The Heavens Begin with Dream of the Red Chamber

Chapter 28: If the plan is not kept secret, the disaster will occur

The invitation to the Baolinghou Mansion was sent to the other three families, but Jia Zhen was eager and wanted to persuade Zhan Twenty-four to get his share before arriving at Baolinghou's house.

The emperor has enough hungry soldiers. He is the heir to the Ningguo Mansion and a hereditary third-rank general. He can't just help for free, right?
The reason for this banquet was probably because the Shi family saw that the business was booming and planned to readjust the shares to squeeze out the market share of the Xue and Zhan merchant families.

But if all the shares belong to the Jia family, then the Shi family can only blame themselves for acting too late and being too distant from the Xue and Zhan families. They are not as close to the Jia family as they are, but they will not fight with the Jia family over this matter.

After all, although his Shi family is now quite prosperous, the Jia family has not yet declined, and its influence is even greater than that of his Shi family!
Even if Master Zhen disagrees, the Bowling Marquisate has to endure it no matter how unhappy it is!

As for the Xue family, if it weren't for their marriage relationship, they would have been swallowed up as well. How could they have any say?

With this wishful thinking in mind, Jia Zhen only invited Zhan Twenty-four to attend the banquet, but did not invite Xue Pan.

Zhan Ershisi was unaware of the situation and rode to Ningguo Mansion to meet Jia Zhen. As soon as he arrived at Ningrong Street, before he even reached Ningguo Mansion, he saw Wu Sihai running towards him in a hurry and whispered in his ear:

"Master, someone from Ningguo Mansion sent a message to our family, saying that Sister Lian and Master Zhen are conspiring to ruin your marriage."

Ever since the Xue family moved into the Rongguo Mansion, they have been spending money everywhere. Later, after they moved to the Ningguo Mansion, they were also generous.

These silver bullet offensives finally paid off. The maid who poured tea for Wang Xifeng heard their conspiracy and turned around and sold her to the Xue family, making a profit of five hundred taels of silver.

Zhan Twenty-four raised his eyebrows and immediately knew the purpose of Jia Zhen's invitation to him into the mansion. Without saying a word, he turned his horse and rode straight to Baolinghou's mansion.

In fact, if we just want to deal with Jia Zhen, there are too many ways.

Apart from anything else, Zhan Ershisi could have turned around and thrown himself into Jia She's arms.

Jia She and Jia Zhen are of the same kind and will do anything for money.

In the original book, Jia She mortgaged his concubine Jia Yingchun to Sun Shaozu, the wolf of Zhongshan, because of a debt of 5,000 taels of silver. Now the honeycomb coal business seems to be worth much more than 5,000 taels. If Zhan Ershi and Baochai's marriage fails, they can use the shares of honeycomb coal as a betrothal gift to marry Jia Yingchun.

Based on Zhan Ershisi's understanding of Jia She, he knew he had it all under control, no problem at all!

At that time, let Jia She and Jia Zhen, the greedy uncle and nephew, fight each other to see who can win!

Jia Yingchun is a cowardly person who has always been submissive. In the original book, she is laughed at by everyone as a "wooden man". It must be that if he were a little tougher, it would not be difficult even if he could get her.

He could even set a trap for Jia She, and after taking in Jia Yingchun, he could induce her to break off the engagement and then marry someone else.

It's a pity that the Bowling Marquis Shi Nai is not as shameless as those people in the Jia family, and Shi Xiangyun is not a concubine's daughter like Jia Yingchun. With just the shares of honeycomb coal, he is not qualified to marry her. Otherwise, Zhan Ershisi would have wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to break off the marriage with the Xue family.

But... no!
As I said, the Baoling Mansion can make money, but the Ningguo Mansion cannot make money. The servants and slaves of the two families can make money, but the master of the Jia Mansion cannot make money!
So when he was doing the honeycomb coal business, he just sat back and watched his servants take advantage of the situation and profit from it.

Although the honeycomb briquettes business seems to be booming now, there are also many hidden costs.

Zhan Ershisi had no idea how many traps he had dug secretly.

When they settle the accounts at the end of the month, the two families will find that although the business has high income, the various fees incurred by the manager and the waiters have not yet been taken into account!

Once these miscellaneous expenses are deducted, the net profit will not be high.

However, such things cannot be seen at the moment. In order to prevent changes in the future, Zhan Ershisi simply took advantage of Jia Zhen's trouble this time and kicked Ningguo Mansion out of the subsequent business.

Thanks to the book friend "Zhonglong" for the reward of 100 coins!
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(End of this chapter)