The father and son pondered for a long time, but it was difficult to figure out the real situation here.
Feng Tang was originally reluctant to get involved in these Tianjia affairs. In order to avoid being involved in the Beijing camp, he even voluntarily gave up the general of the Fifth Army Camp and chose to go to the mountains of Yulin. He was afraid that if he stayed in the Beijing camp, he would
The matter of seizing the legitimate son is going on, and you may fall into a quagmire every second and be unable to get out.
But now the situation is a little different. The son is now the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture. Although he is a civil servant, it is not entirely a battle for the right to inherit the throne. It is also involved in the struggle between the North and the South and the conflict between the court and Jiangnan. In addition,
The various hidden dangers mentioned by Feng Ziying also made Feng Tang realize that some things may be unavoidable, or if he wants to escape, the final result may be backlash on the Feng family.
Just like Ziying said, if Prince Yi Zhong is really promoted to the position of Dabao, will the situation of the Feng family be better? It is definitely impossible.
The Feng family has never been the backbone of the martial arts community. Niu Jizong, Wang Ziteng, even the Chen family, the Hou family, and the Ma family are. Even the Jia family has a higher status than the Feng family.
Of course, it would not be wrong to say that the Feng family would fall just like this, but the status of the entire Northern scholars would definitely not be better than it was during the ten years of Emperor Yonglong. At that time, the status of the Jiangnan scholars might be further improved, and the status of the Northern scholars would even be better.
It may be reduced to competing with the Huguang scholars for second place.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Now that the Feng family has such a good situation, who would want to be as lonely as a few years ago when Feng Tang was dismissed from the post of General Soldier of Datong and returned to Beijing, like a bereaved dog?
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What's more, Ziying is still leading the way as a leader of young scholars in the North, and has a bright future in the future. Based on this, Feng Tang is not willing to see the world change.
Because of this, he changed his mind from just wanting to go to the northwest for a transition, and just help the court stabilize the situation in the northwest before returning to Liaodong. Instead, he wanted to follow his son's suggestion and move the four towns in the northwest.
The power is firmly in your hands.
At the very least, you must have an influence that is unrivaled by others in the four northwest towns, so that if an unbearable or uncontrollable situation arises in the future, you will have greater room for maneuver, and will not be helpless and wait for death.
This is not only responsible for myself, but also for the Feng family.
Undercurrents in the capital are surging, and Ziying cannot leave the capital. Feng Tang considers that going to the northwest is also a safe measure. As long as he has a firm foothold in the northwest and holds the army of the four northwest towns, whether he wants to seize the throne or not, the struggle between the north and the south will be over.
Well, when the dispute breaks out, no matter who wins in the end, they will not fail to consider their own presence in the northwest, at least they will not cause any harm to the Feng family in Beijing.
"Father, for this kind of thing, we also do our best to obey fate. What our father and son said may be thought to be unfounded worries. Sometimes I myself ask myself whether my worries are really unfounded. Those people in Jiangnan really dare to raise flags.
Do they have the courage to rebel? Also, Ye Fangli and other Jiangnan scholars still occupy a dominant position in the court. If people like Tang Binyin, Gu Tianjun, Jia Jing and Zhen Yingjia want to cause chaos, they will also
Where are people placed?”
Feng Ziying laughed self-deprecatingly, "So it's enough for us to do everything we can."
"Well, so your father and I need to ask for more money to go to the northwest this time. Just as you said, if the south of the Yangtze River rebels and the north is in chaos, there will be Mongols and Jianzhou Jurchens outside who are eyeing them.
Yamato Ji Liao can't move, maybe they really can only send troops from three sides." Feng Tang sighed: "If we don't make full preparations, won't we have to be blind again?"
It has to be said that the four rounds of sales have achieved sensational results. Not only did the newspapers publish this event, but the people in the capital city were even more enthusiastic about it. Whether it was antiques, calligraphy and paintings, pearls and jade jewelry, and even some silk leather goods, clothes and clothing, they became popular among everyone.
The focus of the discussion, it seems that if you can buy one or two items at this sale, you will immediately become a high-ranking person in the Zhou Dynasty.
After more than three million taels of silver were deposited in Haitong Bank, they were also transferred to the account of the Ministry of Accounts in Haitong Bank. How to use these more than three million taels of silver became the focus of attention of the imperial court.
In addition to Feng Tang, other ministries are also interested in these millions of taels of silver. Even Shuntian Mansion is no exception. Wu Daonan mentioned to Feng Ziying in a very subtle way that Shuntian Mansion School needed to be renovated and expanded. This could be done through the Ministry of Rites
Get some money from the court to do this.
Feng Ziying didn't care much about these things. Since Wu Daonan had this intention, he would just do it. It was a matter of one or two thousand taels of silver, but even if it was one or twenty thousand taels of silver, it was nothing to Shuntian Mansion Office.
Difficult thing.
It turned out that Feng Ziying was planning to bargain with the Ministry of Finance to see if he could get some money from the Ministry of Finance to be kept in Shuntian Mansion Office. But when Huang Ruliang raised his fingers to settle the accounts for him, he knew it was best not to pursue this idea and looked at it.
