Fun Kan Red Chamber 251: Poor and destitute, unworthy descendants are disliked, shameless, adulterous brothers are condemned for depravity
Two days before the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Ningguo Government was making intensive preparations for the New Year, and Wu Jinxiaocai of the Black Mountain Village was late to send the revenue of the farm that year.
Wu Jinxiao of the Black Mountain Village, just from the name, knew that he was a villain with a black heart and greed for the income of the Mo NingGuo Mansion. Don't look at the large amount of money he brought, but there was a very big difference between him and the real share he should have turned in.
Jia Zhen speculated that Wu Jinxiao should have five thousand taels of silver to hand over the supplies. This number is definitely the lowest. Because it is impossible for the traditional farm managers to hand over the number, Jia Zhen's data must be based on the average number of statistics handed in over the years, which is naturally low.
Wu Jinxiao chose to come personally in front of the Chinese New Year's Eve, just to fight with Jia Zhen in the ring. I am sure that Jia Zhen will not turn his face with him in the New Year, nor do she have the heart to carefully check the accounts.
In fact, he said that the hail fell in September is not entirely untrue. At that time, the ninth month of the lunar calendar was equivalent to the end of the current October, and the north had already basically harvested the crops, and hail would not have much impact.
In Wu Jinxiao's Black Mountain Village, from the types of materials he handed over, you can see the obvious northern and even northeastern characteristics. Cao Xueqin deliberately wrote that September was not June or July, or to remind the reader that he was lying.
In any case, Wu Jinxiao once again deceived the "fool" Jia Zhen. The author constantly hints that the Jia family, which is plagued by internal and external troubles, is about to collapse.
The external problem was that the emperor began to consciously weaken the Jia family, and even forced them to make wrong decisions. The promotion of Prince Teng and Jia Yu Village is not a good thing for the Jia family.
The internal worry is that Wu Jinxiao and these people control the economic resources of the Jia family, so that most of the Income of the Jia Family is greedy and they cannot make ends meet. These are the giant rats lurking in the Jia family.
Wu Jinxiao's problem is a microcosm of all the problems of the Jia family, not only his own problems and the Ning Guofu, but also the rongguofu's problems are more serious. He said that his brother was in charge of several farms in rongguo mansion, and the result was only a few thousand taels of silver. The hearts of these two brothers are really black.
It is ridiculous that the owners of the two houses of the Jia family seem to be smart, but they are ignorant of it. On the contrary, jia tanchun's housekeeper in the back touched the "housekeeper" at the first time, believing that only reform could save the Jia family.
However, reform can only cure the paralysis of decay, but the problem of the Jia family is the decay of the root cause, that is, the collective degeneration of the children. Future generations talk about the future without hesitation.
Wu Jin Xiaocai left, and Jia Zhen saw another person. It is a good interpretation of the appearance of the descendants of the unworthy.
Cao Xueqin clearly interpreted the reality that the Jia family in the last days has no future from three aspects: external troubles, internal troubles and offspring.
(Fifty-third time) Here Jia Zhen ordered that each of the fangcai be set aside for the ancestors, and some of the various things were taken, and Jia Rong was ordered to send them to the Rong Mansion. Then he kept what he had used in his home, and the rest sent out other examples, piled up under the platform one by one, and ordered people to summon the sons and nephews of the clan to come with them.
The eight rooms of the Jia family in the capital are all the grandsons of Ning Rong's second son. The property was inherited by the concubine, and the other descendants could not look at the poor and ignore it.
The capable Topi Ningrong Ii House has jobs and can also buy some industries. Let's say the Jia Huang family in Ningguo Province.
More people have neither inherited any industry nor the ability to find a way out for themselves, so they need to be subsidized by their families. For example, the mother and son of Jia Fungus in RongGuo Mansion.
In fact, the most representative is the cousins Of Jia Qin and Jia Yun. The two of them belonged to NingguoFu and Rongguofu.
