novelraw Chapter 280 Situation
Chapter 280 Situation
This person is different from other people.
The prince is so gorgeous and jealous!
Not to mention, there is more than one person who is jealous of Lin Hai, Zhen Yingjia is also quite jealous of Lin Hai, but he is jealous of Lin Hai either because of something, or because Lin Hai's son is so outstanding, it is too useless to set off Zhen Baoyin and Zhen Baoyu!
Originally, Zhen Yingjia planned to ask her mother to come forward to ask Zhen Baoyin for an official position, so after receiving the imperial decree, she rushed to the capital early. Unexpectedly, the person who met her was: the eldest son of the Lin family, Lin Ye High School The matter of No.3 in the second class, and then the matter of marrying Emperor Xuande's cousin.
Thinking of her eldest son who is not good at civil and military affairs, Zhen Yingjia is gorgeously jealous!If his son could be so outstanding, would he take such a risk to support a child who is only a few years old to seize the heir?
On the way back to Beijing, Zhen Yingjia was thinking hard about what to do with her family, but she didn't have a clue.He knows that the treasury is empty now, and after the new king ascends the throne, the first major thing in the government is to check the deficit, and his family still owes nearly 150 million taels of silver to the household department, and he is afraid that the new emperor will force his family to pay back the money!
Unless the emperor who enthroned was of his own blood, the Zhen family felt that they would not escape a catastrophe.
After so many years, Zhen Yingjia can be regarded as seeing, what doting on Concubine Zhen De, what is the special care for Zhen's family!all fake.
Let him say that the emperor's stay at his house is apparently a sign of love and care for his family, but in fact he is cheating his family.It's not that Jinling doesn't have a palace, it's better to send people to tidy it up first, so it's more comfortable than living in a courtier's house, but he has to go to live in his own house.
The preparations for the pick-up are no joke, without 10 taels of silver, it really can't support the scene.The emperor has stayed at his home many times on his southern tours, and his home has gained a reputation, but what about the inside?But it is a bottomless pit that cannot be filled.
Now not only their own treasury is empty, but they have also borrowed 150 million taels of silver from the treasury!
General meritorious family.It's still possible to piece together 150 million taels of silver, but the Zhen family has reached the point of exhaustion, let alone 150 million taels of silver, even 5 taels of silver can't be sold!
Zhen Yingjia had already guessed the emperor's intentions, but the emperor stayed at his house, on the surface it gave the Zhen family great face, he couldn't refuse and couldn't refuse, so he could only think of some crooked ways!
But if you go too many crooked ways, you will always run into ghosts, so Zhen Yingjia is still a little hesitant.Although Emperor Xuande had given Jiangning weaving to the Zhen family to make up for the loss, he wanted to do something about weaving.It is also very difficult, so the little money for hands and feet is also a drop in the bucket.
Thinking of this, Zhen Yingjia inadvertently thought of Lin Hai, saying that he had received the grace of the Holy Spirit, but in fact Lin Hai had received the grace of the Holy Spirit even more than him.And Lin Hai's life is better than his.
As soon as he entered the official career, he was selected by Emperor Xuande as a candidate, and later he was valued by Yan Shenggong and selected him as his son-in-law.Later, along the way, he was steadily promoted to the position of Xunyan Yushi. Although this position is only from the third rank, it is similar in nature to Jiangning weaving, but it is known that salt merchants are richer than weavers.And this position also has supervisory responsibilities.
In addition, because Lin Hai was promoted by himself, not by his daughter like him, at least in the eyes of others.Therefore, Lin Hai's official voice is much better than his.Qingliu would intentionally embarrass him because not many people in Yan Shenggong's family would deliberately make things difficult for him, and now that he is married to the Yuan family, the meritorious family will not deliberately seek trouble for the Yuan family's face.
It was because of these reasons that Zhen Yingjia had no choice but to find someone to stand up for the dead ghost in Jiangnan, but now Zhen Yingjia didn't want to face Lin Hai by herself.So Jiangnan presented a strange situation, Lin Hai and Zhen Yingjia seemed to ignore each other.Except for meeting on some necessary occasions, they usually pretend not to see each other.
But obviously, Emperor Xuande is still very satisfied with the situation in the south of the Yangtze River. As for the future, it depends on how Zhen Yingjia chooses!If he insists on going his own way, it is probably the fate of being ransacked in the original book.
But this can't change the problem of Zhen Yingjia's abnormal irritability.
On the second day, it was the Shengshang Longevity Festival, and the streets in the middle of Beijing were full of traffic and bustling.The civil and military ministers had no time to enjoy the fun of the common people, so they left for Miyagi early in the morning.First, all the officials pay homage to the birthday, and then the longevity feast.Even in the harem, there are empresses and empresses who come forward and call for a banquet for their wives in and out of Beijing.
Lin Hai first bowed to Emperor Xuande with all his ministers, and after congratulating him on longevity, he listened to the gifts from Jiangnan literati presented by the Ministry of Rites. The eldest relative of Kong Shan from the Six Arts Academy wrote poems celebrating his birthday, which were gorgeous and brilliant. .
Lin Hai chuckled, his second uncle (Kong Shanchang) is good at showing off, and his flattering skills are not bad, but Lin Hai thinks this article is better than the later ones, at least the one about Emperor Xuande Flattery has not yet fallen into a cliché.
