Xue Baochao, who has always been known for his exquisite appearance and erudition, during the period of the stewardship, Jia Fu frequently broke out many chaotic incidents such as leading to adultery and theft, gambling, eating, drinking and fighting. Later, Jia Mu had to personally suppress and punish it, and finally calmed down.
The decay of Jia Province has a long history, but during the time when Baochao was in charge of the housekeeper and in charge of security, it became particularly chaotic, and Xue Baochao could not escape the blame. In the final analysis, in order to please Lady Wang, Jia Baoyu and the three important figures of the Lin Zhixiao family, she did not hesitate to shake the foundation of Jia Province.
Xue Baochao's main operation was manifested in two aspects, one of which was that she allowed the servants and wives of those related households to eat wine and gamble money, for fear of offending anyone. Second, she could not suppress the diaonu, but she used the means of merchants to solicit customers, robbed the contract fruit of exploring the advantages and disadvantages of Chunxing, and distributed it to those mothers-in-law to invite people's hearts.
Xue Baochao's housekeeper director: Let the in-laws eat wine and gamble, just to please these three people
It is said that in the fifty-fifth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is written: Wang Xifeng had a small birth after the Lantern Festival, and the incompetent Lady Wang could not handle the housework, so she let Li Feng and Tan Chun take care of the council together.
Then, Lady Wang was afraid that Li Feng would not care about anything, and Tanchun was too capable to poke her past management loopholes in front of Jia Mu, so she called Xue Baochao to take charge of key security work, thus playing a role in suppressing Li Feng, balancing Tanchun, and giving her a bottom.
What was Madame Wang afraid of Jia Mu knowing? She was very clear about Xue Baochao.com.
There were many people in the garden, and they were afraid of losing their care, so they specially invited Bao chao to come and asked him to be careful everywhere: "The wives and children are not useful, they have to eat wine and fight cards in the space, sleep in the daytime, and fight cards at night, I know it." ...... You worked hard for me for two days, taking care of me. If there is anything you can't think of, you come and tell me, don't wait for the old lady to ask out, I have no words to reply, those people are not good, you just have to say. They don't listen, you come back and forth to me. Don't make a big deal out of it. ”
The affairs that Madame Wang entrusted to Baochao to manage were the security work of the Grand View Garden. Madame Wang had long known that those mother-in-laws could not be loyal to their duties day and night, and they ate wine and played cards one by one, sleeping and gambling.
In the past, Sister Feng was in charge and used severe punishment and cruel methods to suppress intimidation, these people did not dare to let go of the whole thing, but "stole for a moment and a half, or sat at night, three or four people gathered together, or rolled dice or fighting cards, a little stubbornness, but for sleep."
However, now that Sister Feng has fallen, Li Feng is an old and good person who can't suppress these people, and Tan Chun is full of enthusiasm, if she finds out about these things, it is difficult to guarantee that she will not make a big fuss, and it will hurt the dignity of many people. Tanchun was fearless, and after two years of marriage, he left, and the interpersonal relationship still needed Madame Wang to engage.
Therefore, Madame Wang will let Xue Baochao come to her own pocket, saying that she is responsible for taking care of her, in fact, she is asked to help cover up. The point is to "don't make a big deal" and "don't wait for the old lady to ask."
Xue Baochao also understood very well that this was a very tricky job. If you do a good job, you can flatter Lady Wang, and you can earn favors for yourself in Jia Province, and if you don't do well, you will offend Jia Mu, and you have no place to stand.
Of course, Bao Chao wanted to do a good job, and her work attitude was very serious: "Every night when she was sewing and threading, before going to bed, she took a small car to lead the night people in the garden to inspect everywhere"; she grasped all the situations and helped cover up a lot of dirty things: The sixty-second time she said to Bao Yu: "You only know two things, rose dew and poria cream, but you don't know how many are bigger than these two." If you can't come out in the future, it is everyone's creation, if you come out, I don't know how many people are involved. ”
The big thing Xue Baochao said was that the in-laws in the garden were negligent, lawless, gambling, drinking, fighting, and adultery! So who are the people she is afraid of being tired and afraid to care about?
