As long as Mrs. Wang is willing to let Xia Jingui in, Jia Mu may still think about Shi Xiangyun and Jia Baoyu becoming a couple at first.

After all, Jia Mu herself was born in the Shi family. Without Lin Daiyu as her biological grandson, it would be good to have a grandnephew instead.

Moreover, after Daiyu was named the head of Fushun County by the emperor, her marriage was no longer the decision of Jia Mu.

Coupled with the need to win over Shi Zhongkui, this was probably one of the reasons why Jia Mu had to agree in the end.

In this case, Jia's mother would of course think of Shi Xiangyun and marry into the Jia family like her.

But this idea is likely that as the Jia family gets richer and richer, their losses will become larger and they will have to bow to reality and agree to Mrs. Wang's idea to let Xia Jingui in.

Don't look at the Jia family because Shi Zhongkui's second wife was Yingchun and the eldest wife was Baochai, a relative's niece, which stabilized the family's position in the Zhou Dynasty.

But it is not that easy to convert this kind of status into money in a short period of time.

Shi Zhongkui never went out even after returning home. Even if someone wanted to use his prestige to cause trouble, there was no chance.

Secondly, Shi Zhongkui used Xue Pan, Jia Lian, and Jia Rong as excuses to suppress the unhealthy trends in the Jia and Xue families.

Not to mention making money, because his family background became more prominent, his daily expenses suddenly became larger.

According to the Jia family's consistent practice of making people look fat, the extravagance within the family will only get worse.

If the Lai family hadn't been robbed before and received a lot of money, the Jia family might have been unable to survive.

But after Jia Lian inherited the title of Rong Guofu, the family was truly and completely taken over by Wang Xifeng.

Because of their filial piety, she and Jia Lian did not dare to lower the expenses of Jia's mother, Jia She and his wife, Jia Zheng and his wife, their two younger sisters, and Jia Lan, their nephew and mother.

But the consumption of hundreds of taels of silver per month, or even one or two thousand taels of silver, will definitely make my heart hurt.

After all, the money stolen from the Lai family belongs to the couple in theory.

Jia She lost his title, lost his future, and even almost wanted to become a Taoist priest like Jia Zhen. With this mentality, he would not save money for Rongguo Mansion.

In the past, Wang Xifeng was obviously in charge of the family expenses, but secretly it was Mrs. Wang who was in charge of the money.

Jia She wanted to buy a concubine and antique toys, so he had to plan carefully.

But now that his own son has become the heir to the title of Rongguo Mansion, and Jia She still spends endless amounts of money, he is no longer Jia She.

Therefore, the richer the Jia family is, the less money they have.

Although it can still be maintained for a few years now, the Jia family must have lingering fears after the loss of Grand View Garden.

In addition, Wang Xifeng is in power, so even if she considers her son, she cannot let Rong Guofu fail.

Jia Lian and Xue Pan cooperated to buy Babao Liquor, and all nominal shares belonged to Xue Pan.

The amount of money that secretly belonged to Jia Lian was definitely quite large, but he did not dare and would not take it back to Rongguo Mansion.

One entered the Rongguo Mansion. Because there was no separation of families, the money was in the public account.

Secondly, when he entered the warehouse, it was like Wang Xifeng was in charge.

Judging from Jia Lian's previous tendency to fish out every penny in the frying pan, he was unwilling to live a life where he had to ask Wang Xifeng for money if he wanted to spend money.

Not to mention that although this guy has a bottom line, he is definitely a playboy, and he can only fool around outside if he has money.

Shi Zhongkui wanted to understand this, glanced at Ji Guangxiang, who had a low eyebrow, and secretly thought that the old eunuch had obtained the information buried in the Jia family spy report from Xia Shouzhong, the eunuch beside the emperor.

So if you want to deal with the Jia family, you don't need to use underhanded tactics. Just increasing the Jia family's expenses can force the Jia family to find money.

If you are more sinister and deliberately provoke comparisons between Jia Yuanchun and other concubines, the Jia family will have to send money to the palace every month.

If it were this kind of thing before, Shi Zhongkui would definitely hate it, but now, he wishes that eunuchs like Ji Guangxiang would work harder.

He put the tea bowl in his hand on the table and said with a smile, "Last year, the Emperor allowed the natal family of the emperor's concubines to build a separate courtyard at their home. It has been a year and a half, but have any of the concubines returned home to visit the bride?"

Ji Guangxiang's heart tightened again, "Back to the eldest master, because the grassland in the north is not very peaceful, this matter has been put off and no one dares to mention it."

"Prairie," Shi Zhongkui sneered.

It's already mid-March now, and the snow has almost melted.

So there was really something big happening on the grassland, and it should have spread throughout the capital by now.

But no news came out, which means that the plague and heavy snow last year did cause excessive losses to the grassland.

It's even so big that it lacks the ability to go south to fight the autumn wind.

At the same time, the loss of cattle and sheep due to heavy snowfall is not as high as the loss of population caused by the plague.

Those who survived suddenly discovered that the number of cattle and sheep that could be consumed per capita was actually higher than before the plague, and the bottom class did not have so much motivation to fight the war.

Therefore, grassland leaders are eager to make up for their losses and have to appease the herdsmen first.

Maybe even the grasslands are busy fighting each other at this time to compete for pasture and annex various small tribes.

After the forces are reshuffled, it will be possible to go south in the autumn.

At that time, going south would only grab a wave of people, food and wealth and leave.

So as not to be trapped by the wind and snow.

This can also be explained. The spies from the grassland would enter the capital with jewelry and other items. At this time, they should be more afraid that Zhou would take the opportunity to send troops into the grassland.

Shi Zhongkui sighed and told his guess. Ji Guangxiang was suddenly stunned.

If you think about it carefully, it will be summer in half a month. The grassland army is coming, and it is indeed long overdue.

But they didn't come, so it was really possible that it was just as the elder said.

Shi Zhongkui said with a smile, "Go and tell Xia Shouzhong my guess and ask him to send Xiu Yiwei into the grassland to find out carefully if one of our own people is really beating his own people on the grassland.

After this summer, the army that survived the battle on the grassland will be much more destructive than the ones they rushed over at this time."

Ji Guangxiang nodded hurriedly. After all, Zhou was his hometown, and no one really wanted to see the prairie people raiding in, burning, killing, and looting.

"Don't worry, sir. I'll go and inform Xia Shouzhong now."

Shi Zhongkui waved his hand and looked at Ji Guangxiang hurried away, smiling secretly in his heart.

After Xia Shouzhong found out, he would definitely take Ji Guangxiang to see the emperor.

After the emperor heard this, even if he didn't consider himself as a god who was an official in heaven, the weight of what he said was just a matter of thinking about it, and he would basically agree with it.

If the information he heard was correct, he would definitely ask questions about everything he said to Ji Guangxiang while taking a more serious attitude.

With Eunuch Ji's ability, he would definitely understand. Letting Jia Yuanchun return home to visit relatives would be like continuing to hollow out the Jia family.

It happened that Jia Lian, Xue Pan and Liu Changji, the stall owner of Xiuyiwei, captured a group of grassland spies.
Chapter completed!