Jia Baoyu told King Beijing on the road, saying that at Qin Keqing's funeral, relatives and friends who were good friends with Jiafu had road sacrifices, and there were prominent four kings and eight dukes, among which King Beijing brought his subordinates to the road sacrifice in person, which made everyone in Jiafu feel very face-saving for a while.
This Beijing King Shui Rong is a young man of about twenty years old, and he has long known Jia Baoyu's reputation for being born with jade, so he took this opportunity to ask for a name to see Baoyu, so Jia Yu, Jia Zhen, Jia Zheng and Baoyu knelt down together to thank Shui Rong, this is also the first time Baoyu and Beijing King met, this matter is a big deal, so big that it looks back.
The prince personally sacrificed on the road, and the family affairs of the superiors came to the subordinates, which was naturally the glory of Jiafu, so when the messenger of Jiafu opened the road saw it, he immediately went to report to Jia Zhen, and Jia Zhen's reaction was: Urgently stationed in front of the station, and together with Jia pardon and Jia Zheng, the three people greeted the king of Beijing and met each other with national rites. The prince is a royal family, and Jiafu is a subordinate, to put it bluntly, this is the relationship between master and slave, and King Beijing's move flattered Jiafu.
King Beijing named to see Baoyu, the two actually got along at first sight, and they gave gifts, and invited Baoyu to the palace to talk back. After this operation, it confirmed the ironclad evidence of the friendship between Jiafu and Beijing's Palace.
Is this a plus for Jia Fu?
Non-ya.
What kind of existence did Jiafu exist in the political pattern at that time?
Wang Xifeng once said: "(The Jia family) just relied on his grandfather's false name to become a poor official, but it was just an empty shelf of the old days." This is not modesty, but fact. Jingguan only has a good reputation, and if he lived on the money, he would have starved to death.
Therefore, Jia Fu Li Jia Yu and Jia Zhen have taken the title and also have positions, but how have they ever seen them go to the court and manage politics? It doesn't even seem to be necessary to go to work, the family title is decreasing from generation to generation, and it is actually just an honorary title to their generation, as for the position, such a gentleman who relies on the shadow of his ancestors has no real ability at all, and he has long been marginalized, and the position he gives is just a mixture of eating and waiting for death.
Jia Zheng, as a member of the Ministry of Works, was also given a establishment by his father's dying emperor and joined the civil service, in terms of actual ability, he is not as good as Jia pardoning Jia Zhen. Jia Lian's official is a fellow who spent money to buy, and he may not even have a good fortune, Jia Rong is the five-grade dragon forbidden lieutenant who bought, and Jia Lian's, just a good name, the reason why Jia Mansion can still maintain its glory in high society, one is to rely on the residual power of the ancestors, and the other is that Jia Mansion also has a mascot Jia Mu, this is the real Mrs. of the National Prince, just like the spouses of those veterans today, focusing on an old qualification and high morality. Even if it's royal, you have to give some face.
The above is the real strength of Jiafu.
After some inventory, in fact, it is not too much to say that Jiafu has no use value for the court and the emperor. But people's ancestors have made contributions to the country, so after the meritorious heroes, they must always have a little compassion and tolerance, as long as they themselves do not become demons, let them go. The children of rich and noble families, if the education problem is not done well, it will only be a few generations to lose the foundation. For the emperor, there is no need to clean up a bunch of waste and let himself fall into the reputation of a hero who kills heroes.
Therefore, for Jiafu, the best way to deal with the world is to keep a low profile, live your own life, and have no ability to serve the country and share worries for the court, but don't be a demon and don't attract the attention of the court.
It's a pity that Jiafu doesn't understand this truth at all, but a fifth-generation great-granddaughter-in-law died, not only buying officials to raise the specifications of the funeral, but also buying vanity, during the funeral, the four kings and eight princes all came to the scene of the road sacrifice, and the dignified Beijing prince actually led his subordinates to pay tribute to a grave grandwoman in Jiafu, what is this for? It turns out that Jia Fu, who is already dying, still has such ability! It turns out that a bunch of waste Jiafu men can still make waves!
From the emperor's point of view, this King of Beijing is either being used, or he has no brains, or the court underestimated these Bagong groups that were about to be defeated. In short, Jia Zhen of Ningfu devoted everything he had to Qin Keqing's funeral to successfully attract the emperor's attention.
But this attention is not a good thing, because soon after, Yuan Chun was crowned a concubine, and then the concubine was provincial, as the saying goes, if you want to make it perish, you must first make it arrogant, and the Yuan Concubine was named the will of the virtuous concubine, and the Jiafu was complacent; As soon as the will of the provincial concubine was born, Jiafu began to build a large number of buildings.
What is the emperor doing? How can the Jia family, which was already sluggish, exhaust its wealth as soon as possible? There is nothing faster and more effective than a seemingly glorious, but in fact costly, a large project, and the reader can see the speed at which the economic situation of Jiafu collapsed after the Yuan Concubine was provincial.
As the descendants of the old courtiers, the Four Kings and Eight Princes Group are indeed a group of people in brocade clothes, and their wisdom is not online, and the road sacrifice of King Beijing himself is even more of a riot operation to kill the pig teammates of Jiafu, which seems to be a good intention, seems to give dignity, but in fact it is just a naïve move of the brain.
The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion
Reference to the original work: "Jiazhu Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record" "Gengchen Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record"
Image source: "The Dream of Red Mansions by Sun Wen"