First of all, of course, the first one is her great aunt, Lady Wang, the head of the house, and the second is the unlucky ones when Jia Mu made a thunderous bet in the back, all of whom have backgrounds.
It turned out that these three big heads of the family, one was the two aunts of the Lin Zhixiao family, one was the sister of the daughter-in-law of the Liu family in the kitchen in the garden, and the other was the nursing mother of Yingchun. This is the first of three, and the rest cannot be remembered more.
Xue Baochao did not dare to offend the Lin Zhixiao family, not only did he not dare to offend, but he also wanted to please. Because Lin Zhixiao's family is the second housekeeper of rongguo mansion, although Lai everyone is a big housekeeper, but it is Jia Mu's person, Lin Zhixiao's family is a powerful general under Lady Wang, usually under the management of Wang Xifeng Jia Lian and his wife, Lin Zhixiao is in charge of the finances of Rongguo mansion, and his daughter-in-law is in charge of personnel and security work in the Rongguo mansion.
Such an important two middle-level leaders, where did Xue Baochao, an airborne temporary worker, get offended? Even Madame Wang must give them dignity.
Yingchun's nurse is also a sensitive figure, because the contradiction between the long house and the second room of the Rongguo Mansion has always existed and is becoming more and more obvious. Jia Mu asked Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian to help with the housekeeper, and Let Lady Wang help take care of Yingchun, in fact, they were all reconciling this contradiction.
Lady Wang did not dare to touch Yingchun's nursing mother, because it would make Lady Xing and Jia Shu faceless. Even after Jia's mother punished Yingchun's wet nurse, Lady Xing was very upset, and she specially ran over to educate Yingchun.
As for Sister-in-law Liu in the kitchen, she was not an important person originally, but Baochao could not easily move her. She is also a deep-rooted family slave in the Rongguo Mansion, and her brother is a janitor, which is also a good fat difference. She can take charge of the small kitchen of the Grand View Garden alone, and she must have gone through Wang Xifeng's relationship, because building a small kitchen was Wang Xifeng's idea.
Of course, Madame Wang is definitely not afraid of these small roles, including Lin Zhixiao's family, who dare to move her, but Baochao does not dare!
Because Liu Sister-in-law is also related to Jia Baoyu, Liu Sister-in-law is very slippery, she wants to send her daughter Wu'er to go to Baoyu House as an errand boy, she is particularly attentive to Baoyu's diet, and she is very good at pleasing the servants in Baoyu House.
Sister-in-law Liu was also particularly flattered by the ruling Baochao and Tanchun, and what kind of oil and salt fried goji buds of the small stir-fried vegetables were happy to be given away for free. Xue Baochao had worked hard in Jia Province for so many years, and finally met a good slave who was willing to buy her account and flatter and serve her, how could she be offended?
Therefore, in the consideration of various interests, Xue Baochao was thinking of helping Madame Wang carry this mess. But she also left herself a trick, that is, to tell Ping'er about these rotten things.
Ping'er is a person who understands, and I told her before, because her grandmother is not outside, so she understands. If they don't come out, everyone will happily throw away their hands. If she comes out, she already has a draft in her heart, and she has a clue, and she will not be able to grievance.
This belongs to Xue Baochao's own cleverness, and he wants to throw the pot under the opportunity of selling human affection to Wang Xifeng. Because although Feng Jie was ill, she did not completely ignore things, and the people still had to come back later. Ping'er will inevitably tell Wang Xifeng, but Wang Xifeng and Ping'er will not care about these things.
