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Chapter 22: The Red Mansion's Master's Rise 8

Jia She's life finally found some meaning.

After returning to Rongguo Mansion, Jia She stayed indoors and spent every day teaching the younger generation, growing flowers and plants, drinking tea and practicing calligraphy. He was very happy.

Jia She also asked the mansion to buy a few young actors, as the entertainment life in ancient times was too terrible.

He personally wrote the script and rehearsed it with the young actors, bringing the later Peking opera to the world of the Dream of Red Mansions. The rhythm of this Kunqu opera is so slow that the listeners are anxious.

As a result, the Jia family's opera troupe became quite famous in the capital. Whenever there was a happy event in a family, they would come to the Jia family and invite the troupe to perform for a day.

Even the emperor in the palace knew about it. After listening to the opera at Rongguo Mansion, he felt that it was not enough, so Jia She picked out a few of the good singers and sent them to the emperor.

Jia She was annoyed by the constant requests for favors, so he built a theater in the capital. He performed new plays every day, and Peking Opera soon became popular in the capital.

Jia She didn't care about these little things and just lived his own comfortable life.

The emperor was old and in poor health, so he chose the fifth prince to succeed him and hid behind the scenes as the emperor emeritus.

The new emperor was troubled by the empty treasury. All the royal relatives, civil servants and military officials had borrowed large sums of money from the Ministry of Revenue. The retired emperor knew this was not a good thing, but he was too embarrassed to be the bad guy.

So the new emperor's return of the silver from the national treasury immediately caused chaos in the entire capital.

How could he be willing to give out the money he had eaten, so he started to act up.

Some went to the retired emperor to cry and complain, some went to the new emperor to complain about their poverty, and the old lady of the Zhen family in Jiangnan relied on her status as the retired emperor's wet nurse and ignored them all.

These people dragged their feet but the new emperor had an iron fist, so they began to fabricate stories about the new emperor being mean and ungrateful.

After seeing someone hand over the silver to the Ministry of Revenue, Jia She also took 300,000 taels of silver to the Ministry of Revenue to pay the debt and take back the IOU from Rongguo Mansion.

The Shi family had a lot of trouble paying off their debts because of their large population, so they had to sell some of their land and shops. After all, this was Jia She's uncle's home, so Jia She took 100,000 taels of silver notes and gave it to the Shi family.

This was really a timely relief, so the historian paid it back.

Jia She also gave the Shi family a batch of imported goods, allowing the Shi family to open a shop to relieve their stress.

The historian was naturally very grateful and said that he would repay the money as soon as he had enough money.

The Lin family owed little. When the old Marquis Lin was alive, he was in the emperor's favor and did all the good jobs. The Lin family was not short of those little things.

Jia Jing is the only descendant of Ningguo Mansion and is not short of money. Over the years, Jia Jing has made a lot of money following Jia She.

Lin Ruhai is now a doctor at the Lantai Temple and has just been appointed by the new emperor as the Imperial Censor of Salt Inspection. This is another lucrative job among lucrative ones. He will be promoted step by step as soon as he returns to the capital.

But Jia She knew the danger of this time. The salt administration in Jiangnan was almost in a sieve. The new emperor wanted to grab the money bag, and local officials wanted to continue making money from the salt sector.

The Zhen family in Jiangnan has become so powerful that it has developed into a terrifying force.

Jia She gave Lin Ruhai a bottle of detoxification pills and dozens of boxes of nourishing medicine. He also brought over a dozen skilled guards to Lin Ruhai. They were determined to ensure that Lin Ruhai returned to the capital alive.

After Jia Min finished her mourning period for Old Lady Lin, she became pregnant again. Jia She asked Lin Ruhai to take up his post on his own, leaving his wife and children in the capital.

Jia She personally went to pick up Jia Min and the children and let them live in Rongguo Mansion. Zhang took the servants to clean up Lixiangyuan and let Jia Min and her family live there.

At the end of the year, Jia Min gave birth to another son. Both mother and child were safe. The two sons and one daughter of the Lin family were all born from Jia Min's womb.

Jia Min returned to her parents' home with her children, feeling filled with emotion. She believed that her parents' family would protect her and ensure the safety of the whole family.

Lin Daiyu was less than five years old, at the age of being lively and active, and there were many sisters in the Jia family.

Sister Yao, born to my eldest aunt Zhang, sisters Lin and Shan, born to my second aunt, and sister Luo from the East Mansion, so many girls get together and have endless topics to talk about.

My aunt treated all my sisters the same, giving each of them a portion of anything delicious or fun, and also receiving the love of my grandmother.

It’s just that I kind of miss my father who is in office alone.

Jia She really liked this niece with a crystal-clear heart. Jia Min had to take care of her newborn son, so Lin Daiyu lived with Jia Yao in the side courtyard of Rong Xi Tang.

