Chapter 2162 Flower Struggle (Seventy)

In Chapter 40 of A Dream of Red Mansions, Shi Taijun held two banquets in the Grand View Garden. It was also the second time that Grandma Liu entered the Rongguo Mansion.

At that time, they took a boat to Hengwuyuan and encountered a lot of debris on the way. Normally there was nothing on the shore, but when they got into the water, the debris became a nuisance and almost capsized the boat.

Baoyu complained: These broken lotus leaves are so disgusting, why haven't they been plucked out?

Baochai smiled and said: In the past few days this year, I have never left this garden free. I walked around every day, and I still had time to ask people to clean it up.

But Daiyu said: I dislike Li Yishan's poems the most, I only like his sentence "Leave the remaining lotus leaves to listen to the sound of rain", but you don't leave any remaining lotus leaves.

Baoyu immediately changed his words: It's indeed a good sentence. Let's not ask anyone to remove it in the future.

From this we can see that Baoyu is hopelessly eccentric. No matter how beautiful or reasonable Baochai's words are, they are not as good as Lin Daiyu's "I like it."

Of course, this was not the main point that Juren told Nick. After getting off the boat, they entered the Hengwu Garden together. It was like a snow cave, with no colored toys. There was a soil bottle on the table with several coins inserted in it.

A chrysanthemum.

Hengwuyuan is Xue Baochai's residence. Did Wang Xifeng treat her badly or treat her badly?

Wang Xifeng doesn't like Xue Baochai, just like Mrs. Wang doesn't like Lin Daiyu.

Sister Feng is in charge of the Rongguo Mansion, and she doesn’t want the equally smart and capable Xue Baochai to share her power. Mrs. Wang doesn’t like Lin Daiyu because she doesn’t want Lin Daiyu to marry Jia Baoyu. This time, Daiyu personally poured tea for her.

Even if I drink, she won't accept it.

Daiyu was not only someone Wang Xifeng watched grow up, but she was also weak and could not take care of the housework of Rongguo Mansion, which was beneficial to Wang Xifeng.

At that time, for fun, the girls in the Grand View Garden deliberately teased Grandma Liu. They specially gave Grandma Liu a pair of four-sided ivory inlaid gold chopsticks and asked her to pick up pigeon eggs.

The ivory chopsticks were slippery and inlaid with gold. They were expensive, but they were heavy. They couldn't pick up the round pigeon eggs. As expected, Grandma Liu dropped the pigeon eggs on the ground.

Sister Feng said at this time, these pigeon eggs are one or two each. Why do pigeons lay eggs that are so expensive? They are almost worth one stone and rice.

There was such an incident. The concubines in the palace needed to buy some boxes to store their things. They had to buy a hundred boxes in total. The Ministry of Internal Affairs went out to purchase them, and each box cost 60 taels.

An official from another province didn't understand the explanation. He whispered in the Queen Mother's ear, how could a box in the capital cost only 6 taels and become 60 taels?

The Queen Mother did not believe it and said that you would buy a hundred boxes within half a month. The official actually went to buy them. However, the next day, he found that all the suitcase shops in the capital were closed and he could not buy a single box.

The servant inquired and found out that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had sent someone to tell him that anyone who sold him the box would not be able to continue doing business in the capital in the future.

The official did not believe in evil and sent people to Tianjin to buy it, but the servant he sent never returned. It turned out that the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent 1,000 taels to bribe him, but he did not buy the box and ran away with the money.

Half a month later, when the box was not purchased, the Queen Mother laughed at him. From then on, no one reminded him of the difference between the prices outside and inside the palace.

Would Wang Xifeng go to the vegetable market and ask how much a pound of pigeon eggs cost? She would not care how much a pound of pigeon eggs cost, but she knew that to make ends meet, she would lend money at usury.

Xue Baochai's family fell into decline, and she stayed in Ningguo Mansion like Lin Daiyu. The Tuding vase with flowers in her room was from Ding kiln. There were two kinds of thick and thin ones. The thin one was called Fending, which was precious and expensive, and the thick one was called Tuding, which was not precious.

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JDZ also produces porcelain, which is divided into official kilns and private kilns. The main sources of income for the Ministry of Internal Affairs are many, such as HLJ's gold mine, Northeast deer antler and ginseng, Jiangning weaving, JDZ official kiln, Huangzhuang, etc., and even the official tax from Guangzhou Customs.

The Admiral's hometown is in JDZ.

When He Shen was in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was mainly responsible for "open source". Every year, officials, salt merchants, and merchants would give gifts on the emperor's birthday, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day. In addition, gifts would also be given on the birthdays of the Queen Mother and the Empress.