Why? Because the agent appointed by Lady Wang at this time, an unmarried girl from a relative's family, who managed the household affairs in the Rongguo Mansion and robbed the daughter-in-law of the Jia Mansion, would be regarded as Lady Wang's desire to marry Baochao as a daughter-in-law.
Wang Xifeng has always been incompatible with Baochao, first, he does not like her shangjia origin, and second, he does not like her worldly cunning; now he looks down on Baochao's housekeeper director, holding chicken feathers as a sword, and his name is not justified.
Sister Feng openly said to Ping'er: "(Dai Yu and Bao Chao) are relatives and are not good at managing our family affairs", and stressed that Tan Chun is "the right person in our family", so Wang Xifeng will not help Bao Chao to top the thunder, so she let her go around by herself, making trouble, and Bao Chao and Lady Wang have no face.
Sure enough, later Tanchun reported these rotten things to Jia Mu, who was very angry, Madame Wang and Xue Baochao did not say a word, and Wang Xifeng said a very subtle sentence: "I am sick again when I am partially born", and left herself clean.
Wang Xifeng's subtext is: There was no such mess before I was sick, and these rotten debts did not belong to me after I was sick. Who's in charge? Jia Mu also understood, of course, Xue Baochao.
Xue Baochao invited the buyer to shake the foundation of Jia Fu, and the whole Jia Fu was not satisfied, and Jia Mu had to personally intervene
Xue Baochao's shortcoming is that he was born low and did not have the opportunity to see enough of the big world. Don't look at her full of poetry books, everything, as if it is very powerful, all day long to teach this, and educate that, she will actually be spent on fists and embroidered legs, talking about soldiers on paper, and not using fur skills in the middle.
Therefore, she can only make a splash among her sisters and show off, but every time she takes a shot at the top level of Jia Fu, she can't always please. Only because she suffered losses in the merchant jia, none of her father and brother had ever been an official, and she was completely confused about the twists and turns of the ancient imperial court officialdom and the powerful family.
Her understanding of the career economy is that men should "assist the country and govern the people" when they study, otherwise it is better to cultivate and trade; she thinks that a big family like Jia Fu must talk about decency, and talking about decency = willing to spend money, if the spring income is contracted silver, "even if you save two or three hundred silver, it is not like losing the general system"; she thinks that to engage in relations in Jia Fu is to invite guests to dinner, give small favors, and she personally plays with the beards...
She didn't even understand that the existence of such a feudal ruling class as Jia Fu was based on the social hierarchical order, and she would make up her own mind to divide the profits of the year to her mother-in-law at will after exploring the advantages and disadvantages of Chunxing.
You can think about it carefully, the Grand View Garden is the property of Jia Fu, tanchun uses land, trees, flowers and grass to make money is actually no problem, the year-end accounting is still owned by Jia Fu, a few hundred taels of silver is a small matter, the name of the master and servant, and the ownership of property is a big thing.
However, Xue Baochao took it upon himself not to let his in-laws pay rent at the end of the year, but to return the money to their own pockets, which was equivalent to giving these properties to the in-laws in the Grand View Garden.
Confucius said: "Heaven is honored and the earth is humble, Qiankun is determined, humble is high, and noble is lowly." ”
There is a cloud in the Zizhi Tongjian: "The duty of hearing the heavens is greater than the ceremony, the etiquette is greater than the point, and the point is greater than the name." "Distinguish between the noble and the lowly, order relatives and relatives, cut the crowd, and make things."
In feudal society, feudal dynasties must rely on strict social hierarchies and clear systems of dignity and inferiority to maintain the rule of the emperor. Only when a feudal dynasty is in decline and decay will there be a collapse of etiquette, the dignity of the superior is lost, and the inferior is in turn bullying the superior.
