Xue Baochai has his own views on this issue.
"Last month, someone got a glimpse of the opportunity. All the materials from several stone quarries on the outskirts of Shenjing were bought by others, raising the price of soil and stone in Shenjing."
They are all extremely smart people!
Brother Rong asked curiously: "The Xue family is also hoarding earth and rocks?"
Xue Baochai replied calmly: "They are all cheap and easy-to-obtain raw materials. You can't make much money by hoarding them. When the price reaches a certain level, it will be cheaper for those who need to buy earth and stone to transport earth and stone from the capital. I also know your recipe. The bottom line is that the soil and rocks won’t rise for long, so what’s the point of hoarding that stuff? It still takes up space.”
Mining mountains to quarry stone and digging rivers to quarry sand are not cheap tasks in this era. Even if it is mined, transportation will be troublesome.
Jia Rong also knew that those who hoarded earth and stones were using information gaps to raise the prices of raw materials in Shenjing in a short period of time. This thing is unsustainable, after all, no one is a fool.
If the earth and stone in Shenjing are too expensive, the worst possible scenario is buying land in other provinces to build kilns. Isn't that what Ningguo Mansion did?
However, if this continues, the court may be dissatisfied. The Ministry of Industry and the Water Conservancy and Field Administration consume a large amount of earth and stone materials every day, and each ship costs one or two silver, which is a lot of money.
Brother Rong thought to himself: It's time to stop, too much is not enough.
"False? This Jia Rong is really interesting. Don't you just want the Jia family to monopolize natural resources? Do you think that if you find Uncle Thirteen, I will believe his words? If you don't stop, you will continue to have people buy sand, soil and gravel, and send them all to you. Let’s go to Qiu and Lai’s kilns.” Someone in the palace said.
"It's ridiculous. The Jia family is really anxious. Jia Rong has no choice now, so he asked King Zhongshun to come forward and tell the outside world that the prescription is fake. He just wanted to trick us into giving up voluntarily, and at the same time, he asked King Zhongshun to put pressure on us. He is anxious, he is really anxious. It seems that the prescription is genuine. Those lowly craftsmen must have made a mistake, so they did not make the cement of Ningguofu." A certain wealthy man in the city outside Shenjing Jia said so.
"What's the use of doing these tricks now? The enemy near Zhuangzi in Ningguo Mansion has made cement and is selling it to the outside world. I haven't noticed in the past that a small captain's mansion can actually have such financial resources. Build three large kilns to produce cement. We must hurry up and not let Qiu Duwei's family take the lead." Another person said.
"Brother is absolutely right. If you want to tell me, Jia Rong is also stupid. He stopped production at Zhuangzi in Shenjing and wanted to go to Ping'an Prefecture to build kilns. This is not in vain to give up the land of Shenjing and Gyeonggi. A large area, you must know that the projects of the Ministry of Industry and Shuili Yingtian Prefecture are mainly based on the Zhili area of Gyeonggi."
Lai Shangrong thought differently than they did, and was very panicked at the moment. The joy of the past few days is long gone! He secretly built a kiln on Lai's village without telling it. How could he keep it secret? Grandma Lai had already scolded him. But the people arranged by the palace sent sand, soil and gravel every day, and he couldn't stop now.
The most worrying thing is, is this prescription true or false?
If it is really okay, it is nothing more than falling out with the Jia family and no longer relying on the Jia family. He doesn’t like the Jia family anyway!
If it's fake...then it'll be a disaster. Now Jia Rong has twice stated that the prescription is fake and not perfect. However, he sold it to so many families, and most of the money he received went to the palace, and the rest was used to build kilns and buy sand, soil and gravel.
What to do?
Lai Shangrong was now panicking and ordered several servants to go to Shenjing every day to inquire about the news. He went to his enemy's house in person, but he didn't even meet Qiu Jiheng, and he didn't know whether the cement from his enemy's house was real or fake.
In a few days, the three-year talent show ended.
Emperor Xiande granted marriage to His Highness the Crown Prince.
There is no news about cement in Shenjing for the time being, and everyone is discussing the fact that the daughter of the former Momeng Jiedushi was named a princess. For something like cement, how can royal gossip be more worthy of attention?
The Li family has always been married to the royal family, but no one expected that the person chosen for the crown prince today would be the daughter of Li Baoning, who had recommended Prince Yi Zhong to the throne to the Supreme Emperor.
It seems that today I am still worried about the land of Momeng, and I want to use a princess to appease the Li family of Momeng.
It's just that not everyone is discussing Li Baoning, and some people continue to pay attention to cement. For example, the Lai family, the enemy family, a certain person in the palace, and all the people who have fake prescriptions.
"The enemy's door was broken down?" Brother Rong asked curiously.
