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Chapter 18 The Empress Dowager of the Red Chamber (18)

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    Qiao Mu listened with great interest. At the end, that is, after Aunt Qiao finished talking about Yuan Chun's sprinkling of money in the palace, she sighed with emotion:

    ¡°The words of the ancients still make sense!

    Marrying a virtuous wife is no lie. Back then, Jia Yuan married the eldest daughter of the aristocratic Xu family. The aristocratic family had a profound background, and the Jia Daishan he brought up was quite capable. However, Jia Yuan later worked hard to unite the four major families.  Zhi, Jia Daishan married a woman from a distinguished historian family as his first wife. The family of historians and kings always believed that it was virtue for a woman to have no talent.

    Jia Yuan really made a bad move.

    Cut off your own path!

    ????????????????????? That¡¯s all for today, it¡¯s time to pass on dinner, the Ai family is also hungry!  "

    "No! Empress!

    Today, a new batch of Lingnan lychees arrived from the imperial kitchen. I wonder if your Majesty would like some?  "

    Aunt Qiao is not a big housekeeper, but Sheng is a big housekeeper. Not only does she know everything about the big and small affairs in the palace, but she also knows everything about Qiao Mu's preferences. Therefore, after knowing that the new batch of Lingnan lychees has arrived in the imperial dining room, she  , and immediately asked the imperial dining room to distribute a basket to Ci'an Palace.

    At this time, it is being chilled in an ancient well in Ci'an Palace. It will be cool and delicious to eat at night.

    The sweet aroma enters the throat, refreshing and pleasant.

    Although lychees in ancient times when transportation was underdeveloped were difficult to transport, it was only difficult to transport, not impossible to transport. In order to ensure the freshness of lychees, some wealthy businessmen would specially bring the lychee trees cultivated many years in advance from the Lingnan area with their roots and fruits every year.  Move it to a special large tank and quickly send it to the capital via water transport. In addition to part of it being paid as tribute to the royal family, the rest can also be sold at a good price in the capital.

    The taste of the lychees picked at this time is not inferior to that eaten locally in Lingnan. The color, flavor and aroma are all the same. There is no need to worry about what Bai Juyi said: the color will change in one day and the fragrance will change in two days.

    Of course, after all this trouble, the lychee trees that were delivered had no choice but to die after picking the fruits. Therefore, the lychees that were delivered were basically only of medium to high quality. Really top-quality lychees were not available in the capital.  Because there are only a few top-quality lychee trees, and most of them are century-old trees, or rare varieties, such as goose egg lychee and snow rouge lychee. There are only about a dozen trees of these varieties of lychee. If they were dug and sent over,  I'm afraid it will become extinct in two years.

    Moreover, one fruit of a good variety of lychee tree may cost several taels of silver locally, not to mention the price of the whole tree. Most merchants are reluctant to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy a lychee tree and transport it to the capital.  Even if it is shipped, it cannot be sold.

    Who would spend tens of thousands taels to buy a basket of lychees?

    Even the emperor would not be willing to part with it, or even if some wealthy businessmen were willing to part with it, they would not dare to spend money so lavishly in the capital.

    Aren¡¯t you afraid of being targeted by the imperial emissary?

    ¡°If there are lychees, then let¡¯s have less dinner tonight, and let the Aijia try out what a magical taste it is to eat three hundred lychees a day!

    Hahaha, Aunt Qiao, the Ai family are joking. Just put a few dozen of them back and give some to each of the remaining palace ladies. If there are any left, give two to each of the serving ladies.  Come, have a try and let¡¯s have fun together!

    ??????????????????? Let¡¯s go and pass on the food, the Ai family can¡¯t wait to eat lychees!  "

    At first, Qiao Mu really wanted to eat the whole basket of lychees by himself, but after seeing the change in Grandma Qiao's expression and considering that she was already nearly eighty years old, she decided to forget it. There was no need to eat a few more lychees.  Life catches up.

    ¡° If you live a few more years, you will definitely be able to eat a lot more good things that are not inferior to lychees, so why bother?

    "No! Madam, I'm going to pass on the food right now!"

    If Qiao Mu had not said the following words, Aunt Qiao would have definitely tried to dissuade her. Just kidding, if something really went wrong with the Empress Dowager, none of their servants would be able to escape. Compared to the Emperor, it is obvious that the Empress is still the Emperor.  The Queen Mother is more talkative, so she naturally has to be dissuaded.

    However, Qiao Mu took a step back, and Qiao Yan would not say anything more. After standing up and the gift, he quickly arranged for people to pass meals.

    As a result, the palace maids who served that night still didn't get lychees. They could have been given the lychees based on the quantity. But after dinner, Tu Minghui came over again and ate more than a hundred lychees alone. Where were those palace maids?  You can still get it.

    ¡­¡­

    As mentioned before, there are no secrets in the palace, and Ci'an Palace is no exception. Although it is impossible for every word to be conveyed to the emperor's ears truthfully, there is still no problem in conveying the general situation. Therefore, Tu Ming  Hui naturally also knew that Qiao Mu had been listening to the gossip of the Jia family for a whole day.

      Because of this, after he finished eating the lychees and returned to the palace, he remembered to look through the greeting envelopes of the nobles to see if there were any from the Jia family. It was only then that Jia She's envelopes were opened.

    At this time, half a month has passed since Jia She published the Zhezi, and I have to say that it is very gratifying.

    "He asked me to help him check for illegal activities. This guy is not polite. That's all. He is also unlucky!

    Wei Xiang, send General Jia's book to the Ministry of Rites. I will satisfy his wishes and ask the Ministry of Rites to take the time to replace his family's plaque tomorrow. I will take off the Rongguo Mansion plaque and replace it with a first-class general. Also, I will ask the Ministry of Rites to honor him.  It was written in the booklet that by the way, I would help him clean up the things that went against the rules in his family.

    "Some people have to be kicked out if they stay in places they shouldn't be. This is not the way to occupy a magpie's nest with a dove. Do you still take the court seriously?"  "

    Although Tu Minghui didn't think much of Jia She's shamelessness and cowardice, compared to Jia She's cowardice, he was even more displeased by Jia Zheng who occupied the magpie's nest. Now that he was the emperor, he was naturally particularly displeased.  If you care about orthodoxy and rules, what is the difference between a person who is a family member and cannot live in the main hall of his house, and an emperor who cannot sit on the throne?

    There are big differences in appearance, but the root is the same.

    "No! Your Majesty, there is something about the Jia family. I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" Wei Xiang asked in a low voice while taking the memorial from Jia She.

    "What's the matter? Tell me!"

    Tu Minghui sat down and asked.

    ¡°Your Majesty, please forgive me!

    After the Zhen family's house was ransacked, didn't some of their registered assets remain unknown?  Recently, I have found out the whereabouts of that asset. The gold and silver should have gone into the Rongguo Mansion. However, General Jia of the Rongguo Mansion may not know about it, because the specific recipient is the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion, the Wang family. Currently, all matters in the entire Rongguo Mansion  The Wang family is in charge.

    Moreover, the slave also found out that the Wang family seems to be using General Jia's seal to issue loan sharks and solicit lawsuits outside. The Jia family's sacrificial land seems to have been sold off by the Wang family. Specifically, because the Jia family's sacrificial field is in Jinling,  So I haven't checked it carefully yet.  "

    The piece of warm jade that Jia She gave to Eunuch Liu was later transferred to Wei Xiang by Eunuch Liu. Wei Xiang naturally felt that Jia She was a good person and was helping him shirk responsibility while talking.  The difference between sins is huge.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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