Wang Xifeng's exclamation attracted the attention of everyone around her, but when they saw that the person standing in front of her was Mr. Xing, everyone felt relieved.

We are all the dearest relatives and friends of Rongguofu. How come we don’t know that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have always disliked each other and are on the same page?

Therefore, everyone thought that the scream was caused by Mrs. Xing taking the opportunity to attack again, so they all looked away. After all, no one wanted to get involved in the fight between the daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law.

Only Baoyu, who had just slipped back from the male guests' table, was startled before she sat down next to Xichun, so she asked curiously: "Sister Feng, what is 'you'? What does this mean?"

?”

Wang Xifeng turned around and glanced at him, and said angrily: "I asked you to eat less wine, but you refused to listen. Now you can't even hear the words clearly. How dare I call my wife 'you'? What I just said was clearly

The word 'is extremely'."

"I haven't had much wine, either?"

Baoyu scratched his head in confusion, he had clearly heard it very clearly just now, how could he have heard it wrong?

But then again, it is indeed unlikely that Sister Feng would address her mother-in-law as "you" in public.

Could it be that I really heard it wrong?

At this time, Tanchun tugged at the corner of his clothes and persuaded with a smile: "Brother, please sit down and have some food so that you can suppress the alcohol."

Seeing Baoyu sit down hesitantly, Wang Xifeng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was lucky that the three girls were here, otherwise it would be bad if this stupid brother kept asking questions and alerted the chairman.

She turned around, smiled slightly, and said with a respectful attitude: "My daughter-in-law didn't understand what she heard just now, so I would like to ask my wife to step in and give me some advice."

"That's fine."

Mr. Xing nodded slightly with a gloomy and charming face, and then walked towards a secluded corner.

She originally thought Jiao Shun was considerate, but unexpectedly he treated her like a plaything like Jia She. The fault was that all her wealth was in Jiao Shun's hands. Jia She was now suspected of having a heart disease.

I really wish I could break up with him!

but……

The surprised look on Feng Lazi's face just now gave Xing a vague idea that she was just angry and hesitant about whether to follow Jiao Shun's instructions, and didn't bother to think about the reason behind it.

Now that I thought about it carefully, I was suddenly surprised to find that Wang Xifeng was probably having a secret affair with Jiao Shun just like me!

This discovery horrified her, and the resentment in her heart suddenly weakened a lot. Instead, she began to think about the benefits that this matter might bring to herself.

So when they arrived at a quiet place, Mr. Xing couldn't wait to ask: "Are you and that Jiao Shun..."

"Mrs."

Wang Xifeng interrupted her and said with a smile: "Brother Shun asked me to marry Ping'er as my concubine, but he said he wanted to give me a living treasure to compensate for it. I thought it was a cat or a dog, but I didn't want to...

hehe."

Mr. Xing had just thought about it, so Wang Xifeng was thinking a lot.

The 'living treasure' given by Jiao Shun was obviously more important than she had imagined, but although Wang Xifeng hoped to hold her mother-in-law's hand, she did not want her own hand to be held by Xing.

Therefore, I first used this to silence Mrs. Xing. At the same time, I was testing whether Jiao Shun had abided by the agreement and not to tell others about his affairs at will.

Judging from Xing's reaction, Jiao Shun probably didn't say it clearly.

This made Wang Xifeng relax a little. Although Ms. Xing obviously didn't believe her words, as long as she didn't live up to her words, there would always be a way to evade her in the future.

unless……

Wang Xifeng recalled that Jiao Shun once proposed that she should be together with Heping'er, but was rejected by herself. She wondered if this little slave introduced the 'living treasure' to her because he wanted to...

Bah~

I really want to blind him!

Wang Xifeng's words made Mr. Xing a little unsure of his own speculation, but once the seeds of doubt were planted, how could they disappear so easily?

What's more, she also hopes in her heart that Wang Xifeng will be dragged into the water, so that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will return to the same moral level, and she will be more balanced in her own mind.

Now that Wang Xifeng refused to admit it, she subconsciously wanted to press her, but then she thought about it, her daughter-in-law had always been a decisive person, how could she easily change what she had decided?

If he continues to ask questions, he will only completely expose his relationship with Jiao Shun.

Why not learn from others...

"This brother Shun is really unseemly!"

Mr.

"Small business?"

Wang Xifeng's heart moved and she asked tentatively: "But what about the maritime trade business going to the West?"

Ms. Xing nodded slightly, and then asked, "I heard that your Wang family also participated?"