"Isn't that right! Because of the cement thing, their enemies sold a lot of cement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs at a low price. Although the result is similar to the cement of your Jia family, it is just difficult to set. Even if it becomes a ball and dries thoroughly, it only needs to be If someone stomps it hard, it will break into pieces."
I really didn't expect that the first person to suffer would be the enemy.
Why did Qiu Jiheng get involved in this matter? Could it be that the mistress also took the fake prescription seriously?
Brother Rong smiled secretly and shook his head. If it was really the mistress, he would deserve to be unlucky. During the wedding, instead of enjoying the gentle countryside, I also snooped on the Jia family's cement. It would be strange if such a guy is not unlucky, and he may not be in good health even if he gives birth to a son.
Only this time, Brother Rong thought wrong. Behind Qiu Jiheng is not the mistress, but someone else.
Shi En laughed softly and said, "Now that brother from the Lai family is kneeling in the Xi Mansion begging for mercy."
"Why are you begging for mercy when you kneel to the West Mansion?" Uncle Rong asked in confusion: "He is also being targeted?"
Shi De laughed again: "Both the father and son of the enemy family are on duty at the guard office and have connections with the palace. The people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs beat them up and got angry after spending money with them. The Lai family has offended a lot of people because of their insatiable greed. My brother has sold the prescription many times, and now everyone is causing trouble for him."
"He is destined for this fate." Brother Rong chuckled twice, "Let's go to Xifu to see the excitement and see if the old lady of Xifu will intercede for him."
Uncle Rong asked the Shi brothers to get in the car and rush to Xifu at night.
I walked in a hurry all the way, for fear that I would be late and not see the excitement.
When they arrived outside the old lady's courtyard, the maid in the hall saw Uncle Xiao Rong coming and quickly went to the main room to sign up. Not long after, Yuanyang came out and asked with a strange look: "Why are you here? The old lady is very angry, why do you want to join in this bad luck?"
Brother Rong was smiling in his heart, but his face was extremely serious. "I heard rumors outside that the recipe for our Ningguo Mansion was leaked from Lai Shangrong, so I came here specifically to ask for an explanation."
Yuanyang said: "This is not the time to ask for an explanation. The Lai family is more or less dignified in both houses. Aunt Lai is also in the house. Uncle Xiao Rong has seen her now. Wouldn't it embarrass the old lady?"
Uncle Rong is not just here to embarrass the old lady.
He said loudly: "With such a big fight in Shenjing, the Ningguo Mansion has really lost money. I told Lai Sheng before I came here that he will be sent to the dark side in a few days. Go farming in the mountain village. How can the chief culprit be punished lightly? If the servants in the mansion follow his example, why not evacuate all the property in the two mansions? "
Jia Rong's voice was so loud that the old lady and others in the main room could hear it clearly.
Lai Shangrong was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered and did not dare to get up. He was no longer as arrogant as he was in Ning Guo Mansion. Aunt Lai looked even more embarrassed. With such a supercilious person in the Lai family, she could only ask the old lady to be kind and protect her grandson.
Mr. and Mrs. Lai were even more afraid to speak. They regretted that they did not find out immediately that Lai Shangrong was causing trouble, and did not stop them forcefully after discovering it. Now that he has reached this point, he has nothing to say.
Only Wang Xifeng was sneering in the room.
Yuanyang's face turned red with anger, her identity was similar to that of Aunt Lai. She felt that Uncle Xiao Rong was secretly mocking her, but at this juncture she couldn't say anything to defend herself, so she could only invite Uncle Xiao Rong in behind the curtain.
Uncle Rong entered the room, first greeted the old lady, and then defended himself.
"The great-grandson also believes that our ancestors will make decisions for the Jia family and the two houses. He will never easily let go of any bad person who damages the interests of the Jia family, nor will he frame a good person who has done nothing. Brother Lai's family The great-grandson doesn't have to deal with my son's affairs. It's just that it involves the interests of the Jia family and the two governments, so the great-grandson has to come."
Mrs. Xing said: "Hasn't that prescription been proven to be fake?"
Uncle Rong replied respectfully. "An unfinished recipe can fly silently from Ningguo Mansion to Lai's Garden. This is the most worrying thing."
Kill people and kill your heart.
The old lady was also stunned. All the most confidential things in the Ningguo Mansion were taken away by the Lai family, so the Rongguo Mansion, which is closer to the Lai family.
Lai Shangrong cried and kowtowed to the old lady: "The prescription was sent by someone else and has nothing to do with me. I didn't steal it."
Brother Rong sighed and said: "After all, you are a brother who has left the government. Let's believe this. Why did you get the prescription and didn't send it to Ningguo Mansion, knowing that it belonged to Ningguo Mansion? Instead, you sold the prescription to make money." . How do you explain this? I heard it was sold for at least several thousand taels of silver. Uncle Lai Shi is really capable."