The warehouse was almost full, so He Shen thought of a way to bring those "old things" to Chongwenmen and sell them. This not only solved the problem of too many utensils and nowhere to put them, but also "balanced the revenue and expenditure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

". A batch of "old things" were sold this year, and next year the officials will pay tribute to make up for it. However, these artifacts fell into the hands of the people, and got into the hands of rich people or collectors. The hairpin used to raise people is in Chongwenmen."

Bought at a junk market.

As for how officials plundered the people in order to pay tribute. The first battle of Jinchuan was due to insufficient finances and had to withdraw troops. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Zhang Guangsi, lost his head.

After the Lianghuai salt importation case broke out, Qianlong was not in a hurry to conduct a census. As a result, except for the dead people and the Ministry of Household Affairs, no one knew how many salt importation taxes had not been paid. This was all a matter of Qianlong's words, so

He could make the salt merchant pay less than four million taels in one fell swoop.

The salt merchants all hoped that they could get more salt, so they bribed the salt officials and fought over each other. Who among them would honestly tell other salt merchants how much salt they had distributed?

As a result, they can only pay the fines "assigned" by the Ministry of Household Affairs like meat on the chopping board. This money is indeed more than they can afford even if they lose everything. The Ministry of Internal Affairs borrows internal funds and asks them to pay in installments, including the principal.

The profit is also 10 million taels.

The salt merchants themselves have to balance their books and lend money at high interest rates, and the debtors will hate them. In addition, they have occupied the Zaohu salt pond before, and there is no one to speak for them. The census does not include a few salt merchants.

It can be accomplished with the financial resources and manpower of businessmen, and requires the cooperation of government departments at all levels of state, prefecture, and county.

"The people will not fight against the officials." Unless these salt merchants imitate the private salt dealer Huang Chao to revolt, they will have to suffer the loss themselves. The White Lotus Sect of Sichuan and Chu used the banner of "officials forcing the people to rebel", and Jiaqing attributed all the blame to Heshen.

, it was He Shen and the governors who befriended him who exploited him at all levels, causing the people who were content and content to take risks.

The admiral wrote a letter to sever diplomatic relations with He Shen. During his tenure, he did not search for Guangzhou's people's wealth and wealth, but what about JDZ? Did JDZ give gifts?

Chongwenmen not only sells "exhibits" from the palace, but also items confiscated by officials when their homes were ransacked. Heshen's home was ransacked.

Generally, when giving gifts, you must clearly state who is giving them. He Shen has been an official for so many years. As long as there is no obvious hostility, he will give some gifts out of affection. If a vase falls into Chongwenmen and is seen by a follower of the White Lotus Sect,

, and it happened to have the name of the admiral written on it, so the target of the White Lotus Sect was not Guangzhou, but "He Shen's accomplice" - the admiral himself.

"Wow." Georgiana couldn't help but exclaimed.

Bonaparte also laughed.

"See, that's how the story is written," Georgiana said to the failed writer.

"See, this is love!" Bonaparte said, pointing to the conversation between Jia Baoyu, Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu.

She pouted and turned to the next page, where two mandarin ducks were drawn.

Li Yishan is Li Shangyin. Nick looked up the collection of poems written by him. There is a poem called "Mandarin Duck" written like this:

The male castrates and flies thousands of miles into the sky, filled with clouds and weeping with tears.

There is no need to be obsessed with troubles, just lock yourself in the golden cage to have both.

The full title of Chapter 40 of A Dream of Red Mansions is Shi Taijun’s Two Banquets in the Grand View Garden, and the Golden Mandarin Ducks and Three Teeth Signs.

Although the birds want to fly freely in the sky, their eyes are full of clouds, and they will suffer harm if they are not careful. Although they lose their freedom in the golden cage, they can gain stability and do not want to form a relationship in the storm.

When she saw this, she suddenly remembered that she mentioned a kind of fabric called "light smoke" that time. This kind of thing only has four colors, the same is sky blue after rain, the same is autumn fragrance, the same is pine green, the same is silver red.

, if you make a tent and cover the windows, it will look like smoke from a distance, and the beauty sitting by the window will look like a fairy in the clouds.

This time everyone was laughing, even Lin Daiyu, who loves to cry, was laughing, but there were really no tears in sight.

Hengwu is a chrysanthemum plant with fragrant leaves.

Xiaoxiang is originally an ordinary bamboo. It became "Xiangfei Bamboo" because the tears of Empress E and Nvying were shed on it.

Grandma Liu was teased and laughed at, didn’t she know?

But before she left, she took 100 taels of silver and an antique cup. These were nothing in the Grand View Garden, but they were enough for a poor person like her to live for a long time.

By the time Grandma Liu goes to Rongguo Mansion next time, it will be time to ransack the house.

"What are you thinking about?" asked Bonaparte.

"I'm thinking about Cao Xueqin." She said regretfully, "It's a pity that the golden cage must be defended before we can live in it."

Then she began to read the following.
Chapter completed!