Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 208
Shi Zhongkui continued, "It's disrespectful to piss off my mother.

And his elder brother Lai Da, although he did not commit the evil deeds of pissing off his old mother, he also coveted his master's money.

Moreover, he despised the majesty of the master's family, walked out of the Rongguo mansion as a servant, and ran into the imperial envoys. Disrespect to the royal family was disloyalty and disfilial piety to the emperor.

It is also unfair to the master.

Such a rebellious person who despises ethics and laws, what qualifications and face does he have to defend himself. "

After finishing speaking, he looked at Liu Zhongkun and said, "Master Liu, if these two brothers spread rumors and frame others with resentment, are you trustworthy?"

Jia Zheng, Jia Amnesty, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and Jia Rong looked secretly happy.

Lai Da and Lai Er were described by Shi Zhongkui as unfaithful, unfilial and unrighteous people. No matter what the two of them say in the future, it will be rumors and frame-ups.

Liu Zhongkun suddenly became embarrassed, if he said he didn't trust Da and Lai Er, he would definitely be scolded.

If you don't even check, who will you scold if you don't scold?

But if it is true to investigate the Jia family according to the secret revealed by Lai Da and Lai Er, the consequences will be even more serious.

It means that I would rather believe the words of a treacherous, unfaithful, filial, and unjust person, and doubt the honorable family and Shi Zhongkui, Liu Yuangong.

If the problem is not found, it will shake the foundation of governance.

From now on, if anyone jumps out at random and says that there is something wrong with a certain minister without any real evidence, will the court investigate or not?
Once it is investigated, framing will inevitably become a common practice in the future.

If it is not investigated, the prestige of the three judicial departments will be wiped out.

Liu Zhongkun, Xia Shixiang, and the officials of Shuntian Mansion who were present were filled with fear and admiration for Shi Zhongkui.

And he really had nothing to do with this matter, since he couldn't be implicated, even if he really found out something about Jia's family.

As long as it is not a major crime, even the emperor and the cabinet will only suppress the matter.

After all, apart from Jia Zheng, who was a member of the Ministry of Industry, none of the Jia family served in the imperial court, and none of them had anything to do with military power.

If you cling to such a famous family with no real power, let alone hinder the advancement and interests of your colleagues, what will the other nobles think?
Liu Zhongkun waved his hand directly, and said to the arresting head of Shuntian Mansion, "Let this Lai Erhua be charged, otherwise he will be forked out and hit 50 boards first. If he refuses to plead guilty, he will hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment and let them take care of it."

Lai Er's face brightened.

But Shi Zhongkui, Xia Shixiang, and the officials from Shuntian Mansion sneered.

It's not good for Shuntian Mansion to directly sentence him to death for disloyalty, filial piety, and disrespect.

The so-called crimes of human life and beheading have to be reported to the Ministry of punishment before they can be sentenced, and finally they have to be reported to the emperor.

With the emperor's red pen imperial approval, the death penalty can be truly executed.

But this is only a criminal case. If it is a heinous crime, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has enough power to sentence a person to be beheaded on the basis of 'disloyalty and disfilial piety'.

If the Ministry of Criminal Justice decides that Lai Er has indeed committed the crime of disrespect, it will be no problem to sentence him to death.

And no one has found out the fault of the Ministry of Punishment.

In other words, as long as Lai Er entered the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he would have to go to death row.

No one has ever thought of complaining.

At most, some people want to deal with the Jia family, or collect evidence of the Jia family's crimes to wait for the opportunity, and they will dredge the relationship and go to the death row to listen to what he has to say.

But that is at least three to five days later.

Of course, Lai Er was unwilling to make a bet, and holding on to a ray of hope, he gritted his teeth and carried over fifty boards.

After sending away the group of people who were pressing Lai Er back to Shuntian Mansion, Shi Zhongkui immediately said to Jia Rong and Jia Lian, "How did you go about asking you to go to Zhuangzi to find 300 children?"

Jia Rong's face changed, and Shi Zhongkui immediately yelled 'you bastard', "If I were in the barracks, if I cut you off, you would die in vain."

Jia Rong immediately knelt on the ground, trying to explain a few words, but met Shi Zhongkui's sharp gaze, and dared not speak again.

Shi Zhongkui shook his head, looked at Jia Zhen and Jia Lian, and said, "Count up the twenty armored servants last night, and the dozen or so servants who saw the flower demon, and immediately ransacked the Lai family.

And after copying, the copied gold and silver, antique calligraphy and paintings, farm acres, and store title deeds were all collected and placed at the gate of Lai's house with great fanfare. "

Shi Zhongkui said with a stern face, "Outsiders know that the more money the Lai family has embezzled, the greater the responsibility of their family.

And since the Lai family embezzled the master's money, the Jia family had enough reason to distribute all the descendants of the Lai family who were servants of the Jia family to the Zhuangzi in Jinling.