This money has quenched the thirst of many people.
When Feng Ziying returned home, Baoxiang came to report that the Yuanyang girl from Rongguo Mansion was here and she had been waiting for her.
The mandarin ducks are here again? Feng Ziying is very surprised, what’s the matter?
After meeting, I learned that the marriage between Jia Baoyu and Niu Jixun's girl had been officially decided and the preparations had begun.
This can be regarded as a formal notice. After all, Jia Zheng entrusted it to Feng Ziying before leaving. As for Jia Mu and the Wang family, they did not accept Feng Ziying's opinions. Even Yuan Chun in the palace did not support Feng Ziying's opinions. Naturally, Feng Ziying had no choice.
You can talk.
"I already know the time. Since all the engagements have been completed, there is only more than a month left, so it can be regarded as a matter of course." Feng Ziying nodded leisurely and looked at Yuanyang with a smile, "
Yuanyang, the matter about Baoyu will definitely be settled, and the old lady should feel at ease, what do you say?"
Yuanyang's face turned red all of a sudden, and he said a little shyly: "I'm teasing you again, I've already told you..."
"You said it? Just what you said?" Feng Ziying teased Yuanyang, "Don't your brothers, sister-in-law, and parents in Jinling not care about the major events in your life?"
Yuanyang was stunned when he said this. Her brother Jin Wenxiang was working in Rongguo Mansion, her sister-in-law was also in Rongguo Mansion, but her parents were guarding the Jia family's old house in Jinling. It seemed that her whole family belonged to the Jia family, so what about her future life?
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The Jia family has no one they can rely on.
In this generation, Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng have reconciled and divorced. He is not someone who can be counted on, and Yuanyang has never cared about it.
A few years ago, Jia Baoyu and Yuanyang had the idea of being pointed out by their ancestors to Baoyu as a wench girl in the future. However, as their experience grew over the past few years, Yuanyang also saw through the essence of Baoyu's silver-like pewter spear head.
, so I calmed down this thought.
Even younger ones like Jia Huan and others, the age difference is so big that Yuanyang has never thought about it.
After a quick calculation, there was no one to rely on. Could it be that the ancestor was asked to point out a boy in the house? The arrogant mandarin duck would never accept it.
Over the years, Yuanyang knew very well that he could no longer accept the roles of servants like Ming Yan next to Baoyu, Shou'er next to Jia Lian, and Zhao'er, as well as the roles of servants like Qian Hua and Dai Liang in the mansion.
She also has a disdain for people.
Rather than being accused of marrying these people, Yuanyang would rather never marry and be a sister-in-law than suffer this injustice.
This may be because she was born a maid, but she has the ambition to be a young lady.
This was what my brother said to me, and it was hard to hear, but Yuanyang knew that it was the truth, but he was like this and just refused to accept this reality.
Feng Ziying's appearance and teasing words finally made Yuanyang a little tempted. Although he knew there were many obstacles here, it made Yuanyang feel willing for the first time.
Especially when I see that Jin Chuan'er, Qingwen, Ying'er, Zijuan, and Siqi, who were good friends in the past, have all followed or will follow their masters to the Feng Mansion. If I can go there, I will at least have a lot of acquaintances.
How great would it be if we could all be lively, close, doing things and having fun together like we did in Rongguo Mansion a few years ago?
Even Ping'er's little hooves must have been spotted by Uncle Feng. Maybe one day the Second Mistress will really show mercy and let her out, and she will also go to the Feng Mansion to be a steward girl, right?
After gathering his composure, Yuanyang's mind slowly calmed down: "Sir, I can't talk about this slave's matter right now, but this time I came, in addition to talking about Second Master Bao's marriage, there are two other things I want to talk about.
I need to talk to the uncle."
"Oh? Let me tell you, haven't you told me about Baoyu before? Even if we start to prepare for the wedding, you don't need to make a special trip. Tell me, what else is there?" Feng Ziying actually roughly guessed it.
Something, but this shouldn't be the case for Yuanyang, it should be Li Wan or Tanchun.
Yuanyang pursed her lips, and then said: "This slave shouldn't be here, but my ancestors and my wife both said that we should let the slave come with a message first. If the uncle nods, let the third girl come over to discuss in detail..."
"Is the Rongguo Mansion so tight that it is difficult to even organize Baoyu's wedding?" Feng Ziying frowned: "How much does it cost to be so sad?"
"In the past two months, the house has been in a state of being unable to reveal the truth. There are still some old objects in the ancestor's house, but they cannot be emptied out. The Niu family girl still has to come through. If outsiders see the reality of our house,
Maybe it would become a joke. In addition, before and after the wedding, Lin Lin had to buy all kinds of clothes, jewelry and furniture. Lin Lin was afraid that it would cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, but the government really couldn't afford it, and he still owed money.
We have talked to many parties, and the people below have great opinions. If the Niu family girl hears these words when she gets married,..."
Yuanyang didn't say any more, but Feng Ziying also understood.