Chapter 282: Made me look bad
The emperor has also seen the means of competing for favor in the harem. He just came to the imperial garden to talk to the princesses. He did not expect that Jia Yuanchun would be the first to come.
Jia Yuanchun had already arrived, and greeted the emperor's blessing, the emperor nodded lightly: "Get up."
Jia Yuanchun was a concubine of the first rank, and all those present except Daiyu were either a princess of the first rank or a princess of the first rank who had already been titled. Seeing that she was the person next to the emperor, there was no need to ask the courtesy. Daiyu blessed her: "See the empress."
Jia Yuanchun smiled and said, "I haven't seen this sister before, which one is it?"
Daiyu said, "My father's former Yangzhou salt inspector."
Concubine Xiande was taken aback: "You... but Sister Lin?"
Daiyu said, "The Rong Mansion is the grandfather's home of the little girl."
Jia Yuanchun "excited" stepped forward and took Daiyu's hand, and said, "Sister Lin, so you are my cousin..."
Jia Yuanchun seemed to remember that the emperor was on the side again, and he said to the emperor: "The emperor forgives his sins, the concubine is so happy, when the mother came to the palace earlier, she talked about this cousin, and the whole family complimented it. Yes, my mother likes her the most."
Yingchun said: "It's not true. The girl Xue from Concubine Xiande's aunt's house is the one who praised her from all over the world. People say that Sister Lin is inferior. The second aunt's favorite is girl Xue."
Jia Yuanchun is the big backer of Mrs. Wang in the original novel and a supporter of Xue Baochai. If people move into the garden, it means "let Baochai and others live in the garden", and the reward is also given to Baochai, which is different from other daughters. Without Jia Yuanchun's support, although Jia's house could eat the Lin family's property, the old lady would still facilitate Baodai's marriage, so that she would not let her be sad and die of heartbreak. To say that the biggest source of consumption of this wealth is Jia Yuanchun.
As a Daifan, I never believe that Jia Yuanchun is close to Lin Daiyu. As a Daifan, the three views are: when you are prosperous, Daiyu will not come to smack your wealth; but now Daiyu and her father have such a good fiancé, you should not come to take advantage of her. It's enough to live a distant life. If you are favored, it is your destiny. If you are not favored, you are no different from others.
Jia Yuanchun: "..."
Jia Yuanchun said with a strong smile: "Second sister, you are naughty here again. My mother likes cousin Xue and sister Lin."
Yingchun said: "Anyway, when I used to live with my sisters at the old lady's place, the servants in the mansion always supported Miss Xue and never forgot to step on Sister Lin's foot. Even our three sisters were absolutely inferior to others. , who made the three of us poor and not thoughtful. Later, I moved out of the Rong Mansion and returned to my father's house, and things in the Rong Mansion were not very clear. The second aunt took the servants of the mansion and changed his heart and liked it more. Sister Lin, it is also possible."
Jia Yuanchun hated so much that she couldn't write two characters of Jia in one stroke. She was so disregarding her face when the emperor was present.
The emperor said, "Concubine Xiande, if you are all right, just kneel down."
Jia Yuanchun's heart was bitter. As the emperor's concubine, she was so uncooperative by her sister in front of everyone, and the emperor did not feel that the second sister was too rude.
Jia Yuanchun said happily, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Saying that, she withdrew carefully, and took the palace maid and **** beside her away.
The emperor suddenly glanced at Yingchun and said, "Eleventh brother has made you into lawlessness."
Yingchun said: "Brother Huang, please don't wrong me, I don't dare to do anything that violates the king's law."
The emperor said: "What else do you dare to do? Don't think I don't know."
When Sima Xuan was sent to the south, he also sent a few imperial guards to him. Although there were spies, some were loyal to the emperor, and they could report something when they came back. It's not that he doesn't trust Sima Xuan, but that the angle of Sima Xuan's return is different from that of the guard's return.
For her endurance in martial arts, the guards know a little bit and will report it to the emperor. She assists her husband and actually helps the emperor.
Yingchun said, "Then I'll go home and think about it behind closed doors..."
The emperor smiled and said, "Come on. Just don't ruin Shoukang and Zhaoren."
Yingchun smiled and said: "Brother Huang, you are too flattering me. The princesses study with famous teachers and concubines every day in the palace, which is a proper royal style. I only occasionally enter the palace to have fun with the princesses, no Reason can be broken by me. Besides, is my conscience so bad?"
On weekdays, the people around the emperor talked to him either schemingly, flattering or complimenting him, or someone like Sima Xuan who was useful and would never say nonsense. And the princesses don't know much about the outside world, only Yingchun keeps the true self, so he is also fresh.
The emperor suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother and sister, what do you mean by 'moving out of the Rong Mansion and returning to your father's house'?"
Yingchun said: "Rong's house is the home of the second uncle and aunt, and my father lives in the east courtyard."
The emperor was also in a good mood because of the victory in the south, and said with a smile: "Oh, this is because of his father's injustice."
Yingchun said, "No, no. If I complain, I'll go to support him after I get married."
The emperor said: "Then why didn't you go?"
Yingchun said: "It's very troublesome. Besides, my father didn't take care of me. The old lady saw that I didn't have a mother when she was a child and asked me to be raised in her yard. Why did she make the old lady unhappy for her father?"
The emperor said, "If you look like this now, Mrs. Jia is happy?"
Yingchun said, "I can't help it either, I'm jealous."
"envy?"