Lai Da and Lai Er don't want the Lai family to die, so they have to obediently wait for death.

Even if they don't care about the life and death of their descendants, the Jia family can turn around and use these descendants of the Lai family.

Give them a way to survive, relying on Lai Da and Lai Er to betray their trust, have no courtesy, justice and shame, and frame the master's family.

As for things like letters, I don't need to say, you brothers should know how to deal with them, right? "

Jia Zhen and Jia Lian's foreheads started sweating after hearing this, father and son brothers turned against each other, and even wished each other to die, this damn is too cruel.

Moreover, except for Lai Shangrong, the rest of the Lai family are all servants of the Jia family, the kind who have been slaves for generations.

The Jia family did have the right to send them to any farm.

It is actually more serious for the Lai family to send it to Jinling instead of the farm in the north.

They could escape if they went to the Northland, but if they went to Jinling, where the population was dense and the clan was more powerful, let alone escape, even if they were allowed to escape, they would not be able to escape within a hundred miles.

They will inevitably be inspected by various localities, and farmers from various villages and villages will be arrested and taken to the government as fugitive slaves.

As for hiding in the mountains, it's not Jia Lian's bragging.

The Lai family started from the generation of Lai Da and Lai Er's heirs, and each of the children lived the life of a rich son.

In less than three to five months, they all starved to death, died of illness, or were eaten by wild animals.

As for the children of the Lai family who honestly did not resist, there was no need to worry about them getting revenge.

Servants are not eligible for imperial examinations, and as servants and farmers for generations, this family is completely abolished.

Shi Zhongkui thought for a while and said again, "Didn't Lai Shangrong enter the Imperial College, and sue him for colluding with the Jia family's servants and colluding with the inside and outside to embezzle the Jia family's money."

Jia Zheng, Jia She and the others were taken aback for a moment. Could it be that Lai Shangrong is still in collusion with the rest of the Jia family?
Immediately, he realized that, according to Shi Zhongkui, Lai Da and Lai Shangrong are father and son, one is a slave, and the other is out of slavery. Isn't the collusion between father and son the same as internal and external collusion?

While Jia Lian was happy, he also felt that Lai Shangrong's conviction was a bit low, "My dear brother, it's just this charge, it's not a serious crime, is it?"

But Jia Zhen clapped her hands and said with a smile, "It's still my virtuous brother who is smart, first use the crime that is the easiest to convict and which Lai Shangrong can't get away with, to deprive him of his way to study in the imperial examination.

From now on, he will become a commoner, so we can handle him however we want. "

Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng and the others' hearts tightened, their son-in-law's thoughts were too gloomy and cruel, and he didn't give anyone a way out.

But when Jia She thought of the Lai family's wealth, he couldn't help but get excited.

Jia Zhen and Jia Lian agreed with Shi Zhongkui's statement 10,000 times in their hearts, and looked at Jia She, who had a gloomy face but excited and greedy eyes in his eyes.

There was also Jia Zheng who showed his face, but didn't speak.

Seeing that the two brothers didn't say anything for a long time, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian bowed their hands to them and Shi Zhongkui, and hurriedly took the servants to gather people.

As for whether they would be gossiped, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian knew very well that gossiping would at most be scolded a few times, what can you do to me?

But if the heart is soft at this time, if any letters or evidence are taken away from the Lai family or seized by the government, the Jia family will be unlucky.

When the news reached the back house, no one dared to tell Mother Jia.

And as long as Jia Mu doesn't speak, everything is doomed.

It can only be blamed that Lai Er was in a daze, said something he shouldn't have said, and pissed off Nanny Lai who was really able to speak in front of Jia's mother.

Of course, Mammy Lai might have died of a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage due to excessive worry and old age.

But no matter what the reason is, according to the cognition of the ancients, Lai Er is just like what Shi Zhongkui said, an unfilial person cannot escape.

In ancient times, it was a heinous crime to be mad at an old mother.

If the Jia family doesn't copy the Lai family, the government will inevitably search the house.

Therefore, Jia Zheng, Jia Amnesty, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian had no opinion on the ransacking of the house.

After Jia Lian and Jia Zhen left, Shi Zhongkui looked at Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng, who were evasive and did not dare to look at him, and secretly thought of the two trash.

I didn't even bother to talk to them anymore.

He took out his pocket watch and checked that it was only 8 o'clock, thinking that if he went back at this time, he should still be in time for dinner.

In other words, Baochai and Yingchun will inevitably wait for themselves.

Standing up and saying goodbye politely, although Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng said to keep him, they really didn't want to face Shi Zhongkui face to face.
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back home.

Baochai and Yingchun were indeed waiting for him.

Hearing that Mother Jia was fine, the two couldn't help but be overjoyed.

After dinner served by Yinger, Xiangling, Hupo and Zhenzhu, Shi Zhongkui accompanied his two wives and the four young wives chatted in the main house for over an hour.

When it was more than 10 o'clock at night, he used the excuse of going to the study to write a memorial and report today's events to the emperor.