After Jia Yun's father died, the family had no spare property and had to ask Wang Xifeng to find a job.
Jia Qin' mother, Zhou Shi, begged Wang Xifeng to send him the work that was originally going to be given to Jia Yun.
They had no jobs and no income before, and they distributed some of the annual materials by their own families during the New Year's Festival. This is like the "spring festival reward" mentioned by Jia Zhen and You Shi before, which is the emperor's public funds for those hereditary poor officials to sacrifice their ancestors.
However, these materials are not like the "spring festival", everyone has a share, those who do not have jobs will be distributed, and those who have jobs will no longer be given.
(Fifty-third time) Jia Zhen looked at the complete offerings, wearing shoes and lynx coats, and ordered people to lay a large wolf skin mattress in the sun on the stone rock under the pillar of the hall, and watched idly watch the children come to collect the New Year's gifts. Seeing that Jia Qin had also come to collect the goods, Jia Zhen called him over and said, "What have you done?" Who told you to come? Jia Qin lowered her hand and replied, "I heard Uncle Uncle here asking us to get something, and I didn't wait for anyone to go." ”
Jia Zhen distributed New Year goods to the people in the clan, and as a result, Jia Qin ran to receive the New Year goods without notice.
When Jia Zhen saw him coming, she called him over and asked him what he was doing? Jia Qin replied that he heard about the new year goods, and he came by himself without waiting for someone to notify him.
As a result, as soon as Jia Zhen heard this, he became angry and said, "This thing of mine was originally for your idle little uncles and brothers who have nothing to do." Those two years you were idle, and I gave it to you. You are now in charge of affairs in that house, in the temple of the monks and Taoists, and in January you have your share of exceptions, and the silver of these monks has passed through your hands, and you have come to take this, so greedy! See for yourself, you dress like a man with money in his hand? I said you didn't make any progress before, but what's going on now? It's not like that. ”
Although Jia Zhen himself is not a good thing, it does not mean that he has no ability, but he just does not go to the right path.
His words of reprimanding Jia Qin were justified. Saying that things are for uncles and brothers who have no income, Jia Qin has not worked before and has given it to him. But now Jia Qin was in charge of the little monks and little Taoists in the Tiezhan Temple, and a few hundred taels of silver passed through his hands a year, and every month there was a monthly salary paid to him by the Rong Government, and he could no longer receive new year goods and materials.
Jia Qin also cheekily collared things, which was clearly Jia Zhen's wool, but it was not "too greedy"!
Jia Zhen hated that iron was not made of steel, and scolded him for not dressing like a grandfather who made money in his hands.
Jia Qin's monthly money of dozens of taels of silver a year, plus the expenses of the little monk and the little Daoist, were all in his hands. How much he wants to spend is up to him. It is said that there are many places to hide here, and it is considered thick to get one hundred and eighty taels of silver every year.
For example, Jia Yun planted a tree and received two hundred taels of silver. But he only took fifty taels to the home of the flower maker Fang Chun to buy trees. The remaining one hundred and fifty taels fell into his hands. No matter how much it ends up spending, as long as you can complete the task as much as you want.
Jia Qin's situation was similar, and there was no problem in giving the little monk Xiao Daoist food to eat. As the steward of the RongGuo Mansion, he should neither dress shabbily nor need Jia Zhen to give him a year's worth of goods without money. Jia Zhen scolded him for getting worse and worse, naturally he was targeted.
Sure enough, Jia Qin said, "My family originally had a large population and a large cost." Jia Zhen sneered, "You still support me." What you do in the family temple, I don't know. When you get there, you are naturally a grandfather, and no one dares to disobey you. You have money in your hands again, and you are far away from us, and you will dominate the king, and you will gather bandits to gamble money night after night, and raise wives and children. This will be the image of the flower, do you dare to bring something? If you can't get something, just take a water stick and go. After the new year, I will say to your second uncle, come back to you. Jia Qin blushed and did not dare to agree.
