Sun Fu walked to the second gate and stopped and reported: "Mr. Cong, there are two things. There are a few people in the bookstore who want to join. Headed by Sima Xianggong from Fangshan, Wang Deputy Meng wrote a letter to discuss the franchise."

Jia Cong walked into the yard, opened the paste and sealed it, shook it out and wrote a letter to the study room, proposing that Sima and others take a letter of vote and join the alliance.

Now the imperial examination is imminent, and the matter of Shanhai Alliance can be delayed as slowly as possible. With more people, it is not good to inherit the style of just saying but not practicing. The people he wants are concentrated under the alliance covenant and himself as the leader. Sima Feijian passed the scientific examination last year and successfully passed the imperial examination. It surprised Jia Cong at that time. He was afraid that he would repay his kindness today.

"The other thing is not good news..." Sun Fu observed Jia Cong's face and said, "Prince Zhongshun's mansion set up a cash gate to collect taxes. Recently, Cheng Buzhi, the chief official of the Prince's mansion, also came to Xixiaoshi to collect taxes..."

"The 30 taxes for commercial taxes are included in the supervision of the Military Affairs Office of the Censorate and the management of the household registration of Shuntian Mansion, and the number of household registrations of Shuntian Mansion has been doubled, becoming one in the fifteen taxes. The group of slaves in Prince Zhongshun's mansion is very arrogant. They will charge store taxes and then collect them between their teeth. Eight or nine cents, and they will collect one cent. If this continues, it will be difficult to recover the capital there..."

Jia Cong pondered, "Let them collect it first."

A seventh-rank county magistrate is the county magistrate who destroyed the family, not to mention the prince who was nominally second only to the emperor. Cheng Buzhi is an old friend. Not only has a marriage with Jia Cong, but also the reason why Jia Baoyu was beaten was also because Cheng Buzhi came to ask Jiang Yuhan.

In a few months, we will settle the old and new debts together.

...

Zhujin Tower is adjacent to Zilingzhou, and is Jia Yingchun's boudoir. When everything comes back to spring, the fragrance of plants and trees is floating, and a few bamboo rafts and wooden boats are floating across the lake.

While Jia Cong was grinding his writing, he came in with his second sister. The scenery of the Grand View Garden was pleasant. After Xing Xiuyan entered Beijing, he was divided into Zhujinlou and Yingchun. The original work of Xing's family entering Beijing was a dead end, and it was mostly meaningful to seek refuge with relatives. In the current situation, as Jia Cong's influence grew, they were also rich in Wujiang, but they had more meanings to visit relatives.

The three of them sailed on a wooden boat together, and the water plants rippled with the waves, because they wanted to personally feel the poetic and picturesque artistic conception on the blue waves of the boat. They did not ask the boatwoman to take the boat, but the three of them rowed their own oars. Xing Xiuyan, in a light yellow dress, was a transcendent temperament. She tied her cloak and stood upright on the bow of the boat, as if she wanted to go back on the wind: "Which month was the test?"

"The spring exam is naturally in spring, in March. The venue rules are generally the same as those in the provincial examination, and they are also in the Chongwenmen Gongyuan." Jia Cong said.

"Are you going to take the exam in a row? Can you win three yuan?" Xing Xiuyan said lightly: "But I think this matter is definitely not easy. In the 272nd year of the Ming Dynasty, there are only a handful of people who win three yuan in a row."

"It's very lingering." Jia Cong admitted, approached her, and asked in a low voice: "Didn't Xue Ke propose marriage to your family?"

Xing Xiuyan glanced at her eyes and a faint blush appeared on her face: "What are you talking about these things? I don't know, I have never heard of them. She and the Xue family were just met on the canal in Beijing. When she mentioned their family backgrounds, she turned out to be relatives. She is really a wealthy family and has relatives everywhere."

Jia Cong is obviously better than Xue Ke, a scholar, peasant, industrial and commercial businessman. Even if the merchants are rich, their social status is not as good as that of farmers. Xue Ke is just a white-collar man, but Xue Ke really has the demeanor of Baochai, which Xue Pan cannot compare with.