Yingchun said: "Yes, I came from the concubine of the great house, and Baoyu came from the second house. His parents were the head of the Rong Mansion. Everyone respected him, and the old lady loved him, let alone others. Anyway, when I was a child, Anything delicious or fun is close to him, all join him in the fun, hold him in the palm of his hand, call him smart, smart, and good fortune, but I don't have it. Even if I want to eat and play now, I can do whatever I want. Arrived, but the days will never go back to when I was a child, to the feeling at that time, the regret in my heart."
The emperor smiled and said: "It's really childish, it's a shame that the eleventh brother doesn't care about you."
Yingchun said: "The lord will not teach me how to be dignified, generous and knowledgeable. He doesn't want me to live so tired. The lord is working abroad, the court also has a salary, and the family has food and clothing, so that's fine. Others say I am dignified and virtuous. Dadu and general knowledge, can I make a fortune or prolong my life?"
The emperor couldn't help but feel a little envious. When he was an emperor, he also cared about what the officials said, and also cared about whether the hearts of the people belonged to him. However, in the emperor's view, Sima Xuan and she really have no other ambitions, they are just a pair of talented people. He can be Zhang Liang, but he cannot control the overall situation. Because Sima Xuan's sharp temperament can't reconcile the forces of all parties in the court, and Yingchun's "willful, disregarding the overall situation" temperament, how can she be a queen? It's not surprising that you don't offend people.
The emperor said: "Then the mistress of the house still has to preside over the central feed."
Yingchun smiled and said: "I still have the ability to settle accounts, and the lord is still satisfied with my housekeeper's ability!"
Speaking of Yingchun, he also made fun in front of the emperor, and explained his own housekeeping method. In short, it is the "family contract responsibility system", whether it is kitchen, clothing, room tidying, laundry, sweeping, garden, all make Standard, the implementation of "family contract system". If you can't do it well, change to a family that wants to make money and can do well, move the competition down, and let the contractors think about how to manage good things and do well, just as Wei Zheng said, "Why do you need to work hard and take the job of a hundred managers? Serve".
"Prince Nuo's mansion, as long as it's not a wedding banquet or something, the floor is swept by the servants of the two rooms, only six adults. There are only eight people in the kitchen, and only four people in the concierge. As long as the four servants in the mansion wash the master's clothes, The more I do, the more I get. I only get the basic monthly payment when I’m not in the house. Although the food allowance has been added, the original kitchen was a bottomless pit, and now I’ve saved at least one third.”
The emperor actually listened with relish and asked, "What if there is a wedding banquet at home?"
Yingchun smiled and said: "How many wedding banquets can we have? The **** ye and I do not communicate widely. I don't hold banquets at home. I still go to the palace and come to the emperor's brother to cheat and eat, and I save most of my money!"
The emperor couldn't help but smile: "It seems that the eleventh brother married a shrewd daughter-in-law and wanted to come to the palace to fight the autumn wind."
Yingchun also has the funny talent of Wang Xifeng, but Wang Xifeng is teasing Jia's mother, and she is teasing the emperor, the empress dowager, the emperor, and the queen.
Yingchun said: "If we really want to hold a big banquet, let's go to the capital and invite the chef of the restaurant to come to the house to do business for a while, and the money and goods will be sold out. A large group of people, such a large group of slaves, and there must be some people who use the name of the palace to compete with the people for profit, wouldn’t they disturb the people?”
The emperor took over a mess from the emperor at that time, and it was not until Sima Xuan, Li Shuo, and Li Chong made a big fight in Jiangsu that the court's predicament was solved, and he was able to expand his hands and feet. Outside the imperial court and inside the palace, where is there no disaster of overstaffing? The emperor had taken a fancy to these points for a long time, but it was only a matter of the court, how could it be so simple. On the other hand, Sima Xuan and Yingchun not only took advantage of the convenience of opening the mansion at the beginning, but also took advantage of the strength of being rigid without desires.
The emperor said: "The monthly money for raising that large group of servants is enough to occasionally go to the restaurant to buy a few tables of wine and food for the banquet.
Yingchun said with a smile: "Brother Huang is wise and wise, if others would say that I am obsessed with profit and disregard the dignity of the palace."
The emperor said, "You don't want to be dignified."
Yingchun said: "Exactly! If the prince can be loyal to the emperor's errands, as long as it is beneficial to the people, the society and the king, he is a state scholar, and I am his wife, who would dare to come and beat me in the face? It's big, but it's just a bubble, not to mention that others can break it with a poke, and others can be burst with emptiness without killing them."
The emperor said again: "But there is always someone to do things, and it is not enough to be thrifty."
Yingchun said: "That's natural, and we're not saying that we don't need people, but we use people in the right places, and only use those who need them. And some people should be spared when they deserve it."
The emperor asked curiously, "Can you still relic?"
Yingchun smiled and said, "I'm not a god, how can I take advantage of the world?"
The emperor said: "Tell me about it."
Yingchun said: "We will also contract out the farms in blocks. In the future, farmers will plant more and have better harvests. It is their ability. They have many, and we don't care; if they encounter bad times, they will have a hard life. These are also their own responsibility. Every five years the contract expires and it is either renewed or replaced.”
The emperor said: "If they plant too much, you will lose money."
Yingchun said with a smile: "Yes, it should be housed. The tenant farmers below are too poor, and Zhuangtou is the uncle. They depend on us for a living, and they may not be grateful to us. The plots of land are subcontracted to several houses according to their size, and the total price of a village is based on the rent received by our house in last year’s good year. In this way, the farmers below feel a little hopeful for life, in order to keep renting our house Grange, and send me some souvenirs."
The emperor smiled and said, "You have broken Zhuangtou's way of making a fortune."