Heaven's Martial Fate

Taking Jeju Island went quite smoothly.

Goryeo is on the island, but it has stationed a small amount of troops to garrison it.

It is estimated that there is the place of exile of the Koryo country. Anyway, it is sparsely populated and full of primitive mountains and forests.

The Ningfu fleet first played the role of pirates, went to the island and directly wiped out the little troops stationed in Goryeo, and then blocked the sea route and went directly to the island.

After that, it was time to build the wharf and transport personnel and supplies.

When the news came back to the capital, Jia Rong naturally didn't react much, but Wang Ziteng and Shijia Baolinghou were very excited and wanted to go and check it out in person.

If they are willing to dedicate the island to the royal family, it will be a proper expansion of the territory, and they will definitely be knighted and rewarded.

How to put it, there is a medium-sized county area, and it is not a pretense to say it.

It's just a pity that the four major families in Jinling don't have such thoughts at all.

Are you kidding me? Knowing that today is not very friendly to the founder of the country, but at this time, you are still eager to give benefits and benefits, isn't it cheap?
It's better to treat it as your own back road. Just as Jia Rong worried, the capital is not peaceful.

Because of the increasingly busy Jinmen Port and Lian Er's special care, there is no need to worry about being noticed by outsiders in a short time.

Of course, it doesn't matter even if it is noticed, as long as you find an island as a transit base, others will not go too deep into it.

They are all busy making money, who the hell cares about other things.

On the contrary, as the main force of Yuan Shu's personnel and materials, the Xue family is particularly active, and they don't know what to think.

But I have to say that their choice is absolutely not wrong.

Jia Rong's plan is not that simple. How can an island in a medium-sized county satisfy his ambition?

Qin Keqing also told him that Xue Baochai has been quite active recently, often going to the women's school library to read various miscellaneous books and classics, obviously quite thoughtful.

Speaking of the Women's Study Library, it was built behind the Ethnology Library, and there are thousands of volumes of books in it. It is considered a huge scale in the private library in the capital.

Because the Four Books and Five Classics are the mainstream, even if there is a hobby of collecting books, he is not keen on other miscellaneous books and classics on mobile phones, or he does not have enough capital.

The Ning Mansion is powerful and rich, not only collecting miscellaneous books and classics openly, but also buying them with humor.

There are those guys who want to cling, and take the initiative to send some miscellaneous books and classics with quite strange contents, the collection of the library of plump ethnology and women's studies.

The collection of books is really full of astronomy, geography, military farming and so on.

There is no shortage of overseas travel essays, which is convenient for the thoughtful Xue Baochai, and Jia Rong is quite optimistic about her efforts.

As the weather gradually turns cold, the floods in the south have basically passed.

However, the disasters in various places did not decrease, but became more frequent.

In October, an earth dragon turned over in south of the Five Ridges, and the whole province felt the earthquake, and some areas were devastated.

At the end of October, hailstorms fell in southern Suzhou, where there was little snow, for a whole day and night, destroying countless houses and causing hundreds of casualties.

Also in October, some rivers in the canal connecting the north and the south froze again, and water transportation was affected and temporarily interrupted again.

The imperial court in the capital, Jinjin and the cabinet were overwhelmed by the endless natural disasters.

The point is that natural disasters are accompanied by various man-made disasters.

Batch after batch of local officials were cleaned up, but it didn't help much, and some guys were still bad.

The money in the household department and today's private treasury was scattered like running water, but the banknotes from all over the world still came like snowflakes.

There are not many refugees outside the capital, but the atmosphere in the entire capital is not very good.

At this time, the emperor took the initiative to show favor to the concubines in the palace and allowed them to leave the palace and go home to visit their relatives.

After Jia Rong heard the news, she couldn't help but chuckled, Nima circled around, but the matter of the concubine visiting relatives was still not avoided.

Needless to say, Rongfu will definitely respond positively.

Although Jia Yuanchun is not one of the four concubines, she is considered a palace concubine and is eligible to go home to visit her relatives.

I just don't know, what kind of role does it play in it today?
In later generations, many readers of the Red Chamber speculated that today it is using the concubine's relatives to amass money wantonly.

Among other things, when constructing the relatives' house, the prices of various materials will definitely rise a wave.

If it is operated properly, it will be no problem at all to make a direct profit of one or two million taels by simply taking advantage of this wave of market conditions.

