Not to mention Lin Daiyu's secret joy, let's talk about Aunt Xue of Lixiangyuan. Ever since she heard the news about Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu's engagement, there has never been a day when her face looked happy.
After Xue Baochai lost the election, Aunt Xue was thinking about how to marry Xue Baochai into Rongguo Mansion. You must know that Rongguo Mansion is one of the best families in the capital. As long as Baochai marries into Rongguo Mansion, the Xue family will be considered reliable.
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Originally, she had a tacit understanding with Mrs. Wang on this matter, and she only waited for a while to clarify the matter. Who would have thought that Lin Daiyu would come out halfway and ruin this good thing.
Aunt Xue knew the identity of her family. Although she was an imperial merchant, she was still a businessman. I was afraid that there would never be a prince's house in the capital that could accept Xue Baochai.
When Aunt Xue was sulking, the door curtain suddenly opened and Xue Baochai walked in from the outside.
Xue Baochai first greeted Aunt Xue, then sat next to Aunt Xue with a smile, "What's wrong, mom? Why haven't you smiled every day in the past few days? If you have any troubles, tell my daughter. I'll give it to you
You can explain it."
When Aunt Xue saw Xue Baochai, she couldn't help but burst into tears. She grabbed Xue Baochai's hand and choked with sobs and said: "My dear Baochai, why is your life so miserable? A good marriage is so ruined. You let me
Mom, how can I swallow this breath?"
After hearing Aunt Xue's words, Xue Baochai blushed at first, and then said calmly: "What did I think, it turned out to be him? If you are worried about this, don't worry, mother. What you get now may not be good.
Being late in the future is not necessarily a bad thing."
After Xue Baochai said this, a confident smile appeared in his eyes. In fact, in Xue Baochai's heart, he did not think highly of Jia Baoyu. Compared with his two elder brothers, this Jia Baoyu was simply unable to hold up the wall.
.Every day, I only know how to hang out in the inner house without any responsibility as a man. This is because I was born in a wealthy family like Rongguo Mansion. If I were a little poorer or a family with a lower status, I would have been eaten to the bone.
No more left.
In fact, in Xue Baochai's heart, the only man in Jia's family who was worthy of him was Jia Ke, who was already a very popular minister at a young age. Unfortunately, she was destined to be a man, so she came a step too late.
If it weren't for her status, she would be willing to marry Jia Ke as a concubine. This is not because she likes Jia Ke. It's because Jia Ke is now famous and has the power to monopolize the court. For such a person,
Being a concubine is several times better than marrying someone like Jia Baoyu and being a wife.
Thinking of this, Xue Baochai couldn't help but become a little crazy. Looking at her look, Aunt Xue thought that Xue Baochai was also a little sad, so she hurriedly asked his personal maid Ying'er to take Xue Baochai back to her room to let her rest for a while.
Xue Baochai was thinking about something right now, so he didn't excuse himself and went back to his room.
Xue Baochai returned to his show room, thinking about what had just happened, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He deeply regretted that he was born a few years late, so he came to the book desk, picked up his pen, and wrote a poem "Linjiang Fairy".
The spring dance in front of the Baiyu Hall is carried evenly by the east wind. Bees and butterflies are swarming in confusion: How many times have they gone with the passing water, how can they be left behind in the dust?
Thousands of threads will never change, let him gather and divide as he pleases. Shaohua has no roots at all: the good wind often lends his strength and sends me to the blue clouds!
After Xue Baochai finished writing, he felt very satisfied. Then he took the poem and read it carefully. The more he read, the more he felt that it was his lifelong ambition.
I only regret that I was born into a merchant's family. If it were a wealthy town like Rongguofu, then with my appearance and intelligence, it would be easy to rise to the top like Jia Yuanchun.
Not to mention that Xue Baochai was complaining and sighing there, but in the following days of Rongguo Mansion, the Jia Mansion began to carry out large-scale construction projects. Both Ningrong Mansion and Ning Rong Mansion belonged to the Jia Mansion. All interest groups are beneficial. Because of this, the Ningrong and Rongfus have shown concerted efforts to build the new garden. The first is planning, the second is land use, and the third is personnel.
