"Dream of the Red Chamber" reads to the seventy-second time, and the title of the reply is "Wang Xifeng is arrogant and shy to say that she is sick, and laiwang women rely on the power to become relatives."
If this time is summed up in one sentence, it is: the economic situation in Jia Province is becoming more and more difficult! Jia Lian's search for Mandarin ducks to borrow is economic tension, Feng Jie's support for the little eunuch pawn gold collar is also economic tension, the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony also needs pawn to support is also economic tension, Jia Lian's coping with zhou eunuch's sona difficulty is also economic tension (of course, it also shows that Yuan Chun fell out of favor in the palace)... But we can all put these aside for the time being, let's discuss one of the most controversial issues in "Dream of the Red Chamber":
Does Lin Ruhai have any inheritance, and has Jia Lian embezzled lin Ruhai's legacy to Daiyu?
The reason why there is this problem is because this time, Jia Lian privately said a word to Wang Xifeng: "This will be another three or two million yuan." The point of this sentence is that there is a "re" word, and since it is "again", it means that Jia Lian once sent "three or two million fortunes".
(Wang Xifeng said that he was ashamed of his illness)
Considering Jia Lian's life, where is his chance of making "three or two million fortunes"? In fact, there are only two things that he is likely to obtain "three or two million yuan": 1. Deal with the inheritance of Lin Daiyu's family; 2. Build the Grand View Garden.
Thinking again, the construction of the Grand View Garden involved Jia Yu and Jia Zhen, and it is unlikely that Jia Lian will get "three or two million" from it (although Jia Yu and Jia Zhen are lustful, they are not stupid), but it does not rule out that he will issue "a certain amount" of wealth, because Jia Lian is a direct handler.
Then, the most likely opportunity for Jia Lian's "three or two million fortune" is that he embezzled it when he went to dispose of Daiyu's father Lin Ruhai's inheritance.
There are three questions: 1. Can the Lin family's inheritance reach a huge amount of three or two million? 2. Does Dai Yu have the right to inherit? 3. Did Jia Lian embezzle Lin Ruhai's legacy to Daiyu?
(Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng)
First of all, let's talk about the first question: Does the Lin family have a huge inheritance?
First of all, the Lin family has accumulated over the generations, and it is certain that the Lin family has an inheritance. After all, by the time Lin Ruhai died, the Lin family had become "extinct", and the accumulation of the Lin family for generations was eventually accumulated here in Lin Ruhai. We see:
It turned out that the ancestor of this forest was like the sea, who had attacked the princes, and now he was like the sea, and he had been through the fifth generation. In the beginning, only three were inherited, because the present Longen Shengde, far from the previous generation, the additional Garn, to the father of the sea, attacked another generation; to the sea, he was born from Kodi. Although it is the home of Zhong Ding, it is also a family of scholars. (2nd time)
Lin Ruhai is from Tanhua, but his family is the "Zhong Ding Family", accumulated over the generations, it is possible to have a certain amount of wealth, and it is precisely for this reason that when Jia Yucun had the opportunity to reinstate, Lin Ruhai directly offered to help, and the extent of the help can be seen from his words:
Even if there is an example of a fee, the brother has already made it clear in the letter of the brother-in-law, and it is not necessary to worry about the brother. (3rd time)
Jia Yu village reinstatement, in addition to the jia family's so-called "relationship", must be the need for "fees", in fact, is the "buy official" fee, if you find out the market for two generations of buying officials, a little estimate, Jia Yu village reinstated ying tian prefect, about to spend five thousand to ten thousand two, listen to Lin Ruhai's tone, Jia Zheng is only to help through the "relationship", "cost" aspect, Lin Ruhai will not let Jia Zheng out of this money, and Lin Ruhai is even more unlikely to go bankrupt to help the child's teacher buy an official, there is only one possibility, that is, this amount, For the Lin family, it should be a small amount of money.
(Lin Ruhai)
Then, the inheritance of the Lin family, at the time of Lin Ruhai's death, plus the income from the sale of real estate and mu, the amount should not be small.
Secondly, Jia Min's dowry. According to the concept of "door to door" at that time, if the Lin family's family status did not match, Jia Min would not marry Lin Ruhai. According to the amount of dowry that Wang Xifeng and Lady Wang married, Wang Xifeng said:
Look at my wife and my dowry in detail, and compare it to yours, and it is not worthy of you. (72nd)
As a reference, Jia Min, as Jia Min's most distressed daughter (even Lady Wang is jealous), the richness of the dowry can be imagined, not to mention, when Jia Min got married, the Jia family was still a prosperous family.
(Jia Mu and Dai Yu)
In addition, Lin Ruhai's Feng Lu and the "gray" income that his position may bring. Lin Ruhai was born to explore flowers, and then rose to lantai temple doctor, and then hand-picked as the inspector of salt royal history, before Dai Yu entered Beijing, Lin Ruhai had been in charge of the salt royal history for a year, until his death, he served at least five years (because the position is unknown, we can only calculate it this way), in such a "fat difference" position, Lin Ruhai's income should be quite rich, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, "three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", not to mention, Lin Ruhai is the richest place in the world, holding the most "fat" official position, even if he is clean enough, It is also bound to accumulate a correspondingly huge amount of wealth.
To sum up the above three points: the Lin family has a sufficient amount of inheritance, as to whether it can reach "three or two million" or much greater than this amount, we cannot quantify it in detail for the time being.
Let's ask the second question: Does Daiyu have the right to inherit the inheritance?
Many people will say that according to the old feudal system, daughters do not have the right to inherit the inheritance, but please note that it means that the daughter who is married, Dai Yu has not yet married, and she is the only legal heir of the Lin family, or the Lin Ruhai inheritance mentioned here, there should be Dai Yu's maintenance and dowry, we use the word "inheritance" instead of the expression is more convenient.
