The Concubine's Exploration: Countdown to the Bankruptcy of the Jia Family

Everyone said that the Jia family was "a family of poetry, etiquette and hairpins, a home of bells and dishes". Only Tanchun saw the holes in the ledger. The third young lady, who was born as a concubine, lived in Qiu Shuangzhai and worked on her abacus every night. What she was counting was not the rouge and gouache, but every deficit of the Jia family: Concubine Yuan burned 50,000 taels in one night to save the bride, and the annual income was 10,000 taels, and the annual income was 30,000. The name of the dead person on the monthly payment list was still receiving money. Aunt Lai, a private garden of a slave, had an annual income higher than the master of a village. She started counting down. Wang Xifeng fell ill, and Tanchun took over Yinli's family. She implemented the contracting system in Grand View Garden and promulgated the "Fourteen Points for Reform", laying off redundant employees, inspecting land rent, and restricting banquets. She wants to save this family. But the reform touched everyone's cheese. The purchasing manager acted in a secret way, and Mrs. Wang reported the news secretly. Baochai advised her to be more considerate, but Baoyu said, why are you so serious? Aunt Zhao broke out in public over the twenty taels of funeral money: "You crawled out of my intestines!" While inspecting the Grand View Garden, Tanchun slapped Wang Shanbao's family in the face and said with tears in his eyes: "A centipede insect can die but not freeze. You must first commit suicide at home before you are completely defeated!" She could calculate every account, but she couldn't figure out the situation in Jia's house. It was about to collapse. Married far away from home, bad news came. She opened her old account books and wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Jia Family"—— "The death of the Jia family was not caused by greed, nor by luxury, but by the system on which it relied for survival." A talented woman, an account book, and an autopsy report on a building. The more competent she is, the more sane she is. The more awake, the more desperate.