In the end, Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen, Jia Ke, Jia Zhu, Jia Lian were in charge of the housekeeping, and Qingke, the world's best friend, reviewed the two houses together and finalized the garden construction plan.
First, we demolished the walls and pavilions of Huifang Garden of Ning Mansion, and moved directly into the east courtyard of Rong Mansion. We demolished all the servants’ houses in the east of Rong Mansion. Although the mountains, trees, and stones were not enough, the old garden’s bamboos, trees, rocks, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, and pavilions were demolished. Everything can be moved and brought forward.
In this way, the land use is solved. "The two places are very close and convenient, and they can be combined into one place, saving a lot of financial resources."
Now in the imperial court, the emperor has taken over the power on the surface, and the emperor has completely retreated to the harem, only making suggestions for the emperor from the side. Now the emperor seems to be high-spirited, but they don't know that every step he takes now is like facing an abyss. To further weaken Jia Ke's power, Jia Ke must not react too much to prevent him from being defeated.
Jia Ke was also relatively calm during this period. He went to the military aircraft office to handle official duties as usual every day and fought against several old rivals. He seemed not to be aware of the emperor's intentions.
In fact, Jia Ke now discusses the situation with Fan Kang whenever he has time.
And he has revealed many of his arrangements to Fan Kang, so that Fan Kang can understand the current situation more clearly.
Fan Kang is also very frightened by Jia Ke's current power. Yes, he is frightened. Over the years, he has been following Jia Ke. He has not seen how Jia Ke can win over the generals, but now almost all the generals in the world are on Jia Ke's side. On the other hand. How can this prevent him from feeling terrified?
Fan Kang only felt that there was a pair of invisible hands controlling everything behind the scenes. Although Jia Ke played a certain role in it, Jia Ke had always been too smooth, almost to the point of being unfavorable.
Let’s just say that the Emperor had a lot of trust in Jia Ke for a while. That was because the Emperor trusted Jia Ke more than anyone else. Even his confidants did not have anyone who could compare with him, including the third prince and Jia Ke who he personally supported to the throne. The weight is much worse than the others. This is simply unbelievable. A father trusts outsiders more than his own son. How is this possible? Fan Kang doesn't believe it if there is nothing fishy that he doesn't know about. .However, Fan Kang still knew what was appropriate and completely treated this matter as if he didn’t know anything about it.
He didn't know that Jia Ke was also a little confused about all this. Although Jia Ke also felt that someone seemed to be pushing him along the way, he couldn't tell what was going on. Know.
After Fan Kang understood Jia Ke's strength, his advice to Jia Ke was to wait and see what happens. He should not strike first, but strike later. Because Jia Ke is a minister after all, and it is not good-looking in any dynasty or generation to use ministers to seek the emperor. , in order to leave a few less harsh words in the history books in the future, it is acceptable to tolerate it for a while now.
Fan Kang once said to Jia Ke, "My lord, you have done great things, but now the trend is irreversible. Although the emperor controls the government on the surface, in fact, he is subordinate to some corrupt scholars and civil servants. The most they can do is die in a hurry to repay the emperor.
It is of no use to the overall situation. As long as the lord tolerates it for a period of time, the emperor must take a preemptive strike, because the emperor can no longer bear it, otherwise he would not keep conferring titles on the virtuous concubine. He is paralyzing the lord. When the time comes,
As long as the emperor takes action first, the lord can justifiably fight back. In this way, in the end, whether it is using the emperor to control the princes or replacing him, the lord will have a sufficient reason."
Jia Ke was very satisfied with the analysis of the resistance. He had already expected this situation. He originally thought that he would take action after the death of the Supreme Emperor. Now it seems that the Emperor can no longer bear it, but this is good. Not only the Emperor has some
He couldn't wait any longer, and he couldn't wait any longer.
Jia Ke believes that in just one or two years, his plans over the years will be revealed. If the emperor doesn't take action by then, he may not be able to bear it anymore. After all, he is still young and his personality is not that calm.
