Chapter 280 Not enough time to think about the chapter title(1/2)
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By the time Jia Baoyu came to his senses and mustered up the courage to go find Daiyu, it was already noon three days later.
In the end, no matter how hard he begged in front of the door, he was still rejected.
Naturally, he would not give up and wait for three days of constant entanglement. He even did not hesitate to ask the old lady to come forward and persuade her. In the end, he met her, but Lin Daiyu always had a serious face. No matter how much he pretended to be crazy and acted foolishly, it was just a few words.
A tough scene.
Jia Baoyu was so anxious that his whole body was on fire. He once threatened to break up with Daiyu in person more than once, but within two days he couldn't help but run to her and beg her softly.
But despite his hard and soft tactics, Daiyu just ignored her. She even stopped interacting with Sanchun Chaiyun, and only became closer to Xing Xiuyan.
Si Qi and Yuchai often followed him to sit there.
Because the time had not come, Jiao Shun's thoughts had not yet been revealed. He only often revealed Baoyu's "true face" in front of Zicuckoo and Xueyan, who seemed to be passionate but was actually ruthless, and who seemed to be generous but was actually cold.
Effects vary from person to person.
Zicuckoo always thinks of her master and is Sister Lin's most trusted maid. In the original work, she even took the initiative to help Daiyu test Baoyu's feelings and made Baoyu go crazy for a long time.
But after all, she was a domestic child trained by an old lady, and she had an unspeakable affection for Baoyu, so she was very repelled by Yuchai's words to criticize Baoyu, and she always had to argue with him.
She was even more vigilant about the small favors given by Yuchai.
As for Xueyan, she was originally a direct descendant of the Lin family who served Daiyu, but she has not been trusted by Daiyu in recent years. In the Rongguo Mansion, she has no relatives to rely on, and the rejection she receives is much more serious than Sister Lin's "Frost Sword and Wind Sword"
times.
Therefore, she had little resistance to Yuchuan's remarks. After receiving some small favors, she quickly developed to the point of drawing inferences from one case to another, providing a lot of ammunition to Yuchuan and Jiao Shun who was hiding behind them.
Time flew by in this farce, and before we knew it, we entered the twelfth lunar month of the fourth year of Longyuan.
The weather is visibly rising during the new year, and all major yamen have also begun intensive final inventory work. As the general manager of the Ministry of Works, Jiao Shun is naturally even more busy.
The seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.
Jiao Shun arrived at the Yamen early in the morning. He first drew up a welfare distribution plan for the year based on the reports from each department and the quota set by the ministry. He ordered people to copy it and post it in the office for public notice. He also set up a special suggestion box for officials.
They give feedback.
After all, he is a new official taking office. He cannot say that he will do his best. At least, he must ensure that his subordinates cannot find any major faults.
As soon as this matter was arranged, I turned around and met with several outstanding representatives of disabled retired officers in the lobby of the General Affairs Office, discussing the matter of sending them to Zuo'anmen to serve as military training instructors after the year.
After personally sending off the retired officers and promotions from several large state-owned factories in the capital, the ambassador was brought in by Liu Changyou to report on the preparation progress of the 'in-factory art performance'.
This is also one of the new policies that Jiao Shun vigorously promoted after he was promoted to head of the Department of Affairs.
In front of several officials who seemed to understand but did not understand, he said that the content of the program must reflect the characteristics of the workshop and represent the thoughts, desires, and wishes of the broadest group of workers.
It is best to create an atmosphere where the factory is your home and you are proud of it.
Seeing that all the officials were getting more and more confused, Jiao Shun couldn't help but smile and said: "As the saying goes, hearing is false and seeing is believing. I have asked the work-study students from the Mongolian School to rehearse a small play. When you come over tomorrow and have a look, we will Everything is understood."
Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief. After all, they were all people-friendly officials in charge of thousands of people. Even if they were unable to innovate, it would still be no problem to imitate the gourd.
After sending away the leaders of these large factories, the Ordnance Department sent people to inspect and accept the newly manufactured magazine springs - this was a sequelae caused by Leng Chong's prophet. If there was any new progress in the Ordnance Department, he should be asked to come and help. Have long eyes.
Before they could even leave the experimental workshop of the Ordnance Department, the General Affairs Department sent another urgent report, saying that the miners in Hunan had gathered to rebel, and asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War to coordinate consultations and formulate a general policy to counter the rebellion.
This matter was not something Jiao Shun could decide, so he hurriedly reported the news to the minister and the ministers, and was ordered to convene relevant departments to discuss countermeasures. As a result, they continued to quarrel until late at night, but they could not make up their minds.
In the end, we can only select representatives who negotiate with the Ministry of War first, and then we will not have to blame others for recruiting and demolishing.
When he finally got to the office, Jiao Shun's mind was almost in a mess.
When he got home, he lay down straight away. Even dinner was fed to him by Xing Xiuyan, who knelt on the footrest and fed him a spoonful and a chopstick.
After being so sluggish until about two o'clock in the morning, Jiao Shun finally cheered up and asked if the compensation given by Mrs. Wang had been implemented now.
Mrs. Wang originally wanted to arrange a well-matched marriage in the future as compensation for Jiao Shun, but Jia Zheng kept urging her for the sake of her future, and Jiao Shun's attitude was much tougher than expected.
But how can this ready-made marriage be easy to guess?
She really wanted to use Lin Daiyu to top the cylinder, but the old lady didn't have an easy time.
As for Tanchun...
Having been rejected by Jia Zheng before, Mrs. Wang would not like to bring up the old matter again.
