The Emperor of Red Mansions: Many Children, Many Blessings, Opening Draft

"Now that the East Factory has been established, you should be smarter in doing things in the future. You must not let the East Factory get hold of any handle."

After wiping her mouth with the handkerchief handed over by Yuanyang, Jia Mu seemed to be nonchalant, but in fact she was giving serious instructions to everyone.

Li Chenghan killed so many of his nine clans, and demoted so many of his nine clans and the whole family to low status.

Now that he has just ascended the throne, he has made such a series of big moves, and also established the East Factory.

The Jia family is powerful, but they have to be guarded against.

Especially the 50,000 elite troops that Li Chenghan has newly dispatched to Beijing for replacement are even more fearful.

"Don't worry, mother! I have repeatedly arranged everything for the people below!"

Mrs. Wang naturally heard the meaning of Jia Mu's words, and smiled and answered Jia Mu behind the teacup in her hand.

Listening to Mrs. Wang's answer, Jia Mu looked satisfied.

Others thought that Jia Mu was talking about Jia Lian, Jia Rong, Jia Qiang and the people in the mansion.

"Do you think that this time His Majesty is selecting the best candidates, will our eldest daughter have a chance to be selected by His Majesty?"

After a pause, Jia Mu asked Mrs. Wang.

She is also very concerned about Jia Yuanchun's affairs now.

Although she lives a life of drunkenness and dreams all day long, she knows clearly that the Jia family is in continuous decline.

But she has no good solution if there is no one in the family who can do something!

And her solution is to constantly win over the relationship in the family, and pin her hopes on Jia Zhu, who is good at studying, and Jia Baoyu, who is her beloved son.

At the same time, there is Jia Yuanchun, the eldest granddaughter.

The purpose of sending Jia Yuanchun to the palace was to let Jia Yuanchun be selected as a concubine.

It is a pity that Jia Yuanchun was not selected by the late emperor!

Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he has specially ordered a selection of candidates and only selected candidates from the families of dignitaries in Shenjing City.

This is both good news and bad news for them.

The good news is that the competition pressure in this selection is very small, and the bad news is that Jia Yuanchun, who has already entered the palace, is not in the selection.

So she thought, how can she get Jia Yuanchun to participate in the selection again and catch the eye of the new emperor Li Chenghan.

"It's hard to say!"

"But my daughter-in-law has a niece of the right age. She looks like a fairy at a young age.

Originally, my daughter-in-law wanted to be a matchmaker for Brother Lian, but my daughter-in-law's disappointing elder brother wanted to send my niece to the palace to participate in the selection."

"He also said that if my daughter-in-law's niece fails, we can talk about other things. But my daughter-in-law thinks that my niece has a great chance of being selected!

If my niece is selected, I can ask her to help our eldest sister to please His Majesty.

With the appearance of our eldest sister, even if His Majesty doesn't like her at first sight, as time goes by and he sees her more, plus my daughter-in-law and niece help, there is a great chance.'s. '

Mrs. Wang smiled bitterly, then cheered up and told Lady Jia her thoughts.

Jia Lian felt like a cat's claws were in his heart when he heard this.

He had heard that the girl from the Wang family was very beautiful, and now the second wife actually said that she wanted to match him up. It would be a lie for him to say that he was not tempted.

But when he heard that the Wang family wanted to send this girl from the Wang family to the palace to participate in the selection, he became a little anxious.

Just thinking that it was the intention of the Wang family, and even if he didn't want to, he couldn't compete with the emperor for a woman, so he could only hope in his depressed heart that the emperor would not look down on the girl from the Wang family!

"Well, that's the only way! ”

Grandmother Jia nodded in silence, thinking that the method Mrs. Wang said was the best one at present.

Although she did not expect the Wang family to have a concubine, her Jia family did not let the Wang family suppress her Jia family.

But she had no other good method.

“I think what the second wife said is right. It just so happens that the grandson’s wife has a younger sister who has reached the right age!

And my sister is also very good-looking.

So I thought of sending her to the palace to try my luck. ”

“If we are lucky, our Jia family can also have a concubine!

If we are unlucky, there is no loss. ”

Yu Shi pondered for a while, then smiled and recommended her second sister, You Erjie.

Listening to You Shi's words, Jia Mu and Wang Furen stopped talking.

Although they both hoped that the Jia family would have a concubine, You Erjie was from the Jia family?

At most, You Erjie could only be regarded as a relative of the Jia family!

Besides, even if You Erjie was chosen to be a concubine, she would be from your Ningguo Mansion in terms of relationship.

But although they were unhappy, they did not object.

They just lamented that the Jia family had a girl, and a beautiful girl.

But they are not old enough to be selected as concubines.

The palace...

As the night deepened, the royal relatives, nobles, and ministers who attended the night banquet became more and more outrageous.

But the chief minister of the cabinet, Su Zhi, stayed alone.

"It's so late, Lord Su, why don't you go back to rest? ”

In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Li Chenghan looked at Su Zhi below and asked in confusion.

“Reporting to Your Majesty, I want to say that the autumn harvest taxes in Great Wu are urgent now! Now so many taxes have been suddenly reduced!

How should the fiscal problems of the court in autumn and winter, as well as the fiscal problems of next year, be solved?”

“Your Majesty must have known that the real source of the chaos in Great Wu’s taxes lies in land annexation, the private possession of people by wealthy families and the layers of exploitation in the officialdom!”

“If only the officialdom is rectified, the taxes in Great Wu may increase a little, but if the problem of land annexation cannot be solved, it is likely that the taxes in Great Wu will hardly increase to the needs of maintaining the country.”

Su Zhi spoke to Li Chenghan with a face full of embarrassment and worry.

“Since IIf you dare to reduce taxes to this extent, there must be a solution.

But for now, it is not the time to implement it. After all,

It is too harsh to force corrupt officials in the world, which may cause some unrest!

When I solve some foreign threats and reorganize the military, it will be the time to truly solve the land annexation! "

"As for the tax revenue in the past two years, the court has no money, but those corrupt officials have!

We can't let so many corrupt officials go without checking them, and use taxes to make the people suffer. "

Li Chenghan waved his hand at Su Zhi nonchalantly.

He still trusted Su Zhi, the cabinet chief.

But that was all.

As for how he would solve the problem of land annexation and even the problem of hiding people, he would not tell Su Zhi.

Similarly, he had a way to solve the problem of land annexation and even the problem of hiding people, but he also knew that he could not be too harsh on those corrupt officials now.

Now he reduced taxes , the tax case will be thoroughly investigated and the East Factory will be established, which has already touched the cake of corrupt officials and made them panic.

If the armament problem is not solved, he will give corrupt officials and nobles a wave of hard work, such as what he has always wanted to do, so that the powerful and nobles will also pay taxes and even the population tax will be equalized.

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