Early the next morning, after Jia Ke and Qin Keqing washed up and had breakfast, Jia Ke asked someone to get the account books of Wuyang Marquis Mansion. Since Jia Ke had just arrived at Wuyang Marquis Mansion not long ago, all the account books were only a thin one.
Jia Ke took out another set of keys from the cabinet and handed them to Qin Keqing together with the account book. Qin Keqing did not refuse and directly took the account book and keys. This was regarded as handing over the management power of Wuyang Marquis Mansion.
Jia Ke was finally able to separate himself from these trivial matters. These days, Jia Ke not only had to deal with major affairs in the court, but also personally managed various properties of his own, which made him extremely annoyed.
Qin Keqing was also very satisfied with Jia Ke handing over the power of the housekeeper so happily. She had originally planned to mention it to Jia Ke in two days. She was not greedy for power, but wanted to get the dignity and power that the hostess should have. This
Jia Ke finally satisfied her request.
Qin Keqing then acted like a hostess and summoned all the housekeepers and mothers-in-law in the house to the Wuwei Hall.
In the Wuwei Hall, Qin Keqing sat in the middle, with his personal maid Ruizhu standing next to him, and down the hall stood the housekeeper and housekeeper headed by Lin Zhixiao.
Lin Zhixiao temporarily managed the Wuyang Hou Mansion because Jia Ke's butler Qian Mao was still in Xuanfu Town and had not come over. Moreover, he was Jia Ke's earliest butler and could be regarded as Jia Ke's confidant, so Jia Ke was not involved in many things.
Don't hide it from him.
"I have nothing else to do with you today. I just want to tell you that from now on, the inner residence of Wuyang Marquis Mansion has been handed over to me." Qin Keqing looked down when he said this.
As the chief housekeeper, Lin Zhixiao was the first to stand up, knelt on the ground in front of Qin Keqing and said, "Grandma, if you have anything to do, just give me your orders. The little ones will definitely obey your orders."
As soon as Lin Zhixiao finished his expression, the housekeeper and the housekeeper also knelt down to express their loyalty to Qin Keqing. Everyone had long been aware that such a day would come, so there was no resistance.
When Qin Keqing saw that they all expressed their surrender, he didn't take it seriously and said with a smile: "In this case, everyone must stick to their own positions and not make mistakes. Everyone also knows the temper of our Lord Marquis. When things go wrong,
I can’t protect you either.”
After hearing Qin Keqing's words, Lin Zhixiao, the housekeepers and the wives began to feel awe-inspiring in their hearts. During this period, people were killed every day in Caishikou in the capital. I heard that these people were personally approved by their own marquis, and they killed people like this without blinking an eye.
Once a person gets angry, I'm afraid no one can save him.
When Qin Keqing saw that the people below had been suppressed, he stopped embarrassing them and simply let them go back to their respective places.
After everyone left, Qin Keqing called Lin Zhixiao to him and said, "Please tell me how much money we have in the warehouse of our house."
Lin Zhixiao had known for a long time that Jia Ke would hand over everything in the house to Qin Keqing, so a few days ago, he had re-counted all the accounts and was waiting for Qin Keqing to come to check the accounts.
When Lin Zhixiao heard Qin Keqing ask about the silver deposits in the mansion, he hurried over and said in a low voice: "Grandma, our mansion now has nearly 1.5 million taels of silver deposits."
Qin Keqing was very surprised when she heard this number. She had been mentally prepared for a long time. She knew that Jia Ke had some money, but she never expected that he had so much. It only took a few years for Jia Ke to go from thousands of households to his current official position.
, I didn’t expect to have accumulated so much money. Add to that the current annual income of three to four hundred thousand taels, and the two to three hundred thousand taels of ice and carbon. Even with good clothes and fine food, nothing is impossible.
Only now did Qin Keqing feel relieved. Although she got the general situation of Wuyang Marquis Mansion from Jia Ke last night, she still felt a little uneasy. Now she could safely enjoy a life of fine clothing and fine food.