Wang Xifeng used greedy money to do business, so naturally he did not dare to openly use his own banner, so he only told the outside world that the business was the Wang family's business.

After confirming that Mr.

You have to stand up for me!"

Ms. Xing was a little unsure of what she meant.

Wang Xifeng then went further: "As the saying goes, we are in the same boat, but I will get closer to my wife in the future. If your wife gives you any instructions, I will definitely do it as appropriate."

Only then did Mr. Xing suddenly realize.

The current situation is: both of them are unwilling to admit their affair with Jiao Shun, but they both believe that the other person is cheating on her.

Therefore, Wang Xifeng simply put aside this core point and tried to form an offensive and defensive alliance with the Xing family on the surface using wealth as the reason and grasshoppers on the same boat as the link.

In this way, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had their own hidden agendas and were wary of each other, but they managed to reach a consensus.

Namely: Mrs.

And Wang Xifeng promised that she would appropriately give some of the fat jobs to the Xing family, so that she could get a share of the pie. This was also thanks to Mrs. Wang's move to Qingtang thatched cottage, and her ability to control the mansion was significantly reduced. Otherwise, Wang Xifeng might not have been able to do so.

Dare to hide it from her and agree to let the Xing family's people join the game.

But it was said that at the same time, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were playing riddles with each other and giving and receiving privately.

Tanchun also went beyond his agency, invited Jia Baoyu to be the go-between, and invited Jiao Shun to meet in a nearby pavilion.

Xiangyun played the leading role, and Chai and Dai also chose to accompany him. But what was surprising was that Jia Yingchun also followed for some reason.

After the two parties arrived at the pavilion, Tanchun couldn't help but ask after they had just finished their greetings: "Is it true that Mr. Sui Ge resigned? I wonder what impact this matter will have on Brother Jiao?"

Hearing her say "Brother Jiao", Jiao Shun was really uncomfortable.

I wonder if this little girl is trying to set a trap for myself again?

If nothing else, her acting skills have improved a lot.

There was a slight smile on his face, and he said calmly: "Miss Laosan is worried about me. This matter will naturally have a big impact. However, my promotion to the position of Gongxue Jijiu this time has already gone against the trend. If I think about it for this reason, I will not look forward to the future."

Wouldn't it be a failure of the Holy Spirit's trust? At worst, the soldiers will come and cover up the water and earth."

This calmness and ease in this critical situation immediately caused Tanchun's heartbeat to skip half a beat, and his breathing became slightly faster. For a moment, he forgot to continue speaking.

There is no other way. The third girl, who is full of hero complex, can't bear this trick the most.

Shi Xiangyun took the opportunity to take over the conversation and asked: "Has Brother Jiao thought of a countermeasure?"

"Is this..."

Jiao Shun deliberately hesitated for a moment, whetting the appetite of everyone across from him, and then said: "I'm afraid it's not that easy to completely resolve it, but it's not difficult to offset part of the impact."

"What do you mean by this?"

Lin Daiyu asked the third question.

“To put it simply, it’s just two words ‘add money’!”

Jiao Shun raised two fingers, shook them, and said seriously: "I am going to petition the court to use a portion of the increased profits from state-owned workshops to provide special New Deal subsidies to middle and lower-level officials starting next year."

"The better the New Deal is implemented, the greater the profit of the workshop, and the higher the amount of special subsidies. This should be able to dissolve the resistance of some officials to the New Deal."

"This new policy subsidy will be piloted in the capital city first, and then gradually extended to all provinces where the new policy is well implemented. Those who resist the new policy will naturally have to suffer as local officials for a while longer."

To put it bluntly, this method is not complicated. Who would think of a way to solve the problem by sending money?

The real key is that the New Deal can actually increase the country's income, rather than just making empty talk about filling the gap.

The beauty of this method of distributing money is that it not only partially appeases middle- and lower-level officials, but also forces local officials to promote new policies through performance appraisal. It can be said that they complement each other.

Among the six people opposite, except for the indifferent Baoyu and the absent-minded Yingchun, they were all more or less aware of the benefits of this method.

But they were not sure whether this idea would work.

After all, all the girls came from wealthy families. Even Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun, who were in relatively tight situations, had never experienced the kind of dilemma forced by life.

And they are accustomed to the propaganda of "literary character". Even if they have recently seen the faces of scholars opposing the New Deal for the sake of profit, this can barely be explained as a dispute over orthodoxy.

Now it is purely bought with money...