"Maybe this cousin really likes me... It's a pity that we must be destined to be unfamiliar. If you are a two-row official, you don't have to say that you have many wives and concubines. At that time, I'm afraid you'll have to look for a few years at the position of the main house. How could you choose me, a private woman? I'd rather be a private wife than a concubine..." Xing Xiuyan thought about it and shook her head secretly. She didn't feel sad, and acted indifferently.

The egrets on the lake are as long as steel wires, and they are drifting across like drifting. The water plants are rippling, and pairs of mandarin ducks are playing in the water, flapping their wings. Jia Yingchun on the other side wonders: "Why are these cousins ​​and sisters intimate? Did they get along well when Brother Cong went to Suzhou? Well, I didn't tell me about this..."

The wooden boats are mooring on the shore of Cuidi Pavilion, and the azaleas are in full bloom. The vegetation and spotted bamboo in Xiaoxiang Pavilion are vaguely visible. The color and scenery of Xiaoxiang Pavilion are completely opposite to the Yihong Courtyard. Yihong Courtyard has various varieties of roses and crabapples, gorgeous and magnificent, and the tones are warm. The banana and spotted bamboo in Xiaoxiang Pavilion are darker.

"Second sister, don't you open a Begonia Poetry Club? I live outside the garden and don't come in often. I only heard that it was the third sister who started and Bao'er the second brother. I also have a good manners and have formed a mountain and sea alliance for many years. Throughout history, poetry, calligraphy and painting, unofficial history, notes and biography, all of which have been engraved and published, and have been passed down to future generations. All sisters are very talented. I have a suggestion, do you want to engrave and publish it?" Jia Cong used this trick to not only connect with his feelings, but also make some money.

Jia Yingchun was quite moved when she heard this. Xing Xiuyan had known that her cousin had many ideas and did not speak. Xue Baochai, who came over the path outside the Cuidie Pavilion, said: "How can this work? The pen and ink of the boudoir cannot be spread out."

"Where did you come from?" Jia Yingchun asked.

"I'll come to see Pin'er, he's here too. I'll see you rafting and rowing from afar. It's such a beautiful picture of the blue waves of boats. I'll ask the fourth girl to draw it." Xue Baochai held a round fan in her hand, without makeup and a yellow dress without makeup, but that kind of nobleness does not require clothing, and it emits from the inside out. Lin Daiyu, Zijuan, Ying'er and others behind her also followed.

"There are precedents in this dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was destroyed. Many ladies from all over the country have published books. "Young Learning from Qionglin" Women's Chapter: Bo Shang Zhong Shang, and was called Yuexiu at the time. It is about Shang Jinglan and Shang Jingwei in the late Ming Dynasty. Who said that women could not publish books? Under the leadership of these two talented women, women and women gathered together and recited poems and wrote pairs, and they have already become famous all over the world. There are many other women who published books, including private and fangyi. If you want to push forward for a few hundred years, wouldn't Ban Zhao also write books?" Jia Cong retorted.

Later generations said that women were oppressed by feudal ethics. This statement is true. However, women at that time also used Confucian ethics to gain a greater living space. This phenomenon was called "boolman teacher" by historians. In other words, women in feudal society could also be teachers. Shang Jinglan is a typical example. Under her teachings, a family, regardless of gender, was a poet, and was famous all over the world, achieving the true "poetry and etiquette clan".

"While it is true, after all, a woman without talent is virtue." Xue Baochai gently swayed the round fan.

"Not talent is virtue, and having talent is not virtue. Sister Bao is well-versed in ancient times and modern times. She is a great talent. Didn't you scold yourself for saying this? " Jia Cong did not agree. Xue Baochai was speechless, and everyone laughed in the whole story. Lin Daiyu looked around and saw that Jia Cong could actually refute Sister Bao speechless, and it was very interesting: "You have to go back to the old lady."

Xue Baochai did not think that Jia Cong's ideas were not consistent with him, but they could speak for women and gain appreciation. He smiled and said, "Our family is in business and can ignore these things. It is best to find Sister Zhu, the housekeeper, to take her to talk together, and then call the third girl, the fourth girl, and the old lady to pity her granddaughter, so she has some hope."
Chapter completed!