If anyone had said that before this year, Jia Rong would definitely not believe it. Today's internal treasury is really not short of money.

But now, I really can't tell!
With the emperor here, and he is a lover of enjoyment, the expenses in the palace will definitely not be reduced, on the contrary they will increase.

Cough cough, the emperor can be said to be old and strong.

In the more than ten years since he abdicated, another five, six, seven or eight princes and princesses were born, and the youngest is not yet three years old.

No matter how harsh today is, you can't help raising these younger brothers and sisters, right?
Not only is the Supreme Emperor still healthy and strong, but the current harem also frequently sends good news. The expenditure in the palace really cannot be reduced, and it may cause death.

Those guys from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not good at it either. While helping the royal family make money, they are also making a lot of money themselves.

The income of Huangzhuang, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and today's is almost half.

As for the Zhili region and Jin Province, as well as the income from coal mines in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the present are divided by six to four.

The reason for this is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not want to irritate the present and the royal family too much.

After all, the founding Xungui family is also in the coal mining business, and the profits they make are not difficult to inquire about. It would be bad if they were known today.

Therefore, today's internal treasury income has actually shrunk by nearly half compared to normal income.

Being able to persist until now is due to the fact that I have accumulated enough before.

Anyway, the treasury of the household department has run out of money at the moment, and any large expenditure needs the support of the current internal treasury, which is very difficult today.

To say that at such a time, it is not incomprehensible to ask for the idea of ​​saving money for other hospital materials.

It's just that the appearance of doing this is too ugly, and I don't know if I can withstand the backlash brought about by this matter today.

You know, the censors at Yushitai and the Inspectorate are not vegetarians.

They kept a close eye on every move they made today, and whenever they found something wrong, they would rant wildly.

Some censors have no other abilities. They want to be famous entirely by "daring to speak out" to gain fame, and they even don't hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the chance to spread the world. It's crazy.

Gossip aside, in short, the emperor made a decree that caused a sensation in the entire capital.

As expected, the Rong Mansion immediately became lively.

Qin Keqing immediately informed that the old lady of the Rong Mansion intends to build a family home in the mansion, which is currently under discussion.

Within two days, Master Zheng Er came to invite Jia Rong in person, and brought Jia Rong to Rongqing Hall.

"Brother Rong, the mansion plans to build a family home, and invite Madam Yuan Chun to come back to visit her family. What do you think?"

The old lady went straight to the point and said directly.

"This is a good thing, of course I have no objection!"

Jia Rong chuckled and said, "It's just that every two, four, six or three days in the palace, you can enter the palace to see Yuan Chun?"

"Brother Rong, how can it be the same as visiting your mother in the palace and entertaining her at home?"

The old lady laughed and said: "Since Brother Rong has agreed, then things will be much easier to handle. A part of Dongfu Huifang Garden may be needed to build a provincial hospital!"

"Why, the old lady plans to build a family home in the mansion?"

Jia Rong took a sip from the teacup and said slowly, "Isn't that right!"

"Why is it inappropriate, entertaining the empress is a good thing to honor the lintel!"

Mrs. Wang couldn't sit still, and said eagerly: "Brother Rong, don't you support me, you are the patriarch of the Jia clan!"

Tsk, top hats are on.

Seeing that the old lady had no intention of stopping, Jia Rong laughed and said, "I have no objection to the establishment of the provincial court, but it is just that the provincial court is built in the mansion, I am afraid it is inappropriate!"

"Why, what's the point here?"

The old lady's face pulled, and she asked quite dissatisfied.

She is so old, what kind of rules are not clear, and Jia Rong, a junior, needs to remind her?
"Old lady, the Blind House is the royal family's house after all!"

Jia Rong said calmly: "After the reception of Yuanchun, it is natural to seal it up and take care of it. It is best to hand it over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for disposal!"

"Otherwise, if there is an accident, it would be bad to ask others to catch the handle. After all, it has something to do with the royal family, so it's very difficult to deal with!"

It's just that I didn't say it clearly, there is a pro-professional hospital built in Ya's mansion, and the place will be the royal family at that time, wouldn't Ning Rong's second mansion be embarrassed to death?
After all, with such a large yard, it takes a lot of effort to take care of it, and at the same time it costs a lot of money.

Besides, with the pissing nature of the sons of the Rongfu family, they really dared to steal and sell the items in the provincial hospital.

If the hostile forces are aware of it, a charge of 'disrespecting the royal family' can be detained to death.

