The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 233 Qin Gong Department

A few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jia Rong began to give lessons to children and adults.

A dozen or so elementary school students who were able to go to school sat in the front rows, and in the back sat the mothers of the children, such as Jia Yuanchun, who supervised and listened.

Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Jia Tanchun, Li Wan, Li Qi and others were sitting and listening to the lecture.

Jia Rong didn't care about Qingwen, Yuanyang, Ping'er, Xiaohong and the others, and just let them stand there.

Jia Rong said, "Let's start with numbers today. This is 1, this is 2, and this is 3."

Soon Jia Rong began his not-so-interesting teaching. The maids found it boring and walked out.

Several mothers also found it boring, but they were too embarrassed to leave.

Including Qin Keqing, who was also supervising her son to study hard.

Twenty minutes later, Jia Rong no longer spoke 123, but slightly increased the difficulty.

"The perimeter of a regular dodecagon is 12r, the area of a perfect circle is pi r squared, pi is 3.1415926, and a regular dodecagon is not that round, so its area is 3 pi r squared."

Qin Keqing asked, "Master, are these all from the Ministry of Works?"

Before Jia Rong could answer, Lin Daiyu answered first, "These are Zu Chongzhi's "Zhuishu", which was a mathematics textbook in the Imperial Academy in the Tang Dynasty."

Jia Tanchun learned the arts of calligraphy, chess, and painting, and she has a clear memory of information about some celebrities.

"Zu Chongzhi was not only good at mathematics, but also a skilled craftsman. His father was also a senior engineer, in charge of construction projects."

Qin Keqing nodded and looked at her two sons who were not talking much in the front, who could not understand anything and just wanted to go out and play.

Jia Rong quickly continued his lectures, mainly disciplining a dozen or so children.

Qin Keqing was still very concerned about her sons. Her two sons and one daughter would leave the palace and start their own families in the future.

Jia Pu and Jia Ji should indeed learn these things so that they can have a more stable development in the Ministry of Industry in the future.

In recent years, too many officials have been beheaded and their property confiscated. Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Works has the least death toll. In addition, Jia Rong has been building relationships with the Ministry of Works for a long time, so the Ministry of Works has become a popular one.

There is high pay, little work, and it is close to home. Most importantly, you don’t have to worry about being blamed, and even the social engagements are less, but the business is profitable.

Another thing is that the requirements for appearance are not as high as those for other departments, and a lot of people with good brains but ugly mouths and faces have been recruited.

Although Jia Rong is a scholar, he does not like the rules that scholars follow. Instead, he gets along well with the head craftsmen and research institutes under the Ministry of Works, and often gets things like iron sheets and gunpowder in the name of research.

Zu Chongzhi lived a thousand years ago. What the imperial court lacked was not talents, but the talents themselves lacked the stage and soil to display their abilities.

Over the past decade, Jia Rong has blasted open the originally solid soil layer, and both the construction industry and the science and technology agricultural fields are booming.

Especially after the death of the retired emperor, institutions such as agriculture, science and technology, and metallurgy were no longer suppressed by imperial power, but instead were supported by people like Jia Rong.

After the emperor's southern tour, most of the court affairs were managed by the left and right prime ministers. Anyway, as long as they did not interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of Works, Jia Rong did not want to go to court to join in the fun.

After the get out of class, a group of mothers stood up and walked towards Jia Rong.

Jia Yuanchun said: "Master, it is indeed a good thing to learn these things, but you also need to train a child to govern the country so that he can inherit the palace in the future."

Jia Rong laughed and said, "How to govern a country? I don't know how to do this myself, how can I teach you?"

Jia Yuanchun knew that she couldn't persuade Jia Rong, but she still had to say a few more words for the sake of the child. Even if the child in this palace would belong to someone else in the future, they were still a family after all, and it was a good thing to have a backbone.

"Then teach me how to be an official. If you don't have the ability, how can you become a prince?"

Jia Rong laughed and said, "My becoming a prince has nothing to do with how much I read! It has nothing to do with my medical skills! In short, it's luck, they can't learn it, just follow me and learn mathematics. If you don't want to learn, you don't have to learn. It doesn't cost much to hire a Jinshi."

Seeing Jia Rong's depressed look, Jia Yuanchun was speechless.

Jia Rong smiled and said, "You should learn some arithmetic, so that it will be easier to manage your accounts."

Just as Jia Rong was about to continue mocking these women who were paid by piecework, Qingwen, who had run out to play, walked in quickly.

"Master, Lord Qin said that the rickshaws the prince wanted have been built. A total of six were made."

Jia Rong no longer had the heart to laugh at these women and walked out quickly.

"I gonna go see!"

After hearing this, a few children followed out to watch the fun.

Jia Yuanchun did not go out, and looked at Qin Keqing again, "Sister, don't you want to go out and take a look?"

Qin Keqing smiled and said, "It would be troublesome if I went, so I'd better not go. It's enough to know that my father and brother are doing well now. The more I see them, the sadder I will feel. If I see them too much, I'm bound to dislike each other."

At this time, Qin Keqing's little daughter Jia Xing shouted, "Mom, I want to go out and play too."

Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Let the nanny take you out to meet your grandfather." Seeing that Qin Keqing had no intention of going out, Jia Yuanchun and others did not say anything.

