"For example, the old lady is not counted according to the rules of the Direct Line. The maidservants around her are also counted according to the rules of the Direct Line. Even if she is old, she can't be special.”
"And the second branch…do it according to the Direct Line.
As for First Master, everything would be the same as before. If First Madam wanted money, she could ask First Master for it.
In the future, the direct descendants of the family could not wear brocade clothes.
The embroidered clothes can only be used by our First household. As for the Old Lady…I'll make an exception and make four sets of embroidered clothes for her in a year.”
When Jia Lian heard that the second branch still owed tens of thousands of taels of silver, he immediately asked Wang Xifeng to get the money back.
Madam Wang was backed by the Wang family. Madam Wang was Wang Ziteng's biological sister, and there was also the wealthy Xue family far away in Jinling Province.
He could at least borrow tens of thousands of taels of silver.
As for how Mrs. Wang will pay us back in the future, it's none of Jia Lian's business. Anyway, you have to pay us back.
I'm already very magnanimous that I didn't give your second household the money to live here for so many years and the money for the maids and servants to eat and drink.
Besides, you guys still have to stay here in the future.
I still have to give you money every year to spend on food, drink, clothes, and accommodation. Do you have the cheek to owe me money?
This was a joke.
"My goodness, my Second Master, the expenses of our masters are much lower than before.
Putting everything else aside, the amount of silk and monthly allowance that all the masters spent combined was not even as much as what the old lady spent in a month.”
"Moreover, the old lady alone has to spend hundreds of taels of silver every day on food and fire consumption.
Every time this old lady ate, she would have to eat dozens of dishes. The least valuable among them would cost one tael of silver.”
"Moreover…she only picked a few dishes she liked and ate them with two or three chopsticks before she stopped eating.
This old lady had to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver a year just to arrange for the wedding. In total, she had to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.”
"The amount she spends in a year is enough to feed the people of a county for a year.”
Hearing Jia Lian's arrangement, Wang Xifeng exclaimed happily.
Then, she started to complain to Jia Lian about Grandmother Jia.
Hearing Wang Xifeng's words, Jia Lian's eyes almost popped out.
The money she spent alone was enough to feed the people of a county for a year.
It was already a blessing that Hua Fa's huge family business had not been squandered by her and the first and second branch for so many years.
Grandmother Jia's appearance and extravagance had exceeded the expenses of the Emperor and Empress Dowager in the Palace.
It would be strange if they didn't get raided in the end!
Jia Lian thought that the Imperial Court was currently in need of money. The Jia Family and Rong Ning Mansion, which was Rong Guo Mansion, owed the Imperial Court eight hundred thousand taels.
This 800,000 taels of silver would be enough to help the disaster areas.
Now that there was a great drought in Shi and Ji Provinces, hundreds of thousands of victims were waiting for the court to provide relief.
The expenses of Grandmother Jia alone for a year were enough to save the disaster victims in Shi and Ji Province. However, the Rong Mansion was so extravagant that they did not return the money to the court to save the people. How could the Emperor not be angry?
In addition to Grandmother Jia's flamboyant personality, she was afraid that others would not know that she was living a luxurious and invincible life.
How could the Emperor not know?
To put it bluntly, if Rong Mansion continued to be like this, it would be hard for them to not lose.
"Old Lady is getting on in years. She likes quietness (Lady Jia likes liveliness) and frugality (flamboyance, extravagance, and waste). In that case, Old Lady will make arrangements according to the standards of a concubine's master. Oh, right, a set of clothes and bedding for spring, summer, autumn, and winter…"
"Daily food cannot exceed 500 wen. If she makes a fuss, let her make a fuss in the house. Don't let her leave her house.
In addition, if she was sick, she did not need to trouble the imperial physician in the palace to directly spend tens of wen to hire a local doctor to treat her.”
"There are still 360,000 dan of grain left for us to eat at home. Prepare the rest and donate it to the imperial court when I go to court tomorrow so that the imperial court can provide relief to the disaster victims.”
Jia Lian felt that it was necessary to teach Grandmother Jia a lesson. Now that he had the entire Rong Mansion under his control, even if Grandmother Jia continued to cause trouble at home, he would still make Grandmother Jia jump around in her own room without letting the outside world know.
He had a way to deal with Grandmother Jia. He could make her suffer even if she was mute.
In terms of shamelessness, no one in this family could compare to him, Jia Lian.
Putting aside the fact that his predecessor had already lost all his face, the news of him doing such a big thing had long gone crazy.
People all said that he, Jia Lian, was a lunatic. When he was fooling around, he would not even let go of his own family.
There were even more people who said that he, Jia Lian, was unfilial and that he, Jia Lian, was insane.
They were now convinced that it was Jia Lian's fault for leading the team to raid their house.
He thought that the second branch had worked hard for the first branch, but in the end, Jia Lian took revenge.
They had such thoughts because no one knew the real inside story except for the First and Second household of Rong Mansion, Grandmother Jia, the Minister of Revenue, Liu Wen, and the Emperor.
Because Jia Lian and Madam Wang had already agreed that this inside story must not be spread.
If word got out, Mrs. Wang would not pay back the money and would even jump over the wall to fight Jia Lian to the death.
Madam Wang was able to obediently return the money because of her reputation, Jia Yuanchun, Jia Baoyu, and Jia Zhengcai.
Otherwise, how could he get so much money from Madam Wang?
"Second Master's 350,000 dans of grain is worth quite a bit of silver. We only paid the Imperial Court 200,000 taels of silver as interest, and now we're paying 350,000 dans of grain.”
Wang Xifeng listened to Jia Lian's plan and didn't care about Jia Lian's arrangements for Grandmother Jia. Instead, she told Jia Lian about the food problem.
In the Great Shun Dynasty, a stone was equivalent to 60 kilograms, which was 120 catties, and a stone of grain was worth 300 wen.
This 200 wen for a stone of grain was given to the Great Jin Dynasty, which currently had no war. Other than Shi Prefecture and Ji Prefecture, there were generally no major natural or man-made disasters.
If they had these grains, it would be very normal for the price to rise to 1,000 wen per stone or even 2,000 to 3,000 wen per stone.
Moreover, 300 wen for a stone of grain was still a little high in the eyes of the commoners.
Because they often worked hard to earn money to support their families, they ate a lot and earned a pitiful amount.
It was precisely because of this that the vast majority of commoners did not even have a tael of silver in their savings.
"Aren't you being too soft-hearted? You only saw that we returned 200,000 taels of silver and donated 350,000 dans of grain, but you don't know that it's better to send charcoal in the snow than to add icing on the cake.”
"Now that the Imperial Court is in trouble, the Imperial Court will repay us a thousand times over in the future if we help them.
Moreover, the saints will remember our kindness.”
"If you wait until the Imperial Court has money and you want to give it away, it won't have such an effect.”
Jia Lian looked at Wang Xifeng's beautiful face and explained to her with a look of "you don't understand".
Hearing Jia Lian's words, the intelligent Wang Xifeng instantly understood.
"When Second Master goes to court tomorrow, feel free to donate all our family's food in front of all the civil and military officials.”
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