If you don't take action today, it will be the emperor's magnanimity.

If it is to be pursued today, the charges are all ready-made, even the whole Rong family has nothing to say.

But if this is the case, what kind of family home will be built to bring disaster to oneself?

Jia Rong sincerely suspected that the emperor and the present united in such a way that they even dug holes together.

Not only the material money has to be earned, but the relatives and other homes are all royal in the end.

It can be said that without spending any money, you can get a lot of money for nothing.

And what the Jia family can get is nothing more than Yuan Chun coming back to take a look, which is considered to be a good appearance.

If the Rong Mansion can quickly realize this kind of scenery into real benefits.

For example, it will be possible to let Master Zhenger go one step further to be the general political envoy, and let both Lian Er and Jia Zhu go one step further.

Unfortunately, such a thing simply cannot be done.

Yuan Chun is not a favorite concubine, and the Rong Mansion is an honorable force that wants to be cleaned up today, so it is impossible for the Rong Mansion to expand rapidly.

In this way, at most, some filial piety will be collected from people who don't know the inside story, and how much can be collected, it is impossible to make up for the cost of building the relatives' house.

It can be said that this wave of families who started the construction of the Provincial Family Hospital lost blood, only the present and the royal family have made blood money.

Of course, like a concubine with a bad background, such as the concubine in the story of the Red Mansion who fought against Yuanchun, her family is rich but not powerful, but she is very keen to build a relative's house to improve her family's status.

Jia Rong's words made all the leaders of the Rong Mansion look at each other in blank dismay.

"Why, didn't the old lady think about it before?"

He was a little curious. If such a thing is not considered clearly in advance, the latter matter will be troublesome.

The embarrassment on the old lady's face disappeared in a flash, she shook her head and said: "It's true that I didn't think about it, but it's just a family home, so it doesn't need to be so troublesome!"

Mrs. Wang followed suit and said, "That's right, could it be that Brother Rong doesn't want to agree?"

Jia Rong was amused, and said leisurely: "It's okay to ask the Ning Mansion to contribute some of the money, but I definitely don't want to have another imperial court nearby!"

"As for what the West Manor thinks, I won't care about it!"

After speaking, he got up and said goodbye and left.

He couldn't believe that the old lady didn't know about such a big loophole.

But in the story of the Red Mansion, Jia Baoyu and a group of girls all moved into the Grand View Garden, which is simply an act of courting death.

If it wasn't for the fact that Rongfu's foundation was hollowed out at that time, and it was just a posture of being strong from the outside, I am afraid that it would never be stingy to deal a heavy blow to Rongfu today.

Anyway, he would never agree to give the land of Huifang Garden.

Nima, don't you know that is the site of girls' schools?

Here, when Jia Rong left, the atmosphere in Rongqing Hall was extremely awkward.

The old lady didn't expect Jia Rong to be so shameless, but what Jia Rong said had to make her think a lot.

After much deliberation, I finally felt that a family home should be built in the mansion.

As for the troubles Jia Rong mentioned, she didn't care at all.

How to say, her old face is still somewhat humane, and the royal family should give it some respect, even if it goes a little too far, it doesn't matter.

"Boss, you follow up on the matter over there in the Ning Mansion!"

Having figured this out, the old lady cheered up and directed: "The land of Huifang Garden must be taken out, and the silver must be taken out at least 30 taels!"

As soon as these words came out, Elder Xi's expression changed.

The eyes that looked at the old lady were full of disbelief and shock.

If he didn't know how to measure, he couldn't help but want to open his mouth and ask his mother directly where did she have the confidence to want this or that?
The land of Huifang Garden, plus 30 taels of silver, is probably no less than 60 to [-] taels. Is this Xuening Mansion willing to pay?

It would be fine if Jia Rong was an unworthy playboy, whether it was building a provincial house or entertaining empresses in the palace, it would be a matter of honor and dignity for the entire Jia family in the capital.

Even if you can't give so much, at least 20 taels shouldn't be a problem.

As for the land of Huifang Garden, Elder Xi doesn't think it is difficult to get it.

But what kind of existence is Jia Rong now?
The head of the Jia family, who single-handedly promoted the prosperity of the Jia family in the capital, and is also one of the core leaders of the Founding Group, the kind who speaks effectively and has weight.

It is the existence that the emperor and the cabinet leaders dare not underestimate. They don't need the face support from the empress in the palace at all, okay?