The Jia Fu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is already at the end of the road, the slaves in the family bully the master, and the order gradually collapses: the slave is richer than the master, and more arrogant than the master. For example, Yingchun's wet nurse stole Miss's jewelry pawn to gamble money, and her daughter-in-law dared to scold Yingchun for spending slave money; He Baozi dared to beat her daughter in front of Baoyu's eyes and bully Fangguan; Tanchun even pointed out: "What is in charge during this year, the master has a full share, they get half a point." This is the old practice in the family, everyone knows it, and the others steal it outside. ”
In this chaotic state, Madame Wang, a mediocre talent, could not even control the theft of things from the servants in her own house, and could only rely on Wang Xifeng's harsh punishment and cruel method to suppress it reluctantly. Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of the contract is to open source and reduce expenditure, starting from small things to open source and reduce expenditure.
This is a good way, Wang Xifeng strongly supports, Jia Mu also supports, but unfortunately Tanchun's behavior was destroyed by Xue Baochao.
Xue Baochao, a cousin of the outer four roads, a big miss who was not out of the cabinet, promised Lady Wang to be a steward in Jia Province, which was actually very inappropriate. But she couldn't refuse, nor did she want to refuse, and she was even full of enthusiasm, wanting to use this east wind to show her fists and feet, let Madame Wang see her ability, and let the slaves of Jia Fu obey her kindness.
After all, in Jia Fu has been operating for seven or eight years, the "golden jade good fortune" thing is not mentioned, and the white one is about to embarrassingly cut out a big view garden, Xue Baochao wants to seize this opportunity, "Good wind with strength, send me to Qingyun."
She calculated very well, helping Madame Wang to catch those who were eating wine and gambling, causing a mess of wrongdoing, Madame Wang would praise her for being very capable, and those in-laws who drank and gambled money would also take her affection.
And because those mothers-in-law were making too much trouble, Xue Baochao was also afraid that something big would happen, and many people would have no face, and she had no face. Therefore, she made another big move: when she took advantage of the advantages and disadvantages of exploring Chunxing, she snatched the results without saying a word - contracting the income of Daguanyuan for one year and distributing it to all the mother-in-laws of Daguanyuan.
Bao Chao smiled and said, "Mothers, don't shirk your resignation, this is what it should be." As long as you work hard day and night, don't be lazy and indulge people to eat and drink and gamble money... If I only care about the reputation of Xiao Fen, and then drunken gambling has an accident, how can I see my aunt? You regretted it too late, and even your old face was lost. You have indulged others to eat, drink and gamble at will... I have now come up with this extra benefit for you, and I am also working together for you to take care of this garden... Nor will he waste his efforts to make progress for you, for if he can seize their power and give birth to your interests, will he not be able to rule by doing nothing and share their worries? Think about it. ”
BaoChao's paragraph is very long, but there are only two central ideas, of which the above large article mainly says: I took this money for the welfare of all of you, you don't want to do things anymore, eat alcohol and gamble money to restrain a little, don't let me worry about being difficult all day!
She repeatedly stressed three times that her in-laws were drunk and gambled money, and twice stressed that she gave her in-laws "benefits" and "profits", that is, to let those in-laws take advantage of her and listen to her words and stop gambling, so that she could make a difference to Madame Wang, and also showed her excellent talent of "ruling by doing nothing" and managing well, and everyone looked good on their faces.
This is a typical use of small favors to buy word of mouth, just like the merchant to promote price reduction or giveaways, mouth "help you save money" "give you gifts", just to buy more to increase sales, back to help do a publicity Oh ~
Then, there was also the part omitted by the ellipsis, and Bao Chao deliberately emphasized six times that this was entrusted to her by her aunt Madame Wang. It is particularly obvious to choose it alone, and it is particularly diaphragmy.
“...... You usually hear that my aunt personally asked me to ,...... If I don't, I will clearly ask my aunt to worry... Besides, it was my aunt who entrusted me... How do I meet my aunt? ...... The aunt heard it, and the lesson was still good, and if it was heard by the housekeepers, they didn't have to go back to the aunt...