Qin Ye has always been very old-fashioned towards his daughter and always feels that she is shameful.

Jia Yuanchun and others actually understood Qin Ye's point of view, and they also knew that Qin Keqing didn't want to see her father either.

The father and daughter maintained a basic relationship, just knowing that the other was doing okay.

Lin Daiyu didn't quite understand this kind of relationship, and said faintly: "They were so close, and no one was stopping them from seeing each other, so why didn't they meet?"

Qin Keqing smiled and said, "I have my own husband, children and good sisters. My father also has a beautiful concubine, promising sons and daughters-in-law, grandchildren and granddaughters. It's enough for everyone to live well. Why do we have to get together?

"Being a good daughter, a caring sister, and a virtuous sister-in-law is too tiring. Now I just want to be myself at home. Going out and seeing people once will add to my worries for a hundred days."

Third Sister You said with a smile: "A daughter who is married off is like water spilled. Your daughter Xing'er will ignore you after she goes out. Let's see what you can do!"

Qin Keqing looked at her good sisters and said, "Then we will be childless. Our master is strong and healthy. If he lives to be 100, I can live to be 99. I don't have to worry about anything and I don't have to suffer any hardship."

Jia Yuanchun also smiled, "That's true. I've been married for ten years and have never suffered a hard day. I wish I could be as relaxed as you earlier. You are the most blessed one in our family!"

Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Isn't it the same for you? You have been following me for more than ten years. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have had these ten years of good life."

Baoqin can be said to be the least beautiful of Jia Rong's women.

The one with the lowest social status is Qingwen, but she is very beautiful.

Even though Baoqin was not good-looking and was not very popular with Jia Rong because of her age, she was still treated like an aunt at home, and received the same benefits as the beautiful aunt during festivals.

Although the piece-rate wages are lower, there is a guarantee of wages from old employees.

This stable welfare policy benefited many maids. Even Xiren, a maid who had once been obsessed with Jia Baoyu, often thought about seducing Jia Rong.

But Jia Rong has no shortage of women. There are plenty of beautiful, coquettish, virtuous and pure women around him to use. Because of the changes in the scientific and mathematical atmosphere, he begins to tend to think that it is better to buy than to make, and it is better to rent than to buy.

After all, women like Xue Baochai, Lin Daiyu, and Qin Keqing were all brought up in other families.

People like Qingwen and Yinglian, who grew up in the Jia family, have natural looks, and it doesn't cost much to buy them.

Loyalty is actually not reliable at all. Even a son who is raised to inherit the family business can be disloyal and unfilial.

You can’t buy Lin Daiyu with money, but you can definitely buy a beautiful woman.

Jia Rong quickly took the children and got on six rickshaws, but there were no rickshaws.

After experiencing the speed and comfort of the coachman pulling people around the front yard hall, Jia Rong was very satisfied.

"Great! I don't have to worry about being late for work in the winter because my feet are frozen. This is more useful than a horse!"

The driver quickly put down the handlebars, stopped, and said politely to Jia Rong: "Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty!"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Okay! Who designed and built these cars? Let the Ministry of Industry open a car shop and let him continue to produce these cars. If he can't make a thousand taels a year, come to me and I'll make up for it!"

Qin Ye said happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty! This was designed by Qin Zhong!"

After hearing this, Jia Rong gave a strange smile.

"Father-in-law, tell me the truth. I just want to ask you one question: yes or no?"

Qin Ye said awkwardly, "Qin Zhong and a blacksmith worked together to make it according to your instructions, Your Majesty. From the early spring of this year to the late autumn of this year, we were busy for seven or eight months, and I personally supervised it for a long time."

Jia Rong nodded after hearing this. "Let the blacksmith lead a hundred people to continue to produce this car. If there are any parts or ironware needed, open a small workshop to make them. Even if you open a hundred workshops, it's no problem. There will be rewards after they are done."

"As for Qin Zhong, let him continue to learn something in the Ministry of Industry and then gradually be promoted in the future."

Qin Ye was very happy, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Jia Rong quickly left behind six rickshaws.

Within two days, Jia Rong fired more than fifty sedan chair bearers in his family.

Whoever dares not accept new things, get out!
Although there were also many rickshaw drivers who earned more than ten times more than others to support their families and were resentful and gathered together to cause trouble after being fired.

But he was soon beaten with eight sticks in one second by his colleagues who used to drink and eat meat with him and then became guards, and he ran away in panic with his head in his hands.

Jia Rong realized that paying more salary can indeed help maintain loyalty, but paying too much salary can easily lead to people having wrong perceptions.

Therefore, your salary and benefits should be considered according to your peers and should not be much higher than others. Otherwise, it will be easy to cause trouble when you are fired or have your salary reduced in the future.

Jia Rong quickly assigned some unimportant jobs, such as taking out the trash in the outer courtyard, sweeping the floor, cleaning up animal feces, cleaning the pond, and making clothes and shoes for the servants, to temporary workers outside or shops.

The beauties in the inner courtyard garden will not be moved, but some young and beautiful local people from the capital will be recruited regularly to come in and work, to put some pressure on the maids!
Even if you are a temporary worker, the treatment is more than ten times better than outside and is very decent.

(End of this chapter)