotion in Rongguo Mansion recently!
None of the servants expected that Mistress Lian would be so decisive and ruthless.
I heard that the old lady just mentioned asking the second roommate to help with the housekeeping, but Mistress Lian came up with a solution the next day, and somehow communicated with the old lady, and finally got the old lady's approval.
In Rongfu, the old lady is heaven!
As long as the old lady agrees, basically anything can't be done, and this time there is no exception.
The second house and the second house will withdraw 5,000 taels of silver from the public account every six months as expenses. In the future, they will no longer be able to access the public account unless they are married.
That's fair!
Even the ladies in Rongguo Mansion who are famous for their bad words can't say anything bad about it, but privately they admire Second Mistress Lian's methods, which has caused misfortune to the second wife.
There is a large family in the second room, not to mention the second master and second wife of Zheng, there is also Uncle Zhu and Aunt Zhu, who is sick, and there is also second master Bao who is very valued by the old lady. Not long ago, Aunt Zhao gave birth to a daughter. Tanchun, I heard that Grandma Zhu was also pregnant, and the five thousand taels spent by six masters in half a year was not enough.
I heard that the old lady secretly subsidized the second house with a lot of money, which amounted to one or two thousand taels of silver every month. Mistress Lian was so angry about this in private that she hit the servants many times.
Speaking of which, the first house is much better than the second house. It includes five serious owners: the eldest master and his wife, the second master Lian and his wife, and the third master Cong. Except for the expenses of the second master Lian and his wife, which go to the public account, the eldest master’s yard There has been no public account since a few years ago, the boss pays everything himself.
Even the servants in the Rongguo Mansion who like to gossip cannot speak out against the eldest master without conscience. On the contrary, they often make jokes about the second wife in private. However, the housekeeper of the second wife has accumulated a lot of power over the years and does not dare to speak loudly for fear of being punished. Just revenge.
If things like the division of property only caused a small stir in the house, the next matter related to the choice of servants and their future future caused an uproar in the house.
What, apart from the normal maintenance manpower, the servants in the mansion must make choices?
Either choose a big room or a second room, or be chosen by the old lady and stay in Rongqingtang. If you are not selected, do you want to be put on Zhuangzi?
Are you kidding? This is it!
They were working well in the Rongguo Mansion, so why were they suddenly forced to choose sides?
Some honest and responsible servants took the initiative to take over the hard work of maintaining the mansion. Although they were a little bit more busy, they didn't have to worry about the danger of taking sides. Of course, the two houses didn't look down on them either.
The rest of the servants were all "smart people", and they accounted for the majority. They were confused and at a loss by what Mistress Lian suddenly did.
Everyone knows that once you make a choice, you will never have the chance to regret it. You can only go one way to the end. If you want to make a choice, you will have no chance.
Some old people relied on their dignity and were unwilling to make their own choices, so they went to Rongqing Hall to beg the old lady to be kind and let them continue to work honorably in Rongguo Mansion without taking sides as before.
"Boss, this is the idea you gave Feng Yatou. Now the trouble has come to Rongqingtang. You must come up with an idea to solve it properly, otherwise the old lady will not agree!"
Jia's mother was very annoyed, and it was hard to talk to Wang Xifeng, so she had to call the elder to complain, and said angrily: "Look at the good things the elder has done, the whole house is about to be in trouble!"
"Old lady, you're just a bunch of servants, why should you care so much?"
The elder said disapprovingly; "When they make their choice, they will naturally stop!"
"We are all from the same family, how can we tell each other apart?"
Jia Mu said displeasedly: "Besides, your second brother's family has a large population. Can't you just let him order it?"
hehe……
"The old lady is really good at joking. I've let her go for nearly twenty years. Isn't that enough?"
Ignoring Mother Jia's embarrassed look, the elder said rudely: "Besides, how much money my second daughter-in-law took from the public treasury during those years, nearly two million taels, I didn't even say anything, the old lady still
How do you want me to give in?"
"Why so many?"
Mother Jia was shocked, and her face turned ugly.
Although she knew that the second daughter-in-law was greedy, she never expected that she would be so greedy for such land and nearly two million taels of silver. I'm afraid...
"Hey, the public treasury is so empty right now that you can run away with it!"
The eldest man said leisurely: "It turns out that the second younger brother and sister are not good housekeepers. Rather than causing trouble in the future, it is better to talk things out early!"
"In this case, it's up to you to do whatever you want!"
Mother Jia's heart was shaken for a long time and could not calm down. She could only say helplessly: "I just hope that for the sake of my old wife, you will not alienate your second brother. If you have the chance, you'd better give him a hand!"
Tsk tsk...
The elder didn’t say anything false, he said directly: “I don’t care, I’m just afraid that the second brother won’t like it!”
After coming out of Rongqing Hall, the elder's mood was as calm as water, without any disturbance.
With Jia Mu's acquiescence, Wang Xifeng's arrangement of the internal affairs of the Rongguo Mansion became much smoother and less troublesome. At least the servants with intricate connections in the mansion did not continue to cause trouble and did not disturb Jia Mu's purity again.