Jia Zhen was not stupid, but Jia Qin was really unbearable, and Jia Zhen counted his three deadly sins.
First, claim the king and dominate. Jia Qin is the "grandfather", and the Tiezhan Temple is the Jia Family Temple. He was there who didn't dare to mess with him. The implication is that the hundreds of taels of silver of the little monk and the little Daoist are basically his. With such a dark heart, how can it be without money?
Second, night and night to attract bandits to gamble money. The reason why Jia Qin has no money is that he has lost gambling.
Moreover, Jia Qin's gambling object is not a good person, but a "bandit", at least a kind of hooligan. These people are pit and deceived, Jia Qin has no scruples in making friends, and there is no bottom line for depravity to disappoint.
Third, the adoptive wife and child. It has been disappointing to make friends with bandits and gather crowds to gamble, and to raise women and child prostitutes in the family temple. Jia Qin's badness is heinous.
The quiet place of the Tiezhan Temple was originally a retreat from the Jia family by the Second Duke of Ning Rong, but it became a place for Jia Qin to eat, drink and gamble, causing a miasma of smoke. No wonder he's getting worse and worse.
Jia Qin had "intercepted" Jia Yun's work, leaving Jia Yun helpless to ask for help from his uncle Bu Shiren and was turned away. It is the embodiment of "fierce uncle and adulterous brother".
Jia Qin is undoubtedly the candidate for the "adulterous brother". In the future, sister Qiao's fierce uncle and brother-in-law were Wang Ren and Jia Qin.
Jia Qin is just a microcosm of the degeneration of the Jia family's children. All of them are Ah Dou who can't be supported, and naturally there is no future.
The jia family's internal and external troubles may still be solved, but if the children are not instruments, there is no way. Even if you don't get raided, you will only have one way to go in the future.
Just like Jia Zhen, as the head of the Ningguo Mansion, the head of the Jia family. He knew that Jia Qin was wrong, but he just scolded a few words and didn't care, wouldn't he not seek his own government in his position?
The patriarch is responsible for the Jia family, but Jia Zhen let Jia Qin leave it alone, and he himself is even more lawless, which is the key to the defeat of the Jia family.
And Jia Qin did not dare to speak out, and the biggest hidden danger of the Jia family over there also appeared. The person replied: "The Water Prince of the Northern Province sent a word link and a purse." Jia Zhen heard that and ordered Jia Rong to go out to entertain, "only said that I was not at home." "Jia Rong went...
From the promotion of Prince Teng and Jia Yucun, we remind the emperor to deliberately weaken the Jia family, support the Wang family within the four major families, and cultivate the ambitions of the Wang family. And the villains of Jia Yu Village are even more unstable factors and bombs in the Jia family.
The emperor, Prince Teng, and Jia Yucun were all external troubles for the Jia family to raid in the future.
Waiting for Wu Jinxiao to come, it led to a big problem in the income of the Jia family. Nearly half of the proceeds were coveted by wu jinxiao and these black-hearted slaves, and the Jia family naturally could not make ends meet. When people are poor, they think differently. Some get better and some get worse. The Jia family belongs to the latter.
Jia Qin and other children have fallen into depravity, which is the internal worry of the Jia family.
But all this sums up, the reason why the Jia family was raided, there is another key variable, that is, the King of Northern Jing.
It was the King of Northern Jing who drew the Jia family to "think of change" and form a party with it, so that the Jia family was tabooed and attacked by the emperor, and finally it was stripped of its title and copied clean.
Therefore, before the Jia Jia Ning State Mansion Chinese New Year's Eve the Ancestral Shrine, Cao Xueqin spread out all the clues that led to the destruction of the Jia family one by one, that is, to tell the readers that the Jia family will be finished after this year.
To find out what happens next, look at the next breakdown!
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