When Lai Shangrong heard the title of uncle, he immediately forgot to cry and knelt there blankly. My heart was filled with shock and I couldn't believe it. He said this to his second uncle in private. Could it be that his second uncle tipped him off?
Brother Rong said to the old lady: "If our ancestors want to protect him, our great-grandson has nothing to say. But the accounts leaked by Fang Zi of the Ningguo Mansion still have to be settled. In order to make money, this brother of the Lai family made things difficult for the Water Conservancy and Field Mansion. One acre of land costs five hundred taels of silver. I don’t care anymore. He asked me to respectfully call him uncle, and now I do. The matter of cement and natural objects must not be forgotten now. "
The old lady was confused and asked what five hundred taels of silver were.
Brother Rong sneered and told the whole story, and then asked: "Uncle Lai Shi, did Rong'er tell lies? When Uncle Shi left Ningguo Mansion that day, he also said that he was the brother of the Lai family, and we were the brothers of the Jia family. , when we see you, we have to respectfully call you uncle. Is this true or false? Can we feel sorry for you later? "
Lai Shangrong only thought it was Lai Sheng who tipped him off. He didn't dare to lie and could only lower his head and remain silent.
Everyone saw this and knew that the matter was basically true. At this moment, even Mrs. Wang, who had been seeing Jia Rong being uncomfortable, also turned to the Lai family with a dark face.
If a son who has left the family has to ride on his master's head, doesn't Baoyu have to respectfully call him a good brother?
Mrs. Wang asked Lai Dadao coldly: "It's really, really good, look at the good brother you raised."
Jia Rong replied again: "The Jia family has always been kind and kind to their servants. Unfortunately, what they got in exchange was not gratitude, and they developed a white-eyed wolf. Now that they are suffering outside, they come to the Jia family again. This counts. What’s the point?”
Aunt Lai sighed, got down from her seat, and knelt down towards the old lady.
"..."
Aunt Lai didn't say a word, but everyone knew that she actually said everything.
Jia Rong watched Grandma Lai's performance quietly.
The old lady became embarrassed, sighed, and asked Yuanyang to help Grandma Lai up.
The Lai family can no longer stand up, let alone wander.
The old lady sighed and said: "Serving the Lai family for so many years, there is no credit but hard work. Their garden is regarded as paying off the debt of the Ningguo Mansion. Manager Lai is also responsible for raising such a brother. You, my wife, can stay here, and you and your wife will live in Rongguo Mansion from now on."
Brother Rong didn't want to let them go yet, and said: "Last year, Ningguo Mansion confiscated tens of thousands of taels of silver from several villages. People who want to play ghosts will do ghosts no matter where they are."
Wang Xifeng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly glared at Jia Rong and told him to shut up.
Jia Rongfang did not continue.
The old lady asked people to send the Lai family away, and then asked everyone to disperse.
Brother Rong watched the Lai family and his entourage leave the Lai family in disgrace. He felt no happiness in his heart, only a feeling of relaxation. It's really not honorable to use such methods to deal with a family of servants.
However, after what happened, if anyone in the house wants to imitate the Lai family, they will naturally think twice about it.
"Why don't you let me continue."
Wang Xifeng said: "Do you really want to kill them directly? After all, the Lai family has friendship with the masters of the house. You should stop when you get an advantage. If you go too far, you will only become a person disliked by thousands of people like me. . If you let them go now, the brothers, sisters, maids, and servants of the two houses will all praise you as merciful in their hearts. Even if you let them go to the village, will they still have a good life? No one outside will let Lai Shangrong go."
In the past, Mr. and Mrs. Lai had great glory in the house, relying on Aunt Lai, the old lady, and Mrs. Wang. Now that they are sent to the village, the people in the village may not look at them seriously.
Jia Rong had never heard of a few servants who were sent to the village being able to return to the mansion.
There are too many servants in the two mansions. If one clever person is gone, another clever person will be replaced immediately.
Brother Rong smiled and said, "Thank you Feng'er for teaching me. You are still good at these things."
"What are you touching on the street?" Sister Feng spat at him and snorted: "The inner house is a world for women, and there are always intrigues and bad things. You will be the master of the inner house for a few days, and you will understand."
Brother Rong nodded and said with a smile: "The wind and rain under the tree were disturbed that day, so we have to make up for it that day."
Sister Feng scolded: "What's the trouble? After I returned to Yixia Pavilion that night, your precious aunt still said that I smelled like sex. I was dreaming about sex, but I locked myself in the room and washed it."
Ping'er listened to the conversation between the uncle and grandma and felt that he missed many wonderful things that night.
Brother Rong laughed at her, "Are you curious about what happened that night? Tomorrow, uncle will take you to enjoy the night view under the tree."
This bastard just teased Ping'er in front of him. Wang Xifeng was so angry that she kicked him out.
"Go to Dongfu."