"What's going on at Aunt Zhou's place in the Rongguo Mansion next door? Have our uncles ever gone there before to send monthly money or something?" Qin Keqing asked the money trader next to her.
"As for grandma, my uncle has never given me any monthly money, but Aunt Zhou is in charge of one of my uncle's villages and has an income of several thousand taels every year."
"That's the uncle's care for my aunt. Now that I'm in charge of Wuyang Hou Mansion, I can't help but express it. Starting from this month, we will give Aunt Zhou a separate monthly payment. Aunt Zhou will count it as sixteen taels, and the rest will be calculated as sixteen taels."
The little maids will be given another portion of their monthly payment according to their current share." Qin Keqing pondered for a moment and said.
Although Aunt Zhou is Jia Ke's biological mother, Mrs. Wang's monthly money is only twenty taels, and Aunt Zhou plus the twenty taels that Rongguo Mansion originally gave Aunt Zhou, this is already eighteen taels, no matter what
Nor can it exceed Mrs. Wang.
In the next few days, Jia Ke did not rest because of his wedding leave. He went to the Infantry Commander's Yamen every day. At the same time, he sent his confidant Ma Zuo to the Infantry Commander's Yamen as his deputy, taking over all official duties of the Infantry Commander's Yamen on his behalf.
Then he went to the Xishan Camp and the newly formed Ruijian Camp, and sent his confidants Luo Cen and Xiao Kun to command the two camps respectively. He also told them to follow the training methods in Xuanfu Town and lead the infantry to the Yamen
The soldiers and the Xishan Camp were retrained so that Jia Ke could fully master these two troops.
As for the Imperial Guard, Jia Ke planned to cut off all the officers, leaving only the soldiers and lead them himself. As for the backbone of the army, he would select it from ordinary soldiers.
Jia Ke now understands a truth. Only by mastering the military power can he guarantee his life, wealth and wealth. Although it seems that the civil servants are suppressing the military commanders, it is because the military commanders do not know how to resist. As long as the military commanders dare to resist a little, all those officials will be defeated.
It's the ghost under the sword.
Jia Ke has been busy everywhere these days, and Qin Keqing has not been idle either. She has looked through the entire Wuyang Hou Mansion these days, especially the warehouse and the bank. These two places are the most important. She ordered people
I opened the bank and counted it myself to see if it was the same as the number on the account.
When Qin Keqing entered the bank for the first time, he was shocked by the mountains of gold and silver. It was one thing to see it from the ledger, but it was another thing to see so much gold and silver on site.
And Ruizhu next to her, looking at so many silver coins, her legs were so weak that she couldn't stand at all. If Baozhu, who was still young and didn't know much about silver coins next to her, didn't desperately support her, her new clothes would be like that.
What a waste.
Qin Keqing and the steward made a final count and found that there were more than 1.5 million taels of silver in the bank. Just counting the taels of silver made her so tired that she didn't want to move for several days.
But what surprised her was still behind. When he opened other warehouses, he was dazzled by the various treasures inside, including countless treasures that were rare in the Central Plains. These were all the treasures that Jia Ke acquired from Alsileng Khan.
Every item plundered from the royal tent was priceless.
In other warehouses, she also discovered various precious medicinal materials. Among them, ginseng that was hundreds of years old was only of the lowest quality. There were countless medicinal materials that were over a thousand years old.
If Qin Keqing was mentally prepared for the rare treasures in front of him, then for these medicinal materials, Qin Keqing was completely shocked. Speaking of which, in Wuyang Hou Mansion, these medicinal materials are the most precious now. I'm afraid.
Adding up all the other things, they are not as valuable as the medicinal materials in this warehouse.
By now, Qin Keqing knew how wealthy Wuyang Houfu was. Qin Keqing once asked Jia Ke how she got so much treasure. But Jia Ke only offered her three years to clear the magistrate's house and one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver.