This passage was specifically said to Tanchun and Li Yi: Although I was originally only in charge of security work, I am Madame Wang's spokesperson, and I have the right to come to inquire about the reform of Tanchun and decide on the cost of the contract income of Daguanyuan. To oppose me is to oppose my aunt!
Therefore, Tan Chun and Li Feng don't have much to say, after all, everyone is a temporary worker, you have brought out Madame Wang, we are not stupid, hard just no good, you love it!
Xue Baochao's trick "Xiao Huiquan" did not buy the in-laws to listen to her, and the consequence was to turn the "provincial villa", a symbol of Jia Fu's power, into the self-righteous "permanent inheritance" of these in-laws.
This is by no means a trivial matter of losing hundreds of taels of silver every year, but it confuses the rules and order of Jia Province.
The mother-in-law did not allow others to move at all, and there were many lower-level contradictions, such as Xiao Wei complaining about not being able to eat apricots, Liu Sister-in-law was suspected of quarreling with her mother-in-law under the plum tree, and Ying'er was chased and scolded by Xia Baozi He Baozi.
The in-laws who got the fat difference were not satisfied, did not contract the people under the fat difference, and did not look at the dividends and small profits promised by Xue Baochao, and began to engage in other ways to make money. As a result, more ugly things have been derived from "opening gambling games, gathering bets and drunken fights", "arbitrarily opening locks, and inducing adultery and theft".
This is why the slaves of Jia Fu have forgotten their duties and rules even more, in the words of Mandarin Duck: "These new grandmothers of the slave name at the bottom are satisfied one by one, and they don't know what to do!" ”
On Jia Mu's birthday, You Shi found that "only the main entrance and the corner gates in the garden were still not closed", the women on duty could not find any of them, the mother-in-law "only cared about the vegetables and fruits" went, and even took advantage of the chaos to steal things in the upper room of the masters, and Lady Wang immediately lost a lot of things in the house, not necessarily all of them were stolen by Ya Gui; Si Qineng and Pan You'an had an affair in the Grand View Garden, and it was Zhang Ma, who was responsible for guarding the door, who accepted the money and put it in...
The originally pure and beautiful Grand View Garden soon became a place of right and wrong, and Jia Fu became more and more chaotic, and everything happened after Xue Baochao's "Xiao Hui Quan Da Body".
Xue Baochao originally wanted to spend money to invite people's hearts, so that her mother-in-law would be grateful to her for taking the money, and from then on, she would be able to restrain and understand things, and she could also win the virtuous and beautiful name of being a housekeeper and winning the hearts of the people.
Unfortunately, her small favors, the means of inviting people's hearts, were used to deal with jia fu's household chores, which was completely bad, but made things worse.
Xue Baochao's actions this time made tanchun, Wang Xifeng, jia mu, these powerful people in the elite family can not stand it, they will not allow Baochao to harm the interests of the Jia family for personal gain, and shake the foundation of the Jia family business.
Therefore, taking advantage of Baoyu's frightened illness, Tanchun resolutely stood up and exposed various ugly things such as the gathering and gambling fight in Daguan garden, Wang Xifeng called the middle-level managers of Lin Zhixiao's family to a stinky scolding, and Jia's mother came out of the mountain and severely punished more than twenty large and small mother-in-laws with thunderous means, and the iron face was ruthless.
When raiding the Grand View Garden, Madame Wang did not even have any concerns about Xue Baochao, who was designed by Wang Xifeng, forcing her to take the initiative to move out, and Tanchun also deliberately rushed over and stepped on a foot, saying: "Relatives are good, and it is not necessary to live in death."
After Xue Baochao moved away, Lady Wang was very cold to her and the Xue family, Xue Pan married relatives, the Xue family did not have enough hands, and Lady Wang did not care. Later, Xia Jingui passed through the door, and she was not even qualified to come to Jia Province, which showed that Madame Wang was really afraid that the Xue family would cause her more trouble.
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