It's just a pity that this Lin family branch is not prosperous, and the descendants are limited, although there are several doors, but they are only a tang clan with Ruhai Ju, and there is no pro-branch sect. Now Ruhai is forty years old, only a three-year-old son, and he died last year. Although there were several concubines, nai he was childless, and there was nothing to do. Now only his wife Jia Shi gave birth to a daughter, whose name was Daiyu... (2nd time)
Even if the Lin family has other side branches (in fact, there is no one), Dai Yu can still get a large share of the maintenance and dowry, not to mention that the family has no successor, and the foreign surname is out of the funeral. Jia Lian came forward to deal with this matter, Dai Yu's side could not bear the loss, Lin Ruhai's tang clan and the power of Ji Concubines could not compete with Jia Lian, because Dai Yu was not yet an adult, and the Jia family was The legal guardian of Dai Yu, so this asset was managed by the Jia family.
What's more, in the above three types of inheritance, at least the dowry that Jia Min (that is, Daiyu's mother) brought from her mother's family will definitely be left to Daiyu.
Lin Daiyu arrived at Jia Mansion, in fact, everyone knew that she had a rich dowry, so Wang Xifeng would push Baoyu in front of Daiyu's joke:
(Feng Jie joked about Daiyu)
Sister Feng smiled and said, "Don't dream! You have made a daughter-in-law to our family, what is missing? Pointing to Bao Yu, he said, "You see, characters, the door is not worthy, the foundation is not worthy, the furniture is not worthy?" Who else does that insult? (Twenty-five times)
Usually, when a man hires a woman, he will certainly not deliberately mention that his furniture is stronger than that of the woman, but Wang Xifeng emphasizes Jia Baoyu's furniture, which can only explain one problem: Daiyu's wealth is too high, and her wealth is still a large amount even if it is placed in Jia Province.
It is precisely for this reason that Dai Yu can appreciate people at will in the case of two or two "moon silver" every month, without stinginess, Jia Hui sends tea leaves...
Jia Hui listened and ran in, sat down on the bed, and smiled: "I am so created!" ...... Miss Lin grabbed two for me, and I don't know how many. You took it for me. He opened the handkerchief and poured out the money, and Hongyu counted it for him. (26 times)
The Xue family's mother-in-law sent bird's nest...
Dai Yu heard this and smiled, "It's hard for you." Mistakenly you get rich and send it in the rain. "Order someone to give him a few hundred dollars, some wine to eat, and shelter from the rain." The mother-in-law laughed and said, "I also paid the girl to enjoy wine and eat." "Said, prostrated his head..., and went to the umbrella." (45 times)
Note that there is a "again" here, indicating that Dai Yu is not the first time that such a shot is "a few hundred dollars".
Therefore, we can conclude that Dai Yu inherited a huge inheritance (or maintenance and dowry), not only do everyone know it, but Dai Yu herself knows it, but this inheritance is not all in Dai Yu's hands, and Dai Yu has no right to dispose of it before she becomes a family.
(Jinyi Daiyu)
Finally, let's talk about whether Jia Lian has embezzled Lin Ruhai's legacy to Daiyu?
After Jia Lian received the inheritance of the Lin family, he soon learned the news of Yuan Chun's concubine, so he hurried home in a hurry——
I was supposed to arrive home in the moon, but because I heard the happy letter of Yuan Chun, I went day and night to ,...... (16 times)
The biggest reason why do you want to travel day and night is to rush to use the money that should belong to Daiyu, because you have to build a grand view garden and cope with the corresponding people's feelings. The huge project of building the "Grand View Garden" is really a bit inadequate for Jia Fu, who "although the outer shelf has not fallen much now, the inner bag has also been exhausted" (Leng Zi Xingyu, the second time), and the money that Lin Ruhai left to Dai Yu's inheritance came at the right time, for emergency, the property that belonged to Dai Yu was urgently sent to the use of building the Grand View Garden.
For the construction of the Grand View Garden, the cost of the source is likely to be composed of three parts: one is the family foundation of the Jia family officials (this amount is not large, because the Jia family economy is very tight); the second is lin Ruhai's inheritance to Daiyu; the third is the royal subsidy, this amount will not be much, symbolically there is this money. The sum of these three sums of money is not a small number, and Jia Lian, as the person who handled it, secretly concealed a lot from it, which is a large sum of money, which is the amount of "three or two million" that Jia Lian said.
Not all of this amount is Lin Ruhai's legacy to Daiyu, but it must contain a corresponding proportion, in the hands of Jia Lian, the goose plucked the hair, the money in the official, the money in the daiyu, he will fight the ambush, but in terms of the difficulty of operation, Daiyu's money, he embezzled it more conveniently (because he is the direct handler, and there is no supervision after returning to Beijing). But for Jia Lian, this money basically belongs to the same time, in his consciousness, this is the "same" windfall!
(Jia Lian)
Some people will say that Dai Yu is so ice and snow smart, doesn't she know how much property she has? Why would she say she had "nothing"? In fact, this reason is very simple: on the one hand, after Dai Yu entered jia mansion, she didn't care about money and money, and she didn't worry about eating and wearing, so there was no need to claim rights; on the other hand, it was also the main reason, that is, this money Dai Yu could not control, Jia Mu was her legal guardian, and since the property of the Lin family was changed from Jia Lian to silver tickets for jia mu to keep, then it was reasonable for the Jia family to embezzle it to build the Grand View Garden, it cannot be said that the Jia family embezzled this silver, the Jia family's original intention should be to borrow, but then the Jia family was broken and unable to return, and then later, Dai Yu died early, and there was no need to return it.
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