After much deliberation, I had no choice but to offer tangible benefits as early compensation - as for later compensation, I still promised to help Jiao Shun protect his matchmaking.
And her so-called benefit was to sell half of Tian Xingjian's shares to Jiao Shun for thirty thousand taels of silver.
This half-percent dry stock can be divided into about 7,000 taels of dividends a year. Even if it drops slightly in the future, five years will be enough to repay the capital. Compared with the price of 115,000 taels per 10% dry stock when mortgaged to the Xue family, It is not an exaggeration to say that it is half sold and half given away.
Of course, this is just the opinion of others.
Because Jiao Shun knew that the Rongguo Mansion in the original work was in a state of decline in just a few years, he never thought of holding Tian Xingjian's shares for a long time. He only planned to take the opportunity to create some obstacles for Wang Xifeng and then resell them in exchange for some ready-made goods. benefit.
But when Xing Xiuyan heard him ask about this, she couldn't help but frown, and said helplessly: "I asked people to ask several times, but the second grandmother ignored me. Today, my wife went there in person and only saw Ping'er. Girl - listen to Miss Ping'er, it's easy to talk about the dividends. We want to send someone to follow up to do the accounting, but we're afraid..."
This was also expected by Jiao Shun. Wang Xifeng controlled the tire business with one hand, and he did not know how much benefit he had gained from it. At this critical moment of settling accounts this year, how could he allow others to interfere?
What's more, because of the original misunderstanding, Wang Xifeng had long been angry with Jiao Shun.
"Don't disturb your wife again."
Just listen to Jiao Shun's instructions: "You continue to send people to ask every day. When the heat is up in a few days, I will let Master Zheng and his wife come forward to put pressure. She will not be able to agree by then."
Xing Xiuyan responded obediently, and then hesitantly reported Lin Daiyu's current situation.
"Er Master Ribao has been standing in front of the door for a while every day these days, and various objects have never been broken. Although Sister Lin has not paid attention to it, I can see that she is actually a little shaken."
This time it was Jiao Shun's turn to frown.
Compared with the progress on Wang Xifeng's side, Lin Daiyu's side was obviously more troublesome for him.
Previously, I just thought of swapping to steal money from the bottom of the family, but when I actually put it into practice, I discovered that the competitive advantages of both parties were not at the same level at all.
Na Baoyu relied on his status to come to the door every day and pester him, but he could only rely on Xing Xiuyan to attack him. This was a layer of separation, and it was difficult to use all kinds of means.
Sometimes Jiao Shun even thought about giving up. Anyway, Lin Daiyu was beautiful, but her figure was not her type.
But Baoyu ruined his marriage for no reason, and if he couldn't retaliate in the same way, how could Jiao Shun vent the evil in his heart?
Jiao Shun pondered for a long time, then ordered someone to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, repair a letter and handed it to Xiang Ling: "Tomorrow morning you send this invitation to the Xue family and say that I am waiting for Brother Xue at the Zuo'anmen Meng School.
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He was originally worried that the news of that night would be leaked, which would make the prophecy of 'a good match in gold and jade' come true - although the matter had been disturbed by Jia Baoyu, he still coveted Baochai.
But looking at the current situation, if you continue to look east and west, I'm afraid you will really be out of reach!
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The words are divided into two parts.
However, after Mrs. Xu left that afternoon, Wang Xifeng, who had been hiding in the room and refused to show up, called Ping'er to the front and asked with a straight face: "What did my wife Lai Wang just tell you? You can tell me everything."
Learn from me!"
There was distrust both inside and outside of these words.
However, Ping'er has gotten used to it recently, and besides, Wang Xifeng's suspicion that she was secretly liaising with the Jiao family is not really unjust.
Therefore, I just pretended that I didn't hear the strangeness in these words and replied calmly: "Laiwang Aunt didn't say anything else. She only asked when grandma was home and what she has been busy with recently."
"Hmph~"
Wang Xifeng snorted coldly and said angrily: "You are really a good slave that I trained. Only a dog that knows not to bark can bite people."
Ping'er was silent for a moment and couldn't help but persuade: "Grandma, we have been in love for so many years and there is nothing we can say openly. Why bother..."
"You will be a good person!"
Wang Xifeng interrupted her with disdain and sneered with a sneer on her pretty face: "He is about to ride on my head, and he still wants me to beg him to speak?!"
After saying that, he rolled his sleeves and said, "Okay, you go to the old lady's place and wait there first. I'll go there when I'm done with my work here!"
After Ping'er took the order, Wang Xifeng became increasingly restless alone in the room.
She has always regarded the tire business as private property. Not only does she take everything she wants, but at least she has monopoly power.
Mrs. Wang had previously proposed to pledge 20% of the shares to the Xue family, which made her very unhappy.
Later, it was learned that although the Xue family had become a major shareholder, they were willing to let Rong Guofu continue to be at the helm, and they also took the initiative to give up the dividends for the first three years, and made an agreement that the shares could be redeemed at the original price at any time within five years. Wang Xifeng then turned off
The thoughts of secretly obstructing.
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, Mrs. Wang actually sold half of the shares to Jiao Shun at a low price. Not only did she have no additional conditions, but she also promised that Jiao Shun could send someone to do an accounting at any time.
This really poked Wang Xifeng's lungs!
You must know that in the past year, the money collected from Tian Xingjian accounted for more than 60% of her secret income!
Coupled with the humiliation experience on the top of the mountain that day, Wang Xifeng just wished that she could crush this bully and slave into ashes.
By the way...
After all, it has been more than half a month, but why is there no news from Jia Rong?
Several times I was pressed to ask questions, but they were just perfunctory.
To be continued...