Chapter 31 (13) Spring Dream of the Red Chamber

In this world, honest officials are not so rare, but the number does not allow us to make an overly optimistic estimate. In fact, for leading cadres at all levels, they are neither honest officials nor corrupt officials, they are just muddleheaded officials.After all, there are very few lucrative law enforcement positions, and most officials will find it difficult to rely on them throughout their lives. Therefore, once Yongzheng's policy of "returning consumption and envy to the public" was implemented, it was first welcomed by oil and water officials with law enforcement powers.They immediately rushed out, arrested a group of ordinary people, randomly found a fine, and paid a small change, and the task was completed.

The vast majority of officials without law enforcement powers were immediately dumbfounded in the face of this new economic policy. For example, the Ningguo Mansion mentioned in Cao Xueqin's famous book is the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou. The owner of this family is Li Xu, who is Cao Xueqin's father's aunt's house.This family cannot be categorized as honest or corrupt officials, but one thing is certain, Li Xu has no power to enforce the law and cannot solve the problem by fishing and fines.Even if he had made some money before, he had already spent it on family building, buying rouge for little Cao Xueqin and rubbing it on his face.At this time, Yongzheng suddenly asked him to pay a huge and frightening amount, and Li Xu, who was seventy-three years old, was immediately dumbfounded.

no money is not it? It's easy to do without money, Li Xu sent to Liaodong to serve as an army, if you are exhausted, you will freeze to death, and all the women of the Li family will be auctioned in the market.In the novel, Sister Feng's underage daughter was sold to a brothel as a young prostitute. Cao Xueqin couldn't bear to write the tragic scene in the world, so she wrote that Grandma Liu, a poor rural household, bought the poor child back from the brothel. But in reality, how can a poor rural household afford a cash cow in a brothel? In the first year of Yongzheng's accession to the throne, nine people, including the governor, chief envoy, inspector, and food and road official, were ransacked and wiped out.

In fact, the so-called daughter of Sister Feng actually existed in history, and she was Li Xu's granddaughter Li Xiangyu.At the same time, some people suspected that she was also Zhonglin Daiyu herself. Regardless of whether it was true or not, she was Cao Xueqin's girlfriend anyway, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. Cao Xueqin hid Li Xiangyu and continued to play the game of eating rouge. So this little Cao Xueqin, he is full of deep-seated hatred for Yongzheng, and when he hears someone scolding Yongzheng, he becomes extremely excited. Speaking of Cao Xueqin, like all the talented literati in human history, he has a good habit of being drunk, dreaming, eating, and being lazy.Since his grandfather Cao Yin's generation, he has been Kangxi's tutor.Later, Kangxi placed Cao Yin in Suzhou as the director of the Textile Bureau—the so-called Jiangning weaving.The textile industry at that time was blank, and the mission of the Cao family was actually just a secret stronghold and an office set up by Kangxi in the south of the Yangtze River. It was responsible for raising the expenses for Kangxi's trip to the south of the Yangtze River, and also reported to Kangxi in secret. .

By the time Cao Xueqin was born, the Cao family and the Li family had become wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River. Although their home life was not as decadent as the book's flickering, at least Cao Xueqin's childhood life was comparable to Jia Baoyu's. However, Yongzheng banned upright officials, and the Cao family was dragged down and bankrupted.How could little Cao Xueqin be willing?He hid the account of change, thinking about it day and night, only thinking about regaining the lost paradise. But how can we regain the lost paradise, and hold the sisters and sisters to eat the rouge on their red lips?

Xiao Cao Xueqin thought for a while: Otherwise, I will write a book and see if I can get some manuscript fees...