When Jia Ke's wedding vacation was about to end, Feng Mo received the emperor's imperial edict to serve as the military envoy to Liaodong. On the way to Liaodong, he passed by the capital and came to see Jia Ke. At the same time, he brought him the Jiedu of Xuanfu Town.
Letters from Huang Baifeng.
At the same time, they brought him news about his family members in Xuanfu Town. They were on the road together. However, Feng Mo had to go to the army to take up a post, so he hurriedly came to the capital first.
Led by Jia Ke's three concubines, steward Qian Mao, and his intelligence chief Wei Kun, there are still a few days left before they can reach the capital.
Jia Ke and Feng Mo stayed in the study all day, and they didn't know what they talked about. It's just that Feng Mo seemed to be more respectful to Jia Ke when he left Wuyang Hou Mansion.
After Jia Ke sent Feng Mo away, he obviously felt more relaxed. Before he knew it, he had controlled nearly 450,000 horses, not counting the Manchu Eight Banners that he had personally formed.
At this time, Jia Ke felt that he had nothing to fear. Now, as long as he gives an order, the color of the world will change. However, there are still some people in the capital that are not under his control. Although Wang Ziteng and the Jia family are in the same place, everything will change.
To achieve common prosperity, both will suffer losses, but after all, Wang Ziteng is not his, and it is also a difficult problem for him to choose at the critical moment.
Jia Ke made such arrangements because he saw that the current emperor's health was not good. According to the Dream of Red Mansions, the emperor should abdicate and become the Supreme Emperor soon. The new emperor might not like him, an old minister of the Supreme Emperor, and he
He was not prepared to sit still and wait for death. When the Supreme Emperor passed away, it would be the time for his new emperor to show off his cards. Because the emperor had a natural advantage, he had to prepare in advance.
Jia Ke has not relaxed for a while over the years. Ever since he entered the army, he has purposefully gathered people's hearts and controlled the army. Now he has finally achieved something. As long as Feng Mo can gain a foothold in Liaodong, then the most elite and most numerous soldiers in the dynasty will
The army is under his control, plus the troops in Xuanfu Town and Beijing, who else in the world can do nothing to him.
Before the new emperor was determined, he began to make arrangements. No matter who was the emperor, he would be able to deal with it calmly. If the new emperor could tolerate it and could endure it until Jia Ke died, then it would be considered his ability. Otherwise, he would not
Would you mind being like Cao Mang for once?
In the next few years, what he has to do is to quietly push the prince away and then take over his army. By then, everything will be safe.
He didn't want to rebel, but he didn't want to leave his fate to the emperor's kindness, because he knew that no emperor was kind. For the sake of their throne, they would not let go of their own sons. What's more, in the
The emperor thought that Jia Ke was his dog.
After Jia Ke took his wedding leave, he returned to the Military Aircraft Department. At this time, there were three more military aircraft ministers in the Military Aircraft Department. They were Lei Ying, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Tian Ye, the left governor, and Liu Yu, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Including Jia Ke and Pan Yong, the Military Aircraft Department now has a total of five military aircraft ministers.
Except for Jia Ke, these people are all civil servants, which shows how powerful the power of civil servants in the DPRK is now. Jia Ke can serve as the foreman of the military and aircraft ministers because the emperor is arbitrary, and the three newly selected people all abandoned the emperor some time ago. For those who went, if it weren't for Jia Ke still serving as Minister of Military Affairs and controlling more than half of the troops in the capital, I'm afraid the emperor would have to keep his eyes open even when sleeping.
Jia Ke also felt more and more fortunate that he had made arrangements in advance. At this time, Jia Ke already had the capital to compete with civil servants.
As the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, he is naturally the head of the Military Aircraft Department. The three new Military Aircraft Ministers also had to salute him, and Jia Ke naturally accepted the salutes of these three people who could treat him as his grandfather or old man. In the officialdom, seniority is never determined by age, only by the size of the official position and the size of the power.