After listening to several beautiful articles praising the saint's benevolence, everyone got up and left the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and went to the imperial garden where the banquet was held in the palace.The royal banquet is naturally different from the banquets of ordinary people. Gold and jade are used as the table, jade belts are used as flowers, and palace ladies of various colors shuttle among them.The emperor was naturally sitting on the Jiuque Terrace, one side was the position of the clan prince, and the other side was the loyal cabinet minister. Lin Hai's position was not close.
But the dishes are the same.
Beauty Presents Tea: Junshan Silver Needle
Four dried fruits: walnuts with strange flavors, crystal fudge, spiced cashews, sticky peanuts
Candied four products: candied orange, candied crabapple, candied banana, candied plum
The four pastries: Huazhan Longan, Ai Wowo, Jam Golden Cake, Two-color Horseshoe Cake
Four pickles: royal radish, spicy cucumber with honey sauce, sweet-scented osmanthus kohlrabi, pickled peach kernel
Seven appetizers: Erlong Xizhu, Tangerine Peel Rabbit Meat, Weird Chicken Strips, Tianxiang Abalone, Three Loofah Rolls, Shrimp Roe and Winter Bamboo Shoots, Pepper Oil and Wild Rice Bamboo
One dish of soup: Braised fish lips in a can
Five Royal Cuisine: Shazhou Taicui, Pipa Prawns, Dragon and Phoenix Tenderness, Sesame Oil Diet Paste, Diced Pork and Cucumber Sauce
The second product of pastry: steamed cake with thousands of layers, assorted flower basket
The second barbecue product: Yushan Roasted Chicken, Grilled Fish Fan
Wild game hotpot: [-] dishes with Shangwei dish.Sliced venison, dried dragon, roe deer spine, pheasant slices, wild boar, wild duck breast, squid rolls, fresh fish, thorn dragon teeth, celery, thorns, fresh bean sprouts
One meal porridge: lotus leaf porridge
One Fruit: One Season Fruit Platter
Farewell to Fragrant Tea: Yanghe Spring Green
Other people's imperial dishes are different from pastries.
The ministers of the court and the wives who have orders are:
Five Imperial Cuisine: Dragon Boat Anchovies, Slippery Scallops, Braised Quail in Sauce, Beef Tenderloin in Oyster Sauce, Duck Feet in Sichuan Sauce
The second product of pastry: Fengwei Shaomai, colorful Chaoshou
And other ordinary people who have no official position and are just here to make up the number are:
Five imperial dishes: Yipin tofu, Sanxian meatballs, enoki mushrooms, chicken breast, and sesame venison patties
The second product of pastry: Yutu cabbage, Sixi dumplings
But for these dishes, Lin Hai estimates 10 taels of silver, absolutely indispensable!
And this is only part of it. You must know that when the emperor holds such a large banquet, according to the usual practice, after the banquet is over, the chopsticks and rice bowls used for eating must be rewarded!
In other words, these chopsticks and rice bowls cannot be kept by the emperor. In order not to make it difficult for the ministers, these things are made according to the official positions of the ministers, so these things cost a lot of money.
Lin Hai picked up a few refreshing dishes to eat, but he was thinking in his heart, how much money in the treasury was left after Emperor Xuande made such a move, war is the most money-consuming hunger, don't let him think about it Find a way to fish it at the salt merchant!
Salt merchants had a very close relationship with the imperial court and governments at all levels.
Not to mention other things, when Emperor Xuande made several southern tours, salt merchants in Changlu, Lianghuai and other places undertook errands, and provided hundreds of millions of dollars to win Emperor Xuande's favor.Not to mention Yangzhou, where Lin Hai is located. Every time Emperor Xuande came, he lived in the house of a salt merchant.
In addition, whenever major military supplies, celebrations, relief services, and projects are encountered, salt merchants often donate huge amounts of silver taels, ranging from millions to hundreds of thousands.As far as Lin Hai knew, salt merchants from all over the country donated 3000 million taels of silver to military supplies last year. Among them, Lianghuai salt merchants made six consecutive donations in just four years, totaling 550 million taels of silver.
Of course, the government will reward salt merchants with political titles for their service and donations, making it bureaucratized; economically, it will give them preferential treatment, initially allowing them to "increase prices" (increasing the official salt price), and then allowing them to It "increased consumption" (increased the number of catties per bundle of salt), and even exempted the salt tax owed.In addition, when the salt merchants lacked capital, the government lent funds to facilitate capital turnover, which was called "fund capital"; salt merchants paid interest silver every year, which was called "fund interest".
These political and economic connections between salt merchants and the government indicate that salt merchants were merchant capital groups serving feudal politics and economy.At the same time, the salt merchants purchased land with the commercial monopoly profits they had obtained, and converted these profits into feudal land ownership, making themselves feudal landlords.
Therefore, in order to further control the annexation of land by salt merchants, the position of patrol salt censor was set up to prevent the collusion between salt merchants and government officials.
Collusion between salt merchants and the government and collusion with government officials are two different things.
The salt officials and salt inspectors are legends. The people appointed by the government to contact the salt merchants, like Zhen Yingjia, don't care about the salt administration side. If he has contact with the salt merchants, Emperor Xuande will have other things in his heart Thinking about it, I think Zhen Yingjia has a big heart!
Lin Hai wondered if he should go back and prepare for this possible event. If the money in the treasury is really not enough, maybe Emperor Xuande would really ask the salt merchants to donate. After all, such things have happened many times!
PS:
[Thank you again [Yu Xiyan] for the peach blossom fan of children's shoes, touch it! 】