At this point, they really have no other choice but to make an honest choice.
What makes Lian Er and Wang Xifeng depressed is that there are very few smart servants who choose to side with their big house. They are probably less than one-fifth of the servants in the house, and they are just over one hundred.
Among them, most of them are relatives of the maids and servants around the young couple, otherwise the number would be even smaller.
Most of the servants all defected to the Second Fang. At least four hundred servants turned to the Second Fang, which made the Second Fang not only happy from ear to ear, but also had a huge headache.
A large number of servants came to serve, which proved the status and reputation of the second house in the house, but so many people suddenly came to the second house, not to mention whether they could be accommodated, the monthly reward alone was not a small number.
Naturally, the second bedroom can afford the money, but Mrs. Wang is not happy with it. Although after the old lady's dealings, the second bedroom is not allowed to pay for the support of these servants on her own, but monthly money is paid from the public account, but other expenses are the same.
Regardless, it gave Mrs. Wang a headache for quite some time.
I don’t know if the Bodhisattva has been pretending for a long time, or if he wants to use these servants to slap the first house in the face. In short, no matter what he feels in his heart, the second house accepted these servants who took the initiative to defect, and did not give up any of them.
What a ‘Bodhisattva’ heart…
There are quite a few servants who want to defect to the eldest master. After all, the eldest master is also a fifth-grade magistrate of Tongzhou. He has real power and has promising ideas. Anyway, you will definitely not suffer any loss if you follow the eldest master.
It's a pity that the eldest boss looked down on them and unceremoniously rejected the 'good intentions' of these servants, directly stating that there was no shortage of servants to serve them and he couldn't afford to hire the eldest uncle in the mansion.
Because of this incident, the eldest master's reputation was once again tarnished by the servants in the mansion. By the way, the eldest master was also tarnished outside the mansion, making outsiders laugh at him.
But the eldest man didn't care at all. When he was invited to attend a gathering of his colleagues, some unsighted guys deliberately made fun of him. The eldest man was not polite and directly drank with the teasing guy. If he didn't fight, he would look down on the eldest man and Rong Guofu. He almost
Instead of forcing those arrogant officials to death, it frightened the rest of the guys who wanted to act like monsters.
"That is to say, Master, I don't want to go through any trouble, otherwise I have to let these grandsons have a taste of what it means to have a heart injury or an injury to the internal organs!"
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Things in Rongguo Mansion did not always develop in a smooth direction.
After handling the affairs of the servants, Lian Er brought enough bodyguards to start rectifying the farms and shops in the mansion. As a result, more than 70% of the farm owners and shopkeepers were taken down in less than half a month, and some were directly ordered to retire.
After returning home, those who were particularly greedy and vicious were sent directly to Shuntian Mansion to be imprisoned.
Such ruthless tactics really frightened everyone in the mansion. For a while, the atmosphere in the mansion was too good, and they were all frightened out.
But as a result, a troublesome thing arose, that is, there was a serious shortage of manpower outside the government.
"Master, this situation must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise there will be trouble in the farm and the shop!"
On this day, the eldest man, who had just returned from abroad, was blocked by Lian Er in the study room of the east courtyard, begging him to help solve the current trouble.
"The Jia family has members of the Bafang clan in Beijing, right?"
The eldest man sat on the Taishi chair, holding a cup of tea and tasting it slowly. Without raising his head, he said: "There are many grown-ups among the backstreet people. It is not very good to recruit some with good character to help look after the farms and shops."
Is it a simple thing?”
Lian Er smiled bitterly, things are not that simple.
The patriarch of the Jia clan is Jia Zhen of Ningguo Mansion. Although the power of Ningguo Mansion has declined greatly in recent years, Jia Zhen cannot hold her head up in front of Jia Mu, the eldest master and Jia Zheng of Rongguo Mansion, and her voice in the clan has gradually declined.
Although she entered the hands of the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Zhen was still the legitimate patriarch.
Once Lian Er recruits the children of the clan to help run the farm and shop, if Jia Zhen has any bad intentions, it will be easy for her to collude inside and outside and cause serious losses. This is not the result Lian Er wants to see.
"In other words, if you recruit tribesmen to help, it is best to ensure that the tribesmen will not be affected by the clan leader Jia Zhen, right?"
The elder spoke calmly, showing no intention of worrying about this matter.
Seeing Lian Er nodding in approval, he smiled and said: "The matter is very simple. It is the same as the method of dealing with the servants in the mansion. Let the backstreet people choose who to attach themselves to. Our Rongguo Mansion will use Rongxi Hall as its hall name.
As a branch of the Jia clan, it won't be a problem to gather a group of clan members. As for the position of the clan leader of Ningguo Mansion, we still have the position. Our Rongxi Hall only needs to be responsible to the clan leader of Ningguo Mansion, and the clan members under us will be directly managed by us!"
Is this possible?
Why not?
Jia Zhen is a ridiculous master. As long as his vital interests are not violated, everything else is easy to deal with. What's more, the suggestions put forward by the elder have helped Jia Zhen solve a lot of headaches. Managing the tribe is much more troublesome than the servants.