, after waiting for so many years, he can be considered patient. If he is asked to wait any longer, he may feel annoyed himself.
Not to mention that Jia Ke is here patiently waiting for the emperor to reveal his flaws. Moreover, although the emperor has seemingly controlled the power of the world during this period, in fact he is not as happy as he appears on the surface.
That night, after the emperor finished handling the affairs of the court, he asked Xia Shouzhong next to him: "How is Li Guiren doing recently? Has anyone bullied her?"
This Li Guiren is the emperor's latest concubine. She is only fourteen or fifteen years old. She has a beautiful face and a skin like snow. The emperor likes her very much and has been resting at Guiren Li's place for nearly ten days in a row.
When Xia Shouzhong heard the emperor's question, he quickly stepped forward and bowed and said: "Long live my lord, Empress Li has nothing else to do recently. She went to the Imperial Garden to enjoy flowers in her free time. However, she met Empress Jia in the Imperial Garden once. Since she didn't
I made way for Empress Jia and bowed, but was punished by the nun next to Empress Jia, who made me kneel in the imperial garden for nearly an hour."
After the emperor heard this, he couldn't help but use strength in his hand, and suddenly broke the imperial pen in his hand into two halves.
But the emperor seemed to have nothing to do and said to Xia Shouzhong: "The pens that have been paid tribute recently are getting worse and worse. Go and ask which family brought them? If you don't teach these slaves a lesson, they won't know what to do."
After hearing the emperor's words, Xia Shouzhong immediately replied: "Long live my lord, these sundries are all tribute from the Xue family, the emperor's merchant."
After hearing this, the emperor understood that this was the Xue family, a relative of Jia Ke. Since the emperor and Jia Ke did not deal with each other, he knew all the information about Jia Ke. This Xue family is a relative of the Jia family, and is still in charge of the family.
Living in Rongguo Mansion.
After hearing Xia Shouzhong's reply, the emperor wanted to issue an order immediately to exempt Xue from the imperial merchant's errand, but in the end he thought that this might alarm the enemy. So he could only endure this tone.
The emperor took a deep breath, suppressed his anger in his heart, and then said to Xia Shouzhong: "It's better to go to Li Guiren's place to rest today."
Xia Shouzhong hesitated for a moment, then raised his head and asked the emperor gently: "What about Concubine Jia's place? You haven't gone there to rest for more than ten days."
After hearing this, the emperor became furious and kicked Xia Shouzhong on the head. "You damn slave, where can I rest? Do I still need you as a slave to teach me?"
Xia Shouzhong quickly got up from the ground and kept kowtowing to the emperor, "This slave deserves to die, this slave deserves to die. Long live the Lord, please spare me this time. I will never dare to do it again in the future."
The emperor did not even look at Xia Shouzhong and directly ordered: "Go to Li Guiren's place."
Xia Shouzhong didn't even dare to fart now, and rolled and crawled out of the car arranged by Yangxin Palace.
After a while, Xia Shouzhong returned to the palace and said to the emperor again: "Halloween, Luan Jia has made arrangements. Shall we start now?"
The emperor didn't say anything and walked directly out of the palace. Xia Shouzhong hurriedly followed behind. As soon as he left the store, a group of eunuchs came over and beat various deacons, and surrounded the emperor to the front of Luanjia.
When the emperor got on the throne, Xia Shouzhong shouted to everyone outside: "Get up and show me to Mr. Li."
So everyone carried the player and surrounded the emperor and walked outside the Yangxin Hall. As soon as he left the gate of the Yangxin Hall, the emperor said in the Luan Jia: "I won't go to Guiren Li today, I will go to Concubine Jia."
It turned out that the emperor calmed down his anger after taking a few steps. He was thinking that he had not been to Jia Ke for a long time. If Jia Ke became suspicious, it would be very inconvenient for him in the future. So he could only endure his anger and continue to favor him.
Jia Yuanchun.
And now the emperor is so aggrieved that he is about to cry in the sedan chair. He is the king of a country after all, but now he can't even favor any concubine as he wishes. What's the point of being an emperor?