Quietly, he used the technique of divine movement and ran to the Temple of Emperor Wenchang.

Regarding Shi Zhongkui's request to take in a weapon spirit, Emperor Wenchang agreed without much thought.

And probably because he knew what Shi Zhongkui was thinking, the emperor waved his hand and took away the artifact spirit that came out of the psychic jade, and sent him to other worlds to be the boy of the emperor's temple.

Shi Zhongkui was overjoyed and bowed to the emperor.

When I looked up, I saw that the emperor's divine sense had already left.

And the merits and virtues that I have filial piety before, also because this is considered clean.

But this is also good, if you pay, you will get rewards, which is absolutely in line with the thinking mode of a modern person like yourself.

Sneaking home quietly, I wanted to hug my wife to sleep, but I didn't expect to see candlelight in the main room when I returned to the backyard from the study.

When you walk into the room, you will see a few maids sitting on chairs, or leaning on the bed and dozing off.

Shi Zhongkui ignored them, walked into the east bedroom, and saw Yinger and Xiangling embroidering something on an embroidered handkerchief with needles and threads in their hands.

Hearing the noise, Yinger and Xiangling hurriedly stood up.

Blushing and saluting, "Master, madam let us serve you to rest today."

Shi Zhongkui was secretly happy, he stretched out his hand to untie the robe belt around his waist, Yinger and Xiangling hurriedly stepped forward to help him change his clothes.

After washing up, she naturally hugged her two hot bodies from left to right, and went for a run.

After a hearty long-distance run, I fell asleep peacefully.
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In the early morning of the second day, when Shi Zhongkui was practicing martial arts, Baochai and Yingchun naturally prepared breakfast for him in person.

Amber and Pearl looked at Shi Zhongkui in the courtyard with blurred eyes while looking forward to it, but their ears kept listening to the movement in the main room.

It wasn't until the sky was bright that Ying'er and Xiangling came out together blushing, and hurried to help Baochai and Yingchun arrange breakfast.

Shi Zhongkui smiled, the atmosphere at home is so good that people don't want to go out.

It's a pity that he wants to be lazy and enjoy the gentleness of the country, but others don't want him to do so.

First, Jia Lian hurried over with Jia Rong to report on the plagiarism of Lai's house yesterday.

Shi Zhongkui waved his hand directly, "Needless to say the specific process, tell me the result."

Jia Lian hurriedly took an account book from Jia Rong, opened it for a while and said, "A total of 7 taels of gold and 3 taels of silver were copied.

There are a total of 5 mu of land deeds for various fields. Since only 4 mu of land is on the field, these fields are worth about [-] taels of silver.

There are 6 shops with an estimated value of 1.5 taels.There are a total of 49 pieces of various antique calligraphy and paintings, about 4 taels of silver.

Three into the yard, one, 1.2 taels.

Four enter a large garden, approximate valuation, valuation,,,. "

Speaking of this, even Jia Lian and Jia Rong have watched it no less than a dozen times.

But seeing the numbers on the account book, there is still a kind of horror and resentment.

Without this new garden, the money accumulated by the four generations of the Lai family would still be 17.1 taels.

But the accumulation of six 70 years, an average of two to 3000 taels a year, although it is shocking, it is not too much.

After all, the Lai family has always been doing business outside.

But after seeing the new garden, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian really wanted to kill people. As for Jia Zhen and Jia Zhen, who were directly angry with chest tightness and dizziness, they went home to recuperate.

According to those children of the Lai family.

The Lai family could only be regarded as a wealthy family before, and the monthly expenses of the children in the family were only 500 Wen to one tael of silver.

But since the Jia family built the Grand View Garden, the conditions at home suddenly improved a lot.

The number of maids and mothers-in-law is several times higher.

Jia Zhen and Jia Lian thought about it for a while, and soon realized that the Lai family was just playing around. Even when Lai's husband was still alive, she was conscientious towards the Jia family and did not dare to have the slightest second heart.

When Lai Da and Lai Er butlers started, although they were slowly making small moves and greedy for money, it was not too much.

When the Lai family became really rich, it was Yuanchun who became a concubine, and the Jia family started to build the Grand View Garden.

Shi Zhongkui glanced at Jia Lian, and asked impatiently, "How much is the valuation?"

Jia Lian reached out to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead, "Based on the prices of various materials at this time, it would be worth at least 40 taels."

Of course Shi Zhongkui understood that the Jia family had been taken advantage of in building the Grand View Garden.

If it was changed to one or two years ago, the price of many in-demand raw materials would be three or four times cheaper.

White marble, bricks and tiles have also increased by at least three or four floors last year.

Shi Zhongkui picked up the tea bowl and drank a few sips while thinking.

Then he put down the tea bowl and said, "In other words, your Jia family spent 150 million taels of silver to build a garden, and [-]% went into the Lai family's pocket."

(End of this chapter)