Jia She found a failed scholar to teach the sisters their lessons, and also found a female official released from the palace to teach them the rules.

As for Jia Yu, who liked to hang out with sisters, he had long been sent to the clan school by Jia She to receive training.

The Jia family cannot return to the clan school unless there are holidays, and they eat and live in the clan school.

The two big brothers, Jia She and Jia Jing, took turns going to the clan school and testing the children's homework from time to time.

If you try to be lazy, the gentleman will be beaten with a ruler. No servants are allowed to be brought to the clan school, and you have to do everything yourself.

Over the years, the Jia family school has produced four Jinshi and more than ten Juren, and almost all the older children have the title of Xiucai.

Jia She copied the Hengshui system of later generations into the world of Red Mansions.

Jia She, you bastards have to endure all the hardships that the old master went through. If you want to destroy my family and make them die, I'll see if you have the guts to do it.

Wang gave birth to another son for Jia Zheng and named him Jia Huan.

In the original novel, the children born in the concubine's womb were all legitimate children due to Jia She's intervention.

Jia Zheng actually likes pretty maids, but Jia She is too strict, and there is no maid with a straight head and a decent face in front of the masters of the Jia family.

He can only have a carefree life with his wife and give birth to children one after another.

The third and second daughters, Wang's belly, is also doing well.

Even though her mother-in-law, Mrs. Shi, asked her to set rules every day.

Shi Shi now has no control over Jia She. Jia She did not even discuss his grandson's marriage with her, and he just told Jia Zheng about it. This wolf cub is asking the retired emperor to arrange a marriage for him.

After retiring, the emperor no longer cared about anything else but enjoyed the exciting event of granting marriages.

Jia Hu's wife was the youngest daughter of Minister Han, Jia Lian married the second daughter of Yang Ge Lao, and Jia Zhu married the daughter of Liu, the Left Censor-in-Chief.

Shi was so angry that her head hurt. She fell in love with Wang Xifeng, Wang Ziteng's niece. This girl was cheerful and generous, and about the same age as Jia Lian. She had just taken Wang's daughter in and was preparing to cultivate a relationship with Jia Lian.

Jia She's imperial edict requesting marriage shattered Shi's dream.

The idea of ​​inserting a nail was shattered, and Jia She took the initiative to arrange a marriage for Jia Zhu.

Wang was furious. This Feng girl was not a good match for Jia Lian, but marrying her niece to Zhu'er would be a great match. She would definitely be close to her.

Jia She really hates Wang Xifeng, who appears smart on the outside but is stupid at heart.

At the very least, she couldn't tell good from evil, and only knew how to show off her talents. All the benefits went to Wang Shi, and everyone was offended by Wang Xifeng.

In the original novel, Wang Shi had a good reputation, having sold her son twice and drained the Lin and Xue families dry. Wang Xifeng couldn't save her own son, nor did she save much money.

She ran around for Wang like a maid, cheering for her, but was sold out by Wang when something really happened.

Jia She doesn't like stupid people, and those who can't be taught should be avoided!

Jia Zheng was easy to deal with. He was greedy for power and wanted to find a capable wife for Jia Zhu. Jia Zheng immediately agreed because Wang Ziteng's niece was not his daughter.

The Jia family already had a daughter from the Wang family, so there was no need for another. In Jia Zheng's words, women have long hair but short knowledge, so there's no need to listen to her nonsense. Zhu'er's marriage must be excellent in the eyes of her elder brother.

Jia She now lived a fulfilling life as an aristocrat. He cooked delicious meals in various ways and made more and more money for himself.

While Lin Ruhai was still struggling in the officialdom of Jiangnan, the Xue family moved to the capital.

Xue Pan did kill someone after all. Without Jia Yucun's connections, the Zhen family in Jiangnan covered up for the Xue family and only wrote that a servant accidentally killed someone in a fight.

Xue Pan came to the capital in a swagger. Aunt Xue wanted to seek refuge with Wang family and use the power of Jia family to stabilize her family's business.

Xue Pan was lectured by Jia Zheng in the study for an hour.

Then Jia Zheng brought Xue Pan to interview Jia She and Jia Jing. The two families were old relatives, so Jia She and Jia Jing took turns to scold Xue Pan for an hour.

Xue Pan was thrown into the Jia family school for re-education.

Xue Pan's miserable days began, and there was no way he could escape.

Xue Pan tried to bribe his classmates with money, but was soon reported to the teacher.

Student Xue Pan had a taste of being beaten with a stick and had to stand in class.

In less than three months, Xue Pan's round, fat face became so thin that he looked very similar to Xue Baochai.

Anyway, the rule of the clan school is that there cannot be any useless people.

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