Jiao Shun saw their doubts and couldn't help laughing: "After all, there are only a few literati who don't give up for five buckets of rice. As the saying goes, if there is a shortage, you will cry out. It is precisely because there are few people who don't love money that they always mention it in poems and songs.

This matter."

The person who is most receptive to such rhetoric is Xue Baochai.

However, she had far more doubts about this method than others, and immediately pointed out the omissions: the new work-study policy has now been proven to be effective. There is still resistance in the officialdom, but most private businessmen have begun

promoted.

It may not have any impact in the short term, but over time, it will definitely affect the profits of the government-run workshops.

"I'm afraid that once the revenue of government-run workshops decreases, there will be a situation of 'it's easy to increase but it's hard to lose'. By then, if the subsidy is too big to be lost, I'm afraid it will be very harmful to the court."

After all, he is a master who has really participated in business operations, so these words hit the point.

However, the layout is still a bit small.

Jiao Shun smiled and said: "Miss Xue's concerns are very reasonable, but she ignores the current situation. After our country establishes formal trade relations with the Westerners, the number of goods going to sea will inevitably increase significantly in the next few years, and dozens of countries along the way will also

They are all excellent dumping grounds, and you won’t have to worry about not being able to sell your goods for at least ten years.”

As for whether we can continue to enjoy the dividends of maritime trade ten years from now, it depends on the strength of the navy built by Wang Ziteng. After all, unilateral dumping will inevitably trigger trade barriers. Naturally, we can only rely on big guns and giant ships.

It makes sense.

Of course, there is no need to analyze these bloody things in front of the girls.

Seeing that Xue Baochai, the most knowledgeable among the people, suddenly nodded, Shi Xiangyun and Tan Chun couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Jia Baoyu, who had been impatient for a long time, took the opportunity to shout: "Sister Yun finally met Brother Jiao, but why do you keep asking these boring questions? In my opinion, it's better, it's better... it's better for us to come together

How about playing cards?”

No one knew what to say, so he just accepted it as acquiescence, and happily asked people to take the cards, and then invited Xichun to form an eight-person game, and a group of maids acted as background cheerleaders.

…………

Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Longyuan put down the tea cup in his hand, and then twirled his eyebrows with his thumb. The pressure he had recently endured was more than ten times greater than that of Jiao Shun. Thanks to his high energy these days, he was not resisted by the civil servants in all their ways.

defeated.

After surviving this most intense wave of protests, he was exhausted but also more motivated.

What Taizu said is indeed true. Fighting against heaven, against earth, and against people is endless fun!

What's more, secretly he had long been dissatisfied with Sui Shilong as his first assistant, and now that Sui Ge had resigned, he was taking advantage of his wishes.

The only dissatisfaction was that there were too few senior officials available. After much thought over the past few days, the emperor could not find a candidate who was qualified to replace Sui Shilong and who was willing to support industrial reform.

Alas~

It would be nice if Jiao Shun were twenty years older.

But if it had been 20 years ago, how would he have been able to succeed?

Sure enough, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Just as he was sighing with emotion, Qiu Shian returned to the palace to deliver the order.

As soon as he entered the Qianqing Palace, he prostrated on the ground and buried his face deeply in the ground until he finished reporting the matter.

Emperor Longyuan didn't pay attention at first, but now he couldn't help but said: "What are you still lying on the ground for? Get up and talk."

"Slave, I don't dare."

"Um?"

When Emperor Longyuan's voice rose, Qiu Shi'an hurriedly got up, but still hung his head and neck like a quail.

Emperor Longyuan simply came closer, bent down and looked sideways, and saw that half of Qiu Shian's face was red and swollen, and there was a clear slap mark on it.

"What's going on?"

Emperor Longyuan raised his eyebrows: "Who beat you?"

Qiu Shi'an was sent out by himself to deliver the order, but now he was slapped. Isn't this a slap in the face?

"this……"

"explain!"

"The slave was unwilling to confront Prince Zhongshun, so the prince took action to teach the slave a lesson."

"Uncle Zhongshun again?"

Emperor Longyuan frowned even more when he heard this.

To be honest, he still can't understand his uncle.

If it was said that King Zhongshun was forced to resort to self-defeating measures initially because of the rumors of "abdicating himself to the emperor's younger brother", he would still understand.

But now this level of arrogance is really too much!

He wants to humiliate nobles, he wants to beat and scold military generals, he even wants to teach eunuchs who deliver orders...
Chapter completed!